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THE latest superstar set to visit Almeria Province for the filming of the movie Exodus is Sigourney Weaver. The star of blockbuster movies including Alien and Ghostbusters will be making the trip to the province to play the role of Tuya, mother of the pharaoh Rameses, in the Sir Ridley Scott movie. The film boasts an allstar cast with Christian Bale, who starred as Batman in several movies, in the lead role. Also making the trip to Almeria will be Joel Edgerton (The Great Gatsby) and John Turturro (Barton Fink). Two more big names are rumoured to be joining the production with Aaron Paul known

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Star Sigourney joins Exodus in Almeria

ALMERIA-BOUND: Actress Sigourney Weaver. for his role as Jesse Pinkman in the series Breaking Bad, set to play

Joshua, and Ben Kingsley, who won an Oscar for his portrayal of

Ghandi, could be another major star presence. Sir Ridley Scott and his team have been scouring the province for further film locations with the Rambla del Buho in Tabernas and Nijar high on the list of priorities. Mayor of Tabernas Mari Nieves Jaen has had contact with the producer with the intention of cleaning the Rambla and completely transforming an old cortijo for the filming of a scene in mid- September involving more than 100 horses. The provincial government is tackling the logistics of such a superproduction in collaboration with the producer and local authorities.

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Swimming with turtles BATHERS at El Zapillo Beach shared a swim with a Loggerhead Turtle which was swimming close to the beach last week.

Hashish haul POLICE at the port of Almeria have arrested a couple after 60 kilos of hashish was found hidden underneath the wheel arches and back seat of their vehicle.

Mining story A BOOK presentation will take place tomorrow (Friday) at the Casa de Cultura in Seron of â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Las Menas de Seronâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; about the old mining village.

Another strange creature washes up from the deep JUST two weeks after a strange creature from the deep was washed up on a beach in Villaricos, another giant fish has surfaced off the coast of Almeria. A resident of the town of Adra

found a curious specimen of fish while practising kayaking in the area of El Lance de la Virgen approximately 600 to 800 metres from the shore. The fish appeared to have been

brought in by the tide and was in a bad state of decay. It appeared to have an object stuck in its mouth, which looked like a melon, and may well have been the cause of its demise.

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Photo contest to showcase region A COMPETITION designed to showcase the hidden corners of Almeria to international film producers is set to return. The organisers of the film festival Almeria en Corto, which takes place in December, have announced details of the third photographic competition under the banner ‘In search of the lost scenery’. It is a play on words relating to the Spanish title of the Indiana Jones film Raiders of the Lost Ark. In Spain it is called ‘In Search of the Lost Ark’. The closing date for entries is October 21 with a top prize of €600 for the winner of the competition, €300 for the runner-up, and €200 for third place.

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Time Out HIDDEN TREASURE: Playa de los Muertos. Each participant can submit as many photos as they wish using any type of camera and any technique including black and white and retouching. Registration is through the website www.almeria and the encorto.es organisers expect to

receive more than the 60 images presented last year. Photos from last year’s competition are currently on display in the exhibition hall in Tijola until September 15. The exhibition is open Monday to Sunday from 8pm to 10pm.

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Sport 71 - 72

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Moonlight perambulate SIXTY people took part in a moonlight walk from Los Gallardos, following an old mining route.

Routes plan THE city of Almeria is to increase it’s cycling routes by a total of 90 kilometres as part of the Plan Andaluz de la Bicicleta (Andalucian bicycles plan).

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Big cat search wound down THE hunt for a mystery big cat in the Vastala Park, Berja, has found nothing. Now the coordinator of the search has withdrawn the three members of Seprona, the Guardia Civil environmental branch, who were scouring the area. They will remain deployed but not on an active search. The coordinator noted that the staff

were no longer required unless the alleged panther is recorded or there is a ‘reliable witness’ which requires their presence. Five new cameras have been added to those already installed and will be monitored by the staff of Berja Town Hall. The search for the feline was formed by three members of the Service Nature Protection Civil Guard (Seprona) and three

other officers of the Environment of the Junta de Andalucia regional government. Three humane traps with meat baits have been left ‘in situ.’ Apparently, the first animal sighting occurred over three weeks ago by a local resident, and in the days after his sighting was supported by two cyclists who said they saw the animal in the park.

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PASION VEGA, the Spanish singer, will start her new tour in Roquetas de Mar on October 5.

LOVING LIFE: Many Britons move overseas to look for love.

Expat l ve hunt Britons move abroad in search of ‘The One’

OUR out of 10 Britons who moved abroad last year were seeking a new love in their life. A determining factor of love being a priority for expat life is age, with more than half in the 30-39 bracket willing to consider emigrating in search of finding ‘The One’, according to a new survey. There are 35,375 Britons registered as resident in Spain between these ages. Men are also more romantic than women when searching for love, with more than 46 per cent of males willing to consider life abroad in the hope of exchanging ‘I dos’ in a foreign language, compared with 31 per cent of females.

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THE town of Dalias has improved it’s walking and cycling tracks with 17 pupils from the employment workshop improving signage and gathering information for new brochures.

YOUNG Spanish midfielder Suso currently on loan from Liverpool to UD Almeria has been called up to the Spanish Under 21 squad for the games against Austria and Albania.

THE tourist office in Carboneras has announced a significant increase in visitors, particularly in July and August, with hundreds of tourists asking for information.

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THE Cosentino marble and stone company, based in Cantoria, has opened a new distribution centre in Norway, making it the second one in Scandinavia.

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TWO adults and two children were hurt in a car crash during heavy rain in Roquetas de Mar last week.

THE residents of Vicar have recycled 1,240 litres of domestic oil in the first six months of 2013 compared to 1,600 litres for all of 2012.

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UD ALMERIA goalkeeper Esteban received a commemorative plaque before the game against Elche after joining the ‘100 Club.’ He made his 100th appearance during the play-offs last season.

SPAIN needs a positive boost like the one obtained with the Olympic Games’

Prince Felipe, regarding Spain’s candidacy to hold the 2020 Olympic Games, which will be decided by the International Olympic Committee on Saturday. The other candidates are Istanbul and Tokyo.

The survey by Global Visas, a UK company that provides international visas, relocation and employment and services, not surprisingly reveals that Britons aged 18-29 were the most unconcerned about moving overseas to find a partner. The main obstacle to emigrating for all ages, according to the survey, is leaving family and friends, with 25 per cent saying they would miss them too much to consider moving abroad. According to the Spanish National Institute of Statistics, the number of British residents in Spain rose by 6,698 to almost 398,000 between 2011 and 2012.

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vehicles have been sold in Spain so far this year, which is 3.6 per cent fewer than the same period last year. This is despite government ‘Plan PIVE’ grants to help people purchase new vehicles, according to various vehicle associations.

SINGER and actor Sergio Contreras was in Almeria last week to sign autographs and meet fans and to present his new video ‘Princesa de mi cuento’ from his new album AmorAdiccion.

No smoking A TOTAL of 9,611 school children in Almeria took part in an anti-smoking campaign in 2012-13 organised by the Health Council of the Junta de Andalucia.

Art show THE Teatro Villa of Huercal Overa has an exhibition of 64 works of art from Madrid artist Ouka Leele entitled ‘Inedita.’ The display lasts until October 11.

