Euro Weekly News - Costa Blanca North 21 - 27 April 2016 Issue 1607 by Euro Weekly News Media S.A.

ISSUE NO. 1607

21 - 27 April 2016

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British buccaneers By Matthew Elliott A SUNKEN 16th century English warship has spawned souvenirs from a buccaneering past as a port clean up uncovered three well-preserved cannons rolling in the depths of Calpe’s coastal waters. Aquatic archaeologists and heritage specialists have come flocking to the Costa Blanca town to advise local authorities on how best to salvage and promote this historical treasure chest ripe with imagination. Who were these sailors? Where were they from? What were their thoughts as they explored, plundered or protected the blue seas of the northern Costa Blanca? In order to put together the pieces of this intriguing historical narrative, experts have agreed to keep the artefacts underwater for now. UNESCO’s heritage philosophy advises maintaining the local environment, while the

excellent condition of the cannons has been attributed to the preservative qualities of the seawater. The decision has already sparked the bright idea of developing a kind of aquatic museum to showcase Calpe’s treasures, with the notion of a tourist boat also being floated. Divers also found the seapreserved remains of their accompanying galley and the local authorities are consulting with experts on how best to salvage the artefacts, which are thought to belong to the same ship as another four cannons found in 1997. Turn to page 6

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Bar destroyed A MASSIVE fire lit up the Benidorm seafront on April 19 as the popular Beach Terrace bar was completely devastated. An enormous contingent of emergency service

vehicles arrived on the scene and were eventually able to contain the blaze. Fortunately no injuries were reported. The cause of the fire remains unclear.

School hitch JAVEA residents want to know what has happened to the project for an international primary school in the Las Laderas area. Many expats with young children welcomed the news when reports first appeared approximately 18 months ago, but although the local town expressed its support nothing more has been heard, they said.

All in the family THE Guardia Civil are investigating a plenary meeting of Alfaz del Pi Council which approved modifications to the Natural Resources Plan (PORN) for the Sierra Helada. Alfaz mayor Vicente Arques claimed that the formal complaint was lodged by the husband of a former councillor who was apparently unaware that she voted for the changes.

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Youngster cuts hair short for charity By Emily Chettle INSPIRING youngster, Charlotte Tennant, has had her long locks chopped short in order to donate the hair to a cancer charity who provide real hair wigs to children undergoing chemotherapy. Charlotte told her parents: “I want to donate my hair to make a wig for someone who has cancer, as my dad has had cancer, but is getting better now, so sending my hair is very important to me.” Charlotte, of Javea, had her 12-inch plait cut and sent to the Little Princess charity in the UK who collect the hair for manufacture, through Cancer Care. Charlotte has also raised €600 for the children through friends at her school, The Lady Elizabeth school, her local Karate Club, family and friends. The Little Princess Trust explains that: “We provide real hair wigs, free of charge, to boys and girls across the UK and Ireland that have lost their own hair

through cancer treatment. “As a result of treatment for cancer, most children will suffer hair loss as a side effect. Some boys and girls cope remarkably well but for others this can be very upsetting.”

The photo shows Charlotte with long hair, and Charlotte with her new short bob giving the donation to Lyn Buntrock, President of Cancer Care.

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Triathlon Cup starts AROUND 700 triathletes from all over Spain descended on Benidorm last weekend for The TriWhite Triathlon Cup. More than 150 clubs were involved in the event, which took place from Poniente Beach. The three parts of the

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event were Olympic, Sprint and Super Sprint. The Olympic Triathlon consisted of a swimming race of 1,500 metres, a run of 10 kilometres along the promenade and a 40.7 kilometre cycling circuit in the Terra Mitica area. The Sprint Triathlon was a 750-metre swim, a run of 5 kilometres, and a cycle route of 20.5 kilometres. Finally, the Super Sprint Triathlon was a 300 metre swim, a 2.5 kilometre run and a 12.3 kilometre cycle race. Approximately 48 per cent of the participants spent the night in Benidorm. This is the first of six events comprising the TriWhite Cup Triathlon. The next one will be held in Pilar de la Horadada (June 12), followed by Torrevieja (June 19), Alicante (September 4), Carboneras (September 17) and finally San Javier (October 2), Therefore three regions will be hosting the event.

Turtles returned to the sea THREE juvenile loggerhead turtles (Caretta caretta) were released back into the sea last week from Poniente Beach. They had spent several months recuperating at l’Ocenografic of Valencia, which specialises in the recovery of sea turtles and dolphins. The centre is the largest of its type in Spain, and one of the largest in Europe. Staff from the centre joined Benidorm Mayor Toni Perez and other officials for the occasion, as did several invited school students, including some Italian children

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Return of the Brown Brigade OFFICERS are once again patrolling the streets of Benidorm looking out for irresponsible dog owners. Article 153 of the ordinance establishes the requirement that pet owners pick up after their animals, and that they carry the necessary material (bag, box, etc) for the collection. Councillor Jose Ramon Gonzalez de Zarate warned that the rules will be strictly applied, as the ordinance has been in force for years and people are well aware of it. The officers will also be looking for litterbugs and people who put out their rubbish too early or not in the right place. Fines range from €150.25 to €901.52.

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Grant to tackle flooding THE Provincial Council of Alicante has agreed to fund a project to tackle flooding in Avenida Doctor Orts Llorca during heavy rain. It initially agreed to assume 70 per cent of the cost, but is now to cover the full €748,000 cost. This will allow Benidorm Council to use the funds it had earmarked for the project to be used to expand the project to include Calle Gerona.

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Marihuana baby in care THE 15-month-old baby admitted to Alicante General Hospital with a marihuana overdose in February is still in care. “We don’t understand why Social Services are prolonging this situation,” complained his grandmother Rosa Maria Company. “It was an accident and analyses all showed that the boy’s mother doesn’t take drugs.” Tests did reveal diazepam which the mother, Laura Lillo, is prescribed for depression. “This is getting worse owing to the baby’s absence and tensions with

social workers,” she said. That day the grandmother took the baby to an Alicante park frequented by drug addicts. He must have picked up and swallowed the marihuana there, she said: “If anyone’s to blame, it’s me.” Neither she nor the mother, who is separated, imagined that he would not be returned to them once he left the intensive care unit. Social Services agreed that all reports were favourable and the baby will soon go back to his family, but said that all decisions had to be made in committee.

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GUADALEST: One of the most visited places in Spain. By Linda Hall GUADALEST is the only Alicante municipality amongst the 44 towns and villages officially certified as Spain’s loveliest. To belong to this exclusive club it is necessary to have a population of less than 15,000 and recognised architectural or natural assets.

The network is creating its own reservations centre and is promoting member towns as quality destinations under the Marca España brand. There is also a guide detailing leisure and sporting activities, especially during the low season. Guadalest is already an established tourist destination, local mayor Enrique Ponsoda said, that the Loveliest Towns and

Villages label is good for the much-visited town. “We’ve noticed that we receive visitors because of our reputation for being one of Spain’s most picturesque places.” Municipalities in Castellon and Teruel will be the first to introduce the online and telephone booking system, which will gradually extend to other towns and villages.

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Right Place, Wrong Taxes Just imagine it: you are a British expatriate, living in your new home in Spain or anywhere outside the UK, enjoying the lifestyle you dreamed about. This is what you worked very hard for, and now is the time to reap the rewards. Then you receive a letter from your local tax office, saying that you owe them thousands of Euros in unpaid taxes, interest and penalties. Your reaction is that you have been paying taxes all along â&#x20AC;&#x201C; in the UK. The problem is: if you are not resident in the UK, your income is taxable in your new country. Arguing that you pay your taxes in the UK is no defence. You may have to pay back taxes in Spain, and have to try and recoup the taxes you paid incorrectly in the UK. You may also face penalties and interest in Spain. You cannot choose where you pay taxes. If you live in Country A, then that is probably where you have to pay taxes, as is the case in Spain.

By Gerald Turner, Partner, Blevins Franks Some income (e.g. UK rental income) remains liable to tax in the UK but is also be taxable in Spain, subject to double tax relief. You will have to go through the process of a tax investigation and pay for advice as well as the tax bill. It is now even more important to ensure you are paying tax in the right place. The new automatic exchange of information regime

has started and next year the Spanish tax authorities will receive data (from participating countries around the world) on your overseas income and assets. For some countries, including Spain, the UK and its offshore centres, the first data received will relate to 2016. Also, Spain has the Modelo 720 where you have to report overseas assets or face high penalties. This is based on residence in Spain, so if you think you are not resident here when in fact you are, you would also have to deal with the repercussions for Modelo 720. Or what if you have been living between the UK and Spain and are using the local tax residency rules in each country to make you resident in one particular place? If you get this wrong, and the tax authorities challenge you, you could find yourself with a large bill for unpaid taxes, interest and

penalties. This can also apply for people letting a property in one country and living in another who have not been reporting the income to the tax authorities in one or both countries. Many UK nationals move abroad and continue to pay taxes in the UK. They may believe they have a choice; they might not realise they have become resident in another country; they might think that provided they pay tax somewhere they will be safe. Residence is a matter of fact. It is where you are spending your time. However, each country has different domestic rules to work out who is resident there for tax purposes. If you satisfy those rules you are liable to tax in that country according to local tax legislation. You should take professional financial planning advice

regarding your situation from an adviser who has in-depth knowledge of the taxation regime of both countries and the interaction between them. You want to be certain that you have your tax residency right, and then move on to implement effective and compliant tax planning strategies. 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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This is Sparta By Gemma Elvins-Quinn DENIA Sports Centre has launched a new activity for fitness fans. Spartan SGX, offers participants something similar to circuit training and takes place within a ‘Spartanbox’ with race obstacles such as vertical walls, ropes, javelins, fences and monkey bars. “It’s like a kind of racing steeplechase,” explained the head of the Sports Centre Susana Campos who said weather conditions, such as rain, can also be simulated.

The new activity takes place on Tuesdays at 2pm, Wednesdays at 8.45pm and Fridays at 10am and 7.30pm with classes by fitness and wellness specialist and elite steeplechase athlete Raul Oliver Mengual. He is also designer of circuits for the Titan Extreme Race, best steeplechase in Spain in 2014. This year, Denia Sports Centre is also launching the Titan Extreme Games for July with participants able to face the course individually or in teams. For more information visit w w w.c e n trodeportivodenia.es.

iPads provide translation service for museum LAST year more than four million tourists from Britain and Ireland visited the MARQ museum in Alicante. Despite the high numbers, the archaeological museum lacks permanent guides speaking English and audio guides,

which were limited in their availability, have been out of service for months. But now, MARQ has announced the purchase of 13 new iPads that will offer multi-lingual information and also provide a service to blind people.

The museum, one of the most iconic cultural buildings on the Costa Blanca, said they do have bilingual professionals who offer tours, but the translation service must be requested at least three days in advance.

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Tagger found A 23-YEAR-OLD from Madrid was identified through his habitual tag as responsible for defacing private properties and public buildings in Alicante with graffiti. These included Santa Barbara castle.

