Euro Weekly News - Costa Blanca North 19 - 25 March 2015 Issue 1550 by Euro Weekly News Media S.A.

ISSUE NO. 1550

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Buzz off THE regional government has said beehives must be at least four kilometres from citrus fruit orchards while trees are in flower to stop cross-pollination.

Dog threat SEVEN dogs died and two became seriously ill in Gata after eating bait containing banned insecticide Aldicarb.

Green diet TERRA NATURA nature park in Benidorm has used 48 tons of tree prunings in the past year to supplement the diets of elephants and rhinoceros who need 100 kilos of food a day.

Not needed SLUDGE from the province’s sewage plants will be turned into fertiliser at Alicante Sud. The €40-million installation is not needed after 13,000 homes were eliminated from a development plan.

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Cash for private ops THE regional government’s finance department has freed up

€8.29 million for health service operations at private clinics.

The cash injection clashes with earlier declarations from Health

Councillor Manuel Llombart who has insisted repeatedly that an emer-

A new threat for Bous a la Mar

PLANS are afoot to exclude bullrunning from the Valencia Region. PACMA, a party against the mistreatment of animals, delivered an 18,000-signature petition to the regional parliament, calling for its omission when a new law is put to the vote on March 25. This would include the famous ‘Bous a la Mar’ festival held every year in Denia and Javea, and ‘Bou embolat’, another fiesta favourite in Alicante Province.

gency plan of this type was always a last option to reduce waiting lists. For this reason, operating theatres in health service hospitals remained open in recent months during the evenings and medical staff were paid overtime to work outside their normal hours. A previous emergency plan was eliminated in 2012 as a cost-cutting measure. Waiting lists immediately rocketed, prompting Llombart to turn to the private health sector last year to carry out 4,400 operations.

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INDEX News 1 - 26 Finance 27 - 32 Leapy Lee 33 Daily TV

34, 38, 40, 42, 44, 46, 48

Pets 47 Letters 49 Time Out 50 - 51 Health & Beauty 52 - 54 Food 55 Homes & Gardens 56-57 Services 60 - 64 Classifieds 65 - 67 Motoring 68 - 70 Sport 71 - 72

OFF-SEASON: Hotels could close next winter

Too many stars in their eyes

IN the off-peak season British tourists and Spanish pensioners keep Costa Blanca hotels ticking over.With a favourable exchange rate, Britons are as much in evidence as ever, as are elderly Spanish tourists on government-subsidised Imserso holidays. Nevertheless, Costa Blanca hoteliers are worried that the Imserso’s 2015-2016 programme will favour four-star hotels and discriminate against those with two or three. Booking and reserving the holidays is put out to tender and Spain’s Confederation of

Hotels and Tourist Accommodation, Cehat, claims that the biggest allocations will go to travel agencies that can offer the largest blocks of four-star accommodation. Despite complaints from Cehat, Imserso insisted that the new terms will not be modified.The Costa Blanca hoteliers’ association Hosbec, which belongs to Cehat said the government was more concerned with benefiting users than the industry. More two- and three-star hotels could be forced to close next winter, Hosbec warned.

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NEWS Meet the mayor TEULADA-MORAIRA mayor Antoni Joan Bertomeu will give a talk for English-speakers in Salon de Banquetes Canor in Teulada at 6pm on March 24. Questions will be invited afterwards. A new ballgame PETANQUE courts at La Nucia’s Font de la Favara park were extended at the request of the Third Age Association. Three existing courts were widened and a new one built.

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Merrymaking with bottle tops THE Fallas fire fiestas are a time to eat, drink and be merry. Aware of this, the organisers and the Federacion Marina Alta Solidaria have put the merrymaking to good use with a bottle top campaign. The plastic tops will be taken for recycling and the money raised donated to children in the area with medical and orthopaedic needs.

Over the past year Marina Alta Solidaria has collected four tons of bottle tops and raised €1,000, said the charity’s coordinator Juanjo Sala.

“This is a gesture of solidarity and an initiative that could extend to other Denia fiestas,” said a grateful Sala. Balearia, the shipping line that operates the ferry between Denia and Baleares, is also collaborating. The Fallas committee whose members collect most bottle tops will win a prize of four tickets to Formentera.

Meat treat THE Archbishop of Valencia gave permission to eat meat last Friday, despite it being Lent. The dispensation was issued owing to the Fallas fiestas in honour of San Jose, he explained.

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FIVE people were slightly injured in separate multiplevehicle collisions within two kilometres of each other on the A-70 Alicante City ringroad, causing long tailbacks when the cars were removed.

A DRONE will be used in Gandia to detect and photograph the inaccessible breeding grounds of mosquitoes. This will be especially helpful in outlying rural areas.

3,000 Fellows LUIS R DOMINGO, professor of Organic Chemistry at Valencia University was named Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry. The Society has 50,000 members of whom 3,000 are Fellows.

Good taste IN a tasting experiment, Alicante University students all preferred water from inland natural springs. Benidorm’s tap water was voted second but Alicante City’s desalinated water got the thumbsdown.

Plaza facelift PLAZA CASA ROJA in Gata will have a roundabout, new traffic signs and wider pavements. There are plans for a crossing over the trenet line from the Plaza to C/Paet.

Drone’s eye view

All explained THE tourist route through the riuraus of 12 Marina Alta towns where local grapes were formerly processed for raisins now has an app for smartphones and tablets. It can be downloaded from www.rutadelsriuraus.es/app

Still sturdy THE 12 ‘apostles’ or pillars supporting the Loreto church in Javea need repaired. Only deteriorated poured concrete will be replaced as the iron reinforcement inside the pillars is undamaged.

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LAS FALLAS: The huge papier mache models cost tens of thousands of euros to build.

Celebrating with fire ONE of Spain’s most famous festivals has been in full swing around the province of Valencia. Las Fallas are a five day celebration - running until tonight (Thursday) marked across the province in honour of San José. The focus of the fiesta for many is the creation and destruction of the ‘niñots’ - which are huge papiermache models. They cost tens of thousands of euros to build and take many months to construct by the various clubs or peñas. The themes are varied and satirical and reminiscent of the 80’s British comedy Spitting Image, where many of the models are caricatures poking fun at Spanish politicians and celebrities. The climax of the week long celebration takes

Quote of the Week It’s not very nice, that’s for sure. You have to hunt out specific places, the nice places,” said Spanish singer Edurne Garcia and Eurovision competitor when asked whether Manchester, where her goalkeeper boyfriend plays, was ‘uglier than the back of a fridge.’

place tonight, known as ‘La Crema,’ or burning of the fallas. While the most famous are held in Valencia City, many expats will see the three separate fallas in Benidorm - in the Rincon de Loix at the end of the Levante beach, Plaza Triangular at the end of the Avd Mediterraneo and in the Old Town on Calle Tomás Ortuño. A grand float procession with all the participants takes place at 6pm. The children’s fallas are burnt first - starting at 11pm then the main adult ones are set alight one by one at midnight. The one in the Rincon goes up followed at 12:30am with the Plaza Triangular and lastly, the one in the Old Town.

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million is the number of people called to vote this Sunday, March 22, in the Andalucian elections. Of the total number of people eligible to vote, 245,202 will be doing so for the first time having recently reached the age of 18.

MONTE COTO in Pinoso will be a reserve for the yellow rock rose (jara del diablo). Threatened with extinction in this region, the only known examples grow near Villena and La Romana.

Not so nutty ALICANTE Province’s almond plantations declined from 31,820 to 24,070 hectares since 2012. Despite the reduction, growers are returning to the crop as prices rise and demand increases.

Tender point THE Catholic University of Murcia (UCAM) may not acquire the disused Residencia Tiempo Libre directly from San Juan Town Hall. As municipal property it can only be acquired through public auction.

And finally... Hackers who managed to block more than 400,000 files belonging to Madrid’s Ifema Fair and Congress centre were left looking rather silly when their demands for payment to undo their work were ignored and the centre’s technicians managed to restore all the servers within a day.

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Tourist police on patrol again this summer TEULADA-MORAIRA will be putting special Local Police (Politur) officers on the beat again this year. The Policia Turistica (Politur) progamme, aimed at boosting public safety for tourists and residents alike, was well-received and very successful last year, according to the mayor of Teulada Antoni Joan Bertomeu. The scheme was in-

troduced for the first time in 2014 with two Politur officers on duty between August and October. “A huge number of residents told us how pleased they were with the service,” Bertomeu remarked. This year there will be four Politur officers on the Teulada and Moraira streets who will patrol on a full-time basis from April until Sep-

tember, the mayor said. The officers, who speak several languages between them, have also had first aid training. They will be there to provide the type of specialist personal attention required to deal with the needs and problems of both residents and visitors that can arise in a tourist area, Bertomeu added.

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Nowhere to run

OR decades, Spain has been renowned as the place to run away to and hide for most of Europe’s criminal fraternity. But not any more! For the law-abiding British expats in Spain (about five million) who have had to live with jibes and jokes about ‘The Costa del Crime’, it has been a far from amusing experience. But last year saw a significant leap forward in British-SpanishEuropean co-operation and technology advances, which have quickly turned the whole game around. Successful initiatives like Operation Imperium, which cracked a Bulgarian mafia gang, arresting 31, Operation Captura, which is ongoing, the detection and arrest of numerous IS extremists this

month, as well as the news that the biggest gang of scammers on the south coast has been arrested, is evidence enough that the era of hiding in Spain has come to an end. What with mobile phones that know where people are, web connections that track origins, hi-tech cameras in the air, street CCTV running 24 hours, social media and international police operations, the world has become a very hard place in which to hide. Even more so in Spain. Here we have things like ID cards, road checkpoints, car park cameras and identification systems that even the UK doesn’t have. Some might say that the whole Big Brother feeling is a little intrusive. But the huge advantage is that Spain is now less desirable than the UK as a place for criminals to hide.

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SOLIDARITY: Minute’s silence in memory of Hanane.

A shocking statistic ALICANTE Province claims the shameful honour of heading 2015’s blacklist for gender violence. Four of the seven women killed by partners in Spain lived in Alicante Province, it has been revealed. Amongst them was Hanane, a 43-year-old Moroccan living in Javea, who lost her life at the hands of her now-remanded husband. The town hall decreed three days of mourning after she died in hospital fol-

lowing a brutal beating eight days earlier. In a council chamber filled with the public, the corporation conveyed its condolences to the victim’s friends and family. Javea’s mayor Jose Chulvi expressed the town’s solidarity with women everywhere who are subjected to gender violence. The council is committed to continuing to prevent violence towards women and promoting equality between the sexes, Chulvi declared.

Recreating a slice of history THE mysterious arrival of the statue of Our Lady in Benidorm on March 15, 1745, was recently re-enacted on the Poniente beach. Hundreds watched as an empty, drifting boat was towed to the shore where it was set alight because villagers feared that the crew had died of the plague. Legend tells that afterwards, undamaged by the fire, they found a statue of the Madonna and Child in the bows. This was taken to the parish church where it remains to this day.

Drought causing problems UNDERGROUND springs are not being replenished in Alicante Province even when it rains. “The ground is so dry and it absorbs so much of the water that none reaches aquifers,” said Bruno Ballesteros, who heads the Geological and Mining Institute of Spain in the Valencia Region. We have

had more than a year of very little rainfall, with some areas receiving between 10 and 15 per cent of the normal amount,” the geologist said. He added: “We are in quite an extreme situation that affects agriculture in particular although inland towns in the Marina Alta are also beginning to have problems.

A RECORD 503,823 passengers used Alicante-Elche airport in February, a 2.3 per cent increase. The majority were British (200,380) followed the Dutch (37,866), Norwegians (34,207) and Germans (34,008).

Same again THE Partido Popular’s regional electoral committee has confirmed the current mayors of Calpe and Denia, Cesar Sanchez and Ana Kringe, as mayoral candidates in the May 24 election.

Up and down CALPE now belongs to the Vall de Pop system of mountain bike routes. Its itinerary covers approximately 50 kilometres of fast and entertaining mountain bike challenges.

Water saver DRIP-IRRIGATION is being installed at the Lo Torrent park in San Vicente. The system will take two months to set up and cost €108,000 but will use 40 per cent less water.

Bridging gap REPAIRS to Alcoy’s San Jorge bridge, built in 1931, will cost €239,000. One traffic lane will be closed during the 10 weeks that work is carried out.

Night patrol TWENTY Campello residents living near Les Canyades landfill site asked government inspectors to examine the installation at night when the smell was worst. The officials ignored them, they said.

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Rented out STOP DESAHUCIOS prevented the eviction of a couple and their young daughter whose home was repossessed by the bank. The bank will rent it to them for €100 a month.

Stay home PUIG CAMPANA: A long way up - but what a view!

Three kilometres of vertical challenge SPAIN’S best mountain runners will get the measure of Puig Campana on April 19. They will be competing in the seventh edition of the Kilometro Vertical, one of the hardest competitions in this category in Spain. Over a distance of a little more than three kilometres, the runners must

climb to an altitude of more than 1,020 metres. “It is a source of pride that Finestrat should be a benchmark for mountain races,” said the town’s councillor for Sport, Tomas Selles. “This confirms the local government made the right choice when it chose to hold a race that has become so important.”

Last year’s race was won by the Spanish runner Iñigo Lariz who finished the course in 39 mins and 26 secs. The women’s category was won by Vanesa Ortega, also Spanish, who took 44 mins and 52 secs. Register at www.mychip.es although you have to belong to the Federacion Española de Montaña.

Man with two fighting dogs rams police car POLICE called to the Pego marsh were confronted by a man with bloodied hands and two Staffordshire terriers. A half-dead Schnauzer lay on the ground and two crying women were cowering inside their locked car. His dogs had attacked the Schnauzer, police revealed later.

The man, later identified as a 40-yearold Oliva resident, began to shout incoherently, gesture wildly and kick the patrol car. When the policemen aimed tasers at him he made as though he were about to give himself up but fled after setting the dogs on them. The officers took refuge in their car but in the meantime the attacker returned in his own vehicle and rammed them before driving off. He took one of the marsh’s footpaths, almost running down sevTHE ninth cycle of Spring concerts has now eral pedestrians in his begun in Benitachell. flight and disappeared Held each Saturday at 8pm in the Santa from sight. Maria Magdalena church throughout March, He gave himself up the they cover music of very different types. This next day to the Guardia ranges from last week’s jazz recital to the Civil in Oliva, although the man, who has menOrquesta de la Marina Baja which will be pertal health problems, forming on Saturday March 21, and the Agrugave contradictory verpacion Musico Municipal brass band schedsions of the episode, uled for Saturday March 28. sources said.

