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THE Dutch partner of a woman whose dead body was found by binmen in Teulada-Moraira on Tuesday morning has been arrested in connection with her death. The 36-year-old victim, the mother of a young son, was discovered ‘dressed to party’ with several stab wounds, wrapped in a blanket and tied with ropes at around 8am. According to reports, forensics confirmed the majority of the injuries were to the victim’s forearms and hands, while the lethal stab wound is believed to have been to the neck. Sources claim there were no immediate signs of sexual assault, though a sexual
motive has not been ruled out. Refuse collectors were apparently placing bags left outside of the bin inside when they noticed a large pool of blood and ‘a lump that looked like a body wrapped in a textile garment.’ Moraira’s Guardia Civil were called to the scene in Calle Mostoles in the centre of the El Teroro urbanisation,
and the area was cordoned off. Local residents told the Euro Weekly News the area was ‘swarming with police’ including forensics officers in white suits, and traffic was diverted. An investigation team began searching through video footage from nearby hotel and apartment complexes before the victim’s alleged partner handed him-
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INVESTIGATION: Police and forensics at the scene of the harrowing discovery. self in to the Guardia Civil. The deceased, thought to be South American, is believed to have been murdered on Sunday, February 16. The investigation continues. Teulada Moraira Council announced a day of official mourning yesterday, Wednesday, February 19, when the flags were flown at half-mast and planned events were suspended.
The Consistory summoned five minute’s silence at 1pm in front of the Teulada Council offices as a sign of sympathy and solidarity with the victim’s family and ‘to show condemnation of the incident.’ If proven to have been killed by her partner, the deceased is the 11th victim of sexist violence in Spain this year, according to government statistics.
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Consular team holds outreach events ON March 17 and 18 the British Consulate in Alicante is holding four separate outreach events to update UK nationals in Alicante and Murcia on what the UK’s departure from the EU means for them. Members of the consular and Embassy team will explain the citizens’ rights protections included in the Withdrawal Agreement and advise on any action you need to take during the transition period (to December 31, 2020). There will also be a Q&A section for you to ask questions on issues including residency, pensions and healthcare. British Consul Sarah-Jane Morris said: “The approval of the
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Event details: Date Town 17 March El Campello (Alicante) 17 March San Fulgencio (Alicante)
Times 10:30am 2:00pm
18 March Lorca (Murcia) 18 March Hondon Valley (Alicante)
10:30am 4:00pm
Withdrawal Agreement is a very important step for UK nationals living here. It provides reassurance on key rights, such as being able to continue to live and work here, and for pensioners to have lifelong healthcare and uprated pensions. We will provide an update on the latest residency processes at our March events, but meanwhile be assured that if you already have the green registration certificate (A4 or credit card-sized) this will remain a valid residency document even after the transition period ends on December 31 this year. “For further information visit the Living in Spain Guide on gov.uk and follow our Brits in Spain channel on Facebook.”
Address Sala Ramón Llul, Biblioteca Pública Municipal, Plaza de Canalejas, 6, 03560 El Campello, Alicante Centro Social La Marina Urbanización, corner between Calle San Francisco de Asis and Avenida San Fulgencio (behind the tourist information office and health centre), 03177 Alicante Centro Cultural de Lorca, Calle Presbítero Emilio García, 30800 Lorca, Murcia Teatro Auditorio del Ayuntamiento de Hondón de los Frailes, AvENIDA Albatera s/n, 03689 Hondón de los Frailes, Alicante
Advice for UK nationals living in Spain can be found at: gov.uk/livinginspain and you can follow us on Facebook at facebook.com/britsinspain
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SUPPORT: Spread Some Sunshine aims to improve the lives of children in care in Sri Lanka. CAN you imagine never having the pleasure of reading or even owning a book? This is the reality for many children, and something founder of Costa Blanca’s Spread Some Sunshine project, Helen Davis, wants to address. To mark World Book Day on March 5, Helen is asking everybody to help spread a little sunshine and support 36
children in care in Sri Lanka who may not otherwise possess their own novel. She told Euro Weekly News “Most don’t possess a book or read well. Please help by putting just a few euros into one of our collection tins at Villa Mia near the Arenal, or Heaven Boutique. “Just €100 would enable us to buy a book
for each child.” Spread some sunshine is a fundraising project supporting Children in Care on the South West coast of Sri Lanka. The aim is to: supply nutritious food, support well-being, provide craft classes/educational materials, purchase shoes, clothing and personal essentials as well as carry out improvements to the homes.
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Date change THE date of a Nordic Walking event at Parc Natural De La Serra Gelada, in the Valencian Community, has been changed to Saturday, February 29, at 10.30am. Organiser Miguel Ángel Palacios, from Moviment Health Training, will give a guided tour for most levels of fitness, and it is advisable to book in advance.
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Not fare A 78-YEAR-OLD blind man with a guide dog has filed a police complaint after claiming taxi drivers in San Vicente refuse to allow he and his dog in their cabs. José Vicente Toledo said he was asked by a switchboard operator for the registration of one of the taxis, which he replied was impossible.
Not again FOR the second time this year, the IES La Malladeta school in Villajoyosa has been targeted by vandals, leaving 1,000 pupils without a classroom on Monday. Children were able to return to lessons on Tuesday after two days of cleaning up the mess left behind after a large rubbish container was set alight.
New HQ THE University of Valencia wants to establish a headquarters of its Science Park in Gandia in a bid to strengthen links between the university and the business world. Various locations have been suggested, including a site in Calle Tossal, but at the moment the plans are in the ‘seed planting’ stage.
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SOME €30,000 has been ploughed into buying a modern lawnmower and new fencing at the golf and cricket course in Alfaz del Pi. The council claims conservation and maintenance work at the facility will be done in record time to get the courses up and running in good order again.
ALICANTE hotels closed January with a 3 per cent rise in occupancy compared to the same period last year. Of the tourists who stayed in the city, 63.7 per cent were reportedly foreign, with the largest chunk, 20.4 per cent made up of guests from the UK.
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VERTICAL ZIP LINE: Will assist future rescues.
RISKY RESCUE THE Search and Rescue Unit of Alicante City Fire Service will carry out a ‘historic and risky’ vertical rescue drill on the face of Mount Benacantil next Friday, February 28. For the first time, firefighters will descend through the Benacantil to secure a fully equipped ‘zip line’ on the hillside, which will be used in the event of having to carry out a rescue in the future.
It will be drilled into the rock to allow firefighters to access difficult and dangerous slopes. Councillor for Security, José Ramón González, explained the firefighters will descend from the top of Benacantil to the Santa Cruz neighbourhood. Twenty specialists from the Search and Rescue Unit will manoeuvre themselves 300 metres from the top to simulate the rescue of a ‘hiker’ stuck on a ledge.
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Tackling bullying TEACHERS in Muchamiel are demanding that more is done in schools to prevent aggressive behaviour. Union APNE has criticised certain protocols which it claims does not put the needs of the victims first, and says social services professionals are ‘urgently needed’ to help prevent the problem. Union President, Laureano Bárcena, said: “We are responsible for the entire society and we must see that measures are taken as the lives of children are at stake.” The warning comes after a pupil reportedly attempted suicide in Muchamiel, having been the alleged victim of bullying. “The regulations that exist today do not guarantee a good school life. Much more attention should be given to prevention, acting in an incipient way to detect bullying and avoiding terrible events which mark a child for life,” he added.
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González stressed the importance of this simulation, which “requires great preparation, training and coordination.” The Speis Search and Rescue specialised team consists of 30 firefighters in total. For more than two years they undergo training through theoretical-practical manoeuvres to enhance their ability to respond to and coordinate an emergency situation in the city.
SOME €9.6 million has been pledged by the government to repair beaches in the Valencian Community which were battered by Storm Gloria last month. Strong winds and torrential rainfall caused severe flooding and extensive damage to the coastline. With the funding, the General Directorate of the Coast and the Sea in Denia, for example, will now begin the long process of cleaning debris and dirt from several beaches, replenishing sand on the beaches of les Deveses and Les Rotes, as well as restoring Marineta Casiana promenade. In Javea, the wall of Cala Blanca and the reeds will be removed at the mouth of the Gorgos river. Elsewhere, access to Cala Moraig will be repaired in Benitachell; in Teulada the wall of the beach of l’Ampolla will be restored; in Calpe debris will be removed from the beaches and in Altea breakwaters and paths will be repaired.
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REMEMBERED FONDLY: Members of the Aircrew Association Costa Blanca paid tribute to Brian Weskett (inset).
SAD FAREWELL IT was with much sadness that the Aircrew Association Costa Blanca recently heard of the passing of its longest serving Chairman and Former President, Brian Weskett. Brian died in the UK on Thursday, January 30, after his health deteriorated rapidly, following major surgery in December last year. Brian was an active and popular member of the Aircrew Association
THE countdown is on to the fourth Save My Life event in aid of Benidorm Dog Homing. More than a dozen acts will take to the stage at Benidorm Palace on March 8, to raise much needed funds for the 100 dogs in need of medical care and a forever home. Last year’s event generated more than €18,000 to help give these animals a second chance.
from September 1992 for 28 years. He served as its Chairman for 12 years before becoming President in 2012. Brian and his wife, Anne, were well-known and much admired and respected members of the wider community on the Costa Blanca where they were also members of the Royal Society of St George. They were also frequent and enthusiastic bowls players on the many Greens in the region.
They moved to UK permanently in February 2016. Brian’s funeral will take place at Worthing Crematorium on Monday, February 24. An Association spokesperson said: “Brian will be sadly missed but he will be remembered fondly by all those who knew him. He was a special gentleman and friend. Our thoughts and prayers are with his wife Anne and her family at this sad time.”
Find a home LOVING HOMES: David Duncan and Donna Sandland of Benidorm Dog Rehoming with Christine Climent’s granddaughter, Laura, and some of the rescue dogs.
“This event is the reason we are able to help and save so many dogs,” said organiser Donna Sandland, thanking all the acts, everyone behind the scenes and Benidorm Palace owner Christine Climent, for donating the venue and supporting the cause. The doors open 12 noon for a 1pm start and tickets cost €10, available from; Benidorm Palace box office.
RESEARCHERS at Alicante University are working on an app which it is hoped will help people with severe intellectual disabilities, like autism, to communicate more effectively. The project is part of the doctorate of Alba Gilabert, a member of the university’s Inclutic research group, Inclusive Education and Technology, and the first phase was developed in Alicante’s Santa Faz Centre, directed by Juan Manuel Pérez Galbis. Using a tablet, Gilabert showed boys at the centre real images in which other virtual ones are superimposed to give more information about an action. For example, in the photograph of a room in which there are messy toys, virtual images of a person collecting can be superimposed. “In this way, communication reaches the person more clearly,” she explained, adding: “Another incentive is to be able to work with tablets, since they are much more attractive to the user because of their shape and colours." Although the project is in the early stages, the results so far are promising. “Those responsible for the centre tell us that they found the young people much more motivated and in fact, the first few days there were boys who did not want to come and get involved, but now they are delighted to take part.” The project is expected to take three years to complete.
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THE veterinarians of the Oceanográfic in Valencia, have performed emergency surgery on a seahorse. The microscopic surgery required a stitch which was almost bigger than the seahorse itself.
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Seahorse’ s Successful Operation The emergency surgery was performed when an anomaly was discovered. The specimen in question, a male, had given birth to about a thousand offspring
and the effort caused the incubator bag to prolapse. The anomaly would likely have resulted in the death of the animal had the vets not intervened.
THE National Police have arrested the parents of a 22-month-old baby girl in Costa Blanca for child neglect after the toddler was admitted to hospital in a serious condition for cannabis poisoning. The child had been taken to Villajoyosa Hospital by her parents after she fell unconscious at home. She was then transferred to the Paediatric ICU of Alicante Hospital as she was not able to breathe on her own and required assisted ventilation. Doctors then performed a series of tests on the child which determined that the child had a significant amount of cannabis in her system. Upon being questioned by the police, the parents, aged 22 and 23 years old, denied that
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22-month-old baby hospitalised
NEGLECT: The child tested positive for cannabis. they were the ones who gave their child the drug. They stressed that their daughter must have ingested the narcotic whilst out on a walk in a local park which is frequented by drug users. The parents admitted that they often smoked cannabis, but never in front of their children or
inside their home in Benidorm. The investigation has now been passed over to the Unit for Women and Families (UFAM) at the Alicante Police Station who have processed the necessary paperwork to take temporary guardianship of the child whilst the investigation continues.
The surgery was sucessfully executed with the aid of special magnifying glasses and microsurgical devices. According to reports
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SOME of the world’s best women race cyclists will be arriving in Finestrat tomorrow, Friday February 21. Finestrat is the finish line for the second stage of the Valencian Community Volta Feminas women’s race, a gruelling 126 kilometres with five mountain passes and the most important of the competition. “Once again Finestrat will be privileged to see 180 topflight cyclists belonging to 25 teams from 20 countries as they cross the line,” said the town hall’s Sports councillor David Alarcon. Participants include world champions Anna Van der Breggan and Chantal Blaack as well as last year’s winner of the Volta Feminina, Clara Koppenburg. Owing to the race, the town hall announced that the section
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Donors up THE second Blood Donation collection of 2020 at the Pinar de Garatia Health Oentre in La Nucia attracted 38 donors, 33 who were suitable and three people who gave blood for the first time. La Nucia has a monthly average of 30 donations, “so this February donation was above average,” said a spokesperson for Valencia’s Transfusion Centre. The medical service in
DONATIONS: There was a good turn out at the Pinar de Garatia Health Office. the province of Alicante requires 250 donations daily to carry out operations, transfusions, treat cancer patients etc.
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VOLTA FEMINAS: One of the competing teams in training. of road between the roundabout at the Polideportivo sports centre and the Avenida Benidorm-Carrer Fonteta crossroads will be closed to traffic from 4pm until 7pm tomorrow, Friday. As the Volta will arrive in Finestrat via the CV-759, this will be closed to traffic during the same period together with several
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streets in the Old Town. Vehicles will still be able to use Carrer Fonteta and the road from the car park to La Cala de Finestrat and Benidorm CV-767. The CV-758 to Sella, Orxeta and Relleu will also be closed and traffic from these towns will need to make a detour to Villajoyosa.
THIS week saw a screening of Amaginea, Retorn a la Mare Natura (Return to Mother Nature) in Villajoyosa. Included in the town’s Film Cycle in Valenciano, the documentary was shown at the Auditorium at the Llar del Pensionista social centre. Amaginea illustrates Mediterranean nature as it has never been seen before, with amazing landscapes of great beauty. The film, directed by Ricardo Macian and Emilio Oviedo, also sets out to remind society of the need to respect the environment, showing landscapes of fleeting splendour that disappear owing to the action of man or simply the passage of time.
Emergency plans BENIDORM has updated its Emergency Plan incorporating new technologies the urban resilience project - to identify potential threats and devise solutions on how best to deal
with them. During the presentation of the high-tech manual on Monday, the town’s citizen security technician, Manuel López, said ‘the new Municipal Territorial
Plan for Emergencies is a planning of material and human resources to deal with an emergency situation and manage it effectively and efficiently.” It has been prepared in conjunction with Dinapsis Operation and Lab. A Municipal Coordination (Cecopal) has been established, chaired by the mayor, which will be responsible for responding to incidents, three levels have been established. Emergency level 1 incidents will not require the activation of Cecopal, and the government will inform of any measures that need to be taken. Level 2 entails the involvement of Cecopal to coordinate basic measures, which will be carried out with the use of Benidorm Council’s own resources. With regards to level 3 emergencies, all measures will be coordinated by the government.
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Childhood cancer party HUNDREDS of people attended a charity Chocolatada at Villajoyosa’s Censal park to mark International Childhood Day. The Chocolatada, or drinking chocolate party, was organised by the Villajoyosa Parents’ Association with help from the town hall’s Education department to raise funds for treatment and research into childhood cancer. Thick Spanish drinking chocolate is notoriously messy to drink and the Chocolatada, announced as ‘Get dirty faces for childhood cancer,’ was promoted by a group of associations representing the families of patients at the Sant Joan de Deu Hospital in Barcelona.
CHOCOLATADA: Villajoyosa raises money for childhood cancer research. This has prompted 1,026 Chocolatadas nationwide, although Villajoyosa’s was the only Marina Baja event. The 319 Chocolatadas organised throughout Spain in 2019 raised €158,000 for research and with more than 1,000 this year, the organisers are hoping to collect considerably more. At present, 20 per cent
of children do not survive cancer and the 80 per cent who are cured often have significant after-effects. The money raised through the Chocolatadas will help to improve treatments and remind the public that investigation is the only answer in these childhood cases where prevention has not been possible.
worked for more than an hour to free the pensioners. They were both taken to hospital, while the police used a crane to remove the vehicle. The driver was breathalysed, and gave a negative result. It is still unclear what caused the accident. Meanwhile, a 53-year-old man
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Love-ly lunch THIRTY-FIVE members of the U3A Marina Baixa enjoyed a wonderful Valentine’s Day lunch, at Kathmandu Restaurant in Albir last Friday. The food was ‘superb,’ with a taster starter of three different delights, followed with a choice of five main courses, with rice or naan bread, washed down with a glass of wine. U3A Marina Baixa holds its general meetings on the fourth Monday of each month in the auditorium at the Forum Mare Nostrum, Alfaz del Pi. The next meeting will be on Monday February 24. The doors open at 10am and the desks close at 10.50am for a prompt 11am
Trapped in car A COUPLE in their 70’s had to be pulled from the wreckage of their car after overturning on an Alicante road towards Alcoraya. At the scene of the ‘appalling crash,’ at around 10.30pm on Saturday, February 15, three Local Police crews cut off traffic, while a dozen firefighters and the SPEIS accident rescue unit
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was injured last Friday, after being struck while riding his bicycle in the Coto Lo Marxant area of Crevillente. An ambulance and a fire rescue helicopter was despatched to transport the wounded cyclist to the General Hospital of Alicante, suffering with head trauma.
SUPERB: U3A Marina Baixa members feast on Valentine’s Day. start. It’s advisable to arrive early to sign in and get a seat. If you have not heard of this Association and would like to join them, you can be assured of a very warm
welcome. Visit the website www.u3amarinabaixa.c om to find out more, or the Facebook page. Alternatively, call the secretary, Joan Flint, on 965 861 226 or 663 637 167.
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More than a networking event CELEBRATIONS: A party to mark Peggy’s 102nd birthday.
Party girl Peggy is 102 HEARTWARMING messages have poured in for a much-loved centenarian, Peggy who celebrated her 102nd birthday at Ciudad Patricia home in Benidorm on Monday, February 17. Peggy has been a resident at the residential and rehabilitation centre for 35 years, and staff and other residents took to social media to wish her all the best. “Happy birthday to our dear Peggy, you just have to see her smile to see how lovely and incredible she is,
we are so happy to share this time with you, we all love you,” wrote one well-wisher. Another added: “Happy 102nd birthday to our radiant Peggy, you don’t need more than to see her smile to know that she’s a treasure, we are very happy to share with you these wonder ful moments dear friend, we love you.” To mark the incredible milestone, Peggy was thrown a fabulous party, with two dancers and music from Barry the Swingman.
AN International Women’s Day with a twist will take place at Altea Golf Club next month, offering the opportunity to take part in workshops, browse various stalls, attend talks and of course network. Organiser Gemma Broad, Business Promotions Manager of Telitec in Moraira, told Euro Weekly News: “I wanted to make this more than just a networking event for business women where leaflets are handed out. “So instead, we have got workshops, demonstrations and the Guardian Angels will be there on the day to talk about what they do as a charity. Initially they helped single mothers, and now they support single fathers too.” In fact, the event on Sunday, March 8, 11am to 3pm, is not only open to women, men can also go along. Author Sarah Farrell has been invited to talk about how to get into the literary industry, having had her first book published, while Nilam Wright will give a masterclass in cooking chapattis while exhibiting her paintings which aim to raise awareness about mental health issues. An instructor from Matrix Martial Arts in Javea will be taking along a group of women to demonstrate the benefits of Jihitsu, and Debbie Evans of Scotts Dale Overseas will be unveiling a new guide she has put together to help expats through the complicated paperwork which can follow the death of a loved one. In addition, a fun and practical workshop to radiate confidence
from the inside and out will be held by Ravenna. There are limited places for this and all of the workshops, so it’s advisable to contact Gemma in advance. Gemma, who is extremely active in the community and has a number of events and fundraisers in the pipeline, added: “There will also be plenty of stalls selling all sorts, from stained glass gifts, to handmade
teddy bears, table and house decorations and make- up and skin care products. “In total we have about 22 stands already booked. It should be a fabulous day in a lovely venue.” To find out more about the event and to reserve a place on any of the workshops, contact Gemma on 626 939 223 or email www.telitec.net.
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ONCE again, TeuladaMoraira Lions brought Gez Rogers’ Union Gap to Espai La Senieta in Moraira and as before, there was a full house to enjoy a fantastic night of entertainment. The evening was kicked off by a short set of Buddy Holly tracks by Gary Woodward of the Union Gap. With a mix of hits from the 50’s and 60’s, Gary got the audiences’ toes tapping with songs including Oh Boy!, That’ll Be The Day and Peggy Sue. Joined on stage by the rest of the band, Union Gap entertained the audience with musical tributes to stars such as Frankie Valli, Roy Orbison and The Hollies. The four-piece band including keyboard, drums, bass and lead
CROWD PULLER: Gez Rogers’ Union Gap brought the house down. guitars plus great vocals delighted the audience with hits including Young Girl, Sherry, Pretty Woman, Bend Me Shape Me.
