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The people’s paper Issue No. 1876
17 - 23 June 2021
Bonoloto winner LAST Saturday’s Bonoloto draw resulted in a prize of more than €166,000 being awarded to a Torrox Costa resident, who is the lucky recipient of the reward. According to information from Loteras y Apuestas del Estado, the winning ticket was worth €166,771.49 and was verified in the Despacho Receptor no 50,510, which is located in Avda. del Faro, 3, in Mexico City. Specifically, the award corresponds to the Second Category (five hits plus the complimentary), which has had only one winner thus far. The winning combination for the Bonoloto draw on June 12, 2021 was made by the numbers 5, 19, 21, 8, 33, and 2 in the order they appeared in the drawing. It was the complimentary number of 7 that was drawn, and the draw was the number 8.
Sculptures on show THE Municipal Exhibition Hall in Nerja is hosting an exhibition by the Granada-born sculptor, José Miguel Pino, which can be visited until June 26, at Calle Almirante Ferrándiz 14, during opening hours from 11am to 2pm and from 6pm to 10pm. Under the title ‘Awa’ the exhibition brings together about 20 sculptural works that represent animals, such as horses, birds, and insects, most of them life-size, which have been made of bronze and steel, materials that allow the author to reflect movement, the tension and energy contained in an instant.
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THE Spanish President Pedro Sánchez has expressed his belief that “soon we are going to abandon face masks’ when we are outdoors and that “cruising speed” has been hit with the ongoing vaccination programme in Spain. In only a matter of days Spain will see a staggering 15 million people having been vaccinated. In the last week alone a record 3.5 million doses of the vaccine have been given. Speaking of the Spanish goal of hitting 70 per cent of the population vaccinated by summer, Sánchez high‐ lighted that: “In a few weeks 50 per cent of the popula‐ tion will have at least one dose and the roadmap is clear and is being fulfilled.”
NEWLY WEDS: Debbie officiates at another special ceremony. LOCAL wedding celebrant Debbie Skyrme of La Herradu‐ ra beat finalists from Greece and Italy to win the ‘Best Euro‐ pean Celebrant Award 2021’ in the Global Celebrant Indus‐ try Awards. Former UK registrar Debbie had her talents as an indepen‐ dent wedding celebrant in An‐ dalucia recognised by winning two categories in the Awards. In addition to her European achievement, Debbie also walked off with the accolade of ‘Most Unique Ceremony in Spain’ for her work in creating bespoke ceremonies incorpo‐ rating rituals and cultural ele‐ ments reflecting the personali‐ ties of her wedding couples.
Officiating at around 40 cer‐ emonies every year in south‐ ern Spain, 57‐year‐old Debbie is excited to celebrate her re‐ cent achievement. “To be even nominated in the Global Celebrant Industry Awards is a huge privilege,” Debbie said. “I am so passionate about raising the profile of Andalucia as a destination wedding loca‐ tion and these awards are a true reflection of the amazing wedding community we have here in southern Spain and the beautiful symbolic wedding ceremonies that we offer,” she added. Debbie went on to explain, “There are many couples in
Spain and overseas who have contracted their legal mar‐ riage during the pandemic, but have been deprived of an ac‐ tual wedding ceremony due to restrictions. Now is their time! “I believe that as soon as newly married couples can safely travel, they will be look‐ ing to combine a holiday in the Spanish sunshine with a cere‐ monial celebration of their love. And the Spanish wed‐ ding industry is ready to wel‐ come them and make their dream ceremonies come true!” To learn more about desti‐ nation weddings and symbolic ceremonies in Spain visit www.celebrantspain.es.
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27th Chess Tournament New Equality Campaign
ON Saturday, June 19 there will be 18 tournaments held around the province, with stops in Rincón de la Victoria, Nerja, Algarrobo, and Frigiliana. The 27th Malaga Provincial Chess Tour 2021 kicked off on Sat‐ urday, June 12, in Almáchar’s Maria Zambrano Park. It will con‐ clude on November 13 in the Mu‐ nicipal Marquee of San Pedro de Alcántara after touring 18 commu‐ nities in Malaga. The Almachareo tournament has already reached its limit of 80 participants, and the next tournament, scheduled for Sun‐ day June 20 in Arriate, “has al‐ ready attracted 26 participants
out of the stipulated maximum of 50, indicating that there is a great deal of interest in chess in the province,” according to the Malaga Provincial Council’s first vice‐president and deputy for Education, Youth, and Sport. Additionally, tournaments will take place in Lora (July 3), Ante‐ quera (July 10), Monda (July 31), Teba (August 1), Con (August 14), Ojén (August 28), Nerja (August 29), Casabermeja (September 4), Mijas (September 5), Mollina (September 11), Frigiliana (September 12), Istán (September 18), Algarrobo (September 19), Campillos (October 2), and Rincón de la Victoria (October 3).
THE councillor for Equality, Gema Laguna, accompanied by the legal advisor of the Municipal Centre for Information for Women, María Dolores de Haro, presented on June 15, a new information campaign in Nerja and Maro that will be distributed in municipal offices, through social networks and in local commercial establishments. The campaign has been financed with funds from the State Pact against Gender Violence of the Ministry of Equality of the government of Spain. “The objective of the campaign is to publicise all the services provided by the Municipal Information Centre for Women. A free public service of advice and attention to the needs of the women of Nerja and Maro, as well as to local associations and groups,” ex-
plained the councillor. The Municipal Information Centre for Women is located at Calle Almirante Ferrandiz no 12, people can go from Mon-
day to Friday from 10am to 2pm. You can also contact by phone 952 548 452, by WhatsApp at phone 664 174 589 and by email cim@nerja.es.
Reaearchers require volunteers RESEARCHERS at the Institute of Biomedical Research in Malaga are seeking people between the ages of 18 and 55 years old for a study about the prevention of depression. The study will involve six research groups from different autonomous communities. This research group has been studying the prevention of depression, both nationally and internationally, for a long time and Dr Bellón recently published a study that focuses on the working population “because difficulties and dissatisfaction at work can lead to depression, which is one of the most frequent causes of sick leave. Depressed people in turn have problems maintaining and seeking care.” A video has been prepared explaining this project in one minute . Anyone interested in participating in the study can do so from the study website: https://epdwork.org/.
Car Parks Surveillance NERJA Town Hall is reinforcing the surveillance of municipal car parks with the hiring of six security guards, two of them will fill the vacant positions in the permanent workforce, and the rest will be as an increase in the workforce at the beginning of the summer season. I t was announced by the councillor for H uman R esources, Á ngela D íaz, informing that “the G overning Board has approved the hiring proposal of the first two applicants in the selection process to cover the parking spaces, in response to the hiring proposal made by the S election B oard. T he rest of the applicants who have passed the process will form a job bank. “Along these lines, the board has also given the green light to a proposal to hire the four applicants as parking attendants, following the order set out in said job bank, which will be destined for the Balcón de Europa and Burriana car parks. The contract will be carried out for three months, extendable for another three, full-time and in the morning or afternoon, including Sundays and holidays, depending on the needs of the service,” the councillor has detailed.
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NIBS EXTRA Polite protest FARMERS from Motril and surrounding areas created a popup store in the Plaza de la Iglesia of Torreneuva Costa on Saturday June 12 to sell their products at the same price that they are paid by large supermarkets to highlight the difference between wholesale and retail prices.
Coast patrol AT least 10 vessels will be tasked with collecting rubbish, mainly plastic, drift wood, dead sea creatures and algae as well as hydrocarbon spills from the sea around the coastlines of Velez-Malaga, Algarrobo, Torrox and Nerja from now until September 15.
Thanking students HAVING spent more than €230,000 on special measures such as additional staff involved in cleaning and disinfection and material to increase safety for Civil Protection volunteers, Torrox Council will now give each student a special bracelet which says ‘You have been an example.’
Magellan exhibition CELEBRATING the 500th anniversary of the death of Spanish explorer Ferdinand Magellan, a new exhibition charting his life and discoveries will run from June 18 until July 15 at the Casa Fuerte Bezmiliana Exhibition Hall in Rincon de la Victoria with free admission.
Culture Week COMPETA Council has declared the week commencing June 18 as its Culture Week with a number of different events including a Tapa Route, market, soap making display, charity walk for a local two-year-old suffering from spinal muscular atrophy, a chess tournament and Gatsby Party.
Secure parking GETTING ready for summer and alert to the fact that unsupervised underground car parks can act as a magnet for thieves, Nerja Council confirmed that it will be hiring six security guards for an initial period of three months to keep an eye on its car parks.
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JAB FOR JUSTIN
MY name is Justin Boland, son of Maurice and Wendy, I grew up on the Costa Del Sol, in the Marbella area from when I was six years old. I’m now 45 (this week was my birthday - 13/06). I am a father of two boys, I work as Sales Director for world famous Engel and Völkers, and Covid-19 just tried to kill me! Generally, I live a healthy lifestyle, I don’t smoke, I don’t really drink, I play sports at least three times a week and pride myself on staying fit. I don’t have any underlying conditions! On Tuesday May 18 I’d had my typical session of paddle tennis. I have to admit I was feeling a little bit unusual, not very energetic and extremely hungry, which was not typical for me. By the time I got home my energy level had dropped and I put it down to just being hungry. I had my dinner and went to lie down when I suddenly started shaking. My fever went right up. I took paracetamol and went to bed. The next morning I woke up feeling great. No temperature, but by about 4pm I started to feel unwell again and my fever picked up. I decided to get a rapid Covid test, which came back negative. By May 25, I couldn’t resist any more and went to Hospiten in Estepona and to my shock, I received a call - I had Covid-19. Because I had already been sick a few days they recommended that I go to the ward and let the doctor inspect me properly. I stayed in the hospital a couple of days, during which I started to feel much worse. On May 28, the doctor recommended that I go to Santa Elena hospital in Malaga as they had the best treatment for Covid. On my arrival to Santa Elena,I was immediately put into ICU. I was hooked up to machines and put on oxygen. I was terrified at this point. The doctors had warned me if the oxygen was not sufficient to deal with the virus that was attacking my lungs they might have to induce a coma and put me on a mechanical ventilator!
HOSPITALISED: I will be grateful for the rest of my life to the ICU team.