Music arrives at the Benitachell church

JUAN FERRI and Jose Baldo will not get their passports back. The Benidorm businessmen, paroled for money-laundering and fiscal fraud, are likely to abscond, the National High court ruled.

On ice RESTORING the 15th century Cava Gran icehouse in inland Agres stopped in the winter. Work has now recommenced and should finish in early June.

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HE bigger and better than ever Homes, Gardens & Lifestyle Show swings into action at the Denia Marriott Hotel, Jesus Pobre, on April 10 and 11, from 10am-5pm. This year’s spectacular event sees a brand new line-up of fun and features with the A–Z of everything relating to homes, gardens, lifestyle and leisure on offer. Stars of the show, UK TV’s chef

Antony Worrall Thompson is offering cooking demonstrations and antiques expert Mark Stacey will be on hand to value your treasures and antiques. There are plenty of goodies and prizes available including a luxury weekend spa break, a 32” Smart TV, a Panasonic fitted air conditioning unit, mouthwatering meals for two and lots more to be won with free prize draws.

There are special discounts on many products and services and all the sponsors, stand-holders and local tradesmen will be there to help and advise you. There are daily talks and demonstrations on the schedules for health and wellness, legal and financial, gardening, art and cookery. Show entry just €2.50 per person and children under 14 go free.

For your chance to win two free VIP tickets to the show, complimentary cava with Antony Worrall Thompson and Mark Stacey plus a meal for two at The Vintage Cafe, Albir, email gina@gmpromotions.es and put ‘Vintage Cafe’ in the subject line. To book one of the final few stands left call 695 399 841 or 966 761 050. Visit Facebook, search Homes Gardens and Lifestyle Show or www.gmpromotions.es

Antiques’ expertise with Mark Stacey Costa Blanca regular Mark Stacey is making his third appearance at the Homes, Garden & Lifestyle Show with his amiable and approachable personality filling the events with fun and laughter, making him a big hit with visitors. Mark will be present in Denia on both show days doing a ‘celebrity chat’ from 10.30-11am on Friday April 10 and again on Saturday April 11 from 1-1.45pm as well as his art presentations and antiques’ valuations.

Top chef for The Costa’s Cook-Off Get ready to welcome charismatic celebrity chef Antony Worrall Thompson, an accomplished TV presenter, broadcaster, author and restaurateur. Antony’s television career

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COSTA COOK-OFF: Celebrity gardener Charlie Dimmock and Mark Stacey at last year’s event. spans over 15 years, and he will be producing some mouthwatering dishes each day at 2pm in the Show Kitchens Poolside. Assisting Antony is Denia Marriott Hotel’s senior sous chef and head chef of the Segaria Thai Restaurant, Alistair Impey. Antony is also compering The Costa’s Cook-Off where three locally renowned chefs will all be producing delicious dishes each day, with the audience deciding whether the Red Chilli COOKING DEMOS: Alistair Impey (right): will be assisting Antony Worrall Thompson (left) in the kitchen during the twoday event.

Pepper Kitchen or the Green Olive Kitchen will win on the day. Taking part this year is Christian Lohner from NOX Restaurant, Javea, Neil Browning from Tribus Diner Benitachell, and Danny Bowler, a semi finalist on the 2014 Masterchef programme from his restaurant The Vintage Cafe in Albir. Sponsors Cambridge 800 are also on hand daily to help out in the kitchens.

The great Costa Bake Away The Bake Away is a new feature at this year’s Homes, Gardens & Lifestyle Show. The cake-making competition will be judged by celebrity chef Antony Worrall Thompson and a team of local professional chefs. The tasty treats will then be donated to the children at the Emaus home and

the homeless shelter, with the help of the Grant A Wish charity. Budding bakers are invited to enter their cake in one of three categories: decorated sponge cake section; cupcake section and novelty cake section. Cakes must be presented on a cake board or stand and be delivered to the Denia Marriott Hotel, Jesus Pobre, on April 9 between 12 noon and 2pm. To register email jody@grantawish.es or gina@gmpromotions.es. Entry fee is €2.50 and will allow free access to the show on April 11 when the winners will be announced.

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CONSTANTLY at the heart of the community, Euro Weekly News is proud sponsor of the Selection Box and will be joining in the fun as we give away a Mediterranean cruise for one lucky couple. Entry to the prize draw is free and it is just one more reason to put a date in your diary for April 10-11 at the Denia Marriott Hotel. So make sure you don’t miss out! Then don’t miss your chance to have your work featured at the Homes, Gardens & Lifestyle Show. All new, emerging or experienced artists are welcome to enter in either the beginners, intermediates or expert categories, for the chance to display and even sell their artworks at the show. Art entries are €5 and the competition, sponsored by Golden Leaves, is in aid of the Emaus children’s charity, Make A Smile. For more information or to register email simon.nathaniel@golden leaves.com before March 31.

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‘Leave hospital management to the professionals’ call OUT-OF-WORK politicians should not run hospitals, according to Joaquin Estevez, President of health managers’ body Sedisa. “We don’t want hospitals that are employment agencies for

Denia displays its wares in Madrid DENIA is once again present at Madrid’s mainline stations, on the Metro and at the airport. Following the success of last year’s publicity campaign, striking posters for the Marina Alta town can again be seen in the capital. Some are located in Goya, Callao, Cuzco, Puerta del Sol, Plaza de España and Argüelles, stations which are much-used by Madrileños heading for the department stores or travelling to work. There are others at Atocha, the mainline station where travellers depart for Alicante and Valencia, as well as the principal terminals at Barajas-Adolfo Suarez airport. The majority of the Spanish visitors who visit Denia are from Madrid, outnumbering those from the Valencian Community and Cataluña. The campaign aims to maintain this popularity, the town hall announced, with the 31 advertisements on display between March 10 and April 9. These dates have been deliberately chosen to depict Denia as a principal option for Easter Week, the summer months and minibreaks throughout the year.

jobless politicians,” he said. He was addressing the 19th National Hospitals and Health Management Conference attended by 3,000 professionals in Alicante City and Elche.

Approximately a quarter of the directors at Spanish hospitals are politicians without management experience, according to Sedisa. “We’ve been telling the authorities about this for years

but in some autonomous regions good intentions are no more than fine words. If politicians owned the hospitals they would not take on friends from the party to run them, they

would put in professionals because they would want financial and care benefits. A far-reaching agreement was needed and health should stop being used as a weapon,” he added.

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Sensible dress code for Holy Week ALICANTE City issued a strict dress code for Holy Week processions. The rules apply not to the robed penitents but the black-clad women also belonging to the city’s 28 brotherhoods. Fashion is creeping in and some dress unsuitably, said Alberto Paya, president of the city’s Board of Brotherhoods. Hems must now be on the knee or longer and dresses cannot be too close-

fitting. They should be made from closelywoven material with all-over lace, clinging or transparent fabrics vetoed. Necklines can be round, square, boatshaped or v-shaped, but without displaying any cleavage. Fishnets, light-coloured stockings and long gloves instead of acceptable short gloves are barred. Hair should be worn in a low bun and only the classic high peineta used to fix the long lace mantilla. Make-up must be discreet “with scarlet lipstick left for more festive moments,” the rulebook says. A silver pendant or a crossand-chain are permissible, but only one strand of pearls may FOUR recycled water hydrants will be installed in be worn while earrings should Benidorm for street cleaning and irrigating parks be inconspicuous and hoops and gardens. are outlawed. This water will also be available for private use, Those failing to comply explained Pepe Marcet, the councillor responsible could be barred, Paya said. for Benidorm’s water. The hydrants should eventu“It’s painful to tell a woman ally bring annual savings of up to 30,000 cubic she cannot take part in a prometres in the domestic supply. cession but there has to be reThe recycled water has been used experimentally spect and dignity,” he added. on municipal gardens and streets for a year with “We want the best for Holy “optimum results,” he revealed. Week.”

Recycled water for growing flowers

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A special mass for the Benidorm Patron Saint A SPECIAL mass was held in Benidorm on Monday evening to commemorate the 275th anniversary of the Patron Saint of the town - la Virgin del Sufragio. An 800 square metre marquee was erected at the town hall square to accommodate the 1,600 attendees for the special evening mass which had a number of high profile guests. Benidorm mayor Agustin Navarro escorted the president of the regional government Alberto Fabra and minister of Tourism Máximo Buch, both of whom arrived from Valencia especially for the occasion, as well as numerous local dignitaries. The effigy of the Virgin rests in the blue domed San Jaime church at the top of the Old Town. She was slowly carried down and escorted through the streets by the dignitaries, fiesta queens, officials and three bands. The mass was officiated by the vicar general of the Diocese of OrihuelaAlicante and assisted by 13 priests.

SAFE ESCORT: Following mass, the effigy was taken back to its church. Following the mass the effigy was moved back up to San Jaime church - all uphill and afterwards a stunning firework display was let off from the Mirador to the delight of the crowds. The original image of the virgin is said to have arrived on a drifting boat on March 16, 1740. The authorities at the time ordered that the

boat be burnt to prevent any plague spreading onto land and out of the burnt wreck, a carving of the virgin was discovered by three sailors. She was then proclaimed the Patron Saint of the town and her effigy has remained in the blue domed San Jaime church at the top of the Old Town ever since.

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Benissa emerges debt-free from 2014 A SURPLUS of €2.48 million in 2014 means that Benissa can pay off all its bank loans, Mayor Juan Bautista Rosello revealed. Having repaid €1 million in bank debts there will

still be enough left over, announced the mayor, to carry out significant infrastructure work in the municipality. “At the end of the year, Benissa will not have

Spending on R&D falls in Valencia SPENDING on research and development (R&D) relative to Gross Domestic Profit (GDP) in the Valencia Region fell in 2013 to stand at 1.02 per cent. This is half of the European Union average (2.02 per cent) and is also lower than the Spanish national average (1.24 per cent). The information was published on Monday by the Valencia Business Confederation (CEV), which believes that spending and employment in R&D will grow in 2015.

bank debt. Our debt is absolutely zero,” stated the mayor, who attributed the good economic situation to the ‘re-municipalisation’ of local services. All services in the city are provided by the council-owned company Benissa Impuls, which is in charge of waste collection. After having closed the 2014 financial year with a surplus of €2.48 million even the town’s conservative mayor is now advocating the ‘re-municipalisation’ of local services. “The municipal company is doing an outstanding job and is very efficient. Even the swimming pool, which seemed doomed to be in deficit, is now run in a sustainable manner,” Mayor Rosello declared.

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OPERATION CAPTURA: Ten of the UK’s most wanted criminals believed to be in Spain.

Britain’s most wanted in Spain

THE British National Crime Agency has released details of 10 of Britain’s most wanted criminals, all thought to be hiding in Spain and on the Costas. In an operation known as ‘Captura,’ police are appealing to residents and travellers in Spain to give any information that may lead to these individuals. The 10 includes Shane Walford, who was convicted of the manslaughter of

a firefighter and father-oftwo at a bar in Coventry. Walford was released on licence in January 12, but having failed to attend appointments with a supervising officer, the licence was revoked and he has been recalled to prison. Many of the men, who have been accused or convicted of crimes ranging from manslaughter, rape, assault and drug smuggling, are still thought to

be a considerable danger to the public. British police, working with Spanish security services, want to find them as soon as possible. Detailed information and photos regarding each of the men is available on the UK Crimestoppers website. Tel+ +44 800 555 111 https://crimestoppersuk.org/get-involved/ourcampaigns/internationalcampaigns/operationcaptura/

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SURVEYING THE SITE: Officials at the Ecopark inauguration.

Adventure and eco parks open

LA NUCIA’S brand new Ecopark was inaugurated last Saturday, March 14. It is situated in Calle Guadalest, just behind the Lidl supermarket, and has an extensive recycling area where you can deposit 30 different types of waste. Entry to the Ecopark in La Nucia is free for all registered residents issued with an Ecopark card. Coinciding with the opening of the park was the official opening of La Nucia Adventure Park, which is a 12,000square-metre public park with four

multi-adventure circuits and vertical forests of varying ranges of difficulty. The goal is to convey to the citizens of La Nucia that recycling is a worthwhile and fun family activity. Mayor of La Nucia, Bernabé Cano, pointed out that after having disposed of different types of waste, families would be able to enjoy a range of activities in the neighbouring adventure park. These currently include walking, picnicking or trying out one of the adventure circuits.

Natural gas gets piped in JUST a week ago the distribution of natural gas got under way to residents and businesses in La Nucia. Now it’s the inhabitants of Polop’s turn to get access to the new energy source. The regional Department of Industry has granted permission to energy company Gas Natural Cegas for the construction of a new six-kilometre distribution network. The new pipeline in Polop is expected to cost €335,000 and provide natural gas to 1,000 homes in the town. It is Gas Natural Cegas who’s behind the new infrastructure project for providing natural gas in both of the municipalities. The pipelines in La Nucia and Polop, along with a gas plant, represent a total investment of €616,000 for the energy company, according to its website. The

company’s gas plant in Polop was officially opened on November 5. When the first phase of the project is completed

1,125 homes and businesses in La Nucia and more than 1,000 homes Polop will have access to natural gas.

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Taxes to fund AVE THE Alicante City Council has decided to build a large train station for the AVE high speed trains within the next 10 years. The total cost of the new AVE park, including shopping areas and housing, is estimated at €172 million. In a new economic stability report the company responsible for executing the work, Avant, said the project will have an annual maintenance cost of €2 million. This will directly impact on municipal taxes, said the company.

