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Police probe into €60,000 ‘scam’ By Frank Anderson NINE people have been arrested in two separate investigations into fraud at Palma airport car park. The operator is believed to be out of pocket by almost €60,000 as a result. The first arrests were of three members of a British family. They run a car hire company which does not have an office at the airport. The second batch of detentions, two days later, concerned six car park staff members. The three Britons, Anthony H, Lisa H and Veronica H had been advising clients to leave their hire cars at the car park at the end of the rental period. It is alleged that they employed a number of methods to avoid paying the airport charges. One was to superimpose false registration numbers on cars and as the first 30 minutes were free, they would leave without having to pay. Another was to enter the car park, take a ticket and then reverse and reenter, which would cause the machine to issue a new ticket, and
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Hotel bonus MALLORCAN hoteliers had a successful tourist season, with 38 per cent saying it was a significant improvement on last year. A mere 4 per cent had a worse summer while 58 per cent said it was broadly similar to 2011.
Tourist rise subsequently take the hire care with that ticket. A less sophisticated trick was to tailgate the lead car as the barrier went up. Through these methods, it is believed they were able to avoid paying more than €5,400 in charges. But that wasn’t the only case of fraud police were investigating at the car park. Within 48, officers were again raiding it to swoop on the six attendants. The six allegedly took advantage of a change in the operating system software. As a result, they were able to charge the full daily rate for a lost ticket but not hand over the full
amount to the company. It is estimated the company was defrauded of €54,000. When a customer lost a ticket, the procedure should have been to issue a duplicate, which would be charged at the full daily rate of up to €60 but the six employees are alleged to have issued manual ones. The customer would hand over the full amount but the employees would pocket all or some of the money. Following the change in software, a manager noticed that a disproportionate number of manual tickets had been issued and always during the shift that began at 3pm.
VISITORS to the Balearics have spent €9.1 billion so far this year, an increase of 6 per cent on last year. Only Catalonia earned more.
Club demo ABOUT 50 Real Mallorca fans held a demonstration outside the club’s old Lluis Sitjar stadium before the league match against Real Madrid on Sunday. They were calling on the club to the return to the now dilapidated ground it abandoned 13 years ago in favour of Son Moix.
Wait over THE first Media Markt electronics store in the Balearics is opening on Friday at the Ocimax centre in Palma. The store received 12,000 applications for its 120 vacancies.
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Aerosol attack A ROMANIAN - wanted over an attack on two elderly women - was arrested after spraying an aerosol on a naked flame and trying to set fire to a policeman when approached in Can Valero.
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SPAIN is emerging from the crisis, declared Minister of Labour Fatima Bañez on Monday. Twenty-five per cent of the workforce - 5.7 million people - are jobless and this could rise to 27 per cent in 2013. It is brave of Bañez to insist there are ‘indications’ of improvement but rather than confidence she is more likely to inspire a response of: “Whatever she’s on, we’ll have some too.”
DESPITE unexpected regional semi-victories in Andalucia and Asturias in March, Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba led the PSOE to defeat in Galicia and the Basque Region. Ideological renewal is said to be the answer, but what the party needs now is leadership renewal. It’s time for Carme Chacon to step forward, but only if Zapatero’s former Defence Minister opts for federalism and steers clear of Cataluña’s pretensions of grandeur and independence.
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BARELY six months after being laid, a beach in Port de Sóller has seen about a third of the 16,000 tonnes of sand spread in April washed away.
2013 goal THE Spanish national football team will play a World Cup qualifier in Mallorca next year against Belarus or Georgia. The squad has previously played in Palma four times, but not for the last five years .
Sinking find A FALL in water levels at the Gorg Blau lake near Sóller has allowed archaeologists to study ruins of what they believe was the last hiding place of Muslim Mallorcans after the Christian invasion in 1229.
POLICE in Mallorca have recovered 50 luxury cars worth €729,000 that had been fraudulently acquired by a gang that planned to export them.
Home crisis
FLASHBACK: Demonstrators on the streets during the last General Strike on March 29.
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NIONS CCOO and UGT have called for a General Strike on November 14 to protest against government cutbacks. This comes just eight months after the last strike on March 29 and is due to coincide with strikes in Portugal, Malta, Cyprus, Greece and other European countries. Union Comisiones Obreras (CCOO) has said that the decision has been taken because there is ‘no other option’ and expects the strike to be well supported throughout the country. Meanwhile, Union General de Trabajadores (UGT) pointed out that people should not be afraid to ‘lose a day’s pay’ because there are more important matters at stake. It also said that the strike should be backed by all sectors which are affected by the crisis and the response from the Spanish government, including the unemployed,
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THERE were 4,800 incidents involving animals on Balearic roads last year, a figure that was described as ‘unbelievable’ by Francina Armengol, the Socialist leader in the regional parliament.
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A DRUG ADDICT driving in the Son Banya area to buy heroin ran over a six-yearold girl in a gypsy estate and was attacked by a crowd and stabbed. The girl’s father came to his rescue and drove both injured parties to the hospital.
PALMA cemetery, with plots ranging from €1,490 to €15,950 plus IVA, has seen a 7 per cent drop in sales this year due to the economic times. Meanwhile the council plans to embargo more than 6,000 plots – just under a fifth – as owners have not been paying the maintenance fees.
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Villains nowadays are those who rescue banks instead of people; those who make bankers honestly don’t realise what having your home seized really means.’
Actor Javier Bardem during the premiere of James Bond 007’s Skyfall in Madrid.
students, consumers, pensioners and workers. However, the Civil Servants and Independent Union (CSI-F) is not backing the strike, because it says it is ‘not convenient’ at a time when the rescue for Spain is still being discussed and is at a critical point. The strike will not solve unemployment, warned vice-president and Rajoy’s righthand woman Soraya Saenz de Santamaria. “This strike will help neither workers nor the unemployed, she said. “We do not believe the best way of creating jobs is to invite people not to work.” “The government has made it inevitable,” said Ignacio Fernandez Toxo, secretary general of CCOO. UGT and CCOO expect to be joined by 200 smaller sector alliances as well as student and residents’ groups.
Number of the week had been cancelled to and 7,400 flights from the United States, at the
time of going to press, due to Hurricane Sandy, which is making its way up the east coast of America. Around 50 to 60 million people have been affected by the storm.
PROPERTY prices in the Balearics have dropped by 29.4 per cent since the boom ended in 2007, well below the national average of 46.5 per cent. Meanwhile, Palma city council has estimated there are between 1,000 and 1,500 unsold newbuilds in the capital.
No fillers Tourists will find it hard to find a room at the inn this winter as 66 per cent of all Mallorcan hotel beds will be closed between November and April. In December, the figure will be 86 per cent. A few high profile hotels plan refurbishment during the period.
Parking bid Palma city council is putting out to tender for €24.6m a four-year contract for controlling parking on the city streets. ORA, the unpopular service that doles out parking fines, last year had a turnover of €8.7m.
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Mother guilty of killing son By Frank Anderson A MOTHER has been found guilty of drowning her nine-year-old son in the bathtub, putting his body in a suitcase and dumping him in a ravine. Mónica Juanatey, 34, had claimed she could not remember what had happened at the time of the death of César, a defence that was not believed by eight of the nine jurors. She now faces up to 20 years in jail. The case, which has shocked the Balearics and her native Galicia, only came to light after two hikers discovered the body two years ago on wasteland in Menorca. But César had been killed midway through 2008. He was identified because his initials were written on a rubber in his pencil case, which had also been
dumped in the suitcase. Prosecutors and medical experts painted a chilling picture of Juanatey as a psychopath. When she killed César, she was in a relationship with a Menorcan man, who was unaware she had a son;Juanatey had told him the boy was her nephew. Yet at the same time, Juanatey was carrying on an internet relationship with a man from Catalonia, and according to her lawyer, they married last year despite the charges against her. Nothing is known about César’s biological father but his mother was three months pregnant with him when she began a relationship with a man who would be her partner until 2008. When that relationship ended, she moved to
Menorca to live with a man she had met through the internet a month earlier. She left César behind with her parents. Juanatey told people in Menorca that César was her nephew. Her lies also included telling sending emails to friends back home that said she had organised a communion party for the boy and his friends, even though at this stage he was dead. When she was arrested, Juanatey told police that César was with her parents. But during questioning, she told police that she had gone to the kitchen when César was in the bath and she returned to find him dead. She said she held him in her arms for three hours and cried. She could not explain why she did not call the emergency services.
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Golden hues BRITISH scientists have managed to change the colour of gold by altering the way it absorbs or reflects light by embossing tiny raised patterns onto the surface. It can now be red or green, or a host of other hues.
Trekkie meet STAR TREK fans made history by breaking the record for the largest gathering of people dressed as characters from the TV series at the ‘Destination Star Trek London’ convention.
Best friend AN 82-YEAR-OLD woman was rescued after being stuck in a bog for over 24 hours with her trusty dog by her side. A search was launched by Hampshire Constabulary to locate the woman, who endured a night of heavy rain and gale force winds.
Fuel from air A SMALL British company has developed a way to create petrol from air and water, a technology it hopes may one day contribute to largescale production of green fuels.
Long ride CHEQUE IN: Users of the centre receive the donation.
Family fun day for ASNIMO MORE than 130 people attended a Family Fun Day last month in aid of ASNIMO (The Balearic Association for Downs Syndrome), organised by ESRA North. A cheque for €1,700 was presented to the headquarters in Marratxi, where many of the members of ESRA North had the opportunity of seeing where their funds were being spent, as well as interacting with some of the centre’s users.
Health Minister resigns THE Balearics have a new health minister after Manacor doctor Antoni Mesquida quit three months into the job. It is believed he had lost the support of many PP party colleagues over his opposition to denying healthcare to
illegal immigrants and hospital closures. Martí Sansaloni, a 30-year-old pharmacist from Petra, is the new minister. Isabel Borràs, the head of the health service, IB-Salut, has also resigned.
A CAT which survived a six-mile journey sitting in a van’s engine is being treated for burns and a fractured jaw. It was discovered by the driver after he noticed a burning smell.
New rules NEW partners of divorced parents will lose part of their salary if they earn more than £50,000 under changes to child benefits. The anomaly will affect people even if the children in the house are not actually theirs.
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Vice swoop POLICE raided an area of Platja de Palma notorious for prostitution and arrested six women, mostly from Nigeria, for immigration law infractions. Police suspect the women were involved in mugging tourists.
Lotto luck FORTY Andratx residents have won prizes in the ONCE lottery. One lucky local will receive €6,000 per month for the next 25 years while the other 39 picked up a prize of €25,000 each. The draw means €2,775,000 for the local economy.
