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FOLLOWING the announcement on January 19 from Ximo Puig in which he ordered a total closure of the hospitality industry, the Valencian Community Health Minister, Ana Barceló, detailed the restrictive measures that will come into force. Speaking about the municipalities with perimeter closures, Ana Barceló said: “Residents’ responsibility in the perimeter municipalities has not been sufficient. Only four municipalities have decreased their incidence somewhat, the rest have continued to rise despite [there] being a perimeter.” NEW MEASURES • Precautionary closure of centres for the elderly, youth
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and essential businesses • A 30 per cent capacity is to be established in dining rooms in student residences and visits are prohibited. • Wakes and funerals: 15 people outside and 10 people in the closed space. • Schools and universities will continue with in-person lessons. • Closure of all sports facilities, except for professional athletes.
NEW MEASURES: A total closure of the hospitality industry in the Valencian community. and toy libraries, and party centres. • Closure of the hospitality industry, takeaway/pick up food service will be permitted. Service of food will be permitted in
hospitals and hotels for clients only. • Closure of activities of bingo halls, casinos and betting shops. • Closure of shops at 6pm, except supermarkets, pharmacies
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These measures come into effect today until January 31. Ximo Puig added: “We have said at all times that we would adopt the measures to the situation. We have made an objective analysis. After 14 days we have evaluated the previous measures and they have been insufficient. If the situation improves in 14 days, we will take others.”
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Lions stay positive THE TeuladaMoraira Lions en joy working hard to raise funds for the good causes they support, but 2020 was a diffi cult year. They rely on the Lions Den Charity Shop and their popular concerts in La Senieta in Moraira and the sea front in the summer, but the shop was closed for several weeks dur ing lockdown and the concerts still cannot be held. Nevertheless, Teulada Moraira Lions member, Janet Dane, refused to get down hearted. Instead, she thought cre atively about ways to raise funds in these difficult times. First, Janet set up a Go FundMe page to give the Lions a way of raising funds during lockdown. Then she came up with the idea of an online Pho tography Competition, which proved very popular and sup plied some muchneeded cheer. The competition also pro vided the photographs for a new venture, a Teulada Moraira Lions Calendar for
FUNDRAISER: One of the photographs in the Teulada-Moraira Lions 2021 calendar.
2021. Janet organised the printing of these and they sold like hot cakes. “So, we raise a New Year toast to Janet Dane!” the Lions declared, thanking Janet and all the other members for their hard work. To find out more about the Lions and possibly joining the Teulada Moraira association visit their www.tmlions.com webpage.
Trams For Alicante
ALICANTE is set to improve its in frastructure and get 22 new trams by 2023. The Generalitat of Alicante has reported that plans are already underway to purchase 22 new trams for the region at a cost of €132 million. The Minister of Mo bility, Arcadi Spain, announced on Tuesday, January 12, that the project, which will divide the
units between TRAM and Metrovalencia, aims to be com pleted by 2023. One of the most important new routes will provide a direct route to the Hospital de San Juan. In addition to the trams, the min ister reiterated the council’s ‘commitment’ to reforming the Alicante seafront, which is due to be completed in midFebruary.
Valencia Hospitals Empty
IN a meeting between Valencian President Ximo Puig and the leader of the PP Isabel Bonig on Wednesday morning, January 13, the PPs drew attention to the fact that several hospitals given the goahead last April to treat coronavirus patients remain empty. According to workplace prevention reports, the buildings are un usable due to deficiencies in power supply, water leaks and lack of heating. According to the reports, in some of the field hospitals tempera tures reach a maximum of 18 degrees at the warmest part of the day, and the occupational risk assessments confirmed ongoing problems with the generators. In the meeting, Bonig suggested the other facilities such as the IFA in Alicante or Feria Valencia be used to cater for Covid19 pa tients as the number of infections in the region continues to surge.
Zoom lecture on Klimt THE Arts Society Marina Alta (TASMA) is to present its first Zoom lecture live from the UK on Thursday February 4. The waiting room opens at 10.15am for registration of members and guests, followed by the Annual General Meeting for members only at 10.30am. The lecture, ‘Gustav Klimt: Imperial Muralist to Radical Painter’ will be presented by Gavin Plumley, a leading cultural historian, writer and broadcast er. Gavin has lectured widely for organisations including the Na tional Trust, British Museum and the National Gallery and is also the commissioning editor for cultural and music festivals in
the UK and abroad. “Everyone thinks they know Klimt,” Gavin said. “They’ve seen The Kiss or the famous, gilded portrait of Adele BlochBauer. Some people con sider Klimt rather kitsch, but he is far from kitsch and being about gold. “He began life as a muralist, decorating grand buildings across the AustroHungarian Empire and it was only at the end of the 19th century that he broke away from that towards a more radical style.” For more information on TASMA lectures and membership or to join the Zoom presentation visit www.marinaaltaarts.comor contact the programme secretary tasma.pro gramme@gmail.com.
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Luxury Cars Swiped A GANG of criminals stole three highend cars a Porsche Panamera, an Audi A7 Sportback and an Infiniti Q30 from a business in an in dustrial centre in Ribaroja de Turia in the early hours of Wednesday morning, Janu ary 13. The culprits broke in to the office after disabling the security alarm, located the keys for the cars and sim ply drove them away. Inves tigating officers believe the men were part of an Eastern European crime gang who steal cars in Spain and export them under different regis tration and VIN numbers. Security called the Riba roja Guardia Civil when they noticed the gate was open, and officers crossed paths with the thieves in El Oliveral industrial estate. The driver of the Porsche rammed one of the Guardia Civil patrol cars before fleeing the scene; officers gave chase but lost the luxury vehicles. Hours later, the National Police located one of the stolen vehicles abandoned on a street in Valencia with a flat tyre.
Giving women their due LAST November, Teulada Moraira councillors approved a motion from the Urban De velopment department, proposing to give women’s names to local streets. The proposal is now being put into practice and the lo cal population has been giv en the opportunity of putting forward the names of influ ential or historicallyrelevant women until February 15. The initiative is open to all residents who may send one email with the names of three candidates to partici pacionciudadana@teu ladamoraira.org with a short explanation for their choices. A shortlist of the most popular names will be an nounced on the town hall’s website after the closing date and put to a popular vote.
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NIBS EXTRA Fast work THE €1.125 million contract to rehabilitate the architectural gem, the Club Social de la Manzanera in Calpe, was put out to tender without a previous Environmental Impact report. Socialist opposition councillors warned that this could incur contract sanctions should the Generalitat halt work after restoration began.
Expert help BENIDORM Town Hall added an extra €50,000 to the original €120,000 it allocated for educational psychology subsidies for infants, primary and secondary pupils. The growing number of requests for help towards paying for private treatment had prompted the decision to increase the budget, explained Education councillor Maite Moreno.
Keep off BUOYS are to remain at Javea’s La Grava all year round, making it safer for swimmers the town hall said. More will also be placed in key zones like Cala Blanca or La Sardinera to prevent pleasure craft from mooring too close to the shore during the winter.
Quite safe THE UGT trade union in Denia complained about inadequate safety measures while cracked marble tiling was repaired on the second floor at the courthouse. Experts later explained this was not a dangerous structural problem, but caused by an absence of adequate expansion joints when the tiles were laid.
Minor hitch FIVE motorcycles belonging to Benidorm’s Local Police had to be taken off the road after their ITV vehicle inspection certificates were not renewed in December. The town hall explained this was due to lack of the Mobility department’s temporary shortage of petty cash, which had now been resolved.
Not here RESIDENTS in the Girasoles urbanisation located in Muchamiel hope to prevent San Vicente Town Hall from installing an animal shelter nearby. Although just outside Muchamiel’s boundaries, the residents’ representative maintained that the shelter was bound to affect them and their municipality should have some say in the matter.
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Purified air for Finestrat schools FINESTRAT’S infants and primary schools have 40 air purifiers fitted with HEPA filters. The town hall has also acquired 40 carbon dioxide meters, announced Finestrat mayor Juanfran Perez Llorca. “We hope this will alleviate the difficult situation in classrooms owing to anti-Covid health and safety measures obliging us to air them,” he said. Parents had complained about the conditions their children were enduring during the recent cold weather, the mayor revealed. “We shall have to continue to air classrooms but installing
AIR PURIFIERS: Ready for installation at Finestrat schools. the purifiers will increase the children’s safety and comfort,” he added. Perez Llorca visited the Mu-
nicipal Nursery School where he emphasised the town hall’s ‘total willingness’ to help with local schools’ needs.
A virtual take on Shakespeare JOE STATON recently contacted the Euro Weekly News, introducing us to the Blind Cupid Shake speare Company. Joe, who lived in the Costa Blanca until 2013 and graduated from drama school in New York City, re cently founded this company that is dedicated to bringing to life the work of William Shakespeare. The Blind Cupid Shakespeare’s members, who come from the UK, the US, Germany, Australia, New Zealand, the Philippines and India, are all pro fessional, trained actors. “We feel that students at international schools in the area, many of whom study Shakespeare’s plays for GCSE and ALevel, miss out by not seeing profes sional actors bring to life the texts they read,” Joe said.
“With that in mind, we aim to bring workshops and productions to the schools as well.” Currently the Blind Cupid company are raising funds that will allow them to pay all the creative artists involved when, Covid permitting, they can fi nally make their way to Spain. Meanwhile, their first fundraiser takes place on Friday February 12 with a virtual showcase of Shakespeare scenes, sonnets, monologues and songs. Fittingly, given the nearness of St Valentine’s Day, the theme will be Love. More information about the virtual perfor mance and the company can be found on their https://www.blindcupidshakespearecompany.co m/ website.
Exquisite Alfaz Extra work for police VALENCIA’S Tourism department JAVEA’S Local Police carried out 8,174 operations last year, has created a new brand, identifying and promoting restaurants offering both quality and the region’s gas tronomy. Until now the L’Exquisit Mediter rani label was limited to the destina tions themselves and gastronomy events that complied with the brand’s standards while generating a different type of gastronomic tourist offer. This has now been expanded to include individual tourism compa nies and restaurateurs, explained Al faz’s Tourism councillor Luis Morant. Bars and restaurants hoping to display the L’Exquisit Mediterrani sticker must meet 21 obligatory re quirements and take into account 14 recommendations. “Our municipality already has this label, thanks to the varied offer of local restaurants and the Tourism department’s yearround promo tion of typical Mediterranean food with events like World Paella Day,” Morant said.
compared with 7,081 in 2019. This 16 per cent rise was directly linked to the Covid19 pandemic, the force’s 2020 report made clear, with proceed ings against flouters begun on 898 occasions. Of these, 545 were infringements of lockdown regulations with 236 fines for not wearing a face mask, 45 for not respect ing hygiene measures and 56 for breaching the curfew. Six bars and restaurants were fined for not complying with distancing rules inside their establishments or on terraces. Proceedings were also launched on four occasions for or ganising private parties or overcrowded events.
Illogical closure JUANJO BERENGUER, Campello’s mayor condemned the decision to close the Muchavista health centre. He described the Generalitat Health department’s plan to divert Muchavista patients to Campello’s principal centre more than five kilometres away as “ridiculous, absurd and illogical.” This also contradicted the health authorities’ anti Covid recommendations of reducing mobility and avoiding overcrowding, Berenguer pointed out in a written protest to the Generalitat. Muchavista is Campello’s mostpopulated area and the decision to close its health centre was ‘incom prehensible’ bearing in mind that earlier the town hall and Generalitat had discussed the need to build a new one.
