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Incredible support for Nigel by Darren Parmenter IN the words of a famous song taken from the musical Evita, when it comes to fundraising for 10-year-old Nigel Watson, ‘the money keeps rollin’ in!’ The RTN first told the story of young Nigel last month, explaining that he’d been diagnosed with an inoperable and cancerous tumour on his brain stem. Even though it’s hoped the intense course of radiotherapy that he’s currently undergoing will solve his condition, his mother Jacque has already looked at the possibility of Nigel going to the USA for specialised proton beam treatment that has been suc-

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cessful in similar cases to her son. With the help of an army of friends and generous supporters, the task of raising €100,000 to fund the possible treatment in the USA began at the start of April, and after the first 25 days a remarkable €12,000 has already been collected. This has been thanks not only to online donations via the special GoFundme page at www.gofundme.com/nigelsbrain-stem-glioma-treatment but from events such as head shavings, selling home-made fudge, raffles, and any other donations people are generously making, especially at the recent Dutch King’s day. Collecting tins adorn almost

every business on the Urbanisation La Marina and in a number of locations outside the area that have been equally supportive of Nigel’s plight. This Sunday sees a motorbike run leaving from the Rock House on the urbanisation at midday and an afternoon gig featuring Done and Dusted with all donations gratefully received. A ‘Walk with Nigel’ is also planned for the end of the month - more details to come at a later date - and the local school in San Fulgencio has organised a ‘superhero’ day for children to come to school in fancy dress due to take place today (Friday). Speaking to the RTN, Nigel’s

INSIDE THIS WEEK ... BIRD THIEVES CAUGHT IN RANSOM STING

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NIGEL WATSON: Currently undergoing treatment. mum Jacque said: “He’s quite chirpy and especially happy at the moment as his big brother is visiting him for a few days.

We hope to see the effects of his radiotherapy via an MRI scan shortly now his treatment has ended.”

P3 FIGHTING THE SCOURGE OF PLASTIC WASTE

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TWO people have been arrested in Elche believed to have stolen six racing pigeons. O f f i ce r s f ro m t h e Na t i o n a l Po l i ce d e t a i n e d a woman aged 26 and a 53year-old man on suspicion o f t h e t h e f t a n d fo r a l legedly demanding a ransom for the return of the prized birds. O n ce t h e o w n e r o f t h e pigeons received the call demanding money for the birds’ return, he contacted the police, who according to a re p o r t i m m e d i ate l y launched a plainclothes ope rat i o n to f i n d t h o s e re sponsible. The thieves had managed to enter the man’s house by climbing over a wall and afte r s te a l i n g t h e p i g e o n s were able to get the contact d e t a i l s o f t h e o w n e r s to make their demands, since t h e b i rd s c a r r y a c l i p o n their wings with a contact telephone number. The bird thieves were de-

Accidents up due to economic boom Photo credit: Public Domain Pictures

Bird thieves caught in ransom sting

HOMING: Pigeon thieves likely to end as jailbirds!

tained after the National Police ar ranged with the owner to agree to pay the ra n s o m m o n e y, b u t t h e y would be lying in wait when the y ar r ived at the

l o c at i o n w h e re t h e p ay ment was to be made. Sure enough, when they arrived with the birds in a c a g e t h e p o l i ce s to p p e d t h e m a n d a r re s te d t h e m

for alleged burglar y with force. It is understood that two of the racing pigeons are va l u e d at m o re t h a n €2,000.

FIGURES just released by the Local Police in Elche showed an average of seven accidents per day in the municipality last year... and many are blamed because of the improvements in the Spanish economy. During 2017 a total of 2,461 accidents were recorded, a number that has been on the rise over the past three years at an annual rate of 3 per cent. Spokesperson Roberto Santiago believes that there is no coincidence between the rise in accidents and the turnaround of the country’s economic fortunes, in addition to more people using their mobile phones when driving. His theory is that with increased commercial activity, there’s a need for more transportation of goods and more people using their vehicles to get to and from newly-found work. It’s all relative. However, even though the number of accidents has increased, the number of injuries as a result has fallen due to a greater awareness in road safety and more people using safety belts. In just three years, injuries have reduced by 29 per cent. The statistics compiled can also help the local authorities establish where the accident black spots are and act on them accordingly. Previous such studies resulted in the expansion of traffic lights close to the Vinalopo hospital which witnessed a high concentration of accidents.

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Gone in three minutes Photo credit: RTN Newspaper

John Smith M AYO R o f S a n F u l g e n c i o, C a r l o s R a m i re z , f i nally left his post last Wednesday after complying with the judicial process following an eight and a half year sentence handed down back in November. He is now barred from public office for the duration. A special plenary council meeting was convened fo r 9 a m a n d i n f ro n t o f around 20 local residents and mainly supporters of the opposition P I P N p a r t y, M a y o r R amirez - in his final act as head of the l o c a l c o u n c i l - re a d o u t the only motion on the agenda; that of officially stating that he is leaving. After reading from a prepared statement, it e n d e d w i t h t h e p h ra s e , ‘there is a problem.’ This set off mutterings and raised eyebrows from the opposition side and from the audience but it transpires that the ‘problem’ was an alleged incor rect wording of the order on the agenda. Greeted by silence, Carlos Ramirez said that he had ever y intention of going quietly and

Less waiting time in Torrevieja... T HE average waiting time for non-urgent surgery in hospitals managed by the Ribera Salud Group ( Tor revie ja and Vinalopo) is 42 days. T his is 57 days less than other publicly run hospitals in the Valencian Community, according to data that has recently been released by the Department of Health. At the Torrevieja Hospital, the average wait is 40 d ays for more specialised procedures whereas for general surgery is 12 days.

EMPTY: The mayor’s seat is now empty for the next 10 days... at least.

‘without a problem’, and only wanted the best for the municipality of San Fulgencio. He also took the opportunity of thanking his supporters on his governing team. Just three minutes after the plenar y began, the meeting was declared closed and Carlos

R amirez - no longer the mayor or a councillor left the room for the last time. The next mayor of San Fulgencio will be decided at a future plenar y meeting which is due to be held within 10 days, but the question is who will be in the chair?

Wrong place A MAN was killed in the early hours of Saturday morning after being involved in, at first, a minor car accident on the A-70 motorway close to the Alicante-Elche airport exit. The 36-year-old man initially collided with the fence on the motorway heading for Murcia and with his car left in a dangerous position across the lanes, got out of his vehicle on foot to get help. However, with poor light at that time of the day another car then collided with the crashed car before running over the driver who was waiting on the hard shoulder. When emergency services arrived, they were unable to save the man’s life who couldn’t at first be formally identified as he carried no documentation and was in a borrowed car.

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‘Fatal’ painkiller investigated

TWO Romanian men have been arrested in Benidorm and in Socuellamos (Ciudad Real) in connection with a violent robbery. The pair - aged 21 and 43 - are suspected of robbing a woman on Polop de la Marina of £27,000 and €3,000 in cash at the point of what eventually turned out to be a fake gun. The incident took place back in January when the 36-year-old woman was returning home after an afternoon shift in her Benidorm shop. As soon as she got out of her car after parking in her urbanisation and was about to open her garage door she was assaulted by two hooded men at gunpoint. The woman fought back and managed to snatch the gun and throw it away. However, this only caused the robbers to become more violent as they pushed the woman into the back of the car where they attacked and robbed her of the day’s takings that she had in a bag. Officers from the Guardia Civil in Altea began their investigations after the woman gave evidence from her bed in

Photo credit: Guardia Civil

A COSTA BLANCA hospital has urgently requested four years worth of data from the Ministry of Health as part of their investigations into possible deaths following the use of a particular drug. Denia hospital in the Marina Alta is behind the move to find out more about metamizole (or dipyrone), a commonly prescribed painkiller in Spain which is suspected of having fatal consequences for English and Scandinavian patients due to their genetic make-up. The objective of getting hold of more statistics follows up the information that doctors in that particular area have been advised against treating patients of English or Nordic origins with the drug. Those carrying out the study want to compare their medical histories with those of other patients treated in the Marina Alta region during the same four-year period. During the comparisons, they hope to conclude whether there are differences in the reaction of Spanish and English patients to metamizol, and to uncover if the numbers that suffer from a sudden drop in white blood cells are more prevalent in the latter. According to the Spanish media, in 30 per cent of the cases studied so far when the patient has died after taking metamizole, the recipient of the drug was from England or Scandinavia. However, side effects - such as inflammation of the kidney, blisters on the skin or a drastic drop in blood pressure - are classified as ‘very rare’ and can affect less than one in 10,000 patients; a rate that increases in the foreign population.

Violent gun robbers detained

TOOLS: Suspected Benidorm attacker’s vehicle after arrest.

Villajoyosa hospital where she was being treated for her injuries. She told them they were two foreign men in their 30’s but couldn’t see their faces. After returning to the scene and finding the exact replica gun that had been discarded, neighbours told investigators that a suspicious vehicle had been loitering around the area on the day of the attack.

Officers shortly found the vehicle in Benidorm where the 43-year-old was arrested, and inside they found several tools and a head covering. T he other man, a resident of Finestrat, had f led from his home when the Guardia Civil arrived but was traced to an address in Ciudad Real where he was staying with relatives.

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ACCORDING to a Royal Decree passed in the Spanish parliament, there may no longer be a legal requirement for telecommunications companies to provide public phone boxes. The decision has been taken because, basically, they are rarely being used as more and more people of all ages use various mobile technologies. Up until now, businesses providing telephone services have been obliged to provide sufficient phone boxes and also to provide free directories to all homes and businesses. The new Royal Decree suggests that neither will be mandatory by the end of this year at the very latest. According to the text of the law, ‘The generalisation of use and coverage of mobile phone services means usage of telephone boxes has fallen considerably in the last few years’. It’s also been noted that there has been no operator service available for a number of years as it’s considered to be obsolete as people find other ways to get their information. The new regulations - still to be officially signed into law - will now no longer force companies to set up networks in a number of rural areas, even though it’s not been financially viable. There are still 18,000 telephone boxes operating in Spain but according to a report in the Spanish media, some 12,000 are costing more money to run than they bring in. A recent survey by the CNMC found that 88 per cent of people living in Spain had never once used a public phone box, and Telefonica estimates that around half of the country’s public phone booths have never been used.