June race DENIA hosts the Aquabike World Championship between June 23 and 25. This jet-ski race is similar to a MotoGP but at sea, explained Gabriel Martinez, manager of the Denia Marina.

Style -wise SAN JUAN Town Hall will protect its Old Town and limit construction there to traditional styles. It also plans to make Calle San Antonio a pedestrian area although residents’ cars will be allowed access.

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Consell is to settle la Luz’s outstandin By Linda Hall THE Consell - the regional government’s Cabinet - will pay Ciudad de la Luz’s €666,687 tax bill. This corresponds to the 20 per cent retention on assets due for 2015, announced the regional government’s vice-president Monica Olta. It will be paid by the publicly-owned Valencian Community Themed Projects (SPTCV) which owns 100 per cent of Ciudad de la Luz. The Consell preferred to pay the tax debt from the SPTCV budget rather than use money whose use would compromise spending on Health, Education or Social Services. The complex of film studios on the outskirts of Alicante City is now up for auction and with this payment the Consell has cleared all of its back taxes. Oltra revealed that the regional government is still burdened with Ciudad de la Luz debts that now total €183.5 million, with €10.6 million paid to Spain’s tax authority Hacienda since 2016. The vice-president criticised the “chaotic” way that the previous Consell functioned, surviving on loans and accumulating tax debts.

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Providing employment MERCADONA’S 101 supermarkets in Alicante Province provide work for more than 6,800 people. Approximately 5,000 are directly employed in Mercadona stores and distribution centres while another 1,800 work for the Valencia-based chain’s suppliers. The majority are in the agrifood sector and the company owned by Juan Roig bought Alicante produce and goods worth more than €573 million in 2015, approximately 1.81 per cent of the province’s Gross Domestic Product. Mercadona contracts have also helped firms like Antiu Xixona in Jijona weather the crisis and the buying of fresh fish at local ports has boosted local fishing fleets. They opened 53 supermarkets throughout Spain last year and increased turnover by 3.3 per cent.

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Around the world By Linda Hall A URUGUAYAN couple from Tarragona with two Valencia-born children already sound impressively cosmopolitan. But all four plan to see much more of the world, having set off on a campervan journey that will take them from Barcelona to Montevideo. On the way they will visit and interview ‘people who are transforming the world’ like the Spanish scientist Sonia Fernandez Vidal. One of the first people they have spoken to, Fernandez Vidal, now based in Barcelona, has worked on the CERN particle accelerator in Geneva. “We are so glad we stopped in La Nucia. We have interviewed several people and it’s a marvellous and hospitable place that we’ll carry in our hearts,” Martin said. La Nucia was recommended as a stopover in their 120,000 kilometre journey by friends and social networking

LA NUCIA STOPOVER: Pepe Cano, Martin Garrido, Mateo, Gemma and Ana Laura Rizzo. sites, Martin Garrido told Pepe Cano, town hall councillor for Citizens’ Participation, when he visited the family. The project is called @Road4World and the family have chosen ‘Round the world: one family, one dream, four years and 75 countries’ as

their slogan. Martin is travelling with his wife Ana Laura Rizzo, daughter Gemma (10) and son Mateo (six). The children will not miss out on their schooling as they are continuing their schooling on the Ministry of Education website, and when exams are

due they can take them at the nearest Spanish embassy, their parents explained. The family’s odyssey can be followed on the www.road 4world.com website as well @Road4World on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, Google + and Instagram.

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Violence in single parent families By Gemma Elvins-Quinn THERE are more cases of violence to children in single parent families. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s according to sociologist, professor and researcher at the Department of Sociology at the University of Alicante, Jose Abdon Palma Duran, who believes this may be because â&#x20AC;&#x153;divorce can lead to

a certain level of conflict... different educational styles, standards and behaviours between the father and the mother.â&#x20AC;? Violence is classed as physical, psychological, verbal and financial. The professor said it is difficult to be conclusive on many of the issues, but the topic is now arousing the interest of

many professionals in areas such as health, social service and education. The University of Alicante also held the first International Conference of Sociology of Violence: research, prevention and intervention in singleparental violence, which was aimed at professionals from various fields.

Large bones discovered in ravine MYSTERY surrounds some bones found in Teulada. A resident found them during a mid-morning walk on the road that runs parallel to the ravine de la Borda, in Teulada. Several bones were scattered bones whose size did not match the typical fauna of the area, being too big to be a dog, a rabbit or a wild boar. As a result, the resident sounded the alarm and patrols from the Local Police, Guardia

Civil and judicial police went to the scene to examine the remains along with a forensic examiner from Denia. After checking the morphology of the skeletal remains, they discarded the idea that they could be human but admitted they were difficult to identify, but said they could belong to a bull or cow. The bones have been removed for further examination.

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Drought-ridden province greener By Linda Hall CESAR SANCHEZ , president of the Alic a nte Provinc ia l C ounc il and m ayor of Calpe, has belonged to Greenpeace for the last 10 years. He announced recently that the Provincial Council, which fulfils similar functions to a county council, has set itself the goal of reducing carbon dioxide emissions by 40 per cent before 2030. To assist in the task, and thanks to the institution’s Sustainable Finance Plan, the province’s urban districts and countryside will be planted with a mil-

lion trees at a cost of around €1 million. Sanchez’s intention of bringing greenery to a province badly hit by drought has become a personal project, he said. “He has always shown a special interest in defending the environment as a legacy for the future,” a Provincial Council spokesman said of the president. “We want to spearhead a move to habits that allow us to enjoy healthy and natural surroundings that benefit us all,” Sanchez declared. Planting will begin this year and trees will be available to all municipalities.

Chance to see prehistoric art THE archaeology section of Denia’s Culture department is organising three conducted tours of the Catxupa cave. Discovered in 1990 and declared a UNESCO Heritage Site in 1998, the cave was closed in 2000 to protect its

wall art created between 4,000 and 7,000 years ago. The conducted tours set out from Venta de Parra on the N332 at 10.30 am on April 23, May 14 and May 21 (all Saturdays) and cost €3 per person. The medium difficulty,

three-hour excursion will be accompanied by an expert guide. Prior reservations are necessary and can be made on 966 420 260 (Museo Etnologico) from Tuesday to Friday between 10.30am and 1pm.

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Disease model for nispero growers By Linda Hall SPOTLESS, unmarked nisperos fetch good prices, but many local growers see their earnings reduced by the fungus Fusicladium eriobotryae. This is known as loquat scab, loquat being the littleused name for what everyone knows as a nispero, the Marina Baja fruit now at the height of its short season. Investigators from Valencia’s Polytechnic University

(UPV) spent three years of research in Callosa d’En Sarria, Spain’s principal centre for nispero growing. They found that the fungus is spread by rain splash and they have come up with a ‘mechanistic disease-prediction model’ to help growers minimise the use of fungicides. This model, based on air temperature, rain and relative humidity, will predict when the fruit is likely to be attacked by the fungus, helping

growers to decide exactly when to apply fungicide. The same investigators have also identified three other fungi living in the soil that until now were not associated with diseases that can affect nisperos. These fungi directly affect the roots of the trees and although two were already known and identified, a third was a new discovery and has received the name of Cylindrodendrum alicantinum.

Water supply to be topped up THE national government’s Ministry of Agriculture has reached an agreement with the Users of the Jucar-Vinalopo Water Transfer central committee. The exhausted supply from Vinalopo wells was to be substituted by water from La Marquesa in Cullera via the Jucar transfer.

This has fallen through, and the Mutxamel desalination plant, will cover some of the shortfall. The Mutxamel plant will provide seven billion litres of domestic water for Alicante City, San Juan, San Vicente, Muchamiel and Campello, the ministry announced.

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Fountains could flow once more By Linda Hall ALCOY Council and the regional Health department are discussing reactivation of the city’s fountains. These have been dry since 1999 when the city was hit with a wave of Legionnaires’ epidemics. The

disease is caused by what is now called the legionella and other related bacteria that are commonly found in low numbers in natural water sources like rivers and lakes. They also thrive in purpose-built cooling towers, evaporative condensers, hot and cold water systems and spa pools. Earlier epidemics in Alcoy were

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FIRE DRILL: Countdown for councillors, Proteccion Civil and Local Police. THE Muixara school in La Nucia held a fire drill to test evacuation procedures. Most of the 610 pupils regarded this as a fun break from lessons, but the evacua-

tion from the school building was a serious exercise which was coordinated by the Local Police and Proteccion Civil volunteers, together with the town hall’s Education and

Public Safety departments. The fire alarm went off at 12 noon and the classes were cleared in an operation lasting exactly four minutes and 55 seconds.

traced to cooling towers in the city’s industrial areas. These have either been shut down or the factories and premises using them have been moved from the city centre. The fountains were turned off as a precautionary measure and have functioned only sporadically since 1999. With neither outbreaks nor isolated Legion-

naires’ cases for nearly 18 months, Alcoy Mayor Antonio Frances hopes to see them working once more. This would be limited to those where chlorination costs will not be a burden on city hall finances, while others could be replaced by flowerbeds. No dates have been discussed although it is unlikely that the fountains will be working until after the summer.

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Anaesthetists required ALICANTE GENERAL HOSPITAL has come up against an obstacle in its strategy to reduce waiting lists for operations. The hospital also receives patients from all over the province for highly specialised treatment but the Emergency Plan consisting of operating in the evenings as well as during the day is functioning at 50 per cent because there are insufficient anaesthetists. Carmen Monton, the regional government’s Health chief pledged longer hours for operating theatres when she took over last year but the department now claims that she promised “to improve their performance.” This has been achieved at Alicante General, a Health department spokesman insisted. “So far this year operating theatre uptime has risen to 70 per cent, an improvement on 2015. Ninety-four

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ALICANTE GENERAL HOSPITAL: Currently has 40 anaesthetists in place. more operations have been carried out in the evening this year and the number continues to rise.” Unions, doctors and nurses argued that although the waiting list for operations is not sizeable, this rhythm of operations is insufficient to

avoid diverting operations to private clinics. More medical staff in general and anaesthetists in particular are still needed, sources told the local Spanish press. The Hospital General currently has 40 anaesthetists who are needed only during

operations but also neuro-radiology and interventional radiology. “If they want us to carry out the Emergency Plan operations there would have to be twice the number of stuff,” sources from the Anaesthesia department said.

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Even-stevens for official languages A SCHOOL should use bot h of t he Val enci an Com m uni t y’s off i ci al l anguages i n off i ci al communications, the region’s ombudsman said. The parents of a pupil in the Valencia Region complained to the Sindic de Greuges, Jose Cholbi, that the school used Valenciano for all communications with the family. When t hey asked teachers to correspond in Spanish, the school refused, prompting Cholbi

t o r em i nd t he m anagement that the region has two officially recognised languages. Chol bi di d not l i m i t his reasoning to educational factors but also cited Spain’s Constitution. “The need to promote Valenciano should in no case discriminate agai nst t hose per sons who habitually use Spani sh. No one l anguage m ay pr edom i nat e over the other,” the ombudsman warned.