“The town hall is really glad to help in a situation that is a very difficult situation for pupils and teachers,” the mayor said. “Children will be able to have the windows closed at certain times now that their classrooms have equipment that helps to renew the air and reduce the Covid-19 risk.” Perez Llorca explained that the Generalitat’s Education department intends to equip schools with purifiers, but owing to delays in distribution and on learning that not all classrooms would be covered Finestrat Town Hall decided to take action as soon as possible.
All charged up ALTEA now has a charging sta tion for electric cars at the Gar ganesBasseta car park and an other near the Palau Altea. They were installed thanks to a subsidy from the Valencian In stitute for Businesses Competi tiveness (IVACE) which manages and plans the region’s energy policies. “The town hall wants to con tribute to the municipality’s sus tainability by installing these charging stations, whose use is free for the public,” said Altea’s Infrastructures councillor Diego Zaragozi.
Cooking up A Story A BAR breaking curfew in Olivia had a creative excuse to try and avoid fines. A bar in Olivia in the Valencia re gion was shut down on Wednesday afternoon, January 13, for having more than 20 people on the premis es after the 5pm deadline. According to Covid restrictions in the Valencian region, all bars and restaurants must close their doors at 5pm, and no more than four people can socialise at one table. Not lying down easily, the bar owner claimed that they were all there at 6.30pm because they were filming a cooking show for Valencian regional television, though according to the Guardia, they couldn’t show a shred of evidence to support this. Officials collected details of every one in the bar and they will all be subject to fines for a breach of coron avirus restrictions.
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Naming names in Calpe MOST English speakers refer to Calpe although its official name has been Calp since 2009. Twelve years later, Ciudadanos and Par tido Popular (PP) coun cillors have voted to restore the previous double version of Calpe/Calp. The decision earned criticism from the Compromis and De fendamos parties, who voted against the mo tion while the PSOE socialists abstained al though the local spokesman Santos Pastor described the decision as “a huge mistake.” Pastor also cited the Academia Valenciana de la Llengua, whose experts ruled in 2008 that Calpe was the cor rect version of the mu nicipality’s name. At that time, a Bloc PPPSD coalition con trolled the town hall and PP councillors backed the name change proposed by the thenmayor, Joaquim Tur from the Bloc party. Nevertheless, the name Calpe remained in use and a succession of PP town halls have used the old name in publicity campaigns. During the last council meeting, PP spokesman, Paco Avargues, argued that none of the council lors who voted in favour of the motion remained at the town hall. Nor was there any intention of ban ishing the Calp ver sion, he said. Calpe’s current may or Ana Sala reminded Pastor that his party voted against the 2008 namechange, which she described as a ‘whim’ on Tur’s part.
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Tax Exemptions Before Aid
ALICANTE autonomos have appealed to the government to provide tax exemptions before financial aid packages Leader of the Alicante Provincial Council, Carlos Mazon, has appealed to the president of the Valencian Community, Ximo Puig, to apply more pressure to the central government to reduce tax contributions for the self-employed in the region. Speaking at a meeting on Thursday, January 14, Mr Mazon reiter-
ated that “the most immediate” item on the agenda should be a reduction in the tax burden. “Between all of us, we have to make a very special effort to activate funds, but it is not all about these non-refundable aid packages, since the most immediate support should be to reduce the tax burden on the self-employed,” Mr Mazon said. He added: “It is of little use starting
fund after fund, if we do not send a clear message to the government of Spain asking that it immediately eliminates the quotas for the self-employed until they are actively producing again.” Mr Mazon concluded by asking for “forcefulness” from Puig in demanding tax exemptions as the most immediate and effective measure for alleviating the financial burden caused by Covid19.
Cooking up Falles Festival Cancelled A Story A BAR in Olivia, Valencia, was shut down on Wednesday afternoon, January 13, for having more than 20 people on the premises after the 5pm deadline. According to Covid restrictions in the Valencian region, all bars and restaurants must close their doors at 5pm, and no more than four people can socialise at one table. Not lying down easily, the bar owner claimed that they were all there at 6.30pm because they were filming a cooking show for Valencian regional television, though according to the Guardia, they couldn’t show a shred of evidence to support this. Officials collected details of everyone in the bar and they will all be subject to fines for a breach of coronavirus restrictions.
IN a not so surprising move, the Valencian government announced on Thursday, January 14 the cancellation of the annual Falles festival. Held in March each year, Falles is of the most important festivals in the re gion. In commemoration of Saint Joseph, the festival is marked with stunning firework displays and parades. Speaking after a meeting, the mayor of Valencia, Joan Ribó, con firmed the cancellation of Falles, saying: “We must wait for a more convenient situation.” During the meeting, the mayor made reference to the Covid fund agreed between the Generalitat, Provincial Councils and city councils, which will allocate €120 million to companies and freelancers throughout the Valencian Community, and assured that those per formers and traders who typically take part in the Fallas won’t be left out.
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VAT On Masks THE opposition has criticised the Spanish government for ‘lying’ about not being able to lower the price of face masks, which are mandatory in Spain, when the European Commission gave permission to all states in the European Union on April 3 of last year to lower the VAT on masks and other personal protective equipment (PPE) required in the fight against Covid19. The government did even tually lower the VAT on face masks from 21 to 4 per cent on November 17 after re peatedly insisting that the EU prohibited the reduction. “Months ago I asked the European Commission if they had prohibited reducing the VAT on masks, as our govern ment said. Today they replied, through official channels, that from April 3 it could have done. We deserve a govern ment that does not lie,” José Ramón Bauzá, of Ciudad anos (Cs) wrote on Twitter.
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Alicante Field Hospital THE Alicante field hospital, lo cated on the premises of the General University Hospital of Alicante, was put into opera tion on Sunday, January 17, to accommodate the hospitalisa tion of Covid patients with mild or moderate clinical conditions, in order to relieve pressure in centres in the province due to
FIELD HOSPITAL: Is now in operation.
Nurses Struck Off
THE Department of Health has confirmed ‘a very serious’ in cident has occurred during the vaccination of disabled resi dents at a centre in Tortosa, Tarragona. The department has been alerted to the fact a number of Catalan Health Institute (ICS) nurses in charge of administer ing the jabs had given the vaccine to relatives. The authority said this is ‘totally irregular’ as vaccines are currently only being administered to residents and health professionals. A similar incident occurred at a residence in Madrid earlier this month. Catalonia’s Secretary of Public Health, Josep Maria Argi mon, insisted this is an isolated case and has defended the work of the vaccination teams. However, he did warn that “any incident of this type will be punishable,” and assured the staff in question “have been removed from their jobs” and the department has opened an investigation.
AUTONOMOUS communities across Spain are already administering the second dose of Pfizer’s vaccine against Covid-19 after eight communities began the second round of the vaccination process on Monday January 18 with Araceli Hidalgo (96), said to be the first person to be vaccinated in Spain, receiving her second dose. The second dose will be administered to residents and healthcare professionals throughout Spain, although the vaccine requires at least one week to create immunity. In a statement, the Ministry of Health recalled that prevention measures, the use of a
Second Dose Rollout mask, social distancing and hand washing, must also be maintained among vaccinated people. According to Health, the vaccination strategy against Covid-19 in Spain is going as planned with the latest data reported on Friday, January 15, stating that 1,139,400 vaccines have been distributed and 768,950 administered - with a new weekly batch of doses of Pfizer’s vaccine which arrived from Belgium on January 18.
the increase in cases. The Department of Univer sal Health and Public Health has announced this week the fitting out of 280 beds in the three field hospitals of the Community, of which a total of 80 correspond to the Alicante field hospital, the Generalitat has indicated in a statement. The Alicante field hospital, like its counterparts in Castelló and Valencia, will treat patients over the age of 18 who are positive for Covid confirmed by PCR and who have previ ously been admitted to an acute hospital and are recover ing from the illness. The Department specifies that if they have respiratory failure, it must be corrected with low oxygen flows. This infrastructure is divided into different hospitalisation units, which have nursing con trols and medical consulta tions, equipped with the neces sary equipment to treat patients individually and is al so being used for PCR testing.
In total, 205,727 doses will be distributed equally among the autonomous communities, ensuring that all of them can administer the second dose to the people who have it this week. In total, Spain will receive 4,591,275 doses of the Pfizer vaccine with which 2,295,638 people will be immunised. In addition, on Tuesday January 12, the first Moderna vaccines arrived in Spain, which have also been distributed since last week. In total, 599,500 doses will be distributed among all the autonomous communities in a period of five weeks, until the third week of February included.
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Benidorm pricier rents THE coronavirus pandemic and loss of income brought with it for many hit the Spanish rental market hard in 2020, with a yearonyear increase of only 4.6 per cent nationally the lowest in the last six years. Despite Alicante being one of on ly seven regions in Spain where a fall was registered, Benidorm remains considerably pricier for a rental home than many other places. According to the latest data from Fotocasa, an 80metre flat in the centre of Alicante’s party capital will set you back an average of €713 per month that’s a whopping €8.92 per square metre. And this is despite the fact that rental prices in the city dropped by 11.2 per cent, representing one of the biggest decreases in the country. Ibiza in the Balearic Islands took the biggest hit with a 16.1 per cent drop in rental prices, closely followed by Tenerife at 15.5 per cent and Barcelona capital at 12.1 per cent.
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PCR Demand Doubles BUSINESS in private clinics has boomed in recent weeks to dou ble what it was at the beginning of December, as people in Spain clamour to obtain Covid PCR tests. Meanwhile, the waiting times in public clinics for a test have now extended to over a week in many areas. “The request for tests has skyrocketed at the beginning of the year to double what there was before Christmas because people are looking for a life in the face of saturation in public health,” a spokesperson for a private Alicante clinic said on Thursday, Janu ary 14. A GP in Elche cautioned that many people receiving a negative result from these private clinics then continue on as normal, de spite coming into contact with someone who has Covid19. “I find many times that I call a person who should be in isolation for having been in contact with a positive case and is away from home because a test has been done in private and the result has been negative,” the doctor said.
Free masks given out THE Alicante City Council began a massive drive on Friday, January 15, to distribute some five million protective face masks throughout the region. The operation, in conjunction between Sumevet Orthopedia and Correos, will deliver €576,000 worth of masks through mail boxes ‘over the next few weeks’ in shipments of 200,000 per week. “Over the next few weeks, the distribution will continue until the distribution of the million shipments announced by the Consistory is completed,” the Council said. “The adoption of preventive measures by the public authorities will reduce the risks of contagion in the short term among the population and the costs derived in the long term,” they added.