A club spokesperson said: “It was an absolute pleasure to welcome Union Gap back. They never fail to deliver a high standard, profes-
sional performance and it is due to this that the audience keeps coming back for more. “TM Lions would like to thank Union Gap, the staff at Espai La Senieta and all those who attended the concert. All funds raised will go to support those in need through the donations TM Lions give to a number of organisations and individuals.” The next Lion’s concert is the Desperados who will be on stage to provide an evening of hits by the Eagles. Tickets are already sold out for this performance, but tickets are available for The Gipsy Kings Experience on March 21. For further details, visit https:// www.tmlions.com
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A full house PRIZE-GIVING: Colina Bowls Club members are presented with prizes during the annual Valentine’s Day match.
Be bowled over A SMALL and friendly Calpe bowls club is inviting new members to ‘come along’ and have a laugh on and off the green. Colina Bowls Club marked Valentine’s Day with a themed ‘wear something red’ match, followed by a prize-giving service. Club secretary, Joy Savage, said: “We are a very small friendly club at the Colina Club in Calpe. We welcome members of all ages and capabilities and only play be-
tween ourselves as our green is smaller than normal. However, we are a very friendly crowd and have a good laugh on and off the green.” For more information or to arrange to go along for a ‘free, give it a try,’ contact Joy on 669 213 524. Joy added: “We only play Monday and Friday mornings at the moment but should we get a lot more members to join us, then other mornings or afternoons can be opened up.”
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Pride and joy JAGUAR Enthusiasts Club Costa Blanca held their February meeting to coincide with Valentine’s Day, which made it a very special day to remember by the 76 members and their guests who attended the themed lunch. The day started early as members made their way to the famous valley of Jalon to view the early flush of almond blossom of white and pink, but due to the unusually war m weather it had been brought forward by two weeks thus making its normal spectacu-
lar appearance a little more subdued. This did not dull the excitement of the full funpacked day ahead as the big cats began to roll into the parking area of the coffee stop meeting point at the restaurant Venta Roja in Lliber. Once everyone had been refreshed, members discussed their pride and joy as the jaguars shone brightly in the beautiful sunshine and clear blue sky of this February winter’s day, before proceeding to their next stop at the bodega in the village of Jalon.
Their final destination was to Alcalali to the restaurant La Solana where lunch had been organised for 2pm, served to live music from the duo The Crooners. There was also an unexpected per for mance from JEC’s very own professional singer Maria which was followed by dancing, making it a fabulous day that was enjoyed by everyone as the JEC members were able to spend Valentine’s Day with the loves of their lives, and also their wives. If you would like to join
It’s carnival time CARNIVAL fever has taken over El Campello, as the town busies itself preparing its annual festivities which kick off this afternoon (Thursday, February 20). The 2020 Carnivals programme promises something for everyone, with 300 people aged over 65 expected to take part in the three-hour, colourful masquerade Grand Carnival Ball, which sets off for the El Barranquet Social Centre at 5.30pm. Meanwhile, a youth race for the town’s young people departs from Plaza Saint Christol Les Alez at 6pm. Anybody with the energy is then invited to take part in a Zumba Master Class. The only condition to participate is that you wear fancy dress. If you would like to join in and haven’t
registered yet, you can do so at the municipal sports offices by calling 965 632 247 or email anaescuelasdeporti vas@gmail.com. But Saturday is being billed as ‘the big day.’ The Department of Festivals and Traditions, led by Cristian Palomares, in collaboration with the Moors and Christians Festive Board, has put together a number of activities for all ages, which start at 10am and go on well into the night. The main pavilion will be alive with competitions, workshops, dances and a disco. There will also be a children’s parade at 12 noon. You can find out more about the El Campello Carnival 2020 programme by visiting http://www.elcampello.es/ index.php?s=agenda.
Irregular clinic A 51-YEAR-OLD Brazilian woman has been arrested for allegedly practising in a therapeutic clinic in the centre of Alicante without a licence or any qualifications. She faces charges of crimes against public health, professional intrusion and smuggling, after Guardia Civil officers reportedly found a range of unregistered local anaesthetics from China. It as after the medica-
tion was seized at Alicante-Elche Airport that an investigation into irregularities was launched in January. The package attracted the attention of the Guardia Civil and Customs personnel, who, on opening the parcel, found a bag that appeared to be food for animals. However, inside there were four other smaller bags containing a white
powder. A report by the Health laboratories determined that they were local anaesthetics whose use as raw material to manufacture medicines is not allowed, nor to administer them to people, unless they are supervised by the health authorities. The package was traced to the Alicante clinic and as there was no authorisation, an arrest was made.
the club on any of the monthly meetings, contact club president Michael Brook on 640 866 711 or Facebook JEC-Costa Blanca.
BIG CATS: JEC Costa Blanca members enjoy a love-ly Valentine’s Day.
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Aqua - truly spectacular A STUNNING aquatic adventure encompassing exotic aerial silk art, forbidden games, magic and incredible music and choreography only touches the surface when describing Benidorm Palace’s spectacular new show, Aqua. An international cast of 40 talented artists takes you on a luxury cruise, navigating the world’s oceans for an exhilarating water-themed experience of a lifetime. The Palace Cruise stops off in Spain, before visiting the Grand Canal of Venice, the Nile River with its impressive Egyptian pyramids and crossing the Atlantic towards Central Park in New
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FORBIDDEN GAMES: Viviane Rossi puts on a sensual performance.
BMX TRIPS: A masterclass from Jonathan Rossi.
STUNNING: A feathery spectacle. York City. Mind blowing costumes and scene changes keep you on the edge of your seat, and at times on your feet, as Benidorm Palace’s resident orchestra and singer Ami accompany you on your not-to-bemissed journey.
Universal hits featured include Prince’s Purple Rain, Singing in the Rain by Gene Kelly, Umbrella by Rihanna, Thriller by Michael Jackson, It's Raining Men by The Weather Girls, Thunder by Imagine Dragons, Poet in the Harbour by Vicente Amigo, Song of Love by Pa-
co de Lucia and Aqua by the Cuban singer Lucrecia. Worth a mention is the amazing set and choreography which accompanies Singing in the Rain, as water appears to cascade from above - truly impressive. You are kept guessing throughout as one minute you are taking a masterful BMX trip with Jonathan Rossi, a gravity-defying journey of aerial silk art with Artur and Laetitia as a very exotic Nefertiti, before a magical display by the ship’s captain, David Climent. Then there’s a gondola ride with the classic adage of Artur and Laetitia, sensual forbidden games with Vi-
INFLUENCE: Spanish stop-off.
viane Rossi in her Venetian bathtub, and a bit of light relief with audience participation courtesy of the cruise cameraman, Titto Lester. It’s not surprising that Benidorm Palace is the hottest live entertainment
venue around, with a dedicated and committed team who give their all to ensure the audience is treated to the best shows possible. Owner Christine Climent, told Euro Weekly News: “We’ve got amazing choreographers, David Moore, Javier Valverde and Asnar Paloma, who have been with us for 20 years or more. We all love what we do and I think it shows. “We all get together to come up with ideas for our shows, and in fact it was my daughter Joanna who suggested we do an Aquathemed production as part of a four-part ‘elements’ series. We are extremely excited about Aqua, and the prospect of sharing it with our audiences.” To book tickets, it is recommended to contact Benidorm Palace box office on 965 851 660 or visit www.benidormpalace.co m ticketmaster. These are the official ticket outlets, and any others should be avoided.
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Early intervention launched in Villjoyosa. The Councils for Public Safety and Sports are working together to eradicate the use of
narcotic substances at and near its facilities ‘to protect young people from the onset of consumption.’ To this end, a control plan has been drawn up in collaboration with Villajoyosa Local Police, in the hope that the values of sport will promote healthy living habits “far from the living habits that drug consumption generates.”
Councillor for Sports, José Ramón Uclés, said: “We do not want our facilities to be habitual places for the use of these types of substances, that is why we are acting now, so that this type of behaviour is eradicated forever from our sports areas.” Isabel Perona, councillor for Public Safety, added: “We must not forget that there are
many children who come daily to our facilities and we want to protect children from getting involved in drugs. We believe that education and awareness are key pillars to prevent the start of drug use at an early age.” Regular controls, involving police patrols, are expected to be put into action ‘very soon.’ CREDIT: Ayuntamiento de Villajoyosa
A PREVENTION plan to stop the use of drugs in sports facilities and surrounding a re a s has been
INTERVENTION: Local Police will be more visible in and around Villajoyosa’s sports facilities.
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Take a dip THE three categories of the Mediterranean Coast Challenge swim between Albir and Altea will take place Sunday, May 10. Catering for different levels of experience, categories range from 500 metres for the Mini-Mediterranean, two kilometres for the Popular group and 5.5 kilometres for the Mediterranean category. The Mediterranean swim, which is included in the Spanish Swimming Federation’s Copa de España de Aguas Abiertas Cup (Open Water Swimming Cup) will leave from Albir beach, as will the 500-metre miniMediterranean swim for the youngest swimmers. To find out more, visit www.mediterranean coastchallenge.com website.
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Cultural touch AN array of cultural activities will take place at Benitachell Library this spring, with interesting projects such as creative writing workshops, a micro-poem competition and The Storytelling Mascot sessions lined up. Councillor for Culture, Victor Bisquet, said: “We believe that culture and literature provide citizens with the necessary tools to face their daily lives and be freer, and it is the obligation of public administrations to encourage and promote it through actions such as those we are presenting.” Every Saturday, from March 14 to April 25, a Valencian author will be giving a creative writing workshop from 10.30am to 1.30pm. Register at biblioteca@ elpoblenoudebenitatxell.or g or by calling 966 493 369 (Ext. 150). The price of the workshop is €40.
Excellent service B R I A N C L A R K E w a s re cently awarded a Special Recognition Badge from the Lions Club International Foundation in recognition of excellent service. Brian has served the Teulada Moraira branch of the Lions for many years and has held most of the key offices, including having been President. He remains involved in the Lions and continues to act as their membership secretary. Lions President Dr Nico Dekkers presented Brian with his award and thanked him for his many years of valuable service to the Club. Without the voluntary support of Brian and others like him, it would not be possible for the Lions to continue their excellent work, both for the local community and further afield. Brian said: “I have always enjoyed my involvement with Lions. Although there is some hard work to be done, when you work with a group of supportive friends, jobs get done quicker.”
HONOUR: Brian Clarke is presented with a Special Recognition Badge by Lions President Dr Nico Dekkers. As well as all the work to put on the fundraising events, Lions like to get together for social activities on a regular basis. The Lions raised over €40,000 last year. This money is all then
donated to good causes both here and in other areas. If you are interested in finding out more about the work of Teulada Moraira Lions - visit their website www.tmlions.com.
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A much-travelled metal bridge A METAL bridge that crossed the Line 9 track in Altea until last October, will now be used in Agost. After the bridge was removed in October 2015 it was first taken to Teulada, but is now at the FGV workshops in Denia. The old Altea structure will replace a shorter footbridge whose stone-built base occupied too much space on the hard shoulder on either side of the CV-820 road between Agost and Novelda. This put pedestrians and cyclists at risk, while posing problems for heavy lorries where the road narrowed. Regional rail operator FGV agreed to cede the 22-metre footbridge that originally crossed the Moneder stream in Altea, where it was installed more than a century ago. The regional government’s Territorial Policies, Public Works and Mobility will pay to transport the bridge to Agost and also cover the future cost of its upkeep.
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DELIGHTS: Finestrat Youth Council’s themed baking workshops proved a sweet success.
Love of baking YOUNG people in Finestrat spent the official day of love preparing sweet delights during a special Baking Workshop organised by the town’s Youth Council as part of its Agenda Joven 2020. Youth Councillor, Nati Algado, attended the workshop, where ‘drip cakes’ were among the tasty offerings, and thanked all those who took part and ‘enjoyed preparing the very special sweets on Valentine’s Day.’
More than 30 different dimensions of pine timber in green, brown and thermo treated. Biggest selection of high quality joists, beams, t/g boards, planks and decking boards. You have never seen such a large selection. All planed and round edges.
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ECOPARK: La Nucia Council has announced record recycling figures.
Record recycling T H E e n v i ro n m e n t a l message appears to be getting across in La Nucia as the council announced it had collected 25 per cent more recycled ‘lightweight packaging’ last year than in 2018 claiming this demonstrates an increased public awareness. A spokesperson said “The number of tonnes of selective collection waste increased, confirming that the municipal economic aid to ‘promote recycling’ is penetrating into society.”
There was also a rise in the recycling of cooking oil (20.3 per cent) and clothing (2.5 per cent). “The people of La Nucia demonstrated their ecological awareness and their commitment to sustainability in 2019, ‘separating for recycling’ in the different existing recycling containers and at the Ecopark.” Last year, the council took the additional step of placing lightweight packaging and cardboard bins in its municipal buildings ‘to set an example and raise awareness.’
It also distributed raffia bags in green, blue and yellow, in various locations to make recycling even easier. New for this year is the 2020 Financial Support scheme which offers subsidies to residents who recycle 100 kilos or more per year of plastic, glass and carboard. Back in 2015, the council launched school recycling workshops and visits to the Ecopark, which will continue this year, involving the town’s older community for the first time.
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A Floral offering ‘A SPRING IN YOUR STEP’ is the title of the latest offering from the Marina Alta Costa Blanca Floral Club which will see a demonstration by UK specialist Christine Hughes, who will make her first visit to the club on Thursday, February 27. Christine is a member of AOIFA (Association of Irish Floral Artists) whose local clubs are Naas Flower & Garden Club and Maynooth Flower & Garden Club. A teacher, judge and speaker, she is also a NAFAS National Demonstrator. Christine is passionate about her craft and also likes to dabble in a bit of gardening. For the past 40 years, she has lived in Blessington, Co Wicklow. During the demonstration at the Salon de Actos, La Senieta, Moraira, one of the recipients of the profits from the club’s Christmas raffle, Afa Alzheimer, Teulada, will be presented with a monetary donation.
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UK DEMONSTRATOR: Christine Hughes makes her first visit to the Marina Alta Costa Blanca Floral Club next month. The doors open at 2pm and the audience is asked to be seated by 2.45pm. Admittance for members is €5 and visitors €8. Flowers supplied by Antonio and Friends at PAICHI Garden Centre. Prior to the demonstration, the club will be holding its Annual General Meeting for members only at 12.30pm. To find out more, visit: www.marinaaltafloralclub.com.
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BREXIT BRIEF
Labour at odds over Brexit TWO of the main minds behind the Labour Party Brexit policy have given completely opposing views on whether it was right or wrong. Sir Keir Starmer who is standing to be the next Labour leader told Sky News that he is still convinced that saying that the party would go for another referendum if elected was the right thing to do but he wished they had gone further and given an indication of which side the party would support. John McDonnell the Shadow ONE immediate benefit to British taxpayers now that Brexit has been finalised in principle is the reduction of the cost of travel which saw more than 2,200 return journeys by MPs and civil servants to negotiate in Brussels at a cost of almost €500,000. This information was released by the government following a Freedom of Information request from the Guardian newspaper to
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COULD BACKFIRE: Sir Keir Starmer on the fruitless campaign trail.
One Brexit saving the now closed Department for Exiting the European Union. Considering that there were large numbers of British officials based permanently in Brussels it seems that the number of visits
could have been reduced and indeed as negotiations continue with regards to the actual deal and whilst the number of visits will be less during 2020, there will still be a significant cost to cover. This amount pales into insignificance however as the Institute for Government estimated as long ago as 2017 that the likely cost of leaving would be £2 (€2.4) billion.
Chancellor in a separate interview said that whilst a staunch Remainer, he now realised that it was a mistake and that the party should have understood the mood of the country. At the time, he was convinced that the indication of a referendum would convince Labour supporters to vote as they would normally do but in the end, it became clear that Boris Johnson won so convincingly because the tide of opinion agreed that Brexit should just be pushed through. Now various Labour party ‘names’ are revealing that they warned against being seen to support a second referendum and that Labour should have looked to appease their high percentage of leave supporting voters. As members appear to be blaming each other for the reason that they were so soundly trounced, it seems that the continued support that Sir Keir Starmer is giving to the policy could backfire on him as he endeavours to take over from Jeremy Corbyn.
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BREXIT EXTRA Bermuda Brexit THE Bermuda Government as an Overseas Territory of the UK will be affected in some ways by the exit from the European Union. As a financial haven, it is considering whether Bermuda’s laws to preserve its competitive advantage will need to change.
Party loss FOLLOWING the actions of three Burnley councillors, Mark Cunningham who was elected as a UKIP councillor and defected to the Brexit Party has now joined the ruling Conservative Party as the councillor for Kearsley in Bolton.
Fighting talk FRENCH Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian has suggested that Britain and the European Union are going to “rip each other apart” in talks over a future trade deal, but hopes that the UK will continue to co-operate with the EU over defence.
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FINESTRAT will pay tribute to one of its most illustrious characters, doctor and politician, Ángel Pascual Devesa, with an exhibition and book of memoirs next week. Pascual was born on February 28, 1888, and his love of Finestrat and natural curiosity led him to compile a series of stereographies throughout his life that reflect some of the town’s most characteristics corners and traditions back in the 1920s. These include Carrer Nou Fonteta in the historical centre and the Santo Cristo del Remedio chapel. This material was bequeathed to the town hall by his family in June 2015, and makes up part of the exhibition at Finestrat Museum, along with a book of memoirs named after
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Fitting legacy
LEGACY: One of Ángel Pascual Devesa ‘character capturing’ images.
the man himself, written by his granddaughter Mercedes Pascual Artiaga, Doctor Josep Ber nabeu Mestre and historian, Francisco Moreno Sáez. In addition, there will explanatory texts detailing the life and professional, political and literary facets of one of the most outstanding figures of the progressive and republican bourgeoisie of Alicante during the years of Primo de Rivera’s dictatorship and the Second Republic. The event will take place at Finestrat Museum in Parque de Font de Carrè on Friday, February 28, from 7.30pm, and will be attended by the mayor, Juan Francisco Perez Llorca, and councillor for Culture, Hector Baldo Cordero. The exhibition will run until April 17.
SITE VISIT: Storm damage at L’Illeta dels Banyets in El Campello is assessed.
Site repairs AROUND €11,000 has set aside by the Provincial Council of Alicante to repair the damage caused by the storm Gloria at the archaeological site of L’Illeta dels Banyets in El Campello. Councillor of Architecture, Juan Francisco Pérez (PP), visited the area last week, with Mayor Juanjo Berenguer (PP), and Deputy Mayor Julio Oca (Cs) to see for themselves the extent of repairs needed. The storm caused damage to the site’s fence, accesses and areas of stone and sand. “The urgent thing is to fix the damage in order to adequately preserve our heritage immediately, and to improve the security of the site,” said Francisco Pérez. The Department of Architecture of the Provincial Council allocates €80,000 each year for the conservation and improvement of this important site, which contains remains from prehistoric times to the Iberian and Roman periods. These grants cover maintenance costs, excavation and research.
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HANDOVER: Alcoy’s Chief Inspector of the National Police, Jesús Sánchez, presents the town’s Mayor, Toni Francés, with unearthed artefacts (inset).
In safe hands MORE than 80 artefacts from the Civil War have been handed over to Alcoy Town Hall by the town’s chief of National Police to mark the force’s 196th anniversary in Spain. The historic items were unearthed during conservation works at the old Rodes Hermanos Foundry in October 2018, during which the Explosive Ordnance Disposal and Defence Service, Tedax-NR-
BQ were called upon to ensure public safety. Representatives attended the handover. Mayor of Alcoy, Toni Francés, explained to Chief Inspector Jesús Sánchez, and everybody else present, that the artefacts will be exhibited in a 12,000 m2 technology park earmarked for the town. He added: “The people who work in the security forces in our town are people who work for others, es-
pecially in moments of emergency, when it is most needed. They help Alcoy recover after emergencies, and because of their work, we can all live more safely. “Alcoy is a town of more than 50,000 inhabitants that stands out as one of the safest municipalities, with low crime rates compared to other municipalities of its measure, both in the province of Alicante and in the rest of Spain.”
Replacing a lost or expired British passport from Spain WITH Brexit just around the cor ner, if you have less than six months life left on your passport it would be a good i d e a t o re n e w s o o n e r r a t h e r than later. Quite often when different official forms are digitalised, it becomes more rather than less confusing and you need to have a degree in programming in order to proceed. For once however, the British government has made things much easier and far less complicated in applying for a replacement passport if yours has been lost or is about to expire. No longer do you need to supply lots of forms including birth certificates and to have a photograph physically signed on the back by someone who knows you and it really is now quite easy if you have access to a computer. Very simply visit https://www.gov. uk/overseas-passports and you’re taken through the whole process step by step and the only drawback is that there isn’t a single page detailing everything including costs as you have to go through a page at a time. There is however a passports link which does give quite a lot of information on the website, but not everything. Even if you have lost or had your passport stolen, you are not precluded for applying online for a replacement, but you have to declare it lost in advance also online. As a real bonus you can now use digital photograph and there are quite explicit rules about what is acceptable as you navigate the website and whilst it may take a couple of attempts, provided you remove any glasses and stand in front of a
white background, a selfie taken with a phone will probably work ok. If you are not happy using a phone camera, then most towns have at least one print shop where they can photograph you and give you a digital image on a memory stick or card. As you progress through the procedure you will be best served by having access to details of your previous passport, but it isn’t actually essential and the site does report back to a human in the UK who can check. When you post your photograph, you will be asked to give details (including email address) of a person of standing who can confirm that they know you and that the photograph is of you. The whole process can take up to six weeks from start to finish and this will include delivery via courier to your address in Spain and you have to pay with a debit or credit card for the cost of the passport (depends upon number of pages) and courier fee at the time of submitting the application online. You will be sent a special code which will allow you to track your passport through all of its stages. In the event that you have lost your passport and need a temporary replacement, that can also be done online. It is more expensive than a normal passport, is usually good for one round trip only and will normally be issued by the British Consulate in Malaga. For those without computers, it is still possible to apply through the post and there are even different shops with English-speaking staff scattered around Spain where for a fee they will help you complete the forms and send them off for you.