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Haco Muebles launches new kitchen showroom HACO MUEBLES in Rojales are hosting an open day on Saturday to officially inaugurate their new kitchen showroom. From 2pm, visitors and customers old and new, are invited to view their extensive range of quality kitchens and enjoy a free drink and tapas. The 2,000 square metre showroom has been built within Haco Muebles’ existing furniture

KITCHEN SHOWROOM: Open day from 2pm on Saturday.

showroom on the Poligono Industrial Los Bar-

rios, on the Formentera road. It is the company’s second kitchen showroom after opening one in Altea last year. The kitchen is the heart of the home and is now widely used as an extension of the living room, where at the end of the day, the whole family gets together. Being such a feature, it is important to get it right and the team at Haco Muebles

can discuss your functional and design requirements from top German manufacturers, whether you are looking for a high gloss or matt finish, wood or bright bold colours. There are a range of budget prices, but all come with high quality and style and Haco Muebles are an elite dealer of Silestone worktops and appliances are available from well-known brands such as Siemens, Bosch, AG and Zanussi. Haco Muebles has over 50 years of experience in Holland so it was only natural that they would soon be bringing their kitchen expertise to Spain.

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All clear for new meters A NEW electricity billing system will be implemented in April. State Secretary for Energy, Alberto Nadal, said companies quickly must install new smart electricity meters so that consumers will pay by the hour.

Stealing at work SEVERAL tons of copper cables have been removed from a storage facility owned by a telecommunication company in Alicante. Ten of the company’s own workers were yesterday arrested in relation to the investigation.

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SEASIDE PROMENADE: New marble is currently being laid in Albir.

Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re getting ready OLD and tired marble has been removed and new marble is currently being laid on the seaside promenade Paseo de las Estrellas in Albir. So far, the work of replacing the marble has taken three months and one whole kilometre of marble tiles has been changed. The municipality of Alfaz del Pi received the marble tiles as a gift from the company that rents out sun loungers for sunstarved tourists on the beach in Albir. This gift is worth 70,000 euros, which was the cheapest option when the municipality collected quotations from marble manufacturers, according to sources in

Alfaz del Pi municipality. The municipality will soon install new toilets that meet todayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s dimensional requirements. Besides a toilet each for men and women, the town hall will now also be installing a disabled toilet. The beach library has received an overhaul and had rotten planks replaced. The library building will also be painted from head to toe, as will the street lights and wooden benches along the promenade. During the Easter week the municipality is planning to even out the beach and make it easily accessible from the promenade.

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Population drops EVERYBODY expected that 2014 would be the year in which the Marina Baixaregion finally would reach 200,000 inhabitants. A slow, but progressive growth in the regionâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s population over many years had pushed the 17 municipalities of La Marina Baixa up to 197,425 registered residents in late 2013. However, it turns out the projection in the population has not come true. According to data collected by the National Statistics Institute (INE), the county has actually lost no less than 7,612 inhabitants in 2014, representing more than 4 per cent of its total population. A new law which obliges foreigners from the European Union and other countries with permanent residence permit to renew registration in the municipal census every five years is mostly to blame. All foreigners failing to confirm they still live in the

BENIDORM: Once again population is below 70,000. municipality have been dismissed from the updated census list. This has caused a remarkable decrease in the registered population in places like Benidorm. The cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s population is once again situated below 70,000 people, a drop of 6.4 per cent, and a level that Benidorm has not seen since 2007. Tourist hotspot Altea saw its population decrease by 7.4 per cent, meaning the city in only one year lost 1,815 inhabi-

tants. Similar decreases are registered in neighbouring Polop (7.6 per cent) and Finestrat (11.7 per cent). In Alfaz del Pi there were 612 (2.7 per cent) fewer people registered last year than the year before. Worst off are smaller villages such as Benifato and Tarbena, who have lost 15 and 14 per cent of their population respectively. The only municipalities in Marina Baixa with a population growth were La Nucia and Villajoyosa.

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Bilbo Baggins visits Alicante THE Santa Barbara Castle in Alicante will from Friday March 27 display an exhibition where fantasy author JRR

Tolkien’s universe from the books Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit is recreated. The exhibition has been named The Fortress of the Ring and will be open to the public for a year. One of the most spectacular attractions is a recreation of the home and study of Bilbo Baggins. Visitors will also have the opportunity to enter into Gollum’s cave and witness figurines and 700 other ROAD SAFETY: No jokes about women drivers, please! collectible artefacts related to the saga of life in Middle Earth. Four rooms in the PUPILS at El Bressol, the municipal nursery school in La NuSanta Barbara Castle cia, recently had their first road safety lesson. will be dedicated to this Two Local Police officers visited the centre to introduce exhibition, while two them to the highway code as part of one of their projects in further rooms are allotheir class programme. cated to objects related The pupils, aged between two and three, later put their to the author and new knowledge about kerbside drill, pedestrian crossings Tolkien’s writing. and traffic light colours to the test in miniature cars.

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Growers held TWO men, aged 28 and 32, have been arrested at a marihuana plantation in Rojales. The 750 plants could be smelled outside the premises and the police easily got wind of the production unit.

15 years on IT’S exactly 15 years since Benidorm theme park Terra Mítica opened its gates. It has announced a special programme to celebrate its anniversary season, starting on April 1.

Loo laws THE new sanitation ordinance of the City of Valencia restricts throwing wipes, discharges from garbage or waste with strange colourations down the toilet.

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Mundomar reopens NATURE park Mundomar, located on the outskirts of Benidorm, has just announced that it will reopen its doors to visitors next month. It will open daily from April 1, and its marine and exotic animals are currently getting ready to meet visitors during the nature park’s 19th season. This year’s novelty is the arrival of new members to the great family of Mundomar. Kinkajous, also called

‘honey bears’, are natural to the rainforest of Central and South America, and have long tails which they use to climb trees. It is hoped these new inhabitants will delight visitors, especially the younger age groups, who will have the opportunity to interact and play with the zoo’s newcomers. Opening hours are from 10am to 6pm.

An archaeological summer THIS year’s archaeological youth camp in Alfaz del Pi will run from July 11 to 25. “This initiative aims at promoting respect for the archaeological heritage through contact with a search site, while simultaneously getting to know the historical and cultural heritage of Alfaz,” said Culture and Heritage Councillor, Rocío Guijarro. For 15 days the young volunteers will participate in cleaning and ex-

DIG: Youngsters gain excavation experience. cavating the site. The youngsters will also gain experience of surveying,

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2nd International Day in La Nucia THE Municipal Hall Camilo Cano in La Nucia hosted the second International Day of the municipality on Sunday. Organised by the Department for Foreign Residents, this second edition was a success with over 10,000 visitors, 2,000 more than in 2014. Thousands of people enjoyed the gastronomy, folklore and traditions of the 40 countries represented in the multicultural gathering, showing the diversity of the different nationalities living in La Nucia. This was a day packed with fun and entertainment, including live performances of music, dance and chorus from 22 different participating countries. The event began with the dance group from Senegal. Then it was the Bulgarian Balkan folklore group of La Nucia’s turn. Later in the day visitors experienced Tinkus, a Bolivian dance group, River Dance from Ireland and traditional Chilean dance among others. The second International Day was also attended by 55 different associations and clubs. Each association managing stands that showed the gastronomy, clothing, folklore, crafts culture of their respective nations.

Among the countries represented were Germany, Argentina, Belgium, Bolivia, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Croatia, Cuba, Ecuador, Scotland, Slovakia, Denmark, Spain, France, Wales, Georgia, Honduras, India, Indonesia, England, Northern Ireland, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Morocco, Mexico, Norway, Netherlands, Pakistan, Peru, Romania, Russia, Senegal, Sweden, Switzerland, Trinidad, Ukraine and Venezuela. The International Day of La Nucia was created to be a further step towards the integration of citizens of different nationalities. La Nucia currently has a population of 20,500 inhabitants, of which 43 per cent are foreigners. “I want to thank the various associations from the 40 countries who have participated in this event for displaying their country’s wonderful culture, cuisine and folklore. “This international day has been a cultural enrichment for all and a further step in our policy of encouraging the integration of all international residents in the social life of the town,” said Bernabe Cano, mayor of La Nucia.

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Tragedy of dolphin’s death A DOLPHIN died caught on a fishing line near Isla de Benidorm The specimen, an adult female, was first sighted on Sunday by a

family who alerted a group of divers in the area. The divers cut the fishing line and transported the animal to the port.

Once in the harbour, and under the watchful gaze of dozens of onlookers, veterinarians from Mundomar provided first aid and injected painkillers while waiting for staff from Oceanographic to arrive at the scene.

Upon arrival, the veterinarians from Oceanographic managed to stabilise the female dolphin by applying a drip and supplying her with water with serum and medicine. The team also treated some of the dolphin’s wounds.

However, an hour and a half later the dolphin’s condition worsened and she started to have convulsions. Faced with the dolphin’s suffering and small chance of healing the animal, the veterinarians chose to euthanise the animal.

Dutchman still missing DUTCH national Adriaan Rutgers has been missing since Wednesday February 11. The middle-aged man was last seen in Alcalali, where he disappeared from his home together with his dog Tran. At the time of his disappearance the Dutchman borrowed his neighbour’s car, an old Audi 90-station wagon with licence plate 1552 CMM, which has also gone missing. Adriaan is described as 1.8 metres tall, of slim build, and having blonde, short hair. The disappearance of Adriaan has been reported to the Guardia Civil in Jalon and Calpe.

ADRIAAN: Missing since February.

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300 fake bottles seized DURING a routine check at a club in the centre of Benidorm the Local Police in the town has seized more than 300 bottles of alcoholic beverages without seal or stamp. Among the seized bottles there were rum, gin, vodka and other liquor varieties. The club which was controlled is located in an area which is very popular with British tourists and Local Police have now pressed tax evasion charges against the distillery the club purchased the alcohol from. The origin of the spirit is still not clear. Similar controls will be conducted at other bars and nightclubs in the coming days, according to the police.

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Best wine ONE of the most important wine critics worldwide, Robert Parker, considered an Axarquia red wine, the Sedella, as the best of Andalucia in an article released by prestigious magazine ‘The Wine Advocate.’

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Youths arrested TWO minors were arrested in La Cala del Moral last weekend after they allegedly hit a woman to steal her purse. After a short chase, officers were able to catch them and confiscate the €225 they had stolen.

Damages claim MOTRIL’S Andalucian-nationalist political party has raised complaints regarding the poor condition of the industrial site Las Algaidas. They claim it is being used for illegal car races and that vandals have been damaging the facilities.

Nordic music MORE than 200 Scandinavians visited Almuñecar last weekend as they did not want to miss the chance to enjoy the performance held by renowned Swedish performer Matias Enn, at the town’s Casa de la Cultura.

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Fire damaged A 56-YEAR-OLD man died last Monday (March 16) in a fire at his flat in Palma. The fire forced all residents of the eightfloor building to be evacuated as it burnt three homes completely and damaged another 10.

Give it back THE Development Ministry has requested 796 youths from the Balearic Islands to return the monthly €210 they received for 48 months to help pay their rents as they claim they were earning more than €22,000 per year.

2014 for being unable to pay their mortgage or rent increased by 13.4 per cent compared to the previous year, reaching a total of 3,485.

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Carpet challenge SENIOR citizens in Zapillo, Almeria City, have joined up to help create the world’s largest carpet, the Sierpinski. Currently 400 centres in 32 countries are creating the carpet which is designed using fractals.

Lucky numbers A LUCKY resident of Motril won €60,000 thanks to the Once raffle last Saturday. More than €9 million went to winners of Malaga from tickets sold by a single vendor called Alejandro Narvaez.

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AMENDMENT: Compensation must now be guaranteed before demolition.

Hope for illegal home owners

OWNERS of illegal homes have seen a ray of hope thanks to a decision reached by the Spanish Senate. Parliamentary groups agreed to an amendment of the reform of the Penal Code to allow judges to delay demolition of illegal homes bought in good faith until compensation is guaranteed for the owners. The amendment was presented by PSOE socialist party, which collaborated with Abusos Urbanisticos Almanzora No (AUAN) group. Although expatriates affected by the problem had been losing hope due to a lack of evident support for their cause, the amendment is good news, although

it remains to see how judges interpret the amendment. However, it is not quite as big a move as it first seems. Historically, although property owners were sometimes awarded compensation by the courts, their properties could still be demolished before they received a cent leaving people, like the Priors, with their life savings wiped out. Under the terms of the amendment, owners must now be guaranteed compensation before demolition. However, this does not mean the house is legal, which still leaves the issue of properties that can’t be connected to the utilities or gain the correct paperwork.

Outraged fans

Encouraging schemes

THE cancellation of David Guetta’s concert scheduled for August 2, 2014 in Palma, caused 539 complaints out of the 6,685 total registered at the Consumption Office of the Balearic Islands during the last year.

COSTA DEL SOL towns will be receiving €12 million in aid for employment schemes this year, the Junta de Andalucia regional government has announced.

Sexist violence campaign

ANGEL VERGARA, a student from Fuengirola, will be representing Spain in El Salvador at the Latin-American Biology Olympics in September and is in with chances of bringing a medal home.

PALMA Council together with municipal transport company (EMT) will collaborate to raise awareness on gender-based violence. Stickers will be placed inside the town’s buses with the phrase ‘there is a way out’ and the emergency number 016.

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Investment plans

MALLORCA’S Provincial Council has spent almost €600 million in the different municipalities of the Islands since 2011. A great part of the investments went to road improvement projects.

AMERICAN investment company Blackstone continues preparations with a due diligence before purchase of 39.4 per cent of shares in Malaga Metro, valued at approximately €125 million.

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Excellent cut THE Popi Trophy, one of Spain’s biggest ham-cutting competitions, was won in Estepona by Joaquin Vazquez from Huelva, who was awarded 10 points more than the runners up for his work.

Evictions increase THE number of families that were evicted from their homes in Malaga Province in

Top choice THE Museo de Almeria has been named in China’s tourist portal Lianorg as a Top Choice for 2015. The museum was voted for by travellers from China and other Asian countries.

Water day EL EJIDO will celebrate March 22 World Water Day with various activities. Most of the activities are aimed at schoolchildren including workshops and entertainment.

No extradition THE paediatrician accused of sexually abusing children while serving at a Pulpi health centre will not be extradited to Spain until he’s served a sentence in Columbia for abusing a nine-year-old.

Caravan exodus AFTER an information campaign initiated by the consistory, illegally parked motor homes and caravans have started to leave the El Ejido coast. The campaign comes after years of leniency.

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Compensation order THE parents of three youngsters who caused the death of a car passenger in La Manga by throwing stones at the car from a bridge, have been ordered to pay compensation of more than €300,000 to the victim’s daughter and widow.