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Foreign office apology BRITAIN’S Foreign Office has been forced to apologise after emails were leaked containing offensive comments by civil servants about the family of
Harry Dunn. The Foreign Office apologised for the ‘unprofessional and unacceptable’ language used in private exchanges be-
Hero Teacher Delivers Meals
ZANE POWLES, aged 48, an assistant head teacher at the Western Pri mary School in Grimsby, delivered an amazing 7,500 meals to children during the first national lockdown and he has now stepped up again. After Zane saw the food parcels that families had been receiving in place of food vouchers he was ‘horrified’ and exclaimed “The original packed lunch they provide is rubbish in my opinion, I would be horrified if my kids were getting that! “I can’t believe a company is profiting from our vulnerable children.” After the public uproar over the food parcels the government has now reverted to food vouchers, which allow families to shop for their children’s lunches. Zane is a very welcome sight to many families, with his giant ruck sacks of packed lunches for the children. He has also been helping out by delivering laptops that have been donated. Lewis, a sixyearold fan said, “I think everyone should be more like Mr Powles. “He’s 100 per cent nice and really helpful. It’s been scary with everyone suffering from it (Covid), but it makes me happy to see Mr Powles. Most mornings I wait for him. “I like to thank him for saving the world and bringing our packed lunches and saving lives.”
tween civil servants and officials describing the family of Harry Dunn. The 19-year-old was killed when the wife of a US intelligence official, Anne Sacoolas, smashed into his motorcycle while driving on the wrong side of the road in Northamptonshire. The case sparked outrage, as Sacoolas fled to the US and cannot be extradited for manslaughter due to diplomatic immunity. The bereaved family of Harry Dunn campaigned publicly for Sacoolas to face trial, though recently leaked emails reveal what some Foreign Office officials really thought about the Dunns. One email said that calls from Dunn’s mother for Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab to resign over the scandal were ‘totally excessive.’ An official wrote that the family ‘don’t understand anything at all’ and that Dunn’s parents were so convinced of ‘everyone’s bad faith that it never crosses their mind that anything of what we are telling
HARRY DUNN: Killed while on his motorcycle. them might be true.’ The family’s spokesperson was described in the internal emails as ‘evil,’ ‘aggressive,’ and ‘eratic,’ though officials also conceded that he had played a ‘media blinder.’ The comments have been slammed by many for being insensitive and extremely unprofessional in the case of a tragic loss of young life. The Foreign Office has apologised over the comments, and has said that managerial action has been taken against their authors.
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Euro Weekly News ‘On-Air’ Schofield “we’ll get the bill” With BBC Merseyside Radio C EO Michel Euesden gave a live interview on Monday morning, January 18, to BBC Merseyside Radio. She was invited on to give an insight into how Brexit has affected the lives of the many thousands of expat residents in Spain. Michel said the paper was picked up and Giving an insight into Brexit. read every Thursday and was a major source plained in English for the of information as to what’s non-Spanish speaking readgoing on in Spain and, more er. importantly, what new rules The interview also includthere are regarding the ed expat Jan Miller, from Covid restrictions - all ex-
Warrington in Cheshire, who moved to Spain in December 2020. She goes on to describe the ‘interesting’ journey she is experiencing as she starts her new life with her partner and their two friends while they settle down in Spain. Michel Euesden was also recently interviewed by a BBC news team at the E W N offices. The short documentary was intended to explain just how life is changing on the Costa del Sol for the many thousands of expats the paper serves.
‘Non-Priority’ Officials Vaccinated THE Ministry of Health on Thursday, January 14, opened an investigation to establish why 15 people in the Alicante region who do not fall into priority groups have already received the Covid-19 vaccine. It has been reported that two mayors in Marina Alta, Local Police, Guardia Civil and eight officials of the Almoradi City Council have been vaccinated. T here are currently four priority groups who are supposed to be first in line for the jab, consisting of the elderly,
health and social care workers and other front-line staff. Sources from the Ministry explained that the administration of vaccines is the responsibility of the health departments and there is no way of policing who gets the jabs when. Nevertheless, officials are investigating this irregularity and have requested information from the health departments of Marina Alta and Orihuela, as well as the Torrevieja department, which is privately managed by Ribera Salud.
THIS MORNING viewers were amazed and heartened by a simple act of generosity by Philip himself, after a clearly distraught viewer rang in and explained she could not eat or sleep with intense worry over a £700 electric bill. Presenter Philip Schofield said it would be looked after one way or another referring to the outstanding amount.
Patricia, the viewer who it was discovered is 73 years old, was supposed to send her readings into her new supplier, but it was a little too much for her and the bill mounted up. Money Matters expert Martin Lewis was on hand after the show to explain to Patricia how to send readings in, as it was an integral part of the agreement you sign with the energy supplier.
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More bank cuts Masks Until 2022
BANCO SABADELL have been given the green light to allow the departure of a total of 1,817 employees in Spain, with which it has accepted the vast majority of requests to join the early retirement plan and voluntary dismissals agreed with the unions, which resulted in 1,860 requests. This has been explained by union sources, who have added that only a total of 43
people have been left out, due to an excess of applications in the north of Spain, in territories such as Asturias, Guipúzcoa or Navarra, among others. Banco Sabadell had proposed to reduce its workforce by around 1,800 people in Spain so that in the end, the number of departures was fully adjusted to the bank’s expectations. These sources
have specified that the bulk of departures will take place between February 28 and March 31, although the process has already begun with departures carrying on into April. Through these actions, Sabadell anticipates maximum savings which have been sought by the bank for some time and will achieve the efficiency objectives that have been proposed.
Ruled Out Again THE Minister of Health Salvador Illa again ruled out imposing home confinement after speaking on Monday, January 18. The Minister of Health, Salvador Illa, insisted this morning in an interview in Al Rojo Vivo that he has ruled out imposing home confinement similar to that of last spring, despite the advance of the third wave. “With the strategy that already worked in Octo ber we can break this wave,” he said, referring to the fact that the second wave, in autumn, was able to stop without closure, with restrictive measures by communities such as the curfew and closing of shops.
The current State of Alarm does not include home confinement and “with this package of mea sures we managed to defeat the second wave and I am convinced that we will defeat the third,” he said. In addition, Illa has responded that the govern ment has taken Castilla y León to the Supreme Court after they advanced their curfew to 8pm, which goes against the State of Alarm issued by Royal Decree. Until the Supreme Court have made their ruling, Illa said that he was not looking to battle anyone ex cept the virus: “My adversary is the virus, it is not the president of Castilla y León, nor the president Ayuso. It is about defeating the virus.”
T H E director of the A I D S Research Institute (IrsiCaixa) and head of Infectious Diseases at the Germans Trias i Pujol Hospital (Can Ruti), B onaventura C lotet, believes that “we will have to get used to masks” as he sees them having to be used until 2022. In statements to the programme Faqs, of T V 3 he said: “ W e have to get used to the fact that the use of masks will last until 2022,” who pointed out that after the appearance of the M E R S respiratory coronavirus in 2012, “they should have spent a lot of money to prevent a new worse variant from appearing.” The expert is committed to continuing the research on vaccines, since “in fact, it has already been published that there are coronaviruses that have mutations and characteristics that
would not be sensitive and would not be neutralised with the antibodies that are generat-
ed with current vaccines. “ I t is necessary to continue investigating vaccines,” he concluded.
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DESPITE the global coronavirus pandemic putting an unprecedented strain on hospitals throughout 2020, it seems that the transplant system in Spain hasn’t bowed to the pressure and maintains its ‘position of global excellence,’ according to Silvia Calzón, the Secretary of State for Health. Data released on Monday, January 18, by the National Transplant Organisation (ONT) shows that 4,425 transplants were performed in Spain last year, and a total of 1,777 people donated their organs after their death, a figure that remains much higher than anywhere else in the world. “Despite slowing down its pace of activity, we continue to be in a position of excellence worldwide,” Calzón highlighted. “We must not forget that only between 1 and 2 per cent of people who die in a hospital do so in a condition to be donors and they do so in ICUs, units that have been very saturated, especially in the most critical moments of the epidemic,” Calzón added. Additionally, 2020 saw Spain carry out the highest number of transplants on children in the history of the ONT 197.
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Everybody’s pitching in THE region’s Health department made a call to all health employees who are qualified, and able, to give injections. Once the most vulnerable members of society have been vaccinated against Covid-19, the Generalitat plans to carry out a mass vaccination plan starting in April. With this in mind, the Generalitat’s Health chief Ana Barcelo has been in touch, via Zoom, with the official Colleges of Medicine, Nursing, Odontology, Pharmacy, Physiotherapy, Veterinarians, Nutrition and Podology. The outcome, according to the Valencian Community’s College of Nursing, was the decision to create a pool of health professionals who, after a short training course, would be capable of giving the anti-Covid vaccination. The Colleges of Nursing in Valencia, Alicante and Castellon have already created their own teams of retired nurses, those currently employed in private clinics and midwives, who have all volunteered to
give the vaccine when necessary. The president of the Alicante College of Veterinary Surgeons, Gonzalo Moreno, also said members were willing to put together a list of volunteers prepared to put themselves at the disposal of the Health department. “As we did during the first wave, we have offered all our professional help and technology,” said Moreno who represents Alicante Province’s 1,013 vets. “When the pandemic began we handed over our veterinary ventilators which could then be used to save human lives, while supplying sophisticated ultrasound equipment as well as gloves and face masks,” he stated. Moreno also revealed Barcelo said that at present the Valencian Community is receiving 31,000 doses of vaccine each week and at present has sufficient medical staff to administer the shots. But once April arrives, she said, vaccination will be carried out at a far greater pace.
New shop for Giving4Giving SINCE opening its doors in July 2012, volunteers at Giving4Giving charity have raised and donated well over €186,000 to help and support local cancer charities and other worthy causes up and down the Costa Blanca through sales at the charity shops, furniture warehouse and also organising various fundraising events.
As a growing charity, Gary, the charity president is delighted to announce that an additional charity shop is to be opened in late spring this year in the town of Benidorm; not only will the new shop help to provide additional income for the charity, hopefully it will also benefit from becoming part of the local com-
munity and raise awareness of the vital work and people it supports. Donations are urgently needed to fill the empty shop, ready for the grand opening in late spring clothing, footwear, bric-a-brac, electrical goods, household linen, furniture, childrenswear etc. Your kind donations can be dropped off at the new shop or any of the other charity shops located in La Nucia, Altea, Albir and Villajoyosa. Alternatively, Gary can arrange a pickup service for larger items, covering all areas. The charity is also appealing for volunteers to join the team running the shop; if you enjoy meeting new people and would like to make a difference in the local community, please get in touch soon. The new shop is situated in Calle de Rioja, just off Avenida de Ruzafa right in the heart of the old town. Planned opening hours are Monday to Saturday, 10.00 14.00. For any further information, please contact Gary on 603 137 697 or visit our Facebook page Giving4Giving Charity (Registered Charity - No. CV-01-052196-A) ‘THE CHARITY THAT KEEPS ON GIVING’
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Brit Brexit confusion Turned back at the airport.
LUCY and Adam Montgomery have been living in Barcelona for several years and both pos sess NIE numbers in Spain. Returning from a Christmas visit to family in Northern Ire land, they flew back to the Catalan capital via Manches
Amazon Creates Jobs CORONAVIRUS restrictions and forced retail closures saw a huge shift away from traditional shopping in Spain, and online retail giant Amazon certainly made the most of the new trend, employing a whopping 5,000 people in 2020, bringing its Spanish workforce up to 12,000. The company announced on Thursday, January 14, that it now operates in 28 different locations in Spain, with new logistical centres having opened in Madrid and Sevilla in 2020. “We are incredibly proud to support thousands of people in Spain and their families in these difficult times. This is not only great news for those looking for a new job, but also a clear vote of confidence in the Spanish economy, in the hope that we can contribute to accelerating the recovery after the pandemic,” reported Mariangela Marseglia, Vice President and General Director for Amazon in Italy and Spain. “We have been overwhelmed by the trust that millions of Spanish customers have placed in Amazon and we will continue to work tirelessly for them and for the thousands of SMEs that work with us.”
ter. Upon arriving at Barcelona airport, border officials urged passengers to immediately take out their passports. The plane was divided into three lines for Spanish, EU, and British citizens. The Brits were quizzed about their residency permits by border police, who told Lucy she would not be permitted to enter the country as her TIE (registration number for nonEU citizens) docu ments were still being processed. She showed the police tax statements, proof of address, and other evidence that she was a resident of Spain to no avail. As her husband Adam al ready had a TIE number, he was permitted to enter the country. As the couple have two dogs in Barcelona, they were forced to separate and Lucy flew back to the UK. The case has highlighted the postBrexit confusion faced by many British expats living in Spain, as overnight changes to the law brought in over the new year have caused wide spread travel issues.