This information is for guidance only, and should not be taken as legal advice. If in any doubt, seek professional help.
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CARLOS BAOS WE CAN HELP YOU THERE were many banks that when granting a mortgage loan made it a condition that borrowers take out a life insurance policy to cover the loan in-
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If your Bank would only give mortgage with life insurance It may be possible to cancel or obtain refund stalments in case of death. In a number of cases, such insurance was paid in full (in a single premium) at
the same time as the mortgage was signed with the insurance costs being paid from the mortgage loan. Although in principle it cannot be claimed that all of these linked insurances are abusive or illegal, the way in which it was marketed, its imposition and lack of information, could allow the clients to claim that it be declared null and void and ask for a refund of the money paid . Even the General Direction of Insurances in Spain, has pointed out that the imposition by insurers of a single premium insurance is inadequate and contrary to good practice and use in the private insurance sector. Some Spanish banks defend their position by say-
ing they are not responsible because they are not the insurance company issuing the contracts, but the truth is in many cases, the insurance companies either belong to the bank group or the bank acted as their agent or seller. The reasons why these contracts, or their cost, can be understood as abusive and non-transparent, is the information provided by the bank is very poor, didn’t advise clients of other insurance possibilities, didn’t give information about possible cancelation and no possibility of negotiation. In this sense Provincial Courts confirmed their opinions as shown below: - Judgement of the Provincial Court of
Ourense number 417/2019, the court understands that the expenses and conditions of the life insurance that is linked to the mortgage loan, do not appear in the binding offer, nor in the mortgage deed itself, nor are included in calculation of the total cost of the loan. - Judgement of the Provincial Court of Pontevedra, number 491/ 2019, indicates there was an absolute lack of information and the client could never negotiate the conditions, that were imposed by the entity, which also appeared as a policyholder and beneficiary. In addition, it imposed the need to pay a predetermined early single premium, without informing the
client of other options. Not all court precedents are unanimous however, since there are opinions, such as that of the Provincial Court of Albacete number 308/2019, which believes that the life insurance is an independent contract from the loan and payment of the single premium in advance, indicates proof of knowledge of the costs. If you were forced by your bank to take out a life insurance with your mortgage and wish to consider the possibility of cancelling it, contact our law firm, and we will help you. The information provided in this article is not intended to be legal advice, but conveys general legal information.
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SPORTING DESTINATION: Many sporting attractions are included in Benissa’s new Natursport 2020 campaign brochure launched last week (inset).
An active destination A GREAT climate, an abundance of green areas and Mediterranean waters make Benissa an ideal location for outdoor sports, and to make sure the town maximises its tourist potential, the council has launched its NaturSport campaign for 2020. The Tourism Department recognises that more and more holidaymakers are looking for a more active destination, and wants to be sure Benissa is up there with the best of them. During the launch of the campaign last week, councillor for Tourism, Jorge Ivars, said: “Current sedentary lifestyles, often linked to the lack of time to get involved in sport,
has made one of the main motivations when travelling, taking part in sporting activities. “As such we must attract visitors with a sustainable and environmentallyfriendly product, and make Benissa known for its wide range of open-air sports. “The good climate, the different space for practising sports, the Mediterranean waters, and the Bernia mountain range make our town a very competitive destination in this segment of the market.” Among the attractions offered in the Benissa Natursport information brochure are La Perimetral, the II Martxa Vila de Benissa Mountain Bike Tournament,
the Green Mile, the 23rd Cursa Vila de Benissa, the Vila de Benissa Valencian Dressage Tournament, the 19th Les Basetes CN Trophy, the IV La Marina de Ifach Tournament and the eighth President of the Valencian Community Trophy. Ivars added: “NaturSport gives Benissa a different approach to that which has been offered for some time now. We have a very interesting tourist product for sportspeople who want to enjoy an unbeatable natural area.” Mayor, Arturo Poquet, thanked all those who attended the launch and expressed “the willingness of the council to involve all the Benissa society in the tourism project of the municipality.”
A new chapter MORE book lovers loaned an array of titles from Cristobel Zaragoza Municipal Library in Villajoyosa last year compared to 2018. The library closed in 2019 with a 6.6 per cent increase in the number of items borrowed - 90 per cent of which were books, 6 per cent audiovisual items, 2 per cent sound or music, and the remaining 2 per cent either digital or electronic (CDS and DVDs). In addition, 46 inter-library loans were carried out.
In total, 48,309 visitors passed through the library doors, 40 per cent men and 40 per cent women, aged 14 or over, and 20 per cent boys and girls. During 2019, 307 new readers’ cards were issued, 58 per cent for adults and 42 per cent for children aged 13 and under. The facility saw in 2020 with 10,381 card holders - of whom 1,728 are active borrowers - which is 27.1 per cent up on the beginning of 2019.
EXCLUSIVE TECHNOLOGY: Can pinpoint your exact location if you break down.
GPS GEOLOCATOR INSTANT VEHICLE LOCATION Drivers don’t choose where to break down. In some cases, getting stranded on the side of a main motorway with nowhere safe to wait for help, can be a worrying experience. A speedy response to an emergency roadside assistance call is crucial and that’s why we’re proud of our GPS Geolocation technology. This exclusive addition to Línea Directa’s Roadside Assistance service means dispatchers can pinpoint the exact location of the vehicle and send the closest available driver to assist. MORE PEACE OF MIND There is nothing worse than being stranded with no indication of when help will arrive. With GPS Geolocation you can be assured that a recovery vehicle will reach you in record time, even if you don’t know your exact location. GPS Geolocation is included in all our car and motorbike insurance policies. It is simple and safe to use and there is
no extra cost for using this service. NEED ROADSIDE ASSISTANCE? If you need a tow, you’ve ran out of fuel, or you’ve had a flat tyre, then call our Emergency Roadside Assistance number on freephone 900 120 123. You’ll receive an SMS message on your mobile phone. Simply click on the link to access the Geolocator website to authorise Línea Directa to pinpoint your location via satellite. Once authorised, a breakdown recovery vehicle will be dispatched to meet you.
Then contact your insurance provider as soon as possible, even if you don’t plan to make a claim. If you would like some further advice on this matter, please call our English speaking customer service on 902 325 325.
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Benidorm goes to Cannes ANTENA 3’s Benidorm drama series is one of 12 chosen to participate in the MIPTV television trade fair in Cannes. Regarded as a global market for co-producing, buying, selling, financing and distributing entertainment content, the fair will be held from March 30 until April 2. It provides the TV, film, digital, production and distribution industry with a networking forum to discover future trends on a wide-reaching level, the organisers explained. Benidorm, which will be viewed by more than 400 executive buy-
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LOCATION: Shooting the Antena 3 series last November. ers from 100 countries, began filming on location last November and will have a prime time slot later this year.
As the name suggests, the resort itself is at the heart of the series which was shot entirely on location in Benidorm and
the Costa Blanca as well as some scenes in Durango (Vizcaya), the hometown of the series’ male lead.
Parking pretty nicely THE ORA Blue Zone parking app is allegedly turning Benidorm streets into low-cost car parks. “Thanks to this app, users can constantly extend the authorised parking period without needing to be in the area,” complained Raul Parra, president of Benidorm shopkeepers’ association Aico. “When a car owner had to go down and get another ticket when their time was up, they had to move their car,” he said.
Paid parking zones are introduced to ensure the rotation of vehicles and the concessionary company that runs the ORA states on its web page that the maximum parking time is limited to two hours, Parra pointed out. This condition is also included in local by-laws although in practice there are no controls to prevent continual renewals. Above all, the Blue Zone parking app’s attraction is its cheapness, compared with other options.
New logo on the move BENIDORM taxis will all bear the resort’s new logo on their doors. The design, an outline of the famous Benidorm skyline, will identify the local concessionaries, said Benidorm town hall’s Mobility councillor Jose Ramon Gonzalez de Zarate. Accompanied at the official presentation outside Benidorm Town Hall by Jose Antonio Gomez, president of Radio Taxi Benidorm, De Zarate explained that as well as the resort’s skyline, the logo includes the taxi’s licence number, making the vehicles easy to identify. De Zarate also announced that the skyline design is to be adopted as Benidorm’s official logo.
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Benidorm Town hall grant for Doble Amor BENIDORM Town Hall has signed a collaboration agreement with the Doble Amor occupational centre. The town hall made a first payment of €60,000 which will be used for workshops, maintenance and to provide transport for users of the centre who live in Benidorm. Fifty people with functional diversity from Benidorm and the Marina Baja attend the Doble Amor centre which includes an employment facility and a laundry that provides work for a further 50. The remainder of the town hall grant will be paid in May and June, guaranteeing that the centre’s costs will be covered this year.
Road works AVENIDA DE BILBAO closed temporarily for road works earlier this week. Paving is being replaced at the entrance to the street during the complete remodelling of the Avenida del Mediterraneo and if all goes according to schedule, the road should reopen to traffic on Saturday, February 22. During the days when Avenida de Bilbao is closed, this may be accessed only by residents of buildings on Avenida de Alcoy. Meanwhile, drivers wishing to enter the Old Town or the front line of the Levante beach must do so via Calle Dr Perez Llorca.
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VISIT: Murcia’s Tourism ehiefs at Benidorm’s Smart Office
Smart move by Murcia THE director of Murcia’s Tourism Institute (ITREM) Juan Francisco Martinez Carrasco recently visited Benidorm Town Hall’s Smart Office. Martinez Carrasco was accompanied by Belen Hidalgo Ferrer from ITREM’s Innovation Office who also wanted to learn more about the benefits of becoming a Smart Tourism Destination. Celia Romero, Benidorm’s Smart Office coordinator, and Leire Bilbao from the Visit Benidorm Foundation, showed the visitors how the Smart Office functions by exploring, connecting, validating and transferring data. This assists internal coordination and permits greater public-private sector collaboration.
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Albir - Alfaz NEWS Jobs and training combined THE town hall is currently working on a landscaping project at the Raco park in Albir. Work is carried out by the members of the Et Formem (We train you) employment and training programme for residents with difficulties in entering the jobs market or those belonging to vulnerable collectives. The 10 pupils who are pruning trees, clearing undergrowth or repairing deteriorated areas in the park previously attended a course at the Escola d’Ocupacio (Occupational school) between May and November last year where they qualified as Level 1 professional gardeners while receiving a basic wage. Thanks to a new region-
RACO PARK: Vicente Arques, second left, inspects pupils’ handiwork. al government grant, the town hall has been able to prolong the programme for a further year, enabling
Carnival with children in mind THE Children’s Carnival starts this Saturday, February 22 at 11am in the municipal marquee at the La Bolleta car park. This will be the starting point for a parade through the centre of Alfaz that marks the start of the celebrations which will continue until 3.30pm. The Jungle has been chosen as the theme for this year’s children’s Carnival organised by the town hall’s Youth and Fiestas departments in collaboration with the Penya Induccio the 2020 fiestas group and Alfaz’s Fourth Scout troop. At 11.30am, following the parade and back in the municipal marquee, there will be bouncy castles, a “mascleta” where 2,000 balloons will be released instead of fireworks and a variety of games and activities. Penya Induccio will also be running a bar with drinks and food at popular prices. “The more the merrier,” declared Fiestas councillor Laura Sevilla as she invited the town’s children and adults to take part. “There will be prizes for the best fancy-dress costumes, surprises, a great atmosphere and lots of fun,” she promised.
the participants to obtain Level 2 certificates. “We are trying to give pupils the chance to
have both working and social lives,” explained Alfaz’s mayor, Vicente Arques.
Something to talk about TWENTY people attended the first Conversation Club in an English session aimed at the 12-35 age group. The meetings are held at the multi-use room at the Hogar del Pensionista centre in Alfaz and are organised by the town hall’s Youth department. “We want these Conversation Club sessions to encourage a cultural exchange between the young people of many nationalities who live here,” explained Youth councillor Laura Sevila, who attended the first session led by Ricardo Barreno. As a recent town hall survey revealed, Alfaz has residents of 91 different nationali-
ties, while 56 per cent of Alfaz’s residents were born outside Spain. “This activity is entirely free and will help participants improve their fluency and communication skills in a relaxed and entertaining atmosphere,” Sevila said. The sessions are held between 7.30pm and 9.30pm every Tuesday at the Hogar de Pensionista. All Conversation Club vacancies are now occupied, although Alfaz’s Centro de Informacion Juvenil has opened a waiting list and is considering organising another group should enough people apply, Sevila said.
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THEATRE CYCLE: Vicente Arques announces this year’s cycle.
The play’s the thing ALFAZ hold the 18th edition of its Mostra de Teatre cycle of plays between March 10 and 29. During the closing gala on March 29, actor-singer Nancho Novo will receive the Pi d’Honor, a statuette of the pine tree that gives the town its full name of Alfaz del Pi. Novo joins outstanding Spanish actors and actresses who have received the award in the past, including household names Concha Velasco, Jose Sacristan and Jose
Luis Lopez Vazquez. Alfaz’s mayor Vicente Arques announced Nancho Novo’s award as he revealed the programme for this year’s play cycle. “We shall be enjoying the best amateur and professional acting around and this year for the first time there will be a free Theatre Workshop for young people,” added Culture councillor Manuel Casado who was also present. “This year’s Mostra will have a great deal of hu-
mour and an extraordinary bill that includes Lolita Flores, Kiti Manver, Antonio Hortelano and Magui Mira,” Casado added. All the per formances will take place at 9pm in the Auditorium at the Casa de Cultura. The Theatre Workshop for 13- to 16-year-olds will be held between March 9 and March 13 from 5pm until 7pm and will be given by the actress and drama teacher, Ana Pascual.
Making a game out of lessons ALICANTE Province primary and secondary school teachers recently attended a short course on videogames and ‘gamification’ in Alfaz. Organised by the Valencia region’s Information, Innovation and Educational Resources Centre (CEFIRE), the course promoted the transformation of education, using new technologies and the gamification of learning in Alicante schools. This educational approach motivates pupils to learn by using video game design and game elements in a learning en-
vironment, the teachers heard. The goal is to maximise enjoyment and engagement by encouraging pupils to continue learning. Ultimately it aims to reward the student in tasks where there is no incentive other than the learning itself. Alfaz’s Education councillor Dolores Albero thanked CEFIRE for organising the course and encouraged the teachers who had attended to continue the gamification project and make learning more interesting and motivational for their pupils.
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Altea NEWS Beaches get an early spring clean VOLUNTEERS collected 600 kilos of litter and rubbish from Altea’s beaches. They were assisted by Joan Piera, president of the Sierra Helada board of gover nors, Carles Grau, the park’s Environmental Education specialist, and Maria Sahuquillo from the regional government’s Environment department. The clean-up, which was organised by the Environment department and the Sierra Helada national park with collaboration from the Red Cross, commenced at 9.30am when 60 volunteers gathered at the market car park adjoining the River Algar. From here they moved on to the Cap Negret, La Olla and Campomanes beaches where they removed rubbish and debris that was washed up last month by Storm Gloria.
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CLEAN-UP: Volunteers on the La Olla beach. This was the second beachcleaning session, as volunteers have already cleared the shoreline from Cap Blanc on the Albir boundary to the Espigo beach which also suffered the effects of Storm Gloria. Environment councillor Jose Orozco drew particular atten-
tion to the number of children taking part in the cleanup. “This is very positive, as it is very important that they start taking part in activities like these from an early age so they learn to respect and look after the Environment,” Orozco said.
Food to warm you up THE Plat de Calent (Warming Food) gastronomic initiative returns to Altea tomorrow, Friday February 21. The town hall’s Commerce councillor Miguel de la Hoz announced that 16 establishments in Altea and Altea la Vieja are participating in this year’s edition which continues until March 1.
“More restaurants take part each year in this scheme that promotes local gastronomy with products sourced in the immediate area,” said De la Hoz as he thanked the restaurateurs involved. The 16 restaurants are offering menus that cost between €20 and €30 and reflect the Altea area’s classic winter dishes.
As in earlier editions, there will be prizes for participants who follow the Plat de Calent route, De la Hoz said. “There will be a draw for two €100 vouchers to spend in local establishments as well as wine from Borja Perez, organic products from Planeta Granel and a meal for two people at the winning restaurant,” the councillor announced. Diners will be able to vote for their favourite via the Gastroeventos app or forms available at the participating restaurants. The most popular restaurants will receive free promotion and publicity from Gastroeventos for one year while the winner will also receive advertising spots from Radio Altea.
Two dates for music lovers THE Beethoven Fest continues at Altea la Vieja’s Centro Cultural tomorrow Saturday, February 22 and on February 29. Tomorrow at 6pm, there is a piano recital Alexandre Lutz playing Bach’s Prelude and Fugue (BMV 883), Beethoven’s Appassionata Sonata, Schumann’s Piano Sonata, Opus 22, and Ondine by Ravel. The following Saturday at the Centro Cultural, the Sinfonietta Altea performs the Beethoven variations on La Ci Darem la Mano from Mozart’s Don Giovanni followed by Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony.
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Altea NEWS Something missing in the Old Town THE four bells at Altea’s Nuestra Señora del Consuelo parish church have been silenced until Easter. Parish priest Fr Jose Abellan explained that the deteriorated bells need restoring owing to the effects of the weather and, above all, to the salt in the sea breeze. The biggest, which weighs 835 kilos is cracked and must be recast, the priest said, while the other three are all affected by rust and need restoring. “We are hoping that they will be back in time for Easter,” Fr Abellan added.
BELLS REMOVED: Heavy machinery had to be called in. It took an entire morning to remove the bells with the help of a crane and specialists from a foundry in Torredonji-
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ALTEA Education department’s Feria Orienta’t takes place on February 27 and 28. The Education and Employment Orientation fair at the Centro Juvenil has been organised to help pupils in their last year of compulsory education and those carrying out baccalaureate studies or vocational training to decide the direction they wish to take now and in the future.
The two-day fair will be open between 8am and 2pm for students and from 6pm to 8pm for the general public. As well as the stands that will be handing out information, Orienta’t includes talks and activities for the students, but Education councillor Vicente Perez explained that the fair was open to all residents interested in learning more about local education and employment opportunities.
A well-conserved town CULTURE councillor Aurora Serrat accepted on behalf of Altea’s town hall an award recognising the municipality’s cultural and environmental heritage. The award, presented at the Beneficencia Palace in Valencia City, came from Archival, an organisation that promotes and encourages the recovery of the historic quarters belonging to Spain’s towns and cities. “The town hall and all of the local population have the common objective of ensuring that Altea is recognised for conserving its heritage and the environment,” Serrat said as she accepted the award, while stressing the contribution made by local groups and individuals.
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CALPE Town Hall has finally calculated that the total cost of the damage caused by Storm Gloria amounts to €2,782,720. Details of the destruction have now been sent to the Generalitat with a request for a 100 per cent grant to cover the cost of repairs. The town hall’s heftiest bills involved shoring up retaining walls, which cost €700,966, with €647,820 needed to replace damaged trees and vegetation, with another €638,955 for repairs to paving. Repairing or replacing seafront steps and ramps cost €376,548 while a further €243,132 was needed for demolitions. Repairing the harbour breakwater required €12,770 while replacing benches, foot showers and other equipment cost €162,525.
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AFTERMATH: Paving cost €638,955 to repair and replace.
CALPE Town Hall is repeating the treatment to eliminate processionary caterpillars. This is carried out each year in November, with additional fumigations in February, municipal sources explained. Although no processionaries have been seen so so far, the regional government’s Health department recommends taking extra measures in areas with pine trees. Especial care should be taken to prevent children and dogs from coming into contact with the caterpillars, the department said. Proessionary caterpillars are part of the Mediterranean eco-system and should not be regarded as a plague, despite the problems they can cause. This occurs when the caterpillars leave the pines trees and before they bury themselves in the ground to become chrysalides and then emerging as moths.
Red Cross agreement CALPE’S municipal corporation voted in favour of formalising the town’s ambulance a g re e m e n t w i t h t h e Red Cross on a temporary basis. The town hall termed
the agreement ‘unregulated,’ but councillors agreed that supplementing the regional government’s ambulance service was for the time being the only way of covering Calpe’s needs.
In an emergency, the Health system’s ambulances based in Denia and Benissa are insufficient, the town hall maintains. It is common to wait 30 minutes for them to arrive, Local Police reports reveal, and in April last year an 80-year-old resident died while waiting two hours for an ambulance. Calpe currently pays the Red Cross to provide extra help, although the regional government insists that this is not within the town hall’s remit. The Valencian Community’s Sindic de Greuges (Ombudsman) Angel Luna has now sent an official complaint to the Generalitat’s Health department asking for details of the Marina Alta’s ambulance service after receiving information regarding the lengthy and potentially dangerous delays suffered by Calpe.