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Piano soloist is main attraction ALMERIA has a chance to hear one of the most renowned European pianists in Fabio Bidini. He will be performing with the Almeria Orchestra at the Maestro Padilla Theatre on Saturday at 9 pm. The main work for the concert will be

the Emperor Concerto, officially known as Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-flat major, Op 73, by Ludwig van Beethoven. This is one of the masterpieces of classical music in the repertoire for piano and orchestra. Fabio Bidini, as piano soloist, and the Almeria Orchestra under the direction of Emilio Fenoy, will star in a magical evening and it will be the first time the Almeria Orchestra has performed in A NEW car park overlooking a naturist beach this big auditorium. has provided a viewing area for voyeurs. The Emperor Concerto, That is according to the Veraplayazul was the last piano concerto association which has criticised Vera Town by Beethoven, written Hall for putting a parking area in ‘the heart’ of between 1809 and 1811 in the famous naturist beach. Vienna and dedicated to The group has declared its ‘opposition and Rudolf of Austria. disgust’ to the parking area which, in its The concerto is scored for opinion, has become an ‘ideal platform for piano, two flutes, two voyeurs who are taking pictures and videos’. oboes, two clarinets in B The car park was created following flat, two bassoons, two complaints from beach users that there was horns, two trumpets, insufficent parking in the area. timpani in E flat and B flat, The town hall has now suggested planting a and strings. The work lasts hedge in the car park to block the view. approximately 40 minutes.

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Theatre nights THE Festival Costa Contemporanea starts tonight (Thursday) in Rodalquilar with three nights of theatre in the Nijar area.

Late draw THE second home game of the season for UD Almeria against Elche was watched by 9782 spectators. It kicked off at 11pm last Friday and finished in a 2-2 draw.

Oil bonanza ALMERIA olive oil exports grew by 216 per cent for the first six months of the year compared to the same period of 2012.

Deadly arsenal discovered THE National Police have arrested a young man in El Ejido after discovering an arsenal of weapons hidden under a blanket in the back of his vehicle. Police stopped the car at a police checkpoint in the small hours of the

morning near a popular shopping centre in El Ejido. Upon searching the vehicle, officers found a suitcase containing three shotguns, a handgun and 128 cartridges of various calibres, all in perfect working order.

The search also revealed a jacket with 13 spent cartridges, a mobile phone, two covers and a shotgun case. The weapons were being taken in the vehicle towards the A7 motorway in the direction of Almeria.

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Centre success as rescued owl and kestrels returned to wild ENVIRONMENTAL agents have returned to the wild an owl and several kestrels. After a period of care at the Centre for Endangered Species in Los Velez, the rescued birds have been returned to their natural habitat. The owl was released in the Sierra

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Nevada National Park, while the kestrels were released in Garrucha. The woman who first alerted the authorities to the young chicks falling from their nest was invited to take part in the operation. Agents have also participated in the release of a pair of kestrels which had

decided to nest on a crane installed on a site in Vera. The workers in charge of dismantling the crane advised of the existence of the nest and postponed the dismantling of the crane for a while, until the chicks could fly. In the first half of the year, the centre has treated 384 animals, of which the majority were reptiles like turtles, terrapins and chameleons. Between January and July, 63 birds have been admitted to the centre, including kestrels, swifts, owls, gulls, an eagle and a damage had wiped out nearly all the apple vulture. The work of these public harvest and had also eroded several small services, as well as the roads. The A317 road that links Velez Rubio with collaboration of citizens is Puerta del Segura (Jaén) was closed in the essential in the rescue and area known as Cañadas de Cañepla near recovery of protected the town of Maria for 90 minutes during the species, which otherwise could see their survival afternoon due to flooding. National rail company RENFE was forced threatened, according to to cancel the train service from Sevilla to the central government’s Almeria, instead transporting passengers representative in Almeria, between the two cities by bus. Jose Manuel Ortiz.

Counting the cost after the storms ALMERIA towns have been left counting the cost of the severe rain that fell last week. Several towns in the province were affected, with Gergal experiencing a downpour of 50 litres per square metre in just 25 minutes, leaving basements flooded. The worst affected town was Bayarcal with 40 litres per square metre and hailstones which damaged crops. The mayor, Jacinto Navarro, confirmed that rain

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Artistic display HUERCAL OVERA artist Pepe Bernel has an exhibition of his works ‘Abstracción en clave mediterránea’ currently on display at the Patio de Luces in Almeria City until September 30.

Busy roads AN estimated 300,000 journeys were made in Almeria Province at the weekend with many people returning home from their summer holidays.

Last show THE successful ‘A pie de calle’ cultural programme came to a close on Saturday with group Rolenzos performing the last concert in Aguadulce.

Hoop play HUERCAL DE ALMERIA will host a basketball tournament combined with urban art and live music in the sports centre on Saturday night starting at 9.30pm.

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Future of only golf course is in doubt THE future of the only golf course in Almeria City is up in the air. In August the concessionary Alboran Golf SL - Garden & Golf, wrote to the city hall asking to mutually agree to cancel the contract, eight years after they made the deal and despite having a 50 year concession. Although the company and city hall are yet to sit down and talk, it seems that the council will have

to find another formula for the operation of the El Toyo golf course or find a new concessionary to take the course on. The main problem in making the golf course profitable is the fact that hotels in El Toyo close after the summer season. As it is mainly foreign tourists who use the golf course, the main stream of revenue is thus cut off.

Why close the hotels in the complex? It’s a question with an easy answer: Almeria airport does not work as expected. There are not enough low cost flights through the winter and tourists travel to cities like Malaga, where there are more than 50 golf courses to choose from and a whole hotel infrastructure which is fully operational.

Stowaways pulled from sea GUARDIA CIVIL officers rescued two stowaways who jumped off a ship into the sea close to the port of Almeria. The coastguard crew were on board the Rio Jiloca patrol boat which was returning to its base at the same time as the arrival of a passenger ship from the Moroccan city of Nador. The officers noticed two people jump off the ship and begin to swim towards the shore. Immediately they headed to the scene and approached the point where the two young men were swimming and pulled them out of the

ALMERIA PORT: The ship had sailed from the Moroccan city of Nador. water. Moments later, after

the ship docked at the port of Almeria, five more

stowaways were found hiding in two trucks.

Flooding damage still to be repaired A GROUP that represents 20,000 residents of the coast of Vera, considers it shameful that one year on from the the floods of September 2012 work has not corrected the cause of the floods. The Association Veraplayazul have written a letter to the administrations (municipal, regional and national) asking for an urgent meeting to address once and for all the regeneration of Vera. They considered it ‘outrageous’ what they called the almost unanimous lack of response to complaints from the affected people. In addition, the group warned there are still areas with mud, no lighting, no fixed sewage, lack of cleanliness, and a need to dredge and channel the river Antas.

Castle the main attraction THE Alcazaba of Almeria ranks first among the most visited summer attractions in the city. The fortified complex attracted a total of 46,119 visitors in July and August. In second place is the Almeria Archaelogical Museum which

opened in 2006. In June, the museum attracted almost 4,000 people. Third on the list are the underground shelters which served to protect the population from bombing at the time of the Spanish Civil War, and were visited

between July and August by 2,685 visitors. In fourth place are the Arab Baths, with 576 visits in July and 734 in August. Finally, the recently renovated Casa del Cine is in fifth place with 939 visitors between July and August.

