Euro Weekly News - Costa Blanca North 4 - 10 December 2014 Issue 1535 by Euro Weekly News Media S.A.

ISSUE NO. 1535

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Santa’s house THE House of Santa Claus, an annual attraction in Alicante, opens tomorrow, Friday December 5, in its new location of the Plaza Seneca. It will remain open until January 6.

Tree planting ECOLOGISTAS en Accion association in San Vicente has carried out its annual reforestation operation in Valle del Sabinar. The group opposes development in the area, which it hopes will become a national park.

Food drive VOLUNTEERS working for the Food Bank organisation collected approximately 400,000 kilos of food last weekend at supermarkets and stores across Alicante Province, to give to families in need.

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Expat is awarded the British Empire Medal BRITISH by birth, Spanish at heart, Pamela Dawson Tasker has received the British Empire Medal (BEM) for her charitable work and assistance to the expatriate community. Receiving the medal from the Ambassador’s Residence in Madrid, Pamela told Euro Weekly News that she had been ‘stunned’ to receive the call from the ambassador to say she had been recognised in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List. “I couldn’t believe it and had to keep it quiet until it was officially announced,” said Pamela. As she accepted the medal, Pamela, who has lived on the Costa Blanca for more than 30 years, said it was not just for her, but in recognition of all the volunteers. She added: “There are hundreds of thousands of

volunteers doing their bit and none of this existed 30 years ago. I couldn’t do what I do without the volunteers who help, and I look on this as a recognition of the work done by all these people.” Pamela started her work in 1982 distributing poppy boxes for the Royal British Legion (RBL).

She went on to found the RBL Benidorm District Branch and remains its secretary as well as being President of the local branch of cancer charity AECC in Alfaz del Pi. She thanked the town hall for supporting her and her events over the years. Pamela is pictured above (third from left) with Alfaz Mayor Vicente Arques and Councillors

Genoveva Tent and Vicenta Baldo, who praised her strength and tenacity.

Tourist spend up SPENDING by foreign tourists in the Valencia Region has grown. In the first 10 months of the year, foreign visitors spent €4.86 billion, representing an rise of 3.1 per cent over the same period in 2013. The Tourism Expenditure Survey reported that in October this year, tourist spending totalled €513 million, up 8.2 per cent compared to October 2013. Visitors from the UK, France and Asia were the biggest spenders.

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INDEX News 1 - 21 Finance 23 - 28 Letters 29 Daily TV 30, 32, 34, 36, 46, 48, 50 Leapy Lee 33 Time Out 51 - 54 Health & Beauty 55 - 58 Food 59 - 61 Homes & Gardens 62-63 Property 64 - 67 Services 68 - 72 Classifieds 73 - 75 Motoring 76 - 78 Sport 79 - 80

LA PENYA: Finestrat’s gypsum cliff is susceptible to erosion.

Mesh used to prevent rockslides in Finestrat

THE Penya cliff where Finestrat’s old town stands is currently being reinforced. Triple-torsion geo-mesh netting, routinely used to reinforce retaining walls and prevent erosion and rockslides, culminates measures carried out since 2009 to ensure the stability of the gypsum cliff and

minimise the effects of erosion. These have included replacing domestic water and sewage pipes in Calle Fondo to avert possible leaks. Storm drains which in the past flowed into La Penya have also been rerouted and all pipes are now inspected

periodically for leaks. Plants and undergrowth endangering La Penya have also been eliminated, explained Works and Services councillor Juan Francisco Perez. “We are protecting the town’s heritage and above all, guaranteeing residents’ safety,” he said.

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Denia plans to spread inland DENIA’S new Urban Development Plan (PGOU) will be displayed to the public on December 15. Property-owners who are affected will then have 45 days in which to lodge an appeal. The PGOU, which was prepared in just two months, is the “only one possible,” according to Denia’s municipal architect Rogelio Mira and Town Planning

Councillor Vicente Chelet. It was shaped by Patricova, the flood-prevention plan, and the ceiling of 57,948 inhabitants stipulated by Valencian Territorial Strategy regulations, they explained. More than three million square metres of Las Marinas is no longer classed as building land owing to flood risk. As this was the most

practical direction for expansion Denia will instead spread inland. The new PGOU will allow construction on building land in the Montgo and Les Rotes areas on plots of at least 800 square metres. The PGOU does not include industrial land, which will be dealt with by the council that emerges from next May’s municipal elections.

Not long now THE new Alfaz del Pi roundabout on the N-332 will be completed before March. The 90-metre diameter structure costing €3 million will provide access from the Casas Blancas area.

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WRECKAGE from a fishing boat which sank off Campello was spotted near the shore after recent bad weather. The remainder will be salvaged to prevent spillage from the boat’s 800 litres of fuel.

NOU FONTANA has been awarded the regional government’s concession to reorganise moorings and build shops and offices at Javea’s Fontana canal. Its €6 million bid was the only one received.

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Dolphin found dead A MALE dolphin was found dead on Calpe’s Arenal beach after recent storms. This was the seventh dolphin washed up in the town since 2003, according to Environment Department records.

Meter cheaters WHILE police stopped traffic, Iberdola employees entered buildings in central Elda and located 36 illegal electricity hook-ups, principally in apartments. Owners have been identified and face prison sentences if convicted.

Canal decision

HIV testing MORE than 30 per cent of HIV cases go undiagnosed in the Valencia Region. To mark World HIV Day, Minister for Health Manuel Llombart said a pilot scheme was being introduced to bring HIV testing into primary care.

Midnight oil FROM December 15 the study hall in Alicante University’s new Calle San Fernando centre will open 24 hours a day. Demand has increased as students revise for upcoming exams.

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ALCOY Council spent €11,300 on adapting a Civil Protection off-roader into a snow-plough and salt-spreader. Normal vehicles are too wide for some of the town’s narrow streets, sources explained.

Fishy business SPECTACLE: Fair is dedicated to Andalucian horses and their versatility.

Equine beauty and discipline on show

URE-BRED Spanish horses take centre stage in the southern city renowned for its equestrian heritage in early December each year, wowing visitors with spectacular performances and equine beauty. The International PRE Horse Fair (SICAB) is currently taking place in Sevilla until December 7, a trade fair which attracts more than 240,000 visitors and one of the most important on the equestrian calendar. Andalucian horses - known as Pura Raza Español (PRE) or Spanish pure-breeds - are celebrated during the week-long festivities with displays of their beauty and discipline. SICAB has become the most important singlethemed horse trade fair in the world, dedicated

Quote of the Week In Europe, people go to the Mediterranean coast. I visited Spain, it is very hot and humid in summer. I think Uganda would be a better destination than some of those destinations,’ said Ugandan president Yoweri Museveni, who claims his country is promoted as having “only some chimpanzees and so on.”

exclusively to PREs. Dressage, show-jumping, carriage-driving, bareback riding, prancing and dancing are all part of this unique fair focused entirely on the Andalucian ‘horse of kings’. Strongly built, with long, thick manes and tails, the Andalucian is a horse of such beauty that it regularly features in major Hollywood movies, usually historical and fantasy epics. All living Andalucians trace their heritage to just a small number of horses bred by religious orders in the 18th and 19th centuries, thus making them particularly special and much sought-after in the world of horse trading. For more information on the SICAB event in Sevilla, visit www.sicab.org.

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MILLION is the amount pledged by Spain to the UN-backed Green Climate Fund to help developing countries respond to climate change and promote low carbon development. So far, the fund has raised nearly €8 billion.

GANDIA’S fishing guild has been ordered to return 40 kilos of gilt-head bream confiscated from amateur fishermen last March. They were wrongly accused of stealing the fish, now frozen, from guild nets.

Dog-watch ALTEA Town Hall will fine dogowners who do not clear up after their pets. Dogs fouling streets and pavements is one of residents’ most frequent complaints, councillors said.

Better road A REVAMP has begun on part of the CV-773, the main access to Busot. Pavements and street-lights will be installed on the section that crosses Los Patos and Bonalba Alta urbanisations.

And finally... Real Madrid’s Gareth Bale has revealed that he is fluent in Spanish swear words. The Welshman has been having weekly Spanish lessons since moving to Spain, and when asked if fluent, he replied: “In swear words I am. I certainly understand the team talk as long as the manager doesn’t talk too quickly.”

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VILLAJOYOSA is preparing for the holiday season by putting up its Christmas illuminations. They are due to be officially switched on tomorrow, Friday (December 5), and as usual in recent years they have been installed only in Calle Ciudad de Valencia, Calle de la Constitucion, Calle Pizarro, Calle Colon and and Calle Barranquet. “We remain faithful to our principles of austerity and the spending cuts that apply to all the town’s fiestas, including Christmas,” said Commerce and Fiestas councillor Xaro Escrig. That was why illuminations were restricted to streets on the route of the Three Kings parade on January 6, she explained, with Christmas decorations limited to selected official buildings and neighbourhoods.

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Getting ready for Christmas

DECORATIONS: La Vila illuminations along Three Kings route.

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Black Friday: is apt after violent scenes

E saw the usual chaotic scenes on Black Friday in the United States last week, with frenzied shoppers coming to blows as they viciously fought each other over bargains the day after giving thanks for all that they already have. These unfortunate scenes are now - sadly - a regular occurrence in the UK too, and several shops in Britain witnessed full-scale mayhem, where in some instances the police had to be called to restore peace. To see the carry-on of some of these bargain hunters verbally and physically abusing other shoppers and staff makes the stomach turn. Sure, we all love a good bargain, but to feel the need to become a screaming thug willing to hurt somebody else over a reduced-price television set is really quite distressing.

Black Friday and Cyber Monday are gradually gaining traction in other parts of the world since their birth in America. In Spain - a relative newcomer to the party some stores put on Black Friday deals this year in order to attract extra business, but there was nothing like the distasteful scenes we have become accustomed to in the US, and now in the UK. But who’s to say that this will last? As Black Friday becomes more of a tradition and gains in popularity, a future visit to - for example - El Corte Ingles or Zara could become a violent free-for-all as Spaniards feel the need to emulate their American and British counterparts. But let’s hope that common sense and decency prevail, and that we don’t start witnessing the kind of anarchy associated with Black Friday in other countries.

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Young are starting to read in Teulada TEULADA public library launched a campaign to encourage reading among their youngest residents. Recent activities centred on introducing five-yearolds from the town’s San Vicente Ferrer to the library and explaining to them what they could expect to find there. There was a story-telling session and later they drew a picture of the principal character

LIBRARY SESSION: Encouraging young bookworms. before settling down with a book to read.

On yer bike for short journeys CALPE Town Hall’s electricity bills are still high. The Casa de Cultura alone costs around €8,000 a month, admitted local mayor Cesar Sanchez. In 2011 Sanchez signed the Covenant of Mayors, a mainstream European movement involving local and regional authorities committed to increased energy efficiency. As this obliges town halls to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 20 per cent, biomass boilers are to be installed at the town’s heated swimming pool, Sanchez announced. These will save an annual €60,000, he said. The Casa de Cultura will also be equipped with low-consumption lighting to replace the current system, added Environment councillor Ana Sala. The local Administration could also set a good example and encourage sustainable habits by using bicycles for short journeys, she suggested.

The activities were organised and carried out by the town’s librarian Anna Ivars.

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Volume lowered in central plaza RESIDENTS of Rincon Español in Benidorm’s central Calle Ruzafa are satisfied at last. For years occupants, who

include a local councillor, have complained of noise from bar and restaurant tables on the spacious plaza in front of their

Mediaeval castle saved from ruin BARXELL Castle, the Alcoy area’s only remaining mediaeval stronghold, is no longer in danger of collapse. Before the castle changed hands in July, both the regional government’s Culture department and Alcoy Town Hall had repeatedly asked the former owners to take steps to prevent the castle from becoming a ruin. Its new owner Xavi Martinez, an Alcoy journalist and businessman, centred the first phase of restoration on the outer walls which were most in need of urgent repair. This is now 80 per cent complete, Martinez said. The castle was recently opened to the public for the first time with a conducted tour and detailed explanations from the team of experts who are carrying out the restoration.

apartments. Matters came to a head last year when residents doused late-night clients with water thrown from their balconies. The plaza is private property and belongs to the Rincon Español community, they pointed out. They have finally obtained permission to close it outside business hours but unhappy business-owners fear this will endanger their livelihoods and local employment. Since appeals have been lodged against the town hall decision, a restaurantowner asked workmen sent recently to commence the enclosure to wait for the courts’ decision. Instead the workmen called National Police officers who appeared almost immediately.

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Nurse attacked in psychotic outburst A NURSE needed medical attention after she was attacked by a patient with Hepatitis C and HIV. Her assailant at medium- and long-stay San Vicente hospital had a psychotic

outburst, hospital sources revealed while being attended by the nurse and an assistant. The 50-year-old man, who scratched and buffeted the nurse, was later sedated. Although taken to Alicante General hospital for a check-up she was not at risk from Hepatitis or HIV as she had not been in contact with the patient’s blood, San Vicente hospital said later. The patient often insulted ANOTHER salvo was fired in San Juan’s fight to close the nurses, making down the crematorium. inappropriate comments on The regional government’s Health department has their appearance or sexual now pronounced on the situation in a report to San orientation, sources close to Juan Town Hall, according to the provincial daily the case said, but he had never paper, Informacion. been violent before. Although the town hall declined to reveal the Although neither the hospital contents of the report, Informacion did have access nor the regional Health to a town hall decree made a day after receiving the department issued a statement document. The council allegedly approved a about the episode, the same proposal to once again ask the Environment sources revealed that a formal department to close the crematorium as a complaint was lodged with the precaution, since the Health department had Guardia Civil. Arrangements recommended ‘corrective measures’ in its report. were also being made to The town hall intends to halt the crematorium’s transfer the man to a activities on municipal or environmental grounds. psychiatric hospital, they said.

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Most of Alfaz del Pi animals rehomed ONLY two of the dogs affected by the closure of Alfaz del Pi’s animal shelter still need homes. The council decided to shut down the home at the beginning of last month because it no longer met

the requirements necessary for the animals’ well-being. Animal protection associations and private individuals in Benidorm, Villajoyosa, La Nucia, Moraira, Benissa and

Brassed off NEARLY every handle has disappeared from the street doors to apartment buildings in Alicante City’s Calle del Teatro. “In just one night they took practically every metal doorknob and handle in the street,” a resident complained. They were stolen for their copper, brass and lead content and it was not the first time this has happened, he added: “They stole them all a year ago, too.” The thieves keep a watch on certain streets and then move in to make a clean sweep, he said. His own residents’ community was now debating whether to install iron handles or change the door to a type whose mechanism would be harder to dismantle, he revealed.

Alicante rallied round the 68 dogs and 27 dogs who needed rehoming. All but the two dogs have now been found owners, revealed Jose Manuel Perez, Alfaz’s municipal biologist. Jose Manuel, who has coordinated the adoptions, said that the public’s response was “extraordinary” and thanked all those involved in finding the cats and dogs “the homes they always deserved.” He has adopted one of the dogs himself and said how glad he was after making the decision to take one, prompted by his son. “I just hope that the two remaining dogs will also find a home without having to be transferred to another animal shelter,” he said.

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Benidorm is top destination for New Year’s Eve in Spain SPANIARDS seeing in the New Year away from home are choosing London, Paris and Benidorm - in that order. The Costa Blanca resort

outstrips New York, which TripAdvisor places fourth in popularity. Benidorm has also overtaken Madrid, the fifth most popular destination,

and the much-televised setting for the ritual swallowing of 12 grapes in the Puerta del Sol square. Domestic preference for Benidorm is logical, TripAdvisor said. It is a favourite holiday destination for the Spanish and although accommodation charges are higher than at any other time of the year, Benidorm’s average charge of €114.88 per person for New Year’s Eve is still cheaper than London (€205.10) or Paris (€194.62).

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Sea urchins and less crime SEA urchins are a delicacy in Spain and an expensive one, too. They may be collected only during an open season that begins on December 1 and ends on February to ensure that stocks are not depleted. The amount that may be collected is limited to four dozen per person and only traditional

MEETING: Javea’s mayor (2nd left) greets Guardia Civil. methods can be used. The Cabo de San Antonio marine reserve and Marina Alta cliffs are a rich hunting ground for pirate collectors who prefer to ignore the rules and gather as many sea urchins as possible to sell on to restaurants. There is a strict ban on scuba-diving for sea urchins and Javea’s Local Police have now launched their annual surveillance operation, patrolling the

area by boat to prevent poaching. Sea urchins were just one of the items on the agenda at the routine sixmonthly meetings between the public safety forces involved in policing the area. Other matters discussed touched on the 2 per cent fall in the crime rate, with 1,121 crimes and misdemeanours - principally theft – reported so far.

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Legionnaires’ cases leave experts puzzled THE recent outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease in Alcoy was pronounced officially over. The latest spate of infections was “strange,” admitted Manuel Llombart, head of the regional government’s Health department, as the 11 registered cases were not concentrated in one neighbourhood. They were

scattered throughout the town and investigators are anxious to track down the focus of infection before it can reactivate and trigger new cases, Llombart said. They will have to inspect a wide area, but are confident that the origin of the latest cases does not coincide with previous outbreaks. Industrial cooling units and car-

washes have been pinpointed in the past as sources of the disease but they are now subject to strict anti-Legionnaires’ controls and are not the culprits. High-risk asphalting is also ruled out, as none was carried out during the outbreak which began at the end of October and was the first in four years.