HEALTHY: I play sports at least three times a week and pride myself on staying fit. It was then the realisation struck home and I began to worry, will I die whilst in a coma? On May 30, they decided to put me into a temporary coma in order to save my life. Being young and as I said before healthy, it took nine days altogether when my body started to respond and decided it was time to come out. I remember waking up, I had no idea what had happened. I had no idea why I was even under sedation (it took a while to come back to me) it was really odd. But what was really distressing and this is something quite normal, is for the time I was under, I had lost the ability to be able to physically walk, use my hands and my general condition was one of a very frail old man. Now understanding the fact that recovery will take a little while of course I understand
things better. I wanted to share my story because so many people out there think it would never happen to them. Well that’s just simply wrong and I’m proof of that. I am giving a real warning to people out there. Get Vaccinated! Unfortunately I was not in the age category to be vaccinated at that point. But I can promise you one thing if I had been none of this would’ve happened. Just imagine the person, simply by touching me they actually nearly killed me. You have the obligation as a human to help protect your fellow humans. I will be grateful for the rest of my life to the ICU team and I
for one am for ever thankful to be given a second chance in life. The English-speaking nurses work round the clock, they are diligent, humane and altogether amazing. Without their love and care I don’t know how I would’ve got through the most difficult 14 days of my life. Thank you so much, all of you! I of course want to also thank the Doctor who made that very difficult decision to save my life and for that I will never forget. Thank you Dr Elias Ceravola, you’re an amazing man and I will never forget you. You saved my life! Something really important to note. Even though the hospital has some of the most incredible emergency equipment, some of the more basic day-today things are missing as they are slowly investing in the hospital, for example some new wardrobes. The reassurance is so helpful but without the simple basics it makes their jobs quite difficult. Their focus should be solely on your health, so I think by getting the wardrobes, this is a small gesture where we will be helping them! Any donation will be greatly received, €5, €10, €20 whatever works for you. Even if we can get five wardrobes, that’s better than nothing! Donations can be made direct to the hospital account ES76-0182-2341-7502-01631591 - Clinica Santa Elena SA. I must thank the outpouring of concern that was sent to me from people all over the world, their prayers and positive thoughts, which I feel sure helped my recovery, a big thank you!! Finally I’d like to thank my wonderful girlfriend who I love so much, Natalia Mahnova, you have been my rock and all my family members’ rock and without you this whole situation would’ve been twice as difficult. On the final note please again remember - GET VACCINATED! Do not put yourself or your family through this - your experience may not end as well as mine. Go now for your JAB for Justin!
Just get the Jab • Justin case • Justin care • Justin time Just to keep the world safe and strong. Whatever your JUSTIN REASON – JUSTIN DO IT...
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Clean showers
Testing the beaches. IN order to ensure the health of its bathers for one more summer, the Torrox City Council has decided to collect weekly samples of sand and wa‐ ter from the showers in order to analyse the pos‐ sible presence of bacteria or microorganisms, as ex‐ plained by Verónica Muoz, councillor for Beaches, on the beach of Vilches, in the area of La Restinga, where samples were collected on Wednesday June 9. “Torrox’s beaches are a major tourist attraction, particularly during the summer, and we want to ensure that both our resi‐ dents and visitors can en‐ joy them with complete confidence in terms of hy‐ giene over the municipali‐ ty’s more than 9kms of coastline,” stated the councillor of Beaches. Ms Muoz explained that, as was done last year, a microbiological analysis of the shower platforms will be per‐ formed in order to detect possible mould or yeasts; a legionella control will al‐ so be performed in order to avoid the risk of conta‐ gion of this bacterium, which can proliferate par‐ ticularly well at tempera‐ tures ranging from 20° to 45° Celsius in the water circuits of public facilities. Samples are also taken from the beach sand near the showers in order to determine and regulate the presence of faecal streptococcus, staphylo‐ coccus aureus, clostridi‐ um perfringens, faecal co‐ liforms, total coliforms, moulds, and yeast, among other contami‐ nants.
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Medal of honour for the King
We asked, you answered: All lives matter
PRESIDENT of Andalucia, Juanma Moreno met with the King of Spain, Felipe VI, at the Port of Cadiz on Monday June 14 before the monarch travelled to Sevilla to receive Andalucia’s first Medal of Hon‐ our. King Felipe was granted the Medal of Honour be‐ cause he “embodies the most solid affective bond of Andalucia with all the State institutions,” according to the Junta de Andalucia. Moreno proposed that the King be the first recipi‐ ent of the award. “The holder of the Crown personifies the princi‐ ples and values that sustain and reinforce our collec‐ tive identity as a Spanish nation and that provide An‐ dalucia with the best benchmark of harmony, serenity, enthusiasm and determination with which to face the vicissitudes of the present, undertake the recovery and working together for the future,” the Junta said in a press release. “World society in general, and within it Spanish and Andalucian society, is going through one of the most committed moments in contemporary history; a challenge that tests, once again, and with unusual harshness, organisational skills; levels of resistance as a socioeconomic system; the soundness and suit‐
THE whole world was gripped on Sunday by the image of Danish football star Christian Eriksen lying on the pitch fight‐ ing for life. We asked, if play‐ ers are dropping on one knee before any more matches it proves that ALL LIVES MAT‐ TER! Approximately 80 per cent of our readers who comment‐ ed or reacted to our Facebook post on Sunday agreed with the statement that All Lives Matter. One reader commented “singling out one race from an‐ other is racism in itself. No colour race or creed is above another. All lives matter not just black ones. It is causing the racialism and segregation of humans. So yes, it is a per‐ fect statement.” Meanwhile, another reader posted a message from the FA
KING FELIPE VI: Travelled to Sevilla to receive his award. ability of its institutions; and, as a key element, the collaboration between them and the cohesion of cit‐ izens and their representatives around their shared objectives. “The figure of Felipe VI provides Andalucians, in this extraordinary situation, a clear mirror of their strengths and a moral reinforcement of the greatest relevance for the development of their capacities,” the statement added.
CHRISTIAN ERIKSEN: Fought for his life. to England supporters, in it could be read “as the team has reiterated many times, they will collectively take the knee ahead of their fixtures during the tournament. They are doing this as a mechanism of peacefully protesting against discrimination, injus‐ tice and inequality. This is per‐
sonally important to the play‐ ers and the values the team collectively represents. This gesture of unity and fighting against inequality can be traced back as far as the 18th century. It is not new and En‐ glish football has made it very clear that it does not view this as being aligned to a political organisation or ideology.” On the other hand, another reader suggested that rather than taking the knee to show their support for unjust situa‐ tions, players may be appreci‐ ated if they made more dona‐ tions to charities. Most comments suggested that football fans would be happy to be able to watch the matches without politics being involved. Most importantly, many readers showed their support for Eriksen and wished him a speedy recovery.
Laughing gas warning A Lasting THE National Police have warned of the danger associated with the consumption of nitrogen oxide, better known as laughing gas, af‐ ter two serious accidents occurred in Marbella, Malaga, between young people who consumed the substance and who have been in‐ jured after supposedly having jumped into the void, in less than 24 hours. The National Police have indicat‐ ed that the use of nitrous oxide for these purposes “can cause injuries and alterations in the nervous sys‐ tem, such as delusions, as well as blood and lung cells.” These harm‐ ful health effects can be increased if
people combine it with alcohol. Nitrogen oxide is a colourless substance with a slightly sweet odour that occurs both in liquid form and in compressed gas. Legal‐ ly it is used in small quantities as an anaesthetic for painless operations by dentists or also for industrial pur‐ poses in baking or aesthetics. How‐ ever, in recent years, the consump‐ tion of ‘laughing gas’ among young people at parties has become fash‐ ionable, as it is relatively cheap ‐ be‐ tween €3 and €5 a dose. By inhaling the gas, usually through coloured balloons, the consumer gets feelings of intoxica‐ tion, joy or daze.
Latest Vaccination update THE Spanish Ministry of Health issued an update on June 12, according to the latest data, the pandemic is expected to continue to decline thanks to the high rate of vaccinations the country has completed. A spokesman for the ministry announced the next age group to focus on will be the 40 to 49-year-olds, he also added that most communities have now relaxed restrictions and there is a gradual return to normality. The Ministry of Defence said it will issue the so-called ‘Covid passport’, the certificate to allow European citizens to move through the EU without further controls to prove they are vaccinated or have passed a PCR or a negative antigen test.
Legacy
A LASTING legacy has been announced for the Duke of Edinburgh, as £3.4 million was allocated to expand The Duke of Edinburgh’s Award in schools More pupils from the most deprived areas of England will be able to start The Duke of Edinburgh’s Award thanks to this funding boost from the government, helping more young people to access volunteering and extra-curricular learning. In the week that would have marked the late Duke of Edinburgh’s 100th birthday, the Department for Education on June 13 announced it will work with the Award he set up to expand opportunities to up to 291 more schools not currently delivering it, enabling access to young people who may previously have faced barriers to taking part.
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Royal Granada visit Electricity Fraud Inspectors
THE president of the Junta de Andalucia, Juanma Moreno, has attended together with their Majesties, Don Felipe and Doña Letizia, in the Palace of Carlos V of Granada the inauguration of the exhibition ‘Odaliscas. From Ingres to Picasso’ that the Board of the Alhambra and the Generalife presents. The exhibition reflects on
the creation of the myth of the odalisque and how its figure became one of the great topics of art history throughout the 19th and 20th centuries and a key theme that runs through the century. It is depicted through greater aesthetic transformations of Western painting, showing the validity and importance of the traditional female nude.
This exhibition, made up of pieces by artists including Délacroix, Chasseriau, Gérôme, Constant, Bernard, and Matisse, can be visited from June 11 to September 10 and includes paintings from different museums and collections, as well as utensils, ornaments and various items of the Alhambra Museum.
Duty Free Returns to Tunnel IN what has been termed a Eurotunnel U-turn, the French bureaucracy is defeated as the government has announced that the sale of duty free products is set to return to the Coquelles terminal of the Eurotunnel. Authorisation has been given for zones to reopen at the Calais and Dunkirk ports. The decision is sure to delight many people and Olivier Dussopt, the Minister of Public Accounts and the Secretary
of State for European Affairs Clément Beaune commented in a statement that: “This decision taken within the framework of a constructive dialogue with the European authorities (...) will make it possible to align the rules applicable to the Eurotunnel with those provided for in airports and seaports for journeys to a third country to the European Union.” There are a few technical
hoops to jump through first though and the reopening of the duty free zones is set to be added as an amendment to the Finance Bill. Ministers have confirmed that this bill is being looked at by the National Assembly already. It has also been commented that it: “will not extend to rail transport, which will remain excluded from the scope of duty-free, in accordance with European rules.”