Pray harder THE administrator of the Dioceses of Palma has asked the faithful to ‘pray with insistence’ so the Pope names a new bishop of Mallorca. Fr Lluc Riera designated the first and third Wednesdays of the month as dates for the celebration of masses for election of a new bishop.
Balearics buck the national jobless trend By Frank Anderson UNEMPLOYMENT in the Balearics has fallen by more than 7,600 and bucked the national trend, which saw jobless numbers rise to 5.7 million. Job creation boosted by tourism in the third quarter means that 122,600 people are signing on in the Balearic Islands, which represents 19.5 per cent of the active population.
The islands are the only one of Spain’s 17 regions to have created net employment since last year, a modest increase of 900. Overall, 25,200 jobs were created. Balearic government spokesman Rafael Bosch highlighted that “the figures are the best achieved by any region,” but admitted “no one is happy to have so many unemployed.”
However, amid the improved data there were still negative figures, with almost a quarter of families (29,100 homes) having all members out of work. At the beginning of the year, there were 164,000 people out of work in the Balearics, so the new figures are a vast improvement. But the seasonal nature of work means unemployment will now increase.
Pensioners occupy health HQ ABOUT 15 pensioners who have lost pension credit entitlements occupied the headquarters of IBSalut, the Balearics’ health service. A further 70 refused to leave the health ministry. Following a change in legislation, more than
400 retired former IB-Salut workers have lost the credits, reducing the amount they are entitled to by between 30 and 40 per cent. The health service estimates it will save €3m per year through the measure.
In light of the bumper tourist season that has seen a 6 per cent increase in tourist spending, overall the jobs figures are a disappointment. At the end of the third quarter of last year, there were 109,600 unemployed, which is 13,000 fewer than this year. “Jobs are being created but at the same time, the number of jobseekers is growing,” the Balearics economics ministry said. “There were 17,600 more people looking for work than in June at the end of the second quarter.” Joana Barceló, of the Socialist party, said the figures were “extremely worrying.” She added: “The spectacular increase in unemployment rates for youths and over-55s will have a massive impact on poverty in our islands.”
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Show it GERMAN MPs may have to specify their extra income, as the Bundestag (parliament) is preparing a new transparency bill.
Riot breasts A TOPLESS protest was staged by female activists inside the Ikea store in Hamburg. They were demonstrating against women being cut out of the company’s catalogue in Saudi Arabia.
Driving skills A WOMAN aged 45 from Düsseldorf won a national car parking championship which included stages like fitting a nine-metre-long limousine into a parking bay.
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has announced the winners of a competition designed to encourage children to wear their glasses with pride. The Cool Kids competition, in association with Euro Weekly News , was a search for kids who look amazing in their specs and they had a great response. Winners were chosen in the local area of each of the seven Specsavers Opticas stores and their names are below. These cool kids each won a pair of designer children’s glasses and a €50 voucher to spend in a high
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Signing up to the padrón can make a big difference
Urgent appeal to expats: It’s so easy to join and it’s free
By Raul Candela TOWN HALLS in Spain have set out on a mission to sign as many expatriates up to the ‘padrón’ - the municipal register - as possible. Expats resident in Spain are required by law to sign up but thousands are either unaware of their obligation or unwilling to register. Now, the town halls want to prove just how easy it is, and how much it can benefit their community.
BETTER INFORMED: One expat group learning about the padrón.
By law, the National Statistics Institute (INE)
requires town halls to update their municipal
register before December 31. However, some municipalities with a large foreign community have decided to extend this date and intensify padrón promotion. Some expats have never heard of the padrón, while others may have decided not to take action, either because they do not deem it necessary or beneficial. The truth is that registering on the padrón only brings benefits, including: • Better public services. • Parents can only
choose their children’s school when ‘empadronado’ (registered on the padrón). • It is essential to obtain the healthcare card (tarjeta sanitaria). • Social care and local benefits including discounts at sports facilities, easier car registration, etc. • Tax reductions. • The right to vote in local and European elections. It is very easy to register on the padrón and it is free. Expats just need their passport and a resident’s certificate with them, and a copy of each to hand to their local town hall. Applicants will be asked to fill in some simple forms, too. And that’s it.
Millions are urged to help out THERE are currently a total of 5,711,040 foreign residents registered in Spain. EUresidents total 2,440,852, with Romanian nationals leading (15.7 per cent), followed by British citizens (397,535, a 7 per cent share) and Germans (196,729, 3.4 per cent). The British community in Spain, in particular, has increased by 1.6 per cent from 2011 to 2012, as well as their presence
in the foreign population, from 6.8 to 7 per cent. The community of international residents is especially important in the Balearics, Valencia and Murcia regions, where they account for 21.6, 17.2 and 16.1 per cent of the overall population. In Andalucia, the share is smaller (8.8 per cent) but it was the fastestgrowing region in foreign population last year, welcoming more than 13,000 new residents.
SCANDINAVIAN PRESS Stories making headlines in Denmark, Norway and Sweden
Royal news SWEDEN – Princess Madeleine has become engaged to her longtime boyfriend, the American banker Chris O’Neill, the Royal Court has announced.
Dopey cyclist NORWAY – Former Norwegian cyclist and Lance Armstrong team-mate Steffen Kjærgaard has admitted using drugs since 1998.
Grow a mo DENMARK – Cancer associations Movember and Danish Cancer Society are encouraging men to grow a moustache in November to raise money for research.
Myth buster SWEDEN – Men are better at multi-tasking than women, though their skills vary across the menstrual cycle, a study by Stockholm University revealed.
Job plans DENMARK – Up to 12,500 new jobs in the private and public sectors will be created in 2013, according to plans announced by Helle ThorningSchmidt’s government.
Spy vs spy NORWAY – Foreign countries are spying more on Norway now than during the Cold War, the National Police Security Service’s chief officer Benedicte Bjørnland claims.
Trekkie wed SWEDEN – The first Star Trek-inspired marriage in the UK was conducted in London, where a Swedish couple made their vows in costume and used the Klingon language.
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Christmas countdown! Shops take on festive look as extra staff hired THERE are now fewer than 50 shopping days left until Christmas, and around 60 until the Three Kings. Festive items are already beginning to adorn many shop windows, supermarkets are beginning to stock Christmas food goodies, and children are excitedly now thinking what Father Christmas, or the Three Kings, will bring them. Toys ‘R’ Us will hire up to 1,500 extra staff for
Banks wrong to evict say judges evict that BANKS mortgage defaulters from their homes have been criticised by judges. A report by seven judges expressed harsh criticism for the way in which mortgage defaulters are evicted from their homes. Some of the benefits and help extended by the government to banks should find their way to help clients who, despite their ‘good faith’, were seven debt-burdened, judges have said in a special report. “Otherwise the debtor will be faced by ruin and lose the place where they carry out their business or
professional activity or – worse – their home,” the report stated. “A solution should be found that avoids social exclusion and equally distributes the consequences of the economic crisis.” Evictions increased 13.4 per cent in the second quarter of this year compared with the same period last year. The legal and procedural implementation of mortgage loans should be revised, the report stated. further was There criticism for Civil Law modifications in 2000, when new eviction regulations were introduced.
Christmas, with sales normally accounting for 56 per cent of annual turnover. “Children are the last to be affected by the crisis,” said Antonio Urcelay, President of Toys ‘R’ Us in Europe. The chain has 47 outlets in Spain, with another opening in Logroño next Friday. A temporary ‘pop-up’ store opened recently in
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Bilbao and another is opening in Madrid later this month. Both will close on January 7, a day after the Three Kings holiday when Spanish children traditionally receive presents.
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Euro dreams PANAMA wants to introduce the euro as legal tender alongside the US dollar, German Chancellor Angela Merkel was advised during a visit to the country.
Up in smoke THE world’s secondbiggest maker of cigarettes - British American Tobacco has seen group sales fall in the first nine months of the year amid a ‘fragile’ overall economic recovery.
Roman hungers for sushi, so quickly splashes out on a €50,000 takeaway ROMAN ABRAMOVICH, the Russian billionaire businessman, solved a craving for sushi on a trip to Azerbaijan. While Baku might rank as one of the world’s most
CHRISTMAS JOY: Traders look to a business boost.
expensive capitals, it is not famed for its Japanese food. But undeterred, Abramovich owner of Chelsea Football Club in London - simply told an aide to order sushi from a restaurant in the British capital and fly it out to Baku in his Gulfstream jet. At an estimated cost of £40,000 (€50,000) it is believed to be the most expensive takeaway in history. It seems the sky is the limit when it comes to takeaways for the world’s super-rich. FOOD FOR THOUGHT: Jet-set Sushi... ordered by super-rich Abramovich.
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A WARNING to readers. We have just returned from La Palma in the Canary Islands, where my wife was taken ill. I asked the hotel to call a doctor, which they did. He was a private doctor so I had to pay him. He gave me a prescription for my wife so I went to the chemist with the prescription, her SIP card and passport, only to be told they do not accept the SIP card in the Canary Islands. I do not understand as it You and the says on the card Sistema Law in Spain Nacional de Salud. By David Searl Can you explain this? Our travel agent had not included health cover in our insurance as she thought we were covered by the SIP card. So, when is Spain not Spain?
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Your question is nicely put. Spain is not Spain when it is one of the individual Autonomous Regions into which the country is divided. These regions administrate many of the government services, including healthcare. In the Valencian Region your health services are provided by the Valencian health service and in Andalucia, they are delivered by the Servicio Andaluz de Salud. They are all part of the national system, which is why your card says that, but they are individually administered, often with differences. The SIP card is one of these differences. SIP stands for Sistema de Información Poblacional, the System of Information regarding the Population. Every resident of the Valencian Region is supposed to have one, which enables the authorities to plan their services. Even a baby gets a SIP. Basically, it is a census. This card was formerly issued to anyone who was empadronado, resident in the Valencia Region, even penniless immigrants who had never paid into the system. It entitles holders to healthcare, but only under the Valencian system, which is why the Canary Islands region did not accept it. The SIP card is no longer so easy to obtain. David will respond to queries but reserves the right to select letters which will be of interest to the greatest number of readers. You can also consult David through lawyers Ubeda-Retana and Associates in Fuengirola. ask@lawtaxspain.com or call 952 667 090.
Budget cut, but Olympics run up high cost LONDON 2012, recognised as one of the best ever Olympics, came with a hefty price tag for British taxpayers despite a £377 million government saving on the final budget.