Anti-flood park ALICANTE is to open Spain’s first urban anti-flood park which will hold excess flood water but offer an environmentally sustainable natural area to maintain the ecosystem.

Popular tram ALICANTE’S trams saw 6.7 per cent more passengers use the services in February compared to the same month last year. Line 2 linking Luceros and San Vicente del Raspeig had 291,590 passengers.

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Vicar robbed at the church altar A VICAR in Alcoy (Alicante) was robbed by a thief on Saturday morning while he was alone in the church. While the priest was kneeling before the altar praying to god, the thief allegedly sneaked up on him from behind and put a sharp object against his neck.

The thief demanded any money the priest had on him, but when he happened to only be carrying a 20 eurobanknote the assailant asked the priest to show him where the offerings from the past sermons were kept. Amid negotiations with his assailant the priest allegedly stormed out of the church. When the pastor felt he was safe, he called the Local Police, who shortly after arrested the thief in Tintes, just outLLIBER is hosting its first Medieval Market this week- side Alcoy. Despite the fact the end. The event is partly organised by Amata and the rest thief was carrying a balaclava the priest recogby enthusiastic citizens. On Saturday March 21 the town square will come nised the perpetratorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s alive from 11am to 9pm with stalls for the sale of voice, clothing and the regional products, handicrafts by the Amas de Casa strong smell of perfume. According to the priest and work of artisans. There will be music, a corner for animals and many the thief was later released from custody, but childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s games will be held during the day. During the following Sunday a contest of short sto- ordered to stay at least ries and an almond cake baking contest will become 300 metres away from the church. the focus of the medieval festival.

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GERMAN PRESS Volunteer fighter buried

BRITISH PRESS Temp work

Packs alike

NORWAY: This week Norway’s right-wing government introduced significant changes to the country’s Working Environment Act, granting general permission to temporary employment and more Sunday working.

BRITAIN has introduced even stricter laws for the country’s smokers. From next year, all cigarette packs will look identical, except for the name and type. All packages should also have pictorial warnings.

Animal porn DENMARK: Animal brothels, animal pornography and having sex with animals are still legal in Denmark. However, hacker community Anonymous has now launched a campaign by attacking 20 websites in an attempt to eradicate animal pornography from the internet.

Peace prize NORWAY: Former Norwegian Prime Minister and Secretary General of the European Councill Thorbjørn Jagland was overthrown as chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee. Commentators said Jagland was sacrificed to normalise bilateral relations between Norway and China.

Speedy net DENMARK: Denmark has the world’s fastest broadband. A group of Finnish researchers have measured the country’s average broadband speed as 22.3 Mb/s, way ahead of runner-up Singapore with 16.9 Mb/s.

Non grata SWEDEN: The country’s termination of a military agreement with Saudi Arabia has brought joy to the country’s leftwing voters. Internationally Sweden is now a country non-grata in the Middle East.

No weapons aid BRITAIN will not send weapons to Ukraine. “We want a diplomatic solution to the armed conflict in the country,” said William Hague.

when the user will suffer a heart attack and cardiologists are hoping the service will serve as an early wake up call.

Leaving the army K E N S I N G T O N Palace has confirmed that Prince Harry will be leaving the British Army at the end of June after 10 years of service. The prince was quoted as saying he found it a ‘tough decision.’

MORE than 2,000 people attended Ivana Hoffman’s funeral. She was one of around 100 western fighters who have been fighting ISIS in Northern Syria. Her funeral in Duisburg was attended by a passionate crowd waving flags as her body was taken through the streets to be buried.

No road tax

Research prize

THE European Union has blocked Germany from introducing a road tax targeting tourists using the Autobahn, calling the proposal discriminatory.

THE Holberg Prize 2015 was awarded to British author Marina Warner for her research on fairy tales and myths. The award is considered one of the world’s most important research prizes and named the ‘Nobel Prize’ of the humanities.

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Online calculator

CIGARETTE PACKS: They will all look identical from next year, except for name and type.

T H E NHS has launched a simple and userfriendly service to get people to lose weight and stop smoking. The online calculator will estimate

RUSSIAN PRESS New friends

Thousands bid farewell

ACCORDING to Russian authorities North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has been invited to Moscow in May. He has agreed to participate in the 70th anniversary of the Soviet victory over Nazi-Germany.

RUSSIANS in their thousands marched through Moscow’s streets in memory and honour of opposition leader Boris Nemtsov, who was shot dead on the street near the Kremlin.

PRESIDENT PUTIN: An easy winner.

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Mental test RUSSIAN Senator Anton Belyakov, who thinks voters have the right to know everything about the candidates in political elections, is hoping for support in the Russian upper house to oblige politicians to produce certificates regarding their mental health.

Putin holds strong IF presidential elections were held this weekend President Putin would be an easy winner, according to independent pollster Levada.

Bad coach A RUSSIAN football coach has the whole of the country breathing down his neck after the release of a video showing the coach kicking a seven-year-old boy.

THE country’s largest trade union, IG Metall, has ensured its members a solid pay increase this year. According to the agreement its members get a 3.4 per cent salary increase for a 15-month period, plus a one-time payment of €150.

Wassergate GERMANY had its own variation of the Watergate scandal. The new headquarters of the German Intelligence Service (BND) was flooded after thieves stole water taps.

No racist beer GERMANY still has problems with Nazism. The German football club Borussia Dortmund has therefore decided to run a campaign called No Beer For Racists, and printed one million beer mats to be used in pubs around town.

Harsh penalty A COURT in Singapore has sentenced two Germans to nine months in prison and three lashes each for vandalism. The men, aged 21 and 22, admitted painting graffiti on a train.

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business & legal Castellon airport alive AFTER four years in limbo, Castellon airport is stirring into life. Ryanair will become the first company to operate commercial flights from the white elephant airport. It opened in March 2011 and cost Valencia’s regional government €120 million to

build, plus €50 million in budget overruns, compensation and overheads. To date it has been used only by charters and private aircraft. Detecting a tourism potential similar to Alicante and Cataluña’s, the Irish budget airline will fly regularly

No bank debts for Mercadona MERCADONA is in a solid financial position. At the end of 2014 it possessed €2.883 billion in cash and owed nothing to the banks. Its cash position was a record for the company and more than doubled the 2008 figure of €1.287 billion. It was in 2008 that Mercadona had more than €1 billion in available cash for the first time and although it trailed a financial debt, this was not large. In 2006 it had short and long-term financial debts of €19.1 million, gradually reducing these until they finally disappeared from the company’s balance sheets in 2012.

Mercadona’s net cash has continued to grow, increasing by 11.6 per cent between 2013 and 2014 despite spending €655 million on 60 new supermarkets, renovating 30 more and building a logistics centre in Abrera (Barcelona). The supermarket chain’s only liabilities correspond to payments to suppliers, a constantly fluctuating sum that at the end of the financial year stood at €2.096 billion. The chain acquired products worth €14.9 billion in 2014 and on average paid suppliers within 51 days after delivery, compared with 53 days in 2013.

between Castellon, Britain, Germany and Sweden. Canadian multinational SNC-Lavalin is the company which now runs the airport and hopes to receive 250 flights and 35,000 passengers this year. They are also negotiating with other companies, sources said.

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Looking ahead BFA, state-owned mother company of partnationalised Bankia, allocated €943 million for possible compensation to clients who were missold preference shares or lost savings in Bankia’s flawed 2011 flotation.

Big contract PUBLICLY-OWNED Navantia will build three oil tankers with an option for three more ‘at international prices’ for Basque company Ondimar Transportes Maritimos. The end client is probably Cepsa.

Taxmen pay surprise visits SANTIAGO MENENDEZ, director general of Hacienda’s tax agency AEAT, recently detailed last year’s achievements. These included tracking down undeclared house and apartment rentals by cross-checking unexplained electricity and water consumption in properties that their owners claimed were empty. Web-pages were scrutinised and Hacienda inspectors spoke to concier-

ges and residents of randomly chosen apartment buildings. They paid 7,410 visits to properties whose rentals they suspected were not declared. In tourist areas inspectors questioned parents waiting to pick up their children from school. This helped detect 145 cases of foreign residents who had informed their own tax authorities they lived in Spain, where they paid tax at the lower non-residents’ rate.

STAT OF WEEK IN 2014, 46 per cent of Spanish employers dismissed staff, compared to 56 per cent in 2013. Sixty-three per cent expect to take on staff this year, they said.

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PRICE CHANGE %CHANGE VOLUME 162.74 80.60 32.76 151.57 79.23 101.62 27.94 39.91 106.44 80.50 83.87 25.04 189.34 114.82 154.28 30.93 99.21 61.00 96.35 56.20 41.38 95.81 34.00 81.83 106.72 118.74 115.25 48.84 265.03 81.90

-1.73 -0.96 -0.37 -0.47 -0.96 -0.80 -0.30 -0.66 -0.73 +0.10 -0.35 -0.36 -0.61 -1.28 -3.70 +0.13 -0.62 -0.37 +0.10 +0.03 +0.36 -1.23 0.00 -0.26 -1.11 -2.50 +0.37 +0.11 -4.55 0.00

-1.05% -1.18% -1.12% -0.31% -1.20% -0.78% -1.06% -1.63% -0.68% +0.12% -0.42% -1.42% -0.32% -1.10% -2.34% +0.42% -0.62% -0.60% +0.10% +0.05% +0.88% -1.27% 0.00% -0.32% -1.03% -2.06% +0.32% +0.23% -1.69% 0.00%

2.3M 6.9M 26.8M 3.6M 7.3M 8.3M 36.5M 17.4M 8.0M 8.9M 16.8M 45.3M 3.1M 4.6M 6.1M 48.0M 7.8M 16.5M 5.2M 13.1M 58.0M 3.7M 28.1M 7.5M 1.7M 7.4M 3.1M 20.7M 3.1M 4.8M

1.40363

0.71243

C H A N G E ( P ) % C H G. -2.25 7.00 0.05 3.50 24.00 1.50 26.50

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-0.06 0.85 0.01 0.19 1.30 0.13 0.85

NET VOLUME 67,881.63 8,209.13 36,555.37 6,162.00 8,203.62 7,737.15 6,690.03

PRICE

CHANGE NET / %

$ 2.90 $ 31.31 $ 13.24 $ 24.87 $ 29.52 $ 55.66 $ 21.20 $ 95.66 $ 27.10 $ 4.80 $ 4.25

0.52 ▲ 21.85% 4.49 ▲ 16.74% 1.81 ▲ 15.84% 3.38 ▲ 15.73% 3.91 ▲ 15.27% 7.14 ▲ 14.72% 2.50 ▲ 13.37% 11.08 ▲ 13.10% 3.10 ▲ 12.92% 0.48 ▲ 11.11% 0.40 ▲ 10.39%

$ 5.90 $ 6.12 $ 4.25 $ 30.13 $ 9.26 $ 23.73 $ 23.02 $ 2.55 $ 2.41 $ 17.57 $ 4.37

1.86 ▼ 23.97% 1.08 ▼ 15% 0.64 ▼ 13.09% 4.33 ▼ 12.57% 1.15 ▼ 11.05% 2.70 ▼ 10.22% 2.43 ▼ 9.55% 0.2572 ▼ 9.16% 0.23 ▼ 8.71% 1.62 ▼ 8.44% 0.40 ▼ 8.39%

Most Advanced Amarin Corporation PLC Repligen Corporation Akebia Therapeutics, Inc. QAD Inc. Ebix, Inc. Anacor Pharmaceuticals, Inc. QAD Inc. GW Pharmaceuticals Plc El Pollo Loco Holdings, Inc. China XD Plastics Company Limited BioScrip, Inc.

Most Declined Ignite Restaurant Group, Inc. Escalera Resources Co. Aemetis, Inc FTD Companies, Inc. Marinus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Citi Trends, Inc. Epizyme, Inc. UTStarcom Holdings Corp Atlanticus Holdings Corporation Theravance, Inc. TetraLogic Pharmaceuticals Corporation

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C O M PA N Y PRICE(P) CHANGE Centrica 237.80 -0.10 Coca-Cola HBC 1,112.00 -8.00 Compass Group 1,185.50 18.50 CRH 1,759.50 -51.50 Diageo 1,855.75 -8.25 Direct Line Insurance 320.35 0.85 Dixons Carphone 427.80 1.10 easyJet 1,728.00 -3.00 Experian 1,125.50 -4.50 Fresnillo 646.50 0.00 Friends Life Group 416.85 3.15 G4S 293.25 0.85 GKN 371.35 2.65 GlaxoSmithKline 1,565.00 5.00 Glencore 276.38 -0.97 Hammerson 660.25 4.75 Hargreaves Lansdown 1,135.50 15.50 HSBC Holdings 563.50 2.20 Imperial Tobacco Group 3,099.00 3.00 InterContinental Hotels 2,669.00 30.00 International Consoldtd 578.25 2.75 Intertek Group 2,561.00 12.00 Intu Properties 345.25 3.25 ITV 252.35 1.55 Johnson Matthey 3,318.00 68.00 Kingfisher 356.60 1.90 Land Securities Group 1,226.00 6.00 Legal & General Group 287.90 2.10 Lloyds Banking Group ORD 79.04 0.04 London Stock Exchange 2,514.50 24.50 Marks & Spencer Group 498.75 5.15 Meggitt 583.25 8.25 Mondi 1,350.50 10.50 Morrison (Wm) Sprmrkts 201.55 -2.45 National Grid 851.40 0.70 Next 7,440.00 90.00 Old Mutual 224.10 1.70 Pearson 1,466.50 12.50 Persimmon 1,742.00 1.00 Prudential 1,689.25 19.25 Randgold Resources 4,654.00 85.00 Reckitt Benckiser Group 5,867.50 27.50 Reed Elsevier 1,138.00 13.00 Rio Tinto 2,832.25 22.75 Rolls-Royce Group 969.25 -0.25 Royal Bank of Scotland 354.70 -1.50 Royal Dutch Shell 1,921.75 0.25 Royal Dutch Shell 2,012.50 7.00 Royal Mail 431.60 1.60 RSA Insurance Group 421.45 0.95 SABMiller 3,638.25 0.75 Sage Group (The) 474.85 2.15 Sainsbury (J) 257.80 -1.30 Schroders 3,245.50 37.50 Severn Trent 1,946.50 -0.50 Shire 5,475.00 -50.00 Sky 1,000.25 4.25 Smith & Nephew 1,136.50 3.50 Smiths Group 1,167.00 4.00 Sports Direct Internatnl 661.75 4.75 SSE 1,465.00 3.00 St James's Place 942.50 8.50 Standard Chartered 960.95 5.75 Standard Life 467.00 11.00 Taylor Wimpey 149.25 0.65 Tesco 233.75 0.90 Travis Perkins 1,944.50 4.50 TUI AG 1,174.50 6.50 Tullow Oil 298.95 0.65 Unilever 2,855.00 10.00 United Utilities Group 891.75 -2.25 Vodafone Group 221.00 2.05 Weir Group 1,762.50 -25.50 Whitbread 5,380.00 45.00 Wolseley 4,132.50 31.50 WPP Group 1,574.50 10.50

