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Increasing visitors ACCORDING to the National Institute of Statistics the number of Spanish nationals visiting and staying in hotels in Marbella this June was up by 20 per cent compared to 2019 at 22,624, with most guests coming from Andalucia and Madrid. Overall, 46,850 people stayed at least overnight.
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Cudeca Goldies CUDECA Goldies are back with a resounding success as their first charity lunch of 2021 raised €1,000 for the Cudeca Foundation. It took place in Fuengirola on July 15 with entertainment by local singing collective Touch of Class and a fashion show presented by Mapuchi Moda.
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ID bracelets on beaches
THE councillor for Beaches at Fuengirola Town Hall, Javier Hi‐ dalgo, has spoken of the identi‐ fication bracelets that are avail‐ able to beachgoers in the area. The ID bracelets aim to help re‐ unite people, if the unfortunate happens and someone gets lost. “It is common for a minor or an elderly person who is under guardianship for health reasons to get lost among the many users we have on our beaches and they turn to our lifeguards to find their relatives. To make this process easier, for years we have been offering our residents and visitors bracelets with which we can quickly locate their guardians,” said the councillor. It is easy to get hold of a bracelet and they can be re‐
ID BRACELETS: Makes life easier on the beaches. quested at any of the lifeguard areas on the beaches in Fuen‐ girola and they come with a QR code which is then used to as‐ sign the contact details of the re‐ sponsible adult.
IN a rather unusual move a Marbella based charity Collective Calling is trying to petition the Spanish Government to refund all fines levied for breach of the State of Alarm lockdown. The charity states that the recent ruling from the Spanish constitutional court that the strict nationwide stay-at-home quarantine in the spring of 2020 was unconstitutional and the fines that were issued during this time were done so without proper legislation. Collective Calling (CC) are now petitioning that all fines collected during that time period are reimbursed back to members of the public who were made to pay these fines with immediate effect. They claim that these sanctions were imposed under a decree that has now been found to be unconstitutional and the judge argued that the State of Alarm imposed by the government last March did not just limit the
When a lost person approach‐ es the lifeguard, they are able to quickly scan the QR code and find out the contact details of the guardian, quickly reuniting them.
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CHARITY: Calling for fines to be returned. fundamental rights of free circulation and of assembly between private citizens, but suspended them altogether. The charity asks that residents sign the petition at https://collectivecalling.org/petitionfor-justice and if it receives 100,000 signatures, it will then have to be reviewed by Spanish president Pedro Sánchez.
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Capper dies fighting Covid W E page S T L E»Y from Front WESTLEY CAPPER, 44, son of British million‐ aire John Capper, died on Monday, July 26, in a Marbella hospital, reportedly from a stroke while fighting Covid‐19. Few are willing to speak openly of his death. One long‐time Costa de Sol resident told Euro Weekly News on Tuesday July 27, “Everyone is too scared to say anything.” Capper, who was branded a ‘hit‐and‐run killer’ escaped jail in Spain in 2020 despite con‐ fessing to the 2016 hit‐and‐run zebra crossing killing of a mother‐of‐three, Fatima Dorado, in his father’s high‐powered Bentley. Essex‐born and privately educated Capper, whose wealthy father John made his fortune from real estate, was able to avoid prison after striking a deal with prosecutors following a com‐ pensation pay out to the victim’s family. Judge Ignacio Navas Hidalgo said he could remain a
free man as long as he stayed out of trouble for the next three years and attended a road safety education course. The Brit expat, who was known for his lavish and sometimes violent lifestyle, also avoided jail after being cleared of kidnapping Agnese Klav‐ ina from a nightclub in Puerto Banus in Septem‐ ber 2014. CCTV footage showed Capper and his accomplice, Craig Porter, apparently forcing the young Latvian into his Mercedes S63. Capper and Porter admitted leaving with her, but Porter claims to have fallen asleep as soon as he got into the car, while Capper said he left her near her flat in San Pedro de Alcantara be‐ fore contradicting himself during a reconstruc‐ tion, leading a judge to describe his statement as “improbable.” Her family maintains that Capper was re‐ sponsible for her disappearance and the family’s lawyer said she is “at the bottom of the sea.”
Pique’s family buy cinema Mijas Pool GERARD PIQUE’S family business, The Kerald Holding compa‐ ny, has reportedly purchased the land of the old Andalucia cinema in Malaga for €20 million, which the FC Barcelona star’s company will convert into a five‐star hotel The original old Andalucia cinema which is located around Plaza de la Merced and Calle Victoria in the city of Malaga, had been standing derelict for the best part of a decade, and then the building was destroyed by a fire back in 2014. This plot of land had already been bought once, back in 2017, by the company Inversiones y Acquisión de Hoteles SL, and Sarasola Room Mate, a company belonging to Kike, had been granted authorisation to build a 176 room, four‐star hotel on the site, with a reported investment plan of €30 million. The developer had the licence approved in mid‐2018 to build the hotel, along with an underground car park, a restau‐ rant, swimming pool, and other hotel amenities, with the in‐ tention of the project being carried out in two phases, the first being the demolition of the existing building, and then the second to construct the hotel, but the licence had a plan‐ ning period of only 22 months attached.
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‘POOL parties’ have returned to the Osunillas municipal pool every Monday in Mijas Pueblo until August 16 starting at 8pm. All the parties will be themed, and games will be held that do not involve contact between participants. During these ‘pool parties’, all anti-Covid measures will be carried out to guarantee the safety of all the participants. There will be reduced capacity, with a person in charge of access control. There will be no need to reserve the pool to be able to attend this activity.
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NIBS EXTRA Bridge opening THE huge queues and diversions which have been caused by the removal of the bridge spanning the A-7 at Cancelada (Estepona) are about to be reduced as the new span has been dropped into place and work is being completed to ensure that it is secure.
Sponsorship THE Malaga Provincial Council will be the main sponsor of the Costa del Sol Women’s Handball Club with financial support amounting to €150,000. The Panthers will wear the new image of the provincial institution on their kit for the new 2021-2022 season.
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Diving courses SCUBA diving in clear waters is particularly popular but in order to enjoy the excitement of diving, it is necessary for your own safety to pass various tests. Now the Benalmadena Diving Club will be running a basic course at the Centro Nautico del Puerto.
New campaign WORKING with the Red Cross, Fundación Harena Telefónica de la Esperanza and various associations for the elderly, Malaga City Council is running a campaign ‘Don’t put op with loneliness’ so that those in distress can call 952 217 632 for help and advice.
Beach bars MANILVA Council has decided that beach bars and chiringuitos will receive a discount on the fees that they pay to take into account the time that they were closed due to the pandemic and this will also include periods of time when capacity was reduced.
Cancer funding increased THE mayor of Marbella, Angeles Muñoz, signed an agreement this week with the Bastiano Bergese Foundation, to donate €23,251 for its local pro‐ grammes. Mayor Muñoz spoke about the “great work” in the fight against cancer carried out by the association for 30 years. She said: “The council cannot stop supporting the work car‐ ried out both in prevention and in information, treatment and therapies, attending to patients and relatives within our local
AGREEMENT: To donate funds to cancer association. environment.” She added: “Now more than ever we have to work together
with the groups that support the citizens who need it most and who have had their doors and
Street awnings
TORREMOLINOS has installed awnings above Calle San Miguel to encourage local commerce by protecting shop‐ pers from the sun. The councillor for General Services, Antonio Navarro and the councillor for Commerce Maribel Tocón visited Calle San Miguel on July 23 to see the awnings fitted along the entire street to make a visit more pleas‐ ant in these summer months. “This year we have been delayed because the procedure has been changed and we have tendered it through the Samset company, so the awnings are ours. The success‐ COOLER: Shopping under the awnings. ful bidder keeps them, cleans
Safety on the beach
DRONES: Will operate on the four beaches. EACH of Fuengirola’s four beaches have drones that operate between 11.00am and 8.00pm. They are able to assist the lifeguard service in the prevention of acci‐ dents and also offer vital life‐saving assistance. When a swimmer is spotted in trouble the drones are able to deploy a float which can keep the person afloat until help arrives. The drones will remain active until September 15, when the summer season ends. The councillor for Beaches, Javier Hidalgo, has com‐ mented on the stunning use of technology and said that the devices are able to give a vital advantage to saving swimmers who are in distress. “The aerial surveillance service with drones offers extra security to our coastline and, in coordination with the Rescue and Lifeguard teams, Local Police and Beach Surveillance, make us one of the safest beaches nationwide.” Hidalgo said that: “In this first month of operation” the drones “have made 915 flight missions and most of them have been due to preventive ac‐ tions, surveillance, training or maritime rescue.”
their activities open even during the pandemic.” The council has increased funding to the association by 78.85 per cent compared to last year. Muñoz highlighted the com‐ mitment of the doctor and presi‐ dent of the foundation, Andres Manuel Sanchez Cantos, and of his patrons Elda Lavagetti and Mari Paz Ametller, as well as the “highly qualified personnel they have” for the services they pro‐ vide, which have been offered for free since 1991.
them and will put them on the date that we say without delay,” explained Navarro. The company in charge of the entire assembly, storage and cleaning process is Ilumep SL, which has exten‐ sive experience in this area in other towns and provinces. In total it consists of 52 awnings that have been made to measure to fit be‐ tween the buildings safely. The deployment of awnings in this central street, has been com‐ mon for several years (except last year due to the Covid crisis) and its aim is to make walking and shopping in the area more pleas‐ ant.
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THIS year, more than 60 restaurants on the Costa del Sol will be producing special dishes using the famous and quite enormous local Huevo de Toro tomato which is now in season and is much sought after for its distinct colour and flavour.
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‘Malaga, where better?’ ROSA SANCHEZ, Malaga’s council‐ lor for Tourism, has presented their new promotional campaign, as the city broadens its horizons towards the specific tourist areas of the Netherlands, Germany, and the United Kingdom, activating a strategic action in these key mar‐ kets, designed to promote Malaga City as a safe tourist destination, with the slogan, ‘Malaga, where better?’ Ms Sanchez explained that this campaign will be promoted in differ‐
ent advertising spaces, and on web‐ sites, to guarantee the impact on users of the German, British and Nordic markets that have profiles linked to both family tourism, such as childless or single couples, as well as offering incentives to travel in the coming weeks. An investment of €48,442 has been allocated, with which it is ex‐ pected to reach more than 10,853,000 views over a duration of 45 days, in an effort to kickstart once again the tourist activity.
The Hoff celebrates 69 DAVID HASSELHOFF looked fabulous as he celebrated his 69th birthday in Marbella recently. David first appeared in the public limelight in the 80s when he starred as Michael Knight in Knight Rider and later went on to appear as Mitch Buchan‐ non on Baywatch. In the show he showed off his stunning physique and it ap‐ pears that now, some years later he has barely aged. David has spent summer in Spain with his wife Hayley Roberts where the pair chose to spend his birthday. David took to Instagram to share a photo of his birthday celebrations where he looked better than ever wearing a striped shirt and white trousers on his 69th birthday. He was happy to show his age and sported giant inflatable balloons too. David thanked the Puento Romano resort, who had hosted the celebra‐ tion for him.
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Tremon to reopen Tivoli B E N A L M A D E N A’ S Tivoli World amuse‐ ment park was bought by the Tremon real es‐ tate group in 2007. The group are show‐ ing a willingness to re‐ open the park, but only if they do not have to take on the staggering €9.5 million of public debt. This public debt has been generated by the company Compañia In‐ ternacional de Parques y Atracciones SA (CIPASA). CIPASA is the compa‐ ny that sold the park and operated it up until last year, and they are believed to have a total of €11.2 million debt. Angel Romero is a representative for the Tremon real estate group. He advised they have been trying to re‐ cover possession of the park via a “public deed” within “a purchase and sale operation of more than 30 assets whose obligations were set out in a framework agree‐ ment signed between the parties.” Allegedly CIPASA “did not comply with” this agreement, but CIPASA claim that they have not been paid. A legal battle has carried on for some time now. Romero commented that: “the problem of the park has been caused by the delay in time and the permission that has been given to the operator” of the park. He added that CIPASA has spent “10 years without paying anything to Social Secu‐ rity.” They now believe that the only way for the Tivoli Park to contin‐ ue is if Tremon “does not have to take on this burden of millions,” as the debt “is not eco‐ nomically viable.”
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VOLUNTEERS: Wanted for a new vaccine trial. HUMAN testing is getting closer and the CSIC and the pharmaceu‐ tical company Biofabri are waiting for the Spanish Agency for Medicines and Health Products (AEMPS) to give their approval for human trials of their coronavirus vaccine to begin. Earlier this year the vaccine was proven to be 100 per cent effective in mice and they are now ready to begin a Phase 1 trial in humans. Approval will be required from the Spanish Ministry of Health’s agency first though. Madrid’s La Paz hospital has started the search for appropriate volunteers to take part in the human trial. Volunteers will need to be aged between 18 and 39 years old. The hospital is looking for 20 volunteers at the moment. Alberto M Borobia is the doctor in charge of the trial and last week he took to social media to start recruitment. He states that the essential requirements are that the volunteers are between 18 and 39 years old and that they also meet two other requirements. The other requirements are that they have not already had Covid and they have not had any coronavirus vaccinations. “The final desirable goal for our country would be that all the in‐ vestment that has been made in vaccines ends up obtaining, at least, a Spanish vaccine against Covid, for us and to share with the rest of the world. That would be the ultimate goal and a great suc‐ cess,” said the Minister of Science, Diana Morant.
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‘No quarantine for vaccinated expats’
THE UK government will reportedly al‐ low vaccinated expats to travel to the UK without quarantine. According to reports, the government plans to begin accepting jabs adminis‐ tered abroad as well as those given by the NHS when allowing travellers into the UK. The move could allow the around 300,000 UK expats living in Spain to visit
friends and family without quarantine. The Department for Transport will re‐ portedly hold their meeting this week, with plans to introduce the new restric‐ tions allowing vaccinated expats into the UK from the beginning of August. Ministers are expected to make a re‐ ciprocal deal with around 33 countries, including Ireland, Spain and France in a move which could open up travel for UK
nationals living abroad. Currently, expats travelling to the UK from Spain have to quarantine, while vaccinated UK tourists coming back into their own country do not. Expats have been demanding that the UK government recognise the vaccines they have received which have been ad‐ ministered abroad to be able to travel to the UK without quarantine.
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A long way to go residency on the Rock. Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab immediately dismissed the contents as unworkable, as did Gibraltar’s Chief Minister Fabian Picardo almost as soon as the document was released, but it was convenient that the new Spanish Foreign Minister Joseph Manuel Albares was in London the following day. This was his first official ex‐ ternal visit since being appoint‐ ed and perhaps surprisingly he didn’t appear to support the contents of the EU draft docu‐ ment, but took a much more pragmatic stance as he spoke
ALMOST 80 per cent of our readers do not like the idea of girls getting their ears pierced as babies or young children, as is often the tradition in Spain. While some believe that it only hurts the child briefly and the earrings look cute on them, the majority of our readers think that the decision shouldn’t be made for the girls and that they should be allowed to choose when they are older. One reader explained that she had
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WHEN the European Union is‐ sued its draft mandate for ne‐ gotiations on a UK/EU treaty on Gibraltar last week the contents were met with con‐ siderable surprise. Cynics would have been ex‐ cused in supposing that the Spanish Government didn’t want to fall out with Britain or Gibraltar and was therefore us‐ ing the EU (which has fallen out big time with the UK) to help undermine British sovereignty. There were clauses in the draft which would see Span‐ ish police officers at the port and airport deciding who could enter Gibraltar and it went further and even sug‐ gested that they would have the right to grant or refuse
NEGOTIATIONS: The two ministers met in London. to reporters following his meeting with Raab. In essence he confirmed that the Spanish Government’s
stance was that it wanted to stick as closely as possible to everything that had been agreed in principle between
Britain, Gibraltar and Spain on December 31, 2020 and reiter‐ ated that Spanish police would not be in Gibraltar and all im‐ migration work would be un‐ dertaken by Frontex staff. There is a long way to go be‐ fore a final memorandum is placed for approval before the 27 member states which will probably be in September and even then, the terms may not be acceptable to the British or Gibraltar governments. It is very important for the prosperity of the Campo de Gibraltar that some form of agreement which is beneficial to Gibraltar and Spain is agreed as quickly as possible, other‐ wise the local economies will suffer even more than they have during the pandemic.
Our readers’ opinion: Earrings are not for babies had her ears pierced when she was very young, “the back of the earring got stuck in my ear. “It was very painful and I needed surgery to remove it. “They said it was caused by having very little ears, I’ve never pierced them after that.” Another said, “my friend’s
baby swallowed one of their earrings which went into its lung and she had to have an operation at six months old to remove it.” Meanwhile, another argued that if they are kept clean and turned regularly earrings are not a problem and one reader told us “I found it strange seeing
my three new born Spanish grand‐ daughters all with pierced ears. It is tra‐ dition here.” Of course it is the parents’ decision, and it is traditional in Spain, but there is a rising number of parents who decide not to get their daughters’ ears pierced as babies.