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Guardia Civil confirm ‘It’s a scam’ A NEW scam alert has been is sued by the Guardia Civil re garding a download scam linked to the theft of bank de tails. The scam is sent by SMS message to your phone and suggests downloading an app to track a parcel coming to you, and it also suggests that to be sure to receive this item you must download the app to your phone. A Trojan or similar hidden software will then proceed to try and recover any bank details you have on your phone or within the commu nication received by third parties such as receipts, con
SMS SCAM: Suggests there is a parcel on its way to you.
firmations and orders. This scam impersonates the post office of Spain ‘Correos’ and asks you to upload your TIE or DNI document and a photo to be able to receive a parcel. The very clear advice from the Guardia Civil is not to
download and not to give your details if you receive a message as described, but to go to your post office and show them what you have received where all will be confirmed immedi ately. If you are not sure, don’t click it, the best advice always.
Freezing Classrooms unbearable AS most areas of Spain experience some of the coldest weather in a decade, teachers’ unions are demanding urgent action as students and teachers alike are forced to wear hats, scarves and coats in the classroom and wrap up in blankets due to guidance to keep doors and windows open to ensure plenty of cross-ventilation in the prevention of coronavirus. However, the unions are now urgently calling on the Department of Education to install air filters in the classroom or revert to online
teaching, as the conditions in schools have become unbearable. According to one union, students are being forced to try and learn “in the heart of the cold snap with the lowest temperatures in decades, exposed to temperatures of 5 degrees Celsius, when the Law of Education states the minimum is 17 degrees, covered with blankets, with coats on, gloves, scarves and hats. What kind of system is it that condemns people to wither, get sick from the virus or catch pneumonia?”
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Court process for eviction in Spain Work undertaken in good faith IN today’s article, we want to dis cuss the Supreme Court ruling number 614/2020 which was granted on November 17, 2020, relative to the court process con cerning eviction in Spain. The facts of the case The most relevant facts of the case were: • A man gave his son and his son’s wife use of a property and they undertook building work on the property during their mar riage. • The invoices, quotes, etc are in the name of his son and wife and it is assumed that the work was paid for with common mon ey from the marriage. • The father (the owner) knew and consented to the work that was undertaken. • Subsequently, his son and wife got divorced and she was granted the use of the property. Later however the father initiated an eviction case against her for unjustified occupation, arguing that she had no title to occupy the property.
Eventually, the Supreme Court ruled that the owner had no right to evict her as he had not com pensated her for the construction carried out in good faith by her during the marriage. Consideration of precarious: given the property use to the chil dren The Spanish definition of pre carious refers to and explains the possession of something without holding sufficient title. The Supreme Court has said that when, for example, a father gives a son and his partner a property, free of charge and with out a specified term, it is consid ered precarious. Therefore, the possession can be recovered, at the demand of the person who allowed the property to be occu pied. In this case, later, in the divorce proceedings, the use of the prop
erty was awarded to the wife (ex daughterinlaw). Work carried out and the rights of the occupant Article 361 of the Spanish Civil Code (CC), states that: The owner of the land on which building takes place by a third party in good faith shall have the right to keep the construction for himself, after payment of the compensation established in arti cles 453 and 454, or to oblige the other party to pay him, the value of the land. On the other hand, article 453 CC, states that: The necessary expenses are paid to every holder; but only the one in good faith can retain the thing until they are satisfied Conclusion The Supreme Court says that in the first place, the owner can keep what is built on his land. Sec
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ondly however, this does not hap pen automatically as the owner has to confirm his wishes and pay the legally fixed compensation. Therefore, until that moment, and in this case, the former daughterinlaw, continued to be the owner (at least in part) of the construction, and held, in good faith, possession of the occupied land. Thus, according to article 453, she can retain possession of the construction. All of this is conditional to good faith, which in this case is under stood to be proven. Mainly, be cause the owner of the land con sented and agreed with the works done. If you have doubts about the court process for eviction in Spain, or in relation to any judicial proce dures in Spain, you can contact us on our website: www.white baos.com or keep up to date through our Facebook page. The information provided in this article is not intended to be le gal advice, it merely conveys infor mation related to legal issues.
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GOOGLE has announced that its acquisition of wearable fitness device Fitbit is complete. The announcement that the multifunctional Fitbit watch is now officially part of Google was made by Rick Osterloh, Senior Vice President of Devices and Services for Google. The purchase, which had been announced in 2019, was made for an approximate 2.1
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Google announces completion ERTE Extended of its Fitbit acquisition million dollars. The US authorities are still investigating the purchase, while in Europe it went ahead after accepting measures to guarantee that it would not further increase
the hold that Google has over the digital publicity market, following fears that data from the Fitbit could be used to personalise advertising. In the release, Osterloh em-
phasised that the acquisition ‘has always been about the devices, not data’ to clarify Google’s intentions. Google has made commitments promising that Fitbit users’ health data will not be used for targeting ads, and they will still have the choice of keeping fitness data on a Fitbit account whether or not they want to share it to third parties (like Google Fit).
THE Executive Committee of the Spanish Confederation of Business Organisations (CEOE) met on Tuesday January 19 and have unanimously approved the document that will extend the ERTE until May 31 as offered by the government. The CEOE has also supported the request of ATA, the main association of self-employed, to provide protection and help to entrepreneurs who are being affected by capacity and activity limitations by administrative order. “The governing bodies of CEOE have unanimously decided to approve the document on the extension of temporary employment regulation files (ERTEs) until next May 31,” said the statement, which will maintain in very similar terms the current regulations, in force until January 31.
ChefBot Banned THE Commercial Court of Barcelona has ordered the multinational supermarket chain Lidl to remove all of its Monsieur Cousine ‘ChefBot’ machines from the market, considering that it has breached the patent of Thermomix. The ruling comes after a lawsuit brought in the Spanish courts by the German company Vorwerk, manufacturer of Ther-
momix, against the Lidl supermarkets, distributors of Monsieur Cuisine Connect. The court ruled that Vorwerk has all the rights of its machine protected in Spain and it considers that Lidl has infringed on those rights with its machine. The court concluded that the machine marketed by Lidl ‘reproduces each and every one of the characteris-
tics’ of the Vorwerk patent, thereby violating the Patent Law. The court ordered Lidl to cease importing, storing, offering and marketing the Monsieur Cousine Connect machine, and to withdraw all machines from the market, those in its possession and that of its distributors. Also, to withdraw all advertising and promotional material, including that hosted on the internet. The Barcelona court concludes that Lidl’s robot constitutes ‘an infringement of the exclusive rights deriving from the Spanish patent’ held by Vorwerk and must also compensate the manufacturer for the damage caused. That figure has not yet been fixed but will be set at the stage of enforcement of this judgement.
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Fireball spotted crossing Andalucia at 65,000 km/h A BA L L of fire was seen crossing the sky between Andalucia and Morocco at a speed of 65,000 km/h at around 10.10pm on Wednesday, January 13. The rock was part of a comet which upon impacting the atmosphere at such a high speed became incandescent. Many people spotted it in
Andalucia, according to astrophysicist Jose Maria Madiedo from the Andalucia Institute of Astrophysics (IAA-CSIC) who is in charge of the S M A R T project which tracks such occurrences. The fireball ignited at around 106 kilometes above Alhucemas in north Morocco then travelled
northeast and was finally extinguished 65 kilometres above the Mediterranean, some 30 kilometres from the coast of Morocco. It covered a distance of approximately 50 kilometres. It was caught by S M A R T project detectors from the observatories of Calar Alto ( A lmeria), S ierra N evada (Granada) and Sevilla.
Vaccine Blunder THE Orihuela Health councillor, Jose Galiano, has confirmed that he received his first dose of the Pfizer Covid19 vaccination on Wednesday January 6, at a time when people from the four priority groups were supposed to be first in line for the jab. The councillor has insisted that he was offered the vaccine by medical staff who claimed they had excess doses of the jab. “I was in the health centre and when they told me there were excess doses I agreed to get one, be cause if I didn’t they were going to throw them away,” said Galiano, who is in fact a qualified nurse but has been on sabbatical for a year and a half. On Thursday, January 14, the Ministry of Health revealed that it had opened an investigation to es tablish why 15 people in the Alicante region who did not fall into priority groups had already received the Covid19 vaccine. It has been reported that two mayors in Marina Alta, Local Police, Guardia Civil and eight officials of the Almoradi City Council have been vaccinated.
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Stuck fast in window
LOCAL POLICE in the Pio XII neighbourhood of Sevilla managed to arrest a thief with 51 previous arrests as he attempted to rob a bar on Calle Llerena in the early hours of Friday morning, January 15. Neighbours contacted the emergency services when they heard noises coming from the premises at around 1.30am, before the security alarm started going off. When the Local Police arrived at the address, they were surprised to find the 40year-old burglar stuck half-in, half-out of the front window of the bar. They also found the tools with which he had managed to pry open the security shutters. Because of the thief’s unfortunate position, officers wasted no time in arresting the man. Once back at the station the officers realised that the man had been arrested on no less than 51 previous occasions, the most recent being two days beforehand, for theft.
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Guardians Voluntary Gambling Exclusions Barcelona ‘Strategic Plan 2021-2025’ for The Alhambra THE Junta de Andalucia has set out to provide new guardians for the Alham bra and the Generalife in Granada, in the form of fal conry birds of prey. They will not only restore a cul tural history linked to the Nasrid times, but also pro tect the monuments and their surroundings from being damaged by pi geons. Falconer, Paulino Vázquez, is the head of the project that will project the gardens and forests along with the artistic heritage of the Alhambra. His team of guardians consists of brothers Rómulo and Re mo, who are Harris’s ea gles, two hawks and a goshawk. The birds of prey will be used to displace groups of pigeons and move them into a more appropriate habitat.
IN a bid to help both gam blers and their affected families, gamblers can vol untarily register to be ex cluded from gambling. The Ministry of Consumer Af fairs states that in 2020 in Spain, over 6,000 people chose to voluntarily be ex cluded from online gam ONLINE: Access restricted. bling. The protective mea sures of the registries mean addicts can be blocked from gambling if they deem that it has become a problem for them. There are both state and autonomous community registers, which serve different purposes. The state registry controls access to online gambling and the au tonomous community registers restricted access to physical gaming businesses, that are regulated in the autonomous communities.
Madrid’s ‘Catastrophic Zone’ THE mayor of Madrid, José Luis Martínez Almeida, called on the Spanish government on Thurs day, January 14, to declare the country’s capital city a “cata strophic zone” following an esti mated €1.4million worth of damages caused by Storm Filomena. “We request the declaration of a catastrophic zone, the cir cumstances exist for it and I ask
the central government for speed in its response,” said Almeida. The mayor has also called an extraordinary plenary session to discuss the municipal manage ment of the recovery after the storm. Storm Filomena ripped through Madrid for several days, causing the worst snowstorm in half a century and causing un told damage in the city.