% C H G. -0.04 -0.71 1.59 -2.84 -0.44 0.27 0.26 -0.17 -0.40 0.00 0.76 0.29 0.72 0.32 -0.35 0.72 1.38 0.39 0.10 1.14 0.48 0.47 0.95 0.62 2.09 0.54 0.49 0.73 0.05 0.98 1.04 1.43 0.78 -1.20 0.08 1.22 0.76 0.86 0.06 1.15 1.86 0.47 1.16 0.81 -0.03 -0.42 0.01 0.35 0.37 0.23 0.02 0.45 -0.50 1.17 -0.03 -0.90 0.43 0.31 0.34 0.72 0.21 0.91 0.60 2.41 0.44 0.39 0.23 0.56 0.22 0.35 -0.25 0.94 -1.43 0.84 0.77 0.67

VOLUME 11,994.93 4,040.91 19,294.70 14,723.65 47,339.79 4,815.00 4,947.98 6,879.65 11,304.45 4,815.60 5,908.16 4,507.38 6,011.12 75,315.65 37,414.52 5,094.00 5,298.14 107,668.97 29,526.25 6,266.55 11,621.72 4,098.59 4,456.18 10,035.42 6,719.25 8,295.90 9,470.57 16,952.73 56,528.00 8,639.22 8,079.79 4,475.69 4,884.30 4,847.63 32,168.87 11,305.00 10,971.09 11,871.91 5,326.28 42,625.15 4,257.81 40,978.07 12,729.95 40,402.16 18,167.02 22,929.96 76,401.83 50,101.63 4,258.00 4,256.92 58,620.87 5,134.12 5,047.78 7,221.42 4,713.58 32,186.56 17,035.46 10,200.13 4,602.84 3,916.95 14,725.47 4,921.76 24,207.65 10,978.20 4,831.39 19,149.95 4,891.99 N/A 2,806.66 36,180.72 6,154.04 57,499.15 3,898.47 9,545.66 10,534.59 20,364.59

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Recession. What recession? WHEN businesses fail it is easy to blame the recession. In all but a few cases that argument doesn’t stack up. Failure is more often due to complacency and hapless management. Obliged to occasionally visit a splendidly situated restaurant, I hated the place as the service was excruciatingly bad. The owner, due to poor business, closed for the winter. Is he under the illusion that a little sunshine is enough to compensate for offhand foot-dragging staff? Other restaurants lacking such beautiful surroundings thrive. It is service, not location, that puts bums on seats. Having moved home I no longer

Talking shop Mike Walsh Mike Walsh was for 20 years Regional Assessment Manager for the Guild of Master Craftsmen, Britain’s biggest quality assurance body for businesses.

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shopped at Ferreteria La Florida near Torrevieja. Then, stuck for an item, I recalled how helpful the hardware store had been in the past. On this occasion I hardly recognised it. The business was bigger and busier.

Complimenting the owner, Juan, I remarked on the evident success of his business. He explained that he had since opened another branch in Quesada. I knew why he had succeeded during the most difficult years of the downturn but I asked him anyway what he owed to his success. “Service,” Juan explained and then confirmed everything I had assumed. His business mission is to offer a service that cannot be faulted. Unfortunately, well run businesses are few and far between, ineptitude being the No 1 business killer. It was a pleasing surprise during the same week to make the acquaintance of Oscar and

David, owners of a computer repair business. Having really messed up my mobile phone I was fed up to say the least. Before I even reached the counter, a cheery customer greeted me and smiled, “You have come to the right place.” Although my problem was minor in business terms I was given five star business service. As a new customer I was introduced to the staff, given a tour and my problem was fixed whilst I enjoyed a coffee. Oscar and David will grow their business, because there is still desperate need for competence and recognition that the customer is king.

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How much to make you happy? Loose change A look at finance for females

Jane Plunkett jane.plunkett@euroweeklynews.com

YOUR local hairdresser hasn’t got a salary anything like a top executive, but they are just as happy with life, a new study suggests. Average salaries of over 200 different occupations were compared with workers’ reported levels of happiness, and while the study found that in general the higher the salary the happier workers reported to be, not all jobs fitted the trend. Fitness instructors in the UK, for example, take home an average of €14,000 a year, but are actually happier than lawyers who earn an average

HAIRDRESSERS: Perhaps not top earners, but they are just as happy with life. of €90,000. Meanwhile dental nurses, who earn an average of €20,000 were found to be happier than dentists who make an average of €65,000.

The study says that there is definitely a correlation between income and happiness, but that money actually buys less happiness than people

assume. And in some ways, it buys happiness only up to a certain point. Workers earning over €100,000 and upwards annually are not any happier

Change for UK Civil Service Pensions Q. My UK Air Force pension, along with my old-age pension, is taxed at source in the UK. When I made my first tax declaration as a Spanish resident last year, I declared these pensions to my Spanish tax consultant. She charged me a further tax of seven

per cent, saying the UK tax charged was 20 per cent and in Spain it is 27 per cent. Is this correct? I have read that, with the UK-Spain dual tax agreement, armed forces pensions are not subject to tax in Spain. M.G. (email)

You and the Law in Spain By David Searl

A. First, your tax consultant is right about the difference between UK and Spanish tax. Your normal old-age pension is indeed subject to Spanish income tax. Because you were already taxed in the UK, she is right to assess you the difference of seven per cent now that you are resident in Spain. However, she was not right to assess you the full amount of 27 per cent on your Air Force or other Civil Service pension. These pensions have been, as you have read, not subject to Spanish income tax. If you wish to make a claim for overpayment, you can return to your consultant and check to see if she charged you

for the full amount. Perhaps she only charged you for the old-age pension dif-

ference. Remember, if you declared last year, 2014, this was for tax year 2013. You want to be sure when you declare for last year’s tax, 2014, you are not charged for your Air Force pension. As a result of a revised new tax agreement between Spain and the UK, Civil Service and other government pensions must now be declared. Article 18 of the new treaty, in Paragraphs 1 and 2, says the amount of a Civil Service pension will now be added to any other income, in order to determine the tax rate charged. Then the Civil Service income will be subtracted from the total. The remaining amount will then be taxed at the new, and probably higher, rate. This complicated operation allows the Spanish Tax Agency to collect some more tax while maintaining the principle that Civil Service pensions are not taxable.

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

than those earning a good salary below €100,000. Happiness levels don’t keep rising the more money one has! It turns out, what you do with your money seems to matter just as much to your happiness as how much you make. And the advice is to spend on experiences and not stuff. Material goods may last longer, but studies shows that life experiences - like trips, fancy dinners, and spa treatments - provide a person with much more satisfaction in the long run. For example, if you are a fan of the theatre, then go buy tickets to a play. That will make you happy. However don’t waste your money on experiences that are not your thing, as this type of spending is likely to leave us feeling just as empty as spending money on possessions that lose their novelty minutes after we buy them!

BUSINESS EXTRA

Oil from afar SPAIN imported 4.6 million tons of oil from 32 countries in January, 8.3 per cent below January 2014. Principal suppliers were Nigeria with 22 per cent of the total, followed by Angola (14 per cent) and Saudi Arabia (14 per cent) while imports from the US, Russia and Mexico all fell.

Gap widens WITH the exception of Asturias, northern regions outperformed those in the south, said Fitch Ratings. Best results came from Navarra whose GDP declined by 3.86 per cent between 2008-2013 compared with 5.96 per cent nationally. Asturias’s GDP fell by 9 per cent followed by Murcia, Valencia and Extremadura’s 8 per cent.

Service record TRAFFIC increased on motorways last year, said toll road operator Abertis although there has been an accumulated 34 per cent reduction since 2007. With takings at service areas falling proportionately, the company is remodelling those on the AP-7, AP-2 and AP-68 to attract more custom, announced director general Antoni Español.

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OTHERS THINK IT

E’VE all done it, haven’t we? Finally ensconced in your ‘avion’ seat and ready to fly, your heart lifts slightly as you notice the two seats beside you are still empty. Glancing up, you also observe there are only a few unseated passengers still left in the aisles. With what appears to be all the travellers now on board, you tentatively allow yourself to consider that maybe, just maybe, you are the only occupant of your row of three - with all the freedom of movement and luxurious ‘spreading’ this unexpected flying bonus can provide. Wrong. Suddenly there is a bustle of activity and move-

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LEAPY LEE SAYS IT

ment at the door. With much huffing, puffing and considerable disruption, the whole plane is subsequently confronted by two of the largest people it is possible to imagine. An enormous man and woman, clutching baggage and bags about their persons, have entered the cabin and begun to make their laborious journey down the centre of the plane. Frantically you glance around. Are there any other empty seats in the vicinity they could be heading for? Of course there aren’t. Puffing and panting they pause and peer happily at the numbers above your seat. You and your unexpected luxury have just disintegrated into an uncomfortable nightmare. As they noisily and disruptively begin to place their baggage in the overhead compartments, you reluctantly unbuckle your, somewhat optimistically, fastened seat belt.

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The trials of flying ‘coach’

DASHED: Hopes of vacant seats beside you turn into a nightmare. Rising from your aisle seat (chosen for maximum freedom), you step aside and allow the couple to squeeze and wheeze their way into the seats that should really have contained your newspapers, magazines and repasts for the ensuing flight. (Dream on, Leapy!) The female vibrates down into her window seat and the

male (by far the largest) squashes down beside you. One enormous arm forces yours to the rear of the armrest, and there is now enough of your upper torso hanging in the aisle to make contact with most of the people who pass by, and especially the carts. And those, my dear esteemed readers, are the cir-

cumstances I am now enduring as I attempt to scribble this week’s blurb. I have complained, once, and was duly informed, in a guttural German accent (what else!), that he was ‘not interferink viz me’. Ah well, he’s too unpleasant to argue with. Goodbye the illusion of first-class silver service travel and hello the crunched-up reality of plastic forks, large rubbish bags, and the horrible discomfort of modern-day ‘coach’. “To the older amongst us who remember him, Leapy Lee (Little Arrows) died at the beginning of March this year.” So announced my obituary published this month in a local community journal. Still here, I’m afraid, folks. You don’t get rid of me that easily!

Keep the faith Love Leapy leapylee2002@gmail.com Web: Leapylee.co.uk

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CH4 8:35am 3rd Rock from the Sun 9:00am Everybody Loves Raymond 9:30am Everybody Loves Raymond 10:00am Frasier 10:30am Frasier 11:00am Undercover Boss Canada 12:00pm Kevin McCloud's Man Made Home 1:00pm Channel 4 News Summary 1:05pm Come Dine with Me 2:05pm A Place in the Sun: Winter Sun

CH5 9:00am Ben and Holly's Little Kingdom 9:15am Peppa Pig 9:25am Peppa Pig 9:35am Toby's Travelling Circus 9:45am Bananas in Pajamas 10:00am Tickety Toc 10:15am The Wright Stuff 12:10pm The Hotel Inspector 1:10pm 5 News Lunchtime 1:15pm Can't Pay? We'll Take it Away! 2:15pm Home and Away 2:45pm Neighbours

THURSDAY TV SKY 1 7:00am Nothing to Declare: Australia 7:30am Nothing to Declare: Australia 8:00am Inside RAF Brize Norton 9:00am Emergency with Angela Griffin 10:00am NCIS: Los Angeles 11:00am NCIS: Los Angeles 12:00pm Hawaii Five-0 1:00pm Hawaii Five-0 2:00pm NCIS: Los Angeles

3pm 3:00pm The World at War 3:55pm Wogan: The Best of 4:40pm Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em 5:15pm Three Up, Two Down 5:45pm Hi-De-Hi!

3:00pm Judge Rinder 4:00pm Dickinson's Real Deal 5:00pm 1000 Heartbeats

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

9:00pm Stargazing Live 10:00pm Banished 11:00pm Stargazing Live 11:30pm Newsnight

9:00pm Emmerdale 9:30pm Double Decker Driving School 10:00pm The Triplets are Coming! 11:00pm ITV News at Ten and Weather 11:40pm The Great War: The People's Story

9:00pm The Supervet 10:00pm Things We Won't Say About Race That are True 11:25pm Britain's Benefit Tenants

9:00pm Britain's Worst Crimes 10:00pm Holiday Love Rats Exposed 11:00pm The Mentalist 11:55pm Mummy's Little Murderer

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12:40am River Monsters 1:10am Jackpot247 4:00am The Jeremy Kyle Show USA 4:40am ITV Nightscreen Text-based information service.

12:30am Raised by Wolves 12:55am Junk Food Kids: Who's to Blame? 1:50am Underage and Gay 2:45am Food Unwrapped 3:45am Dispatches 4:15am Secret Location 5:10am Phil Spencer: Secret Agent

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8:30am Motorway Patrol 9:00am Minder 10:05am Ax Men 11:00am The Professionals 12:00pm The Car Chasers 1:00pm The Car Chasers 1:30pm The Car Chasers 2:00pm Minder 3:00pm Ax Men 3:55pm Hogan's Heroes 4:30pm Hogan's Heroes 5:00pm Motorway Patrol 5:25pm The Professionals 6:30pm UEFA Europa League Live 11:30pm ICC Cricket World Cup Highlights 12:30am Fearless

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9pm 9:00pm MasterChef 10:00pm The Truth About Sugar 11:00pm BBC News at Ten 11:25pm BBC London News 11:45pm Question Time

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Lucy Worsley tells the story of Bolsover Castle in Derbyshire.

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7:55am The Fast and the Furious 9:55am 2 Fast 2 Furious 11:55am The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift Teenage car-racing addict Sean is sent to live with his dad in Tokyo.

