Euro Weekly News - Costa Blanca South 7 - 13 August 2014 Issue 1518 by Euro Weekly News Media S.A.

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Fireworks in demand ELCHE has awarded 26 new licences for the sale of fireworks ahead of the city’s Nit de l’Alba celebrations, which take place on August 13.

Boat accident A MAN was admitted to Intensive Care with head injuries after the canoe he was in was hit by a pleasure boat off San Pedro del Pinatar.

Bisbal hater A SAN JUAN councillor has apologised for saying he wanted to ‘gun down’ popular singer David Bisbal. Cesar Vilar criticised him on social media sites but after several apologies managed to keep his seat on the council.

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Costa Blanca top for foreign house sales THE Costa Blanca is leading the way in foreign housing investment in Spain. Alicante has established itself in the first half of the year as the Spanish province with the highest appeal for Europeans who want to buy a property outside of their home countries, absorbing almost 40 per cent of sales with a total of 4,267 purchases made, almost twice that of Malaga on the Costa del Sol. However, according to figures from the National Institute of Statistics (INE), these new homebuyers do not reside in the area, with many using their second home for just 60 days a year. This generates revenues of €8,380, almost three times less than the average of what European permanent residents spend during the course of the year.

The report said: “The limited use of housing by foreigners for holidays shows that potential revenue is being lost.” There is some concern that this under-utilisation of housing by foreigners is causing deterioration of urban areas.

The data showed that with regards to time-frames, it took between 10 months and two-anda-half years to sell a property. However, experts have said the situation has now started to change due to the demand generated by foreign investment.

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BUSIEST MONTH: 325,502 calls were made to the emergency services in July.

Emergency calls peaked in July

EMERGENCY 112 operators serving the Valencian Community have had the busiest month of the year so far. During July, they received a total of 325,502 calls, according to Director General of Emergencies, Irene Rodriguez. This service handled 54,454 incidents in July, of which 26,091 were registered in the province of Valencia, 21,574 in Alicante and 6,169 in Castellon, while the rest were from neighbouring regions and were transferred to the emergency centres concerned. Regarding the types of incidents

managed, 30,178 calls were requesting healthcare of various kinds, while another 9,308 were related to public safety. Rodriguez noted that in July, 1,306 incidents were managed in foreign languages, of which 958 came from the province of Alicante. Specifically, 860 reports were received in English. Rodriguez thanked the work of all staff in the emergency 112 call centre “for their important daily work to meet and quickly and effectively co-ordinate emergency calls of all citizens.”

Summer getaway starts in the air and on land AS August arrived, last weekend proved to be the busiest one of the year for Alicante-Elche airport as travellers made for their summer getaway.

The airport moved 51,000 passengers on 301 flights with no major incidents being reported. Some delays occurred but none lasting more than an hour.

Airport operator Aena said they expected to deal with more than 310,000 passengers over a six-day period, spread over 1,843 flights. On the trains, 100 per cent

capacity was reported on some Madrid-Alicante trains. Whilst traffic jams were experienced on the province’s roads, no major incidents were reported.

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NEWS Jail term FORMER mayor of Torrevieja, Pedro Mateo Hernandez, has entered the Murcia jail where he is to serve his sentence for forgery and corruption. He must serve 12 months before being eligible for parole. Control lost A DRIVER lost control and overturned his car at the Barrio de San Anton in Elche. The 40-year-old was unhurt in the accident.

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€1.7 million for school repairs ELEVEN schools in Alicante Province are to receive repair works worth a total €1.7 million. The work has been put out to tender and will be awarded in midSeptember with all renovation expected to be completed by the end of the year. The repairs and improvements form part of the Review Plan of

Educational Infrastructure (PRIE) launched by the Ministry of Education to review all schools over 40 years old and make the necessary improvements. Three schools in Elche will receive work, including the building of new classrooms as El Altet’s CEIP Rodolfo Tomas Samper, to meet the growing student

population and prevent the need for prefabricated classrooms. In Torrevieja, flooring will be replaced at a cost of €223,977 at CEIP Maestro Salvador Ruso. Since the implementation of the PRIE plan, 396 schools across the Valencia Region have been reviewed and 203 repair works carried out.

Charity gala HELP Veja Baja are organising a gala dinner dance in the near future so watch this space. The charity will be announcing details shortly.

Legal issues THE legalisation of an apartment block in La Manga, following repair and renovation work has been blocked by Costas despite approval being given by the local authorities.

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Water investment

THE Marina Baja Water Consortium approved emergency work on the Mandem and Algar pumping stations with a budget of nearly €4 million to modernise infrastructure.

OLE, the largest catamaran built in Spain is now docked in La Manga for the summer. The catamaran is 24m long and can hold up to 100 people.

Talent show A TALENT show is being organised in Pilar de la Horadada with the final taking place on August 30. Prizes of up to €1,000 are on offer. Register now on 966 767 068 or via www.pilardelahoradada.org.

BOTTOM HEAVY: Lightest at the top.

Kings of their Spanish Castles

Tax refunds THE Tax Office has already returned over €2 million to 384,200 tax payers in the Murcia region during the income tax returns. This accounts for 86 per cent of refunds due to residents. AVE shuttle THE long awaited AVE shuttle buses serving Torrevieja and Benidorm are due to launch tomorrow (Friday) and will run twice daily until October 8. Tickets can be purchased by www.renfe.com.

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Road danger SIXTY-SEVEN people died on Valencian Community roads between January and August. Most accidents occurred on secondary roads. Dog walk THE 3km ‘Walk on the Bark Side’ returns on September 14 in Santiago de la Ribera to raise funds for the Cruz Azul animal charity. Entry is €5. Call 693 017 616.

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TS motto is ‘Strength, balance, courage and common sense’ and participants need to have all of these when taking part in one of the most popular events in Spanish culture. ‘Concurs de Castells,’ the Human Tower competition, attracts thousands of spectators who cheer on the teams of people climbing over each other in an effort to make the tallest tower in the competition. The event is taken very seriously in Tarragona, Southern Spain; the tradition is believed to have been around since the 18th century, started by dance groups, and has been named as part of the Lists of Intangible Cultural Heritage established by UNESCO.

Quote of the Week Alarming Was the word that Spanish foreign minister, Jose Manuel Garcia Margallo, used to describe the number of victims of Israeli bombing attacks on the Gaza strip in recent attacks. Spain has now put a temporary stop on all arms sales to Israel.

Each team taking part, some of which have 500 participants, clamber onto each other, strongest at the bottom and the lightest at the most dangerous point at the top, to form Castells. A seven-strong judging panel gives out points depending on the height and difficulty of the individual towers. Each team is allowed five attempts to build the tallest tower; the final score for each team is decided by the best three attempts and the winner is decided by competition organisers, known as experts in human towers. The event takes place every two years, the next one, XXIV Concurs de Castells de Tarragona, is scheduled for October this year.

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is the age of the Spanish girl who was recently arrested when she declared her intentions to join the Jihadist ISIL forces in Iraq; she had, apparently, been a normal 14-year-old until spending time in the Jihadist chat rooms on the internet. A Madrid judge sent her to a juvenile detention centre.

Restaurant saved THE demolition of a beachside restaurant in Bolnuevo, Mazarron, has been postponed until September giving owners and residents more time to fight the ruling enforced under the Ley de Costas.

Camping fans FANS of singer David Bisbal, performing in Los Alcazares at the weekend, had camped out for days on the streets to get front row seats.

Urban camp SIXTY youngsters took part in Torrevieja’s Urban Youth Camp, organised in two fortnightly sessions in July.

And finally... A restaurant in Ibiza erupted in cheers and applause when British actor Orlando Bloom, allegedly, tried to punch Canadian singer Justin Bieber as they were leaving the restaurant. A video posted by website TMZ shows Bieber, allegedly, shouting an obscenity at Bloom just before he tried to hit him.

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Illegal tuna ILLEGALLY caught tuna fish has been confiscated in Cartagena. Two people have been arrested by the Guardia Civil’s Seprona division. They now face fines of €200 up to €3,000.

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Guardia Civil officer arrested GUARDIA CIVIL in Torrevieja have arrested one of their own agents accused of drug trafficking. The agent is being held pending trial. It is the

second alleged crime to happen within the same week for the police force as in another drug operation two police officers in the province who were working in Ibi

were arrested for their involvement in crimes. The Torrevieja arrest came when a warrant was issued to enter and search the agent’s home. In a safe a bag of drugs

was found, although, due to the small amount, it is unlikely there was any direct link with marketing it in the street and the drugs may have been held for friends or acquaintances.

The arrests of Guardia Civil officers have been made by the Armed Forces Institute itself, demonstrating zero tolerance regarding internal corruption.

DRUGS NETWORK: The gang were caught by police after a year of investigations.

Drugs gang dismantled by police ARRESTS have been made in Alicante and Valencia as part of a police operation which, after a year of investigations, has dismantled one of the most active networks of hashish

trafficking between Morocco and Spain. They have arrested seven Spanish nationals, including the man believed to be the leader of the organisation, a

citizen residing in Melilla, from where he directed all the movements of the gang. As the operation continued, further arrests were made in Melilla, Alicante, Madrid and Valencia.

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Family awarded €106,000 A FAMILY has been awarded €106,000 by the High Court of Justice in Valencia following failure by health professionals to diagnose placental

abruption, a complication of pregnancy, where the placental lining separates from the mother’s uterus. The infant was born at Elche Hospital in June

Orihuela woman is found dead A WOMAN, aged 39, was found dead in her house in Calle Oriola, Orihuela with blows to the head. Police are searching for her current partner, a man aged 37 from Murcia, although there is no history or previous complaints made about domestic violence or abuse. The alarm was raised by the sister of the man. She was looking after the couple’s child at her home in Murcia (the victim’s other child was from a previous relationship) and called her brother to ask why he had not collected the youngster. On replying “I’m doing what I have to do,” she called the police.

2008 with cerebral palsy after a 90-minute Caesarean section which was reported as being a “clear loss of foetal wellbeing.” The child died two and a half years later as a result of asphyxiation from vomiting which is believed to have been directly related to the neurological abnormality suffered by childbirth. The medical examiner’s report ruled out the existence of medical malpractice despite the family claiming there was “obvious signs” of foetal distress. They had initially claimed compensation of up to €600,000 following the death of their child and were awarded €106,000 by a judge.

WE DO! Irregular fish seized SEPRONA; the environmental unit of the Guardia Civil, has seized over 1,000kg of fish from Alicante Province for irregularities. The fish was captured for failing to abide by rules that state the statutory minimum weight of fish that can be caught and without mandatory labelling to determine traceability. The fish was given to charity organisations.

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No centre THE Microsoft World Health Innovation Centre, a project announced in 2010, will now not take place. Minister of Health Manuel Llombart said it was unlikely to happen.

Stay clean TORREVIEJA’S new municipal building cleaning contract has been awarded, keeping the current workforce of 88 people.

Vinalopo Viper MORE than 170 murals are to be painted along the dry riverbed in Elche as part of the Vinalopo Viper project, which encourages artists to create artwork.

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The Valencia deputy visits burning tip IMMEDIATE action is necessary to stop the emission of toxic gases affecting those living near a burning waste tip on the Pilar side of the border of Orihuela Costa and Pilar de la Horadada. That’s the conclusion by Juan Ponce, Compromis Party Deputy of the Valencia Parliament, who visited the site along with Vicente Perez Basante of Vertivega and CLARO councillor, Bob Houliston. They all urged the Environment Department of the Valencia Government to investigate, without delay, the state of the now abandoned tip which is a clear danger to health and to the environment, as previously reported in the Euro Weekly News: “In the conditions of lack of supervision of the site and the hot, dry weather, there is a serious danger of fire spreading to the surrounding area, including Sierra Escalona natural park,” said Juan Ponce, who described the great

BURNING WASTE: Urgent action needed. variety of waste dumped at the site over a period of many years, including car tyres, furniture, domestic appliances, plastic and glass containers. The strong smell of methane gas and columns of smoke emerging from the ground are signs of decomposition and proof of the

need for immediate action to put an end to the danger to health and the environment. During a press conference, the trio agreed to follow up in their different areas of competence to ensure that action was taken urgently to deal with the situation.

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Postman is allowed to remain on sick leave A POSTMAN has won the right to remain on sick leave. The Alicante worker fell down some stairs whilst delivering letters a year ago but was ordered back to work despite still being on crutches. It was the second time bosses had told him to return against his doctor’s advice. The employee complained to Social Security whose inspectors sided with the postman and extended his sick leave, agreeing he should not be working. The CGT union said: “It’s disgraceful for a public service to resort to these practices. Instead of preventing accidents, which is their duty, Correos (post office) is fighting absenteeism with repression.”

Medical records go electronic IT has taken four months, but patient data has now been loaded in to a new electronic software program at Alicante General Hospital. The Orion Unity Home Hospitalisation (UHD) Clinic system aims to improve the quality of care to patients and supports electronic history of the outpatient units making home visits. Ruben Navarro, head of computer department said: “There are still other phases of development and implementation but it is an important step towards technological innovation in health management in all public hospitals which have implemented Orion Clinic.

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‘Bull fire’ event sparks dismay THE Humane Association of Callosa de Segura (APADAC) has expressed its “deep regret” at the inclusion of a ‘bull fire’ spectacle at an animal show happening this weekend in the town. Known as a ‘toro embolao’, the practice sees metal gadgets fastened to the ends of the bulls’ horns, which are set alight containing balls of fire. APADAC say it is “an appalling spectacle of animal abuse and

suffering.” The organisation has signed a document denouncing the act, which is included in the activities for the first year, particularly in a town which, it said “can boast of having an association which altruistically protects animals, and where volunteers give their lives for dogs and abandoned cats, providing an example of citizenship and what it means with respect to the lives of others.” It questioned how the town hall could allow “a private company whose sole intention is to use the suffering of these DIVERS have been caught with stolen items helpless beings for the from the Phoenician shipwreck off the coast amusement of those of Mazarron. who will enjoy the pain Guardia Civil divers located three men, of of these creatures.” Ukrainian nationality, in the vicinity of the APADAC thanked the wreck who were using metal detectors to support received from locate objects and remove them. dozens of citizens and The alarm was raised after it was realised others in rejecting the the divers had crossed the buoys which mark acts included in the the location of the reservoir and the wreck. town’s official proThe trio now face fines. gramme of festivals.

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Love live entertainment? It doesn’t get any better than this...

Kool & The Gang live in Torrevieja for a one-off concert! HEATWAVE PROMOTIONS continue to bring the best original artists to the Costa Blanca. In April it was UB40 who rocked Benidorm and this August direct from the US of A, The Gang are ready to get downright Kool in Torrevieja! Oh yes, guaranteed is an unforgettable night of jazz, R&B, soul, funk and disco music that has influenced quite literally three generations. Seventy million albums sold worldwide and thanks to songs like Celebration, Cherish, Get Down On It, Jungle Boogie, Ladies Night and Open Sesame, Kool & The Gang have earned themselves a mantelpiece full of awards including two Grammys! Their bulletproof funk and tough jazzy arrangements ensure that the band continue to perform to packed audiences of new and old fans around the world. And don’t worry about getting to and from Torrevieja as transport, if needed, is available from Benidorm. Are you ready to have some fun and make some noise? Tickets starting at 40€ are on sale NOW for Kool & The Gang live in concert at the

fabulous Eras de la Sal, Torrevieja, on Wednesday August 20. Doors open at 8pm and everything kicks off at 9.30pm. For bookings and more information visit

www.heatwavepromotions.com or call one of the hotline numbers 966 792 595 or 629 056 720 and don’t forget to say “you read it in the EWN.”

BULLETPROOF FUNK: Kool & The Gang continue to play to packed audiences of new and old fans around the world.

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21,000 hotel beds still empty AUGUST has arrived with 21,000 hotel beds unsold on the Costa Blanca. Whilst the industry is still hopeful for a successful summer, Antonio Mayor, President of the hotel employer, Hosbec, admits this year is unlikely to break records, despite a busy Easter leading many to believe that summer would follow suit. Mayor said: “What is clear is that the recovery of domestic tourism is

not yet here. What we had at Easter was a kind of tourist bubble with increased consumption but it was a mirage. There is much to sell, not only in Benidorm and on the Costa Blanca but in all locations.” The empty hotel rooms represent a loss of potential revenue of around €2 million a day. In July, there was average hotel occupancy of 80 per cent, and 90 per cent in Benidorm.

Train strikes hit holiday-makers

Retirement age dispute

FOUR high-speed AVE trains between Madrid and Alicante were cancelled after strike action was called by unions to protest against the Ministry of Development’s policy to privatise services. Those with cancelled or delayed trains were entitled to a full refund without cancellation fees or were provided with another ticket for another train or day. The strike action coincided with the departure of thousands of Spaniards for the holidays as August arrived.

MEDICAL professionals are to be retired at the age of 65. The Department of Health has reiterated its decision to retire staff at 65, despite a High Court ruling that there were procedural deficiencies with the plan. Unions have criticised the department as it has said it would correct the deficiencies and go ahead with the plan, despite their protests.

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San Juan’s tournament MEN and women’s rugby came together for the 18th annual beach tournament at San Juan, Alicante. The final result saw Trapos Viejas ease through to a 3-0 victory over Barbarians Ruzafa. This weekend another beach tournament takes place at the Las Delicias de Aguilas beach, Aguilas, Murcia, on Saturday. The following weekend sees a tournament take place in San Javier. For more information or to join a local rugby team call Garry on 692 767 242, and for the juniors contact Oscar on 600 871 606 (Spanish).

Radiology for centre A BRITISH 84 year-old resident of San Fulgencio was the first patient to use the new Radiology Service at Guardamar’s Health Centre. After years of requests by citizens and the efforts of Mayor Carmen Verdu working with the Regional Minister of Health, the unit has now been installed in Guardamar. This new radiology service will ease the

pressure on Torrevieja where residents previously had to travel to. The €65,000 investment, including the appointment of a technician, is thought to benefit more than 60,000 citizens across Guardamar, Rojales, San Fulgencio, and Formentera del Segura. The new service is expected to serve around 175 patients each week.

Job satisfaction in Valencia region OVER half of all workers in the Valencia Region are satisfied with their jobs. According to a job satisfaction report, 64 per cent of workers questioned were

happy in their current position, somewhat lower than the national average of 72 per cent, which is higher than during the same period in 2013.

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August brings in bed closures ALICANTE General Hospital has seen the closure of a further 85

beds for August. There are now 238 without service for the summer.

Volunteers head to Sierra Leone A RED CROSS (Cruz Roja) volunteer from Alicante is heading to Sierra Leone as part of the NGO’s Emergency Response Unit being sent to West Africa to help fight the Ebola virus. The disease for which, to date, there is no treatment or vaccine, has a mortality rate of between 25 and 90 per cent, so there is an urgent need for information and medical assistance for the population. Salvador Ramirez is part of a unit of 12 delegates from the Red Cross, which will travel with 12.5 tonnes of medical supplies valued at €290,000. He will work in logistics and the distribution of humanitarian aid. Ramirez has collaborated on five international missions previously. Volunteers from Valencia and Gandia also form part of the team.

The Department of Health said the closure of hospital beds across the province was “planned according to the forecast decline in workload and occupancy at hospitals.” They continued: “It is a measure that has applied for years and aims to bring together clinicians and patients on certain floors, to optimise healthcare resources and energy.” Unions, however, disagree, saying the closure of beds is done to “save money, at the expense of well-being and quality of care to patients,” according to Julia Martinez, Secretary of Health UGT l'Alacanti and Las Marinas. She said: “Walking through the halls of hospitals in the summer will generate a sense of desolation with so many units closed.”

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€4m fund to help people find work FOUR MILLION EUROS is being targeted at creating more than 1,000 jobs in the Valencia Community. President of the Generalitat regional government, Alberto Fabra, said the fund would help create jobs and is particularly targeted at getting women, the disabled and long-term unemployed back into work. Fabra said: “The Public Employment Programme for Projects on the Environment will allow many municipalities to undertake work to improve their rural environment.”

Occupancy hopes MAZARRON tourism chiefs are hopeful that August will see 100 per cent occupancy rates in the town’s hotels. Forecasts predict hotels will be full for the first few weeks of the month, with 80 per cent occupancy expected for the second half. July recorded an average of 60 per cent occupancy with events like Race for Life and the Summer Carnival helping to boost tourism figures.

He added: “The main objective of the plan is to provide employment for many residents of inland towns, and ultimately make available a means of gaining work experience, which will allow them to increase their employability.” Grants will be awarded to municipalities to take on the unemployed for environmental projects like clearing scrubland, cleaning rivers and ravines, and maintenance of forest roads. Fabra said: “We will continue working to ensure that all Valencians have the opportunity to find employment.”

Memory workshops REGISTRATION is now open for those wishing to take part in memory workshops to be held in Santa Pola’s Civic Centre from September. The courses and activities aim to maintain the mental activity of the more mature population. Register at the Civic Centre.

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New radiology service for Guardamar A BRITISH 84-year-old resident of San Fulgencio was the first patient to use the new Radiology Service at Guardamar’s Health Centre. After years of requests by citizens and the efforts of Mayor Carmen Verdu

working with the Regional Minister of Health, the unit has now been installed in Guardamar, easing the pressure on Torrevieja where residents previously had to travel to. The €65,000 investment, including the appointment

San Juan welcomes rugby crowd for tournament

MEN and women’s rugby came together for the 18th annual beach tournament at San Juan, Alicante. The final result saw Trapos Viejas ease through to a 3-0 victory over Barbarians Ruzafa. This weekend another beach tournament takes place at the Las Delicias de Aguilas beach, Aguilas, Murcia, on Saturday. The following weekend sees a tournament take place in San Javier. For more information or to join a local rugby team call Garry on 692 767 242, and for the juniors contact Oscar on 600 871 606 (Spanish).

of a technician, is thought to benefit more than 60,000 citizens across Guardamar, Rojales, San Fulgencio and Formentera del Segura. It is expected to serve around 175 patients each week.