IT has been announced that Endesa electricity fraud inspectors will track you down if you try to fiddle your electricity supply. Juan de Dios Cerrato is a Cordovan man who is about to retire. He started working for the Spanish electricity supply company Endesa at the age of 19, becoming their youngest inspector, and he has devoted his entire 39 years of working life, to detecting electricity fraud. He says there has always been fraud, which he has been detecting since 1985, originally in the old sheet metal meters, where cheats made a tiny hole from which they made the disk that measured consumption stop, and now in remote-managed digital electricity meters. During his 39 years, he has seen all kinds of tricks, and Juan always warns that if you are tempted to fiddle your electricity meter to pay less, “Sooner or later you are always detected,” especially now that Endesa uses artificial intelligence to prevent such things from happening. With the new electricity regulations that came into force on June 1, the idea of lowering the electricity bill with illegal tricks can seduce many, although few actually dare, and the Internet is full of ‘how-to videos’ and detailed instructions so that anyone with mini-
ELECTRIC METERS: Don’t fiddle them. mal technical knowledge can defraud their power company. Endesa reportedly detected nearly 63,000 cases of fraud last year, which amounts to a loss for them in excess of 753 million kilowatt-hours (kWh), and if the average consumption of a household per month is about 291 kWh, then that figure of lost electricity supply would be equivalent to the consumption of 2.58 million households during one month. The Penal Code establishes a penalty of three to 12 months for fraudsters.
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Unexpected Virus Replacing Covid AN unexpected virus is replacing Covid in Spain among children, and paediatricians have issued a warning. According to the latest report issued by the Instituto de Salud Carlos III, children up to four years of age are the ones being hit by the most respiratory infections. In fact, according to the report there are a staggering 179.6 cases per 100,000, and this number is growing. Emergency rooms, paediatric wards and ICUs are said to be full of children who are suffering from RSV bronchiolitis, something that would only normally be expected in December. As winter ended paediatricians breathed a sigh of relief as it appeared that with preventive measures the ongoing coronavirus pandemic was slowing down. This also seemed to limit the number of other common infections suffered by children. David Andino, an emergency paediatrician at Madrid’s Niño Jesús Hospital took to Twitter to issue a warning and commented that: “Outside the hospital a suffocating summer heat. Inside the hospital the emergency, paedi-
MADRID: Paediatricians have issued a warning. atric ward and ICU full of children with RSV bronchiolitis as if it were December.” The issue appears to be growing and the coordinator of Paediatric Emergencies of the Hospital Gregorio Marañón and president of the Spanish Society of Paediatric Emergencies, Paula Vázquez López commented that: “They began as isolated cases in March. “In May a striking incidence was reached and it is increasing, but we do not expect a peak like the last season of bronchiolitis, in which we saw up to 1,200 children.”
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€1 million eye spy
vAN operation named ‘The Telephone Operator’, by Organised Crime and Anti-Drug Team (EDOA) of the Sevilla Guardia Civil, supported by the Coordination Agency against Drug Trafficking (OCON Sur) and the Regional Centre for Analysis and Intelligence against Drug Trafficking (Crain) have arrested 15 people, finding six high-end vehicles and €1 million in cash.
The Espia2 store located on Calle Recaredo is one of the 21 stores that the Guardia Civil carried out searches on during the morning of Wednesday, June 9, in many places and homes in the provinces of Sevilla, Malaga, Cadiz and Madrid. In the Andalucian capital there were eight registries, among which one of the businesses on Calle Recaredo and another one
Pensioners trips set to Return NOW that the majority of elderly and pensioners in Spain have received their vaccinations, the government has decided the time is right to start the Imserso trips once again, that everybody of this age group has enjoyed so much previously. With all being well with the pandemic conditions in the country - although no specific dates have yet been announced - September or October are expected to be the months when the trips will take place, for two main reasons: firstly, during these months, hotel prices are lower for pensioners to be able to afford it, and secondly, to enable tourism in the low season, so that the sector can continue functioning. Anybody who has not taken part in this scheme before, the requirements are very straightforward: all those who are retired pensioners of the public pension system, widows and widowers from the age of 55, those who are pensioners for other concepts, or recipients of unemployment benefits or subsidies, aged 60 or over, may travel. You can also benefit from these plans if you are a holder or beneficiary of the Social Security System, from the age of 65, or if you are a returned emigrant to Spain and a pensioner of the public Social Security System of the country from which you have returned.
in Palmete stood out. There were two more inspections in homes in this neighbourhood and in the Polígono Sur. In the province, there were records in Alcalá de Guadaíra and Carmona. According to the investigation, the amount of money uncovered is because the main clients of these stores were drug traffickers and high-level criminals, who do not usually pay with a credit card or bank transfer, but rather cash in hand. Furthermore, the Guardia Civil considers this chain of spy goods stores as a criminal organisation dedicated to supplying the mafias with items to evade police detection. Although Guardia Civil sources did not specify what type of items, mainly they are frequency inhibitors, which cancel the action of the beacons and other police means to fight against organised crime. They are also joined by geolocators to control the position of officers and thermal cameras or with night goggles.
The coolest streets
TIME OUT, the global media and hospitality brand, has debuted its first‐ever list naming the World’s Coolest Streets. The top streets listed in‐
Spanish Family Rescued In Dubai POLICE in Dubai have rescued a Spanish family after their yacht broke down at sea near a rock breaker off Jumeirah coast. The yacht is said to have broken down due to a technical issue, however, the police’s maritime rescue patrols in Dubai quickly responded to stop them from colliding into a rock breaker in strong currents and high winds. The Director of Ports Police Station, Colonel Dr Hassan Suhail Al Suwaidi, said the Commandand-Control Centre received the family’s distress call when their yacht broke down. “The Station, which has nine marine points in Dubai, immediately responded to the call and handled the situation with extreme finesse and professionalism,” he confirmed. He said the quick response of the rescue teams helped to save their lives as high winds and strong currents would have caused the vessel to crash into the breaker. Six family members were aboard the yacht, including children.
cludes streets in Madrid, Barcelona and Lisbon, Portugal within the top 20. The list was formed from the opinions of city residents via the brand's annual Time Out Index: a global survey of more than 27,000 locals who were each asked to nominate their city's coolest street. To rank the list, Time Out's international network of more than 100 local editors and experts fac‐ tored in food, drink, art, culture, nightlife and com‐ munity vibes over the past year. 1. Smith Street, Melbourne 2. Passeig de Sant Joan, Barcelona 3. South Bank, London 4. San Isidro, Havana 5. Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles 6. Witte de Withstraat, Rotterdam 7. Rua Três Rios, São Paulo 8. Haji Lane, Singapore 9. Rua Rodrigues de Faria, Lisbon 10. Calle Thames, Buenos Aires 11. Křižíkova Ulice, Prague 12. 7th Street, Melville, Johannesburg 13. Cat Street, Tokyo 14. 30th Avenue, New York 15. Levinsky Street, Tel Aviv 16. Milwaukee Avenue, Chicago 17. Gran Vía, Madrid 18. Calle Ocho, Miami 19. King Street, Sydney 20. Rua de Miguel Bombarda, Porto
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Operation Summer 2021 Bezos to travel on Space Flight
SUMMER MONTHS: Police reinforcements will increase security for citizens in tourist areas. RAFAEL PÉREZ, the Secretary of State for Security of the Ministry of the Interior has activated Opera‐ tion Summer 2021, a plan that will reinforce the numbers of National Police and Guardia Civil in the nine autonomous communities of Spain that re‐ ceive the greatest influx of visitors: Andalucia, As‐ turias, the Canary Islands, Cantabria, Comunidad Valenciana, Galicia, the Balearic Islands, Madrid, and Murcia. Mr Pérez announced that Operation Summer 2021 will run from July 1 until August 31, 2021, ex‐ cept in the case of the Balearic Islands, where the plan will last until September 30, 2021. During this period, the National Police will be re‐ inforced with an extra 2,222 officers, while the Guardia Civil reinforcement will be another 1,599 troops. Aimed at reducing the risks associated with common crime, and to increase citizen security in these areas of high tourist interest, Operation Sum‐
mer 2021 allows increased surveillance and pre‐ ventive control in urban and interurban communi‐ cation routes, stations, ports, airports, hotels, beaches, and campsites, as well as on the occasion of any event that involves a large concentration of people. One of the priority objectives of Operation Sum‐ mer 2021 is to reinforce prevention against certain criminal offences against property, such as theft in‐ side homes, as well as offering extreme prevention against online scams, one of the crimes that pro‐ duce the most complaints during the holiday months as a result of the increase of the use of the internet to reserve accommodation and travel packages during the summer months. Operation Summer in Spain aims to provide pro‐ tection and security in general to all activities relat‐ ed to tourism, as well as to all national and foreign citizens who come or move through the national territory to enjoy their summer holiday period.
AMAZON’S billionaire founder Jeff Bezos has said that he and his brother Mark will fly on the first crewed space flight from his rocket company Blue Origin in July. “Ever since I was five years old, I’ve dreamed of travelling to space. On July 20, I will take that journey with my brother,” Bezos, who is one of the richest people in the world, said in an Instagram post. Bezos, who is due to step down as Amazon’s chief on July 5, will join the winner of an auction for a seat on the first flight from Blue Origin. Bezos, fellow billionaires Elon Musk and Richard Branson have been investing billions of dollars on their rocket startups, but Bezos will be the first of the three to actually travel into space on a rocket developed by his own company. Its New Shepard rocket-andcapsule combo is designed to autonomously fly six passengers more than 62 miles (100 kms) above Earth into suborbital space, high enough to experience a few minutes of weightlessness and see the curvature of the planet before the pressurised capsule returns to
earth under parachutes. The capsule features six observation windows and are nearly three times as tall as those on a Boeing 747 jetliner and the largest ever used in space.
Bezos’s rocket startup is targeting July 20 for its first suborbital sightseeing trip, a landmark moment in a competition to usher in a new era of private commercial space travel.
The ‘Best of the Best’
THE Vincci Hotel in Benalmadena, Malaga reopens its doors on Friday June 18 after having been selected among the ‘Best of the Best’ of TripAdvisor’s Travellers’ Choice, the highest recognition granted by these prestigious awards that are decided based on the reviews and opinions of the users themselves. Nominated on numerous occasions as one of the best ho‐ tels nationwide in the main digital tourism platforms, Vincci Selección Aleysa Boutique & Spa has obtained second posi‐ tion among the 25 best hotels in Spain for 2021. As reported in a press release, the exclusive accommoda‐ tion on the Costa del Sol welcomes the summer season by celebrating this award in which only 1 per cent of the hotels present on the platform, have a place. TripAdvisor Trav‐ ellers’ Choice is decided based on the millions of reviews and opinions from travellers around the world collected over a one‐year period. The awards take into account both the quality and quantity of opinions from travellers and the spe‐ cific ratings, as explained, underlining that “only the best val‐ ued also become part of the Best of the Best, as is the case with Vincci Aleysa Boutique & Spa Selection.”