Budget cut due to padron fall TEULADA announced a €15,085,147 budget for 2015, the same as this year’s. The amount received from the national government has been cut by €460,000 owing to a reduction in the number of people registered on the municipal ‘padron.’ The Madrid allocation is based on population numbers and Teulada’s registered population has fallen by 2,555 from 14,452 to 11,897 residents.

The reduction in the population has also affected other sources income including IBI rates and car tax. Most of the town hall budget will be assigned to promoting tourism, stimulating the local economy and maintaining all existing municipal services as well as a 33 per cent allocation destined for reducing the municipal debt. By the end of the year this will stand at €5,307,000.

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Alfaz bonfires to be restricted PRIVATE bonfires for disposing of garden waste could soon be banned in Alfaz del Pi. Lopped branches, prunings and other discarded garden material will be left at one of the 23 special containers already located on the town’s urbanisations. In the first

nine months of the year 1,627,460 kilos of waste has been collected and recycled in this way, revealed Environment councillor Vicente Soler. The new system will reduce pollution while transforming the waste at the town’s composting site for later use as fertiliser.

No financial outlay is involved as all work is carried out by the firm contracted to collect the town’s rubbish and clean its streets. The new bylaws on bonfires replace regulations introduced in 1997 which are now outdated, said Environment councillor Vicente Soler.

Blinded in mistaken identity A YOUNG scientist lost the sight of an eye in an acid attack meant for someone else. He was with friends on the terrace of a Valencia City bar when the acid was thrown in his face. At first his companions thought that a troublemaker had thrown a drink in the face of the first person he saw until their friend screamed that his face was burning and he could not see.

Two of them raced after the aggressor who leapt into the passenger seat of an Alfa Romeo driven by another man. They memorised the number plate, enabling police to trace and arrest the attacker and three other family members. After questioning it emerged that one of them, a woman, had told him to carry out the attack but he had wrongly identified the intended victim.

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Good news for Gata Residencial AFTER 14 years Gata Residencial will become fully legal with infrastructure completed. At the last plenary session councillors from all political parties approved the proposal to finish what

was begun in 2000 with the â&#x201A;Ź5.7 million deposit left by the developers before beginning the project. This should be finished within two or three months, mayor Maite Signes said. Only 550 of the 700

A new residential home for Benidorm AUTHORISATION was granted to build a privately-run residence for the elderly in Benidormâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s El Planet. The 80-roomed installation will provide accommodation for 140 residents on an 11,521-square metre plot located at the turnoff for Finestrat on the CV-70 road to La Nucia. The promoters, who expect to create 45 direct and 30 indirect jobs, will cede premises on the complex to the town hall for use as a social centre. Once all the necessary permits and licences are in place construction will be completed within 20 months, sources said.

properties planned for Gata Residencial were built after Jubesa 2000 filed for bankruptcy in 2006 when the development was halffinished. Another company completed the project but half of the houses are still unsold. Infrastructure is deteriorating and many owners cannot sell because they have never received the necessary Licence of First Occupancy although this problem should be solved once the town hall finally recognises the urbanisation as complete. It was also agreed that 833,582 square metres of land adjoining Gata Residencial should no longer be classified for building. The Bolieries and Tossal dels Molins areas are to be protected as woodland.

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Toy leftovers turned into fuel for furnace PLASTIC waste from inland toy factories will be used for fuel at the Cemex cement works in Alicante. A five-year agreement was signed recently between Cemex, the toy

sector’s technology institute AIJA and Acteco, which specialises in managing industrial waste. Once collected and graded the plastic will be used to fire the cement

Greedy birds go to school NOT content with colonising Calpe’s Peñon de Ifach, seagulls are taking over a school playground too. As well as rummaging through rubbish bins for food and making a nuisance of themselves on restaurant terraces near the port, they have now taken a fancy to the Nou Paternina school. The flock of seagulls starts circling just before break ends, perching on nearby roofs and walls although the boldest begin swooping down for leftovers from the children’s elevenses before they return to class. The majority are yellow-legged gulls that are starting to displace Audoin’s gulls native to the Mediterranean.

works’ furnaces while complying with EU directives on waste treatment as well as soil pollution. At the same time the agreement with Cemex solves the problem of how to dispose of leftovers from one of the most important of the province’s inland industries, AIJU pointed out. “Carbon dioxide emissions are reduced, savings are made on fossil fuels and a clean, safe and efficient procedure provides energy for the cement works,” added Oscar Nasarre, director of the Alicante plant. Five per cent of the income raised through processing the plastic will go to a solidarity fund benefiting children and the disabled.

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Carry on camping in La Lloma WHAT was denounced as an illegal camp-site in Benidorm’s La Lloma district has been revealed as private

property. The opposition party on the local council had denounced the site as a “flagrant irregularity”

Company fined for cancer miss COMPENSATION of €110,000 has been awarded to the family of a woman who died from a cancer which was misdiagnosed. A court in Alicante ordered a medical insurer to pay the family as the adequate tests were not conducted at the start and months later, she was still subject to misdiagnosis. The patient, aged 50 with two children, first went to her GP in summer 2009 when a smoker’s cough was diagnosed. It was not until November 2010 when she lost consciousness in the street that metastatic lesions in the brain causing lung cancer were discovered. The judge said that earlier diagnosis could have led to patient survival.

permitted by the town hall without any type of control, but Councillor for Planning, Vicente Juan Ivorra, said: “The land is private property whose owner invited relatives to park and stay there. We sent inspectors to La Lloma to report on this allegedly illegal site, and to our surprise we found that everything was in order.” A Belgian national who owns a large plot of ground had invited relatives to drive out to Spain in their motorhomes and spend some time in Benidorm. There was no situation of unfair competition to camp-sites, nor was the existence of the private plot an attack on local tourism, said Ivorra.

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THEY’RE OFF: Half marathon and 10K attracted a record number of participants.

Record breaker BENIDORM’S Half Marathon and 10K run attracted more people than ever before. Organisers reported a record 2,200

participants in the 31st edition of the annual event. The 10K runners set off after a minute’s silence was held in honour of the female who recently died in a municipal sports facility in the town, GRAFFITI artists in Benidorm have painted a rubbish truck followed by the half and two glass containers. marathon runners. Mayor Agustin Navarro was joined by councillors for Pablo Lopez Apolana Culture and Education in the Plaza to witness the activities from Alicante athletic club which included urban art, music and break dancing. crossed the finish line first Navarro said: “It is a way of recognising urban art of these in a time of one hour and young people and valuable elements that can be used in six minutes. our city.” The councillor for Culture, Conrado Hernandez, In the 10k, victory went added: “Every time we make more room for such activities to Juan Antonio Gil from the Club Urban Running. we are integrating urban culture in our daily lives.”

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Firefighters event SATURDAY sees the Christmas market take place to raise funds for Javea’s volunteer firefighters, the ISVH Bomberos. The event runs from 11am-5pm next to the Restaurante Azahar, El Faro in Cap Negre, Balcon al Mar. The event was originally due to be held in October but was postponed due to bad weather.

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Traditions come together in L’Alfas L’ALFAS DEL PI has welcomed the arrival of Christmas in true

Norwegian style as the Old Town held its annual turn on of the Christmas lights. Norwegian Siri Lund has been living in the

town for many years and wanted to share with residents the essence of Christmas in their home country. As a committee

Natural park area expanded CALPE’S Penyal d’Ifac Natural Park has been extended. Some 27 years after it was declared a natural park area, the park has been extended on seven hectares of land to include the northern area which was not originally protected and included in the original General Plan as a natural park area. Mayor Cesar Sanchez said: “We have successfully expanded the park to its own natural limits, increasing their protection.”

member of the ‘Julegate Norway,’ Siri annually organises the simple and moving ceremony with lights lit in Calle Teniente Segui.

Learn a new skill in Javea REGISTRATION is open for new workshops aimed at the over 25’s in Javea. The Department of Culture has announced the second block of workshops including natural cosmetics, cooking, yoga, pottery and counselling. Places are allocated in order of registration, which must be done at the Office of Citizen’s Services. The courses start in January, run to May and are expected to cost around €70.

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PEPA animal charity thanks supporters FESTIVE fundraising at the Bon Mosset in Barx raised €184.50 for the PEPA animal charity. The charity’s monthly quiz night at the White Swan in Palma de Gandia raised a further €128 and December’s quiz will be at Bar Amigos, Oliva, with

entry just €1 per person. A special Christmas lunch is on December 11 at Moli Canyar. The cost is €16 per person, and to book your place email des.smith68@gmail.com or call 962 807 086. The charity is also pleased to announce that

School holds EMAUS market THE New Rainbow Primary School, the Steve Jobs School in Javea, is hosting a charity market on December 13 from 11am-4pm. All the money raised will be passed to the Warriors of the Make A Smile Charity that supports the work of EMAUS including the EMAUS children’s homes, baby unit and women’s refuge. Those interested in having a stall at the market should contact Nancy by emailing nancy.hen@hotmail.com or call 655 318 512.

it has recently presented a cheque for €500 to both SPAMA in Gandia and Vedama in Oliva, two animal charities. Since October 26 PEPA has rehomed 11 dogs and three cats. A spokesperson for PEPA said: “We are truly grateful to all our volunteers who give up their time to raise funds for the charity, whether it be by working in one of our charity shops, organising and participating in fundraising events, running raffles and competitions, holding regular book sales or making items to sell in our shops. “It is because of you and all that you do that PEPA can continue to help unwanted and abandoned animals.”

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September with a reserve price of €40 million. El Corte Ingles put in the winning €136 million bid. The Castellana store was built in 1969, originally covering an area of under 50,000 square metres. This grew by another 130,000 square metres in 2011, following an extension

Slim in, Soros out for FCC NEGOTIATIONS between Fomento de Construcciones y Contratas (FCC) and George Soros foundered after 10 days. Soros was on the point of acquiring 25 per cent of Esther Koplowitz’s 50.1 per cent holding in the construction and services company. Now he is likely to be replaced by the Mexican telecoms magnate Carlos Slim, the second-richest man on the Forbes Rich List. If negotiations prosper Slim would hand over €660 million for the same 25 per cent stake. Assuming the deal goes ahead, €500 million would be assigned to acquiring the rights to

shares in the capital increase recently approved by the FCC board, giving Slim a stake equal to Koplowitz’s. The remaining €160 million would cover Koplowitz’s own subscription rights. Koplowitz needs funds to pay the interest on the €1 billion loan extended by BBVA and Bankia to the holding company B1998 through which her family controls FCC. If Slim buys into FCC he will be one of many other investors like Warren Buffett and Microsoft’s Bill Gates - he owns a 6 per cent stake - who are buying relatively cheaply now, while waiting for Spain’s future turnaround.

constructed on the €480 million site of the old Windsor tower that was destroyed by fire in 2005. The new 13,000 square metre site opposite the present store will add a built area of approximately 35,000 square metres, making the new complex Spain’s biggest El Corte Ingles store.

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Cheaper rates MOTORWAY tolls could be reduced during offpeak periods next year. Lowering charges when traffic is at its lightest should encourage more use of the roads, ministry of Public Works sources said.

More cars, more work FORD in Almussafes (Valencia) will take on 700 more workers next year. The first 200 should start in January and will produce an additional 100 cars a day.

Spanish and French suitors for BT TELEFONICA is negotiating the sale of its UK mobile subsidiary O2 to BT. Talks between the two parties are at a very early stage, but the deal would include a 20 per cent stake in BT in a strategic alliance designed to strengthen both groups. Another mobile company EE, which is owned by the French

operator Orange, is also sounding out BT the British company confirmed. Although O2 is not quoted on the stock exchange, Telefonica paid €26 billion for the company in 2005. The transaction included Irish and German assets, although BT would be interested only in the UK operation, sources said.

STAT OF WEEK A TOTAL of 116,826 people were laid off work through redundancy during the first nine months of 2014. This was 60 per cent fewer than during the same period last year.

Flagship store expands THE flagship El Corte Ingles store in Madrid’s Paseo de la Castellana is to be enlarged. The group headed by Dimas Gimeno has acquired land owned by Spain’s track operator Adif that was used until now as a car park. Located in the Azca district in Madrid’s business and finance centre it was auctioned last

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It’s a business give-away IT was my first experience of a business culture radically different from our own. Having ordered drinks at the New York bar I asked if I could have a box of matches. A plate, filled with printed cover book matches, was pushed in my direction. “Help yourself,” the bartender smiled. Thanking him, I took some change and held it out towards him. He looked at me strangely: “There’s no charge,” he smiled. I soon caught on. Before too long I realised that Americans, streets ahead on business acumen, were good at giving things away. As it so happened, one of my first

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jobs on leaving my seagoing career, was that of a salesman engaged by Starline Business Gifts Company of Blackpool. The directors, one of whom was American, set about introducing the business gifts way of doing things in

Britain. At the time it was a novel approach to generating business and goodwill. There was little competition, only a Midland-based company selling printed car tax disc holders for windscreens. If you could print on it, Starline sold it. Quickly cottoning on I set out to call on businesses. There was some head scratching as I introduced the concept of building business by giving away free stuff. The best sellers were printed pens, desk calendars, key fobs, and tax discs. In my arsenal of sales aids, a catalogue filled with every imaginable printed gift from wall calendars to paper weights, desk clocks to

plastic carrier bags. Taking the printed car key fob as an example, the concept was as simple as it was ingenious. “Thanks for the business. Here is a small thank you,” the garage proprietor would smile. “If you ever need me here’s the number on the key fob.” Not a big deal today, but the novelty and business sense behind the idea of giving small tokens of appreciation, that coincidentally keeps your business card on your client’s desk, quickly caught on. Each one of us appreciates an unexpected gift. Unlike the business card, business gifts last much longer.

Extra income for Madrid undergound based on images projected onto underground train windows. This is the latest advertising initiative due to be put in place during the first few months of

2015 between Nuevos Ministerios and Colombio stations on the Number Eight line by Canadian company Digital Underground. The system, which has not yet been

Can he enclose his terrace? Q. Another owner and I are in a protracted legal battle with our community president regarding the enclosure of our terraces. Three years ago we obtained permission from our By David Searl previous president to erect an awning-type structure that enclosed our rear terraces. This decision was reversed by the new president, after we had each spent almost €3,000 for the structures. I believe a recent change in the Horizontal Property Law allows for the enclosing of terraces. Is this correct? A O (Murcia)

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A. The short answer is: yes. However, let us take this by parts. First, you are not in ‘a legal battle’ with your president. The president on his own has no power to authorise or to deny the enclosure of a terrace. Only the owners in their collective wisdom at the AGM can do so. Revised Article 10 of the Horizontal Property Law as amended in 2013 requires a favourable vote of three-fifths of the community members to authorise changes such as enclosure of terraces. These formerly required a unanimous vote. So you two owners wish to place on the agenda for the next AGM a request to authorise the enclosure of your

used in Spain, is already running in cities including Hong Kong, London and Santiago de Chile. LED lights are installed in the walls of the underground tunnels and activated by the movement of the trains, projecting silent moving images onto the windows. A Madrid Metro spokesman stressed that safety would not be affected in any way as the systems do not interfere with the trains.

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Madrid Metro will be paid €200,000 per year by Digital Underground for at least two years with the possibility to renew the contract for another two. It will consider placing the new advertising system on other lines depending on the results from Line Eight. The project is part of Madrid Metro’s new policy to increase income following reductions in passenger numbers over the last few years.

DESPITE Spanish consortium Sacyr’s three-month halt earlier this year on the canalwidening project owing to overspends, Spanish companies do not have a bad image, said Panama City’s mayor. There was tension at the time and Panamanians will not forget the conflict, but Spanish companies continue to be welcome, he added. JORG HACKEMANN / SHUTTERSTOCK.COM

MADRID METRO will gain €200,000 from a new advertising system to be implemented on Line Eight of the city’s underground network. The system will be

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Better than the boss SIXTY-FOUR per cent of Spanish employees believe they could do a better job than their bosses. Another 54 per cent would prefer a different superior, they told recruitment consultants Robert Walters.

Car subsidy success terraces. If three-fifths of the votes favour this proposal, the matter is settled.

Send your questions for David Searl through lawyers Ubeda-Retana & Associates in Fuengirola at Ask@lawtaxspain.com, or call 952 667 090.

SPAIN’S subsidy programme for the purchase of new cars is proving to be a continuing success, with figures released this week showing new cars sales were up 17.7 per cent in

November, year-on-year. The November growth marks the 15th consecutive month of increased new car sales and the current subsidy programme is due to last until the end of the year.