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Look ahead EXETER Airport is increasing its range of holiday routes this winter with more flights to Alicante. From October 30 there will be three scheduled Flybe flights to the Costa Blanca each week.

Bumpy ride THE mayor of Calpe has suggested that cobbles on Avenida Gabriel Miro should be replaced with asphalt after only three years. The constant traffic flow up the main shopping street is damaging the road surface, he said.

Safer road CAMI DE MARCO linking Avenida Miguel Hernandez in San Juan and Campello’s Muchavista beach will be made one-way. Both towns agreed that this will make the narrow road safer for drivers and pedestrians.

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Town starts w to recover em By Linda Hall

CALLOSA’S mayor Josep Saval and Commerce councillor Maria Luz Puigcerver hope to recover the town’s Local Development Agency (ADL) and generate employment. Saval recently attended a working meeting in Alicante City with Rafa Climent, head of the Regional Government’s department of Economy, Productivity, Commerce and Work. Together they discussed the ‘Plan Avalem Joves,’ the youth employment programme created by the Generalitat and the official employment service, Servef. The plan is vitally important to Callosa as this would allow the town to have its own ‘ADL’ as it did in the past, Saval explained. Local efforts will not be limited to helping the young, however, as the town hall is also work-

SAVAL: Improving opportunities. ing with the Economy Department to reach all age groups by improving employment opportunities for people in the area aged 30 to 65 as well.

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Technology picks schools for children A COMPUTER programme will now allocate places for three-year-olds in Valencian Community state schools. The Generalitatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Education Department took this step to banish favouritism in assigning places and has also eliminated the role of head teachers in assessing applications. These are based on a points system taking into account catchment area, siblings already at the school, family income and other factors. Each year there are accusations and complaints from parents whose children do not get into the school that they have chosen. The new approach will use a fairer, mathematically-based formula to ensure that all receive the same treatment and a school that corresponds as closely as possible to parentsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; preferences. It will also eliminate the often-interminable wait when the points system failed to assign the desired school. Parents had to wait until all places were allocated before they learnt if their child would be admitted to their second, third or successive choice.

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New location for fair By Gemma Elvins-Quinn VILLAJOYOSA is to change the location of the town’s summer craft fair. Traditionally it has been held along Centro Bea, but neighbours and restaurateurs requested a change of

location to avoid the inconvenience of the market being located in front of their premises, resulting in loss of business and a loss of sea views from terraces. As a result, this summer will see the market move to the area of the

Finca de la Senyoreta de l’Hort. Councillor Marta Sellés said that the fair “could perfectly be located in another area, and not pose a nuisance to neighbours.” The craft fair will be open from June 17 to September 18 this year.

SUMMER FAIR: The move will avoid loss of business to local restaurants.

Back to the wild THE Arca de Noé (Noah’s Ark) animal centre in Alicante has signed a collaboration agreement with Spanish TV presenter Frank Cuesta, to help return more animals to their native surroundings. Noah’s Ark works on pro-

jects to help return animals from all over the world that have ended up in Alicante after being either seized in customs or found. One such successful case was the return to South Africa of a lioness who was used in a travelling circus to pose for photographs. She was kept in a tiny cage and was regularly drugged to become more docile. Thanks to Noah’s Ark, the lioness has been returned to the wild in South Africa. Through the new agreement and support of Frank Cuesta, the foundation hopes to be able to return more exotic animals in their care back into the wild.

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The ‘birds and the bees’ talk By Gemma Elvins-Quinn JAVEA has launched a new project that aims to educate and encourage youngsters to have respect for freedom of sexual diversity. The workshop was aimed at secondary school pupils, said Co u n c i l l o r Mon ts e Villaverde, who said that it is a reality that gay, lesbian,

transexual and bisexual stud en ts ex is t, s o th e programme was developed to help achieve an equal and ma tu re s o c ie ty, in w h ic h everyone can “live freely and express the identity of their own gender and sexual orientation without fear.” Villaverde added: “Many students question their sexu ality a n d h a v e d o u bts

about their orientation, but because in our society, heterosexuality is the default.” The c ounc illor s a id: “Sexual minorities suffer from invisibility that makes young people develop prejudices and misconceptions.” A s a re s ult, the w orkshop’s aim was to openly discuss this issue amongst young people.

Promoting jobs in Sant Joan THE town hall of Sant Joan d’Alacant is to invest more money in promoting employment. One area they are looking at is promoting gardening and farming work. “We know that there would be demand for concerned citizens” said councillor of Trade and Employment Antoni Giner. “We need to generate employment

and opportunities,” he added. The money used for the initiative has come from a €50,000 savings on a new contract renewed to a company for the servicing of fire extinguishers in the area. The original contract was run at a cost of €180,000, but has been renewed for the next four years for €130,000.

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New accessibility improvements By Gemma Elvins-Quinn BENIDORM City Council has begun work on improving accessibility and mobility in the upper area of La Cala. Work is being carried out s pe c ific a lly in the a re a s near the health centre and the public s c hools of La Cala and El Murtal. Councillor for Works and

Mobility, Jose Ramon Gonzal ez de Zar at e sai d t he work is being carried out in three points to enable better pedestrian routes to schools, and the health centre making the roads and pathways “m or e com f or t abl e, spacious, safe and accessible.” Pavements are already being widened at the crossing of Avenidas de Calpe and Benissa, to allow pedestri-

ans to easily pass each other without having to go on to the road to avoid the “dangerous situations which are occurring now,” according to the councillor. Work will later take place in Calle Benissa opposite t he heal t h cent r e wher e l i ght i ng wi l l be r epl aced and accessibility improved, followed by improvements in Avenida Puerto Rico.

Traders join forces TRADERS in Altea and Altea la Vella are joining forces to create a new association. Businesses are holding several meetings with the aim to form a traders association to represent them and their interests in the local business environment. At the moment, a group of 30 traders have taken the initiative and an official associa-

tion is to be formed before the appointment of a governing board. Councillor for Commerce in Altea, Anna Alvado said she welcomed the idea and is supporting the initiative by offering rooms at the Casa de Cultura to be available for meetings, and will appoint an advisor to be on hand to offer assistance.

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Gradual start to Poniente traffic By Linda Hall TRAFFIC is now restricted along Avenida de la Armada Española in Benidorm. O nly re s ide nts living along the Avenida have acc e s s a s the tow n ha ll ha s acted on last December ’s request from the Neighbourhood Council. The Avenida is now signposted as a pe de s tria n a re a from the bottom of Jaime I as far as Avenida de Xixo.

“This leaves more room for pedestrians, letting them enj oy t he beach, shops, cafes and restaurants without any t r aff i c,” sai d Benidorm’s Transport councillor Jose Ramon Gonzalez de Zarate. In fact the road is not entirely traffic-free because not only residents but also buses, taxis and emergency services can still enter. Delivery vehicles will also be al l owed at cer t ai n

times of the day. The day af t er t he new system was introduced, critics claimed that there was no perceptible difference in the number of vehicles using the road. The new system was still being tested and is being introduced gradually so that the public can get used to it, De Zarate explained. It will be i n pl ace by t he end of May and strictly enforced by early June, he said.

Three hospitalised after race THE Trail of Alcoy running event took place at the weekend which resulted in three people having to be hospitalised. Organisers said all recovered well and were later discharged from hospital. The most serious accident occurred just min-

utes after the race started when a runner fell down one of the ravines and needed the assistance of medical services to be rescued. The test involves a 55km race over the mountainous areas and this year saw 1,200 participants take part.

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Building bridges By Gemma Elvins-Quinn BENISSA is hosting an educational conference in the town. The fifth annual event, organised in collaboration with the Department of Education, is being held during April and May at the d’Ivars Art Workshop Centre. The theme of this year’s conference is ‘building bridges’ and, according to councillor for Education, Pepa Martí, will see numerous speakers take part talking about “what educational practices are the most appropriate and respectful of the traditions.” The first seminar is by the president of the Educational Association on April 20 with the talk ‘educating from the strengths.’ On May 4, José Cantó, a professor at the University of Valencia, will host a conference on international experiences in Italy, Denmark and Finland and on May 11 there will be held a round-table discussion with bloggers José Blas, Salvador Rodriguez and Senyo Punk. A ‘building bridges’ exhibition will also open on May 13 in which several local artists will display their work in-

EDUCATIONAL CONFERENCE: To expand and improve training.

spired by the title of the conference. The councillor for Education, said the conference gives the opportunity for teachers and teaching professionals, particularly specialists in early

childhood education, to expand and improve their training. The conference programme can be found on the website http://constru int.xucurruc.org/

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Folk festival on the way JAVEA is all set to launch its annual Folk Festival with a concert by Javier Bergia and Begoña Olavida. The concert on April 22 at 9.30pm in the Casa de Cultura is an appetiser to the main folk festival which takes place in the town from May 6-8 with various activities and performances taking place. Councillor for Culture, Quico Moragues, encouraged all fans of Bergia and Olavida to enjoy the concert and the festival.

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Shared roots ARTIST Milagros Lambert Kostrinsky was named Adoptive Daughter by Javea Town Hall. Now 80, she is the granddaughter of French-Swiss architect Andre-Louis Lambert Perret who came to Javea in 1920.

Air rescue A FIRE BRIGADE air ambulance rescued a 66year-old man who had a heart attack while climbing Ponoch near Polop. He was flown to Benidorm where he was taken by road to San Juan hospital.

Name change ALICANTE CITY Council voted unanimously to remove all street names with any associations with the Franco dictatorship. Residents in Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera will oppose the move, they said.

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Protecting the Marina Alta’s culinary traditions By Linda Hall DENIA, Jesus Pobre, Jalon and Pego plan to save the traditional ‘arroz caldoso’ from extinction. They are promoting it with a campaign entitled ‘Que fem del caldo a la Marina Alta?’ referring to the stock - caldo -

used for this rice dish. Marina Alta chefs warned recently that genuine ‘Arroz a banda’ was in danger of disappearing and ‘Arroz caldoso’ is equally threatened, they now say. Denia, as a UNESCO Creative City of Gastronomy, together with Jesus Pobre,

Jalon and Pego are joining forces to prevent this from happening. The campaign begins on April 30 when Jesus Pobre women give a televised masterclass on preparing ‘Arros amb fava pelada’ ‘ rice with broad beans - at Denia’s Centre de Turismo.

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Welcome to pastors and new premises THE El Campello Christian Community has welcomed new pastors Ernest and Marilyn Klassen from last Sunday. The Canadian couple speak fluent Spanish, and although services are held in English, their skills will enhance the translations for the Spanish speaking members. They have also moved from Pueblo Espanol to Calle San Bartolome 35, Bajo No 6, 03560 El Campello. Everyone is welcome at the Sunday services at 11am, and the Thursday coffee mornings at 10.30am. You don’t have to be a Christian or someone who goes to church. More information is available on their website www.elcampellochristian community.org.