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Expats in Queen’s June Birthday Honours List MBE to Michael HARRIS, ‘For services to British Nationals in Spain and the European Union’ The founder and Vice Presi‐ dent of EuroCi‐ tizens, founded in 2016, and a British in Eu‐ rope commit‐ tee member. A long‐time resi‐ dent of Spain, and a former teacher and writer of English‐language textbooks. HMA Hugh Elliott said: “Mike has made an exceptional contribution in standing up for the rights of UK Nationals in Spain and his work to effectively lobby key political interlocutors in Spain and the EU on their behalf has been hugely impressive. I am al‐ so grateful for the way he has worked alongside the Embassy ‐ providing just the right level of support and challenge! His work to defend their rights has been in‐ valuable to so many of the British commu‐ nity in Spain.” Michael Harris said: “I am pleasantly surprised to receive this MBE for my work with EuroCitizens and British in Europe, campaigning for the rights of Britons in Spain and the EU affected by Brexit.”
MBE to Anne Patricia Dawn HERNÁNDEZ, ‘For services to British Nationals in Spain’ Based in Andalucia, Anne spearheaded the formation of Brexpats in Spain. As its President, Anne has worked tirelessly to inform UK nationals of their EU exit rights and responsibilities. She has championed key issues, supported UK nationals to ac‐ cess services, lobbied the Spanish local authorities for improvements, and supported the Embassy and Consulates to disseminate accurate information. HMA Hugh Elliott said: “Anne has given freely and selflessly of her time, actively and practically supporting UK nationals, the Embassy, and the Spanish authorities. As the driving force behind Brexpats in Spain, Anne has brought together a body of trusted experts to provide free and accurate information to members; ensuring UK nationals are aware of their rights and take the necessary ac‐ tions to protect them. Her work has had an indisputably positive effect on the lives of so many UK nationals living in Spain.” Anne Hernández said: “I have never in my life refused help to anybody and, to think that just by offering that same kindness to my fellow Brits in Spain could result in this prestigious award, it is honestly overwhelming. Steer‐ ing one’s way through the maze of requirements and changes since Brexit hasn’t been easy for many and I am honoured that my help to them has been recognised in this way.” MBE to Debbie WILLIAMS, ‘For services to British Nationals in the European Union’ A former member of the armed forces, Debbie set up the grass roots organisation Brexpats ‐ Hear Our Voice (BHOV) as a pan‐European group a few days after the EU Referendum in June 2016. Moving from Belgium to Spain shortly afterwards, she con‐ tinued her lobbying, engagement and awareness‐raising efforts, considering the im‐ pact of the UK’s departure from the EU on both UK Nationals in Europe and EU Nation‐ als in the UK. HMA Hugh Elliott said: “Debbie’s voluntary contribution has been outstanding ‐ go‐ ing beyond lobbying to provide a voice to citizens and to raise awareness of the impact the UK’s exit from the EU has had on the daily lives of individuals on both a practical and emotional level. Through Brexpats Hear Our Voice, Debbie has created a platform that ensures the voice of everyone who is affected by the EU referendum is heard, regardless of their nationality.” Debbie Williams said: “I was surprised and humbled to hear that I merited this honour. I am grateful for the recognition, but none of this would have been possible without the assistance of so many other wonderfully dedi‐ cated campaigners who, for the last five challenging years, have been volunteering on behalf of so many people, especially the vulnerable.”
MBE to Sue WILSON,‘For ser‐ vices to British Nationals in Spain and the European Union’ As Chair of Bremain in Spain, Sue is one of the most visible campaigners for the rights of UK nationals in the EU. When moving to Spain to retire over 10 years ago, she had no experience of advoca‐ cy, campaigning work or speaking in public. However, the result of the 2016 EU referendum affected her deeply and since then she has worked on the issue of UK nationals’ rights in various different ways. Sue has lobbied UK and EU influencers and made great efforts to inform the UK Gov‐ ernment’s work on citizens’ rights, including appearing in front of the Select Committee for Exiting the EU. HMA Hugh Elliott said: “Sue has worked with great de‐ termination to raise the profile of citizens’ rights amongst politicians and key influencers. Her remarkable contribution and collaborative approach has helped the UK Government minimise preventable consular cases by ensuring UK na‐ tionals in the EU are reflected in the negotiations and that they have a clear understanding of their rights and how to access them. Her work has had a positive impact on the lives of thousands of UK nationals.” Sue Wilson said: “It has been a great pleasure working with Ambassador Hugh Elliott and his Embassy staff in Madrid, helping British citizens navigate the post‐Brexit landscape. It has been a labour of love ‐ a tough one at times ‐ but to have that work recognised and appreciated is a wonderful and unexpected surprise. I’m absolutely de‐ lighted!"
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THE EUROWEEKLY NEWS is urg‐ ing its readers to support local businesses in the community by going local through the lock‐ down and for your all your shop‐ ping this year, instead of feeding online giants and superstores. During this lockdown, we chal‐ lenge you to rediscover your local high streets, markets, butchers, greengrocers and all of the won‐ derfully quirky independent busi‐ nesses in your area. Due to the Covid‐19 pandemic, you may have to support many local businesses by ordering on‐ line and making use of any click and collect services they can op‐ erate 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, consider where your money is ac‐ tually going. By shopping at an independent store you’re putting food on a lo‐ cal family’s table, and there is no better time than now to give back to your community by making a small gesture and shopping in this way. Many local stores support local
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charities, support and sponsor lo‐ cal sports teams and in many cas‐ es 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 genera‐ tions and support not just the cur‐ rent owner but the generation 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 pre‐order your meat from a local butcher and get your spuds from a local greengro‐ cer, let us revive that community spirit and get to know our neigh‐ bours again. You could also consider pur‐ chasing gift vouchers from local businesses to help them over the coming weeks, thinking outside
the box can often lead to some fantastic ideas. Why not buy a meal for two, an hour’s tattoo time at a local studio, a hair cut at a local salon or an online study course for someone looking to change their career path. As people are struggling with fi‐ nances thinking about what friends and family may actually need is important too. Whilst it’s nice to give a glamourous gift per‐ haps pre‐paying a family mem‐ ber’s phone bill for the month would actually be a better gift. Helping people alleviate stress and worry , give the gift of peace of mind through these difficult times. Choosing to spend your money locally will really make a difference in the
recovery of the local economy. When we buy local, our money stays local, and it strengthens the local economy in two ways. First, buying local keeps money circulating within the local econo‐ my. Studies have shown that local businesses recirculate a greater share of every 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 restaurant, which in turn prepares the fresh produce and sells it to local cus‐ tomers. The farmer pays its local employees and the restaurant us‐ es revenue from sales to buy sup‐ plies from a neighbourhood hard‐ ware store. This example illustrates how the recirculation of money in the local economy leads to a stronger financial foundation for our neigh‐ bours and communities. Buying local also fuels new employment and job opportunities for people within our community. Studies show, locally owned businesses employ more people per unit of sales and retain more employees over time. A fantastic example of how to support your local community is with a Charity Gift certificate, why not donate to your loved one’s favourite cause. Just remember to follow the latest government advice and any guidance businesses have to keep everyone safe.
Time to ditch the masks
WE asked, you answered: our readers will not be wearing masks once it is no longer mandatory. Based on our Facebook survey, more than 70 per cent of our readers will not be wearing masks once it is no longer mandatory, or at least not when they are outside, though most agreed that they will continue to do so in shops, banks, public transport, health centres, pub‐ lic buildings and other crowded spaces. Many said that common sense should be used to decide when a mask does or doesn’t need to be worn. FACE MASKS: May not be mandatory. The director of the Centre for the Coordina‐ tion of Health Alerts and Emer‐ gencies, Fernando Simon, said that he believes that before Ju‐ ly it may not be mandatory to wear masks in Spain. AS part of SEO BirdLife’s Libera project, ‘QUEEN Mum’ HRH Sofía We asked you if you would has rolled up her sleeves and joined in with a clean‐up day in a continue to wear a mask even nature reserve. if this is the case. The day was part of a nationwide clean‐up initiative which Despite the resounding no, was organised in conjunction with the major recycling firm those who do plan to continue Ecoembes. wearing a mask will do so until On Saturday volunteers from all over Spain were encouraged they are convinced that there to give a few hours of their time as part of the initiative. Volun‐ is no chance of catching the teers were encouraged to spend a couple of hours clearing up a virus. single one square metre of rubbish, in a natural area. One reader, who said that Queen Sofía is no stranger to these activities and regularly she would continue to wear takes part in clean‐up days. Queen Sofia, along with many of the hers, fears that with new vari‐ regular volunteers are able to manage more than a single square ants coming into Spain, it’s too metre. soon to even consider ditching Previously she headed to Malaga to join in a mass clean‐up in the masks. September. This weekend Queen Sophia helped out at the Soto Another said that most of de las Juntas nature reserve in Madrid. the masks that people use are Queen Sofía is 82 years old and is a patron of SEO BirdLife. Her not effective anyway because age does not slow her down though and she joins in with as they won’t prevent inhalation many volunteer projects as she possibly can. or exhalation of a virus which spreads in tiny droplets.
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Possible no return ACCORDING to reports over 200,000 people on ERTE face the prospect of not being able to return to their previous job. The ERTE (Expediente de Regulación Temporal de Empleo) agreement was brought about in a bid to fight back against the employment issues created by the coronavirus pandemic. It is believed that almost 500,000 people are still under the ERTE umbrella. Labour Minister Yolanda Díaz, has spoken about the figures and said that 15 per cent of the near four million workers who joined the scheme during the health crisis are still on E R T E. The government now believes though that not everyone will be able to return to their previous jobs. This issue comes about due to multiple factors including that some businesses will not be able to reopen due to the current econo m y a n d a l s o t h a t a ccording to the B ank of Spain many companies will not be able to survive as the ongoing health crisis has lasted for such a long time. According to experts training opportunities have been missed duri n g t h e o n g o i n g p a ndemic which would have allowed the workforce most affected by the pandemic to keep up their skills and learn new ones. The vice-president for economic affairs, Nadia Calviño, has previously expressed interest in the possibility of using the German ERTE model in Spain. This model includes training and retraining for workers. Sadly though not even a pilot project has been set up to test out this model.
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Costly Fail To Self-Isolate A costly trip to Spain.
A D E R BY S H I R E mum has been forced to hand over more than £2,000 after she disregarded the requirement to self‐isolate after she made a trip to Spain, and drove 160 miles to Norfolk.