Job satisfaction OVER half of all workers in the Valencia Region are satisfied with their jobs. According to a job satisfaction report, 64 per cent of workers questioned were happy in their current position, somewhat lower than the national average of 72 per cent, which is higher than during the same period in 2013. The Basque Country has the largest number satisfied with their jobs.

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COMMEMORATION: Wreaths are laid to mark 100th anniversary of WWI.

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TO mark the centenary of the start of World War I on August 4, 1914, the Royal British Legion held a service in Mil Palmeras. With over 100 members present, the service was conducted by the Orihuela Costa Branch President and Chaplain, Pastor Keith Brown, who, following a short prayer, led into the church the Standards from Mojacar, Benidorm, Albox, the RNA, Royal Marines and RAFA as well as the Union and Spanish flags and the Standard of the local branch. Guests from the local community included the Orihuela Costa councillor for the Coast, Martina Scheurer

and the Chairman of District (North) Nigel Hails. There followed a number of poignant readings, hymns and Paul Michael sang â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Bring him homeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; from Les Miserables. The Last Post and Reveille were played by Inge Sunde, a former bugler to the Norwegian Royal Household before poppy crosses and wreaths were laid in the Garden of Remembrance in memory of the 16 million soldiers and civilians who lost their lives during the conflict. The Orihuela Costa Branch meets every third Thursday of the month at the Olympia Restaurant, Mil Palmeras.

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La gente Hospital worker hoping for a fairy-tale ending As part of our series La Gente, Euro Weekly News reporter Gemma Quinn has been out and about to see what talented and inspirational people can be found on the Costa Blanca. This week she met up with an immense talent in the unexpected location of a hospital canteen...

ER powerful and soulful voice can fill any venue and once heard, it is never forgotten. Shani Ormiston is a unique artist, outclassing

most of her musical contemporaries; the only questions that need asking are why is she not on a bigger stage and why she is still doing the day job? “I’d love to give

up the day job,” joked the 33-year-old, who works in the finance department at Torrevieja Hospital. “It’s just never happened for me,” Shani added. Philosophical about her

experiences, she openly admits she tried the X Factor both in the UK and Spain and didn’t get through. With past opportunities arising she was frankly told she was too old and, perhaps with a tinge of sadness, she confided that she may just never make it to the big time. “I’d love to be professional and whilst I will never stop dreaming, I will also keep my feet on the ground. I have to be realistic,” she said. Maybe it was some of these feelings that inspired her second album Once Upon A Time including songs composed by Shani and produced by Dioni Gomez. Songwriting is something she is just as passionate about as singing, reflecting on her own life experiences and writing a new song can take “20 minutes or two months,” she explained. Whilst she may be not on the same level, yet, as her childhood inspirations like Mariah Carey and Whitney Houston, and still having to keep her day job, her level of success cannot be down-played.

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SHANI ORMISTON: Nominated for a Hollywood Music in Media award.

POWERFUL: Her soulful voice can fill any venue. After managing to break into independent music in 2008, her first album sold in Spain, UK, Germany, Australia, New Zealand and the US. And in October of that year Shani was invited to sing at one of the most important music events in Italy, the Festival de Biella Autori e cantautori. After the great reception of her first single How Do You Know, Shani decided to record the song in Spanish calling it ‘Como

Saber’ which reached the number one chart position of Radio La Roda Albacete. She has also received numerous nominations at the Hollywood Music in Media Awards, held annually in California, and has again been nominated for the awards being held this November for her song Brave, which she describes as “a message to the world in which we live; we have to wake up, find courage.” Shani can be seen regularly performing up and down the Costa Blanca, supporting charity and community events.

She can be followed on Facebook or check out some of her songs at www.shaniormiston.com

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DONATION: Lions members donate â&#x201A;Ź1,000 to the president of ADIS Vega Baja.

Lions summer camp THE Torrevieja Costa Lions have recently visited the Granja Escuela del Sol Camp, near Agost. The farm school provides facilities for disabled and disadvantaged children. It normally houses animals like donkeys,

rabbits, pigs, geese and the like, however the Lions who visited last weekend were no danger to any of the other animals on this occasion as they were visiting to present a cheque for â&#x201A;Ź1,000 to Josefina Valero Martinez, President of ADIS Vega Baja. The organisation consists of a team of volunteers who care for and share their lives with children and THE Rojales Pantomime Group are in need of a young adults who suffer volunteer to operate their lighting system at the from varying degrees of Escuela de Musica y Cultura in Los Montesinos in disability. January 2015 for their next pantomime of Cinderella. Every year the volunteers All proceeds from the production go to charity and take the children off to the volunteer would need to be available for the summer camp where the technical and dress rehearsal on Wednesday January 7 children can enjoy a short holiday whilst their parents and the shows on January 8-10. If you can help please call Christine or Mike 678 212 can also have a short break from caring. 034 or 646 576 676.

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INAR DE CAMPOVERDE is coming alive on the weekend of August 15-17 with the arrival of the first Summer Festival of Music. The event launches on Friday August 15 at 2pm and promises a fun filled weekend of live entertainment taking place along the Campoverde Boulevard. This commercial unit, situated in Avenida Especias and Calle Taray, has everything including a pharmacy and vet, local supermarket, hairdressers, television supplies, estate agents, bars, restaurants and clothes shops and all have come together to host the event with the backing of Pilar de la Horadada Town Hall. The authorities are blocking off the street so it is safe for families and children and are providing the staging area. Each day, the entertainment takes place at 2pm continuing until late. Confirmed acts include Lyndon B; JJ Soulman; Brian Jenkins; Dee;

Summer Festival of Music Gemma; Andy Jones and Samantha Curtis. On the Saturday, the festival is being held in honour of Help For Heroes who will be along on the day organising a raffle and raising funds for the charity. On the Saturday, they have confirmed Stevie Spit; Nikki G; Vicky Lou; Rebecca Holt; Lee Howard; The Soundz and The Austin Friar Band. As the live acts continue on the Sunday, there is also the chance for up and coming talent to take to the

stage with the open mic session. Comedians, singers, dancers and any type of performers are invited along, but time slots do need to be reserved so call Paul on 966 236 900. The local businesses will be out in force offering BBQs and food, sweets and treats and there may even be the odd stall or two. So join the local community of Campoverde Boulevard on August 15-17 for the Summer Festival of Music. For more information call Paul on 966 236 900. Campoverde is easily accessible just minutes from Pilar de la Horadada. When coming in from the CV-925, at the roundabout signed for Pinar de Campoverde, take the first exit on to the urbanisation and then the first left. Follow the road and you will come to the Campoverde Boulevard commercial centre.

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No ‘fast track’ into Gibraltar THE Gibraltar government has rejected and criticised Spain’s proposal to introduce a ‘fast track’ at the border for Spanish workers wanting to enter Gibraltar for the purpose of work and have responded to Spain by suggesting their proposal is nothing more than ‘discriminatory,’ claiming freedom of movement should be a privilege enjoyed by all. The Spanish government has proposed spending €5.3 million building a ‘fast track’ for workers resident in Spain with jobs in Gibraltar to cross the border faster. A fast track for vehicular access as well as a secondary fast track for workers crossing the border on foot has also been suggested as it goes through the motions of complying with the EU’s recommendations to ease traffic flow at the frontier where an estimated 6,000 workers cross the border daily. A spokesperson in the Gibraltar government said “The government

considers that any proposed solution towards a free flowing frontier must also encompass EU nationals and others who are not workers, like tourists and residents on both sides, whose right to freedom of movement continues to be undermined by Spain.” “The reality is that the Spanish authorities make life difficult for people and vehicles crossing the border for political reasons and because they want to. All that Madrid has to do is improve the flow rate of cars and persons and operate proper red and green channels. This alone will reduce waiting times to cross the frontier.” The ongoing row has not settled in an amicable agreement with either side, following last year’s intense crippling checks, which kept people in traffic queues for up to eight hours in the immense summer heat with Spain claiming those checks were essential in preventing tobacco smuggling.

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King Juan Carlos in paternity claim KING Juan Carlos faces a paternity suit from a man claiming to be his illegitimate son. A Catalan waiter lodged a paternity suit against King Juan Carlos, 76, with the Supreme Court in Madrid. Alberto Sola claims to have found evidence suggesting that his mother may have had an affair with the King before May 1962, when he married Queen Sofia in Athens. Pursuant to Spainâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Constitution, the King cannot be held accountable while he still sits on the throne. This is the reason why all previous attempts to lodge paternity suits against him were simply thrown out by Spanish courts. However, because he stepped down on June 19, the King is no longer protected by the legal

KING JUAN CARLOS: A waiter claims to be his son. shield that made him immune to such claims during nearly four decades. A couple of months ago, the Spanish Parliament passed special legislation which protects King Juan Carlos from any lawsuit filed against him before

criminal and civil courts and he can only answer to Spainâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Supreme Court. Should the judge rule that the Supreme Court has jurisdiction to hear the case, King Juan Carlos could be asked to provide a sample of his royal DNA.

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Spaniards not weight happy DIETING: Hunger and weakness reported while trying to shake off a few pounds.

MORE than half of Spaniards are unhappy with their weight.

According to the latest survey conducted by the Consumers and Users

Union (OCU), 94 per cent of women and 88 per cent of men in Spain have tried to lose weight at some point in their lives. The study looked at 2,000 people aged between 18 and 64 to determine their level of satisfaction with their own health and weight. As much as 73 per cent of women and 54 per cent of men said they are unhappy with their weight and official figures show that 54 per cent of adults and 28 per cent of children in Spain are overweight or obese. OCU representatives said the situation is “extremely worrisome” because excessive weight increase is commonly associated with heart disease, diabetes, some forms of cancer and degenerative bone diseases. It can also result in worse psychological and emotional health. Nevertheless, not all respondents mentioned health concerns as the main reason behind dieting. In fact, while 90 per cent said they have tried to lose weight to “feel good about themselves,” only 30 per cent have gone on diets for health reasons. It seems, however, that unhappiness was not enough to prompt Spaniards to do something about their weight. Data show that only 31 per cent increased their physical activity and as little as 14 per cent worked out and went on a diet. Dieting is not as easy as it sounds though and most respondents reported hunger, sadness, weakness and bad mood while trying to lose weight, and while 30 per cent did manage to shake off a few pounds, most were affected by a not so unexpected rebound weight gain. For more see page 63.

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Local Spanish priest is banged up abroad SWIMMING POOLS: 14 times more likely to involve the death of a minor than a motor vehicle.

Drowning death toll in July reached 32

THIRTY TWO people drowned in Spanish beaches, rivers and swimming pools in July. Most were between 60 and 78 years of age, while four of them were minors. Catalonia and Andalucia are the autonomous communities with the highest death toll (six drownings each) followed by Murcia (five), Valencia, Madrid, Cantabria and Castile and Leon (two) and Canary Islands, Basque Country, Navarra, Asturias, Aragon, Castilla La Mancha and Balearic Islands (one). To avoid drowning, the Spanish Red Cross advises against swimming right after a large meal and against diving into areas of unknown depth. Furthermore, they recommend swimmers to get out of the water if they get chilly, dizzy or fatigued or have a headache. The Red Cross also advises parents to never lose sight of their children even if they are swimming in shallow waters.

A SPANISH priest from the city of Daimiel, Ciudad Real, was arrested by police in El Salvador on July 30, suspected of smuggling mobile phones to gang members in prison. Father Antonio Rodriguez was arrested whilst driving to his home in the Salvadoran capital of San Salvador and according to the authorities, has been under investigation since March 2013. The priest, who has dedicated the last 15 years of his life to helping Salvadoran gang members reintegrate into society, is celebrated for his role in bringing a fragile truce to the ganglands of El Salvador in March 2012. In the Spanish city of Daimiel, hundreds of people took to the streets to demand the immediate

liberation of the catholic priest. Among them was Isamar Orellana, an exgang member who now lives in Spain, who said: “I’m a living example of all the work that [Father Rodriguez] has done to help us leave that difficult world,” he said.

Orellana went on to say: “He was a marvellous person with me. The father I never had.” Father Rodriguez himself denies the allegations, and claims that he is a victim of anti-church persecution on the part of the government.

A further 127 other people, among them 12 members of the Salvadoran police force and three judges, were detained the same day, although the authorities maintain that these arrests bear no relation to that of Father Rodriguez.

Children who fail school need their holidays too CHILDREN who fail school need holidays, say some Spanish teachers. Parents must realise that they cannot take all the blame for a child’s failing grades, said Communications Secretary of the Independent Teachers’ Union (ANPE) Sonia Garcia Gomez. If a child must sit remedial exams at the end of the summer, punishing the whole family by cancelling the long-awaited holidays may not be the ideal thing to do though. Children must be taught to be responsible and the key lies in studying without being unmotivated, said Gomez. However, summer is long and it is important to adequately manage study hours while having fun with the rest of the family, she added. Studies show that children need to stick to a reasonable schedule, with 15 minutes of daily uninterrupted study for children aged six-eight, between 30 and 40 minutes for students aged eight-10 and between an hour and an hour and a half if older. “It is crucial to take five or 10-minute breaks for every hour of study,” said Gomez, lest the child gets bored, sleepy and fatigued. According to ANPE, it is not advisable to start with the most difficult subjects. It is better to start with something easy that interests them and then move on to more challenging content when their attention peaks approximately half an hour later. Constantly telling a child off for having

MOTIVATION IS KEY: Excessive scolding may result in frustration. failed school is a big no-no, warned Gomez. Studying should not be associated with stern reprimands, it is true the child failed to fulfil his or her school responsibilities but constant scolding has never been shown to be an effective motivational technique. In fact it may backfire and result in frustration. On the other hand, ANPE suggests taking away the child’s mobile phone or tablet to keep him or her from getting distracted but says daily rewards are important for motivation. “Let them have a little bit of fun, watch their favourite movie or play with their friends,” advised Gomez. “Failing grades should not be used to punish the child but to teach responsibility. If the child studies, then he or she deserves to enjoy the holidays with the family,” she remarked.

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DISMANTLING GANGS: Police have a 97 per cent success rate.

Spanish police crack down on organised crime gangs A WHOPPING 83 per cent of criminal gangs in Spain operate for as long as three years before being caught. Police broke up 497 criminal gangs in 2013 and detained 6,292 people for drug and human trafficking, Security Secretary Francisco Martinez has reported. Police operations to crack down on organised crime in Spain had a 97 per cent success rate, he added.

As much as 83 per cent of all groups dismantled had been operating for less than three years, while seven out of every 10 were made up of nationals from more than two different countries. Most gangs were based in Barcelona and Madrid, followed by Cadiz, Malaga, Alicante, Valencia, Sevilla and Murcia. The vast majority of them - 31 per cent - traffic in cocaine, and

21 per cent in hashish, said Martinez. Following nationwide operations launched last year to tackle organised crime, Spanish police seized almost 20 tons of cocaine, 146,708 kilograms of hashish, 103 kilograms of heroin, more than 10,000 ecstasy pills, 2,102 cars, 119 boats, six aircraft, 558 guns, 630 knives, 909 computers, 4,498 mobile phones and €30 million.

COURT has come out in favour of a building licence granted for the infamous Algarrobico hotel in Carboneras, in the province of Almeria. The unfinished building has become a cause célèbre with Greenpeace and other environmental groups, who have been campaigning for its demolition over the course of many years. Construction started in 2003 on the hotel, dubbed illegal by many, on so-called ‘protected lands’. Campaigners say that not only did it contravene the coastal law restricting beachside development, but the massive building also encroached on to the Cabo de Gata natural park. Now a judge has decided, in a bizarre ruling, that although the hotel may be illegal, its building licence was correctly granted. How that can be so is a mystery known only to the courts. Meanwhile, Carboneras Town

Hall’s urban development plans are also going through the judicial system in what appears to be an effort to legalise the hotel and permit construction to finish. Carboneras wants the income a completed hotel would bring and the developers want some sort of return on their investment. The hotel is a symbol of the excesses of Spain’s building boom in the early 2000s. Laws were ignored, unsuitable developments built, taking no account of the natural surroundings, and natural parks built on. While elsewhere in Almeria homeowners have had their houses demolished despite all their paperwork being in order, the bigboy developers look like they may be about to get away with a far worse offence. Everyone involved in trying to force through this monstrosity should be ashamed. But they won’t be. Money talks.

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Nice work! BENIDORM’S Terra Mitica intends to employ a ‘fun-hunter.’ The three-week job consists of visiting five European theme parks, including Terra Mitica, to compare tendencies and write a report on findings.

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OFFICERS from the Guardia Civil arrested a man outside a bakery in Aguadulce just moments after he attempted a robbery at knifepoint.

Crop fires

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SMOKE was visible for miles from a crop and plastics fire between Roquetas de Mar and Cabo de Gata at the weekend. Twelve firefighters brought the fire under control the same evening.

A BENICARLO (Castellon) woman told police that she was inundated with phone calls requesting sex. Investigators found that a vengeful friend had uploaded her number to an internet contacts site.

Car fire doused TWO cars caught fire during a collision on the Terramar Urbanisation in Villajoyosa, affecting a third car parked nearby. No-one was hurt and firemen extinguished the fire without problems.

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Paying tribute ALMUÑECAR paid tribute to the late singer and composer Carlos Cano with a concert held last week at El Majuelo Park. One of the highlights of the event was a performance by Juan de Santamaria.

CONTROVERSIAL: The Algarrobico hotel in Carboneras.

Court rules licence legal THE court judgement is in for the Algarrobico hotel in Carboneras, after much deliberation. The panel of judges has ruled that the Algarrobico building licence from 2003 was legally issued, overturning a number of previous rulings. The judgement goes on to state that the promoter - Azata del Sol - and the town of Carboneras had their rights trampled upon by the earlier court decisions. Ecologist group allegations were summarily dismissed on a technicality.

Classical music

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AS part of its successful Andalucian tour, the Cologne Philharmonic Orchestra played last Monday in La Herradura. The concert included pieces by Mozart, Vivaldi and Saratase.

AROUND 40 students aged between four and 13 from the Municipal Rhythmic Gymnastics School in Almuñecar put on a display at El Majuelo Park where they demonstrated their skills.

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ALMUÑECAR Council is to invest €1 million to finish the construction of the local music school, which actually started more than three years ago. The school is scheduled to be ready next year.

Occupancy rates OCCUPANCY rates in Almuñecar hotels are expected to increase in August to 90 per cent, according to local sources. As many as 8,324 tourists visited Almuñecar in July.

THE province of Malaga and the Guadalhorce Valley will be on yellow alert until further notice; temperatures of more than 37º Celsius are expected.

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THE Aguas de Alicante company discovered illegal water meter connections in 13 San Vicente homes between April and July. Fraud like this costs the company €20,000 a year, Aguas said.

GANDIA hotels averaged 88 per cent occupancy throughout July, the best result since 2007, the local AEHGS hoteliers’ association said. Accommodation prices rose by around 2 per cent.

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Sovereign visit KING Felipe VI is to visit Malaga on September 5. This will be his first official visit since becoming king in June and he will host a dinner at the Automobile Museum.

Free parking THE mayors of the towns and villages of the Costa del Sol are getting together to demand that parking at the Costa del Sol

According to local sources, they had failed to provide enough paperwork to support their case. This does not mean that the hotel itself is legal, solely the building licence. The court stated that within the information available in 2003, the promoter did nothing wrong in asking for the building licence, the town hall did nothing wrong in granting it, and the licence was therefore valid. In the meantime, Carboneras as a town still has its zoning plans going through the legal system. Hospital should be free. They are also complaining that the citizens of Marbella get a 40 per cent discount, which is not available to other residents.

More donations ANDALUCIA has doubled the average number of organ donations made in the first half of the year; 153 Andalucia patients have donated their organs, which has allowed 358 organ transplants.

Extra cash THE Diputacion de Malaga (local government) has approved a loan system whereby councils in the area will be able to borrow up to €10 million at zero interest. The only condition is that they must pay back the loan within 30 months.

Trade guide BALERMA has unveiled its first trade directory aimed at visitors to the town. Fifty local businesses have jumped on board in a move that the mayor described as “an excellent opportunity.”

Outdoor fitness BALERMA’S outdoor gym is now open. Councillors attended the inauguration of the park which contains eight fitness machines suitable for use by people of all ages.

Drugs haul NATIONAL POLICE have arrested two squatters as part of the discovery of a marihuana facility in an apartment in El Ejido. One-hundred-and-fifty-two plants were seized.

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Royal holidays KING Felipe VI and Queen Letizia arrived in Mallorca to begin their holidays. The king had been in Belgium where he participated in a ceremony marking the 100th anniversary of the First World War.

Free concert FRENCH DJ David Guetta performed a free show in Mallorca last Wednesday as part of the Mallorca Rocks festival. Guetta has sold more than six million albums and 15 million singles around the world.

Football match REAL MALLORCA football club will play Getafe at Iberostar Stadium next Wednesday as part of the 39th edition of the Ciutat de Palma tournament. The game is scheduled to kick off at 9pm.

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DENMARK - More than a dozen elk will be moved from Sweden to northern Jutland to help maintain the population in the local marshlands; they will be helping with the tree trimming in the Lille Vidmose area.

A DOLPHIN got slightly lost and ended up in the River Severn a full 50 miles away from the sea; wildlife experts have advised the public to leave it alone and it will find its own way home.

Hot month DENMARK - July 2014 is set to go down in history as one of the hottest months on record with temperatures of above 25 degrees Celsius for 15 24-hour periods.