THE port of Barcelona unveiled the ‘Strategic Plan 20212025’ at the headquarters of Foment del Treball on Wednesday Janu ary 13. The main economic objec tives are to raise the value of the goods it moves internationally above €70,000 million. This will increase to 40,000, the number of people that are employed lo cally, and hopefully, bring an end to 50 per cent of the con tainer docks being empty. The president of the port, Mercè Conesa, who presented the plan together with the gen
BARCELONA PORT: The main logistics hub in the Med. eral director of the port of Barcelona, José Alberto Car bonell, and the vice president of Foment, Joaquim Llansó, high lighted that the port is already
the main logistics hub in the Mediterranean, with €65,000 million of annual exports, and moves 25 per cent of Spain’s for eign trade.
Katie’s Heart-Breaking Decision KATIE PRICE has made the heart-breaking decision that no mother would ever want to make, of putting her 18-year-old, 6ft 2in and almost 29st, disabled son Harvey, who also has a disorder which makes him partially blind, into a residential college. A devastated Katie, aged 42, said “It breaks my heart. I don’t want him to think I’m just getting rid of him. It’s so upsetting to think I won’t see him every day but this is the best thing for Harvey and we have to think positively because I don’t want him to think I’m just getting rid of him. This is his chance to live an independent life, learn skills, and socialise with people other than me.” She continued, “I’m trying to get him used to
me not being there all the time. But he’ll call on his iPad and say, ‘Mum, I need you,’ and I run to him. When he’s away it will break my heart because I won’t be able to get there, as I’ve got to juggle him with my other kids. When he goes to college he will learn to be an adult. He says now, ‘Mummy, I’m not a boy, I’m a man’.” Katie added, “The other kids are excited for him, they want to see what he can do. But I think they’ll find it hard when he’s not around on weekends. I need to learn to let go but it’s tough, anyone in my position knows how hard it is. We have an incredible bond. I don’t know how Harvey will react or how he’ll feel when I can’t get to him. It’s too painful to think about.”
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Infrared Covid Cameras
THE city council of Alicante has begun the installation of 21 infrared thermal imaging cameras in some of the busier public offices which see the most footfall in their latest operation to reduce the spread of Covid-19. The highly specialised cameras, will be placed at building entrances,
measure body temperature; they can, in fact, record several temperatures at once and will sound an alarm if anybody tried to enter with a body temperature higher than 37 degrees. According to councillor for New Technology, Innovation and Informatics, Antonio Peral, the “cam-
eras reinforce security as one more measure that guarantees greater protection for both citizens who access the city council and officials against Covid.” The cameras will be installed at the Department of Finance, Citizens Advice Centre and Urban Planning, to name but a few.
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Spain’s ambitious vision for 100% renewable energy SPAIN aims to cut carbon emissions to net zero by 2050, according to a new climate change bill, which sets out an ambitious raft of targets to tackle glob al warming over the next 30 years. If the bill gets the go head from Spanish Parliament, at least 70 per cent of the country’s energy will need to come from clean energy sources, such as wind and solar, and all new coal, oil and gas extraction projects will be banned. The new bill goes handinhand with the Paris Climate Agreement, a global framework to limit global warming to well below 2ºC, and is also expected to shape the country’s economic recovery from Covid19. While the plans are ambitious, Spain has already made great headway into shaking up the electricity market in favour of renewable energies. Con sumers have been given more flexibili ty to switch electricity suppliers, giving green energy companies the opportuni ty to offer competitive tariffs, while supplying electricity from 100 per cent renewable sources. And, more recently, the removal of Spain’s infamous ‘sun tax’ has paved the way for more businesses and households to generate their own elec tricity using solar roof panels. With more than 300 days of sun per year,
Spain provides the perfect location for generating electricity from solar power. The former taxes and complex legis lation had previously made the process of installing and using solar PV panels prohibitive, but thanks to the abolition of these taxes more and more con sumers are choosing to invest in solar energy as a way of saving money and taking a step towards sustainable liv ing. The new legislation on solar PV pan els even goes a stage further and al lows those who generate solar energy to be financially compensated for any surplus energy they produce, which can then be fed into the National Grid. In addition to the legislative changes, which empower businesses and con sumers to be able to generate and con sume renewable energy, the govern ment is also committing to installing a minimum of 3,000 MW of wind and so lar power capacity, each year for the next 10 years. Speaking about Spain’s environmen tal aims, Laurence Tubiana, chief exec utive of the European Climate Founda tion said: “By planning on going carbon neutral, Spain shows that the battle against climate change is deadly seri ous, that they are ready to step up and plan to reap the rewards of decarboni sation.”
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Passports stolen
EVEN though there have been numerous allegations of civil rights breaches in Qatar, the Danish Government has indicated that if the Danish National Football Team qualifies for the World Cup Finals, it will not ban it from taking part.
THIEVES in the city of KĂśthen broke into a register office and removed a safe weighing 750 kilos which, it has been revealed, contained a large number of identity cards and passports as well as two finger-print scanners.
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Hydrogen problem
Back off
AN experiment to introduce buses run on hydrogen (which is considered one of the better green energy sources) in Charleroi which was first approved in May of last year has been postponed due to lack of development funding.
WORKERS and unions are upset by a new rule introduced by Swedish maker of toilet paper Essity which wants to make it mandatory for staff in France to wear a device that makes a noise if they violate social distancing rules.
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Child benefit scandal
Meteor strike
JUST two months before the next Dutch general election, it is possible that the government may decide to resign as politicians are due to debate a report highlighting a scandal concerning the tax office treatment of families wrongly suspected of benefit fraud.
THOSE living in the vicinity of the small town of Løten saw and heard the sudden arrival of a meteorite and are tr ying to find the outer space visitor (which is estimated to have weighed less than two kilos) in the thick snow.
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CAFETERIA BECOMES AN ICU CAFETERIA: Prepared for an increase in patients.
THE cafeteria in Malaga’s re gional hospital is being pre pared for use as an ICU ward for incoming patients affected by the recent rise in Covid infec tions. This ward has been ‘installed’ before in the cafeteria when numbers of infected patients in
creased, and the need for anoth er ICU arose. The whole of the hospital has undergone a restructure of vary ing degrees to accommodate what it’s believed will be a con siderable rise in admissions in the next 14 days. The Hospital management confirmed Oncological surgery would go ahead despite the in flux of Covid patients, and as much normal practice would continue. Still, nonurgent procedures may take a back seat till the facili ty can accommodate patients. It’s always a worrying develop ment when cafeterias are turned into intensive care wards, but it’s a necessary one in these difficult times.
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Finally Reimbursed IBERIA AIRLINES has finally reimbursed €17,153 for a cancelled trip to Japan. The monies were returned to the customer and his five companions who decided to cancel the trip due to the Covid-19 pandemic, according to Spain’s consumer defence organisation Facua, which helped in this process. Antonio, a Madrid resident, booked six plane tickets in January 2020 to holiday in Japan with his friends. The trip, which was scheduled for the end of March and set to last for 10 days, included changes in the booking conditions allowed without penalty, in addition to the possibility of reimbursement. In March, due to Spain’s State of Alarm and home confinement, Antonio requested the cancellation of the trip and reimbursement of the amounts paid, since it was impossible to travel. Antonio said that the airline refused to return the money and would only send him a voucher for the same amount. Even though the airline ended up cancelling the flight due to the pandemic, it continued to refuse to refund the price of the tickets, offering the only option of the voucher once more. Faced with this situation, Antonio decided to go to Facua Madrid to help him manage the corresponding claim against the airline and after nine months, Iberia Airlines finally reimbursed the total amount.
FINANCE Refinancing SABA, the Spanish car park group owned by Criteria Caixa, the investment holding company of La Caixa bank has suffered from the lockdown and is now refinancing debts of €465 million with a number of lenders and is extending the life of its loans.
Recession bound A REPORT from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) highlighted the fact that the UK gross domestic product (GDP) declined by 2.6 per cent in November. GDP at the end of the month was 8.5 per cent below its pre-pandemic peak.
Fishing for shrimp FISHING company Iberconsa is to spend €26 million to have two new vessels built in order to strengthen its fleet and these will sail to Argentinian waters to fish for shrimp which is a new area of operation for the Galician organisation.
Jobs saved A RESCUE deal has been agreed for the Edinburgh Woollen Mill with Purepay Retail, a syndicate of investors led by the former chief operating officer of the group which will save 1,450 workers and salvage both Ponden Home and Bonmarche.
UK lockdown insurance THOUSANDS of small businesses in the UK will receive compensation from their insurance companies to cover losses incurred during the first national lockdown, following a recent court ruling. It was a test case put together by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) with the agreement of some insurance companies and small business protection groups. The Supreme Court ruled that small firms should receive payments under business interruption insurance policies which could now cost the insurers millions of pounds and form a precedence for future claims.
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is the amount of money that Bankinter placed in its Luxembourg subsidiary in 2020 on behalf of clients looking to move their savings.
Covid dismissal upheld
EU Recovery Fund money ALTHOUGH the announce ment of the huge sums to be made available to Spain from the EU’s Recovery Fund was widely applaud ed, none has been received as yet and it appears that the government will have to prove that it is worthy of receiving the funds. The problem for Spain is that it needs the money in order to support the nu merous changes and finan cial aid that it has included in its 2021 budget which it
self assumes the injection of €34 billion from the Eu ropean Union. Already it has been made clear that the ma chinery behind the two major new Tobin and Google taxes which were to generate significant in come for the country is lacking and this is an indi cation that the bureaucra cy behind the Spanish tax system is due for a major overhaul. The coalition govern
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ment is committed to re form of some of the origi nal labour laws introduced by the Partido Popular but as time passes, it is clear that PSOE and Podemos have different views on how far and how quickly these changes can go. In a time of crisis with so many people out of work or on furlough, tax income falls and expenditure in creases and, in a bid, to re duce that load, the govern ment is looking closely at
the state pension with qualifying period to be in creased and incentives giv en to encourage workers to continue after the age of 65. The problem however is that with nearly four mil lion unemployed, many of them young, blocking re tirement might save ex pensive pensions, but leaves unemployed youth which may become a social and financial burden for a future government.
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We have received several similar questions regarding applications for Spanish residence permits into the next few years. Some al ready own holiday homes here where they intend eventually to retire. Others simply wonder how to apply for a residence permit a few years from now after the special postBrexit regulations all expire. What documents will they need?
First you will need evidence of regular YOU AND THE LAW income to show IN SPAIN you can support yourself in Spain. This can be as low as €13,300, which is the general mini mum wage in Spain, for a single person. It varies on a sliding scale according to the number of family mem bers. If you do not have a regular income you must show a lump sum of €22,000 in the bank. Then you will need a medical certificate showing no contagious diseases. You must present a medical insurance policy with a company authorised to operate in Spain. There are other forms to fill in but these are basic. You will make your application at the Consular section of the Spanish embassy in Lon don or at the Consulate in Manchester and you must ap pear in person.
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Send your questions for David Searl through lawyers Ubeda-Retana and Associates in Fuengirola at Ask@lawtaxspain.com, or call 952 667 090.