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UST when one central bank threatens to take away the punch bowl driving financial markets over the last five years, another steps in to keep the party going. The European central bank is finally following the Federal Reserve in the USA, (albeit five years late), in large scale asset purchases to try and bring euro zone inflation back towards the two per cent target. Inflation has been falling across the eurozone in 2014 as banks reduce net lending to consumers and businesses and the ECB are rightly worried about outright deflation. The original catalyst of the eurozone crisis was over indebted governments which many countries’ leaders are still working hard to reduce and make sustainable in the longer term. Allowing deflation is counterproductive as it increases debt in real terms. The ECB plan is to focus on buying private sector debt via

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INFLATION: Has been falling across the Eurozone as banks reduce net lending to consumers and businesses. covered bonds (usually mortgages) and asset backed securities like car loans, but not, controversially, government debt of member countries. Part of the issue dragging down inflation was an overvalued currency against its main trading partners. The ECB indicated that a lower exchange rate was overdue and the markets duly delivered the ECB wish, driving the euro lower. But that alone

has not been enough to push inflation back to target. Part of the problem the eurozone system is suffering from is large trade imbalances between member states, with the north running large surpluses with the south. The preferred method of shrinking trade imbalances between surplus and deficit countries so far has been via internal adjustments in wages, causing

mass unemployment in countries such as Greece and here in Spain. This is a painful journey for those countries adjusting, but it is the preferred route of the creditor countries, notably Germany. And so it falls on the central bank to try and aid the adjustment process via the one thing they can always produce, inflation. What the ECB hopes is that by easing credit

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conditions across the eurozone, businesses and consumers will increase borrowing and push the inflation rate upwards towards target. The ECB is also hoping higher inflation will aid in balance of payment adjustments via higher inflation in the creditor countries, which unlike the current method of forced adjustment puts some of the onus on creditor countries rather than heap the pain solely on debtors. The eurozone still has a long journey ahead to repair the huge imbalances built up the years after the introduction of the Euro. Mario Draghi, head of the ECB, promised to do ‘whatever it takes’ to preserve the euro and the ECB really is doing everything in its power. The problem for Europe is with monetary policy now at its limits, ‘whatever it takes’ is now a political problem and politicians do not seem willing or able to honour that promise.

Plan ahead and avoid a Christmas debt hangover DECEMBER is here and Christmas is drawing near. It may be ‘ho ho ho’ for Santa Claus and his reindeers, but with household budgets being severely squeezed at this time of year, you can bet that not everyone is feeling so jolly. That’s why is it so important not to let spending on decorations, presents, food and booze get out of control. Instead try to really plan ahead. This is the only way to have a happy holiday season and not wake up to a debt hangover come the New Year. Tackle the present situation first. Decide who is getting presents and who isn’t. Will you keep it to children only this year? Or will your family decide to do Secret Santa, where you draw names out of a hat so that everyone has to buy only one gift. If a maximum

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price is set in advance, this can be an effective way of keeping costs down. The sooner you begin thinking about getting presents out the of the way, the cheaper it will be and you can also then see how much of your budget is left for other things. Buy some presents after Christmas. Do you have some family members you won’t see until after Christmas? Be cheeky and buy gifts in the January sales and you can save some money. Kid-free shopping. Do leave the children at home when you go shopping.

The bright lights, Christmas music, chocolates and mountains of toys will only make them hyperactive with excitement and you can be sure their pester power will wear you down into buying something you don’t need. Bring your own. If the tradition is that everyone calls over to your house during Christmas, then maybe shake things up a bit this year by making it a BYO Party. Ask each guest to bring a little something crackers and cheese, a bottle of wine or some nice jamon. A food bill shared out among all the visiting family and friends will be a lot easier to stomach. Avoid credit cards. Never use a credit card for shopping, use cash. If you don’t have the cash then you should not be spending money. Nobody wants to receive a present that leaves a person in the red.

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Costly ticket AFTER analysing prices in London, Madrid, Milan, Paris and Amsterdam online travel agency Rumbo found that a monthly season ticket for the London underground was the most expensive. At €152 it was almost five times dearer than Milan’s €35, while commuters paid €79 in Amsterdam, €65 in Paris and €54 in Madrid.

No increase THE market price for pork has remained stable, despite fears that the fire at the Campofrio plant would affect supply and demand in the sector. Although the Burgos processing and packing plant was destroyed, the abattoir is working at the same rhythm and distributing the meat to other Campofrio plants.

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Time to go, the UK should leave the EU ANOTHER pro-EU rant from Bill Campbell! Is he on a retainer from Jean-Claude Juncker? There are a number of reasons for the UK to leave the EU: it is undemocratic, corrupt, bureaucratic and staffed by overpaid jobsworths. It means we have uncontrolled immigration with all the attendant pressure on schools, hospitals, transport systems and, above all, housing. We are full up! It is also a condition of membership we are subservient to the European Court of Human Rights, which seems always to come down on the side of criminals and terrorists. Incidentally, Spain should leave the EU and the euro as well and revert to the peseta. This would immediately lose value with great benefits to tourism, property sales and the scandalously high unemployment rate. Roger Page, Mojacar Playa (Almeria)

Colour me red THE time has come for the men in their white coats to come for Leapy Lee if he thinks Ed Miliband is a communist. He is not even a socialist and would be at home in the Tory party. Bob Mitchell (by email)

Off the record SO Hacienda has launched a campaign to uncover unregistered properties, at great expense no doubt. But it’s a joke, right? Here is an owner who went to Hacienda in May 2011 to tell them I wanted to rectify my property. Six months later they told me they couldn’t do it and I would have to go to Land Registry. Here I paid for a complete history of the property and for a topographer to come and measure the plot. I even tracked down the original owner who declared to Hacienda, way back in 1991, that his plot was 224 square metres to avoid paying the necessary taxes on a plot that is in fact 2,244 square metres.

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If Mr Nosworthy has photographic evidence of campers disposing of their sewage illegally, he should note their registration numbers and inform the police, as this is a criminal offence. The reason I park at El Pinet is because it is quiet at night. All European nationalities are there, apart from Spanish who are very noisy. I love living in their country but don’t want to park next to them. On the only occasion I stayed at the campsite, I was put between two Spanish families who came back at midnight and talked very loudly outside for another two hours. At El Pinet everyone is quiet after 10pm. Peter Realey (by email)

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MY daughter and grandson doing as they’re told. Well it does say “No standing at any time”! Linda Gonzalez, Altea (Alicante)

He has since been to the notary with me and signed a declaration that it was an error, and I have taken the whole sorry mess to court where even a judge has refused to rectify the ‘error.’ So far it has cost me €6,000 and three very stressful years. I would willingly pay €60 to ‘correct the information registered’ and wonder what Hacienda would say to the above? Maybe I should start again. Maggie Hetherington, Mijas Costa (Malaga)

Back to nature MY husband and I are ‘wild’ campers who have also spent a lot of money on our home, much the same amount as an apartment in Spain. Ours just happens to have wheels. This is our choice because in our retirement we would like to visit various places in various countries rather than remain in one spot. We park up sensibly, considerately, as unobtrusively as possible and very rarely in residential areas. We and many of

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our motor home compatriots bring much-needed winter revenue into local businesses that would struggle through the lean, non-tourist, winter months. We regularly aim for official camping ‘Aires’ that have facilities to fill up with water and empty toilet cassettes. Yes, we could be considered tight by avoiding campsite fees, but is that any worse than expats not registering their UK vehicles here, avoiding paying Spanish taxes or fraudulently claiming UK benefits? No, they don’t all do it but then, by the same token, not all motor homers engage in poor practice either. Please do not tar

us all with the same brush! In our 15 months of travel, we have been welcomed by communities in France, Spain and Portugal but have only heard complaints from expat British folk. Sour grapes, I wonder? Makes you proud to be British! Hilary Cox, no fixed abode (hehe)

Good night’s rest REGARDING campervans at El Pinet, Elche Council is not interested in A Nosworthy’s complaints because it is not illegal to park there. It only becomes an offence if one passes the two large signs at the end of the parking area. I have witnessed the Local Police moving on campers who pass these signs on several occasions. If it is illegal to park in the parking area then the signs would be before it, not after. I live about 30 kilometres inland and stay regularly at El Pinet at weekends. I have never seen anyone empty sewage in green areas or down the drains.

I READ in the Euro Weekly News that the province of Malaga is introducing new parking permits for the disabled. Years ago I noticed that although a lot of illegal permits are used by the non-disabled, police officers do not react properly. I am curious to learn how quickly the new system will be copied again. WK de Klerk (by email)

A woman’s touch I JUST wanted to tell you, the paper looks really good. The amount of local news and forthcoming events, especially last week, was impressive. I know getting what’s-on information and blood from stones are often synonymous, don’t even mention a photo. I have to say I actually read most of the paper. Sex and drugs and sausage rolls are all well and good, but local positive news is for me and I know for our customers at Satori’s shop is really important and probably one of, if not the key, to a good paper. Plus it gives a more positive picture to all those visitors and tourists from outside the Costa, who might well think sometimes this must be a coke and hash smugglers supermarket, specialising in corruption and kidnapping. Keep up the good work, remember to smell the flowers now and then and tell our readers how lovely they are. (The flowers and the readers) Pete - Woody’s Los Boliches

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7:30am Miracle on 34th Street 9:15am Holiday Inn 11:00am Bad Santa 12:45pm Die Hard 2 2:55pm Love Actually 5:15pm New Year's Eve 7:15pm National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation 9:00pm Bad Santa 10:45pm Die Hard 2 12:55am New Year's Eve Comedy following the adventures of a group of New Yorkers on New Year's Eve. Comedy/romance.

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A struggling mum sends her son to stay with his inspirational grandparents for Christmas.

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Religion responsible for chaos LEAPY LEE SAYS IT OTHERS THINK IT

TORY of the month for me was the Pakistani suicide bomber who was captured before managing to set off his explosives. Subsequently searched by the authorities, he was discovered to have placed some type of amour around his ‘nether’ regions. When asked the reason for this unusual piece of equipment, he explained that he wanted to make sure his penis was still intact when he was presented with his 72 virgins in the afterlife! Sums it all up really doesn’t it? No wonder these people are so easily radicalised. Most of them are complete morons. It actually makes it all even more disturbing and once again raises my issues with the Imams and religious leaders of the Islamic hierarchy. They really have to stop convincing these youngsters of all these wonders that await so called ‘martyrs’ in the next life - if of course they agree to throw

I’M A CELEBRITY: Should I be shouting ‘get me out of here?’ away their existence in this one. If it’s all so wonderful, why do you never see any of them strapping up and blowing themselves to smithereens? (Chance would be a fine thing) because they know it’s pure, never to be proven, balderdash, that’s why. I know I know, I can hear you all saying that other religions also preach of heaven and hell, more teachings never to be proven, but at least these mythical

destinations don’t require you to kill as many human beings as possible to achieve your nirvana. Until we all move on from what are all basically primitive superstitions, we will never secure peace and harmony for the human race. I hasten to add that I am not an atheist; I truly do believe there has to be some incredible force, way beyond our understanding, which is responsible for it

all. I also believe the Tao is the only path to enlightenment. Perhaps we will all find ourselves in some sort of paradise after our earthly demise, but I’m in no hurry to find out and certainly have no intention of taking bunches of victims with me. It is the religious leaders that are responsible for all the chaos in the world and if hell does indeed exist, then a great many of them are on a one-way ticket, and in my opinion the sooner they embark on the journey better. Girding our loins for the rapidly approaching Flying Curry Circus Christmas party. Delighted to say we now have the highly talented Bobby Alexander in cabaret and have also been promised a visit from Mother Christmas! 689 485 956 is the number to ring. If you can’t make it you can catch it all on Channel Five early in the spring. Have a wonderfull week, don’t get too wet! (Where is all that water coming from?) Oh, by the way, are this year’s Jungle ‘celebrities’ an utterly boring bunch or is it me? Keep the faith. Love Leapy leapylee2002@gmail.com.

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BBC ONE 7:00am Breakfast The latest news, sport, business and weather from the BBC's Breakfast team. 11:00am Saturday Kitchen Live 12:30pm Tom Kerridge's Proper Pub Food 1:00pm BBC News 1:10pm Football Focus 2:00pm Snooker

BBC TWO 9:30am Absolute Genius with Dick and Dom 10:00am Junior MasterChef 10:30am Junior MasterChef 11:00am Deadly Pole to Pole: The Complete Journey 11:30am Deadly Pole to Pole: The Complete Journey 12:00pm The Blue Planet 1:00pm Rick Stein's Far Eastern Odyssey 2:00pm The Rockford Files 2:45pm The Great Caruso

ITV 9:10am Text Santa: Little Helpers 9:15am Horrid Henry 9:30am The Munch Box 10:25am Dinner Date 11:20am Murder, She Wrote 12:15pm ITV News and Weather 12:25pm Storage Hoarders 1:25pm Countrywise 1:55pm Doc Martin

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CH4 6:40am NFL 7:05am Great Ethiopian Run 8:00am FIM Superbike World Championship 9:00am The Morning Line 10:00am Weekend Kitchen with Waitrose 11:00am Everybody Loves Raymond 11:30am Frasier 11:55am Frasier 12:25pm The Big Bang Theory 12:55pm The Simpsons 1:20pm Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. 2:20pm Channel 4 Racing

CH5 9:05am The Adventures of Bottle Top Bill and His Best Friend Corky 9:20am Wanda and the Alien 9:40am Zack and Quack 9:55am Ben and Holly's Little Kingdom 10:10am Jelly Jamm 10:25am LazyTown 10:55am Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 11:30am Santa, Jr. 1:15pm Meet the Santas 2:55pm Hats Off to Christmas

SATURDAY TV

SKY 1 6:00am Airline USA 6:30am Airline USA 7:00am Dog the Bounty Hunter 7:30am Glee 8:30am The Fantasy Football Club 9:30am The F1 Show 11:00am Soccer A.M. 1:00pm World Wrestling Entertainment Superstars 2:00pm Get Santa Movie Special 2:30pm Penguins of Madagascar Special

3pm 5:30pm Final Score Jason Mohammad introduces all the scorers, results and headlines from this afternoon's fixtures up and down the football pyramid.

4:30pm Flog It! 5:30pm Snooker Hazel Irvine introduces further live coverage of the first semi-final, with the first player to six frames booking his place in Sunday's final.

3:00pm Keep it in the Family 4:00pm Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

5:00pm Come Dine with Me 5:30pm Come Dine with Me

4:40pm Mrs. Miracle

7:00pm ITV News London 7:15pm ITV News and Weather 7:30pm You've Been Framed! 8:00pm The Chase: Celebrity Special

6:00pm Come Dine with Me 6:35pm Come Dine with Me 7:00pm Come Dine with Me 7:30pm Channel 4 News 8:00pm Inside Rolls-Royce

6:35pm Noel

9:00pm The X Factor 10:30pm I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here!

9:00pm Battleship 11:35pm From Dusk Till Dawn

Drama. A widowed father of six-year-old twins struggles to cope with his family responsibilities.

3:00pm Last Man Standing 3:30pm Last Man Standing 4:00pm All Aboard: East Coast Trains 5:00pm All Aboard: East Coast Trains

6pm 6:25pm Celebrity Mastermind 6:30pm BBC London News 6:40pm Celebrity Mastermind 6:55pm BBC & Regional News and Weather 7:10pm Pointless 8:00pm Strictly Come Dancing

6:30pm Restoring England's Heritage 7:00pm Secrets of the Castle with Ruth, Peter and Tom 8:00pm Snooker Hazel Irvine introduces live coverage as the second semi-final gets underway.

Drama in which a series of events link five disparate strangers in New York on Christmas Eve.

8:25pm Britain's Craziest Christmas Lights

6:00pm Portrait Artist of the Year 2014 7:00pm The Simpsons 7:30pm The Simpsons 8:00pm NCIS: Los Angeles

9pm 9:15pm Atlantis 10:00pm Casualty 10:50pm The National Lottery Live 11:00pm BBC News 11:20pm Match of the Day

11:00pm Tomorrow's Worlds: The Unearthly History of Science Fiction Dominic Sandbrook continues his exploration of the science fiction genre with a look at its obsession with robots.

Ant and Dec present the jungle survival challenge.

Robert Rodriguez directs this cult horror from Quentin Tarantino's script.

9:25pm 5 News Weekend 9:30pm Live World Championship Boxing: Ola Afolabi v Yoan Pablo Hernandez 11:30pm Pale Rider

9:00pm Hawaii Five-0 10:00pm Alien 3 Ellen Ripley's escape pod crashes into a penal colony.

11:35pm The Jonathan Ross Show

12am 12:45am The Football League Show 1:25am A.W.O.L. 3:05am Weather for the Week Ahead 3:10am BBC News

12:00am Intruders 12:45am Night and the City 2:25am Beyond the Fire 3:40am This is BBC Two Highlights of programmes on BBC Two.