Four steps SWEDEN - Carl Bildt, Sweden’s Foreign Minister, has stated there are four steps to be taken in achieving peace in Gaza, the first one is to remove the blockade which, according to Bildt, plays into the hands of Hamas.

School fees SWEDEN - Elite boarding schools in Sweden are to be stripped of their special privileges and will no longer be able to charge tuition fees; they will, however, continue to charge boarding fees.

Ferry sting NORWAY - A ferry going between Denmark and Sweden had to make an unscheduled stop for medical aid when an eight-year-old boy was bitten by a scorpion; the boy is recovering well.

Humped off NORWAY - A camel has escaped from a travelling circus, again. Ali the camel was seen grazing on a public roadside in Stjordal which is where he was found last time he escaped.

THREE lucky participants in Germany’s lottery are to take home six figure winnings after choosing 9, 10, 11, 12 and 13 as their winning numbers; a spokesperson for the lotto corporation commented that it was a “once in a thousand year result.”

Haunted mansion STANLEY PALACE, a 16th century Tudor mansion in Chester, is the site of the latest eerie ghost footage to be taken; a group investigating paranormal activity filmed it standing on a staircase in the mansion.

No equality LOST: A dolphin ended up 50 miles away from the sea.

Dancing policeman

Human skin

A GLASGOW bobby is the latest internet star after being captured on film dancing in the street with an unidentified woman to the tune of “How do you like your eggs in the morning?” by Dean Martin.

GIGI BAKER, a British designer, has made some chairs and footstools which imitate the feel of human skin; apparently she wanted to replicate the feeling of sitting on the stomach of an obese male.

Dark news

Streaking students

VETERAN broadcaster, Bryan Dobson, was expecting the camera to zoom in on him but instead it zoomed in on his co-anchor; meanwhile he just stood in the dark to the right of the newsdesk, like a true professional he carried on as though it were planned.

AN unexpected hailstorm, which battered parts of Hove and Brighton, prompted some students from a nearby college to streak naked through the streets; nobody knows why they had this reaction to the freak storm.

EDWARD SNOWDEN’S lawyer, Jesselyn Radack, has stated that, for the moment, Russia is the safest place for him and he will not seek to move out of Moscow when his visa expires.

Bear attacks A SPATE of bear attacks is sweeping the far eastern parts of Russia in recent weeks; scientists say this may be due to a change in the animal’s habitat which is driving it out of its usual hunting grounds.

Capello stays ALTHOUGH he didn’t manage any wins at the World Cup, Fabio Capello has stated that he will stay with the Russian national team until Russia hosts the next World Cup in 2018.

Sleigh festival ST. PETERSBURG hosted the Summer

GERMAN women are still unrepresented in leadership positions and professorships according to a government report; they are also paid less. The only areas in which there is parity are education and social services.

Thirsty victory THE World Cup victory was also a victory for Germany’s brewing companies; they saw a rise in sales of 4.4 per cent compared to the same period last year - unsurprisingly this has been attributed to the World Cup victory.

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RUSSIAN PRESS Safest place

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SaniDay or Sledges Day festival at the Igora resort. Participants created unusual sledges based on a free theme - there was everything from a crocodile to a space rocket. BEAR ATTACKS: Away from their normal hunting grounds.

Economy contracting THE acceleration of Ukraine’s declining economy has speeded up due to the fighting between their army and pro-Russian forces in the east; this has taken its toll on industry and other economic activities.

More sanctions THE EU has released a list of eight Russian nationals and three companies that are to have their assets frozen as part of the ongoing sanctions against Russia’s actions in the Ukraine.

THE European space freighter which blasted off to go to the International Space Station will be the last of its kind - the programme has drawn to a close. The German-built supply ship was carrying supplies for the four astronauts currently in residence.

Unemployment up THE rate of jobless Germans rose by 6.6 per cent in July; the federal employment agency has blamed the increase on “seasonal reasons.”

Crop circles A MYSTERIOUS crop circle which appeared in Bavaria has attracted thousands of visitors since it was spotted last week in a wheat field; it has a diameter of 75 metres and is made up of three rings.

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STAT OF WEEK VODAFONE’S turnover fell to €866 million in the first quarter of the 2014-2015 fiscal year, 15.3 per cent less than in 2013. The company blamed the economic situation and intense competition.

Swiftair’s many facets THE name Swiftair meant little until an MD-83s bound for Algiers disappeared over Mali. The aircraft had taken off in Burkina Faso and when it crashed, probably in a sandstorm, all 110 passengers and the six Spanish crew members were killed. The company, which was created in 1986 and made a €1.2 million profit last year, runs 44 low and mid-capacity aircraft and is principally a freight service. It also works with tour operators in Europe, Africa and the Near East, ‘wet leasing’ its aircraft complete with crews,

Begging letters make a fortune ‘NIGERIAN letters’ generate millions and Spanish police recently netted 84 scammers. They were detained throughout the country, including Malaga, Sevilla, Almeria, Alicante, Valencia and Madrid and are accused of defrauding and laundering €11.547 million. Few people have never received an email which plays on the age-old hope of obtaining a great deal of money for very little outlay. Vast sums will be released, the victims are promised, if they advance cash to set things in motion. Enough were taken in by the sting to send

money to ‘locutorios’ where immigrants, generally from outside the EU, use pay phones and arrange money transfers. Here the money was collected by the detainees, 80 per cent of whom were from Nigeria. In the latest operation the UDEF fiscal fraud squad seized 98 vehicles worth €1.127 million and 73 properties valued at €9.846 million. They also blocked more than 50 bank accounts. The victims are usually from the US, Canada and Germany, UDEF sources revealed. The true number is probably higher, they added, as many are later reluctant to admit that they were so easily fooled.

maintenance and insurance. Swiftair is also involved in baggagehandling services in Morocco and Africa and transports NATO soldiers bound for Africa. In a joint venture (UTE) with Air Europa, Swiftair won another government contract LIMELIGHT: Airline in the news for the wrong reasons. in March 2013 to fly undocumented illegal immigrants to internment centres on the Spanish mainland. The UTE’s lowest bid of €11 million origin, operations whose alleged deficiencies have been also included returning immigrants to their countries of criticised by humanitarian and civil rights groups.

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Supermarket sell-off YEAR-ON-YEAR the DIA supermarket group earned 331.5 per cent more between January and June. The boost came from the sale of its French outlets, valued at €600 million, to Carrefour.

Fair shares GOVERNMENT rescue plans for Spanish motorways on the brink of insolvency will get the backing of the principal banks. In return they expect a say in how they are run, sources said.

New audit law - it all adds up THE government will speed through a draft audit law introducing tough new EU conditions. The directives, which the Cabinet expects to approve in September, should reach Parliament in October. These will require company auditors to be changed at regular intervals with strict controls regarding activities outside their usual remit. The Gowex case, where auditors M & A allegedly

colluded with the chairman’s false accounting, recently put auditing under the media microscope. Nor are M & A alone. BDO, a firm with the fifth-highest turnover in Spain, was accused of “serious errors” over Pescanova’s accounts. Although the company was refloated, shareholders lost most of their investments while Pescanova’s creditor banks also endured heavy losses.

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Hutchinson Technology Incorporated $ 2.88 Planar Systems, Inc. $ 3.19 Intervest Bancshares Corp. $ 9.40 Electro Scientific Industries, Inc. $ 6.77 Tandem Diabetes Care, Inc. $ 14.12 Nektar Therapeutics $ 11.82 DXP Enterprises, Inc. $ 78.78 Esperion Therapeutics, Inc. $ 15.73 Credit Suisse AG $ 3.80 Skullcandy, Inc. $ 7.39 Multimedia Games Holding Company, Inc. $ 26.33

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Most Declined Biota Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Web.com Group, Inc. ServiceSource International, Inc. Immersion Corporation Pixelworks, Inc. Bio Blast Pharma Ltd. YRC Worldwide, Inc. STAAR Surgical Company Audience, Inc. GoPro, Inc. ARRIS Group, Inc.

$ 2.42 $ 20.12 $ 3.39 $ 10.50 $ 6.23 $ 6.90 $ 21.72 $ 10.86 $ 8.05 $ 40.97 $ 29.30

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C O M PA N Y Carnival PLC Centrica PLC Coca-Cola HBC AG Compass Group PLC CRH PLC Diageo PLC easyJet PLC Experian PLC Fresnillo PLC Friends Life Group Ltd G4S PLC GKN PLC GlaxoSmithKline PLC Glencore PLC Hammerson PLC Hargreaves Lansdown HSBC Holdings PLC IMI PLC Imperial Tobacco Group InterContinental Hotels International Consoldtd Intertek Group PLC Intu Properties PLC ITV PLC Johnson Matthey PLC Kingfisher PLC Land Securities Group Legal & General Group Lloyds Banking Group London Stock Exchange Marks & Spencer Group Meggitt PLC Mondi PLC Morrison (Wm) Sprmrkts National Grid PLC Next PLC Old Mutual PLC Pearson PLC Persimmon PLC Petrofac Ltd Prudential PLC Randgold Resources Ltd Reckitt Benckiser Group Reed Elsevier PLC REXAM PLC Rio Tinto PLC Rolls-Royce Holdings Royal Bank of Scotland Royal Dutch Shell PLC Royal Mail PLC RSA Insurance Group SABMiller PLC Sage Group (The) PLC Sainsbury (J) PLC Schroders PLC Severn Trent PLC Shire PLC Smith & Nephew PLC Smiths Group PLC Sports Direct Interntinl... SSE PLC Standard Chartered PLC Standard Life PLC St James's Place PLC Tesco PLC Travis Perkins PLC TUI Travel PLC Tullow Oil PLC Unilever PLC United Utilities Group Vodafone Group PLC Weir Group PLC Whitbread PLC Wolseley PLC WPP PLC

PRICE(P) 2125.00 306.65 1362.50 953.50 1388.00 1771.75 1287.00 1005.00 937.25 326.00 249.00 342.30 1426.75 360.50 594.75 1010.50 630.65 1430.00 2534.50 2369.50 338.60 2549.50 323.45 204.15 2882.50 299.80 1033.00 231.75 73.80 1903.00 424.30 503.75 1026.00 168.60 842.75 6717.50 194.40 1128.50 1245.00 1091.50 1353.75 5090.00 5237.50 939.25 505.75 3381.75 1041.50 351.00 2529.00 421.35 452.80 3210.25 364.00 309.40 2308.50 1877.00 4927.00 1063.00 1286.50 657.00 1442.50 1226.25 362.00 716.25 253.05 1686.00 358.85 726.75 2567.50 856.00 197.45 2528.50 4232.00 3075.50 1183.50

CHANGE -22.00 -0.20 -7.00 -3.10 2.00 -6.50 -10.00 -4.00 2.00 -0.70 -2.10 -1.60 10.45 4.35 1.50 -7.00 1.36 -15.00 -3.00 -5.00 0.60 15.00 -0.15 -1.30 -2.00 -0.80 -3.00 -0.30 0.48 -1.00 -2.90 -1.00 -6.00 -0.80 3.00 5.00 0.10 -8.00 -14.00 -19.00 11.00 25.00 25.00 -7.50 5.00 27.00 2.66 1.00 0.50 -6.80 1.00 6.00 -2.00 -1.50 -22.00 -1.00 54.00 -2.00 2.00 -6.50 5.00 4.50 -3.50 -1.50 -0.54 -3.00 -1.80 -1.32 1.00 0.45 1.05 -32.00 -40.00 -11.36 4.00

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VOLUME 43.09 735.66 11.59 279.48 84.04 319.60 62.67 91.03 80.99 261.69 175.40 409.12 1,160.84 1,996.20 57.72 42.99 1,697.77 65.99 80.87 76.15 903.77 58.91 64.34 877.07 23.58 418.38 35.60 641.57 11,771.81 28.17 144.25 62.44 46.15 380.34 401.14 15.23 419.25 118.66 69.46 102.69 301.45 21.02 39.05 113.75 124.11 308.70 260.95 1,042.55 284.59 144.65 85.19 138.18 103.75 472.32 18.33 28.00 167.00 164.92 38.83 58.36 61.55 294.54 374.37 71.48 1,493.84 48.67 83.17 104.23 259.44 137.83 5,198.24 47.73 35.60 23.99 468.11

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Sterling reaches 22-month high against the euro and a 6-year high vs the dollar Ask the expert Peter Loveday Contact me at euroweekly@currenciesdirect.com

after cutting its deposit rate (the rate at which commercial banks earn interest on funds parked at the central bank) to -0.1 per cent. Alongside the cut in rates, the ECB announced a raft of other policy measures aimed at getting credit flowing to businesses. The package of measures announced in June represents the ECB throwing the kitchen sink at fighting the threat of deflation. It will take several months minimum to see if measures aimed at getting credit flowing around the Eurozone are successful. At their last meeting in July the

ECB did not announce any further policy measures but made it very clear that they are prepared to act further and they have lined up Quantitative Easing (QE) as the next policy measure. It seems that the ECB are keeping QE in the locker to be used if required to combat deflation and they are hoping that US growth will pick up

and force EUR/USD to weaken. The strength of the euro is a concern to the ECB as it weighs on growth prospects, therefore if a natural correction does not take place from US growth we could see QE in the coming months to help weaken the euro and tackle deflation concerns. Falling inflation is a big concern

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Look on the private side of banking BBVA’s purchase of bailed-out Catalunya Banc for a knockdown €1.2 billion makes it a major Cataluña force. Until now CaixaBank administered the region’s principal fortunes practically without competition. Now it has BBVA to contend with. Twenty-two per cent of the clients who receive the services of Spain’s private banking sector live in Cataluña, which has the country’s fourthhighest per capita GDP after the Basque Region, Madrid and Navarra. Of these, Madrid boasts the largest segment with 25 per cent of the wealthiest clients, revealed consultants DBK. At the end of 2013, rich Catalans owned €74.8 billion of the €365 billion that moves the wealth management sector in

UK ECONOMY: The pound is nicely positioned for further gains.

Spain. CaixaBank’s private banking division attends to the financial affairs of clients with minimum assets of €500,000. From Barcelona it controls around €19.8 billion - almost half of the group’s wealth management business of approximately €44 billion. Nationwide BBVA can count on more than €76 billion that belongs to clients with assets of more than €300,000. By the end of last year 18 per cent of its clients were based in Cataluña, with a volume of assets approaching €13.7 billion. Cataluña’s private banking sector moves more than €80.3 billion, and once the Catalunya Banc deal is completed in 2015, almost half of this will be split between CaixaBank (€19.8 billion) and BBVA (€16.7 billion).

for ECB policy officials and inflation projections still look soft for the Eurozone. The euro has managed to maintain good levels despite the aggressive policy action announced by the ECB so far. After weakening in June post the announcement, EUR/USD managed to retrace back up to the same levels as we commenced the July meeting. But as we stand the outlook certainly looks soft for the euro and the pound is getting the plaudits. History tells us however that the pound can have a tendency to disappoint just when it looks likely to make further gains. If UK economic data starts to disappoint, the rally in the pound could lose steam and therefore caution is still noted. Assuming we do not see the UK economy derail, the pound is nicely positioned for further gains against the euro with an eye on 1.30 for GBP/EUR.

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THE bull-run in the pound has continued unabated and recently it has managed to push to a fresh 22-month high against the euro and a six-year high versus the US dollar. These are exceptional levels for the Great British Pound and it is mainly due to the fact that currently the UK is on the path to raising interest rates ahead of its peers in the US and Europe. The economic backdrop for the UK for now is upbeat and the consensus is that the UK economy will continue to perform strongly for the remainder of 2014. There is a large contrast in Europe with economic data inconsistent and the outlook soft. The strength of the euro currently and the risk of deflation is a real concern. These concerns have provoked unprecedented monetary policy action by the European Central Bank (ECB) in June. The ECB became the first of the major central banks to apply negative interest rates,

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WE often find humour even under the most dreadful circumstances; it is known as gallows humour. The never ending recession has produced its own brand of wit. ‘With the market turmoil being what it is what’s the best way to make a small fortune? Start off with a large one.’ Iceland’s President Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson issued arrest warrants on the bankers responsible for bringing the economy to its knees. This was the basis of the joke, ‘Record levels of unemployment have been announced. Those worst affected are the construction trades and Iceland’s bankers.’ The roll call of bankers who have taken their own lives since the beginning of their Ponzi scams has reached unprecedented levels.

BIG ISSUE: A former banker? ‘What’s the definition of optimism? An investment banker who irons five shirts on a Sunday evening.’ In Britain there’s The Big Issue magazine; it is sold by unemployed street sellers. This gave rise to the joke: ‘I talked to my bank manager yesterday. He said he was going to focus on the big issue. He sold me one outside McDonald’s yesterday.’ I can identify with that. I received a letter from my bank manager stamped, ‘Insufficient Funds.’ I wrote back, ‘you or me?’

Investment banking isn’t everyone’s cup of tea. Most of us relate to ‘what is the difference between an investment banker and a London pigeon?’ The pigeons can still make deposits on BMW cars. One businessman wryly remarked bankruptcy was worse than divorce: ‘I have lost half my net worth and I still have my wife.’ You know the credit supply is crunching when your cash-point asks if you have any spare change and the Inland Revenue offer a discount for cash payers.

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Pay-back pledge BAILED-OUT Bankia’s client base increased by 15,000 and profits rose by 48 per cent during the first six months of this year. The board is committed to repaying the taxpayer-funded rescue, said CEO Jose Sevilla.

Taurus takeover TAURUS, the Catalan electrical appliance manufacturer which markets 11 brands in 80 countries, acquired longestablished but insolvent Solac, best known for its steam irons.

’M just back from a trip abroad and the entire process of booking the low-cost flight couldn’t have been easier. While I normally need a stiff drink in hand to handle the frustration of reserving a plane ticket on the Ryanair website, their new updated and user-friendly browser is a pleasure to navigate. Apparently Michael O’Leary, renowned for his “my way or the highway” attitude - yes, the one who used to make people pay extortionate amounts for forgetting to print out the boarding ticket -

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has turned over a new leaf. The airline adopted

Spain continues with aid DESPITE the crisis, Spain will continue sending aid to developing countries. Only four of 52 countries classed in the past as living below the poverty threshold are no longer underdeveloped, said Spain’s Foreign minister Jose Manuel

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Garcia-Margallo during a UN-organised conference. Spain offered cooperation so these countries could leave underdevelopment behind. But they had to make efforts related to “good government, rule of law and political stability.”

Why can’t they collect debt? Q. I read with interest your answer to KS on the Costa del Sol regarding the You and the ‘Proceso Monitorio’ to collect Community Law in Spain debts. In our Community we have two By David Searl owners who have not paid at all for six years. They are not Spanish and one of them is not from an EU country. In my own country (Denmark) this situation would not have lasted long. The property would have been embargoed. I have asked our administrator what can be done and had different answers, which I do not quite understand. And where can I buy your book in Torrevieja? T.S. (Costa Blanca) A. I am glad you asked. The ‘Proceso Monitorio’ is relatively new, so you need an up-to-date edition of You and the Law in Spain. If you wait until September 1, you can obtain the new 2015 edition, with a full treatment of ‘Proceso Monitorio.’ Perhaps your best option is to order the book from the Santanabooks.com website. You will receive it at home. I agree with you that Spanish law for debt collection leaves a lot to be desired. It is far too slow in the backlogged courts. Nevertheless, Communities of Property Owners all over Spain have successfully taken debtors to court, either by the ‘Proceso Monitorio’ or a regular lawsuit. Send your questions for David Searl through lawyers Ubeda-Retana & Associates in Fuengirola at Ask@lawtaxspain.com, or call 952 667 090.

a strategy of being nicer to customers last autumn with O'Leary deciding that the firm should try to ‘eliminate things that unnecessarily p*** people off’. And so far being nice has been a success, with Ryanair admitting that its earnings have soared in the last three months. A new study backs up

this ‘it pays to be nice philosophy.’ While bosses who scream and micromanage their way to the top, are still common in today’s workplaces, according to the report the best bosses are humble bosses, those who empower and appreciate their employees, are open to feedback and care about the

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greater good. There tends to be a stereotype that humble people are weak people that get walked all over. Humble people may be quieter, more in the background, but they lead in a different way, by empowering their employees, and this trickles down making humble bosses strong bosses, says the report. The qualities of a humble boss include: self-awareness, openness to feedback, appreciation of others and low self-focus. All of which are traits that help humble bosses acknowledge their weaknesses as well as their strengths, and therefore learn, grow and succeed. Controlling and tough bosses may be surprised by the study results, but maybe it’s time we understood that humility isn’t a sign of weakness or lacking confidence, but rather, a good thing that can benefit us all.

Messi still facing court in tax mess ACE footballer Lionel Messi is a step nearer the courtroom. If nothing changes, the Barcelona striker will be questioned regarding €4.1 million owed in unpaid income tax on image rights between 2007 and 2009. Messi, one of the world’s highestpaid sportsmen, earns just under €30 million a season in salary and bonuses, according to Forbes magazine, plus more than €17 million from sponsors. His father now faces charges of transferring income from sponsors to shell corporations in Belize and Uruguay amongst other tax havens. When this came to light in June last year, Messi immediately added €10 million to his 2010 and 2011 tax returns which were then under investigation. A further €5 million was paid in back taxes corresponding to 2007, 2008 and 2009. Barcelona judge Manuel Alcover rejected the public prosecutor’s

recommendation of excluding Messi from the three charges of fiscal fraud. The prosecution office maintained that the player did not realise the “range, dimension, aims and effects” of the strategies masterminded by his father, Jorge. Leo Messi also told the examining judge last September that he left financial matters to his father but Alcover was not convinced that Messi was entirely unaware of his machinations. The latter has accepted full responsibility for the tax evasion, maintaining that his son had no part in attempts to hide his earnings. There were sufficient indications to assume that Messi “must have known about and consented to” moves to construct a “fictitious corporate structure” specifically designed to evade taxes, the judge argued. The player’s involvement, if any, in the illicit financial dealings should be a trial matter, he added.

