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SAFE AS HOUSES EURO WEEKLY NEWS reporter Linda Hall now questions this saying after four tonnes of rubble crashed to the ground as a wall of her neighbour’s house in Xativa’s Old Town collapsed. In fact, four houses were affected in the terrifying incident last Thursday. “I’d like to describe the noise but can’t because I have never heard anything like it,” she admitted. “Then I saw the patio piled up with rubble, masonry, broken glass and an open skylight. I called the 112 Emergencies number who were absolutely marvellous.” Neighbours milled around outside and it became obvious she
and her husband got off lightly. “These are terraced townhouses but some, like our neighbour’s, have extensions at the back and that is what collapsed.” Firemen, police, city councillors, the municipal architect and even Xativa’s mayor Roger Cerda were on the scene almost immediately. “At first it looked as though our own problem would soon be solved. Then the firemen stepped in,” Linda explained. All the hanging debris and rafters above the patio must first be removed before work can start below, they decreed. “Patience” they’ve told me. “Miraculously, not one person was hurt by the falling masonry. So it was our lucky day, too.”
HOUSE COLLAPSE: Disaster, but no-one hurt.
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REWARD: The council said it seemed fair to discount vehicle tax on hybrid and electric vehicles.
Tax break for green wheels VILLAJOYOSA Council is set to reward drivers of less contaminating vehicles. The local authority said it will modify its vehicle fiscal regulation as a bonus for drivers of hybrid and electric wheels. Specifically, the council will introduce a 55 per cent discount for vehicles with hybrid engines and 75 per cent for electric. The 75 per cent discount
will apply to both kinds for vehicles used for public service. “The council is showing a special interest in the environmental matters which affect us, hence it seems fair to us to reward those who opt for more efficient energies in vehicles,� commented Tax councillor Jose Ramon Ucles. According to the council there are currently 90 hybrid cars and six electric in Villajoyosa, all privately owned.
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THE doctor responsible for federative medical checks on Marina Baixa footballers was killed in a traffic accident in Benidorm. The 61-year-old, who was also the Rayo de Levante, Benidorm CD and CF Foietes doctor, suffered fatal injuries when riding his motorcycle in Avenida Comunitat Valenciana.
Youth coach POBLE NOU DE BENITACHELL launched a ‘youth coach’ orientation service offering 12 to 30year-olds information and advice with psychological support on matters including sexual education, gender-based violence and addictions. The service is available evenings the last Tuesday of every month in the Social Services building.
Food back ALICANTE General Hospital’s food provision service for patients has returned to normal following the regional Health ministry’s 10-month remodelling of the kitchen at a cost of €600,000. The hospital can once again provide more than 1,000 breakfasts, lunches and dinners daily.
Migrant toll SIX small boats carrying 67 immigrants trying to reach to reach Spain were intercepted off the Alicante coast over the weekend, among them minors. One boat carrying nine people was picked up close to Altea early on Sunday morning.
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ALICANTE has an eye on the Japanese market. The tourist board is, according to Spanish press reports, looking at ways to promote the city as a holiday destination and as an ideal location for studying Spanish thanks to factors like its excellent climate, cuisine and culture.
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TWO big British bands have been signed to appear at next summer’s Low Festival in Benidorm. London indie rock group White Lies have now been lined up along with Glaswegian rockers Primal Scream. Also confirmed for the festival is Irish band Two Door Cinema Club.
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WORTH A VISIT: Poblenou cemetery in Barcelona.
SPOOKY CELEBRATION Today (Thursday, October 31) marks the start of a three-day long Halloween celebration which kicks off with El Dia de las Brujas, or Day of the Witches. THE day is associated with all things spooky and supernatural, and of course witches. This is the night to enjoy traditional Halloween debauchery, particularly in Barcelona’s haunted Gothic Quarter, where you will find people across the city in fancy dress and costumes. The celebration continues tomorrow, November 1, with Dia de Todos Los Santos, or All Saint’s Day, in Spain. The traditional holiday is observed throughout Spain as people gather in cemeteries with friends and family to
light candles and place tokens of affection such as ornate flower wreaths on the graves of loved ones. It’s well worth a visit to one of Barcelona’s cemeteries after dark when, those such as Poblenou, Les Corts, or Montjuïc, all have extended hours. Many of the cemeteries will have special tours, classic music concerts, and memorial masses. Or you can you can just join in the party that will be happening all around you as the Spanish locals are known to revel in this macabre fiesta. You can also take a
break from all that life and death by enjoying the Catalan autumn tradition of La Castanyada, or ‘chestnut time.’ Vendors around the city will offer warm snacks like castanyes (roasted chestnuts), moniatos (sweet potatoes), panellets (cakes), and muscatel (sweet wine). If you’re still in the party spirit, the festivities culminate on November 2 with Dia de Los Muertos, or Day of the Dead. The Spanish honour this traditional Mexican holiday with Ruta de Altares, or Route of the Altars around the city.
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Stab victim help GUARDIA CIVIL officers rushed to the assistance of a man stabbed in the stomach in Alicante City centre. According to reports the incident occurred in the early hours of Friday morning near to the Guardia Civil provincial station. Several officers spotted a man with his chest bare staggering around outside the building. Then another young man carrying a stick appeared, reportedly with the intention of attacking the first. Officers managed to prevent the assault, although the attacker made off. By this point the victim was on the ground with a wound to their stomach, seemingly caused by a sharp object. Officers immediately called the emergency services, keeping the wound covered to prevent further blood loss while waiting for the health team to arrive. National Police are leading the investigation into the attack as the force responsible for public safety in the provincial capital.
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Hunting lawbreaker GUARDIA CIVIL have reported a man for using poisoned bate and prohibited hunting gear in a rural area of El Comtat. The Guardia’s SEPRONA Nature Protection Service have accused the 63-year-old of breaking laws on natural heritage and biodiversity, plant health and arms regulation. Investigations into the hunter followed a series of complaints about poisonings in parts of Alcoy and Cocentaina. Officers from the Xixona SEPRONA, along with dog handlers from Valencia and Madrid, used specialist canine units to detect these kinds of substances. It was one of the dogs who found a black granulated substance in a glass jar which contained a restricted pesticide commonly used in poisoned bate. A thorough inspection revealed various prohibited items, including metal bait, cage traps, an electric apparatus and a shotgun.
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Reconnect with Art THE Arts Society Marina Alta is ending the year on a cultural high. After a successful run with eight presentations they are introducing ‘Painting the modern garden: Monet to Matisse’ by Ms Lydia Baum a n . T h e p re s e n t a t i o n will take place on November 7 at Salones Canor in Teulada and all art lovers are invited to register. Ms Bauman, who is the daughter of Polish Sociologist Zygmunt Bauman, specialises in Matisse and his contemporaries. She has a BA in Fine Art from Newcastle University and an MA in the History of Art from the Courtauld Institute in London. Lydia will be travelling from the East End of London where she lives and works, to impart her knowledge. Marina Alta works to pro-
mote and educate on artistic heritage and is a member of the acclaimed Arts Society UK. Visitors who regularly attend and enjoy presentations are welcomed to join the Society in the new 2020 season. Members boast of many privileges for the fee of €50, which is possible thanks to generous sponsors. Eight carefully selected presentations are given per year by top experts. Soft drinks and wine are provided and guests are encouraged to use the occasion to socialise. After soaking in the presentations, members will have the opportunity to speak with the committee and the Presenter, converse and discuss the lecture. Educational visits, both local and further afield, are also organised by the committee and offered to members, as well as a quarterly copy of The Arts Society Review magazine.
MS LYDIA BAUMAN: Will share her love of art.
Bringing back tradition ALTEA brings back traditions with plans to celebrate ‘Noche de Todos los Santos’ instead of Halloween. The Department of Youth and Education in Altea looks to recover the traditional Spanish celebration in a bid to fight against North American influence. Children between the ages of 10 and 15 have been invited to different activities organised by the town hall. The objective is for the youngsters to enjoy themselves whilst also learning about local customs. Vicenta Pérez, councillor responsible for Education, has informed that there will be a gymkhana, an excursion with torches, traditional story-telling and many more surprises. The event will take place at the municipal area of Santa Barbara and activities commence at 8pm on October 31 and finish at 9am.
VICENTA PÉREZ: Revealed an array of activities for Halloween.
Scouts’ honour THE La Nucia Scout group’s 27th season is off to a start. Fifty youngsters got together for an intense weekend of camping, and in the case of the cubs, initiation
and learning, at the El Captivador Environmental Education Centre, made available to them by the local council. For the first time there was a ‘Get-together Day,’
for which the boys and girls’ parents came along so they could see the kinds of activities the children do. The weekend wound up on Sunday with the traditional Scout promise ceremony.
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PROTECTING ANIMALS: The congress trained 140 officers.
Dog loving town THE third National Congress for Animal Protection took place last week in La Nucia. The event was held in the Auditorium and hosted 140 police officers and criminologists. Activities were distributed over four intense days and specialised training courses were imparted to the attendants. Shailla Villar, president of the Spanish Society for Criminology, was in attendance as well as Antonio Vadillo, secretary for Animal Protection Politics. La Nucia was turned into the
epicentre of Animal Rights and invited officers from Canine Units from all over Spain. The event organisers chose the hosting municipality as the national winner for animal protection. La Nucia is home to 15 dog parks, one animal shelter and a Municipal Training Centre for Rescued Dogs. Antonio Vadillo explained the reason behind this decision by saying the municipality really takes animals and their protection into account. He announced that these dog parks and centres would be used for training Police Canine Units.
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FEATURE
BREXIT BRIEF
No one died in a ditch
EXTENSION: Guy Verhofstadt and Jean Claude Juncker.
BREXIT EXTRA Second referendum A LIBERAL DEMOCRAT councillor has written to the Independent newspaper saying that she believes that her party has misjudged the Brexit mood in the UK. She recommends that rather than stand on a platform opposed to Brexit that they should support a second referendum.
MP quits LABOUR MP John Mann has left the House of Commons because he believes that Parliament is not mature enough to cope with a minority government and Brexit. He will now take up a seat in the House of Lords.
DUP future NOW that the Democratic Unionist Party of Northern Ireland has withdrawn its support for the Conservative government it must consider its stance over Brexit. In order to protect the Union with the UK it could become a Remain party.
THE EU Brexit lead negotiator Guy Verhofstadt tweeted ‘Relieved that finally no one died in a ditch.’ This is because despite the fact that he didn’t want it, Boris Johnson’s government have been given a Brexit extension until January 31 and he has had to accept that there will not be a no deal exit today, Thursday, October 31. There are escape clauses which would allow an earlier exit if Parliament approves the deal put to the EU which has been accepted in principle, but not agreed in fact. Now that it seems very likely that there will be a general election in December, any exit before then becomes increasingly unlikely. The Prime Minister has
blamed Parliament for allowing the extension to occur, but as they passed a vote demanding it, MPs were probably not too surprised to be held liable. Jeremy Corbyn has indicated that he will not now directly oppose a December election, although Conservatives want to see it on December 12, but pundits generally believe that there will be some difficulty in agreeing the date. The Liberal Democrats and SNP want to force a December 9 election which they believe would benefit those who want to Remain as this is just before universities break up and younger voters in the main are more in favour of remaining in the EU.Those who left Britain less than 15 years ago could also be eligible to vote.
Advertising pays SOME would say it was a brave decision and others a complete waste of money to spend £100 million (€112 million) on a press and TV campaign in the UK urging the public to ‘Get Ready for Brexit.’ It wasn’t just the concept that it would happen, but it specifically gave the date of October 31, so about a week ago the campaign was brought to an end with little fanfare. Not only did the date appear highly unlikely to be met, but a report by the National Audit Office suggested that the campaign didn’t take off with the public and had ‘limited impact.’
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MARI CARMEN LOPEZ, former Partido Popular mayor of Parcent, stands trial this week for paying out for a ‘ghost’ project. Ismael Reig, Town Planning councillor at that time, the municipal architect and a local businessman are accompanying her in the dock at the Alicante High Court. The four are accused of misappropria-
Car park that never was tion of public funds and false documentation linked to a project that was never carried out, after the town hall paid €25,586 for a car park serving the town’s shopping area and the weekly open-air market. The Fiscal (Public Prosecutor) has rec-
LOCAL PRODUCTS: Organic and agricultural food available.
Farmer’s market THE city council of Teulada-Moraira is set to promote Valencian food products during the traditional celeb r a t i o n o f t h e s i x t h M e rc a t ‘ E l Cabàs.’ A grant of €10,000 has been awarded by the Ministry of Agriculture, Environment, Climate Change and Rural Development to help boost sales of local products in the region. Local fairs and markets of the municipality are thought to be the ideal setting for local, organic and agricultural food promotion as this
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also allows their producers to be part of the guarantee system. The format also includes ways of encouraging the use of these products through complimentary tasting of Moscatell, tinned tomatoes, oils, almond milk and seasonal fruits. The Mercat ‘El Cabàs,’ is an agricultural food and crafts market held monthly in the district which aims to boost environmentally friendly consumption as well as strengthen ties between producers and companies in this sector at a local and regional level.
ommended prison terms of six years for each of the three defendants holding public office and four-and-a-half years for the businessman. Lopez, Reig and the architect paid for two phases of a project subsidised by the provincial council, the Diputacion, ac-
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cording to the Fiscal. All three signed off work “despite being aware that this was untrue,” he declared. Máximo Revilla from the Parcent Democratic Coalition (CDP) party who succeeded Lopez at the town hall discovered bills and documents signing off the work for a non-existent car park as ‘totally finished and in good condition.’
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On the right road ALICANTE’S provincial council has approved a €440,300 budget for the repair and conservation of municipal roads. The grant will respond to 113 requests and benefit a total of 67 municipalities. Alejandro Morant, deputy responsible for roads, has specified that the works will include clearing and cleaning the road side and repairing potholes. The grant will be used for three lines of action: refurbishing existing roads, clearing rubbish and overgrowth and patching over uneven parts of the asphalt. The sum of money has been granted to town halls with a population inferior to 5,000. Another important aspect that will be worked on are lanes which have been closed due to meteorological incidences. This will mean the reopening of roads that were unable to be used after flooding. Town halls that will reap the benefits of this final course of action will be Salinas and Lorcha.
SANT NICOLAU CHURCH: The move will affect access to the church. terms of circulation. Initially, the plan would propose pedestrianising the stretch between Mediterrania Square, Riu Street and La Paz Avenue. For the moment, the project will require further investigation before it can be accepted.
Alternative routes for traffic would need to be devised, excluding residents who would still be permitted to pass. The area has already been subject to changes after the bike lane was moved recently. Pedestrians will be able to walk
freely after the bike lane was separated from the pavement, facilitating access to the Sant Nicolau church. This area used to turn into a danger zone during mass, when big groups of people would be exposed to cyclists on the pavement..
ROADS UNDER SCRUTINY: Residents in Alicante wait for necessary repairs.
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GANDIA’S government is considering pedestrianising the Sant Nicolau area. The decision will mean cars will no longer be able to use the main road. Government officials are studying the possibility and have started discussing this traffic closure in meetings for future projects. Before an agreement can be made, the Local Police wants to analyse how this change would affect circulation in the centre of Gandia. One of the main reasons for the new approach is to add value to the Sant Nicolau building, an architectural jewel of the Grau. The government are working towards getting the landmark declared Patrimony of Cultural Interest. Another reason is to prioritise pedestrians and follow the guidelines United Nations has set cities for 2030. Gandia aspires to be a European city and wants to opt for sustainability in
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GANDIA SHORE: Reality show not popular with the town. THE Gandia Shore reality show aired for just one month in October 2012. It was a Spanish adaptation of Jersey Shore in the US and Geordie Shore in the UK and it followed the lives of its eight participants in Gandia, La Safor area’s principal town in Valencia Province.
The programme broke MTV Spain’s all-time ratings record with 948,000 viewers and a market share of 4.8 per cent, as viewers followed the lives of eight young people who were shut up together in a seaside villa for 31 days in the summer of 2012. But the show was less popular in Gandia, which is
still trying to divest itself of the out-of-character racy image that the programme conveyed. Some time afterwards, the town hall signed an institutional declaration, supported by all political parties, stating the c o r p o r a t i o n ’s ‘ f i r m r e j e c tion’ of proposals to film a
second season in Gandia. Seven years later, Gandia Shore has not been forgotten and although the town hall would prefer to forget the programme, Google will not allow it and exactly seven years later ‘shore’ still figures in the list of the 25 topics most-sought in Google searches linked to Gandia.
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PROBE: Couple detained suspected of 40 online scams.
business they were allegedly offered different payment options, including pay upfront. The prices of the products requested, mainly video console remote controls, ranged from €80 to €200. However, customers never received their orders.
It seems to begin with, the company owner would respond to calls and emails complaining about the delay in receiving the products requested, but after a time the responses stopped. When investigators began looking into the suspected fraudster and
examining bank accounts, social media and consultations with consumer advice centres it became clear the scam covered a number of different provinces. They gradually accumulated complaints from Alicante, Valencia, Castellon, Murcia, Madrid, Guipuzcoa, Vitoria, Barcelona, Tarragona, Mallorca, Ibiza, Burgos, Ciudad Real, Cuenca, the Canary Islands, Granada and Sevilla. It was also reported that the San Juan de Alicante Guardia had in fact investigated the same man back in 2017 for the same dodgy activities. The man and his wife have been released with charges. The Guardia said the investigation remains open and they have not ruled out receiving more complaints related to the scam.
Ex-wife’s throat cut POLICE have arrested a Russian man in Denia suspected of cutting his ex-wife’s throat. According to Spanish press reports the 54year-old is believed to have attacked and killed his former partner, also of Russian origin, in her home in the early hours of Tuesday morning. The couple’s 11-yearold daughter was allegedly in the house at the time of the attack. It was reported a restraining order had been imposed on the detainee after the victim reported him earlier this month. Also, that he had got into the property without the 44-year-old victim’s consent by using a ladder to get onto the balcony and climbing through a window. It was a neighbour who alerted police to the attack after hearing shouts.
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GUARDIA CIVIL arrested a couple suspected of some 40 online scams in San Vicente del Raspeig. The Guardia said the 32-year-old man and the 25-year-old woman are suspected of swindling people from all over Spain out of around €5,000 in all. Officers from the San Juan de Alicante Guardia Civil launched an investigation into the internet activities of a company based in the area back in the summer. According to reports the company was dedicated to the repair and sale of video console accessories and IT materials. It also reportedly had a physical outlet and promoted its services on its website, on social media and on advertising platforms. When customers contacted the
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FRAUD: Foreign resident shocked.
Car fraud
SIX people have been arrested in Murcia connected to alleged crimes of deception which included falsifying insurance and vehicle documents. Operation ‘Negociado’ began in the summer following a complaint in Villajoyosa when a foreign resident received notification of three traffic violations against the driver of a vehicle to which she was registered as the owner. However, after discovering the woman was not the owner of any such vehicle, the Benemérita opened an investigation. A mechanic’s workshop in San Pedro del Pinatar became the subject of an investigation after it was uncovered that the vehicle had al-
legedly been purchased fraudulently by telephone and e-mails falsifying the victim’s signature. In addition to the purchase of the vehicle, car insurance documents were also taken out in the name of the new owner. Necessary legal checks were not carried out by insurance agents in San Pedro and Alicante who are now being treated as accomplices of the crime. Among those arrested are the owner of the workshop, three owners of the agencies and the former owner of the vehicle. The operation is still open in order to determine if any more people are involved and if any further criminal acts have been committed.
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VILLAJOYOSA is set to receive regional government financial aid to help with the battle against tiger mosquitoes. The council will get an €800 subsidy from the Generalitat Health regional ministry for dealing with the plague. The local authority said the money would be put towards covering its Environment department’s outlay on the company with responsibility for pest control in the municipality, and which is carrying out the fumigation and treatment to deal with the bothersome, biting insects. The council pointed out that tiger mosquitoes have increasingly become a problem in the
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Tiger mosquito battle help AGGRRAVATION: The Environment councillor said the cold snap followed by a rise in temperatures caused a proliferation of mosquitoes. area in recent years, adding that the Environment department is hoping the treatment will prevent their appearance next summer. “The September cold snap
and the subsequent increase in temperatures has caused a great presence of the tiger mosquito and the common mosquito in the municipality, hence this assistance will
make it easier to deal with the Environment department’s expenses to control the increase in the insect,” commented Environment councillor Jose Carlos Gil. Villajoyosa mayor Andreu Verdu thanked the council staff who had processed the subsidy request “which helps us to finance part of the campaign for controlling this plague which is so bothersome to residents, and which occasionally requires medical assistance.” The assistance to Villajoyosa comes out of the €400,000 the Valencia community administration allocated to nearly 300 municipalities in the region in total, 70 of them in Alicante Province.