Guardia Civil Save Baby
IN a fantastic save, officers from the Guardia Civil have been able to save a 16-month-old baby from drowning in a removable pool in Sevilla. The accident took place on June 6 and the Guardia Civil were alerted by the coordination centre to the fact that a youngster had possibly drowned. They rushed to the scene of the incident and located the child’s father who was performing CPR. The Guardia Civil officers took charge of the baby and continued to perform CPR manoeuvres. Luckily the child started to breathe slightly. Medical services also set out to help and as soon as they arrived on the scene they took charge. They quickly rushed the baby to Sevilla Children’s Hospital. The child’s relatives have expressed their thanks to the Guardia Civil for their excellent work.
P James, aged 50 from Buxton, had left home whilst she was required to be self‐ isolating and has now been made to pay over double the initial fine as she decided to drive her mother‐in‐law all the way to Norfolk. Ms James had only been fined £1,000 to start with but she refused to pay and even told police that she would not pay it. Due to her lack of pay‐ ment her case finally made it before a Derby magistrate, as she had failed to pay or indicate a plea. The case was dealt with quickly and behind closed doors using the Single Jus‐ tice Procedure, which is usu‐ ally reserved for TV licence fines and driving matters. The hearing at Southern Derbyshire Magistrates’ Court took place on March 18, but details have only just been released. At the hear‐ ing Magistrate Paul Dicker‐ son found Miss James guilty and she has had to pay over £2,000.
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EU Parliament Approves Certificate THE EU parliament has backed a proposal allowing for digital proof of Covid vaccinations or negative tests. The measures are aimed at enabling restric‐ tion‐free travel within the EU as the summer tourism season be‐ gins. The long‐awaited certificate is aimed at saving Europe’s
travel industry and prime tourist sites from another disas‐ trous holiday season. Key travel European destinations like Spain and Greece have led the drive to have the certificate, which will have both paper and digital forms, rapidly intro‐ duced. The proposed digital Covid
Another cyber attack THE Ministry of Labour and Social Economy in Madrid was hit by a cyber‐attack last week. The Ministry tweeted at 11.27am on June 9, “The Ministry of Labour and Social Economy has been affected by a computer at‐ tack. The technical managers of the Ministry and the National Cryptological Centre are working together to determine the origin and restore normality as soon as possible.” In March 2020, the Ministry was hit by a cyber‐attack which se‐ riously impacted the Spanish State Employment Service (SEPE). SEPE was forced to suspend its communications systems across hundreds of offices and postpone thousands of appointments. Its website was also inaccessible for about two weeks and the ransomware attack delayed thousands of ERTE applications, cer‐ tificates and applications for other benefits just as Spain’s strict Covid‐19 lockdown took hold.
certificates would enable more secure travel between EU coun‐ tries by validating whether someone has been fully vacci‐ nated, has recently tested nega‐ tive for the virus or has recov‐ ered from the disease. The EU said it will also provide €100 million for the purchase of Covid‐19 tests. The new regulations govern‐ ing the vaccine certificates were adopted in two votes at the Eu‐ ropean Parliament in Stras‐ bourg, France. Rules for EU citi‐ zens were passed 546 to 93, with 51 abstentions. Those for people from outside the bloc passed 553 to 91, with 46 ab‐ stentions. It means that beginning July 1 for 12 months, all EU coun‐ tries must recognise the vaccine certificate. They will be issued free and certify that a person has either been fully vaccinated against the virus, has recently tested negative or has recov‐ ered from the disease.
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THE Spanish Postal Service has managed to win two top awards at the World Post & Par‐ cel Awards 2021, specifically in the category of Corporate Social Responsibility for its initiative ‘Help as much as we can’ and in the Postal e‐commerce for its platform Correos Market. The World Post & Parcel Awards are considered as the Oscars of the postal world and
Correos Awards logistics sector and recognise ex‐ cellence, leadership and the most outstanding proposals made by postal and logistics companies during the previous year. The winners met at a virtu‐ al gala held on Tuesday, June 8, due to pandemic restrictions.
The initiative ‘Help as much as we can’ encompasses all the ini‐ tiatives promoted by Correos during the toughest period of the Covid‐19 pandemic. Demonstrating its vocation of public service, Correos put itself at the service of society, beyond the development of their usual activity, to get everything neces‐ sary to citizens, the most vulner‐ able groups and professionals who were performing essential tasks at the most critical mo‐ ments. In the jury’s opinion, “Correos has taken corporate social re‐ sponsibility to another level by encouraging community volun‐ teering among its workers.” The mobilisation of all em‐ ployees, and especially 3,292 vol‐ unteers, from the very beginning of the pandemic, created a soli‐ darity network and during the 10 weeks of confinement, the vol‐ unteer staff of Correos partici‐ pated in about 500 solidarity ini‐ tiatives, giving logistical and human support to health work‐ ers, the elderly, vulnerable fami‐ lies, schoolchildren and all those groups that needed it.”
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Feeding The Little Ones IN what is considered a life‐ saver for the most vulnerable, Fundación MAPFRE and Educo are committed to ‘Feeding The Little Ones’. As part of the programme for lunchtime school grants they provide a lifeline to the most vulnerable children.
Lunchtimes at schools.
Government Wants Electricity Brought Down THE government has said it will request the National Commis‐ sion of Markets and Competition ( CNMC ) to change the so‐ called ‘off‐peak hour’of the price of electricity. The Minister of Social Rights, Ione Belarra, is committed to ad‐ vancing the off‐peak hour at night of the current electricity rate by hourly sections to 10pm from Monday to Friday, instead of starting at midnight as is the case with the new rate tariff struc‐ ture that came into effect recently. Belarra pointed out that ‘United, we can request this change,’ which is proposed by Facua, the consumer rights association, and sent to the National Commission of Markets and Competi‐ tion (CNMC) to evaluate its viability. Spanish Consumer Association OCU and Facua have criticised the new electricity tariffs, which require consumers to use the early morning hours in order to take advantage of the cheapest rate.
Many people would be sur‐ prised to know that in Spain one in three children is at risk of poverty or social exclusion. Sadly, according to experts, Spain is facing a crisis in child poverty with nearly 2.5 million youngsters being affected. What is even worse though is that the ongoing coronavirus pandemic has made these fig‐ ures worse, and it is expected that in 2021 these figures will increase dramatically. According to studies poor nutrition in young children can prevent them from performing their best at school. Poor nutri‐ tion in the early years of life can bring about irreversible ef‐ fects on growth and even on intellectual development. According to the Catalan Ombudsman, the ongoing coronavirus pandemic has seen attendance in school canteens reduced. So far this academic year a staggering 2,000 children have benefited from the scheme throughout 250 schools in Spain.
Lottery Thief Arrested by Guardia A LOTTERY ticket thief has been arrested by the Guardia Civil in Valencia after buying a house with his winnings from the stolen ticket. In December 2020, the man had snatched a bag which not only contained cash, but also contained a Lottery ticket for the Christmas special draw. A few days after he had stolen the bag the lottery ticket was awarded a second prize. The Benemérita began investi‐ gating after the victim filed a
complaint on December 19. The woman had been at a Novelda restaurant and was eating a meal when her handbag was stolen from her. The bag contained €950 in cash along with a lottery ticket, which a few days later won a staggering €125,000. While the victim had only ini‐ tially reported the theft of the handbag, she soon decided to ex‐ tend the complaint on December 22, after she realised that her stolen lottery ticket had won a staggering prize.
The investigation focused on a 52‐year‐old man, in the Valen‐ cian town of Alzira where the the man was found to have a long history of theft. Officers were able to discover that he was living in a house which they believed he had purchased with his win‐ nings from the stolen lottery tick‐ et. The man was arrested on May 31. He has now been released with charges and is being investi‐ gated for an alleged serious of‐ fence of theft.
Primark Signs Sustainable Textiles Plan THE popular retailer has become a founding signatory of Textiles 2030, the UK Sustainable Textile Action Plan launched by WRAP. Over the next decade, this initiative aims to accelerate the fashion and textiles industry’s move towards circularity and significantly re‐ duce the environmental impact of clothing and home fabrics through practical interventions along the textiles chain. “By signing up to Textiles 2030, Primark is not only committing to taking significant action in relation to its own operations, including by encouraging its customers to use and dispose of clothing and textile products in new, more sustainable ways, but also collaborating with
other signatories through cross‐industry discus‐ sions to accelerate progress towards a circular economy for textiles and reverse the growing carbon impact of textile products,” the compa‐ ny said. Alongside other signatories, Primark will set targets for reducing whole life emissions, mea‐ sure the impact of its product portfolio, and act on priorities, reporting progress to WRAP an‐ nually. This includes reducing the aggregate greenhouse gas footprint of new products by 50 per cent, sufficient to limit global warming to 1.5°C in line with the Paris Agreement on cli‐ mate change and achieving Net Zero by 2050 at the latest.
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EUROPEAN NIBS DENMARK
FRANCE
Island life
Impromptu terraces
IF you fancy getting away from it all then the Danish Island of Langø which has around 15 acres of land, plenty of sea views and a small farmhouse with no noisy neighbours has just been put up for sale, with an asking price of Kr10 (€1.34) million.
THE Paris City Council has confirmed that the makeshift café terraces that were created on parking spaces for patrons who were scared of eating and drinking inside may remain in place this summer, but must be closed by 10pm so residents won’t be bothered by noise.
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NORWAY
Golden coach
Pig sick
IN 1898, the wealthy of Amsterdam paid for the production of a Golden Coach weighing 2.5 tons to take Queen Wilhelmina to her coronation. Since that time, it has been used in numerous state ceremonies, but after renovation is to be exhibited at the Amsterdam Museum.
FINDINGS of terrible conditions and treatment of pigs in Norway revealed by the animal welfare organisation Nettverk for dyrs frihet (Network for Animal Freedom), has prompted meat producer Nortura, to ask for more unannounced inspections of farms raising pork by Norway’s food safety authority Mattilsynet.
BELGIUM
FINLAND
Legoland
Outdoor lockers
RUMOURS that there will be a Belgian Legoland have been confirmed and the 3,000 square metre Legoland Discovery Centre is due to open at the Dockx Bruxsel shopping centre in Brussels - which already boasts a cinema and adventure park - some time in 2022.
THE Finnish Post Office is to launch a series of outdoor parcel lockers developed in cooperation with Finnish technology partners able to produce banks of lockers suited to handle Finland’s demanding weather conditions. These will be introduced when there is insufficient space for indoor lockers.
GERMANY VW scandal BERLIN state prosecutors have brought charges against the former head of the German automobile company Volkswagen alleging that he lied to the German Bundestag in 2017 about when he first became aware of the fact that special software was distorting diesel emission information.