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Pedalling to celebrate 200 historic years CARBONERAS will be celebrating its bicentennial with a marathon 64 kilometre mountain bike race. The town hall, with the collaboration of the Carboneras Cycling Club, has organised the

Hotel gunpoint robbery arrest made THE Guardia Civil have arrested a 35-year-old man from Darro (Granada), charged with armed robbery. The man was charged with assault at gunpoint at a hotel in Roquetas de Mar. Two masked men had broken in to the establishment and threatened a member of staff. After being forced to open a safe, the worker was left gagged and handcuffed. Both men fled the scene when clients entered the hotel during the robbery and police agents began an investigation inspecting the crime scene with a fine tooth comb. Police claim they found evidence pointing to a man they had previously arrested for crimes of robbery with violence. The Guardia Civil continued to find proof that incriminated the suspect which led to his arrest and the recovery of â&#x201A;Ź1,150 and a mobile phone, allegedly that of the hotel receptionist. The investigation remains open and further arrests have not been ruled out while the man arrested has been remanded in custody accused of robbery with violence and intimidation.

event to take place on September 15. It will offer participants a demanding but beautiful route that will mainly pass through the Cabo de Gata Natural Park, Nijar. Cyclists will meet at 7.30am

at the Castle of Carboneras for registration with an estimated departure time of 9am. The race is expected to take between two and a half hours and five hours with some difficult climbs, and will be split

into different age categories. Any keen cyclists that want to take part can register on the website www.andaluciaciclismo.com. Each participant will receive a commemorative tee-shirt and

drinks and food will be provided during the race. On conclusion of the competition there will be a fiesta in the Parque Andaluz with a giant paella being provided.

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Transfer news UD ALMERIA have further strengthened their squad with the signing of Helder Barbosa, a former Spanish under 21 international. He joined the club from Sporting Braga of Portugal.

Swim classes A TOTAL of 335 children took part in the summer swimming classes at the municipal pool in Vicar.

Cleaned-up WORK has been completed with the cleaning and removal of vegetation from 650 metres of the Rambla of Balerma to improve the flow capacity of water at a cost of almost €30,000.

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Rise of expats in UK THE number of Spaniards moving to Britain has risen by 50 per cent since last year, according to the latest figures released by the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP). The latest figures are obtained

from the number of adult nationals from overseas that registered for a UK National Insurance number (NIN) between March 2012-13. Having a NIN is a prerequisite for working and entitlement to welfare and the National Health Service

(NHS) within Britain. The DWP’s latest figures reveal a total of 45,530 Spanish people applied for National Insurance between March 2012 and 2013 compared to 30,410 in March 2011 to 2012.

Time to go back to school! SUMMER holidays are over and the ‘vuelta al cole’ (back to school) is around the corner. For many the 20132014 school year starts next Tuesday and parents are already doing calculations. The average expense per student this year will be of €640 according to the Spanish Organisation of Consumers and Users (OCU). This figure takes into account enrolment fees, textbooks, school supplies and uniforms. Attending a state or a private school also

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BACK TO SCHOOL: The average expense per student includes books, supplies and uniforms. makes a difference, says OCU. A student attending a state school will pay an average of €109 per month for transport,

canteen services and extracurricular activities. Those attending a private school will pay up to €527 for the same services.

A HUNDRED members of the Andalucian Workers Union (SAT) ransacked a supermarket in Sevilla. According to eyewitnesses, SAT members left the supermarket with a dozen shopping carts which were filled with school supplies. SAT representative Diego Cañamero called this a symbolic action and claimed the school supplies were to be handed over to families in need.

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Girl, 4, scalded in bath

OFFICERS of the Catalan regional police arrested a man in Barcelona for allegedly bathing a four-year-old girl in boiling water. The accused, aged 23, reportedly caused second and third degree burns on the body of the girl he was taking care of. He is said to have immersed the girl three times in boiling water as a punishment. The girl was admitted to the Vall d’Hebron hospital with burns on both her legs and feet. The wife of the accused, the girl’s godmother, was also reported to the courts by police. At the time of going to press the girl was waiting to be operated on.

Taking a bigger step towards more tourists TOURISM chiefs are targeting walkers in their latest push for more visitors to Almeria province. The province has many beautiful walking areas which the Provincial tourist board want to highlight to hikers from

around the world when they visit the Fair ‘Tour Natur,’ which specialises in this sector and takes place in Dusseldorf (Germany) from tomorrow (Friday) until Sunday. The tourism board of Almeria

will promote the Costa de Almeria, not only the beaches but also the interior spaces shared between the 102 towns that make up the province. This year the tourist board will visit the fair along with

Andalucia Tourism and will be present on a stand of some 10 square metres in a fair which has 275 stands. The quality and expertise of the show is considered the best reference point in Europe for all walkers.

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Paddling away TWO days of canoeing activities organised by the Almeria Activa Programme will be held in the Cabo de Gata this weekend.

Firemen race AFTER their 10km road race, the Poniente firemen have organised their first mountain bike race of 38km and 26km on Sunday in El Ejido.

About time UD Almeria finally gets to play on a Saturday with the away game at high flying Atletico Madrid kicking off at 4pm on September 14.

Primark jobs INTERVIEWS have started in Roquetas de Mar for vacancies at the new Primark due to open in the autumn.

Night run TIJOLA will hold its third night race on Saturday with a 10 km race and a 4km fun run.

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Excellent results for San Juan beaches

WATER quality off the beaches of San Juan de los Terreros has been declared excellent this summer. Pulpi Town Hall has made public the report from the Health Council of the Junta de Andalucia regional

government on water quality in the first two weeks of August 2013. After the analysis of water samples collected from bathing on the six beaches of San Juan de los Terreros, the results were as

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follows: Cala Cerrada, Cala Tia Antonia, Calipso Beach, Costa Tranquila Beach, Mar Rabiosa Beach, Mar Serena Beach were all considered excellent and suitable for bathing.

Man jailed for attempting to smuggle drugs through Southampton Airport A MAN, 44, has been jailed for 12 months for attempting to smuggle five kilos of cannabis into the UK from Malaga. The drugs had an estimated street value of €70,670. Southampton Crown Court heard that in May, Border Force officers at Southampton International Airport stopped Nicholas Giles when he arrived on a flight from Malaga. Before officers searched his baggage, Giles admitted to having five kilos of ‘weed’ in his suitcase. The case was opened and the drugs could be seen wrapped in clear plastic.

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DRUG SMUGGLING: An airport baggage search revealed five kilos of cannabis. Giles was arrested and charged with being knowingly concerned in the fraudulent evasion of the prohibition on importation of a Class

B controlled drug. He pleaded guilty at Southampton Magistrates Court and was sentenced in the Crown Court.

ON September 7, F.A.C.E. will be at the Music In the Parc event, an evening of music set in the amphitheatre at the Piedra Amarilla Rural Complex in Partaloa. F.A.C.E. will be organising a raffle and entertainment featuring the Almanzora Voices and Soloists, the Almería Strings, and the Dee Sharp Duo. Tickets are still available from One Stop Pools in the Longo Complex, Girasol in Albox and Essentials, Arboleas at €7. The Bar will open at 6.30pm. Call 617 856 680 or email mjseldon@hotmail. com.

500 speeders fined in Almeria in a week NEARLY 500 people in Almeria province were fined for speeding in just seven days. A traffic campaign by Guardia Civil between August 19 and 25 in the

province trapped 499 offenders. The main cause for loss of points on driving licences is due to speeding, followed by people not using safety belts. According to

statistics released by the Direccion General de Trafico (DGT) traffic department in the first six months of the year, 160 people have lost all their points on their licence.

The profile of drivers that lose their points tend to be male drivers, accounting for 90 per cent of the fines with the majority between 25 and 44 years of age.