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Montgo clean-up MONTGO residents have put out a call to join a clean-up of the area. The Mongo Residents Association Clean-Up Montgo day on November 20 is aimed at clearing waste including plastics, tins, glass, cardboard and paper. For further information contact Mark at montgoresidents cleanup@gmail.com or mark@lacasatranquilla.eu.
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BENIDORM is keen to spread the word about the area’s charms and attractions to European markets. With this in mind, the Benidorm Tourism Foundation organised two trips for influencers and photographers specialised in shining a spotlight on travel destinations.
Spreading the word Taking part in the visits to the town were 12 influencers and photographers from countries considered important markets for
Benidorm: Ireland, Denmark, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Germany, Austria and the UK. The bloggers were given the op-
portunity to try a series of activities, including jet-ski, helicopter trips and jeep tours. Between them the 12 have close
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to a million followers on Instagram, meaning that every one of their posts about Benidorm would have reached a large number of potential tourists. The foundation said the aim of the trips was to show how much Benidorm has to offer visitors year-round.
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PRIZE: One of the winning designs will be selected as Finestrat Council’s Christmas greeting.
Winning design FINESTRAT Council has launched its traditional competition for children to come up with a winning Christmas card design. This is the 12th edition of the competition, which last year attracted more than 200 entries. The challenge is open to children aged between three and 12. There will be prizes in the categories best infant card (three to five-year-olds), best junior card (six to nine), and best junior + (10 to 12).
The design theme must be related to the Festive Season. The only other obligation is that the phrase ‘Bon Nadal’ must feature. Participants must present their designs on A5-size paper, or preferably cardboard. Youth councillor Nati Algado explained that one of the three winning cards will be selected as Finestrat Council’s Christmas greeting. Encouraging children to send in their designs, the councillor said the council card would be sent to associations, other local authorities and ad-
ministrations. “It is a formula for encouraging their creativity, and in keeping the Christmas spirit alive,” she said. Anyone interested in sending in an entry should present their design at the Youth Centre at Carrer Fonteta, 36 or at its administrative extension, from 8am to 3pm. The entry must be signed by a parent or legal guardian. Only one entry per person is permitted. Closing date is November 22. For more information visit w w w. a y t o - f i n e s t r a t . e s (http://bit.ly/32CluYW).
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Man still missing PHIL PEARCE, 68, has been missing since September 10 in the Old Town Benidorm and is in the early stages of Dementia. He left home to buy tobacco and is believed to have become disorientated. A holidaymaker took Phil to police headquarters but he was later released. CCTV images show what he was wearing at the time and he has blue eyes, grey hair and is around 170 cm or 5.6 feet. Citizens are encouraged to contact National Police on 091 if they have any further useful information.
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Brain damage service launched THE Denia Health Department h a s l a u n c h e d a n a c q u i re d brain damage consultation service. The Acquired Brain Damage Outpatient Consultation is located in the La Pederera health centre, and is open to patients every day. The aim is to treat patients affected by cerebrovascular accidents, serious head traumas, post brain injury infections and tumours. The service is provided by doctors who are specialists in rehabilitation and specialised therapies in neurological physiotherapy, neurological speech therapy, neuropsychology and occupational therapy. Denia Health Department Rehabilitation Service chief Alvaro Escuder said the treatments provided are personalised, with individual, 45-minute sessions two, three or five times a week. He said the service provided “real con-
NEW SERVICE: The aim is to treat patients affected by cerebrovascular accidents, serious head traumas, post brain injury infections and tumors. tinuity” for patients discharged from the Chronic and Long-Stay Hospital. Escuder described the service as “multi-
discipline, the aim of which is to improve the functional capacity of the patient in all areas of their daily lives.” CREDIT: Ajuntament de Finestrat
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ALL READY: Hundreds of local people will visit the cemetery on November 1.
All set for All Saints FINESTRET Council has been ensuring the municipal cemetery is all set for All Saints Day tomorrow, November 1, when the Spanish traditionally remember their late loved ones. The local authority’s technical services have been busy carrying out various maintenance works, including painting, cleaning and weeding of the garden area both inside and outside the cemetery. Maintenance, Parks and Gardens councillor Tomas Selles visited the cemetery last week to see how it was looking. The councillor stressed how important All Saints Day is, hence the council had “reinforced” works on the cemetery to have everything ready before it is visited by hundreds of local residents. As is tradition, a mass will be held at the cemetery tomorrow, Friday, at midday.
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Knife-wielding thief under arrest POLICE in Alicante have arrested an individual suspected of holding up a shop at knifepoint and stealing the cash register. According to reports the 34-year-old suspect is charged with entering the establishment and threatening the shop assistant before making off with the till. The same individual is suspected of hitting the same shop just two days later and stealing a mobile phone from one of the customers. A police patrol went immediately to the scene of the crime following the report of the first robber y to tr y and gather as much information as they could, leading to an investigation by officers from the North Alicante District station to try and identify the thief. When the call came through about the second theft from the same shop a number of patrols, including plain-clothes police, went straight there. Searches of the local area led to the suspect, who on clocking the officers tried to get away. He was swiftly detained and the mobile recovered. According to police the 34-year-old Spaniard has a fairly extensive police record for similar crimes and had just got out of prison.
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Calpe U3A events A BUSY social month for Calpe U3A Padel group saw 34 members enjoy a combined padel and badminton dinner at Suvashi restaurant early in October. The following week they took up the challenge to play Alfas ladies cricket team and only just lost the match on the last ball. A real fun day was had by all followed by a buffet laid on by our hosts. Badminton sessions take place on Thursdays from 9.30am to 11.30am at Calpe Sports Centre, at a cost of €2. Padel Tennis is played on Mondays and Wednesdays, from 9.30am to 11am at Calpe Tennis Club, at a cost of €2. Alan Lawton of the Table Tennis group of Calpe U3A recently organised a welcome back paella party for the members of the table tennis group. If any members of the Calpe U3A would like to join their group they would be made very welcome. They play twice a week at the Calpe Sports Centre Tuesday and Fridays 9.30am to 12pm. Calpe U3A has 24 groups that you can join. Badminton, tennis, padel tennis, choir, cycling group, flower arranging, discussion group, paper craft, writing group, men’s dining, ladies dining and many more. Membership fee is €10 per year.
TABLE TENNIS: The group play twice a week at Calpe Sports Centre.
Calpe’s U3A next meeting will be it’s AGM which will be for members only, but it is possible to sign up at the membership desk before the meeting. It will take place at the Sol Ifach hotel on Thursday November 21. Doors open at 10am for a meeting time of 11am. The speaker will be Vice-Consul Sara Munsterhjelm who will
update members on the latest developments in the Brexit saga and the implications for those who have chosen to live and work in Spain. For more details of the groups please contact Pam Phakey on groupscoordinator @u3acalpe.org. www.u3a.org * travel@u3acalpe.org
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Choir in fine voice sad Jan is standing down, they equally wish her health and happiness in her new life back in the UK. Denia Rock Choir is still going strong and preparing for its Christmas concert under the direction of new musical director Claire Rhodes-Lowe. It will be held at Hostal Loreto on December 5. Further details are not yet available, but the limited free tickets can be obtained from Donna Hofmann by calling 606 111 455 or by contacting her on Whats App. There will be a retiring collection at the end of the concert for the Charity Help of Marina Alta. CREDIT: Sally Merrett
THE Denia Rock Choir was in fine voice when it was invited to sing at the Inn on the Green for Javea bowls club social evening. It was a lovely warm evening for the occasion on October 12, giving the choir the opportunity to sing outside. It proved to be a great concert featuring many songs from different eras, from the 1960s and onwards. Both the choir and the audience thoroughly enjoyed themselves. This was the choir’s last concert under the direction of Jan Dewland, who has been its musical director since its conception. While all the choir members are understandably
GOING STRONG: The choir is preparing for its Christmas concert under the direction of new musical director Claire Rhodes-Lowe.
ROCKIN!: The Entertainers are joined by Mr Bob on the trumpet.
Storming performance U3A group The Entertainers gave a storming performance at the group’s recent dinner and entertainment night in Alcalali. Their ‘History of Pop Music’ performance made it a truly magical night for the 70 or so diners at Pepe’s restaurant. The Entertainers is made up of eight vocalists. ‘The Dolly
Birds,’ Ditas, Dolly and Geraldine provided some well-rehearsed dance moves in support of ‘The Blondie Birds,’ Jo, Linda and Sandra. The ‘Ham and Cheese in the Sandwich,’ Bob and David, were raising money for Jalon Valley Help. Jovial compere Mr Bob introduced the group’s medley of songs with some interesting background about the original
singer, aided and abetted by David, the group’s musical director. Bob’s skills on the plastic trumpet and guitar, and his bow and arrow routine, had to be seen to be believed! The group encouraged the audience to singalong, even providing song sheets. The close harmonies and supporting dance moves showed the extensive rehearsal effort they had all put in, whether singing as a group or in support of the various soloists. The Entertainers moved musically through the decades, starting with The Beatles. Highlights included Sandra’s rendition of Send in the Clowns in the first set, followed by 70’s songs for disco divas and 80’s ballads in the second set. After a third costume change, the final set took the audience from the 90’s to 2018, Geraldine nearly stealing the show with Stop from the Spice Girls. Noisy requests led to an encore, with everyone joining in for Hey Jude before The Entertainers closed with a disco version of Blake’s famous hymn Jerusalem. For further information on U3A Vall del Pop see the website www.u3avalldelpop.com.
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BENIDORM has improved access to eight municipal buildings. The council has installed automatic doors as part of the Accessibility and Sustainability Improvement project at a cost of nearly €48,500. Benidorm mayor Toni Perez explained there are automatic accesses at the Els Tolls administrative extension, the Jose Llorca Linares social centre, the Rincon de Loix administrative extension, the Diego Cano Enguera Casa del Fester, the Jelena social centre and at the Social Well-being department in Plaza Pintor Lozano. He also explained doors were being put in at the Beniarda administrative extension and at the Boca Calvari museum, and that there were plans to ultimately put in automatic doors on the rest of the municipal buildings. “It is a small project, but which makes life much easier for the people of Benidorm and visitors,” the mayor commented, pointing out all the buildings in question are those which are centres for basic services, predominantly social in nature, and which therefore have
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IMPORTANT: The Benidorm mayor said it was a small project, but which would make life easier for many people. high numbers of people coming and going. “We want an accessible Benidorm,” Perez stressed.
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RAPID: A helicopter was mobilised to evacuate the walker to hospital.
THE emergency services successfully rescued a Belgian walker from the top of the Tossal del Moro mountain in Gata de Gorgos after he suffered a suspected heart attack on Sunday. A Local Police officer and an expert mountain runner from the Gata de Gorgos Council Sports department immediately rushed up the mountain carrying a defibrillator following a 112 call out from the walker’s compan-
Emergency rescue ions. By the time they got there some 20 minutes later a fire service rescue service and helicopter had arrived. A SAMU health emergencies team also took part in the rescue effort.
The walker was evacuated by helicopter to Benidorm hospital. The Gata de Gorgos Local Police thanked everyone taking part in the rescue effort for their “rapid intervention and professionalism.”
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Showcasing new show THE Lions Club of L’Alfas del Pi is proud to present their annual Flamenco Show on Saturday, November 2. The Madrid based flamenco dance group of Juan Avecilla will be showcasing their new show. The performance is being held in the Casa
Cultura in L’Alfas at 8pm. Tickets cost €17.50. All the profits made by the Lions will be donated equally to the L’Alfas food bank and to Doble Amor, the local Association for the Promotion of People with Intellectual Disabilities of
Benidorm. Tickets are available from the Casa Cultura in l’Alfas and the Fresno Viajes in Albir. Alternatively, you can reserve your tickets from the Lions Club by calling Peter on 669 943 734, or by email pgdelint@gmail.com. Theatre doors open at 7.45pm, and you can collect your tickets in the Casa Cultura reception hall from 7pm. For the first time, this year the seat numbers are printed on the tickets. The cafeteria at the Casa Cultura remains closed. Vending machines are in place for coffee and other soft drinks. A spokesperson said: “Please come to the evening and enjoy this great Flamenco Show whilst helping these good causes. The Lions Club of L’Alfas is proud to be a member of the Lions International organisation with over 1.4m members worldwide. Other events in the forthcoming 12 months include the annual golf tournament, San Juan on Albir Beach and the club’s ongoing project to re-use spectacles. For info, contact President, Alain Van de Merelen, on 618 426 031 or Flamenco organiser, Peter de Lint, on 669 943 734.
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General could leave Sevilla WITH Franco gone from the Valle de los Caidos, Gonzalo Queipo de Llano should leave Sevilla’s Macarena basílica, protesters maintained. Queipo de Llano was the army general who led Franco’s military coup in Andalucia on July 18, 1936, and each year a demonstration is held outside the basilica on the uprising’s anniversary. The late dictator’s removal from the Valle de los Caidos recently prompted hundreds to protest at the continuing presence of Queipo de Llano’s tomb. Their demands were echoed by Susana Diaz, Andalucia’s former regional president, as well as Sevilla’s mayor Juan Espadas and Teresa
Rodriguez, regional head of Podemos. Moving the general responsible for the deaths of more than 50,000 people during the Civil War could be even more complicated than relocating Franco’s tomb, legal experts explained. The Valle de Los Caídos belongs to the state but the Macarena basilica is private property, although the former regional president Susana Diaz maintained that the state could intervene when a private building had a public use. Patricia del Pozo, who heads the regional Culture department, announced that nothing can be done until a team of experts decides whether or not Queipo de Llano’s tomb infringes Spain’s Historical Memory Laws.
Port passenger numbers up THE number of passengers passing through Alicante port for this summer’s ‘crossing the straits’ operation was up 8.4 per cent on last year. In all 75,000 people chose Alicante to make the crossing to North Africa during ‘Operacion Paso del Estrecho (OPE) 2019. This was nearly 6,000 more than during the same period of 2018. The Sub-delegate of the government in Alicante Araceli Poblador Poblador said “it was excellent coordination between all the administrations.”
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Organ donation 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. As of 2010, Spain has operated an ‘opt-out’ (or presumed consent) system for deceased organ donation. This addresses the rate or refusal of potential donors or their families in giving permission for the use of organs. The rate of family refusal in Spain is 13 per cent, compared to 37 per cent in England (according to the National Transplant Organisation figures - ONT). According to the ONT, Brits living in Spain are more likely to donate their organs than their countrymen back home. It’s not necessary to have a donor card. What is important is to let family members and loved ones know your wishes in terms of organ donation. Figures published by the Spanish ONT in 2017 put the country as world leader in donation and transplants, reaching a new record with 46.9 donors per million people and 5.261 transplants. Spain has been a global leader in organ donation and transplantation for the past 26 years. Broken down by organ, there were 3,269 kidney surgeries (up 9 per cent on 2016), 1,247 liver transplants (up 8 per cent), 304 heart procedures (8 per cent rise), 363 lung surgeries (up 18 per cent), 70 pancreas transplants (down 4 per cent) and eight bowel surgical procedures (up 100 per cent). According to the National Transplant Organisation (ONT), these surgeries are equivalent to six donors and 14 surgical procedures a day. In addition, Spain saw a new record in bone marrow donation last year, with 78,291 new donors and an increase of 196 per cent over the previous year. At this rate, the country could reach its target of 400,000 bone marrow donors well before the mid-2020 goal. In Spain the number of those on the waiting list was reduced to 4,896 in 2017, from 5,480, although the number of children waiting for organs increased to 74, from 48 a year earlier. Lung and heart are viable for 4-6 hours after death, liver and pancreas 24 hours, kidney 72 hours, corneas 14 days, bone and skin five years, and heart valves up to 10 years. Small intestines, veins, tendons and ligaments can also be donated. A single organ donor can save up to eight people and a single tissue donor may enhance the lives of up to 50 people. This information is for guidance only, and should not be taken as legal advice. If in any doubt, seek professional help.
LARGE PLANTATION: Some of the plants were up to 1.2 metres in height.
Cannabis on fire THE Guardia Civil has arrested three men in Crevillente and Altea after a blaze burnt down a marihuana plantation. Two of the detained are from M o n t e n e g ro a n d t h e third is from the UK. The a c c us e d me n fa c e charges including drug trafficking, falsifying documents, electric fraud and belonging to a criminal organisation. After passing over to judicial disposition, the suspects have been moved to a provisional prison without the possibility of bail. The fire started on July 15, when neighbours living in an urbanisation in Altea
were alerted by the flames. When analysing possible causes, firefighters concluded it had been a short circuit in an illegal electrical instalment. The set up had been used to maintain a large indoor cultivation of cannabis, which burned down along with the property. An additional 4.5 kilograms of packaged marihuana were also found. Realising the consequences of the fire, the three inhabitants fled bef o r e e m e rg e n c y s e r v i c e s arrived. A dangerous breed of dog was also left behind and had to be moved to an animal shelter in Benidorm.
However, careful inspection of the house led investigators to the suspected culprits. M o n t h s l a t e r, t h e y d i s covered a second property rented by the men that was being used for the same purposes. Police completed the second raid successfully and proceeded to arrest two males from Montenegro. In the basement, 1,369 marihuana plants were found along with another clandestine electrical ins t a l l a t i o n . Va r i o u s f a k e passports were also discovered as well as plans to rent a third property. The third British member was arrested hours later.
Canine awards AUDITORI DE LA MEDITERRÀNIA in La Nucia was host to the awards for canine units, police dogs and their handlers. The award ceremony was arranged to coincide with the third National Congress of Animal Protection and Canine Units. One of the stars of the show was Elton, a retired hero of the canine division of the Guardia Civil, and his handler Juan Manuel Sánchez García of the Cynological Division. Elton had participated in such prominent cases as that of Marta del Castillo, Diana Quer and the child Gabriel Cruz. The award for Initiative within the Ca-
nine Unit was awarded to the Local Police of Cáceres and in particular officer Julio Bejarano Pavón. Units from Gijón, Madrid and Villabilla all left with prizes to reward their service. Best Performance was given to Doky and Onofre Trobat Alba from the National Police Headquarters of the Balearic Islands. In an emotional move, a posthumous recognition was made for officers Julio Cedo Perelló, Julio of Mossos D’Escuadra, Miguel Angel Peña of Sant Esteve Sesrovires and Iván Rocamora Mayoral of Elda.
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CARLOS BAOS WE CAN HELP YOU WITHIN the Spanish Inheri tance and Donations (Gift) Tax there are some tax benefits or tax reductions depending on the specific characteristics of
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Inheritance Tax in Spain Tax Benefit based on residency of the deceased each inheritance. The best known are the kin ship reductions, which allows for a reduction in the base rate of the tax and the amount de
pends upon the actual kinship between the deceased and their heir. There are other tax benefits that are less wellknown and from which a number of taxpay ers can benefit so, for that rea son, it is really important to ob tain expert legal advice by the person leaving an estate prior to death and also when the inheri tance is to be dealt with. This is in order to make sure that the inheritance is handled efficiently, according to the law and in the most tax efficient way. In this article we will focus on the socalled reduction by acquisition of the habitual resi dence of the deceased. The tax administration in Spain generally understands and accepts that the habitual residence of the deceased will be the property that has been the habitual residence of the
taxpayer for a continuous peri od of three years. Article 20 of the Inheritance Tax Law establishes that the heirs may benefit from a 95 per cent reduction in the value of the deceased’s habitual resi dence, with a maximum limit of €122,606.47 if the heirs are spouses, descendants or ascen dants of the deceased or a col lateral relative (eg brother) who is more than 65 years old and had lived with the deceased in the two years prior to death. In addition to this, the inherit ed property must be retained for 10 years following the death (which means that the heir may not sell the property during that time), otherwise, the tax au thorities could recalculate the tax without allowing the reduc tion and request repayment of the difference. It should be taken into ac
count that the Autonomous Communities have the power to improve or amend the condi tions that apply to such a reduc tion. For example, in the case of the Valencian Community, the reduction limit is increased to €150,000 and the property maintenance obligation is re duced to five years. As we have previously men tioned, spouses, descendants, ascendants and collateral rela tives over 65 years of age who have lived with the deceased during the last two years of life can be beneficiaries of this re duction. What happens if several heirs have rights in the inheritance, but only one inherits the habitu al residence? The Law of the Tax establishes that it does not mat ter how the inheritance has been distributed and for pur
poses of the tax it must be con sidered as if it had been done with strict equality. In other words, all heirs who meet the reduction require ments could benefit from it, in proportion to their share in the inheritance, even if they are not awarded the habitual residence. Planning the tax implications for inheritance is essential if you do not want to pay too much in the way of tax. If you are liable for Inheri tance Tax and believe that you can benefit from this allowance, or if you have paid tax within a period not exceeding four years and did not benefit from this re duction to which you may be entitled, Contact Us. The information provided in this article is not intended to be legal advice, it simply transmits information related to legal is sues.