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Thousands fear a two-tier society looms AS thousands protest against restrictions across Europe, Galicia now requires proof of being jabbed, testing or recovery from Coronavirus to go inside a restaurant or bar. We asked our readers if they think it is a step too far? Readers believe that more than a step, it is “a stride too far” and are concerned that this will create a two-tier society, which will lead to illegal clubs, pubs and restaurants amongst other things. Meanwhile, others believe that it is a great idea and are looking forward to being issued with vaccine passports and a third jab. Two readers commented along the lines of just wanting life to go back to normal before it’s too late “I’m 73, so no time to lose” said one, “I want to travel, want a normal life, but I fear we will never see that again.” The other responded that he thinks life “sadly will never be the same as it was.”
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Ice cream alert THE Spanish Agency for Food Safety and Nutrition (AESAN), in line with neighbouring countries in Europe, has urged food companies to withdraw all products made with the E410 food additive from the market, after it had been found to be contaminated with ethylene oxide, and more specifically, in the manufacture of ice cream, where the additive is used as a stabiliser. It was reportedly AESAN who requested the removal of the affected products, on behalf of the European Commission, and although the authorities have since claimed that all the defective products have been removed from the market, apparently, they have not clarified which batches of ice cream were actually affected. This has led to the Organisation of Consumers and Users (OCU) insisting that the government clarify the batches of ice cream that were affected, in order for consumers to be able to check and subsequently remove any of the suspected batches from their homes. The OCU pointed out that these stabilisers are usually also used in other types of food, such as dairy desserts and sauces, it should be checked if it has been able to reach other types of products.
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Beachfront surprise marriage proposal KAROL, a lifeguard from Fuengirola, Malaga, was surprised by a beachfront proposal where her future groom-to-be arrived on a jet ski to pop the question, on the same beach where the pair met. Karol was totally surprised as a jet ski approached the beach from the sea carrying her partner and father-in-law to be. As the jet ski approached, Enrique could be seen, complete with a giant inflatable engagement ring wrapped around him. Fuengirola beachgoers soon gathered round, and once they realised what was happening they yelled for Enrique to drop to one knee, which he soon did after he had safely recovered the ring from a pocket. “On the beach where we met, what better place to ask you to marry me?” said Enrique. The crowd around the pair burst into cheers, yelling: “How beautiful, how beautiful!” Enrique had been planning the surprise for some time. “Many times, the proposal is something very intimate, but why make an expensive trip if we can really share it,” said Enrique. “I’ve been organising this for a month or so, I’ve been preparing everything: the suit, the float,
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JET SKI: Enrique arrived by sea to propose. the jet ski. Only the driver, who was my father, knew about it, and I had to tell them to organise it. I told my friends and family that they had to be on the shore at that time, and that was it. Top secret.” The pair now have a wedding to plan, and it is sure to be unique. “It’s not so important the money or the cost as the originality and that people have a good time. When we do the wedding, that’s what we’re going to take into account the most, that people will be part of it,” added Enrique.
TRAVELLERS arriving at Heathrow on Saturday, July 24, were forced to queue for around three hours after only one official was left to check passports of arriving travellers and e-gates were reportedly broken, according to tired travellers. On what was expected to be the busiest weekend of the year so far for Heathrow, travellers arriving from amber list countries experienced delays which meant that some were not able to catch their pre-booked coaches or taxis. One holidaymaker who was visiting the UK told local press how he had to wait for hours to get through passport control. “My flight landed at 7.30am and it’s now 10am, so it’s taken me almost three hours to come through. I’ve now missed my coach so have to get the underground into London and then get a train down to Bournemouth,” said the holidaymaker. John HollandKaye, Heathrow CEO, said the weekend was “set to be one of the busiest of the year so far.” He said: “We’re thrilled to see the terminals coming to life again, with most of the shops and restaurants now reopened.”
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Malaga Poet found safe THE well‐known Malaga poet Salvador Marin Hueso, disap‐ peared on the night of July 22 and left his family extremely wor‐ ried. They took to social media to make an appeal to help find him after he disappeared in Almeria. After many hours of uncertain‐ ty and worry the family were able to announce the happy news that Salvador had been found. Salvador’s sister took to Twitter to announce the good news and thanked everyone for their efforts in searching for her brother. “It is with immense joy that
POET: Now in hospital. we announce that Salvador has been found. On behalf of myself and my family, we thank the po‐ lice and other authorities for their efforts and work. Eternally grate‐
ful to all the people and institu‐ tions that have supported us to have a happy outcome,” Sal‐ vador’s sister said on Twitter. Speaking to the press she said: “We have just arrived at the hos‐ pital and we have no details, we know he is fine.” According to reports police brought Salvador to Almeria’s Torrecardenas University Hospi‐ tal as he was not feeling well. He is said to suffer from depression and needs medication too. No further details are known of where Salvador had been, but he now seems safe.
tify sending luggage on a separate flight, but that the airline’s clause was too generic. “(It leaves) to the will of the carrier to send the checked baggage on the same flight (as the passenger) or not under ... unspecified and absolutely unspecific circumstances of safety or operation,” it said.
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Spain on Santiago Day KING FELIPE VI attended a feast in honour of the Apostle of Santiago, and of the national day of Galicia, held at the Plaza del Obradoiro in Santiago de Compostela in A Coruña on Sunday July 25. King Felipe VI has highlighted the fact that the apostle ‘sym‐ bolises unity’. He believes that Spain is ‘a nation linked by the past, by the present and by the future,’ and that the role of the monarchy is to be a ‘bridge be‐ tween past, present and future.’ He spoke before the entire
Unfair Ryanair luggage rules SPAIN’S Supreme Court has deemed unfair Ryanair’s luggage rules, under which the budget carrier could legally (due to a clause in the contract) send bags and suitcases on a different flight than passengers. Following a complaint from a consumer association, the court said that there could indeed be occasions that jus-
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The Supreme Court also reaffirmed a previous ruling which annulled other clauses, including a €40 charge for reprinting a boarding pass, which it deemed disproportionate - thousands of passengers will be happy to hear that! In 2019, it also ruled that it was unfair for Ryanair to charge a fee for hand luggage.
Royal family last Sunday, in a celebration which for the first time included his two daugh‐ ters. The day “symbolises the continuity of our Nation in his‐ tory as a political, cultural and human community,” said the King. In a reading to the patron saint of Spain which he read in Galician, he commented on the languages and cultures of Spain and said they are “a collective
work in which the dreams of many ancestors took shape in a democratic coexistence,” as re‐ ported local Spanish press. He also spoke of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic which he believes has been “one of the hardest experiences” ever for many of Spain’s citizens. In the opinion of the King the solidarity shown by Spanish citizens is a beacon that marks “the direc‐ tion in the darkness.”
Electricity cuts everywhere HUNDREDS of thousands of people were left without electricity throughout Spain due to a blackout that affected different areas of the country on Saturday July 24, with Red Eléctrica reporting that the problem was apparently a failure in the interconnection line with France, which supplies several autonomous communi‐ ties, including Madrid and Catalonia. They reported a breakdown in a 400,000 high voltage line shortly before 5pm, and in Catalonia, according to the Civil Pro‐ tection of this community, the breakdown affected 640,000 peo‐ ple, and 112 in the Community of Madrid also cited the intercon‐ nection line with France as the problem. Social media was full of chatter about the cuts, with users ask‐ ing the same question on Facebook, to know if everybody else has a power cut as well as them. According to Endesa, “the pro‐ tections have acted correctly to prevent a total system failure.”
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We asked our readers: Time to ban bullfights?
BULLFIGHTS: Barbaric, cruel, outdated and needs to be stopped. AFTER Twitter blocked the account of bullfighter Jose Antonio Morante de la Puebla for posting videos of a bullfight considering that it promoted ‘sadistic pleasure,’ he condemned their action say‐ ing that ‘freedom does not exist in this country.’ We asked our readers whether they think bull‐ fighting should be banned completely in Spain and the response was a resounding YES. Most of our readers consider that it’s barbaric and that all types of animal cruelty should be banned. One said “It is barbaric, cruel, outdated and needs to be stopped. No animal cruelty can be defended in any way. There is right and wrong, and this is wrong, on every level. Culture has absolutely no bearing on animal cruelty.” However, the second most common opinion was that we should keep out of it because it’s not our country; with one reader saying “Whilst I totally
disagree with bullfighting, I do not believe it is up to ANY foreigner to force it to stop. This is a cultural is‐ sue and only the country involved has the right to stop it. We can put pressure on the governments to stop this and the dog eating festivals of China etc, but that is all.” Some responded that “persuading the locals is a big problem,” while others said that “These days a large majority in Spain want it stopped, but like everything there are those that love the cruelty” and another added “the Spanish will come to the right conclusion without anyone’s input, least of all the English.” Meanwhile, fewer people commented that maybe there is a way of maintaining the art of bull‐ fighting without having to kill the bull, and only one reader pointed out that if there were no more bull‐ fights these bulls would cease to exist as they are bred for this purpose only.
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Hike in milk prices SPANISH supermarket giant Mer‐ cadona is leading the rise in the price of milk after protests by farmers. The Valencian based company, together with Pascual, (a Spanish dairy company based in Madrid) are leading the move‐ ment, which it hopes will translate into a slight improvement in the money that producers receive for their milk products. Arredondo, livestock sector manager of Coag and former pres‐
ident of the Interprofessional, de‐ nounced the price situation and directly accused Mercadona, with a market share of almost 30 per cent, as one of the main entities responsible for selling milk below the €0.60, a policy that translates into lower prices for farmers who deliver milk to their inter‐supplier industries. “We are exactly in the same sit‐ uation as the dairy producers 10 years ago, when they didn’t have
Actor’s suspended sentence NOTTINGHAM-BASED actor, Andrew Shim, who is best known for his roles in cult Shane Meadows’ films A Room for Romeo Brass, This Is England and Dead Man’s Shoes, is a convicted criminal after apparently striking a plea bargain deal with prosecutors on the first day of his trial. Mr Shim, 37, was arrested in Marbella, on October 21, 2020, and was reportedly on remand at Alhaurin de la Torre prison near Malaga, where he has been held since October 24, 2020. The star had been arrested by Spanish National Police three days earlier for alleged drug trafficking, according to reports. It is not yet known if Shim will fly back to the UK next week or if he has received his Covid vaccinations yet to allow travel.
quotas any more, and had to work below their production costs; so they lost money produc‐ ing milk,” said a Galician farmer. The farmers are also complain‐ ing that the EU’s trade deals with Canada and the Latin American Mercusor bloc are flooding Euro‐ pean markets ‐ and say citizens must boycott all imported pro‐ duce and only shop locally. “The European agricultural poli‐ cy is the only policy that is totally integrated in the EU, and more‐ over, that is used by the European trade direction as leverage in inter‐ national treaties,” Hugues Falys ‐ from FUGEA (the United Federa‐ tion of Breeders and Farmers' Groups) said. The European Commission has just launched a fresh set of mea‐ sures aimed at forcing transparen‐ cy around the pricing of products. However, farmers say unless more action is taken to support them when the ‘agricultural policy is renewed soon, their feelings to‐ wards those in power will remain like sour milk!
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American investors SPANISH President, Pedro Sánchez, held a ‘successful’ meeting on July 21, in New York with a group of senior execu‐ tives from the Bank of America and investment fund managers from JP Morgan. The American executives
were able to openly raise ques‐ tions about the investment op‐ portunities that are at present available in Spain due to the re‐ cently approved recovery plan. This was the President’s first meeting with US businessmen within his three‐day economic
Dressed up as wife A MAN disguised himself as his wife in order to board a flight after he had himself tested positive for Covid in In‐ donesia. The man boarded the plane dressed in a robe and a niqab that covered him from head to toe to fly on a Citilink flight between Jakarta to Ternate. The man, identified only by his initial DW, is now facing arrest after the cabin crew saw him go into the toilets in the disguise ‐ but to their surprise, he came out minutes later wearing men’s clothes. Airline security later said the man had used his wife’s ID and negative PCR test results to board the plane at Halim Perdana Kusuma Airport in Jakarta. A flight attendant reportedly told authorities that she saw ‘DW’ go into the bathroom, then come out wearing normal men's clothes instead of the niqab. She then noti‐ fied the airport authorities in Ternate who later detained him upon landing.
tour in the United States that took him to New York, Los An‐ geles and San Francisco to look for investors. In the meeting, which was held at the Economic and Com‐ mercial Office of Spain, located in the iconic Chrysler Building, a total of 14 leading American in‐ vestment funds and banks par‐ ticipated. According to Moncloa, the meeting gave Sánchez the op‐ portunity to explain in person the economic situation in Spain “and the investment opportuni‐ ties that open up with the Re‐ covery, Transformation and Re‐ silience Plan and the arrival of European funds.” “The Plan will allow Spain to emerge stronger from the Covid‐19 crisis in the short term and will lay the foundations for strong, sustainable and inclu‐ sive growth in the medium term. With ‘Spain Can’ our country will successfully face the digital and green transfor‐ mation, which will mark the fu‐ ture of the global economy,” Sánchez said.
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Con artist arrested OFFICERS from the Nation‐ al Police have arrested a woman who has been ac‐ cused of a staggering 140 offences relating to fraudu‐ lent insurance policies with forged signatures of real people. The crimes had been committed in various places including the Grana‐ da Province, Tenerife, Sala‐ manca and Murcia. According to police, their operation called Operation Cielo, resulted in the arrest of a 32‐year‐old woman who is a Granada resident and has been accused of scamming insurance com‐ panies on a large scale. The woman is believed to be a professional fraudster. The offences are for fraud, false documentation, reve‐ lation of secrets and even identity theft. She has been accused of processing false insurance policy contracts which she made money from.
OPERATION: One of the largest carried out against fraud. The alleged crimes were committed in the Granada Province in towns such as Baza, Durcal, Guadix and Padul. Crimes were also carried out across Spain in Salamanca, Molina de Segu‐ ra, Orihuela and Santa Cruz de Tenerife. Officers began their in‐ vestigation after they re‐ ceived a complaint from a victim who took out an in‐ surance policy with the con artist but the arrested
woman then used her vic‐ tim’s details to take out other policies and forged her signature. The woman who was ar‐ rested for these crimes pre‐ sented herself as a family figure and appeared to have much experience in the insurance industry. According to reports this is one of the largest opera‐ tions carried out by Grana‐ da police against insurance fraud.
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Town offers free rent and jobs GEIGOS, a small town in the northeast of Spain, is offering free rent and jobs to encourage fami‐ lies to move there as citizen num‐ bers dwindle to 132 residents. The town is offering three houses to rent and two jobs. The town hall is also offering three more jobs such as home tele‐ working and in a local restaurant. The advert stated: “We offer you work in the kitchen and
restaurant for you and your part‐ ner at the Paladar de Aragón, lo‐ cated in La Muela de San Juan. Or you can manage the Griegos ho‐ tel‐restaurant, located in the plaza. “If you are one of those who work from home […] You can telecommute and make use of our coworking.” However, you have to be a family with children as this would
help to save the local school, which has only nine students, and also help to open up a second class. The first three months rent will be free and after this will be just €217, with a discount of €50 per child. There will be a lot of competi‐ tion for the offer, with over 3,000 already having applied from around the world.
Brit caught in Twitter hack A BRITISH man has been arrested in Spain in connection with a Twitter hack in 2020 that saw over 130 celebrity accounts hacked to scam their followers out of Bitcoin. Twitter confirmed that a social engineering attack that was coordinated between criminals had allowed them to post Tweets from celebrity accounts offering to send $2,000 for every $1,000 sent to a Bitcoin address. Twenty-two-year-old Joseph O’Connor, known online as PlugWalkJoe, who had previously given interviews to the media about the incident, was arrested on July 21 in Estepona, Malaga, by National Police at the request of the FBI. He is also accused of hacking accounts on other social media platforms such as Snapchat
and TikTok and been found to have been cyberstalking a young victim online. The scam messages were posted on accounts that belonged to Barack Obama, Jeff Bezos, Kim Kardashian, Kanye West and Bill Gates, among other high-profile celebs. The Department of Justice said that the criminals’ Bitcoin address received over 400 transfers of over $117,000 (£90,000), with none of the stolen money being returned. O’Connor is the second British citizen that has been arrested in connection with the hacking incident, along with Bognor Regis teenager Mason Sheppard who was accused of involvement last August.