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Marbella church THE works on Marbella’s main church, the Encarnacion Church, that gives shelter to the Christ donated by Carmen Sevilla, have been finished after eight years. A total of €400,000 have been invested in the project, financed by the contributions of its parishioners.

Three arrested AN African man remains in a grave condition in the Malaga’s Regional Hospital following an attack in Puerto Banus, where he works as a street vendor. The incident occurred on Wednesday April 13, with the victim severely beaten by a bar owner and two accomplices, who were later arrested.

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ALICANTE’S tram system recorded 834,352 users last March with a daily average of 25,864 customers. Line two was the most used, with 333,105 passengers.

THE Council of the Environment is working to resolve a problem in the water treatment plant of Consell which is releasing waste water into the Solleric torrent. The torrent flows from Consell to Biniali. Residents say the water emitted is murky and grey.

PROCEDURES have begun to contract 11 boat owners to clean surface water along the coastal beaches of the Axarquia during the summer period. These boats eliminate the so called ‘natas’ - a kind of scum - produced from hydrocarbons that sometimes appear in the sea.

CHILDREN in Huercal-Overa have been busy designing images of a mascot for the public library. A competition was launched for children aged between six and 12, to design a unique character which will be used as the official mascot for the children’s library in the town.

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ESTEPONA Council has announced that battalions of the Spanish King’s Guard are to hold a series of events in the municipality from April 1924. Entrance to the main event at the bullring, which starts at 5 pm on Saturday April 23, is free of charge.

THE Play Awards, the first Ibero-American awards recognising the work of the creators of online video content, will be held on April 21 in the Palma Auditorium. The awards ceremony will host some of the biggest names in the Spanish-speaking blogging world.

THE Junta de Andalucia has urged the town hall of Nerja to take the necessary measures to avoid irreparable damage to the Kentish plover wader birds (Charadrius alexandrinus) that have made their nests in some areas along the El Playazo beach.

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THE Balearic government has decided to expand the Cabrera Archipelago Maritime-Terrestrial National Park. The area to expand is almost 10 times greater than the current park. Talks with fisherman’s associations and others affected are taking place to achieve the widest possible consensus on enlargement of the park.

AN interesting exhibition running from April 15 to 30 has opened at the town hall of Rincon de la Victoria reflecting the history of the massive exodus of civilians on the Malaga to Almeria road in 1937 during the civil war. The exhibition is entitled ‘Exodus of the Almeria Road.’

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MERCADONA has spent €140 million on purchases from Balearic providers. The chain is working closely with providers to advance its commitment to the development of a sustainable agrofood chain and generate growth in Spanish horticulture, fisheries and livestock.

TWO people were injured in a collision involving two motorbikes and a car around 10.30am on Thursday April 14. The 112 Emergency Services received the first call and alerted the incident to the Civil Guard and Ambulance Service.

Officer’s passing THE funeral has been held for the founder of Alicante’s Canine Unit, Sergio Melgares. The Local Police officer passed away aged 45, after a battle with cancer. His father was inspector of the Local Police.

Shoppers reward OVER 40 businesses in Aguilas, Murcia, are taking part in a shoppers reward scheme giving entry into a monthly cash prize draw to all those who buy from their stores.

Book day A CHILDREN’S reading event takes place in the arboretum of the El Valle regional park, Murcia on Saturday April 23. The activity starts at 10.30am and coincides with Book Day.

MasterChef SANTA POLA was the scene of filming an episode of MasterChef. Cameras took to Levante beach to film the Spanish version of the popular cooking show, which saw the local fish used as one of the main ingredients.

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Garrucha police LOCAL POLICE officers in Garrucha are now qualified to carry out alcohol detection tests. The team has been trained in the use of breathalysers as part of a government transport office campaign to crack down on drunk driving.

Nijar selfies YOUNG people in Nijar have been invited to show off their photography skills in a ‘selfie’ competition. The ‘selfies’ should be taken with a well -known beauty spot or significant corner of Nijar as the backdrop.

Poetry competition A YOUNG poet from Alicante has won the Martin Garcia Ramos, International young poet competition of Albox. Manuel Valero, a 30-year-old PhD student of the University of Granada will receive a cash prize of €6,000 for his collection entitled, ‘Children of Halley’s Comet.’

In honour IN memory of Francisco Romero Anon, mayor of Marbella from May 1936 to January 1937, and executed in 1940, a street with his name has been inaugurated. The dedication was made by the current mayor, José Bernal, and was attended by Romero Anon’s family.

Malaga music THE Cervantes Theatre and Malaga Philharmonic Orchestra have signed a new agreement under which the latter will receive 20 per cent of box office revenues. The orchestra are official residents of the municipal theatre, and the deal is intended to promote stronger collaboration between the two, and to seek new sponsorships.

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KURIL ISLANDS: Tension has increased between Russia and Japan. MOSCOW has re-emphasised its commitment to protecting the Kuril Islands, the easternmost territories of the federation. The declaration came as tensions increased between Russia and Japan over the islands, which are claimed by Japan, making it the only country to question the results of World War Two.

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Close call THE Doomsday clock shivered slightly when a Russian fighter jet flew just feet away from a US navy destroyer in the Baltic Sea. The prospect of an accidental catastrophe has become reminiscent of the Cold War, with increased American activity in eastern Europe following the diplomatic fallout over Crimea.

Hall of mirrors PATRIOTIC Russians have a new Putin-themed cafe to flock to in the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk. The interiors are draped with the Russian president’s portraits, there’s a life size cut out of him, a sign reading ‘What have you done for Russia?,’ while the toilet paper is emblazoned with Barack Obama’s face.

Southern strife A SUICIDE bombing took

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place in Stavropol in the north Caucasus amid explosions and gunfire as four men attacked a local police station. Islamic extremists are hell bent on carving out a caliphate in the mountainous region which is a tinderbox of competing tribes and religions.

Common as muck WHILE the western media has been quick to portray Vladimir Putin as the archdevil of the Panama Papers, the revelations have had little impact on the world weary Russian population who ac-

PRESERVING the body of Vladimir Lenin in its embalmed, lifelike state will cost the government approximately €177,000 this year. The body of the revolutionary leader was displayed in public in Moscow’s Red Square in 1924 and there are growing calls to give him a proper burial.

cept corruption as part and parcel of politics, while noting that the problem is evidently universal.

Children needed POTENTIAL economic growth has taken a serious hit with the revelation that the working-age population has shrunk by five million people since a high of 90 million in 2006. The rate of decline looks set to only escalate in the near future, a fate Russia shares with close neighbours Bulgaria and Ukraine.

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every three years which means that the proposed rise could be forced through in 2016, but in 2017 disenchanted investors could make things financially difficult for the CEO and the boards. During times of relative austerity and job losses, even the Institute of Directors has commented that massive pay rises of this sort can send the wrong message to other companies and to the work force.

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Former Prime Minister fined AS if there hasn’t been enough controversy with regards to the personal financial dealings of a raft of politicians in different ranks of the Partido Popular (PP), it has now emerged that former Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar is to be fined by the Treasury of the interim government for using a loophole to reduce his income tax obligation.

A former tax inspector himself who often spoke out against tax fraud whilst in power has reportedly been fined €70,400 for using a vehicle to save 21 per cent of his tax liability over a period of a few years. In the same week, the PP mayor of Granada was arrested for alleged financial fraud.

Oil prices rally AFTER months of being in the doldrums and at its lowest price for years, crude oil has seen something of a recovery thanks to a slight increase in industrial need and an agreement between Russia and Saudi Arabia to restrict production. A great deal now depends upon any decision by Iran concerning the volume of oil it extracts and wishes to export whilst it is trying to rebuild its foreign reserves, but generally, although oil price increases may not be welcomed by the average consumer, they are welcomed by economists and those producing the crude oil itself.

Coal trouble PEABODY ENERGY, the world’s largest privately-owned coal miner, has requested bankruptcy protection in the US after a sharp fall in coal prices left it unable to repay its debts especially after it had spent several billion euros on purchasing an Australian group.

IMF delays Spain review WHILST the Spanish budget has been under attack from Brussels, even though the interim government has now undertaken to reduce the amount of money it intends to borrow, another body, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) was due to present its opinion on the Spanish economy during the

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Artificial Intelligence creates money Photo Credit x.ai

By John Smith ORIGINALLY the stuff of science fiction writers, the past decade in particular has seen a tremendous amount of money thrown into the search for a genuine artificial intelligence, which would in theory have the ability to think for itself.

23M euros is the amount of investment that x.ai, run by Dennis Mortensen, has attracted

There have been numerous films on this subject, most of them, such as Terminator showing a dystopian future, where the Asimov laws of Human Protection are ignored and the self replicating AI figures, which are only interested in expanding their domination over the less than perfect humans are involved in nightmare scenarios of extermination, although invariably good old

DENNIS MORTENSEN: Runs the American company x.ai. Homo Sapien triumphs in the end. Google has been working with driverless cars, Apple has intro-

duced Siri, the perfect assistant for those who use the iPhone, and more and more we are becoming used to

what isn’t quite Artificial Intelligence, but equally is heading in that general direction.

Spanish cigarette machine strike DUE to what many operators consider to be crippling and unfair fines, a decision was made by the Spanish Association of Refillable Points of Sale (AEPVR) to recommend to its members that cigarette machines around the country should be switched off for at least a week. Of the estimated 150,000 machines in Spain, it appears that approximately 50,000 were switched off on April 11, although how this will really affect the government is hard to understand. There will be a temporary loss of the sale of an expected six million packets of cigarettes during the week, but this will be a tiny dent in government income whilst the greater loss will be to the vending machine owners and the bars and cafes in which they have been sited. The whole argument concerns whether information of usage supplied to the cigarette companies for which owners are recompensed should be classed as tobacco advertising and if so, then fines can be levied. Naturally both sides of the argument believe their interpretation of the law is the correct one and this disagreement looks as if it could run on for some time. According to the AEPVR, fines of more than €120,000 have already been levied which has resulted in up to 2,000 of its members going out of business.

CIGARETTE MACHINES: Operators around Spain will switch them off for at least a week.

Like all new inventions, people tend to take tiny steps initially In scenes reminiscent of the first start up hi-tech and internet companies, large amounts are being invested in companies who are on the fringe of an AI breakthrough. One of those is an American company x.ai run by Dennis Mortensen the creator of Amy Ingram (spot the AI reference), a personal assistant that can schedule meetings for you, which he has been developing for the past two years. It doesn’t sound terribly exciting, but his company has just announced that it has attracted €23 million worth of investment, which will allow him to bring ‘her’ to the market. Like all new innovations, people tend to take tiny steps initially, but this company might just turn into another Apple, although equally it could go the way of DeLorean.

British inflation increases BRITISH inflation hit its highest level since December 2014 during March, with the rise in airfares during Easter having provided a boost. Following a 0.3 per cent climb during February, consumer prices rose by 0.5 per cent compared with the same period in 2015, according to data released by the Office for National Statistics. Inflation in the UK is recovering slowly having fallen below zero per cent before the turn of the year, the lowest since comparable records began in 1950. It has remained way below the official target of 2 per cent set by the Bank of England for more than two years.