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Healthy relationships on an equal footing CALPE Town Hall has organised workshops to promote equality amongst high school pupils and prevent gender violence. The Equality department explained that the workshops, which are attended by 797 pupils, set out to eliminate gender stereotypes, violent conduct, all types of sexual harassment and ‘micromachismos,’ the pervasive but subtle sexist strategies of male domination that continue to exist in day-to-day living. The workshops also deal with new
WORKSHOPS: Promoting equality amongst Calpe pupils.
Ex-mayor allegations
CALPE’S former mayor Cesar Sanchez claimed parliamentary immunity to avoid declaring before a Denia judge. As he is currently an MP for the Partido Popular in the national parliament, Sanchez cited his right to declare only to the Supreme court. He was cited to give evidence regarding investigations into a municipal employee’s allegations of workplace harassment, administrative malpractice and making a false official statement. The employee claims that in January 2019 when Sanchez was still Calpe’s mayor and also president of Alicante’s provincial council, the Diputacion, the remains of a deceased German resident, Wilhelm Klatt, were exhumed from
the local cemetery. Although the remains were entitled to occupy the niche until at least 2037, this was then used to inter a relative of the town hall’s Human Resources chief, Antonio Cabrera. When the municipal employee drew attention to the irregular exhumation, she claims that former councillor Bernardo Moll, also under investigation, threatened to make trouble for her and ‘send her to count seagulls.’ Moll went ahead and authorised the exhumation but later proclaimed his innocence, explaining that the niche was abandoned and under a modified bylaw, the town hall was permitted to remove Klatt’s remains.
Promises not kept THE Plataforma en Defensa de la Sanitat Publica (Defence of Public Healthcare Platform) has criticised failings in Marina Alta healthcare. Although the Plataforma’s principal concern was the lack of a second health centre for Denia, a
recent statement drew attention to the need to extend the Calpe centre. Marina Alta healthcare was outsourced to Marina Salud in 2009 and according to its contract, Denia’s second health centre and the Calpe extension should have been up and
running by 2010, the Plataforma claimed. “By failing to protect the interests of the populations of Denia and Calpe, both Marina Salud and the regional government’s Health department are causing great harm,” the Plataforma declared.
masculinity and femininity, the Equality department said. The discussions follow on from the town hall booklet - Calpe, por los Buenos Tratos - a guide that was published last year to help adolescents form healthy relationships free of gender violence. The booklet also deals with the myths erroneously associated with romantic love and their close links to gender violence, while advising on alternatives for building healthy relationships based on equality.
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until 1991 - the town hall. This year the Sala de Jurats will see activities ranging from lectures on literature and history, exhibitions, plays, live music, gastronomy and even fireworks. The town hall is also organising advertising campaigns that promote the Jurats building as another aspect of municipality tourism and heritage assets. HISTORIC BUILDING: Teulada’s Sala de Jurats i Justicies.
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TEULADA-MORAIRA’S Equality department and Miguel Hernandez University are organising a free course on Masculinity and Gender Relations throughout March. Included in Teulada-Moraira’s International Women’s Day programme, the course is financed by the State Agreement against Gender Violence and other government bodies. The course analyses how the masculine identity develops in different social areas during their lives. Opinions and stances regarding equality also come under scrutiny as well as their practices, fears and processes for handling change or conflict. The classes will be held on March 16, 18, 23, 25 and 30 between 4.30pm and 8.30pm at Espai la Senieta in Moraira. More information is available from the https://cultura.umh.es/es/cursosdhivern/ website.
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TRADERS at Teulada’s weekly open-air market on the Costa Blanca predicted that it could close within two years. Stalls and customers have diminished since the market was moved from Calle Alicante to Plaza de VI Centenari, they complained. Ironically, the easilyaccessed market with free parking nearby should attract more people, Manuel Muñoz told the local Spanish media. “I don’t understand why they don’t come,” said Manuel who sells hams, cured sausages and cheese. There are now only half the number of stalls and half the number of visitors, he explained, but added that there was a simple solution. “They should move us to Plaza del Ayuntamiento,” Manuel said. “But at this rate, the mercadillo could close within two years.” One stallholder who sells clothes said that only 10 stalls now sold cloth-
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THE town hall has put out to tender the contract for tables, chairs and portaloos needed during Teulada-Moraira’s various fiestas. The two-year contract worth €70,301 entails supplying, assembling and later removing the equipment or, in the case of the portable toilets, maintaining them during the fiestas. It would be the first time the town hall has outsourced this equipment in a bid to save time and money while guaranteeing transparency, Fiestas councillor Aitor Llobell explained. “Until now there have been individual contracts for each fiesta but every time equipment was hired, the Contracts departments requested a public contract similar to this one because of the considerable expense incurred by the end of the year,” Llobell said.
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Dwindling custom at Teulada market ing and textiles compared with 20 before the move. “Some stallholders
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Javea NEWS Amjasa plans for the future THE board of Amjasa, the publicly-owned company that supp l i e s J a v e a ’s w a t e r, voted unanimously to modify its statues. This will enable the company to take on new functions which include managing the town’s main drainage system. The company is meeting new challenges and increasing its volume of operations, explained Javea’s mayor Jose Chulvi who also heads the Amjasa board. “The town hall is currently preparing to take sewers out to the urbanisations and is drafting the regulations for
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BOARD MEETING: Amjasa voted to increase its members. their use,” Chulvi said. Amjasa is working on a project to reuse treated water for agricultural irrigation, he added, and collaborating on solving the problem of flooding in the Arenal and Saladar districts. The mayor also pointed out that the concession for the desalination plant expires in 2023 and it will be necessary to prepare for its future management. Owing to all these commitments, Amjasa intends to increase the
size of its board which, in proportion to its annual budget, could rise to 15 members. Chulvi emphasised Amjasa’s capacity to adapt to all the changes in regulations introduced in the past few years as well its ability to face the crisis and the post-crisis. “Results have been better than good without having to increase water tariffs by even one cent over the last 10 years,” the mayor declared.
THE Marina Alta Volta a Peu, a series of 10-kilometre races, begins in Javea this Sunday, February 23. The town hall’s Sports councillor, Alberto Tur, and Madelane Powell, president of the Llebeig Athletics Club, recently gave details of the race which this year sets out to be sustainable and environment-friendly. Activities linked to the Volta include an art exhibition using recycled plastic at the Casa de Tena and releasing a turtle, nursed back to health by the Fundacion Oceanografic, on Saturday February 22 at 11am at Arenal beach. Madelane Powell also revealed the race’s refreshment and feeding stations will offering Javea’s typical Coca Maria cake and oranges instead of industrial bakery. Water will be distributed in Tetrabrik or from reusable cups provided by Balearia and filled from fountains and carafes provided by Amjasa.
Starting again CONTRACTORS for the Avenida del Pla pavements were told to remove the flagstones and replace them with the promised material. When Isabel Bolufer, Javea’s Public Works councillor complained that what was installed did not correspond to the contract, the company claimed the original flagstones were unavailable and they had used an alternative of the same quality to avoid delays. The town hall replied that it wanted the original paving and insisted that the substitute was removed and replaced with the correct flagstones.
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MARIN E LIFE: Studies of Denia’s coastline and its wildlife are carried out every month.
SIGHTINGS: Three groups of Bottlenose dolphins sighted in Denia waters. THE first study of Denia’s coastline has been h a i l e d a g re a t s u c c e s s after three groups of Bottlenose dolphins were recorded in the waters. The entire area and the Cap de Sant Antoni marine reserve are analysed every
month, and the 2020 campaign began last week as a team of environmentalists took to the waters onboard the Denia coastguard vessel. During the conservation operation, samples of water are taken to see if any changes have occurred. At the same time, sightings of marine life,
cetaceans and fauna, are recorded and any plastics carelessly discarded are collected. A Denia Council spokesperson said: “This first outing has been a great success and has allowed us to record three groups of Bottlenose dolphins off our coast.
“Two of them, due to their behaviour, were probably feeding a few metres away from the coast of Denia. The third and biggest group was sailing quietly northwards, together with calves.” There were also numerous sightings of shearwaters and gannets.
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Getting all dressed up GET into the carnival spirit with Specsavers Opticas in Javea and Calpe by entering their fancy dress competition. The stores are joining the celebrations on Saturday, February 22, when the two towns will come to life with the carnival and its parades and events. To enter the Specsavers’ competition, simply visit either of the stores in fancy dress on the day, between 9.30am and 1.30pm, to pick up your goodie bag and 50 per discount voucher. You will then be entered into the competition to win a pair of designer glasses worth up to €229, or a pair of Polaroid sunglasses of your choice. There will also be prizes for the runners-up, and the winners will be announced on February 26. You can find the stores on Avenida del Pla 125 in Javea and in Avenida Ejércitos Españoles 6 in Calpe and the team are looking forward to seeing all your great costumes.
Hunting dog rescue THE Famous Dog Day Fundraiser, dedicated to raising awareness and funds to help support Tanamera Rescue, takes place in Benitachell on Sunday, March 17.
The amazing rescue facility based in Valencia, is not a dog pound, more a wellness centre which is open 24 hours, seven days a week, where the abused dogs can receive
the care they need and deserve. The centre is privately run by volunteers who rescue, rehome and rehabilitate ex-hunting dogs. The fundraising event will include a historical presentation (lecture and slideshow) about Spain’s history of dogs and its most famous canines in art history. There will also be a professional pet portrait photographer, a professional pet portrait painter plus other invited artists with gifts for sale and cake and coffee, with all proceeds going to the rescue centre. The event will take place at Benitachell Properties, which is at the main traffic lights on the corner opposite the banks. There is plenty of free parking all around the area. To find out more about Tanamera Rescue, visit: https://www.facebook.co m/tanamerarescue/
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JOE SENY: Will be providing entertainment at tomorrow night’s event.
English night AS part of a three-month gastro-multicultural event series, the Pro Arte Denia Association will present an English evening tomorrow, Friday, February 21, at Tucco’s Restaurant in the town. A typical English dinner, accompanied by the musical talents of Joe Seny, awaits guests from 8pm onwards. Tickets cost €20 and registration is recommended due to limited seating capacity. To find out more, call 653 398 526 / 610 265 986 or e-mail info@proartedenia.com.
Carnival time TWO days of carnival celebrations kick off in Villajoyosa tomorrow (Friday, February 21). A children’s parade starts the festivities at 5pm in Calle Colon at the Calle Pizarro crossroads. Accompanied by music from Els Valerios, they will head towards Barbera park where there will be a fiesta with music and bouncy castles. The town hall is also organising a children’s fiesta in the La Ermita neighbourhood as well as La Cala de Villajoyosa, both starting at 5pm. The Carnival’s second day on Saturday will be held in the Finca la Senyoreta de l’Hort at Villajoyosa’s Playa Centro. The morning starts with children’s games at Playa Centro, followed by a performance from Villajoyosa-born Pedro Sierra, and live music from local groups. Prizes of €250, €150 and €100 for the best fancy dress costumes will be announced during the fiesta where there will be a bar service with ‘montaditos’ and drinks at popular prices. This will remain open until 4am and from midnight onwards local DJs will be providing the music.
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CURRENTLY Belgium chairs the UN Security Council and King Philippe travelled to New York to address the Council on the problems of child soldiers and other children caught up in war sit uations before meeting with UN Secretary Gen eral António Guterres.
Bag ban BRUSSELS is taking things a step further in the fight against singleuse plastic bags with a com plete ban with effect from March 1 even if they are biosourced and can be composted at home.
The King and Queen with António Guterres.
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Mail bomb
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FOUR mail bombs were received by differ ent companies in Holland over a period of just two days. Three exploded and one was disarmed without casualties, but this is part of an extortion threat demanding bitcoins to stop the attacks.
ON Valentine’s Day, a lawsuit was filed against the Dutch State, demanding that the contraceptive pill be added to the basic health insurance package for everyone. It was removed in 2011 as the government said it wasn’t a medical necessity.
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FOLLOWING an explosion in an empty tattoo shop in Copenhagen, police were alerted to a call made to the advertising agency involved with SAS airline saying there was a bomb in the building. This turned out to be a hoax call.
CONTROVERSIAL film director Roman Polanski (86) who is wanted in the USA for allegedly having sex with a 13yearold has been nominated for 12 César Awards (French Oscars) for his latest film. French feminists groups will stage protests.
Divorce drop
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POSSIBLY because of a new law that requires cou ples with children to go through a threemonth re flection period, divorce figures in Denmark in 2019 dropped by 30 per cent to just 10,530 compared to 15,034 the previous year.
AS a special treat for art lovers, on the last three days of its Da Vinci exhibition, curators at the Lou vre will keep the doors open all night so that every one will have a chance to catch the display before it closes.
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THE German Parliament has agreed to put €77 million (which it expects France to match) into the first stage of developing a new Euro fighter jet which it expects to be the backbone of the Future Combat Air System (FCAS) with Spain.
A RESTAURANT in northern Germany was set fire to and had swastikas daubed on its walls in what appeared to be a racist attack as the own er although a local resident has a migrant back ground. €150,000 of damage was reportedly caused.
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IN Sweden it is illegal to photograph certain desig nated sites which may be of importance to nation al security and there is normally a sign in Swedish advising this. A 35yearold foreign national has been arrested for taking such a photograph.
NORWAY seems to have perfected the art of recy cling plastic bottles and whilst the EU target is 90 per cent by 2029, Norway with small cash incen tives and easy disposal is already recycling 97 per cent of its bottles
Sick text
47 Commando
POLICE in Värmland have alerted residents to the fact that an uncaring hoaxer is sending false text messages supposedly from the police advising that a close relative has died. They may be trying to scam money from grieving relatives.
UNITS of the British Royal Marines 47 Commando were in northern Norway on a training exercise with Norwegian troops as they practised how to storm shorelines on high speed amphibious raids in the fjords of the Arctic Circle.
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Facebook accepts tax
AS Britain and France succumb to pressure from the USA and post pone the introduction of new taxes for tech giants such as Amazon and Microsoft, Mark Zuckerberg owner of Facebook told a conference in Munich that he accepts that his company may have to pay more. He is in favour of plans for the Organisation for Economic Coop eration and Development to find a global solution and understood the frustration that many European countries experienced as compa nies like his paid low amounts of tax.
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THERE could be lawsuits worth mil lions of euros flying around Barcelona following the very late cancellation of one of the world’s largest mobile phone exhibitions apparently due to the Coronavirus. Two weeks ago it was reported that one of the largest stand holders at the World Mobile Congress, Sam sung of South Korea, had pulled out of the show in order to ensure that their staff were not exposed to po tential danger leaving a huge hole. Then as others started debating whether or not to continue to partici pate, the organisers GSMA which has
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offices all over the world, made a last minute decision to cancel the show completely blaming it on the inability of some companies to travel and blaming the decision on the Coron avirus. Now it is all about who will pay for the lost costs of all of the companies which were due to take part and whether there will be insurance to recompense them. Unfortunately for GSMA, not only will they lose the goodwill of cus tomers (many which are very rich), they may not be able to rely upon
‘force majeure’ as neither the World Health Organisation nor the Catalan government instructed them to can cel the show. One official commented that the action appeared to be because of fear of an outbreak, because at the time no individuals had been infected. In such a scenario, should the insur ance taken out by the stand holders (and those booked to speak at the WMC) not cover them, it seems most likely that they will seek redress from GSMA. Lawyers will already be gathering to give advice to all concerned.
AENA, the company which man ages airport facilities around the world and whose biggest share holder is the Spanish government has contracts to take over control at six Brazilian airports. The contract is believed to be worth €404 million to the compa ny and it has vowed to ensure that each site will be as energy efficient as possible with the in troduction of renewable sources, especially solar power. It has also pledged to spend €250 million to clean up and up grade the electric supply at the airports it manages in Spain.
LEGALLY SPEAKING
What is 3/5 Majority? Our AGM is coming up soon. I have just read your piece in the EWN and found it very infor mative but wondered if you could clarify your last sentence. ‘The majority must include the Quotas or Par ticipation Shares.’ What are they? M S (Costa Blanca) The Law of Horizontal Property notes that YOU AND THE a measure will be LAW IN SPAIN passed by ‘A majori ty of owners who at the same time represent the majority of property shares.’ This concept of ‘double majority’ needs explanation. Each owner has one vote as an owner of a property. He also has another vote, which is weighted according to his share in the total property. This is your quota. For example, if there are 100 flats all the same size, each owner will have a par ticipation share of 1 per cent. This percentage determines your community fee. Problems can arise when one owner has a very large property and so he has a large participation share. His vote counts for more. In communities with flats of various sizes and thus various quotas, the picture gets more complicated. I hope this clears up the issue.
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.
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Inflation up THE consumer price index (CPI) which indicates the rate of inflation in Spain was up to 1.1 per cent in January according to the National Institute of Statistics (INE), its highest level in nine months. Increased fuel charges are the main contributors.
In a hole JCB the British manufacturer of industrial diggers and vehicles is facing an unexpected problem which means that it has banned overtime and cut back working hours as supply of components from China has reduced due to Coronavirus causing factory closures.
New name AFTER 300 years, Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) one of the major casualties of the banking crisis is to change its name to Nat West Group now that it has returned to profit and paid the government £400 (€480) million dividend.
Eurozone sees decline ALTHOUGH Spain has not suffered the reduction in development that other prominent members of the eurozone have experi enced, there is an overall drop in the economic
growth of the 19 countries which use the euro. Leading the way down in the final three months of 2019 is Italy with a 0.3 per cent drop, followed by France at 0.1 per cent and
previous industrial power house Germany which had no growth at all. It is now likely that the European Central Bank will have to increase assistance to fuel expansion.
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Sustainable fresh fish WITH more than 340 fresh fish counters in its stores, Spanish supermarket chain, Eroski, has to purchase large amounts of all types of fish on an annual basis. Wherever possible it obtains sus tainable products and has just an nounced that in 2019 it purchased 3,144 tons of fish which was certi fied by one or other of the recog nised authorities. According to the supermarket, more than 1,800 tons were certi fied as coming from sustainable grounds by the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) and a further 800 tons were approved by GLOBALG.AP with their GGN seal. Eroski claims that it is the first
DUE to fears over the outcome of Brexit, another Gibraltar based company is moving out to find what it hopes will be safer shores in other European Union States. This time it’s the Gibraltar Blockchain Exchange which changed the first word in its
SUPERMARKET FISH: Fresh and sustainable catch.
Brexit fall out
name and will become registered in Estonia, giving up its licence in Gibraltar and will then be regulated in that country. The founder of the company is however keeping the headquarters of GBX on the Rock and will continue to employ 30 staff there.
supermarket in Spain to receive sustainability confirmation from MSC and GLOBALG.AP. The company says that it is com mitted to satisfy its increasingly en vironmentally aware band of cus tomers and that it is doing all it can to provide fish which will be re placed and therefore not causing decimation amongst the various species on offer. To add to its total, it confirmed that it had also stocked some 300 tons of fish of 50 species which had been caught using cane fishing poles rather than any other less ac ceptable means. Finally, the fresh tuna that it of fered was approved by the Atún de Pesca Responsible division of AENOR another Spanish organisa tion which is involved in managing standardisation and certification in a range of different industries in cluding fishing. Clearly not all the supermarket’s fish product is certified sustainable, but it guarantees that if any fresh fish item carries the ecolabel then it will have been recorded as com ing from a sustainable source.
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BUSINESS EXTRA Blockchain BARCELONA FC has joined West Ham and Juventus by entering into an agreement with the Spanish blockchain platform Socios allowing fans around the world to purchase Barça Tokens, which can then be used to vote in polls.
Unlawful TESCO has come under fire from the Competition and Markets Authority for ignoring, in a small number of cases, a 2010 law which stopped companies from entering into exclusivity agreements with landlords in order to prevent competitors from opening nearby.
In detention THE former head of Mexican oil company Pemex has been detained in Marbella whilst the High Court in Madrid decides whether to grant an extradition order requested by the Mexican government which accuses him of corruption and money laundering.
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LEAPY LEE SAYS IT OTHERS THINK IT SOMETHING really has to be done about these ludicrous ‘human rights.’ To be honest I don’t even know what the term actually means. And there of course lies the true problem. The more obscure and complicated any point of law can actually be, the more the money grabbing lawyers can exploit them - which of course make them the last people on earth who would want them clarified. In fact, complexity and confusion in matters of law, is like money in the bank for this unscrupulous bunch of legal parasites. This latest fiasco once again brought the whole disgraceful debacle on to the front pages. Last week 42 Jamaican nationals were due to be deported after being convicted of offences ranging from manslaughter and firearms to rape and drugs. Lawyers (who else) stepped in and said that a large number of them shouldn’t be deported because their ‘uman rites’ had been denied.
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There lies the problem
HUMAN RIGHTS: To be honest, I don’t even know what the term actually means. How? Wait for it. They hadn’t been able to get a signal on their mobile phones to ring their - yes you’ve guessed it - lawyers! The legal Mafia, no doubt riding high on tax payers’ money; subsequently presented their case and the judge agreed. Because of the mobile phone fiasco, 25 of these toe rags couldn’t be kicked out. No doubt these numbskulls couldn’t get their heads around a landline!