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Benidorm NEWS Cataluña affects local sales BENIDORM shopkeepers estimate that Cataluña is costing them money. Sales slumped by 40 per cent this October owing to proindependence demonstrations in the region and political instability throughout the country, maintained Raul Parra, president of Benidorm shop-owners’ association Aico. “It’s really important, above all for employment, that people start spending again,” he said. The political situation, with a general election looming next
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THE six members of last year’s selection board that examined Local Police candidates are all under investigation. They are suspected of possible failure to safeguard documents and face hefty fines as well as exclusion from holding public office for up to three years. Aspirants to the Benidorm force complained that some candidates were copying during the written multiple-choice tests which they sat in October last year. One later lodged an official complaint and the six-member selection board has now been called to declare before the judge, bringing the exam papers and answers they had prepared for the tests.
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month has affected everybody, Parra continued: “People are tending to save their money until everything calms down.” Parra was talking prior to the launch of the seventh edition of the Feria Outlet in the Plaza del Ayuntamiento, where local businesses sold their end-of-line and last-season items. He was confident that the Feria would be as successful as in other years, as there was the same number of participants selling clothes, accessories, furniture and items for the home.
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PONIENTE BEACH: Frontline apartment for Valladolid University. VALLADOLID University has put up for sale a Benidorm property it was bequeathed by a British woman, Diana Guillen. The widow of radio presenter Alfonso Guillen Medrano, left the seafront apartment on
Benidorm’s Playa de Poniente to the university on her own death in 2015. Already surprised by the bequest, the university was even more disconcerted on being informed initially that the donation had come from a BBC presenter, Valladolid sources said. During their lifetime the Guillens spent long periods in the Benidorm apartment and the only condition attached to the inheritance stipulated that the university should put up a plaque in the couple’s memory. Neither had links to the university although as their lawyer
VALLADOLID UNIVERSITY: Bequest from British benefactor.
was from Castilla y Leon, it is believed the suggestion could have come from her. As the university has no practical use or need for the apartment in Edificio Acapulco, this will now be auctioned with a reserve price of €235,891. The university will hold a vote on how the cash raised from the sale should be used next year, although sources said it will probably be used for investigation and students’ grants.
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THE Royal British Legion’s District North Poppy Appeal was launched recently in Benidorm. The event, supported by members of the Royal British Legion from 15 branches across the region, took place in warm sunshine in the presence of the hundreds of holidaymakers, veterans and residents packing the Levante promenade. Benidorm’s mayor, Toni Perez joined the annual march along the seafront, accompanying the RBL’s District chairman, Don Cubbon, British consul SarahJane Morris, Edward Dunn, Head of Campaigns at the British Embassy and a Navy reservist, Ms Kate Green who is the Overseas Team Lead of RBL Worldwide. The parade was led by the Torrevieja Pipes and Drums, followed by a dozen or more standards and approximately 200 proud veterans of all nationalities and services.
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Colourful launch for the Poppy Appeal
POPPY APPEAL: A moment from the parade. Once again, Chelsea Pensioners Wayne Campbell and Skippy Teasdale travelled from the Royal Hospital in London, escorted along the seafront by Fr Don Witts of the Costa Blanca Anglican Chaplaincy. Following the parade, Toni Perez welcomed all the participants, expressing his delight at hosting the Poppy
Keep fiestas noise down NOISE restriction regulations will remain in place throughout Benidorm’s November 9-13 fiestas. Music at the noisy headquarters where Peñas (fiestas groups) entertain themselves and all-comers must be turned down at 4am and turned off entirely between 5am and 10am, a town hall edict announced. Municipal sources explained that it is hoped this will satisfy those celebrating the fiestas and those who want a good night’s sleep. The same edit also announced that Peña club rooms may only function during the days of the fiesta and all must be able to supply documentation proving that the premises are fit for occupation, have basic services and are insured.
Appeal and stressing how very important the expatriate community was to the town. Thanking Benidorm for its warm welcome, the District North Poppy Appeal aims to exceed 2018’s total of €176,000, Don Cubbon announced. Every euro received in Spain would be used in
Spain where it will make a real difference, not only to the lives of veterans, servicemen and women but to their families as well, he stressed. “So make your donation and wear your poppy with pride in the knowledge that you will be supporting your past and present Armed Forces community,” he said.
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Albir - Alfaz NEWS A new and welcoming logo ALFAZ’S Tourism councillor Luis Morant recently introduced the municipality’s new corporate image as a tourist destination. Accompanied by Martine Mertens, councillor responsible for Residents’ Associations, Morant showed the town’s new logo to an audience of 150 at the Escuelas Viejas cultural centre. The logo consists of a large W above the hashtage Welcome, followed by the name l’Alfas and the phrase, Ven y quedate (Come and stay) identifying the tourism project that the local government intends to
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NEW APPROACH: Luis Morant details new corporate image.
develop in coming years, Morant said. The Welcome logo is now the official Alfaz brand, he continued.
With 900 metres of beaches in Albir, an impressive national park with 5,653 hectares of land free from property speculation and multicultural attrac-
tions, Alfaz welcomes tourists and seasonal residents to another type of tourism, Morant said. “With its numerous attractions Alfaz invites those who first discover us as a tourist destination to remain in a municipality is especially welcoming,” he said. “Because of this, the tourism we are targeting is special and the tourists who choose us are special.” The town hall’s objective is to make Alfaz clearly recognisable and to ensure that the new brand makes the municipality stand out amongst its competitors in the ‘quality tourism’ sector.
A matter of course ALFAZ’s Occupational Training Centre (CFO) will host a course on applying the social media to business. The course organised by the Marina Baja Businesswomen’s association, MEMBA, in conjunction with Alfaz Town Hall will be held in November and in early December. The social media is a growing influence in personal relations, but it is also an important work tool, said MEMBA’s president Maria Jose Tent.
“A message on Facebook allows a business-owner to launch a message rapidly, efficiently and economically,” Tent said. “This message can then make an immediate impact on a niche of potential clients.” The 12-hour course targets businesses that want to learn how to optimise their presence on the social media and will be held on November 19, 21, 26 and 28 as well as December 3 and 4 between 2pm
and 4pm at the CFO. Attendees will learn how to communicate correctly on the social media, tackling issues that include designing a strategy of online communication, improving a business’s internet presence and even handling crisis situations, Tent said. The course costs €25, but is free to MEMBA members and those interested in attending the course can register online at the www.membamarinabaixa.org / website.
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A L FA Z ’ S L o c a l P o lice recently opened t h re e s o c i a l m e d i a accounts. Th e f o r c e h o p e s th a t this will improve communications with the local population, by being able to approach more people in a way that is “direct, close to hand and immediate,” said Public Safety councillor, Toni Such. Th e r e i s a Fa c e b o o k page (Policia Local L’Alfas del Pi) a Twitter account (@local_pi) and Instagram (policia_alfas) that will bring the work carried out by the Local Police closer to residents, while providing information and advice on matters of interest. “The social media today are very useful for reaching t h e y o u n g , ” S u c h
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SOCIAL MEDIA: Toni Such opens the Local Police Facebook page. stressed. “It also gives visibility to the great work that the police officers are carrying out,” he added. Content will be adapted to the particular needs of
the mome nt, Suc h e xpla ine d, ra nging from a le rts , ope ra tions a nd guidance on safety as well as information regarding closed roads or electricity cuts.
Warm welcome for twin A DELEGATION from Lescar in France which has been twinned with Alfaz for 34 years, is currently in town. The 40-strong party headed by Lescar’s mayor Christian Laine visited the town hall where they were received by Alfaz’s mayor Vicente Arques, and Martine Mertens and Dolores Albero, respective councillors for Residents and Education. Welcoming them in the Council Chamber, Arques thanked the party for participating in different local events, including the 22nd edition of Alfaz’s International Day, Lescar is Alfaz’s only twinned town and the local government stressed its intention of continuing to maintain a link that is positive for both parties, and for many years, Arques stressed. During the Lescar delegation’s time in Alfaz, the mayor accompanied them to the
town’s principal tourist attractions. These included the Villa Romana open-air museum, the Sierra Helada national
park and the Faro de l’Albir which, although it is still a working lighthouse that advises shipping, is also an informal museum.
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ALFAZ’S latest council meeting began outside the town hall w i t h a m i n u t e ’s s i lence for the woman murdered recently in Denia. The 44-year-old woman, who was a Russian national was the Valencian Community’s seventh gender violence victim and the 48th nationwide. Later, during the council s e s s ion, the tow n ha ll’s Equa lity c ounc illor proposed the creation of a Multidisciplinary Gender Violence Commission. “Its aim will be to anticipate detection, promote prevention and provide a rapid response in gender violence cases inside the municipality,” a nnounc e d the tow n hall spokesman Toni Such.
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Joint effort will tackle gender violence
SOLIDARITY: Minute’s silence for Denia gender violence victim.
According to technical reports from the Equality department, the public authorities cannot be indifferent to ge nde r viole nc e , a s ha s been made clear in Article 9.2 of Spain’s Constitution, Such continued. “This obliges the public authorities to take positive action, to make freedom and
equality really effective, removing obstacles that prevent or make this difficult,” the reports stated. “Local administrations are the institutions closest to the population,” argued Such as he announced the need for the Multidisciplinary Gender Violence Commission, given that the gen-
der violence problem would need to be dealt with jointly by all municipal bodies. “Thi s wi l l al l ow us t o t ake a st ep f ur t her i n our commitment to eradicating Gender Violence in Alfaz,” declared Such who thanked t he counci l ’s opposi t i on parties for backing the proposal.
Just picture that on the beach LOCAL painters recently met in Albir for the annual painters’
meeting organised by ArtAvant and the Culture department. The 23 painters painting on Albir beach were visited by the Culture councillor who encouraged ArtAvant to keep up the good work and continue to pro-
mote fine arts locally. ArtAvant, which was founded in 2007, has 30 members who organise different social activities including talks and workshops, exhibiting their work locally and the surrounding area.
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SEASCAPE: One of the ArtAvant painters.
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HOMEOWNERS in Altea’s Old Quarter are again in line for € 15,000 grants for painting their properties’ facades. “This will improve the image of zones like the Old Quarters in Altea and Altea la Vieja that are so important to our town,” Town Planning councillor Jose Orozco said. “Once again the town hall is making an effort to stretch its budget to assist protected areas like our traditional centres while helping owners make the effort to meet the required demands and regulations,” the councillor added.
This year the allocations have been increased from €300 to €500, Orozco explained. “Since last year we have been taking into account not only the cost of painting, but also the need for damp treatment,” he said. Residents in the Old Towns of Altea and Altea la Vieja have until November 13 to apply for a grant at the Citizens’ Attention Office in the town hall. Calle La Mar, Calle Filarmónica, Calle Fco. Martinez Orozco and Pont de Moncau in Altea are also eligible for the grants, Orozco announced.
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Applicants should have with them the official application and other required paperwork that can be downloaded from the http://www.altea.es/es/conce jalias/urbanismo/informa cion-de-interes/ section on the municipal website.
All Saints sleepover THE town hall’s Youth Department hopes to recover Altea’s October 31 traditions that risk being overtaken by Halloween. Together with the Education department it has organised Nit de Morts, Saber de Vius (Night of the Dead, Knowledge of the Living). Children born between 2004 and 2009 will spend the night together, taking part in different activities based on local All Saints
Eve customs and traditions. The event is to be held at Finca Santa Barbara in Altea la Vella from 8pm on October 31 until 9am on November 1. “The children will be accompanied by monitors at all times and will have a fun night, each bringing their own supper, listening to traditional stories and legends, lighting votive candles as in the past, and breakfasting together in the morning.”
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CALPE mayor Ana Sala harshly criticised the acting government’s decision to remove Francisco Franco from the
Valle de los Caidos. When Sala was a councillor at the time that Cesar Sanchez was in charge at Calpe Town
Hall, she raised eyebrows on several occasions with her praise of the way of life during the late dictator’s 1939-1975 regime. “You are the worst thing that has ever happened to Spain,” Sala declared on the social media, referring to the current president Pedro Sanchez. “You desecrate tombs and commit sacrilege but obviously you aren’t aware of that because you are an atheist,” continued the mayor, who belongs to the Partido Popular. “We have just heard the worst unemployment figures since 2012 but evidently that doesn’t bother you. You have never run a business and don’t know what it’s like to exist when you have to pay taxes, mortgages and salaries.” Sala finished the message by warning Sanchez that he had “sown the seeds of his own historic memory.”
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STAY SOBER: Guidance for Virgen de las Nieves celebrations.
Sensible advice for the fiestas AS Calpe geared up for the Virgen de las Nieves fiestas, younger residents were warned about the ill-effects of alcohol. The Dia de les Quintes is the day devoted to Calpe’s young fiestas groups, known as Les Quintes, and the town hall launched its ‘No montes el circo’ campaign urging the young not to behave like clowns and to make sensible use of alcohol. There was a full programme of events beginning at 11am with children’s activi-
ties and ending with a mobile disco at 10.30pm. Throughout the day there were mediators on hand to provide information, advice and publicity handouts but, as during the last Virgen de las Nieves fiestas, there was also a ‘punto violeta.’ Violet is the colour of the feminist movement in Spain and a ‘punto violeta’ is a designated spot which helps and informs the victims of any kind of sexual aggression.
Figuring it all out CALPE had a ‘satisfactory’ tourist season, the town hall’s Tourism department revealed. The town’s tourist sector maintain the levels of demand despite the ‘turbulent environment’ produced by Brexit and the collapse of Thomas Cook, sources said. July had an overall occupancy of 65.7 per cent - eight percentage points below 2018 while August figures fell seven percentage points to 79.6 per cent.
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MUNICIPAL workers have been preparing Calpe cemetery ready for All Saints Day, tomorrow Friday November 1. This is the one day of the year when everybody with a deceased loved one, or even a distant ancestor, adorns their graves or niches with flowers. The employees have been painting, repairing niches and improving the lighting as well as tidying flowerbeds and attending to every detail to ensure that the cemetery is a worthy setting for the flower displays. The town hall announced that a fountain has been installed in the new section of the cemetery with water containers so that it is not necessary for those visiting graves to bring water for fresh flowers or plants.
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CALPE CEMETERY: Ready for All Saints Day.
The cemetery has been staying open from 8am until 10pm each day since Tuesday so that residents will have enough time to decorate the graves and niches. Tomorrow, Friday, the cemetery will be open from 8am until 8pm.
Not so simple arithmetic ACQUIRING five tablets and 11 mobiles for Partido Popular and Ciudadanos councillors has cost the town hall €4,000. Eliminating 1,000 kilos of documents from the Town Planning department last June was another outlay together with microchips and vaccines for animals in the municipal pound that were included in a total of €217,529 not approved beforehand by the town hall auditor. Practically all of the bills were dated between May and July this year during the final phase of the previous town hall’s term in power or during the interim period between the
May 26 municipal elections and the constitution of the new council. Nevertheless, municipal sources revealed, the town hall must pay these bills because the services have been provided and items used. Should it fail to do so, it could be accused of unjustified enrichment. There have also been questions regarding the rental paid to a private owner for premises in Calle Llibertat that are used by the Neighbourhood Police, but which sources claim has not passed through the town hall’s fiscal inspection process.
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Christmas Fayre CALPE will start the cold season with a Winter Fayre at Pub Delfin. The fun starts at 10.30am on Saturday, November 9. All proceeds will go to local charities and a raffle will be drawn at 12.30pm. Visitors will find home-made chutneys, marmalades, handmade greetinsg cards, sweets and artisan patchwork and quilting.
Adagio sing in harmony CALPE will be enjoying magical concerts by Adagio this December. The harmony singers will be performing at Camping La Merced on Saturday December 14 at 4pm, tickets cost €12. Tickets are available on 965 581 483 or online at http://www.philipashley.com/boxoffice.php.
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Golfers Chip In THE Charity Shop of Calpe has received a generous donation from the Marina Alta Golf Society. The society Captain - David Reid - presented a cheque for €2,500 to John Bridge and Diana Kemp. With Christmas around the corner, the kind-hearted contribution
will support local families during the festive season. Volunteers are always welcome at The Charity Shop situated in Galerías Mar Azul. The Golf Society hosts many fundraisers and interested golfers can contact David on reids11@hotmail.com to join.
Town Hall transparency COUNCILLOR’S assets and property have been published by the town hall in Calpe following the elections in May. The aim of this obligatory declaration of activity is to ensure transparency in the corporation. The public document contains information about each of the town councillors and their economic situation. Properties, vehicles, artwork and jewels have been listed as well as salaries, bank accounts, stock shares and mortgage loans. All of this sensitive information will be used to determine the net worth of members at the time of joining the council. Control will be continued through their legislature and assets will be compared in the case of any councillors being re-elected. The new proceedings have been applied to the parties in government -PP and Ciudadanosand members of the opposition. The highest net worth belongs to first deputy mayor and leader of Ciudadanos, Juan Manuel del Pino, with a total of €934,000. Ana Perles comes in second with a sum of €607,000. Only three other councillors surpass assets of €300,000 and are the mayor - Ana Sala, Rebeca Merchán and Francisco Avargues. Surprisingly, three members of the local government have declared having no home, vehicles or any other type of tangible assets.
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Local politico pledges to serve RAUL LLOBELL is the new head of the Partido Popular’s management committee in Teulada-Moraira. Following the announcement Llobell said that he was taking on the “considerable responsibility” with the same enthusiasm that he felt on first joining the party. “As I have since then, I shall work with and for the PP wherever needed,” said Llobell, a former councillor and the party’s mayoral candidate in the May elections. He was “really happy” about the group of people who would be accompanying him
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RAUL LLOBELL: PP leader in Teulada-Moraira. in the task, Llobell added. “The team combines experience, enthusiasm and above all
the will to work for the Partido Popular and for TeuladaMoraira.”
Tribute to two greats THE Teulada-Moraira Lions are presenting a fabulous evening of great entertainment on Sunday, November 3. This features Stuart Muir and JJ Jones, two of the best tribute acts on the Costa Blanca. Stuart Muir will be performing his tribute to the one and only Frank Sinatra with his nostalgic reverie focusing on the magic of the songs of ‘Ol Blue Eyes.’ JJ Jones brings his unique tribute to the legend, Neil Diamond, and will be showcasing all the popular hits that have rightfully earned him his place in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, including Song Sung Blue, Cracklin’ Rosie, Love on the Rocks, Sweet Caroline and many more. The show will be held in Espai La Senieta Moraira and starts at 7.30pm. Tickets are priced at €15 and there will be a donations bar and raffle draw with some great prizes.
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CUTTING Serrano ham requires a special knife and, if possible, a specific holder that holds it steady. Even then it is not an easy task and Gonzalo, a young Marina Alta resident, decided to launch his own business, paying home visits to do the job properly. He has worked in the catering trade for 10 years and has spent the last eight perfecting the art of cutting ham, a service that is in increasing demand for hospitality events. Buying best Jabugo and Pata Negra ham requires a considerable outlay and unless they are cut correctly, a great deal of the “superb” meat will be wasted, Gonzalo said.
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MEETING: Architect Patxi Mangado with Auditorium Foundation members.
MEMBERS of the Auditorium Foundation and the town hall recently met the land-
m a r k b u i l d i n g ’s a r chitect. Teulada-Moraira mayor Rosa Vila, who is also the
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Foundation’s president, and architect Patxi Mangado discussed possible options for providing the Auditori-
um with an emergency exit. Also present were the Town Planning councillor Vicen Ferrando, the Auditorium’s manager, Maite Serrat, and councillor Rosa Caselles who is also a member of the Foundation. The building, which was inaugurated in 2011, has never received its definitive Activity Licence owing to the absence of an emergency exit and during the meeting Mangado was able to give details of his solu-
tion to the problem. This will be passed on to the regional government, together with an application for the definitive Activity Licence. “We would like to thank Patxi Mangado for his willingness to help,” Vila said afterwards. “The meeting was very positive and we are certain that our Auditorium will have everything in order as soon as possible,” she added.
It’s not a rubbish post TEULADA-MORAIRA’S rubbish collection and streetcleaning service, Teumo, needs a manager. The former manager of the municipally-owned company, who is now an Opposition party councillor, was automatically dismissed after the changeover at the town hall following the local elections of May 16. Hector Morales, the councillor responsible for Teumo who also sits on the board, took over temporarily but announced earlier this week that the time had come for a full-time manager. “Teumo is very important to our town and we almost lost it, but fortunately we were able to halt privatisation and are working to maintain this public sector company,” Morales said. The municipality is looking for a candidate with engineering qualifications and good English, the councillor explained. “We need a competent manager who is professional and with no political links,” Morales continued. “And anybody can apply freely and independently.”