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The end of Benidorm... Photo credit: Twitter @DerrenLitten

No call for phone boxes

by Darren Parmenter THE popular IT V series has finished. The final episode of series 1 1 d u e t o a i r l a s t We d n e s d a y evening will be the last ever shown... or will it? Back in March, stories in the UK media sug gested that I T V hadn’t commissioned a new series and predictions of its demise were r i d i c u l e d b y t h e s h o w ’s c r e a t o r Derren Litten who took to Twitter to show his annoyance on the night of the first episode of the run that has just finished. “Apparently The Sun are running a stor y tomorrow on how #Benidorm has been cancelled. Don’t make me f*****g laugh (I enjoyed that story after series 6. And 7 and 8 and 9…).” At the time, the Daily Express repor ted that an I T V spokesperson h a d to l d t h e m “ S e r i e s 1 0 i s c u r rently on air and no decisions h av e b e e n m a d e re a f u r t h e r s e ries.” And so it was no surprise to some, and a shock to others, when Litten again took to Twitter at the w e e k e n d to s ay : “C ra z y to t h i n k Wednesday will be the last episode of Benidorm! I created the series

CREATOR: Benidorm’s creator off to the BBC?

over 11 years ago, wrote it, guest starred in it and ended up directing it. It’s difficult to think what else there is to do! Thank you for watching!” However, Litten’s post doesn’t actually say it will be the last EVER episode... so anything’s possible, although there have been no

known casting calls for a new ser ies that would ’ve taken place in Benidorm by now and filming started on series 12. There are suggestions in the UK media that Litten is working on a comedy ser ies for the r ival BBC , set in a karaoke bar in Scarborough.

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Brit arrested for wife assault Photo credit: Pinterest

WITHIN minutes of being ejected from a pub by members of the Local Police in Algorfa, a drunken British man was arrested. He was detained for allegedly trying to assault his wife who was driving their car at the time. The man - who has so far not been named - was taken into custody after previously being involved in unruly behaviour in a local bar. Police were called by the manager at around 11pm, who wanted the man removed from the premises. Two police patrol units turned up to the initial call and believed that they â€™d dealt with the problem. However, one of the patrol units decided to trail the car containing the drunk and his wife and they spotted him hitting her as she drove along. They quickly stopped the car and prevented the

INSTINCT: Local Police saved woman from further assault in Algorfa.

woman from coming to more harm, before arresting the man and taking him off to the Guardia Civil in Almoradi. To date, no fur ther details have been released about the attack on the woman or in which local

bar the original incident took place. Commenting on the work of his Local Police, the mayor of Algorfa, Manuel Ros, praised their actions, especially the initiative to follow the car in the first place.

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Eagle-eyed officials find fake specs INSPECTIONS that took place following the arrival of goods in the port of Alicante highlighted ir regular i ties in one par t icular shipment... and uncovered a major batch of counterfeit spectacles. A total of 701 pairs of a well-known brand fake glasses have been seized in an operation under taken b y t h e G u a rd i a C i v i l a n d t h e S p a n i s h Ta x A g e n c y, and they were found hidden among 3,500 genuine sets from the same company. According to a statement from the Guardia Civil, the value of the fakes would be worth over €21,000. T he batch was found dur ing a routine customs check in one of the Alicante por t warehouses, and the tests tr y to verify that what is officially de-

Photo credit: Guardia Civil

UNCOVERED: Fakes hidden among real pairs of glasses.

clared in the documentation is correct and that the goods are legal. In one of the inspections, the officials concentrated on several packages of a shipment from China to Algeria. According to

the paperwork, the exporter declared there were 3,500 units of glasses of different brands, valued at around €4,300. Some of the pairs were taken for analysis and it was then detected that several

could be forgeries, and mixed in with the originals to make their detection much more difficult. T he intended re cipient of the glasses in Algeria has been traced and is currently being investigated.

Free prescriptions for more THE Valencian Government has approved a decree that will allow unemployed people to be exempt from paying for their medication. At a recent plenary session, the motion to regulate the existing co-payment schemes now eliminates the laws imposed by central government back in 2012 that many saw as obstacles leading to a series of ‘medical abuses’ across the country. This was highlighted during the announcement of the new measures by the vice-president of the Valencian Government, Monica Oltra, who also stressed that all the grants previously approved had ‘very positive effects’ on patients. Beforehand, the cost of medication caused many to simply not visit their doctors or once they realised the charges, paid them once and never asked for repeat prescriptions. This was having consequences on the health of many in the community. However, 40 per cent more low-income pensioners now stick to their courses of treatment. The recent decree includes a budget for €10 million for 2018 to cover the cost of medications for the unemployed, and those receiving unemployment benefit. It will also include those who no longer qualify for such benefits, some of which are automatically stopped after a set length of time. It is estimated that in the Valencian Community 220,468 unemployed people will now have access to free medication.

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No fixed date for La Mata market move cording to the Spanish media, there has been no official star t d ate for the change. T he announcement was made by Councillor Javier Manzanares from the PSOE and confirmed that the new location will be situated in

Avenida de Francia between Avenida Daneses, Avenida Suecos y Avenid a de Inglaterra. Councillor Fanny Serrano was also on hand to explain that the move has to happen â€œnot because of any decision taken by the council or from

the market traders, but after a legal directive in respect of the dangerous condition of the current location.â€? It has been known for some time that the Canal Acequion which runs under the area is no longer able to support the weight of cars and the amount of people who regularly support the Wednesday market. The fact Councillor Manzanares couldnâ€™t g ive any for mal date has annoyed both customers and traders in equal proportions. However, as soon as one is known he said that the stallholders will be notified and the market will be formally laid out and signposted accordingly.

Photo credit: Ayuntamiento de Torrevieja

WEDNESDAY market shoppers in La Mata will finally have to get used to a new location to fill their baskets... eventually. Tor revieja C ity Council has approved the for mal transfer of the market to Avenida de Francia but, ac-

DECISION: Councillor Fanny Serrano said that move is due to structural issues.

Doctor attacked NATIONAL POLICE officers in Murcia have arrested a woman in the city after attacking a doctor. The 58-year-old Spanish woman was detained after she threw a computer mouse in the face of a doctor and threatened to kill her. This allegedly followed a series of verbal insults aimed at the medic. According to a report in the Spanish media, the woman went to the San Andres Health Centre in order to have a psychiatric assessment made on her with a view to receiving financial assistance from the state for her condition. Apparently, when the doctor told the interviewee that she was going to be discharged and thus fit for work, the patient became upset and annoyed and set off her tirade of abuse and the eventual attack with the mouse. Her main concern was what she was going to live on following the rejection of her claim. After receiving a call from the health centre, National Police arrived at the scene and immediately arrested the woman and took statements from a number of witnesses - other medical personnel - who saw the whole incident evolve.

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A popular post on Facebook reaching 13,400 people with 68 reactions ITV series Benidorm airs final episode this week

Opinion piece by John Smith REGARDLESS of their political leanings or vote in the Brexit referendum, few people can be happy with the current situation with less than a year to go to the ‘divorce’. The Conservative Party made a number of errors of assumption both in the decision to call the referendum and also to call a snap election, which resulted in them having to rely on the seven Sinn Fein MPs not

Steven Tanner First few were funny but it lost its way in the middle a bit and the less said about the recent ones the better! Pamela Platt Don’t watch it anymore, was funny at first but now ridiculous.

taking their seats and the 10 Democratic Unionists agreeing (for a price) to support the government. There seems to be no positive cohesion with an initially anti-Brexit prime minister being forced to implement the referendum result with a split party and cabinet and an actively hostile House of Lords. Already in the past few days, the cabinet was unable to agree on strategy concerning the Customs Union and 60 conservative MPs have apparently warned the prime minister that they will destroy the government if she doesn’t tow the Brexit line. The Labour Party certainly hasn’t been at the forefront of genuine opposition and is embroiled in its own problems with accusations of anti-Semitic bias so is certainly not covering itself in particular glory.

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Ireland may prove to be a complete roadblock as the DUP is totally opposed to continuing an open border whilst the Republic, and it appears the EU, want to ensure an ease of passage between the north and south. Nearer to our Spanish home is the fate of Gibraltar which is far from clear. Locally, the government

there and the neighbouring Spanish communities want to preserve the status quo as Gibraltar is the second largest employer of Spanish staff in the area. There are still people alive who remember the closing of the border during the Spanish Civil War and even more who remember the Franco closure that went on for so many

years therefore, whilst the Gibraltarians want a relationship with Spain for numerous reasons, they are very wary about any direct involvement with the Spanish government. The current Spanish Foreign Minister Dastis is far wilier than his predecessor Margallo and wants to reach agreement to share the air terminal which is built on ‘disputed’ land. The airstrip itself is an RAF base, controlled by the UK Ministry of Defence but it would be economically and politically attractive to the Spanish to be able to share the terminal and in fact if it was wasn’t for the inbuilt distrust of Spain, it could be to the advantage of Gibraltar as well. Hopefully this is all the equivalent of a bad dress rehearsal with a decent first night still to come.

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Less haste and less speed Photo credit: Guardia Civil

MURCIA’S Provincial Traffic Authority has been left very ‘encouraged’ at the results of a recent campaign targeting speeding drivers in the region. Between April 16 and 22, a total of 12,249 speed tests were carried out by the Traffic Division of the Guardia Civil on inter-urban roads and only 467 drivers were fined... representing just 3.81 per cent. This is the lowest percentage in the past five years and compared to a similar campaign carried out at the same time last April, the numbers have dropped from 8.46 per cent. Speaking with the Spanish media, Provincial Head of Traffic, Virginia Jerez, said that the figures “encourage us to believe that the awareness campaigns we’ve carried out are beginning to give the intended results.” The municipalities of Aguilas, Cartagena, La Union, Lorca, Murcia, San Javier, San Pedro del Pinatar and Torre

ENCOURAGED: Almost 5 per cent drop in speeding drivers in a year. Pacheco all took part in the recent campaign and the results of similar controls by

their Local Police will shortly be sent to the Provincial Traffic headquarters in Murcia.

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Briton’s prison sentence confirmed by Steve Collins

THE VICTIM: Rosemary Broadwell.

THE 14-year prison sentence handed down to Charlie Bevill, a 77-year-old British man, for killing his partner with a walking stick in a house in San Miguel de Salinas has been confirmed. The ruling of the Civil and Criminal Chamber of the Superior Court of Justice of the Valencian Community (TSJCV) made public yesterday (Thursday) ratifies the term and also the €37,000 in compensation to each of the dead woman’s children. It backs up the sentence issued in July last year by a court in Elche following the verdict by a jury. The original crime took place on September 14, 2014 during an alleged argument over money in a house in Calle Bohemios with the victim, Rosemary Broadwell, a

British lady who was 76 years old at the time. The row ended with the guilty man going into the kitchen to fetch his stick and repeatedly hitting her over the head. Bevill left the body on the floor and went to bed, and the next day visited a number of places near where he lived pretending that he was looking for Rosemary. He eventually put the body in the boot of his car and hid it under branches of newly pruned trees. Three days later, the killer went to the Guardia Civil to report Rosemary’s disappearance, with whom he’d been together for five years. However, it wasn’t until six months later in March 2015 that he ended up confessing his crime to the authorities and took the officers to the spot where he’d hidden the body.