12:40am ITV News and Weather 12:55am Play Misty for Me 2:40am Jackpot247 Join the presenters live and play roulette on your telly. 4:00am The Jeremy Kyle Show USA 4:45am ITV Nightscreen

1:40am The Talented Mr. Ripley Tom Ripley craves the life led by Dickie Greenleaf. 4:05am Hollyoaks Omnibus

1:45am Super Casino 4:10am Gotham 5:00am House Doctor 5:25am Make it Big 5:50am Make it Big

12:15am A League of Their Own 1:15am Hawaii Five-0 2:15am NCIS: Los Angeles 3:05am Ultimate Road Wars 4:00am Costa Del Street Crime 5:00am Crash Test Dummies 5:30am Crash Test Dummies

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8:00pm Doctor Who 9:00pm Top Gear 10:00pm Sherlock 11:30pm Bad Education 12:00am Family Guy 12:25am Family Guy 12:45am Family Guy 1:05am Family Guy 1:25am Family Guy 1:50am Family Guy 2:10am Family Guy 2:35am Life is Toff 3:05am Sweat the Small Stuff 3:30am Some Girls 4:00am Bad Education

8:00pm Ice Age Giants 9:00pm Sex and Sensibility: The Allure of Art Nouveau 10:00pm Inspector Montalbano 11:45pm Billy Joel: The Bridge to Russia 1:00am Billy Joel Live in Leningrad 2:20am Top of the Pops 3:00am Ice Age Giants 4:00am Sex and Sensibility: The Allure of Art Nouveau 5:00am This is BBC Four

10:25am Coronation Street Omnibus 1:00pm The Cube 2:00pm Totally You've Been Framed! 3:05pm Rumour Has It... 5:00pm I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here! 6:30pm She's the Man 8:40pm The Scorpion King 10:30pm The Xtra Factor 11:35pm I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here Now! 12:35am The X Factor 2:05am The Xtra Factor 3:00am Two and a Half Men 3:25am Two and a Half Men 3:45am The Hot Desk

7:00am World Kitchen 7:25am The Four Musketeers 9:25am The Royal 10:25am The Royal 11:30am The Darling Buds of May 12:40pm The Darling Buds of May 1:50pm Columbo 3:50pm Agatha Christie's Marple 5:55pm Agatha Christie's Marple 8:00pm Rosemary and Thyme 9:00pm Doc Martin 10:00pm Foyle's War 12:00am A Touch of Frost 2:05am Bomb Girls 2:55am ITV3 Nightscreen

9:10am Motorsport UK 10:10am GT Academy 10:40am Bundesliga 11:45am UEFA Champions League Weekly 12:15pm Alias Smith and Jones 1:25pm The Professionals 2:30pm Statoil Masters Tennis Live 5:30pm Cheers 6:00pm Alias Smith and Jones 7:00pm Storage Wars 7:30pm Storage Wars 8:00pm Storage Wars 8:30pm Statoil Masters Tennis Live 11:30pm The Living Daylights 2:15am Journey to Le Mans

4:00pm Made in Chelsea 5:00pm Rude(Ish) Tube 5:30pm Rude(Ish) Tube 6:00pm Rude(Ish) Tube 6:30pm Rude(Ish) Tube 7:00pm The Big Bang Theory 7:30pm The Big Bang Theory 8:00pm The Big Bang Theory 8:30pm The Big Bang Theory 9:00pm The Big Bang Theory 9:30pm The Big Bang Theory 10:00pm The Waterboy 11:50pm Rude Tube 12:55am The Inbetweeners 1:30am The Inbetweeners

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SKY MOVIES Action 7:00am The World's End Special 7:30am The Lone Ranger 10:10am The Wolverine 12:25pm Mad Max 3: Beyond Thunderdome 2:25pm Hunger Games: Mockingjay Special 2:55pm Déjà Vu 5:10pm xXx 7:25pm The Lone Ranger A lawman and his Comanche Indian sidekick embark upon a quest for justice across the American West.

10:00pm The Wolverine An old acquaintance brings the clawed mutant to Japan, where he finds himself in grave danger.

12:15am Mad Max

Comedy 6:15am Little Shop of Horrors 7:55am Home Alone 9:45am Stand Up Guys 11:25am The Internship 1:25pm You've Got Mail 3:30pm Ghostbusters 5:20pm Ghostbusters II 7:10pm Home Alone 9:00pm The Internship 11:10pm A Very Harold and Kumar Christmas 12:50am Stand Up Guys 2:35am The Dukes of Hazzard 4:30am Pitch Perfect

6:15am Point Last Seen 7:55am The Fast and the Furious 9:50am Cold Comes the Night 11:25am Runner Runner 1:05pm All Things to All Men 2:45pm The Fast and the Furious 4:40pm 2 Fast 2 Furious 6:35pm The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift 8:25pm Cold Comes the Night 10:00pm Runner Runner 11:35pm The Canyons 1:25am A Man Apart 3:25am 2 Fast 2 Furious 5:20am Sam Churchill: Search for a Homeless Man

6:30am Penguins of Madagascar Special 7:00am Christmas in Wonderland 8:45am Jack Frost 10:35am Home Alone: The Holiday Heist 12:15pm Mickey's Once upon a Christmas 1:30pm Disney's A Christmas Carol 3:15pm Penguins of Madagascar Special 3:45pm Gremlins 5:40pm Ernest Saves Christmas 7:20pm Disney's A Christmas Carol 9:00pm Gremlins 11:00pm Almost Christmas 12:50am Jack Frost 2:40am Ernest Saves Christmas 4:20am Christmas in Wonderland

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7:00am Frontera 9:00am Black Nativity 10:45am Cheap Thrills 12:15pm Labor Day 2:15pm Khumba: A Zebra's Tale 3:45pm Black Nativity 5:30pm The Monuments Men 7:30pm Khumba: A Zebra's Tale 9:00pm The Monuments Men 11:00pm Labor Day 1:00am Cheap Thrills 2:45am The Top Ten Show 2014 3:00am Frontera

7:50am Gunsmoke 8:55am Gunsmoke 10:00am King Richard and the Crusaders 12:10pm The Fearmakers 2:00pm The Train Robbers 4:00pm Jungle Moon Men 5:20pm Jungle Manhunt

When tragedy strikes, a man trying to sneak over the Mexican border is wrongly accused of murder.

Jungle Jim searches for a famous football player lost in the jungle.

6:35pm Jungle Man-Eaters 8:00pm Which Way to the Front? 10:00pm Striking Distance 11:55pm Bugsy 2:20am Striking Distance 4:10am Heaven Can Wait

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BBC ONE 7:00am Breakfast The latest news, sport, business and weather from the BBC's Breakfast team. 8:35am Match of the Day 10:00am The Andrew Marr Show 11:00am Fern Britton Meets... 12:00pm Sunday Politics 1:15pm MOTD2 Extra 2:00pm BBC News 2:15pm Bargain Hunt 2:45pm FA Cup Final Score

BBC TWO 7:15am Great British Garden Revival 8:15am Countryfile 9:15am Glorious Gardens From Above 10:00am The Football League Show 10:40am 50 Golden Years of Sport on BBC Two 11:40am Saturday Kitchen Best Bites 1:10pm The A to Z of TV Cooking 1:55pm Snooker

ITV 8:45am Ultimate Spider-Man 9:10am Text Santa: Little Helpers 9:15am Horrid Henry 9:30am Big Time Rush 10:00am The Aquabats! Super Show! 10:25am Dickinson's Real Deal 11:25am Murder, She Wrote 12:25pm ITV News and Weather 12:35pm Batteries Not Included 2:30pm All Star Family Fortunes

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CH4 7:10am NFL 8:05am How I Met Your Mother 8:30am How I Met Your Mother 8:55am Frasier 9:30am Small Animal Hospital 10:00am Jamie's Comfort Food 10:30am Sunday Brunch 1:30pm The Big Bang Theory 2:00pm The Big Bang Theory 2:30pm The Big Bang Theory 2:55pm The Simpsons

CH5 9:00am The Adventures of Bottle Top Bill and His Best Friend Corky 9:10am Wanda and the Alien 9:25am Zack and Quack 9:45am Ben and Holly's Little Kingdom 10:00am Jelly Jamm 10:15am Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 10:50am Access 10:55am Police Interceptors 11:50am Police Interceptors 12:50pm Police Interceptors 1:50pm Secret Santa

SUNDAY TV

SKY 1 6:30am Crash Test Dummies 7:00am The Hour of Power 8:00am Are You Smarter Than a 10 Year Old? 9:00am Glee 10:00am Get Santa Special 10:30am Penguins of Madagascar Special 11:00am World Wrestling Entertainment Superstars 12:00pm WWE Experience 1:00pm Ashley Banjo's Secret Street Crew 2:00pm Last Man Standing 2:30pm Last Man Standing

3pm 5:20pm Songs of Praise 5:55pm Christmas Supermarket Secrets Gregg Wallace goes behind the scenes with Britain's biggest food retailers over the course of a year to discover how they source, make and move the food we find on the supermarket shelves.

3:00pm Snooker Hazel Irvine presents live coverage from the opening session of the UK Championship final. Eight frames are played in the afternoon session, with a maximum of 11 in the evening session to decide the winner.

3:30pm The X Factor 5:00pm Apollo 13 US spacecraft Apollo 13 has almost reached the moon when an on-board explosion causes the ship to lose oxygen, power and guidance.

3:25pm The Simpsons 3:50pm Stardust Matthew Vaughn's family fantasy starring Charlie Cox, Sienna Miller and Claire Danes.

3:30pm Santa Who? 5:15pm Ice Age: The Meltdown Animated sequel returning to the frozen world of mammoths and sabre-toothed tigers.

3:00pm All Aboard: East Coast Trains 4:00pm All Aboard: East Coast Trains 5:00pm Futurama 5:30pm The Simpsons

6pm 7:00pm Match of the Day - FA Cup Highlights 8:00pm Snooker

7:00pm 5 News Weekend

7:35pm ITV News London 7:45pm ITV News and Weather 8:00pm Coronation Street

6:25pm Home Alone 2: Lost in New York 8:45pm Channel 4 News

9:00pm The X Factor Results Show 10:00pm I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here! 11:30pm ITV News and Weather 11:45pm I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry

9:00pm The Billion Pound Base: Dismantling Camp Bastion 10:00pm Homeland 11:00pm Sinister

12:00am Russell Howard's Good News 12:30am The British Guide to Showing Off 2:05am Countryfile 3:00am Holby City 4:00am This is BBC Two Highlights of programmes on BBC Two.

1:50am The Store 3:35am Motorsport UK 4:25am The Jeremy Kyle Show USA Jeremy presents the American version of his popular ITV daytime show. 5:10am ITV Nightscreen

1:05am Alan Carr: Chatty Man 2:00am NFL 5:45am NFL

1:30am Campus PD 2:05am Super Casino 4:10am The Gadget Show 5:00am House Doctor 5:25am Make it Big 5:50am Make it Big

12:00am Road Wars 1:00am NCIS: Los Angeles 2:00am Hawaii Five-0 3:00am Spy 3:30am Spy 4:00am Costa Del Street Crime 5:00am Crash Test Dummies 5:30am Crash Test Dummies

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8:00pm Great Movie Mistakes 8:10pm Great TV Mistakes 8:40pm Armageddon 11:00pm Family Guy 11:25pm Family Guy 11:45pm American Dad! 12:10am American Dad! 12:30am Some Girls 1:00am Sweat the Small Stuff 1:30am Life is Toff 2:00am Comedy Fest Live 3:00am Extreme Beauty Queens: Secrets of South America 4:00am Some Girls 4:30am Life is Toff

8:00pm The Great War 8:40pm Britain's Wild Places 8:50pm Britain's Wild Places 9:00pm The Day of The Triffids 9:30pm The Day of The Triffids 10:00pm Imagine... 11:25pm Foo Fighters: Sonic Highways 12:25am Foo Fighters: Sonic Highways 1:25am The Story of Funk: One Nation Under a Groove 2:25am The Genius of Funk 3:25am Imagine... 4:50am This is BBC Four

7:00am Emmerdale Omnibus 10:05am Coronation Street Omnibus 12:30pm The X Factor 2:00pm The Xtra Factor 3:05pm The Hot Desk 3:15pm You've Been Framed! 4:15pm Ant and Dec's Christmas Show 5:30pm I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here! 6:40pm The Mummy 9:00pm Scorpion 10:00pm The Xtra Factor 11:00pm You've Been Framed! 11:30pm I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here Now! 12:35am American Pie Presents Band Camp

10:25am Heartbeat 11:30am Heartbeat 12:30pm A Touch of Frost 2:35pm Rosemary and Thyme 3:35pm Agatha Christie's Marple 5:40pm Columbo: Troubled Waters 7:45pm Inspector Morse 10:00pm Lewis 12:00am Cracker 1:10am Cracker 2:10am William and Mary 3:05am Judge Judy 3:25am Judge Judy 3:50am Judge Judy 4:10am ITV3 Nightscreen

8:55am Black Gold 9:50am Minder 10:55am Ax Men 11:45am Journey to Le Mans 12:45pm Statoil Masters Tennis Live 3:30pm Cheers 4:00pm Alias Smith and Jones

1:30pm Made in Chelsea 2:35pm Melissa and Joey 3:00pm First Daughter 5:15pm Rude(Ish) Tube Shorts 5:30pm The Big Bang Theory 6:00pm The Big Bang Theory 6:30pm The Big Bang Theory 7:00pm The Big Bang Theory 7:30pm The Big Bang Theory 8:00pm The Big Bang Theory 8:30pm The Big Bang Theory 9:00pm Step Up 2: The Streets 11:00pm The Inbetweeners 11:35pm The Inbetweeners 12:10am Bad Robots

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6:35pm BBC London News 6:45pm Christmas Supermarket Secrets 6:55pm BBC News 7:10pm Regional News and Weather 7:20pm Countryfile 8:20pm Strictly Come Dancing

The UK Championship final reaches its conclusion with a maximum of 11 frames left to decide the winner.

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National and international news.

7:05pm Where Eagles Dare

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

9pm 9:00pm Antiques Roadshow 10:00pm Remember Me 11:00pm BBC News 11:20pm BBC London News 11:30pm Match of the Day 2

9:00pm Snooker Hazel Irvine introduces live coverage from York, where the trophy and a cheque for ÂŁ150,000 await the 2014 champion.

Ethan Hawke stars in this supernatural horror from Scott Derrickson.

10:00pm Enemies Closer 11:45pm The Shepherd Explosive thriller in which a former homicide detective becomes a US border patrol agent and must single-handedly thwart a drug cartel attempting to bring $35 million-worth of heroin into the country.

9:00pm Modern Family 9:30pm Trollied 10:00pm Hawaii Five-0 11:00pm NCIS: Los Angeles

12am 12:35am The Apprentice Lord Sugar summons the candidates to tell them their next task. 1:35am Racing for Time 3:00am Weather for the Week Ahead 3:05am BBC News

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US comedy drama series about two likeable outlaws.

5:05pm Paths of Glory 7:00pm Statoil Masters Tennis Live 10:00pm The Specialist 12:15am Rambo III 2:20am River Monsters 3:30am Nitro Circus

SKY MOVIES Action 7:00am Batman Begins 9:25am Fire with Fire 11:15am Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit 1:15pm Hellboy 3:35pm Deep Blue Sea 5:35pm xXx2: The Next Level 7:30pm Batman Begins 10:00pm Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit 12:00am Fire with Fire After identifying a murderer, a firefighter is placed in a witness protection programme.

1:45am Deep Blue Sea 3:40am xXx2: The Next Level 5:25am Stop! or My Mom Will Shoot

Comedy 7:00am The Man with Two Brains 8:45am Fun with Dick and Jane 10:25am The Hangover Part III 12:15pm Identity Thief 2:15pm Ali G Indahouse 3:50pm Without a Paddle Three old friends take a camping trip to hunt for hidden treasure.

5:35pm Bean 7:15pm Groundhog Day 9:00pm Identity Thief 11:00pm The Hangover Part III 12:45am Ali G Indahouse 2:15am Without a Paddle Three old friends take a camping trip to hunt for hidden treasure.

7:05am Harsh Times 9:10am American Hustle 11:40am Swordfish 1:35pm Children of Men 3:35pm The Island 6:05pm Harsh Times 8:05pm The Machinist 10:00pm American Hustle 12:20am American Psycho 2:10am Basic Instinct 4:30am Swordfish Futuristic technology spy movie about a man who is desperately trying to access information that is locked inside a complicated computer system that contains mountains of government secrets and money.

7:40am Naughty or Nice 9:15am Pete's Christmas 10:50am Look Who's Talking Now! 12:30pm Saving Santa 2:00pm Get Santa Special 2:30pm Elf 4:10pm Miracle on 34th Street 5:50pm Saving Santa 7:20pm Elf 9:00pm Black Christmas 10:30pm Pete's Christmas 12:10am Naughty or Nice 1:50am Black Christmas 3:20am Look Who's Talking Now! 5:05am While You Were Sleeping

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9:00am Cheap Thrills 10:30am Black Nativity 12:15pm Khumba: A Zebra's Tale 1:45pm Black Nativity 3:30pm Labor Day 5:30pm The Monuments Men 7:30pm Khumba: A Zebra's Tale 9:00pm The Monuments Men 11:00pm Labor Day

7:25am Jungle Manhunt 8:40am Jungle Man-Eaters 10:00am Which Way to the Front? 11:55am The Train Robbers 2:00pm Hell Bent for Glory 4:00pm Buchanan Rides Alone 5:35pm Hostile Guns 7:30pm The Lost Command 10:00pm Hell on Wheels 10:55pm Hell on Wheels 11:50pm Tango and Cash 1:50am Hell on Wheels 2:40am Hell on Wheels 3:30am Tango and Cash 5:15am Off Set

An escaped murderer forces a depressed single mum and her son to let him hide out in their home.