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TEULADA-MORAIRA Council voted in favour of supporting the Climate Emergency Declaration and adopting the Generalitat’s climate commitments. “We believe this to be of the greatest importance,” said Mayor’s Office councillor Aitor Llobell. “Our environment suffers more each day, the deterioration of the planet is unstoppable, and it is vital to take steps to check it,” he stated. The town hall is now committed to introduce measures that will reduce greenhouse gases and guarantee net zero emissions by 2040 at the latest. It will also do everything within its power to halt biodiversity loss and restore local ecosystems. Use of fossil fuels will be phased out to be replaced with 100 per cent renewable energy, Llobell said, encouraging sustainable transport, bicycles and other non-contaminating means of transport while creating pedestrian areas and green routes.
Insurance tender THE town hall has put its insurance cover out to tender. Hector Morales, who heads the Contracts department, announced a €220,800 contract with an annual budget of €55,200 for five separate sections. Cover is required for civil and asset liability, material damage, vehicles, accidents as well as public administration and personnel liability. Each of the contracts will be an independent unit and companies can bid for one, several or all of the tenders, while the town hall can decide to assign the different policies to one bidder or several bidders, Morales said.
Sensitive documents lost and found THE Guardia Civil were called in after ‘sensitive’ documents went missing from the office of TeuladaMoraira’s municipal architect. After finding empty cupboards, the architect contacted the Local Police when nobody in the Urban Development department could tell him what had happened to the missing files. Suspecting a robbery, the police contacted the Guardia Civil who initially considered sending in forensic fingerprint analysts until they found the documents in the rubbish. The half-destroyed papers had been put inside rubbish bags and were on the point of being taken to a landfill site, revealed Opposition leader Raul Llobell in the Questions and Answers session at the last plenary council meeting. “It was an error,” replied Rosa Vila, Teulada-Moraira’s mayor
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FALSE ALARM: Documents nearly sent to landfill.
who belongs to the Compromis party. “An employee in the Urban Development party thought the documents were old and went back to the days of the previous municipal architect. Since more space was needed, she mistakenly threw them out,” Vila said. “But they were all
scanned and wouldn’t have been lost,” the mayor added. Nevertheless, not everybody was satisfied by the explanation, according to the local Spanish press. According to some municipal experts, the incident should have led to disciplinary proceedings.
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Javea NEWS JAVEA’S Vicente Tena primary school has now been an active member of Nostaltres Proposem (We Propose) for a year. Eliminating plastic, supporting the public water system and taking action inside the town are the results of the school’s first 12 months in programme. Pascual Ladron de Guevara from Amjasa, Javea’s municipally-owned water concessionary, visited the school after pupils suggested installing more drinking fountains would reduce the need to buy bottled water and the accumulation of yet more plastics. The s e w e re e s pe c ia lly ne c e s s a ry in the pla c e s most-frequented by young people, the pupils pointed out, and De Guevara confirmed that work is about to
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start on installing fountains. These will be located in the town’s state schools where needed, as well as in Paseo del Arenal, Parque de la Plaza Xativa, the municipal sports centre, Camp de las Mezquides, Parque Calistenia adjoining the
River Gorgos, Portal del Clot and Plaza de la Constitucion. As well as the drinking fountain initiative, the pupils are also working on a project to restore the old Central Cinema. Now municipally-owned,
the once-emblematic cinema has been empty and unused for years, and the pupils want to see this converted into a youth leisure centre. In turn this will help to reactivate commerce and activities in Javea’s Old Town, they said.
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PRE-CAMPAIGN: Pedro Duque and Jose Chulvi visit the lighthouse.
ACTING Science minister Pedro Duque, who has strong Javea ties, attended the recent March for Life organised by the cancer charity, AECC. Duque, who has a home in Javea and is married to the Javea-born diplomat Consuelo Femenia, also met members of AMARAC, an association for high-performing children. While in the area he found time to visit Javea’s lighthouse and the Riurau
market in Jesus Pobre, Duque, who will head the PSOE’s voting list for Alicante Province on November 10, was accompanied by socialist candidates Patricia Blanquer, Alejandro Soler and Jose Asensi as well as Jose Chuli and Javier Scotto, mayors of Javea and Jesus Pobre respectively. Campaigning for the November 10 general election does not begin officially until tomorrow, November 1, but while the
party were in Javea, Patricia Blanquer accused the Partido Popular leader Pablo Casado of scaremongering. During Casado’s recent visit to Alicante he claimed that the PSOE was ill-prepared to solve Spain’s economic problems. “It’s not good for the country,” she said, “and besides, he didn’t put any initiatives on the table apart from saying that the PP were economic champions.”
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THE different committees channelling citizens’ participation are currently being set up in Javea. First to be constituted were the Culture Committee headed by Culture councillor Quico Moragues and the Agricultural Committee presided by Agricultura councillor Marta Bañuls. All of Javea’s political parties are represented on the Culture Committee including five people who were chosen for their “recognised worth” at the last council meeting, Moragues said. Other committee members include spokespeople from local cultural associations, Agenda 21 and local schools. The Agricultural Committee is composed of representatives from the political parties present on the local council, the AVA and Unio de Llauradors agricultural unions and members of the local irrigation syndicates. The two committees will meet every three months or more frequently if needed.
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Opportunity to visit Committees setting up VISITORS to the old Sant Joan cemeter y tomorrow, November 1, will also be able to enter the chapel there. The cemetery closed for burials in 1988 and at present the chapel is not open to the public on a daily basis but can be visited tomorrow. Under the direction of the Soler Blasco Museum, 19th century tomb plaques found in the chapel have been restored and now line the walls of the chapel although the biggest has been placed in its intended position on a grave. Archaeological excavations in 2010 revealed the 30 rectangular tombs of 29 adults and 11 children and since then Javea’s Culture department has continued to work on rehabilitating the cemetery
RESTORED: The chapel in Sant Joan cemetery. chapel and converting it into a museum. The town hall has restored chapel doors, changed the window latches, repaired the paving and installed an alarm system Lighting has been renewed and a wooden walkway extending from the door to the altar will allow visitors to view the excavations.
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THE holiday season is weeks away but Javea Town Hall is already thinking about Xmas trees. Adhering strictly to official guidelines, the local government is putting the trees out to tender, with the contract going to best offer for eight-metre Normandy pines for the centre of the Old Town, the Duanes de la Mar district and the Arenal promenade. The €7,000 contract includes a fourth tree, a two-metre pine for the town hall interior, as well as poinsettias for official events over Christmas. The trees are due to go up on December 5 and the contracted company must agree to collect them 32 days later.
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Billions-worth of military outsourcing S PA I N ’ S M i n i s t r y o f Defence spent €1.1 billion on outsourcing n o n - e s s e n t i a l s e rvices like gardening and catering between 2010 and 2018. Gardening cost €27.5 million while €91.6 million went on upkeep of Ministry building and €343.9 million on catering. Most cash, €654 million, went on vehicle maintenance. According to the Ministry of Defence’s secretary general
for Economic Affairs, Jose Luis Ruiz Sumalla, this does not entirely reflect spending on these allocations, and could be even higher. “Only the figures for the last four years are reliable,” he said. “Information before 2014 was obtained by combining different computer systems, data bases and contracting procedures.” Nor do these figures include the total cost of outsourcing for logistics buildings and living quarters
between 2010 and 2018. “Most living quarters are inside barracks and it has been possible to calculate separate expenses for security, cleaning and upkeep as these are included in general spending on the military base where they are located,” Ruiz Sumalla said. The figures were made public following a request from a soldier on a temporary contract who asked for outsourcing details on the Transparency Website.
Street shooting settling scores THE fatal shooting of a man in a Bilbao street could have been a settling of scores. The victim was gunned down in the Bilbao La Vieja district of the city on Thursday afternoon. The authorities believe the killing could be related to a conflict sparked off by jealousy between two gypsy clans, according to Spanish press reports. It appears two couples who used
to be inseparable fell out after one of the men had an affair with the other man’s wife. Calls to the emergency services first alerted police to the incident. When patrols arrived at the scene they found the victim already dead on the ground. Basque police arrested two men found in a nearby property shortly afterwards and seized three shotguns.
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BBC host the Irish youth teams Benitachell Bowls Club had the great pleasure to host the Irish International Youth Squad last week. The first two days were taken up with the Squad b e i n g p u t t h ro u g h t h e i r paces with some advanced training watched by many spectators. The last day of their visit saw them up against a BBC Select Team playing eight games. Some superb bowling took place against a great group of young people. The spectators were entertained with some excellent bowling and close matches. The BBC Ladies’ team consisted of Linda Richards, Lynda Warnes, Jacquie Roberts, Mary Cockell, and Christine Mawson. In the Men’s team were Jeff Richards, Greg S p e r r i n g , A l e x F i s h e r, D u d l e y D a v i e s a n d Tre for Evans. Ta p a s w e r e s e r v e d i n t h e c l u b h o u s e a f t e rwards and High Performance Coach Neil Booth thanked the club for their hospitality and presented Bowls Director Jeff Richards with a memento of their visit and Jeff welcomed them all back at any time. CREDIT: Benitachell Bowls Club
THE Irish Ladies team were all under 18’s who are all still in full time education. This consisted of Laura Castells (Lurgan), Katherine Houston (Larne), Sophie McIntyre (Limavardy), Zoe Minish (Portadown) and Lara Reaney (Portadown). Also Team Manager Barbara C a m e ro n , assistant Mandy Cunningham. The Irish male team consisted of Colum O’ Brien (Dublin), still in education, Irish Youth International and current u n d e r 1 8 ’s B r i t i s h I s l e s Champion. Cameron Gaw (Donaghdee) a chef and Irish Youth International currently British Isles under 25’s Champion, supported by Sam Berkley (Ballymena) who works as a p l u m b e r, Jordan Rankin (Limavardy) at U n i v e r s i t y, a n d , Ry a n McIroy (Dunbarton), all Irish Youth Internationa l s . Te a m M a n a g e r N e i l Booth, assistant Tommy Smith. All of these players have progressed through the Bowls Ireland Youth Academy.
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THE quaint village of Parcent - in Alicante stands proudly beneath the great ‘Col de rates’ mountain. This delightful Spanish haven has a surprising sporting tale to tell. Pilota is a game played in the streets using only hands and a ball. The two player teams must bounce the ball off walls in a bid to score points and in Valencia, Valencian pilota is considered the national sport. To play this game, a much higher coordination is required versus that to play tennis, squash or paddle. With a population that barely reaches 1,000 residents, Parcent has accomplished what no one thought was possible and it all started by qualifying to play in the European Pilota Finals. Teams that qualified to play were from France, Italy, Belgium. Spain was represented by one team from the Basque Country and Benidorm, Relleu and Parcent from Valencia. On the first Saturday of the
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PROUD VICTORS: A happy Parcent team.
competition Parcent played two games: one against Scalvaia from Italy and another against Maubeuge from France. The team was calm and won the two matches with conviction. Sunday morning dawned, bringing semi-finals and nerves with it. The village team faced Thieulain and an-
other great win placed them in the final against Benidorm. Crowds gathered around in the pleasant town of Monticiano in Tuscany and Parcent faced a very young and fit team. The match was even for the first six sets with a tense 3-3. But experience soon kicked in and Parcent won the following three sets and ended
River bed clean up A GROUP of residents have undertaken a clean-up of the dry river bed in Albir, known as Boulevard de los Musicos, picking up more than 10 100 litre sacks of plastic and glass containers. The community clean-up was organised by Dino Trubbianelli of the local Facebook group We love Albir, which has more than 8,500 members and a small but determined group of volunteers soon rid the river
VOLUNTEERS: The group cleared more than 10 100 litre sacks of waste. bed of a large quantity of rubbish which would have
up with a 6-3 score. Onlookers cheered as the team were presented with the cup which they proudly took as they were named the Champions of Europe. Early Monday morning, a convoy of hire cars accompanied the victors home, taking with them unforgettable memories and a surprising win.
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eventually made its way out to sea.
Colourful clergy MEMBERS and friends from the Church of England at Les Rotes in Denia enjoyed a lunch together. The colourful clergy, helped by members of the congregation, tucked into West African pork and spicy sauce and Caribbean chicken with peanut satay. All of the food was provided by generous Church members and the income generated helped with Church funds. A sing song of African music accompanied by guitar completed a wonderful afternoon. At the Church of England at Les Rotes in Denia there is a Holy Communion Service every Sunday at 11.45am and all are welcome.
GOVERNMENT plans to make the coastal AP7 motorway toll free from January 1, 2020 were thrown into disarray again by the Alicante Chamber of Commerce, who have produced a new plan of their own. With just 10 weeks to go until the motorway is due to become toll free, the Spanish government has rejected a new proposal by the Chambers of Commerce in Alicante to retain the system of tolls in return for investment in new train networks. Their plan was to raise €2,000 million from a new 40year toll concession and to use the money for infrastructure projects, especially coastal rail connections and a new service to the airport. It would also have created special discounts for residents and transport companies. The current proposals will see the motorway become toll free on January 1, 2020, but between now and then, anything could change. Watch this space!
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ALL SAINTS DAY: Cemeteries fill up with flowers.
All Saints Day Halloween celebrations on October 31 are a big date in our calendars. Some Halloween fans go all out with extravagant parties and elaborate costumes during the scariest time of year. But many people don’t know the history behind the origins of this spooky day. ON November 1, Spain traditionally celebrates Todos los Santos or All Saints Day. This custom began with the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain. During the festival, villagers welcomed the harvest and the start of ‘the dark half of the year.’ The celebrants believed that barriers between the physical and spirit world would break down during Samhain. To protect themselves from evil, bonfires were lit and offerings were left outside villages for the spirits. Celts would dress as monsters in the hope that evil fairies and witches were not tempted to kidnap them. As Christianity gained force, in the eighth century,
Pope Gregory III designated November 1 as a time to honour all saints. With this change, the church hoped to end pagan traditions. The new celebration was in honour of the dead who had completely sanctified themselves and would enjoy eternal life in the presence of God. The evening before All Saints Day was known as All Hallows Eve, a night to remember souls lost to evil. In Spain, Todos los Santos is a national bank holiday that commemorates those who are no longer with us. Spanish families mark the occasion by visiting the cemetery and taking flowers to their deceased loved ones. The gravestones
or wall niches are cleaned in an act of honour and respect. As time has gone on, North American influences have infiltrated the Christian celebration. Spanish youngsters organise Halloween parties and children go door to door. Even supermarkets have welcomed the change and stock sweets for Trick or Treaters and pumpkins ready for carving Jack O’ Lanterns. Spanish society has accepted the new traditions but elders reiterate the importance of maintaining All Saints Day. Some communities have even come up with creative initiatives to teach children about the custom that began many centuries ago.
Catalan TV station doesn’t pay up CATALUÑA’S TV3 television Chanel and Catalunya Radio owe €124.76 million in value-added tax, IVA. A tax inspection found that the Audio-visual Media Corporation of Cataluña (CCMA), the company that owns them and provides the regional government’s media communications, failed to pay €13.15million in IVA between January 2015 and October 2017. This last date coincides with the unauthorised pro-independence and the subsequent, but short-lived, unilateral declaration
of independence. As well as reclaiming the unpaid tax, Hacienda is also €8.95 million in interest, CCMA announced. According to Hacienda, the allocations that CCMA receives from the Generalitat to finance its activities are equivalent to payment for services and are therefore liable to IVA. The CCMA announced that it has now signed a document stating its disconformity with the findings and would take appropriate legal steps.
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Empowering EMPOWERING women is the main objective of a free course running until May in l’Alfas del Pi. Around 50 participants have signed up for ‘Secrets of a happy woman,’ which is organised by the local council’s Equality department in collaboration with Essencial, the School of Empowerment for Gender Peace. Leadership and Feminine Empowerment coaches Yolanda Garcia and Concha Coves will over the months cover subjects like managing emotions, promoting self-esteem, motivation, personal ability and decision-taking. “To gain grand scale change the first step consists in starting with oneself, in believing in our abilities,” commented Equality councillor Rocio Guijarro at the opening session of the course. “From this point you have the importance of courses like this, on which men are also welcome, as they should take part in the process and help to overcome cultural practices which favour machismo and inequality.” The twice weekly morning sessions are being held on Thursdays and Saturdays in the Hogar del Pensionista multi-uses hall. Inscription will remain open throughout the year, the course being taught in modules and participants are able to attend once or twice a week, the councillor explained.
ALMERIA
SORTED: Good condition items are donated to NGOs for distribution to the needy.
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COSTA BLANCA SOUTH
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Turtle released
Fertile future
RELEASED: Loggerhead is back at sea.
A LOGGERHEAD turtle that was rescued when it was found floating listlessly entangled in the remains of a raffia bag has been released into the sea. The sea creature was found on October 1 by staff at the Marine Reserve of La MuelaCabo Tiñoso. The young turtle, which weighed 2.802kg and a shell 28cm long was then nursed back to health at Murcia’s Ministry of Water, Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries and Environment’s Wildlife Recovery Centre (Centro de Recuperación de Fauna Silvestre). This was the fifth Loggerhead to be rescued and then released into the environment by the centre so far this year. In 2017 and 2018 a total of eight turtles were rescued. Before being released turtles are ringed and micro-chipped as part of a study programme. They can be identified to see migration routes and breeding patterns. The Loggerhead turtle is classified as vulnerable on the List of Wild Species in Special Protection Regime and the Spanish Catalogue of Threatened Species, while the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) considers this species endangered. Among its main threats are the swallowing of plastics and different types of floating waste, their accidental capture in fishing nets, entanglement in remains of drifting lines and, to a lesser extent, collision with boats and the destruction and alteration of nesting beaches. The Wild Fauna Recovery Centre is financed under the Operational Programme of the European Regional Development Fund.
MALLORCA
MALAGA is to become the home of the first overian tissue cryopreservation bank in Andalucia. It is estimated that every year a dozen women in the Andalucian community can preserve their fertility in this way before undergoing cancer treatment. The technique consists of removing a portion of one of the ovaries and preserving it at low temperatures for future reimplantation. After a meeting of the Spanish Group of Pediatric Oncology Surgery, the surgeon Rafael Parrado together with professionals at the Maternity hospital, realised a need for such a clinic in Andalucia as one of the side effects of cancer treatments is infertility. The target patients for such procedures are young girls who require cancer treatment that involves a high risk of ovarian failure which could lead to early menopause and infertility. The clinic is now able to accommodate their first cases and will be made available to patients post evaluation.
FROZEN: An Andalucian first in Malaga.
AXARQUIA
Natural resources
Good recycling record RESIDENTS of Adra have recycled nearly 18 tonnes of textiles so far this year. The local council praised the public for doing their bit to care for the planet and to help the less fortunate by depositing unwanted clothes, footwear, blankets, sheets, towels and so on in the 15 green containers distributed around Adra town and in outlying districts, including La Caracola, Puente del Río and La Curva. The council explained a company provides a service free of charge to the municipality to sort through collected items. Anything in good condition is donated to NGOs for distribution to the needy. The remainder is recycled to be used for products such as construction insulation.
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RETURNS HOME: Victoria de Castro (centre) in front of her house.
Squatters forced to leave HUNDREDS of residents of Portugalete, a town west of Bilbao, have successfully evicted a family of squatters who moved into a 94-year-old woman’s home when she left to visit her sister for a few days. The plight of Victoria de Castro, who returned to find intruders living inside the home that she had lived in all her life, triggered a response by neighbours who congregated in front of the house. Faced with an increasingly angry crowd, the squatters ended up calling the police to say that they would leave the property if they were guaranteed protection, eventually walking out amid heavy security presence. Under Spanish law, regaining the possession back of a home involves lengthy procedures that could until recently take up to two years. In 2018, new legislation was passed to reduce that to 30 days through civil proceedings, however complicated paperwork pushes many homeowners to simply pay the squatters to leave.
THE Mancomunidad de Municipios de la Costa del Sol Axarquia, APTA and CEDER travelled to Jaen for the Tourism Fair ‘Tierra Adentro’ this month to promote its tourist activities. The fair took place between October 25 and 27 and representatives of Axarquia promoted the natural resources which the region has to offer tourists from all over Spain. The spokesman of the Commonwealth of Municipalities of Axarquia, Antonio Sanchez travelled with fellow government members, Juan Peñas, Aroa Palma and the manager of APTA, Elisa Paez to the fair entitled the 18th International Fair of Tourism, Sports and Adventures of Andalucia ‘Tierra Adentro.’ “It’s a very important fair for us because they are the main inland destinations in Spain and because it concentrates professionals in the sector looking for places that offer opportunities for sports tourism or adventure,” said Sanchez. During the visit they promoted areas of outstanding natural beauty such as the Cuevas de Nerja and Tesoro, the Almijara and Alhama Natural Park and the La Caleta marina by distributing leaflets, tourist maps and creating a tourist information point for all 31 municipalities. The delegates also pushed the region’s culinary and cultural offerings as well as highlighting the importance of the tropical fruit industry, specifically the muscatel grape.