Guardia Civil auction arms THE Guardia Civil in Murcia will be taking a total of 603 weapons to

be auctioned off in June at their headquarters. Among the hundreds available will be revolvers, pistols, rifles, carbines and up to three vintage ‘pirate’ guns. The most popular weapon being taken for auction is a shotgun, number 420 on the list. All the guns will be auctioned on June 11 at 9am and anyone wishing to make an offer can do so up until 1pm the pre-

vious day, with all the exhibits available to examine between June 4 and 8. A similar auction is also taking place in Alicante on Friday May 18. For full details of the weapons that will be available for sale log on to the Guardia Civil website at www.guardiaciv il.es/es/servicios/tablo nanuncios/subastasar mas/index.html.

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It’s rubbish for everyone! Photo credit: Ayuntamiento de Elche

by Darren Parmenter ELCHE City Council has installed the first of 22 special rubbish bins in the municipality that can be accessed by everyone. It was unveiled yesterday (Thursday) morning by Councillor Hector Diez and he announced that the rest will be placed around different locations in the city throughout the rest of the calendar year. “These specially adapted containers have a lower gap which allows people with reduced mobility and in wheelchairs, children and senior citizens to use them without being forced to use a pedal or manually lift the lids,” Diez said. He added that this initiative “will make those people’s day-to-day lives that little bit more comfortable.” The councillor explained that the location of the new containers has been decided based on reports from the local welfare

IMPROVING: Councillor Hector Diez proudly showing off the new bins. department as to where the greatest need is. They also comply with global regulations and are designed along a criteria set by the Spanish National Blind Organisation (ONCE). According to the Spanish press, once the new cleaning contract is awarded in 2019, there will be an even greater push to incorporate these new containers throughout the city

which can only add toward improving the rubbish collection service. Councillor Diez was also proud to announce that this scheme had been as a result of agreements and discussions between the city council and its residents, something that helps to provide better local ser vices for everyone in all areas.

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REPRESENTATIVES from both the Valencian and Alicante tourism authorities have taken p a r t i n a t r a v e l f a i r, a n d a r e l o o k i n g t o i n crease the number of transatlantic flights. The ‘Routes Europa 2018’ fair - one of the largest of its type in Europe which brings together delegates from airlines, airports and tourism organisations - has been held in Bilbao in northern Spain. Therefore, one of the main aims of the regional and provincial tourism departments has been to work on Alicante-Elche airport being able to offer direct routes to the USA (New York) and Canada (Toronto), something that has been seen as ‘unfinished business’ for such a popular airport. In fact, Alicante-Elche has links to more than 100 European and North African destinations but none with Asia or America. Speaking to the Spanish media, Director General of Tourism Raquel Huete emphasises that “this event enables contact to be established between airports and airlines and is of great interest to the Valencian community.” Meetings took place with Air Fransat (Canada), Austrian Airlines (Austria), S7 (Russia), easyJet, SAS (Scandinavia), United (USA), Qatar Airways, Jet2.com and Delta Airlines to expand their services to the popular Costa Blanca airport. Delta previously had a direct weekly flight between Manises-Valencia and New York several years ago but has subsequently stopped.

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Transatlantic flights to Alicante planned

by Darren Parmenter THE increasing trend in a number of countries across the world of setting up co-housing communities is planned to arrive in the Alicante Province. Four groups are already looking for land on which to build self-managed housing projects, one of which will be for elderly people to grow old among friends, and at the same time to look for alternatives to traditional and accepted geriatric treatments. Similar schemes - especially popular in Denmark - see people responding to this different way of life which sees them leave the solitude of living on their own, relying on their families, or ending up in a nursing home. The framework for setting up these co-existence projects is well under way although only at the discussion stage. The plans for Alicante are for four different projects, one of which is for senior citizens, and according to the Spanish media, the approximate cost of the new houses will be around €100,000. The project has already captured the imagination of many in Alicante, one of whom said that times have changed in Spain and that “we can’t expect our children to take care of us as we get older like they used to.” It is understood that there already exists around six or seven co-housing communities in Spain - compared to the 150 in Denmark - but those responsible for the project see that the time is now

FUTURE: An example of a co-housing project in Austria.

Co-housing communities come closer right to promote the benefits of such schemes. The initiative also recognises that today’s elderly and retired citizens are fitter and healthier than their counterparts a generation ago and have had different life experiences. Thus, the co-

housing properties will have modern technology fitted and even sporting facilities incorporated as part of their design to reflect a new ‘third age’ of the population... and gone are the days of just old person’s day trips and handicraft lessons.

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Social security registrations up ON a weekly basis, more official figures released prove that many areas of the Costa Blanca which have suffered from the economic crisis are seeing more than light at the end of the tunnel. This is especially true in Elche which has reported that so far in 2018, more than 1,000 new people per month have registered to pay social security. The city now has a total of 83,000 payees after an in-

crease of 3,000 during the first quarter of the year. However, despite the encouraging news, two of the major unions - UGT and CCOO warn of the amount of temporary and low quality employment. These figures have surpassed those that were recorded before the crisis began, which in 2006 showed only 75,655 registered, and so the 2018 figures to date are the best since records began.

The largest increase has been seen from workers who have been taken on by companies with an increase of 2,574. Self-employed workers starting businesses in Elche since the start of the year have grown by 306. One of the surprising numbers is the increase in those working in the agriculture industry, considering that it has suffered enormous consequences as a result of recent drought conditions.

Inflatable toy appeal lost AN appeal against an award of â‚Ź4,500 compensation being paid out to a young girl who was injured when playing on an inflatable has been rejected. The toy was located on land adjacent to the bar where the accident happened but the insurer tried to avoid making a pay-

out after claiming that his client wasnâ€™t responsible for what happened outside of his premises. The argument made by the AXA Seguros Generales Company was that even though the equipment was insured it was for civil liability and not for accident insurance.

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Jet2.com sets out Corvera Airport plans Photo credit: Arpingstone Wikimedia

by Darren Parmenter ENGLISH airline Jet2.com has announced that it will stop f lying into MurciaSan Javier Airport in November... and will resume four months later when the new Corvera Airport is due to open. T he measure was announce d in the travel press and said that no Jet.2.com f lights will be scheduled to arrive in the Murcia Region during the p e r io d f rom Novem b e r 2018 to the end of March 2019. At present, the airline has routes to Murcia-San Javier Airport from LeedsBradford and Manchester. In the case of the first route, they will start operating from Cor vera from March 29, 2019 - coincidentally the day that the UK leaves the EU - with

TAKING OFF: Jet2.com will take a four month break from Murcia.

three weekly services on a Monday, Wednesday and Friday and operate until October 25, 2019. Flig hts to and from Manchester will recommence on A pr il 1, 2019 and also with three weekly

services on the same days and until the end of October too. T his will allow more than 55,000 return tickets to the new airport. As announced in February by the president of air-

port managers AENA, and after many years of delay and uncer tainty, the Corvera Airport will open in December this year immediately after the closure of Murcia-San Javier Airport.

Torrevieja dead dolphin beach find LOCAL residents in Torrevieja alerted the council after discovering a deceased bottlenose dolphin on the beach. It was found stranded between rocks in one of the coves close to Playa Los Locos and measured just over two metres in length. Itâ€™s understood from the municipal biologist Juan Antonio Pujol that the recent storms had probably brought the dolphin to the area, and that sadly these were frequent findings along the coasts of the Alicante Province. There is nothing at this stage to suggest that the death was due to nothing other than natural causes.

Reservoir rescue A 15-YEAR-OLD girl was rescued by fire brigade helicopter and taken to the Alicante General Hospital after suffering a collapse while walking close to the Tibi Reservoir. According to reports in the Spanish media, the girl allegedly suffers from a heart condition and it was this that is believed to have caused her to faint and collapse.

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March on anniversary of Brexit referendum

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ONE of the groups that represent UK citizens living in Spain in respect of the ongoing Brexit negotiations is supporting a major march that is planned for London next month. Bremain in Spain is fully behind the march that has been organised by Open Britain, Britain for Europe and European Movement, who are all calling for a further referendum on any final Brexit agreement between the UK and the European Union (EU). The date of the demonstration is June 23 - the second anniversary of the referendum and will be the launch pad of a number of similar events organised by pro-European groups across both the UK and Europe. The London demonstration will see the 10 major pro-EU organisations together for the first time, all of whom are campaigning for a final say on any agreement. Chair of Bremain in Spain, Sue Wilson, said: “Throughout the UK, campaigners are talking to members of the public - on the streets, in their homes, at work. There’s increasing support for the public to have the final say on the Brexit deal, from both leave and remain voters alike. “Those who voted to leave the EU did so for a variety of reasons, many not even related to the EU but to UK government policies. We all know so much more now, me included, about what leaving the customs union or the single market might mean for the country. “Surely, we all deserve an opportunity to evaluate whatever deal is on the table, and to make a more informed decision now that the facts are becoming apparent.”

Dads exceed the mums for baby leave by Carol Palmer ACCORDING to figures released by the Spanish Social Security office, paternity leave has exceeded the maternity equivalent this year for the first time ever. During the first quarter of 2018, applications for maternity leave totalled 62,832 which represented a drop of 8.1 per cent during the same period last year. This compares to claims from the male counterparts that ro se to 64,505 for the first three months of the year, which was also a fall of 4.8 per cent year on year. The Ministry of Employment says that these latest fig ures show a “clear cultural change” in modern childcare among families. However, the actual amounts of money paid out continue to be higher for mothers as the y are entitled to fo ur months off from work compared to just four weeks for the fathers. Maternity pay for the first quarter of 2018 totalled €363.6 million (an increase of 0.9 per cent ye ar on

BONDING: Fathers now get double the leave in a baby’s early days.

year), whilst paternity pay came to €101.9 million... up by 28 per cent. Much of the latter amount can be explained because for the first quarter of 2017, fathers were only allowed two weeks off to look after newborns (or newly-adopted children), a figure that doubled from January 1 this year. Both maternity and paternity is

100 per cent of the applicant ’s salary and is paid directly from the social security budget. Paid time off is also available for workers who take career breaks to care for dependent children, including foster or adoptive children and those of other families , such as nieces and nephews if their own parents are unable to do so.

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legal We are planning our summer holidays â€“ can I take my children overseas without my ex-partnerâ€™s permission?

You must get permission before travelling with minors. The LUXEMBOURG AGREEMENT protects minors against the legal kidnapping of a minor by a relative, in the case when a custody or visitation order has been violated, if a child is taken to a foreign country.

This means that when both parents have joint custody of a minor, the written consent of the other parent must be given, in order to leave Spain. This can be done by a notarised letter in which the non-travelling parent accepts the trip of the minors for a fixed period of time.