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Philip Morris to stop selling cigarettes JACEK OLCZAK, the chief executive of tobacco firm Philip Morris International, has revealed that within the next 10 years, the giant is going to stop all sales of its traditional cigarettes in Britain, which means that after appearing for more than 100 years on shelves across the country, their iconic red and white packets of Marlboro cigarettes will disappear from sight forever. Mr Olczak explained that the company’s decision was made as part of a move by Philip Morris International to phase out the smoking of traditional cigarettes in Britain, in an effort to encourage smokers to switch to more modern alternative methods which are considered less harmful to their health, such as heated tobacco devices, or e-cigarettes. Mr Olczak said, “I want to allow this company to GUARDIA CIVIL officers in Granada have apprehended a driver who was involved in a hit-and-run incident in the municipality of Atarfe on Thursday, July 8, who fled the scene of the accident after colliding with a pedestrian in a wheelchair who was crossing a pedestrian crossing at the time. According to a statement for the Guardia Civil, the incident occurred at around 5.55pm, at Km 4,989 of the GR-3417 in Atarfe, with the driver hitting into the
leave smoking behind. I think in the UK, 10 years from now maximum, you can completely solve the problem of smoking,” while on the subject of Marlboro, he said, “It will disappear. “The first choice for consumers is they should quit smoking. But if they don’t, the second-best choice is to let them switch to the better alternatives.” When pressed as to whether Philip Morris International would stop selling traditional cigarettes in Britain after that 10-year period, Mr Olczak reportedly responded, “Absolutely”. The British government has made its plan public knowledge that it wants to see Britain ‘smoke-free’ by the year 2030, and ministers have even spoken of the need to introduce a plan that will discourage smoking among different age groups.
Wheelchair hit-and-run victim
Police identified the driver. wheelchair-bound pedestrian, before speeding away from the crash without stopping to check on his victim, leaving the man having to be transferred
to a nearby hospital in Granada City for treatment. An investigation was launched into the incident, with officers taking statements from eyewitnesses at the scene of the accident, and viewing footage from security cameras located at the pedestrian crossing, and in the vicinity, which enabled them to identify the vehicle, and subsequently trace its location, along with the driver.
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Smallest town in Spain ILLAN DE VACAS is a small mu‐ nicipality in the province of Toledo, in Castilla‐La Mancha on the outskirts of Madrid, and is officially the smallest town in Spain, with only four inhabi‐ tants, and its mayor, Javier Bol‐ lain, has the predicament of not being able to carry out one of the simplest basic municipal procedures, which is to register any new inhabitants. This situation has come about as a result of the last municipal elections, which took place two years ago, after which the town hall has not been constituted, meaning they are unable to pre‐ sent their public accounts. In an effort to resolve this problem, Mayor Bollain has writ‐ ten to Jose Miguel Camacho, the Deputy Minister of Local Admin‐ istration of the Junta de Castilla‐ La Mancha, asking for his help, and a possible solution to his problem, which he says “has last‐ ed for years, and which consists of the impossibility of registering people in the census, because we have applications from peo‐ ple who want to join the munici‐ pality, but bureaucratic obstacles
ILLAN DE VACAS: The town used to have 248 residents, but now has only four. prevent us from doing so.” Emphasising, “As we do not have a secretary and we do not have the economic capacity to cover it, we are being left empty due to the lack of support and opportunities.” At the height of its popularity,
back in 1857, Illan de Vacas had 248 residents, but then, in the first half of the 20th century the population was reduced to 100, until it reached the current number of only four inhabi‐ tants, with three of them al‐ ready registered.
UNESCO World Heritage site MADRID has joined the Unesco list in the category of cultural landscape with its ‘Landscape of Light,’ formed by the Paseo del Prado and the Buen Retiro park. This move was voted on by the Unesco World Heritage Committee at its annual meeting, with Madrid’s entry obtaining the majority support of the 21 countries represented on the committee. The ‘Landscape of Light’ includes the Paseo del Prado between the Plaza de Cibeles and Plaza Carlos V, together with the El Retiro park and the Jeronimos area. Located in the centre of Madrid, it is made up of 75 per cent green spaces. The mayor of Madrid, Jose Luis MartinezAlmeida, said he was, “proud for our city, and happy for Spain and the legacy of its capital.” Spain is the third country with the most registered assets with 49. Madrid becomes the first urban historical landscape place on the list in Europe.
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Self-testing triumph SELF-DIAGNOSTIC tests for the coronavirus are now being sold in pharmacies across Spain at a low cost. The tests are available without prescription, and can even be taken at home. Many people though prefer to have a little help from the pharmacist or even have the pharmacist do the test for them. Pharmacies began to sell coronavirus self‐di‐ agnostic tests without prescriptions on Thurs‐ day, July 22, and could not have come at a bet‐ ter time. They have been experiencing extremely high demand for the tests, some‐ thing which has surprised many professionals. Pharmacist Pilar Garcia has been surprised how many people have headed into the phar‐ macy to get one of the tests. “We have been surprised by the number of people who have come to the pharmacy to find out about these tests and who have finally bought them,” said Garcia. The pharmacy where Garcia works is in Navarra and it has also set up a station where people can take the test while being super‐ vised. “We accompany our patients to ensure that the test is carried out correctly,” Garcia said. She added that: “In the test leaflets the pro‐ cess is very well explained,” as people can choose to take the test in the comfort of their own homes too. She did point out that: “There are doubts among the population in case they have not done the sampling correctly, so we ac‐ company them in the process and even offer to do the test.”
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Heartbroken Olympic superfan A JAPANESE Olympic superfan who spent £30,000 on tickets to the Games is “heartbroken” that specta‐
tors were banned. Kazunori Takishima said it “breaks his heart” that spectators were banned
from attending the games due to Covid. Takishima has spent the past 15 years travelling to Olympic Games around the
Piers Morgan Covid anger MORGAN says he caught Covid at the Wembley Euro 2020 final, after crowds “crashed their way in with no tickets or testing.” Morgan aged 56, has been double jabbed, but still managed to catch Covid. Many people around the world are now wonder‐ ing if a third jab against the coronavirus will be needed, and if so just when will they receive it. Piers told of how Covid left him with sneez‐ ing fits along with fever, chills, and violent coughing. At the moment in England the dominant strain is the Delta variant and this is what Piers believes he caught. When he headed to the Euro 2020 final he felt comfortable as everyone attending the event had either been double jabbed or had taken a lat‐ eral flow test, which had proved to be negative. Piers has been fairly quiet on social media during the last two weeks about the virus, but previously he took to Twitter to say how he had felt safe at Wembley until the event was crashed by “drunken morons.” Piers commented on Twitter: “Yes, it felt safe and
Covid compliant (everyone either fully vaccinated or neg‐ ative LFT) at Wembley during the Euros until the final when 1,000s of drunken morons crashed their way in with no tickets or testing ‐ and probably turned it into a huge super‐spreader event.” Piers suffered from Covid after the Euros.
world to support Japan and has dreamt of seeing them in his home city of Tokyo. The 45‐year‐old would have bro‐ ken the Guinness World Record for at‐ tendance at Olympic events had he been able to go. He had bought 197 tickets to try to see as many events as possible during the Games, which opened on Friday July 23. “What hurts the most is the time and passion I poured into securing these tick‐ ets, not the money,” he said. “And it breaks my heart that we can‐ not watch the Games live in person.” He said: “I'll be going to the Olympics until I die, so I’ll be breaking the record every time.” Mr Takishima initially had no interest in sports when he saw his first Olympics in the winter of 2006, until he fell in love when he saw Japanese figure skater, Shizuka Arakawa, win a gold medal in person. “The special energy that filled the sta‐ dium really had me and I fell in love,” he said. “I’ve experienced the liveliness and the touching moments which can only be felt in person,” he said. “It’s not the same watching it on TV. Luckily, he will get a refund on the tickets he purchased.
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A DRIVER has been fined al‐ most €2,000 and lost eight points off his licence for using a mobile phone while driving. The 35‐year‐old man was stopped by police in Galicia, when they saw that he was in charge of a vehicle while using his mobile phone. Officers ini‐ tially gave him a fine of €200 and three points, however, while carrying out the usual control checks (documenta‐ tion, insurance, licence etc),
All points gone they noticed that the vehicle did not have any ITV, adding another of €200. However, the strange atti‐ tude of the driver led the offi‐ cers to also carry out a breathalyser test which was positive showing a rate of 0.44 mg / l. So, another €500 and
another four points. The final icing on the cake came with the drug test, which showed a positive result, both for THC and cocaine. Another fine of €1,000 and another six points. In the end, the luckless driv‐ er lost 13 points and will have to pay €1,900 in total.
MOBILE PHONES: Are not allowed while driving.
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Gibraltar a “threat to sovereignty” FOREIGN Minister Dominic Raab has firmly reject‐ ed the EU’s mandate for Gibraltar and says it forms no basis for negotiations and represents a threat to British sovereignty on the Rock. “It seeks to undermine the UK’s sovereignty over Gibraltar, and cannot form a basis for negotiations,” Raab said on July 20. “We have consistently showed pragmatism and flexibility in the search for arrangements that work for all sides, and we are disappointed that this has not been reciprocated. We urge the EU to think again,” he added. Spain’s Foreign Minister Jose Albares was in Lon‐ don on July 21, on his first visit there in his capacity as head of the ministry. The EU released its mandate on July 20. “By putting forward this draft mandate, we are honouring the political commitment we made to Spain to start the negotiations of a separate agree‐ ment between the EU and the UK on Gibraltar. This is a detailed mandate, which aims to have a positive impact for those living and working on ei‐
ther side of the border between Spain and Gibral‐ tar, while protecting the integrity of the Schengen Area and the Single Market,” said Vice‐President Maros Sefcovic, the EU’s co‐chair of the Joint Com‐ mittee and Partnership Council. Gibraltar was not included in the scope of the EU‐ UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement agreed be‐ tween the EU and UK at the end of 2020. According to the EU, the recommendation builds upon the ‘political understanding reached between Spain and the UK on December 31 last year. It is without prejudice to the issues of sovereignty and jurisdiction, and focuses on cooperation in the re‐ gion.’ The proposed negotiating directives put forward ‘solutions to remove physical checks and controls on persons and goods at the land border between Spain and Gibraltar, while ensuring the integrity of the Schengen area and the Single Market’ including rules establishing responsibility for asylum, returns, visas, residence permits, and operational police co‐ operation and information exchange.
The largest AI facility in Europe SPAIN will soon have the largest platform in Europe dedicated exclusively to training and processing artificial intelligence models, a macro‐project, promoted by the company Aeternal Mentis, which de‐ buted on the BME Growth market on July 23. An initial investment of €7 million by private partners led to this project being born, with the com‐ pany staring with an ambitious five‐year plan that includes a projected target revenue of €900,000 for this first year, which they then expect to rise to €47 million by 2025, a growth that will allow the company to reach an EBITDA of €6 million in 2023 and €28 million by 2025. Jorge Santiago Fernandez, and Asier de Felipe, are the current owners of the Dialoga Group, a telecommunications operator and communications service provider with networks in 29 countries, and the two will act as CEO and president, and as CFO, respectively of this new Aeternal Mentis pro‐ ject. Under the guidance of these two entrepreneurs, backed by a group of prominent investors, Aeter‐ nal Mentis aspires to become a leading operator in the European market, with the capacity to cap‐ ture a large part of the business volume generated in the field of Artificial Intelligence in Europe, with their macro‐project group currently constructing their new facility in Laguardia, in the Basque Coun‐ try province of Alava, which will be known as the Brain Mirroring Centre (BMC).
Royal Mail deliveries THE Royal Mail is undergoing a major shake‐up and according to reports, deliveries of letters on Saturdays are under threat along with signed for parcels. The Royal Mail hope to be able to compete with the likes of Amazon, and new plans are being considered by bosses at the Royal Mail. New bosses are carrying out a service review of the Royal Mail’s ‘whole product suite and offering’. Recently the de‐ mand for letters has de‐ creased, but delivery compa‐ nies such as FedEx and Amazon are doing well. A former executive at Oca‐ do and Apple, Simon Thomp‐ son, launched the review of the Royal Mail which is set to take around six months and
ROYAL MAIL: New plans. aims to cut costs. It will carefully investigate customers’ needs, including if they still want special deliver‐ ies, signed for deliveries and other services such as tracked deliveries which are expensive. Other delivery companies
seem to thrive on customers being satisfied that their parcels are simply handed over to a neighbour, or placed in a safe space. Once the re‐ view is complete a final deci‐ sion is expected sometime next year.
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Iberian lynx reintroduced IBERIAN lynx are set to be reintroduced by the regional government in Murcia. In Spain the Iberian lynx are sadly in danger of extinc‐ tion, so as part of a new pro‐ ject the government is set to
reintroduce them. The pro‐ ject is part of the Life + Na‐ ture and Biodiversity project of the European Union. The Governing Council has approved the framework of the project which will work
Hospitalised and vaccinated
FIFTY‐ONE per cent of patients with coronavirus who have been admitted to hospitals in Castilla y León have received the complete vaccination schedule. There are currently 211 patients among those who occupy ward beds (191) and critical beds (20), out of a total of 415 who are currently hospitalised in the Community. Specifically, of the 355 patients admitted to the ward, 145 have the complete vaccine schedule, 41 per cent, while 46, 13 per cent, have received just one dose. Of the 60 people who remain in the Intensive Care Units, 10 have received the two doses and another 10 only one, which represents just over 16 per cent in each case. This also means that 155 admitted, 37 per cent of the total, have had the full schedule. This is the weekly data that the Minister of Health, Verónica Casado, announced on July 22 during the weekly press conference to report on the epidemiological situation in Castilla y León.
in collaboration with owners of private farms and game reserves. They hope to en‐ sure that the population of Iberian lynxes grows in the future. The Regional Ministry of Water, Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries and the Environ‐ ment are set to work with the game reserves and pri‐ vate farms to ensure that the agreement is managed in an appropriate way. The agree‐ ment needs to ensure that the Iberian lynx are appropri‐ ately conserved. The regional Ministry will perform trap‐ ping work which will allow them to monitor the move‐ ment of the animals and their populations too. The ministry will not inter‐ fere with the farms which carry out hunting activities. According to local press, the presence of the lynx will not alter any future or current rights regarding hunting, building livestock fences, roads, warehouses or ponds where the farms adhere to the agreement.
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NERO Vodka pool parties at La Sala by the Sea for Summer AFTER the success of the launch event last month, luxury brand NERO Premium Vod‐ ka returned this week with another show‐ stopper event at popular beachfront venue, La Sala by the Sea. The pool party, which took place on Monday July 26, the day after American In‐ dependence Day, provided an afternoon filled with atmosphere and entertainment from the off, with DJ Fuller creating a bril‐ liant atmosphere with his soundtracks and mixes supported by the outstanding Barrio Bongo drummers. Adding extra pizzazz to the event were the Sam Woodrow International dancers who dazzled the guests with their aerobatic performances. All guests received a complimentary NERO Vodka taster upon arrival at the African themed event mixed to perfection by ‘flair extraordinaire’ George Mitchell, with many guests taking advantage of the
exclusive discounted drink promotions available on the day. As to be expected at La Sala by the Sea, both the food and service was exceptional, the mood was electric and the weather perfection. It was a great day out and a huge success for NERO Premium Vodka, who continue to go from strength‐to‐ strength. A key moment during the day was when Blue band member Lee Ryan made an appearance to have his photo taken in the NERO Vodka picture frame. The next Nero Vodka event will be held on Mon‐ day August 2 at La Sala by the Sea. The themed Gladiator Pool Party will provide live entertainment by DJ Fuller and Quique on Electric Violin.
Pre‐booking is essential so contact La Sala by the Sea today to reserve your bed or table for lunch at: reservations@LaSalaByTheSea.com or call 952 813 882.
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GMB wins ‘best talk show’
GOOD MORNING BRITAIN, The Apprentice, Masked UK, Love Island and Made in Chelsea all won big at the 10th annual National Reality TV Awards. The event took place at the Porchester Hall in London Thursday, July 22. Good Morning Britain, GMB, hosts were ‘ecstatic’ after winning first place for the ‘best talk show’. Former presenter, Piers Morgan, has yet to make a comment on the awards given to GMB, many believe the controversial host will soon be returning to the show, although this cannot be confirmed. G M B presenter Susanna Reid, 50, who was not present at the event, said she was thrilled with her own award for Celebrity Personality of the Year 2021, as she shared her joy on social media. The TV star shared the official National TV Awards post that announced that she had won, writing: ‘Thank you @RealityTV Awards.’ The post read: ‘Congratulations to @Su sannaReid100 on winning Celebrity Personality of the Year sponsored by @DanielleStyles Boutique at the 10th National Reality TV Awards.’ Susanna’s fans were quick to praise the star, with one commenting: ‘Congratulations Susanna well deserved.’
Another posted: ‘Celeb Personality Of the Year!! Well done babe.’ A third added: ‘Really happy for you Susanna winning your award, congratulations.’ This year over 3.5 million T V fans voted on the official NRTA website, on
it’s 10th-anniversary, a celebration of NHS Heroes was marked by the introduction of a brand-new category. The ‘Best Health Service TV Show’ category celebrates television shows focuses on health service staff, their experiences, and the NHS in general.