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Brussels may silence whistleblowers ma, unlike many other countries, does not have laws to protect whistleblowers and the person involved in releasing the revelations IN what is supposed to be an important panma y b e pros e c ute d, but a ll journa lis ts European law meant to protect companies should currently be safe even though the from industrial espionage and theft of sensilaw firm may well have issued threatening tive commercial information, the European emails to them on the basis that their artiParliament is considering introducing a new cles are based on the results of a theft, and law known as the Trade Secrets Protection their case could be stronger if Brussels Act, which many consider so loosely wordpasses this Act. ed that it could discourage whistleblowers According to French from revealing abusMember of the Euroes. pean Parliament, ConCritics say that in stance Le Grip, oppoits current format, nents are misunderstanthose wh o wa n t t o ding the inte ntion of alert g o v e r n m e n t s the bill, a nd s he is and the world to coris the number of documents leaked to the adamant that journalists porate wrongdoing, press by the Mossack Fonseca whistlewould be immune from and th e j o u r n a l i st s blower and is believed to be the largest prosecution: “We have who ar e n e e d e d t o leak ever, with documents being sent in made clear that this dipublish the whistlebatches over a period of one year. rective shall not affect blowers’ findings the exercise of the right could themselves be to freedom of expression and information subject to criminal proceedings, if the comset out in the European Charter of Fundapany or companies on whom they are remental Rights. porting can prove that the information being “We have also very precisely and clearly released to the public is commercially sensiset out the exemptions for both journalists tive. and whistleblowers.” So wo r r i e d a r e p e op le a b o u t th is b ill One piece of encouraging fact, and conwhich appears to be promoted with good intrary to perceived opinion, in the event that tentions but possibly bad results, that more the Act is approved by the European Parliathan 500,000 people have signed a petition ment, it will still need to be passed into law objecting to the wording of the Act. by parliaments across the 28 memA perfect example of how a woolly-wordbers of the EU, and it is ed act could protect those who have a safe bet that many acted improperly concerns the recent will reject it. Mossack Fonseca revelations, which if published in their entirety could include information which may hav e r e b o u n d e d o n th e journalists involved. It may well be that PanaBy John Smith

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Vote out when the time comes LEAPY LEE SAYS IT

OTHERS THINK IT HOW on earth can George Osborne declare that a British exit from the EU would cost every member of the British community £4,300 a year? How can this man prophesy an exact figure around such an unkno wn e n t i t y ? No o n e tru ly knows what will happen should we leave, or how we will prosper when a whole world of new markets are open to us to negotiate, and we are able to use our own rules and regulations to deliver the best deals and business agreements. This is a figure plucked out of nowhere, specifically delivered to frighten the British public into staying in, and it’s a disgrace. To me it’s on a par with Blair’s announcement that Saddam Hus-

sein had weapons of mass destruction. It’s scaremongering at a disgusting level and sounds like a ploy, emanating from a government panicking and prepared to go to any lengths to deceive the British people. To me, apart from all the advantages I believe leaving will bring, it is the spectre of some 80 million Turks having free access to Britain should they become members in the future. I see that particular move as the knell of death to the United Kingdom and its culture, and a reversed two finger salute to the th o u s an d s , n a y millions w ho died in their endeavours to create it. Vote out when the time comes and cock a very large snook at the suffocating Brussels buffo o n s a n d th e c onniving of Cameron and his cohorts. Put the great back in Britain. Let’s show the world that the British bulldog is still very much alive

and kicking hard. Personally I think it’s all very exciting, and even though it may make life difficult for us expats, it’s a small price to pay for delive ring a n uns ha c kle d, fre e democracy to our future generations. Out is clout. Let’s bring it on. Nice to see the Pope taking a dozen refugees back to the Vatican. I did notice that none of the party included any of those that make up the majority, ie young fit M us lim me n, w ith tre ndy trainers and mobile phones. Funny that! Keep the faith Love Leapy leapylee2002@gmail.com

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Follow the money Cassandra Nash A weekly look - and not entirely impartial reaction to the Spanish political scene

ACTING minister of Industry, Jose Manuel Soria, of course, dissolved his offshore Panama company years ago and naturally roundly denied any fiscal wrongdoing. All was going swimmingly until national daily El Mundo claimed to have seen a document with his signature confirming he was also a director of a Jersey-registered Mechanical Trading Limited. Soria has now resigned, something of a first for a Spanish minister, although even the Teflon-coated have to jump out of the frying pan into the fire once they break the 11th Commandment and are found out.

Speaking a different language SUPPORT for independence is waning in the Basque Region, with only 24 per cent of

RESIGNED: Jose Manuel Soria.

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answer for and is partly responsble for Cataluña’s continuing discontent.

POLLSTERS predict that Ciudadanos could win more seats in another general election than they managed in December. Which means that it would be interesting to see what happens to the current PSOE-Ciudadanos pact in a notimpossible scenario, where the PP and Ciudadanos could scrape up a majority between them. The prospect of a new election has loomed large following a deadlock in negotiations.

Money, money, money

Basques backing a complete break from Spain. Catalan support is still only half and half, a telling figure bearing in mind the regional government’s assumption that this is what the country wants on one hand, and heckling and hysteria from outside the region on the other. Monolingual Spain’s insistence on identifying nationalism as separatism has much to

MARIANO RAJOY, Pedro Sanchez, Albert Rivera and Pablo Iglesias each want to be president. But unless jointly or singly they manage to get their acts together before April 27 there will be another election and political considerations apart, this is something they wanted to avoid and, as always, filthy lucre is the reason. The PP, PSOE, Ciudadanos and Podemos leaders know that these months of shilly-shallying and failure to form a government are costing them credibility and followers. But another election campaign is going to cost them money and thanks to the tsunami of corruption cases they can’t even succumb to the temptation of a spot of illegal funding.

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7:00am Breakfast 10:15am The Day I Met the Queen 11:00am Homes Under the Hammer 12:00pm The Sheriffs are Coming 12:45pm Thief Trackers 1:15pm Bargain Hunt 2:00pm BBC News at One 2:30pm BBC London News 2:45pm Doctors 3:15pm The Code 4:00pm Escape to the Country 4:45pm Money for Nothing 5:30pm Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is 6:15pm Pointless 7:00pm BBC News at Six 7:30pm BBC London News 8:00pm The One Show 8:30pm A Question of Sport 9:00pm EastEnders 9:30pm MasterChef 10:00pm Have I Got News for You 10:30pm Boomers 11:00pm BBC News at Ten 11:25pm BBC London News 11:35pm The Graham Norton Show

7:00am The Day I Met the Queen 7:45am Flog It! 8:30am Escape to the Country 9:15am Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is 10:00am Sea Cities 11:00am World Championship Snooker 1:00pm The Daily Politics 2:00pm World Championship Snooker 7:00pm Eggheads 7:30pm The Hairy Bikers' Pubs That Built Britain 8:00pm Canals: The Making of a Nation 8:30pm The Food Detectives 9:00pm Grand Tours of Scotland 9:30pm Gardeners' World 10:00pm Rick Stein's Long Weekends 11:00pm Two Doors Down 11:30pm Newsnight 12:05am Later... with Jools Holland 1:05am World Championship Snooker Highlights

8:00pm World News Today 8:30pm BBC Young Musician 2016 10:00pm The Everly Brothers: Harmonies From Heaven 11:00pm Billy Fury: The Sound of Fury 12:25am It's Only Rock 'N' Roll: Rock 'N' Roll at the BBC 1:25am Trad Jazz Britannia Documentary telling the story of Britain's post-war infatuation with old New Orleans jazz. 2:25am The Everly Brothers: Harmonies From Heaven 3:25am Billy Fury: The Sound of Fury Documentary which recounts the story of Billy Fury and the birth of British popular music. 4:55am This is BBC Four BBC Four is the BBC channel for people who want more.

9:00am Everybody Loves Raymond 9:30am Everybody Loves Raymond 10:00am Frasier 10:30am Frasier 11:00am Frasier 11:30am Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares USA 12:30pm Jamie's 15 Minute Meals 1:00pm Channel 4 News Summary 1:05pm Four in a Bed 2:10pm Channel 4 Racing 4:10pm Countdown 5:00pm Couples Come Dine with Me 6:00pm Four in a Bed 6:30pm Too Many Cooks 7:00pm The Simpsons 7:30pm Hollyoaks 8:00pm Channel 4 News 8:30pm Unreported World 9:00pm George Clarke's Amazing Treehouses 10:00pm Gogglebox 11:00pm Lookalikes 11:35pm Lookalikes 12:05am First Dates

7:00am Good Morning Britain 9:30am Lorraine 10:25am The Jeremy Kyle Show 11:30am This Morning 1:30pm Loose Women 2:30pm ITV Lunchtime News 2:55pm ITV News London 3:00pm Judge Rinder 4:00pm Chopping Block 5:00pm Tipping Point 6:00pm The Chase 7:00pm ITV News London 7:30pm ITV Evening News 8:00pm Emmerdale 8:30pm Coronation Street 9:00pm Barging Round Britain with John Sergeant 9:30pm Coronation Street 10:00pm Flying Scotsman with Robson Green 11:00pm ITV News at Ten and Weather 11:30pm ITV News London 11:40pm GoldenEye 2:05am Jackpot247 4:00am Murder, She Wrote Crime series.