£££ THE Royal Mail has enlisted the help of Paralympic gold medallist Ellie Simmonds in urging people to post early for Christmas.
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STARBUCK’S global finance chief has said that while he ‘looks forward’ to paying more tax in the UK, taking on several
‘way too expensive’ property leases had hit profits. A quarter of the chain’s 600 local outlets are running at a loss.
£££ SCORES of women who worked for Birmingham City Council have won an equal pay fight in a ruling that lawyers say will have ‘serious ramifications’ for employers. Experts said it could trigger thousands of claims.
Scottish independence could be like soap opera WITH ongoing talk of Scottish independence not to mention the Catalan uproar interesting points come to mind, mostly concerning Jim Scotland and the rest of the Collins United Costa Blanca Kingdom. The position of REAL SOAP: Coronation Street attracts millions of Cataluña is of course very viewers... and eyes will turn to possible ‘soap different, with the opera’ fiasco if Scotland breaks from the UK. arguments for and against becoming more past experience, any EU constituencies in England, entrenched with every decision on this might take Wales and Northern utterance by political months - even years - Ireland. leaders on both sides of and I do wonder what, Would independence the divide. during this ‘interregnum’, mean them giving up their An agreement setting would be the situation of Westminster seats, out the terms of an those Scots presently triggering a rolling salvo of independence referendum living and working in the by-elections and for Scotland was recently remainder of the UK. governmental reshuffles? signed by Cameron and * What would similarly Of course, since there the Scottish First Minister, happen to those English, are no Englishmen and the hope and Welsh and Northern Irish representing Scottish expectation is that, should in Scotland? constituencies, there the split take place, it Of course, if Scotland’s would be no reverse would be amicable; a petition were successful, effect, but here’s a parting of friends. this problem would be thought: George Galloway However, points remain resolved by the immediate might have to quit to be resolved, among application of the EU’s Westminster and return to them these: ‘right to work and travel Scotland! * No doubt Scotland between member states’ Oh, what joy! would apply for European rule. A further possible upset, Union membership, However, this could not in the same league exchanging a partnership hardly apply to those when compared with the for a hopefully benign Scottish-born MPs political upheaval but dictatorship. But going by presently representing interesting in itself, is the question of the Scottish footballers playing in, and KATE MIDDLETON - Britain’s new receiving high favourite royal - costs more than salaries from, £102,000 (€127,500) a year mainly English equivalent to €350 a day - according teams. to Australian Vogue magazine. It Would they, if was recently revealed that Scotland became a £35,000 (€43,750) alone is spent member of the EU, on her wardrobe in a 12-month be counted as period. European players, thus free to sign for
Kate costs €127,500 a year!
United Kingdom clubs? Don’t forget that Cameron has promised to grant the UK electorate a referendum on Britain’s continued membership of the European Union, which as things stand, might result in an overwhelming ‘No’ vote. In this case, with the United Kingdom no longer tied to European rules, Scottish footballers might find themselves counted as foreign players, only two of which are allowed per club under Football Association rules. How complicated things have become just because the Scots were forced to accept the rule of an English king following the debacles of 1715 and 1745 which brought about the collapse of the Jacobite cause. Strangely, if the surviving pretender to the Scottish throne were to be invited to take over, the Scots would find themselves ruled by an Austrian. There is just no getting away from Europe, it seems. Mind you, the English have fared no better. Our present royal family was originally Sax-Coburgs from Hanover, and before, following the death of the last Stuart King, Charles II, England was ruled by William of Orange, who was Dutch! How fascinating are these convoluted historical meanderings! More like television soap opera storylines than real life.
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Investing For Growth – Three Key Principles To Guide Your Investment Strategy - Part 1 Time in the market – not timing the market Investors who remain invested over the longer term often achieve better results than those who attempt to time the market. It is natural to be concerned when markets are volatile and falling, but if you have a suitably long-term plan for your investments and adequate cash reserves to cover your short-term needs, then you should try not to react to every little bit of negative news, even if it can be hard to ignore. Most investors should therefore plan to be invested for the longer term – five to ten years, or even more. Many investors who attempt to ‘time the market’ often end up disappointed. In some cases they end up significantly worse off. There are two key reasons why people time the market. Some try to be clever about when they buy and sell to maximise gains. Their aim is to predict when a share will be at its lowest point and then when it is at its highest point. You would need to predict the future (and many events that affect markets cannot be
An investor’s portfolio should be built around their specific objectives. If you are investing for growth, then I normally recommend three main principles: 1. Time in the market 2. Spread the risk 3. Regular reviews predicted) and you would need to be right twice. Many other investors make emotional investment decisions. They are influenced by shortterm market movements and react to them, when instead they should focus on the longer-term trend and how this fits in with their own investment objectives. Unfortunately, all too often, this can result in investors entering or exiting the market at precisely the wrong time. Investor sentiment actually lags market movements so those who react to sentiment often enter and exit the market at the wrong time. Investors can go through a
by Bill Blevins, Financia l Correspondent, Blevins Franks
roller coaster of emotions, starting with optimism, moving on to excitement and then euphoria as markets rise higher and higher, before changing to anxiety as markets fall off their peak and slipping through anxiety and fear to despondency as markets fall, before improving again through hope and relief back to optimism. Many investors enter the market or invest more money at the ‘euphoria’ point – but this is actually the riskiest point in a market cycle. Likewise the point of maximum financial opportunity is the time when most investors are despondent and so fewest people are investing at this point. For example, if you compare movements in the FTSE 100
index with historic net investment flows (investment purchases minus investment sales by retail clients) into equity funds by UK investors since the early 90s, we can see that investment flows significantly increase when markets peak, and conversely decrease during market dips. However, often the best returns from equity markets come in periods just after a downturn. Markets are very sensitive to economic events and can rebound quickly after good news. Those investors who sold out after markets had fallen usually miss out on the best of the upside and this can have a significant effect on their overall investment performance. Those with capital available to invest who were waiting for markets to improve usually miss out on the opportunity to profit from much, if not all, of the sharp increase in performance. Often a few very good days account for a large part of the total returns over a market cycle. If you miss these days you could end up with considerably less profit, or even make a loss when you could have made a gain.
As an example, let’s look at a hypothetical investment in the S&P UK Mid-Cap companies sector index. Investors who invested £10,000 on 31st December 2001 and left it untouched up to 30th December 2011 earned a £5,183 profit. Those who missed just the five best days over the 10 year period only received a profit of £191. Those who missed the 10, 20 and 30 best days saw significant losses - £6,569 in the case of 30 days. Next week I will look at spreading the risk and the importance of reviewing your portfolio. These views are put forward for consideration purposes only as the suitability of any investment is dependent on the investment objectives, time horizon and attitude to risk of the investor. The value of investments can fall as well as rise as can the income arising from them. Past performance should not be seen as an indication of future performance. To keep in touch with the latest developments in the offshore world, check out the latest news on our website. www.blevinsfranks.com
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Admiral Group PLC
1094.00
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-2.15
26.54
Aggreko PLC
2080.00
-6.00
-0.29
219.09
AMEC PLC
1039.00
5.00
0.48
172.52
Anglo American PLC
1896.75
-36.50
-1.89
920.12
Antofagasta PLC
1251.00
-19.00
-1.50
100.23
657.00
0.50
0.08
481.42
Associated Brit Fds PLC 1376.00
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122.58
C O M PA N Y
-2.50
-0.09
162.08
British Land Co PLC
533.25
1.50
0.28
British Sky Broadcasting
711.25
-7.00
BT Group PLC
215.05
-2.10
ARM Holdings PLC AstraZeneca PLC
2899.00
Aviva PLC
325.25
-4.90
-1.48
1,226.19
Babcock Int Group
950.25
-2.20
-0.23
32.32
BAE Systems PLC
309.65
-1.23
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351.83
Barclays PLC
229.47
-2.95
-1.27
2,949.64
BG Group PLC
1314.00
-9.50
-0.72
699.46
BHP Billiton PLC
1954.75
-26.50
-1.34
669.72
426.57
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3,245.09
3134.75
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C O M PA N Y Compass Group PLC CRH PLC
-3.00
-0.27
-18.95
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53.04
1775.00
6.50
0.37
312.58
Eurasian Nat Resources
328.00
-6.20
-1.86
290.15
EVRAZ PLC
235.05
-4.49
-1.87
325.79 113.24
Diageo PLC
Experian PLC
1064.00
-1.74
-0.16
Fresnillo PLC
1888.00
-25.00
-1.31
41.04
261.40
-2.10
-0.80
320.58
279.78
G4S PLC
-0.97
179.61
GKN PLC
-0.97
2,210.67
GlaxoSmithKline PLC
3.6M 14.2M 5.6M 18.8M 124.8M 4.4M 7.2M 4.8M 31.2M 5.9M 11.6M 42.8M 19.3M 10.5M 92.4M 4.0M 9.0M 21.9M 7.7M 11.9M 57.8M 21.0M 11.9M 11.9M 3.1M 4.3M 3.3M 11.7M 4.4M 8.4M
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1,170.53 239.32
1.00
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33.45
Glencore Int PLC
341.05
1155.00
2.00
0.17
197.14
Hammerson PLC
470.40
0.50
0.11
Capita PLC
719.00
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144.54
Hargreaves Lansdown
727.00
-32.00
-4.22
720.41
Capital Shopping Cntrs
333.35
-0.70
-0.21
82.85
HSBC Holdings PLC
609.85
-0.66
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2,103.11
Carnival PLC
2460.50
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73.15
IMI PLC
928.50
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122.12
Centrica PLC
322.05
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503.07
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-13.00
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222.90
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Most Advanced Applied Micro Circuits Corporation TASER International, Inc. Stamps.com Inc. TeleCommunication Systems, Inc. Expedia, Inc. First Security Group, Inc. WebMD Health Corp Overstock.com, Inc. THQ Inc. Netflix, Inc. Cerner Corporation Interphase Corporation Liberty Interactive Corporation
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0.32
96.97
159.10
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280.64
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58.43
85.47
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Johnson Matthey PLC
2251.00
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-0.22
50.32
Kazakhmys PLC
705.50
-9.00
-1.26
338.39
Kingfisher PLC
283.55
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-0.49
506.03
Land Securities Gr PLC
808.00
1.30
0.16
127.21
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132.05
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545.88
Lloyds Banking Gr PLC
39.87
-0.59
-1.46
20,348.68
Marks & Spencer Gr PLC 390.55
-3.70
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660.13
Meggitt PLC
386.20
3.30
0.86
207.82
Melrose PLC
234.65
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164.47
Morrison (Wm) Sup PLC
270.85
-0.55
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463.14
National Grid PLC
701.00
-0.85
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774.90
3592.00
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38.01
170.40
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1212.50
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1,213.72
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727.25
-3.00
-0.41
60.40
Petrofac Ltd
1532.50
-13.00
-0.84
69.74
Polymetal Int PLC
1102.00
-12.00
-1.08
14.22
830.75
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-0.78
623.87
Randgold Resources Ltd 7330.00
-51.05
-0.69
18.84
Prudential PLC
Reckitt Benckiser Gr PLC 3742.00
-7.00
-0.19
103.83
Reed Elsevier PLC
599.25
-1.50
-0.25
249.51
Resolution Ltd
207.70
-0.34
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353.26
REXAM PLC
444.25
-1.66
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134.89
Rio Tinto PLC
3066.00
-44.50
-1.43
519.38
Rolls-Royce Holdings PLC 855.50
1.50
0.18
230.49
Royal Bank of Scotland
274.55
-3.10
-1.12
479.02
Royal Dutch Shell PLC
2173.50
-0.62
-0.03
552.25
RSA Insurance Group PLC 111.10
-1.13
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1,427.36
SABMiller PLC
2641.75
-1.50
-0.06
172.36
Sage Group (The) PLC
307.75
3.50
1.15
845.69
Sainsbury (J) PLC
354.65
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328.72
Schroders PLC
1513.00
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27.28
Serco Group PLC
564.75
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-0.09
32.80
Severn Trent PLC
1645.50
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14.76
Shire PLC
1742.50
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120.48
650.50
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132.84
Smiths Group PLC
1035.50
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25.03
SSE PLC
1437.50
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178.09
Smith & Nephew PLC
Standard Chartered PLC 1490.75
-8.50
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319.33
Standard Life PLC
280.70
-3.20
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281.05
Tate & Lyle PLC
724.00
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175.07
Tesco PLC
316.30
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1,870.70
Tullow Oil PLC
1385.50
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180.80
Unilever PLC
2313.50
11.00
0.48
356.29 130.62
United Utilities Gr PLC
715.00
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Vedanta Resources PLC 1113.00
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55.57
170.00
0.30
0.18
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Weir Group PLC
1699.00
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91.27
Whitbread PLC
2297.00
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20.74
Wolseley PLC
2705.50
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92.55
Wood Group (John) PLC
830.50
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127.24
WPP PLC
785.75
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534.43
Xstrata PLC
964.75
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551.73
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Mercadona gets US pat on back MERCADONA has received a front page pat on the back from the Wall Street Journal. In an approving article, the globally famous newspaper reported that a formula based on increased productivity, flexible working hours and performance-linked bonuses “an unusual mix for a Spanish firm” - have increased sales. Mercadona turnover rose 8 per cent last year, compared with Spain’s overall fall in retail sales for 25 consecutive months, the newspaper reported. Ninety per cent of staff are on full-time contracts, and the chain hired 6,500 employees last year, more than any other Spanish company.