Minor found gagged A 15-YEAR-OLD minor was located and rescued by National Police officers in the Carabanchel district of Madrid on Wednesday, July 21, and the alleged perpetrator of her abduction was also arrested, as reported by police sources. The incident occurred on Wednesday afternoon when, after an oversight by her captor, the young girl was able to get in contact with the police and tell the officers where she was being held captive, although she initially gave them the wrong location. After an extensive search of the immediate area that the girl had pointed them to, within an hour the officers located a possible place where she could be, in a cul-de-sac where a leisure establishment was located, which was shown as closed, but with loud music coming from the interior. As soon as the investigating officers gained access to the facility, and got down into the basement, they found the 15-year-old girl gagged with duct tape, and tied to a chair, immediately releasing her. A 36-year-old man was arrested at the scene who allegedly showed signs of violent aggression towards the police officers, while armed with a hammer, screwdriver, and a saw, who was subsequently overpowered and detained. Initial enquiries have suggested that the detainee had met up with the girl and her group of friends at a party in the city, where allegedly several personal items belonging to the detainee had gone missing, and he accused the girl and her friends of stealing them, which led to him taking the girl and keeping her hostage against her will.
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Liverpool now stripped of status
LIVERPOOL has been removed from the list of World Heritage sites following a vote. Members of the UNESCO World Heritage Committee held a secret ballot in China on July 21, seeing Liverpool removed from the list after 17 years. Liverpool has been on the list since 2004 but has been on the UNESCO danger list since 2012 when the heritage body became increasingly concerned about the development of the docks in the city. Before the decision, Liverpool was one of just 32 World Heritage Sites in the UK. Responding to the decision, the mayor of Liverpool Joanne Anderson said: “I’m hugely disappointed and concerned by this decision to delete Liverpool’s World Heritage status, which comes a decade after UNESCO last visited the city to see it with their own eyes. “We will be working with the government to examine whether we can appeal but, whatever happens, Liverpool will always be a World Heritage city. We have a stunning waterfront and incredible built heritage that is the envy of other cities. “I find it incomprehensible that UNESCO would rather Bramley Moore Dock remain a derelict wasteland, rather than making a positive contribution to the city’s future and that of its residents. I’ll now be seeking to draw together all the UK heritage bodies in a round table to plan a positive future with further investment.”
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Train driver faces trial A FORMER senior official and a train driver are set to face trial for the worst train acci‐ dent to take place in the country in decades. The tragic accident happened in 2013. A Spanish court in Galicia has now said that the former se‐ nior official and the train driv‐ er will stand trial. The accident took place in Santiago de Compostela in Ju‐ ly 2013. The train had been approaching a curve at over double the speed limit when it derailed. The train then slammed into a concrete wall, tragically killing 80 people. The two accused are facing prison sentences. The prose‐ cutor has requested four years in jail for both the head of traffic safety and the train driver. The two people have been accused of 80 crimes of homicide due to gross profes‐ sional negligence. They have also been charged with a sin‐ gle crime of damage and 145 crimes of injury due to gross professional negligence. The accident has taken so
TRAIN CRASH: Eighty people were tragically killed.
long to come to trial due to the lengthy investigation. Offi‐ cials had attempted to deter‐ mine if other senior officials had any responsibility for the accident. These claims were eventually dismissed though. After eight long years the mat‐ ter is finally heading to trial. At this moment though no date has been set for the trial to begin.
Kate Garraway in hot water
GOOD MORNING Britain’s Kate Garraway is in trouble with viewers after commenting that the NHS pay is “"difficult” for the “government to balance.” Viewers quickly took to Twitter to criticise her comments. The viewers encour‐ aged Kate to stand behind the NHS workers who helped her husband Derek during his hor‐ rific battle with the coronavirus. The ITV star spoke of her husband’s fight against the virus and how great the nurses had been. “If it was up to me, you couldn’t pay them enough,” said Kate. “It’s extraordinary what all members of the NHS did, but nurses particularly. It’s the detail in a critical situation like with a virus that no‐
body knew the impact of at the time Derek got sick. “The detail, the cell count, a lot of that is passed to the nurses and it’s getting that right that makes all the difference. I can’t say enough, of course they should get more. “But it’s a difficult job for the government to balance that.” Viewers soon hit back on Twitter though. One said: “Kate Garraway should know better.” Another tweeted that: “Kate Garraway bang‐ ing on about national debt and inflation as fac‐ tors in opposition to a decent nursing pay rise; after her husband was treated so much by them is ridiculous.”
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Castillo de La Calahorra IF you travel to the province of Granada, then you simply can’t miss the spectacular Castillo de La Calahorra, situat‐ ed on a hillside with the stun‐ ning backdrop of the Sierra Nevada foothills in the beauti‐ ful Andalucia region. Built between 1509 and 1512, this stunning old castle was declared a Bien de Interés Cultural monument in 1922, and was one of the first Italian Renaissance castles to be built outside of Italy. If you are a film fan then you might have recognised the cas‐ tle, as it was featured in the 1974 film Stardust ‐ the sequel to Essex’s smash hit film ‘That’ll Be The Day’ ‐ as the retreat bought by the famous pop star ‘Jim MacLaine’ ‐ played by David Essex ‐ in the latter parts of the film, also starring Adam Faith and Larry Hagman. It would be a shame if you did go, not to make a day of it and also drive up to the Sierra Nevada ‐ in English, the name means ‘a mountain range covered in snow’ ‐ as it contains Mulhacén, the high‐
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Dubai makes fake rain DUBAI, the city in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) is using drone technology to ‘shock’ clouds into producing rainfall. The new technology is being trialled in an effort to fight the heatwave and increase the small average amount of rainfall of only four inches that they have per year. The country is one of the hottest on Earth and is currently struggling with a heatwave that sees residents roast in temperatures that reach a blistering 50 degrees Celcius. In a bid to try and grapple the heat, its National Centre of Meteorology (NCM) has started a trial using the drone technology, which sends electrical charges into the sky. This method is known as cloud-seeding and prompts clouds to come together and form precipitation. The drones have proven to be very effective, causing yellow weather warnings to be issued in parts of the country where the drone technology has also been tested.
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Sierra de Cadiz Rally confirmed THE Sierra de Cadiz rally has been confirmed and will take place on September 17 and 18 over four timed stages. The race will comprise of four timed stages over the following routes: La Ribera de Gaidovar (8.2km), El Gastor‐Olvera (14.1km), Zahara de la Sierra (15.4km), and Benaocaz‐Ubrique (5.2km). An official presentation of this race ‐ whose results count towards the Andalucian Asphalt Rally Cham‐ pionship ‐ took place at the Provin‐ cial Palace in Cadiz, with guests in‐ cluding Jaime Armario, from the Department of Citizenship Develop‐ ment; Maria Jesus Herencia, the representative of Tourism of the Junta de Andalucia in Cadiz; Manuel Alonso, president of the Andalucian Automobile Federation; and Fran‐ cisco Garcia Galera, from the organ‐ isers of the rally, Escuderia Sur. Carlos García Ramírez, mayor of Grazalema was also present, acting as spokesman for a region that has been represented by the mayors or municipal representatives of El Gas‐ tor, Ubrique, Olvera, El Bosque, Za‐ hara de la Sierra and Benaocaz.
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Climber escapes avalanche A SPANISH climber has es‐ caped a K2 avalanche that has tragically killed Scottish climber Rick Allen. Scottish climber Rick Allen aged 68, had been climbing alongside Jordi Tosas of Spain and Stephan Keck of Austria. Sadly, tragedy struck and an
avalanche is understood to have hit the south‐east face of the mountain and killed Rick. The UK Foreign Office have an‐ nounced that they are aware that K2 has claimed the life of a British citizen and the charity Partners Relief and Develop‐ ment, have announced Rick’s
death. According to reports both Spain’s Tosas and Austria’s Keck were rescued without re‐ ceiving any major injuries. “It is with great sadness to announce that Rick Allen, a member of the board and also a great friend, has died whilst attempting a new route on K2,”
said Partners Relief and Devel‐ opment. The Foreign Office has com‐ mented and a spokes‐person said: “The British High Commis‐ sion in Islamabad is aware of re‐ ports that a British citizen has died climbing K2 and stands ready to assist.”
Sevilla’s historical flour mills
ALCALA DE GUADAIRA, in the province of Sevilla, is a town with a great baking tradi‐ tion that goes back a long way in history, with flour mills located along the banks of the Guadaira River that have been there since Roman times, where wheat was culti‐ vated, making the town synonymous throughout Spain with quality artisan bread. Despite the fact that this industry is no longer the economic pillar of the town, it continues to be the hallmark and a histori‐ cal reference in the collective memory of all Sevillians, who still call it ‘Alcala de Los Panaderos’, so much so, that now, the company Engranajes Culturales has de‐ signed a guided night‐time tour for the
The mills are located on the river. whole family to enjoy. This tour will take you to the traditional places that you would probably not even know existed until they showed you, in the most beautiful unknown natural loca‐ tions, where you can discover the rich nat‐ ural heritage, and anthropological and in‐
dustrial remains of the Ribera del Guadaira Natural Monument, all just 15 minutes outside of the Andalucian capital of Sevilla. The dates arranged for these tours so far are on Saturday, August 21, and Sun‐ day, August 22, starting at 10pm each night at the Hotel Legado Oromana, a re‐ gionalist‐style building from where you can get striking panoramic views of the area, from where you will be taken on foot, armed with lamps, to discover the rich industrial heritage of the municipality. The price per person is €11.10, and you can find all the relevant information on the website: www.engranajesculturales. com.
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William will suffer INGRID SEWARD, the editorin-chief of Majesty magazine, has warned that Prince Harry’s book deal will impact Prince William the most and that all the royals should be on standby for “bombshell accusations.” “William is probably the one that will come out of this worst of all because there is a row between William and Harry and basically if Harry says things that are inappropriate about the monarchy, that is William’s future. It’s not Harry’s future, he is out of it now, but it is William’s future,” she said Seward also said that Prince Charles’ silence on Harry’s latest venture is an indication that he has also been hurt by his actions. Last it week it was announced that Harry is set to release four books as a part of a deal worth an estimated £29million €33.89million. According to reports, the second will only be published after the Queen’s death.
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FRANCE
Cartoonist dies
Special award
THE Danish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard who produced the image of the prophet Mohammed wearing a bomb shaped turban in 2005 has died at the age of 86. This cartoon in particular offended Muslims around the world and he survived an axe attack in 2010.
THE French President Emmanuel Macron awarded 79year-old US civil rights leader Reverend Jesse Jackson, Baptist minister and former companion of Martin Luther King, the Légion d’Honneur, one of France’s highest honours, in recognition of what Macron said was “a long walk towards emancipation and justice.”
THE NETHERLANDS
NORWAY
More butterflies
Scooter crazy
ALTHOUGH there is continued fear about the longterm prospects for butterflies in Europe, the Dutch Butterfly Foundation said that this summer should be a very good time for the insect as a rainy spring in Holland has seen plenty of plant growth to feed caterpillars.
IT took a press conference organised by doctors at an Oslo emergency hospital to shame the Norwegian Government into taking action against the almost uncontrolled 30,000 e-scooters on the city’s roads and pavements. From September they will be banned from use after 11pm to reduce drunken injuries.
BELGIUM
FINLAND
Temporary dump
Fuel price
A FIVE kilometre long abandoned road near Liege is being used as a temporary rubbish dump for the immediate dropping off of waste collected following the recent floods in the area. Police officers are on permanent duty to keep an eye out for bodies.
A EUROPEAN wide survey undertaken by Enjoy Travel has revealed that Finland has the second highest cost for petrol at around €1.70 per litre, beaten only by Holland which is currently about €1.84. Generally, Nordic countries charge the most with Baltic countries the cheapest.
GERMANY
SWEDEN
Ultra help
Pizza ransom
EXTREME football fans in Germany (Ultras) are normally in the news for the wrong reasons, but they are currently being praised as the fanatical supporters of different clubs are now working to raise money and offer help to those who have been flooded out of their homes.
TWO convicted killers took guards as hostages at Hällbyanstalten prison and demanded that they be given a helicopter so that they could escape, but after several hours of negotiations they reduced their demands to 20 kebab pizzas and when these were delivered, the hostages were released.
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GO LOCAL
THE EUROWEEKLY NEWS is urging its read‐ ers to support local businesses in the com‐ munity by going local through the lock‐ down and for your all your shopping this year, instead of feeding online giants and superstores. During this lockdown, we challenge you to rediscover your local high streets, mar‐ kets, butchers, greengrocers and all of the wonderfully quirky independent business‐ es in your area. Due to the Covid‐19 pandemic, you may have to support many local busi‐ nesses by ordering online and making use of any click and collect services they can operate if you are unable to get out due to health reasons or lockdown re‐ strictions. Shopping local means that indepen‐ dent businesses can help support the local community. Although it may be a euro or two cheaper else‐ where or online, consider where your money is ac‐ tually going. By shopping at an independent store you’re putting food on a local family’s table, and there is no better time than now to give back to your community by making a small gesture and shop‐ ping in this way. Many local stores sup‐ port local charities, sup‐ port and sponsor local sports teams and in many cases the small indepen‐ dent stores are actually much more than just a small high street shop, they’re a family’s legacy, often passed down through numerous gen‐ erations and support not just the current owner but the generation before. For those stores which are new, that ex‐ tra couple of euros spent there are support‐ ing someone’s dream and ambition, and al‐ so 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 multina‐ tional and chains. So be sure to pre‐order your meat from a local butcher and get your spuds from a lo‐ cal greengrocer, let us revive that communi‐ ty spirit and get to know our neighbours again. You could also consider purchasing gift vouchers from local businesses to help them over the coming weeks, thinking out‐ side the box can often lead to some fantas‐
SPENDING LOCALLY: Will make a difference to the local economy.
tic 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. 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 lo‐ cal keeps money circulating within the local economy. 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 revenue back into the local economy, compared to just 14 per cent for national chain retailers.
Money circulating through the local economy benefits ev‐ eryone 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 customers. The farmer pays its local employees and the restaurant uses revenue from sales to buy supplies from a neighbourhood hardware store. This example illustrates how the recircula‐ tion of money in the local economy leads to a stronger financial foundation for our neighbours and communities. Buying local also fuels new employment and job oppor‐ tunities for people within our community. Studies show, locally owned businesses employ more people per unit of sales and retain more employees over time. A fantas‐ tic 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 gov‐ ernment advice and any guidance business‐ es have to keep everyone safe.
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Wally the walrus A WALRUS that has been de‐ lighting tourists with its cheeky antics has been struggling in the current UK heatwave. Wally, the beloved yet mis‐ chievous Walrus, travelled from the North Atlantic Ocean to Ire‐ land, Wales, Cornwall, France and the Isles of Scilly. He has caused thousands of pounds worth of damage to boats in St Mary’s harbour and caused similar chaos when he capsized a dinghy off the Welsh town of Pembrokeshire trying to get aboard.
TWO dogs from the National Police have detected a million euros that was hidden in the double bottom of a car boot which was intercepted during a routine check carried out in Malaga. The National Police have explained that the woman who was driving the car could not provide proof for the transportation of this
CHILLING OUT: Wally the walrus cools off on the pontoon. Officials on the Isles of Scilly have recently built a pontoon for the marine mammal to relax and
Police dogs find a million amount of money - a document that is necessary for movements of cash over €10,000. The dogs smelt out the hidden cash and instantly marked the right rear of the
have a ‘safe space’. However, experts who are monitoring him have said he is
boot of the vehicle. It was first suspected that the car had drugs hidden inside, however, after careful examination, a double bottom was found to contain numerous bundles of banknotes that were arranged according to their denominations. The total amount of money seized was €999,630.
most likely suffering in the boiling heat and have advised the public to keep their distance. A spokesperson for Cornwall Seal Group Research Trust said: “This heat is not something he is adapted for so it’s important now more than ever to give him rest and space. The hot weather is challenging him. “We’d like to stress the key message that Wally needs rest and space. “All boat owners and water users have been asked to give the walrus space and refrain from ac‐ tively moving towards him, but the temptation has proved too strong for many. “The walrus is a highly protect‐ ed species and disturbance of this nature is a criminal offence. Even a lift of the head means his rest has been interrupted. Please stay away from him.” Experts have also said that the pontoon will not stop Wally from eventually moving away from the Isles of Scilly when he is ready and has enough energy.
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I won’t play LEGEND Eric Clapton has said he will not play at venues that require attendees to show a vaccine passport. He responded to the government announcement that vaccination passports will be required to access venues and nightclubs by end September, saying he would not perform “any stage where there is a discriminated audience present.” “Unless there is provision made for all people to attend, I reserve the right to cancel the show.” The singer shared his statement on the Telegram account of Italian architect and Covid sceptic Robin Monotti. He also added a link to his anti-lockdown collaboration with Van Morrison, Stand and Deliver, in which they sing: “Do you wanna be a free man / Or do you wanna be a slave?” Clapton shared his negative experiences of getting the AstraZeneca in May, claiming to have experienced “severe” reactions that left him questioning whether he would even be able to play the guitar again. Many people are reluctant to have the Covid vaccination due to side effects and also worries that the vaccines may not have been adequately tested. Clapton is scheduled to perform at the Royal Albert Hall in May 2022. The venue will host the Proms from July 30 to September 11 without social distancing, however, those attending will be required to provide status of their vaccination or immunity status.