IN an interview with the Gibraltar Broadcasting Corporation on January 14, former Chief Minister and recent ly appointed Minister with responsi bility for Financial Stability, Sir Joe Bossano made a shocking statement. He basically said that due to disrup tion caused by both Brexit and the Covid19 pandemic that the Rock was no longer financially stable and that the situation is “extremely serious”
NOVEL IDEA: For someone who says he’s not a great drummer, Mick Fleetwood has done ok. MICK FLEETWOOD, British drummer and one of the founder members of Fleet wood Mac has come up with a novel idea which will add to his millions in the bank by sell ing his proportion of perfor mance rights to BMG music. At 73 he is clearly looking to generate additional in come for his successors, but unlike other musicians who have sold publishing rights re cently, his deal means that every time any Fleetwood Mac number (from the most successful lineup) is streamed on the internet, BMG will be paid his portion of the royalties. The recent huge success of
the Tik Tok hit featuring Dreams produced by Nathan Apodaca which had 2.8 bil lion views worldwide shows how important the internet and streaming has become. This deal is a followup to a separate arrangement done earlier whereby he sold pub lishing rights to a separate company, but does not ex clude ongoing royalties for sales of CDs and vinyl from the group’s back catalogue. Evergreen rock music has become a popular private in vestment option for those looking for something differ ent and many old rockers have sold different rights over the past 12 months or so.
Gibraltar financially unstable
with hard decisions having to be made with regards to public spend ing. This was after an emergency cabi net meeting held to discuss the forthcoming budget and he further indicated his belief that things won’t return to the buoyant times of 2018/2019 until after the next Gen
eral Election due in 2023. Roy Clinton the opposition Shadow Minster for Public Finance remarked upon hearing this news: “We have for the last eight years been warning the government that its level of spending and borrowing were out of control. Whereas noone could have foreseen the combined econom
SOON after the start of the Spanish lockdown, the gov ernment had a Royal Decree passed which effectively stated that noone could be dismissed due to Covid19 related matters. Now however it is facing a dilemma as a court in Barcelona has ruled that a dismissal of an individual on July 3, 2020 had to be upheld due to Spain’s relationship with the European Union. The decision was based on the grounds that by declaring the dismissal unlawful, there would be a violation of the freedom of the company un der regulations governing the EU.
Mercadona coffee supplies ONE of Mercadona’s popular coffee products, the Hacen dado Americano range has until now been purchased from UCC Coffee Spain but actually produced by the parent company in Japan. Now with an investment of €250,000 and in accor dance with the supermar ket’s wishes to cut the envi ronmental impact caused by shipping, a new production line will be created at its Logroño (La Rioja) facility. The coffee, available in all of the company’s stores ex cept for the Canary Islands is a simple way to enjoy Amer icano style filter coffee with out the need for any special machinery. ic effects of Covid19 and Brexit, it is evident that Gibraltar needed a big ger financial cushion than it currently has and its rainyday funds are insuffi cient. “The £500 million loan facility guar anteed by the UK is only for three years and thus does not give us much room for error if we are to meet our obligations as a community. Spending needs to be prioritised and targeted.”
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% CHG. 1.144,50 2.926,0 2.661,7 1.488,50 3.640,0 2.234,6 7.563,0 566,40 534,50 3.785,0 347,40 505,80 490,90 1,007 147,92 692,60 4.471,0 2.112,00 296,00 2.757,0 448,00 136,85 2.436,0 1.704,5 1.280,5 49,24 2.296,0 1.403,70 3.250,0 6.332,0 5.658,0 2.888,0 383,80 795,37 2.682,0 9.242,0 14.880,0 1.081,00 1.400,60 276,58 2.554,0 1.562,50 2.500,00 399,75 156,50 1.620,75 535,00 4.824,0 1.695,00 5.548,0 109,31
NET VOL 15,53K 0,25K 7,59K 41,22K 14,92K 3,54K 10,35K 36,36K 1,98K 13,10K 295,25K 48,85K 14,15K 25,02K 806,45K 58,30K 12,76K 118,46K 664,14K 44,57K 61,15K 1,38M 0,20K 13,99K 26,21K 453,08K 1,81K 8,84K 0,02K 28,37K 2,45K 47,32K 137,72K 239,72K 36,72K 1,52K 6,73K 48,99K 53,68K 698,02K 16,44K 7,69K 1,54K 74,19K 2,26M 8,12K 55,57K 3,69K 9,88K 4,03K 49,21K
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237,42 2.741,0 668,20 273,87 36,24 9.213,5 431,60 182,65 1.806,29 871,60 161,20 8.122,0 34,70 2.510,19 2.738,0 695,60 1.434,50 6.292,0 1.826,50 523,20 614,20 5.933,0 104,30 6,79 1.457,40 1.457,4 1.397,6 678,20 566,83 1.908,00 14,99 3.461,0 1.228,00 965,68 2.333,0 1.566,50 1.499,00 11.525,0 1.521,00 1.178,50 490,90 307,10 165,45 242,80 400,19 4.386,7 930,00 126,03 3.152,0 817,60
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236,30 2.723,0 659,70 270,51 35,68 9.186,0 429,50 180,90 1.798,48 869,60 157,35 7.998,0 34,62 2.507,40 2.688,0 689,40 1.420,00 6.280,0 1.823,00 521,40 613,80 5.913,0 104,05 6,79 1.451,75 1.452,2 1.388,0 677,00 564,00 1.906,00 14,87 3.446,0 1.220,00 961,40 2.330,0 1.554,50 1.490,00 11.485,0 1.517,00 1.169,00 485,90 302,89 163,16 239,60 385,25 4.369,0 929,60 125,76 3.147,7 808,80
35,17K 10,10K 66,71K 136,44K 7,97M 0,91K 111,45K 163,55K 0,80K 112,64K 742,53K 14,01K 18,00K 12,23K 47,03K 93,12K 114,70K 37,98K 96,96K 49,34K 20,70K 10,77K 1,34M 82,30K 25,29K 25,63K 76,73K 68,73K 14,95K 3,46K 389,60K 2,06K 226,40K 9,00K 5,99K 45,36K 10,80K 2,10K 49,33K 9,46K 137,65K 93,62K 114,00K 266,89K 270,54K 6,13K 34,83K 377,05K 2,37K 44,80K
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Back to basics for Norwegian
Norwegian 737-800 aircraft. NORWEGIAN AIR has ad vised the Oslo Stock Ex change that it intends to concentrate on flights in Nordic areas only, to reduce aircraft numbers and sack around 2,000 members of staff. Founded in 1963, it ex panded from being an inter nal airline, to touching down first in Nordic countries, then most of Europe and fi nally took on intercontinen tal flights using modern air craft and charging relatively low prices. It eventually became the largest airline in Scandinavia and the fourth largest inde pendent carrier in Europe after WIZZ, easyJet and Ryanair, but its reliance on Boeing 787 Dreamliners for long haul flights had caused major problems before the outbreak of the pandemic. The airline had significant
debts and didn’t have the technical back up to cope with technical problems with its fleet and the out break of Covid19 really was the last straw, as it had al most no income but debts to cover as well as the cost of parking its fleet to cope with. Having been refused sig nificant financial assistance by the Norwegian Govern ment it had to enter into bankruptcy protection in Ireland and whilst it hopes to reduce its indebtedness to Kr 20 billion (€1.9 billion) it can only achieve this by disposing of aircraft (if any one wants them), reducing staff and destinations. By taking this action, it hopes that the Norwegian Government will reconsider its appeal for assistance and it has been confirmed that the Norwegian Busi
Spanish taxes delayed THE much-vaunted Spanish Tobin and Google taxes due to be reported in February and April respectively will have to be postponed due to a number of problems. Not only are the necessary orders and regulations not yet in place to make the imposition of these taxes legal, but computer platforms have not been completed to allow for their reporting and collection. What is not known at the moment is whether the taxes will be retrospective once everything is in place or those responsible for paying will be let off any back dating.
ness and Trade Minister, Iselin Nybø, is reviewing the situation.
BUSINESS EXTRA Cryptocurrency THE continued rise of the value of Bitcoins is starting to worry some regulators who whilst in favour of the concept of cryptocurrency fear that crooks will continue to be attracted to an untraceable way of moving money around.
Lockdown woe WHILST purely online card companies like Moonpig have seen business increase dramatically, those like Card Factory in the UK with nearly 1,000 stores has run into some financial difficulty as although online sales are good, the lockdown has drained income from the shops.
Anti-Covid bus GALICIAN based bus manufacturer Castrosura working with Scania has unveiled its first anti-Covid electric bus which includes foot pedals to request that the bus stop, built in temperature gauges and even mask detectors.
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200 Million Customers lost
SPAIN’S airport operator Aena has suffered its worst year in history, as it carried 199,183,065 fewer passengers in 2020 than it did the previous year, representing a loss of 72.4 per cent. The first coronavirus lockdown in the spring saw a 90 per cent drop in passengers, but things slightly improved with the arrival of summer and the resumption of international travel. However, the airline sector collapsed again in September with the onset of the second Covid19 wave. The biggest loss was unsurprisingly in international travel, with a drop of 77.8 per cent, but national airline passengers also fell by 60.6 per cent.
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I say, each to their own LEAPY LEE SAYS IT OTHERS THINK IT I’M afraid I’m rather going off this vaccine idea. At first I thought the adverse reports coming in were the work of the usual scaremongering conspiracy theorists, but this time I find myself tending toward a similar way of thinking. Computers can deliver up all the probabilities in the world, but you cannot simulate real time in a laboratory. The only way to really know the safety and effectiveness of these new vaccines is with the test of real time and this they haven’t had. What is even more disconcerting is that Norway, who, sometime before the end of last year was the first to implement the vaccine, have reported large numbers of people experiencing adverse effects, and even more disturbingly, had some 23 deaths with 13 of them positively linked to vaccine side effects. Admittedly these were all elderly patients, but even so they were the first
to receive the injection and subsequently had it in their system for the longest time. Other reports, backed up by video evidence, show people having severe convulsions after receiving the vaccine and an investigation is also under way after the death of a Florida doctor, who died of a blood disorder some 16 weeks after receiving a shot. VAERS has alleged that already in the USA 33 people have died, 96 experienced life threatening symptoms and 225 were hospitalised. It’s just all a bit worrying. Whatever any of the medical ‘experts’ say, they have no way whatsoever of knowing what the long term effects of these vaccines can be. I do believe however, that although it may never actually become compulsory, the time will come when if you haven’t had the shot, you could be severely restricted; ie not allowed to travel or cross borders without showing some proof of vaccination. Hotels, bars, restaurants and places of entertainment, could also require proof before admitting customers and even find themselves refused a licence should
they fail to comply with orders laid down by their respective governments. You also will probably be unable to gain employment in certain capacities. It’s all a bit ‘Big Brother.’ If you don’t want to spend the rest of your days as a recluse, the only choice you may have is to actually have the jab. Of course if people start keeling over in droves, all of this will become moot! I just don’t fancy being an early victim. I think I’ll try and put it off as long as possible. I’m pretty sure the three weeks of debilitating illness I suffered back in February was my own personal bout of the virus, but without the test of time, even contracting the illness is no guarantee of further immunity. Ah well, as with a whole host of human experiences and occurrences, ‘only time will tell’. All this is only my opinion of course, don’t take my word for it. Each to their own, that’s what I say. Good luck all. Keep the faith. Love Leapy. Leapylee2002@gmail.com. Expatradioscotland.com Mon. Wed. Fri.