If you have any further questions about this or any other legal matter please do not hesitate to contact us; we have a team of experts standing by to assist you in any way we can. Call 965 480 737 or email info@pellicerheredia.com. Videos at www.pellicerheredia.com

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IN a further sign that more people are using modern technology and online banking, more than 15,000 people now live in Alicante Province municipalities without a bank. According to a report by IVIE, the number of local areas that don’t have a single branch of any bank increased from 24 to 41 during the financial crisis; and the report makes it clear that there is scope for further closures in the future. The absence of the only bank in the town has especially affected a high number of the elderly Spanish population who have few, if any, computer skills to be able to access online services as the younger members of society do as a matter of routine. In some localities, the bank closed and left an ATM in the branch. However, this wasn’t always a solution to the problem and was highlighted by the mayor of Benilloba, Ana Delia Gisbert, who said that “half the time it didn’t work or it regularly ran out of money. Market traders suffered be-

ISOLATED: Benilloba finally got its bank back.

Thousands without a local bank branch cause people who were passing through took the cash out rather than locals. “Some even relied on their family members bringing them spending money when they visited at the weekends.” Her public statements at the time resulted in the Caja Rural

opening a branch in the municipality last December. The numbers in the Alicante Province without a local bank have doubled since the start of the crisis a decade ago from 7,000 to more than 15,500. In Spain as a whole, the total number is estimated

at 1,256,590... a 34 per cent increase in the past 10 years. The report also highlights that despite the bank closures - 45 per cent of Alicante branches since 2008 - there are still more banks in Spain than in any other European country.

Supermarkets plan 24-hour service IN a bid to attract customers to change their supermarket shopping habits, big names Carrefour and Dia are planning to open overnight. Their target is rival Mercadona who currently hold the largest market share... at the moment. Carrefour and Dia are in second and third place respectively but have made the decision to be more aggressive competitively. In this case, they plan to open longer hours to cater for customers who have more time to shop at night... such as shift workers. Already Carrefour has around a dozen 24-hour ‘express-type’ stores in Madrid, and whilst they are very small in comparison to their main supermarkets, they plan to open more of these in the region. Until now, the only region in Spain where retailers can make their own decisions in choosing their opening hours is Madrid; a concession usually only granted to the areas of the country regarded as tourism zones. Despite having to increase staff numbers and pay them extra for inconvenient hours, the costs of keeping the store open 24 hours a day do not increase significantly, and manager of Carrefour, Ignacio Cobo, is convinced that overnight opening ‘pays its way’.

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Advertising Feature

Letâ€™s celebrate summer together HERE at Siesta Group we are ready to start celebrating the summer as we approach another busy season. As a company we have been trading now for over 15 years and we have become the local No1 choice for quality garden furniture and accessories and also for customer service as we take pride in all areas of the operation. The company started with a small shop in Cuidad Quesada and has continued to grow from strength to strength and we now have four superstores along the Costa Blanca coast in Los Montesinos, Cabo Roig, San Javier and Gata de Gorgos, together with a very successful website at www.siestagroup.com where you can peruse our products in the comfort of your own home. What makes us stand out above the crowd is that we are actively involved in designing our garden furniture directly with the factories so we know we have an exclusive range, can be competitive on price and be one step ahead of the market. Our products are carefully handpicked by our buying team to ensure we offer unique value for money items which will enhance your garden and patio areas. The distribution team has increased

considerably in size to cope with demand and we offer FREE DELIVERY together with assembly of all items, either on-site or beforehand where practical, saving you time and stress. We do realise without you, our customers, none of the success would have been possible and we would therefore like to take this opportunity to thank all of our clients for their continued support and custom. We have a lot to offer this season so please come along and speak to one of our dedicated sales team and see for yourself what a fantastic range we have and be confident in the knowledge that

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you are buying from a reputable company who always puts the customer first. You can find us at Avda Del Mar, Los Montesinos, and on the N332 for Cabo Roig, San Javier and Gata De Gorgos and donâ€™t forget the majority of our products can be seen at www.siesta group.com.

QUALITY FURNITURE: Ready for summer.

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RTN Life

Meet Hugh O’Neill, a multitalented Irish musician HUGH O’NEILL was the frontman for Celtic legendary group Inchequin for many years and is now appearing at Monroes in Pedregeur every Friday night from 7pm to 10pm. He composed and performed the group’s two international hit singles Son Kez/The last Time and City on the Lagan. Having performed in 18 countries, he has appeared on various TV shows around Europe, on Eurovision and after moving to Cyprus in April 2017 Hugh featured on BRT TV regularly. His show is about involving his audiences and giving them a night to remember. From the first song to the last Hugh holds the attention of his audience. Along with his own songs from his seven albums, Hugh performs his own version of differ-

ent genres of music with a Celtic flavour, all performed totally live on acoustic and electric guitars, harmonicas, bodhran drum and stomp box drum. Hugh took some time out of his busy schedule to share some more information about himself exclusively with RTN and it is possible to view some of his work on his Inchequin Solo Facebook page. When did you arrive in Spain? Just a few weeks ago What brought you here? My girlfriend has a house in Denia Do you speak Spanish? No What is your greatest fear? Waking up to find I am a professional liar (Lawyer)

What is your favourite food? Pekmez and Tahini Who would you invite for a meal dead, alive or fictional? Brendan Behan What is your secret pleasure? It’s a secret Which is your favourite band? Leonard Cohen or Damien Rice Where do you find the energy to keep going? Guinness Which public figure do you dislike the most? I will not disclose my trump card! What song would you like played at your funeral? As I will be dead it doesn’t matter as I will not hear it

If you could go back in time when would it be to? Today What’s top of your bucket list? I have ticked almost all of the boxes, travelling the world making people happy and loving what I do What do you like about yourself most? Having created two of the world’s most beautiful people. Who would play you in the film of your life? Doris Day What was your ambition when a child? What I have been doing for 35 years. CATCH HUGH O’NEILL: At Monroes in Pedregeur every Friday night.

NO excuses for having time on your hands now! TORREVIEJA U3A is going from strength to strength with several new groups starting up, bringing the number of activities on offer to its members to over 40. Members are able to enjoy the benefits of all

of the existing groups and will now be able to participate in several more. ‘What spare time?’ has become a common theme within the group. Check out the website for information on groups and social events that

are available to all members at www.torreviejau3 a@gmail.com. Meanwhile the Monday and Thursday art groups have donated €120 to their favoured charity. Come September 20 all three of the walking and strolling groups will be carrying out a sponsored event to raise m o n e y f o r t h i s y e a r ’s President’s charity. Continuing through the summer months there are group activities and the social scene is keeping everyone on their toes with events like, c o ff e e m o r n i n g s , s u m mer party ball, afternoon teas and later in the year, an evening’s entertainment provided by The Campoverde Reef Band. I t ’s a o n e s t o p s h o p and they boast that they have got the lot. Check out on the website, what else €5 a year will buy. The very latest group is involved in the artistic and gentle art of flower arranging.

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Advertising Feature WITH a new office which opened in January in Benijofar, Worldwide Horizons Travel Agency is pleased to announce a brand new product on sale now. This should be really interesting for all rugby fans out there - Rugby World Cup match tickets for the tournament which will be held in Japan in 2019. “We are really pleased to be able to sell this,” said Yvonne Hollywood, owner of the two offices in La Zenia and in Benijofar. “The atmosphere of rugby matches is electric and I’m sure that all rugby fans here in Spain will be happy to know that they can buy the full package from us, with flights from here as opposed to returning to the UK!” The packages include the flights, transfers, hotels, and then a range of match options from all of the pool groups, right through to the final. The tournament takes place over almost 10 weeks in September and October of 2019. You can follow your team, or choose a package of quarter-finals through to final, or the semi-finals and/or final. Depending on the requirements, the prices vary. The matches take place all over Japan, so included in some of the packages is a rail pass for the highly efficient Japanese rail system to get you to all the matches. The last stages, two quarter-finals, the semi-finals and also the final itself all take place in Tokyo or close by. All of these packages are available now, with the feeling being that, as an interna-

Rugby in the Land of the Rising Sun WHATEVER YOUR TRAVEL NEEDS: Worldwide Horizons Travel Agency is there to help.

tional tournament which is always popular, flights and tickets will be more difficult closer to the time. So if you are keen on rugby, you should contact the sales team at their offices to find out more details! If rugby is not your thing, Worldwide Horizons continue to offer their usual expert blend of long distance and exotic holidays, and cruises, such as 28 nights with Holland America, or Azamara Luxury Cruises, as well as those closer to home on the Med.

A s s a l e s a g e n t s o f G a n d i a To u r s and Rosa Tours, they can also offer local transport and a door-to-door service due to a new agreement with Shuttle Service Transfers, for fully le-

gal transport over the whole of the Costa Blanca. From door to airport, train or port, and the return journey of course, this offers a reliable and individual service not provided previously. With all of this on sale the travel agency has invested in a new website, www.whtravel.es where you will find all of the packages they have on sale. And if you prefer you can look for your own bargain on their up-to-date cruise browser too. By signing up online, you will also receive all of the latest bargains direct to your email. Laura and Katie are based in the La Z e n i a o ff i c e , w h i l s t Yv o n n e a n d Rheana can answer any of your travel questions at the Benijofar office. Drop in or drop them a line on trav el@whtravel.es for all your travel requirements. La Zenia: Office Calle Alhambra 18, Local 5, La Zenia, 03189 - 966 761 492 and 966 844 484. Benijofar: Office Avda Federico Garcia Lorca 62, Benijofar, 03178 - 865 752 227.