8:15am The Ellen DeGeneres Show 9:00am Emmerdale 9:30am Emmerdale 10:00am Totally Bonkers Guinness World Records 10:30am Psych 11:20am Royal Pains 12:15pm Dinner Date 1:15pm Emmerdale 1:45pm Emmerdale 2:15pm You've Been Framed! 2:45pm The Ellen DeGeneres Show 3:35pm The Jeremy Kyle Show 4:40pm The Jeremy Kyle Show 5:45pm The Jeremy Kyle Show 6:50pm Take Me Out 8:00pm Best of You've Been Framed! 9:00pm Two and a Half Men 9:30pm Two and a Half Men 10:00pm Delivery Man 11:05pm FYI Daily 11:10pm Delivery Man 12:15am Family Guy

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7:00am Football's Greatest: Ronaldo 7:05am Hogan's Heroes 7:30am Hogan's Heroes 7:55am The Chase 8:50am The Professionals 9:55am Minder 10:55am Ax Men 11:55am The Chase 12:55pm The Professionals 2:00pm Storage Wars 2:30pm Storage Wars 2:55pm Storage Wars New York 3:25pm Storage Wars New York 3:55pm Hogan's Heroes 4:30pm Hogan's Heroes 5:00pm Minder 6:00pm The Professionals 7:00pm Storage Wars New York 7:35pm Storage Wars New York 8:00pm Pawn Stars 8:30pm FA Youth Cup Final Live 11:00pm Death Wish 5: The Face of Death 12:00am FYI Daily

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Doctor at Large Heartbeat Where the Heart is The Royal Judge Judy Judge Judy Judge Judy The Darling Buds of May Murder, She Wrote Heartbeat The Royal Where the Heart is Doctor at Large On the Buses George and Mildred Heartbeat Murder, She Wrote Agatha Christie's Marple Prime Suspect A is for Acid Long Lost Family Rory Bremner's Great British Views Rory Bremner's Great British Views George and Mildred

8:50am Noddy: Toyland Detective 9:00am Ben and Holly's Little Kingdom 9:15am Peppa Pig 9:25am Peppa Pig 9:35am Paw Patrol 9:50am Bananas in Pajamas 10:00am Toot the Tiny Tugboat 10:15am The Wright Stuff 12:10pm Beware! Cowboy Builders 1:10pm 5 News Lunchtime 1:15pm Can't Pay? We'll Take it Away! 2:15pm Home and Away 2:45pm Neighbours 3:20pm NCIS 4:20pm The Good Mother 6:00pm 5 News at 5 6:30pm Neighbours 7:00pm Home and Away 7:30pm 5 News Tonight 8:00pm The Gadget Show 9:00pm Henry VIII and His Six Wives 10:00pm Ben Fogle: The Great African Migration 11:00pm Eamonn and Ruth: How the Other Half Lives

7:00am X2 9:20am X-Men: The Last Stand 11:20am Fury 1:40pm Cloverfield 3:20pm X2 5:40pm X-Men: The Last Stand 7:40pm Fury 10:00pm 28 Days Later 12:00am 28 Weeks Later 1:45am Cloverfield

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Superfast Doctor Dolittle Doctor Dolittle 2 Never Been Kissed Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story Cop Out The War of the Roses Johnny English Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story Cop Out The Cable Guy

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Elsa and Fred Standoff The Forger Elsa and Fred Partisan Bad Words Southpaw The Forger John Travolta stars as a master art forger tasked with a pulling off a daring heist. Southpaw Bad Words Partisan Standoff A troubled veteran must protect a young girl from a ruthless assassin. Partisan Zootropolis: Special Sky Movies takes a special look at Disney's animated buddy-cop comedy set in a world entirely populated by animals.

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Cricket's Greatest Cricket's Greatest CWC Classics Cricket's Greatest Cricket's Greatest Cricket's Greatest Sky Sports Years CWC Classics Premier League Darts Live Indian Premier League Live Super League 20 Years of Super League It's been 20 years since the dawn of the Super League era in 1996. Cricket's Greatest Series profiling some of the greatest cricketers of all time. Time of Our Lives Faces of football past reminisce about their playing days with Jeff Stelling. Ashes Best Days Sporting Rivalries

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7:00am Breakfast 11:00am Saturday Kitchen Live 12:30pm MasterChef 1:00pm BBC News 1:05pm Weather 1:10pm Football Focus 2:00pm The London Marathon: A Million Reasons to Run 2:30pm Snooker 5:30pm BBC News 5:40pm Regional News 5:45pm Weather 5:50pm Match of the Day Live 8:15pm Michael Mcintyre's Big Show 9:05pm The National Lottery 9:55pm Casualty 10:45pm Mrs. Brown's Boys 11:15pm BBC News 11:30pm Weather 11:35pm Match of the Day 12:20am Peter Kay's Comedy Shuffle 12:50am The London Marathon: A Million Reasons to Run 1:20am Snooker

8:55am Fort Apache 11:00am Snooker 1:00pm Rick Stein From Venice to Istanbul 2:00pm Bargain Hunt 3:00pm Escape to the Country 3:45pm Money for Nothing 4:30pm The Hairy Bikers' Pubs That Built Britain 5:00pm Gardeners' World 5:30pm Final Score 6:15pm Flog It! 7:00pm Bake Off Crème de la Crème 8:00pm Snooker 9:00pm Dad's Army 9:30pm Shakespeare Live! From the RSC 11:30pm QI XL Panel-based quiz where it is more important to be interesting than right. 12:15am Snooker World Championships 2016 Highlights 1:05am Mesrine: Killer Instinct

8:00pm A History of Ancient Britain 9:00pm Natural World Jonathan Scott narrates the extraordinary story of the leopard - the one big cat that still survives... 10:00pm Hinterland 11:30pm BBC: The Secret Files 2 12:30am BBC: The Secret Files 1:30am Imagine Investigative documentary series in which various aspects of the arts are explored. 2:45am It's Only Rock 'N' Roll: Rock 'N' Roll at the BBC 3:45am BBC: The Secret Files 2 4:45am This is BBC Four

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CITV Weekend Murder, She Wrote Murder, She Wrote The Jeremy Kyle Show USA ITV News and Weather The Jeremy Kyle Show Planet's Got Talent BBQ Champ Beethoven The Wine Show Local News and Weather ITV News and Weather You've Been Framed! Bang on the Money Britain's Got Talent Auditions Play to the Whistle ITV News and Weather The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift Jackpot 247 Murder, She Wrote Nightscreen

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Movies Now Judge Judy Judge Judy On the Buses On the Buses Where the Heart is Where the Heart is A Touch of Frost Man About the House FYI Daily Man About the House Columbo Rosemary and Thyme Rosemary and Thyme Midsomer Murders Foyle's War It is July 1945 and Britain is settling into peacetime. Agatha Christie's Marple Blue Murder Doctor at Large ITV3 Nightscreen Text-based information service. Teleshopping

7:10am Asics Greater Manchester Marathon 7:40am British GT 8:05am Brighton Marathon 2016 9:00am Everybody Loves Raymond 9:30am Everybody Loves Raymond 10:00am The Morning Line 11:00am Frasier 11:30am Frasier 12:00pm The Big Bang Theory 12:55pm The Simpsons 1:25pm The Simpsons 1:55pm Come Dine with Me 3:00pm Channel 4 Racing 5:30pm A Place in the Sun: 6:30pm Homes by the Med 7:30pm Channel 4 News 8:00pm The Secret World of Lego 9:00pm Arnie Schwarzenegger's 50 Greatest Ever Stunts 10:30pm The Transporter 12:20am Contraband 2:20am Hollyoaks Omnibus 4:30am Tricks of the Restaurant Trade

7:00am Milkshake! 9:55am Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 10:30am The Saturday Show 12:30pm Police Interceptors 1:25pm Police Interceptors 2:20pm Police Interceptors 3:15pm Police Interceptors 4:10pm Now That's Funny 5:15pm Now That's Funny 6:15pm Toddlers Make You Laugh Out Loud Anthology series featuring comic clips of hilarious toddlers. 7:10pm NCIS: Los Angeles 8:05pm NCIS: New Orleans 9:00pm NCIS 9:55pm 5 News The latest news coverage. 10:00pm The Championship Football League Tonight. 11:00pm Goal Rush Football League Tonight. 11:30pm NCIS 12:25am NCIS 1:15am Super Casino

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Football's Greatest Cycling Bundesliga HSBC World Rugby 7s Series Highlights Storage Wars Ax Men World Superbike Highlights Motorsport UK British Touring Car Championship Highlights FIA Formula e Championship Live BRDC Formula 3 Championship Highlights The Darts Mavericks The Big Fish Off Space Cowboys FYI Daily Space Cowboys Get Carter FYI Daily Get Carter The Fog FYI Daily The Fog Hell on Wheels

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9:30am Who Framed Roger Rabbit? 11:20am Let's be Cops 1:10pm The Top Ten Show 2016 1:30pm The Wedding Ringer 3:20pm Splash 5:20pm Baby's Day Out 7:10pm Let's be Cops 9:00pm The Wedding Ringer 10:45pm Superbad 12:45am Team America: World Police 2:30am One Night in Istanbul

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Rude(Ish) Tube Rude(Ish) Tube Rude(Ish) Tube Rude(Ish) Tube Jane the Virgin Made in Chelsea How I Met Your Mother How I Met Your Mother Suburgatory Suburgatory Baby Daddy Baby Daddy How I Met Your Mother How I Met Your Mother Brooklyn Nine-Nine Brooklyn Nine-Nine The Goldbergs The Goldbergs The Goldbergs Dear John The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory Tower Heist Gogglebox Gogglebox Rude Tube

Elsa and Fred Standoff The Forger Elsa and Fred Partisan Bad Words Southpaw The Forger Thriller about a master art forger tasked with a pulling off a daring heist. Southpaw Bad Words Dark comedy about a 40-year-old misanthrope who enters children's spelling bees. Partisan Standoff A troubled veteran must protect a young girl from a ruthless assassin. Partisan Zootropolis: Special

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Football Gold Football Gold Football Gold Football Gold Football Freestyler Barclays Premier League Preview Game Changers Nick Kicks The Fantasy Football Club Soccer A.M. Football Live European Rugby Live European Rugby Football Football Indian Premier League Highlights Indian Premier League Highlights La Liga La Liga Cricket's Greatest Indian Premier League Highlights Indian Premier League Highlights Cricket's Greatest

Sky Scholars Live Super Rugby Live Super Rugby Sporting Rivalries Super League Highlights Super League Highlights Football Gold Football Gold Football Sky Scholars Sky Scholars Sky Scholars Super League Gold Super League Gold 20 Years of Super League Live Super League Sporting Triumphs Sporting Triumphs Cricket's Greatest SNF: Game of the Day SNF: Match Choice SNF: Match Choice SNF: Match Choice SNF: Match Choice SNF: Match Choice

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Breakfast Match of the Day London Marathon BBC News Sunday Politics The Day I Met the Queen Songs of Praise Elizabeth at 90: A Family Tribute Paul O Grady: The Sally Army and Me BBC News Regional News Weather Countryfile Antiques Roadshow Undercover BBC News Regional News Weather Match of the Day 2 Highlights and reaction to all of the latest football action. Match of the Day: FA Cup Highlights All the action from the latest FA Cup games. Would I Lie to You?

8:00am Island Parish Shetland 8:30am The Beechgrove Garden 9:00am Countryfile 10:00am The Andrew Marr Show 11:00am Snooker 1:15pm MOTD2 Extra 2:15pm Points of View 2:30pm London Marathon 3:30pm Snooker 7:00pm London Marathon Highlights 8:00pm Snooker 9:00pm Natural Born Winners 10:00pm Louis Theroux 11:00pm Half of a Yellow Sun 12:45am Snooker World Championships 2016 Highlights 1:35am The People v OJ Simpson: American Crime Story 2:40am Countryfile 3:35am Holby City 4:35am This is BBC Two Highlights of programmes on BBC Two.