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Noise versus peace is a real dilemma I’VE been living and working in Spain more than 30 years. I call Spain my real home but what happened to that fun place I fell in love with? I am a professional DJ and worked for 40 years in England, Spain, Germany and now the Costa de Sol. Jake Smith is right when he says mayors have lost the plot on what tourists need. They are happy to give you dog beaches and toilets (we all need them don’t we?) but they don’t permit bars or pubs to employ DJs any more. They use noise as an excuse to close or fine them. In other words, an early night for everyone. I came across this problem a few years ago in Galicia when I worked in one of the best discopubs in Pontevedra. Because of one person (yes: one) calling the local police, they closed us down. I understand that everyone has the right to sleep, but anyone with a minimum of common sense knows you don’t buy a flat over a bar without checking first! We now have to rethink where we go or live. Work-wise for me it’s looking like the end but noone is prepared to take on the local mayors even though they may or may not have voted for them. Spain isn’t the fun place which many of us were lucky enough to know in years gone by. Sorry to say, the end is near unless you are a dog person. D A Thompson (by email)

A sobering look THANKS for the Looky, Looky, Looky article. But you sure walk on tiptoe around the subject instead of calling a horse a horse and looking it in the mouth! Blissful are we tourists, looking at these people and having compassion for them instead of realising the sordid truth. These immigrants often have to pay back their passage into the paradise called Europe and are ruthlessly exploited by their own people and all others: 21 in a room, 63 to a house, payment per three-minute showers,

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Then any personal allowance remaining is set against your private pension, often resulting in most of it being taxed at the full rate of 20 per cent. As to whether tax on retired people is unfair, well that’s a different matter. If you are resident in Spain and can reduce or avoid it altogether by doing the right thing, why not check it out? Stephen Clarke, Turre (Almeria)

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THE coast has many attractions, but there is so much to see inland. One of my favourite towns in the province of Valencia is Jativa, worth visiting for the basilica alone. Alphonse Ridgeway (by email)

etcetera. They have no alternative but to survive as a group in these grey zones of legitimacy. There are too many Chinese stores and restaurants to really make a living unless they are a facade for money-laundering, drugs- and people-trafficking or servitude. I wrote to the Spanish and European governments and proposed not letting any immigrant enter the labourmarket without a certificate of an OESCD-level III education. The rest should be kept in camps and educated but sent back to their region, to help build that up. No response as yet. Roland de Rooy, Alhaurin El Grande (Malaga)

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to, hordes of spammers, hackers, phishers and old-school conmen. I have often written to Your Say in the past about this, partly for the pleasure of relating my phone and email adventures following unsuccessful attempts to deprive me of my hard-earned money. But I have also done this so that other readers will not be taken in. The latest episode began with a warning from my anti-virus programme. “Virus detected in an incoming email,” it droned. I panicked a bit and deleted the whole thing and to be on the safe side emptied the deleted items folder.

I did notice something about ‘virus order’ at the top and the name Vicente Pratt (which is exactly what he must be). Anyway, readers, don’t say I didn’t warn you! T Freeman (by email)

Tax truths THERE was a short letter from Stephen Tucker last week, whom we have to assume lives in Spain and believes it is unfair that he must pay tax on his private Merchant Navy pension at age 65. First of all, the reason why he has started to pay tax at age 65 is presumably because at that age he has started to collect the UK state pension which is taxable. A lot of people seem to believe that it is not, usually because if it is your only source of income your personal allowances will cover it. HMRC will always recover any tax due from a private pension by allocating most of your allowances to the State Pension so that you are not taxed on that (it is still taxable, remember).

I AGREE with Leapy Lee week after week. His comments are spot on; it’s a shame our leaders don’t have as much commonsense. With regards to the Middle East, the Romans used to pay one tribe to fight another, keeping them occupied and off the backs of Rome. Why have we not learned from history? Then I see announcements by well-known actors, asking for my money to help support camps in Turkey or wherever people have fled because their country is having yet another civil war. Why would I want to give money to them? So they can have a better life and come and kill my fellow citizens and our troops? R J (by email)

Sick of cicadas LAST spring a reader complained about the noise and droppings from pigeons. Not long after there was another complaint, this time about intrusive sparrows. What a couple of killjoys, I thought, but now I’m beginning to sympathise. I’ve moved to the ‘campo’ after years in a city that I happily shared with pigeons and sparrows. No-one told me that there would be cicadas. They started tuning up as soon as the really hot weather began and now make a deafening din somewhere between a buzz and whirr. Occasionally they all stop at once and after a couple of minutes of silence they start up again in perfect disharmony, all at exactly the same time. Is it just me? Or are cicadas a pain where it’s preferable not to have one? M P Norris, Quatretonda (Valencia)

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Worms are out of the can… LEAPY LEE SAYS IT OTHERS THINK IT

ELL, we certainly opened a can of worms last week. My statement regarding Arabic inventions, or rather lack of them, did attract some interesting response from quite a number of readers. As usual most were extremely positive, but a couple did creep in that I felt deserved at least some defence of my observations. On the advice of one particularly abusive missive, I did review my facts on the subject and, lo and behold, actually found quite a number of inventions allegedly discovered by members of Arabic communities. Coffee was one. Rocket propulsion was another. (Funny, I always thought that was the Chinese!) A number of others did come to light; even the camera crept in at one point. However, apart from one Mid-East gentleman who apparently worked for NASA during the moon landing, I couldn’t find any other positive input to the human

ARABIC DISCOVERIES? Coffee was one of them. race for the last thousand years. Not the most convincing record of humanityserving intentions; I rest my case. As far as the knockers of Israel’s Gaza onslaught are concerned, tragic as it all is, I don’t recall the British dropping leaflets on Dresden or Berlin, etc, warning its occupants to seek shelter before they wiped out hundreds of thousands of civilian women and children; or America, before it annihilated Nagasaki and

Hiroshima. Sorry, but the pure hypocrisy of the West regarding this conflict simply defies the imagination. The only difference in the wars of the 21st century is the media coverage. In the past, what the eye didn’t see the heart didn’t grieve. Unfortunately, the allseeing eyes of the media and modern technology’s instant communication capabilities now bring the true horrors of conflict directly into our living rooms. Will

this finally lead our hearts to one day truly grieve and learn from our humanitarian mistakes? Don’t hold yer breath! Heard a particularly funny remark by one of the ‘you know where I’m comin’ from’ brigade last week. Many of these young people punctuate remarks by the word ‘ennit’. That’s literally all it is, a verbal punctuation mark that generally has no connection with the preceding sentence whatsoever. No doubt wishing to sound rather ‘better read’ than her peers this young lady informed her interviewer that she hoped Labour would win the next election - ‘isn’t it’! You really couldn’t make it up. Loved the story of the woman who got totally drunk on an aircraft last week. After shouting for cigarettes and a parachute, she then proceeded to unscrew her prosthetic leg and throw it at a member of the cabin crew. After the pilot decided to make an emergency landing, the police came on board and arrested the woman, who left the plane to the whole of the passengers giving her a rousing chorus of the Hokey Cokey. God bless the Brits! Keep the faith, Love Leapy leapylee2002@gmail.com

What your waiter (or doctor) really thinks about you!

T’S no secret that institutions develop their own language in the interests of time and confidentiality. Now, we all know that restaurant staff use various terms to describe their customers, sometimes derogatory, occasionally complimentary. So, the next time you’re in your favourite restaurant this summer, bear a thought as to how you’re maybe being described. HAF means Had a Few while PIA is code for Pain in the ****, while a table of truly dreadful customers is DBC - Douche Bag Central. O means a plump guest while those who like to be left alone might be referred to as a doughnut (i.e. pay special attention to them at the beginning and end of a meal, but leave them alone while they’re eating). And should you

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DOCTOR CODES: Are you a TBP or a GLM? glimpse QF in the reservation book against your name, that means you’re, err, Quite Fussy. Oops! Doctors too have their own codes. While a GLM is a good looking mum with GLL (great looking legs) and an FLK is a funny looking kid, a TBP is a total bloody pain, a GPO is good for parts only and TEETH is Tried

Everything Else, Try Homeopathy. One doctor ending up in court had to explain TTFO (Told To F*** Off). Fortunately, he had the presence of mind to say: To take fluids orally. Oops again! And the number of terms for patients considered somewhat intellectually challenged is ginormous. From LOBNH (Lights On But Nobody Home), CNS-QNS (Central Nervous System - Quantity Not Sufficient), to pumpkin positive (a penlight shone into the patient’s mouth would encounter a brain so small that the whole head would light up). Regular visitors to A&E on Friday/ Saturday nights are also classified. DBI refers to Dirt

Bag Index, and multiplies the number of tattoos with the number of missing teeth to estimate the number of days since the patient washed. UBI is an Unexplained Beer Injury, a PFO a drunken patient who’s injured himself falling over, while a PGT Got Thumped instead. Call centres have similar codes for their technical helplines. A particularly obvious query may be categorised as an RTFM on line 1 - code for Read The F***ing Manual. Which reminds me of a similar code used in West Country hospitals until fairly recently: NFT or Normal for Tiverton. Nora Johnson’s thrillers Retribution, Soul Stealer, The De Clerambault Code (www.norajohnson.com) available from Amazon in paperback/eBook (€0.89; £0.77) and iBookstore. Profits to Cudeca.

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Is Spain good at anything at all? Mike Walsh Mike, based in Mediterranean Spain, is an international journalist, author and professional writer.

T was recently revealed that Spain came out EU tops for best value

healthcare. A well deserved tribute seconded by coffin-dodging pensioners who, thanks to this superiority, are still ‘all present and correct’ at morning roll-call. Conceding its moment of glory there are other areas requiring attention if Spain is to approach European standards. According to released data Spanish driving is not quite the worst in Europe: Italy takes the ignominious discredit for the ‘Did he Really do That’ Oscar. No smirking; British drivers are only 0.09 per cent better at driving than are the Spanish. The gap could be closed if we explain to Spaniards how to use direction indicators and behave sensibly at

SPANISH DRIVING: Not quite the worst in Europe, but almost. roundabouts. A far better way of closing the gap than tail-gating the car in front. If Spanish drivers appear to be confused, it is likely because they are looking for non-existent, confusing or inappropriately placed road signs. Here there is room for improvement. There is good reason why national road numbers are preceded by an N as in N332. This is because such roads reach a

country’s national frontiers. I must remind Cartagena road planning department that if the N332 was supposed to Pedro out in their city’s camino it would be called the ?332 wouldn’t it? The Spanish are averse towards musical creativity but in fairness the British are not up to much either. I concede that Edward Elgar, Frederick Delius, George Friedrich Handel and Gustav Holst were British citizens. Their names

are hardly Tom, Dick and Harry sounding are they? The Spaniards can boast Enrique Granados, Pablo Sarasete and Isaac Albeniz. Respectively these maestros are passable at plinking guitars, scratching catgut and tickling piano ivories. However, opera and enchanting classical melodies that evoke Spain’s colourful tapestry; Carmen, Espana and Bolero, were composed by Frenchmen George

Bizet, Emmanuelle Chabrier and Maurice Ravel. The Spaniards borrowed most of their language from Roman invaders and passed a little to the English language. One word best forgotten is armada. I hear you saying, what about corruption; the English concede Spanish superiority at passing brown envelopes. This could be down to the Spaniards being prepared to jail scoundrels. The English simply legalised sleaze. Problem solved. Spaniards are preferential to their own and many Spanish waiters display fecklessness. There was good reason why the truculent Manuel was chosen for the sitcom Faulty Towers. In shipbuilding Spaniards are clearly steerage class. Spanish passenger liners were best known for wartime evacuations. Spain’s only super-liner, the Príncipe de Asturias was Glasgow built. At 8,000 tons it merely qualified as a bum-boat tender for the iconic ocean greyhounds of Europe.

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T’S financial corruption, political corruption, and politico-financial corruption all the way. There’s never a hint of the sex scandals that alternately delight and devastate the UK and the US, not to mention Italy and France. Jordi Pujol, former president of Cataluña, admitted not long ago to owning undeclared millions in tax havens. It was money inherited from his father 34 years ago, the 84-year-old explained in a plea for forgiveness, adding that the “adequate moment” for revealing it had never arisen. Presumably that moment has arisen now only because a judge is investigating his son’s own alleged corruption. Whatever Spanish politicians get up to in their private lives, they take care not to do it in the street and frighten the horses. But their bookkeeping sure does frighten the long-suffering, law-abiding, tax-paying, cash-strapped public. JORDI PUJOL: Owns undeclared millions.

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No sex, please: we’re Spanish Not just a pretty face PEDRO SANCHEZ is young, tall, dark and handsome. Now that politics everywhere else are a PR exercise in style over substance, Spain could soon follow suit. Whether Sanchez wants it or not, he will harvest votes on his looks alone. It wouldn’t be the first time. In 1977, in the first democratic elections after Franco’s death, many voted for Adolfo Suarez in 1977 because he was so easy on the eye. As it happened, the best man won but he was the best-looking, too. Sanchez is the best-looking of the present bunch but now he must prove he’s also the best man for the job.

Reverse aversion THE ‘third way’ favoured by the PSOE, many Catalans and most Spaniards allows Cataluña to remain in the fold but with still more power. Vice-president Soraya Saenz de Santamaria gave this solution the thumbs down. “It requires a consensus that doesn’t exist,” she claimed and recent events

tend to prove her right. Or because she is as canny as her boss Mariano Rajoy, is she dismissing the ‘third way’ to give it an aura of desirability?

Bareback riding THE PSOE’s new secretary general Pedro Sanchez will woo Indignados and PP voters. In 2011 thousands of the Indignados occupied the Puerta del Sol in Madrid and forced the national parties to look at themselves instead of their navels. They would once have voted PSOE but are now more likely to support Podemos, the radical non-aligned party that swiped five European parliament seats in May. Sanchez also wants to win over the people who voted for the PP in the 2011 general election because Rajoy pledged to end the crisis. If the PSOE is to do well in next year’s municipal, regional and general elections Sanchez must entice each faction without frightening the other. His resembles a circus bareback rider galloping round the ring with a foot on two ill-matched ponies. Can he make them gallop side by side? Or will he tear himself in half?

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7:00am CITV 9:25am ITV News 9:30am Weekend) 10:25am The Hungry Sailors 11:25am Murder, She Wrote: The Last Free Man 1:15pm ITV News and Weather A roundup of the latest news headlines and a national weather forecast. 1:20pm Storage Hoarders 2:20pm The Unforgettable...

9:00am Ashley Banjo's Secret Street Crew 10:00am The F1 Show 11:00am Got to Dance 12:00pm Hercules Special 12:15pm Futurama 12:30pm Guardians of the Galaxy 1:00pm World Wrestling Entertainment Superstars 2:00pm Planes: Fire and Rescue Special 2:30pm Dawn of the Planet of the Apes Special

3:05pm We Dive at Dawn 4:40pm Flog It! 5:00pm A Bear with a Bounty - A Natural World

3:20pm Peter Andre's 60 Minute Makeover 4:25pm All Star Mr and Mrs 5:25pm Housesitter

5:10pm Come Dine with Me 5:40pm Come Dine with Me

3:30pm Any Which Way You Can 5:40pm The Sea Wolves

3:00pm Got to Dance 4:00pm Bite Size Brainiac 4:05pm Face 2 Face 4:20pm The Simpsons 5:50pm The Simpsons

6:00pm Cycling

7:20pm Local News and Weather

6:10pm Come Dine with Me 6:40pm Come Dine with Me 7:15pm Come Dine with Me 7:40pm Channel 4 News 8:05pm Amazing Spaces: Shed of the Year

8:00pm Cricket on 5

6:20pm Night at the Museum

3pm 3:00pm Rugby League Challenge Cup Semi Final 5:30pm Final Score

Action-comedy sequel.

6pm 6:20pm BBC News 6:30pm Regional News All the latest local news.

6:35pm Weather 6:40pm Pointless 7:30pm Tumble

Coverage of a cycling event.

All the very latest local news and weather.

7:00pm Great War Diaries 8:00pm Celebrity Antiques Road Trip

7:30pm ITV News and Weather 7:45pm The Guide to You've Been Framed! 8:45pm Tipping Point

9:00pm Dad's Army

9:45pm All Star Family Fortunes 10:45pm Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope 11:40pm ITV News and Weather 11:55pm Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope

Highlights of the third day's play in the fourth Test between England and India.

Museum guard Ben Stiller has a wild night at work when the natural history exhibits burst into life.

8:30pm The Simpsons

9pm 9:00pm The National Lottery 9:50pm Casualty 10:40pm Mrs. Brown's Boys 11:10pm BBC News 11:28pm Weather 11:30pm Michael Mcintyre's Showtime

A bittersweet episode of Jimmy Perry's evergreen wartime sitcom.

9:30pm Proms Extra 10:15pm Melvyn Bragg's Radical Lives 11:15pm QI XL

9:00pm Grand Designs 10:00pm Immortals Henry Cavill and Mickey Rourke star in Tarsem Singh's visually impressive, CGI-packed sword-and-sandals action adventure.

9:00pm World's Worst Storms 9:55pm 5 News Weekend National and international news.

10:00pm Big Brother 11:00pm Dangerous Dog Owners and Proud

9:00pm Got to Dance 10:00pm A Touch of Cloth 11:00pm Psycho Bitches 11:30pm A League of Their Own

12am 12:30am The Football League Show Highlights from the day's Football League games. 1:50am Weather for the Week Ahead Detailed weather report. 1:55am BBC News

12:00am Seraphim Falls 1:45am Mother's Boys 3:15am This is BBC Two Highlights of programmes on BBC Two.

1:35am The Cube 2:20am Jackpot 247 4:00am The Jeremy Kyle Show USA Jeremy Kyle presents the American version of his popular talk show. 4:40am Nightscreen

12:05am Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street 2:00am The Last Leg 2:50am Utopia 3:50am Homeland 4:50am Hollyoaks Omnibus

12:05am Big Brother's Bit on the Psych 1:00am Super Casino 4:10am Big Brother 5:00am House Doctor 5:25am Make it Big 5:50am Make it Big

12:30am Hawaii Five-0 1:30am Cop Squad 2:30am Street Crime 3:00am Road Wars 4:00am Road Wars 5:00am Brainiac: Science Abuse

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8:00pm Doctor Who 9:20pm Top Gear 10:05pm Russell Howard's Good News 10:35pm Old School 12:05am Family Guy 12:26am Family Guy 12:47am Family Guy 1:08am Family Guy 1:29am Family Guy 1:50am Family Guy 2:11am Family Guy 2:32am Family Guy 3:00am People Just Do Nothing 3:30am People Just Do Nothing 4:00am Sexy Beasts

8:00pm Sounds of the 70s 8:30pm Eisteddfod

1:45pm Small Soldiers 2:45pm FYI Daily 2:50pm Small Soldiers 3:55pm Scooby-Doo 4:55pm FYI Daily 5:00pm Scooby-Doo 5:40pm You've Been Framed! 6:40pm You've Been Framed and Extreme 7:45pm Back to the Future 8:45pm FYI Daily 8:50pm Back to the Future 10:00pm The Holiday 11:00pm FYI Daily 11:05pm The Holiday 12:45am Billy Madison

9:20am The Royal 10:20am The Royal 11:25am Sherlock Holmes 1:45pm The Railway Children 3:50pm A Touch of Frost 5:50pm A Touch of Frost 8:00pm Lewis

11:30am I Want That Car 12:30pm The Cycle Show 1:30pm Alias Smith and Jones 2:40pm British Touring Car Championship Highlights 4:15pm British Superbike Championship Highlights 5:15pm Storage Wars 5:45pm Storage Wars 6:15pm Tottenham Hotspur v Schalke Live 8:30pm Thunderball 9:30pm FYI Daily 9:35pm Thunderball 11:10pm Ocean's Eleven 12:10am FYI Daily

2:00pm The Big Bang Theory 2:30pm How I Met Your Mother 3:00pm How I Met Your Mother 3:30pm The Big Bang Theory 4:00pm The Big Bang Theory 4:30pm Melissa and Joey 5:00pm Melissa and Joey 5:30pm Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events 7:35pm Brooklyn Nine-Nine 8:00pm The Big Bang Theory 8:30pm The Big Bang Theory 9:00pm Twilight 11:30pm The 100 12:30am The Big Bang Theory

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Chris Segar and Esyllt Carr revel in the culture, characters and colour of one of the world's greatest festivals as it celebrates its 150th anniversary.

9:00pm Human Planet 10:00pm Inspector Montalbano Drama based on the books featuring the Sicilian detective.

11:45pm Robert Plant @ Glastonbury 1:00am Robert Plant: By Myself 2:00am Guitar Heroes at the BBC 3:00am Human Planet 4:00am Pop! The Science of Bubbles

Drama with Kevin Whately following on from the Inspector Morse series.

10:00pm Foyle's War 12:00am Bomb Girls 1:00am A Touch of Frost 2:55am ITV3 Nightscreen Text-based information service.