The thing that once more emerges from the actions of these legalised con merchants is they yet again find themselves in a win win situation. The lawyers of course never lose. Well it’s about time they were curbed. From their persecution of our brave servicemen, to getting murderers and rapists released back on the streets, these people are not interested in justice, all they are interested in are their
own self-centered ends - and the human rights laws are a licence for them to print (tax payers’) money. Well I think that these ‘rights’ should be resolved during the trial. Judges, in the sentencing of those who have totally ignored the human rights of their victims, should have the power to decree human rights ‘denied’ or ‘minimal’ human rights. Lawyers receiving legal aid remuneration from the public purse
should have their fees capped at a reasonable level. Weed out the ambulance chasers and those without any moral conscience whatsoever and their illgotten gains could be put toward the branches of law and order that put the law abiding public first. Not as a means for lawyers to buy another villa in the south of France. It’s all about money isn’t it? The Saudis have the means, the space and the money, to lay a temporary airfield right next to those poor suffering Kurdish civilian refugees. They could easily build a vast tented camp in their country and fly every one of their innocent fellow Sunnis out in a month. But they won’t will they? This spoiled bunch of utter wasters would rather bribe and blackmail the West to totally leave them out of the whole refugee crisis altogether. Money over morals. Never ends does it. Keep the faith • Love Leapy leapylee2002@gmail.com
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GOOP ACCUSED OF PEDDLING FAKE NEWS 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
IN a recent speech, NHS boss Sir Simon Stevens hit out at ‘quacks, charlatans and cranks’ who spread fake news about health on social media including Gwyneth Paltrow’s lifestyle brand Goop for selling products with no proven health benefits. It has always surprised me that actors or actresses who have become celebrities for basically reading and performing the lines and instructions of screenplay writers and directors are given such a seal of approval for their opinions on topics completely unrelated to their sphere of activity. Generally speaking, you’d need to justify your views on any subject by demonstrating your qualifications, experience or abilities applicable to the subject matter. They seem to have been given a platform to speak from that goes
GOOP: No proven health benefits.
way beyond their qualifications, knowledge or expertise. As for products such as Goop’s, they’re based on a motley combination of three eternal myths: they promise ‘The Fountain of Youth’; they’re ‘The Panacea for Everything’ or they contain ‘Mystery Ingredient X.’ Often backed up by scientific-sounding words (‘Lab’ in this case), or anecdotal plugs. But why is this ‘quackery’ (in Sir Simon’s own words) even allowed to boom in the modern era? People are so gullible, easily taken in by superstars who are the only winners making millions out of such unproven nonsense. Naturally, fake news thrives while evidence is tossed aside as irrelevant. What would happen if NHS
doctors rejected evidence-based medicine and turned to such unsubstantiated practices? They’d be rightly struck off, certainly not filling their coffers with their spoils. Trump and Paltrow are effectively doing the same thing. They’re offering hope and fulfilment to the ill-informed and those in despair through simple solutions that are patently not evidence based. However, on a positive note, I’m sorry that Sir Simon failed to acknowledge the health benefits that this silly woman has brought by adding to the joy of the nation at her antics. “Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former.” Albert Einstein. Nuff said. Nora Johnson’s psychological crime thrillers ‘Betrayal,’ ‘The Girl in the Woods,’ ‘The Girl in the Red Dress,’ ‘No Way Back,’ ‘Landscape of Lies,’ ‘Retribution,’ ‘Soul Stealer,’ ‘The De Clerambault Code’ (www.nora-johnson.net) available online as ebook (€0.99;£0.99), ibook, paperback and audiobook. All profits to Costa del Sol Cudeca cancer charity.
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BARRY DUKE FOR three days I agonised over whether to make a call that would end a life of a cherished companion. But on February 7, I finally seized the phone and called our vet to ask her to euthanise Bijou, a Patterdale terrier that we acquired along with his lifelong companion - a mini-Pinscher called Fifi - from a rescue home about nine years ago. We reckoned that Bijou was about seven when we made the decision to adopt, so it was hardly surprising that he started showing signs of old age towards the end of last year. His main problem was arthritis. When he began howling in pain, I called mobile vet Natalia Diaz Tejon and she prescribed medication that helped alleviate the symptoms. But at the beginning of the year, he became unsteady on his legs and very disorientated. When he lost control of his blad-
Heart-breaking: The final farewell
CHERISHED COMPANIONS: We let our pets die with dignity. der, I knew the time had come to say farewell, and on February 10 Natalia arrived with her killing kit and Bijou went to sleep in my arms. Did I weep? Of course. But the
real sorrow that I expressed on Facebook when I reported on Bijou’s death was that it was utterly shameful that we can let out pets die with dignity, but are denied the same right to help hu-
man lives that are no longer worth living. Two years later I was elated to read that Spain is well on track to legalising euthanasia and assisted suicide. A law may be passed by the coalition government as soon as June. There’s been a lot of whinging, as one would expect, from the Catholic Church, but mercifully Spain no longer tolerates religious interference in its political and social affairs. Moreover, a survey in 2017 showed 84 percent of Spaniards support euthanasia. On a personal note, while I was still in the UK, I vigorously campaigned for voluntary euthanasia as well as for the decriminalisation of drugs. But despite the fact that more than 90 per cent of the UK’s population believe assisted dying should be legalised for those suffering from terminal illnesses, mainly religious opposition has seen seen every effort to in-
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troduce euthanasia rejected out of hand by successive governments. One of the most vociferous opponents of euthanasia is devout Catholic Lord Alton of Liverpool, who in 2014, uttered this claptrap when he addressed the Oxford Union: ‘Euthanasia diminishes the dignity and humanity of the sick and elderly and diminishes those of us who condone it.’ No, you imbecile, it does not. When I posted his words on my Freethinker website, a woman commented: ‘Only someone who has never seen someone die of a terminal disease could say something so breathtakingly cruel. It does not surprise me that someone with that attitude would be a forced-birther.’ The ‘forced birther’ remark was prompted by the fact that David Alton is also a fanatical anti-abortionist, and wants Gibraltar to retain its current law that can see a woman jailed for life for terminating a pregnancy. Compassion, bodily autonomy and dignity are concepts completely alien to religious fanatics like Alton, and it’s high time they were hounded out of all positions of influence.
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7:00am Classic Coronation Street 7:25am Classic Coronation Street 7:50am Classic Emmerdale 8:20am Classic Emmerdale 8:50am Heartbeat 9:50am The Darling Buds of May 10:55am That's My Boy 11:25am Inspector Morse 1:40pm Heartbeat 2:45pm Classic Emmerdale 3:15pm Classic Emmerdale 3:50pm Classic Coronation Street 4:20pm Classic Coronation Street 4:55pm Midsomer Murders 6:55pm Heartbeat 8:00pm Agatha Christie's Poirot 9:00pm Lewis 11:00pm Wild Bill 12:00am Inspector Morse 2:20am Inspector Morse 4:20am ITV3 Nightscreen Text-based information service. 4:30am Teleshopping
Beyond 100 Days BBC News teams in Washington DC and London report on the events that are shaping the world. 8:30pm The Pennine Way 9:00pm Walt Disney 10:00pm Inside Chernobyl's Mega Tomb 11:00pm The Ruth Ellis Files: A Very British Crime Story 12:00am How We Built Britain 1:00am Don Mccullin: Looking for England 2:00am The Silk Road Sam Willis travels through Central Asia. 3:00am Mars Uncovered: Ancient God of War 4:00am Inside Chernobyl's Mega Tomb
9:10am 10:10am 10:40am 11:10am 12:05pm 1:00pm 1:05pm 2:05pm 3:10pm 4:00pm 5:00pm 6:00pm 7:00pm 7:30pm 8:00pm 9:00pm 10:00pm 11:00pm 12:05am 1:10am 2:05am
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Everybody Loves Raymond Frasier Frasier Undercover Boss Canada Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares USA Channel 4 News Find it, Fix it, Flog it Posh Pawn Countdown A Place in the Sun A New Life in the Sun Couples Come Dine with Me The Simpsons Hollyoaks Channel 4 News The Secret Life of the Zoo Hunted First Dates 24 Hours in A&E Sex Tape Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares USA
The Protectors Quincy, M.E. Kojak The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes Minder The Professionals The Sweeney Quincy, M.E. Kojak The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes Minder The Professionals The Sweeney The Chase Celebrity Special Britain's Busiest Airport - Heathrow Britain's Busiest Airport - Heathrow The Outlaw Josey Wales FYI Daily The Outlaw Josey Wales Training Day FYI Daily Training Day The Protectors ITV4 Nightscreen Teleshopping
9:55am 10:10am 10:15am 12:15pm 1:10pm 1:15pm 2:10pm 2:15pm 2:45pm 3:15pm 5:00pm 5:30pm 6:00pm 6:30pm 7:00pm 7:30pm 8:00pm 9:00pm 10:00pm 11:00pm 12:05am
Ben and Holly's Little Kingdom Sunny Bunnies Jeremy Vine Paddington Station 24/7 5 News Lunchtime GPs: Behind Closed Doors Access Home and Away Neighbours Sinister Seduction Friends Friends 5 News at 5 Neighbours Home and Away 5 News Tonight Tony Robinson: Coast to Coast Bargain Loving Brits in the Sun Hoarders Addicted to Food: Breaking the Cycle Curvy Girls: Stripped Bare
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Daughter of the Wolf 8:35am Charlie's Angels 10:30am Deep Impact 12:40pm Aquaman 3:05pm Captain Marvel 5:15pm The Desert Rats 6:50pm Deep Impact 9:00pm Aquaman 11:30pm Captain Marvel 1:45am The Equalizer 2 4:00am Final Score
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The Family Stone Life of the Party Problem Child Sometimes Always Never 12:50pm Benchwarmers 2: Breaking Balls 2:25pm An Actor Prepares 4:05pm The Ladykillers 6:00pm We're the Millers 8:00pm Sometimes Always Never 9:40pm Dolittle: Special 10:00pm Life of the Party 11:50pm Last Vegas 1:40am Hot Tub Time Machine
9:00am 10:00am 10:30am 11:00am 11:30am 12:00pm 12:30pm 1:00pm 1:30pm 2:00pm 2:30pm 3:00pm 3:30pm 4:00pm 4:30pm 5:00pm 5:30pm 6:00pm 6:30pm 7:00pm 7:30pm 8:00pm 8:30pm 9:00pm 9:30pm 10:00pm 11:00pm 12:30am
Baby Daddy Mike & Molly Mike & Molly The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory The Goldbergs The Goldbergs Brooklyn Nine-Nine Brooklyn Nine-Nine The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory Baby Daddy Baby Daddy Mike & Molly Mike & Molly The Goldbergs The Goldbergs Brooklyn Nine-Nine Brooklyn Nine-Nine The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory Hollyoaks Man with a Plan The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory Celebrity Gogglebox Gogglebox The Big Bang Theory
6:30am The Hurricane Heist: The Eye of the Storm 7:00am We Have Always Lived in the Castle 8:45am The Top Ten Show 9:00am The Princess and the Dragon 10:30am Toy Story 4 12:25pm The Hummingbird Project 2:30pm Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile: Special A look at the biopic of serial killer Ted Bundy, starring Zac Efron and Lily Collins. 3:00pm I Trapped the Devil 4:40pm We Have Always Lived in the Castle 6:30pm The Princess and the Dragon 8:00pm Toy Story 4 10:00pm The Hummingbird Project 12:00am I Trapped the Devil 1:40am Pimp 3:25am Sunset
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Sky Sports News Good Morning Sports Fans Bitesize Good Morning Sports Fans Bitesize Good Morning Sports Fans Good Morning Sports Fans Good Morning Sports Fans Match Centre Match Centre Sky Sports News World Golf Championships Sky Sports News Sky Sports News Sky Sports News Live World Golf Championships Live Premier League Darts Live World Golf Championships Live Test Cricket
3:00pm EFL Highlights 4:00pm Football's Greatest Players 4:30pm Football Countdowns 5:30pm EFL Highlights 6:30pm EFL Greatest Games 6:45pm SPFL Greatest Games 7:00pm Championship Season Review 8:00pm Checkatrade Trophy Football 8:30pm EFL Championship Highlights 8:45pm EFL Championship Highlights 9:00pm Checkatrade Trophy Football 9:30pm Checkatrade Trophy Football 10:00pm EFL Championship Highlights 10:45pm EFL Championship Highlights 11:00pm SPFL Greatest Games 11:15pm SPFL Greatest Games 11:30pm Checkatrade Trophy Football 12:00am The Fantasy Football Club
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The Check-in Scan app was present at Fitur 2020, the second time in as many years it has been present at the event, with its own stand in the Business and Technology Pavilion Check-in Scan, the most downloaded application for checking in guests at tourism establishments, was again present at the Madrid international tourism show in January, following the success of its appearance at the previous edition of the event. Once more, it held demonstrations of the app to any interested parties who approached its stand. THE impact and recognition bestowed by Fitur are clear to see: internationally, it is considered one of the most important events in the tourism sector in Spain. This year, there has been a special focus on the theme of ‘tourism of the future.’ When we think of the future, one cannot help but think of the new technologies that streamline management and provide security. As at the time of this new edition of the event, the application had seen a 145 per cent increase in downloads compared with the previous year. There was also an increase in the number of visitors to its stand, with a number of visits this year from clients to praise the work of the team. Curiously, we mention the visit of users who have attended the event exclusively to meet with the Check-in Scan team. We also emphasise the support provided by the Mijas City Council for the start-up with its registered office in Mijas, Malaga. The mayor and part of the governance team visited the stand with the local press. Benjamin Smith, the CEO of Check-in Scan, states that there has been “an increase of 27 per cent in the number of potential clients compared with the previous edition. The increase in awareness of the need to comply with legal regulations has been palpable. The aim of Check-in Scan is to enable them to comply with these regulations and help them avoid the headache that this presents,” he continues. “We have received a number of visits from users who already knew us or who had received recommendations.
Specifically, one person at the event told us that he had been told very good things about us from different sources and that when references are good from a number of sources, that is a sign of a good system, so he decided to visit us,” says Rocío Rodríguez, the head of Marketing at Check-in Scan. “It is very good to see first-hand the fruits of the business at this type of event.” For Check-in Scan, Fitur is an event not to be missed at which each year it provides information about new developments and demonstrates how the application operates. The application is intuitive and easy to use. Only three steps are required when the guest arrives: scan the national ID or passport of the guest, have the guest sign on the screen of the mobile and automatically send the details to the police. By following this procedure, the establishment will comply with law in a secure manner and reduce processing times by 90 per cent. Equipped with the best security and data privacy technology, it also has other functions for all types of procedures: it can pre-check-in guests to anticipate details, allow guests to check themselves in, import reservations from PMS via the iCal system, and so much more. Hotel, guesthouse, hostel, campsite, holiday let and rural accommodation managers only need a mobile handset onto which to download the application, which is available from Google Play and Apple Store. With the app, they will be able to check-in their guests in total freedom and comfort.
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2:30pm BBC London News; Weather 2:45pm Doctors 3:15pm Shakespeare and Hathaway - Private Investigators 4:00pm Escape to the Country 4:45pm The Farmers' Country Showdown 5:30pm Antiques Road Trip 6:15pm Pointless 7:00pm BBC News at Six; Weather 7:30pm BBC London News; Weather 8:00pm The One Show 8:30pm Garden Rescue 9:00pm A Question of Sport 9:30pm EastEnders 10:00pm Would I Lie to You? 10:30pm Bumps 11:00pm BBC News at Ten 11:25pm Regional News and Weather 11:30pm Weather 11:35pm The Graham Norton Show 12:25am RuPaul's Drag Race UK
7:30am Wanted Down Under Revisited 8:15am Flog It! 9:00am Winterwatch 2019 10:00am BBC News at 9 11:00am Victoria Derbyshire 12:00pm BBC Newsroom Live 2:00pm Walks of Life 3:00pm World's Sneakiest Animals 4:00pm Red Rock 4:45pm Full Steam Ahead 5:45pm Blue Planet UK 6:15pm Flog It! 7:00pm Richard Osman's House of Games 7:30pm Great Asian Railway Journeys 8:00pm Saving Lives at Sea 8:30pm Celebrity Antiques Road Trip 9:30pm Our Coast 10:30pm QI 11:00pm Frankie Boyle's Tour of Scotland 11:30pm Newsnight 12:00am Weather 12:05am Front Row Late 12:45am In the Heat of the Night
8:00pm World News Today 8:30pm Top of the Pops: 1989 9:00pm Sings Disney Songs 10:00pm Top of the Pops: 1989 10:30pm Rock Island Line: The Song That Made Britain Rock 11:30pm Chas and Dave: Last Orders 12:25am What Ever Happened to Rock 'n' Roll? 1:25am Rock 'n' Roll Britannia 2:25am Arena Portrait of the rock musician, following her shopping for clothes in Paris, hanging out with Sandra Bernhard in New York, spending time in London and taking a special trip back to her home town of Akron, Ohio. 4:00am Rock Island Line: The Song That Made Britain Rock
8:20am King of Queens 8:45am King of Queens 9:10am Everybody Loves Raymond 9:40am Everybody Loves Raymond 10:10am Frasier 10:40am Frasier 11:10am Undercover Boss Canada 12:05pm Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares USA 1:00pm Channel 4 News 1:05pm Find it, Fix it, Flog it 2:05pm Posh Pawn 3:10pm Countdown 4:00pm A Place in the Sun 5:00pm A New Life in the Sun 6:00pm Couples Come Dine with Me 7:00pm The Simpsons 7:30pm Hollyoaks 8:00pm Channel 4 News 9:00pm Jamie and Jimmy's Friday Night Feast 10:00pm Gogglebox 11:00pm The Last Leg 12:05am The Big Narstie Show
4:25am ITV Nightscreen 6:05am Judge Rinder 7:00am Good Morning Britain 10:00am Lorraine 11:00am This Morning 1:30pm Loose Women 2:30pm ITV Lunchtime News 2:55pm ITV News London 3:00pm Judge Rinder 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 9:30pm Vera 11:20pm ITV News at Ten and Weather 11:50pm ITV News London 12:05am England Rugby: Rising Sons 1:15am Wilder V Fury I: Full Fight Replay 2:10am Ideal World 4:00am Who's Doing the Dishes? 4:50am ITV Nightscreen
7:00am Teleshopping 8:00am The Ellen DeGeneres Show 8:50am Emmerdale 9:20am Emmerdale 9:50am You've Been Framed! 10:20am Superstore 10:45am Superstore 11:15am Dinner Date 12:15pm Dress to Impress 1:15pm Emmerdale 1:45pm Emmerdale 2:15pm You've Been Framed! 2:50pm The Ellen DeGeneres Show 3:45pm Dinner Date 4:50pm Dress to Impress 5:50pm Take Me Out 7:00pm You've Been Framed! 8:00pm You've Been Framed! 9:00pm Two and a Half Men 9:30pm Two and a Half Men 10:00pm Love Island 11:05pm Family Guy 11:35pm Family Guy 12:05am Family Guy
7:00am Classic Coronation Street 7:25am Classic Coronation Street 7:55am Classic Emmerdale 8:25am Classic Emmerdale 8:55am Heartbeat 10:00am The Darling Buds of May 11:05am That's My Boy 11:40am Lewis 1:40pm Heartbeat 2:45pm Classic Emmerdale 3:15pm Classic Emmerdale 3:50pm Classic Coronation Street 4:20pm Classic Coronation Street 4:55pm Midsomer Murders 6:55pm Heartbeat 8:00pm Agatha Christie's Poirot 9:00pm Doc Martin 10:00pm Doc Martin 11:05pm Wild Bill
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Teleshopping The Protectors Quincy, M.E. Kojak The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes Minder The Professionals The Sweeney Quincy, M.E. Kojak The Saint Minder The Professionals The Sweeney The Chase Celebrity Special Bradley Walsh returns with the celebrity version of the team quiz show. From Russia with Love FYI Daily Latest news from the world of entertainment. From Russia with Love
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FRIDAY TV
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Floogals Becca's Bunch Little Princess Ben and Holly's Little Kingdom Sunny Bunnies Jeremy Vine Paddington Station 24/7 5 News Lunchtime GPs: Behind Closed Doors Access Home and Away Neighbours Maniac Mom Friends Friends 5 News at 5 Neighbours Home and Away 5 News Tonight Tony Robinson: Coast to Coast The Yorkshire Steam Railway: All Aboard Britain by Barge The Comeback of Ant McPartlin Basic Instinct
10:00am 10:30am 11:00am 11:30am 12:00pm 12:30pm 1:00pm 1:30pm 2:00pm 2:30pm 3:00pm 3:30pm 4:00pm 4:30pm 5:00pm 5:30pm 6:00pm 6:30pm 7:00pm 7:30pm 8:00pm 8:30pm 9:00pm 9:30pm 10:00pm 12:00am 12:30am 12:50am 1:05am 1:35am
Mike & Molly Mike & Molly The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory The Goldbergs The Goldbergs Brooklyn Nine-Nine Brooklyn Nine-Nine The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory Baby Daddy Baby Daddy Mike & Molly Mike & Molly The Goldbergs The Goldbergs Brooklyn Nine-Nine Brooklyn Nine-Nine The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory Hollyoaks Man with a Plan The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory Bad Neighbours 2 Rick and Morty Mr Pickles Robot Chicken Rick and Morty The Big Bang Theory
Live Test Cricket Live Super Rugby Crusaders v Highlanders (Kickoff 6.05am). 9:00am Live Women's ICC World T20 Cricket Australia v India. Coverage of the opening Group A match from Sydney Showground Stadium. 12:30pm Football Centre 1:00pm Football Centre 2:00pm Football Centre 3:00pm Football Centre 4:00pm Football Centre 5:00pm Live International T20 Cricket South Africa v Australia. 8:30pm Live EFL Derby County v Fulham (Kick-off 7.45pm). Coverage of the Championship clash from Pride Park. 11:30pm Live Test Cricket New Zealand v India.