1:00am Cheap Thrills 2:45am The Top Ten Show 2014 3:00am Frontera 5:00am Gravity: Sky Movies Special

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A magical time of year for everyone flamenco, and instruments such as tambourines and bottles of anis, used to tap a beat on, are a must if you want to celebrate the Spanish way. The main meal takes place on Christmas Eve, Nochebuena. The preferred dessert is turron, the typical Christmas sweet made with honey, sugar and often nuts Religion or almonds. Many Spaniards plays a attend the Misa del crucial part Gallo (literally, the in Spain Rooster’s Mass), a

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THE Christmas season in Spain is a particularly magical affair. Anyone who has yet to get into the spirit will be swept away with the emotional National Lottery advert, the Christmas lights and the festive atmosphere of the streets. On December 22 the National Lottery draw is held. It marks the beginning of the holidays for schoolchildren and millions of Spaniards tune in to watch it, in the hope of winning ‘El Gordo’ (The Fat One), the biggest national lottery in the world. Religion plays a crucial part in a Spanish Christmas, with nativity scenes - often life-sized found in streets, public buildings and homes all around the country. Typical Christmas carols are sung, often with a touch of

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church service held at midnight on Christmas Eve. The King traditionally gives a speech on Christmas Eve, an especially significant date this year as it will be the first time for the new King, Felipe VI. Christmas Day is spent at home, when Spanish families gather to continue eating, often the leftovers from the previous day. The big day for celebrating is New Year’s Eve, or Fin de Año, when thousands of young people wear their best suits and gowns (or, in some places, costumes) and hit the streets, but not before eating each and every ‘lucky grape’ that mark the 12 last seconds of the year. The Three Wise Men are in charge of bringing gifts to Spanish children on January 6.

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toys of Christmas past WITH dolls from the hit Disney movie Frozen currently causing fights among parents in toy stores and being sold at inflated prices on eBay in the run up to Christmas, we take a look back at 10 of the ‘must-have’ presents of Christmas past. could probably populate a small planet. 3. Rubik’s Cube They caused a craze in 1980, and are still the the world’s best selling toy. 4. Furby - 40 million of these owl-like dolls were sold between 1999 and 2001. A Furby came out of the box speaking a strange language, but gradually began speaking English. 5. Shirley Temple doll - The toy that started the craze for ‘must-have’ gifts. Released in 1934, it made $45 million in seven years. 6. Tamagotchi Surreal Japanese digital pets that owners had to feed, discipline and entertain or they would die - in every Christmas

stocking in the late 1990s. 7. Tickle Me Elmo This Sesame Street doll caused stampedes at toy stores in 1996. 8. Trivial Pursuit There was a time when board games were the most exciting Christmas presents, and Trivial Pursuit was the daddy of them all in the 1980s. 9. Nintendo Game Boy - Pre-internet, techsavvy kids would spend hours glued to this handheld video game device playing Tetris while their parents pleaded to have the sound turned off. 10. Transformers - No schoolboy in 1984 could be without an autobot or decepticon transforming robot toy.

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I’m a Christmassy sort of person Colin Bird Each week, Colin brings his slightly off-the-wall view of the world to the pages of EWN in his own irreverent style.

I LIKE the tinsel and phoney snow and the whole roast turkey, mince pies and silly hats thing. Whilst maintaining a macho exterior, I actually get all excited when the tree is decorated (it’s been up since November 19) which arches over precariously with enough glass balls and bells to decorate the O2. My function, however, is to simply lug in the boxes of bling from the garage and erect our fake Norwegian Spruce, after which the Princess takes over and tells me to get lost as she adds layer upon layer of lights, glass baubles of varying sizes and miniature reindeer and snowmen. And all this in spite of the fact that we are still finding bits of glitter on the carpets and in the fridge from last year’s celebrations. Then you have the annual problem for us blokes of what to buy the little woman.

FAVOURITE PERFUME: Is never one smelling of ‘Roses of Battersea.’ More particularly what to buy a woman who has everything. Perfume is always a reasonable place to start and they all have their favourites. But it’s never the two quid a gallon ‘Roses of Battersea’ stuff for

my little lady. No it has to be Coco by Chanel. I would prefer Cocoa by Nestlé, it’s a lot cheaper, but she is insistent. It’s never regarded as the primary present either, but merely a stocking

filler. So having lashed out three thousand euros for a bottle the size of a fairy’s jock strap, you then have to start thinking about the bigger gift, and you are back to the original problem. What to buy? Shouldn’t criticise too much though, because I am also very particular about the smelly water that I throw on myself prior to an evening out at the Gran Chino Wok Buffet, and I favour Gentleman by Givenchy. It often attracts complimentary remarks from the ladies and if I’m lucky, I will get sniffed-up a couple of times on a Saturday night. It also, however, attracts comments from other men, but they are never quite so respectful. Smelling like a Turkish tart’s pillowcase is one example. With its main ingredient patchouli, it transports me back to those heady days of the 60’s when you could asphyxiate on the scented smoke from joss sticks at parties, and where pungent patchouli incense was used to disguise other suspicious aromas when the fuzz came calling. You know, fried onions and stuff.

What sort of thing is difficult now, that was easy when you were a child?

AVING no concerns as a child is easier than as an adult for Tony Cooper at ABC Air Conditioning and Satellite Specialists, Turre in Almeria. Tony says: “I think it is worrying that is more difficult now. You have no stresses and worries to speak of as a child, but as an adult it can feel like you have all the worries in the world upon your shoulders.” Taking time to enjoy the simpler things in life and remembering to enjoy each moment is harder as an adult for David Campling, owner of Hot Springs Mallorca. David says: “Enjoying life as a child was easy, but the older you get the Tony Cooper. more you

STREET TALK have to work at it and take a step back from the day to day stuff and just think about how good life is if only you take a few moments each day to enjoy it.” Being able to eat what you want as a child and having the energy to burn it off is harder now as an adult for Giselle from Marbella Beauty Academy. Giselle says: “I would say the most difficult thing for me now is not being able to eat a single naughty treat without putting on weight, which when I was a child was no issue!!!” Having the time and energy for fitness is difficult now for Jill Marples, owner of Jacaranda Restaurant in Moraira, which was easier when she was younger. “Fitness is definitely harder now, but I think it is in part just old age as well” she joked, adding: “I think life in general is a bit easier when you are younger, you don’t worry about

anything, children have no worries.” Gary Russell, owner of Carpet Heaven in Los Montesinos, agrees that things do get harder the older you get: “Physically getting up in the morning is a lot more difficult now. I used to play a lot of football and worked in a heavy trade in the air force doing a lot of lifting, so there are a lot of old injuries and aches and pains and in the morning I have a lot of stiffness, but once I’m up it’s fine.” Gary Russell: Aches and pains.

Jill Marples.

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return the levels to normal. The dogs are trained to accompany their owners wherever they travel in the manner of guide dogs. The dog is rewarded for finding a high blood sugar (it is supposed to smell like tutty fruity gum) or low blood sugar that is supposed to smell like rusty water or nail polish remover. Tarra Robinson, who after having Type 1 diabetes her entire life, became unaware of her low blood sugars, a

A few tips on what you should do to prepare for your pet sitter By Lamia Walker of HousesitMatch RECENTLY I was asked by a home owner new to house sitting, what they should prepare for their first pet sitter. From my own pet sitting experience and other stories from pet sitters, it has always been met with great appreciation that the home owner prepares a few essentials ready for the house sit. Here are a

few top tips on what to leave your pet sitter: 1. Write out a daily regimen: this can include meal, bed times and walking routines. It’s important your pet sitter sticks to this to help keep your pet happy and anxiety-free. 2. Make sure favourite toys/treats are handy: these are essential for a pet sitter to bond with your pets and of course have some fun. 3. Extra leads and

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condition known as hypounawareness. She began passing out at work and crashed her car due to unexpected lows. An insulin pump and a continuous glucose monitor didn’t improve the situation. She then began the training process with her Lab/Golden Retriever mix named Duchess. Diabetes Alert dogs, which are trained to detect the scent of low blood sugar levels, are right 90 per cent of the time, according to Nina. Dogs are trained to lick the hand if they sense a low. When a DIABETES: Dogs can help detect low sugar.

diabetic sleeps, the dog will stand guard and get on top of the person to try and wake them if she smells a low. If you would like a telephone chat with Nina write to me at david@thedogman and I will introduce you to the wonderful lady. Nina will be in Barcelona in a few weeks and will be able to pop down and start by taking samples from you etc. and then the training will start in your home.

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in history 1872: The Mary Celeste ship is found without any trace of the crew but with a six month supply of food and water on board. It is believed that they abandoned ship, but just what happened to the crew is a mystery that endures to this day. 1921: The Anglo-Irish Treaty is signed in London, bringing to an end the Irish War of Independence. The treaty gives way to the forming of the Irish Free State. 1933: Prohibition in the United States comes to an end, thus ending 13 years of the ban on alcoholic beverages. It is widely held that Prohibition gave birth to the American mafia, following the rise of several prominent bootleggers such as Al Capone. 1937: The very first edition of children’s comic The Dandy is published. It was the first comic to use speech bubbles instead of captions and introduced characters Desperate Dan and Korky the Cat to the British public. 1941: The Japanese navy carry out a surprise attack on an American naval base at Pearl Harbour, Hawaii. More than 2,400 Americans are killed, and the attack leads to the United States’ entry into the Second World War. 1952: The Great Smog of ’52 is responsible for around 12,000 deaths in London. Four days of cold weather and air pollution from the burning of coal results in mainly children and elderly people dying from respiratory problems. 1960: The first episode of Coronation Street is broadcast on ITV in the UK. It is the world’s longest running television soap opera. 1980: John Lennon is murdered by Mark David Chapman at the entrance to the building where he lived in New York City. The former Beatle is cremated two days later in Hartsdale, New York.

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SAGITTARIUS (November 23 - December 21) Avoid like the plague people who would dampen your spirit. It may not be deliberate but, if you are near repressed or depressed people, it may rub off. Find positive, active people to be near. If you have not started a form of exercise, then now is as good a time as any. Make it group activity if you want more social contacts. CAPRICORN (December 22 - January 20) Romance will find you this week if only you are in the right frame of mind. You may be inclined to refuse festive social gatherings that hold no prospects for you, but don't close the door on anything. The right kind of companions are sometimes found in the strangest places. AQUARIUS (January 21 - February 19) Don't chance your plans being disrupted by ill health. Get any problems sorted out now even if you think they are 'nothing'. When you are feeling good it is easy to take that for granted. Fresh foods and air mean more at the moment than making an extra few pounds. PISCES (February 20 - March 20) Your mind is positively buzzing with ideas. There has been so much progress in your personal life during the past year that it is hard to believe. However, you are capable of being very dynamic and single-minded. This is why, now, you may be patting yourself on the back. Keep colleagues on your side by taking a particular interest in them. ARIES (March 21 - April 20) There are moments of boundless energy which really urge you to 'get up and go'. Make use of this at work, where most progress is to be made this week. Be you a politician, pensioner or anyone in between, the opportunities are there to be had. Slow progress on the love front should not see you fretting. At the moment, your priorities are paramount. TAURUS (April 21 - May 21) Bring more zip to your life by putting the spotlight on your health. Getting out and about lifts the spirits,

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A young American couple – Tom and Anna – fall into debt during the renovation of their London home, and find their dreams of having a house and starting a family beginning to crumble. When they discover the tenant in the apartment below them murdered and find $400,000 in cash, they decide to keep the money and use what they need. However, their spending gets out of hand, and the thief who stole the money, wants it back. Soon, bad things start happening to good people. Starring James Franco, Kate Hudson and Omar Sy. Run time 91 minutes. Rated R.

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IF IT’S YOUR BIRTHDAY THIS WEEK: The fact that you are so at home working in a group is indicative of your co-operative nature. Capitalise on this by applying your people skills to your work. In a busy world, relaxation counts. December 4, Marisa Tomei, 50, actress Tomei won an Academy Award for her role in the 1992 movie My Cousin Vinny, and has had roles in What Women Want, Anger Management and The Wrestler. She had a major role in TV show A Different World, a spin-off from The Cosby Show. December 5, Little Richard, 82, singer The rock n’ roll man who sang Good Golly Miss Molly is an inductee of the Rock n’ Roll Hall of Fame and the Songwriters Hall of Fame. He released his first single, Tutti Frutti, in 1955, and has been compared to Elvis Presley in terms of his influence on music in the 1950’s. December 7, John Terry, 34, football player The Chelsea defender has while perking up the diet with new foods brightens the system. As energy levels come up this week, be aware of what is happening around you.

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also captained the English national side and was named UEFA Club Defender of the Year in 2005, 2008 and 2009. He famously had an affair with the exgirlfriend of former teammate Wayne Bridge, who subsequently refused to shake his hand before a match.

December 7, Noam Chomsky, 86, teacher and political activist Known as the father of modern linguistics, Chomsky is renowned as a professor, philosopher and political activist and is the author of numerous books on politics and linguistics. He was voted the world’s top public intellectual in 2005.

December 8, Enrique Ponce, bullfighter Born in Valencia, he was the first bullfighter to fight more than 2,000 corridas and made his first public appearance in 1986. In March 2014, during the Las Fallas festival in Valencia, he suffered a severe goring which resulted in a broken collarbone and ribs. they could be time-consuming and disruptive.

GEMINI (May 22 - June 21) The chance to travel seems exciting but can be made even more so by including a few people who are on your wavelength. So busy have you been on the more mundane aspects of life that the 'big picture' may have faded into the background.

LEO (July 24 - August 23) Keeping up the activity level physically is really in your best interests this week. It is a pivotal point where your resolutions in this area could fail. With life very busy, it is still important to retain your priorities. A promise broken may still be restarted without trauma, just determination is needed.

CANCER (June 22 - July 23) An authority figure may also be seen as a possible romantic attachment. Your talents and charm serve you well when approaching this person. Opportunities need approaching with eyes wide open, however, because

VIRGO (August 24 - September 23) Does someone in the family need your attention? Don't begrudge time spent with them, even if you are busy. Consider what you would want others to do if you were in the same position.

December 9, Dame Judi Dench, 80, actress Initially trained as a set designer, her acting career began on the stage and later on television, before she moved into movies. She has received six Laurence Olivier Awards for her theatre work and has played M in several James Bond movies. LIBRA (September 24 - October 23) With your enthusiasm socially at a peak, now is the time to get involved with anything that takes your fancy. A project involving music or painting will give you the chance to make new friends. Children and young people fill your time for a lot of this week and certainly give you a reason to smile. SCORPIO (October 24 - November 22) This week will see more progress on a health issue. Maybe you have recently given up something or taken to the gym. Recent weeks may have conspired to upset your best efforts. It is never too late to make a fresh start, though, especially right now. Someone who gives your confidence a boost also leads you to believe that anything is possible.

ROYALTY 1. “Oh no, it wasn’t the airplanes. It was beauty killed the beast”, was the last line of which classic 1933 film? 2. A Night at the Opera (1975), A Day at the Races (1976) and News of the World (1977) were all best-selling albums by which British rock band? 3. Charlottetown is both the largest city on and the provincial capital of which Canadian province? 4. Love and Pride was the only UK Top 10 hit single for which British new wave pop band of the mid-1980s? 5. What was the name of the series of large luxury cars made by British Motor Corporation under its Austin marque and its subsidiary Vanden Plas from 1947 to 1968? 6. Which American tennis player won the Wimbledon Ladies Singles title six times (1966, 1967, 1968, 1972, 1973 and 1975)? 7. Which former WBO, WBC, IBF, and Lineal featherweight champion, and European bantamweight champion was famous for his boxing antics and spectacular ring entrances that have included entering the ring via a Chevrolet Impala, a flying carpet, a lift and a palanquin? 8. Which is the easternmost and largest in area of the five boroughs of New York City? 9. Which is the second-largest and third-most populous state in Australia? 10. Which literary fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen, first published in May 1835, is about a young woman whose royal identity is established by a test of her physical sensitivity?

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 G) and there must be AT LEAST ONE NINE LETTER WORD. Plurals, vulgarities or proper nouns are not allowed.

TARGET: Average: 21 Good: 27 Very good: 39 Excellent: 48

LAST WEEK’S SOLUTION able, bale, bane, bawl, bean, been, bene, blah, blew, blow, bola, bole, bone, bowl, ebon, lobe, beano, below, blown, bowel, elbow, noble, obeah, baleen, enable, WHALEBONE

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Move from the start word (SENT) to the end word (WORD) in the same number of steps as there are rungs on the Word Ladder. You must only change one letter at a time.