3:30am Teleshopping

SKY MOVIES Action 4:55am The Marine: Homefront 6:30am Pacific Rim: Sky Movies Special 7:00am Deep Rising 8:55am Born to Race: Fast Track 10:40am Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle 12:40pm Iron Man 3 2:55pm X-Men 4:55pm The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift 6:45pm Iron Man 3 9:00pm X-Men 11:00pm Tombstone 1:15am Hammer of the Gods 3:05am The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift 4:55am The Top Ten Show 2014

Comedy 6:30am The Lone Ranger Unmasked 7:00am Mr. Deeds 8:45am Top Secret 10:30am The Monster Squad 12:00pm The Heat 2:00pm Ali G Indahouse 3:35pm Little Shop of Horrors 5:15pm Mr. Deeds 7:00pm You, Me and Dupree 9:00pm The Heat 11:10pm Ali G Indahouse 12:45am The Way Way Back 2:35am It's All Gone Pete Tong 4:15am The Witches of Eastwick

6:00am Loss of Faith 7:45am Deadfall 9:25am Bad Company 11:25am Miami Vice 1:40pm The Da Vinci Code 4:10pm Rules of Engagement 6:20pm S.W.A.T. 8:20pm Deadfall 10:00pm The Da Vinci Code 12:30am Outlaw 2:20am Inside Man 4:35am Jagged Edge Newspaper man Jack is the prime suspect when his rich wife is murdered.

4:20am All About Eve 6:45am Flight: Sky Movies Special 7:05am Darling Companion 8:55am Millions 10:45am Les Miserables Special 11:15am Save the Last Dance 1:15pm The First Time 3:00pm Sunshine on Leith 4:50pm The Great Gatsby Special 5:20pm Millions 7:10pm Now is Good 9:00pm Sunshine on Leith 10:45pm Failure to Launch 12:30am Perfume: The Story of a Murderer 3:00am Burning Man 5:00am Sweet Charity

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7:00am Syrup 8:45am The Butler 11:00am Turbo 12:45pm One Chance 2:30pm Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 4:15pm Turbo 6:00pm Monsters University Special 6:30pm Syrup 8:15pm Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 10:00pm The Butler 12:15am Plush 2:00am Closed Circuit 3:45am One Chance 5:45am After Earth Special

9:20am Battle Zone A rivalry develops between two Marine combat photographers over the attention of a Red Cross nurse during their stint in the Korean War.

10:55am Hellcats of the Navy 12:30pm Decision at Sundown 2:05pm The Defector 4:00pm My Darling Clementine 5:50pm The Mcconnell Story 7:50pm Beyond the Poseidon Adventure 10:00pm National Lampoon's Vacation 11:55pm The Glimmer Man 1:40am National Lampoon's Vacation 3:25am The Glimmer Man 5:00am Off Set

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UK Pensions – “Freedom And Choice” The biggest reforms to UK pensions in almost a century are underway. As more options become available, you need to understand how they affect you and consider what would work best for you in the short and long term. The pension reform was first announced in the March budget. Some initial changes came into effect that month, but the main reform will start next April. The government launched a consultation on its proposed changes, and on 21st July released its response to the consultation, “Freedom and Choice in Pensions.” Here is a summary of key decisions reached under the process. The Government believes that individuals should be trusted to make their own decisions with their pension savings. From April 2015 pension scheme members aged over 55 with defined contribution schemes will be able to access them as they wish - there will be no restrictions on how much you can withdraw, you can even take

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the whole amount. For UK taxpayers, the first 25% will be tax free and the remainder at the individual’s marginal UK tax rate. Expatriates need to consider the tax implications in Spain. Besides Spanish income tax, funds withdrawn from pension schemes will form part of your estate for Spanish succession and UK inheritance tax purposes, so you need to plan for that.

Transfers out of private sector defined benefits pension schemes will still be allowed, up to the member’s normal scheme retirement date as opposed to within 12 months of that date. It will be a statutory requirement for such transfers to have been advised by a professional financial adviser who is independent of the scheme and authorised by the UK Financial Conduct Authority. Further consultation will be carried out to determine the viability of partial transfers. Transfers out of unfunded public sector defined benefit schemes will not be allowed. Transfers from funded public sector defined benefit schemes will be allowed, subject to the same safeguards as outlined for private sector scheme transfers. Currently, a 55% death benefit tax charge is levied on pensions that remain invested when the holder dies. The government

announced it will cut this charge, with a new rate to be announced in the Autumn Statement. Legislation will be introduced to enable product providers to introduce more flexible annuities. The minimum pension age will increase from 55 to 57 in 2018. Thereafter it will be 10 years below state pension age. This will not apply to certain public sector schemes such as the armed forces, police and firefighters. For those aged over 55 after April 2015 and still in employment, annual pension tax relief will be limited to £10,000 for further contributions where benefits in a defined contribution scheme have been drawn. The government recognises that the changes to the pension tax rules will have implications for the rules relating to Qualifying Recognised Overseas Pension Schemes (QROPS). It will consider these implications further to ensure the QROPS rules are

appropriate when the new system comes into force. There was no news on the suggested removal of, or change to, the lifetime allowance. These pension reforms are welcome, but it is essential that you understand how all the options work for you and weigh up what would be most beneficial for your circumstances and aims. The tax element, both in the UK and here in Spain, plays an important part. Specialist advice is important to make sure you get it right. Tax rates, scope and reliefs may change. Any statements concerning taxation are based upon our understanding of current taxation laws and practices which are subject to change. Tax information has been summarised; an individual is advised to seek personalised advice. 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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BBC ONE 7:00am Breakfast 11:00am Sunday Morning Live 12:00pm Homes Under the Hammer Property experts visit three properties before they go up for auction. 1:00pm Bargain Hunt 2:00pm BBC News 2:10pm Weather for the Week Ahead 2:15pm Escape to the Country Series which helps prospective buyers find their dream home in the country.

BBC TWO 7:00am Countryfile 8:00am Alan Titchmarsh's Garden Secrets 9:00am Gardeners' World 9:30am The Beechgrove Garden 10:00am The Football League Show 11:20am Saturday Kitchen Best Bites 12:50pm Rick Stein's India 1:50pm Firecreek

ITV 9:25am ITV News 9:30am Weekend 10:25am May the Best House Win 11:25am Murder, She Wrote 12:20pm ITV News and Weather 12:30pm Love Your Garden 1:30pm Long Lost Family 2:30pm Columbo Peter Falk dons the shabby mac and lights up a cheap cigar for more top drawer US detective drama.

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CH4 7:15am How I Met Your Mother 7:40am How I Met Your Mother 8:05am Rallycross 8:35am London Triathlon 9:30am Everybody Loves Raymond 10:00am Frasier 10:30am Sunday Brunch 1:30pm George Clarke's Amazing Spaces 2:30pm The Big Bang Theory

CH5 9:20am Angelina Ballerina 9:35am Bert and Ernie's Great Adventures 9:40am Rupert Bear 9:55am Ben and Holly's Little Kingdom 10:15am Jelly Jamm 10:30am LazyTown 11:00am Access 11:10am Police Interceptors 12:10pm Police Interceptors 1:10pm Police Interceptors 2:10pm Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol

SUNDAY TV

SKY 1 6:00am Brainiac: Science Abuse 7:00am The Hour of Power 8:00am Ashley Banjo's Secret Street Crew 9:00am All Aboard: East Coast Trains 10:00am Inside RAF Brize Norton 11:00am World Wrestling Entertainment Superstars 12:00pm WWE Experience 1:00pm Ashley Banjo's Secret Street Crew 2:00pm Got to Dance

3pm 3:00pm Cycling The RideLondon-Surrey Classic. Coverage of the challenging race, which starts and ends in London and involves a 100-mile route.

3:30pm Rugby League Challenge Cup Semi Final

4:30pm Midsomer Murders

3:00pm The Big Bang Theory 3:25pm The Simpsons 3:55pm The Simpsons 4:25pm Step Up 3

3:55pm Baby Boom

6:05pm The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep 8:00pm Cricket on 5 8:55pm 5 News Weekend

The semi final of the Rugby League Challenge Cup live from the Galpharm Stadium.

Detective drama which focuses around the life of Detective Chief Inspector Tom Barnaby and his efforts to solve the various crimes that take place in the fictional English county of Midsomer.

6:00pm Songs of Praise 6:35pm Flog It! 7:00pm Celebrity Antiques Road Trip 8:00pm Tropic of Capricorn with Simon Reeve

6:35pm Tipping Point 7:30pm Local News and Weather 7:45pm ITV News and Weather 8:00pm Come on Down! The Game Show Story

6:30pm Deal or No Deal 7:30pm Channel 4 News 8:00pm Tom's Fantastic Floating Home

9:00pm The Zoo 10:00pm The Great War 11:00pm ITV News and Weather 11:15pm Kids with Cameras: Diary of a Children's Ward

9:00pm The Mill 10:00pm Child Genius 11:00pm The Eagle

Amiable comedy in which a supercharged New York business executive finds her life turned upside down when she becomes the reluctant guardian of a relative's baby.

3:00pm Futurama 3:30pm Planes: Fire and Rescue Special 4:00pm The Simpsons 4:30pm The Simpsons 5:30pm The Simpsons

6pm 7:35pm BBC News 7:50pm Regional News 7:55pm Weather 8:00pm Antiques Roadshow

Tom Lawton looks at the world through the eyes of his 6-year-old son.

National and international news.

6:00pm The Simpsons 6:30pm The Simpsons 7:00pm The Simpsons 7:30pm The Simpsons 8:30pm The Simpsons

9pm 9:00pm Countryfile 10:00pm The Village 11:00pm BBC News 11:15pm Regional News 11:20pm Weather 11:25pm Match of the Day

9:00pm Dragons' Den 10:00pm James May: The People's Car 11:00pm Legacy

A Roman centurion seeks to restore his father's honour by recovering the standard of a legion that disappeared.

9:00pm Caught with Their Fingers in the Till 10:00pm Big Brother 11:00pm Killers

9:00pm Got to Dance 10:00pm A Touch of Cloth 11:00pm Psycho Bitches 11:30pm A League of Their Own

12am 12:10am Live at the Apollo 12:40am Annapolis 2:15am Weather for the Week Ahead 2:20am BBC News The latest national and international news stories, followed by Weather.

12:30am The Trench 2:05am Countryfile News and stories concerning the heart of the British countryside. 3:00am Holby City 4:00am This is BBC Two Highlights of programmes on BBC Two.

12:15am Premiership Rugby 7s Highlights 1:15am The Store 3:15am Motorsport UK 4:10am British Superbike Championship Highlights 5:05am Britain's Best Bakery

1:10am Red Cliff 3:40am First Time Farmers 4:35am The Million Pound Drop 5:30am The Hoarder Next Door

1:00am Shoplifters and Proud 2:00am Super Casino 4:10am World's Scariest Drivers 5:00am House Doctor 5:25am Make it Big 5:50am Make it Big

12:30am Hawaii Five-0 1:30am My Holiday Hostage Hell 2:30am Street Crime 3:00am Road Wars 4:00am Road Wars 5:00am Brainiac: Science Abuse

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8:00pm Great Movie Mistakes Not in 3D. 8:10pm Raiders of the Lost Ark 10:00pm Our World War 11:00pm Family Guy 11:22pm Family Guy 11:45pm Siblings 12:15am Cuckoo 12:45am American Dad! 1:07am American Dad! 1:30am Sexy Beasts 2:00am Siblings 2:30am Cuckoo 3:00am Russell Howard's Good News 3:30am Impractical Jokers

8:00pm The Sunday Prom: John Tavener Prom 9:25pm Secret Knowledge

3:25pm America's Got Talent 4:20pm You've Been Framed! 4:55pm You've Been Framed! 5:55pm Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed 6:55pm FYI Daily 7:00pm Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed 7:50pm Back to the Future Part II 8:50pm FYI Daily 8:55pm Back to the Future Part II 10:00pm Shaun of the Dead 11:00pm FYI Daily 11:05pm Shaun of the Dead 12:00am State of Play

9:00am FYI Daily 9:05am Mutiny on the Buses 9:50am Heartbeat 10:50am Heartbeat 11:55am A Touch of Frost 2:00pm Inspector Morse 4:25pm Holiday on the Buses 5:25pm FYI Daily 5:30pm Holiday on the Buses 6:05pm The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes 7:20pm Columbo 9:00pm Lewis 11:00pm The Pianist 12:00am FYI Daily

3:45pm Battle of the Bulge 4:45pm FYI Daily 4:50pm Battle of the Bulge 7:00pm Storage Wars 7:30pm Storage Wars 8:00pm Storage Wars 8:25pm Storage Wars 9:00pm Premiership Rugby 7's Highlights 10:00pm Driven to Kill 11:00pm FYI Daily 11:05pm Driven to Kill 12:00am Hell on Wheels 12:55am Alias Smith and Jones 2:00am River Monsters 3:05am Richard Bacon's Beer and Pizza Club

2:00pm How I Met Your Mother 2:35pm Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. 3:35pm Suburgatory 4:00pm The Mindy Project 4:30pm New Girl 5:00pm The Big Bang Theory 5:30pm The Big Bang Theory 6:00pm The 100 7:00pm Rude(Ish) Tube 7:30pm Rude(Ish) Tube 7:55pm The Wedding Planner 10:00pm Made in Chelsea NYC 11:00pm Almost Royal: Los Angeles 11:35pm The Big Bang Theory 12:00am The Big Bang Theory

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Lucy Worsley tells the story of Bolsover Castle in Derbyshire.

10:00pm Great Poets in Their Own Words 11:00pm Edinburgh Extra 12:00am The Sky at Night A look at the world of astronomy.

12:30am Horizon 1:30am Imagine 2:55am Rod Stewart at the BBC 3:55am ... Sings the Great American Songbook

SKY MOVIES Action 5:15am Born to Race: Fast Track 7:00am Stealth 9:05am Jack the Giant Slayer 11:05am The Lone Ranger Unmasked 11:35am The Lone Ranger A lawman and his Comanche Indian sidekick embark upon a quest for justice across the American West.

2:10pm X2 4:30pm Jack the Giant Slayer 6:30pm The Lone Ranger 9:00pm X2 11:20pm The Last Samurai 2:00am The Delta Force 4:15am Delta Force 2: The Colombian Connection

Comedy 4:15am The Witches of Eastwick 6:15am Little Shop of Horrors 7:55am 13 Going on 30 9:45am Stop! or My Mom Will Shoot 11:25am There's Something About Mary 1:35pm This is the End 3:30pm So Undercover 5:15pm 13 Going on 30 7:00pm The Dukes of Hazzard 9:00pm There's Something About Mary 11:10pm This is the End 1:05am Stir Crazy 3:05am The Dukes of Hazzard 5:00am The Heat: Sky Movies Special 5:20am Stop! or My Mom Will Shoot

4:35am Jagged Edge 6:30am Angel Flight Down 8:10am Penthouse North 9:50am Nick of Time 11:30am Conspiracy Theory 1:50pm Trance 3:40pm Twisted 5:30pm The Mean Machine 7:40pm A Few Good Men 10:00pm Trance 11:45pm Training Day 1:55am American Psycho 3:45am LUV 5:25am Deep Family Secrets

5:00am Sweet Charity 7:30am Under the Tuscan Sun 9:30am Sparkle 11:35am Sense and Sensibility 2:00pm Adore 4:00pm The Four Feathers 6:15pm Les Miserables 9:00pm Adore 11:00pm Never Been Kissed 12:50am Cherry 2:45am Ask the Dust Italian writer Arturo Bandini is a treat 'em mean, keep 'em keen type of guy.

4:50am Sense and Sensibility Elinor is pragmatic and ironic, while younger Marianne is more passionate and wilful.

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10:15am The Butler 12:30pm One Chance 2:15pm Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 3:55pm Cloudy 2: Extra Toppings 4:15pm Turbo 6:00pm Syrup 7:45pm Cloudy 2: Extra Toppings 8:15pm Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 10:00pm The Butler 12:15am Plush 2:00am Closed Circuit 3:45am One Chance 5:45am Elysium: Sky Movies Special

10:25am The Mcconnell Story 12:25pm My Darling Clementine 2:15pm His Majesty O'Keefe 4:00pm Last of the Comanches 5:40pm Edge of Eternity 7:10pm Gunmen From Laredo 8:25pm The Stranger Wore a Gun 10:00pm Rome 11:10pm Point of No Return 1:10am Castle Keep 3:05am Point of No Return Drug addict Maggie faces the death sentence for killing a cop. 4:55am Off Set 5:40am TCM Shorts

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Is there life without a smartphone? It seems like only yesterday that we had to queue up with a pocketful of change if we wanted to make a phone call when away from home. Times have changed; everywhere you go there is someone with their heads down looking at their phone. We asked: Could you live without your smartphone, or are they a waste of time?

OR Maria Isabel Signes, phones are a lifeline. The optician from Calpe works with the Visio Sense Fronteres foundation, offering optical advice and eye surgery in remote and poor countries where phones can be crucial: “Sometimes in the villages I may go ahead of the team so I have to contact them on Whatsapp and we have a Whatsapp group for the charity so we can contact each other quickly and easily, so it is essential.” Maria Isabel added: “I’ve been in Africa for a few weeks without my phone and you can survive without it, of course, but it does make life easier.” Team leader at Fastighetsbyran Real Estate in Torrevieja, Nina Gisslen, agreed, saying: “I could live without it but would I really want to? That is the question! When I am out working or showing a client a property, my phone is so important. It gives me all the tools I need to hand, although I do switch it off at night!”

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tphones make MARIA ISABEL: Smar much easier. her charity work so

NINA: Smartphones mean you can be on call 24-7.

Another devotee is Alan from Frankies Bar in Vera Playa, Almeria. He said: “I couldn’t live without my smartphone. It is glued to my side more or less. I use it for emails, Facebook, messaging and surfing the internet.” Emma-Maria Robertson, CEO of Mayfair Academy on the Costa del Sol, said: “My smartphone is essential when I am out of the office for emails and appointments. It keeps me updated when I need it to. But nothing can beat face-to-face contact.” And making a clean sweep of smartphone devotees was James Patterson, Managing Director and founder of Rib Club Global in Mallorca. “I could never live without my smartphone. It is like my comfort blanket! “Whether it’s for business or pleasure I always have two, one English and one Spanish, with a spare battery for each,” he said.

Leo leads defiantly into August: a time for positive influences WITH the new moon in Leo leading us defiantly into August, it is time to be confident about your talents and let your inner light shine. If you knew you would succeed in any endeavour, what would you do? Listen to the first answer that comes to mind and act on it! Influenced by the fiery sign of Leo until August 23, this creative, expansive influence is helping you to empower yourself in all areas of your life. Speak your truth, assert your needs and be guided by your highest vision. August is the eighth month of the year and the number eight gives you the opportunity for inner

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and outer transformation. In the tarot deck, the cards of Strength and the Star are ruled by the number eight. These are extremely positive influences, meaning that you have the courage, strength and ability to fulfil your desires this month. With the full moon in the visionary sign of Aquarius on August 10, you won’t be short of ideas this month. The new moon in practical Virgo on August

CREATIVE: Leo’s expansive influence will help you to empower yourself. 25 helps you to ground your vision. As the sun moves into Virgo at the end of the month, you may feel a

little less exuberant, as the Leo energy fades. This is the perfect moment to commit to your ideas.

The sign of Aquarius also reminds you that you can achieve far more by working with a group than alone. Ask for help,

discuss ideas and find others who share your vision. Draw on the strength of the lion this month to create a stronger sense of self-belief and take the next step towards creating whatever is most important to you. Face your fears and push out of your comfort zone this month. You will be surprised at the result! Leo is a generous sign, so give thanks for all that you have in your life. Help others where you can and know that you will be rewarded with a bountiful harvest in September.

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BBC ONE 7:00am Breakfast 10:15am Neighbourhood Blues 11:00am Homes Under the Hammer 12:00pm Animal Saints and Sinners 12:45pm Real Lives Reunited 1:15pm Bargain Hunt 2:00pm BBC News 2:30pm Regional News 2:45pm Doctors

BBC TWO 7:05am Homes Under the Hammer8:05am Wanted Down Under 8:50am Animal Park 9:20am Rip Off Britain 10:05am Operation Cloud Lab: Secrets of the Skies 11:05am Animal S.O.S. 11:35am Click 12:00pm BBC News 12:30pm World News 1:00pm Climbing Great Buildings 1:30pm My Life in Books 2:00pm Cash in the Attic 2:30pm Breakaway

ITV 7:00am Good Morning Britain 9:30am Lorraine 10:25am The Jeremy Kyle Show 11:30am This Morning 12:25pm ITV News 12:30pm This Morning The popular morning lifestyle magazine show with advice, chat and competitions. 1:30pm The Chase 2:30pm ITV News and Weather

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CH4 9:00am IPC European Swimming Championships 10:00am Frasier 10:30am Frasier 11:00am The Big Bang Theory 11:30am The Big Bang Theory 12:00pm Come Dine with Me 12:30pm Come Dine with Me 1:00pm Channel 4 News Summary 1:05pm Come Dine with Me 1:35pm Come Dine with Me 2:05pm Come Dine with Me 2:40pm Four in a Bed

CH5 9:10am Milkshake Monkey 9:15am Peppa Pig 9:25am Peppa Pig 9:30am Peppa Pig 9:35am Toby's Travelling Circus 9:45am Bananas in Pyjamas 10:00am Tickety Toc 10:15am The Wright Stuff 12:10pm The Dog Rescuers with Alan Davies 1:10pm 5 News Lunchtime 1:15pm Big Brother 2:15pm Home and Away 2:45pm Neighbours

MONDAY TV

SKY 1 6:00am Brainiac: Science Abuse 7:00am Glee 8:00am Dog the Bounty Hunter 8:30am Dog Patrol 9:00am Futurama 9:30am Futurama 10:00am Futurama 10:30am Futurama 11:00am NCIS: Los Angeles 12:00pm NCIS: Los Angeles 1:00pm Got to Dance 2:00pm Got to Dance

3pm 3:15pm Perfection 4:00pm Escape to the Country 4:30pm The Hairy Bikers' Bake-ation 5:30pm Flog It!