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Hotel Artemis Oblivion Shazam! Avengers: Endgame Oblivion Hotel Artemis Shazam! Avengers: Endgame The Punisher Punisher: War Zone
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The Top Ten Show 1917: Special The Princess and the Dragon The Hummingbird Project Toy Story 4 The Curse of La Llorona I Trapped the Devil The Princess and the Dragon The Hummingbird Project Toy Story 4 The Curse of La Llorona I Trapped the Devil We Have Always Lived in the Castle Pimp Dolittle: Special A look at the new Robert Downey Jr movie, directed by Stephen Gaghan. Sunset
12:30pm Football's Greatest Players 1:00pm Football Countdowns 1:30pm Football Years 2:00pm EFL Greatest Games 2:15pm EFL Greatest Games 2:30pm SPFL Greatest Games 2:45pm The Fantasy Football Club 3:00pm EFL Highlights 4:00pm Football's Greatest Players 4:30pm Football Countdowns 5:00pm Football Years 5:30pm EFL Highlights 6:30pm EFL Greatest Games 6:45pm SPFL Greatest Games 7:00pm Football's Greatest Players 7:30pm Football Countdowns 8:00pm Live EFL 11:30pm EFL Greatest Games 11:45pm EFL Greatest Games 12:00am EFL Highlights
10:10am 10:15am 12:15pm 1:10pm 1:15pm 2:10pm 2:15pm 2:45pm 3:15pm 5:00pm 5:30pm 6:00pm 6:30pm 7:00pm 7:30pm 8:00pm 9:00pm 10:00pm 11:20pm
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Humor Me My Cousin Vinny Eaten by Lions Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby 2:50pm Stuck on You 4:50pm The Pacifier 6:30pm Holmes & Watson 8:05pm The Other Guys 10:00pm Zoolander 11:40pm Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy
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7:00am Breakfast 11:00amSaturday Kitchen Live 12:30pm Lose Weight and Get Fit with Tom Kerridge 1:00pm Football Focus 2:00pm BBC News 2:10pm Weather 2:15pm Bargain Hunt 2:55pm Garden Rescue 3:40pm Britain's Best Home Cook 4:40pm BBC News 4:50pm BBC London News 4:55pm Weather 5:00pm Live Six Nations Rugby Union 8:05pm The Greatest Dancer 9:30pm Pointless Celebrities 10:20pm Casualty 11:10pm BBC News 11:25pm Weather 11:30pm Match of the Day 12:50amAt Any Price 2:30am Weather for the Week Ahead
7:45am Wild & Weird 8:00am The Dog Ate My Homework 8:30am The Dengineers 9:00am Blue Peter 9:30am Deadly 60 10:00am Tomorrow's Food 11:00am Full Steam Ahead 12:00pm Our Coast 1:00pm The Hairy Bikers' Comfort Food 1:45pm Best Bakes Ever 2:30pm Wild Brazil 3:30pm Flatpack Empire 4:30pm The World's Most Extraordinary Homes 5:30pm Final Score 6:30pm 10 Puppies and Us 7:30pm Cities: Nature's New Wild 8:30pm Dad's Army 9:00pm Great American Railroad Journeys 10:00pmQI XL 10:45pm Live at the Apollo 11:30pmSnowfall 12:15amSnowfall 1:00am In the Dark Half
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Rick Stein's Long Weekends 9:00pm South Pacific A look at how the 20,000 islands in the region became colonised by humans and animals. 10:00pm Hidden 11:00pm Clive James: Postcard from Rio 11:45pm The Midwife 1:40am Top of the Pops: 1989 2:10am Top of the Pops: 1989 2:40am Tap America: How a Nation Found Its Feet 4:00am Rick Stein's Long Weekends
7:00am Mike & Molly 7:25am Mike & Molly 7:45am Cheers 8:15am Cheers 8:40am Frasier 9:05am Frasier 9:30am The Big Bang Theory 10:00am The Big Bang Theory 10:25am The Simpsons 12:55pmKubo and the Two Strings 2:55pm Four in a Bed 3:30pm Four in a Bed 4:00pm Four in a Bed 4:30pm Four in a Bed 5:00pm Four in a Bed 5:35pm A Place in the Sun 6:35pm Location, Location, Location 7:30pm Channel 4 News 8:00pm A Royal Tour of the 20th Century 9:00pm Princess Diana's ‘Wicked’ Stepmother 10:00pmAmerican Made 12:15amA Million Ways to Die in the West
Peppa Pig Butterbean's Cafe Paw Patrol Nella the Princess Knight Wissper Pirata & Capitano Floogals Digby Dragon Shimmer and Shine SpongeBob Squarepants Access WWE SmackDown Highlights Friends Friends Murder, with Love: Hailey Dean Mysteries Deadly Estate: Hailey Dean Mysteries 5 News Update Ant & Dec: Kings of Saturday Night Drain the Oceans In Pursuit: Cops vs Criminals Bellator Fights, Camera, Action!
7:00am Rude(Ish) Tube 7:30am Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares USA 8:25am Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares USA 9:25am The Dating List 11:10am The Goldbergs 12:45pm Schooled 1:20pm Brooklyn Nine-Nine 2:50pm Brooklyn Nine-Nine 3:20pm Brooklyn Nine-Nine 3:50pm The Big Bang Theory 4:20pm The Big Bang Theory 4:50pm The Big Bang Theory 5:20pm The Big Bang Theory 5:50pm The Big Bang Theory 6:20pm The Big Bang Theory 6:50pm The Big Bang Theory 7:20pm The Big Bang Theory 7:50pm The Devil Wears Prada 10:00pmThe Martian 12:55am Friday Night Dinner 1:25am Friday Night Dinner 1:55am Friday Night Dinner
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8:30am Fast and Furious Five 10:45amFast and Furious 6 1:00pm The Fast and the Furious 3:00pm 2 Fast 2 Furious 5:00pm The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift 7:00pm Fast and Furious 9:00pm Fast and Furious Five 11:15pmFast and Furious 6 1:30am Django Unchained
7:00am The Princess and the Dragon 8:30am The Hummingbird Project Cousins Vincent and Anton are players in the high-stakes game of highfrequency trading. 10:30amToy Story 4 12:30pm Dolittle: Special 12:45pmAmerican Woman 2:45pm The Top Ten Show 3:00pm The Curse of La Llorona 4:45pm Extremely Wicked, 5:15pm We Have Always Lived in the Castle 7:00pm Toy Story 4 9:00pm American Woman 11:00pmThe Curse of La Llorona 12:50amThe Hummingbird Project
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8:35am Mighty Mike 8:50am Mr. Bean 9:10am Ben 10 9:30am Thunderbirds are Go 10:05am Craig of the Creek 10:25am ITV News 10:30amSaturday Morning with James Martin 12:40pm Living on the Veg 1:40pm Save Money: Lose Weight 2:10pm ITV News and Weather 2:24pm ITV London Weather 2:25pm Six Nations Live 5:35pm Tipping Point 6:00pm ITV News and Weather 6:10pm ITV News London 6:20pm Despicable Me 3 8:00pm Ant and Dec's Saturday Night Take Away 9:30pm The Voice UK 10:55pm ITV News and Weather 11:14pm ITV London Weather 11:15pm Live Boxing
7:00am Teleshopping 8:00am The Ellen DeGeneres Show 8:50am The Ellen DeGeneres Show 9:35am The Ellen DeGeneres Show 10:30am Dress to Impress 12:35pm Catchphrase 1:35pm Take Me Out 2:35pm You've Been Framed! 3:40pm You've Been Framed! 4:10pm A Cinderella Story 5:10pm FYI Daily 5:15pm A Cinderella Story 6:15pm Liar Liar 7:15pm FYI Daily 7:20pm Liar Liar 7:55pm Yes Man 8:55pm FYI Daily 9:00pm Yes Man 10:00pmLove Island 11:05pm Joel Dommett: Finding Emo 12:05am Family Guy
7:00am Lewis 8:45am Agatha Christie's Marple 10:50am Coronation Street Long-running drama with the residents of England's most famous cobbled street. 1:45pm Midsomer Murders 3:55pm Midsomer Murders 5:55pm Midsomer Murders 8:00pm Midsomer Murders Christmas special of the detective drama from 2016. 10:00pm Midsomer Murders Angus, a member of the Bleakridge Watch, a group of villagers who walk the streets reporting anyone who falls foul of the law, is found dead in his meat freezer.
7:00am Football's Greatest: Bobby Charlton 7:15am The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes 8:15am The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes 9:20am The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes 10:30am ITV Racing: The Opening Show 11:30am Hornblower 1:35pm River Monsters 2:05pm World Cup Rivalries 2:30pm ITV Racing Live 5:00pm Aces High 6:00pm FYI Daily 6:05pm Aces High 7:15pm Spartacus 8:25pm FYI Daily 8:30pm Spartacus 11:00pmLone Survivor 12:00am FYI Daily A round-up of the latest entertainment news.
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7:05am Little Monsters 8:45am King Ralph 10:25amNine to Five 12:20pmTooth Fairy 2:10pm Twins 4:00pm King Ralph 5:40pm Mean Girls 7:20pm Mean Girls 2 9:00pm Instant Family 11:05pmAustin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me 12:50amAustin Powers in Goldmember
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Live Women's ICC World T20 Cricket Saturday Social Football show providing an insight into players' lives off the pitch. Soccer A.M. Live EFL Brentford v Blackburn Rovers (Kick-off 12.30pm). Gillette Soccer Saturday Live Premier League Leicester City v Manchester City (Kick-off 5.30pm). Live World Club Challenge St Helens v Sydney Roosters (Kick-off 7.45pm). My Icon Live Test Cricket
EFL Saturday Social Soccer A.M. Live EFL Brentford v Blackburn Rovers (Kick-off 12.30pm). Gillette Soccer Saturday Gillette Soccer Saturday: Reaction Goals Express A round up of the latest goals. Goal Zone Updates on all of the goals from the latest football matches. EFL Highlights Brentford v Blackburn Rovers. EFL Highlights EFL Highlights Brentford v Yeovil Town. EFL Highlights EFL Greatest Games The Fantasy Football Club EFL Greatest Games
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SUZANNE MANNERS IN the Garden of Eden the serpent winked at Eve and all hell broke loose. Adam found himself naked and ashamed and sought to cover his family jewels with random scraps of plant life (were there nettles in Eden?) In the grand tradition of masculine pride he blamed Eve. Lust snuck in and dribbled salaciously upon the Earth and Adam and Eve were duly expelled from paradise... bickering and hurling invectives at each other… and so it has been forever a little lust stained the bed sheets and the centre no longer held. The period following the expulsion of man and woman from paradise is where the story of humanity becomes both interesting and deeply disturbing. That a little thing like sex can bring down governments and start wars is so uniquely human… and male. Helen of Troy whose
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Lust. The Downfall of Man
LUST: Adam and Eve were expelled from paradise. face launched a thousand analogies was embroiled in the Trojan wars through no fault of her own, but purely because Paris quite fancied her and her husband didn’t like it and as King of Sparta was not going to let it lie (those Spartans such scamps!). The list of powerful men brought down by lust would circle the Earth a thousand times; from Sansom to Clinton, Rasputin
to Weinstein, an endless array of the morally corrupt and perennially stupid. Lust destroys the mind’s ability to rationalise, darkens the doorway of righteousness and rolls into the conscience like an evil smog engulfing all other thoughts and actions. The question is why would a person with the power to change the world, acquire untold riches and influence the
Are they really anti-animal? MIKE SENKER IN MY OPINION Views of a Grumpy Old Man O K f o l k s h e re ’s t h e l a t e s t bonkers suggestion. If I didn’t know better I’d have thought it was April Fool’s day. PETA, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, has launched a campaign to end ‘anti-animal’ sayings like ‘kill two birds with one stone’ and ‘bring home the bacon.’ Are they anti-animal? Has some budgie complained it’s offended? ‘Just as it became unacceptable to use racist, homophobic, or ableist language, phrases that trivialise cruelty to animals will vanish as more people begin to appreciate animals for who they are and start ‘bringing home the bagels’ instead of the bacon,’ PETA wrote on Twitter. Yup you read it correctly. In another tweet, the organisation gave alternative language to such phrases to help people ‘remove speciesism’ from their conversations. Instead of ‘kill two birds with one stone,’ people should now say ‘Feed two birds
with one scone.’ ‘Take the flower by the thorns’ should replace ‘Take the bull by the horns.’ What is happening for goodness sake? All you groups like PETA just stop because all you are going to do is distract from all the good things you do. I’ve been getting a ridiculous amount of emails telling me I’ve either got a load of money coming to me or do this or that to stop a load of money being taken from me. They are all, of course, scams. I have so many Nigerian Princes and Government Ministers throwing dosh at me at the moment. It must work with some people or they wouldn’t keep doing it, but not with me or any of you. One that I must admit made me have a double take was from Pay Pal, or purporting to be, telling me ‘Act now, or your account will be deactivated.’ or ‘Security breach on your account.’ This, of course, can cause you to panic, but when you look it’s not from PayPal at all. The biggest giveaway is it’s not actually addressed to you. It says ‘Dear valued customer’ whereas any genuine company will always use your name. Oh and finally a bit of good news. I finally got my Spanish driving licence which I applied for last May. RESULT!
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lives of many risk all for a quick fumble in the hay or a furtive foray into Lolitaland. Is it power that overrides the rational mind and lulls the lustful into belief in their own infallibility? Or is the human need to procreate and share genetic riches so great that all else pales into insignificance? Are we all victims of our need to create a dynasty? Well yes to a certain extent, but then we are also rational beings and have
the ability to recognise right from wrong and act upon it. Which is why thankfully most decent people practise restraint. We all have evil or lustful thoughts, but the vast majority of us have the moral courage not to act upon them. Between consenting adults there should be no boundaries other than those erected (ooer matron) by our own conscience. The men who have abused their power are rightly reviled not just because of the act but of the hypocrisy; the priests who preach celibacy and values yet abuse young children, the presidents who place family at the fore while sleeping around and the lawmakers with their do as I say not as I do mentality. It is this and the fact that their power effectively forces a yes from their victims that makes them so reprehensible. Lust. I’d rather have a cup of tea and a cuddle (Cillian can I tempt you?) Toodles!
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Modern and Contemporary Joy NICK HORNE’S Rich Pick Freelance correspondent, London, England DAVID HOCKEY’S ‘The Splash’ sold for £23,117,00 [€27,509230] last week. The third highest price paid for a work by the artist. Executed in 1966 this landmark pool painting first appeared at auction at Sotheby’s in London in 1973 and again in 2006 when it sold for £2.9 million, a record for a a Hockney at that time. Nine of the top 10 prices for Hockney have been set in the past two years. One of he most iconic images of the 20th century Hockney’s composition of a still swimming pool shattered by an invisible figure creating the splash. ‘The Splash’ is certainly one of the most recognised images of the last 100 years and more or less defines what we all think of as modern or contemporary art. Banksy’s ‘Vote to Love’ more than doubled its pre-sale estimate when the bidding soared to £1,155,00. The work was prominently displayed at the Royal Academy’s Summer Exhibition of 2018 with a price tag of £350 million, a refer-
Wayne Thiebaud, Fruit Stand, 1963, Joy found in the every day.
Banksy, Vote to Love, 2018, optimism in a time of division.
ence to the Vote Leave bus which claimed that Brexit would allow the country to spend a further £350 million a week on the National Health Service. ‘Vote to Love’ was executed in 2018. To create the work Banksy incorporated a found poster from the Vote Leave campaign of the 2016 Brexit campaign, altering the word ‘leave’ to ‘love.’ Striking simplicity, raw immediacy, subversive and seditious, Banksy’s politically charged painting offers an enduring message of optimism at a time of divisiveness in politics.
In the year of his 100th birthday Wayne Thiebaud’s Californian ‘Fruit Stand’ achieved a delicious £1,815,000. Having remained in the same European collection since the 1960s this auction follows on to a record-breaking sale of the artist work at Sotheby’s New York sale room last November. The ‘Fruit Stand’ was executed in 1963 being a view of a fruit stand on a hot summer’s day. Reinventing the traditional ‘still life’ form to reflect the age of mass production and mass consumption. Wayne Thiebaud’s mastery of colour is spoken of in terms that place his work among those renowned artists and maters of colour of Paul Cezanne and
Pierre Bonnard of an earlier epoch. Unlike his contemporaries Andy Warhol with cans of soup or Roy Lichtenstein and Claes Oldenburg, Thiebaud’s aim was not to criticise post war American society but rather to celebrate it. Finding beauty in the common place with ‘Fruit Stand’ Wayne Thiebaud captures the transient joy in the every day Did you too miss out on picking up ‘The Splash’ last week? Never mind; you can have another go at picking up a Hockney at Sotheby’s Hong Kong Sale Room where David Hockney’s ‘30 Sunflowers’ will lead a Contemporary Art Auction in April. Nick Horne, London, England
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Baby Daddy Baby Daddy Mike & Molly Mike & Molly The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory The Goldbergs The Goldbergs Brooklyn Nine-Nine Brooklyn Nine-Nine The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory Baby Daddy Baby Daddy Mike & Molly Mike & Molly The Goldbergs The Goldbergs Brooklyn Nine-Nine Brooklyn Nine-Nine The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory Hollyoaks Man with a Plan The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory Celebs Go Dating First Dates The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory Brooklyn Nine-Nine Brooklyn Nine-Nine Celebs Go Dating
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6:30am Final Score: Special 7:00am Tell It To The Bees 9:00am The Princess and the Dragon 10:30am Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile: Special 11:00am I Still See You 12:55pm American Woman 2:55pm Dolittle: Special A look at the new Robert Downey Jr movie, directed by Stephen Gaghan. 3:10pm The Curse of La Llorona In 1673 Mexico, a son gives his mother a necklace, with tragic repercussions. 5:00pm Hot Air 7:00pm Tell It To The Bees 9:00pm American Woman 11:00pm I Still See You 12:50am The Curse of La Llorona 2:40am Hot Air 4:45am I Trapped the Devil
12:15pm SPFL Greatest Games 12:30pm Football's Greatest Players 1:00pm Football Countdowns 1:30pm Football Years 2:00pm EFL Greatest Games 2:15pm EFL Greatest Games 2:30pm SPFL Greatest Games 2:45pm The Fantasy Football Club 3:00pm EFL Highlights 4:00pm Football's Greatest Players 4:30pm Football Countdowns 5:00pm Football Years 5:30pm EFL Highlights 6:30pm EFL Greatest Games 6:45pm SPFL Greatest Games 7:00pm EFL Goals: Leagues 1 &2 7:30pm Football Countdowns 8:00pm Soccer AM: The Best Bits 8:30pm Live EFL 11:15pm EFL Goals: Championship 11:45pm EFL Greatest Games 12:00am The Fantasy Football Club
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IT’S A SMALL WORLD DAVID WORBOYS ... if we talk to strangers ... IN 1974, working for Helena Rubinstein, I was on a business trip to Australia. T h e p ro j e c t m a i n l y i n volved the Operations Director who introduced me to the team, including the Financial Controller, Bob Humphreys. Within a few weeks I had forgotten all their names. Ten years later I was employed by an electronic engineering company as International Financial Controller. Once again I landed in Australia. It was arranged that I was to check into the hotel, freshen up and meet the Finance Director in the bar at seven.
SMALL WORLD: There are some amazing coincidences. As soon as I walked into the bar, I recognised him. Bob Humphreys. Of all the Finance Directors in Australia, he was the one I had met briefly 10 years previously. And we were now both with a completely different
type of company. On a business trip with Avis Rent-a-Car in 1979 I started talking to the taxi driver as he drove me into Bangkok from the airport. I told him that I work for Avis and he said he used to work for Avis in the airport. For
some reason he asked if I knew Andrew Cook who had come over recently from Singapore to do an audit at the airport. Andrew and I were and still are close friends. We had started with Avis together in the UK. How many taxi drivers are there based in Bangkok Airport? And how many had worked for Avis? In 1992 on another trip to Australia, I broke the journey for a weekend in Hong Kong, staying at the Sheraton. Once in the Sydney office I developed a toothache and Bob Humphreys drove me to a dental surgery. The dentist said he was just back from holiday in Hong Kong. For some reason I asked which hotel he had stayed in. He had been at the Sheraton. He had been on the same floor at the same time as I had. Sydney and Hong Kong are nine hours flight apart. And how many hotels are
there in Hong Kong? None of these coincidences can compare with the one from 1968. I was drinking a beer at a roadside bar in Wiesbaden when there was a crash in the street. I joined several passers-by to ensure that nobody was injured. Unlike the respective cars, the drivers were unharmed and they were both English. Incredibly, they remembered each other from the same school in Buckinghamshire. I joined in as the details of the accident were discussed and then invited them to park their cars and join me for a coffee. As we chatted about the accident, it turned out that one of them, Adam, had pulled off the motorway for a break driving from Basel to Bremen (where he lived) and Bill was driving from Bremen back home near Basel. They had had no contact since leaving school in 1953.