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GO LOCAL
THE EURO WEEKLY NEWS is urg ing its readers to support local businesses in the community by going local through the lock down and for your Christmas shopping this year, instead of feeding online giants and super stores. This lockdown and festive peri od we challenge you to rediscov er your local high streets, mar kets, butchers, greengrocers and all of the wonderfully quirky inde pendent businesses in your area. Due to the Covid19 pandem ic, you may have to support many local businesses by order ing online and making use of any click and collect services they can operate if you are unable to get out due to health reasons or lock down restrictions. The joy of shopping local means that independent busi nesses can help support the local community. Although it may be a euro or two cheaper elsewhere or online,
BUY LOCAL: By shopping locally, independent businesses can help support the local community.
consider where your money is actually going. By shopping at an independent store you’re putting food on a local family’s table, and there is no better time than Christmas to give back to your community by making a small gesture and shopping in this way. Many local stores support lo cal charities, support and sponsor local sports teams and in many
cases the small independent stores are actually much more than just a small high street shop, they’re a family’s legacy, often passed down through numerous generations and support not just the current owner, but the gen eration before. For those stores which are new, that extra couple of euros spent there are supporting some
one’s dream and ambition, and also the courage it took them to step out alone, which is no easy task. It takes quite a large chunk of money to set up an indepen dent store and compete with the multinational and chains. So be sure to preorder your turkey from a local butcher and get your spuds from a local greengrocer, let us revive that
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euro as they create locally owned supply chains and invest in their employees. Data shows that local retailers return 52 per cent of their rev enue back into the local econo my, compared to just 14 per cent for national chain retailers. Money circulating through the local economy benefits everyone who is a part of each transaction. For example, let’s look at a local farmer growing produce. First, they sell to a local restau rant, which in turn prepares the fresh produce and sells it to local customers. The farmer pays its local employees and the restau rant uses revenue from sales to buy supplies from a neighbour hood hardware store. This exam
ple illustrates how the recircula tion of money in the local econo my leads to a stronger financial foundation for our neighbours and communities. Buying local also fuels new employment and job opportuni ties for people within our com munity. Studies show, locally owned businesses employ more people per unit of sales and re tain more employees over time. While buying local is financially compelling to our communities; the benefits to our environment are equally impressive. Buying lo cally reduces the processing of goods, packaging and transporta tion waste, which leads to less pollution.
There’s a massive cultural shift underway redefining the way people make buying decisions. We’re seeing more individuals concerned about the environ ment, about how products are made and sourced, where mate rials come from, and a compa ny’s overall social and environ mental impact. Many businesses are joining our Go Local campaign by offer ing customers special offers and discounts throughout the festive period, more details to follow here soon. Just remember to follow the latest government advice and any guidance businesses have to keep everyone safe.
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YOUR STARS FOR NEXT 7 DAYS ARIES (March 21 - April 20) Looking back over the past few months you will realise that fine adjustments are needed. Both your working life and diet need attention, so be determined that progress made will continue apace. Certainly, you have no qualms about facing any problems straight on. You thrive on responsibility and there is no shortage of that at the moment.
TAURUS (April 21 - May 21) Now that you are feeling much better, it will be tempting to put aside your healthy eating and exercise, but if you remember what a difference it makes it would be silly to stop now. Enlist the help of a friend or two in keeping the momentum going.
GEMINI (May 22 - June 21) There are so many things to do or try that you should be spoiled for choice. No, don’t settle down in front of the TV. Get out, make some friends and aim to learn something new every day. That may only be the name of your neighbour on the bus but it counts. You are charming and urbane, so don’t keep it all to yourself.
CANCER (June 22 - July 23) When your feelings are so positive, which they should be now, it is hard to remember that they have ever been any other way. You may have a plan in mind for a new activity to get the adrenalin flowing. How much more enjoyable, though, to find someone to share this with you. Book that course and maybe you will meet them there.
LEO (July 24 - August 23)
LIBRA (September 24 - October 23) With so much going on, you are in danger of burning yourself to a frazzle. You won’t realise until you have done it, so make a point of getting some peace and quiet, preferably both of them at the same time. Relax and don’t even think about things that are unchangeable. Time will sort out most things for you.
SCORPIO (October 24 - November 22) Leave nothing to chance when it comes to your health. Although you are feeling good now you will soon have problems because you are more concerned with others than yourself. This can be good but can also be overdone. You know how good you can feel. Increase this by simply not accepting second-best treatment.
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 (CAMERA) and one letter in four other cells are given as clues.
ABSURD BICKER BUREAU CAMERA (10) CARROT CONVEY DERAIL FORMAL FOURTH GEYSER HUBRIS IDEATE KAISER MERCER SLEEPY SPARKY SUPERB SWAMPY TWINGE
SAGITTARIUS (November 23 - December 21) Your tendency to see yourself through the eyes of others can lead you to undervalue your worth. This could see you going pearshaped, emotionally. Try not to believe everything that you are told because there are always at least two ways of seeing things. Be positive. You are capable of so much. Take care of your needs on a daily basis.
CAPRICORN (December 22 - January 20) Concentrate on your physical needs this week and spend much more time on yourself. There will be plenty of opportunities to look after others when you are feeling 100 per cent yourself. Stay in control of day-to-day plans.
LOTTERY UK NATIONAL LOTTERY Sat 16 January
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After a few recent excesses, bad habits can prove hard to shake off. Remember that any time of the year is a good time to make a fresh start. Don’t put off looking after your health any more than you would put off stashing a cheque in the bank. Use it or lose it? You know it makes sense. Think about combining health with a holiday.
Keep up the pace this week so that you have plenty to discuss and ‘write home about.’ With your mind so active, you are capable of doing in a day what would normally take a week. By-pass those who try to slow you down. There will be plenty of time to be a plod later.
VIRGO (August 24 - September 23)
PISCES (February 20 - March 20)
It happens that energy is sometimes low. Take the chance to read up on why this could be. You may think that you know it all, but in this world there is no chance of that. Maybe you are out of touch generally, or just out of touch with your own needs. Give building your strength priority. How much better you will cope with extra energy.
Others may be changing their minds, and generally being a bit of a pain. That may irritate you but it is no reason to change your plans. Both you and your colleagues will be glad that you did in the longer term. You may need to find some peace and space for yourself come the weekend.
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CODE BREAKER
ENGLISH-SPANISH
The clues are mixed, some clues are in Spanish and some are in English.
Each number in the Code Breaker grid represents a different letter of the alphabet. In this week’s puzzle, 7 represents W and 23 represents V, so fill in W every time the figure 7 appears and V every time the figure 23 appears. Now, using your knowledge of the English language, work out which letters should go in the missing squares. As you discover the letters, fill in other squares with the same number in the main grid and the control grid.
Across 1 Similar (8) 4 Cuervo (4) 8 Pavement (for walking on) (5) 10 Gaviota (7) 11 Creamy (f) (7) 12 Mildew (4) 14 To support (6) 16 Rain (6) 19 Espuma (4) 21 Ecuador (7) 24 East (7) 25 Street lamp (5) 26 Orejas (4) 27 Mountains (8)
Down 1 To iron (8) 2 Nail (metal) (5) 3 To want (6) 5 Áspero (5) 6/23 Bien hecho (4,4) 7 Marble (6) 9 January (5) 13 Barrels (8) 15 Almendra (6) 17 Votante (5) 18 Cherry tree (6) 20 To hate (5) 22 Incapaz (5) 23 See 6
LAST WEEK’S SOLUTION • LAST WEEK’S SOLUTION • LAST WEEK’S SOLUTION QUICK Across: 1 Lose, 3 Shops, 8 Carpenter, 9 Fewer, 10 Bets, 14 Hide, 15 Mouse, 18 Pronounce, 20 Often, 21 Stun. Down: 1 Lack, 2 Succeed, 4 Heel, 5/19 Put off, 6 Brief, 7 Grasp, 11 Easiest, 12 Chips, 13 Found, 16 None, 17 Grin.
CRYPTIC
Across: 1 Players, 5 Cheer, 8 Notch, 9 Realign, 10 Amnesty, 11 Title, 12 Crafty, 14 Scores, 17 Pedal, 19 Opposed, 22 Trained, 23 Isles, 24 Notes, 25 Elderly. Down: 1 Panda, 2 Antenna, 3 Ethos, 4 Strays, 5 Chaotic, 6 Exist, 7 Runners, 12 Capstan, 13 Talents, 15 Rustler, 16 Poodle, 18 Dealt, 20 Pried, 21 Dusty.
ENGLISH-SPANISH Across: 1 Bowl, 3 Nubarrón, 9 Cascara, 10 Techo, 11 Perra, 12 Earwig, 14 Clavel, 16 Prueba, 19 Napkin, 21 Beret, 24 Avión, 25 Cheaper, 26 Bookshop, 27 Eyes. Down: 1 Backpack, 2 Wiser, 4 Una vez, 5 After, 6 Receive, 7 Noon, 8 Damage, 13 Pastores, 15 Abanico, 17 Rubber, 18 Inicio, 20 Kings, 22 Reply, 23 Lamb.
CODE BREAKER
BOGGLED
FUTOSHIKI
smew seem seems sees mess messes messy meson mews seer seers sews sewn egis egises gees geese gist gits resew resews resewn eyes eyer swig sties queys quod soys soak soddy yeses yesses yews wees west wigs wise wises wits ties twee tweer twig twigs nose noses nosey nosy nods noddy oyer oyers odds dyes dyer dyers dose doses dons koan koans kaon kaons
NONAGRAM airy arty hair hart hoar hour hurt riot rota rout ruth taro tart thru tiro tori tort tour tray trio trot troy tyro your yurt hairy hoary houri ratio ratty rutty tarot trait troth trout truth tutor author thirty throat throaty AUTHORITY
HEXAGRAM
WORD LADDER
1 EASIER 2 ASSERT 3 TRIUNE 4 SWEATY 5 ARTERY 6 INHERE 7 WARMTH 8 THIRTY 9 BEHEST 10 MATURE 11 HEREIN 12 TEETHE 13 EUREKA 14 SHEAVE 15 STEREO 16 REMARK 17 NETTED 18 COARSE 19 RESCUE
SENT SEAT SEAM SLAM CLAM CLAN or
KAKURO
SUDOKU
SENT SEAT SLAT SLAY CLAY CLAN
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Costa Blanca TODAY
DENIA JAVEA CALPE ALTEA
WEATHER
BENIDORM ALICANTE
ORIHUELA TORREVIEJA
TOMORROW
DENIA JAVEA CALPE
Malaga TODAY: MAX 16, MIN 5 Fri 14 5 Sat 15 5 Sun 16 6 Mon 16 6 Tues - 15 5 Wed 15 5
Alicante TODAY: MAX 17, MIN 8 Fri 17 7 Sat 17 7 Sun 17 7 Mon 16 8 Tues - 16 8 Wed 16 8
Almeria TODAY: MAX 16, MIN 8 Fri 16 8 Sat 15 8 Sun 15 8 Mon 15 9 Tues - 16 9 Wed 16 9
Benidorm TODAY: MAX 16, MIN 7 Fri 16 7 Sat 16 7 Sun 16 7 Mon 17 8 Tues - 17 8 Wed 17 9
Bilbao TODAY: MAX 12, MIN 2 Fri 12 2 Sat 11 2 Sun 11 3 Mon 12 3 Tues 12 2 Wed 12 2
Mallorca TODAY: MAX 17, MIN 7 Fri 15 7 Sat 15 7 Sun 16 7 Mon 17 8 Tues 17 8 Wed 16 9
Madrid TODAY: MAX 10, MIN 2 Fri 11 2 Sat 12 3 Sun 12 3 Mon 11 3 Tues 11 4 Wed 10 5
Barcelona TODAY: MAX 15, MIN 5 Fri 15 5 Sat 15 5 Sun 15 5 Mon 14 7 Tues 14 7 Wed 16 8
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FUTOSHIKI Fill in the squares so that each digit from 1 to 6 occurs exactly once in each row and column. Greater-than and less-than signs indicate the relationship of the two adjacent squares. There is only one solution, and you can find it without guessing.