SWEDEN Unusual priorities THE vaccination of detainees in Sweden’s institutions and prisons has started and in some parts of the country they are treated as priority patients whilst their own prison guards who are out and about in society remain unvaccinated which has caused a stir with unions.
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Challenge in the Arctic IN an amazing challenge two Malaga women are set to head to the Arctic after beating can‐ cer. The two women have no pre‐ vious sailing experience but they are ready to embark on a chal‐ lenge which involves sailing a boat over 2,500 nautical miles non‐stop, from Vigo to Green‐
Sailing 2,500 miles.
Barcelo Opts For Renewable Energy BARCELO HOTEL GROUP and Endesa have extended their collaboration agreement to supply 100 per cent renewable electricity to all the chain’s hotels in Spain. In 2020, the electricity company supplied energy with a guarantee of renewable origin to the 18 establishments of the Occidental Hotels brand of Barcelo Hotel Group and this year the agreement extends to the electricity consumption contract of the 66 hotels of the hotel chain in Spain. Approximately 107 GWh of annual consumption at Barcelo Hotel Group facilities in Spain, that is equivalent to the consumption of more than 30,600 homes, will be covered with 100 per cent renewable origin guarantee certificates issued by the National Commission of Markets and Competition.
land. The pair have put their cancers behind them and are set to take on this stunning chal‐ lenge. First though they will have to pass the final test which takes place in Denia, Alicante. This test will see them having to sail be‐ tween Denia and the Balearic Is‐ lands. The two amazing women are Ada de Luque who has beaten breast cancer and Silvia Albújar, who had lung cancer with metastasis in other organs, and they are just two of the 13 final‐ ists that have been selected from almost 400 women from around Spain. All the women have beaten cancer and have signed up for the stunning Pelayo Vida Challenge. Each year the challenge changes and in 2021 they wel‐ come in the ‘Pelayo Vida 66 North Challenge.’ The challenge has been named in reference to the 66th Parallel North, the fa‐ mous Arctic Circle. The stunning challenge is expected to take be‐ tween 15 and 20 days.
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FINANCE BUSINESS EXTRA Bailing out IN order to release finance, Spanish construction company OHL is looking to sell its 49 per cent stake in the development of the former British War Office at the end of the Mall in London to its partner 57 Whitehall Investments owned by Indian group Hinduja.
Selfridges sale REPORTS are appearing in UK retail trade magazines that the Weston family, owners of one of Britain’s most iconic department stores Selfridges are considering a £4 (€4.4) billion sale to a mystery buyer with the Oxford Street building being worth around 50 per cent of the deal.
Morrisons revolt IN what is believed to be one of the biggest UK shareholder revolts, 70 per cent voted against proposed bonuses for senior members of Morrisons staff including £1.7 (€1.87) million for CEO David Potts as the company had a larger turnover but smaller profits in 2020.
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G7 introduces tax deal
THERE have been rum‐ blings of discontent from Europe concerning clever accounting by mainly US companies such as Ama‐ zon and Google. France, Spain and the UK either set or intended to in‐ troduce special tax laws which saw a decision by the US to retaliate with the imposition of huge tariff in‐ creases on certain goods. Now at a meeting in the UK, G7 Finance Ministers agreed an in‐principle deal
to tax international com‐ panies on profits relating to in country sales. Currently a company can earn huge amounts of money in one country but pay very little tax there because they could set up their headquarters in an‐ other country and channel profits into there and pay lower rates of tax. Both Holland and Ire‐ land have benefited from this loophole and under‐ standably the Irish Gov‐
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Trade deals BRITAIN has secured new deals with Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein and it is the most advanced post-Brexit trade deal with the trio yet, the government claims. The deal aims to boost critical British sectors like digital, slash tariffs on highquality British food and farm products and support jobs. The agreement significantly cuts tariffs as high as 277 per cent for exporters to Norway of certain cheeses as well as Scotch Whisky. “Today’s deal will be a major boost for our trade with Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein, growing an economic relationship already worth £21.6 billion,” said International Trade Secretary Liz Truss.
ernment are not in favour, although the European Union is, according to a BBC report. The basic concept is that any corporation that earns more than 10 per cent profit in any country must pay a flat tax of 20 per cent on profits above that and would not be able to transfer profits to a second country. Assuming this agree‐ ment is actually signed, to‐ gether with another that
puts a minimum global minimum of 15 per cent corporation tax then it would appear that the likes of Amazon and oth‐ ers will find themselves paying more tax unless they can find additional loopholes. The general feeling at the G7 appears to be that these companies made bonus profits during the lockdown and now need to pay sensible tax rates to assist in the recovery.
How to handle grief
Don’t Hang out Laundry On our complex we have a few tenants and some owners (fortunately not many) who refuse to abide by the community rule that you are not allowed to erect lines for washing on a building. These owners have been approached and asked politely, but they just become rude and abu‐ sive and ignore the requests. The point is that, if we all did it, our buildings would look like a Chinese laundry! Are we able to fine them for every time it happens or do you have any other suggestions please? K C (by email)
Bank cuts ONE of Spain’s largest banks, BBVA has agreed terms with the unions to make 2,935 members of staff redundant and close 480 branches (less than it originally wanted) in order to reduce costs to allow it to tackle the post pandemic future.
is the amount that the Spanish Government is budgeting to pay home owners who renovate their homes to save energy.
The com‐ munity is not empowered to YOU AND THE LAW issue fines of any IN SPAIN sort. In fact the only legal recourse it has is the power to prohibit serious offenders from using their flats for several years. This would not apply to a relatively minor annoyance such as you describe. You are already doing the only thing you can do, which is to continue to insist on reminding them politely that they are breaking a community rule and annoying the other members. A more positive response would be to offer them another space where they could hang their laundry.
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S P A N I S H retail giant, Inditex, which owns Zara, reports sales growth of 50 per cent in the first quarter of this year, with sales for May 2021 above 2019 levels. Inditex’s executive chairman, Pablo Isla, said, “Our strategic transformation towards a fully in‐ tegrated, digital and sustainable model continues to bear results, supported by the commitment dis‐
Loss can lead to depression. WHEN a loved one passes away, people handle their grief in different ways. Psychiatrist Elisabeth Kübler‐Ross identified five stages in the grieving pro‐ cess. Denial ‐ helps to min‐ imise the emotional pain. It can be hard to believe that someone is gone and de‐ nial prevents you from be‐ coming overwhelmed by thoughts and memories. Anger ‐ while trying to adjust to the new reality, anger is an outlet for your emotions when you don’t want to admit you’re
scared. Bargaining ‐ you may feel so desperate that you would do anything to min‐ imise the pain and make promises to a higher pow‐ er. Depression ‐ once your mind calms down and you start to face reality, you will feel the loss more clearly and this can lead to depression. Acceptance ‐ once you accept the new reality, you will still feel the pain and sadness of your loss, but you will no longer try to change it.
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Inditex profits grow played by all the people who work at Inditex.” Sales in the first quarter of 2012 reached €4.9 billion and online sales in local currencies grew by 67 per cent. Net cash reached €7.2 bil‐ lion by the end of the quarter. Gross margin expanded to a ro‐
bust 59.9 per cent “thanks to the implementation of the business model and the efficiencies un‐ locked by the digital transforma‐ tion strategy,” the company said in a statement on June 9. Store and online sales in local currencies between May 1 and
5G delay ALTHOUGH the Spanish re‐ covery plan relies heavily upon the need to increase knowledge and business in the technology sector, it is not being helped this year by the delay in introducing 5G service across the coun‐ try. Whilst many may consid‐ er this a positive delay, the general consensus appears to be in favour of yet an‐ other upgrade in speed and connectivity for mobile phones. The problem however is that the four main Spanish telecoms companies, Mo‐ vistar, Orange, Vodafone and MásMóvil can’t agree on what percentage of the 3.5 GHz band they want and the Ministry of Eco‐ nomic Affairs doesn’t ap‐ pear to be helping to re‐ solve the situation.
Harvesting plastic soup CREATED 18 months ago, Gravity Wave is a Spanish company dedicated to the col‐ lection of plastic from the seabed and transforming it in‐ to useful objects. The brother and sister team have teamed up with Enaleia, a foundation that works with traditional fishermen from the Mediterranean Sea who rather than throwing back plastic caught in their nets, sends it to Gravity Wave for transformation. They started small and used the reformed plastic to make cases for mobile phones, but are now branching out as their contact with more than 100 fishermen means that they have so far received some 70,000 kilos of plastic. June 6, 2021 registered year‐on‐ year growth of 102 per cent com‐ pared to the same period in 2020, and by 5 per cent compared to 2019. First quarter gross profit amounted to €2.96 billion. Net profit reached €421 million in the quarter, compared with a loss of €409 million in the first quarter of 2020.
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Curbing youth unemployment
LATEST PLANS: Minister Yolanda Díaz made the announcement on June 8. IN a video speech on Tuesday June 8, Minister of Labour and Social Economy, Yolanda Díaz announced the latest plans to curb youth unem‐ ployment in Spain. With unemployment amongst those aged under 25 fast approaching 40 per cent, the largest number of unem‐ ployed in that age group in the European Union, the gov‐ ernment has published an 85 page document pledging €4.9 billion to tackle the problem over the next six years. According to Díaz, this is the largest amount ever com‐ mitted to reduce youth em‐ ployment but it must be re‐ membered, that when the PSOE took over the govern‐ ment, it made a €2 billion commitment to reduce youth unemployment in 2018. Rather than bring it down, the opposite was the result although in fairness, they couldn’t have forecast the ef‐ fects of the pandemic which
did see far more job losses than could ever have been predicted. In her speech, the minister observed “Knowing that we are facing an enormous chal‐ lenge, the strategy moves in relation to the recommenda‐ tions of the European Union,” who confirmed that the con‐ cept has been created follow‐ ing discussions with the 17 autonomous communities as well as unions and employers. Much of what is planned is dependent upon the creation of new technology businesses and the training of staff to work in them, many of whom will almost by definition be young, but this new industry does need to be funded and to date, Spain has still not re‐ ceived any money from the EU Recovery Programme. Spain also wants to see more young people becoming entrepreneurs, but again to do this it needs good ideas and easy access to cheap
Spain courts Libya SPAIN’S President Pedro Sánchez is becoming something of a travelling salesman as after reopening the Spanish Embassy in Libya he shot off to Argentina. For years Spain had a strong presence in Libya thanks to Repsol, which has a number of oil concessions in that country but at a joint press conference with interim Prime Minister Abdulhamid Dbeibah, investment was in both of their minds and said they had signed several memorandums of understanding to boost economic cooperation in various sectors such as health, infrastructure, agriculture, education, livestock and renewable energy.
funds which is not necessarily an obvious choice for Spanish banks who are themselves consolidating and shedding staff, adding to, rather than reducing unemployment in the country.