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FOR NEXT 7 DAYS AQUARIUS (January 21 - February 19) Eager Mars meets affluent Jupiter and enriches your financial forecast. It might show a foretaste of money to come, or on-stream benefits. If you intend to make alterations to your personal and home interests, you'll undoubtedly cope with both offbeat and upbeat activities.
PISCES (February 20 - March 20) One thing is certain, when you come through this week's restless planetary antics, you won't be totally the same Piscean who walked in. Whether you're figuring out numbers, analysing your dreams, or getting into a playfully social mood, there'll be much to enjoy and put to the test.
ARIES (March 21 - April 20) Education, media, creative and social connections are given star merit. The solar eclipse in your own sign bursts with vitality and success, more so for an array of bold moves, replacements and makeovers covering your personal affairs.
TAURUS (April 21 - May 21) Stand by for a week of whoosh and whirl. More importantly, try to avoid getting tongue-tied or dogmatic on Tuesday and Friday. Promising potentials appear, especially if you spruce up your competitive streak.
GEMINI (May 22 - June 21) Throughout this fortunate week, whatever else you decide, refuse to discard your hopes and wishes. As a Gemini, you like to have two strings to your bow of life, which gives you an alternative option, especially if the going gets tough.
CANCER (June 22 - July 23) A vivid star pattern portends a frantic personal and social diary. Ensure that any tight planning is carefully handled, especially if you hope to fit in everything you would like to say. Don't allow Monday or Wednesday's tensions to spoil opportunities for settling something important.
LEO (July 24 - August 23) Pave the way for any ambitious schemes you may have, rather than actually starting them. With
your ruler the Sun eclipsing your kindred fire sign, determined Aries, you are now more likely to get the support and affection you need from the powers that be or someone who thinks the world of you. Loosen up on Tuesday and Thursday.
VIRGO (August 24 - September 23)
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Even if the opposite to what you want happens, it could prove useful. One clue to this week's planetary crossword puzzle is ‘What word could also mean success?’ Check it out, and make it work for you. Never forget that important ideas and developments can stem from seemingly trivial discussions.
LIBRA (September 24 - October 23) The solar eclipse in your opposite sign of Aries intensifies your willpower. Before you say 'go', find out where you stand. It might pay you to leave things be for a little longer to see if anything begins to change. Some of the consequences of your actions will become obvious as your charming ruler Venus begins to have an effect.
SCORPIO (October 24 - November 22) The planets mobilise your streak of Scorpio daring, but don't stretch your limits. Your most effective weapon against personal and work-related pitfalls is your ability to be objective. Your desire to make specific situations and conversations work needs to be combined with your faith that they will work. Even if a different approach is required, try it and see.
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Hard-working, enterprising and self-sacrificing are just some of the words that describe your zodiac sign. It will be these qualities that count. Friday will boost your powers of persuasion, but you won't have too much to complain about if you follow this lucky trend into next week's encouraging tide.
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Across 1 States repeatedly broken treaties (8) 4 Cold sweets provided in police station (4) 8 Pick up king, then knight (5) 10 Notice the badly written card, pal (7) 11 Part of a Chinese meal, perhaps, one sold out (7) 12 Award youth leader, do as you are told (4) 14 Tidies up endless, small second thought (6) 16 Lip seen by doctor? Clear the bed! (6) 19 Record life changes (4) 21 Store damaged car at Queen's home (7) 24 Small creature biting soft vet (7) 25 Champs said to choose (5) 26 Mets returned a bit of the plant (4) 27 It may be deadlier off the tracks (8) Down 1 No employment for one on endless shift (8) 2 Cancel year-book, it has a letter missing (5) 3 Unmask former spouse with model (6) 5 Go after, as in revolutionary (5) 6 Foamy lather begins shining used dishes superbly (4) 7 Prefer number to contain a five (6)
9 Love found in Colorado refuge (5) 13 Are Leeds constituents allowed to go free (8) 15 Favour quiet mention (6) 17 Golf shot with ambition? (5)
Code Breaker
18 Unnerve rodent with title it lost (6) 20 The children produce a publication (5) 22 Company business, a hot drink maybe (5) 23 Siam revised objectives (4)
Each number in the Code Breaker grid represents a different letter of the alphabet. In this week’s puzzle, 13 represents Q and 18 represents B, so fill in Q every time the figure 13 appears and B every time the figure 18 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 Down 1 Backless slippers (5) 1 Me in person (6) 4 Source of danger (5) 2/18 Keep quiet or hidden (3,3) 7 Close observer (9) 3 Badger's burrow (4) 8 Ill-mannered boor (4) 4 Engine fuel (6) 10 Uncertainty (5) 5 Melted cheese on toast (7) 13 Small fragment (5) 6 Wild animal's den (4) 14 Eyelid infection (4) 9 Make visible (7) 17 Hoarded wealth (9) 11 Having a defect (6) 19 Gruff and grumpy (5) 12 Hot spring (6) 20 Waste pipe that carries away drainage 15 Large number or amount (4) water and waste matter (5) 16 Faucets (4) 18 See 2
English - Spanish
Across 1 Barracks (7) 5 Stage (phase) (5) 8 Ruler (measuring tool) (5) 9 Esmeralda (7) 10 Surgery (7) 12 Zebra (5) 13 Letters (of alphabet) (6) 15 Gritar (6) 18 Strawberry (5) 19 Concurrido (7) 21 Mop (for floor) (7) 22 Breeze (5) 23 Until (5) 24 Pride (satisfaction) (7)
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The clues are mixed, some clues are in Spanish and some are in English.
Down 1 Snail (7) 2 Ira (de persona) (5) 3 Té (3) 4 To carry (take) (6) 5 Exercise (9) 6 Wire (metal) (7) 7 Small village (5) 11 Stapler (9) 14 Hay (5,2) 16 Medium (7) 17 Eighth (6) 18 Quinto (5) 20 Taladro (herramienta) (5) 22 Bolsa (3)
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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 (DURING) and one letter in four other cells are given as clues.
ABORTS ABROAD ADAGIO CITRUS CODING CORDON DURING (10) EXEUNT FIDDLE FROSTY GINKGO INLAID PREFAB RUCKUS SPLEEN STRAND TINGLE TIRADE TURRET
LAST WEEK’S SOLUTION 1 Strobe 2 Huddle 3 Slouch 4 Widget 5 Bluish 6 Switch 7 Fungus 8 Callus 9 Entire 10 Filter 11 Heater 12 Sturdy 13 Cantle 14 Poison 15 Rodent 16 Blanch 17 Coyote 18 Botany 19 Troika.
Nonagram
Boggled How many English words can you find in the Boggled grid, according to the following rules? • The letters must be adjoining in a ‘chain’. They can be adjacent horizontally, vertically or diagonally. • Words must contain at least four letters and may include singular and plural or other derived forms. • No letter may be used more than once within a single word, unless it appears twice. • No vulgarities or proper nouns are permitted.
Kakuro
How many English words of four letters or more can you make from the nine letters in our Nonagram puzzle? Each letter may be used only once (unless the letter appears twice). Each word MUST CONTAIN THE CENTRE LETTER (in this case T) and there must be AT LEAST ONE NINE LETTER WORD. Plurals, vulgarities or proper nouns are not allowed.
Fill all the empty squares using the numbers 1 to 9, so that the sum of each horizontal block equals the ‘clue’ on its left, and the sum of each vertical block equals the clue on its top. No number may be used in the same block more than once.
TARGET: • Average: 24 • Good: 33
LAST WEEK’S SOLUTION
TARGET:
• Very good: 47 • Excellent: 61
SCORING: 4 letters: 1 point 7 letters: 5 points 5 letters: 2 points 8 or more letters: 6 letters: 3 points 11 points
Average: 7 Good: 10 Very good: 15
LAST WEEK’S SOLUTION
Excellent: 19
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QUICK Across: 1 Beer, 3 Shark, 8 Abundance, 9 Fixed, 10 Free, 14 Over, 15 Mouth, 18 Apologise, 20 Stare, 21 Stay.
CODE BREAKER
Down: 1 Baby, 2 Examine, 4 Hide, 5/19 Run out, 6 Queen, 7 Fewer, 11 Retreat, 12 Loyal, 13 Movie, 16 Hour, 17 Copy.
CRYPTIC
ENGLISH-SPANISH
Across:
Across:
1 Rafters, 5 Focus, 8 Lille, 9 Alarmed, 10 Tinware, 11 House, 12 Umber, 14 Flees, 19 Renew, 21 Coronet, 23 Laconic, 24 Hobby, 25 Suede, 26 Portend.
1 Cazuela, 5 Faces, 8 Abril, 9 Girasol, 10 Trouble, 11 Shake, 12 Rainy, 14 Bajar, 19 Round, 21 Todavía, 23 Establo, 24 Liver, 25 Darts, 26 Sparrow.
Down:
Down:
1 Relate, 2 Felon, 3 Elevate, 4 Slated, 5 Flash, 6 Commune, 7 Sodden, 13 Manacle, 15 Lurcher, 16 Grills, 17 Icecap, 18 Stayed, 20 Wince, 22 Noble.
1 Crafty, 2 Zurdo, 3 Eslabón, 4 Angles, 5 Faros, 6 Cascada, 7 Silver, 13 Apuntar, 15 Ardilla, 16 Friend, 17 Stools, 18 Narrow, 20 Debts, 22 Vivir.
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QUIZ: THE BEE GEES All the (two-word) answers begin with the letters B G 1. Branta leucopsis is the scientific name of which waterbird with a white face and black neck, breeding in the arctic tundra of Greenland, Spitsbergen and Novaya Zemlya? 2. In the US army, which officer ranks above a colonel and below a major-general? 3. The Polish-born politician who was the first prime minister of Israel was David who? 4. The writers Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg were associated with which movement of young people in the 1950s and early 1960s who rejected conventional society, valuing free self-expression and favouring modern jazz? 5. What is the title of the 1924 adventure novel by P C Wren, which details the adventures of three English brothers who enlist separately in the French Foreign Legion following the theft of a valuable jewel from the country house of a relative? 6. Which American computer entrepreneur co-founded the computer software company Microsoft and became the
youngest multi-billionaire in American history? 7. Which American evangelist, a prominent evangelical Christian figure and an ordained Southern Baptist minister who became well-known internationally in the late 1940s, died in 2018, aged 99? 8. Which American jazz clarinettist and bandleader was known as the King of Swing? 9. Which republic in north-eastern South America, formerly part of the British Empire, achieved independence from the UK in 1966? 10. With which musical instrument would you principally associate: Flea, John Entwistle, Mark King, Sting and John Deacon? Not a lot of people know that… the Bee Gees, who were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1997, have sold more than 120 million records worldwide, making them one of the world's best-selling artists of all time.
Answers: 1. BARNACLE GOOSE, 2. BRIGADIER GENERAL, 3. BEN GURION, 4. BEAT GENERATION, 5. BEAU GESTE, 6. BILL GATES, 7. BILLY GRAHAM, 8. BENNY GOODMAN, 9. BRITISH GUIANA, 10. BASS GUITAR
LAST WEEK’S SOLUTIONS
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BIRTHDAYS
DAISY UPTON has two little kids. She loves them - but they drive her mad. So, to try and keep her sanity she started coming up with quick, easy games using stuff from around the house. And so, Five Minute Mum was born. In her first book, she’s collected 150+ games that take five minutes to set up and five minutes to tidy up. These games are aimed at children aged one to five, but older children can enjoy some of the games too. From pasta posting to alphabet knockdown, it’s a recipe for guilt-free parenting! And as Daisy was a teaching assistant, your little ones will be learning while they play! What could be better? ‘Give me Five’ is the perfect companion for anyone who wants five minutes of peace. To get an idea of these games, you can also have a look at Daisy’s page at https://fiveminutemum.co m/.
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ALICANTE
• Cindy Crawford, Supermodel, February 20 a BAFTA Fellowship, and a Golden Globe. She 1966, 53 has been nominated twice for an Academy Award, Famous as one of the original supermodels of in the categories of Best Actress and Best America, one of the very few names, who have Supporting Actress. • Emily Blunt, Actress, February 23 1983, 36 revolutionised the fashion industry. • Charlotte Church, Singer/Actress, February 21 A British-American actress, she is the recipient Julie Waters. 1986, 33 of several accolades, including a Golden Globe A Welsh music artist who rose to fame with her debut album Award and Screen Actors Guild Award, and has been ‘Voice of an Angel’ when she was only 12 years old. She is a nominated for two British Academy Film Awards. She is popular for playing seminal roles in films like ‘The Devil gifted singer who has also acted in films and presented a television show. Wears Prada,’ ‘The Girl on the Train,’ and ‘Edge of • Julie Walters, Actress, February 22 1950, 70 Tomorrow.’ English actress, writer and comedian. She is the recipient of • Floyd Mayweather Jr, Boxer, February 24 1977, 42 American boxing champion who is regarded as one of the four BAFTA TV Awards, two BAFTA Film Awards,
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.
best pound-for-pound fighters of his generation. A sport that runs in his blood, Mayweather has given everything to it, his blood, his sweat, his hard work and his life. • Naga Munchetty, TV Presenter, February 25 1975, 44 An accomplished British-Indian television presenter and journalist, best known for her association with the ‘BBC’ network. Munchetty commenced her career as a journalist by working for the London-based free daily newspaper, ‘Evening Standard.’ • Erykah Badu, Musician, February 26 1971, 48 A noted singer-songwriter, record producer, disc jockey, activist, and actress of African-American descent. Brought up in an artistic environment by her actress mother, she developed a love for singing and acting at a very early age.
Word Ladder CARE
DEBT BACK
1933 - Repeal of the 18th Amendment A majority of the house had voted for the repeal of the 18th Amendment, which had prohibited the sale and distribution of all alcohol. This occurred after the entire US nation had been dry since the start of the 1920s. 1965 - Malcolm X Assassinated African American leader Malcolm X was assassinated while delivering a speech at the Audubon Ballroom in New York City. 1965 - Oil and Gas in the North Sea With the ever-increasing need for oil and gas around the world and the jump in crude oil prices, Britain prospecs for oil and gas in the icy waters of the North Sea off Britain’s East coast. 1985 - Ireland Contraception Ireland a predominantly Catholic country after much debate allows contraceptives to be sold. 1986 - Channel Tunnel It was announced that a channel tunnel would be built by France and Britain. This underground path was ‘ referred to as the ‘Chunnel.’ Originally planned in the early 1800s, Napoleon was the one who drew up the original blueprints for this project. 1997 - Dolly the Sheep Scottish scientists from the Roslin Institute in Edinburgh announce they have successfully cloned an adult sheep named Dolly. 2001 - Foot and Mouth An outbreak of foot and mouth disease in British pigs prompted a government ban on exports of meat, milk and livestock.
This week in history
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Move from the start word (CARE) to the end word (DEBT) in the same number of steps as there are rungs on the Word Ladder. You must only change one letter at a time.
Solution CARE DARE DART DAFT DEFT DEBT
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BROKE, alone (estranged from exwife Mary and daughter Iris for always putting work before family) and facing foreclosure on his business, 90-year-old horticulturist Earl Stone takes a job as a drug courier for a Mexican cartel. His immediate success leads to easy money and a larger shipment that soon draws the attention of hard-charging DEA agent Colin Bates. When Earl’s past mistakes start to weigh heavily on his conscience, he must decide whether to right those wrongs before law enforcement and cartel thugs catch up to him.
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How to strengthen your immunity MAKING sure you eat healthily, exercise regularly, and minimise stress levels - not to mention keeping unhealthy vices such as smoking and alcohol consumption to a minimum are just a few things you can do to make sure your immune system is in top shape. Food in particular plays a significant role in having a positive impact on your belly bacteria, which helps to strengthen your immunity. Harvard University research revealed that the amount of good bacteria in the belly rapidly improved when people are placed on a vegetable-
only diet for a few days, so top up on your greens. Many vegetables also contain natural prebiotics, such as artichokes, asparagus, onions, chicory, leek and garlic. These prebiotics pass undigested through the stomach and small intestine so as soon as they reach the large intestine; they help to stimulate the probiotic bacteria that are in there. Ensuring you have a healthy balance of bacteria in your gut will benefit your digestion and help you to absorb minerals, therefore boosting your immune system. Fermented food such as sauerkraut is also high in probi-
otic bacteria which can stop har mful bacteria from getting attached to the lining of your gut and growing there. Carbohydrates can also fuel unhealthy bacteria so try to stick to whole grains or sourdough bread, which are high in fibre.
HAPPY TUMMY: A healthy balance of bacteria in your gut will benefit your immune system.
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Bioidentical Hormone Replacement Therapy to ease symptoms of perimenopause and menopause YOUR body’s hormones control most of your basic bodily functions. They serve as an internal communication system between cells throughout the body. They coordinate everything from digestion and growth to your appetite, immune function, mood, and libido. So, when your hormones are out of balance, even slightly, it can have a big impact on your health and well-being. Often, when people’s hormones drop or become unbalanced, they turn to hormone replacement therapies to ease symptoms. One such therapy, bioidentical hormone replacement therapy (BHRT), has gotten a lot of attention in recent years. It promises a ‘natural’ solution to hormone issues. BHRT is most fre-
quently used to ease symptoms of perimenopause and menopause. Bioidentical hormones are different from those used in traditional hormone replacement therapy (HRT) in that they’re identical chemically to those our bodies produce naturally and are made from plant estrogens. BHRT is typically used as people age and hormone levels drop, particularly for women who are
in perimenopause or menopause. It’s used to increase the levels of the hormones that have dropped and improve moderate to severe menopause symptoms. In addition to helping with symptoms, hormone replacement therapy may also reduce your risk for diabetes, tooth loss, and cataracts. Talk to our specialist about which form may be best for you and your lifestyle.
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Stretch it out T H E R E ’ S a l o t o f re s e a rc h t h a t praises the benefits of Pilates, from reducing the risk of certain illnesses to strengthening muscles and improving flexibility. It’s also a gentler workout than most but it can be just as effective, meaning you get all the benefits of exercise without any of the soreness afterwards. According to a study by the Journal of Orthopaedic & Sports Physical Therapy, Pilates can help ease back ache as those with chronic lower back pain who attended classes for a month experienced more relief than those who went to see a physician or other specialist. This is believed to be because Pilates strengthens the core, which then alleviates stress on the lower-back region. A stronger core also will help to improve your posture and overall sports per for mance as all the body’s muscles are connected through the core, so this will make your movem e n t s
sharper and help you run faster. It’s also easier on your joints than other workouts as the slow, controlled movements cause minimal impact. One of the major benefits of practising Pilates is the wonders it does to your flexibility, which can improve your body’s range of motion and, therefore, your exercise performance. A study that followed young Brazilian women, without any prior experience, as they attended 20 Pilates sessions showed they became 19.1 per cent more flexible by the end of the research.
STRONG: Pilates helps to strengthen the core.
HEALTH & BEAUTY
Herbal tea: a holistic health boost IF you’re suffering from bloating, nausea or even just feeling a bit under the weather, instead of rifling through the medicine cabinet, perhaps reach for a herbal tea bag instead. Besides being a stimulating, caffeine-free pick-meup, herbal tea has been proven to have many health benefits and some also contain many of the vitamins and minerals needed on a daily basis. Herbal tea isn’t actually made from the tea plant of course; it’s an infusion of plant leaves, roots, seeds or bark, which provides all the benefits of the plant in an easy-to-digest form. If you drink herbal tea every day, it can make a significant difference to your skin, your mood, and your energy levels. Peppermint tea is effective at relieving muscle spasms, as well as the symptoms of nausea and bloating. However, you should avoid it altogether if you suffer from indigestion or heartburn. Fresh ginger tea is also great at solving digestion problems and is a powerful cold-fighting remedy when you add lemon and honey. Known for its anti-oxidant properties, rooibos tea can help to ward off disease and can help reduce the signs of ageing, while chamomile tea can help treat insomnia or anxiety due to its calming and sedative qualities.
A glass of wine helps IF you ever fancied a glass of wine straight after you brushed your teeth, you can now indulge knowing that it might actually be better for you to go ahead and give into this particular vice. It has recently been reported that wine destroys the bacteria that causes cavities and gum disease, according to the Spanish researchers. New studies show that the antioxidants in wine help to stop bacteria from sticking to gums, which would otherwise go into the bloodstream. There has already been significant evidence that suggests these bacteria, which are the root of tooth decay and gum disease, can cause heart disease, diabetes and cancer.
GLASS OF WINE: Destroys bacteria.
Gum disease reportedly affects three in four adults in the UK and symptoms include bleeding, sore gums when brushing. Keeping a regular routine of flossing, brushing and using mouthwash all help you to prevent gum disease and help you to keep all your teeth as you get older. Combining the antioxidants found in wine with an oral probiotic could significantly help to boost dental health, so don’t be surprised if this discovery leads to 'wine-inspired' toothpastes and mouthwashes, which contain these vital antioxidants.