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MONDAY 11:00am Homes Under the Hammer 12:00pm A1: Britain's Longest Road 12:45pm The Housing Enforcers 1:15pm Bargain Hunt 2:00pm BBC News 2:15pm Regional News 2:25pm Weather 2:30pm 800 Words 3:15pm Escape to the Country 4:15pm Garden Rescue 5:00pm Flipping Profit 5:45pm Flog It! 6:45pm Pointless 7:30pm BBC News 7:45pm Regional News 7:55pm Weather 8:00pm The One Show 8:30pm A Question of Sport 9:00pm EastEnders 9:30pm Would I Lie to You? 10:00pm The Woman in White 11:00pm Peter Kay's Car Share Unscripted

7:00am Flog It! 7:30am A1: Britain's Longest Road 8:15am Rip Off Britain 9:00am Nature's Weirdest Events 10:00am Tinker Bell and the Legend of the Neverbeast 11:10am Kung Fu Panda: The Kaboom of Doom 12:30pm Jungle Animal Hospital: Natural World 1:30pm Plan it, Build it 2:00pm Britain's Biggest War Ship 3:00pm Snooker 7:00pm Great British Railway Journeys 7:30pm Eggheads 8:00pm Snooker 12:00am Papillon 2:25am Stephen: The Murder That Changed a Nation

10:25am The Jeremy Kyle Show 11:30am This Morning 1:30pm Loose Women 2:45pm ITV Lunchtime News 2:55pm Regional News and Weather 3:00pm Judge Rinder 4:00pm Tenable 5:00pm Tipping Point 6:00pm The Chase 7:00pm Paul O'grady: For the Love of Dogs 7:30pm Regional News and Weather 7:45pm ITV Evening News 8:00pm Emmerdale 8:30pm Coronation Street 9:00pm Give it a Year 9:30pm Coronation Street 10:00pm Info not available 11:00pm ITV News 11:20pm Britain's Busiest Airport - Heathrow 11:45pm The Royal Wives of Windsor

9:00am How I Met Your Mother 10:00am New Girl 11:00am 2 Broke Girls 12:00pm Brooklyn Nine-Nine 12:30pm Brooklyn Nine-Nine 1:00pm The Goldbergs 1:30pm The Goldbergs 2:00pm The Big Bang Theory 3:00pm The Big Bang Theory 4:00pm The Big Bang Theory 5:00pm The Big Bang Theory 6:00pm The Big Bang Theory 7:00pm The Big Bang Theory 8:00pm Hollyoaks 8:30pm Black-Ish 9:00pm The Big Bang Theory 9:30pm Young Sheldon 10:00pm Made in Chelsea 11:00pm Don't Tell the Bride Ireland 12:05am The Big Bang Theory 12:35am The Big Bang Theory 1:05am First Dates 2:10am Tattoo Fixers 3:10am Made in Chelsea

10:00am Victoria Derbyshire 12:00pm BBC Newsroom Live 12:30pm The Week in Parliament 1:00pm The Daily Politics 2:00pm The Super League Show 2:45pm Home Away From Home 3:30pm Going Back, Giving Back 4:15pm Digging for Britain 5:15pm Tudor Monastery Farm 6:15pm Money for Nothing 7:00pm Eggheads 7:30pm Great British Railway Journeys 8:00pm Back to the Land with Kate Humble 9:00pm Top of the Shop with Tom Kerridge 10:00pm Secret Agent Selection : WW2

7:00am Good Morning Britain 9:30am Lorraine 10:25am The Jeremy Kyle Show 11:30am This Morning 1:30pm Loose Women 2:30pm ITV Lunchtime News 2:55pm Regional News and Weather 3:00pm Judge Rinder 4:00pm Tenable 5:00pm Tipping Point 6:00pm The Chase 7:00pm Regional News and Weather 7:30pm ITV Evening News 8:00pm Emmerdale 8:30pm Devon and Cornwall Cops 9:00pm This Time Next Year 10:00pm To be Announced 11:00pm ITV News at Ten and Weather

11:00am 11:30am 12:00pm 12:30pm 1:00pm 1:30pm 2:00pm 2:30pm 3:00pm

5:45am 6:10am 6:35am 7:00am 10:15am 12:15pm 1:10pm 1:15pm 2:10pm 2:45pm 3:15pm 4:55pm 6:30pm 7:00pm 7:30pm 8:00pm 9:00pm 10:00pm 11:00pm 12:00am

House Doctor Wildlife SOS Nick's Quest Milkshake! The Wright Stuff Can't Pay? We'll Take it Away! 5 News The Gadget Show Home and Away Neighbours Open Season Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked Neighbours Home and Away 5 News Aviva Premiership Rugby Highlights Police Interceptors Paddington Station 24/7 Cocaine: Teen Dealers Layer Cake

Austin Found Rampage: Special My Cousin Rachel Top Ten Show, the 2018 Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul Everything, Everything Dunkirk Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul Everything, Everything Dunkirk My Cousin Rachel Brawl in Cell Block 99 Austin Found Where's the Money

9:30am Football's Greatest Teams 10:00am Ronaldo 10:30am La Liga Greatest Games 11:00am La Liga 2017/18 3:10pm La Liga 2017/18 5:15pm Scottish Cup Greatest Games 5:30pm La Liga Greatest Games 5:45pm La Liga Greatest Games 6:00pm Football Years 6:30pm Football Countdowns 7:00pm La Liga Icons 7:15pm La Liga Icons 7:30pm Ronaldo 8:00pm Soccer A.M. 8:30pm La Liga Greatest Games 8:40pm La Liga Icons 8:55pm Live La Liga 2017/18 11:00pm The Debate - Live 12:00am SPFL Round Up 2017/18

7:00am Happy Birthday, Toby Simpson 8:35am Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul 10:15am Everything, Everything 11:55am Girl Flu 1:40pm Dunkirk 3:30pm My Cousin Rachel 5:20pm Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul 7:10pm Everything, Everything 9:00pm Dunkirk 10:50pm Girl Flu Charming comingof-age film 12:30am My Cousin Rachel 2:20am Brawl in Cell Block 99

1:00pm SPFL Round Up 2017/18 1:15pm SPFL Greatest Games 1:30pm MLS Round Up Show 2:00pm La Liga Icons 2:15pm La Liga Icons 2:30pm Revista de la Liga 3:00pm Eredivisie 4:00pm Football's Greatest 4:30pm Football's Greatest Teams 5:00pm Scottish Cup Greatest Games 5:30pm La Liga Greatest Games 5:45pm La Liga Greatest Games 6:00pm Revista de la Liga 6:30pm Eredivisie 7:30pm EFL Rivalries 8:00pm EFL Rivalries 8:30pm Football 11:00pm The Debate - Live

4:35am 6:30am 7:00am 9:00am 9:15am 10:50am 12:30pm 2:15pm 4:05pm 5:40pm 7:20pm 9:00pm 10:50pm 12:45am 3:00am 4:55am

TUESDAY 11:00am Homes Under the Hammer 12:00pm A1: Britain's Longest Road 12:45pm The Housing Enforcers 1:15pm Bargain Hunt 2:00pm BBC News 2:30pm Regional News 2:45pm Doctors 3:15pm 800 Words 4:00pm Escape to the Country 4:45pm Flipping Profit 5:30pm Flog It! 6:15pm Pointless 7:00pm BBC News 7:30pm Regional News 8:00pm The One Show 8:30pm EastEnders 9:00pm Holby City 10:00pm The Split 11:00pm BBC News 11:30pm Regional News

3:30pm 4:00pm 4:30pm 5:00pm 5:30pm 6:00pm 6:30pm 7:00pm 7:30pm 8:00pm 8:30pm 9:00pm 9:30pm

2 Broke Girls 2 Broke Girls Brooklyn Nine-Nine Brooklyn Nine-Nine The Goldbergs The Goldbergs The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory How I Met Your Mother How I Met Your Mother New Girl New Girl Brooklyn Nine-Nine Brooklyn Nine-Nine The Goldbergs The Goldbergs The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory Hollyoaks Black-Ish The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory

10:15am The Wright Stuff 12:15pm Can't Pay? We'll Take it Away! 1:10pm 5 News 1:15pm GPs: Behind Closed Doors 2:10pm Access 2:15pm Home and Away 2:45pm Neighbours 3:15pm The Yorkshire Vet Casebook 4:15pm Snatched at Birth 6:00pm 5 News 6:30pm Neighbours 7:00pm Home and Away 7:30pm 5 News 8:00pm Moto GP Highlights 9:00pm The Yorkshire Vet 10:00pm British Airways 11:00pm Circus Kids: Our Secret World 12:05am Gypsy Kids 1:05am Celeb Trolls: We're Coming to Get You

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WEDNESDAY 5:30pm 6:15pm 7:00pm 7:30pm 8:00pm 9:00pm 10:00pm 11:00pm 11:30pm 11:40pm 11:45pm

Flog It! Pointless BBC News Regional News The One Show Watchdog Live Britain's Fat Fight BBC News Regional News Weather Joshua v Klitschko: Return to Wembley 12:30am Ambulance 1:30am Weather for the Week Ahead

5:15pm 6:15pm 7:00pm 7:30pm 8:00pm 9:00pm 10:00pm 11:00pm 11:30pm 12:10am 12:15am

Tudor Monastery Farm Money for Nothing Eggheads Great British Railway Journeys Back to the Land with Kate Humble Top of the Shop with Tom Kerridge Love in the Countryside Detectorists Newsnight Weather Syria: The World's War

6:00pm 7:00pm 7:30pm 8:00pm 8:30pm 9:30pm 10:00pm 11:00pm 11:30pm 11:45pm 12:45am

The Chase Regional News and Weather ITV Evening News Emmerdale Coronation Street Britain's Busiest Airport - Heathrow Info not available ITV News at Ten and Weather Regional News and Weather Info not available British Touring Car Championship Highlights

6:00pm 6:30pm 7:00pm 7:30pm 8:00pm 8:30pm 9:00pm 9:30pm 10:00pm 11:00pm 12:00am 12:30am 12:55am 2:00am 3:05am 3:45am 4:30am

The Goldbergs The Goldbergs The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory Hollyoaks Black-Ish The Goldbergs The Big Bang Theory The 100 Timeless The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory First Dates Tattoo Fixers The 100 Timeless The Goldbergs

3:15pm

The Yorkshire Vet Casebook 4:15pm Driven Off the Rails 6:00pm 5 News 6:30pm Neighbours 7:00pm Home and Away 7:30pm 5 News 8:00pm Police Interceptors 9:00pm GPs: Behind Closed Doors 10:00pm Rich House, Poor House 11:00pm Tortured by Mum and Dad: The Turpin 13 12:05am Criminals Caught on Camera

4:35am 6:30am 7:00am

New Girl Brooklyn Nine-Nine Brooklyn Nine-Nine The Goldbergs The Goldbergs The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory Hollyoaks Black-Ish The Big Bang Theory Young Sheldon Brooklyn Nine-Nine Let's Get Physical The Inbetweeners Friday Night Dinner The Windsors

3:15pm

7:00am Everything, Everything 8:40am Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul 10:20am My Cousin Rachel 12:10pm The Stolen 1:55pm Dunkirk 3:50pm Everything, Everything 5:35pm Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul 7:15pm The Stolen 9:00pm Dunkirk 11:00pm My Cousin Rachel 1:00am Girl Flu 2:50am Zoology

8:50am 10:30am 12:10pm 2:00pm 3:50pm 5:30pm 7:10pm 9:00pm 11:00pm 12:40am

Austin Found Rampage: Special Everything, Everything Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul Girl Flu My Cousin Rachel Dunkirk Everything, Everything Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul My Cousin Rachel Dunkirk Zoology Girl Flu

5:00pm

Scottish Cup Greatest Games 5:30pm La Liga Greatest Games 6:00pm La Liga World 6:30pm Football Countdowns 7:00pm Eredivisie 7:55pm Coppa Italia Final 2014/15 8:10pm Coppa Italia Final 2015/16 8:25pm Coppa Italia Final 2016/17 8:40pm Live Coppa Italia Final 2017/18 10:45pm La Liga Icons