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Just €2 a day can add up to a smile at month end HAVE you experienced hair loss, break-outs of sweat or a dull continuous pain in your stomach recently? Experts say that the troubled financial times we live in is causing no end of A look stress. at finance The stress of for females paying bills, worrying about job security Jane Plunkett and meeting the end jane.plunkett@euroweeklynews. of each month is no com bed of roses and can leave even the most positive a little down in the dumps. Therefore the thought of also trying to save a little as we muddle along is a daunting one. improve if they saved an extra €60 However, according to a new each month. study, putting away a little each High living costs and tough month will significantly improve employment conditions have piled our mood. the pressure on squeezed Saving just €2 a day, which household budgets, but the great amounts to €60 a month, will thing about this little savings tip is make us happier, says the report. that it’s a minimal amount which Nearly two-thirds of those shouldn’t put too much strain on surveyed wished they could put finances. aside more cash, while almost a Plus, seeing €60 adding up each third admitted their mood would month is guaranteed to create a
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big smile long term. The report highlights that “for people who aren’t satisfied with their savings, it doesn’t require big changes to lay aside an extra €2 each day.” In fact, those using regular savings tricks have shown that it is so often the simplest daily changes that can make a big difference. Walking short distances rather than taking the bus or car, cycling or car sharing are all good ways to cut back on transport costs. Buying essential items in bulk always saves money, as does simply giving up that slice of cake or biscuit that goes alongside a cup of tea or coffee. The fun of saving can be a visual joy too. Get a big glass bottle or jar and drop in €2 each day and then watch the savings grow. And when it’s tipping over count it out. But be warned. Other family members should be told that they are YOUR savings and not to dip into them for small change or a bus fare!
Bankers in need of happy pills ONE in five staff of Bankia take antidepressants on a regular basis. Almost 22 per cent have visited the doctor in the last year, complaining of anxiety or depression, according to the union, Comfia. More than 3 per cent of the nationalised bank’s workforce needed sick leave for complaints ranging from apathy, exhaustion and mood swings to upset stomachs. As the first survey of this kind, it was impossible to make comparisons with the situation before Bankia was taken over by the Spanish government in May, Comfia stressed. At least 53 per cent of the bank’s counter staff and 66 per cent of managers had been threatened or verbally attacked by customers.
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Progress over European banking supervisor FINALLY some progress has been made in the Eurozone with leaders reaching a much-needed agreement to set up a single banking supervisor to European Union (EU) banks. In practice this means member countries will adopt a legal framework that will give the European Central Bank (ECB) overall control of the supervision of EU banks. This was a very positive move for the euro which continued to gain ground following the announcement. However, yet again it could be shortlived as concerns over Spain and the euro economy are still very present. Indeed the troubled Spanish economy continued to be the major focal point as investors’ fears loom over the recession in the region. First Standard & Poor’s cut Spain’s credit rating two notches to BBB. The rating agency declared that the negative outlook on their long-term ratings reflected their view of the significant risks to Spain’s economic growth and budgetary performance, as well as the lack of a clear direction in Eurozone policy. Then Moody’s, another credit rating agency, decided to cut the debt ratings of five Spanish regions,
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The level moved to 87.3 per cent of GDP within the Eurozone, up from 85.4 per cent in 2010, and 70.2 per cent back in 2008. The extent of Eurozone states’ shortfalls reduced somewhat to a combined level of 4.1 per cent of GDP, from 6.2 per cent in 2010, but this still meant an extra €390.7 billion government debt. Elsewhere in the broader European Union area, only six countries saw their level of debt as a percentage of GDP fall from 2010 to 2011, while 21 saw it worsen. In spite of the UK’s Chancellor George Osborne promising a reduction
in government spending, the UK’s shortfall continued to be one of the largest in Europe while the powerhouse economy, Germany, dropped its budget deficit to less than 1 per cent of GDP in 2011 from 4.1 per cent in 2010 and saw its debt fall to 80.5 per cent of GDP from 82.5 per cent! Finally, EU members Sweden, Hungary and Estonia succeeded to stop the trend and record budget surpluses last year, even with the ongoing economic decline across most of the euro region. With such disparities in performance it is no wonder that markets and investors remain hungry for strong signs of cohesion, commitment and concerted European actions from all countries caught in the Eurozone crisis. Across the Atlantic, the greenback received some positive support on the back of a better than expected rise in September retail sales, the largest since October 2010 and a key indicator of the strength of the US economy. Nonetheless, the dollar overall remained in a limited range of around 2.5 per cent throughout the month as did the euro and British Sterling to an even lesser range.
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I, LIKE many responsible pet owners, went to the town hall and registered my two dogs. Then, as instructed, I carried the information whenever I took them out. However, the other day while walking my dogs at 6pm, a young woman asked me the time and somehow took my wallet. I only realised it had gone minutes later. What is most disturbing is that while there was no money in the wallet, my house keys and registration forms containing my name, address, and phone numbers were. This is more information than is on my passport. I am an elderly lady and often walk my dogs, and I want to warn others who probably like me are not fully aware of the dangers of carrying these forms on them. I have now had to have all my locks changed. It seems so stupid that we have to carry such information around, especially when our dogs are microchipped and registered anyway Frankye Hawkridge San Pedro, Costa del Sol
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JUST 18 months ago the Sunday Market at the Hipodromo in Mijas Costa consisted of about 10 stalls in a field alongside the Costa del Sol horse racetrack. Now it fills 10–12 parking zones and attracts hundreds each week. So even in these tough economic times, some business ventures would appear to be expanding!