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Stories making headlines from the United Kingdom

Phone revenge LEE BEAUMONT was so annoyed with cold callers he set up a premium rate number for his Leeds home. He then gave every utility company that number as a contact, and has made £300 (€350) since November 2011.

Moving in NET migration into the UK has risen to

176,000 from 152,000 in the year to December 2012, as fewer EU citizens went back home, said the Office of National Statistics.

Wills online HUNDREDS of thousands of wills of Empire servicemen who died in World War I are available online after being painstakingly scanned into computers. https://www.gov.uk/probate-search.

Price hike

Pub gloom A NEW guide claims up to 4,000 ‘bad’ pubs could close next year. The

Crocodile babies SEVEN Cuban crocodiles have hatched at the zoo Hoyerswerda. Only 4,000 of them live in natural surroundings in the wetlands of Cuba. HATCHED: At zoo.

Stories making headlines from Germany

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posters into interactive ones.

THE European Central Bank is introducing a quota for women. It aims to double the proportion of women in upper management by the end of 2019 to 28 per cent, according to the Süddeutsche Zeitung.

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Campaign app THE Christian Democrats introduced an interactive election campaign including an app with a camera function that converts the traditional CDU

Sleepyheads SLEEPY: Tired for work.

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HOTEL prices rise by nearly 100 per cent during the Oktoberfest in Munich. According to a survey the average price is €213 per night. Six million visitors are expected to visit the festival this year.

Good Pub Guide 2014 says most of those are stuck in an 80’s time warp, with indifferent food and drink.

GERMANY will provide shelter for 5,000 refugees from Syria, with Chancellor Angela Merkel calling for them to be given a friendly reception. Germany has provided humanitarian aid worth €340 million in the Syrian conflict since 2012.

Big dummy A WAXWORK of heavyweight boxing champ

Vitali Klitschko has gone on show in Hamburg. The Panoptikum is home to more than 120 wax figures including singer Robbie Williams, Chancellor Angela Merkel, and seven-time Formula 1 World Champion Michael Schumacher.

Inflation down THE inflation rate in Germany has dropped significantly, despite a continued rise in food prices. According to the Federal Statistical Office the annual inflation rate fell from 1.9 per cent in July to 1.5 per cent in August.

RUSSIAN PRESS A PAINTING of Russian President Vladimir Putin in women’s underwear by artist Konstantin Altunin was confiscated by the police in the city of St Petersburg. The artist is said to have fled the country.

Young killers POLICE officers of Kurgan (south west Russia) arrested two children accused of strangling another, aged five. The accused, aged nine and 10, were taken to a young offender’s institution.

Plane agreements INTERMEDIARY agency Rosoboronexport signed five new agreements with Italian companies to carry out different projects related to aviation, including an update of the amphibious seaplane Be-103.

Mystery tracks A GROUP of Russian researchers

travelled to the Hyargas Nuur in Mongolia to try to determine the origin of a series of mysterious tracks found on the shore. It is thought they belong to a large reptile.

Potash row A BELARUS-RUSSIA dispute over control of potash exports has escalated, with Belarus threatening to prosecute billionaire Russian businessman Suleiman Kerimov accused of wrongdoing.

Miracle escape A TODDLER escaped serious injury after a drunk motorcyclist rode into his stroller at a zebra crossing. CCTV cameras caught the rider drinking beer before the accident.

Mosque attack A MOSQUE in Harlow, Essex, was targeted by arsonists. CCTV footage shows three men apparently trying to set the 18-year-old building alight in the early hours of the morning.

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Stories making headlines from Russia

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TIRED workers could be costing the UK economy £611 million (€714.5 million) a year according to a survey by bed company Silentnight. It claims six million days are taken off ‘sick’ by sleep-deprived staff.

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Stories making headlines in Denmark, Norway and Sweden

Happy birthday DENMARK - Copenhagen residents and visitors celebrated the one hundredth anniversary of the city’s iconic Little Mermaid bronze sculpture, created as a tribute to writer Hans Christian Anderson.

Football passion DENMARK - A couple was caught having sex on the field of the Brondby Stadium in Copenhagen after a match between Brondby IF and Randers FC. A picture of the couple was posted on the internet.

Viking film NORWAY - The Lord of the Rings producer Barrie Osbourne is said to be planning to shoot a Viking film in Norway, raising hopes it VIKINGS: A new film.

could boost the country’s tourism industry.

Frozen in time NORWAY - An Iron Age tunic as well as Neolithic arrows and bow fragments are among the discoveries found under melting snow on Norwegian mountains. They are thought to be at least 6,000 years old.

School closed SWEDEN - Elite boarding school Lundsberg in Storfors (west central Sweden) has been closed down by the Swedish authorities after they received numerous reports of its caretaker allegedly bullying some students.

New element SWEDEN - A team of Swedish scientists from Lund University (south Sweden) have confirmed the existence of a new element with atomic number 115 yet to be named.

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Local Police to protect tourists. They have been charged with the alleged theft of a laptop, a smartphone and a digital camera.

Whale remains A DECOMPOSING five-metre whale was washed up on the El Perellonet beach near Valencia city. The area was cordoned off, but the beach remained open to swimmers.

Long delay THE regional Health department must pay €50,000 to the family of a 78-year-old man who died after waiting two hours to see a doctor following a heart attack.

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Axarquia flooded STORMS in the Axarquia left 16 litres of rain per m2. In Almuñecar, Granada, crops were damaged and two families were evacuated from their homes.

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MORE than 120 kilos of hashish divided in four packages were found by custom officers floating in the sea off Motril.

Wrong turning

Father stabbed

A 51-YEAR-OLD woman was arrested in Benicarlo (Castellon) after driving 23 kilometres in the wrong direction on the AP-7. She was charged with driving under the influence of opiates.

A FATHER and a son, aged 35 and 16, were injured during a fight on the streets of Velez-Malaga. The father was treated for stab wounds to the chest, the son for minor injuries. Police are looking for their assailants.

Washout THE 134 litres per square metres of rain that fell in Gandia within 48 hours at the end of August cost local businesses €500,000 in lost trade, owners said.

Going green BENIDORM has signed the Covenant of Mayors committed to sustainable energy policies. The town hall hopes to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 20 per cent for 2020.

COSTA BLANCA SOUTH

Jobs offer COMPANIES that hire Orihuela’s unemployed may receive a grant of €1,125 per worker hired from the town’s Department of Public Works and the Joint Employment Plan that aims to hire 168 unemployed.

Increased spending

STOK KANGRI: A long way up from Teulada-Moraira.

Locals conquer the Himalayas

CAROLA TRAPAGA and Jose Villegas recently climbed the Stok Kangri mountain in the Himalayas. Stok Kangri is the highest peak of the Stok mountain range in the Ladakh region of North-west India. Trapaga and Villegas are respectively President and Vice-president of Club Centre Excursionista i de Muntanya de Teulada-Moraira. Antoni Joan Bertomeu, Teulada-Moraira mayor, together with Antonio Reig, who heads the town hall’s sports department, sent congratulations to the mountaineers for conquering the peak. They are now looking forward to hearing an account of the ascent when the duo return, said Bertomeu and Reig.

mopeds, costing €12.01. Castilla y Leon has the highest price at €37.04 euros, followed by Madrid (€32.73).

Armed robbery

FOREIGN visitors to the Murcia region and Costa Calida have spent €334.1 million in the first seven months of the year; an increase of 2.3 per cent over the same period last year.