1:50pm Fast and Furious 6 4:05pm The Fast and the Furious 6:05pm 2 Fast 2 Furious 8:05pm The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift 10:00pm Fast and Furious 6 12:10am A Man Apart 2:05am The Canyons Drama following the twisted relationships of a group of Hollywood hopefuls.

3:50am American Gigolo 5:50am Point Last Seen

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7:00am Very Good Girls 8:35am Brick Mansions 10:10am A Thousand Times Goodnight 12:10pm Finders Keepers

7:00am Conspiracy Theory with Jesse Ventura 7:45am Gunsmoke 8:40am Gunsmoke 9:40am Behold a Pale Horse 11:55am Yesterday's Enemy

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Your Pension Options From April Deciding what to do with your pension savings after the changes on 6th April is likely to be one of the biggest financial decisions you ever make, because it affects your longterm financial security. With careful consideration and planning the new rules could open up attractive opportunities. Getting it wrong, however, could have serious and unexpected consequences in future. Specialist advice is essential more so because as an expatriate you need to consider the tax rules and implications in Spain. Defined contribution schemes The new rules apply to those aged 55 and over with defined contribution schemes. In summary, your options are • Take the whole fund out as cash in one go. • Make withdrawals of any amount as and when you want. The balance can remain invested. • Take regular income through income drawdown. You draw directly from the pension fund,

By Gary Cardwell, Partner, Blevins Franks which remains invested. • It should be possible to take the 25% tax free lump sum straightaway and take taxable income through income drawdown at a later date. The lump sum is only tax free in the UK; you need to look at the rules of your country of residence. • Take a secure regular income through buying an annuity. If you do choose to take all or much of your fund as cash, you

should first ensure you have a reliable plan for your long-term financial security. What about the 55% ‘death tax’? Currently, it is normally only possible to pass a pension on as a tax-free lump sum if you die before age 75 and you have not taken any tax-free cash or income. Otherwise, lump sums paid from the fund are subject to a 55% tax charge. From April 2015 this charge will be abolished. If you die before age 75, your beneficiaries can take the whole pension fund as a lump sum or draw an income tax free. If you die after age 75, if your beneficiaries take a regular income, it will be taxed at their marginal rate. If they take the whole fund as a lump sum it will be subject to 45% tax, though this may change from 2016. Annuities will be treated in the same way as drawdown pensions in respect of death benefits. However

final salary schemes are not. Defined benefit pensions If you have a defined benefit scheme (e.g. final salary), you could consider transferring to a defined contribution scheme. From April it will no longer be possible to transfer from unfunded public sector schemes. Note that you could lose very valuable benefits if you transfer out of a defined benefit pension; it is essential you understand all the consequences and make a carefully considered decision. The government has imposed a rule that anyone thinking of transferring out of a defined benefit scheme must receive advice from a pension transfer specialist regulated by the UK Financial Conduct Authority. For peace of mind, you should apply this advice to all your pension decisions - i.e. speak to a regulated adviser. You want to ensure you receive a high level of trustworthy advice when

determining what to do with your pension. If this all sounds complicated, it is because it is. And you cannot afford to get it wrong. You need to weigh up all your options, including Qualifying Recognised Overseas Pension Schemes (QROPS), before you can determine what is best for you. You need advice from a firm that specialises in both pensions and taxation, and for both the UK and Spain. Tax rates, scope and reliefs may change. Any statements concerning taxation are based upon our understanding of current taxation laws and practices which are subject to change. Tax information has been summarised; an individual is advised to seek personalised advice. To keep in touch with the latest developments in the offshore world, check out the latest news on our website www.blevinsfranks.com.

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The poignancy of old letters “M

Y Dearest Kathleen, This is a last letter before I cross over the border into Spain. I will post it in the border town and then I will be on Spanish territory. This is a terrible long journey we are on now - about 15-hours.” There is a poignancy about letters written during times we can scarcely identify with. The letter was written to my mother, then my father’s fiancé, before a clandestine mountain crossing into Spain where Civil War raged. Father and his companions had hitch-hiked from England to Spain as members of the International Brigade to fight Fascism. Later, letters were written during lulls in furious hand-to-hand fighting between Nationalists and Republicans at the Jarama

Mike Walsh Mike, based in Mediterranean Spain, is an international journalist, author and professional writer.

River near Madrid. A Nationalist force of 40,000 men, including men from the Army of Africa, had crossed the Jarama River on February, 11, 1937. On February 12, at what became known as Suicide Hill, the Republicans suffered heavy casualties. Tom Winteringham, the British commander, was forced to order a retreat back to the next ridge. The Nationalists advanced up Suicide Hill to be routed by Republican machine-gun fire. Coming under heavy fire, the British down to 160 men out of the original 600, established defensive positions along a sunken road. The attrition rate was worse than that at Ypres.

IN THE TRENCHES: Where notes were scribbled.

WOUNDED IN ACTION: The consequences of war.

On February 23, led by Robert Merriman, 373 members of the Abraham Lincoln Battalion moved into the trenches. When they were ordered over the top they were backed by a pair of tanks from the Soviet Union. On the first day 20 men were killed and nearly 60 wounded. February 27: “Of the 263 men who went into action that day only 150 survived. One soldier

Fred Copeman was wounded but survived. He later wrote about meeting Kit Conway at the hospital at Jarma: “Kit was obviously dying, in terrible agony, but his one concern was that he may have been responsible for the slaughter that had taken place. Of 630 men that had entered the line, not more than 80 were left unwounded, and the percentage killed was very high. It was hard to

remarked afterwards: “The battalion was named after Abraham Lincoln because he too was assassinated.” Edwin Rolfe survived but wrote: “When we were pulled out of the lines I felt very tired and lonely and guilty. Lonely because half of the battalion had been badly shot up. “And guilty because I felt I didn’t deserve to be alive now, with Arnold and Nick and Paul dead.”

Y father believed that everyone possessed a talent of some description and regardless of background or education; each is born with a skill that sets them apart from the crowd. Being of average academic ability, with neither an artistic nor practical bent, I doubted that statement, because skill and talent to me were synonymous with success and making money. Much later on I realised that the true meaning of success goes much deeper. Dad worked in a factory all his life, but in his spare time he would retire to his shed and knock up a piece of furniture or model aeroplane. And occasionally he would produce a watercolour painting of some rural landscape. He was no Hepplewhite or Rembrandt, but he had a certain talent for these things and more to the point, it gave him pleasure. At the Orihuela Medieval Market, I was fascinated by a bloke who entertained the crowds by sticking flaming sticks into his mouth and

FIRE EATING: An interesting way of spending one’s life.

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blowing out long plumes of liquid fire. I spent an interesting hour

in the bar with him, trying to understand why anyone would choose fire eating as a way of life - although I kept a respectable distance between us, in case he decided to light up a ciggie. As bizarre as it all sounded, he is good at what he does and he travels to other loca-

tions in Spain and Europe throughout the year to take part in similar festivals. He admitted it is a hard life, but he is thoroughly content with his lot, and by definition therefore is successful. The king of them all though, was surely Joseph Pujol, a Frenchman who

convince him that our fighting had taken place in the toughest, bloodiest battle of the whole Spanish campaign, in defence of the Madrid-Valencia road.” My father’s notes, scribbled in those trenches, tell their story. And for what did they give their lives? Today, young men flock to Ukraine; The only thing men never learn from history is they don’t learn from history.

went under the stage name of Le Pétomane. His act was quite unique and he became something of a celebrity in his day as a renowned flatulist. In other words he fluffed on stage for money. He was a baker by trade, and he would often entertain his customers by imitating musical instruments as they waited for their French sticks. Personally, I would never be able to look a custard slice in the face again if my baker insisted on trumping his way through Frère Jacques as he was serving me. Some of his specialities included sound effects of cannon fire and thunderstorms. He was able to blow a candle out at 10 paces, and at his peak, he appeared regularly at the Moulin Rouge in Paris. He died in 1945 at the age of 88 and was buried and not cremated, presumably on the basis that this would have been far too risky. My dad was right though. We all possess a talent of some sort, as off the wall as it might be.

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A child becomes obsessed with a mysterious doll she finds in her new home.

11:45am Very Good Girls 1:25pm Blended 3:25pm Edge of Tomorrow 5:20pm Next Goal Wins 7:00pm Blended 9:00pm Edge of Tomorrow 11:00pm The Longest Week 12:30am Kill the Irishman Biopic of Danny Greene, the Irish-American dockworker who engineers a corrupt rise to power.

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Time for changing partners A weekly look - and not entirely impartial reaction to the Spanish political scene

THE Partido Popular is in a cleft stick over Ciudadanos. The government knows that it owed its vast 2011 overall majority to voters who were not natural PP voters. To prevent their desertion in this year’s elections, Rajoy has constantly condemned Podemos for its radical domestic and international policies, citing his own party as a safe haven for the Centre. Then along came a genuine Centre party, Ciudadanos, which is attracting the many non-PP voters who put Rajoy in power. Now the PP is flailing around for a valid argument to undercut this potential vote-stealer. Rajoy’s big problem is not keeping the hardcore Right electorate happy but wooing

the uncommitted. He did it in 2011 but he won’t do it twice: not with Ciudadanos and Podemos around.

Ancient history WHATEVER boils and seethes behind the Partido Popular scenes the party strives to present an image of calm. Only Madrid’s new mayoral candidate Esperanza Aguirre happily makes waves on the deceptively calm millpond. She has shrugged off critics’ accusations that she is “very conservative” by citing the PP’s candidate for the presidency of the Madrid autonomous region, Cristina Cifuentes. She entered politics from the youth movement of PP’s ultra-conservative forerunner Alianza Popular, retorted a waspish Aguirre. Not the best of arguments, Espe. A background in the

Watch your back

neo-fascist Movimiento did not stop Adolfo Suarez from transforming into Spain’s first - and still best-loved - president during the Transition to democracy.

Run for cover PP MADRID.

Cassandra Nash

ESPERANZA AGUIRRE: Abhorred and adored. ESPERANZA AGUIRRE will, as she hoped, run as Madrid mayor. A former minister with Aznar and ex-president of the Madrid autonomous region Aguirre is as abhorred as she is adored and victory is no longer assured in a four-horse PP, PSOE, Podemos and Ciudadanos race. Rajoy can never forget that Aguirre tried to topple him in 2008 after he lost the general elections for the second time running. If she makes it to city hall he can at least heed the old warning attributed to both Machiavelli and Michael Corleone: “Keep your friends close and your enemies closer.”

UNDER Spain’s legal system judge Pablo Ruz now moves from the National High Court he presides in Madrid. The instructing judge on the high-profile Gurtel and Barcenas corruption cases was offered the option of remaining to tie up loose ends on other investigations involving Cataluña’s expresident Jordi Pujol and Barcelona football club’s former president, Sandro Rosell. Ruz preferred not to, sources said, and his successor Jose de la Mata can take them over. Wise man: de la Mata will take the flak, too.

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BBC TWO 7:00am Life in a Cottage Garden with Carol Klein 7:30am Great British Garden Revival 8:30am Gardeners World 9:00am Countryfile 10:00am The Football League Show 11:20am Saturday Kitchen Best Bites 12:50pm A Taste of Britain 1:20pm Back in Time for Dinner 2:20pm Day of the Evil Gun

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ITV 7:00am CITV 10:25am The Jeremy Kyle Show 11:25am The Jeremy Kyle Show 12:25pm The Jeremy Kyle Show 1:30pm ITV News and Weather 1:45pm Murder, She Wrote 2:45pm Fletch Lives

CH4 9:00am Everybody Loves Raymond 9:30am Frasier 10:00am Frasier 10:30am Sunday Brunch 1:30pm George Clarke's Amazing Spaces 2:30pm The Big Bang Theory

CH5 7:00am Milkshake! 11:00am Sponge Bob Square Pants Children's series following Spongebob Squarepants and his aquatic friends under the ocean. 11:35am The Dog Rescuers 12:00pm The Hotel Inspector 1:00pm The Hotel Inspector 1:55pm Disney's Phenomenon

SUNDAY TV

SKY 1 7:00am The Hour of Power 8:00am Are You Smarter Than a 10 Year Old? 9:00am Dog the Bounty Hunter 10:00am Hawaii Five-0 11:00am Hawaii Five-0 12:00pm WWE Raw 1:00pm Harrow: A Very British School 2:00pm Chris and Wes: Let's Do This 2:30pm Ashley Banjo's Secret Street Crew

3pm 3:15pm Homes Under the Hammer 4:15pm The Truth About Sugar 5:15pm Escape to the Country 5:45pm Lifeline 5:55pm Songs of Praise

3:50pm Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em 4:30pm Three Up, Two Down 5:00pm Hi-De-Hi! 5:35pm The Hairy Bikers and Lorraine Pascale

4:30pm River Monsters 5:00pm Twister Film,1989

3:00pm The Simpsons 3:30pm The Simpsons 4:00pm The Spy Next Door 5:50pm Channel 4 News

4:20pm The Borrowers Drama,2011

Includes sport and weather.

3:30pm The Real A&E 4:00pm Modern Family 4:30pm Modern Family 5:00pm Modern Family 5:30pm Modern Family

6pm 6:30pm BBC News 6:50pm Regional News 6:55pm Weather 7:00pm The Big Painting Challenge 8:00pm Countryfile

6:35pm Operation Stonehenge: What Lies Beneath 7:35pm Pompidou 8:00pm Six Nations Greatest Moments

7:05pm Local News and Weather 7:15pm ITV News and Weather 7:30pm The Chase: Celebrity Special 8:30pm Off Their Rockers

6:10pm Richard III: The Return of the King

9:00pm Caribbean with Simon Reeve 10:00pm Louis Theroux 11:00pm Bluestone 42 11:30pm Red Tails

9:00pm All Star Family Fortunes 10:00pm Mr Selfridge 11:00pm ITV News and Weather 11:15pm Bear Grylls: Mission Survive

9:00pm Great Canal Journeys 10:00pm Indian Summers

On Thursday, Richard III - the king found under a council car park in Leicester in 2012 - will be buried in the city's cathedral.

6:00pm A Cinderella Story 7:50pm 5 News The latest news coverage.