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1. KING KONG, 2. QUEEN, 3. PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND, 4. KING, 5. PRINCESS, 6. BILLIE JEAN KING, 7. PRINCE NASEEM HAMED, 8. QUEENS, 9. QUEENSLAND, 10. THE PRINCESS AND THE PEA

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

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Unscramble the name of a famous British athlete: AFAR IF PACE DULL

Across 1 Rustic Asiatic city gets rainstorm (8) 4 Be eating the thing making for a light meal (4) 7 Lets out stern characters (5) 9 Help to make a curtain, say (5) 11 Thin can found in the street (5) 12 Formally approve some women actors (5) 13 Watch your heart (6) 15 Reasons why sauces are free (6) 19 Wooden smiles (5) 21 Castles for birds (5) 23 Discredit fake Earl (5) 24 Note: dead, but cheer up! (5) 25 Closely similar but mixed up as me (4) 26 Trek less confusing for flighty hunters (8)

Unscramble the name of a famous British historical event (five words): LIGHTED AFTER FORENOON FUNAGRAM SOLUTION: PAULA RADCLIFFE, THE GREAT FIRE OF LONDON

Play on Words O V E R S worker, one hears (4) 8 Climb up a ladder (5) 10 Hangs around foals (5) 14 Insensitive fool after credit (5) 16 A poem about baby’s first home (5) 17 Cushions frequently found in

ship (7) 18 Easy job in a light wind (6) 19 Releases from custody with some cricket gear (5) 20 Stupid cats flee (4) 22 Traps laid for son born a soldier (5)

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Each number in the Code Breaker grid represents a different letter of the alphabet. In this week’s puzzle, 20 represents C and 21 represents V, so fill in C every time the figure 20 appears and V every time the figure 21 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 7 Happening lately (6) 8 Long journey (6) 10 Educational institution (7) 11 Sugary (5) 12 Look for (4) 13 Less in number (5) 17 Arrive at (5) 18 Sixty minutes (4) 22 Away from others (5) 23 Safeguard (7) 24 Departs (6) 25 Pressure (6)

Down 1 Exact (7) 2 Reprimanded (7) 3 Wrath (5) 4 Behemoth (7) 5 Humped animal (5) 6 Owed amounts (5) 9 Magnifier of images of distant objects (9) 14 Scarabs (7) 15 Eternally (7) 16 Object formally (7) 19 Ahead of time (5) 20 Asian archipelago (5) 21 Footwear (5)

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Down 1 In a row about tea bars (7) 2 Ran Kansas degrees (5) 3 Modifies Pat’s ad by mistake (6) 5 Law and order (5) 6 Forced to be a domestic

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LAST WEEK’S SOLUTIONS CRYPTIC Across: 1 Slapdash, 5 Nags, 9 Respite, 10 Tress, 11 Bends, 12 Epistle, 13 Clever, 15 Carrot, 18 Aerosol, 20 Coped, 22 Cease, 23 Seaport, 24 Rest, 25 Mainstay. Down: 1 Scrub, 2 Absence, 3 Drips, 4 See red, 6 Alert, 7 Suspect, 8 Attila, 13 Chaucer, 14 Easier, 16 Rapport, 17 Plasma, 19 Reaps, 20 Chain, 21 Ditty. QUICK Across: 1 Dismiss, 5 Caged, 8 Adapted, 9 Ideal, 10 Stern, 11 Exactly, 12 Copied, 14 Mended, 17 Arrange, 19 Plans, 22 Lends, 23 Chasing, 24 Dirty, 25 Singers.

Across 1 Helmet (5) 3 Cervezas (5) 7 Bitter (drink, medicine) (6) 9 Abierto (puerta, armario, boca, herida) (4) 10 Septiembre (9) 13 Strange (person, event, behaviour, feeling) (4) 14 Spain (6) 16 Bufanda (5) 17 Dressing gowns (5)

Down 1 Carbón (4) 2 Coche (automóvil) (3) 4 Company (firm) (7) 5 Healthy (person, plant, mind) (4) 6 Rockets (fireworks) (7) 8 Happiness (cheerfulness) (7) 11 Grey (in colour) (4) 12 Alfombras (pequeñas) (4) 15 Guisante (3)

Down: 1 Deals, 2 Share, 3 Intense, 4 Sudden, 5 China, 6 Greeted, 7 Delayed, 12 Crawled, 13 Partner, 15 Explain, 16 Fences, 18 Nasty, 20 Alike, 21 Signs. ENGLISH-SPANISH Across: 1 Shell, 3 Salon, 5 Ant, 7 Germans, 9 Snap, 10 Door, 14 Terraza, 15 Oca, 16 Perla, 17 Sacks. Down: 1 Soaps, 2 Liga, 3 Sure, 4 Nos, 6 Traer, 8 Apodo, 11 Roads, 12 Papa, 13 Hats, 14 Tap.

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TOP TEN CHRISTMAS MOVIES It’s that time of year when people enjoy nothing more than relaxing on the sofa after a hearty dinner, putting their feet up by the fire, and watching a classic Christmas-themed movie to enter into the spirit of the season. Here’s a pick of 10 of the best. 1. Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory Though not strictly a Christmas movie, anybody who grew up in the UK and Ireland has made watching this 1971 classic a tradition on Christmas morning as it was forever part of the Christmas TV scheduling. 2. It’s a Wonderful Life One of the most loved movies in American cinema, this 1947 Oscar winner stars Jimmy Stewart as a man who has given up on his dreams to help others, and has his life turned around with the visit of his guardian angel. Sentimental and life-affirming, this is a Christmas classic.

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Detective Alex Cross is back in his greatest challenge to date. Cross is being stalked by a psychotic genius and is forced to play the deadliest game of his career. When his wife Bree and his precious children are taken from him, Cross must give this madman

what he wants if he is to have any chance of saving his beloved family. He is forced to answer the question: what will he sacrifice in order to save those he loves? Patterson is widely held to be one of the greatest crime writers of our time, and Hope to Die is another fast-paced thriller

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Just Joking A man walks into his lawyer’s office and says: ‘I’d like to make a will but I’m not really sure how to go about it.’ His lawyer replies: ‘Don’t worry, leave it all to me.’ ‘I used to be addicted to soap, but I’m clean now.’

in a vest killing terrorists isn’t exactly what you’d call Christmas viewing, but when it’s set to a backdrop of an LA Christmas with plenty of jingling festive tunes accompanying shoot-outs and punch-ups, then it makes for essential Christmas viewing. 7. White Christmas Christmas isn’t Christmas without Bing Crosby crooning the classic tune ‘White Christmas,’ and this is the celluloid version of the best-selling single of all time. The America of the 1940’s and 1950’s was the era for producing great Christmas favourites.

from this master of the genre.

8. Trading Places This might not be on everybody’s favourite Christmas list, but the 1983 tale of backstabbing and double-crossing with Eddie Murphy and Dan Aykroyd set in Philadelphia during Christmas is one of the alltime comedy greats. 9. Jingle All the Way This fun-filled family Christmas movie tells the story of two dads battling it out to get their hands on a Turbo-Man action figure for their sons for Christmas. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s reputation as an action-hero makes the silliness of the movie all the more endearing.

3. Love Actually Considered by many to be far too saccharine and schmaltzy, this UK romantic comedy nevertheless gets viewers in the Christmas spirit as it weaves its various tales of love to a wonderfully British Christmas backdrop. 4. Home Alone Macaulay Culkin gets accidentally left behind when his family depart for the Christmas season, and spends the best part of the movie terrorising a pair of bungling burglars attempting to rob the house. Made in 1990, this still stands up as a must-watch Christmas movie.

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DON’T MISS: Christmas movies such as White Christmas and Home Alone. 5. National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation Dubbed a modern Christmas classic, this hilarious 1989 movie follows the mishaps and mini-triumphs of Clark Griswold as he

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tries to give his family the best Christmas ever. 6. Die Hard Bruce Willis running around a skyscraper

10. Miracle on 34th Street Be it the 1947 original or the 1973 and 1994 remakes, Miracle on 34th Street is definitely a Christmas staple. Telling the story of a department store Santa Claus who claims to be the real thing, the film perfectly captures the magic of Christmas.

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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Average: 24 Good: 31 Very good: 44 Excellent: 54

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4 letters: 1 point • 5 letters: 2 points 6 letters: 3 points • 7 letters: 4 points 8 or more letters: 11 points

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I am very pleased to have started my treatment Erica Russell Watson: My journey – and I’m driving

25th November

OMORROW I would be going to the Materno hospital in Malaga for a CAT scan on my brain and the rest of my body. This was as a precaution as I had been experiencing headaches and blurred vision. The mind is a powerful thing and can play tricks on you, so I was looking forward to doing to the test and hopefully being able to discount that the cancer had spread to other organs. The scan wouldn’t be painful but I would have to be absolutely still for the entirety of the scan. I was hoping that I wouldn’t have an itchy nose like the last time I had an MRI scan! Just pondering what the following day held for me and the school rang me to say that my daughter was feeling unwell and had blurred vision. My son who had been in A & E just the day before with a temperature of nearly 40 was sleeping off his terrible fever. Rafa, my

daughter’s teacher, drove her home as we live near the school. The teachers were all aware of my situation so were only too happy to help. Life goes on! One in bed with a fever, the other on the sofa complaining of sore eyes and headaches and one Mummy flying slightly at half-mast! What a team we made! My daughter had had an eye test just a few days ago and the optician didn’t seem to think she needed glasses… just a very slight myopia to keep an eye on… pardon the pun. Right, time to cheer us all up and the way to do that was through food! So I got out my cookery books and looked for something delicious and comforting to make. Pumpkin soup… the children weren’t so convinced!! November 25, I arrived at the hospital in the morning for my CAT scan or TAC as it is called here in Spain. You have to drink a glass of water every 15 minutes for an hour before you have the scan. Then I was called in to administer the contrast dye, just a quick prick and into the vein it goes. Then they move you bit by bit through the scanner and you have to remain absolutely still. No drama as it only took 10 minutes. November 26, I had to go to the hospital El Materno at 7:15

for a blood test, book my appointment with the oncologist and then I went for breakfast. I returned to the hospital, accompanied by Jorge who has been an absolute rock for me. We had a four hour wait as they prepared the blood analysis and all the scan results. Finally my name was called and in we went to see the oncologist. She gave me the good news that my brain and body were free of tumours, but there were some stains or lesions in my lungs. Nothing too serious but they needed watching so I would need to go back for another CAT scan within three months. I was also told that I had to remove my coil because the hormones were counterproductive for breast cancer and my treatment. Then, to my total surprise, they told me I would be having my first session of chemotherapy the very same day. In a way it was great just to get on with it. The nurses came and explained all the possible side effects of nausea, diarrhoea, hair loss, sore stomach, possible loss of appetite, dry skin, mouth ulcers, white gums - a sign of your immune system being down, brittle nails, vaginal dryness and a zillion other things. She then gave me lots of information about cancer support groups, wig specialists

and diet advice. You have to hydrate yourself well on the inside and outside, eat lots of nuts and take certain medication and drink lots of tea, ginger is apparently wonderful. I was told that my hair would fall out within a week to 15 days, so I was advised to cut my hair short and choose a wig or scarf and have it ready for the inevitable moment! It was a lot of information to take in but more or less message received. My chemo nurse Rosa told me she would ring me in a few days to check how I was and to see if I had any questions, she gave me her number. She was utterly charming and professional and definitely in the right job. I felt like I’d won the lottery as I had been so lucky with all the medical professionals that I had come into contact with. Then time to start chemo! I would be having eight sessions every 21 days of quite an aggressive dose. They inserted the drip into a vein in my hand and fed through a preparatory cocktail to protect my stomach and reduce the likelihood of nausea. Then they flushed out the vein before starting the first in a two part chemo treatment. That took another half an hour having rested for 30 minutes and then the final blast was administered. This was a

very funny orange colour and I was told not to be alarmed that my urine would be slightly toxic and orange of course. Apparently you have to be careful near children and make sure you flush the loo well and disinfect the bathroom thoroughly. They were right. My first pee was an impressive sunset orange! The alarm sounded and the treatment was over, the needle was taken out and I can honestly say apart from a slight headache I had not experienced any side effects. I was advised to stay away from people with coughs and colds as my defences could be compromised. As my son had a fever and a virus I decided to stay away and his father looked after him and his sister. So off I went to stay with my second family in Malaga! I was so well looked after, delicious food, baths were run, candles were lit, soothing music sounded, my skin rehydration treatment… you name it. What a lucky girl. In the meantime I received messages of love and support from my friends and family and colleagues. I went to bed feeling happy and relaxed and very pleased to have started my treatment. Now I just had to wait for the bone scan results and return in 21 days for my second chemo session. Roll on December 17.

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Pill could see you live to 120 A PILL that can delay aging could soon become a reality. Scientists in Russia are testing a new formula, which they claim can delay the start of the aging process, meaning people could live to at least the age of 120. The tablet, containing what the scientists say is a “new type of antioxidant,” is currently being tested on rats, mice, fish and dogs. They believe the antioxidant will impact on on the mitochondria, the energy-producing part of cells, which is seen as triggering aging. The mitochondria is also blamed for heart attacks and linked to diseases like Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s, which could also be prevented.

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Peel a beautiful new you Stop smo BEAUTIFUL skin at any age is now more possible than ever and going under the knife or having facial injections are not the only ways to rejuvenate your looks and regain a youthful appearance. Skin peels are a very cost effective and powerful treatment for improving the look and feel of the skin. When properly administered peels can offer some of the best non-surgical rejuvenation results. They remove cellular build-up, stimulate skin regeneration and reduce wrinkles, fine lines, large pores and oiliness. They can also help clear blemishes, treat hyperpigmentation and improve the skin’s overall texture and tone and can be used on any one of any age to treat conditions such as acne, scarring, hyperpigmentation and enlarged pores. They are also excellent antiagers as they speed the turnover of cells, which slows with age and stimulate elastin and collagen production, the skin’s main proteins, which diminish with age. Essentially, a peel is the removal of damaged layers of cells using specialised acid and enzyme solutions to reveal fresher more youthful skin. While ‘acid’ may sound scary, the acids used in skin peels are mainly natural, such as glycolic acid derived from sugar cane and lactic acid from milk. But it is still important that peels are administered by skin specialists fully trained in their use.

SKIN PEELS: A powerful treatment for improving the feel of skin. Peels come in different strengths. The mildest do not actually cause the skin to peel as they only work on the very surface layer, the stratum corneum, which largely consists of dead cells. A course of these peels creates a mild sloughing effect leaving skin more refined. A medium peel works on the epidermal layer of the skin and produces a peel similar to skin flaking after sunburn. Deep peels go to the dermal layer and peeling can be dramatic with skin turning temporarily brown and crusty before new, greatly improved skin is revealed. The stronger peels are medical and should only be performed by a doctor. These will completely resurface and plump the skin and in some cases have a lifting effect that can equal a facelift.

Medcare aesthetics in Benijofar and Alfaz del Pi offers a range of peels. Medcare favours ZO and Glo peels, which both offer excellent results and include products that can only be used in medical clinics. Mild peels are performed by a qualified therapist, while medical grade peels are doctor administered. To find out more about treatments at Medcare and discover which will rejuvenate your looks, book a free consultation or take advantage of Medcare’s current promotion and get a Glo facial for just €35 instead of €65, which may include a mild peel. Medcare Call 966 860 258 Email: doctors@medcarespain.com Visit www.medcarespain.com

By Jonathan Gilchrist, the Costa Blanca’s top hypnotherapist FORGET waiting for that New Year’s resolution and resolve to quit smoking now, and quit for good. Many people find it difficult to break the habit but with fast track hypnosis there is no difficulty at all, it is quick and simple. In less than 30 minutes you can change your life. You can be freed from your habit and in a pain-free, craving-free and easy way! You will be free from the drug and all because your mind will be reprogrammed during the session. Fast track hypnosis takes the bad influences that have taken root in your mind and implants the positive over them. It transforms your way of thinking as well as enabling you to relax and take a breather from your busy life. In the 30 minute session, you can change your life and make it healthier. You’ll be

Wi-fi goes medical AN electronic implant that kills off bacterial infections using wireless technology has been created by US researchers. When triggered by remote technology, the implant delivers heat to infected tissue. In vitro studies also showed the devices could kill bacteria by releasing antibiotics. Researchers believe it could lead to technologies that enable drugs and treatment to be delivered to patients at the press of a button. Trials were using to treat staphylococcus, or staph, which can cause minor skin abscesses or life-threatening infections of the blood. In tests, 24 hours after the wireless treatment the infection had disappeared.

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AFTER 30 MINUTES: Your life will have turned round. free of the cravings, free from the health risks, free from the danger to your family and free to spend your hard-earned cash on anything you want but cigarettes! If you want to stop cigarette smoking from becoming part and parcel of your day, to break the bad habit and become free to take hold of your own life then call hypnotherapist

Jonathan Gilchrist now: “Fast track hypnosis is a safe, yet powerful way to remove nicotine addiction from your life quickly and efficiently. Once you’ve made the decision to call me and you attend the appointment, 30 minutes later, your life will have been turned on its head. “So, why not make that choice now and let yourself be healthy!”