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Universal right for women THE European Parliament has now given its full approval to urge member countries to re‐ move any obstacles to access to voluntary termination of pregnancy (IVE) and consider it a ‘human right’. The so‐called ‘Matic Project’ on ‘the situation of sexual and reproductive health and rights in the EU, within the framework
of women’s health’ also intends that this practice be guaranteed by the public health of the member countries, although of course, this means undermining the right to conscientious objec‐ tion of health professionals. ‘Vi‐ olations of women’s sexual and reproductive health are a form of violence and hinder progress towards gender equality.
For these reasons, women’s lives and rights are being jeop‐ ardised by common practice in some Member States, which allows medical practitioners, and on some occasions, entire medical institutions, to refuse to provide health services on the basis of the so‐called con‐ science clause,’ reads the re‐ port.
Recall of sunscreens THE Spanish Agency for Medicines and Health Products (AEMPS) which is part of the Ministry of Health, has outlined 14 sunscreens that they have requested be voluntarily withdrawn. The sunscreens when tested were found to not provide the same sun protection factor SPF, that was on the label. Most of the sunscreens tested still pro‐ vided adequate protection, but five were found to be lacking significantly. AEMPS had called on companies to voluntarily withdraw the batches which they tested and carry out their own tests on different batches to ensure that the
products are safe. The five products which did not meet the SPF claimed on the label and fell below 29.9 have been recommended for volun‐ tary withdrawal. These products are ‘Abelay Protector Solar FPS50’, by Ab7 cosmetics; ‘Mussvital fotoprotector spray aerosol ultra light 50+’, by Peroxfarma; ‘Eucerin sun protec‐ tion sensitive protect sun spray transpar‐ ent dry touch SPF 50 high’, by Beiersdorf AG; ‘Hawaiian Tropic Silk Hydratation Bru‐ ma Solar air soft SPF 50+ (High)’, by Wilkin‐ son Sword; and ‘Australian gold SPF Botan‐ ical SPF 50 continuous spray’, by Biorius.
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FINANCE BUSINESS EXTRA Data protection SPANISH supermarket group Mercadona is to be fined €2.5 million by the Spanish Data Protection Agency for an experiment whereby it introduced technology in 48 of its stores to try to recognise and detect customers with court restraining orders who were not allowed instore.
Diversification JOSÉ ELÍAS, the Catalan-based owner of green energy company Audax Renovables has diversified by spending a reported €100 million to take over the La Sirena frozen food chain from Op Capita. He intends to grow the business and then take it public.
Read small print EVEN lawyers don’t always understand the law as a UK court has ruled that one firm of lawyers which signed a non-disclosure agreement when discussing business with another (which never came to fruition), overlooked a six year non-compete clause contained therein and must abide by the document.
More mortgages SALES of properties in Spain are rapidly recovering from the 2020 drop due to the pandemic and latest figures from the National Institute of Statistics (INE) reveal the number of mortgages granted in May this year was 35,255, 37.4 per cent up on May 2020.
Street theft ONE of the possibly unexpected results of the gradual lifting of lockdown in the UK is the significant rise in street theft according to insurer Aviva. For those who have been stuck inside for months, rarely going out except to purchase necessities, it appears they have become less security conscious and so more likely to be robbed. Aviva said the number of claims for the loss of mobile phones, designer sunglasses and watches in particular were up 44 per cent in June compared to the previous month and July is likely to see the increase continue.
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€23 billion
is the record amount that US investment company Carlyle (which owns 37 per cent of Cepsa) hopes to raise from clients to use for acquisitions.
Belfast start-up company A CHANCE meeting has lead to an award‐winning Game of Thrones producer investing in a Belfast‐based start‐up company. Ready to emulate the suc‐ cess of Peloton, a Belfast‐ based couple Neal and Yvette McGaffin are in the process of launching their re‐ former pilates machine. They had the idea during lockdown as more and more people started to exercise at home as they were unable to visit a gym and now with
the financial backing of Game of Thrones producer Bernadette Caulfield, they are ready to expand their brand. Emmy award‐winning producer Caulfield (who ad‐ mits that it was her fault that the Starbucks coffee cup appeared in one episode) was first intro‐ duced to the couple when she moved to Belfast to film the hit HBO TV show and be‐ gan regular training with cre‐ ative director Yvette.
LEGALLY SPEAKING
Ergonomically designed, the ReformRX will offer users bespoke live and on‐ demand classes led by indus‐ try professionals to provide instruction, while its con‐ nected, built‐in data tracking capabilities can both record performance and submit feedback on progress. The ReformRX will initially launch into the UK and Ire‐ land market this summer, with plans to expand into the US within its second year of business.
The next round of fundraising is currently un‐ derway to raise approxi‐ mately £4 million, which will enable the company to in‐ crease production and re‐ cruit personnel across key areas, including additions to its software, sales and mar‐ keting teams. With prices starting at £5,000 (€5,500) it doesn’t come cheap, but the couple are confident that the Re‐ formRX will find plenty of customers.
In case of death
Can he reject offer? I viewed an apartment and made an offer which was rejected. I then made an offer for the advertised sale price which was again rejected. My question is, if the seller has signed a contract with an estate agent to sell his apartment for a certain price, if that price is offered, can the seller refuse to sell? S N (by email)
Yes, an offer to buy at the advertised price can YOU AND THE LAW be rejected. It is poor IN SPAIN practice but there is nothing legally binding about accepting the stated price. In your case we have some unanswered questions. Who has re‐ jected the offer? Is it the agent or the seller? Is the agent a licensed real es‐ tate agent? That is, an Agente de la Propiedad Inmobilaria. Do the seller and the agent have in fact a written contract? If so, does it bind the agent to sell at the fixed price, no more and no less? We have seen cases where the agent sells the property for more than the stated price and pockets the difference. Finally, if the agent fails to fulfill the terms of his agreement with the seller, that is a civil matter between them.
DAVID SEARL
Send your questions for David Searl through lawyers Ubeda-Retana and Associates in Fuengirola at Ask@lawtaxspain.com, or call 952 667 090.
AN estimated 3.8 million women were kept in the dark and now UK Parlia‐ mentary Ombudsman’s report vindi‐ cates Waspi women on pension rights. The Parliamentary and Health Ser‐ vice Ombudsman (PHSO) published on July 20 its view on the case of how the Department for Work and Pen‐ sions (DWP) failed to communicate State Pension age changes to the women affected.
Having a funeral plan will help. WHEN someone passes away in Spain there are procedures which must be fulfilled within 48 hours. ‐ When someone dies of natural causes, call the Emergency Services (112) for a doctor to certify the death. You will need ID for the deceased. ‐ Once a doctor has issued the Certificado Medico de Defun‐ cion, a funeral parlour (tanatorio) should be contacted and within 24 hours of death, the temporary certificate must be taken to the Registro Civil in the town of residence of the deceased to get the official death certificate. ‐ You then need to obtain the burial or cremation licence from the Civil Registry office, as in Spain, the burial or cremation of a person’s remains must go ahead within 48 hours of their death unless there are suspicious circumstances. For a more detailed view of the procedure visit: https://bit.ly/ 2TsjyTr. Having a funeral plan in place means your loved ones will not be faced with the distress of doing all this in a foreign land.
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Reduced borrowing
THANKS to a number of rea‐ sons, the Spanish Govern‐ ment expects to be able to reduce its 2021 borrowing target from €100 billion to €80 billion. “We’re making this deci‐ sion based on three changes. First, the approval of the re‐ covery plan (by the EU) and the first transfers of funds, lower needs from regions and thirdly the evolution of debt markets that have al‐ lowed us to have lower debt servicing cost,” confirmed Economy Minister Nadia Calvino on July 22. The economy which relies to a significant extent on tourism will now have to wait to see how long the new Covid‐19 resurgence will last at home and abroad.
Morrisons latest IF you can’t beat them, join them seems to be the mantra for US investment company Apollo Asset Management as it confirmed that it would not proceed with a solo bid for Morrisons supermarket group. Making the announcement however, it added that it was now in preliminary discussions to join with the Japanese funded Fortress Investment Group which has already placed a takeover bid on the table for £6.8 billion (€7.5 bil‐ lion). The Morrisons board has recommended acceptance of this offer but now awaits shareholder approval, al‐ though there is still a remote chance that Amazon might al‐ so make a counter offer.
Waspi women vindicated on pension rights According to the pressure group Women Against State Pension In‐ equality (WASPI), the findings vindi‐ cate the years of campaign that it and many individual women have been in‐ volved in to try to recover the money they have lost. In its 39‐page document, the PHSO confirms that “if the DWP had made a
reasonable decision in August 2005 and then acted promptly, it would have written to affected women to tell them about changes to their State Pension age by, at the latest, Decem‐ ber 2006. “This is 28 months earlier than DWP actually wrote to them. It follows that these women should have had at least
28 months’ more individual notice of the changes than they got. “The opportunity that additional notice would have given them to ad‐ just their retirement plans was lost.” At some stage in the future, the Ombudsman will give an opinion of what if any compensation should be paid.
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NET VOL 1,45M 12,44K 152,73K 505,09K 251,17K 840,49K 1,03M 54,07K 144,59K 97,68K 667,51K 777,32K 473,33K 181,28K 12,82M 2,49M 379,92K 2,00M 15,54M 118,32K 68,70K 4,10M 233,28K 38,17K 931,68K 2,22M 41,31K 564,79K 51,55K 16,71K 171,52K 109,52K 131,58K 344,44K 58,18K 8,21K 45,50K 172,67K 1,77M 3,79M 185,55K 270,84K 58,47K 1,12M 13,15M 711,77K 1,94M 154,31K 126,24K 5,96K
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ITV 120,85 J Sainsbury 279 Johnson Matthey 3.029,80 Land Securities 697,2 Legal & General 265,45 Lloyds Banking 46,48 London Stock Exchange 7.427,80 Meggitt 443,8 Melrose Industries 158,4 Mondi 1.991,50 National Grid 927,4 NatWest Group 200,8 Next 8.094,00 Norilskiy Nikel ADR 33,98 Ocado 1.847,00 Persimmon 2.904,00 Phoenix 686,05 Prudential 1.362,50 Reckitt Benckiser 6.211,20 Relx 2.029,00 Rentokil 523 Rightmove 668,4 Rio Tinto PLC 6.107,80 Rolls-Royce Holdings 97,13 Rosneft DRC 7,39 Royal Dutch Shell A 1.397,50 Royal Dutch Shell A 1.397,40 Royal Dutch Shell B 1.372,20 Sage 702,6 Samsung Electronics DRC 1.716,50 Sberbank 16,29 Schroders 3.660,00 Scottish Mortgage 1.338,00 Segro 1.193,50 Severn Trent 2.730,00 Smith & Nephew 1.518,00 Smiths Group 1.595,50 Spirax-Sarco Engineering 14.600,00 SSE 1.522,37 St. James’s Place 1.519,50 Standard Chartered 432,2 Standard Life Aberdeen 284,8 Taylor Wimpey 165,85 Tesco 232,55 Tui 325,26 Unilever 4.037,00 United Utilities 1.046,00 Vodafone Group PLC 117,63 Whitbread 3.089,00 WPP 954
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119,94 276,97 3.028,00 683,6 260,33 45,01 7.412,00 436,8 156,15 1.978,00 924,1 194,75 8.014,00 33,55 1.836,50 2.875,00 679,88 1.332,00 6.204,00 2.027,00 522,46 664,8 5.960,60 94,95 7,25 1.349,70 1.349,80 1.324,80 701,4 1.701,00 15,69 3.641,00 1.328,00 1.192,00 2.722,90 1.518,00 1.580,50 14.590,00 1.513,60 1.505,00 421,8 282,6 164 232,15 318,33 4.036,40 1.041,00 116,62 3.005,00 943,4
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371,59K 347,45K 17,08K 2,95M 938,01K 24,27M 153,66K 957,53K 1,77M 185,33K 1,90M 6,33M 79,26K 231,51K 435,52K 186,19K 167,57K 2,07M 291,44K 865,92K 340,58K 779,95K 284,30K 4,55M 373,78K 1,37M 1,37M 1,79M 822,66K 12,29K 1,29M 32,42K 2,07M 403,53K 37,33K 90,63K 77,13K 123,33K 145,43K 223,74K 2,43M 922,73K 2,75M 3,18M 400,16K 200,74K 254,88K 28,97M 245,45K 485,82K
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CHANGE 199,99 2753,80 3649,18 245,51 147,7 219,92 209,77 99,44 55,14 56,56 368,25 373,11 326,89 225,25 141,19 52,77 170,87 150,17 242,07 76,99 286,66 163,84 139,23 245,93 647,11 411,73 55,56 247,71 141,49 175,37
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Most Advanced MicroStrategy Inc. RBC Bearings Inc. Amazon.com Inc. Coinbase Global Inc. Tesla Inc. Booking Holdings Inc. BioNTech SE ADR Cavco Industries Inc. Pool Corp. Hasbro Inc.
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Most Declined BeiGene Ltd. ADR MercadoLibre Inc. Willis Towers Watson PLC Intuitive Surgical Inc. Zai Lab Ltd. ADR IDEXX Laboratories Inc. Align Technology Inc. Futu Holdings Ltd. ADR I-Mab ADR Insulet Corp. lululemon athletica inc.
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Venezuelan gold back in headlines
WANTS GOLD: President Maduro accuses Britain of theft. IN a broadcast statement on Ju‐ ly 21 the President of Venezuela accused the British Government of stealing more than €1 billion in gold from his country. This followed a recent deci‐ sion by the UK Supreme Court to reject an appeal from the Central Bank of Venezuela to re‐ move the gold bars currently sit‐ ting in the Bank of England. It is not disputed that the gold belongs to Venezuela, but what is disputed is whether Nicolas Maduro was lawfully re‐elected as President of the country in 2019 or as the UK Government (and many others) suggests, the election was rigged. In fact, whilst Britain recognis‐ es opposition leader Juan Guai‐ do as the properly elected presi‐ dent of the country, it has effectively instructed the ‘inde‐ pendent’ Bank of England to keep the gold in its vaults and
this has been supported by the British Court. Meanwhile, Maduro is furi‐ ous as his country has significant financial difficulties and he says that he wants the gold released so that he can spend most of it on supporting the local health system which was breaking down even before the pandem‐ ic hit. According to Maduro, he is the legitimate president who runs the country on a day‐to‐ day basis and in his speech ac‐ cused the British Government of wanting to hand over the gold to “an invented govern‐ ment.” Many countries leave gold deposits with the Bank of Eng‐ land so that they may be used as collateral against loans or sold if the country wishes to take advantage of rising gold prices.
5G expansion VODAFONE Spain purchased on July 22 a new block of 5G space from the Spanish Ministry of Economic Affairs and Digital Transformation for €350 million. The total amount will be payable in a single instalment following the conclusion of the auction process and in addition, a licensing fee of €15.5 million will be payable each year. The spectrum acquired has initial holding rights until 2041, with an automatic renewal with no additional fees for a further 20 years, until 2061, subject to meeting the licence obligations. In contrast, In the first stage UK auction, Vodafone paid £174 (€191) million for bandwidth.
One thing is for sure and that is the spot price of gold has in‐ creased by 34 per cent since February 2019.
BUSINESS EXTRA Bank merger AFTER a seemingly long wait, the Spanish Government has approved the takeover of Liberbank by Unicaja which is now expected to be completed by the end of July. For years, until the 2008 financial crisis, Spain had numerous banks and ‘building societies’ but now has just 10.
Trade talks UNITED STATES Trade Representative Katherine Tai met with Spain’s Minister of Industry, Trade and Tourism, Maria Reyes Maroto on July 20 to discuss current trade and economic matters with a view to further strengthen the bilateral relationship between the United States and Spain.
Plus Ultra ALTHOUGH it had expected to receive a further €34 million in pandemic support, the Spanish Plus Ultra airline which flies to South America has been told by the Madrid Court (which oversees its ongoing operations) that it has to explain why it needs the money.
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FEATURE
Time to investigate practices
LEAPY LEE SAYS IT OTHERS THINK IT
Photo credit: Lilly Trott / Shutterstock.com
JUST how long are we going to allow this positive glut of reversed racism to continue before we stand up and say enough is enough? Day in and day out the white indigenous population are bombarded with racist propaganda and accusations of prejudice. Frankly I have no idea what the ultimate goals of the woke and PC brigades actually are (any ideas?), but I do know that unless we address the problem there will be unprecedented numbers of citizens, who, in their utter despair of the authorities’ failure to correct this completely unjustified situation, could well decide to look to the far right for their governmental representations! Those who condone these totally biased practices are undoubtedly the biggest racists of all. The BBC is actually getting worse. Last week their national news featured holidaymakers enjoying the recent heatwave at a typically British seaside resort. The beach was naturally packed with predominantly white families making the most of a welcome summer break. BBC
A typical seaside resort.
reporters then interviewed some of these holidaymakers for the programme. The first they engaged were a black family with a large number of young children. After quite a lengthy chat they moved to the next interview which turned out to be a somewhat amorous black female couple. They then featured a mixed race family and culminated the piece by talking to a young black gentleman licking on a cornet.