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HAVING lived in Spain for 15 years and running a business here, I agree with Mike Walsh rather than Linda Hall in the article ‘Are expats still living their Spanish dream?’ (Issue 1425). The Spanish can be charming if they think you will spend money with them, but otherwise can be decidedly anti-social, unless you are ‘family’. The Spanish still receive EU money, whilst the British pay in £40 million (€50m) a day, as well as contributing significantly to the tourist industry. Even so foreigners are still known as ‘guiris’ even when they speak the language fluently. We live in an all-Spanish community and as a result have many Spanish friends, but instead of examining the depth of this friendship we prefer to reflect on the wonderful weather, beautiful scenery and bountiful supplies of fresh food. Spain is great, but don’t rely on the Spanish too much, you may be disappointed. Jennifer Rogers Lorca
Five years ago I moved - as do many British - to Los Boliches with my foreign-born wife. When sorting out our residencia papers, we encountered Aubrey Bowles at Fuengirola National Police Station. He provided invaluable help not only to us, but also to scores of others each time we had to visit the police station as part of the ever-present paper chase involved in living in Spain. He remained calm throughout, was courteous - more so than many seeking his help - and most definitely truly deserved the White Cross of Spain for his voluntary work since retiring as a policeman in Britain and moving to Spain. Well done, Aubrey, and a belated personal big thank you. N Wells Los Boliches
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Notary fact IN the ‘Notarios are no lawyer substitutes’ article (Issue 1424) Mr Snelling stated there are no notaries in the UK. This is incorrect, with notaries appointed for centuries in the UK, and approximately 900 currently in England and Wales. A notary can be found in various local areas and traced on the website www.thenotariessociety.org.uk/ For Scotland: www.lawscot.org.uk/ Northern Ireland: www.lawsoc-ni.orf/ In Eire: www.notarypublic.ie/. Please clarify this to your readers. Diana Clark Los Romanes
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Evil is evil THERE is no such thing as lesser evils. Evil is evil. With regard to discussions about eating organic or bio foods, here in Europe totally organic food is very rare because with limited farming land much of the organic food is cultivated near non-organic food. In addition, we should not forget the irrigation and rain that seeps underground, in addition to the flying and crawling insects that abound. Because of all this scientists have proved that there is hardly any difference between bio and not bio. I have travelled through China, Asia, the Middle East, Australia, America, Europe and Brazil, studying these matters and listening to all the learned, and some not so learned, people. Many say to eat animals for pleasure is evil. Then of course there are many who continue to argue, but as I have learnt in life, the less one knows the more one argues. Mrs RV Nedelec By email
Bank scam I RECENTLY read a report in the EWN about a scam letter, allegedly from the British tax authorities, and sent out by email regarding a rebate. Readers should also be alerted that last week I received an email purporting to be from the CoOperative Bank Group in the UK, with regard to an alleged account in my name, and asking me to make contact. I have never had an account with them, so clearly this was also a scam, and I want to warn others to be on the look-out, as I am sure I am not the only one on their mailing list. NA Turre, Almeria
Sky high view I FEEL that Chris Terry (Letters 1424) misunderstood Tony Lloyd’s earlier letter regarding aircraft noise. I think he meant the light aircraft from Trapiche airfield that fly over the villages around Lake Vinuela and sometimes are quite a nuisance. One in particular flies early in the morning and has an engine noise louder than a Jumbo Jet! Alan Edson Puente Salia, Malaga
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something which is already taking place at an alarming rate of knots. Heaven forbid we do more to add fuel to that situation. And what about perfectly normal adults, who sincerely enjoy working with children? What a difficult scenario they face! It is a brave individual who enters into a profession that also holds a strong attraction to paedophiles. The danger here is that decent men and women will no longer take the chance of becoming Scout leaders or sports instructors for fear of being labelled a child molester. This will leave all these positions wide open to the only people who couldn’t care less - paedophiles. It is all a most difficult situation and one against which we must all remain constantly vigilant. Just this morning my little boy saw Paul Gadd being led away by police. “Daddy, what’s a peedofill?” he asked. Damn them all to hell that I should have to explain their actions to my innocent little boy! Thanks for all your correspondence. I can’t reply to them all but be assured I do read every one. Keep ‘em coming. Keep a spring in yer step. And, whatever ya do, always keep the faith. Love Leapy Leapylee2002@gmail.com
YOUR article about Savile was spot on. The stories emerging at the moment are truly farcical. His aide of 32 years lived the whole time terrified of him, and states he MAY have had a secret life! Along with friends in my teens I spent time at the Mecca in Leeds where there were lots of dolly birds hanging round him. He didn’t have to take advantage of any innocent lasses. Jim Loftus By email
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I READ Leapy’s article about Savile’s abuse of underage girls but he sent out a mixed message that girls slept with showbiz personalities as part of a promiscuous contest. Did this give showbiz stars the right to take advantage of vulnerable people? S L, Villajoyosa, Alicante
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HE problem with this terrible paedophile brigade is that not only do they rob youngsters of their innocence, but also many adults as well. When I had my first two girls, some 50 years ago, I would think nothing of jumping into the bath with them and having fun splashing about. I wouldn’t dream of doing that in this day and age, as I would feel far too uncomfortable with its ‘inappropriateEAPY EE ness’. One more piece of innocent SAYS IT fun stripped away OTHERS THINK IT by these perverts. I love children. They are the nearest thing we can get to influencing and shaping the future. I’ve had six and have always been interested in watching the development of both them and other tots along the way. At one time, I could smile at FATHERLY LOVE: Now we have to think so differently. youngsters and enjoy having them innocently smile back, often with a from the adult who accompanies anywhere children gather. The couple of funny gaps in their teeth. them. How sad is that? Of course, danger here is that we are on a fast Not any more. When I pick up the as usual the whole overkill factor track to isolating our children from kids from school, I now find myself predictably shows its hand. adults altogether, which is not acknowledging only youngsters As a friend pointed out, it is now healthy at all. that I already know. Smiling at a considered an offence to take If children are taught to be strange child can often bring a photos of children at school sports suspicious of all adults, they will suspicious look of blank disapproval days, play parks, or in fact almost also cease to respect them,
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T’S been reported that 30,000 napkins are stolen from Jamie Oliver’s restaurants every month and that he’s had to weld the handles to his lavatories. Recent statistics from the Retail Fraud Study reveal that store theft, too, increased by 10 per cent in 2011, costing businesses £3.4 billion. The most often shoplifted items? Meat, condoms and razor blades. From the workplace? Not pens, but toilet rolls. And the most nicked item in the world? Cheese. Some friends of mine used to run a small hotel in the UK and were amazed at how dishonest some customers are. Jamie’s celebrity status makes his situation worse because of souvenir-taking and his restaurant prices leaving some maybe feeling ‘entitled’ to flogging some of his stuff on ebay. But my friends had really plain cutlery and china nicked. Other items ‘removed’ by guests included the following. Over 15 pepper mills. Liquid soap dispensers. Tips left on the table for staff, nicked by a member of the party who wasn’t paying; or the person who had left the tip (after the rest of the group had gone) or a different table. Toilet rolls and
Nail it down… or else! Breaking Views Nora, who has lived on the Costa del Sol for a number of years, is the author of psychological suspense and crime thrillers. To comment on any of the issues raised in Nora’s column, go to www.euroweeklynews.com/columnists/nora-johnson
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CELEBRITY SUFFERER: Jamie Oliver. the odd brush. Not to mention bathrobes from bedrooms. Now, it never ceases to astonish me how stealing is considered a joke. What kind of morality is that? And when does it pass from ‘petty pilfering’ (which is still theft) to all-out stealing? Who decides? Why this need to take something which doesn’t
belong to you? And if people are nicking old toilet brushes, it begs a couple of questions. Firstly, in what kind of, er, nick are their own toilets? Secondly, just what were they using until then? Ditto regarding the nicked toilet rolls. The problem is that some people are lacking in moral standards. But this is the society
we live in, where fiddling expenses (not only by MPs), pocketing stuff which doesn’t belong to you, and people trying to ‘rip each other off’ is considered par for the course. Hoteliers, like my friends, should take a leaf out of a recently opened Chinese hotel – all the objets d’art, lamps and such like are super-glued to the
surfaces they sit on. Enough to thwart the casual or impulse thief? Maybe. Though not a Jamie Oliver customer, it seems. Nora Johnson’s thrillers ‘Soul Stealer’ & ‘The De Clerambault Code’ (www.nora-johnson.com) available from Amazon in paperback/eBook (€0.89; £0.77) and iBookstore. Profits to Cudeca.
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Don’t take it in the chin, chaps show us what you can grow HAPPY Movember to one and all! Yes, you read correctly, this is Movember, not November, or at least it will be in my house. Movember is a yearly event to raise awareness of men’s health issues and is responsible for the sudden appearance of furry growths on the top lips of many normally tonsured faces. Yes, November has become Movember because for the whole 30 days of the month men are encouraged to grow moustaches! This for me is a bit of a double-edged sword. On the one hand I love to call my husband’s bluff: he has on many occasions spoken about growing a D’Artagnan style moustache, or even a ‘Niven’, but until now has completely chickened out of the actual growing and sporting of said facial accessory.
The closest he has ever got to having a moustache has been when he has taken his own sweet time in the bathroom shaving off his beard and perhaps just rested in between strokes of the razor to see what he would look like with a handlebar, or a Dali, or perhaps even a Super Mario Brother. But on the other hand, snogging a fella with a moustache, well, I guess everyone has to make sacrifices for charity and health awareness. My husband has said that he would definitely do it if we were still living in London as plenty of his friends would be doing it with him, so this has led me to try to form the S’Arraco Moustache Club. So far I have not been able to recruit one single person, but I am determined as it starts today, Movember 1. The rules are
Family Matters Vicki Mcleod
GROOMED: Take the plunge gents. such: each ‘Mo Bro’ (that’s the cute name you get if you participate) must start the month clean shaven.
For the entire month the Mo Bro must grow and groom a moustache. There is to be no joining of the
mo to the sideburns as that is considered a beard. And there is to be no joining of the handlebars to the chin as that is considered a goatee. And, (this is the best rule), each Mo Bro must conduct himself like a true gentleman. Mo Bros effectively become walking, talking billboards for the month of Movember and through their actions and words raise the profile of men’s health issues, such as prostrate and testicular cancer which is often still not spoken about as it is such a private issue for so many people. Some get sponsored to grow their moustache and the money goes to men’s health charities. At the end of the month there is often a party (I am using this as a way to encourage the Moustache Club: come on Bros! There will be Scotch eggs and beer!).
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‘Mo Sistas’ are the women who support the Bros. The most supportive thing you can do is not, repeat NOT snigger at the early attempts. Teenage ‘bumfluff’ moustache or full on ‘Tom Selleck’, it is the thought that counts. Since its humble beginnings in Melbourne, Australia Movember has grown to become a truly global movement inspiring more than 1.9m people. Last year over 854,000 people around the world got on board, raising £79.3 million. Big steps have been taken towards changing attitudes and habits relating to men’s health abut there is still much to be done. You can get information at www.movember.com . If you are planning a fundraising Movember moustache campaign in Mallorca let me know! www .familymattersmallorca.com.
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Mallorca does not shut for the winter, there is so much to do! I MUST be the only woman on the planet who doesn’t like shoes! I much prefer bare feet, but having stuck to my ‘no socks till November’ policy, I have now succumbed and stuffed the feet protesting wildly into a pair of woolly warmers. I will, of course, set them free again if we get a mild spell, but for now the temps have dropped and there is no arguing that autumn is finally here. (Shhhh, don’t tell anyone, but Mallorca does not shut for the winter). Don’t listen to the auld misery-guts who tell you that everywhere closes down, there’s nothing to do and the island is deserted for the off season. Well it is true that tumbleweed can be seen rolling down some of the holiday resort high streets in mid January but those of us who have lived here for a number of years know where to find the fun in winter.
Penn to Paper Laura Penn aura@spectrumfm.net. Laura is the Station Manager and Breakfast Show Presenter of Spectrum FM Mallorca 88.6FM
There is always something happening, from quiz nights to cabaret and this is when Mallorca residents have more time to play. Traditionally it is also the time of the year when we get even more people listening to the radio to find out what is happening. That is why we broadcast our ‘What’s On’ guides to promote events so the organisers can get their messages across and the listeners can plan ahead to be a part of whatever is going on. Now we have also created the ‘Mallorca Guides’ to help residents know which businesses are plying their
SHOES?: I much prefer bare feet until the winter months. trade through the chilly months. It is a case of us all helping each other in challenging times and our role at Spectrum is to provide a platform for people to give and receive information that is relevant to a local community. As Spectrum radio is regulated and administered by an association for integration (the AICEE – Asociación
Cultural para la Integración de los Extranjeros en España) it is part of our remit to provide a flow of information to help people who live here in Spain. It is something that I have always been passionate about anyway ever since I started radio here seven years ago. Spectrum is a Spanish radio station in English, not an English radio station in Spain.