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THE Belgian Paralympic champion Marieke Vervoort who won gold at London 2012 has had her life termi nated through euthanasia at the age of 40. She retired after the Rio games and her health deteriorated rapid ly thereafter.
Cleared out A SURPRISED tenant returned home in Bruges to dis cover that his apartment was completely empty. It turned out that he hadn’t been the victim of a robbery but the letting agency had made a mistake with the flat numbers and destroyed his possessions.
Marieke Vervoort when competing.
NETHERLANDS
No more bets
Finger out
A BANK worker admitted that he had a gambling addiction after owning up to creating 68 illicit accounts and using cards from each to fuel his need to gamble. He cost his employers an estimated €850,000.
INSURERS in Holland are alert to false claims, but the most audacious recently in volved a dentist who very neatly removed one of his fingers and claimed a disability pension saying that he had lost it in an acci dent.
GERMANY
DENMARK
Cocaine taxi
Attack fears
POLICE in Berlin are increasingly worried about the number of people who now order takeaway cocaine as well as food. Users call a number and within a short period of time a private car arrives with the delivery.
A REPORT by the Danish Centre for Military Studies suggests that the country is vulnerable to cyberat tack from foreign groups, particularly China and Russia. In addition, Copenhagen Airport is a listed company and a foreign government could acquire a majority stake.
Super city THE Lonely Planet guide has tipped Bonn as the fifth most attractive city in the world to visit in 2020. It was chosen for its cultural heritage and is the birthplace of the composer Ludwig van Beethoven whose 250th birthday is next year.
Increase sentences THE Danish Parliament is getting ready to pass leg islation to encourage courts to hand out stiffer sen tences for dangerous driving. Most cases, no mat ter how reckless, attract sentences of 16 to 36 months, although the maximum is eight years.
FRANCE
In date
Culture war
IT was national nowaste day in France last week and two supermarket chains are fac ing prosecution for throwing away pack ages of food that were within their sellby dates contrary to a 2016 law.
AN Italian court has rejected demands to halt the loan of Leonardo da Vinci’s Vitru vian Man (valued at €1 billion) drawing to France’s Louvre museum. Opponents ar gued that the tiny drawing was too fragile to travel.
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NORWAY
MRI mishap
Easy connections
AN experienced nurse was injured in a freak accident in a hospital in Luleå when overseeing an MRI scan. For some reason, not yet known, he entered the area and must have been caught up in the MRI’s magnetic field.
UNTIL now, it had airline partners, but Norwegian Air has signed a new deal to link it with USbased airline JetBlue which means it can streamline connections in America for Norwegian passengers and vice versa.
Go between
Medicine scare
AS diplomatic relationships do not exist between North Korea and the USA, Sweden has been acting as a mediator to arrange meetings. Their special envoy has announced that he will be formally inviting both parties to meet again shortly.
THERE have been more than 1,000 reports so far this year of shortage of vital medicines in different parts of Norway. The government is now considering new laws to allow it to ration or move stocks from one area to another.
FINANCE
Stricter regulations
THANKS to the financial crisis which saw the banks around the world saved by governments, the UK in par ticular saw a tremendous growth in payday loan providers which were not initially subject to strict control. Due to the large number of com plaints received about selling loans to people who couldn’t afford them and high interest rates and penalties, the government did act to introduce stricter regulations. Anyone with a loan will still need to make repayments or find them selves accruing financial penalties, but what is not clear is when com plainants will receive compensation.
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billion was the amount allocated by the Spanish Social Security towards payment of pensions in October, an increase of 4.9 per cent over last year.
PepsiCo goes to new levels AFTER working for the second largest food company in the world, PepsiCo, for 22 years, Barcelona born Ramón Laguarta was appointed CEO of the largest multinational to have a Spaniard at its helm. Since taking up his position, he has radically changed the impetus of the business which had been more reliant on cost cutting than increased business in order to maintain and increase profits. His theory of sustainability and continued expansion has seen the
By John Smith stock market value of the company rise by 30 per cent over the last year to a mammoth €171 billion and if the company was a country, it would rank 55 in the world just above Algeria and below Qatar. A lot has happened in just one year and his target now is to see a steady increase in profits year on year of between 4 and 6 per cent and this, he believes, can be achieved by rationalising some production and expanding mar kets.
In Spain for example, PepsiCo has outsourced two of its drinks centres to Spanish group Refresco, integrating production for the two groups to increase output and re duce costs, but without losing jobs. He now has his eyes on expand ing the market for Alvalle Gazpa cho which is selling well outside of Spain, but has not yet cracked the US market and this product in par ticular will be promoted heavily in America, where the Spanish speak ing population could well be a lu crative target.
LEGALLY SPEAKING To sell or not to sell? Recently I put my house up for sale and I had a buyer very quickly. I didn’t have a lawyer, as I know what is best for me. I have two small loans, not mortgages, and the lender has a charge against the house. He has been paid but he has to appear at the completion to sign on this. There are also outstanding community charges, some of which I paid from the deposit I received. The completion date was set and I was told I could pack up and leave the house. Then the completion date was put off because the mortgage funds had not arrived. I was given ONE day as notice. I have no confidence in another comple tion date now, which I am expected to go through again on what seems like half a sale. What are your thoughts? J R (Costa del Sol) You cer tainly have encountered set YOU AND THE backs, complica LAW IN SPAIN tions and delays too many to list here but you have signed a binding con tract of sale. I feel that instructing a lawyer would have helped you to obtain what is best for you with less worry.
DAVID SEARL
Send your questions for David Searl through lawyers Ubeda-Retana and Associates in Fuengirola at Ask@lawtaxspain.com, or call 952 667 090.
Profits soar SPANISH bank Sabadell has report ed profit to the end of September 2019 at €783 million which is more than double the amount it made in the last financial year. Not only has it not had to include extraordinary charges with regards to computerisation of its TSB sub sidiary in the UK or had to write down the value of properties owned which it did in 2018, but has also generated an additional €138 mil lion from the sale of estate agents Solvia. This income means that it can match last year’s dividend al though this time by way of shares in treasury stock rather than cash in order to strengthen its balance sheet and reduce outflow of money.
BUSINESS EXTRA Knicker grant THE Spanish Tax Office has noted that certain people involved in media and the world of celebrity are claiming tax deductions in respect of designer lingerie, sunglasses, clothes and even cosmetic surgery which they claim are legitimate business expenses.
Profits down SHARES in Amazon have fallen sharply after the company revealed that although turnover in the third quarter was up by 20 per cent, profits had dropped due to increased shipping costs following an offer of next day delivery to Prime customers.
Not-spots THE UK government and mobile phone companies are discussing investing £1 billion (€1.12 billion) in extending network coverage in areas of ‘notspots’ to increase quality 4G coverage to 95 per cent of the country.
Advising the rich ALWAYS on the look out to increase turnover and profits throughout its international opera tions, Santander is now offering much better in centives to high wealth individuals. In the last year, it has reviewed its structure and now offers customers a dedicated division which is able to recommend investment services which were previously restricted to companies. This has taken off in the USA and has increased
its customer base to 1,700 which may not appear enormous but to qualify, individuals have to prove a net worth of €20 million and have access to alternative investments including real estate in markets such as Brazil, Mexico and Portugal. Staffing has been increased so there are now 32 specialists offering a personal service which in cludes advice on the most appropriate university for a young person.
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A most successful scam By John Smith ALTHOUGH many internet frauds prove to emanate from Nigeria, some major examples also come out of Spain and it is estimated that last year some 12 companies in 10 countries lost €10 million. This information has been revealed because the Guardia Civil has broken one gang and arrested three people in Spain who between them are alleged to have opened 83 fake companies with 185 bank accounts in order to launder the proceeds of their activities. Known as a Business Email Compro mise (BEC) scam senior management of different companies were imperson
THERE was a great deal of anger, particularly in rural areas of the UK where bank branches have been closed, when Barclays Bank announced that it would stop customers from withdrawing cash from post offices. Nowadays, the bulk of sub post offices are based in newsagent’s premises and the NFRN, the organisation which represents them de-
BEC: Companies have lost millions.
About face manded that the bank review its decision saying the decision “will hit tens of thousands of elderly and vulnerable people especially in rural areas.” Barclays can now claim to be a ‘listening bank’ as it quickly reversed the decision and will sup-
port what it calls a ‘full service proposition’ allowing customers to make cash withdrawals with their debit cards for at least the next three years. Whilst it is becoming more popular to make touch screen payments, many elderly people do prefer to have cash available and smaller businesses can’t always afford the latest technology.
ated and more junior employees were instructed to either transfer funds or supply information which would allow the scammers access to company ac counts. In this particular case, those involved were sophisticated enough to use company letterheads and branding to issue instructions to pay large amounts of money against fictitious proforma invoices. As this particular enquiry continues, investigating officers have so far recov ered €1,290,000 for victims who are believed to be in Bulgaria, Germany, Luxembourg, the UK and US. So successful have various criminal gangs been that many companies are now seriously considering taking spe cial insurance as BEC scams now ac count for more lost money than ran somware or hacked data breaches. International law enforcement agen cies including Europol, the FBI and In terpol have been working together since 2016 under the operational name of Lavanco and have so far ar rested more than 280 individuals from around the world who are believed to have been involved in these BEC scams which are known to have netted more than €150 million.
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Lower deficit THE UK Office for National Statistics has admitted that due to a statistical error, the British budget deficit (excluding money tied up in banks) could be as much as £1.5 billion (€1.7 billion) less than previously reported for this year so far.
Nissan woes WHETHER it is a reaction to the unrest in Barcelona or simply a result of the reduction in demand for its vehicles, Nissan Barcelona has reduced production by 20 per cent and may well cut the work force by 600.
Mass exodus A REPORT from New Financial confirms that due to Brexit, 332 financial businesses have moved 5,000 members of staff and assets of nearly €900 million out of London to relocate within the European Union with the largest destination being Dublin.
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LEAPY LEE SAYS IT OTHERS THINK IT THIS week’s blizzard of utter codswallop truly has me once again losing the will to live. It really is quite frightening how, in a past life, opinions and laws we would have thought completely ludicrous and truly laughable, are now not only being put into practice, but can actually land you in jail. With the whole fabric of the nation being torn apart and monumental decisions being taken that will affect the futures of every one of us, these whining Wally’s still spend their time, and probably our money, huddled around their half pints of real ale, frantically trying to drag up ludicrous and utterly non sensical rules and regulations merely, in most cases, to give themselves a reason for their own existence. And this week has been no exception. The abolishment of handclapping has final ly reached Oxford University. Students (many of whom will no doubt become future politi cians!) have managed to ban applause on the grounds that it may be wait for it a ‘trig gering’ for people with a nervous disposition! Audiences will now be encouraged to re place clapping with ‘jazz hands,’ the waggling of hands in the fashion of Al Jolson, which will no doubt also need replacing after the
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HAND CLAPPING: Audiences will now be encouraged to waggle their hands instead.
first snowflake realises this action is even more ‘offensive’ to some than the clapping it was intended to replace! Wolf whistling is now considered a misogy nist act and police are encouraging women who are victims of this heinous crime to dial 999 and report it. (I actually find it most odd
that most of the ladies I talk to, tell me they would in fact be somewhat disappointed if they didn’t receive the occasional purse lipped projection of appraisement). Somewhat more serious, but in much the same vein, I did think the ‘offence’ supposed ly perpetrated by young teenager Jamie
Griffis was a disgraceful miscarriage of jus tice as far as his sentencing was concerned. This bumbling, somewhat socially inept youngster was found guilty of two charges of sexual assault, after he fumblingly touched a young woman on the arm and waist while trying to talk to her in the street. He told the judge that he tried to talk, but the ‘words wouldn’t come out.’ The young lady said she was convinced that ‘had she not moved back he would have touched her breast’ (oh really!?). She said that the ‘assault’ left her unable to do school work; uncomfortable in her own home, had made her stressed and anxious and that the ‘attack’ had (somehow) hindered her appli cation to Oxford! Now I’m not condoning the actions of this young man, but do think that £250 in com pensation, a 12month community order with 200 hours of unpaid work and being or dered to sign the sex register for the next five years was a bit over the top and will probably affect this unfortunate young man for the rest of his days. Altogether now. Snowflakes are falln’ on my head… Keep the faith. Love Leapy leapylee2002@gmail.com
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INTRIGUE, BETRAYAL & POLITICAL ASSASSINATIONS NORA JOHNSON BREAKING VIEWS Nora is the author of popular psychological suspense and crime thrillers and a freelance journalist. To comment on any of the issues raised in her column, go to www.euroweeklynews.com/3.0.15/nora-johnson
INTRIGUE, betrayal and political assassinations. And that just describes events in the American TV version of House of Cards! The latest Brexit manoeuvres over Boris’s Brexit deal far surpassed all that and would make even Kevin Spacey’s Machiavellian character Frank Underwood blanch. For many barely able to disguise their horror at the spectacle of a nest of politi cal vipers more interested in backstab bing rivals than calming nerves, this Ja cobean tragedy fast descended into a Whitehall farce. Maybe not so much House of Cards then, more like St Trin ian’s? The highlight was billed, with no small degree of hubris, as ‘Super Saturday,’ and everyone in the country was invited to
watch. Against the backdrop of an ex hausted and frustrated nation, Parlia ment programmed a Saturday matinee for the first time in almost 40 years. And what a contrast it was between this ‘Super Saturday’ farce and the high calibre of debate it was when Parliament met on that Saturday all those years ago in the wake of the Falklands invasion. Basically, we would have had a much better deal if May had negotiated proper ly and hadn’t been constantly under mined by the Remainer faction. As it is, in the situation in which Boris has been placed by both May’s failed negotia tions and the Com mon’s shenanigans, his deal is probably the best we can hope for now (‘the least of the
evils’ according to one MP) to allow us to move on. A deal that is, according to another MP, a ‘House of Cards in a tornado’ with everyone hatching plots and tossing spanners in the already mangled Brexit works. Boris isn’t ‘dead in a ditch’ just yet but nor is he out of the hole and his op ponents are still busy digging. Wake me in 20 years (if I last that long) and hope we’ve moved on to the second phase of Brexit. Otherwise we’ll all be dead in a ditch from sheer exhaustion, frustration and the will to live. We’re in the Brexit departure lounge but who knows when the flight will take off?
Nora Johnson’s psychological crime thrillers ‘Betrayal,’ ‘The Girl in the Woods,’ ‘The Girl in the Red Dress,’ ‘No Way Back,’ ‘Landscape of Lies,’ ‘Retri bution,’ ‘Soul Stealer,’ ‘The De Cler ambault Code’ (www.norajohn son.net) available online as ebook (€0.99;£0.99), ibook, paperback & (now) audiobook. All profits CREDIT: Amazon.es to Costa del Sol Cudeca cancer KEVIN SPACEY: The House of Cards actor charity. might blanch at recent Brexit manoeuvres.
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NICK HORNE’S Rich Pick Freelance correspondent, London, England BARELY a week goes by without announcements of electric this and eco that. That’s not to imagine that traditional fuels are going entirely out of style soon. Though the news flow and the moribund oil p r i c e p e r b a r re l o f c r u d e d o e s tend to support the idea that the future will see less in the way of hydrocarbons as fuel. Meanwhile at the globally significant air show the NBAA ABACE held this year [October 22-24, 2019] at the Las Vegas Convention Centre and Henderson Executive Airport there have been a flurry of announcements, one of the first to rush down the runway and take flight was one from Boeing. A VIP customer who wishes to remain uniden tified has bought not one but two ultra long range BBJ7879s, or to you and me they are Boe ing 7879 Dreamliners. The Dreamliner can fly 9,485 nautical miles. The world really is your oys ter when you fly this one, the cabin offers 257.8 m2 of space to roam about in. More than some villas on the Costa del Sol I suspect, no pool though yet. “The BBJ 7879 offers our most discerning cus
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Flying today tomorrow BBJ 787-9 with His and Hers sinks and a bathroom equipped with a shower. Future imagined - a Porsche Boeing takes flight from a downtown shopping centre roof.
tomers the ability to travel in ul timate comfort and fly directly to just about any city on earth. We’re talking about London to Sydney or Tokyo to Cape Town. Our newest BBJ 7879 customer can clearly see the possibilities and more,” so says Ihssane Mounir, senior vice president of Commercial Sales and Marketing for the Boeing Company. “With a total of 16 orders to date, the BBJ 787 programme has won over other govern ment and private customers who want to work, rest, and arrive refresh and ready for a produc tive day.” The list price of these two aircraft
takes the combined value of the purchase into the region of US$564 million. So this customer at least does not think that aviation fuel is going ex oil any time soon. On the other hand or a straw in the wind? In July 2019 this column showcased the Air Speed
er programme; a flying racing car series that is starting in 2020. Essentially; vehicles powered by batteries will race each other as in a F1 Grand Prix, they even look a little like F1 cars though without the wheels and brakes. Flying, you hard ly need those essential pieces of kit of the ground based car. Meanwhile on October 11, just a few weeks ago, Porsche and Boeing signed off on a Memo randum of Understanding. The MOU signified the intention to embark on a joint programme to explore the ‘premium urban air mobility mar ket’ and the ‘extension of urban traffic into air space.’ “Porsche is looking to enhance its scope as a sports car manufacturer by becoming a leading brand for premium mobility. In the longer term, this could mean moving into the third dimension of travel,” says Detlev von Plat en, Member of the Executive Board for Sales and Marketing at Porsche AG. “We are combining the strengths of two leading global companies to address a potential key market segment of the future.” From Boeing, Steve Nordlund contin ued, “This collaboration builds on our efforts to develop a safe and efficient new mobility ecosys tem, and provides an opportunity to investigate the development of a premium urban air mobili ty vehicle with a leading automotive brand.” What is being explored here is probably elec tric flying cars becoming mainstream by 2030. Nick Horne, London, England
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7:00am Breakfast 11:00am Saturday Kitchen Live 12:30pm Flour Power 1:00pm Football Focus 2:00pm BBC News 2:10pm Weather 2:15pm International Rugby League 3:30pm Money for Nothing 4:00pm Seven Worlds, One Planet 5:00pm Final Score 6:20pm Celebrity Mastermind 6:50pm BBC News 7:00pm BBC London News; Weather 7:05pm Weather 7:10pm Pointless 8:00pm Strictly Come Dancing 9:30pm The Wall 10:20pm Casualty 11:10pm BBC News 11:25pm Weather 11:30pm Match of the Day 1:00am The NFL Show 1:30am Disturbia
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Top Class Mustangs FC Blue Peter The Amelia Gething Complex Strange Magic Robot Wars Celebrity Antiques Road Trip The Hairy Bikers' Comfort Food Children in Need Best House in Town The World's Most Extraordinary Homes Queen of Katwe Britain's Biggest Warship Dad's Army Natural World Great Australian Railway Journeys QI XL Pose Pose Election The British Guide to Showing Off The Name of the Rose
7:00am Totally Bonkers Guinness World Records 7:25am Emmerdale 10:35am Coronation Street 2:00pm Take Me Out 3:00pm The X Factor: Celebrity 4:55pm You've Been Framed! 5:55pm Hotel Transylvania 2 6:55pm FYI Daily 7:00pm Hotel Transylvania 2 7:40pm Jurassic World 8:45pm FYI Daily 8:50pm Jurassic World 10:00pm The Hangover Part III 11:00pm FYI Daily 11:05pm The Hangover Part III 12:05am Family Guy 12:35am Family Guy 1:05am American Dad! 1:30am American Dad! 1:55am The Cleveland Show 2:25am The Cleveland Show 2:55am Don't Hate the Playaz
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Nature's Wonderlands: Islands of Evolution Wild China Spiral Following the debacle resulting in Fouad's death, the team is taken off the investigation. Spiral Blackadder Blackadder Blackadder Top of the Pops: 1988 Top of the Pops: 1988 Get Rich or Try Dying: Music's Mega Legacies Franco Building with Jonathan Meades
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7:25am On the Buses 7:50am Agatha Christie's Marple 9:50am Inspector Morse 11:55am Agatha Christie's Poirot 1:55pm Agatha Christie's Poirot 4:00pm Agatha Christie's Poirot 6:00pm Foyle's War 8:00pm Lewis 10:00pm Endeavour 12:00am A Touch of Frost 2:00am The Syndicate 3:00am On the Buses Stan indulges a whim and lifts Doreen off the ground, but strains his back in the process. 3:25am ITV3 Nightscreen Text-based information service. 3:30am Teleshopping Buying goods from the comfort of home.