Good impression

MALLORCA

Cheap deal ITV inspections are cheapest in the Murcia region for motorcycles and

EIGHT people, two of them under 18, were admitted to the Santa Ana hospital in Motril with minor injuries following an accident between two cars on the N340 road.

COSTA DEL SOL

Sad find THE bodies of two dead dolphins were found on Playa de la Sal in Casares, according to the Malaga Centre for Endangered Marine Species.

Food gifts

FOUR men have been arrested for armed robbery in Monforte del Cid, Alicante. They are alleged to have wielded guns and bound the hands and feet of two elderly householders before stealing jewellery worth an estimated €6,000.

NINETY per cent of tourists visiting the Valencia region this summer say they would come back, according to the results of more than 3,000 questionnaires collected by tourism offices.

Car accident

Balcony falls TWO young tourists in their 20’s were found dead in Magaluf, on Sunday night and Monday morning. Both young men are suspected to have died due to injuries sustained from balcony falls.

Robbery death A GERMAN man, 65 died from asphyxia

after two thieves tortured and tied up him and his wife, 76, in their apartment in sa Coma, Mallorca. They were left with towels covering their heads for 15 hours.

CARREFOUR supermarkets will donate a kilo of food to local food banks for each kilometre cycled by visitors to tents installed at finishing lines of the Tour of Spain in Andalucia.

Badly hurt

Cash stolen

A 28-YEAR-OLD German pedestrian was seriously injured in a car accident in Mallorca in the early hours of Monday morning. The tourist was crossing a motorway slip road in Llucmajor when he was in collision with a car.

A MAN, 44, has been sentenced to four years in prison for stealing €655,000 given to him by three couples to manage a property sale in August 2007.

Jobless fall

A LOVE letter written in 1921 was found in a wooden panel stored in the Alhambra Palace museum which came from the San Gil Church in Granada, demolished in the 19th century.

THE year-on-year unemployment rate in the Balearic Islands dropped by 7.28 per cent, being the Spanish region with the biggest decrease followed by Cataluña and Canarias.

More protection TWO people were arrested as part of an operation launched by the Manacor

From the heart

That’s cruel A COUPLE was arrested in Benalmadena, Malaga, for allegedly leaving three children in a locked car parked in the sun while they went to the beach.

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Stat of week THERE were 14,053 mortgage operations in June, 42.2 per cent fewer than in June 2012. They have now fallen for 38 consecutive months.

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European counterparts, usually on marrying, but another CJE finding explains the current tendency to tardy emancipation. House purchase should account for 30 per cent of income, but under-30s on an average wage would need to earn 80 per cent more to be able to pay a mortgage. Young people are being kept out of the property and rental markets claimed Sheyla Suarez, the CJE’s socio-economic expert. Less than overment amongst immigrant indebtedness their workers and an increasing problems are ‘extreme number of workers returning economic fragility’ and to their own countries, 12.7 the gulf between per cent of all those currently purchasing power and working in Spain are not property prices. Spanish, Adecco said. Fifty-five per cent In 2012 a total of 216 of unemployment million citizens were emp- amongst the young is loyed in the EU, of whom 201 “alarming,” Suarez million were working in their said, and half of those own country. in work are overOf the remainder, 6.6 qualified for their jobs. million (3.1 per cent of the This is even more total) were from another EU evident in women, of country while 8.6 million whom 60 per cent are workers came from outside overqualified, comthe EU (4 per cent of the pared with 49 per cent total). of men.

Still a draw for expat workers JUST over 8 per cent of Spain’s workforce is from outside the European Union. This is the highest proportion in the EU where on average immigrants make up 4 per cent of employees, found job recruitment and international employment agency Adecco. Spain also has the secondhighest number of employees from other EU countries, accounting for 4.4 per cent of the workforce. This is outstripped only by the UK’s 4.8 per cent. Despite the economic crisis, widespread unemploy-

Fewer work-related fatalities

UNSAFE: But deaths down.

A TOTAL of 260 people died in work-related accidents between January and July this year. This was 7.5 per cent fewer than during the same period in 2012 when 281 employees lost their lives. Most of the accidents - 216 - took place during the working day, but the remaining 44 occurred while travelling to or from work. Services industries accounted for 129 fatal accidents. Despite fewer fatalities than during the first half of 2012 there was a 20 per cent increase in heart attacks, brain haemorrhages and other conditions, causing 113 deaths.

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In their 30s but still home APPROXIMATELY 80 per cent of Spain’s under-30s still live at home. They move out between the ages of 30 and 34, found a Spanish Youth Council (CJE) survey. Even in more prosperous times the Spanish left home later than their

FERROVIAL AGROMAN and Bot Construction will build a 252 metre €78 million bridge over the Nipigon River in Ontario (Canada).

Better news

GOING NOWHERE: Can’t afford to move out.

INCREASED exports helped slow down the decline in Spanish GDP. It shrank 0.1 per cent in the second quarter of 2013 compared to 0.4 per cent in Q1.

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VOLUME 187.69 45.72 11.96 77.80 160.57 669.76 206.92 250.91 2,414.65 48.60 12.86 2,880.57 24.21 68.33 20.55 443.62 8.11 560.96 34.49 220.92 73.97 339.73 8,453.83 10.71 189.49 58.89 426.43 161.35 14.98 535.40 43.11 59.60 23.47 242.84 34.22 43.89 121.82 136.45 40.54 454.45 157.58 447.54 226.32 625.51 58.02 87.06 184.76 13.78 232.69 30.53 39.77 80.76 19.84 45.30 99.32 416.14 59.75 452.88 33.63 70.50 134.62 132.25 127.75 42.53 43,948.00 8.57 19.02 159.92 225.48 17.27 25.49 366.34

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A recipe for financial success! BRITAIN’S favourite household chef, Jamie Oliver, has got himself into a bit of a pickle after suggesting that, among other things, poor families should eat stale bread. The multi- A look millionaire chef at finance was commenting for females that most lowJane Plunkett income families don’t know how jane.plunkett@euroweeklynews.com to feed themselves and therefore often resort to serving up expensive readymade meals, when his GOOD POINT: Jamie Oliver is probably right. remarks stirred up an uproar. to overspending and remarked the chef. The Essex boy, who malnutrition. Despite the offence bases such opinions on “You might remember Jaime’s comments may recent experiences he that scene in Ministry Of have caused - who has had with low- Food, with the mum and wants to hear a income workers while the kid eating chips and millionaire dictate what working on a new TV cheese out of Styrofoam the less fortunate show, says that for containers, and behind should do? - it’s hard to many families, priorities them is a massive TV. It dispute that the cook are out of sync leading just didn’t weigh up,” has a point.

Loose change

Poverty is not just about income it’s about what is done with the money. Accommodation, nutrition and education should of course be priorities, rather then spending a fortune on fancy flat-screen TVs, designer pit bull dogs,

cigarettes and alcohol. And this is stellar advice relevant for every level of income. But going back to the ‘stale bread’ comment, learning how to cook can make a big difference to a budget and a person’s health. And cooking fresh food doesn’t have to be a challenge or terribly expensive with a little bit of know-how. So rather than stocking up on expensive convenience food and microwave dinners, maybe it’s an idea to invest in a good basic cookbook and a little bit of enthusiasm in the kitchen. And by the way, stale bread as it happens, is the best ingredient for toast, tasty soup croutons and of course here in Andalucía, the totally inexpensive and delicious salmorejo dish!