One thing you can most definitely take to the bank was that these interviews were intentional and in no way coincidental. In the first place, finding this particular selection of people on a beach packed with white British holidaymakers was a feat in itself. These reporters, with their teams of camera people and assistants, don’t just wander about indiscriminately dropping on people at random. They have staff that go out in advance and line up those who are
prepared to be on the programme. Their superiors had obviously given them instruction to go and find a specific type of holidaymaker to interview, ie non.white, gay and mixed race! This is blatant discrimination; pure and simple. Priti Patel is also a glaring case in point. In a recent photograph (since taken down!), she was shown posing with her whole department of government staff. All save one were of ethnic origin. They have obviously
been chosen specifically for their cultural backgrounds ‐ and this is the Home Secretary! We now have so many TV ads cast with black actors it’s actually quite difficult to pick out even one featuring an all‐white cast. This is so utterly disproportionate to the general population; it also has to be completely intentional. They even featured a black rap (Rap!?) artist in the introduction to their Wimbledon programmes this year. Why is it only the white population that can be racist? It’s time these totally bewildering, inflammatory practices were investigated. They are not encouraging diversity; they are promoting bias and discrimination to unprecedented levels and must be curtailed, before it all spirals out of control. Keep the faith. Love Leapy leapylee2002@gmail.com. Expatradioscotland. 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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STOP PRESS! THE STORY BEHIND THE HEADLINES Cudeca as you know), including the latest in the series, ‘The Sentinel’. No time either to mention the colour‐ ful years I spent in LA. Apart from bit parts in movies (the English accent was wot dun it!) and meeting famous actors ‐ Paul Newman (those eyes!), Harrison Ford (that smile!) and others ‐ there were also some dodgy moments. Like the morning when I rushed into Law School and a Tax Law Professor was gunned down right in front of me! This shortly af‐ ter J D (Juris Doctor) Finals. I never did find out if he’d pissed off some former client or just a student with failing grades…
NORA JOHNSON BREAKING VIEWS Nora is the author of popular psychological suspense and crime thrillers and a freelance journalist. To comment on any of the issues raised in her column, go to www.euroweeklynews.com/3.0.15/nora-johnson
I T’S not often I’m left speechless, but that’s precisely what happened during a previous appointment with my gynae‐ cologist in London. As soon as all the medical stuff was over when I last saw him, he reminded me what he said then: “That novel of yours really could have been about me!” As I said, I was speechless, having no idea he even knew about my debut novel, ‘The De Clerambault Code’ (which I’m pictured here presenting outside her Be‐ nalmadena office to Joan Hunt, founder of the Costa del Sol Cudeca cancer chari‐ ty who sadly passed away recently), let alone had read it or the others. (Every single one, as it turned out.) Anyway, just like the main character in it, he described how, over several months, he too had been obsessively
The late Joan Hunt with a copy.
The latest book in the series. stalked by a patient who sent him aggres‐ sive emails ending up in blackmail. Even‐ tually, he referred himself to the General Medical Council ‐ and subsequently total‐ ly cleared by the medical tribunal.
Phew, what a personal story, which hit the national headlines! There wasn’t time to mention that I’d also been stalked ‐ in Los Angeles ‐ an experience that resulted in the obsessive delusional relationship depicted in my novel. Nor that studying law there, specialising in criminal law, led to my growing passion in writing the psy‐ chological crime thrillers featuring inves‐ tigative journalist Alice Myers and DI Bar‐ b a r a Fo r s t e r ‐ o r ‘ D I B a r b a r a ’ a s m y Audible reviewers call her (all profits to
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No-one answers the phone MIKE SENKER IN MY OPINION Views of a Grumpy Old Man WHAT’S happened to the banking system here? Brexit and the pandemic seem to have changed what was quite a normal, even sometimes very easy, system. I could ‘phone up and speak to my own personal banker on first name terms. Now no-one answers the ‘phone, my personal banker has left and I do not have a replacement. I emailed for an appointment and got an email back saying the person I was trying to contact is out of the office ‘til August. I don’t even know this person’s name as their email address is just numbers and letters. It gave me another contact email address and I have now emailed that one four times without a reply. No-one answers the ‘phone anymore. You don’t even get options; it just cuts off after a few minutes. I don’t know if this has happened to anybody else but friends of mine asked us to check his apartment and we found the electricity had been cut off. We told him and he was confused as there was plenty of money in his Spanish
bank account. He called his bank and after much toing and froing found that the reason his bill hadn’t been paid was that his account was frozen as his ID documents - in this case his passport - needed updating. They tried to explain that they couldn’t get here because of the travel restrictions so could they do it by email and scanning documents and the bank just said no they had to come in and sign in person and until then the account was frozen and that was the end of the conversation. We now go in and check bills so nothing else gets cut off and got the electric put back on. Why is there such a difference between hiring a manual and an automatic car? The price in some cases is treble for the same car and the same amount of hire time. I could understand it years ago when automatic cars were limited and a lot more expensive but now the price difference is about a grand, so why the massive hike in rental price? Just watched an expert on TV saying everyone should go and have a vaccine jab. Now this guy I know, from seeing him on TV before, is a vegan. My question is should I really be listening to someone telling me what to put into my body who won’t even eat a cheese sandwich? Email mikesenker@gmail.com
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Hi Leapy, Completely agree with you! As regards football, a few coloured, sorry black players get involved, I’m sure some of their white colleagues, really just give them some support, not really seeing the whole picture! As you say, we should stop talking about it, problem is our media is so intent on pulling the government down, and if it wasn’t Boris it would be somebody else! Why don’t the minority black community, look at the majority of black and white communities, and just get on with life? Don’t we all, or the majority of us just get on with life! I am sure the media, especially TV, do show some very unacceptable programmes, it’s frightening what some people think up! Kind regards Ian, PS, I do like your views, well written!
The Knee Dear Leapy Once again, your comments are spot-on. Covid surely has a great deal to answer for. The fact is, had the pandemic not succeeded in removing fans from football stadiums, this totally misplaced ritual would have been booed out of fashion within a couple of weeks and, effectively, aborted before it gained a fashionable hold! Yours Ken Turner
Covid tests latest An airline today called on the UK Government to bring an end to unnecessary and expensive testing for flying abroad, in line with much of Europe. Two-thirds of British adults are now fully vaccinated, but still face prohibitive PCR test costs in order to travel, with a family of four still paying up to £400 for Covid tests - even to green list countries Being able to travel was a key driver (47 per cent) for many to get the vaccine. Nearly nine-in-10 (88 per cent) Brits believes the UK Government travel policy advice over the past 18 months has been confusing. According to new
MORE RESTRICTIONS WHAT a difference a week makes in this ongoing time of pandemic! Once again, the various Autonomous Communities have been tasked by the National government to deal with the increase of Covid-19 infection. As more tourists arrive from across Europe so the populations of various holiday destinations increase dramatically and so do the number of infections, but there is a fatal flaw in calculating the potential risk. Very simply if the decision to impose restrictions is based on the number of infections per 100,000,
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OLYMPIC GAMES: We should just get on with life. research easyJet said today that UK holidaymakers could be priced out of their first holiday abroad for the first time in two years if test costs and rules remain. David Anderson
Spanish bank accounts Dear Editor Five months ago, I moved to Jaen Province and opened a bank account easily, without any problem. Now I have moved to Benidorm in Alicante Province and it is a nightmare trying to open a bank account. So many banks are shut, long term or permanently and of those open, many do not seem to want new accounts. Try standing outside under a hot sun with nowhere to sit for an hour or two, then when finally inside you are given an appointment for late next week. One bank allowed you to apply online. But no internet till you have a bank account, and seemingly, no internet cafes.
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then the number of residents will be considerably less than the total population due to the number of visitors. This now means that some popular holiday areas are being penalised with new restrictions, even though the true figures are not as bad as they seem. That’s not to say that there aren’t many new cases of infection but once again, businesses are suffering with reductions in the number of people who can eat inside or out and even large shops are having to introduce restrictions on the number of customers allowed inside at any
one time. Vaccination is an important part of the answer and in Galicia you have to be able to prove double vaccination just to enter certain establishments and even in Gibraltar, the government is recommending the same policy. Anti-vaxxers are opposed but the highest percentage of those being infected now have not been inoculated either by choice or until now they have been too young. Rather than give vaccines away, the Spanish Government should continue to ensure that vaccinations continue to be available to all in Spain as quickly as possible.
VACCINE PASSPORT: Should it be used to gain entry to bars etc?
Beryl Tye Come on, what on earth is wrong with having to show a passport, if you belong to clubs you have to have a card to belong, if you live by the book and do things right for yourself and other people, there is nothing to it, carrying a small little passport, oh I forgot if you won’t have the vaccination, you can’t have a passport, one’s own choice. I suppose.
Theresa Attwood Terrible idea for businesses, creating a two-tier society. If unvaccinated people are refused entry then there will be a niche for illegal underground clubs, pubs, restaurants etc.
Annie Burton It’s the same for France I thought it was a good thing but it seems more and more likely that it doesn’t seem to matter if you’ve had Covid and both jabs. Look at Boris he’s still having to isolate.
Andy Solomons First, the authorities need to issue all vaccinated people with passports.
Alan Howard Hello to building back better and our new normal. Soon these so called health passports will evolve into a Chinese style social credit system, easy done once you have every one with a personal QR code, just bolt in an update to the application it’s held on in your phone. Why the offers of prizes and money and hard talk about denying access to places never ever been done before for any infection that has survival rates of 99+ per cent. Welcome to our new normal they were spouting from the beginning of this planned epidemic.
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Yucca and Yuca Confused? YUCA & YUCCA: The two are actually quite different.
sava plant structures. The yucca plant has long, sword‐like leaves with a waxy coating that radiate out in a rosette pattern from a central stalk. This enables the plant to capture and funnel the minimal rain avail‐ able towards the core of the plant. Below the leaves there may be a tree‐like stem that can be several feet in length. Both the yucca and the (Yuca) cassava plant have beneficial uses, the yucca plant is used for more medicinal purposes than the (Yuca) cassava. The yucca plant is rich in resveratrol, yuccaols, and saponins that the scientific world is finding very bene‐ ficial in several profound ways. Research has shown that these three natural compounds can reduce in‐ flammation, ease arthritic‐type pain, and protect the skin from sun damage. Conversely, the (Yuca) cassava root is more like a starchy vegetable that can be pre‐ pared and cooked. Eating yucca root in the same
manner as one would eat (Yuca) cassava root is strongly discouraged, if not almost impossible. First, yucca root is incredibly hard and fibrous, so cutting, or slicing it requires more than a standard knife. Second, yucca root tastes bitter even after be‐ ing ground into a powder. Almost all of the yucca plant can be used as food. The stems, leaf bases, flowers, emerging stalks as well as the fruit of most types of yucca are edible. The stems or trunks of yuc‐ ca store carbohydrates in chemicals called saponins, which are toxic, not to mention taste of soap. To ren‐ der them edible, the saponins need to be broken down by baking or boiling. Flower stalks need to be removed from the plant well before they bloom or they become fibrous and tasteless. They can be cooked, or when very newly emerged, eaten raw while still tender and resembling
large asparagus stalks. The flowers themselves must apparently be picked at just exactly the right time for optimal flavour. The fruit is the most desired part of the plant when utilising the yucca plant as a food source. Edible yucca fruit only comes from the thick‐ leaf varieties of yucca. It is about four inches (10 cm) long and is usually roasted or baked engendering a sweet, molasses or fig‐like flavour. The fruit can also be dried and used thus or pound‐ ed into a type of sweet meal. The meal can be made into a sweet cake and kept for some time. Baked or dried, the fruit will keep for several months. Yucca fruit can be harvested before it is totally ripe and then allowed to ripen. Besides growing yucca fruit for food, it was used historically as a laxative. Native peoples used the sap to treat skin issues or an infusion of the roots to treat lice infestations. Yucca powder must be encapsulated, or mixed with other fillers to disguise the taste, and must be consumed in smaller amounts.
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Love glitter GLITTER cosmetics are having a massive comeback as fun-loving youngsters look to add a little sparkle to their lives. Spanish-shot reality show Love Island is partly to thank for the latest trend, together with summer festivals and Spain’s party hotspots. Sales of glitter cosmetics were worth more than €337,000 to retailers between June 25 and July 21 in the UK alone, up an impressive 321 per cent compared to the same period last year. According to data analysts IRI, festival goers, party lovers and fans of the ITV series Love Island, helped boost sales of glitter products by 60,000 so far this year. Top sellers include face glitter and eye glitter, which accounted for the majority of growth. However, nail products, the mainstay of glittery cosmetics over recent years,
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have fallen - down 5 per cent since last year. “We are seeing something of a revival in glitter from the glam rock days and discos of the 70s and 80s, but with a new twist,” said Kaajal Bhatti, Senior Insights Manager, IRI. She added: “The glitter
craze we are seeing this season really kicked off last year when the Love Island contestants had a glitter party. “Last year’s glitter cleavage trend has turned into this year’s glitter craze with no body part untouched, including glitter lips, eyes, brows and even tongues!
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makes you feel heavy and less motivated so there is less chance of burning calories. Eating late at night is linked to weight gain and obesity. Different cultures have different approaches to eating patterns. In Spain, a large midday meal followed by an afternoon siesta and evening tapas is very common. According to the research by University of Murcia, overweight women who ate a larger lunch and smaller dinner lost more weight than those who had a larger evening meal. This shows that changes in meal timing can influence obesity and success of weight loss.
EARLY BIRD: Build your stamina. EXERCISING in the morning on an empty stomach burns more fat than exercising at other times of the day. Exercise increases how awake we feel and raises our core temperature. Burning calories is not the only benefit of an ‘early bird work out.’ Working out in the morning is great for the mind and body. It is advisable to take supplements before exercising on an empty stomach. Iron deficiency is one of the leading causes of tiredness in women, with 27 per cent not getting enough. Eat a lunch rich with animal produce, otherwise known as carnitine. Products like meat, fish, poultry, and milk are the best sources.
In general, the redder the meat, the higher its carnitine content. Carnitine converts fat to your cells so it can be used as energy, while not having enough can cause dizziness and muscle weakness. Snacks in between meals should involve three key components: protein, fibre and complex carbohydrates. Apple with some oatcakes and peanut butter keeps blood sugar levels constant until dinner. Dinner should be eaten at least three hours before sleeping. Eating, sleeping and exercising at regular times will build stamina and form an easy to follow routine.
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A magic weekend
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ILLUSION SHOW: Be amazed by Magic Unlimited. ON July 30 and 31, the Plaza Mayor Summer Festival in Malaga promises a magical weekend and it’s free of charge. One of the biggest and best shopping centres on the Costa del Sol, Plaza Mayor just on the outskirts of Malaga City is putting together two exceptional shows featuring magic from international performers. First on Friday July 30, visitors will get the chance to experience an up-and-coming young magician Rubén Silva who first experienced the excitement of magic when his parents took him to a magic show when he was just six years old. He started learning about the art of illusion by watching videos and now just 10 years later he is a very experienced magician who has appeared on TV and in theatres around the country.
Then on Saturday July 31, there’s the chance to see a Las Vegas style show presented by Magic Unlimited, three Dutch siblings who are based in Calahonda and have more than 20 years’ experience in their craft. Oscar, Renzo and Mara have performed all over the world and until the pandemic struck, they also used to open their home theatre in Marbella to limited audiences from across the Costa del Sol.
Magic Unlimited is the ultimate ‘feel-good’ illusion show which is brimming over with dynamic and captivating performances which are guaranteed to keep spectators on the edge of their seats. Each performance takes place at 10pm on the specially constructed stage in Plaza Central and all hygiene requirements will be properly complied with, so who would want to miss these free of charge events on a warm night under the stars.
Mijas summer events THERE are plenty of things to see and do in Mijas Pueblo and La Cala this summer thanks to the local council. Every Friday between 9.15pm and 10pm in July and August enjoy a free demon‐ stration of Flamenco dancing and music performed by Zam‐ bra Flamenco Group in the square outside the council of‐ fices in La Cala de Mijas. Mijas goes beyond the ‘sun and beach’ and has all kinds of benefits capable of attracting a wide spectrum of tourists. Good food, without a doubt, is one of them. If you are looking for a bar‐ gain and fancy a short walk in Mijas Pueblo, every Tuesday and Thursday you can follow the Ruta de la Tapa in which nine establishments are offer‐ ing a different tapa and drink for a very reasonable €2.50. There are an additional two ice cream parlours also taking part but these don’t include a drink in the offer and you can take advantage of all 11 be‐ tween 7.30pm and 11pm. You can obtain a tapa pass‐
port from the Mijas Pueblo tourist office and if you receive a stamp at each participating establishment you can vote for your favourite and also re‐ ceive a free gift which is a tick‐ et to Aquamijas plus a surprise as well as being entered into a draw with winners receiving prizes at the end of summer. Although there is a signifi‐ cant reduction in the number of people who can attend this year’s Celtic Night, it should still be going ahead at the Mu‐ nicipal Auditorium in Mijas Pueblo on Saturday August 21. Entry is free but tickets have to be obtained from the Mijas Tourist Office and the evening will feature three groups, Supervivientes, Drónán and Stolen Gnomes as well as pipers and Nuala dancers. Doors open at 8.45pm and the event starts at 9.30pm so to ensure that you can obtain a ticket, call 952 589 034/951 063 785, email turismo@mi jas.es or turismolacala@mi jas.es.