7:55pm Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life

6:00pm Moone Boy 6:30pm The Simpsons 7:00pm About a Boy 7:30pm The Simpsons 8:00pm Wild Things

9pm 9:00pm Antiques Roadshow 10:00pm Poldark 11:00pm BBC News 11:20pm Regional News 11:25pm Weather 11:30pm Match of the Day 2

The pressure continues to mount on Ralph as Jaya reveals the real reason for her visit to Simla.

11:00pm Gogglebox

10:00pm Alex Cross A homicide detective is pushed to the brink of his moral and physical limits as he tangles with a ferociously skilled serial killer who specialises in torture and pain.

9:00pm The Simpsons 9:30pm The Simpsons 10:00pm Hawaii Five-0 11:00pm NCIS: Los Angeles

12am 12:40am Football League Trophy Highlights 1:25am The Apprentice USA 2:45am Weather for the Week Ahead 2:50am BBC News

1:25am Donkeys 2:40am Countryfile 3:40am Holby City 4:40am This is BBC Two Highlights of programmes on BBC Two.

12:20am LV Cup Rugby Highlights 1:15am The Store 3:30am The Jeremy Kyle Show USA Jeremy Kyle presents the American version of his popular talk show. 4:15am Nightscreen

12:00am Breaking Dawn: Part 1 2:15am Br端no 3:35am Come Dine with Me 4:00am Come Dine with Me 4:30am Come Dine with Me 5:00am Come Dine with Me

12:05am Scream 4 2:10am Super Casino 4:10am The Restaurant Inspector 5:00am House Doctor Home improvement series that works its magic on neglected homes.

12:00am NCIS: Los Angeles1:00am Hawaii Five-02:00am Brit Cops: Frontline Crime3:00am Brit Cops: Frontline Crime4:00am Hawaii Five-05:00am Inside Gatwick

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8:00pm The Voice UK 9:55pm The Voice UK 10:30pm Russell Howard's Good News 11:00pm I Survived a Zombie Apocalypse 12:00am Family Guy 12:22am Family Guy 12:45am Bluestone 42

5:00am This is BBC Four 8:00pm The Great War 8:40pm The Great War 9:20pm Pop Go the 60s Tony Bennett. 9:25pm Pop Go the 60s 9:30pm Secret Knowledge: Stradivarius and Me 10:00pm Lost Cities of the Ancients, the Vanished Capital of the Pharaoh 11:00pm Sleep Tight 12:35am Kenny Rogers 1:35am Top of the Pops 2:35am Kings of Soul

2:10pm Totally Bonkers Guinness World Records 2:50pm Scorpion 3:45pm Celebrity Catchphrase 4:40pm Hotel Transylvania 5:40pm FYI Daily 5:45pm Hotel Transylvania 6:25pm Ant and Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway 7:50pm She's the Man 8:50pm FYI Daily 8:55pm She's the Man 10:00pm Ibiza Weekender 11:00pm The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo 12:00am FYI Daily

7:00am Judge Judy 7:20am Judge Judy 7:40am Countrywise 8:40am Agatha Christie's Marple 10:35am Heartbeat 11:35am Heartbeat 12:35pm A Touch of Frost 2:40pm Wycliffe 3:45pm A Touch of Frost 5:45pm Agatha Christie's Marple 7:50pm Inspector Morse 10:00pm Sunday Night at the Palladium 11:00pm Birds of a Feather 11:30pm City Lights 12:35am Steptoe and Son

7:00am The Professionals 8:00am The Professionals 9:05am Hornblower 11:10am Hogan's Heroes 11:40am Car Chasers 12:10pm Car Chasers 12:45pm Storage Wars 1:10pm Storage Wars 1:45pm Snooker 6:15pm Storage Wars 6:40pm River Monsters 7:45pm Snooker 12:15am Fearless 1:15am FYI Daily 1:20am Fearless

10:00am Baby Daddy 10:30am Baby Daddy 11:00am Hollyoaks Omnibus 1:30pm Revenge 2:30pm The 100 3:30pm Rude(Ish) Tube 3:55pm How I Met Your Mother 4:25pm How I Met Your Mother 4:55pm Brooklyn Nine-Nine 5:30pm The Big Bang Theory 7:50pm The Big Bang Theory 8:20pm Gulliver's Travels 10:00pm Troy 11:00pm Rude Tube 12:05am The Big Bang Theory

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Comedy drama following the lives of a bomb disposal detachment serving in Afghanistan.

1:15am American Dad! 1:35am I Survived a Zombie Apocalypse 2:35am Russell Howard's Good News 3:05am Bluestone 42 3:35am To be Announced

SKY MOVIES Action 5:40am The Comancheros 7:30am Deep Blue Sea 9:20am xXx2: The Next Level 11:05am Deep Impact 1:15pm 300: Rise of an Empire 3:05pm Deep Blue Sea 4:55pm xXx 7:10pm xXx2: The Next Level 9:00pm 300: Rise of an Empire 10:50pm Deep Impact 1:00am Con Air 3:00am xXx 5:15am The Poseidon Adventure Disaster movie set aboard a luxury cruise liner which is hit by a huge tidal wave and capsizes.

7:00am The Incredible Burt Wonderstone 8:45am The Mask 10:30am Bruce Almighty 12:20pm Me, Myself and Irene 2:20pm Fun with Dick and Jane When Dick's firm goes bankrupt, he and wife Jane have two options.

3:55pm Liar Liar 5:30pm The Mask 7:15pm Bruce Almighty 9:00pm Me, Myself and Irene 11:00pm The Incredible Burt Wonderstone 12:45am The Cable Guy 2:25am Fun with Dick and Jane When Dick's firm goes bankrupt, he and wife Jane have two options.

8:35am Hours 10:15am The Purge 11:45am Breakdown 1:20pm All is Lost 3:10pm Gravity 4:45pm The Beach 6:45pm Dead Calm 8:25pm Gravity 10:00pm The Beach 12:05am All is Lost 1:55am Dead Calm 3:40am Hours 5:25am Loss of Faith Drama about an author drawn into a web of intrigue, murder and deception.

7:00am Believe 8:45am Turbo: Sky Movies Special 9:15am Contest 10:50am Moshi Monsters: The Movie 12:20pm Epic 2:10pm Mr. Peabody and Sherman 3:50pm Bean 5:35pm Moshi Monsters: The Movie 7:10pm Epic 9:00pm Mr. Peabody and Sherman 10:40pm Bean 12:20am Believe 2:00am Contest 3:30am Curious George 5:00am Big Top Pee-Wee

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7:00am Next Goal Wins 8:40am Finders Keepers 10:15am The Longest Week 11:45am Blended 1:45pm Very Good Girls 3:25pm Next Goal Wins 5:05pm Edge of Tomorrow 7:00pm Blended 9:00pm Edge of Tomorrow 11:00pm The Longest Week 12:30am Kill the Irishman

7:40am April in Paris 9:35am Jungle Man-Eaters 10:50am Mark of the Gorilla 12:05pm Miss Congeniality 2:20pm Operation C.I.A. 4:00pm The Searchers 6:15pm Spencer's Mountain

Biopic of Danny Greene, the Irish-American dockworker who engineers a corrupt rise to power.

2:20am Finders Keepers 3:55am A Thousand Times Goodnight

Moving drama based on a novel by the creator of 'The Waltons'.

8:30pm Edge of Eternity 10:00pm Hell on Wheels 11:00pm Year of the Dragon 1:30am Hell on Wheels 2:20am We are Marshall 4:30am Terry Wogan Presents the Very Best of the Ed Sullivan Show

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ITV 6:05am The Jeremy Kyle Show 7:00am Good Morning Britain 9:30am Lorraine 10:25am The Jeremy Kyle Show 11:30am This Morning 11:55am ITV News 12:00pm This Morning 1:30pm Loose Women 2:30pm ITV News and Weather

CH4 9:00am Everybody Loves Raymond 9:30am Everybody Loves Raymond 10:00am Frasier 10:30am Frasier 11:00am Undercover Boss Canada 12:00pm Kevin McCloud's Man Made Home 1:00pm Channel 4 News Summary 1:05pm Come Dine with Me Abroad 2:05pm A Place in the Sun: Winter Sun

CH5 9:00am Ben and Holly's Little Kingdom 9:10am Peppa Pig 9:15am Peppa Pig 9:25am Peppa Pig 9:30am Peppa Pig 9:35am Toby's Travelling Circus 9:45am Bananas in Pajamas 10:00am Tickety Toc 10:15am The Wright Stuff 12:10pm The Hotel Inspector 1:10pm 5 News Lunchtime 1:15pm Costa Del Casualty: Benidorm ER 2:15pm Home and Away 2:45pm Neighbours

MONDAY TV

SKY 1 6:00am Inside Gatwick 7:00am Nothing to Declare: Australia 7:30am Nothing to Declare: Australia 8:00am Ashley Banjo's Secret Street Crew 9:00am Emergency with Angela Griffin 10:00am NCIS: Los Angeles 11:00am NCIS: Los Angeles 12:00pm Hawaii Five-0 1:00pm Hawaii Five-0 2:00pm NCIS: Los Angeles

3pm 3:00pm The World at War 3:55pm Wogan: The Best of 4:40pm Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em 5:15pm Three Up, Two Down 5:45pm Hi-De-Hi!

3:00pm Judge Rinder 4:00pm Dickinson's Real Deal 5:00pm 1000 Heartbeats

3:10pm Countdown 4:00pm Deal or No Deal 5:00pm Come Dine with Me

3:15pm NCIS 4:15pm Nightmare at the End of the Hall

3:00pm NCIS: Los Angeles 4:00pm Harrow: A Very British School 5:00pm Futurama 5:30pm Futurama

6:15pm Antiques Roadshow 7:00pm Eggheads 7:30pm Portillo's State Secrets 8:00pm Racing Legends

6:00pm The Chase 7:00pm Regional News and Weather 7:30pm ITV News and Weather 8:00pm Emmerdale 8:30pm Coronation Street

6:00pm Four in a Bed 6:30pm Coach Trip 7:00pm The Simpsons 7:30pm Hollyoaks 8:00pm Channel 4 News

6:00pm 5 News at 5 6:30pm Neighbours 7:00pm Home and Away 7:30pm 5 News Tonight 8:00pm The Gadget Show

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

9:00pm University Challenge 9:30pm Only Connect 10:00pm Kew on a Plate 11:00pm House of Fools 11:30pm Newsnight

9:00pm More Tales From Northumberland with Robson Green 9:30pm Coronation Street 10:00pm The Mafia with Trevor Mcdonald 11:00pm ITV News at Ten and Weather 11:40pm The Jonathan Ross Show

9:00pm Dispatches 10:00pm Britain's Benefit Tenants 11:00pm Raised by Wolves 11:30pm 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown

9:00pm Police Interceptors 10:00pm Gotham 11:00pm Person of Interest 11:55pm Tears of the Sun

9:00pm Modern Family 9:30pm Modern Family 10:00pm Moone Boy 10:30pm Arrow 11:30pm Critical

12:15am Weather 12:20am Louis Theroux 1:20am Reinventing the Royals 2:20am The Big Painting Challenge 3:20am This is BBC Two 4:00am Let's Kick Sum Maths 5:00am Exploration India

12:45am A Great Welsh Adventure with Griff Rhys Jones 1:10am Jackpot247 4:00am UEFA Champions League Weekly 4:25am ITV Nightscreen

12:35am 24 Hours in A and E 1:30am The Secret Millionaire Changed My Life 2:25am The Fairy Jobmother USA 3:20am Hugh's Three Hungry Boys 4:15am Secret Location

2:00am Super Casino 4:10am The Restaurant Inspector 5:00am Wildlife SOS 5:25am The Great Artists 5:45am House Doctor

12:30am NCIS: Los Angeles 1:30am NCIS: Los Angeles 2:20am Hawaii Five-0 3:20am Road Wars 4:10am Hawaii Five-0 5:10am Airline USA 5:40am Airline USA

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8:00pm EastEnders 9:00pm Don't Tell the Bride 10:00pm Tom Felton: Meet the Superfans 11:00pm Bluestone 42

8:00pm World News Today 8:25pm Weather 8:30pm Great Continental Railway Journeys 9:00pm India's Frontier Railways 10:00pm Storyville 11:30pm The Bermuda Triangle: Beneath the Waves 12:30am Agnetha: Abba and After 1:30am Sounds of the Sixties 2:00am Born to be Wild: The Golden Age of American Rock 3:00am You've Got a Friend: The Carole King Story 4:00am The Bermuda Triangle: Beneath the Waves

2:15pm Coronation Street 2:40pm Dinner Date 3:40pm The Jeremy Kyle Show 4:50pm The Jeremy Kyle Show 5:55pm The Jeremy Kyle Show 7:00pm You've Been Framed and Famous! 8:00pm You've Been Framed! 8:30pm You've Been Framed! 9:00pm Two and a Half Men 9:30pm Two and a Half Men 10:00pm Mom 10:30pm Mom 11:00pm Celebrity Juice 11:50pm Scary Movie 4 1:30am Two and a Half Men

11:40am Judge Judy 12:05pm Judge Judy 12:35pm Judge Judy 1:00pm Murder, She Wrote 2:00pm Heartbeat 3:05pm Where the Heart is 4:10pm The Royal 5:15pm French Fields 5:50pm Rising Damp 6:20pm On the Buses 6:55pm Heartbeat 8:00pm Murder, She Wrote 9:00pm Lewis 11:00pm Law and Order: UK 12:00am Wire in the Blood

1:05pm The Professionals 2:10pm Duck Dynasty 2:40pm Duck Dynasty 3:05pm Ax Men 4:00pm The Unrideables 5:00pm Magnum, P.I. 6:00pm The Professionals 7:00pm Minder 8:00pm Rugby Highlights 9:00pm Storage Wars New York 9:30pm Storage Wars New York 10:00pm Storage Wars Texas 10:30pm Storage Wars Texas 11:00pm Ax Men 12:00am Bundesliga

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

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3:15pm The Edge 4:00pm Escape to the Country 4:45pm Holiday of My Lifetime 5:15pm Flog It!

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

9pm 9:00pm EastEnders 9:30pm Panorama 10:00pm New Tricks 11:00pm BBC News 11:25pm Regional News 11:40pm Weather 11:45pm Have I Got a Bit More Old News for You

12am 12:30am The Graham Norton Show 1:15am Presumed Innocent 3:15am Weather for the Week Ahead Detailed weather report.