Building the Dream Cheers Cheers Everybody Loves Raymond Everybody Loves Raymond Everybody Loves Raymond Frasier Frasier King of Queens King of Queens The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory Four in a Bed Four in a Bed The Simpsons The Simpsons A Place in the Sun: Winter Sun Four Rooms The Secret Life of the Zoo Channel 4 News Britain's Most Historic Towns Great British Car Journeys Ghostbusters Gogglebox
7:00am Football's Greatest: Bobby Charlton 7:20am The Professionals 8:20am The Big Fish Off 9:25am Monster Carp 10:30am ITV Racing: The Opening Show 11:30am The Car Chasers 11:55am Columbo: Make Me a Perfect Murder 2:00pm ITV Racing Live 5:00pm Made in Britain 6:00pm Junk and Disorderly 7:00pm Rugby World Cup 2019 Highlights 8:00pm Live World Series of Darts Finals 12:00am Hard to Kill 1:00am FYI Daily 1:05am Hard to Kill 2:05am Minder 3:00am The Sweeney 4:00am Teleshopping
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10:45am Digby Dragon 11:00am SpongeBob Squarepants 11:15am Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 11:25am Access 11:30am Friends 1:25pm Friends 1:50pm Christmas at Graceland 2:50pm Access 2:55pm Christmas at Graceland 3:35pm The Flight Before Christmas 4:35pm Access 4:40pm The Flight Before Christmas 5:20pm Goosebumps 6:20pm Access 6:25pm Goosebumps 7:00pm 5 News Weekend 7:05pm 10 Mistakes That Sunk the Titanic 8:35pm The River Thames: Then & Now 9:30pm Great British Ships 10:30pm Angels and Demons 11:30pm Access 11:35pm Angels and Demons 1:00am Conspiracy
7:00am Rude(Ish) Tube 7:10am Couples Come Dine with Me 8:05am Couples Come Dine with Me 9:05am Made in Chelsea 10:10am Spencer, Vogue and Wedding Two 11:10am Don't Tell the Bride 12:15pm The Goldbergs 12:45pm The Goldbergs 1:10pm The Goldbergs 1:40pm The Spiderwick Chronicles 3:30pm Young Sheldon 4:00pm The Big Bang Theory 4:30pm The Big Bang Theory 5:00pm The Great British Bake Off 6:15pm Extreme Cake Makers 6:35pm The Big Bang Theory 7:00pm The Big Bang Theory 7:30pm The Big Bang Theory 8:00pm The Big Bang Theory 8:30pm The Big Bang Theory 9:00pm The Big Bang Theory 9:30pm The Big Bang Theory 10:00pm Taken 3 12:20am The Inbetweeners 12:55am The Inbetweeners
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Jellyfish Up And Away Boy Erased The Star Anna and the Apocalypse The House of Tomorrow Up And Away The Star A young girl is visited by a glowing presence which announces God has chosen her to bear his son. Anna and the Apocalypse Halloween Boy Erased The Terror of Hallow's Eve Dogman
Live World Golf Championships 9:00am LPGA Tour Golf 10:30am Saturday Social 11:30am Soccer A.M. John Fendley and Jimmy Bullard present the weekly collection of football-themed competitions, comedy, phone-ins and guests. 1:00pm Live EFL 4:00pm Gillette Soccer Saturday 6:00pm Live Premier League 9:30pm Live Fight Night 12:00am Sky Sports News 1:00am Great Sporting Moments 1:15am Great Sporting Moments 1:30am Live International T20 Cricket
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Advertising Feature SPAIN is one of the ideal countries to regularly enjoy barbecues and there are a number to choose from, but the Traeger Grill from the USA is without question one of the very best as it is so versatile. You don’t want to be locked into a hot kitchen when the Spanish weather allows for outdoor cooking for much of the year and you can forget charcoal or gas as the very easy to use Traeger barbecues are the perfect answer and are avail able from Barbecue World wherev er you are in the country. If anyone knows anything about barbecues it’s the Americans and the Traeger Grill was developed in Oregon more than 30 years ago with the intention of making cook ing outside easy and care free in or der to produce the best flavour and balance possible. Even if you are new to the art of barbecue, you can control your cooking with ease thanks to the grill’s six in one versatility. It allows you to grill, smoke,
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trolled convection heating system simplifies woodfired cooking, al lowing for easy temperature set tings, just like an oven. Consistent temperature gives you consistent results, meaning you can create great food rather than just stoke a fire and Traeger man ages the temperature for you, cut ting out a major variable in achiev ing consistent results over and over again. Barbecue World has a history of selling outdoor furniture through its parent company Estepona Furni ture World and has expanded its range to import and sell Traeger barbecues from the USA which can then be shipped anywhere within mainland Spain and Portugal.
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11:00am Sunday Politics London 11:30am Sunday Morning Live 12:30pm Wanted Down Under 1:15pm Bargain Hunt 2:00pm BBC News 2:10pm Weather for the Week Ahead 2:15pm Songs of Praise 2:50pm Points of View 3:05pm Escape to the Country 3:35pm War Horse 5:50pm BBC News 6:05pm BBC London News; Weather 6:10pm Weather 6:15pm Countryfile 7:15pm Seven Worlds, One Planet 8:15pm Strictly Come Dancing 9:00pm His Dark Materials 10:00pm World on Fire 11:00pm BBC News 11:20pm BBC London News; Weather 11:25pm Weather 11:30pm Match of the Day 2 12:30am Not Going Out
7:40am The Great Chelsea Garden Challenge 8:40am Around the World in 80 Gardens 9:40am Countryfile 10:55am Saturday Kitchen Best Bites 12:25pm Talking Pictures 1:05pm The Vikings 3:00pm NFL 7:00pm Africa with Ade Adepitan 8:00pm Dragons' Den 9:00pm Britain's Biggest Warship 10:00pm The Americas with Simon Reeve 11:00pm Live at the Apollo 11:30pm Silence 2:00am Question Time 3:00am Best House in Town 3:45am Holby City 4:45am This is BBC Two Preview of upcoming programmes from BBC Two.
8:00pm For Folks Sake! Morris Dancing and Me 9:00pm Britain's Nuclear Bomb: The Inside Story 10:00pm Imagine 11:05pm Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures 1:25am The Sinner 2:05am Pappano's Classical Voices 3:05am Natural World 3:55am For Folks Sake! Morris Dancing and Me Richard Macer infiltrates morris dancing's endangered world of bells, beer and beards, discovering that women may be the unlikely saviours of this ancient masculine tradition.
6:35am Extreme Cake Makers 6:50am Cheers 7:20am Cheers 7:50am King of Queens 8:15am King of Queens 8:40am Frasier 9:05am Frasier 9:30am The Simpsons 10:00am The Simpsons 10:30am Sunday Brunch 1:30pm The Simpsons 1:55pm The Simpsons 2:25pm The Simpsons 2:55pm The Great British Bake Off 4:10pm The Dog House 5:10pm Mrs. Doubtfire 7:30pm Channel 4 News 8:00pm Great Canal Journeys 9:00pm Escape to the Chateau 10:00pm Celebrity Hunted 11:00pm It's Grime, Up North 12:00am Formula 1 2:00am Rush 4:05am The Great British Bake Off: An Extra Slice 5:00am Come Dine with Me
10:30am Shimmer and Shine 10:40am Digby Dragon 10:55am SpongeBob Squarepants 11:05am Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 11:15am Access 11:20am Friends 1:15pm Friends 1:45pm Dogs with Extraordinary Jobs 2:50pm My Christmas Prince 3:50pm Access 3:55pm My Christmas Prince 4:35pm A Gingerbread Romance 5:35pm Access 5:40pm A Gingerbread Romance 6:20pm A Christmas to Remember 7:55pm 5 News Weekend 8:00pm Ed Sheeran: In His Own Words 10:00pm Britney at Breaking Point 11:00pm The MTV Music Awards 2019 12:55am Celebrity Botched Up Bodies 1:50am Access
6:15am How I Met Your Mother 7:00am Hollyoaks 9:20am Celebrity Coach Trip 10:25am The Crystal Maze 11:30am The Goldbergs 12:00pm The Goldbergs 12:30pm The Goldbergs 1:00pm Young Sheldon 1:30pm The Big Bang Theory 2:00pm The Big Bang Theory 2:30pm The Big Bang Theory 3:00pm The Borrowers 4:45pm Rude(Ish) Tube 5:00pm The Big Bang Theory 5:30pm The Big Bang Theory 6:00pm The Big Bang Theory 6:30pm The Big Bang Theory 7:00pm The Big Bang Theory 7:30pm The Big Bang Theory 8:00pm The Big Bang Theory 8:30pm The Big Bang Theory 9:00pm The Big Bang Theory 9:30pm The Big Bang Theory 10:00pm Don't Tell the Bride 11:00pm Rob Beckett's Savage Socials 11:50pm Naked Attraction 1:00am The Big Bang Theory 1:30am The Big Bang Theory 2:00am Don't Tell the Bride
9:00am LPGA Tour Golf Day four of the Swinging Skirts Championship from Taiwan. 10:30am Total Goals A round-up of the latest football action. 11:00am The Sunday Supplement A selection of sports writers review the football stories that have hit the back pages this weekend, including all the fallout from yesterday's matches and the latest gossip. 10:00pm F1 Cars Through 1000 Races A look back at some of F1's most memorable cars through the sport's 1000 races.
10:30am Beautiful Baking with Juliet Sear 11:30am John and Lisa's Weekend Kitchen 12:30pm Nadia's Family Feasts 1:30pm ITV News and Weather 1:39pm ITV London Weather 1:40pm About a Boy 3:40pm The X Factor: Celebrity 5:30pm Back to Mine 6:00pm ITV News and Weather 6:10pm ITV News London 6:20pm Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix 9:00pm Catchphrase 10:00pm David Walliams Presents - Return of Alright on the Night 11:00pm ITV News and Weather 11:14pm ITV London Weather 11:15pm Prince Charles: Inside the Duchy Of Cornwall 12:15am Paul O'Grady: For the Love of Dogs
3:50am Teleshopping 6:50am ITV2 Nightscreen 7:00am Totally Bonkers Guinness World Records 7:10am Emmerdale 10:10am Coronation Street 1:35pm The X Factor: Celebrity 3:25pm Corpse Bride 4:25pm FYI Daily 4:30pm Corpse Bride 5:00pm Casper 6:00pm FYI Daily 6:05pm Casper 6:55pm Space Jam 7:55pm FYI Daily 8:00pm Space Jam 8:40pm Godzilla 9:45pm FYI Daily 9:50pm Godzilla 11:00pm Celebrity Juice 11:50pm Family Guy 12:20am Family Guy 12:50am American Dad! 1:15am Plebs 1:45am Don't Hate the Playaz 2:30am Release the Hounds 3:30am Teleshopping
3:30am Teleshopping 7:00am On the Buses 7:25am Agatha Christie's Poirot 8:25am Heartbeat 9:25am Heartbeat When an ex-army officer is found dead in his home, suspicion is cast on his money-hungry wife. 10:25am Agatha Christie's Poirot 12:35pm Agatha Christie's Poirot 2:40pm Inspector Morse 4:55pm Agatha Christie's Poirot 6:00pm Agatha Christie's Marple 8:00pm Dad's Army 10:00pm Midsomer Murders 12:05am Lewis 2:00am Scott & Bailey 2:55am Scott & Bailey 3:40am Lewis 5:15am Agatha Christie's Poirot
4:00am Teleshopping 7:00am The Protectors A popular singer fears for her sanity when she starts being terrorised by ghosts. 7:30am Motorsport UK 8:30am World Superbike Highlights 9:30am Minder 10:30am The Professionals 11:35am Columbo: Make Me a Perfect Murder 1:45pm Live World Series of Darts Finals 6:00pm The Big Fish Off 7:00pm Monster Carp 8:00pm Live World Series of Darts Finals 12:00am Eraser 1:10am FYI Daily 1:15am Eraser 2:20am Minder 3:20am The Protectors 3:45am ITV4 Nightscreen 4:00am Teleshopping
9:00am King Kong 12:15pm Street Fighter 2:15pm Avengers: Infinity War 5:00pm Ant-Man and the Wasp 7:00pm Street Fighter 9:00pm Avengers: Infinity War 11:35pm Ant-Man and the Wasp 1:45am Riot Girls
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Claimed and Shamed Caught Red Handed Bargain Hunt BBC News at One; Weather BBC London News; Weather Doctors Headhunters Escape to the Country Money for Nothing Antiques Road Trip Pointless BBC News at Six; Weather BBC London News; Weather The One Show Inside Out London EastEnders Countryfile Dublin Murders BBC News at Ten Regional News and Weather Weather The Young Offenders Have I Got a Bit More News for You
7:00am Money for Nothing 7:45am Countryfile Autumn Diaries 8:30am Natural World 9:30am The Week in Parliament 10:00am BBC News at 9 11:00am Victoria Derbyshire 12:00pm BBC Newsroom Live 1:15pm Politics Live 2:00pm Yes Chef 2:45pm Street Auction 3:15pm Coast and Country Auctions 4:00pm Who Do You Think You Are? 5:00pm Chase the Case 5:45pm Eggheads 6:15pm Flog It! 7:00pm Richard Osman's House of Games 7:30pm Strictly: It Takes Two 8:00pm Celebrity Antiques Road Trip 9:00pm Only Connect 9:30pm University Challenge 10:00pm Meet the Bears 11:00pm Motherland 11:30pm Newsnight 12:10am Weather
8:00pm Beyond 100 Days 8:30pm A Stitch in Time Amber Butchart explores the life of Dido Belle, the 18thcentury daughter of an enslaved African woman brought up at Kenwood House in London. 9:00pm Great Barrier Reef 10:00pm A British Guide to the End of the World 11:15pm The Story of China 12:15am A Call from the Hostage Takers 1:15am Freud: Genius of the Modern World 2:15am Apples, Pears and Paint: How to Make a Still Life Painting 3:45am Great Barrier Reef
6:05am Judge Rinder 7:00am Good Morning Britain 9:30am Lorraine 10:25am Judge Rinder 11:30am This Morning 1:30pm Loose Women 2:30pm ITV Lunchtime News 2:55pm ITV News London 3:00pm Dickinson's Real Deal 4:00pm Tenable 4:59pm ITV London Weather 5:00pm Tipping Point 6:00pm The Chase 7:00pm ITV News London 7:30pm ITV Evening News 8:00pm Emmerdale 8:30pm Coronation Street 9:00pm The Mountain 9:30pm Coronation Street 10:00pm Fifty Shades of 11:00pm ITV News at Ten and Weather 11:30pm ITV News London 11:45pm Riding a Dream 12:15am Banks of England 12:45am All Elite Wrestling: Dynamite
7:00am The Planet's Funniest Animals 7:20am Totally Bonkers Guinness World Records 7:45am You've Been Framed! 8:10am Dinner Date 9:00am Emmerdale 9:30am Coronation Street 10:25am The Ellen DeGeneres Show 11:25am Superstore 11:50am Superstore 12:15pm Dress to Impress 1:15pm Emmerdale 1:45pm Coronation Street 2:50pm The Ellen DeGeneres Show 3:45pm Supermarket Sweep 4:50pm Dinner Date 5:50pm Dress to Impress 6:55pm Take Me Out 8:00pm You've Been Framed! 8:30pm You've Been Framed! 9:00pm Supermarket Sweep 10:00pm Family Guy 10:30pm American Dad! 11:00pm Plebs 11:30pm Family Guy 12:00am Family Guy
6:40am ITV3 Nightscreen 7:00am Classic Coronation Street 7:25am Classic Coronation Street 7:55am Classic Emmerdale 8:20am Classic Emmerdale 8:50am Heartbeat 9:50am On the Buses 10:25am On the Buses 11:00am Man About the House 11:30am Agatha Christie's Poirot 1:40pm Heartbeat 2:45pm Classic Emmerdale 3:15pm Classic Emmerdale 3:50pm Classic Coronation Street 4:20pm Classic Coronation Street 4:55pm Agatha Christie's Poirot 6:55pm Heartbeat 8:00pm Agatha Christie's Poirot 9:00pm Midsomer Murders 11:05pm Scott & Bailey 12:00am Scott & Bailey 1:05am A Touch of Frost
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Tommy Cooper The Chase Kojak Quincy, M.E. Minder The Sweeney The Professionals Snooker: Champion of Champions Live The Professionals The Sweeney Snooker: Champion of Champions Live Conan the Destroyer FYI Daily Conan the Destroyer Car Crash Global: Caught on Camera Motorsport UK World of Sport: TV Firsts ITV4 Nightscreen Text-based information service. Teleshopping Buying goods from the comfort of home.
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Blockers Tropic Thunder Miss Congeniality Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous 3:15pm Stuck on You 5:15pm How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days 7:15pm Blockers 9:00pm Tropic Thunder 11:00pm How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days 1:00am Arizona
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No thanks, I don’t use it! MIKE SENKER IN MY OPINION Views of a Grumpy Old Man CAN you imagine someone coming up to you at a gathering, where there are a few people you know, but many you don’t, and saying, “Hi nice to meet you, would you like some crack cocaine to go with your volauvent?” And then, when you say, “No thanks, I don’t use it” they then say, in a surprised tone, “Oh really, are you sure, not just a little bit?” It just wouldn’t happen would it? So why is it when I’m out people who don’t know me very well react so strangely when I tell them I don’t drink alcohol? Most them are absolutely fine and ask what soft drink I would like but then there are the odd few that feel they have the right to ask me why I’m not interested in partaking in their drug of choice in front of everybody. They wouldn’t do that if I refused any other addictive substance. “Not even a small one?” “No, I don’t drink thank you.” “Have you never drunk?” “Yes I used to.” “Oh so why did you stop?” I mean really!
Do I have to explain to you why I don’t drink any more? Can you not just accept I choose not to? I then say I stopped al most 25 years ago and try and leave it at that. Then I get, “Wow! So how do you enjoy yourself when you are out?” That’s when, if it’s someone that I real ly don’t know, they get the Grumpy treat ment and I say, “I get my entertainment from watching people like you getting so drunk that you either want to kiss or fight everyone.” That will usually stop the conversation and they shuffle off and leave me alone with my con gas con lima. Nearly all my friends drink and we have great nights out. They sometimes get pleasantly merry and I love watching them enjoy them selves and they know I can have just as much fun without a ‘drink’ drink. The thing is I know the damage alcohol can do and whilst I’d never preach about it, I do find it so strange that supermar kets discount it sometimes as a loss leader to get people in to buy it. Alcohol itself is not inherently evil. When used responsibly, alcohol can turn social gatherings into pleasant and enjoy able experiences. But when it is misused, alcohol can do more overall harm than any other drug in the world. Cheers!
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How are you playing the game of life? ROBERT SHALLIS DO you remember playing a b o a rd g a m e c a l l e d ‘ T h e Game of Life?’ A brief outline of the game; it’s a simulation of travels through the latter stages of life, from university to retirement, facing the challenges, twists and tur ns that life brings along the way. However, unlike the board game, life is not lived on a quick roll of the dice to determine the outcome. Re al life events are very different, but we can play the real game of life and give ourselves a better chance of beating the odds. Have you ever played a game against someone who can never ac cept losing? Becomes a sulk and re sorts to cheating. Whilst others lose gracefully, accept it and look for ward to improving the next time around. This is how many people play out their real lives too. It’s easy to relish in the enjoy
GAME OF LIFE: Enjoy being in the moment is key, regardless of your commitments. ment of your own successes in life, but, it’s equally as important to ac cept our failings and learn from them, thus improving our lives and the lives of others around us. I have worked alongside and dealt with successful real estate agents, London bankers and Wall Street traders. Many may perceive
these highpowered lucrative ca reered people to be winning their game of life, but it couldn’t be fur ther from the truth for some of them. Some find themselves too busy trying to make a living and for get to make a life. They have al lowed the scales to tip too far in one direction leading to other im
portant areas of their lives becom ing neglected such as family, friends and even themselves. So how do we keep a reasonably balanced life? Firstly, we need to re member what is important to us and to whose benefit our daily ef forts are for. There is no point in slaving away at a job for the greater
good of your family if it means you don’t get to spend time with them or it becoming detrimental to your health. Over 95 per cent of us de part this world without fulfilling our real desires. Regretful of not spend ing more time with families due to commitments that seemed so much more important at the time. Enjoy being in the moment is key, regardless of your commitments as opposed to seeing it as an annoying stepping stone to a perceived hap pier future. Tomorrow never really comes and before you know it, you’ll look back and realise how much of life’s joys you have missed out on, without even noticing the scales of your life will have slowly tipped against you. When you are living a balanced life, you are living in harmony with a sense of peace, able to focus on what really matters. You are then winning your game of life. You are starting to understand that you can actually design your own life and al low yourself to be the creator of it. Things can now stop happening to you and start happening for you. So, discard that dice and deter mine a balanced outcome that ben efits all.