THURSDAY 4:45pm 5:30pm 6:15pm 7:00pm 7:30pm 8:00pm 8:30pm 9:00pm 10:00pm 11:00pm 11:30pm 11:45pm 12:45am

Flipping Profit Flog It! Pointless BBC News at Six BBC London News The One Show EastEnders Britain's Best Home Cook Ambulance BBC News at Ten BBC London News Question Time This Week

6:15pm 7:00pm 7:30pm 8:00pm 9:00pm 10:00pm 11:00pm 11:30pm 12:15am 1:15am

Money for Nothing Eggheads Great British Railway Journeys Back to the Land with Kate Humble World's Most Extraordinary Homes Red Ape: Saving the Orangutan QI Newsnight Dara and Ed's Great Big Adventure Versailles

6:00pm 7:00pm 7:30pm 8:00pm 8:30pm 9:00pm 9:30pm 10:00pm 11:00pm 11:30pm 11:45pm 12:50am 1:15am

The Chase ITV News London ITV Evening News Emmerdale Tonight Emmerdale Paul O'grady: For the Love of Dogs Who Wants to be a Millionaire? ITV News at Ten and Weather ITV News London Great Art Give it a Year Lethal Weapon

4:30pm 5:00pm 5:30pm 6:00pm 6:30pm 7:00pm 7:30pm 8:00pm 8:30pm 9:00pm 9:30pm 10:00pm 10:30pm 11:00pm 11:35pm 12:05am

The Yorkshire Vet Casebook 4:15pm Sinister Stepmother 6:00pm 5 News at 5 6:30pm Neighbours 7:00pm Home and Away 7:30pm 5 News Tonight 8:00pm The Nightmare Neighbour Next Door 9:00pm Bad Tenants, Rogue Landlords 10:00pm Can't Pay? We'll Take it Away! 11:00pm Undercover: Nailing the Fraudsters

5:00pm Scottish Cup Greatest Games 5:15pm Scottish Cup Greatest Games 5:30pm La Liga Greatest Games 5:45pm La Liga Greatest Games 6:00pm Football Years 6:30pm Football Countdowns 7:00pm Play-Off Final Highlights 8:00pm EFL Greatest Games 8:15pm EFL Greatest Games 8:30pm Live EFL Play-Off Semi-Final

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Puzzles Code Breaker Kenny Corris I For Readings, Consultations and Castings email: kennycorris@hotmailcom / www.kennycorris.net Mobile: 686 361 594 / Tel: 965 878 424

Play on Words

Answers: More harm than good. Order in court.

The Sun sextiles Neptune setting up a warning to curb spending and to examine all ways of launching economies all across the board. Money should be working for you not you for it, when it comes to finances and raising some cash for the unexpected expenses that are on the cards right now. Tighten your belt and watch the pennies too.

Word Wheel The goal of a word wheel puzzle is to create as many words possible with the letters in the word wheel. You can only use each letter once and every word must have the letter in the centre of the wheel. Can you find the 9 letter word?

Someone may have got hold of the wrong end of the stick, but the damages this has brought you are pretty hard to take. Mercury squares on Pluto midweek and thankfully opening channels of communication right now is the best thing to do. Pluto scrutinises the situation but rather than furthering complications brings instead resolve. If you knew then what you know now then things would be very different. One side of you wants to just walk away with your head held high, whilst the other sees that revenge truly is a dish best served cold. The Sun is in direct opposition to Jupiter this week and remember that whichever way you see it, pride comes before a fall! This is a time to focus on your strengths not to waste time pandering to your negativities. The comfort of your protective shell may seem very attractive but it won’t do the power of good whilst you are feeling sorry for yourself. Stand up to the challenge of a hectic week as planet Kora brings you a dividend, after the Mercury conjunction. Instead of licking your wounds, get out there, and forget that the recent conflict ever happened. It happened because someone has nothing better to do, and to the contrary you do have. Since your ambition and hard work play a part of who you really are then you don’t have to prove anything to anyone, just be yourself! Squaring Pluto, Mercury is the stability to your new ventures this week. Bored with the same old same old, the time has come to call a spade a spade and all that that entails. Since pastures greener seem to be beckoning you ever onward, just go for it whilst you have the opportunity to do so. This time there is no holding back! Beware what’s behind what appears to be a genuine call for help this week. Though you are known for your generosity and kindness you should not be a party to emotional blackmail because you fear saying no. If no is the right response then you have to give it. See to it that others realise that you are not to be messed with. Your highly charged psychic energies come to the fore to help a situation which appears to be veering out of control somewhat. For some time you have had your suspicions, but now you appear to be seeing the truth for what it really must be, a positive step in the right direction and the start of something rather wonderful. Jupiter so often comes to your rescue when really needed. This week actions with Mercury, the Sun and Venus are guiding, gifting and strengthening your resolve at a time when you might be thinking of giving up on something so close to your heart. Now you know, once and for all, that it is really true, there is no fool like an old fool. Look within to connect better with the innermost you right now. You may be very surprised what you find, but so too have you got the template that will herald reward for your recent good intentions. There is more to you than you think there is, and so have fun finding out and please, leave no stone unturned for the best results! Enough pressure right now, though you are robbing Peter to pay Paul. The Sun trines Pluto and together this illumination sees things as indeed they should be and not consequentially as they are. Take nothing for granted, but do take very good care of yourself as minor health problems bug you and you need to be fighting fit! You need more than ever a project to get your teeth into right now. Aim high because your talents are sought after, and your impetus is alluring to boot. Venus squares up to Neptune midweek unleashing some positive and inspiring energies, with which you will use to your advantage in the current ebullient scheme of higher things.

Each number in the Code Breaker grid represents a different letter of the alphabet. In this week’s puzzle, 7 represents J and 9 represents V, so fill in J every time the figure 7 appears and V every time the figure 9 appears. Now, using your knowledge of the English language, work out which letters should go in the missing squares. As you discover the letters, fill in other squares with the same number in the main grid and the control grid.

Kenny’s Postbag Kenny, I am at the stage whereby I am ready to go forward with my spiritual energies, but I do not know where to start. There is so much conflict of opinion, and I want to learn how to get closer to my spiritual self. Eirin V. Hi Eirin, and welcome to the World of Spirit. It would be true to say that there are ground rules, but above all you also need the freedom to express yourself and to bring out your natural talents. Your good intention is the very best start. I run workshops and courses, and would be pleased to help you find your way ahead. It is important that you get the good guidance that you need and get closer to Spirit. Everyone has their personal faith and connection is the best interpretation. In a World of conflict, spirituality brings an inner peace that I would like to help you to e

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For Birthday Celebrants Take absolutely nothing for granted and do not hold back on that which makes you both unique and of interest to others. Prepare the way ahead for sudden changes in an uplift that sees you getting all the attention that you rightly deserve to have.

The 9 letter word is:

Kakuro Fill all the empty squares using the numbers 1 to 9, so that the sum of each horizontal block equals the ‘clue’ on its left, and the sum of each vertical block equals the clue on its top. No number may be used in the same block more than once.

4th - 10th May

More Puzzles Cryptic

Across 1 Charlie enquires about barrels (5) 4 Former pilot's daft adventure (7) 8 Object when put into torn clothing (7) 9 Ring about never ending internet pest (5) 10 I acted in poor show (8) 11 Spirit around end of December causes a smile (4) 13 Relieves incantations (6) 14 Chaplains are spread around (6) 17 The remainder sleep (4) 19 Pet cried about being infirm (8) 22 Saw a daughter get mature (5) 23 Blend ten wine ingredients (7) 24 Recommend guests start getting organised (7) 25 What was a performance to be precise (5)

English - Spanish

Futoshiki

Down 1 Dog runs between an officer and a private (5) 2 Edwin's upset about Lloyd's first fraud (7) 3 Outlines for small, confused clients (8) 4 English country property (6) 5 Trail from the Carpathian Mountains (4) 6 A smell from the food, our dinner (5) 7 New Testament stories about gifts (7) 12 Surrealist friend is filled with determination (8) 13 Saint has lots of paper for courses (7) 15 Parcel I untied reveals an identical one (7) 16 Deprived female in a hat (6) 18 Some careless language (5) 20 An endless pact to foot the bill (5) 21 English monk buying every dinner, excluding starters (4)

Fill in the squares so that each digit from 1 to 6 occurs exactly once in each row and column. Greater-than and less-than signs indicate the relationship of the two adjacent squares. There is only one solution, and you can find it without guessing.

The clues are mixed, some clues are in Spanish and some are in English.

Across 1 Frost (substance) (8) 6 Huevo (3) 7 Alcalde (5) 9 Those (4) 11 Expensive (4) 12 Ordenado (4) 14 Pie (anatรณmico) (4) 16 Granos (en la piel) (5) 18 Bird (large) (3) 19 Cristales (8)

Down 1 Ejercicio (8) 2 To take hold of (5) 3 Oar (4) 4 Today (3) 5 Hermanos (8) 8 Ass (donkey) (4) 10 Blando (madera, droga, agua) (4) 13 Stage (phase) (5) 15 Bears (animals) (4) 17 To hear (3)

Quick

Across 1/23 Become quiet or quieter (4,4) 3 Answer (8) 9 Regular payment (7) 10 Japanese dish (5) 11 Excessively fat (5) 12 Acquire (6) 14 Pass by, as time (6) 16 Disease of the skin (6) 19 Small informal restaurant (6) 21 Cause fear in (5) 24 Aquatic fish-eating carnivore of the weasel family (5) 25 Gun dog (7) 26 Drug that produces numbness or stupor (8) 27 Nothing (4) Down 1 Any undertaking that is easy to do (8) 2 Graceful and elegant bearing in a person (5) 4 Severe or trying experience (6) 5 Disturb the balance or stability of (5) 6 Encourage (7) 7 Small metal spike with a broadened flat head (4) 8 Niche or alcove (6) 13 Major London railway station (8) 15 Pilot (7) 17 Unconcerned (6) 18 Japanese dwarf tree (6) 20 Body excluding the head and neck and limbs (5) 22 Similar (5) 23 See 1 Across

Sudoku

Fill the grid so every column and every 3x3 box contains the digits 1-9

4th - 10th May

Betrayed by corporate media

by Michael Walsh

keyboardcosmetics@gmail.com ACCORDING to one of Germany’s most respected journalists EU media is in the pockets of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and spins news in a way that supports American interests. This was conceded by former CIA Director William Colby, who, before he died in mysterious circumstances, said, “The CIA owns everyone of any significance in the major media.” Corporate and state-controlled broadcasters and print media publish government press releases after they are sexed up as news stories. Any journalist who wants to keep his job knows you don’t question the validity of political spin he is obliged to add his name to. Udo Ulfkotte, 56, (deceased) was editor of Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Germany’s largest, most serious news weekly. He wrote in his suppressed bestseller Gekaufte Journalisten, “I’ve been a journalist for about 25 years, and I’ve been educated