8:00pm Virtuoso Violinists at the BBC 9:00pm Yehudi Menhuin: Who Was Yehudi? 10:00pm Arena 11:00pm Forbidden Planet A landmark sci-fi movie, with great special effects, based on Shakespeare's 'The Tempest'. 12:35am Aliens: The Big Think 1:35am Horizon 2:35am Natural World Jonathan Scott narrates the extraordinary story of the leopard - the one big cat that still survives across half the world while tigers, cheetahs and lions are all struggling. 3:35am Jerusalem: The Making of a Holy City 4:35am This is BBC Four

CITV Weekend Formula e Highlights Murder, She Wrote The Jeremy Kyle Show ITV News and Weather The Jeremy Kyle Show All Star Family Fortunes Fierce Britain's Got Talent Midsomer Murders Local News and Weather ITV News and Weather The Chase: Celebrity Special The Durrells Home Fires ITV News and Weather Flying Scotsman with Robson Green Murder, She Wrote Jackpot 247 Motorsport UK

7:00am The Hot Desk 7:10am Planet's Funniest Animals 7:30am Emmerdale Omnibus 10:15am Coronation Street Omnibus 12:45pm Take Me Out 2:00pm Catchphrase 2:45pm The Flintstones 4:25pm Charlotte's Web 6:20pm Britain's Got Talent 7:40pm Britain's Got More Talent 8:45pm Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous 11:00pm Family Guy 11:30pm Family Guy 12:00am Family Guy 12:30am Family Guy 12:55am American Dad! 1:30am American Dad! 1:55am The Cleveland Show 2:20am The Cleveland Show 2:50am Totally Bonkers Guinness World Records 3:15am Teleshopping Shopping from home.

7:00am On the Buses 7:25am On the Buses 7:55am Man About the House 8:55am FYI Daily 9:00am Man About the House 9:40am Heartbeat 10:50am Heartbeat 12:00pm Columbo 1:35pm The Queen 2:35pm FYI Daily 2:40pm The Queen 3:40pm Ben Hur 4:45pm FYI Daily 4:50pm Ben Hur 7:55pm Doc Martin 9:00pm The Cruise Ship Ep (Part 3 of 4). 9:30pm Royal Stories 10:00pm Great Estates 11:20pm Elizabeth: The Golden Age 12:35am FYI Daily 12:40am Elizabeth: The Golden Age 1:40am A Touch of Frost 3:40am Doctor at Large 4:05am May the Best House Win

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7:20am King of Queens 7:45am King of Queens 8:10am Everybody Loves Raymond 8:35am Everybody Loves Raymond 9:00am Everybody Loves Raymond 9:30am Frasier 10:00am Frasier 10:30am Sunday Brunch 1:30pm George Clarke's Amazing Spaces 2:30pm Maid in Manhattan 4:35pm Location, Location, Location 5:35pm A Place in the Sun: Winter Sun 6:35pm Channel 4 News 7:05pm Grand Designs 8:00pm The Fearless Chef 9:00pm Mystery of the Crossrail Skulls 10:00pm Indian Summers 11:00pm Gogglebox 12:05am The Lincoln Lawyer 2:10am Embarrassing Bodies 3:00am Come Dine with Me 3:30am Come Dine with Me 3:55am Come Dine with Me

7:00am Ax Men 7:45am British Touring Car Championship Highlights 9:15am The Big Fish Off 10:15am Pawn Stars 10:40am Pawn Stars 10:45am Pawn Stars 11:10am Pawn Stars 11:40am Pawn Stars 12:05pm Pawn Stars 12:30pm Pawn Stars 1:00pm Pawn Stars 1:30pm Destry 2:30pm FYI Daily 2:35pm Destry 3:35pm The Cimarron Kid 4:35pm FYI Daily 4:40pm The Cimarron Kid 5:15pm Thunderball 6:15pm FYI Daily 6:20pm Thunderball 7:55pm The Wine Show 9:00pm River Monsters 10:05pm Assassins 11:10pm FYI Daily 11:15pm Assassins 12:45am Sleepers 1:50am FYI Daily 1:55am Sleepers

9:10am Blaze and the Monster Machines 9:35am Ben and Holly's Little Kingdom 9:50am Wanda and the Alien 10:00am Toby's Travelling Circus 10:15am Jelly Jamm 10:35am LazyTown 11:00am Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 10:55am Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 11:30am The Championship 12:30pm Goal Rush 1:00pm The Gadget Show 2:00pm Grannies Make You Laugh Out Loud 3:00pm Budgies Make You Laugh Out Loud 4:00pm 5 News 6:00pm Miss Congeniality 8:00pm Now That's Funny 9:00pm Penn and Teller: Fool Us in Vegas 9:55pm 5 News 10:00pm 5 News 11:40pm Cradle 2 the Grave 1:45am Criminals: Caught on Camera 2:10am Super Casino

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Spider-Man Spider-Man 2 Spider-Man 3 Ghost Rider Spider-Man Spider-Man 2 Spider-Man 3 Rambo Ghost Rider Death Wish Rambo

7:45am Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo 9:15am The Waterboy 11:00am Stir Crazy 1:00pm Get Hard 2:50pm Pitch Perfect 2 Special 3:20pm The Interview 5:20pm Mr. Deeds 7:05pm Twins 9:00pm Get Hard 10:45pm The Interview 12:45am Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby

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Rude(Ish) Tube Rude(Ish) Tube Rude(Ish) Tube Rude(Ish) Tube Suburgatory Suburgatory Baby Daddy Baby Daddy Hollyoaks Omnibus Made in Chelsea Couples Come Dine with Me The Goldbergs The Goldbergs The Goldbergs St. Trinian's 2: The Legend of Fritton's Gold The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Tattoo Fixers The IT Crowd The IT Crowd The 100

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Elsa and Fred Standoff The Forger Partisan Elsa and Fred Two retirees prove it's never too late to fall in love. Charming romantic comedy. Bad Words Dark comedy about a 40-year-old misanthrope who enters children's spelling bees. Southpaw The Forger Thriller about a master art forger tasked with a pulling off a daring heist. Southpaw Bad Words Dark comedy about a 40-year-old misanthrope who enters children's spelling bees. Partisan

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Football Gold Football Gold SNF: Match Choice The Sunday Supplement Goals on Sunday Live Ford Super Sunday Live Ford Super Sunday Live Ford Super Sunday Football League Goals David Beckham Special Goals on Sunday Ford Football Special Goals on Sunday Football New York Red Bulls take on Orlando City at Red Bull Arena in MLS. Football Gold A chance to relive some classic matches from the English top flight. Ford Football Special

Crickets Greatest Sporting Rivalries Live Super Rugby Rugby Union Gold Cricket's Greatest Cricket's Greatest Major League Soccer Live Scottish Premiership Sporting Triumphs Rugby Union Gold Football Classic 7s Football Football Gold Football La Liga La Liga European Rugby Special ATP Masters : Barcelona The final of the Barcelona Open from Real Club de Tenis Barcelona on the ATP World Tour. Crickets Greatest Crickets Greatest

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12:00pm The Sheriffs are Coming 12:45pm Oxford Street Revealed 1:15pm Bargain Hunt 2:00pm BBC News 2:30pm Regional News 2:45pm Doctors 3:15pm The Code 4:00pm Escape to the Country 4:45pm Money for Nothing 5:30pm Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is 6:15pm Pointless 7:00pm BBC News 7:30pm Regional News 8:00pm The One Show 8:30pm Is Steel Worth Saving? - Panorama 9:00pm EastEnders 9:30pm MasterChef 10:00pm Peter Kay's Comedy Shuffle 10:30pm I Want My Wife Back 11:00pm BBC News 11:30pm Regional News 11:40pm Weather 11:45pm Have I Got a Bit More News for You 12:30am PFA Awards

7:00am Homes Under the Hammer 8:00am Flog It! 8:30am The Sheriffs are Coming 9:15am The Day I Met the Queen 10:00am Caught Red Handed 10:30am Gardeners' World 11:00am Triathlon World Series 1:00pm The Daily Politics 2:00pm Snooker 7:00pm Eggheads 7:30pm The Hairy Bikers' Pubs That Built Britain 8:00pm Snooker 9:00pm The Food Detectives 9:30pm Island Parish Shetland 10:00pm Horizon 11:00pm Mock the Week 11:30pm Newsnight 12:30am Weather 12:35am Snooker World Championships 2016 Highlights 1:25am The Women's Football Show 1:55am MasterChef

8:30pm National Treasures of Wales 9:00pm Antiques Uncovered 10:00pm A History of Ancient Britain 11:00pm She-Wolves: England's Early Queens In the medieval and Tudor world there was no question in people's minds about the order of God's creation 12:00am The Hollow Crown 2:20am She-Wolves: England's Early Queens 3:20am Antiques Uncovered Series uncovering the stories behind remarkable antiques and how they relate to our lives today. 4:20am Britain on Film Throughout the 1960s, the Rank Organisation produced hundreds of short, quirky documentaries that examined all aspects of life in Britain.

7:00am Countdown 7:45am Will and Grace 9:00am Everybody Loves Raymond 9:30am Everybody Loves Raymond 10:00am Frasier 10:30am Frasier 11:00am Frasier 11:30am Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares USA 12:30pm Four in a Bed 1:00pm Channel 4 News Summary 1:05pm Four in a Bed 3:10pm Fifteen to One 4:10pm Countdown 5:00pm Couples Come Dine with Me 6:00pm Four in a Bed 6:30pm Too Many Cooks 7:00pm The Simpsons 7:30pm Hollyoaks 8:00pm Channel 4 News 9:00pm Dispatches 9:30pm The Food Chain 10:00pm The Island with Bear Grylls 11:00pm Flowers 12:00am 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown

7:00am Milkshake! 10:15am The Wright Stuff 12:15pm GPs: Behind Closed Doors 1:10pm 5 News 1:15pm Cowboy Builders 2:15pm Home and Away 2:45pm Neighbours 3:15pm NCIS: New Orleans 4:15pm Killer Collector 6:00pm 5 News 6:30pm Neighbours 7:00pm Home and Away 7:30pm 5 News 8:00pm FIA World Rally Championship Highlights 9:00pm Police Interceptors 10:00pm The Tube: Going Underground 11:00pm Gotham 12:00am Person of Interest 12:55am Person of Interest 1:50am True Crimes: The First 72 Hours 2:15am Super Casino 4:10am Castle 5:00am Wildlife SOS 5:25am Great Scientists 5:50am House Doctor

7:00am Good Morning Britain 9:30am Lorraine 10:25am The Jeremy Kyle Show 11:30am This Morning 1:30pm Loose Women 2:30pm ITV Lunchtime News 3:00pm Judge Rinder 4:00pm Chopping Block 5:00pm Tipping Point 6:00pm The Chase 7:00pm Local News and Weather 7:30pm ITV Evening News 8:00pm Emmerdale 8:30pm Coronation Street 9:00pm Wild Australia with Ray Mears 9:30pm Coronation Street 10:00pm Marcella 11:00pm ITV News at Ten and Weather 11:45pm The Agenda 12:30am GoldenEye 2:45am Jackpot 247 4:00am The Jeremy Kyle Show 4:55am Nightscreen

7:00am Planet's Funniest Animals 7:20am Dinner Date 8:15am The Ellen DeGeneres Show 9:00am Emmerdale 9:30am Coronation Street 10:00am Coronation Street 10:30am Psych 11:20am Royal Pains 12:10pm Dinner Date 1:10pm Emmerdale 1:45pm Coronation Street 2:45pm The Ellen DeGeneres Show 3:35pm The Jeremy Kyle Show 4:40pm The Jeremy Kyle Show 5:45pm The Jeremy Kyle Show 6:50pm Take Me Out 8:00pm You've Been Framed! 8:30pm You've Been Framed! 9:00pm Two and a Half Men 10:00pm Family Guy 10:30pm Family Guy 11:00pm Plebs 11:30pm Family Guy 12:00am American Dad!