3:15pm Italy Unpacked 4:15pm Natural World 5:15pm Great Continental Railway Journeys

3:00pm Judge Rinder 4:00pm Secret Dealers 5:00pm Tipping Point

3:40pm Countdown 4:30pm Deal or No Deal 5:30pm Win it Cook it

3:15pm NCIS US drama series following the navy's dedicated federal agency.

4:15pm A Nanny's Secret

3:00pm The Simpsons 4:00pm Glee 5:00pm Futurama 5:30pm Futurama

6pm 6:15pm Pointless 7:00pm BBC News 7:30pm Regional News 8:00pm The One Show 8:30pm Fake Britain

6:15pm Antiques Roadshow 7:00pm Eggheads 7:30pm Eggheads 8:00pm Hairy Bikers Asian Adventure

6:00pm The 21st Question 7:00pm Local News and Weather All the very latest local news and weather.

7:30pm ITV News and Weather 8:00pm Emmerdale 8:30pm Coronation Street

6:00pm Couples Come Dine with Me 7:00pm The Simpsons 7:30pm Hollyoaks 8:00pm Channel 4 News

6:00pm 5 News at 5 6:30pm Neighbours 7:00pm Home and Away 7:30pm 5 News Tonight 8:00pm Cricket on 5

6:00pm The Simpsons 6:30pm Futurama 7:00pm Futurama 7:30pm The Simpsons 8:00pm The Simpsons 8:30pm The Simpsons

9:00pm Dispatches 9:30pm Food Unwrapped 10:00pm Royal Marines Commando School 11:00pm Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares USA

9:00pm Police Interceptors 10:00pm Big Brother 11:00pm 70 Stone: The Man They Couldn't Save

9:00pm Modern Family 9:30pm Modern Family 10:00pm Night at the Museum

12:00am Embarrassing Bodies 1:00am The Shooting Gallery 1:25am Like Someone in Love 3:20am Scandal 4:05am Revenge 4:50am Phil Spencer: Secret Agent 5:45am River Cottage Bites

12:00am Big Brother's Bit on the Side 1:00am Autopsy 2:00am Super Casino 4:10am Under the Dome 5:00am Wildlife SOS 5:20am Divine Designs 5:45am House Doctor

Includes sport and weather.

9pm 9:00pm EastEnders 9:30pm Miranda 10:00pm Death in Paradise 11:00pm BBC News 11:25pm Regional News & Weather 11:35pm Have I Got a Bit More News for You

9:00pm University Challenge 9:30pm Food and Drink 10:00pm Kate Adie's Women of World War One 11:00pm The Sarah Millican Television Programme 11:30pm Newsnight

9:00pm Countrywise 9:30pm Coronation Street 10:00pm Long Lost Family 11:00pm ITV News at Ten and Weather 11:40pm The Zoo

12am 12:20am Who Do They Think They Are? 10 Years, 100 Shows 1:20am Weather for the Week Ahead Detailed weather report. 1:25am BBC News

12:20am Dragons' Den 1:20am University Challenge What does it take to make it on to the toughest quiz on television? 2:20am This is BBC Two Highlights of programmes on BBC Two.

12:40am All Star Family Fortunes 1:40am Jackpot 247 4:00am The Jeremy Kyle Show USA 4:40am Nightscreen 5:15am Britain's Best Bakery

12:10am Trollied 12:40am Bite Size Brainiac 12:45am Face 2 Face 1:00am NCIS: Los Angeles 2:00am NCIS: Los Angeles 3:00am Brit Cops: Frontline Crime 4:00am Brit Cops: Frontline Crime

BBC THREE

BBC FOUR

ITV2

ITV3

ITV4

8:00pm Top Gear 9:00pm The Call Centre 10:00pm Football Fight Club 11:00pm Uncle 11:30pm EastEnders 12:00am Family Guy 12:22am Family Guy 12:45am American Dad! Animated adventures of a hapless CIA agent and his family. 1:07am American Dad! 1:30am Football Fight Club 2:30am Our World War 3:30am Uncle

8:00pm World News Today 8:30pm Great British Railway Journeys

9:00pm Jet! When Britain Ruled the Skies 10:00pm Shipwrecks: Britain's Sunken History 11:00pm Art of China 12:00am China in Six Easy Pieces 1:00am Climbing Everest with a Mountain on My Back: The Sherpa's Story 2:00am Mechanical Marvels: Clockwork Dreams 3:00am Jet! When Britain Ruled the Skies

12:25pm Emmerdale 12:55pm Coronation Street 1:25pm Coronation Street 1:55pm The Jeremy Kyle Show 3:00pm The Millionaire Matchmaker 3:55pm The Jeremy Kyle Show 5:00pm The Jeremy Kyle Show 6:05pm The Real Housewives of Atlanta 7:00pm Dinner Date 8:00pm You've Been Framed! 8:30pm You've Been Framed! 9:00pm The Best of You've Been Framed! Animals Special 10:00pm The Bourne Supremacy 12:10am Tricked

10:40am Judge Judy 11:05am Judge Judy 11:30am Judge Judy 11:55am A Touch of Frost 2:05pm Heartbeat 3:05pm The Royal 4:10pm Hamish Macbeth 5:20pm Faith in the Future 5:50pm Duty Free 6:25pm On the Buses 6:55pm Heartbeat 8:00pm Murder, She Wrote 9:00pm A Touch of Frost 11:00pm Secret Smile 12:35am The Vice

10:30am Kojak 11:35am The Sweeney 12:35pm Alias Smith and Jones 1:40pm The Professionals 2:45pm Magnum, P.I. 3:50pm Kojak 4:50pm Kojak 5:55pm The Sweeney 6:55pm Alias Smith and Jones 8:00pm Cheers 8:30pm Cheers 9:00pm MotoGP 10:00pm The Motorbike Show 11:00pm Ax Men 12:00am Ax Men

4:00pm Melissa and Joey 4:30pm Melissa and Joey 5:00pm Revenge 6:00pm How I Met Your Mother 6:30pm How I Met Your Mother 7:00pm The Big Bang Theory 7:30pm The Big Bang Theory 8:00pm Hollyoaks 8:30pm New Girl 9:00pm The Mindy Project 9:30pm Brooklyn Nine-Nine 10:00pm The 100 11:00pm Virtually Famous 11:50pm Rude Tube 12:50am How I Met Your Mother

Comedy

Crime

Drama

Documentary series in which Michael Portillo travels the length and breadth of the country by train.

SKY MOVIES Action 4:15am Delta Force 2: The Colombian Connection 6:20am Pain and Gain: Sky Movies Special 6:40am The Top Ten Show 2014 7:00am Hero 8:45am Jaws 4: The Revenge 10:30am Cinderella Man 1:00pm The Top Ten Show 2014 1:15pm Kick-Ass 2 3:05pm Gangster Squad 5:05pm xXx 7:15pm xXx2: The Next Level 9:00pm Kick-Ass 2 10:50pm Gangster Squad 12:50am The Last Boy Scout 2:40am Ghosts of Mars

5:20am Stop! or My Mom Will Shoot 7:00am The to Do List 8:50am Outside Bet 10:35am Anger Management 12:25pm Starsky and Hutch 2:10pm The Man 3:40pm My Big Fat Greek Wedding 5:20pm The Guilt Trip 7:05pm Anger Management 9:00pm Starsky and Hutch 10:45pm The Man 12:15am Mallrats 1:55am The Guilt Trip 3:35am The to Do List 5:20am My Big Fat Greek Wedding

5:25am Deep Family Secrets 7:00am Liars All 8:35am Last Passenger 10:15am Signs 12:05pm Déjà Vu 2:15pm Liars All 3:55pm Last Passenger 5:35pm Signs 7:25pm Breakdown 9:05pm Derailed 11:00pm Déjà Vu 1:10am St George's Day 3:05am Death Wish 4:45am Fear

4:50am Sense and Sensibility 7:10am Private Peaceful 9:00am Dangerous Minds 10:50am Life of Pi 11:20am The Lifeguard 1:10pm Hitchcock 3:00pm 50 First Dates 4:50pm Moonstruck 6:45pm The Bodyguard 9:00pm 50 First Dates 10:45pm The Lifeguard 12:35am Dangerous Liaisons 2:45am Victim 4:25am Hector and the Search for Happiness Special 4:45am Barefoot in the Park

Premiere

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7:00am Syrup 8:45am Closed Circuit 10:30am The Butler 12:45pm Plush 2:30pm One Chance 4:15pm Despicable Me 2 Special 4:45pm Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 6:30pm Syrup 8:15pm Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 10:00pm The Butler 12:15am Plush 2:00am Closed Circuit 3:45am One Chance 5:45am Elysium: Sky Movies Special

10:35am Edge of Eternity 12:10pm Last of the Comanches 1:50pm Gunsmoke 2:55pm Gunsmoke 4:00pm Black Patch 5:35pm Hell and High Water 7:30pm Fort Vengeance 8:55pm Across the Rio Grande 10:00pm Fifteen Minutes 12:20am A Fistful of Dollars 2:10am Fifteen Minutes 4:10am Terry Wogan Presents the Very Best of the Ed Sullivan Show 5:36am The Very Best of the Ed Sullivan Show

E W N 7 - 13 August 2014 / Costa Blanca South

BBC TWO 7:15am Homes Under the Hammer 8:15am Rip Off Britain 9:00am Food Inspectors 10:00am Athletics 2:00pm My Life in Books Anne Robinson invites well-known personalities to discuss their favourite books. 2:30pm Breakaway

ITV 5:15am Britain's Best Bakery 6:05am The Jeremy Kyle Show 7:00am Good Morning Britain 9:30am Lorraine 10:25am The Jeremy Kyle Show 11:30am This Morning 12:25pm ITV News 12:30pm This Morning 1:30pm The Chase 2:30pm ITV News and Weather

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CH4 0:00am Frasier 10:30am Frasier 11:00am The Big Bang Theory 11:30am The Big Bang Theory 12:00pm Come Dine with Me 12:30pm Come Dine with Me 1:00pm Channel 4 News Summary 1:05pm Come Dine with Me 1:35pm Come Dine with Me 2:05pm Come Dine with Me 2:40pm Four in a Bed

CH5 9:15am Peppa Pig 9:25am Peppa Pig 9:30am Peppa Pig 9:35am Toby's Travelling Circus 9:45am Bananas in Pyjamas 10:00am Tickety Toc 10:15am The Wright Stuff 12:10pm I Nearly Died: World's Worst Near Misses 1:10pm 5 News Lunchtime 1:15pm Big Brother 2:15pm Home and Away 2:45pm Neighbours

TUESDAY TV SKY 1 6:00am Airline USA 6:30am Airline USA 7:00am Glee 8:00am Dog Patrol 8:30am Dog Patrol 9:00am Futurama 9:30am Futurama 10:00am Futurama 10:30am Futurama 11:00am NCIS: Los Angeles 12:00pm NCIS: Los Angeles 1:00pm NCIS: Los Angeles 2:00pm Road Wars

3pm 3:15pm Perfection 4:00pm Escape to the Country 4:30pm The Hairy Bikers' Bake-ation 5:30pm Flog It!

3:15pm Cash in the Attic 3:45pm Natural World 4:45pm Great Continental Railway Journeys 5:45pm Athletics

3:00pm Judge Rinder 4:00pm Secret Dealers 5:00pm Tipping Point

3:40pm Countdown 4:30pm Deal or No Deal 5:30pm Win it Cook it

6:00pm Athletics Coverage of all the latest action from the world of Athletics.

6:00pm The 21st Question 7:00pm Local News and Weather 8:00pm Emmerdale 8:30pm Ade at Sea

6:00pm Couples Come Dine with Me 7:00pm The Simpsons 7:30pm Hollyoaks 8:00pm Channel 4 News

3:15pm NCIS New series of the drama following the US Navy's dedicated federal agency.

4:15pm A Surrogate's Terror

3:00pm The Simpsons 3:30pm The Simpsons 4:00pm Glee 5:00pm Futurama 5:30pm Futurama

6pm 6:15pm Pointless 7:00pm BBC News 7:30pm Regional News 8:00pm The One Show 8:30pm EastEnders

Includes sport and weather.

6:00pm 5 News at 5 6:30pm Neighbours 7:00pm Home and Away 7:30pm 5 News Tonight 8:00pm Henry and Anne

6:00pm The Simpsons 6:30pm Futurama 7:00pm Futurama 7:30pm The Simpsons 8:30pm The Simpsons

9:00pm The Dog Rescuers with Alan Davies 10:00pm CSI: Crime Scene Investigation 11:00pm Big Brother

9:00pm Modern Family 9:30pm Modern Family 10:00pm An Idiot Abroad

9pm 9:00pm Holby City 10:00pm In the Club 11:00pm BBC News 11:25pm Regional News 11:30pm Weather 11:35pm Scrappers

9:30pm Coast 10:30pm Scotland Votes: What's at Stake for the UK? 11:30pm Newsnight Comprehensive coverage of the day's important national and international news stories.

9:00pm Love Your Garden 10:00pm Executed 11:00pm ITV News at Ten and Weather 11:40pm The Chase

9:00pm Kirstie's Fill Your House for Free 10:00pm Undercover Boss 11:00pm Utopia In the final episode of the acclaimed conspiracy drama, the gang are holed up in a disused hospital wing, where Arby is recovering from his wounds, protected by Jessica.

Highlights of the latest events inside the house.

Karl heads across the Atlantic to travel along the legendary Route 66.

11:00pm Glee

12am 12:05am Scrappers 12:35am Operation Wild 1:35am Weather for the Week Ahead Detailed weather report. 1:40am BBC News The latest national and international news stories, followed by Weather.

12:20am The Stuarts 1:20am Hive Alive 2:20am This is BBC Two Highlights of programmes on BBC Two.

12:40am Tales From Northumberland with Robson Green 1:05am Jackpot 247 4:00am The Jeremy Kyle Show USA Jeremy Kyle presents the American version of his popular talk show. 4:40am Nightscreen 5:15am Britain's Best Bakery

12:05am Royal Marines Commando School 1:05am Pokerstars.Com PCA 2:00am KOTV Boxing Weekly 2:30am Armoy Road Races 3:25am London Triathlon 4:20am Caterham Motorsport 4:45am Transworld Sport

12:00am Big Brother's Bit on the Side 1:00am Dangerous Dog Owners and Proud 2:00am Super Casino 4:05am Wentworth 5:00am Wildlife SOS 5:20am Divine Designs 5:45am House Doctor

12:00am NCIS: Los Angeles 1:00am NCIS: Los Angeles 2:00am Brit Cops: Frontline Crime 3:00am Brit Cops: Frontline Crime 4:00am Road Wars

BBC THREE

BBC FOUR

ITV2

ITV3

ITV4

8:00pm World's Craziest Fools 8:30pm World's Craziest Fools 9:00pm Barely Legal Drivers 10:00pm Don't Tell the Bride 11:00pm Sexy Beasts 11:30pm EastEnders

8:00pm World News Today 8:30pm Great British Railway Journeys

12:55pm Coronation Street 1:25pm Coronation Street 1:55pm The Jeremy Kyle Show 3:00pm The Millionaire Matchmaker 3:55pm The Jeremy Kyle Show 5:00pm The Jeremy Kyle Show 6:05pm The Real Housewives of Atlanta 7:00pm Dinner Date 8:00pm You've Been Framed! 8:30pm You've Been Framed! 9:00pm The Cube 10:00pm Hell's Kitchen 11:00pm Hell's Kitchen 11:55pm Utterly Outrageous Celebrity Weddings 12:55am Two and a Half Men

9:40am Murder, She Wrote 10:40am Judge Judy 11:05am Judge Judy 11:30am Judge Judy 12:00pm A Touch of Frost 2:00pm Heartbeat 3:05pm The Royal 4:05pm Hamish Macbeth 5:15pm Faith in the Future 5:50pm Duty Free 6:20pm On the Buses 6:55pm Heartbeat 8:00pm Murder, She Wrote 9:00pm Midsomer Murders 11:05pm Secret Smile 12:35am The Vice

8:35am Magnum, P.I. 9:30am Kojak 10:30am Kojak 11:35am The Sweeney 12:35pm Alias Smith and Jones 1:40pm The Professionals 2:45pm Magnum, P.I. 3:50pm Kojak 4:50pm Kojak 5:55pm The Sweeney 6:55pm Alias Smith and Jones 7:55pm Cheers 8:30pm UEFA Super Cup Live 11:05pm Ocean's Eleven 12:00am Ocean's Eleven

4:00pm Melissa and Joey 4:30pm Melissa and Joey 5:00pm Revenge 6:00pm How I Met Your Mother 6:30pm How I Met Your Mother 7:00pm The Big Bang Theory 7:30pm The Big Bang Theory 8:00pm Hollyoaks 8:30pm How I Met Your Mother 9:00pm How I Met Your Mother 9:30pm How I Met Your Mother 10:00pm New Girl 10:30pm The Mindy Project 11:00pm The Big Bang Theory 11:30pm The Big Bang Theory 12:00am Almost Royal: Los Angeles

Crime

Drama

Another visit to the residents of Albert Square, for a regular dose of drama, excitement and tears.

12:00am Family Guy 12:22am Family Guy 12:45am American Dad! 1:07am American Dad! 1:30am Sexy Beasts 2:00am Don't Tell the Bride 3:00am Football Fight Club

Documentary series in which Michael Portillo travels the length and breadth of the country by train.

9:00pm King Alfred and the Anglo Saxons 10:00pm Egypt's Lost Cities 11:30pm Killer Whales 12:30am Human Planet 1:30am A History of Britain by Simon Schama 2:30am Great Poets in Their Own Words 3:30am King Alfred and the Anglo Saxons

Conclusion of the film.

SKY MOVIES Action 4:25am The Peacemaker 6:30am Point Last Seen 8:05am Excalibur 10:30am Deep Rising 12:20pm White House Down 2:35pm Skyfall 5:00pm Jaws 7:10pm Catwoman 9:00pm White House Down 11:15pm Skyfall 1:45am Crank 3:20am Get Carter 5:15am Sam Churchill: Search for a Homeless Man Thriller in which private investigator Sam Churchill faces his most challenging - and deadly - case after he is hired to track down the father of client Laura Enders.

Comedy 5:20am My Big Fat Greek Wedding 7:00am Turbo: Sky Movies Special 7:30am Fun with Dick and Jane 9:10am Here Comes the Boom 11:05am Wedding Crashers 1:15pm The World's End Special 1:45pm Without a Paddle 3:35pm 10 Years 5:30pm Fun with Dick and Jane 7:10pm Here Comes the Boom 9:00pm Wedding Crashers 11:10pm Without a Paddle 12:55am Life 2:55am Caddyshack 4:45am The Top Ten Show 2014 5:05am Heaven Can Wait After his untimely death, a famous sportsman attempts to find a new body to host his spirit.

4:45am Fear 6:30am Malpractice 8:15am Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit Special 8:45am Hours 10:35am Hick 12:25pm Murder at 1600 2:25pm Ripley's Game 4:30pm Hours 6:20pm Sleeping with the Enemy 8:05pm Murder at 1600 10:00pm The Green Mile 1:05am Brake Terrorists keep a Secret Service agent captive in a car boot and torture him for information.

2:40am Falling Down 4:35am In Dreams

4:45am Barefoot in the Park 6:40am Flight: Sky Movies Special 7:00am Romeo and Juliet 9:05am Borrowed Time 10:45am Battle of the Year 12:45pm Cold Mountain 3:30pm Million Dollar Baby 5:45pm Romeo and Juliet In the midst of a bitter family war, a love between two youngsters could bridge the divide.

7:50pm Awakenings 10:00pm Million Dollar Baby 12:20am The Break-Up Gary and Brooke are blissfully happy together in their Chicago condo.

2:10am Dead Poets Society 4:25am Down the Shore

Premiere

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10:15am The Butler 12:30pm One Chance 2:15pm Cloudy 2: Extra Toppings 2:35pm Plush 4:20pm Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 6:00pm Syrup 7:45pm Cloudy 2: Extra Toppings 8:15pm Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 10:00pm The Butler 12:15am Plush 2:00am Closed Circuit 3:45am One Chance 5:45am Fast and Furious 6 Special

10:20am Hell and High Water 12:15pm Black Patch 1:50pm Gunsmoke

A special show looking at the return of the full-throttle franchise.

An injured gang member is left behind in Dodge after a shootout.

2:55pm Gunsmoke An Indian chief is found guilty of murder so his daughter rides into Dodge for help.

4:00pm Cripple Creek Government agents infiltrate a gold smuggling ring who are preying on miners.

5:30pm Island in the Sun 7:45pm From Here to Eternity Enlisted men in Hawaii fight for love and honour on the eve of World War II.

10:00pm Hollywood Homicide 12:10am Something's Gotta Give 2:30am Hollywood Homicide 4:25am Hollywood Cavalcade

E W N 7 - 13 August 2014 / Costa Blanca South

BBC TWO 7:15am Homes Under the Hammer Property experts visit three properties before they go up for auction. 8:15am Rip Off Britain 9:00am Talk to the Animals 10:00am Athletics 1:00pm Sharpay's Fabulous Adventure 2:30pm Breakaway General knowledge quiz show hosted by Nick Hancock

www.euroweeklynews.com

WEDNESDAY TV

CH5 9:35am Toby's Travelling Circus 9:45am Bananas in Pyjamas 10:00am Tickety Toc 10:15am The Wright Stuff 12:10pm On the Yorkshire Buses 1:10pm 5 News Lunchtime 1:15pm Big Brother 2:15pm Home and Away 2:45pm Neighbours

SKY 1 6:00am Airline USA 6:30am Airline USA 7:00am Glee 8:00am Dog Patrol 8:30am Dog Patrol 9:00am Futurama 9:30am Futurama 10:00am Futurama 10:30am Futurama 11:00am NCIS: Los Angeles 12:00pm David Attenborough's Micro Monsters 12:30pm David Attenborough's Micro Monsters 1:00pm Sinbad 2:00pm Sinbad

3pm 3:15pm Perfection 4:00pm Escape to the Country 4:30pm The Hairy Bikers' Bake-ation 5:30pm Flog It!