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A UNITED CABINET: At Chequers. to lie, to betray, and not to tell the truth to the public. I was supported by the Central Intelligence Agency, the CIA because I was (then) pro-American.” European and British public opinion is becoming more and more fed up with what they increasingly perceive as a rigged media. Letters to the Daily Mail

are mostly scornful of the paper’s anti-Russian rhetoric. Glenn Greenwald’s investigative website exposed CIA leverage; some might even say friendship, with media in order t o d i s c r e d i t G a r y We b b , t h e American journalist who uncovered CIA cocaine trafficking as part of the Iran-Contra scandal

of the 1980’s. CIA Directorate of Intellig e n c e s t a ff e r N i c h o l a s D u j movic described the agency as having ‘a ground base of already productive relations with journalists.’ The agency’s public affairs officers watched with relief as the largest newspapers in the United

States rescued the agency from disaster, but, in the process, destroyed the reputation of an award-winning reporter. Neil Clark is one of Britain’s great journalists and broadcasters. Breaking ranks instead of breaking news, he says, “In all my years in journalism, I have never felt so ashamed of my profession as in the last four weeks. The job of the journalist is to ask questions. Their task is to find out the truth, to be absolutely fearless in following leads wherever they may take you. “Today in Britain, political journalism means just parroting the official war lobby’s line. It soon became apparent that the government narrative on Salisbury had more holes in it than a slab of Swiss cheese. “But we were all expected, like the good little townsfolk in Hans Christian Andersen’s The Emperor's New Clothes, not to notice. “Newspapers and magazines which should have been holding Theresa May and Boris Johnson to account did nothing of the sort. Suppositions were reported, day after day, as proven fact.”

Mike Walsh’s opinions are his own and do not necessarily represent the views of the publishers advertisers or sponsors.

4th - 10th May

AR verb endings in the present simple Basic Spanish for everyday needs

by Jane Cronin

FOR the next few weeks we are going to be looking at how Spanish verbs work in the ‘present simple’ tense. This tense is used in both English and Spanish to express general truths about the world, or about routines and regular occurrences. It is also used in Spanish to express instant decisions about the immediate future: for example ‘te llamo’ literally means ‘I call you’, when in English we would say ‘I’ll call you.’ There are other small differences in use, but they need not concern us at the moment. As I have already said, the fundamental difference between verbs in our two languages is that in Spanish the words themselves alter to give various kinds of information including ‘person’ (I, you, he, she, it, we, they), whereas in English we use separate words to provide this information. However, it is very important to realise that, even though they might ap-

pear complicated, the changes that Spanish verbs make are very logical and predictable. It’s just a case of understanding how they work. For our present purposes, we can divide verbs into three groups, namely: standard verbs, root-changing verbs and irregular verbs. The vast majority of verbs are standard, and these are the ones we will look at first. Then there is a significant minority of root-changing verbs. These sound worse than they are, as they too follow v e r y c l e a r p a t t e r n s . We w i l l s p e n d quite a bit of time explaining them. Our final category is irregular verbs, and the good news here is that there are only four of them! Even better news is that those of you who have followed these articles are already broadly familiar with them. They are SER (to be), ESTAR (to be - how and where), IR (to go) and H A B E R ( t o h a v e ) . We w i l l l o o k a t these last, but they shouldn’t create too many problems for us as they are so common and have cropped up all over the place already. So, first to our standard verbs which constitute the largest category. The first thing we need to do with all our verbs is look at them in their infinitive form (that is the form that ends in -ar, -er, and -ir),

for example MIRAR. All verbs are divided into two parts, the root and the ending. In this case AR is the ending, therefore MIR is the root. The same happens with all other verbs. COMER: ER is the ending, so COM is the root. VIVIR: IR is the ending so VIV is the root. It doesn’t matter how long, short or strange sounding these roots are; the principle is always the same. For example the verb VER - ER is the ending, so the root is the letter V. CAMBIAR: AR is the ending so CAMBI is the root. The root is the part of the word that gives us the essential meaning. From this root all kinds of other related words can be created, and in the present simple tense, the roots of standard verbs are not altered in any way. So, going back to our first example MIRAR, we can rest assured that all the forms of MIRAR in the present tense start with the three letters MIR, which gives us the meaning ‘look’. The second thing to learn is that the endings follow an absolutely set pattern. In the case of -AR verbs, the end-

ings are O, AS, A, AMOS, ÁIS, AN. That’s rather meaningless on its own, so let’s set it out properly. MIRO - I look MIRAMOS - we look MIRAS - you look (familiar) MIRÁIS - you look (familiar plural) MIRA - he, she looks. MIRAN - they look. There is obviously much more to this, but that’s enough for today! Take some time digesting the information and while you’re about it, don’t forget to visit my website www.janecronin.eu. ¡Hasta la semana que viene!

Fighting the scourge of plastic waste Credit: SAM

THERE’S been official recognition and thanks for the public spirited action (as reported in RTN 964) taken by four expatriates recently. They saw hundreds of plastic bags being blown towards the sea from La Mata market and did something about it by not only clearing up the rubbish themselves but by reporting it to the press. The thanks came from former Torrevieja mayor and deputy councillor for tourism for Alicante Province, Eduardo Dolan this week. All but one of the market stallholders had gone, leaving hundreds of plastic bags from the items sold on the stalls lying on the road. Not one council refuse cart or employee was to be seen. The four, Eileen and Tony Mayes and Kate and Pete Goodger were in a nearby seafront cafe and saw a whirlwind of plastic bags heading across the sand and towards the sea. They got busy gathering up the bags and managed to fill three large plastic sacks. Sadly there were many bags they couldn’t stop getting into

EDUARDO DOLAN: With Eileen Mayes (seated) and (l-r) Tony Mayes, Kate and Pete Goodger. the sea. Also sadly, dozens of passersby did not bother to join in the clean-

up. Eduardo Dolan said he would be asking searching questions in council

as to why no council workers were on hand at the end of the market to clean

up the road and remove the litter. “It is not good enough that the road was left unattended, especially as it is so close to the sea. We all have a responsibility to clean up and ensure the sea does not get polluted. The market traders pay a fee for the road to be cleaned after the market, so why isn’t it being done?” Tony Mayes commented: “Just a few miles out from La Mata are extensive fish farms. It’s crazy to let all this plastic get into the sea, which will not only harm the environment but damage the fish stocks.” He added: “The Spanish have a beautiful country and it’s sad to see it being damaged by litter everywhere, and also by ridiculous huge advertising hoardings, graffiti and abandoned buildings left to turn into ruins.” Tony and Eileen live just off the market road in Orihuela Costa. Each week immediately after traders’ vehicles leave, Orihuela Council cleaning staff get to work removing litter and spraying the road. Work apparently sadly lacking in Torrevieja-administered La Mata.

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health

Paracetamol does it work? PARACETAMOL is often the go-to drug to treat and ease numerous ailments, but does it actually work? For the UK, an estimate of the amount of paracetamol sold is just under 6,300 tons a year, or around 70 paracetamol tablets per person every year. Around 200 million packs of paracetamol are sold without prescription in the UK every year, though sales fell after pack size restrictions, but evidence shows it probably does not work for chronic pain. Independent clinical trials and reviews show paracetamol to be no better than a placebo for chronic back pain or arthritis. Reviews from the Cochrane Library, a global independent network of researchers, professionals, patients and carers, shows that paracetamol can provide pain relief, but only for a small number of people. For post-operative pain, perhaps one in four people benefit; for headaches around one in 10.

Could obesity lead to multiple births?

OBESITY could be a cause of the increase in the rate of multiple births in mothers in their mid-20â€™s. Figures from the Office of National Statistics show that women aged 25-29 are now having more multiple births, when previously women aged over 45 were more likely to have twins or triplets, due to the higher levels of IVF in this age group. The Twins and Multiple Births Association said research suggests that obesity leads to more multiple births and this could be affecting

the 25 to 29-year-old age group. However, the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG) said more studies were needed into why those aged 25 to 29 are fuelling a rise in twins or triplets. The rate of multiple births, mostly of twins, rose to 16.1 per 1,000 women giving birth in 2015, compared with 16.0 in 2014. Last year in the UK, 10,901 women gave birth to twins, 169 to triplets and three gave birth to quads or more. MULTIPLE BIRTHS: Are on the increase.

Energy drinks like drugs ENERGY drinks containing high levels of caffeine and alcohol are like cocaine for teenagers. A research team at Purdue University in Indiana, USA, found that drinks such as vodka and

Red Bull triggers the same reaction in a young p e r s o n â€™s b r a i n a s t h e class A drug and can have the same devastating effect on the chemical balance of the brain that lasts long into adulthood.

The research team also found that if teenagers mixed energy drinks with alcohol, and then tried cocaine, they would crave greater quantities of the drug to replicate the same high.

Stress hormone can trigger fat cells in the body STRESS can lead to weight gain as it triggers a hormone called Adamts1 which generates fat cells in the body. Researchers found that this also wraps fat around the internal organs like the liver and pancreas raising the risk of developing type two diabetes and heart disease. Scientists at Stanford University in the USA said it was once believed that fat cells were just passive bags of calories, but recent research shows they send and receive important hormonal signals.

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Consequences

by Colin Bird

EVERYTHING that we are today can often be traced back to insignificant events in our past lives. Admiring a picture of a small Cornish fishing village on a calendar at our local fish and chip shop many years ago, led me to that same village, and from there to Bermuda where I met the ‘Princess’. Had we never met, I would not have found myself living in the beautiful Suffolk countryside for 30 years, and thence to Spain. The whole direction of my life therefore has been entirely due to a cheap calendar on the wall of a chippie whilst waiting for my haddock and six pen’orth of chips in 1969. During the last weeks of my unremarkable school experience, those of us who were about to embark on life without our morning milk and crafty cigarettes behind the bike sheds, were summoned individually to the deputy head master’s office to discuss with him and the careers officer, employment possibilities. “Any ideas what you would like to pursue Bird?” I was asked, not too kindly as I remember.

by Barry Duke

MATHS: Is a foreign language for some.

“Something to do with writing”, I told them rather naively. I detected some tut-tutting as they studied a piece of paper indicating my meagre but relevant qualifications: two GCE ‘O’ levels, English Language and English Literature.