BUSINESS EXTRA

Running on empty CASTELLON airport, inaugurated in March 2011, cost €150 million but has never initiated commercial operations. Nor could it, as deposits for aircraft fuel were included in plans but never built.

Smart move SMART phones have a 66 per cent share of the Spanish mobile market, compared with 57 per cent in the UK, France, Italy and Germany.

Pension gap PREVIOUSLY selfemployed pensioners receive a monthly average of €603.76. This is 38 per cent less than the average Social Security pension of €858.11 a month.

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Loan deal to pay for new meters THE European Investment Bank (EIB) and the Spanish electric utility company Iberdrola have signed a loan contract for €200 million. The loan will support the modernisation of the electricity distribution network throughout Spain, improving its overall reliability and safety, they claim. The loan will co-finance a comprehensive investment programme designed to reinforce and modernise Iberdrola’s electricity distribution network. A large number of supply points in the full range of voltages operated by Iberdrola will be connected to the existing network. Furthermore, the programme will help pay for the installation of new digital electricity meters to meet Spanish legislation, which requires the deployment of digital meters for residential customers by 2018. The investment programme provides for the installation of up to 1.8 million new meters. The EIB has a long-standing relationship with Iberdrola, one of the largest power distribution companies in Spain, serving 10.7 million customers. The EIB has provided a total of €3.6 billion for projects in Spain since the beginning of the year, of which almost €1 billion is in the Spanish energy sector.

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Leaving the country in search of work

ONO is to take on Europe

MORE and more of Spain’s young are leaving the country in search of work. The numbers of Spaniards under the age of 30 emigrating has gone up by 40.9 per cent since the economic crisis first hit Spain in 2008, according to the National Statistics Institute (INE). And the number of people in the 30 to 34 year age group has risen by 41.4 per cent. In total 14,084 of the 59,724 Spaniards who left the country in 2012 were aged between 20 and 34. But that figure is dwarfed by the numbers of non-Spaniards who moved away. In total 476,748 people left Spain. That is because many

SPANISH cable TV, phone and internet provider ONO will represent the country in the European business awards. It has been chosen to compete in the Millcom Award for Environmental and Corporate Sustainability category. It claims to have robust environmental policies based on saving energy and thus reducing CO2 emissions. The awards, held every two years, will be judged in April 2014. Despite the economic climate ONO is still growing. Sales were up 4.1 per cent in the first quarter of the year.

FORCED ABROAD: Looking for work. immigrants who moved here during good times have been unable to find jobs, and are deciding to move back to their home countries. Unemployment stands at 26.26 per cent with 55.13 per cent of under25s jobless. There are fears that a ‘brain drain’ effect might be taking place. A UGT trade union

report stated that more educated and well trained people are leaving. Top destination is Germany, which received 21,000 Spaniards in 2012. Other popular countries are the UK and France. In South America, Ecuador followed by Venezuela, Argentina, Colombia, Brazil and Peru are all popular.

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Shoppers need to look out for more than the bargains WHILE with my family shopping in the Chinese shop on the road from Quesada to Benijofar, I was approached by five men of either Russian or East European origin. All were tall, in their 30s, and one asked for help reaching some goods. I then realised a man behind had opened my bag and removed my purse. Though aged 70, I gave chase and got it back, and other family members then gave chase as the would-be thieves made their escape in a silver Volkswagen Passat. I was not the only person in the shop to be robbed. The shop staff - although they had it on CCTV - did not even call the police. All shoppers should be aware. Olga Clifton, by email

No warning signs I READ with interest ‘Signs needed over crime threat’ (Letters Issue 1469). I was subjected to a major theft of my bag, losing passports, driver’s licence, credit cards, keys, and money while shopping in the Mercadona supermarket in the central commercial centre, La Marina, Finestrat. Only due to my insistence were the police called, and the shop did not even take my details, acting as though it was normal for thefts, though there were no warning signs in the area. John Cook, Benidorm

Time for action I AGREE with Allen Everington (Letters Issue 1469) that it is about time something was done about the misuse of parking bays for the disabled. The police should carry clamps in their cars and as they also patrol on foot, should also have nearby access to them so that any vehicle not displaying a ‘Disabled’ sticker is automatically clamped and the owner fined when they go to get the clamp removed. Once put into effect people would stop wrongly parking in these bays. At the Javea Arenal Beach car park about 10 days ago, a motor-cycle policeman stopped to check my blue badge when I was sitting in my car, but a van with hazard lights flashing being unloaded by an able-bodied man parked in two disabled spots was ignored.

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Why is this? Also four days ago on the Javea Arenal service road, a motor-cycle policeman asked about my badge which was on my windscreen - just as I got back into my car. So I think Javea are now starting to really check on this. Let’s hope others will also follow suit. Mick Scarles, Javea, Alicante

Lack of service DAYS after reading ‘Passport help’ (Letters, Issue 1469) praising a company for acting professionally, I found myself visiting Puerto Banus, Marbella, on a shopping trip. While I expect to pay a higher price in such surrounds, it would be nice if good service came with the price... and it definitely did not at the port-side café where my wife and I sat to enjoy a drink and watch the world go by. Having ordered an American coffee and a coke, the waiter returned and did not even bother to pour the coke

I ALWAYS look forward to reading the EWN when on holiday in Spain; however, on many occasions I come away with the impression of an antiCatholic agenda from some contributors. One recent article amounted essentially to a pro-abortion rant, attacking Catholic teaching on this subject. In reality, the Catholic Church quite reasonably supports the scientific fact that a newly-conceived child in the womb is a unique individual with a unique DNA, which will be retained throughout its life (assuming it is lucky enough to escape the none too tender mercies of the abortionist, back street or high street). I come from Ireland, a country which until recently (although that is about to change, thanks to the abortion lobby and a campaigning/ biased media) disallowed abortion. Incidentally, the so-called Catholic ‘dark ages’ (a favourite cliché of the historically ignorant) were a period of unprecedented human achievement; Oxford and Cambridge Universities being two notable high points.

The rot set in in the 16th century, about the time of the Protestant Reformation! Eric Conway, La Mata, Torrevieja Editor’s note: The EWN is not anti-Catholic and the various views expressed and opinions published are not necessarily those of the publishers or staff.

Woeful Africa IT is said that the ruination of Africa is charity. I am inclined to agree. Explain to me the Save the Children campaigns of which there are many. Am I wrong in thinking they create more children who go on to create more children and so on? The problem gets worse as most of the areas that they live in can’t support their needs and they are in constant need of food aid so they become aid reliant, not unlike some areas of the UK. And to add to that we have to save their animals, too - lions, rhinos donkeys, etc - thus they become benefit reliant. The point of this message is who benefits most? The charity business, the monster behind all these good deeds. Still one good thing comes from all this, we will never run out of lookylooky men. C G, by email

Good hunting WITH reference to ‘Car concern’ (Letters Issue 1467) I know of people who have had their vehicle classifications changed in the log book by dealers. In the one case, this was done for a charge of €75, so check this out, and good hunting! Also, thanks a lot for a very good newspaper. Bob, Sedella, Malaga

Go on, complain! I WANT to comment on the ‘Stop complaining letter’ (Issue 1468). It is a pity Clive Graham gets annoyed when he hears people complaining about Spain. People have a right to complain not only about Spain but England also. I was advised to come here on health grounds. I also survived the Second World War and its aftermath and was in a Cromwell tank. If people want to complain let them do so, for believe me they have plenty to complain about. Hal Rockliffe Address withheld upon request

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Democracy at work restoring the credibility of politicians

considers himself something of an atheist, but he is nevertheless a man born of pure Jewish stock. Therefore, to my mind his decision to vote against attacking a Muslim country, which is utterly anti-Jewish and would side with Iran in its quest to obliterate Israel at the drop of a turban, also gives quite a boost to his own credibility. It did get me thinking that if the leader of the Labour party had been a Muslim (which I’ve no doubt they will be one day!) and Israel had been suspected of committing some unacceptable act, would that person have reacted with such an unbiased opinion? Somehow I think not. Having said all that, despite this week’s decision to stay out, should Assad take it as a weakening attitude by the West and its allies, and therefore give him carte blanche to massacre and commit atrocities at will, I am fully in favour of another parliamentary vote on the situation. With that may come on him and his cohorts all the force and retribution of a reversed decision. Let’s hope it never comes to that. Keep the faith Love Leapy Website: leapylee.co.uk. Email: leapylee2002@gmail.com

MOLYBDENUM the element believed to be linked to the origin of life is said to have come from meteorites blasted off Mars, according to Geochemist Professor Steven Benner.