3:15pm Cash in the Attic 3:45pm Natural World 4:45pm Great Continental Railway Journeys 5:45pm Athletics

3:00pm Judge Rinder 4:00pm Secret Dealers 5:00pm Tipping Point

3:40pm Countdown 4:30pm Deal or No Deal 5:30pm Win it Cook it

3:15pm NCIS 4:15pm The Hollywood Mom's Mystery

3:00pm The Simpsons 4:00pm Glee 5:00pm Futurama 5:30pm Futurama

6:00pm Athletics Coverage of all the latest action from the world of Athletics.

6:00pm The 21st Question 7:00pm Local News and Weather 7:30pm ITV News and Weather 8:00pm Emmerdale 8:30pm Coronation Street

6:00pm Couples Come Dine with Me 7:00pm The Simpsons 7:30pm Hollyoaks 8:00pm Channel 4 News

6:00pm 5 News at 5 6:30pm Neighbours 7:00pm Home and Away 7:30pm 5 News Tonight 8:00pm Ultimate Police Interceptors

6:00pm The Simpsons 6:30pm Futurama 7:00pm Futurama 7:30pm The Simpsons 8:30pm The Simpsons

9:00pm 100 Year Old Drivers 10:00pm Secrets From the Clink 11:00pm ITV News at Ten and Weather 11:40pm Dangerous Dogs

9:00pm Sarah Beeny's Double Your House for Half the Money 10:00pm One Born Every Minute 11:00pm The Mimic 11:30pm 8 Out of 10 Cats Best Bits

9:00pm Emergency Bikers 10:00pm Grand Theft Auto: UK 11:00pm Big Brother

9:00pm Modern Family 9:30pm Modern Family 10:00pm Modern Family 10:30pm Modern Family 11:00pm Modern Family 11:30pm Modern Family

6pm 6:15pm Pointless 7:00pm BBC News 7:30pm Regional News 8:00pm The One Show 8:30pm Fake Britain

Includes sport and weather.

9pm 9:00pm The Great British Bake Off 10:00pm Operation Wild 11:00pm BBC News 11:25pm Regional News 11:30pm Weather 11:35pm A Question of Sport

10:00pm The World's War: Forgotten Soldiers of Empire 11:00pm Backchat with Jack Whitehall and His Dad 11:30pm Newsnight

Highlights of the latest events inside the house.

12am 12:05am The League Cup Show All the latest action from the the League Cup. 1:10am Weather for the Week Ahead Detailed weather report. 1:15am BBC News The latest national and international news stories, followed by Weather.

12:20am Kate Adie's Women of World War One Kate Adie examines the impact of the war on British women and their new role in public life. 1:20am The Trouble with Mobility Scooters 2:10am This is BBC Two

12:40am Off the Beaten Track 1:05am Jackpot 247 4:00am British Touring Car Championship Highlights Steve Rider presents the best of the action from Donington Park. 5:15am Britain's Best Bakery

12:35am Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares USA 1:25am The Wall 3:10am Remember Me 5:00am Revenge 5:40am Gordon Ramsay's Home Cooking

12:00am Big Brother's Bit on the Side 1:00am Super Casino 4:05am The Killer Next Door: Countdown to Murder 5:00am Wildlife SOS 5:20am Divine Designs 5:45am House Doctor

12:00am NCIS: Los Angeles 1:00am NCIS: Los Angeles 2:00am Brit Cops: Frontline Crime 3:00am Brit Cops: Frontline Crime 4:00am Road Wars 5:00am Stargate Atlantis

BBC THREE

BBC FOUR

ITV2

ITV3

ITV4

8:00pm Top Gear 9:00pm Motorway Cops 10:00pm Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom 11:55pm Family Guy 12:17am Family Guy 12:40am American Dad! 1:00am American Dad! 1:20am Siblings 1:50am Football Fight Club 2:50am Sexy Beasts 3:20am Russell Howard's Good News 3:50am Cuckoo 4:20am Siblings

8:00pm World News Today 8:30pm The Sky at Night A look at the world of astronomy. 9:00pm The Wonder of Animals 9:30pm Beauty of Anatomy 10:00pm Art of China 11:00pm Wild China 12:00am Jet! When Britain Ruled the Skies 1:00am The Wonder of Animals 1:30am Beauty of Anatomy 2:00am The Sky at Night

11:25am The Real Housewives of Atlanta 12:25pm Emmerdale 12:55pm You've Been Framed! 1:55pm The Jeremy Kyle Show 3:00pm The Millionaire Matchmaker 3:55pm The Jeremy Kyle Show 5:00pm The Jeremy Kyle Show 6:05pm The Real Housewives of Atlanta 7:00pm Dinner Date 8:00pm You've Been Framed! 8:30pm You've Been Framed! 9:00pm Funniest Ever You've Been Framed! 10:00pm Through the Keyhole 11:00pm 40 Days and 40 Nights 12:55am Two and a Half Men

10:50am Judge Judy 11:15am Judge Judy 11:40am Judge Judy 12:05pm A Touch of Frost 2:10pm Heartbeat 3:10pm The Royal 4:10pm Hamish Macbeth 5:20pm Faith in the Future 5:55pm Duty Free 6:25pm On the Buses 7:00pm Heartbeat 8:00pm Murder, She Wrote 9:00pm Lewis 11:00pm Northern Lights 12:00am The Vice 1:05am A Touch of Frost

9:35am Kojak 10:35am Kojak 11:40am The Sweeney 12:40pm Alias Smith and Jones 1:40pm The Professionals 2:45pm Magnum, P.I. 3:50pm Kojak 4:50pm Kojak 5:55pm The Sweeney 6:55pm Alias Smith and Jones 8:00pm Cheers 8:30pm British Superbike Highlights 10:00pm River Monsters 11:00pm Hell on Wheels 12:00am Fight Club 1:00am FYI Daily

2:00pm How I Met Your Mother 2:30pm How I Met Your Mother 3:00pm The Big Bang Theory 3:30pm The Big Bang Theory 4:00pm Melissa and Joey 4:30pm Melissa and Joey 5:00pm Revenge 6:00pm How I Met Your Mother 6:30pm How I Met Your Mother 7:00pm The Big Bang Theory 7:30pm The Big Bang Theory 8:00pm Hollyoaks 8:30pm How I Met Your Mother 9:00pm Inkheart 11:10pm Rude Tube 12:15am Made in Chelsea NYC

Crime

Drama

A look at the world of astronomy.

2:30am Secret Knowledge 3:00am Wild China 4:00am Art of China

SKY MOVIES Action 5:15am Sam Churchill: Search for a Homeless Man 7:00am Chain Reaction 9:00am Any Given Sunday 11:45am The Wolverine 1:55pm The Fast and the Furious 3:55pm 2 Fast 2 Furious 5:55pm Tombstone 8:15pm Fire with Fire 10:00pm The Wolverine An old acquaintance brings the clawed mutant to Japan, where he finds himself in grave danger.

12:10am The Fast and the Furious 2:00am 2 Fast 2 Furious 3:55am Resident Evil: Retribution 5:40am Volcano: Fire on the Mountain The Angel Summit ski resort has been blessed with early snows.

Comedy 5:05am Heaven Can Wait 7:00am The Way Way Back 8:55am This is 40 11:15am We're the Millers 1:15pm Grumpy Old Men 3:10pm Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me 4:55pm Austin Powers in Goldmember 6:40pm This is 40 9:00pm We're the Millers 11:00pm The Way Way Back 12:50am For a Good Time, Call... Two Manhattan friends go into business together when they set up their own saucy phone-line.

2:25am Blazing Saddles 4:10am The Lone Ranger Unmasked 4:40am Wild Hogs

6:20am Loss of Faith 8:00am Penthouse North 9:30am Locked in 10:55am Compulsion 12:30pm Bad Company 2:30pm I Against I 4:00pm Out of Sight 6:05pm Disconnect Technology causes several lives to intertwine with terrible consequences.

8:05pm The Chamber 10:00pm Adrift Six friends are plunged into a nightmare when they jump off a yacht without lowering a ladder.

11:40pm The Island 2:05am Cherry Falls 3:45am Bad Company 5:50am Angel Flight Down

6:05am Let's Make Love 8:05am Love and Honor 9:50am Lincoln: Sky Movies Special 10:10am City Slacker 11:50am Empire of the Sun 2:25pm Hector and the Search for Happiness Special 2:45pm World Trade Center 5:00pm Tootsie 7:00pm New Year's Eve Comedy following the adventures of a group of New Yorkers on New Year's Eve. Comedy/romance.

9:00pm Austenland 10:45pm World Trade Center 1:00am The English Teacher 2:40am Free Samples 4:10am Giant

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Sharon, Tracy and the three Persians By Lamia Walker of HousesitMatch SHARON is originally from Berkshire, UK and lives in Malaga. She works as a Reiki therapist and petsitter. Since moving to Spain she looks forward to her mum’s visits. This year, Sharon’s mum became ill and stayed home. Sharon needed an affordable way to visit with her kids so they could spend time together. Sharon’s freelance work gives an irregular income and she needed to make this trip affordable. She also didn’t want to crowd her mum as she was recovering from an operation, so staying in the same house was not possible. She went online and found a solution near

her mum - a housesit in Maidenhead. Tracy the owner needed a sitter for her three Persian cats while she travels, specifying someone who understands cats. Two of hers are fussy eaters. She liked that Sharon is a petsitter and thought the boys would be company for the cats. Sharon could look after the cats, her boys, and they could visit her mum without crowding her out. Sharon’s mum is recovering and planning Christmas in the sun with her family in Spain. Download your Free Easy Guide to Housesitting from here www.bit.ly/eurown001

To find a petsitter go to www.HousesitMatch. com or call Lamia on +44 (0)1865 521508

Can cats really always land on their feet? WELL, it is true they do have a ‘righting reflex’ that operates when they fall. First, the brain commands the head and neck muscles to put the head ‘square’ with the ground. Then the rest of the body aligns itself with the head and, hey presto, the cat ends up in a perfect position for a soft landing. One might assume that the greater the height of the fall, the worse the injuries. This is, however, only

true up to a level of seven storeys; after that the fracture rate actually decreases. This is because after dropping for a distance of five storeys, the cat reaches maximum speed, the so-called terminal velocity of a falling body. At this point, the speed is constant and thus the inner ear is no longer aware and stimulated by acceleration. So the cat relaxes and spreads its legs out just as a freefall parachutist

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Looking after your Pets in Spain

BABY: Looking for a permanent home.

THE managers at Pets in Spain in Alicante have the following advice about looking after your pets. When moving to Spain it is important to note that there are a number of diseases and dangers for pets that aren’t found in most other European countries. For cats there is feline leukaemia virus and feline infectious

enteritis. Also note that poisoned bait is sometimes found on urbanisations to keep down the feral cat population. The charity Pets in Spain is currently looking for a home for Baby who is a 15-weekold tabby and white kitten. She is very trusting with people and loves to be cuddled.

Those interested should call 645 469 253.

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HERE weight control is concerned, Fast Track Hypnosis is the perfect solution as it promotes the natural way to lose any excess weight. The Fast Track weight control session promotes healthy eating and also

encourages you to take more interest in your own shape and vitality. The Fast Track Hypnosis Weight Control or the Gastroband session takes place within 30 minutes and those minutes can change your life forever. Hypnotherapist Jonathan Gilchrist said: “And no, that isn’t an exaggeration! Just read the many testimonials on my website to see how

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94% of women said they have tried to lose weight at some point MORE than half of all Spaniards trying to lose weight, spend an average of €150 per month trying to do so. That was the findings of a survey by the Union of Consumers and Users (OCU) of more than 2,000 people aged between 18 and 64 to discuss how they value their health and weight, weight loss and the cost and satisfaction with different methods. Around 90 per cent of respondents

have tried to lose weight “to feel good about themselves.” Regarding the cost, depending on the method used, 45 per cent of those surveyed said they did not spend any amount and the remaining, an average of €150 a month on weight loss methods. Over 90 per cent of women and 88 per cent of men said they have tried to lose weight at some point in their life.

know you’re healthy. You will be the correct weight for your body and knowing this, it doesn’t matter what the rest of the world or the magazines think. “Your self-esteem and confidence will sky rocket, because you can be proud of yourself.” If you’re ready to change your life, ready to change the way you view yourself and if you’re ready to stop caring about the rest of the world’s opinion, then make today the day for that change. “Almost a year ago I needed help to focus on getting weight off. Jonathan helped me achieve this. I lost six stones (38 kilos) in approximately four to five months after my

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Talking yourself slim A NEW easy way to lose weight could have been found if one diet expert’s method is to be believed. John Richardson said that forget calorie counting, simply talk yourself thin. Dubbed the ‘self-chatter diet,’ the hypnotherapist and diet expert said his eating plan helps users beat the bulge by eradicating fattening behaviour. He said: “Self-chatter is your inner-voice and often, this self-talk happens so automatically you are barely aware of it. However, what

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over time consuming less food and smaller portions will become normal practice.

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NOTHING ruins a good pair of shoes like a smell and the dog avoiding chewing on them should be a red flag that something is amiss. There are a number of factors that cause sweating and smell, including wearing shoes with inadequate air ventilation and polyester and nylon socks, since they do not let the feet breathe. Some natural remedies: Apple cider vinegar both kills bacteria and dries excess sweat. Add half a cup of it to a quart of lukewarm water and soak the feet for 20 minutes. Green and black tea can also help get rid of foot odour thanks to their tannic acids, which will keep the feet dry and prevent perspiration. Make tea and pour it into a tub big enough to fit both feet. Once cool, soak them for about 10 minutes. Another remedy is cornstarch. It absorbs excess moisture and neutralizes odour.

Natural remedies to deal with mosquito bites WITH glorious summer weather comes one of Mother Nature’s more annoying creations: the mosquito. Not only can they carry life-threatening diseases, including La Crosse encephalitis, malaria and dengue, but they can also turn any holiday into a nightmare with their never-ending buzzing sound and their itchy bites. Fortunately there are a number of simple natural ways to ease the aggravating itch caused by the saliva

released by the female mosquito into the wound. For instance, ice can help numb the nerves that conduct the itching and the pain and will also keep the bite from swelling even more. It may come as a surprise to some but vinegar can stop itching due to its acidity. Try putting a few drops on a piece of cotton and wiping every individual bite. Honey can also relieve itching thanks to its antiinflammatory and anti-bacterial properties. It is better

to opt for raw honey and to dab a little bit right on the pesky bite. Not only a delicious beverage, tea can ease swelling on the bites thanks to the tannins it contains, which act as an astringent and draw the extra fluid out of the bite. And last but not least, try crushing up some basil and applying it to the bite. This aromatic leaf contains thymol and camphor, which can relieve itching.

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VIRGO (August 24 - September 23) There is a great impatience this week when someone flatly refuses to see something through to the end. You do not admire sloppiness and your reaction shows this. It may be necessary for you to sort out a situation which has been going on far too long. As you dislike loose ends in any respect, your patience may come to an end. LIBRA (September 24 - October 23) Energy is high and there is a lot of fun to be had. An invitation sent out brings an old friend to your table. This is not as straightforward as you think it will be. Odd stirrings make you confused. Could it be that going back is the right way to go forward? Remove yourself for a while to consider rather than be torn in two directons at once. SCORPIO (October 24 - November 22) You feel like a fish out of water in a confused and noisy situation. Perhaps you are not making the right kind of friends, so take control of the quality of people who you associate with. Maybe it is relatives that are causing concern. You cannot choose your relatives, but it is possible to see less of them. SAGITTARIUS (November 23 - December 21) This is a great social week. Your puppylike enthusiasm attracts others and a barrage of good vibes comes your way. Indeed, your relaxed attitude allows someone close to get their own life a bit more into perspective. CAPRICORN (December 22 - January 20) People look to you to guide them through the maze of right and wrong this week. Your talent for bringing humour into the most tense situations is invaluable midweek. Summer is a socialising time for you and it is all

August 9: Sam Elliot, 70. Film actor. Specialising in westerns and action films he won a Critics Choice Award for his role in Up in the Air; before acting he worked in the building trade. August 10: Antonio Banderas, 54. Film actor. This internationally famous Spanish actor became known for his role in The Mask of Zorro. He also gave the voice to Puss in Boots in Shrek. steam ahead as you issue invitations and receive some back. . AQUARIUS (January 21 - February 19) You like to do your own things in your own way and in your own time. That certainly shows this week. It can cause a bit of a stir with family. Even so, it will inspire someone close to step forward and make their own stand. Put someone straight when they step out of line. PISCES (February 20 - March 20) The kind nature that is so much a part of you is only too evident this week. A situation makes you feel frustrated and you need to find a way forward. A bit of expert advice goes a long way even if it does mean that you still have to go it alone. Be strong and remind yourself that this is for someone else.

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LAST WEEK’S SOLUTION 1 Leaned, 2 Strain, 3 Reared, 4 Treats, 5 Arenas, 6 Regard, 7 Retain, 8 Seared, 9 Nearer, 10 Insert, 11 Passed, 12 Enters, 13 Suited, 14 Course, 15 Desert, 16 Disuse, 17 Rivers, 18 Discus, 19 Afresh

IF IT’S YOUR BIRTHDAY THIS WEEK: With high energy and sex appeal right through to the end of the year, you are likely to stir things up a bit on the domestic front. Doing something completely out of character should be avoided if possible. If this is not possible, then you may use your charm.

August 8: Dustin Hoffman, 77. Film actor. This renowned method actor first won over the audience in The Graduate and Marathon Man. He received an AFI Life Achievement Award in 1999 and once shared a flat with Gene Hackman.

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LEO (July 24 - August 23) There is a highly social week ahead with social gatherings here and there. A trip means that finances start to look brighter. You may find it necessary, if you are to progress, to consider a move to another job or area. Get involved with people who have been in the same situation. This gives you a good guide as to exactly where you want to be. Someone fresh brings a romantic lift to the weekend and you are reminded of how things used to be.

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The Love Punch tells the story of Richard Jones who just cannot wait to finally go into a well-deserved retirement. Life, however, seems to have other plans. On his final day at the office he finds out that his pension fund has been stolen by Vincent Kruger, the man who bought over the company he had so far been working for. Jones enlists the help of his ex Kate to get his money back. Starring Pierce Brosnan, Emma Thompson, Timothy Spall, Celia Imrie and Louise Bourgoin, directed by Joel Hopkins. It has a run time of 95 minutes and is rated 12A.

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August 7: Antonio Resines. Film actor. This Spanish actor, producer and director started out by studying to become a lawyer but soon got bored with that idea. He has appeared in Spanish cinema classics like Hay Carmela! and Celda 211. He won a Goya award for his role in La Buena Estrella in 1997.

ARIES (March 21 - April 20) As you prefer living in the here and now, you find it difficult to understand and tolerate people who plot and plan in advance. It is tedious in the extreme to consider every little detail of something which may never happen. Because there is this relaxed attitude, you have developed a larger-than-life personality. TAURUS (April 21 - May 21) This time of year reminds you just how much you enjoy home comforts. Plan ahead now for those chilly winter nights when the air is crisp and the wine is mulled. The urge is to work with others this week and that in itself throws up plans for evenings ahead. Having planned a romantic weekend there may need to be some adjustments.

August 11: Steve Wozniak, 64. Entrepreneur. The founder of Apple alongside Steve Jobs he invented the Apple 1 and Apple 11 computers and pioneered the microcomputer revolution. He appeared on Dancing with the Stars in 2009.

ROCKS AND MINERALS 1. Amethyst is a transparent purple variety of which hard, glossy mineral? 2. In geology, what name is given to the layer of the Earth between the crust and the core? 3. Limestone is sedimentary rock consisting mainly of calcium carbonate that was deposited by the remains of what? 4. Named after a 19th century German mineralogist, the Moh’s scale is used to measure the what of minerals? 5. Ruby and sapphire are both varieties of which mineral? 6. The bright red mineral cinnabar is the chief source of which metallic element? 7. There are three main rock types: metamorphic and sedimentary are two, which is the third? 8. What is the aboriginal/official name of the red rock mass in Northern Territory, Australia, south-west of Alice Springs that was formerly known as Ayers Rock? 9. What name is given to the hot fluid or semi-fluid material below or within the earth's crust from which lava and other types of rock is formed on cooling? 10. Which of these geological eras is the oldest, Cenozoic, Mesozoic, Paleozoic or Precambrian?

Nonagram How many English words of four letters or more can you make from the nine letters in our Nonagram puzzle? Each letter may be used only once (unless the letter appears twice). Each word MUST CONTAIN THE CENTRE LETTER (in this case P) and there must be AT LEAST ONE NINE LETTER WORD. Plurals, vulgarities or proper nouns are not allowed.

August 12: Cara Delevingne, 22. Model. English fashion model who can be seen as the face of Burberry, Chanel, Oscar de la Renta and Moschino among others. August 13: Fidel Castro, 88. World leader. Infamous Cuban dictator and revolutionary who came to power in 1959 and served as Cuba’s Prime Minister and President until 2008. Before politics he almost had a baseball career in the US. GEMINI (May 22 - June 21) Your mind, as ever, is changeable. This is a fun time to dabble at this and that to bring a bit of variety to your life and work. Meeting new people and starting new projects means that it is a busy time at work but the rewards are high. CANCER (June 22 - July 23) This is an emotional week, when it is difficult to keep things to yourself. Get together with others and do a bit of social networking. Talk, and if you cannot bring yourself to confess to a problem, say that it is a friend of yours who has it. Certainly, you need to share this concern to get a balanced picture. Things that are held inside can get blown out of all proportion. Think of something to spice up your love life at the weekend because it is a romantic time.