Jonathan holds clinics in Cabo Roig, Quesada and Benidorm. For an appointment, brochure, or free of charge initial consultation, contact Jonathan now. Jonathan Gilchrist Tel: 691 784 954 www.jonathangil christinspain.com Email jonathangilchristbh@ gmail.com

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Treat yourself to a new look, new you for the New Year BE beautiful this Christmas and treat yourself to a new look and a new you at the Royal Aesthetic Clinic in Albir. One of the most modern and comprehensive cosmetic surgical clinics in Alicante Province, the Royal Aesthetic Clinic is owned and run Dr Martín Espinosa who has over 20 years of surgical experience and is a leader in his field. A specialist in obese surgery, after seeing the results of the initial surgery, including loose, saggy skin, he soon found himself working in the aesthetic side and trained in cosmetic surgery. Since then he has transformed the look and lives of thousands of patients offering everything from breast augmentation to tummy tucks, performing over 2,000 surgeries. Dr Espinosa is described by his colleagues very much as “an incredible artist.” He is very realistic with what patients can expect and the results they can achieve and he works closely with them in explaining the outcomes and the procedures. He owns the Germanias Clinic

ROYAL AESTHETIC CLINIC: Dr Martin (centre) with Rachel (left) and Lara are experts in their field. in Valencia and has recently started work in Oslo, Norway, working in collaboration with a hospital there. Lara Aguilera is the clinic’s general manager and with trained specialist aesthetic nurse Rachel Rabaneda, the Royal Aesthetic Clinic offers the

highest qualified staff able to put you at ease and guide you through every step from the initial consultation, to treatment and after care. Cosmetic surgery procedures are carried out at Valencia’s Hospital Quiron, where you will be accompanied at all times, but many procedures are also carried out in the fully equipped clinic, such as cosmetology and anti-aging treatments, dermatology and aesthetic medicine including botox, dermal fillers, mesotherapy, varicose veins treatment, medical peeling and PRP (platelet rich plasma) also known as ‘Dracula’

treatment. They are now pleased to announced they can offer laser hair removal and anti-aging treatments with the latest laser technology, with treatments from just €15 and also teeth whitening using cold blue LED light technology for €180. Lara said: “It is safer as it does not use peroxide so is better for teeth and can whiten them by between five and 12 shades, with results lasting up to two years.” Christmas Specials Treat yourself or someone else this festive season with a range of offers available throughout December and January.

Botox is now €115 each area and fillers around the stress lines and lip lines and augmentation is €300. PRP combined with microdermabrasion, offering a deeper, more effective treatment is also now half price at €400. For more information on any of the treatments or procedures available, or to purchase a gift voucher, speak to the fully professional and friendly team today. Royal Aesthetic Clinic Calle Joaquin Rodrigo 3, Albir Tel: 966 864 934 www.royalaesthetic. com

Try sleeping naked - it’s healthy SLEEPING naked is not just good for those nocturnal activities, but also for your health. Experts say that ditching the pyjamas could improve your sleep quality, boost your relationship and could even help burn calories. Better sleep Sleep experts say you need to keep cool at night as your body’s core temperature needs to drop half a degree to aid you drop off. By wearing pyjamas you could prevent your body from achieving it’s ideal temperature and over heating will lead to a disruptive nights sleep. Burning calories Brown fat, a type of tissue in the body that may protect against weight gain, appears to burn excess calories to generate heat. Experts suggest by sleeping in a cold bedroom it could activate brown fat in adults. Lower blood pressure If you share a bed, going nude will generate a generous boost of oxytocin, a hormone that’s been shown to have a wealth of health benefits as it is said to be triggered by skin to skin contact. Love life A survey of 1,000 British adults found that those who wore nothing to bed had happier love lives.

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Xmas bookings now being taken CHRISTMAS is coming to Haweli Indian Restaurant. Well renowned and fully established in Albir, the Haweli is a leading Indian Restaurant in the area. Run by a family with decades of experience in owning restaurants and serving the best Indian food, it makes it the perfect place for Christmas parties, functions or simply an excuse to enjoy a night out with great atmosphere and delicious food. Why not treat yourself to something different this Christmas Day? Bookings are now being taken for the Haweli’s special five-course menu costing only €18.90 per person. The festive fun continues on New Year’s Eve with tickets costing €24.90 per person which includes a bottle of wine per couple, a welcome drink from the owners with Haweli’s famous Indian buffet and grapes at midnight. But why wait until then? Haweli is

HAWELI: Boasts spacious terraces for al fresco dining.

HAWELI: Celebrate Christmas and New Year at Haweli in Albir. open seven days a week. A special lunch menu is also available Monday to Friday from 12.30-4.30pm and the popular buffet is served every Sunday. All of the intricate meals and the fantastic array of foods on the menu are cooked freshly on site and also include a tasty range of vegetarian

dishes. All breads are cooked in a traditional clay oven over hot coal for that truly authentic texture and taste. So for a truly special Indian restaurant experience, try the Haweli Albir which is open seven days a week from 12.30-4.30pm for lunch and from 6.30pm till late.

Haweli Albir Cami Vell d’Altea, Edif. La Rotonda, 40 (just passed Lidl) Call 966 866 864 or 652 316 644. www.hawelialbir.com

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Restaurante MIM’S-El Campello “More than just a Festive Treat” AH winter! The season to spoil ourselves. When trousers tighten and you go up a dress size. With these thoughts in mind I made a reservation for two at Mim’s, trusting I hadn’t been blinded by the many good things I had read and heard about it. Easily found on the Carretera Nacional 332 at KM 124.2, El Campello, the restaurant provides ample parking and easy disabled access. Mim’s is not your typical brightly lit, plastic chair, Spanish venue but one of discreet lighting and comfortable, quiet elegance and considerate

MIM’S: Ample parking and easy disabled access. background music. Having received a warm welcome, we were offered the choice of an inside or outside table. Had it been a lunch date we would have selected the terrace with panoramic views of the Mediterranean. Studying both the a la

carte and set menus, we were impressed by the very reasonable prices and choice of modern European dishes, settling for the four course set menu with wine. To start, we both ordered deep fried langoustines with soya caramel. My second course Pasta Carbonara, my companion had Devilled chicken livers and we both agreed that all dishes were perfectly cooked and presented. But the star dishes were the third, mine was rabbit with olives, jamon and tomato. My companion had fillets of sole with asparagus and seafood sauce - all with a selection of fresh veg. Finally, from an offering of home-made puddings, I chose cherry crumble with vanilla ice cream and my companion, a lemon tart with cream, truly delicious. We completed our exquisite meal and perfect evening with a coffee and brandy, these were extra. Mim’s offers a good service, a feast and value. Tel: 965 639 144 or 651 131 731.

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Gardening Corner By Spain’s best known expatriate gardening author living in Spain for 25 years.

APARTMENT DWELLERS: It is not too late to brighten up the outside of your home.

INCE the publication of Apartment Gardening Mediterranean Style four years ago it has been encouraging to see more and more apartment dwellers make their terraces and balconies greener and more colourful especially for Christmas. It is not too late for you

to brighten up your own terraces and balconies or do so for an aging friend as a Christmas present! If you need inspiration and are in London over Christmas visit the Spanish

Garden on top of the Virgin Building in Kensington. How come an Englishman constructed a 5,000 square metre Spanish garden on a roof top with a metre and more of top soil in the

1930’s, while modern day apartment dwellers with modest terraces or balconies worry about carrying a few pots, a bag of compost and a few plants up in a lift. Even window boxes on railings planted with poinsettias, heathers, pansies, cyclamens, azaleas, cotons or kalenchoas during the next week would add Christmas cheer. The wide range of styles sizes and colours of containers, and the offer of better compost ranges by many garden centres has

simplified doing so especially if awnings and blinds are installed to protect plants from the low winter suns. Some year-end terraces are not only colourful but also productive. The opportunities are there. Implementing them will take less time than organising a garden and maintenance is far less. So have a go and contribute to the task of changing the concrete jungles created during the last 20 years. © Dick Handscombe www.gardengreen.com

HOW about considering such ideas as 2014 New Year Resolutions as it is such a pity that so many apartment blocks look cold and unattractive to residents, passers buy and potential buyers. Although still few and far between, it is gratifying to see that some architects are now building green apartment blocks so every owner has prebuilt planters and in some cases all planted before buyers move in. Even Valencia has two similar projects. Your own efforts could be an enthralling and interesting hobby, which add value to your apartment, and if the residents association encouraged such actions, the attractiveness and value of the entire block, which would help improve the environment of the area, reduce the carbon footprint of the block, and with the right plantings and trees reduce traffic pollution. There are several hundred other ideas in ‘Apartment gardening Mediterranean style’ which is easily obtained from Santana Books or Amazon Books. Happy Christmas plantings. (c) Dick Handscombe www.gardeninginspain. com December 2014.

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up to the end of September. While those figures look healthy enough, Italy saw a 10.6 per cent fall in construction, with Portugal (-5.2 per cent), France (-3.4 per cent), the Netherlands (-3.1 per cent) and Germany (-1.5 per cent), all seeing declines.. Generally across the eurozone there was a fall of 1.7 per cent in construction and a 0.4 per cent decline across the whole EU.

SPAIN is leading the way in a recovery of the construction sector. Whilst many European Union countries are still seeing a shrinkage in levels of building work, Spain is bucking the trend having shown a 9.1 per cent year on year rise by the end of September. While not up to August’s 22 per cent rise, it is still the leading figure across Europe according to the European Commission’s statistical office Eurostat. After Spain on the list came the Czech Republic (8.2 per cent), Hungary (7.3 per cent) and Slovenia (6.2 per cent). The UK saw a 1.8 per cent increase in the year

UP: Civil engineering and residential projects increasing.

Credit starting to flow once more THE numbers of mortgages being given continue to rise according to the National Statistics Institute (INE). According to the latest figures just released for September, a total of 19,323 new mortgages were taken out, 29.8 per cent more than in the same month of 2013, and the highest figure since February of last year. That means that Spain has seen four consecutive months double digit rises in mortgages given - June saw a 19 per cent rise, July had an increase of 28.8 per cent and August saw a 24 per cent rise. The average value of mortgages taken out in September reached €107,850, up 10.6 per cent compared to the same

HOME MORTGAGES: Increased by 29.8 per cent. month in 2013. The volume of capital loaned for these mortgages increased by 43.5 per cent in the preceding 12 months to €2.08 billion. The regions which saw the biggest number of

home mortgages in September were Madrid (4,092), Andalucía (3,301) and Catalonia (2,777). The region with the largest volume of capital loaned for mortgages was Madrid (€612.3 million).

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DEALERSHIPS available for safety pool fencing. Only one dealership will be offered for every 100km radius. Including the only ‘NoHoles’ pool fencing system in the world suitable for rentals. Tel 952 810 443, info@lifeguardfence.com

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DRIVEWAYS

CHIROPODIST/PODIATRIST, Philip Mann, clinics in Benissa, Moraira, Javea, Calpe and Albir. 686 912 307 (230668)

BUYING or Selling a Business? Contact Spain’s leading Business Broker, ‘Business Broker Spain.’ Free consultation and Assessment. Tel: 617 062 421 (229626)

HIRE SERVICES THE HIRE SHOP BENITACHELL. Tool Rental + Baby + Mobility Equipment for hire. Tel 966 493 810. www.the hireshop.net (220654)

BUY & SELL BOATS

CARPENTRY www.dragonreforms.com. Tel 966 807 098 Free quotes given. (229064)

CHIMNEY SWEEP CHIMNEY SWEEP, clean, efficient service. Tel 660 844 623 (226935)

CLEANING A1 SPECIALIST CLEANING. Carpets, upholstery, 15 years experience 965 058 177 / 697 511 071 marc@barnaclebills.co.uk www.britishbusinesspagesin spain.es (220953)

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BUILDING SERVICES www.100percentplumbing.com Call for a free quotation 965 835 939 (87006) MINI DIGGER, Dumper, Bobcat with operator for hire. Pedregeur based. Keith 639 620 448

I BUY RECORDS 50’s to the 90’s. Best prices for good records. Tel: 622 750 117 / 962 851 809 (226341) FOR SALE. Carvery Unit. Double Fridges. Under Counter Fridge. Planchas. Sinks and Fryers etc. 642 723 743

CALPE: For rent, lock-up 3sq mtr. Suitable for builder or general storage. Near Mercadona roundabout, 30 euros pm. Tel 636 167 991 (230490)

COMPUTERS

CAMPING

RECESSION PROOF BUSINESS. Is Your Dream to Work from Home? This is a hugely successful global company now offering a ground floor opportunity here in Europe. For full details please go to www.getantiaging.com or call 644 383 708 (229097)

INSURANCE

ALL washers/dryers/dishwashers/boilers/electrics in the house repaired. 604 103 909 (229721) MB ELECTRICS. Approved electrician. Any electrical reparation. Iberdrola bulletins. Affordable prices. Miquel 655 282 175

INTERNET

ELECTRICS GOODMANS. Moving meter boxes to boundaries, upgrading electrics, bulletins issued, electric gates. Air conditioning and servicing. Mark 608 669 165 / 965 831 082. (229806)

GET YOUR business noticed online! Make sure that expats in Spain can find your product, service, restaurant, bar or shop. Contact Spain’s newest and brightest online directory TODAY. Call 952 561 245 or email serena@euroweek lynews.com for more de tails.

www.dragonreforms.com Tel. 966 807 098. Free quotes given.

FLOOR POLISHING FLOOR POLISHING, all marble types. Excellent professional, excellent service. Free estimates. Tel: 627 103 412 (225711)

METAL WORK

GARDENING TREE SPECIALIST, cut and removal of palm/pine trees. Size not a problem. Also dangerous & difficult work. Garden cleaning and gravelling. Free estimates. 627 103 412

MOBILE HOMES

BUILDING work, bathrooms, swimming pool leaks. Good quality for reasonable price. 22 years experience. Our team also has a qualified electrician & plumber. From Javea to Calpe. Steve 685 262 843 (229906)

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¡¡¡HEMME’S ROOF & BUILDING SERVICE!!! Traditional and modern Mediterranean roofing. 10 years guaranteed. Call 608 330 544 (206387)

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WE BUY, Sell, Store, Remove all types of Mobile Homes. We pay CASH and cover all of Spain. More details call Suzi Caley 616 250 727 / 951 063 059 or email suzica ley@gmail.com (228718)

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RISING DAMP! We can cure Rising Damp, Leaking Flat Roof or Terrace. We can make your Underbuild Dry. Villa Repainting Due? We can protect your villa and stop PENETRATING DAMP with a Protective Coating. You can also pay in Sterling. Phone/email us now for a FREE survey. Tel 965 050 065 or 634 322 672 www.dryzone-espana.com (230334) www.dragonreforms.com Tel 966 807 098. Free quotes given. (229064)

PURELY MAINTENANCE For all your maintenance needs - big or small, contact Carl on 965 878 866 or 669 218 928 email pure lymaintenance@hotmail.com

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handyjavea@gmail.com. For all villa repairs, maintenance and small building works. Specialists in pool regrouting, filter and pump problems/replacements. No call out charge, no obligation quotes. Call 625 397 209, Javea

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MOTORBIKES SUZUKI Burgman Executive 650cc, 04 Model, fully automatic with tiptronic, ABS brakes, new Givi 47ltr top box, black, 27,000kms, full service history, immaculate condition. 3,450 euros. Tel. 628 163 206. (234606)

PEST CONTROL CHEAP, all insects and rodents. 604 103 909 (229721)

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POOL MAINTENANCE YES YOU CAN HAVE A POOL We design & install Wooden Above-Ground Pools. Pools installed from 1,185€. With above ground pools there is “No Planning Permission Required”. You can also pay in Sterling. Phone or email for a FREE BROCHURE NOW. info@piscinasmadera.com Tel: 965 050 064 / 634 322 672 www.piscinasmadera.com (230334) ESTABLISHED POOL CLEANER, Calpe to Benitachell. Tel Richard 671 202 985 (225719)

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REGROUTING. Excellent value, quality service. Completed in 1 week. Javea area. handy javea@gmail.com / 625 397 209 (230696)

PROPERTY TO LET DOGS WELCOME - 500 year old beamed cottage in valley, Jesus Pobre, Javea. www.littlehouseinspain.com. SPECIAL OFFER: 18 Oct - 25 Oct €500/week. WINTER OFFER (1st November onwards) €500/week. Also available for weekends. (225617)

WE ARE currently the market leader in our country in the sale of direct car, motorbike, home and company fleet insurance. Since we started out in 1995, our philosophy has always been to offer an excellent service with the best prices in the market. For the most competitive quotes in English call Linea Directa on 902 123 309. (200726) WANTED Cars, vans, caravans, 4 X 4’s British Spanish 600 781 873 ibuyany car@hotmail.com (234586) CHAPA Y PINTURA LA PEDRERA. Paint & body workshop! Recognised by all major insurance companies. Efficient service. We speak English! 965 731 816 / in fo@chplapedrera.com (225637) FORD Transit Reg: YY53 LVG for sale or part-exchange for small car. 134,596 miles, drives extremely well. 2003 reg, 2L. €2,850. 625 716 637 Miguel (226253) FOR SALE VW Transporter Campervan 2.0L Petrol. Good Mechanics and Bodywork, 79,000 miles, ITV, RHD, Spanish Reg. Great Everyday Vehicle, Benidorm Area. Tel 619 439 234. 9,500 EUROS. (234607)

PAINTER/DECORATOR W. D GILMOUR. Painter & Decorator. Established 35 years in Moraira. Estimates FREE. Call William on 609 691 776 or 966 197 170. (234555) www.decorlux.es painting, decorating, renovation. Covering the Costa Blanca and inland since 1996. Estimates free. Tel 649 181 526 Facebook/decorlux painters (234562) VILLAS painted for under 700 euros. Call Airless for a brochure 965 846 620 / eho hara@gmail.com (234644)

PET-COURIERS.COM – If you love your pet try us first – we are the best. Door to door service throughout Europe. Specialised vehicles – bespoke service. Full legal service including documentation if required. For further information call or e-mail us: Tel: (0034) 651 033 670 or (0034) 637 066 227. Email: info@petcouriers.com or www.pet-couri ers.com (206497) NEED YOUR PETS TAKEN CARE OF? Not kennels, just a friendly home. Large fenced area. 699 790 080 Altea (225716) BEAUTIFUL pedigree Persian kittens for sale, all colours. 689 135 835 / www.taridianapersians.es.tl (230532)

PET TRANSPORT COSTA BLANCA PET TRANSPORT TO UK. DEFRA registered. Excellent rates. www.costablan cadoghoming.com or call 965 698 052 (223629) PET TRAVEL UK Family pet transporters Spain/UK. Travel with your pets for free. All air conditioned vehicles (no vans) www.pettraveluk.co.uk. Removals also arranged in other vehicles. Tel UK 0800 612 4922 or Spain 960 130 537 (223645)

PIANO TUNING PIANO TUNING and repairs. PIANO MAN. 607 346 658. pianoman@pianoman.es

PLUMBING www.100percentplumbing.com Call for a free quotation 965 835 939 (87006) www.dragonreforms.com. Tel 966 807 098 Free quotes given. PAUL FAULKNER - PLUMBER. Dripping tap to complete kitchen and bathroom refurbishments, including tiling. Fully legal. 965 792 134 / 676 861 963. Facebook.