We focus on local news, issues and events which is why you will hear us talking about how Real Mallorca got on at the weekend and never hear us discuss the latest X-Factor contestants. If you have something to tell people here on the island do not hesitate to get in touch. For events email hans@spectrumfm.net, for business promotion email sarahm@spectrumfm.net and for anything else, drop me a line. This winter is about helping each other and anyway, according to the Mayan calendar, the world will end on December 21, 2012 so we may as well have a good time between now and then! If they are right we go out in a blaze of glory… if they are wrong, we carry on! Laura Penn is the Station Manager and Breakfast Show Presenter of Spectrum FM Mallorca broadcasting on 88.6FM across the island. www.mallorca.spectrumfm.net
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Y THE time you read this you, Halloween will have passed and the sight of the Grim Reaper himself, wandering the calles of your pueblo, probably won’t scare or surprise you much. Probably just some stray partygoer yet to find his way home, right? Now that the candy has been handed out and kids the world over are suffering sugar withdrawal symptoms, all that remains is to reflect on how widespread this originally Celtic tradition of All Hallows’ Eve has become. The US may have embraced it and finessed it into the spectacle it is today, but it all started as a pagan ritual in Ireland, called Samhain, or a celebration of summer’s end. Is it so popular because we actually enjoy being a little spooked‌ in a nice controlled environment, of course! How else can you explain the popularity of the Haunted House and Ghost
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Rides of the world? While we may not wish to dice with death, per se, the ultimate inevitability of it is both a curiosity and a preoccupation, be it
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subconscious or not. Every culture reveres traditions of the dead and gory, just look at the Mardi Gras, the Buddhist Bon Festival in Japan and remember, remember the 5th of November - Bonfire Night which essentially celebrates a
day of scuppered terrorism culminating in the symbolic burning of the perpetrator. Ghouls, ghosts and the dead are big hits the world over. In Spain and Latin America, the 1st of November is All Saints Day, also called Dia de los Muertos, and is followed by All Souls Day on the 2nd - a time when the dead shall rise again, returning to their homes. To mark the occasion people clad entirely in black pay their respects in the cemetery, leaving offerings or flowers, then hot-foot it to the theatre to see a production of Don Juan, as has been the tradition for more than a century. Saints, it seems, are allimportant in our host country. Forget birthdays, here it is the Saints’ Day (most Spanish names tie in with that of a saint, which is allocated to a day) or ‘Dia de Santo’ that is celebrated with gusto. If you’re invited to one, do
bring a present or you will be left red-faced, as well as empty-handed. Normally the birthday and saint’s day are on two separate days, but parents truly devoted to the tradition grace their offsprings with the corresponding saint’s day name, so you may well come across old goodies like ‘Hilaria’ (August 12) or ‘Fermin’ (July 7) in your travels in Spain. Not knowingly connected to any saint of significance, I shall swerve Don Juan and making any sacrificial offerings at the cemetery. Instead, I plan to watch a hat trick of Omen, Friday the 13th and Final Destination to mark el Dia de los Muertos, accompanied, of course, by the large bowlful of goodies collected while scaring the households of Mallorca witless. And if my vampire costume doesn’t do the trick, I shall have to send in the heavies, in the shape of two kids and one dog with fangs and devil ears to collect the treats. Boo!
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NEVER TOO OLD: Short bursts of exercise best.
Exercise for alert brain
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HORT bursts of exercise could be the best way to keep your brain alert, rather than mental activities such as crosswords. Research suggests that brain shrinkage leads to problems with memory and thinking and these are the key symptoms of dementia and physical exercise is the best protection against brain shrinking later in life. Author of the new study Alan Gow, from the University of Edinburgh, said exercise is critical for brain health and that there was no real benefit to participating in mentally and socially stimulating activities on brain size.
HAT would be your perfect day? Going shopping? Spending the day in the spa? Family time? Well it seems a woman’s perfect day combines a variety of things. Researchers asked 900 women with an average age of 38 about their day to day lives and how they feel about it and analysed their answers to produce the perfect day and top priority after a solid eight hours sleep would be a little romance with their partner, 106 minutes of it. The day was broken down further into spending 98 minutes on the computer and 82 minutes socialising followed by 78 minutes of relaxing, 68 minutes exercising, 56 minutes shopping and just 36 minutes working. The researchers, from the University of Bremen (Germany) and the Georgia Institute of Technology (USA), said, “Greater wellbeing includes spending a little more time with friends, a lot more time with
WORKING: Oddly enough, the least favourite bit of a woman’s perfect day. LOVING: Oddly enough, the favourite bit of a woman’s perfect day.
Ban the fizzy drinks relatives, and a lot less time with the boss and co-workers.” They said variety was
important and certain activities are more attractive because we do them so rarely.
DRINKING fizzy drinks increases a woman’s chances of suffering a blood clot on the brain and a severe stroke. New research by Japanese scientists shows daily consumption – including low calorie fizzy drinks - raises the chances by around 80 per cent for women, however there was only a slight increase in the risk for men.
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HAVE just finished reading Fifty Shades of Grey by E L James, which as it happens was a 50th birthday present. I knew that sex featured largely in the novel and that the writing, allegedly, verged on the pornographic so like most intelligent beings I skimmed until I found the ‘dirty’ bits, which turned out to be, to my mind, not so dirty after all. In fact the Marquis De Sade wrote much racier novels way back during the French Revolution (my favourite story of that time is the one about De Sade leaning out of a window in the Bastille shouting to the revolutionaries below that they were killing the prisoners, thus causing the subsequent storming, during which the manuscript of 120 Days of Sodom was mislaid for a while). De Sade and his cronies subscribed to the Libertines’ school of thought which basically stated that if you were
Fifty shades of fed-up Suzanne Manners Suzanne has a degree in Fine Art from Goldsmiths and an MA in Writing from Lancaster University. She is currently teaching in Alicante and writing a book for teenagers (which doesn’t have a vampire as its central character). To comment on any of the issues raised in Suzanne Manners’s column, go to www.euroweeklynews.com/columnists/suzanne-manners.
WARMING: Who could resist this on a grey day?
of noble birth and had shedloads of money then you could do whatever you wanted, with whomever you wanted (as long as they were over the age of 10), until Napoleon, fed up with his wicked ways, had him thrown into an insane asylum (Napoleon had a bit of a Cromwell complex). Even before the
revolution writers such as Voltaire were producing very saucy pieces such as Candide, Libertines all over France and even Britain were having a whale of a time pushing back the envelope of sexual depravity. So I’m sorry Ms James but in this instance I have to say that I am fifty shades of
unimpressed, fifty shades of so what and fifty shades of what a lot of b*****ks and as for the setting back of female emancipation by a couple of centuries I am well and truly fifty shades of p****d off. Rain, grey skies, grey sea and clouds; ‘tis the perfect weather to lock oneself indoors and watch TV or read stupid
books about young people with perfect bodies doing unspeakable things to each other. The weather of stews, pies and mashed potato (none of which, I add, touch the lips of either main characters in Fifty Shades of Grey). It is also the weather of depression, sloth and weight gain (thanks to
the stews, pies and mashed potato) so in an effort to maintain my equilibrium I have been painting. I have started a series of works based on observations of the sea and sky painted in fifty shades of grey. Grey is an amazing colour (or shade if you are going to be pedantic), from slate to dark to dim. Grey can contain elements of violet, blue or green which makes it a ‘cool’ grey or red orange or yellow which is a ‘warm’ grey. Look at the sea during a rainstorm and witness the huge variety of grey. It is absolutely stunning. Looking at grey skies in this positive way enables me to stave off the incipient fed ‘upness’ that infects my being at this time of year. Strange to think that in a country like Spain, which is famed for its light and colours, it the nature of its grey which compels me to paint, but then I have always been a miserable git. Beef stew and dumplings anyone?
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LOW RANKING: Opening a business is tough.
Business block SCOLDING Spain is a little like rebuking a truculent teenager; some say you’re too hard and others say he needs a slap. Business fuels a nation’s economy and what do Spain’s politicians do? They make it so difficult to open a business that it ranks in 136th place out of 185 countries rated for business set-up procedures. Bless him; it took an Andalucían entrepreneur €10,000, three years and wading through the bureaucracy of four different administrations before he could set up his business. There are times when you despair.
F you’re going to sleep with a king you should make sure your sole intention is to sleep or read up on Article 56.3 of the Spanish Constitution. It states unequivocally that ‘the person of the King is inviolable’. Two Madrid judges dismissed paternity demands made by Belgian Ingrin Sartau and Spaniard Alberto Sola because the monarch enjoys ‘special protection’ from the legal process. In other words the
Images of Spain By Mike Walsh www.michaelwalsh.es To comment on any of the issues raised in Mike’s column, go to www.euroweeklynews.com /columnists/mike-walsh
gent wearing the crown can do whatever he wishes. The law, with which we are obliged to
UNPROTECTED: Julian Assange. comply, is well below his station. I bet whistleblowing Aussie Julian
Assange wishes that he had the same protection.
Captivating sight? B
LUE movie star of 3,500 productions, Nacho Vidal, protests his innocence after being arrested following a Chinese money-laundering bust. What a useless life, a rutting stud performing for glass-eyed voyeurs. Why do they call them adult movies when the content is
behind the bicycle sheds juvenile? Nacho is a bloke who does have his brains between his legs. I recall a bus driver’s experience when passing through a rural area. The attention of a young office worker at the bus stop was captured by a boar and sow in an
adjacent field doing what comes naturally. The poor girl was unaware that her bus had pulled in and its passengers were equally captivated by her interest. When the penny finally dropped I believe her face was a picture. I bet it was.
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PISCES (February 20 - March 20) Someone will most certainly come to the rescue when your situation changes. Well, they will, won'ʼt they? Have Plan B ready just in case. In continuing to think in the short term you do yourself no favours. Think now of a ʻ10year planʼ and be determined to reach your goal. Bit by bit and day by day you will progress. You donʼt have to rush ahead and get stressed. ARIES (March 21 - April 20) An exciting project is bubbling
Born November 2, 1938, she is the current queen consort and wife of King Juan Carlos I of Spain. She met King Juan Carlos on a cruise of the Greek Islands in 1954. She is a great-great-granddaughter (paternally) and a great-great-great-granddaughter (maternally) of Queen Victoria.
away in your mind but may need financial backing. Take advice from a professional or someone with successful experience in these matters. Remember that any idea has to grow, so consider what you need to see happen in five yearsʼ time. There is little time for romance and you may decide to put that on hold because of complications. TAURUS (April 21 - May 21) During your social encounters this week you meet someone who offers to help. That is great, but do ask yourself if you would be prepared to give anything in return. GEMINI (May 22 - June 21) Some exciting suggestions make you think twice about a current business matter. However, it may not be necessary to change anything but to consider the new suggestion as a sort of ʻadd onʼ to a current project.