Comedy drama following the lives of a bomb disposal detachment serving in Afghanistan.

11:30pm EastEnders 12:00am Family Guy 12:22am Family Guy 12:45am American Dad! 1:10am Family Guy 1:30am Bluestone 42 Comedy drama following the lives of a bomb disposal detachment serving in Afghanistan.

2:00am Tom Felton: Meet the Superfans

SKY MOVIES Action 7:25am Poseidon 9:20am Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines 11:20am Man of Tai Chi 1:20pm Poseidon 3:10pm Zulu 5:40pm Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines 7:40pm Noah 10:00pm Man of Tai Chi A talented but ill-disciplined martial arts student joins a lucrative underground fight club.

11:50pm Blade 1:55am War 3:45am Drop Zone

7:15am Son of the Pink Panther 8:50am American Pie 10:30am American Pie 2 12:20pm American Pie: The Wedding 2:00pm The Internship 4:00pm Alien Autopsy 5:40pm Brewster's Millions 7:25pm The Harry Hill Movie 9:00pm The Internship 11:10pm American Pie 12:55am American Pie 2 2:55am American Pie: The Wedding 4:45am The World's End Special A special look at the comedy from the creators of Shaun of the Dead.

7:05am Twilight 8:55am Magic Magic 10:40am Syriana 12:50pm The Bone Collector A paralysed forensics expert teams up with a fresh-faced cop to hunt down a serial killer.

2:50pm Plastic 4:45pm Dangerous Mind of a Hooligan 6:15pm Last Passenger 8:00pm The Bone Collector 10:00pm Plastic 11:45pm Black Rain 1:55am Falling Down

6:30am Planes: Sky Movies Special 7:00am Son of the Mask 8:40am Delhi Safari 10:20am Ever After 12:30pm Saving Mr. Banks Special 1:00pm The Perfect Summer 2:30pm Stuart Little 4:00pm Delhi Safari 5:40pm Peter Pan 7:35pm The Perfect Summer 9:00pm Uncle Buck 10:45pm Stuart Little 12:15am Ever After 2:20am Uncle Buck 4:05am Peter Pan

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7:40am The Searchers 9:55am Spencer's Mountain 12:10pm Edge of Eternity 1:50pm Gunsmoke 2:55pm Gunsmoke 4:00pm Fort Dobbs 5:45pm Sam Whiskey 7:35pm Never So Few 10:00pm Suspect 12:20am Private Benjamin

Biopic of Danny Greene, the Irish-American dockworker who engineers a corrupt rise to power.

2:20am Finders Keepers 3:55am A Thousand Times Goodnight

After the surprise termination of her second marriage, a spoiled Jewish princess joins the Army.

2:20am Conan 3:05am Conan

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Big switch-off for climate change A total of 125 Spanish towns and cities have pledged to turn off the lights on emblematic buildings at the end of March to raise awareness about climate change, organised by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF). Will you be spending an hour in the dark? ERIC LANCEE from Haco Muebles said the act of raising awareness was more important than the actual turn-off, and believed more should be done to combat environmental issues. “Our showroom has 2,000 square metres of solar panels so we are already eco-friendly, but more should be done and they need to look at targeting big industries and cars and planes,” he commented. Martin Eastgate from Laurel and Hardy’s restaurant in Quesada would support such a switch-off and is soon to re-

MARTIN: Supports town halls leading by example.

STREET TALK place all light bulbs in the restaurant with LED lights to reduce cost and waste and to be more environmentally efficient. He said: “It is good that town halls are taking the initiative and leading by example; they have to practise what they preach.” Paul Ross of Paul Ross Fitness in Huercal Overa,

PAUL: ‘We do what we can to look after the planet.’

Almeria, said: “This is the first I have heard about it, to be honest, so I hadn’t planned to sit in the dark. However, if these cities and other places get involved, especially if they all light candles like they did recently in Mojacar, then it could have a massive positive impact. We do what we can to look after the planet. We recycle all our water for watering outside and call it ‘watering the desert’.” Michelle Johnstone of Ace of Shades had not heard of the event either. “To be honest, this is the first time I’ve heard about it. The WWF could be doing more to publicise the event but, yes, I will switch off my lights to reduce my carbon footprint.” MICHELLE: ‘More should be done to publicise the event.’

ERIC: ‘Important to raise awareness.’

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CH5 9:00am Ben and Holly's Little Kingdom 9:10am Peppa Pig 9:15am Peppa Pig 9:25am Peppa Pig 9:30am Peppa Pig 9:35am Toby's Travelling Circus 9:45am Bananas in Pajamas 10:00am Tickety Toc 10:15am The Wright Stuff 12:10pm The Hotel Inspector 1:10pm 5 News Lunchtime 1:15pm GPs: Behind Closed Doors 2:15pm Home and Away 2:45pm Neighbours

TUESDAY TV SKY 1 6:10am Stargate Atlantis 7:00am Nothing to Declare: Australia 7:30am Nothing to Declare: Australia 8:00am Ashley Banjo's Secret Street Crew 9:00am Emergency with Angela Griffin 10:00am NCIS: Los Angeles 11:00am NCIS: Los Angeles 12:00pm Hawaii Five-0 1:00pm Hawaii Five-0 2:00pm NCIS: Los Angeles

3pm 3:00pm The World at War 3:55pm Wogan: The Best of 4:40pm Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em 5:15pm Three Up, Two Down 5:45pm Hi-De-Hi!

3:00pm Judge Rinder 4:00pm Dickinson's Real Deal 5:00pm 1000 Heartbeats

3:10pm Countdown 4:00pm Deal or No Deal 5:00pm Come Dine with Me

3:15pm NCIS 4:15pm Final Verdict

3:00pm NCIS: Los Angeles 4:00pm Harrow: A Very British School 5:00pm Futurama 5:30pm Futurama

6:15pm Antiques Roadshow 7:00pm Eggheads 7:30pm Portillo's State Secrets 8:00pm The Great British Bake Off

6:00pm The Chase 7:00pm Regional News and Weather 7:30pm ITV News and Weather 8:00pm Emmerdale 8:30pm River Monsters

6:00pm Four in a Bed 6:30pm Coach Trip 7:00pm The Simpsons 7:30pm Hollyoaks 8:00pm Channel 4 News

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

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

9:00pm Back in Time for Dinner 10:00pm Dara and Ed's Big Adventure 11:00pm Nurse 11:30pm Newsnight

9:00pm Midsomer Murders 11:00pm ITV News at Ten and Weather 11:40pm On Assignment

9:00pm From Burger Bar to Gourmet Star 10:00pm One Born Every Minute 11:00pm Teens

9:00pm Costa Del Casualty: Benidorm ER 10:00pm Breaking the Law 11:00pm Aidan: The Rarest Boy in the World

9:00pm The Flash 10:00pm Critical 11:00pm Forever

12:35am A Serious Man 2:15am Weather for the Week Ahead Detailed weather report. 2:20am BBC News The latest national and international news stories, followed by Weather.

12:15am Weather The latest weather information. 12:20am Caribbean with Simon Reeve 1:20am Italy Unpacked 2:20am This is BBC Two 4:20am Punctuation Rules 5:00am An Idiots Guide to Politics 5:30am Evolutionwatch

12:10am ICC Cricket World Cup Highlights 1:10am Carry on Follow That Camel 2:40am Jackpot247 4:00am Loose Women 4:45am ITV Nightscreen

12:00am First Dates 1:00am Pokerstars.Com European Poker Tour 1:55am KOTV Boxing Weekly 2:20am Cycling 3:20am Transworld Sport 4:15am Secret Location 5:10am Phil Spencer: Secret Agent

12:00am The Vow 2:05am Super Casino 4:10am My Violent Child: My Secret Shame 5:00am Wildlife SOS 5:25am The Great Artists 5:45am House Doctor

12:00am Hawaii Five-0 1:00am NCIS: Los Angeles 2:00am NCIS: Los Angeles 3:00am Hawaii Five-0 4:00am Hawaii Five-0 5:00am Airline USA 5:30am Airline USA

BBC THREE

BBC FOUR

ITV2

ITV3

ITV4

8:00pm Top Gear 9:00pm Free Speech 10:00pm World's Toughest Jobs 11:00pm Killer Magic 11:30pm EastEnders

5:00am This is BBC Four 8:00pm World News Today 8:25pm Weather 8:30pm Great Continental Railway Journeys 9:00pm The Himalayas 10:00pm The Normans 11:00pm Inside Claridge's 12:00am Mark Lawson Talks to... 1:00am Joy of Abba 2:00am Born to be Wild: The Golden Age of American Rock 3:00am Elvis: That's Alright Mama 60 Years on 4:00am The Normans

12:20pm Royal Pains 1:10pm Emmerdale 1:40pm Coronation Street 2:15pm Coronation Street 2:40pm Dinner Date 3:40pm The Jeremy Kyle Show 4:50pm The Jeremy Kyle Show 5:55pm The Jeremy Kyle Show 7:00pm You've Been Framed! 8:00pm You've Been Framed! 8:30pm You've Been Framed! 9:00pm Two and a Half Men 9:30pm Two and a Half Men 10:00pm Hell's Kitchen 11:00pm Ibiza Weekender 12:00am Tricked

11:45am Judge Judy 12:10pm Judge Judy 12:40pm Judge Judy 1:05pm Murder, She Wrote 2:05pm Heartbeat 3:10pm Where the Heart is 4:15pm The Royal 5:20pm French Fields 5:55pm Rising Damp 6:20pm On the Buses 6:55pm Heartbeat 8:00pm Murder, She Wrote 9:00pm Love Your Garden 10:00pm Long Lost Family 11:00pm Law and Order: UK 12:00am Wire in the Blood

11:05am Magnum, P.I. 12:05pm Minder 1:05pm The Professionals 2:05pm Duck Dynasty 2:35pm Duck Dynasty 3:00pm Ax Men 4:00pm I Want That Car 5:00pm Magnum, P.I. 6:00pm The Professionals 7:00pm Minder 8:00pm Pawn Stars 8:30pm Pawn Stars 9:00pm Shed and Buried 10:00pm Shed and Buried 11:00pm Sports Life Stories 12:00am Backdraft

3:30pm The Big Bang Theory 4:00pm Baby Daddy 4:30pm Melissa and Joey 5:00pm New Girl 5:30pm The Mindy Project 6:00pm How I Met Your Mother 6:30pm How I Met Your Mother 7:00pm The Big Bang Theory 7:30pm The Big Bang Theory 8:00pm Hollyoaks 8:30pm Melissa and Joey 9:00pm Brooklyn Nine-Nine 9:30pm The Big Bang Theory 10:00pm The 100 11:00pm Supernatural 12:00am The Big Bang Theory

Comedy

Crime

Family

3:15pm The Edge 4:00pm Escape to the Country 4:45pm Holiday of My Lifetime 5:15pm Flog It!

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

9pm 9:00pm Holby City 10:00pm Ordinary Lies 11:00pm BBC News 11:25pm Regional News 11:40pm Weather 11:45pm Call Security

12am

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

12:00am Family Guy 12:22am Family Guy 12:45am American Dad! 1:10am Family Guy 1:30am Killer Magic 2:05am World's Toughest Jobs 3:00am Free Speech 4:00am World's Toughest Jobs

SKY MOVIES Action 7:50am Bullitt 10:00am Charlie's Angels 11:50am Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle 1:50pm Welcome to the Jungle When a teambuilding exercise goes awry, a group of office workers are left stranded on an island.

3:40pm Underworld 5:55pm King Arthur 8:10pm Charlie's Angels 10:00pm Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle 12:00am Welcome to the Jungle 1:40am Underworld In a war between vampires and werewolves, bloodsucking warrior Selene holds the key to victory.

3:45am Ironclad: Battle for Blood 5:40am Born to Race: Fast Track

7:00am The Dukes of Hazzard 8:50am The Man with Two Brains 10:30am Cheaper by the Dozen 12:15pm Three Amigos! 2:05pm Planes, Trains and Automobiles 3:45pm Little Shop of Horrors 5:25pm Roxanne 7:15pm Cheaper by the Dozen 9:00pm Three Amigos! 10:50pm Planes, Trains and Automobiles 12:30am The Man with Two Brains 2:05am The Incredible Burt Wonderstone 3:50am The Dukes of Hazzard 5:40am Little Shop of Horrors

7:35am The Ladykillers 9:20am Harsh Times 11:20am Swordfish 1:05pm All Things to All Men 2:35pm The Call 4:15pm Harsh Times 6:15pm The Machinist 8:00pm Bird on a Wire 10:00pm The Call 11:40pm Swordfish 1:35am Joy Ride 3 A group of friends on their way to a car rally are terrorised by murderous trucker Rusty Nail.

3:25am City of God 5:45am Point Last Seen

7:40am Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold 9:30am Monsters University Special 10:00am Chimpanzee 11:30am Khumba 1:00pm Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 2:40pm Corpse Bride 4:00pm Khumba 5:30pm Ella Enchanted 7:15pm Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 9:00pm Jumanji 10:45pm Corpse Bride 12:05am Chimpanzee 1:30am Jumanji Two children discover a mysterious board game in their attic.

Premiere

TCM

7:00am The Longest Week 8:30am Next Goal Wins 10:10am Finders Keepers

7:40am Gunsmoke 8:40am Gunsmoke 9:40am Never So Few 12:00pm Sam Whiskey 1:50pm Gunsmoke 2:55pm Gunsmoke 4:00pm Fort Osage 5:25pm Buchanan Rides Alone

A child becomes obsessed with a mysterious doll she finds in her new home.

11:45am Blended 1:45pm Very Good Girls 3:25pm Edge of Tomorrow 5:20pm Next Goal Wins 7:00pm Blended 9:00pm Edge of Tomorrow 11:00pm Kill the Irishman Biopic of Danny Greene, the Irish-American dockworker who engineers a corrupt rise to power.

12:50am The Longest Week 2:20am Finders Keepers

Tom Buchanan is heading home to start his own ranch when he is robbed and framed for murder.

6:55pm Atlantis, the Lost Continent 8:45pm The Nebraskan 10:00pm A Perfect Murder 12:00am Finder's Fee 1:55am Conan 2:40am Conan 3:25am Conan 4:10am Conan

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