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LAST WEEK’S SOLUTION aver, cave, evil, lave, leva, live, rave, rive, uvea, vail, vale, veal, veil, vela, vert, vial, vice, vile, alive, avert, calve, carve, caver, cavil, civet, clave, crave, curve, evict, laver, liver, livre, ravel, rival, rivet, trave, uveal, valet, value, vatic, vault, velar, vicar, viler, viral, virtu, vitae, vital, active, claver, curvet, travel, valuer, varlet, virtue, caviler, clavier, culvert, rivulet, vaulter, victual, virtual, cultivar, curative, vertical, LUCRATIVE, VICTUALER

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1. QUARTZ, 2. MANTLE, 3. MARINE ANIMALS, CRUSHED SHELLS OR CORAL, 4. HARDNESS, 5. CORUNDUM, 6. MERCURY, 7. IGNEOUS, 8. ULURU, 9. MAGMA, 10. PRECAMBRIAN (from about 3,800 million years to 544 million years ago), Cenozoic (approximately the last 63 million years), Mesozoic (from 230 million to 63 million years ago), Paleozoic (from 544 million to about 230 million years ago).

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 (NURSED) and one letter in four other cells are given as clues.

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Unscramble the name of a famous former England cricketer: HIGH CAVE MANUAL Unscramble the title of a 2014 film starring Tom Cruise (three words): FORGET MORE WOOD

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15 Graceful neat leg crossed (7) 17 Did cat upset fanatic? (6) 18 Beat the one at the crease? (6) 20 Cancel year-book, it has a letter missing (5) 22 A pay increase for Dawn (5) 23 Blades appearing when people have a row (4)

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Each number in the Code Breaker grid represents a different letter of the alphabet. In this week’s puzzle, 17 represents B and 12 represents V, so fill in B every time the figure 17 appears and V every time the figure 12 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.

Across 1 Appear to be (4) 4 Summit (4) 9 Ordinary (5) 10 Staying power (7) 11/21 Give insider information (3,3) 12 Exactly alike (9) 13 Consistent (6) 14 Afraid (6) 18 Partner (9) 21 See 11 23 Soldiers on horseback (7) 24 Blockhead (5) 25 60 minutes (4) 26 Not difficult (4)

Down 2 Representative specimen (7) 3 Human race (7) 4 Annoy persistently (6) 5 To one side (5) 6 Quick quarrel (4) 7 Bluish-white lustrous metallic element (4) 8 Lacking colour (6) 13 Grasp suddenly (6) 15 Narrow rock opening (7) 16 New recruits (7) 17 Native of Hungary (6) 19 Rescue from danger (4) 20 Large stringed instrument (5) 22 Destiny (4)

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Down 1 Dog, alas ain’t trained (8) 2 Top people of the Spanish, Italian and English (5)

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FUNAGRAM SOLUTION: MICHAEL VAUGHAN, EDGE OF TOMORROW

Across 1 The first victim is in Rabelais’ book (4) 3 The French get over oriental game (8) 9 Regular pay, spend it foolishly (7) 10 Five in wrong race are cut up (5) 11 Topic from ‘The Mentalist’ (5) 12 Being more foolhardy, I might get grilled (6) 14 Spies making name in stage work (6) 16 Dictator in vehicle waves back (6) 19 State limits of New Hampshire, Virginia and Dakota (6) 21 The Spanish fleet loses its leader, gets wrecked. What a tragedy! (5) 24 Once more a drink has the answer (5) 25 Lattice work is visible (7) 26 Pioneers such as pay their bills (8) 27 For warmth, sunbathe at noon, inside (4)

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Across 1 Cristal (5) 3 Huésped (5) 6 Fregonas (4) 7 Blood (6) 9 Aubergine (9) 12 Barbero (peluquero) (6) 13 Grille (window) (4) 14 Bee (5) 15 Museum (5)

Down 1 Encías (4) 2 Manzano (5,4) 3 Farm (6) 4 Ingenieros (9) 5 Three (4) 8 Fishbowl (6) 10 Work (4) 11 Expensive (4)

ENGLISH-SPANISH Across: 1 Arbol, 3 Mesas, 5 Uña, 7 Ketchup, 9 Cats, 10 Blue, 13 Terraza, 14 Rib, 15 Swiss, 16 Temer. Down: 1 Aguacates, 2 Lake, 3 Mats, 4 September, 6 After, 8 Helar, 11 Pais, 12 Wait.

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10 MAD FACTS ABOUT KETCHUP KETCHUP - everybody’s favourite sauce. On average Europeans consume around three bottles each per year; it goes on everything from chips to burgers and even pizza or noodles. Here are a few lesser known facts about the humble tomato ketchup. 1. Multi-use sauce. Ketchup is used on almost any food in existence including sweets and beverages. It is popular from China and Thailand right over to Trinidad and Poland it is, without a doubt, the world’s favourite sauce. 2. It can clean, polish and even dye. This miracle substance can be used to clean metals due to its acidity levels - just cover the metal in ketchup and let sit for around 10 minutes then wipe it off and polish it. A more obvious use is to dye things a sort of reddish orange colour.

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his mother, who had to battle poverty, domestic violence, loneliness and poor health to give her children a chance at a better life, and that of his sister Linda, who fought to keep her family together when she herself was only a young child. ‘This Boy’ takes readers back to post-war Britain, the rock-and-roll years, the race riots and Chelsea in the 60s. Not only is this the story of a man who

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7. The ketchup cure. Dr. John Cook Bennett thought that tomatoes could cure jaundice and indigestion and so he came up with selling ketchup, in a dried out version, in pill form and recommended them for anything from flu to headaches. By 1840 his pills were found to be fraudulent. 8. Originally, it was an ingredient. These days we use it as a sauce but it started life as an ingredient for foods like pies and complex sauces as well as being used to flavour meat and fish. With the arrival of chips and burgers it started to make its way onto the world’s tables as a sauce in its own right.

worked his way out of poverty against all odds, but also the story of an entire country that rose from the ashes of war.

5. Slower than a snail. According to Heinz, ketchup flows out of the bottle at 0.045 kilometres per hour or about 1.3 centimetres per second - for the sake of perspective: some snails travel at 0.8 kilometres per hour.

3. The world’s biggest ketchup packet. This has its home in Collinsville, Illinois and the monster packet measures 2.4 metres tall by 1.2 metres wide and is 24 centimetres thick. It was created in 2007 as a fundraiser for the local Christian Academy; Heinz donated 4,000 bottles to the cause. 4. The world’s biggest ketchup bottle. Collinsville, Illinois is also home to the world’s largest ketchup bottle which stands at 52 metres tall. The huge bottle was built for the Caldwell Company in Louisville, Kentucky as a promotional gimmick to advertise their water tanks and towers. It has its own website and fan club in America.

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6. Ketchup prevents cancer Dr. Bennett wasn’t completely wrong as tomatoes can have some health benefits and modern research has proven that it is good for the heart and can reduce the risks of certain types of cancer. The tomatoes in ketchup contain lycopene which is an antioxidant and therefore inhibits the cell damage caused by free radicals.

9. Five different tastes. Most people know about the four basic food flavours: sour, sweet, bitter and salty but there is a fifth: umami or savoury (a bit like Marmite). Early ketchups used only two tastes: salty and bitter. These days ketchup employs all five tastes to make for a rounder flavour. 10. Early versions of ketchup didn’t use tomatoes. Although modern ketchup uses tomatoes as its base taste, earlier versions were made from such varied items as anchovies, shallots, oysters, lemons and even walnuts. The famous Beeton’s Book of Household Management (fondly known as Mrs Beeton’s), published in 1861, recommends mushroom and brandy ketchup.

Boggled How many English words can you find in the Boggled grid, according to the following rules? The letters must be adjoining in a ‘chain’. They can be adjacent horizontally, vertically or diagonally. Words must contain at least four letters and may include singular and plural or other derived forms. No letter may be used more than once within a single word, unless it appears twice. No vulgarities or proper nouns are permitted.

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Little known facts about Champagne THE Nigerians consume more Champagne than the French! Although 63 per cent of Nigerians live on less than a dollar a day they buy more Champagne than the French - this is probably due to the oil barons. There are three grape varieties commonly used in the production of Champagne: Pinot Noir, Meunier and Chardonnay. The trick is how to blend them together to produce the right taste. Champagne happened by accident. A winemaker’s mistake in leaving the bottles unattended on a dockside in the sun led to the discovery of Champagne

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when the wine fermented so much that it became fizzy. Champagne bottles

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getting the hang of fermenting without exploding the bottles. The world can’t have an

important event without a bottle of Champagne. Although not a requisite, an occasion just doesn’t feel right without a bottle of fizz. There are as many stars in the Milky Way as there are in five bottles of Champagne; according to scientific calculations there are around 49 billion bubbles in a bottle of Champagne. A Champagne cork flies out of the bottle at 25 miles per hour if the bottle has been well shaken.

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Happy foods to make you feel better EAT yourself towards happiness with these foods that are proven to make you feel better about almost everything. Clams: they are packed with vitamin B12 which the brain needs to make dopamine and serotonin. Depressed people have low levels of B12 and have been proven to feel better after a three month course of eating clams, or a B12 supplement, three times a week. Walnuts: these are full of alphalinolenic acid (ALA) which boost the

brain’s production of dopamine and serotonin. Coffee: people who drink two to three cups of coffee a day were found to be around 15 per cent less depressed than those who didn’t caffeine gives the body a ‘happy boost’ which increases the production of dopamine and serotonin within about 30 minutes of drinking a cup of coffee. Radishes: the spicy crunch of these vegetables stimulates the production of norepinephrine and dopamine.

Oysters: these bivalves are a rich source of zinc which has long been recognised as essential to maintain a smile on people’s faces and relieve their stresses. Pomegranates: the juice of this unusually seedy fruit has been shown to lower blood pressure and anxiety as well as alleviating depression. Yoghurt or kefir: a UCLA study showed that people who ate probiotic yoghurt twice a week reacted less stressfully when shown pictures of angry faces.

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SOME people love the sea, storms, sand and sun and believe there is nothing more idyllic than living permanently or taking a few months holiday every year in a house or bungalow in coastal sand dunes. Their garden carved out from raw sand dunes weathered and shaped by sea, wind and rain. The ambiance only disturbed by seagulls and passersby on the beach. We visited such a situation recently and brainstormed some possible garden designs. But before reviewing them reflect on the lifestyle you would expect within the sand dunes and the difficulties of constructing and maintaining such a garden. Bear in mind these potential problems: • Watering – Will the water be saline? • The possibility of shifting sands and erosion • How to establish pockets of good soil for planting trees and shrubs • The need for windbreaks and shade • Privacy and security The five styles of garden we describe are entitled: - Retained wild dunes

FEATURE: A Japanese style garden. - Enhanced sand dunes - An oasis garden - A Japanese style raked sand garden - An old creek garden 1. RETAINED WILD DUNES Why not? Especially if your house is surrounded by wonderful natural views. Gulls and plovers your regular visitors and existing naturalised sea hollies, sand tulips and clumps of coastal grasses holding the dunes together. The main problem will be sandstorms when gale-force winds build up. But glass screens could be easily built around a terrace.

2. ENHANCED SAND DUNES Plant trees like palms, pines, tamarix and holm oaks or a standard pittosporum that withstand salty winds. Along the boundary, plant bamboos or a hedge of wildly growing lantana, oleanders, pittosporum, or purple bougainvillaea to provide a windbreak. Tough grasses, thrifts, stonecrops, lavateras, euphorbias, pampas grass and capers can all thrive in a sandy situation. Develop interesting features from seashells, driftwood, pieces of old fishing nets, fishing pots and floats, etc.

3. AN OASIS Consider developing an oasis with a swimming pool or pond as the central feature. Surround it with palm trees and beds of herbs, lantanas, hibiscus, pittosporum, irises, lilies and succulents. 4. A JAPANESE STYLE GARDEN A garden based on interesting rocks, driftwood, wind-sculpted trees, bamboo and raked designs in the sand. If the sand is first bulldozed into an amphitheatre landscape, an impressive and secluded haven could be developed. 5. AN OLD CREEK GARDEN Many coastlines used to have numerous small creeks where birds would nest and an isolated fisherman left his small fishing boat. Why not reconstruct such a situation? Dig out an area for a natural pool. Line it with pond plastic and fill with water. Hold the excess plastic down with weathered rocks or stones. Plant up with flag irises, bullrushes and sedge reeds. Find an old wooden boat. Place it partially in the water with the shore end in the reeds, tied to a post. Create a wooden slat terraced area adjacent to the pool on which to build up a collection of oars, old fish pots and baskets.

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Record 58 golds for England and 19 for Scotland at Commonwealth Games Tony Matthews

International Sports 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.

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AFTER 11 days of terrific sporting action in and around Glasgow, there was a superb closing ceremony to the 20th Commonwealth Games. A total of 4,947 athletes, from 71 countries, competed in 261 events covering 18 sports and 35 countries collected at least one prize. England topped the medals’ chart with 174: 58 gold, 59 silver and 57 bronze. Australia (2nd) won 137 (49 gold), Canada (3rd) gained 82 (32 gold), hosts Scotland (4th) claimed 53 (19 gold) while Wales won 36 medals (5 gold) and Northern Ireland 12 (2 gold). A total of 1,148 million spectators attended the 261 ‘live’ events. Well done, Glasgow, Scotland and BBC TV - top job. You were brilliant! A-Z of BRITISH GOLDS (Key: E - England, NI Northern Ireland, S Scotland, W - Wales)

My selection of UK gold medal winners A ADAMS, Nicola (E)... boxing; ADCOCKS, Chris and Gabby (E)... badminton doubles; ADLINGTON, Sarah (S)... judo; ARMITSTEAD, Lizzie (E)... cycling. B BARNES, Paddy (NI)... boxing; BLAGG, Alicia (E)... diving; BROWNLEE, Alistair (E)... triathlon (2); BROWNLEE, Jonathan (E)... triathlon relay; BURNETT, Darren (S)... bowls (2); BURTON, Euan (S - flag-bearer)... judo. C CARLIN, Jazz (W)... swimming; CLARK, Sarah (S)... judo; CONLON, Michael (NI)... boxing. D DALEY, Tom... diving; DAVIES, Georgia (W)... swimming; DAVIS, Nekoda (E)... judo; DOWNIE, Rebecca (E)... gymnastics; DOWSETT, Alex (E)... cycling; DRINKHALLS, Paul/Jo, husband/wife (E)... table tennis/doubles. E EVANS, Geraint (W)... cycling. F FACHIE, Neil (S)... cycling (2); FOSTER, Paul (S)... bowls (2); FLETCHER, Megan (E)... judo; FLYNN, Charlie (S)... boxing; FOWLER, Antony (E)... boxing; FRAGAPANE, Claudia (E)... gymnastics (4). G GALLANTREE, Becky (E)... diving; GREAVES, Dan (E)... para/discus.

SYNCHRONISED: Bouchard and Riendeau of Canada. H HALSALL, Fran (E)... swimming (2); HOLLAND, Vicky (E)... triathlon; HYND, Ollie (E)... swimming. J JONES, Frankie (W)... women’s gymnastics; JOYCE, Joe (E)... boxing. K KEATINGS, Dan (S)... gymnastics; KERWOOD, Charlotte (E)... shooting. L LAUGHER, Jack (E)... diving (2); LEWIS, Steve (E)... pole-vault; LIVESEY, Owen (E)... judo; LUCKMAN, David (E)... shooting (2). M McKENZIE, Anthony (E)... judo; MACLEAN, Craig (S)... cycling (2); MARSHALL, Alex (S)... bowls/pairs; MATTHEW, Nick (E)... squash; MURDOCH, Ross (S)... swimming; MILEY, Hannah (S)... swimming. O OATES, Colin (E)...

judo; O’CONNOR, Siobhan (E)... swimming. P PATEL, Parag (E)... shooting; PEACOCK, Dave (S)... bowls (2); POWELL, Natalie (W)... judo; PROUD, Ben (E)... swimming (3); PURVIS, Dan (S)... gymnastics. R RENICKS, Kimberley (S)... judo; RENICKS, Louise (S)... judo; RIVERS, Dan (E)... shooting; ROWSELL, Joanna (E)... cycling; RUTHERFORD, Greg (E)... long jump. S SCOTT, Helen (E)... cycling (2); SCOTT, Steve (E)...shooting; SHERRINGTON, Chris (E)... judo; SMITH, Zoe (E)... weightlifting; STIMPSON, Jodie (E)... triathlon (2). T TAYLOR, Josh (S)... boxing; TAYLOR, Sophie (E)... swimming; THORNHILL, Sophie...

cycling (2); TROTT, Laura... cycling. W WALKER-HEBBORN, Chris (E)... swimming (2); WALLACE, Dan (S)... swimming; WEIR, David (E)... wheelchair/1500m; WHITLOCK, Max (E)... gymnastics (3); WILLIAMS, Dan (E)... judo; Nile WILSON (E), gymnastics... (2). Team Golds • Men’s gymnastics (E)... Sam Oldham/Louis Smith/ Kristian Thomas/Sam Whitlock/Nile Wilson. • Men’s 4x400m relay (E)... Matt HudsonSmith/Dan Awde/Conrad Phillips/Michael Bingham. • Mixed triathlon relay (E)... Alistair/Jonathan Brownlee & Stimpson/Vicky Holland. • Women’s gymnastics (E)... Ruby Harrold/Kelly Simm/Rebecca Downie/ Hannah Whelan/Claudia Fragapane. • Swimming, 4x100m men’s medley relay (E)... Chris Walker-Hebborn/ Adam Peaty/Adam Barrett/ Adam Brown). • Bowls/fours (S)... Dave Peacock/Neil Speirs/ Paul Foster/Alex Marshall. My other highlights: * Seeing Claudia FRAGAPANE become the first UK gymnast to win 4 golds at the same Commonwealth Games in

Quesada Golf Society travel south QUESADA GS travelled south to play Roda, a golf course suited to all abilities. The course was in very good condition, the strong Spanish summer sun was out and there was nothing more than a slight breeze, so good scores were anticipated. All the prizes were sponsored by Trevor and Ann Hobbs. The winner of the gold division was 11 handicapper Terry Rogers with a very good score of 35 points. In second place was Charlie Wallace (31). In third place with 30 was Norman Lewis.

QUESADA WINNERS: After the day’s play at Roda. In the Silver division the winner was the very consistent Terry Smith with 29 points. In second place was Tony Patterson with 25

points followed by Trevor Hobbs with 23 points. The best guest was two handicapper Richard Giles with a magnificent score of 41

points and a gross score of 70. There were two games in the annual knock-out competition. Roy Westlake just beat Paul Flanaghan. In the second match close friends John King and Tony Patterson did battle with John coming out a comfortable winner. Anyone in the Quesada area looking to join a very friendly golf society and play golf once a fortnight at a wide variety of courses at very reasonable cost, should contact the membership secretary Les Pancott on 966 716 723.

84 years in floor/ individual/vault/team. * Roaring and clapping Matt Hudson-Smith home in the last leg of England men’s 4x400m relay team victory. * Watching NI’s Paddy BARNES become first UK boxer ever to retain a Commonwealth title. * Cheering on silver medalists Eilidh CHILDS (S) in the women’s 400m; Adam GEMILI (E), men’s 100m; Jazmin SAWYERS (E), women’s long jump and Lynsey SHARP (S) women’s 800m. * Admiring Aussie Sally PEARSON’s victory in the 110m hurdles final. * Nijel AMOS (Botswana) beat world record holder David RUDISHA in the 800m final... and Blessing OKAGBARE (Nigeria) completed the 100m/200m sprint double... 40-year-old Jo POVEY (E) won the women’s 1500m bronze... and Usain BOLT anchored Jamaica to the 4x100m relay gold; England came second.. SPORTS SHORTS: • This weekend it’s the FL season starts and in the Community Shield it’s Arsenal v Manchester City who could field Frank Lampard, on loan from New York City. • The 10th MotoGP of 2014 takes place in Indianapolis with Marc Marquez hoping to continue his winning run. • The biggest-ever crowd for a football match in the USA, 109,318, saw Manchester United beat Real Madrid 3-1 in the International Champions Cup. • The 2014 US PGA Championship starts today at Valhalla, Louisville, Kentucky. • The 4th England-India cricket Test also begins today at Old Trafford and Jimmy Anderson WILL play after being found not guilty of breaching the ICC Code of Conduct.

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TMGS at La Marquesa THE TMGS celebrated their second anniversary at La Marquesa. Members said the club has over the last year or so, made vast improvements and not just only to their course which now is in tip top nick. The Best Guest prize went to Peter Long with a steady 35 points and that was the top score of the day. Winning the NTP’s today was an art and even hitting the greens was one, so it seemed. Simon Lee secured two twos . It only needed 27 points for John Hillier to take fourth spot in the Silver division with both Colin Marsden and George Smith on 28 points with the older of the two winning on countback for third and second places. The winner of the Silver Boys was Graham Smith with 32 points.

MEMBERS: Celebrated their 2nd anniversary at La Marquesa. The Gold crowd did a bit better with Roger Nilsen’s taking fourth with 30 points. A pair of 31’s saw Hans Arveson and John Eyre take third and second places and this left Simon

Lee with a very credible 34 points to take home the bacon.

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