SU DOKU HOW TO PLAY Fill the grid so that every row, every column and every 3X3 box contains the digits 1-9. There’s no maths involved. You solve the puzzle with reasoning and logic.
CANCER (June 22 - July 23) The moment that you have been waiting for has arrived. A colleague has made a decision that is long overdue. Perhaps you are a little shocked and speechless because there has been such a time lag, but this will pass.
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LEO (July 24 - August 23) You work hard for your money. Make it worthwhile by trying to hold on to as much of it as possible. Someone who is charming and plausible may try to get you involved in a fast-track money making scheme.
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Just joking • A man walks into a doctor’s office and says “Doctor, Doctor I swallowed a bone.” “Are you choking?” the doctor replied. “No, I really did!” • What do Scotsmen eat? Tart’n’pie! • What is heavier, a full moon or a half moon? The half moon because the full moon is lighter! Have you got a funny joke? jokes@euroweeklynews.com Include full name and town you live in.
VIRGO (August 24 - September 23) By showing confidence in your own way of doing things, you inspire others. This is chiefly because you are at last finding a balance between work and home life. In the past you may have felt stressed and equated that with working - not so now. LIBRA (September 24 - October 23) Because you are intent on pleasing others, you may be cramping your own style. This is something that you have in abundance and it should be used. You may be feeling that a business idea does not stand a chance and, in any case, you donʼt want to risk any money. .
By what, more common, names are the following chemical compounds better known? 1. Calcium oxide 2. Hydrated calcium sulphate 3. Hydrated magnesium sulphate 4. Magnesium hydroxide 5. Nitrous oxide 6. Potassium hydrogen tartrate 7. Sodium carbonate 8. Sodium chloride 9. Sodium hydrogen carbonate 10. Sodium hypochlorite
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SAGITTARIUS (November 23 - December 21) The rather more serious side of your nature needs to take over this week. Someone in a higher position is keeping an eye on you. This may be because they are considering you for promotion, so be on your best behaviour. It is important at the moment to stick to any rules and regulations or your reputation (and pocket) could be hit.
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technical problems facing the beginner which Peter Maddocks tackles, but he also considers the inspirational side of cartoons - what comes first, the idea or the artwork; once you’ve had a bright idea, how do you transfer it on to paper? And he supplies captions and examples of cartoons to help you
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SCORPIO (October 24 - November 22) A juicy bit of gossip comes your way this week and it is hard to keep it quiet. You must do so, however, because there is a lot riding on it. When people trust you, they are saying much about the relationship. In this particular case, the person may well be able to progress you socially at some time in the future.
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draw that very first masterpiece. Peter Maddocks was a full time professional cartoonist, both in National newspapers, films and TV animation. Now residing in southern Spain, he is turning his hand to writing short stories for both children and adults and painting in this wonderful light! Ebook available on Amazon.com or access the author’s website: http://PublishedByMe.blogspot.com
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ALEX the Lion, Marty the Zebra, Gloria the Hippo, and Melman the Giraffe are still fighting to get home to their beloved Big Apple and of course, King Julien, Maurice and the Penguins are all along for the comedy adventure. Their journey takes them through Europe where they find the perfect cover: a travelling circus, which they reinvent - Madagascar style. Animation 1h33m Directed by: Eric Darnell Starring: Ben Stiller, Chris Rock, David Schwimmer, Jada Pinkett Smith.
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Crosswords CRYPTIC Across 1 Drug getting one worried after work (6) 5 Game bird thatʼs a bit like beef? (6) 8 Stick to relationship (4) 9 Couple allowed to join band (8) 10 Demote soldiers in front of emissary (8) 11 Amazed when African leader gets married (4) 12 Shout angrily and the rebate is different (6) 14 Sort of tea found in weather balloons (6) 16 Something in list gone over by site manager (4) 18 On the edge? Potentially alarming anyway (8) 20 Gas? I mean to change antacid (8) 21 Worldʼs most populous country is deprived of a double feature in some cases (4) 22 Bird of preyʼs offal concealed within (6) 23 Sorted out an English county (6) Down 2 Itʼs a pity that the one who is sponsored can get rope so tangled (7) 3 Muddle should end in new deal (5) 4 Note, many ladies support church cuddle (7) 5 Damaged German pear is one of a bunch (5) 6 Alfresco? Rope in a replacement (4-3)
ENGLISH - SPANISH The clues are mixed, some clues are in Spanish and some are in English. Across 1 Sellos (Correos) (6) 4 Glass (for drinking) (4) 8 Proyectos (intenciones) (5) 9 Rhythm (5) 10 Dos (3) 11 Smooth (running of engine, motion) (5) 12 Comidas (5) 15 Labio (3) 16 Pala (para cavar) (5) 18 Spy (5) 19 Clavo (de carpintero) (4) 20 Tablecloth (6)
Co d e B r e a ke r 7 Leather wavered, I hear (5) 13 Neanderthal man academic uncovers calendar (7) 14 American university found a revised version in a solid condition (7) 15 An Oriental caviar cocktail is just plain greed (7) 17 Crown discovered in Nova Scotia rabbit hole (5) 18 Builderʼs mother and child (5) 19 Subject in dog (5)
QUICK Across 1 Tap gently (3) 3 Brazilian dance (5,4) 8 Attacks (5) 9 Heading (7) 10 Anger (3) 11 In front (5) 12 Crash into (7) 13 Scarce (6) 15 Doorkeepers (6) 19 Vow (7) 21 Let in (5) 23 Spoil (3) 24 Oblivious (7) 25 Snares (5) 26 Early model (9) 27 Pen for swine (3)
Down 1 Toads (5) 2 Spider (5) 3 Cakes (8) 5 Hormiga (3) 6 Gold (metal) (3) 7 Trumpet (8) 13 Manzana (5) 14 Forma (figura) (5) 16 Hijo (3) 17 There (near you) (3)
Down 1 Possibly (7) 2 Two times (5) 3 Also (7) 4 Choose (6) 5 Make use of (5) 6 Opening (7) 7 Quarrel (5) 14 Alligator pear (7) 16 Surprise (7) 17 Gratify (7) 18 Cure (6) 19 Chubby (5) 20 Adult insect (5) 22 Complains (5)
LAST WEEK’S SOLUTIONS CRYPTIC - Across: 7 Facade, 8 Turkey, 9 Maze, 10 Torments, 11 Fencing, 13 Borer, 15 Watch, 17 Gazebos, 20 Vicarage, 21 Spit, 22 Annexe, 23 Ironed. Down: 1 Damage, 2 Gate, 3 Neptune, 4 Stork, 5 Gruesome, 6 Beetle, 12 Cyclamen, 14 Javelin, 16 Aliens, 18 Oliver, 19 Caged, 21 Sloe.
QUICK - Across: 1 Satsuma, 4 Shift, 7 Scalp, 9 Soldier, 10 Express, 11 Seize, 12 Detest, 14 Gallop, 18 First, 20 Inflate, 22 Croatia, 23 Leave, 24 Solve, 25 Devoted. Down: 1 Suspend, 2 Tramp, 3 Assist, 4 Sulks, 5 Initial, 6 Terse, 8 Press, 13 Turmoil, 15 Awful, 16 Pretend, 17 Lizard, 18 Focus, 19 Title, 21 Apart.
ENGLISH - SPANISH Across: 1 Cups, 3 Thing, 6 Abril, 8 Tigre, 10 Add, 11 Cloud, 12 Otter, 13 Dog, 14 Shine, 15 Stain, 16 Goose, 17 Beso.
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Hexagram The purpose of the Hexagram puzzle is to place the 19 six-letter words into the 19 cells. The letters at the edges of interlocking cells MUST BE THE SAME. The letters in the words must be written CLOCKWISE. The word in cell 10 (PARTED) and one letter in four other cells are given as clues.
Down: 1 Charcos, 2 Periodico, 4 Hot dogs, 5 Nightmare, 7 Ladders, 9 Erroneo.
1.Unscramble the name of a current British politician: I BAN MIDDLE 2. Unscramble the name of a European country and its capital city: SUBMERSIBLE SLUG
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Quote Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have laboured hard for.
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Each number in the Code Breaker grid represents a different letter of the alphabet. In this week’s puzzle, 3 represents C and 7 represents B, so fill in C every time the figure 3 appears and B every time the figure 7 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.
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HEALTHY: Breakfast helps you to feel less hungry during the day.
Breakfast helps us to eat fewer calories throughout the day SKIPPING breakfast makes us want more fatty, high-calorie foods later in the day. Scientists carried out an experiment on 21 people, doing brain scans after breakfast and
with breakfast being skipped. The results showed the brain was more attracted to food if breakfast was missed so people then consumed more calories at lunch.
So for those wanting to lose weight, skipping meals, especially breakfast, is not a good idea. Nutrition experts say breakfast is known to take the edge off appetite.
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All that glitters… is not to be eaten UK TRADING Standards have issued a warning over some cake decorations that are not fit for human consumption. The Food Standards Agency said sparkling glitter could contain ground-up plastic or powdered brass. Public analyst Chris Hunt, who carried out the tests, said: “Many of these glitter products have been found to be made of plastic and would be suitable for decorating cards and ornaments, but are not designed to be consumed.” There are many genuine edible cake decorations that are approved for use in food but many are plastic varieties confusingly labelled as ‘non-toxic’ which does not mean that they can be eaten. Hunt added that there has been no research carried out on the effects on health of eating such material in glittersized fragments.
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A taste of Palma at annual tapas festival By Álvaro Reynolds IT wasn’t so long ago a tapa was a slice of jamón on bread or a spoonful of Russian salad. But thanks to the culinary revolution of the 90s, the Basque concept of the pintxo has spread far and wide. Now, a tapa is a rather more sophisticated accompaniment to a glass of beer or wine, or sherry as originally intended. And anyone who is lucky enough to be in Palma until November 3 will be able to taste the difference. The eighth annual TaPalma festival will allow diners to savour a delicious selection of tapas from three dozen participating bars in the capital. Each establishment will offer at least one signature tapa that will cost no more than €2, while a beer, wine or refreshment will be available for €1.20. There will be four routes to follow
as well as one bar ‘in between routes’. The Santa Catalina route features 21 bars, with some offering delicious-sounding tapas such as cod gratin with aioli, scallops on a bed of lettuce with oil emulsion and cuttlefish chips. Doing the Santa Catalina route should take at least two days – all participating bars will serve between 12pm and 4.30pm and 7pm to midnight – but the city centre route, which features six establishments, can be done faster.