Furr-do A CAT has earned a place in the Guinness World Records 2014 for the longest hair ever measured on a cat. ‘Colonel Meow’ has a furry coat that measures 22.87cm.

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WELL, what a result! Firstly, of course, I was delighted to see the British House of Commons finally took Leapy’s advice and voted against interference in Syria’s problems. (Any time, fellas!) Secondly, the result was a wonderfull example of British democracy in full glorious flow. In most countries, particularly those of the Middle East, a result of this nature would have probably led to disgruntled losers rioting and spilling blood in the streets. Far from being an embarrassing rout for David Cameron, I think the dignified and immediate acceptance of a result he clearly hadn’t been looking for, showed a strong, highly democratic leader bending, without recrimination or derogatory reactions, to the will of Parliament’s EAPY EE elected members. DIGNIFIED: David Cameron. SAYS IT To my mind Cameron, Hague and the portion of it in the hands of our OTHERS THINK IT Conservatives’ elected leaders. parliamentary credibility Even Ed Miliband I feel has has been utterly strengthened by their handling come through it all with his credibility still fairly of this situation. Trust is the key issue among our intact. What I find interesting is a fact that many politicians and I think this reaction shows we people seem to overlook, Miliband is Jewish. I actually can at last place at least a respectable know he has married out of the faith and

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Clever bird A PARAKEET alerted its owner to the fact that the neighbours were being burgled by squawking louder than usual.

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New Rules For Failed Banks Hit €100,000 Depositors

EU finance ministers have agreed new European “bail-in” rules which will force bank losses onto investors and depositors with over €100,000 in the event a bank fails. The new protocol was agreed at the end of June and will become law after it is voted on by the European parliament, probably towards the end of this year. It will come into effect in 2018. EU finance ministers said the reforms are an important step in demonstrating that shareholder and creditors are “liable first and foremost.” The aim is to lift the burden of paying for bank rescues from taxpayers. Banks have been heavily exposed to the financial crisis, and since 2008 taxpayers across Europe have extended around €1.6 trillion of support to banks. Under the terms of the deal, when a bank fails, shareholders will be first in line to assume bank losses, followed by bondholders and large depositors. Deposits under €100,000 will not be touched because they are ‘insured’

By Neil Jenkins, Senior Partner, Blevins Franks under EU depositor guarantee schemes. Deposits over €100,000 are not protected and so depositors could suffer losses, though there could be exemptions for select individuals and small companies. A minimum bail-in of 8% of the bank’s total liabilities is mandatory before resolution funds or state resources can be used to recapitalise the bank and protect other creditors. Bonds held by certain creditors, such as other financial institutions, could be protected in defined circumstances in order to avoid financial instability.

Since the new rules will not start until 2018, it is unclear what will happen if a bank fails before then, but it is likely that investors and large depositors will be affected. Jeroen Dijsselbloem, the chairman of the Eurogroup, commented: “For the first time, we agreed on a significant bail-in to shield taxpayers, to break the vicious circle of sovereigns and banks, and to induce banks to behave more responsibly. If a bank gets in trouble we will now, throughout Europe, have one set of rules on who pays the bill. The financial sector itself will now to a very, very large extent become responsible for dealing with its own problems.” Mr Dijsselbloem was criticised in March for suggesting that the heavy losses inflicted on depositors in Cyprus would be the template for future banking crises.

European Central Bank’s President, Mario Draghi, at the time said that “Cyprus is no template, Cyprus is no turning point in the Euro policy area.” But as it turned out, the Cyprus solution has indeed set a precedent. In Cyprus, the “haircut” imposed on Bank of Cyprus depositors has been confirmed as 47.5%. 47.5% of deposits over €100,000 with the bank are being converted into shares to recapitalise the lender as part of the bailout. Depositors in Laiki Bank have it even worse. The bank is in liquidation and uninsured deposits over €100,000 are in limbo. Wherever you keep your money, make sure you understand to what extent you are protected in the event of institutional failure. Investor protection varies across jurisdictions and products. For

peace of mind, seek professional advice on how to obtain increased security for your savings. For example, you can look to ring-fence your assets where possible, so that there is a legal separation of your assets from the financial institution holding them. It is also always important to diversify your investment capital, so, depending on your time frame and objectives, it is generally advisable not to keep all your money in cash but to spread it over different assets. Relying on just one asset increases risk. Again, a professional wealth manager will discuss your options and recommend a suitable strategy for you. 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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4:30pm Talking Pictures 5:15pm How We Built Britain 6:15pm Antiques Roadshow 7:00pm Eggheads 7:30pm Flog it! Trade Secrets 8:30pm Swansea Market 9:00pm Hairy Bikers' Meals on Wheels Back on the Road 10:00pm Mum and Dad are Splitting Up 11:00pm Mock the Week 11:30pm Newsnight 12:20am Martin Luther King and the March on Washington 1:20am The Review Show

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6:15pm Cash in the Attic 7:00pm Eggheads 7:30pm Flog It! 8:00pm The Hairy Bikers' Best of British 9:00pm University Challenge 9:30pm The Incredible Spice Men 10:00pm Robert Peston Goes Shopping 11:00pm The Sarah Millican Television Programme

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4:45pm Ingrid Bergman Talking Pictures 5:15pm How We Built Britain 6:15pm Cash in the Attic 7:00pm Eggheads 7:30pm Flog It! 8:00pm The Hairy Bikers' Best of British 9:00pm The Great British Bake Off 10:00pm The Midwives: Delivering Under Pressure 11:00pm The Culture Show 11:30pm Newsnight 12:20am Mum and Dad are Splitting Up

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4:00pm The Alan Titchmarsh Show 5:00pm Tipping Point 6:00pm The Chase 7:00pm Regional News and Weather 7:15pm ITV News and Weather 7:45pm Emmerdale 8:15pm 2014 FIFA World Cup Qualifiers 11:10pm ITV News at Ten and Weather 11:45pm World Cup Qualifier Highlights 12:50am In Plain Sight 1:35am In Plain Sight 2:20am Jackpot247

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4:00pm The Alan Titchmarsh Show 5:00pm Tipping Point 6:00pm The Chase 7:00pm Regional News and Weather 7:30pm ITV News and Weather 8:00pm Emmerdale 8:30pm Coronation Street 9:00pm Big Star's Little Star 10:00pm Whitechapel 11:00pm ITV News at Ten and Weather 11:35pm Great Night Out