BUSINESS EXTRA More jobs AMAZON announced on June 10 that it plans to create another 3,000 jobs in Spain during 2021 as it continues to see its business expand which will see a total of 15,000 members of staff, twice as many as it employed two years ago.
Bitcoin crash JUST a few months ago, the Bank of Spain warned investors that cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin should be considered a bad risk and this has proven to be correct as it has lost 50 per cent of its value over the last week when compared to April highs.
Decathlon LAST year, clothing and sports equipment retailer Decathlon tested a project in Belgium which was so successful that it has been transferred to Spain as the company teams up online with 30 new brands to allow it to now offer 250,000 items.
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Predictions come true
LEAPY LEE SAYS IT OTHERS THINK IT TWO of Leapy’s predictions came to pass this week. When originally columned they were of course met with the predictable accusations of racism from those who exploit the term for anything they don’t agree with! One forecast, which I made almost a year ago, stated that as soon as the fans were allowed back into the football grounds they would let the players and officials know exactly what they thought of their knee taking, racist provoking homage to a Marxist organisation and criminal thug. Well. You only have to tune in to see how the truth of that statement has come to pass. In a blatant attempt to instigate the mass suppression of free speech the FA has issued a statement actually directing the fans not to boo the players. They also added that they could issue bans on those who ignore the warning. At their peril I would say! It’s not totally the fault of the teams of course. Referring to the topic in an interview Gary Neville, the England team manager, righteously spouted
that his players would ‘continue to take the knee against any form of racism in the game.’ This well‐ meaning, but utterly naïve comment from the man in charge, just shows how easily they have all been duped into making what is basically a political statement before the start of every match. These fan demonstrations are not derisory howls from thousands of racists; they are the reaction from a rapidly growing populace realising they are all being taken for mugs! A second prediction, which also provoked protest from the
BORIS JOHNSON: Now voicing concerns, but a bit late!
disgruntled PC minority, was my more recent common sense observation that the spread of the new Indian Covid variant was probably due to the way thousands of Muslims were allowed to travel backwards and forwards from India and Pakistan to celebrate Ramadan and Eid. You only had to actually refer to a map of the UK to bear out this particular statement. All the new outbreaks initially began in areas predominantly inhabited by Asian minorities. It’s not
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rocket science! Anyway I was delighted to see that politicians, including Boris Johnson, are now voicing the same concerns and admitting they should have perhaps not have been quite so lax in allowing this situation to materialise. Bit late now. At the time of writing it appears their erroneous decisions will put the whole nation, with all its accompanying misery and economic woes, back yet another month. Once again minority appeasement and ‘woke’ ideals have resulted in the detriment of the long suffering majority! In closing, I do find it interesting, but not unexpected, that when something I have forecast in the past comes to fruition there is a deafening silence from the former dissenters! Perhaps the silent majority would let us know their views on these matters. Don’t worry; you won’t be arrested for speaking freely. Not yet anyway! Keep the faith. Love Leapy. Leapylee2002@gmail.com expatradioscotland.com Mon. Wed. Fri. 1pm till 4. To read more articles from our columnists and to have your say in the comments go to www.euroweeklynews.com
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OPENING UP TO FREEDOM AT LAST!
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THE easing of restrictions both in Spain and in the UK is remarkable ‐ and nice ‐ for several reasons. But the most important is: how much the simple pleasures of ev‐ eryday life get lost in the familiarity of dai‐ ly routine. Only when we are denied them do we re‐ alise what a complicated life we lead. It is this latter element that shocks us most. Of the hundreds of minor, even flippant, activ‐ ities we indulge in, we’re suddenly unable to replace them with anything useful or satisfying. Even working from home fails to make up for missing colleagues, chit‐chat and... just everyday life. So, when released from these tortuous restrictions, we happily revel in anything that is different. Especially when it involves other people in similar situations. It sud‐ denly seems as if having fun is everywhere and so easy to find. Voices seem louder and more important. Laughter is easier to come by and everyone has stories of how they ‘survived’. Boredom is a long way off, and
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FREEDOM: The simple pleasures of everyday life can get lost in our daily routine. that’s the biggest difference of all. At the same time, we learn that the ‘se‐ cret of happiness’ has finally been discov‐ ered. Neuroscientists from University Col‐ lege London used a crowd‐sourced gaming app and MRI scans of people’s brains to de‐
velop a rather long‐winded formula (that I’ll summarise for you here: @£!$%!*£@#). Translated into plain language, it means that avoiding high expectations is the key to happiness. But for a non‐neuroscientist friend with a
very long, fascinating life behind him, hap‐ piness depends more on personality. For him, some people are more inclined and able to be happy than others. Resentful and ungrateful types are seldom pleased with the world or their place in it even if they are comfortably off. (Yes, I am looking at you, Dominic Cummins!) In summary, then, according to the latest research: don’t get your hopes up and you’ll have good times. Or as my granny used to say: “Hope for the best and pre‐ pare for the worst.” And as for freedom, how is it for you so far? Nora Johnson’s psychological crime thrillers ‘The Sentinel’, ‘No Safe Place’, ‘Betrayal’, ‘The Girl in the Woods’, ‘The Girl in the Red Dress’, ‘No Way Back’, ‘Landscape of Lies’, ‘Retribution’, ‘Soul Stealer’, ‘The De Clerambault Code’ (www.nora‐johnson.net) available online as eBook (€0.99; £0.99), Apple Books, pa‐ perback & audiobook. All profits to Costa del Sol Cudeca cancer charity.
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This is just complete madness MIKE SENKER IN MY OPINION
Views of a Grumpy Old Man MY pal in Glasgow had a problem with his iPad so he went to his local Apple store and was told he couldn’t enter without an appointment. I thought it was strange but gave it no more thought ‘til I needed a new battery for Mrs S’ iPhone. I rang my local store, which is a 20-minute drive from home. The website gave me the 952 local Spanish number and I went through the usual press 1 for this, 2 for that, until I finally got a human being. We went through the usual pleasantries, he told me his name and how he was going to be absolutely delighted to help me. I explained I needed a new battery, he asked where I was located and he then said there were no appointments - ever! I said, can you hear what you are saying, this is madness, can I speak to the store manager please? I’m then informed that’s not possible as he’s not actually at that branch but in the Philippines. But I phoned my local store. Yes but appointments are done from the Philippines. OK put me through to a supervisor and after about 10 minutes on hold I am greeted by Helen who has been made aware of my
problem and she is going to help me. Are you in the Philippines too? Nope I’m in another country! Anyway Michael when would you like an appointment? When can I have one? Helen tells me any time tomorrow. But I thought there were none ever? We booked one for the next day. I asked why I had to go through this song and dance. She couldn’t explain so we left it at that. Next day the store entrance looked like a scene from the movie Contagion with security guards taking your temperature, a ziggyzaggy entry system, then plastic gloves, hand sanitiser on top of the gloves and this is all before you have spoken to an Apple employee. Finally they take the ‘phone away and tell me to come back in 90 minutes which I do only to be told it’s not ready for another 30 minutes. When I return it’s ready and they let me enter again with more gloves and more sanitiser. When I get the ‘phone the screen is cracked all over. Oh yes, it must have been cracked when it came in. NO IT WASN’T! The guy disappears for a few minutes then says, OK we will replace it free of charge, like he’s doing me a favour! Of course you will, you broke it! After another two hours, more gloves and sanitiser my ‘phone is ready. So that was five hours of my life and €250 spent on bored purchases in the mall! Email: mikesenker@gmail.com
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DAVID WORBOYS IN this era of political correctness, we have to choose our words very care‐ fully. If you question the behaviour of Rosemary West you could be branded a misogynist. And if you criticise Is‐ rael? Because of current sensitivity, you would probably be considered an‐ ti‐Semitist. It seems that, because it is the Jew‐ ish state, Israel may not be brought to heel, regardless of the atrocities inflict‐ ed on its neighbour. It can behave with impunity. This country may not have friends but it has the guaranteed sup‐ port of an exasperated but loyal father, the United States, (just as Belarus has Putin’s Russia). Nobody will intervene. Israel and Jews are not synonymous. More Jews live in the Americas than in Israel, whose own population is in fact only 74 per cent Jewish. Unfortunately, most people view them as synony‐ mous. Consequently, it could be ar‐ gued that nobody has done more to promote current anti‐Jewish feeling than Netanyahu. As Israel claims to be a democracy, this means that a majority of its voters
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ARIEL SHARON: Died without facing justice. must approve of their leader and his ethnic cleansing policies. In 1967, Israel, a nuclear power, seized Palestinian land with victory over an ‘army’ of poor people, wearing plimsolls and armed with catapults and rotten apples. For over 50 years, these poor people have been desperate. How can they effectively protest
NETANYAHU: Facing charges of corruption.
against the seizure and occupation of their land, apart from by throwing stones and launching primitive rockets against a professional military machine armed by the United States? They have to rely on a terrorist organisation, Hamas to bring their plight to world at‐ tention. If their land were restored to them under a two‐state system, there
would be no need to launch rockets in‐ to Israel by way of protest. In the early 80s, Israel, under Ariel Sharon, the brutal butcher of Sabra and Shatila, himself a war criminal and for‐ mer terrorist, regularly targeted schools and hospitals. Sharon died without facing justice for genocide. For the last 12 years, Israel has been
governed by Netanyahu, another lead‐ er facing charges of corruption and war crimes who seems untouchable. And so, for decades, Gaza has been an open‐air prison with Israeli drones now subjugating and snooping on the popu‐ lation, making sure nobody can leave or move freely. Israel sabotages Gaza’s frail infras‐ tructure, blockading the port, prevent‐ ing access to fuel and energy, destroy‐ ing schools, and hospitals, and even preventing fishing. They indiscriminate‐ ly kill civilian men, women and children, targeting their homes, shops, factories and offices. The brutal occupation of Palestine, a sovereign state, and the genocide in Gaza, is not an internal matter. It is a vi‐ olation of a sovereign state’s human rights. Let’s hope that the new coalition will seek a solution to the terrible plight of Palestinians. To read more articles from our columnists and to have your say in the comments go to www.euroweeklynews.com
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Welcome to the dry summer
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DEAR reader, welcome to June and summer. Down here on the islands we’ve al‐ ready had a taste of things to come, with an out of control fire which burnt hectares of land, approaching the Tei‐ de National Park, beautiful at the mo‐ ment with its extraordinary tajinaste flowers, at a horribly fast pace. It was disastrous. High winds fanned the fire, the air was dry, the firefighters exhausted. Then the wind changed direction, a day later it dropped completely and the fire was under control, then out. And it was still only May, albeit late May! There have been small fires in oth‐ er locations, more easily put out be‐ cause of different weather condi‐ tions, but there’s a big problem waiting to happen and, although there’s always danger of summer fires, this year the situation’s exacer‐
DRY GRASS: Makes for stunning landscapes, but it’s tinder waiting for a spark. bated by the amount of tall grasses and excessive undergrowth on all the islands, caused by much heavier than usual rainfall during the winter months. Spring was beautiful, with green, wildflower‐dotted landscapes every‐ where. The downside being that ev‐ erywhere dried out by late April when dry weather started earlier than usual. Rain in the Canaries isn’t the ‘to‐ day’s a rainy day,’ type, by the way.