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.
ALTEA BENIDORM ALICANTE
ORIHUELA TORREVIEJA
SATURDAY
DENIA JAVEA CALPE ALTEA BENIDORM ALICANTE
ORIHUELA TORREVIEJA
S: Sun
C: Cloudy
Th: Thunder
Cl: Clear
Sh: Showers
Sn: Snow
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SCORING:
Average: 19 Good: 26 Very good: 38 Excellent: 49
4 letters: 1 point 5 letters: 2 points 6 letters: 3 points 7 letters: 5 points 8 or more letters: 11 points
KAKURO 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.
CRYPTIC Across 1 Hit one's friends back (4) 3 Contains revised authorisation (8) 9 Carry out injured fencer to be given oxygen (7) 10 Raid outside Portugal is swift (5) 11 Silver is depressed when lit up (5) 12 Stand with old duke after journey (6) 14 In the past, not quite everyone ready to respond (2,4) 16 Peel off in the ship and good rests are assured (6) 19 General method for making a margin? (6) 21 Number you formerly had right in the middle (5) 24 Is doing nothing about foals (5) 25 Telephone permit for small band (7) 26 Rep sides made to move apart (8) 27 Eddy, possibly, changed colour (4) Down 1 Cabinet-maker crossing North Sea? (8) 2 Terrible starts for anyone who files unread letters (5) 4 Prevents vaster disruption (6) 5 Dog right in between officer and private (5) 6 Little devil may wander and get better (7) 7 Don's way of showing assent (4) 8 Hand tool for raw beginner wrapped in absorbent cloth (6) 13 Agreed, it's like it was posted to the editor (8) 15 Greek islanders can rest in resort (7) 17 Type of prayer from N Italy (6) 18 Letters from fancy Prussian to country (6) 20 Throw away a stew that's gone off (5) 22 Romeo gets colleague to perk up (5) 23 Foreign leader showed the way or took flight (4)
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QUICK
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.
Across
Down 1 Footwear (5) 2 Opposed to (7) 4 Holy book (5) 3 Summit (4) 7 Deserted (9) 4 Annoy persistently (6) 8 Short musical composition with words 5/17 Witty remark (3,3) (4) 6 Finished (5) 9 Assisted (6) 10 Ground breaker (7) 12 Small sofa (6) 11 Chief (6) 13 Digits of the foot (4) 12 Backbone (5) 16 Of the present time and place (9) 14 Closes down (5) 15 Felines (4) 18 Go in (5) 17 See 5 19 Classifies (5)
WORD LADDER
1 Low waterlogged ground (5)
Move from the start word (WOOD) to the end word (CAGE) in the same number of steps as there are rungs on the Word Ladder. You must only change one letter at a time.
WOOD
QUIZ BACK CAGE
LIFE’S A BEACH 1. Who delivered his celebrated ‘We shall fight on the beaches’ speech to the House of Commons on June 4, 1940? 2. Beach volleyball was introduced as a demonstration event at which Summer Olympic Games? 3. Echo Beach was a UK Top 10 hit for which Canadian rock band in June 1980? 4. In which south coast resort was Britain’s first nudist beach established in August 1979? 5. The Beach Boys have had two UK number one hit singles, name either? 6. The world famous Copacabana Beach is located in the South Zone of which South American city? 7. What connects Gold, Juno, Sword, Omaha and Utah? 8. Which British ocean liner that was launched in 1934 is now retired as a hotel in Long Beach, California? 9. Which famous American actress/singer starred alongside Gregory Peck, Fred Astaire and Anthony Perkins in the 1959 American post-apocalyptic science fiction film On the Beach, based on Nevil Shute’s 1957 novel of the same name? 10. Which large bird normally found in the Antarctic, was sighted on a New Zealand beach in June 2011, the first time this had happened in 44 years?
NONAGRAM
RACHEL AND FRIENDS
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 N) and there must be AT LEAST ONE NINE LETTER WORD. Plurals, vulgarities or proper nouns are not allowed.
Not a lot of people know that… in July 2008, a complete beach was stolen in Jamaica. A three-month police investigation into the missing 500 truckloads of white sand failed to lead to anyone being charged.
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Average: 16 Good: 22 Very good: 32 Excellent: 41
Answers 1. WINSTON CHURCHILL, 2. BARCELONA (1992), it has been an official Olympic sport since 1996, 3. MARTHA AND THE MUFFINS, 4. BRIGHTON, 5. GOOD VIBRATIONS (1966) or DO IT AGAIN (1968), 6. RIO DE JANIERO, 7. NAMES OF NORMANDY LANDINGS BEACHES ON JUNE 6, 1944 (D-DAY), 8. RMS QUEEN MARY, 9. AVA GARDNER, 10. EMPEROR PENGUIN
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Dear Bipolar: It’s neither you nor me MS BIPOLAR UP AND DOWN WITH BALANCE UNEDITED I REALISE now that you don’t like to be forgotten. That you believe the world revolves around you. I know this because, when I had the nerve to live my life without thinking about you for a while, you came up from behind and knocked me for six. Were you happy that you ruined my lovely day, I wonder? Satisfied that I fell so hard and so fast that I sat crying in the dark for hours. I should’ve been angry with you then. But I wasn’t. I was angry with myself, and I shouldn’t have been. But I wonder if you were relieved, to be off the hook because I was blaming myself, obsessed with the idea that all of this was somehow my fault. It has consumed my every thought. But you know that, don’t you? Sat here wondering if I could have stopped it sooner, if I could have handled it better, if I could have prevented it altogether. And wishing, desperately, that you hadn’t gotten so carried away. Is this what you wanted? It comes in waves you see, sometimes I can
tread water and keep my head afloat, but then other times the wave comes crashing down, spins me and spits me back. I’m giving you to much credit, Bipolar, and myself not enough. There is no denial that I can’t afford to forget you, that you’re too ‘toxic.’ I do blame you for being so relentless, so terrifying. But I’m not angry. I wonder if this was just a tragic but necessary thing that has happened to me. Did I choose you or did you choose me? Maybe in some ways, it was inevitable, with no one to blame. Maybe it isn’t your fault and maybe it isn’t mine. So I’m going to try and live with you, Bipolar. I’m going to be more aware so I can see you when you’re coming. Because I can spend another week obsessing, upset and looking for someone to blame. I can keep falling backwards, or I can move forward, a little wiser than I was before. So we’ll move forward, then, you and I. Because I get it, Bipolar, you don’t like to be forgotten. Well, you’ve got my attention now. Love Ms Bipolar X
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Overnight fasting can help you to live longer
DIETING whilst you sleep can help you live longer. Fasting overnight and not eating between 5pm and 8am can help you lose weight and also live longer. Researchers carried out a study on monkeys and stopped food between these hours and found it helped them live longer. Restricting food appeared to make bodies more able to fight off illnesses that accompany old age. As humans share 93 per cent of the same genes, they say their findings will also
apply to humans. However, the results showed that it didn’t work in young monkeys. It is believed this restriction on eating reduces the chances of illnesses such as cancer and demen tia and that by eating less it may send the body into survival mode so that it focuses on protecting itself. The scientists said they wanted to look at ways to slow the ageing mode of the body in a bid to re duce serious illnesses.
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Sleeping through after 50 P EO P L E a g e d 5 0 o r o v e r have been advised to avoid caffeine in the after noons in order to ensure a good night’s sleep. The recommendation appears in a report by the
Age UK charity, which says that although it gets hard er to sleep through a full n i g h t a s w e a g e , i t i s i m portant for the mind that the body gets enough rest. As well as knocking tea, coffee, and other drinks containing caffeine on the head, older people should also avoid naps of longer than 30 minutes during the day. Other recommendations appearing in the report in clude: • Get out of bed at the same time each day. • Don’t drink alcohol as a sleep aid. • Expose yourself to some natural sunlight each day. • Don’t eat any large meals within the last three hours before you go to bed. • Don’t look at your mo bile phone, tablet, laptop, or any other device featur ing an electronic screen after getting into bed. • Don socks to keep
your feet warm in bed. • Don’t allow pets in the bedroom. • Avoid arguments with your partner or spouse be fore bed. • Av o i d overthe counter sleeping tablets or liquids. A lack of sleep can in crease the risk of heart dis ease, obesity and diabetes, say the authors of the re port. Age UK spokesman James Goodwin said: “Sleeping is something we all tend to take for grant ed, but we really have to wise up to the fact that getting the right amount of good sleep is crucial as we age, helping to protect us from all kinds of prob lems that can affect our brains as well as our bod ies. “The message is that in order to stay mentally sharp in later life some thing we all care passion ately about take care of your sleep.”
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EPILEPSY is a problem suffered frequently by dogs un der the age of five, which usually causes convulsions or epileptic attacks. Canine epilepsy has a genetic fac tor and there are breeds, including Beagles, St Bernards and German Shepherds which are more like ly to suffer. The first epileptic attack usually happens between the ages of six months and five years and comes com pletely unexpectedly in the form of convulsions, ped dling movements of the legs, excessive salivation, un controlled urination and loss of conscience. Although the attacks in themselves don’t put a dog’s life at risk, they are in danger of biting their tongues, falling or bumping into things and injuring themselves. Knowing how to react during an attack will help you remain calm and help your dog. First, lay it down on a soft surface. Avoid high places like the sofa to avoid the risk of a fall. It’s important not to try to pull your dog’s tongue out as it could end up biting it. Attacks usually last two minutes at the most. When over, let the dog rest in a quiet place as they are usually tired and confused after an attack.
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to read more visit ROAD TEST by Mark Slack ONE of the complaints I hear most about VAG products is that they all look the same. Well you can certainly spot the lineage in some design cues and shared use of parts. However they do have dis tinctly different characters and of course pricing struc tures. Having recently sam pled a couple of Skoda models they do stand out as offering the best of the VAG qualities, while maintaining their own persona. The first of my sample cars was what Skoda say is their midsize SUV, the Karoq. A creative thinking session from the Czech firm’s marketing de partment came up with the name which is a combination of the Karaaq and Ruq, native American words for car and arrow. The Karoq is a nicely under stated vehicle with an ele ment of class, indeed I was ac costed twice by other motorists to enquire about the car with favourable com
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Skoda Karoq - understated and very classy ments. It happens with luxury or premium cars I have been driving but rarely with ‘ordi nary’ fare. Prices for the Karoq start at €25,151 (£22,765) and peak at €40,908 (£37,030) with six trim levels, two petrol engines and one diesel engine with two power outputs. As ever with VAG you have a choice of manual gears or the automat ic DSG box. There is a four wheeldrive option in all bar one trim level. Standard across the range are such features as powered, heated, auto dimming and folding door mirrors, privacy glass, front fog lights, dual zone climate control, cruise control, auto lights and wipers plus rear parking sensors. My SE Drive test model adds some decorative niceties but perhaps more importantly navigation, Bluetooth, front parking sensors and a rear view camera. At €994 (£900) extra it’s arguably a sensible starting point to the range.
The two petrol engines are a sprightly threecylinder 1.0 litre or fourcylinder 1.5 litre at 115PS and 150PS respec tively. The 1.5litre powering my test car is probably the
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