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Call for independence Wikipedia_Martorell45

THE Diada on September 11 commemorates the defeat of Catalan troops during the War of Succession in 1714. Cataluña backed the Hapsburg claimant to the Spanish throne instead of the Borbon Felipe V and it was a long time before the region regained the autonomy lost then. The date is engraved on Catalan hearts and resentment is not entirely diluted. Artur Mas, president of Cataluña’s regional government, supports but is not participating in this Cassandra Nash year’s human chain calling for independence on September 11. and not entirely impartial reaction – Repeating last year’s Diada it to the Spanish political scene will stretch 400 kilometres north to south through Cataluña, and hundreds of thousands have already ARTUR MAS: Failing to get message. signed up to join in. They will make a good showing and Spaniards second. regional president Artur Mas can point to It’s a long way from ingrained this as support for his independence nationalism to full-blown, frontier-raising plans. secession. Mas painted himself into a There were 7,565,603 people in corner by calling an early election last Cataluña at last count. Even those who year, confident of a mandate for an stay at home instead of becoming links independence referendum. Instead he in a human chain on September 11 see lost votes and his overall majority. themselves as Catalans first and The Catalans are telling Mas

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something in an audible voice but he is failing to get the message.

Sitting tight THE PSOE opposition accuses Rajoy of deliberately absenting himself on international visits to avoid parliamentary explanations. True, there is much that the population would like to hear and much for Rajoy to avoid saying. But there is no point in his addressing the parliament again because he has said all he’s going to say about Barcenas and he will not reveal anything new. What he does have to say will be obliquely expressed by a Cabinet reshuffle.

Salutary experience MANY decades after the demise of fascist governments in Spain, Italy and Germany, the Roman salute is still not a pleasant sight. Images of Xesco Saez and Daniel Terrades giving the nazi salute could be dismissed as laddish horseplay.

Saez is president of the PP’s Nuevas Generaciones (NNGG) – think Young Cons – in Jativa (Valencia). Terrades is NNGG secretary general in neighbouring Gandia. Others, like a young PP councillor from nearby Canals, Carmen Melissa Ferrer, have posed with the pre-Constitution flag bearing the Franco-era shield. Probably they have ultra-conservative political leanings but little first hand knowledge of what they are acclaiming. They should ask their grandparents and great-grandparents who knew what it was all about, regardless of ideology. Then there would be fewer nazi salutes.

Kingdom comedown SPAIN is now officially Spain and not the Kingdom of Spain. Nevertheless, the latter will be retained “in international treaties requiring a greater solemnity,” said Foreign minister Jose Manuel Garcia-Margallo. So the modification is likely to go unnoticed except by treaty-writers, typesetters, typists and Juan Carlos I.

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The ‘Peru Two’ and their Pringles wish list NORA JOHNSON

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Stamp) and toiletries (body cream, Kim Cattrall; sun cream, Annie Lennox; mirror, Simon Cowell and Graham Norton). Interesting! As for their choice of eight records on the desert island, the modesty of some castaways knows no bounds. Engelbert Humperdinck selected his own record (and book), Norman Wisdom five of his own recordings, while the opera singer, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, seven of hers, something never repeated by any guest. Returning to the ‘Peru Two,’ the last ‘Two’ we read about were the ‘Tamworth Two,’ a pair of pigs that

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THE wish list of the so-called ‘Peru Two,’ Michaella McCollum Connolly and Melissa Reid, detained in a Lima jail on trafficking charges, reads more like the stuff you might pack for a late summer getaway. It ranged from baby oil, hair removal cream, Nivea moisturiser and a pack of cards to a sports bra size 32FF, toilet roll, envelopes and stamps. For food, they also opted for relative luxuries (Pringles, Nutella, oat and honey bars and Oreos) rather than more down-to-earth necessities like bottled water or long-life milk. Now, whatever your opinion of the pair and the relative merits of their story (which sounds a bit like the plot of the next Guy Ritchie movie to me), their wish list got me thinking. About the sort of luxuries (or essentials, depending upon your point of view) the rest of us would choose in, God forbid, similar circumstances in Peru or, God willing, as a guest on Desert Island Discs in the UK. Guests on this 70-year-old BBC radio show can request one luxury, which can’t be a human being. (John Cleese, though, was allowed to take Michael Palin, on condition he was dead and stuffed!) Luxuries requested have ranged from the musical (guitar, Tony Blair and Colin Firth; organ, Jo Brand) to food (French mustard, Boris Johnson; wheat-free bread, Terence

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SCHWARZKOPF: Selected seven songs.

HUMPERDINCK: Not modest.

escaped and were on the run for over a week. When they were eventually caught, they lived out their lives in a sanctuary, courtesy of the Daily Mail. No doubt the Mail will be after the stories of the ‘Peru Two’ too, after their 15 years (if found guilty) in their Peruvian, err, ‘sanctuary.’ Next time, girls, maybe best stick to

stuffing your bags with just Pringles and honey bars!

Nora Johnson’s thrillers ‘Retribution,’ ‘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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Almeria, capital city for the completion of paperwork!

HE savant but didactic Hispanophile, Gerald Brenan, wrote about Almeria in his epoch regional study south from Granada. He called it a dusty town of about 100,000 inhabitants, half of which were prostitutes. By the time I arrived in the late 60’s, the situation had Ric Polansky degraded. Most of the girls Ric Polansky moved to Mojacar had gotten married in 1969 as a pioneer developer. He reads extensively and an entirely new and has travelled batch of well in South meaning citizens America panning gold were on hand to and looking for greet and torture me. El Dorado. The population had blossomed to a righteous 125,000 souls, 90 per cent of whom worked in the paper chase ALMERIA: Gerald Brenan called industry for the government. I had gravely erred in making The excitement grew with the the personal decision to obtain completion of each adventurous the paperwork for my work assignment only to be negated permit myself. The rules as when handed a further set of initially explained were simple, cryptic goals to move up the scale but the endless tasks required to the next tier. would prove to be well beyond In the government offices, you the imagination of any 21st paid the large fees of 1,500 century civilized soul. Pesetas (€9) but were then told In actuality, the entire affair you had to drive across town and unravelled itself in sort of a game visit a specified small office to show fashion. obtain a further stamp or seal

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it a dusty town of about 100,000 inhabitants. valued at the price of one half of a peseta. Then, hurry back to be given the next mission of even less value, but of course, further away. The longer you stayed the course, the more your excitement increased, yet you would be quickly brought back to earth when the next set of quests were presented. Another large fee of €4 was required, but it allowed

you to progress to the multifarious smaller papers located well on the outskirts of town, walk up five floors, knock twice, ask for Alfredo, tell him Benito sent you and then be awarded yet again a new stamp of red ink and pay 50 centimos for proof of the accomplishment. A journey into Almeria that was once colourful and uniquely special became boring,

monotonous, and tiring... a hopeless tunnel without light. On the frequent flitting jaunts about the capital, I of course ran into previous official personnel that had attended me months ago. I was proud to announce myself and was hoping to glean the smallest hope I might be nearing a solution, but no such luck. If and when I was gracious enough to invite them for coffee, I quickly ascertained they knew nothing of the precipitous peaks nor pitfalls that awaited me along the legal paper trek nor why I had been directed to them in the first place. Within a few months of living in Spain, I deduced not only did the left hand not know what the right hand was doing, worse, the legs were dancing to their own beat while the head was in the clouds and attending affairs of a more cerebral and celestial nature.

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