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The Social and Golf A SCORCHING Sala Golf Day at Calanova be‐ fore heading back to Sala Group’s latest venue ‐ The Social by Sala! Saturday July 24 saw an incredible 15 teams taking part in the latest Sala Golf Day at the challenging Calanova Golf Club, situat‐ ed in the beautiful golf valley behind La Cala de Mijas. As always, the golfers were kept refreshed with chilled beers and delicious sausage rolls supplied by Tine and her team from Interna‐ tional Marbella. After the event, at the prize‐giving the golfers were welcomed back to the Sala Group’s new venue known as The Social by Sala to sample a delicious selection of light bites over a game of pool. Conveniently located just next to La Sala, the latest addition is a laid‐back casual space where everyone’s welcome to kick back and
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EVERYONE WELCOME: Relaxing at The Social by Sala. relax in the most idyllic, chilled garden setting. The individual winner on the day was Gary Lee, scoring an impressive 46 points with a close second being awarded to Adam Hogg with a score of 45 points. The Baltics came in third place in our team prizes captained by Ian Smith with 94 points.
International art display A GROUP of artists from around the world have been displaying their work at the Melia Hotel Marbella Banus. The display of works of art, organised by the Marbella based Excellence Art Gallery can be viewed until Friday July 30 and contains canvasses from artists hailing from Spain, USA, Switzerland, Italy, Iran and Cuba. Next on the agenda for this well‐respected gallery is attendance at trade fairs in Au‐ gust in Monte Carlo and Paris in September.
The runner up was Guadalminos two, scor‐ ing 96 points overall, led by Paul McCaughey. The winning team on the day from the other side of the coast was the Benalmadena Bandits with an impressive 96 points overall (countback), led by Wayne Burton. La Sala Golf gave a big thank you to all of the event sponsors: Vinomarket, Internation‐ al Marbella and One Residences. Also, to ev‐ eryone that took part in Beat the Pro on the eighth hole which raised €285 for the Elena Gaite Foundation. The next La Sala Golf Event is set to take place at Santana on August 14. For more in‐ formation contact the Sala Golf Team, Harry Radcliffe, harry@salagroupholdings.com, 679 910 637 or Rodolph Combes rc@sala groupholdings.com, 673 441 747.
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Green Covers return WHILST it is not unusual for a number of bands to create tributes to single groups, it’s very unusual for a single band to pay tribute of the highest level to a number of groups. Valencian band Green Covers actually perform note per‐ fect tributes to more than six groups with three acts featured in each of their three hour long shows. On Saturday September 18 they will be covering the work of Depeche Mode and The Cure as well as what they refer to as an 80s hour where they run through music by OMD, Human League, A‐Ha Ultravox and Soft Cell. So, each section is given its own hour or so as they excite audi‐ ences with a combination of meticulously engineered effects with live sound, and stunning visual effects, resulting in a spectacular show. The event which is not to be missed will take place at the open‐air auditori‐ um at the top of Parque la Paloma in Arroyo de la Miel and kicks off at 8pm when the doors open and the bands appears at 9pm. Tickets cost €20 plus booking fee if booked in advance and €23 on the night. From Friday onwards the price will be €20. Definitely an evening for every fan and then keep an eye out to the future for their Coldplay, Muse and Placebo tributes which may be on the bill for their La Trinchera in Malaga on December 17.
Rock of Ages
MUSIC is back across the Costa del Sol and those who enjoy classics from the 80s will love the Rock of Ages trib‐ ute. Put together by two popular lo‐ cal singers Lucy Pardoe and Ollie Hughes, it is loosely based on the 2005 Jukebox musical of the same name and features songs from such bands as The Eagles, Bon Jovi, Queen, Def Leppard, Starship, Toto and many more. This event takes place on the main terrace of the Hotel Castillo de
Monda on Friday Ju‐ ly 30 with two op‐ tions, the first is entry to the show with a welcome drink at €15 with seating on the hotel’s fifth floor. The second ensures seat‐ ing on the main terrace which for €65 includes a set dinner plus a great view or for those who want to push the boat out, book a standard double room with breakfast and the show and meal included for €145 per person. The two hour show starts at 9pm. Reservations are nec‐ essary by calling 952 459 836.
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IF you are planning a trip later this year you still need to plan early for pet and house‐sit‐ ters. Perhaps you are already making plans for a staycation get away. Even if you are plan‐ ning just a short trip, you’ll know that you sim‐ ply can’t travel with some pets. Young pets in particular may benefit from staying behind so they can follow their home routines. So, plan ahead. Take a moment to plan ahead for pet and house‐sitters, if you have trips planned later this year. Now is the time to get ready. We will help you as much as we can. Our philosophy is that we are all in this together. These are the steps to take: 1. Register as a homeowner on HouseSit Match.com 2. Choose a Premium account (£89 per year) to ensure you can help online when needed 3. Create a profile with photos of your pet and the house 4. Post a house‐sit advert stating your plans for your next holiday, Covid permitting Do you need a pet‐sitter in 2021? Then get started right now. How does it work? HouseSitMatch can help you find suitable sit‐ ters. Join our network for a small annual fee. You get ID checked for safety and then build
Is your dog affectionate and in need of attention? your advert saying when you are going on holi‐ day. House‐sitters see your advert, they re‐ spond and you choose the sitter who’ll care for your pets. Trustpilot Testimonials ‐ 4.8 / 5 Excellent rat‐ ing (New Trustpilot rating scale) Here’s what members have said about us ‐ HouseSitMatch found us a perfect house‐sit‐ ter… HouseSitMatch found us a perfect house‐sit‐ ter while we were away in Canada and we were
delighted with the care and attention that House SitMatch took in helping us find the right person. Ros Morris ‐ Dog owner How do you join? Please register online via our website www.Housesitmatch.com ‐ Choose a membership plan ‐ Please note prices go up soon so sign up now on subscription to secure these prices: • Standard (DIY option) = £69 pa • Premium (with support at each step) = £89 pa
Do you need a house-sitter? Get in touch. House-sitting can be a win-win for both parties, free house and pet-sitting, and the experienced and checked sitters get free accommodation! Register as either house-sitter or homeowner with a 50 per cent discount using coupon code SUPER50 – an exclusive offer for readers. To find a house pet-sitter go to www.HousesitMatch.com.
Keeping the cat at bay IT is actually possible that you don’t like cats. Or per‐ haps you only like your cat and you want to deter your neighbour’s furry feline from overstepping the mark into your territory.
Well, there are steps you can take to discreetly mark your boundary and stop oth‐ er cats from prowling onto your patch. The very first step is to clear away any cat excre‐
ment around the place, as this attracts more cats to foul in that area. Once this is done, block gaps in the boundary with prickly plants or prunings such as holly. You can fit string or wire to the top of a fence to make it more difficult for cats to walk on it. Then half fill some plas‐ tic bottles with water and place these along your boundary. Along the same lines, dangle some old CDs as the reflecting light will deter the cats. Cats love to dig up ex‐ posed soil, so cover your ground soil with a layer of mulch as cats hate a moist surface. Finally, a little known secret is to drop tea bags which have been infused with Olbas oil around the edges of your area. This is known to keep cats at bay. But remem‐ ber, whatever option you chose, be sure to cause the cat no harm.
Dealing with lameness in dogs DISTINGUISHING if our dog’s lameness is due to an or‐ thopaedic or a neurological prob‐ lem can cause problems even to the most experienced vet. Cases presenting with concur‐ rent neurologic and orthopaedic disease can be confusing because clinical signs overlap in these pa‐ tients. Orthopaedic problems generally affect one limb, but when it affects two limbs it can simulate a neurological problem as occurs when there is bilateral cranial cruciate ligament tear. In contrast, a neurological problem that affects only one limb (monoparexy) can be mis‐ taken for an orthopaedic prob‐ lem. This occurs, for example, in cases of injuries to the brachial plexus (network of nerves that send signals from the spinal cord to the muscles of the forelimb). A patient may appear weak or unable to walk due to anaemia or systemic disease in the absence of orthopaedic or neurological
disease. That is why it is impor‐ tant not only to perform an or‐ thopaedic and neurological ex‐ amination but also a general physical examination and per‐ form blood tests. Sometimes the owner is not able to describe what is happening to the dog. It is important to record videos. Sometimes what the owner describes as sporadic lameness can be a neuromuscular problem as in myasthenia gravis in which the dog after a minute or two of walking suddenly collapses or simply refuses to continue walk‐ ing. Animals are unable to gener‐ ate a normal gait due to paresis, intolerance due to pain or due to a mechanical cause that can be a fracture, dislocation, etc. Analysis of the animal’s gait is essential. Once the lameness is identi‐ fied, we will decide to do X‐rays, ultrasound, CT or MRI. José Rial, AVEPA certified in Traumatology and Orthopaedics. www.miperrocojea.com
Exotic pets rise in popularity
TIGERS: Do they really make good pets?
IN China, rare crocodiles, tortois‐ es and even sharks are the pets in vogue right now. These exotic animals are par‐ ticularly popular among the younger generation, according to a Beijing‐based filmmaker Sean Gallagher, who made a documentary on the subject for National Geographic. It looks like this pet trend is becoming more than just a fad, with an increasingly high de‐ mand for exotic animals in other parts of the globe. A couple in
Catalonia also made headlines when they chose to adopt a lion cub they rescued from the cir‐ cus. A man was recently de‐ tained at the US‐Mexico border for trying to smuggle through a tiger cub by hiding it between his feet. In fact, in 2014 the World Wildlife Federation (WWF) re‐ ported that there were more tigers kept as pets in US house‐ holds than are living in the wild. In the Arabian Gulf, big cats have become the must‐have
accessory for the incredibly wealthy. Europeans are the keenest on reptiles, according to a Bio‐ Science study, and import more than anyone else in the world. It is difficult to estimate the extent of the exotic pet black market, however, as interna‐ tional policing and reporting of the trade leaves much to be de‐ sired, with Interpol estimating only 10 per cent of illicit animal exchanges are ever detected.
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FEATURE MARBELLA MOMENTS
BY NICOLE KING WITH my summer holiday from record‐ ing Marbella Now with RTV Marbella just around the corner I realise how many people are still working, in spite of the heat. All the changes that have been forced upon us has meant that many people have had to come up with new ideas and reinvent themselves. Such is the case of Yohan Janeau of ARO Detailing. Until the pandemic Yohan was a commercial airline pilot; a career with a guaranteed future one would think; planes will always fly. This has proven not to be the case and Yohan, like thousands of other pi‐ lots, found himself without a job and the onus of having to move to another country to possibly find alternative em‐ ployment in his field of expertise. Now a family man and loving the Mar‐ bella lifestyle Yohan decided he needed a change of career and after much consid‐ eration came up with a great idea to sup‐ port his family and continue to forge their future here: a dry car wash ‘home’ deliv‐ ery service. They don’t just visit your home either; if you’re lunching out and
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Read on ARO Detailing - car cleaning without water but with love (and quality products)
want the car cleaned whilst you’re there, it can be done. Yohan imports the best quality products and uses specifically modified motorcycles to get around quickly and inconspicuously. Obvi‐ ously the non use of water is anoth‐ er plus. The prices are very afford‐ able and the service is truly five star ‐ please think of him and his family when it comes to detailing your car. You can ‘meet’ Yohan and find out more about the services on my show to‐ day (#MN316 29.07.2021) www.arodetailing.com. Also well done to Caroline Helen Bowley for launching her home staging services for those who wish to see their property at ‘top dollar’. Too frequently we forget how much clutter we collect and how displeasing our mess can be to the prospective
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purchaser. Who amongst us hasn’t been transfixed by the transformations we see on TV when homes are prepared for sale by professionals? Rearranging furniture, changing perhaps the lighting and adding the right touches can also turn an eye‐ sore into a must‐have. Opera singer Clarice Williams has also had to branch out due to so many cancelled tours. Please watch Clarice on #MN316 from Tuesday 27th this week to enjoy her en‐ ergy and also buy her Avon range which is helping her get by (Tel: 711 051 393). Also with good energy is Ben Hayden of LIT Electricians who explains, also on Tuesday’s show, about the future of ener‐ gy in transport with a shift from fossil fuels to a more green, sustainable, clean and renewable energy, He also gave us a re‐ minder to install smoke detectors in our homes. When at home also consider Alex’s Kitchen for home catering for a party or to cook a meal for one and deliver it; something she did throughout lockdown. Also this week in Marbella Now I meet up with ‘Book Lucy’ Lucy Chiver’s for her recommendations for a good read! (as well as my column that is…) To read more articles from our columnists and to have your say in the comments go to www.euroweeklynews.com
Nicole King’s opinions are her own and are not necessarily representative of those of the publishers, advertisers or sponsors.