PROPERTY FOR SALE HOUSE in Calpe, Ortembach, for sale 400m plot 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, kitchen, flat, one level, salon, terrace, place to build a pool, parking, 2 big storeplaces, 137,000 euros. Independent, 400m supermarket, 800m town and beaches. 629 991 543 (234575) HOUSE, Orihuela, new, 4 beds, 2 bath, kitchen, living, air conditioning, 120m2, parking, barbecue, 80,000 euros, Vereda Buenavida 51, Desamparados. 629 991 543 COUNTRY HOUSE near Gata de Gorgos, in the middle of the mountains at Cami Font Mata and is second house to the right. NEW. 4 bedrooms, 3 bath, kitchen, living room. 160m2 build with 825m plot. 2.5km to the centre, 12.5km to the beaches Javea. ONLY 99,000 euros. Tel: 629 991 543 (223633) LUXURY Villa in the Jalon Valley. One level, 3 en suite bedrooms, 10x5 pool, superb open views. 272m2 build, 8,000m2 plot. 375,000 euros. www.vil lainjalon.com. Call John 965 734 219 (230639)

www.euroweeklynews.com WANTED: 3 Bedroom Townhouse. Benissa/Javea/Denia. Max 250,000€ for Mr Fitz. Contact: in fo@spanishcoastvillas.com (229893)

UK-SPAIN-IRELAND. Removals with the personal touch. Pets carried with care 965 696 750 / 0044 (0) 7447 918 589 e-mail chrisy ounge73979@aol.com (208688)

WANTED: 3 bedroom apartment in Javea for long term rent. For more information contact: info@spanishcoastvillas.com (229893)

CONTAINER & inside storage. Lots of space for boats, caravans, motorhomes, etc. Great rates in fo@thesecurestorage.com. JAVEA. 965 797 138 / 691 890 962 (234526)

WANTED: 3 Bedroom 2 Bathroom Villa. Benitachell/Cumbre del Sol. Max 300.000€ for Mr and Mrs O’Conor. Contact info@span ishcoastvillas.com (229893) WANTED: Min 5 Bedroom Villa. Moraira/Benissa coast/Calpe. Max 600,000€ for Mr. Schur. Contact info@spanishcoastvillas.com (229893) WANTED: 3 Bedroom Finca. Benitachell/Javea. Max 250,000€. For Mrs Fontaine. Contact info@spanishcoastvillas.com (229893) WANTED: 2 Bedroom Bungalow .Moraira/Benissa and Benissa coast. Max 150,000€ For Mr. Vandekerckhove . Contact info@span ishcoastvillas.com (229893) WANTED: 3 Bedroom min Villa in Moraira for long term rent. For more information contact info@spanishcoastvillas.com

REMOVALS/STORAGE UK - SPAIN - Anywhere Europe! Masses of experience. New clean vehicles. Insured with Royal Sun Alliance. Genuinely CARING service. FULL and part moves. ONLINE QUOTES!! www.bmceuro pean.com UK 08456 443 784 / ES 634 344 787 FIND US ON FACEBOOK!(220152) CAR TRANSPORTER. Call for excellent rates, fully insured, professional service. 951 319 320, email move@freinternational.com / www.car-transport-spain.com (215605) SPANISH MOVES Small removals and deliveries. Spain/UK Budget prices. Last minute jobs undertaken. www.spanish moves.net. Pet transport also arranged in our air conditioned pet/people carriers. Telephone UK 0800 612 4922 or Spain 960 130 537 (223645)

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RESTAURANTS Charlotte and Salva welcome you to RESTAURANTE PLAZA, La Coveta Fuma, El Campello. THE PLACE for Sole, Fishpot, Filletsteak, Duckbreast and many more (also vegetarian) dishes. Weekdays 4-Course Menu 13.25€. Sunday Special Menu 15.25€. WEEKDAYS SPECIAL... For those who love Fish (and as long as available), 1 PLATE WITH 3 SOLE, CHIPS AND GARNITURE 13.50€. Extra Sole only 1,00€. PLAZA is open Sunday-Friday 19:00-22:00 h. Tel. 965 638 039 (225653)

ROLLER SHUTTERS REPAIRS, cords, slats, winding mechanisms, motors. Calpe + 40 kms. Tony Bowers 659 464 992 www.toldosalchemy.com (229110)

SITUATIONS VACANT

FULL TIME Experienced chef required starting mid September in Benitachell near Javea and Moraira. The successful applicant will be energetic, motivated, creative and reliable and have a proven track record of serving modern top quality well presented fresh food. Contract and good weekly paid salary with temporary accommodation available in some cases. Please send CV and other relevant details to tres.ar cos@yahoo.com or call Richard on 688 883 004 (231879) DO YOU CARE? If so, why not join our team of carers who work in the UK. Earn from £910 - £1372 for 2 weeks. Good written/spoken English/ British or EU Passport required. Contact Sandra on 658 965 204 or email s.field@consultuscare.com. (221355)

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REMOVALS / STORAGE

PENTHOUSE under construction in the centre of Calpe, exterior walls completed, with garage. Price 77,000 euros. 100m2, views (223633)

PROPERTY WANTED WANTED: 2 Bedroom Apartment in Moraira town for long term rent. For more information contact info@spanishcoastvillas.com (229893) WANTED: Long term rentals all areas from Denia to Calpe and inland! For more information contact: info@spanishcoastvillas.com (229893) WANTED:Large villa in Javea for long term rent. For more information contact: info@spanish coastvillas.com (229893)

SOFT FURNISHINGS LOOSE COVERS, CURTAINS ETC. Made to Measure. Choose from a wide range of beautiful fabrics in your own home. Tel: 965 771 397 or 686 453 827 (224997)

SOLAR POWER LOWEST PRICES IN SPAIN, www.solarmegastore.es (226345)

CLASSIFIEDS STRUCTURAL SURVEYS MARK PADDON BSc Hons. Building surveying. MCIOB, CAAT. From 245 EUROS + IVA. Insured and legally registered in Spain. Tel: 653 733 066 / 962 807 247 www.costablancasurveyors.com (229513)

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SWIMMING POOLS TOTAL POOL CARE. Specialists in regrouts, leak detectio and structural repairs, replacement pumps and filters etc, also warranty service available for pipework, pumps, lights etc. Tel 654 687 536 (229062)

TAROT TAROT READINGS. 667 959 237 (234521)

TELECOMS FED UP PAYING TOO MUCH FOR YOUR MOBILE PHONE CALLS? THEN CONTACT TELITEC TODAY. CALLS TO SPAIN 7C PER MINUTE INCLUDING MOBILES. CALLS TO UK 5.3C PER MINUTE. NO MONTHLY FEES, NO CONTRACT. WWW.TELITEC.COM TEL: 902 889 070 (0)

TAX AFFAIRS

TUITION BRIDGE LESSONS. Every Tuesday at 2.30pm. October May. Complete beginners and Intermediate. Just turn up no need to book. Javea School of Bridge. Between Scallops restaurant and Arenal seafront. Contact: www.bridgewebs.com/javeasc hoolsocial or javeaschoolof bridge@gmail.com or Clubhouse 965 770 509 (226380)

4 - 10 December 2014 / Costa Blanca Nor th TV/SATELLITE QUALIFIED BRITISH SATELLITE ENGINEER with over 25 years experience on Costa Blanca. Installing and repairing SAT TV equipment. Same day service, all work guaranteed. Call Steve 617 911 118 (223547) SATELLITE TV, best prices Dishes, Sky+ HD, Sky cards, Freesat boxes, re-alignment, Sky on Demand and Catch Up TV from www.uktvrouter.com call now 962 800 807, 667 427 271 (234563)

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Driving tips from Ford INDIVIDUAL driving styles and the ways in which customers use their vehicle on a day-today basis can make a big difference to fuel consumption according to a survey of European drivers, commissioned by Ford. “The technological advances of today’s cars offer more potential than ever for motorists to make significant reductions to their fuel bills,” said Wulf-Peter Schmidt, director, Sustainability, Ford of Europe. “For customers to fully optimise savings, however, requires the application of simple fuelefficient techniques and habits, which also contribute to a reduction in CO2 emissions.” Ford has identified four simple habits could

help save motorists as much as 33 per cent on fuel - potentially as much as €1,000 a year: • Removing the rooftop cargo box (20 per cent) • Shopping around for fuel (7 per cent) • Checking and optimising tyre pressures every month (4 per cent) • Removing excess weight from inside the car (2 per cent). There are plenty of other techniques you can apply: • Accelerate and brake smoothly. • Wind down a window. • Switch engine off. • Shift-up gears. • Idle less. • Stick to speed limits. The faster you go the greater the fuel consumption.

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New Opel Corsa THE New Opel Corsa is due to start rolling off the production lines in December. Well established as a bestseller: through four model generations spanning 32 years, 12.4 million Corsas have been sold. Together with the Astra, it is Opel’s most popular model, accounting for over a quarter of the company’s sales every year. Available in three and five-door body formats, the Corsa is currently number four in the small car segment in Western Europe. In Germany and the United Kingdom, it is number two. The new fifthgeneration Corsa rolls off the assembly lines in

Eisenach and Zaragoza at the end of this year, and offers a fresh look and a fresh driving experience with a new chassis and optimised steering, combining German engineering with design, digital connectivity and, say Opel, a great price/performance ratio. New generation petrol and reworked diesel turbo engines ensure a new level of comfort, top performance and low fuel consumption. The fifth-generation Corsa can already be ordered in Germany at an entry-level price of €11,980 (three door, 1.2 petrol engine.) “The Opel Corsa has always been widely praised, particularly for its

appealing looks and its efficient use of space within compact dimensions,” says Dr. KarlThomas Neumann, CEO Opel Group. “I am confident the new fifth generation, with its new level of comfort, its modern driver assistance and infotainment systems, will continue the model’s exemplary success. I promise that the driving experience of the new Corsa will surprise everyone.” The new chassis does not inherit a single component from the current model. Straight line and cornering stability is increased thanks to a centre of gravity lowered by five millimetres, a stiffer sub-frame and new suspension geometry including a new front knuckle. Roll behaviour, steering response and understeer characteristics are all improved. The highlight under the hood of the new Corsa is the installation of Opel’s newly-developed petrol three-cylinder, 1.0 ECOTEC Direct Injection

Turbo. Just premiered in the Opel ADAM, this engine has been designed from a clean sheet of paper and sets a new class benchmark for exceptionally low noise, vibration and harshness (NVH) characteristics, as well as high driving comfort: the compact, allaluminum 1.0 ECOTEC Direct Injection Turbo is fitted with a counterrotating balancer shaft - a unique feature in its class. It is available in two output configurations, giving 66 kW/90 hp or 85 kW/115 hp. Both meet Euro 6 emission standards, and the 66 kW/90 hp version only consumes 4.3 l/100 km in the combined cycle for emissions of just 100 g/km CO2. The petrol engine lineup also includes 1.2 and 1.4-litre four-cylinder engines. New to the range is a 74 kW/100 hp 1.4-litre turbo with 200 Nm maximum torque available from 1,850 to 3,500 rpm. This makes it the current torque hero within the new Corsa powertrain portfolio.

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A big thank you to Tony IN recognition of his outstanding contribution over many years to the Costa Blanca Umpires and Markers Association (CBUMA), Tony Lawley has been awarded the position of Honorary Life President. Tony served as President of the CBUMA (2004-2007) and for a number of years also served as Chief Instructor, responsible for the training of markers and umpires. In an association that goes back 15 years, Tony’s commitment and unstinting support of the CBUMA and its objectives has been significant, and this honour is fitting recognition of his personal contribution. In the bowls Winter League San Luis arrived at Benitachell Bowls Club in good form, determined to avoid a defeat, which would see BBC leap frog them in the league table. In a game where only five shots separated the two sides until the 14th end, BBC let it slip and San Luis’s strong finish resulted in the first home defeat for BBC in over a year. On the other hand the Berleen team did well to win 18-13. BBC Jaguars played FG Swallows in the Northern League, running out winners by eight points to two. In the BBC Saturday Winter Fours League, last week’s three still lead the table with Mavericks, still unbeaten, from Siete Arribba+2 and Benci all on 10 points, followed by Aussie Rules one point behind.

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La Vila win hard fought battle in rainy Zaragoza LA VILA first team travelled to Zaragoza to play against Fenix RC. In a hard fought battle, in what can only be described as atrocious conditions, they came out on top 7-0 and took home four points to stay in second. The under-18s had the first win of the season away to Elche Rugby Club by the margin of 38-5. On Sunday December 7 the first team play against local rivals Les Abelles from Valencia at 12.30pm. Tickets cost €5. There will be an Argentinian barbecue organised for the aftermatch lunch. There is still time to join the club as a member, as a player, or as a supporter. They are also still looking for players for their second senior team. They play in the local Alicante league, mainly in Denia, Alicante, Elche and Torrevieja.

IMPORTANT VICTORY: Four points keep La Vila in second. The Club also runs women’s rugby and U18s, U16s, U14s, U12s, U10s and U8s teams.

Arsenal and Chelsea qualify From back page • Last weekend’s Rugby Union internationals ended: England 26 Australia 17, and Wales 12 South Africa 6, while the top three in the Aviva Championship are Bath, Northampton and Exeter. • Arsenal qualified for the knockout stage of the Champions League for the 15th season running, so too have Chelsea. However, in their final group games next week, Manchester City, despite beating Bayern Munich 32 with a Sergio Aguero hat-trick, need at least a draw (perhaps 2-2) against Roma while Liverpool must beat FC Basel... or both could be out! • Unbeaten Real Madrid and Barcelona also won their penultimate group

games. Lionel Messi grabbed another treble for Barcá in their 4-0 romp over Apoel Nicosia. With 74 in the bag, ‘Leo’ has now netted more Champions League/ European Cup goals than any other player. Ex-Real Madrid star Raul scored 71. • Celtic, Everton and Tottenham Hotspur have all qualified from their respective groups in the Europa League.

More information: Jason Craig 659 674 768 or Ignacio Davila 608 068 208.

El Cid host triples THE Invitation Triples at El Cid bowls club saw 24 teams compete for a generous prize fund. Each team played four games of 50 minutes’ duration scoring three points for a win, one point for a draw, but also scored an additional point for each end won. The top two places were only decided in the last end of the last session. The winners were Pat Vaughan, Charlie Speedie and Tony James from Finca Guila BC with 29 points. Runners up were Sheila Lucas, Bob Tranter and Clive Langan from Benitatchell BC with 28 points. The final prize went to Barbara Pilling, Len Pilling and Norman Vickers from Finca Guila BC with 26 points. More information: Derek Eldon on Tel 687 638 967.

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Sport Costa Blanca’s best guide to local sport

Hat-trick hero Man City striker Sergio Aguero scored all three goals in their win over Bayern Munich. Turn to page 79 TO READ MORE VISIT OUR WEBSITE: WWW.EUROWEEKLYNEWS.COM

20 clubs hope to join big boys Tony Matthews

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BLACKTOWER TROPHY: Donna Green with some Pego golf members.

Donna takes the trophy plaudits FORTY Pego GS members and three guests played

in the Blacktower Trophy competition.

The winner was Donna Green with 39 points. Second was Donal Murphy (39) and third Gordon Weston (37). Patrick Lynch (36) was fourth, Roger Brown (35) fifth and Shaun O'Gorman (35) sixth. Bill Pike and Donal Murphy won nearest the

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pin prizes and Donal Murphy, Patrick Lynch, Dave Collins and Martin Gates (two) scored twos.

More information: www.pegogolfsociety. com or e-mail Donna Green at pegohandicapsec@gmail. com

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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DIARY OF EVENTS This weekend’s Premiership matches include, on Saturday, Manchester CityEverton, NewcastleChelsea and QPR-Burnley, followed by Aston VillaLeicester and West HamSwansea on Sunday while Southampton-Manchester United play on Monday.

There’s a full programme of Championship matches while 20 clubs will be hoping to join the big boys in the third round of the FA Cup... and I expect at least three non-League sides to make it through. The FINA World Swimming Championships are under way in Doha. The women’s hockey champions Trophy is taking place in Argentina and the UYK Snooker Championships are being staged in York where, at the time of writing, Messrs Fu, Dott, Ebdon and Junhui were going well, as was broken ankle victim Ronnie O’Sullivan. Turn to page 79