“You would need to enrol in a journalism course at college,” I was told. “But that would entail staying on here for another year and studying for ‘A’ Levels.” The careers officer continued. “But you can’t because you also need maths and at least one science

subject to qualify for the lower sixth”, the deputy head added. I was like a spectator at a tennis match. I was deflated. Maths and science were not just weak subjects for me, they were disastrous. Nevertheless, following a short lecture on the advantages of an apprenticeship of some kind, I was handed a leaflet outlining trade apprenticeship at a nuclear energy establishment in Dorset and summarily dismissed. It turned out that several of my class mates who did excel in maths and science, later attended the first assimilation test for these jobs and not one of them progressed to the next stage. And yet it had been passed off on me. I was young and impressionable and took the lack of confidence in me to heart. My dream had been shattered and I decided against any career and to see the world instead. I have enjoyed my life, but I wonder if my old deputy headmaster and his partner in crime that day ever gave a thought to the consequences of their lack of interest in the young ambitions of boys like me.

Home is where the hurt is legs knocked out from under me by an unopened six-litre bottle of water. I was doing some washing up in the kitchen when I heard an almighty bang, and was sent sprawling. It took me a few seconds to realise that a ferocious gust of wind had blown open the utility room door. This in turn propelled the bottle into the back of my knees, and I came crashing down onto the tiled floor. I could well have become another A&E statistic, but luckily I got away with just a lump on the forehead and two aching legs. Sadly, at 71, I don’t bounce as easily as I once did as a youth. I’m fortunate enough to have required A&E attention only twice. The first was when I sat on a scalpel I was using to cut out some images from a magazine for an arts project. I laid it down on my sofa, got up to make a cuppa, then - on my return - parked my rear on the thing. I simply could not believe how much blood came out of my gashed left buttock. Clearly it need-

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INJURIES we suffer are invariably caused by stupidity, negligence or sheer bad luck. And dozens of reports published by accident and emergency departments across the globe indicate that people are more likely to be hurt in their homes than in any other location. Kitchens and bathrooms are particularly dangerous. Think slippery wet floors, sharp knives, boiling pots and lots of pointy things. I’ve never been able to decide whether it was stupidity, negligence, bad luck or a combination of all three that resulted in an English vicar getting a potato jammed up his rear. Reports at the time this was back in 2008 - revealed he was admitted to a Sheffield A&E department. The man, in his 50’s, explained to incredulous staff that, while naked, he was hanging curtains in his kitchen when he toppled backwards and landed on the vegetable. I certainly know that bad luck caused the bumps and bruises I sustained last week when I had my

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THE VICAR: Nearly had his chips!

ed stitches. When I arrived at the hospital with a towel duct-taped to my derriere, a West Indian nurse asked me what the problem was. “Promise you won’t laugh if I tell you,” I said. “No mon, I doesn’t laugh at hurt people,” she assured me. So I told her, and she laughed

so hard she had to sit down. Four hours and eight stitches later I was good to go. This, clearly, was a case of stupidity. The second incident was definitely down to bad luck. I was securing a bag of groceries to the back of my motorcycle when a car

reversed into the bike, and it toppled over. The full weight of it came down on my left ankle, snapping it like a twig. Despite the excruciating pain, I managed to ride my 750cc Honda to the nearest A&E, a distance of around 11 miles, and spent five months in a plaster cast. Around the same period I was sharing my house in Wembley with a young American doctor who worked at a hospital in central London - so he didn’t have far to go to be treated when he was injured in a fall sustained as he was trying to flee from what he believed was a lynch mob. The incident occurred when the medic was asked by a nurse to notify a West Indian family that a relative - an elderly woman - had died. He duly called the woman’s son, who arrived around 4am with a large contingent of heartbroken relatives. There was much wailing and gnashing of teeth. Just then, a grumpy old woman shuffled into the melee, demanding to know what all the noise was about. She was the ‘dead’ patient. One relative shrieked “ghost!” and fainted. The doc had accidentally been handed the wrong paperwork. Furious family members then advanced on him bellowing threats and waving fists, and in his rush to avoid being beaten to a pulp, he fell down a flight of stairs. Stupidity? Negligence? Bad luck? I’ll leave it to you to decide.

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motoring

Porsche Premiere in Mann THE new Porsche 911 GT3 RS was revealed at the Geneva International Motor Show in March, but its roaring 520-horse power and top speed of 312km/h was not. Now the GT3 RS will be able to show what it’s really capable of as it premieres on the Isle of Man. The British island is host to the worldfamous TT motorbike race in which the two-wheeled machines reach mindboggling speeds on curvy mountain roads. The Isle of Man - spanning just

572 km² - squeezes in up to 45,000 spectators each year. They have been coming to see the Tourist Trophy on the island since 1907. The race - which takes place on the 60.73 km circuit - is one of motor fans’ racing calendar highlights. It is now the turn of the brand-new Porsche 911 GT3 RS to strut its stuff on the island’s rugged roads. The car thrives on roads with varying amounts of grip. This makes the island and its less-than-perfect road surfaces

the perfect location for the car. The GT3 RS’s focus makes it the closest a road car could get to the performance of a TT race bike, the German carmaker said. Only 12 journalists have been invited to the event which will boast two versions of the new GT3 RS alongside an array of models from the Porsche archive. The accompanying motors include the 991.1- the GT3 RS’s direct predecessor - and the seminal 2.7 RS.

The island’s testing conditions and harsh corners led Porsche to invite along British champion rally driver Mark Higgins and TT racer Steve Plate. “The Isle of Man is a motor sporting Mecca,” Higgins said. “The island’s roads are the most demanding I’ve ever driven on in my life”, the TT road car lap record holder said. He added, the new Porsche’s traction totally blew him away. “It’s so planted and it’s a real pleasure to drive,” he said.

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Mitsubishi Shogun TEST DRIVE BY TIM SAUNDERS WHEN travelling with three young children and lots of luggage a large vehicle is an absolute necessity. The heavy-duty long wheelbase Mitsubishi Shogun is well suited to such a challenge. This well-built beast has plenty of space and will put up with pretty much anything thrown at it. And that includes little Henry Saunders (21mths) insisting on pretending to drive it every time we park. We all like the third row of seats tucked away in the floor of the boot; great for additional passengers or a change of scene for the children. To put it through its paces we drive to Ringwood, the Isle of Wight and London. For all of these journeys we take in the usual dull A-roads and motorways where it cruises happily at 70mph. At Ringwood we visit a farm and this allows us to experience the Shogun’s abilities on farmland. It easily tackles slippery surfaces, mud and gravel. Ruts and speed bumps see the occupants bouncing all over the place at speed due to the hard suspension. “It’s struggling; it seems to be in the wrong gear,” says Caroline when the Shogun is faced with really steep inclines on the Isle of

Wight. I disagree because we are travelling at 30mph and it is an automatic so the choice of gear is not my fault. It quickly becomes clear though that at low speed there is a noticeable vibration from the 3.2-litre diesel unit throughout the entire cabin, as well as that chugging sound associated with diesels of the past. At faster speeds it is quieter. I’ve known the Shogun since I was a lad. The father of a friend of mine owned a short wheelbase version and my friend (aged 11) was allowed to drive it across their land. What I do notice is that there is very little change in the Shogun, for which I take my hat off to Mitsubishi. Much like the Land Rover Defender didn’t change externally in its lifetime, neither it seems has the Shogun apart from of course all the technology inside. Today’s Shogun is fitted with everything from a sat nav (the most complicated I have come across and I can’t operate it), a reversing camera, air bags, air conditioning, as well as power folding wing mirrors. The automatic gearbox makes for lazy driving and my only complaint is that when I rest my right arm on the door, over a prolonged period, it starts to ache due to a lack of padding. I like the large glass electric tilt/slide sunroof and the high up driving position provides

FAMILY FRIENDLY: Mitsubishi Shogun.

a good view of the road ahead allowing passengers to see things they wouldn’t usually, such as good views into people’s gardens and houses. The times I have heard Caroline, particularly, say: “I didn’t know that was there.” The rear seats allow for different set-ups. So for instance if there are three passengers one might choose to sit on the middle seat and then the rest of the seats can be folded away and pushed forward. The other two passengers can sit on the third row of seats unfolded from the boot floor. Access is gained either by climbing through the space left by the folded seats or the remaining seat can be lifted forward. It’s all quite user-friendly. The children love it. And they like the pop out rear windows, too. The rear door complete with spare tyre providing access to the vast boot space is extremely heavy.

This fact is emphasised when we park on a hill at Mottistone Gardens on the Isle of Wight. I get out open the rear door without supporting it. There is a great creak that reverberates throughout the whole vehicle. No damage is done but from then on I carefully support it whenever opening it. Overall, this is a great family friendly and versatile vehicle for those rugged travellers trekking the countryside. Life is all about priorities and compromises and the Shogun’s strength is in its vast capabilities. When wading through 700mm of water or trekking across a muddy field fuel economy is not at the top of your list of priorities. It is survival.

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motoring BRITISH racing car manufacturer Brabham Automotive has unveiled its new track-only supercar. Intended to rival the McLaren Senna GTR and Aston Martin Vulcan, the Brabham BT62 features a 5.4-litre naturally-aspirated V8 which will produce around 700bhp. The project is headed by David Brabham, multiple Le Mans winner and son of legendary three-time F1 world champion Jack, who says the car has been designed with a strong focus on driver skill and reward. It features carbon brakes, double wishbone suspension, Ohlins dampers and sequential transmission coupled with a jawdropping dry weight of just 972-kilos ensuring an extremely high power-toweight ratio. Only 70 BT62s will be built to mark the 70th anniversary of Jack Brabham launching his racing career in Australia. The first 35 will be finished in liveries commemorating the Brabham F1

Brabham reveals 700bhp supercar team’s 35 F1 wins, with the remainder decorated to customers’ bespoke specs. Owners will also be able to join a driver development programme to eke out optimum performance from the car on the track. Although performance stats remain hush-hu-

sh, the BT62 is expected to eclipse the 340kph, 2.8sec to 100kph McLaren Senna. It is expected to cost more than €1.1 million before taxes and options, and will be built in Edinburgh Park, north of Adelaide in South Australia.

RETURN OF AN ICON: The Brabham BT62.

BMW on the charge BMW revealed its new all-electric Concept iX3 SUV at the 2018 Beijing Motor Show in China. The German manufacturer continues to ramp up its expansion of the BMW I range, and its latest vehicle is a version of the X3 crossover. Confirmed for production in 2019 and expected to hit showrooms in 2020, it retains many of the X3’s design features but with a more smoothed-out overall appearance, while the traditional kidney-shaped grille has been modified so that it is fused together. The firm says that the iX3 will employ a fifth-generation electric motor serving up 266bhp of electric power connected to a battery which ‘has a net capacity of over 70 kWh.’ Range is expected to be at least 400 kilometres and the vehicle will be compatible with 150kW fast charging. Production of the iX3 will take place in China, currently the world’s biggest market for all-electric cars.