It pelts down for anywhere be‐ tween five minutes to an hour, then it’s sunny again. This winter enough fell to fill all the reservoirs and green up places I’ve never seen green before in the 35 years we’ve been here. The resultant tall, dry grass rip‐ pling in the breeze everywhere now also makes for stunning land‐ scapes, contrasting with the dark drystone walled terraces, but it’s tinder waiting for a spark, much of
MOUNTAIN SLOPES: Contrast with deep valleys. it inaccessible. The Canarians have constructed agricultural land by painstakingly ter‐ racing mountain slopes and deep val‐ leys. Although there’s more flat land on the Eastern islands, the Western province has precipes in abundance.
You need to come and see for your‐ selves really, but please refrain from doing anything that causes sparks if you do. Barbara Belt. barbarabelt@gmail.com EWN June 2021.
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LACK OF RESPECT Dear Sir/ Madam, I’d like to ask you, do you know what’s going on regarding respectability of the British Blue Badge in Spain? It looks like a horrible disrespect of every disabled person, a holder of the Blue Badge on the Spanish soil. Very recently I came across the Local Police banning cars parked in boxes reserved for the disabled of English origin. As an argument the police officer stated the Blue Badge is no longer valid here regarding Brexit. No matter the one person is disabled but what it does is no respect to the individual person’s health condition. This works against the human rights! Worldwide, disabled people are being fully respected. Nobody objects to it. So why does the Local Police officer have the right to order the car marked with the sign of health disability, to not park in places dedicated to those people? I would be grateful if you, via your newspaper would alarm the Spanish world and thus reinforce it via the international human rights institution to intervene. Yours faithfully Dr Jakub S Malinowski Knowler MD PhD MSc Pego
Hello Leapy, I cannot resist commenting on how ‘things have (understandably) changed’ re attitudes of the present day police. I was a policewoman in the late 1960s ie during the Teddy-boy era and was stationed at a seaside resort. One particular Bank Holiday weekend the town was invaded by train loads of Teddy-boys and a fight was taking place in a side street. I was instructed not to allow any more ‘onlookers’ to go in that direction. Two youths decided that they were going to ignore my ‘request,’ one of whom became quite aggressive until
FREEDOM DAY DOUBTS THOSE of us with families in the UK had been looking forward to June 21, the socalled Freedom Day when in t h e o r y E n g l a n d ’s l o c k d o w n was due to finish. There were to be four stages which would see restrictions eased over a period of time and so far, three, schools reopening, pubs and restaurants ser ving outdoors and hugging and indoor meetings allowed have gone according to the timetable. With the new date now announced of July 19, many people feel (rightly or wrongly) that it will actually see the start of a new era of trav-
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BLUE BADGE: Not being recognised in Spain. his mate said ‘oh, come on, it’s only a woman!!’ and they went! Can anyone imagine that nowadays? I now fear for every policeman and his family ... each must wonder if he will return safely. Ex PW 28. Pamela Hosey (Mrs)
Hi Leapy. Love your column even if not agreeing with it all the time, but I do totally when you talk about the police in this week’s EWN. Many years ago my father was in the police force in Ellesmere Port. A gang of youths was causing trouble around some shops. After telling them off he said ‘Follow me to the Police Station’ and in a line without abuse they did so, can you imagine the youth of today doing this? Society has certainly changed. Keep up the good work. Regards Jess T
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el with it much easier to enter and leave the countr y because of the number of vaccinations as well as the significant drop in infections. S a d l y, t h i s d e l a y i s d u e t o the Delta Variant (formerly known as the Indian Variant) spreading so quickly and forcing infection rates up. Boris announced that the four week delay would give time for the majority of those aged over 50 to receive their second vaccination and therefore reduce the risks to others quite significantly. Whilst it is a shame with the delay now put into place, it seems that having been in
APPROACH: Used to always be ‘never complain, never explain.’
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lockdown of one form or another for so long that another four weeks where you couldn’t order drinks at a bar (rather than table), or go to a concert or nightclub is probably sensible. At the same time, it will give the government a little longer to study evidence concerning the continued necessity to wear face masks in public and also whether some form of social distancing should still be recommended. Better perhaps to be over cautious now than suffer a national resurgence of infection over the coming months.
If that is true it shows very plainly, how that privilege was not extended to Meghan while she was being blasted from press, Peirs Morgan. Basically she was told to suck it up! The Queen gets annoyed about her great grandchild being named Lilbet and suddenly it’s ok. To correct press! Although it is very obvious this is not the first time sources at Palace have the presses ear!
Sheree Ruiz More stirring to make money from the soap opera addicts. Just more insiders saying, friends reporting etc.. all just to stir the pot. News stories are meant to be based on actual facts from the person’s mouth etc, not hearsay, gossip, innuendo and straight fantasy.
Pat Taylor As if!!
Sandra Park How do you know that?
Barbara Hardy The Palace has been ordered to expose the Harkles lies where they involve the Queen and senior members of the RF.
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ROAD TEST by Mark Slack IN the current climate (if you’ll excuse the pun) SUVs are viewed as environmen‐ tal villains, automotive pol‐ luters of the very worst kind. The truth is that many SUVs are now hybrids with smaller combustion en‐ gines, so the days of every SUV being oversized with a large petrol or diesel addict‐ ed engine is not the full story.
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Kia Sorento is imposing Kia’s newly launched Sorento models and the self‐charging hybrid Soren‐ to in particular is a good case in point. Its 1.6‐litre petrol engine is bolstered by a 64 kw battery deliver‐ ing 40 mpg economy in a very spacious SUV with proper off‐road capability and a
real family holdall. Hybrids remove any range concerns and the need for an expen‐ sive home charger, or deal‐ ing with our somewhat frag‐ mented (I’m being polite!) public charging network. Priced from €45,802 (£39,360) the Sorento line‐ up offers both plug‐in and self‐charging hybrids and all models look suit‐ ably impos‐ ing.
Standard equipment across the range of Sorento models includes heated seats and steering wheel, smart cruise control, LED headlights, reversing cam‐ era, dual zone air condition‐ ing for all seats, auto dim‐ ming mirrors, auto wipers and lights, Apple Car Play and Android Auto. My top of the range self‐ charging hybrid version is the automotive equivalent of the Ritz, adding such items as leather, power adjustment of the
seats, privacy glass, heated rear seats, ventilated front seats, keyless entry and start, power tailgate, pow‐ ered folding door mirrors, along with navigation, wire‐ less charging and a Bose sound system onto the en‐ try level list of equipment. Costing €54,629 (£46,945) you would expect it to be well equipped and when you add all the above items to the level of tech, it does‐ n’t disappoint. There are a myriad of safety features in‐ cluding a head‐up display and a clever speed limit based intelligent cruise con‐
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trol, all‐wheel‐drive and the clever hybrid system which charges itself from the car’s engine. It not only removes those range concerns but provides a cleaner emis‐ sions record than would normally be the case with a more traditionally powered SUV of this size. If I were being picky about the Sorento then some of the controls are not especially intuitive and the layout of the dash controls is a little fussy, but owner‐ ship would soon bring famil‐ iarity. It is a minor point in a car that has a distinct feel‐ ing of luxury with its com‐ fortable, quilted leather seats, hushed interior and solidity of build quality.
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A feeling of luxury.
Model: Kia Sorento 1.6 HEV AWD Engine: 1.6-litre 4-cylinder turbocharged petrol with electric hybrid assistance Gears: 6-speed automatic and all-wheel-drive Performance: 0-100 kph (62 mph) Petrol 8.7 secs Maximum Speed Petrol 191 kph (119 mph) Economy: Petrol 7.3 l/100km (38.2 mpg) WLTP Emissions: 158 g/km WLTP Model tested was UK-specification and equipment levels and prices may vary in other markets.
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WALKING FOOTBALL. LESSONS LEARNED PART TWO THE near fatal collapse of Danish Footballer Chris‐ tian Erickson on Friday night brought home the message... heart failure can strike at any time. With all of our mem‐ bers over 50 it caused Management to send out a reminder to their clubs that defibrillators were to be taken to ev‐ ery session and where reliance was on council or private defibrillators, all players should be aware where they are lo‐ cated and that people should know how to use them. Last night (Wednesday) saw Calahonda make the trip up country to Viñuela where their Over 70’s team were being tested by a ‘Senior’ Viñuela team. That was followed by a ‘mixed age match’. Cala‐ honda were hoping ‘Hit‐
81-year-old Ebbe.
man Ebbe’ was on his form of recent weeks. His last game he was named Man of the Match after making one goal, scoring two and was robbed of his hatrick in the last minute when he had strayed into the goal area. Quite an extrodinary performance as Ebbe is 81 years of age, oldest player on the Costas. Honour of being the oldest player in Walking Football in southern Spain goes to Joe Ghio of Gibraltar. Joe is still playing at 83 years of age!!! Upcoming friendly matches will see Malaga B play Walking Dead B on Monday June 28, 6pm kick off. Wednesday June 30 sees the Walking Dead and Malaga play with a 7pm kick off.
The Seniors match should be an intriguing game between these two old rivals and possibly an early indication if they will be challengers for the League Title. Both games at the Fin‐ ca Naundrup. Finally not so good news for Esquina Park Rangers when their ap‐ plication to be affiliated t o t h e V a l e n c i a Fo o t b a l l Federation met a regula‐ tions brick wall. Almost €500 in charges t o e n t e r t h e Fe d e r a t i o n and the stipulation that Leagues must have a minimum of 16 teams. Beyond the scope of our teams, Esquina man‐ ager Gordon Sutherland said they were very dis‐ appointed, but would now concentrate on hav‐ ing the Alicante/Murcia/ Almeria League up and running in September.