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Live and Enjoy Your Dream at Senior Resort Ciudad Patricia
MY name is Amanda and I have enjoyed working at Ciudad Patricia now for nine years. Everyone who has decided to move to Ciudad Patricia has a list of many reasons why. I love meeting and talking with the residents every day, here are some of the things they tell me why they come and live here. • Friendships start here What I hear is that many people I see feel alone or have a fear of being alone. Socialising is so important in your senior years. What most of our residents have in common is that they all want to fully enjoy their life. All kinds of fun activities are laid on to join in if you want to. There are BBQs with live music, dance afternoons, excursions, painting classes, bridge club, games afternoons, yoga classes and much more. To help you keep fit and healthy we have a heated indoor/saltwater and outdoor pools with free aqua aerobic classes, gym with free keep fit classes. So, you will never have to feel alone here even if you
just meet people for a morning coffee in our cafeteria. • Maintaining your dream of living in Spain We have such a beautiful green resort full of lovely trees shrubs and flowers giving lovely gardens to stroll through. There are four buildings consisting of 175 apartments built over 32 years ago. There is also a brand-new building with 15 more spacious apartments that will be ready in October this year. You purchase the apartments on a life time right of use. There are different types and size of apartments to choose from one, two and three-bedroom apartments. They have a spacious terrace where you
CIUDAD PATRICIA: A beautiful resort with lovely gardens to stroll through. could even have a conservatory or glass curtains. Some apartments have their own private garden suitable for a little dog or cat. You can even try out an apartment for a minimum of
three nights. This will help you get a feel for the life here and you can get a chance to meet some of the residents, explore the grounds and get a taste of life at the resort.
• Peace of mind When you aren’t feeling well we have a community support worker that can go shopping for you, get your prescriptions, go with you to the hospital and doctors to translate for you and much more (for a small fee). We have a doctor living on site for emergencies and he also has his own surgery for appointments which are included in the monthly service cost. When you don’t drive there is a bus at reception every half hour. We have a resort bus to take you shopping. Ciudad Patricia really is the perfect solution to your golden years living in Spain. Why not come and see for yourself.
I hope to see you soon, call Amanda (+34) 673 064 288 for more information.
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Quality and workmanship
MARK JEFFERSON the owner of ‘The Kitchen Company Albir’ has now brought his expertise in kitchen design to the Costa Blanca. Mark has had 30 years’ experience designing kitchens in the UK. He was born in Latchford Warrington and is well-known for his kitchen designs. Mark has worked previously at Raddon Court, Classic Home Improvements and latterly at WREN, consistently gaining top salesperson in the Warrington Branch. Mark is a trusted Designer and Salesman, as a result many of his customers return time and time again when they require a new kitchen. DIY SOS Mark has also had his 15 minutes of fame, collaborating with the DIY SOS team Nick Knowles. Helping design and fit a new
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kitchen for Maddie from Bury. He approached various suppliers and retailers and as result of this was able make Maddie’s parents Rod and Michelle’s dream
kitchen come true. GREAT OPPORTUNITY Mark was given the opportunity of opening his own showroom by Sol of ‘SOLALBIR,’ in a chance
remark that he was looking for space to open a kitchen showroom. As a result of this within a few months and a lot of hard work Mark’s dream came true. The Kitchen Company Albir was born. Mark is importing kitchens from a British company he has dealt with for the past 30 years. He knows the quality and workmanship that goes into manufacturing these kitchens. Mark said “I honestly haven’t seen anything in Spain of this quality at such an affordable price.” Spring Offer Why not take advantage of our amazing spring offer 10 per cent off any kitchen that is designed and booked in our diary to be fitted at a time that suits you ! Plus a 10 per cent deposit secures this amazing deal.
Come and pay us a visit in our kitchen showroom, located in ‘SOLALBIR’ next door to Mercadona in Albir or telephone Mark on 643 500 488. Visit our website www.thekitchencompanyalbir.com
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Sarah Rainford Albir Fantastic service, Mark designed us the perfect kitchen. We were worried having a kitchen fitted whilst we were in the UK, but he kept us fully informed of progress sending us pictures regularly. Even better than we had expected, thank you Mark. Marlena and John Alfaz del Pi We walked into your showroom as clients and very soon became friends, we could not wish for better care and service from Mark who would go out of his way to make it happen for us. We would recommend you to anyone. Gertru Norway After some intense and long winter months, finally the result came with the new kitchen. I have sat in Norway and delegated work, while Mark and his team have tried their best to satisfy my Norwegian requirements. I can now after the end recommend Mark and his staff. I love IT.
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CELEBRITIES
ANDALUCIAN singer, Isabel Pantoja, who has a discography of 30 albums, including 18 platinum discs and eight gold album sales, returns to star on the TV, but not in her own programme! Awaiting the premiere of ‘Idol Kids,’ where the singer will judge alongside
Edurne (with six albums and numerous singles in the market, a Gold Record and Spanish representative in Eurovision 2015) and Carlos Jaen (with 13 albums released, six Latin Grammy nominations and an Ondas Award for Best DJ), she will be the star on the return of one of Telecinco’s most popular shows! The singer, who on February 14 premiered a new song and video clip ‘Enamórate’ (Fall in Love), never seems to stop! Although she is worried that her mother, Dona Ana, is still very ill, the singer draws strength from weakness to continue her professional projects. Isabel will be the guest star of the return of Telecinco’s ‘Volverte a Ver’ (See you again) that returns to the small screen on Friday, February 21 at 10pm. Isabel is the main star of the promos which are already flooding the MediaSet channels.
ISABEL PANTOJA: To be a guest star.
Jennifer Lopez is looking fab THE 50-year-old actress, known for her stunning body, had to get into even better shape last year when she was filming the movie ‘Hustlers’ an American black comedy crime film written and directed by Lorene Scafaria, based on New York magazine’s 2015 article ‘The Hustlers at Scores: The ExStrippers Who Stole From (Mostly) Rich Men and Gave to, Well, Themselves’ by Jessica Pressler. The film is now done, but she has clearly kept
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Singer never seems to stop
J-LO: A healthy lifestyle. up with her routine, recently sharing an unbelievable selfie on Instagram! The mother of two captioned it: ‘Relaxed and recharged.’ The stunning singer appears very naturally,
with her hair up, and wearing a white bikini. J-Lo appeared to be at the Hard Rock Hotel in Florida as she shared a video of the hotel’s exterior, which is shaped like a guitar, putting on a light show while they played some of her music. J-Lo’s secret is said to be mostly healthy living and an active lifestyle. She is said to never drink alcohol or coffee, has never smoked, protects her skin from the sun, sees a personal trainer every day, and always gets at least seven hours of sleep. If only we all had a personal trainer!
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Spicy Veggie Spaghetti NOT another meat free pasta dish I hear my keen carnivore readers cry? Well fear not my meat and fish eating friends, next week will see something to satisfy your craving for flesh. I’ve just been on a bit of a vegetable kick for the last couple of weeks. Not for any virtue signalling moral reason, there just seemed to be a lot of veg in the house, so it needed using up. This dish is good for any tomatoes or peppers that have been hanging around and need using up. Put the oven on quite low (about 150ºC). Put a little olive oil in a baking dish. Cut up a tomato, red and green peppers, a few whole garlic cloves, onion, spring onion, chilli peppers (anything you want to get rid of!). Place in the dish, drizzle with more oil, season with flakes of sea salt and ground black pepper. Place in the oven and roast for an
hour or so. Check every now and then and if the peppers are starting to blacken turn the temperature down a bit. Take out the oven and let the mixture go cold. It will keep in the fridge for a couple of days.
When needed give the mixture a good bashing in a pestle and mortar. I added to a pan with cubes of fried aubergine. Add some cooked spaghetti. Feel free to adorn with parmesan if you’re not a vegan!
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FLAT bread is a cross between a tortilla and a naan bread. Here is the simple basic recipe but be adventurous and add herbs, garlic or spices. Great for a side with any meal or even on their own with a good home-made dip, so why not try this tomato relish dip. Easy, simple and a great salsa to have in the fridge for burgers or salads! Easy quick cooking!
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Home-made tomato relish PLACE all the ingredients in a pan and season well. When it starts to bubble, turn down the heat and simmer for about 15 minutes until the tomatoes have cooked down. Taste for seasoning. serve warm or cold 4 large ripened tomatoes, chopped 1 small red onion, diced 2 garlic cloves, crushed 1 dried chilli (optional) 2tbsp olive oil 1tbsp tomato purée Pinch of sugar Salt Pepper ‘Flat bread’ Sieve the flour, salt and baking powder into a large bowl. In a separate bowl, mix the egg, yoghurt, oil and milk. Add the yeast and mix well, make a well in the flour mix. Mix in the wet ingredients and turn out onto a table. Knead well until a dough consistency. Separate the dough into portions and mould into dough balls. Place the dough balls on a tray, cover with cling film and allow to rest for 30 minutes. Preheat the oven to 220°C Take the dough balls and place on a floured work surface and roll out into pizza bread shapes. Transfer to a non-stick baking tray. Bake the dough in the oven until golden brown for about seven minutes. Remove the flatbreads and brush with
FLAT BREAD: With tomato relish. some melted butter. 10g of dried yeast (packet) Salt to season 6g of baking powder 220ml milk 700g of flour 75ml of olive oil 200ml of normal yoghurt 2 whole eggs
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PETS ERIC and Ern are two rescue dogs from Almeria. Their owner Barbara adopted them together as puppies. She has had them for three years and they helped her make a home while she was settling into life in Spain. In tur n she helped to make a home for them. For the first time in the three years she must return to the UK for an extended trip this summer. She was worried about finding care for the dogs, and really didn’t want to split them up. Barbara
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NISSAN has come to the rescue of frazzled parents across Europe with a guilt-free solution for those who heavily rely on the magical effects of dream driving to gently lull their children to sleep. The Nissan LEAF Dream Drive, is the world’s first zero-emission lullaby, dreamt up by Nissan engineers in collaboration with Sound Designer and Sleep Coach, Tom Middleton. This sleep album for babies mimics the peaceful sound frequencies of a humming combustion engine trusted to put children to sleep, at no CO2 emission cost. New research finds parents across Europe are frustratingly sleep-deprived. The majority of parents with a child aged two and under, are surviving on less than five hours of sleep a night, with 60 per cent admitting they resort to dream driving their children to sleep and over half doing it at least once a week. When looking at why parents put their faith in this method, Nissan discovered 70 per cent of parents put their trust in the power of the vehicle’s movement, when in fact it is the soothing sound fre-
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quencies of an internal combustion engine (ICE) that is the biggest contributor to a child falling asleep. According to expert, Paul Speed-Andrews, Noise and Vibration Development Manager at Nissan, “An EV like the Nissan LEAF is a better choice for dream driving; although we are aware that the quiet soundscape might not be as effective as ICE cars. Combustion engines transmit a sound frequency, a combination of white, pink and brown noise varied in tone creating an orchestral soundscape that is especially soothing and comforting to children.” Nissan has collaborated with renowned Sound Designer and Sleep Coach, Tom Middleton, to create Nissan LEAF Dream Drive the first zero-emission lullaby, the kryptonite album for angry babies, contains five, three-minute tracks that work in harmony with the advanced in-car technology available within the all-electric LEAF. Parents can connect their smartphone to their Nissan LEAF through Android Auto and Apple CarPlay, available on platforms like Apple Music, Spotify, SoundCloud, YouTube and Deezer.
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ROAD TEST by Nick Fletcher DS is the stylish stand-alone prestige brand of parent company Citroen and has quickly established i t s e l f a s a m a rq u e with a lot of visual cachet and cool design features, a package which has wide appeal especially among younger buyers. The DS3 Crossback is an SUV model from the DS line-up, adding practicality to a car which oozes charm and panache and can double as an everyday family car and a charismatic city cruiser. DS3 prices start at €26,696 (£22,670) though many buyers will opt to move up range and my test model was a Prestige version with a lot of extra features. With a 1.2-litre turbo-petrol engine mated to a slick eight-speed automatic gearbox it
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DS3 CROSSBACK: Has its own stand-out character. boot space is good at 350 litres, boosted to 1,050 litres by folding the rear seats. The elevated driving position gives a good view of the road and all the controls and switches are well-placed for ease of use. The 1.2-litre turbo-petrol engine has punchy 130 hp, giving a quick 0-100
Facts at a glance Model: DS3 Crossback Prestige Engine: 1.2 litre petrol Transmission: 8-speed automatic Performance: 0-100 kph 9.2 seconds, top speed 200 kph (124 mph) Economy: 15.8 kpl (44.7 mpg) Emissions: 113 g/km
Model tested was UK-specification and equipment levels and prices may vary in other markets.
kph time of 9.2 seconds and top speed of 200 kph (124 mph). Emissions are 113 g/km and average fuel economy 15.8 kpl (44.7 mpg). On the road, the DS3 is pleasingly effortless to drive, smooth, quiet and refined and with a very comfortable ride thanks in part to the a multi-arm rear suspension set-up and the good overall balance of the car, which corners with utmost composure. Overall, this DS is very impressive. It has its own stand-out character and image which not only sets it apart from its Citroen stable-mates but also its class rivals, as head-turning style is an important factor in a sector in which street image is often a key element for potential buyers.
Luxury tourer HISPANO SUIZA, the Spanish performance-inspired luxury brand, will return to the Geneva International Motor Show in March with the Carmen Boulogne, a version of its fullyelectric Carmen hyperlux grand tourer that pays homage to the brand’s competition heritage. A product of the brand’s ‘Tailormade’ department, the Boulogne features design enhancements that reference Hispano Suiza’s racing vehicles from the 1920s, while retaining the Carmen’s exhilarating performance and exceptional luxury. The Boulogne moniker dates back to 1921 and the George Boillot Cup, in which Hispano Suiza competed with five enhanced versions of the company’s H6 Coupé. The endurance race saw competitors battle for victory for more than 3.5 hours, on the roads around the French town of Boulogne. Hispano Suiza achieved three consecutive race wins, with drivers André Dubonnet (1921), Paul Bablot (1922) and Léonce Garnier (1923) driving specially modified versions of the Hispano Suiza H6. Development and build of the infinitely-customisable Boulogne version of the Carmen will be led by the company’s production partner, QEV Technologies.
BRAND’S COMPETITION HERITAGE: Exhilarating performance. Also based in Barcelona, QEV boasts a team of highly-skilled engineers with experience across design, engineering, R&D and production for Formula-E teams, supercar brands and mainstream car manufacturers. Hispano Suiza is a historic car brand owned by the fourth generation of the Suqué Mateu family. Between 1904 and 1946, Hispano Suiza built more than 12,000 luxury performance cars and 50,000 aeroplane engines. Today, with its headquarters, technical centre, and manufacturing facility in Barcelona - Hispano Suiza embodies a proud Spanish spirit with a strong family legacy. Further details regarding the modifications made to the Carmen to create the Boulogne variant will be announced in early March at the Geneva International Motor Show.
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Villa Late Error Costs Them Point ASTON VILLA were made to rue a late error as Tottenham won a barnstorming Premier League clash at Villa Park. Son Heung-min pounced on Bjorn Engels’ error to score a last-gasp winner as Tottenham won an enthralling Premier League contest 3-2 at Aston Villa. Engels’ equaliser appeared to have earned the relegation-threatened hosts a point at Villa Park, but his failure to control a long ball allowed Son to coolly steer past Pepe Reina. Son had earlier put Spurs 2-1 in front from the rebound of a penalty awarded as a result of an Engels foul shortly before half-time, the forward’s first in the game coming after teammate Toby Alderweireld had scored at both ends. Villa remain just a point above the bottom three, while Champions League-chasing Spurs are just one point adrift of fourth-place Chelsea. Spurs went behind in sloppy fashion after nine minutes when Alderweireld turned in Anwar El Ghazi’s deflected right-wing cross having failed to communicate with his goalkeeper, Hugo Lloris. Jack Grealish tormented Spurs down the left channel and had a couple of testers before teeing up Douglas Luiz who, despite a great block from Ben Davies, ought to have scored. It proved costly when Alderweireld lashed home on the spin from a tight angle after Villa had failed to clear
a Spurs corner, though Dele Alli then missed two great chances to put the visitors ahead. However, Spurs did go in front in added time in the first half when Son registered his 50th Premier League goal, poking in the rebound from his saved penalty which was awarded when VAR judged Engels had felled Steven Bergwijn.
SPURS: Won the Premier League clash at Villa Park.
Arsenal Get Back On Track As They Fire In 4 ARSENAL were not wholly convincing for long periods at home to Newcastle United, but four second-half goals clinched all three points. Alexandre Lacazette scored for the first time since December to put the gloss on a much-needed 4-0 win for Arsenal and head coach Mikel Arteta against Newcastle United on Sunday. Arsenal came into the clash at Emirates Stadium level on points with visitors Newcastle, having won just six times in the Premier League this season - and only once since Arteta’s December appointment. But after a frustrating opening period, the influential Nicolas Pepe laid on a goal for Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang in the 54th minute, and Pepe himself scored three minutes later to all but settle the contest. Mesut Ozil added another in the 90th minute, before
substitute Lacazette got in on the act in stoppage time. Arteta, who revealed before the match he turned down an approach from Newcastle while still an assistant at Manchester City, could enjoy the closing stages of a precious victory, with Arsenal climbing back up to 10th and within sight of the European places. Newcastle’s set-pieces had caused early problems for Arsenal, and Sean Longstaff’s deflected strike forced a scrambling save from Bernd Leno, before Joelinton awkwardly stabbed wide from six yards moments later. Martin Dubravka was not troubled for over half an hour, but Arsenal pressure built heading into half-time as the Newcastle goalkeeper made stops from Aubameyang, Eddie Nketiah and Pepe. The hosts were on the front foot again following the restart, and Pepe
danced to the byline before cutting a cross back for Nketiah, who volleyed against the crossbar. The opener soon followed, with Aubameyang towering over Valentino Lazaro to head Pepe’s rightwing delivery across Dubravka into the bottomright corner. The second came less than three minutes later, as Bukayo Saka nutmegged Lazaro on the left and squared for Pepe to sweep low inside the near post. Ciaran Clark skewed wide from a great position in the area when teed up by Allan Saint-Maximin, who himself hit the post with a fine curling effort, but there was no dramatic Newcastle recovery. Ozil's close-range finish deceived Dubravka for a scruffy third Arsenal goal, before Lacazette's own slightly untidy effort found the topright corner to spark a joyous celebration.
Engels made amends when he climbed above Alderweireld to head home Grealish’s corner seven minutes after the restart, and the excellent Reina kept Villa on level terms with some crucial stops. Son, though, had the final say deep into injury time, the South Korea international racing free before providing a clinical finish to punish Engels’ mistake.
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Man Utd Triumph Over Chelsea ANTHONY MARTIAL and Harr y Maguire scored either side of half-time as Manchester United claimed a 2-0 triumph over Chelsea on Monday. Manchester United closed ground on the Champions League places as Anthony Martial and Harry Maguire struck to claim a vital 2-0 win over Chelsea, who were twice denied by VAR. Despite heading into Monday’s meeting at Stamford Bridge having taken just four points in 2020, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s side moved to within a win of their opponents as they completed a Premier League double over Chelsea for the first time. Martial continued his excellent form against Chelsea to get United off the mark, with the Blues denied an equaliser through Kurt Zouma by the video review system.
in Aaron Wan-Bissaka’s excellent cross. Chelsea thought they had equalised when Kurt Zouma tucked home from a corner, only for VAR to disallow the goal for Cesar Azpilicueta’s push on Brandon Williams. And, after Fernandes had struck the woodwork with a superb free-kick, Chelsea’s frustrations were compounded as Maguire headed beyond Willy Caballero. Giroud’s header seemed to have set up a grandstand finish, but VAR again came to United’s rescue. Mount then hit the post as the Blues’ efforts proved fruitless, with Caballero preventing substitute Odion Ighalo netting a debut goal in stoppage time.
United made their luck count in the 66th minute with captain Maguire - who was perhaps fortunate to be on the pitch after an earlier clash with Michy Batshuayi - heading in Bruno Fernandes’ corner and United held firm to secure valuable points after Olivier Giroud also saw a goal disallowed. Chelsea were inches away from taking a sixth-minute lead when Reece James lashed wide, but Frank Lampard’s side were dealt a blow when N’Golo Kante was forced off through injury in the 12th minute. Maguire was lucky to go unpunished for kicking out at Batshuayi, who subsequently squandered a brilliant chance after terrific work from Mason Mount. Yet for all Chelsea’s threat, it was United who had the lead when Martial headed
MAN UTD: Scored either side of half-time to triumph over Chelsea.
Spain’ s Leones chose La Vila
SPAIN’S national rugby team, nicknamed Los Leones, have been training in Villajoyosa for the current World Rugby Sevens Series. The World Sevens series is a top-level competition of 10 tournaments between 15 core international teams, plus one regional qualifier. Los Leones earned their place as a core team in 2017 and since then have fought to remain amongst the top sides in the course of tournaments that are played in 10 countries on five continents. The Spanish side spent
six days in the town, training at the pitch in El Pantano, the home ground of the La Vila Rugby Club, which Pablo Feijoo de-
scribed as one of the best rugby grounds in Spain. “Alicante’s climate as well as El Pantano’s fantastic installations were key to
LOS LEONES: Spain’s rugby side trained in Villajoyosa (inset).
our decision to train in Villajoyosa for our next matches,” he said. All of Feijoo’s indispensable players were present
in Villajoyosa with the team’s captain Paco Hernandez at their head. Also there were young talents including Martin
Alonso, Nil Vessuri, Juandre Kleynhans, Enrique Bolinhes and Jorge Calvo, but the best news was the return of Alejandro Alonso. Fundamental to the Los Leones’ success, he is now 100 per cent recovered from an injury that kept him out of the game for more than six months. Los Leones will be playing in Los Angeles on February 29 and March 1 where they will face their main rivals, Wales, before moving on to Vancouver on March 7 and 8.