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BARRY DUKE MY miniature Pinscher is nursing a sore head. When I hurled my phone across the living room in a fit of fury I hadn’t realised that Fifi was in the path of the projectile. The trouble began when I re ceived an email from a Scottish based insurance company to say that a costly policy I’d taken out for my husband needed for his Spanish residencia was about to lapse because the Mastercard I’d registered with it had expired. I was told to go to the online customer service area and up date the card. This I did. I then called the company to say I’d registered my new card, and would they please collect the un paid premium. The following day I checked my bank statement, and sure enough, payment had been collected. Ten minutes later I received an email from the company saying my card had been rejected. Puz zled, and now incandescent with rage, I called the company and
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A bad attack of phone rage was told that they’d attempted to collect TWO payments of €141.86, but only received one. I was advised to go back to the customer service area and re register the card. While I was still on the line I logged into my ac count, only to find that the ‘change card details’ section had disappeared. ‘Oh,’ said the assis tant, ‘that’s probably because you recently updated the card.’ That call was one of eight I had to make to the UK in a single day in connection with health care. The first six were prompted by a letter I, and millions of other British expats, received this month from the NHS Busi ness Services Authority headed ‘Your healthcare after Brexit.’ It said that, after Oc tober 31, 2019, to ac cess NHS services in England, Scotland and Wales, ‘you will
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phone number for ‘further ad vice.’ The advice I wanted was simple: how do I get a copy of my S1? I called the number and a recorded voice told me to visit the NHS website. This I did. There I was referred back to the number on the letter ‘and choose option 5.’ But option 5 relates to ‘moving to another EU country’ and has bugger all to do with S1 forms. I then tried several other num bers offered online by the NHS, but none were relevant. So I went back to the original number and, before a recording had time to click in I pressed four random numbers. This had the effect of messing up the system to such an extent that I was put straight through to an actual living, breathing and helpful human be ing. He told me a copy of my S1 should be with me in a fortnight. But before hanging up, he said ‘you actually don’t need your S1 if you’re in the UK. If you need medical treatment simply pro vide your national insurance number.’ That’s when the phone went flying across the room.
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YOUR STARS FOR NEXT 7 DAYS AQUARIUS (January 21 - February 19) There are enough people in this world who will be willing to tell you what to do. Although it is in your nature to value your freedom, have you been compromising? Think of the time you have left to get to grips with a particular situation.
PISCES (February 20 - March 20) Your opinion of someone is in the process of changing. It is not through any particular action of theirs towards you, rather it is a feeling that you should not be involved with their business. Trusting our instincts is something that we do not do enough.
ARIES (March 21 - April 20) There is a lightness to this week that is welcome. After more than a little bit of aggravation and frustration of late it is overdue. Someone you believed had lost interest in you suddenly surfaces. You may be unsure of how to react, so save judgment.
TAURUS (April 21 - May 21) A need to listen to your innermost feelings and needs has perhaps been overlooked. With the hustle and bustle of everyday life, philosophical thoughts are often pushed into a corner. Even so, you owe it to yourself to truly consider what you want as opposed to going along with what others want from you.
GEMINI (May 22 - June 21) Someone you would not normally consider to be a friend shows an interest in you. Your immediate reaction may be joy or suspicion. In fact, you are not quite sure what to think. All the same, try to put aside preconceived ideas and give them a chance.
CANCER (June 22 - July 23) Time is of the essence when pursuing a pet project this week. Having been given the opportunity to go ahead with a plan, do not waste time. Some opportunities do not come twice so be sure to show your enthusiasm.
LEO (July 24 - August 23) A close relationship seems to be changing. You need to know why and maybe believe that you do. However, be sure to get all the facts. Asking outright questions of the person involved is your best chance of getting the right answers. Someone may urge you to ‘read between the lines’ but it is hardly necessary.
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VIRGO (August 24 - September 23) With so much energy around you, it will be hard to concentrate on business matters. Finances, however, do require your attention and a brief period of scrutiny will s h o w y o u w h y. S o m e o n e close may be spending too much or undermining the situation by making big plans.
LIBRA (September 24 - October 23) Nostalgia overtakes you and an urge to look back into the past is strong. Perhaps you are thinking of tracing your family tree. It may be that you have received a letter or phone call that aroused your curiosity.
SCORPIO (October 24 - November 22)
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LOTTERY UK NATIONAL LOTTERY Saturday October 26
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When you start to worry too much about things, it is time to take a step back. Senseless worrying is when you really cannot do anything to change the situation. Take into account how, in the past, worrying has affected your wellbeing. Maybe it is time to walk away and take another path entirely.
SAGITTARIUS (November 23 - December 21) This is a creative week and one in which you seek to find your talents. For some time now you have toyed with the idea of joining a club or group. This will enhance your social life and bring you laughter.
CAPRICORN (December 22 - January 20) Life can get complicated at this time of the year and you may feel pulled in more than one direction. You are perfectly entitled to change your mind about an arrangement.
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Across 1 Important and unusual places I entered (7) 5 She and the Queen are fine (5) 8 Block found in Roman village (5) 9 Feature about North-South Passage (7) 10 Wine given to one performing part (7) 11 Singer gets difficult note right (5) 12 Romeo gets colleague to perk up (5) 14 As the ladybird becomes colourless (5) 19 Parts of the Far East (5) 21 Being friendly, I blame a manager (7) 23 Copy one, friend keeps it (7) 24 Indicate the precise moment (5) 25 Elegance of old cricketer (5) 26 Footballer refusing to work? (7) Down 1 The saints admit a politician gets the letter attachments (6) 2 Young swimmer constantly circling lake (5) 3 When unwell, Shakespeare showed hostility (3,4) 4 The French shelter is temporarily inactive (6) 5 Stylish vehicles turned up (5) 6 Character of German city church (7) 7 Withdraw extremely remote flag (6)
13 Before noon girl reaches New World (7) 15 Small fish for the captain (7) 16 Bold US prosecutor gets call (6) 17 Cooks for, but reacts badly (6)
Code Breaker
18 Improved as a gambler (6) 20 A point to a story, kept too long (5) 22 Quick to note danger (5)
Each number in the Code Breaker grid represents a different letter of the alphabet. In this week’s puzzle, 15 represents Z and 23 represents B, so fill in Z every time the figure 15 appears and B every time the figure 23 appears. Now, using your knowledge of the English language, work out which letters should go in the missing squares. As you discover the letters, fill in other squares with the same number in the main grid and the control grid.
Across 1 Relaxed and unconcerned (6) 4 Lowest adult male singing voice (4) 8 Large carnivorous fish (5) 9 Be in accord (5) 10 Move more slowly (10) 13 Act in advance of (10) 17 Alloy of copper and zinc (5) 18 Wrong (5) 19 Let for money (4) 20 Wet thoroughly (6)
English - Spanish
Across 1 Pavos (7) 5 Quiere (5) 8 Pillo (5) 9 Acostarse (3,4) 10 To praise (7) 11 Chair (5) 12 Sleeve (5) 14 Decline (5) 19 Alcanzar (5) 21 To stink (7) 23 Más sucio (7) 24 Contar (5) 25 Temprano (5) 26 Tostadora (7)
LAST WEEK’S SOLUTION FACING PAGE
Down 1 Utter obscenities or profanities (4) 2 Cause fear in (5) 3/18 Increase the likelihood of (3,3) 5 Main artery of the body (5) 6 Scandinavian kingdom (6) 7 Cosmetics (4-2) 11 Surfeit (6) 12 Hairdresser (6) 14 Retinue (5) 15 Sharp hooked claw (5) 16 Opening between the threads of a net (4) 18 See 3
The clues are mixed, some clues are in Spanish and some are in English.
Down 1 Tournament (6) 2 Regal (5) 3 Tarde (últimas horas) (7) 4 Salt cellar (6) 5 Malas hierbas (5) 6 Tallarines (chinos) (7) 7 Paths (6) 13 To hold on to (7) 15 Science (7) 16 Cuna (6) 17 Zanahoria (6) 18 To sprout (6) 20 Peludo (5) 22 Confiar en (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 (GOTTEN) and one letter in four other cells are given as clues.
BEYOND BOBBIN CENTRE CHOOSY CRAFTY CRUSTY FAMINE FEALTY FITFUL FUNGUS GOTTEN (10) HEREBY HUNGRY MEAGER MINUET MODULO SEQUEL SQUIRT SQUISH
LAST WEEK’S SOLUTION 1 Marina 2 Beater 3 Moment 4 Tallow 5 Bateau 6 Recode 7 Coleus 8 Vendor 9 Tailor 10 Savage 11 Loosen 12 Center 13 Marlin 14 Teeter 15 Moving 16 Lingua 17 Sortie 18 Lotion 19 Revive.
Nonagram
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: Good: 12 Very good: 18
TARGET: • Average: 17 • Good: 23
• Very good: 34 • Excellent: 44
SCORING:
LAST WEEK’S SOLUTION
Excellent: 23
pent petit pelt peel peeled peek nett nettle nettled netlike need needle tent teed thud hued tilt tilth tile tilde tiled tied tike lent leek lite lien lied like liked duel deep dele deli elite eyelet eyed idle mite mitt mitten mien milt mile mild mike kite kitten kiln kilt kiley keep keen keel keeled keyed yield
alto ante date dent dolt dote etna gate gelt gent gnat goat late lent neat note tael tale tang teal teed teen tend toad toed toga told tole tone tong agent aglet anted atone dealt delta eaten elate enate gated genet gloat lated leant lento noted oaten talon tango tonal toned atoned denote dental donate dotage eaglet elated gentle goatee lateen legate legato negate tangle elegant gentled gloated goateed negated taloned tangelo tangled tangoed elongate ELONGATED
LAST WEEK’S SOLUTIONS
QUICK Down: 1 Mallets, 2 Twice, 3 Ripe, 5 Opens, 7 Reply, 11 Diamond, 12 Screw, 14 After, 16 Anger, 17 Obey, 18/6 Job lot.
CRYPTIC
ENGLISH-SPANISH
Across:
Across:
1 Deacons, 5 Cocoa, 8 Antwerp, 9 Inert, 10 Nicks, 11 Ragtime, 12 Cachet, 14 Ghosts, 17 Slipper, 19 Rifts, 22 Awake, 23 Grimace, 24 Keeps, 25 Testers.
1 Rabo, 3 Además de, 8 Balloon, 9 About, 10 Obese, 11 Empresa, 12 Poetry, 13 Fresco, 16 Libreta, 18 Draws, 20 Latas, 21 Derrota, 22 Aprender, 23 Edge.
Down: 1 Drain, 2 Antic, 3 Oversee, 4 Superb, 5 Cling, 6 Clerics, 7 Anthems, 12 Cossack, 13 Chicane, 15 Harpies, 16 Fright, 18 Poems, 20 Flame, 21 Sheds.
Down:
1 Rubio, 2 Billete, 4 Dancer, 5 Score, 6 Extraño, 7 More or less, 9 Aspiradora, 12 Polilla, 14 Seafood, 15 Handle, 17 Batir, 19 Shame.
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QUIZ: BRIDGEWORK 1. Albert Bridge, Victoria Bridge and King George V all span which Scottish river? 2. Released in 1974, Walls and Bridges was the fifth studio album by which former Beatle? 3. ‘Slow down, you move too fast. You got to make the morning last’ are the first lines of which Simon and Garfunkel song? 4. Stamford Bridge is the home ground of which Premier League football club? 5. What is the name of the one-mile-wide suspension bridge that links the US city of San Francisco and the Pacific Ocean? 6. Which are the two major suits in the card game bridge? 7. Which book, written by Cornelius Ryan and first published in 1974, is an account of a failed Allied attempt to break through German lines at Arnhem during the second world war?
8. Which famous British actor won the 1957 Academy Award for Best Actor for his role as Lieutenant Colonel Nicholson in the epic British-American war film The Bridge on the River Kwai? 9. Which is the longest single span bridge in Britain? 10. Which Scottish civil engineer designed the Menai Suspension Bridge in Anglesey, which opened in January 1826? Not a lot of people know that… in 1952 London bus driver Albert Gunton found himself driving across Tower Bridge when the bridge began to rise to allow a ship to pass. He accelerated and jumped the gap and was awarded £10 for bravery.
Answers: 1. CLYDE (Glasgow), 2. JOHN LENNON, 3. 59TH STREET BRIDGE SONG (FEELIN’ GROOVY), 4. CHELSEA, 5. GOLDEN GATE BRIDGE, 6. SPADES AND HEARTS, 7. A BRIDGE TOO FAR, 8. (Sir) ALEC GUINNESS, 9. HUMBER BRIDGE – it was the longest bridge of its type until 1998, it is now the 10th longest, 10. THOMAS TELFORD
LAST WEEK’S SOLUTION
CODE BREAKER
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.
4 letters: 1 point 7 letters: 5 points 5 letters: 2 points 8 or more letters: 6 letters: 3 points 11 points
Average: 9
1 Mature, 4 Foal, 8 Implement, 9 Ewer, 10 Closed, 13 Search, 15 Data, 18 Jitterbug, 19 Bark, 20 Hybrid.
Boggled
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 R) and there must be AT LEAST ONE NINE LETTER WORD. Plurals, vulgarities or proper nouns are not allowed.
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ALICANTE ORIHUELA TORREVIEJA
Th: Thunder
Sn: Snow
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Sudoku LAST WEEK’S SOLUTION
Marcus Rashford, Footballer, October 31, 22 performed in hugely popular comedy Friends. One of the youngsters brought up through the Since then he has had a number of starring Manchester United Academy which he joined roles in film and TV as well as becoming a when he was just seven years old. He is now a director. Anna Wintour, Editor, November 3, 70 regular first team player as well as being part of the England striking squad. Doyen of the fashion industry, Dame Anna Anna Wintour. Tim Cook, Businessman, November 1, 59 Wintour has been editor-in-chief of Vogue The first openly gay CEO in the Fortune 500 CEO list, he magazine since 1988 and it is assumed that the character of took over from Steve Jobs at Apple just six weeks before the magazine editor in The Devil Wears Prada (written by one of her previous assistants) is based on her. he died in 2011. Cook continues to be one of the highest paid executives in the world. Louise Redknapp, Singer, November 4, 45 David Schwimmer, Actor, November 2, 53 Originally a member of girl group Eternal, she went on to The actor became a household name when he was cast as carve out a solo career as well as appearing as a TV presenter. She married footballer and now soccer pundit Dr Ross Geller, the geeky member of the sextet that
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.
Jamie Redknapp and they had two sons before the couple split. AJ Pritchard, Dancer, November 5, 25 Has been a champion dancer for many years and even reached the semi-finals of Britain’s Got Talent in 2013. He is now a regular on Strictly Come Dancing which he joined in 2016 and has been praised for his imaginative choreography. Tony Parsons, Journalist, November 6, 66 He started his writing career as a reporter for the NME music paper where he concentrated on punk music. Since then he has written for almost every British national newspaper, presented TV programmes and has written a number of books.
Word Ladder CASH
TOYS BACK
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Move from the start word (CASH) to the end word (TOYS) in the same number of steps as there are rungs on the Word Ladder. You must only change one letter at a time.
CASH BASH BASS BOSS TOSS TOYS
BIRTHDAYS
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Solution CASH MASH MASS MOSS TOSS TOYS or
DETECTIVE Harry Bosch returns as NY Times best selling author, Michael Connelly’s well-loved character. Bosch and LAPD detective Renée Ballard explore the cold case that haunted his mentor, John Jack Thompson until the day he died. Thompson’s widow has given Bosch a murder book that the detective took with him when he left the LAPD 20 years ago. In it, are details of the unsolved case of a troubled young man murdered in what appears to be a drug deal gone wrong. Armed with the book, the formidable investigation team of Bosch and Ballard begin their line of inquiry but are they about to uncover a story better left unsolved? Did Thompson work on the case after his retirement or was the book stolen to make sure the case was never sold? Written with intense pace and masterful suspense.
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This week in history
Bosch is back
ALICANTE
ALICANTE
1512 - Masterpiece Artist Michelangelo completed the last of nine paintings on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel and the public were finally allowed in to view his work. 1517 - Reformation Preacher Martin Luther nailed a piece of paper to the door of a church in Wittenberg, Germany containing 95 thoughts which started the Protestant Reformation. 1800 - White House US President John Adams moved in to the newly finished White House for the last few months of his term of office after staying in a hotel. It was designed by Irish architect James Hoban. 1892 - Elementary The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Arthur Conan Doyle, the first collection of Holmes stories was published 15 years after he first appeared in a magazine. 1922 - King Tut British archaeologists discovered a step which took them to the entrance of tomb of King Tutankhamen in the Valley of the Kings in Egypt. 1926 - No Escape Harry Houdini, the most celebrated magician and escape artist of the 20th century, died of peritonitis after being punched in the stomach by one of his students when he was not expecting it. 2000 - Space station The first residential crew made up of one American and two Russians boarded the International Space Station and stayed there for long enough to become acclimatised to life in low orbit.
GET your claws stuck into the longawaited live action remake of Disney’s The Lion King. Join an all star cast and journey to the savanna of Africa to meet the future king Simba. The young lion idolises his father, King Mufasa, and revels in the delight of his own royal destiny. He simply just can’t wait to be king! However, not everyone in the kingdom is as enthusiastic as the young cub about his birthright. Uncle Scar has plans of his own and will battle anyone that stands in his way.
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CROWDED PROMENADE WE love Spain and the Spanish lifestyle, so we have already visited earlier in the year. When we walked along the crowded promenade of Fuengirola in April/May we were shocked at the speed of the two wheeled electric scooters, bikes etc ridden with no regard for pedestrians. We assumed it was just a phase and it would be sorted out. The promenade is less busy now, but despite the falling numbers of pedestrians, the menace of irresponsi ble riders of twowheeled vehicles still speed along footpaths and now roads. We have seen riders weaving in and out of pedestrians on paths and now using the roads, but with no regard to speed limits or even pedestrian cross ings. We assume they are not insured and many do not appear to have any expe rience of riding with other traffic. This is a menace which needs new legislation to incorporate all electric scooters within the normal motorcycle laws. Yours sincerely, Anne & John Cracknell
Multi-culturalism HI Leapy Great article (Issue 1789). The combi nation of PC and multiculturalism, where we are supposed to believe that all cultures are of equal value is destroy ing Europe. And throw in open doors im migration. God help us! Cheers, Ron Leach
Good luck! I JUST wanted to say I hope your communi ty Halloween party for Malaga’s orphanage is a huge success. Unfortunately, my wife and I can’t be there. We have a holiday home in Mijas but are in the UK at the mo ment. However, we have been able to of fer our support at the GoFundMe page. It’s a brilliant thing you are doing good luck. *The fangtastic BeUnited community party to raise money for the orphans of ‘Cuidad de los Niños’ takes place at the Fe ria in Fuengirola from 5pm this afternoon (Thursday, October 31). Greg Saunders
MENACE: Riders of electric scooters using the footpath.
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Brexit extension SINCE his appointment in July, Boris Johnson has made one thing clear: the UK would leave the EU by October 31. However, the deadline has inched closer and the PM hasn’t been able to deliver on his pledge. European leaders have now agreed to an extension, making the Halloween exit a thing of the past. EU Council President Donald Tusk, has announced a ‘flextension’ until January 31, 2020. This will allow Britain flexibility in their exit date. If Boris Johnson manages to get his Brexit deal approved by Parliament and ratified by the European Parliament, the UK could leave on December 1 or January 1. If the deal fails to receive support, the appointed deadline will provide time for a general election. Law requires the prime minister to accept the EU’s offer and it is probable that the UK will appoint a new European Commissioner for the extension. The PM will now campaign for an election on December 12, in the full knowledge that he has not delivered on his primary policy. However, if Parliament accepts the election Mr Johnson would restart the process for his Withdrawal Agreement Bill. Mr Corbyn has announced he will support a December election as the spectre of a No Deal Brexit has been ruled out. But now, the fun deciding the actual date will start. It is expected that the new developments will cause further confusion and discussion in Parliament.