Among the delicacies on offer in the centre will be free range chicken croquettes with curry, cappuccino of Galician-style octopus, and figs roasted with cane sugar over a bed of passion fruit foam and Basque sheep’s cheese. At the Escape Bar, one of the signature tapas is called English Breakfast. Meanwhile, others are offering dishes such as chickpeas with tuna, coriander and vegetables with hummus, and black pudding with truffle aioli.
The final route features just two bars on Carrer de Blanquerna near de Plaça de Espanya. Their signature tapas are aubergine caviar rolls with sobrasada and truffle honey and smoked Galician shoulder of ham tartare. A Tapassport is available for diners to use when they collect six stamps from different venues. All in all a delicious four days and we have only one caveat: the festival should last 365 days. www.tapalma.es
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Is education in Spain effective? ONE of the biggest concerns for any parent thinking of moving to Spain centres upon the standard of education their children will receive if they have to move into the Spanish state education system. The quality of this system is of critical importance to any parent unable or unwilling to afford an ‘international school’ and will often define whether a permanent move to Spain is possible or not. So, what is Spanish state education like? Well, as the parent of two children (one of whom is now completing his degree at a Spanish university and the other about to start her final year of Bachillerato), I would say that on the whole the education system works well. However, I think there are two areas that let the system down, one of which is pertinent to foreign children and the other more general (and perhaps more serious). With regard to foreign children, one factor that can make life difficult is the requirement to learn (in certain regions) the local Spanish dialect as well as the Spanish language itself. So, if you move to Catalonia or Valencia or Galicia or the Basque Country then your child will have to learn Catalan, Galician or Basque (as well as an obligatory international language). Indeed, at primary level your child may find that all the teaching is actually done in the regional dialect rather than in Spanish.
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Obviously, it is challenging for any British child to learn Spanish quickly so as to participate in their academic studies, but to learn two ‘core’ languages simultan-eously is much harder. So, there are arguments to suggest that if you are thinking of moving to Spain with school-age children then you should choose an area that lacks a local language. In these areas, the obligatory second language will be only an international one (English, French, German, etc). Certainly, local Spanish languages have absolutely no international value and yet, as obligatory subjects, can cause considerable additional stress to your child, for potentially little or no future gain. The second ‘problem’ with Spanish education is that it revolves around a great deal of rote learning and this is as true for primary and secondary schooling as it is for university degrees. As a consequence, many Spanish students have phenomenal memories! Of course, the trouble is that learning by rote is not very creative.
By comparison, in the UK students are generally taught how to apply knowledge rather than learn (and be able to repeat) huge amounts of academic material. Certainly, the Socratic concept of education in Spain remains alien and the tutorial system of UK universities is all but unknown. Does this matter? Well, in the greater scheme of things it probably matters less than it did. There are some grounds for thinking that the pure rote learning system may be changing. Meanwhile, the ability of university students to go abroad on Erasmus courses means that they receive, at least for a year, a different system of
education before they start work. Do I have regrets about the schooling that my children have had in Spain? No, I think the advantages of growing up in another country and total fluency in a major world language more than compensate for any negatives within the Spanish education system!
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Infiniti to launch Sebastian Vettel’s tailor-made road car THE most powerful and expensive Infiniti ever made is the realisation of double F1 World Champion Sebastian Vettel’s wishes. The Infiniti FX Vettel Edition features more focus and ability than standard. It is endowed with a bespoke aerodynamic, aesthetic and technical nature that draws on Formula One practices. The first cars will be delivered in March 2013. In the journey from concept to production – the company said - Red Bull Racing’s Sebastian Vettel was instrumental in the model’s development and, as part of the test driving team, in providing the crucial feedback needed by the engineers to bring his sporting vision to life.
Edition is powered by a naturally-aspirated 420PS 5.0litre V8 engine which offers balanced performance LET IT SNOW:the Newspeed Alustyle throughout range Comfort snowboard of up ski to and 250km/h (limited) rack to 6 pairs oftime skis.from andforanupacceleration zero to 100km/h of 5.6 seconds. Lighter and more aerodynamic, with more downforce at high speeds, the FX Vettel Edition uses the same standard of carbon-fibre as the Infiniti-partnered Red Bull Racing Formula One cars, and an Alcantara-trimmed cabin to Sebastian Vettel’s design. The Infiniti FX Vettel is available only in Moonlight INSPIRED: The first car is promised for the hands of the double World Champion. White, and is priced from €120,000 (depending on The German driver participating in the VIP him in this exclusive motoring country), with the carbon rear spoiler available at an extra continues to be central to the hospitality for the 150 people club. FX Vettel project by around the world who will join Each Infiniti FX Vettel cost.
New Scottish champ for BTCC GORDON SHEDDEN left the Kent venue as the newly crowned 2012 British Touring Car Champion. Shedden, from Fife, became the first Scottish driver to lift the UK prize since his own hero, John Cleland, in 1995. Matt Neal and first-time winners Aron Smith and Frank Wrathall shared the victories in the final three races of the Dunlop MSA BTCC season on a wet Brands Hatch Grand Prix circuit. Furthermore, drivers and teams using Honda’s Civic model have achieved a clean sweep of all five BTCC titles. In addition to Shedden, Andrew Jordan collected the Independent Drivers Trophy, Honda/Dynamics the Manufacturers/Constructors Championship and the Honda Yuasa Racing Team and Pirtek Racing the outright HiQ and Independent teams’ trophies respectively. For Shedden, being crowned BTCC Champion is a boyhood dream come true. The 33-yearold from Dalgety Bay commented: “All I ever wanted as a kid was to
FIRST SCOTTISH WINNER: Since 1995. race touring cars – it was never about F1 – and it was John Cleland who was my hero when I
used to go and catch a glimpse of the BTCC at my home track of Knockhill in Fife.”
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WORLD CHAMPION: Spain’s Jorge Lorenzo takes the 2012 MotoGP title.
All square on Merseyside as Lorenzo and Vettel win again FOOTBALL Three English teams suffered Champions League defeats last week, although at least Arsenal and Manchester City bounced back to record hard-fought wins in the Premier League. Also, three PL sides were involved in Europa League action: Liverpool defeated mega-rich Russian club FC Anzhi 1-0, Newcastle overcame Bruges by the same score and Spurs drew 1-1 with NK Maribor. At the weekend, the 219th Merseyside derby ended level at 2-2... PL leaders Chelsea (reduced to nine men by referee Mark Clattenburg) followed Champions League disappointment with a 3-2 home defeat to Manchester
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A former football player and the world’s most prolific author of football books (more than 100 published), Tony is also the sports reporter for Spectrum Radio and lives in the Cabrera mountains.
United... Manchester City scraped home 1-0 versus Swansea (in the PL’s longest-ever game, 115 minutes in total)... Arsenal pipped 10-man QPR, also 1-0... Newcastle scored late to beat WBA, Spurs won at Southampton and Wigan upset West Ham, all by 21... Reading and Fulham
DID YOU KNOW? Footballers’ current whereabouts: David Bentley (FC Rostov, Russia), Chris Boyd (Portland Timbers), Michael Bridges and Emile Heskey (Newcastle Jets, Australia), Rob Earnshaw (Maccabi Tel Aviv), Francis Jeffers (Floriana, Malta), Kenny Miller and Barry Robson (Vancouver Whitecaps) and JLloyd Samuel (Esteghlal, Iran). shared six goals... Stoke and Sunderland failed to score... three Bennetts (one of whom was sentoff) played in the Aston Villa-Norwich 1-1 draw... Championship high-fliers Cardiff crushed Burnley 40... Tranmere, 1-1 with Preston North End, and Gillingham, 1-0 winners at Wimbledon, remain top of Leagues One and Two respectively...
And Kilmarnock’s 2-0 victory at Celtic was their first at Parkhead in 57 years. Soccer Extra • With 32 first round FA Cup-ties this weekend, you can expect a few upsets for sure and 76,000 fans will watch Manchester United play Arsenal in the PL. • Two more managers have lost their jobs - Neale Cooper at Hartlepool and Paul Jewell at Ipswich. Meanwhile, Dougie Freedman is officially Bolton’s new boss, Sean Dyche could move in at Burnley and Blackburn are chasing Harry Redknapp, along with a few other managerless clubs! • Don’t be surprised if Chelsea lose ‘out of contract’ stars Ashley Cole and Frank Lampard in January. • When fighting broke out during the Uruguayan game between Libertad and Farina, the worried (and scared) referee ran from the pitch before redcarding 36 players - 22 in
action at the time, plus 14 subs/reserves. He also booked both managers and four coaches. • Hard-up Greek club, Voukefalas, has been handed a lifeline by Madam Soula who runs a local brothel. She bought the club a new pink strip with a logo on the front reading ‘Villa Erotica’ and one on the back saying ‘Soula’s House of Mystery’. The ‘Lady of the Night’ has promised another £8,000 if performances improve! Sports Round-Up * The New England Patriots walloped the St Louis Rams 45-7 in the annual American Football showdown at Wembley on Sunday. * Double Olympic champion Mo Farah may go for the 10,000m/ marathon double at the 2016 Oympics. * England’s rugby union head coach Stuart Lancaster, despite Jonny Wilkinson’s advice, has NOT selected any Frenchbased players in his squad
for this winter’s early Test Matches which start against Fiji on November 10. * England with 14 tries, blitzed Wales by a record 80 points to 12 in their autumn Rugby League International series at Wrexham. * It was Sebastian Vettel, Fernando Alonso and Mark Webber 1-2-3 in the India GP. With three races to go, Vettel, after four successive wins in Asia, leads the driver’s championship by 13 points from Alonso. * Spain’s Jorge Lorenzo is the 2012 MotoGP world champion. He finished second behind home favourite Casey Stoner in last Sunday’s race in Australia to claim the title for a second time. * Padraig Harrington, with a second round 67, won the PGA Grand Slam of Golf by one stroke from Webb Simpson in Bermuda. There have also been wins for Peter Hansen, ahead of Rory McIlroy in Shanghai, and for Nick Watney in the Asia Pacific Classic.