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BLINDS ACE OF SHADES – Vertical, Venetian, Roman, Roller, Wooden blinds, various colours available, also black-out blinds. Tel: 951 273 254 / 671 732 204 / info@aceofshades .design (101730) BLINDS, awnings, mosquito screens, curtains, vast choice. All areas covered. Coast and inland. 655 825 931 (288894)
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AIR CONDITIONING by Cool and Cosy. The family company that cares. Installation and repairs. Quality machines. Ecosense movement sensors supplied and fitted from 100 Euros. For other energy-saving products visit www.coolandcosy.es. 952 935 513. We are Junta de Andalucia authorised installers as the new law states (real decreto 115/2017). On the Costa del Sol since 1993 (283965) ECONOCOOL – Top quality air-conditioning installed from only €495 with a 3 year guarantee. Service, Repairs & ReGas from €75. Top Quality Installations. All Areas Covered. Chris – 662 427 396 econo cool@hotmail.es (293186) MR COOL – Air Conditioning, Refrigeration, Heating Systems, Sales & Service – Call Christian +34 629 527 587 or Nick +34 618 678 853 – www.mrcool.es (292440) AIRFLOW Air Conditioning for repairs, new installations 952 443 222 / 637 554 316 whatsapp AIR-CONDITIONING installations in all makes and models. Torremolinos to Marbella & Inland. Reasonable prices. Call Frank 650 561 629 (292594)
AWNINGS ACE OF SHADES – All colours available. Urbanisations catered for, electric and manual operation; also recovery service available, largest selection of colours and designs on the coast. Tel: 951 273 254 / 671 732 204 / info@aceof shades.design T1(101730)
SOLAR BLINDS ES Ideal for large glazed areas to reflect heat / glare and stop furniture fading and still keep the view. SAVE HEAT IN THE WINTER to improve your living environment. ian@solar shadetinting.com Tel Ian 958 496 571 / 644 546 176 (290765)
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R.K.S. CONSTRUCTION Full reforms. Roofing. Plastering. Kitchen & Bathroom Specialists. Established 2005. 634 315 264 / 652 640 871 (292501) General Building & Plumbing bathroom, kitchens, tiling & painting. All your plumbing needs. Benalmadena based, travel no problem. Glen 669 073 773 or Paul 642 098 115 (293193)
METALWORK NEW REJAS, GATES, Carports & Fencing, repairs & alterations. Work Guaranteed. Reliable. 17yrs on Coast. Steve the Welder. Call/ WhatsApp 655 040 648 (293097)
PLASTERING
GENERAL BUILDER, Tiling, plastering, painting, electrician, plumber, carpentry. Reasonable prices. 635 913 885 (References available (292445) SWINGLES CASAS SL. For all your building needs. Visit www.swinglescasas.com for more details or call 635 999 765 / 666 960 262 (289049) HAWKS SL Expert Home Reform, kitchen, Bathroom, Flooring, Interior & Exterior Free Estimate WhatsApp +34 635 204 123 info@hawksmbd .com (289610)
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PRIVATE collector will buy your Gold, Rolex & Patek Philippe Watches Tel – 678 716 693 (288662)
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FRANK Dr Damp, bricklaying & plastering. All work guaranteed. 689 515 558 (291557)
HOUSE CLEARANCE SPECIALISTS, FULL OR PART CLEARANCE. ALL FURNITURE WANTED, WE PAY MORE. TEL 634 324 914 OR EMAIL houseclearanceman@ hotmail.com (291967)
JIM’S HOME IMPROVEMENTS. Bathrooms / kitchen reforms, repairs, plumbing, carpentry, painting, tiling, maintenance. Give us a call no job too small. 692 207 799 / 645 559 423 (289939)
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CONEJO CLEANING & Property Management. Est. over 25 years. Rentals management, one off cleans. New Property set up service. Wendy 635 630 370 / 952 964 407 www.cone jocleaning.com (291573) Starlight Cleaning Services. All types of cleaning. Any size of property. All Areas. Residential & Holiday Lets. Deep Clean for Bars & Restaurants. We also do a professional Chimney Sweeping service. 682 636 451 www.starlight-spain.com (291477)
DECORATORS RAINBOW Pinturas. English Painters & decorators. All aspects. Interior/exterior, private residential, commercial & communities. Spraying: door, kitchens & furniture. Light construction. Call/WhatsApp: Daniel: 628 066 308 www.rainbowpin turas.com (291508) PRO PAINTERS. All trades. Inside, outside. Plasterboard & coving. Tlf 635 913 885 (292673)
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CHIMMEY SERVICES CHIMNEY SWEEP. Clean reliable professional. All types, special price for more than one. Chris 608 337 497 (286296)
CHURCH SERVICES BENALMADENA Elim Family Fellowship. Elimfamilyfel lowship.com or call 951 912 525 or 952 446 627. (10011) CALAHONDA: Encounter Church (Elim), Family church with kids activities, Iglesia San Miguel, Sundays 4.30pm, Rev. David Hodgson, 695 115 496 (10012)
CLEANING/MAINTENANCE ADVANCED Cleaning Services. Professional carpet, upholstery cleaning, 27 years experience, wet/dry clean. Honest, reliable service 678 808 837 / 952 669 701 or email acservs@outlook.com (290739)
ATD DECOR. British Painter. 30 Years’ Experience. Punctual. Great Rates. Call for free quote. 603 132 783 (293195)
DOMESTIC APP REP DOMESTIC Appliance repairs - washing machines, fridges, cookers, ovens, water heaters, gas / electric, professionally repaired. Christian 608 337 497 (286296)
FLOOR POLISHING MARBLE FLOOR (2.50€/m2) WHY PAY MORE. WE CLEAN, CRYSTALLISE, SEAL THEN POLISH YOUR MARBLE TO HIGH GLOSS, NONSLIP. PROFESSIONAL GUARANTEED, FAST SERVICE. 25 YEARS EXPERIENCE. ALSO REPAIRS DAMAGES TO MARBLE, CLEAN AND SEAL TERRACOTTA TERRACES, COVERS ALL COSTA DEL SOL. TEL: 671 244 683 (291570) MARBLE POLISHING, CRYSTALLISING, LASTING, HIGH SHINE. REGRINDING, RESTORATION OF SALTY, DEAD FLOORS. 27YRS EXPERIENCE. RELIABLE. REFS AVAILABLE. CYRIL. 645 840 199 (293076) MARBLE FLOORS polished high shine non-slip. Fast Service Reliable, family run business. TERRACOTTA CLEANED and sealed. No job too small. Cleansol 10am – 10pm 7 days all areas. 952 930 861 / 607 610 578 Discount code: EWN 1 CLEAN (206437)
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ELECTRICIAN LIT ELECTRICIANS for all your Electrical & maintenance needs, no job too small for a FREE Quote. Call Craig on 604 106 414 or Ben 679 505 761 (291530) ALL TYPES of certified Electrical work undertaken Torremolinos to Marbella & Inland Call Frank 650 561 629 (292594)
FURNITURE FURNITURE wanted, same day collection, also house clearance and removals. 697 511 071 (292585)
GARDENING PROFESSIONAL garden services from Fuengirola to Estepona. All aspects of gardening and full maintenance and landscaping, free quotes, competitive prices. Contact Andrew 600 259 981 Andrew@garden-profes sionals.com (288828)
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GATE REPAIRS ELECTRIC GATE/GARAGE DOOR automation repaired. Free, no obligation quotation. Call Colin - 636 394 641 (291006)
GATES ELECTRIC GATES/Garage Doors. Intercoms/access control systems and replacement remotes. New installs and repairs. For all your electric gate and garage door requirements call us on 605 356 469/952 786 178. The Garage Door Co & 2 Way Gates. tgdc@hotmail.co.uk www.2waygates.com (290738) ELECTRIC gate installations, repairs, servicing & refurbishment. High speed gate systems, intercoms & accessories. For free estimates & expert advice, please contact Darren on 856 140 022, Whatsapp +44 7521 141 008 or visit www.marbella-gates.com (292595)
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GOLF FOR SALE FULL set of irons never used, plus ping putter. Offers for the lot. 625 908 867 (293391)
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HEALTH & BEAUTY BEAUTY TREATMENTS BOTOX & fillers from €95. Skinny Jab & Fat reducing injections. Cover Coast & Inland. www.beautifulmar bella.es 609 347 086 (291538)
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EU INSURANCE DIRECT. Best prices, best service, best cover for all your Insurance needs. TEL 951 080 118 or 952 830 843 (282687)
ENGLISH qualified masseuse, specialising in Swedish, Aroma Therapy & Indian head massage. Nueva Andalucia. Call Lisa 652 189 088 (291848)
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FUENGIROLA, Myofascial Release. J Schaegen, Specialised in treating neck, back & extremity disorders, 30 years in Practice. 652 291 224 www.bodywork.es (291527)
VINYL SOLUTIONS WHY REPLACE WHEN YOU CAN RENOVATE? Modern adhesive vinyl coverings in hundreds of styles and designs can renovate a tired kitchen, bathroom, wall panels, bedroom wardrobes, fridge doors. Turn a tired looking wood designed kitchen into a modern solid colour or metallic look without painting or replacing. Work carried out on site with 10 year warranties Contact Ian 644 546 176 for design brochure and samples. (292272)
HOT TUBS & SPAS HOT TUBS new used, bought, sold, hired. Also move & repairs. Used good Hot Tubs for sale. 691 973 131 / +44 7836 379122 (292436)
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MOBILITY FOR SALE LIBERCAR Electric Power wheelchair for sale nearly new cost over €1,000 when new for quick sale €600 ono El Pilar Estepona 678 871 934 (293375)
MOSQUITO SCREENS ACE OF SHADES – Don’t let the bugs get you! Available in enrollable, slider and pleated. Large choice of colours including wood effect. Tel: 951 273 254 / 671 732 204 / info@aceof shades.design (101730) MOSQUITO Screens for windows, doors and a high-quality sliding patio door screen. All finishes available. Quick service. All areas covered. Call Julian 655 825 931 (290057) MOSQUITO screens, sliding, pulldown, pleated, colours call Mosquito Nick 647 072 861 www.mos quitonick.ws (292605)
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MOTORING FOR SALE – SELLING YOUR SPANISH CAR? PHONE Bill Brady for the best cash price. Stay safe and phone Bill on 952 838 842 / 608 950 221 billbradycars.com MASSIVE SAVINGS AT BILL BRADY CARS has been established on the Costa del Sol since 1986, in which time he has helped thousands of expatriates to buy or sell their quality used Spanish cars and also keeping all the documentation simple so you understand all that is going on (which is important). You can contact Bill direct on 952 838 842 / 608 950 221 or billbradycars.com NEW Cars and SUVs coming soon please check our web page billbradycars.com. PRICE Slashed Great Value Toyota Aygo 2013 From private owner only only 44’000 Klm. ( 27’000 Mls) New ITV. ( MOT ) Just been serviced looks great in silver WAS 5’500€ Now Only 4’995€ 952 838 842 - 608 950 221 billbradycars.com. JAGUAR F-Pace AWD. 2.0-D Automatic 2018 Bought and serviced by Salamanca Marbella 54’000 Klm (34’000 Mls) Tan leather, to many extras to list here look at this saving at only 32’995€ 952 838 842 - 608 950 221 billbradycars.com. HYBRID Automatic Toyota Yaris 2014 One private owner bought and fully serviced by Toyota 90’000 Klm. ( 56’000 Mls ) Reversing camera, bluetooth, alloy wheels, cruise control, twin climate control, this has been maintained fantastically well greet saving at only 8’995€ 952 838 842 - 608 950 221 billbradycars.com. EXCELLENT small family car Toyota Aygo 2016 (New Model) from private owner only 19’000Klm (12’000 Mls ) Reversing camera, alloy wheels , and much more this car has to seen for this low price of only 8’995€ 952 838 842 - 608 950 221 billbradycars.com. VW Golf Convertible Automatic 1.4 TSI. Motion 150 BHP. DSG. 3’000 Klm ( 1’800 Mls ) One private owner bought and serviced by VW. Sunburst red Grey velour this is like new. 952 838 842 / 608 950 221 billbradycars.com ZAFIRA 1.9 CDT in good condition, long ITV 1,750€. 625 908 867 (293391)
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MUSIC ENHANCE YOUR SPECIAL DAY WITH THE BEAUTIFUL SOUNDS OF LIVE SPANISH GUITAR PLAYED BY DAVID CHRISTIAN-CLARK. ECLECTIC REPERTOIRE. RECOMMENDED BY TOP WEDDING-PLANNERS AND AGENTS. SEE HIM ON GOOGLE & FACEBOOK. PARTY BAND AVAILABLE ALSO. CALL 00 350 540 367 29
CAR SERVICES MOBILE MECHANIC will come to your home or work. Servicing, repairs, ITVs & diagnostics. Call Mick on 617 553 072 (292503) ENGLISH bodyshop, fully equipped, Mijas Costa. No Job Too Small. 952 667 074 (292645)
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ROAD TEST by Mark Slack WITH so much integration of platforms, car makers are increasingly looking at differentiating their prod‐ ucts from the competition, and within large groups like Volkswagen Audi it is arguably even more im‐ portant. SEAT has pro‐ gressed this idea with the Cupra range. Originally Cupra were the sports orientat‐ ed models with‐ in the SEAT line‐ up but the name is now a brand in its own right, having dropped the SEAT name, with a com‐ plete Cupra range. While some are very obvi‐ ously SEAT models the Span‐ ish car maker has produced one model that doesn’t exist within its sister brand. The Formentor! It’s attached to a rather splendid car, and despite the fact that even the largest engine in the
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Facts at a Glance Model: CUPRA Formentor 2.0 TSI VZ3 310PS 4Drive DSG Engine: 2.0-litre 4-cylinder turbocharged petrol Gears: 7-speed automatic with all-wheel-drive Performance: 0-100 kph (62 mph) Petrol 4.9 secs Maximum Speed Petrol 249 kph (155 mph) Economy: Petrol 8.6 l/100km (32.8 mpg) WLTP Emissions: 193 g/km WLTP Model tested was UK-specification and equipment levels and prices may vary in other markets.
Driving with flip-flops DRIVING with flip-flops on your feet, or with your arm out of the car window. Now that summer is upon us, we normally wear fewer items of clothing, and want to do exactly the same whilst driving in our vehicles, which can of course cause a problem if you happen to get stopped in a police control, or simply if passing a patrol car and it spots you doing something they don’t like. A lot of us like to wear sandals or flip-flops when going out, but there seems to be a grey area in the discussion as to whether you are allowed to drive whilst wearing them, and even the Guardia Civil explained on its social networks that it is not specifically forbidden to drive with flip flops, but, they continue by adding that a driver can be fined for not being able to maintain freedom of movement to control the pedals well. One could argue that it is probably something we won’t find out until the time we get stopped, and it probably depends on which officer stops you. Therefore, and given that driving with flip-flops makes mobility difficult and can hinder the driving of a vehicle, the General Directorate of Traffic (DGT) warns us that we could receive a fine of €200, and three points off the licence. The same goes for driving without wearing a shirt, which again, in summer is very tempting to do, but, according to several articles of the General Traffic Regulations, the clothing worn behind
You must be able to control the pedals. the wheel must allow full control of the vehicle, facilitate mobility, and not reduce visibility. According to article 18.1 of the General Traffic Regulations, the driver is obliged to guarantee his own safety, so, the use of a t-shirt behind the wheel is mandatory, to prevent the driver from being injured as a result of the seat belt or the airbag, although the Guardia Civil does not stop people for driving in this way, they could fine you €80 if they consider that the offence is motivated. Regarding driving with your arm out of the window, article 18.1 stipulates that both the driver and the rest of the passengers must maintain the proper position during the journey, so this means that driving with your arm or elbow outside the window is not allowed, and anybody caught doing it can face a penalty of €80, but will not be deducted points from the licence.
the lead‐in models too. There’s a 12” touchscreen, full LED lighting, auto‐dim‐ ming rear view mirror, cor‐ nering lights, wireless phone charging, adap‐ tive cruise control and keyless entry and start. The engine line‐ up starts with a 1.5 TSi, 147 bhp, through to the 2.0‐litre 305 bhp mentioned earlier. There are manual and automatic transmission choices, all‐ wheel‐drive and petrol/elec‐ tric hybrids. As ever, especially with VAG products, there is rather too much digitalisa‐ tion, and a consequent lack of buttons, but familiarity would over time make life easier. That apart it’s a very nice place to be with, in my top line model, extremely com‐
fortable seats and an im‐ pressive build quality and the general feel of this being an upmarket car. At a shade under €50,153 (£43,000) this sounds ex‐ pensive, but look at some of the competition and it be‐ gins to look competitive. De‐ spite the lack of a premium badge it has the advantage of being something different to the premium crowd. On the road it handles ex‐ tremely well for such a large machine, with sports sus‐ pension and four‐wheel‐ drive that’s perhaps not sur‐ prising, and the ride is comfortably firm compared to similar sports models within the VAG stable. This is an impressive ma‐ chine and for my money the pick of the Cupra range, be‐ ing a very individual model rather than a bespoke, or tailored, pick straight from the pages of the SEAT cata‐ logue.
Motorhome rentals ACCORDING to data from the specialist web portal Pronto Pro.es, more and more people this year are renting motorhomes, or camper vans, for their holiday in Spain, a change that has taken place in light of the doubts brought about by the coronavirus pandemic, with people seemingly preferring safer tourism, away from the concrete jungles, and the throngs of holidaymakers in the coastal areas. Despite the optimism thanks to an increase in vaccinations, the portal - which is a professional job offer and demand website - has reported that large numbers of holidaymakers are playing it safe and keeping themselves safe by renting motorhomes, to simply travel at their own convenience around the country, which has resulted in a rise of more than 130 per cent in that market compared to 2020. A motorhome of course can provide you and your family with a safe environment, privacy, and independence to just travel and stop at any desired location, giving a nice variety of sights and scenery during the trip. According to the portal’s data, they claim most of the
searches for motorhomes started in January, and by May had already increased dramatically, although it was around the end of the State of Alarm that numbers really started rising they say, with June also showing a 120 per cent increase compared to last June.
Motorhome rentals in Spain will vary according to the type of vehicle and the rental company, but on average they are between €100 and €150 a day, on top of which there is the cost of fuel, tolls, and any specialised parking sites you might take advantage of.
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WALKING FOOTBALL NEWS IT is with great sadness that we learned of the passing of Della Ar‐ den. She had been an absolute warrior in her battle with Motor Neuron Disease. The whole walk‐ ing football community send their love to Simon Arden and
the kids at this painful time. Sleep well Della. In other news after the depar‐ ture of Steve Lynton as Manager of Nerja Nomads WFC at a com‐ mittee meeting last Thursday night, July 22, Chris Watch was
elected new Manager along with a new committee and Coach. The club go forward with ambi‐ tion and will take part in next sea‐ son’s League and Cup competi‐ tions. A committee meeting this week will decide whether Cala‐ honda WFS led by Lesh Bzyzuz should enter the League while Be‐ nalmadena are surveying their members as to possible entry to the League. The format the League will take has still to be decided and it is ex‐ pected that progress will be made on this topic at the next meeting of the League Managers. Up for discussion is whether there should be one League as previously or in‐ troduce a B League for second string players, older players, play‐ ers of less ability and players re‐ turning from injury. A correction to an error in last week’s article. Malaga WFC take both their A and B teams on the journey to Quesada (Alicante) where they will take part in a Mini
Tournament hosted by Es‐ quina Park Rangers. Another local team will make up the group number. The tournament takes place this weekend commenc‐ ing tomorrow, Friday July 30, continuing through to Sunday Au‐ gust 1. Full report in next week’s Euro Weekly Ronnie Waugh stepping down. Della and friends in happier times. News... make sure you get your copy the WFAI (Walking Football Asso‐ Ronnie, Covid hit sport hard, but Finally, from Gray Salt “Every‐ ciation of Iberia) bringing together he has always carried on with a one involved in walking football in walking football clubs from across smile on his face and helped raise Spain knows Ronnie Waugh. His the Iberian Peninsula under one thousands for local charities in the passion for football is infectious. umbrella. process. “Ronnie has decided to stand “Ronnie was instrumental in “We wish him well and thank down as League Director of the the formation of the League and him for his amazing contribution. Hidromaster Walking Football tireless in promoting walking foot‐ He won’t be far away and will con‐ League. ball to everyone. tinue to pop up at grounds and “He will still be involved in the “He leaves us in good shape events... sport and will now concentrate on with a new season looming in “Thanks Ronnie from all of us the next part of the plan which is September. It’s not been easy for involved in our beautiful game.”