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Take a seat DEAR Editor I know what Barry Duke means about rickety chairs (Issue 1789). Most Spanish chairs seem to be put together from light wood and being no lightweight, they creak when I move. There are furniture charity shops and I visited a local one and found the ideal solution. IRON chairs. There was six of them, for sale singularly (€12 each). I bought two as it is only for me, double parked outside (they are too heavy to car ry any distance) and put them both on the back seat where they fitted OK. They are as good and solid as they look. I looked in the shop next day and the other four were gone. Michael Hill
Village opens its doors to campervans I think caravans may have difficulty getting up to the site, campervans shouldn’t have a problem. Hopefully the campers will appre ciate the beauty of the area and leave it clean and tidy. Maggie Pepper Positive as long as all campers leave the place as they find it we are good, happy campers and love exploring nontourist places and meeting locals and seeing the local traditions, so please don’t lose us. Maxine Jordan
Buckingham Palace issues warning to Harry
COMMENTS FROM FACEBOOK and Meghan She thought she could change centuries of royal protocol and traditions... so, if she don’t like the heat… get out of the kitchen. Murray Wasik She is LOVIN it, Princess Anne and her children opted for being out of the limelight, yet still privi leged. I’m afraid this is just the beginning, poor Harry. Irene Beverley
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Once an actress always an actress. She loves the celebrity status but she has to learn that she is now a little fish in a big pond. Julie Dodd
Greta Slams Facebook Due To Key Board Warriors She’s a gutsy lass who is trying to champion what she believes in. It’s a shame so many adults seem to take offence. She and young people like her are the future of our earth. Edwina Allen Tovey She has people talking and thinking about the issue. Nothing wrong with that. Just a shame if adults try to manipulate her for their agendas. Tricia Gabbitas
POLL OF THE WEEK Are you disappointed that a Brexit decision has been put on hold again with this newest extension?
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Pain Relief Now PAIN - mild or unbearable - tends to start creeping up on you. Suddenly, you can’t take it any more and immediately reach for a painkiller. Even though this may prove an effective method, many doctors discourage the continued use of medication. If you find yourself taking anything from the common aspirin or maybe something stronger like prescription opioids, it could be time to reconsider. In many cases the use of pharmaceuticals is necessary. But taking into account the side effects that pills can have, it is recommended to try a nonmedication approach first. Alternative remedies can work for minor headaches and muscle tension. In cases of fur ther pain speaking with a doc tor about remedial approaches is encouraged. These pain management techniques have been advised by pain special
ists and can sometimes substi tute your medicine. 1. Go for a walk: Advocating for an active lifestyle is nothing new in the world of health. Ex ercise strengthens muscles and is essential for living a long life. Physical activity should al ways be discussed with a doc tor and planned out based on ability and pain symptoms. Many lowimpact exercises are great for relieving aches, espe cially back pain. It is also an easy activity to incorporate in daily routines, like walking your dog in the morning. 2. Hydration: Water may at tack discomfort at its source. Keeping up with daily water in take is good for overall health. But it is also crucial for cush ioning between joints and pro tecting internal tissue. Dehy dration will also drain energy and can lead to exhaustion and worsen existing symp toms. Eight glasses per day should be the minimum intake to assure wellbeing. 3. Take a bath: Water is miraculous on the inside, but it also does wonders from the outside. A warm bath will help ease soreness and reduces pressure on the joints. The warm temperature will also get your circulation going and will stimulate blood, resulting in the loosening of stiff mus cles. 4. At home massaging: Mak ing an appointment for a mas sage can be a nuisance and be bad for budgeting. A handheld athome massager could prove to be a useful investment if you are looking for much needed pain relief. Incorporating mas sage into pain management will enhance blood flow and re duce muscle tension. As circu lation activates, inflammation and swelling will naturally de crease. 5. Miracle ginger: A study published in journal Arthritis in 2013 claimed that ginger can be more effective for pain re lief than ibuprofen. The pow erful antiinflammatory blocks the formation of compounds that produce inflammation. It also breaks down existing acid ity and fluids between the joints. Ginger can be eaten raw in small doses, although it may prove too spicy for a lot of people. Other alternatives are using it in aromatic teas, smoothies or cooking.
Why should I consider a chemical peel?
CHEMICAL PEEL: Get a new and more healthy look. YOU might be afraid it will damage your skin, or you might think you are too young for this procedure? How can something that sounds so intense be good for your skin? A chemical peel is a technique used to improve the appearance of the skin on the face, neck or hands. A chemical solution is applied to the skin that causes it to exfoliate and eventually peel off. The new, regenerated skin is usually smoother and less wrinkled than the old skin. It’s basically close to have a haircut... you need to cut the hair for it to look more healthy! We also need to help the skin one to three times a year to get rid of old cells, to get a new and more healthy look. There are three basic types of chemical peels and we call the treatment SKIN-NEW divided into S, M, L. The S - Superficial peel: It’s a mild acid and used to penetrate only the outer layer of skin to gently exfoliate it. The treatment will improve the appearance of mild skin discolouration and rough skin as well as to refresh the face, neck, chest or hands. The M - Medium peel is applied to penetrate the out and middle layers of skin to remove damaged skin cells. The treatment is used to improve age spots, fine lines and wrinkles, freckles and moderate skin discolouration. It also can be used to smooth rough skin and treat stretch marks. The L - is a deep peel. Depending on your skin type, and the results you want to achieve, a deep peel is usely supervised by a doctor. It is applied to deeply penetrate the middle layer of the skin to remove damaged skin cells. The treatment removes moderate lines, age spots, freckles and shallow scars. Patients will see a dramatic improvement in skin appearance. What can you notice during and after the peeling? During the application it is normal to feel a tingling or itching sensation that returns within a few minutes of having removed the peeling. After the treatment you will feel the skin slightly tight and red, but very smooth and soft. The best time to do peelings is in the autumn/winter, as sun exposure can be very damaging to the skin. At Derma Clinic Spain we always take our patients commands seriously, and we will treat your skin with the peeling most suitable for you. In October we have special prices including a home treatment kit for the SKIN-NEW treatments. For any questions, see below.
Make an appointment for a free consultation now: 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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Cancer on the rise CASES of pancreatic and colon cancer have risen by 10 per cent in the last 30 years. The increase is believed to be in relation to obesity and diabetes. Investigators have studied the illness in 195 countries be tween 1990 and 2017. The high prevalence of these types of cancer could also be partly due to a larger population and longer life expectancy. The finalised study was pre sented at the European Con gress for Gastroenterology in
ON THE UP: Number of cases of pancreatic and colon cancer.
At your fingertips NAILS can say a lot about your h e a l t h , a n d c a n t i p y o u o ff t o any irregularities, according to the Berkeley University of California, Wellness. Nails normally curve at a slight up ward angle from the actual bed. But nails that arc downward may indicate disease of the lung, liver, inflammatory bowel or cardiovascular, as well as HIV infection. White bands, Muehrcke’s nails, is a condition characterised by a pair of hori zontal white lines running parallel to the nail base. These may arise after chemotherapy, but are also associated with liver and kidney disease. Beau’s lines are horizontal indenta
tions that may be a sign of injury to the nail and again can occur as a result of chemotherapy or high fever. They can also suggest a zinc deficien cy, diabetes or peripheral vascular dis ease. Spoon nails, or koilonychias, may be abnormally thin and flat, or even con cave. This is apparently associated with anaemia or repeated exposure to chemi cals or trauma. Terry’s nails are white plates with a dark band at the tip. Common in people with liver disease, the condition may al so occur as part of normal ageing. How ever, research shows that they are also associated with diabetes, congestive heart failure and HIV infection.
Barcelona. More than 14,000 specialists congregated to dis cuss their findings. It is the first investigation to provide a worldwide estimation of the burden this cancer entails on the health services and the
risk factors. Researchers have high lighted that the number of deaths due to pan creatic cancer have risen by 130 per cent, but they explain that considering current popu lation it equates to 12 per cent more. The experts link the numbers to international growth in cases of obesity and diabetes. High levels of sugar in blood is considered a major risk factor. This type of cancer is one of the deadliest with only a 5 per cent survival rate.
However, causes of the condi tion can be widely avoided, such as smoking, obesity and diabetes. On the other hand, colorec tal cancer is also 10 per cent more extended but mortality rates have fallen 13.5 per cent. This is due to pro grammes aimed at early de tection. Risk factors for men have been listed as alcohol con sumption, smoking and diets that lack in fibre and calcium. In women it seems only diet aspects are of influence.
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Letizia wows Japan KING FELIPE VI and Queen Letizia of Spain have embarked on a tour of Japan and South Korea. The royals attended the extravagant enthronement of Emperor Naruhito. The cere mony celebrated the Japanese emperor, who ascended to the throne in May this year. Several heads of state at tended the lavish event as well as members of royal families from Sweden, Netherlands, Bel gium and Luxembourg. Letizia
wore a very detailed floral number to the ceremony as she mingled with other guests. The Spanish queen couldn’t resist a second out fit change and wowed as she stepped out in her second outfit. All eyes were on Letizia as she dazzled in the bright pink gown. Although it isn’t an official state visit, the couple met with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. After a brief stay in Japan,
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Concerns over celeb REALITY star James Argent headlined a gig at Stadium 63 in Mallorca after worrying headlines. The sudden return to work came as a surprise, after reports he collapsed in his Essex home ear lier in the week. According to reports, two police cars and two ambulance crews arrived after being called by girlfriend and TOWIE star, Gemma Collins. James admitted to the party goers that he’d had “a hell of a week,” following grave concerns
for his wellbeing. Ambulance crews turned up at his house, but were sent away by his parents who insisted on looking after him themselves. However, medics were called again after fur ther concerns for his health. Gemma Collins re portedly dialled 999 amid fears he had over dosed, when he didn’t reply to her calls or texts. James has dispersed these rumours and insists he was fine. but didn’t answer his phone be cause he wasn’t speaking to a certain person.
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Ramos appeal FOOTBALL ace Sergio Ramos has joined fel low football stars Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo and fallen foul of tax laws in Spain. The Real Madrid and Spanish international defender was fined €1 million, according to EL Mundo, and now intends to appeal. In a statement, he said that changes to the law were to blame, adding that he is ‘aware of all of my obligations to the Spanish Tax Agency.’ He claims the Tax Agency notified him of a different settlement amount for the 2012 2014 period, ‘after changing the criteria,’ which he says he paid in full. “It’s an administrative fine, not a criminal penalty,” he said, adding that “given my dis agreement with the change of criteria from the Tax Agency and, I reiterate, given my payment has been made, I have exercised my right to appeal the agency’s decision.” Messi and Ronaldo were both given prison sentences and were fined after be ing found guilty of tax evasions, though neither served any time after agreeing to deals under Spanish laws.
CELEBRITY COUPLE: Sergio Ramos with TV personality wife, Pilar Rubio.
Classical guitar ITALIAN classical guitarist Luciano Pompilio will be performing two nights running in Costa Blanca dur ing November. First he appears at the Forum Mare Nostrum in Alfas del Pi on No
vember 14 with tickets costing €7 and then the following evening he will perform at Casa Cultura Jaume Pastor i Fluixá in Calpe with tickets costing €12. Recognised as a maestro of the guitar, he has taken no less
than 15 first places in international competitions and has been a finalist in many more. With eight CDs released, one, Trib ute, made the top 30 in both Ameri ca and Canada.
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Rosemary and garlic focaccia Ingredients 350g bread flour, plus extra for dusting 14g dried yeast 250ml water (lukewarm) 2 x tbls of honey Olive oil 6 garlic gloves diced Handful grated parmesan Handful of fresh rosemary chopped 5 x garlic gloves (chopped) Salt (flaky for best result) Method Place the flour and ½ tablespoon of sea salt into a large bowl, and make a well in the mid dle. Add the yeast and honey to the luke warm water, and mix with a fork. Leave this for a few minutes and slowly pour into the well, mixing with your hands. As soon as all the ingredients come togeth er start kneading for around five minutes un til you have a smooth, springy, soft dough. Dust with a little extra flour, cover with a tea towel and leave to prove in a warm place for 30 minutes until doubled in size. While the dough is rising, preheat your oven. As soon as the dough has risen, pound it then place on a baking tray (cover the tray with olive oil) and spread the dough out to cover the tray. Push down roughly on top of the dough like a piano to make lots of rough dips and wells then drizzle some olive oil and add your diced garlic, parmesan cheese and rosemary, and a good sprinkle of salt. Bake for 20 mins on 180° or until crisp and brown.
FOCACCIA: Flat oven baked bread.
Easy brandy chocolate truffles Ingredients 500g of dark chocolate 250ml of double cream 100ml of brandy 250ml of unsalted butter, softened 50g of chocolate powder Method Break the chocolate into pieces and melt in a bowl over a pan of hot water. Pour the cream into another pan and bring gently to the boil on a low heat. Whisk the cream into the chocolate until mixed together then whisk in the brandy and butter. Place the mixture in the fridge to firm for an hour. Roll the mix into balls about the size of a ping bong ball and dust with chocolate powder.
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Dacia Duster Comfort TCe ROAD TEST by Nick Fletcher THE Dacia Duster is a family SUV with a price once described by the manufacturer as ‘shockingly cheap’ yet the remarkable aspect of the cleverly-designed Duster is that it doesn’t look at all cheap! Prices start at just €12,350 (£10,995) and for that you do get a minimally-equipped version so many buyers aim for mid-range models which offer much more kit yet can still be as much as €5,600 (£5,000) cheaper than some comparable rivals. Dacia is part of the giant Renault Group and the Duster is built on a proven Renault platform and uses Renault engines, but there the similarities end. Duster has a distinctive and pleasing design which can equal that of many of its class rivals and while admittedly equipment levels are not always as generous, the Duster can still shout about its great value for money.
The entry version has a 1.0litre petrol engine and there is a 1.3-litre petrol and a 1.5-litre diesel in the line up, with five trim levels which are priced up to around €22,000 (£20,000). The featured model is a Duster with a 128 hp 1.3-litre TCe turbo-petrol engine and
six-speed manual gearbox. In mid-range Comfort trim it costs €16,844 (£14,995) and standard features include alloy wheels, air-conditioning, cruise control, LED daytime running lights, rear-view camera, touchscreen infotainment, Bluetooth, and sat-nav.
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FEISTY GAME: Wales go out by slim margin.
Big day for the Welsh WALES took on South Africa in the Rugby World Cup semi final in Yokohama after a mo ment’s silence took place for the victims of Typhoon Hag ibis. Game underway saw a good first take for Leigh Half penny in the air, but the Springboks did well to hold
him up in the tackle and get the putin at the scrum. Physical first 15 minutes were played when South Africa got a penalty as Tipuric got caught the wrong side of a ruck Pollard lined up the shot at goal and nailed it 03. Great work though by Jon Davies straight after and North got Wales outside the Boks’ defence. They scrambled to stop Josh Adams but strayed offside. Biggar had his first shot at goal. It wasn’t an easy one, but he nailed it in Biggar style. 33 Twentyone minutes into the first half saw a big scrum by South Africa that earned a penalty. Pollard lined it up and stuck it through the uprights,
36. Wales were hanging on due to South African pressure, but the intention was clear the Boks were trying to take the legs out of Wales with their physicality. It was paying off as Ken Owens gave away a soft penalty at the maul. Pollard nailed it 39. On 39 minutes it was all go ing on, Wales had a penalty advantage for a cheap shot by Vermeulen off the ball on Wainwright but Biggar put it up aerially but North’s ham string seemed to go chasing it. North went off, replaced by Watkin as Biggar smacked the ball with full Welsh passion through the posts bringing the score to 69. Just after the whistle blew for half time.
The teams came back out leaving 40 minutes for Wales to make history for them selves. Straight into the sec ond half saw a big error from Faf de Klerk. He dropped a Halfpenny kick into touch. Wales got a penalty from the lineout as Etzebeth jumped across the lineout. Biggar lined up a shot at goal and scored, Wales were level 99. South Africa started to put on the pressure in the 58th minute and Wales could not live with it. The penalty advan tage was there but Damian de Allende went through the tackles of Tomos Williams and Biggar to force his way over the line. It was a massive try in such a tight scoring game. With the conversion scored as well, the score drastically changed to 916. Wales were determined though and went through 21 phases but they couldn’t break through. Penalty came but they went for the scrum. This was a bold move and the tactic paid off, it was ballsy, but they got it away. Moriarty. Williams. Davies then Adams over in the corner! Patchell then nailed the extras and the game was levelled 1616. Ten minutes were left to decide who would make the final v England but with just five minutes left of normal play, South Africa won a penalty and scored what looked like could shatter Welsh dreams as they went ahead 1619. The whistle shortly blew and the Welsh dream sadly was over.
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Roger Federer claimed a historic 10th title at Swiss Indoors Basel. Federer is now 75-9 at Basel having won his last 24 matches at the event with this victory and secured his fourth title of the season.
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COME BACK: Liverpool came from behind to beat Tottenham Hotspur. ting edge and with current ly three points between them and secondplaced Man City, they needed to shape up for the second half. That’s exactly what they did, less than 10 minutes into the second half, Fabin
ho floated a nothing ball in to the area towards Firmi no, who went over after a little shove from Rose. While everyone was ap pealing for a penalty, Hen derson guided the bounc ing ball into the far corner with his left foot with an
excellent finish. Seventyfourth minute Serge Aurier did well to get back and dispossess Mane but then he kicked the back of Mane’s leg as he tried to clear. It was a clear penal ty, Salah smashed it into the back of the net to give the league leaders the lead for the first time in the game. The last 15 minutes Liv erpool just basically saw the game out in style main taining possession and hardly letting lacklustre Tottenham in the game, without Kane in their side they would have even larg er issues as they have now. As for Liverpool, not their greatest game but dug it out and played like champions. Final score, 21 Liverpool and remain six points clear at the top of the table.
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IT was a terrible start for the league leaders as Harry Kane scored from basically the kickoff on 47 seconds. Kane was onside and Spurs went ahead as Son came infield onto his right foot and whacked a 20 yard shot that took a de flection off Lovren and hit the post. It rebounded to Kane, who stooped to steer a header wide of Alisson from eight yards. Mane missed a great chance on 30 minutes flick ing a header wide from AlexanderArnold’s stun ning pass/ cross. It was a brilliant ball, lofted over the defence from a very narrow position as Liver pool started to show some of their more established form. The half saw Liverpool have 79 per cent of the possession but no real cut
LEWIS HAMILTON: Next stop US.
Hamilton wins in Mexico IT was a hectic start to the race as Hamil ton went down into fifth and Verstappen to eighth Leclerc lead from Vettel Albon Sainz Hamilton. Off the grid, Vettel seemed to squeeze Hamilton, who had to let off the gas and then collided with Ver stappen who was driving like a man pos sessed after stewards the evening before
stripped him of his pole position for ig noring yellow flags in qualifying. Verstappen shortly afterwards had a puncture and had to box to receive fresh boots. He entered back on track in 20th at the back of the field. The race after that was pretty bland based more on strategic pit stops and variants of tyre use
at critical times. With seven laps to go, Hamilton was leading the race on worn tyres having onestopped Vettel and Bottas, as well as twostopping Leclerc all hunting Hamilton down. Last lap Hamilton had just a 1.7second ad vantage over closing Vettel but hung on to the chequered flag.
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Clear at the top VICTORY: England reach World Cup Final.
Awesome performance FROM the kickoff, George Ford passed the ball to Farrell to send the ball up into the sky and deep into NZ half. They recycled and exited to touch with little fuss. England’s first lineout was a good one and Manu had his first carry. They were putting it through hands with Daly up and present in the line early, Watson carried into the NZ half and two passes later they were under the posts. Manu popped up to pick and drive over from three metres. Farrell converted an early 70 lead for England. In extratime England just over 40 minutes won a penalty in line with the posts. England elected to kick and George Ford whacked it between the sticks to take a lead into the dressing room of 10 0. England ripped into the All Blacks on the 45th minute. A breathless pas sage of play saw offloads and turnover all over the shop. Youngs grabbed it and went into the NZ 22 and England got a penal ty. They went in the 22, Youngs dummied and went through a gap and over the line but Welsh ref Owens called for TMO and ruled out the try al though Owens did
award a penalty just a couple of minutes later to England which Farrell threaded between the posts to increase the lead by another three points to 1310. Disaster for England though on 57 minutes an England tricky defensive lineout on five metres was horribly overthrown to Savea at the tail and he walked it in over the line Mo’unga slotted the con version and put the All Blacks back in the game for a short while. England got back in possession and warmed everyone’s hands with possession, it was c h i p p e d b a c k t o N Z b e fore Underhill again with a powdering tackle dislodged the ball to give his side another attack in the NZ 22. England won a penalty and George Ford calmly beckoned the tee onto the field. George Ford thundered it over to in crease the lead by anoth er three points to 167. O n 6 7 t h m i n u t e E n g land got a penalty for side entry at the maul by Re tallick. George Ford went for the kicking tee again and scored once again 19 7 after a wonderful kick! England had smashed their way through to the World Cup Final!