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12:00pm The Sheriffs are Coming 12:45pm Oxford Street Revealed 1:15pm Bargain Hunt 2:00pm BBC News 2:30pm Regional News 2:45pm Doctors 3:15pm The Code 4:00pm Escape to the Country 4:45pm Money for Nothing 5:30pm Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is 6:15pm Pointless 7:00pm BBC News 7:30pm Regional News 8:00pm The One Show 8:30pm EastEnders 9:00pm Holby City 10:00pm The A Word 11:00pm BBC News 11:30pm Regional News 11:40pm Weather 11:45pm Never Again: Fear and Faith in Paris 12:15am Room 101 12:55am Live at the Apollo

7:45am The Sheriffs are Coming 8:30am Escape to the Country 9:15am Money for Nothing 10:00am Caught Red Handed 10:30am Great British Railway Journeys 11:00am Snooker 1:00pm The Daily Politics 2:00pm Snooker 7:00pm Eggheads 7:30pm The Hairy Bikers' Pubs That Built Britain 8:00pm Snooker 9:00pm Bake Off Crème de la Crème 10:00pm Inside the Millionaire's Wardrobe 11:00pm Later Live... with Jools Holland 11:30pm Newsnight 12:10am Weather 12:15am Snooker World Championships 2016 Highlights

8:00pm World News Today 8:30pm National Treasures of Wales 9:00pm The Golden Age of Trams: A Streetcar Named Desire 10:00pm Britain's Treasure Islands 11:00pm Jerusalem: The Making of a Holy City 12:00am The Hollow Crown: Henry IV 1:55am A History of Ancient Britain 2:55am Paul Merton's Birth of Hollywood To mark Hollywood's 100th anniversary, Paul Merton travels to America in a series that explores how the early pioneers there laid down the blueprint for today's cinema industry.

7:00am Good Morning Britain 9:30am Lorraine 10:25am The Jeremy Kyle Show 11:30am This Morning 1:30pm Loose Women 2:30pm ITV Lunchtime News 3:00pm Judge Rinder 4:00pm Chopping Block 5:00pm Tipping Point 6:00pm The Chase 7:00pm Local News and Weather 7:30pm ITV Evening News 8:00pm Emmerdale 8:30pm River Monsters 9:00pm Fierce 10:00pm Drive 11:00pm ITV News at Ten and Weather 11:40pm Paul O'Grady's Animal Orphans 12:45am Bargain Shop Wars 1:10am Jackpot 247

7:00am Planet's Funniest Animals 7:20am Dinner Date 8:15am The Ellen DeGeneres Show 9:00am Emmerdale 9:30am Coronation Street 10:00am Coronation Street 10:30am Psych 11:20am Royal Pains 12:10pm Dinner Date 1:10pm Emmerdale 1:45pm Coronation Street 2:45pm The Ellen DeGeneres Show 3:35pm The Jeremy Kyle Show 4:40pm The Jeremy Kyle Show 6:50pm Take Me Out 8:00pm You've Been Framed! 9:00pm Two and a Half Men 9:30pm Two and a Half Men 10:00pm Delivery Man 12:10am Family Guy

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7:00am Countdown 7:45am Will and Grace 9:00am Everybody Loves Raymond 9:30am Everybody Loves Raymond 10:00am Frasier 10:30am Frasier 11:00am Frasier 11:30am Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares USA 12:30pm Four in a Bed 1:00pm Channel 4 News Summary 1:05pm Four in a Bed 3:10pm Fifteen to One 4:10pm Countdown 5:00pm Couples Come Dine with Me 6:00pm Four in a Bed 6:30pm Too Many Cooks 7:00pm The Simpsons 7:30pm Hollyoaks 8:00pm Channel 4 News 9:00pm The Tiny Tots Talent Agency 10:00pm One Born Every Minute

10:15am The Wright Stuff 12:15pm GPs: Behind Closed Doors 1:10pm 5 News 1:15pm Cowboy Builders 2:15pm Home and Away 2:45pm Neighbours 3:15pm NCIS 4:15pm Nightmare From the Past 6:00pm 5 News 6:30pm Neighbours 7:00pm Home and Away 7:30pm 5 News 8:00pm Ben Fogle: The Great African Migration 9:00pm The Yorkshire Vet 10:00pm Tribal Teens... Here Comes Trouble 11:00pm My Mum's Hotter Than Me! 12:00am Moments That Rocked Talent Shows 1:30am Lip Sync Battle 1:55am Super Casino 4:10am Castle 5:00am Wildlife SOS 5:25am Great Scientists

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10:20am One Night in Istanbul 12:00pm Romy and Michele's High School Reunion 1:40pm Blazing Saddles 3:20pm Dumb and Dumber To 5:20pm The Top Ten Show 2016 5:40pm Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles

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7:00am Rip Off Britain 7:45am Flog It! 8:15am Homes Under the Hammer 9:15am Money for Nothing 10:00am Now You See It 10:30am Great British Menu 11:00am Snooker 12:30pm The Daily Politics 2:00pm Snooker 7:00pm Eggheads 7:30pm The Hairy Bikers' Pubs That Built Britain 8:00pm Snooker 9:00pm Caravanner of the Year 10:00pm Mary Beard's Ultimate Rome: Empire Without Limit 11:00pm Normal for Norfolk 11:30pm Newsnight 12:10am Weather 12:15am Snooker World Championships 2016 Highlights 1:05am Louis Theroux 2:05am MasterChef 2:35am Five Star Babies: Inside the Portland Hospital 3:35am Britain's Biggest Superyachts

8:00pm World News Today 8:30pm The Wonder of Bees with Martha Kearney 9:00pm Britain's Treasure Islands 10:00pm The History Boys 11:50pm The Hollow Crown In the aftermath of the Battle of Shrewsbury, Northumberland learns of the death of his son. 1:45am Dan Cruickshank and the Family That Built Gothic Britain 2:45am Bunkers Brutalism and Bloodymindedness Concrete Poetry. 3:45am Britain Through a Lens The unlikely story of how, between 1929 and 1945, a group of tweed-wearing radicals and pinstriped bureaucrats created the most influential movement in the history of British film. 4:45am This is BBC Four

9:00am Everybody Loves Raymond 9:30am Everybody Loves Raymond 10:00am Frasier 10:30am Frasier 11:00am Frasier 11:30am Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares USA 12:30pm Four in a Bed 1:00pm Channel 4 News Summary 1:05pm Four in a Bed 1:35pm Four in a Bed 2:05pm Four in a Bed 2:40pm Four in a Bed 3:10pm Fifteen to One 4:10pm Countdown 5:00pm Couples Come Dine with Me 6:00pm Four in a Bed 6:30pm Too Many Cooks 7:00pm The Simpsons 7:30pm Hollyoaks 8:00pm Channel 4 News 9:00pm The Supervet 10:00pm 24 Hours in Police Custody 11:00pm Flowers 11:35pm Gogglebox 12:40am The Island with Bear Grylls 1:35am Snowbombing 2016

7:00am Milkshake! 10:15am The Wright Stuff 12:15pm GPs: Behind Closed Doors Documentary taking a look at what goes on in the consultation room. 1:10pm 5 News The latest news coverage. 1:15pm The Gadget Show 2:15pm Home and Away 2:45pm Neighbours 3:15pm NCIS: Los Angeles 4:15pm Driven Underground 6:00pm 5 News 6:30pm Neighbours 7:00pm Home and Away 7:30pm 5 News 8:00pm Police Interceptors 9:00pm GPs: Behind Closed Doors 10:00pm Can't Pay? We'll Take it Away! 11:00pm Nightmare Tenants, Slum Landlords 12:00am The Tube: Going Underground 1:00am Ben Fogle: The Great African Migration 1:55am Super Casino

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It’s a slippery slope I AM becoming increasingly hostile towards this ‘obsession’ people seem to be having with their fourlegged friends, and to organisers, like your good self, pandering to a minorit y g r o u p wh e n th ere are more important and pressing matters to attend to. In some cases their owners are elevating their dogs to equal status to themselves. I am sure we have all observed dogs being pushed around in prams, or being towed in an enclosed ‘buggy’ behind a push bike. Firstly, most restaurants seem to allow, or turn a blind eye, when clients and customers arrive with their dog, either on their knee (the lap dogs) or tucked under the table. Some restaurants even put a bowl of water on the floor for the dog, which turns the whole surrounding floor into a skating rink. In one instance my friends and I witnessed the dog urinating on the restaurant floor. Correct me if I’m wrong, but I believed that it was against the law to have a dog in a restaurant, the only exception being a guide dog. Secondly, opposite Consum, a ‘dog park’ has recently opened and I personally believe that is a good idea, at least it varies the type of exercise for different sizes of dogs. Thirdly, contrary to popular belief, not all dog owners collect their dog’s excrement. They make a big (empty) statement by putting the little plastic bags in full view so as to give the impression they are responsible owners. I have witnessed on many occasions that the own e r l o o k s a r o u n d , an d if there is nobody watching, they walk away leaving the excrement on the pavement. If you think this is an exaggeration, then why are the streets and pavements in Calpe festooned with dog faeces. Taking into account these points, I am filled with dread to think what any section of beach area will become after a couple of days. I think it is ludicrous to even contemplate having a ‘designated’ area, remember the old adage, give an inch and they take a mile, and today Calpe, tomorrow the whole Costa Blanca. It would be the first in a succession of ‘designated areas’ that would then spread to the whole beach. I am convinced it would be

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Voice of reason WHILE I fully sympathise with Peter and Jean over their feelings of horror in the matter of the neglected donkey, stealing is illegal in any country, indeed, in an Arab country, Peter could have had his right hand chopped off. If they are running a legal animal charity, they must be aware of Seprona, the branch of the Guardia Civil which deals with animal welfare, and El Refugio del Burrito, which has an army of vets at its disposal, and which would have dealt with the matter efficiently and diplomatically. Perhaps we should remember that there are cases of shocking animal cruelty in the UK as well. Such high-handed behaviour as shown by Peter and Jean does not endear the Brits to the Spaniards – our hosts. Diana from Fuengirola

Philip from Estepona

Missing the UK? THERE are things that I miss about the UK (not many), children, grandchildren, the Friday night meet with pals putting the world to rights, and the craic. However, a little birdie told me of a sinister happening somewhere in Quesada that stems from British boozers. It won’t affect me as I rarely touch spirits and if I do, I won’t be frequenting this bar in the near future, even if I knew the name of it, which I don’t.

Cross-eyed crossword AS someone who has a brand new pair of glasses I still need to use a magnifying glass to do your crosswords. John via email

WHILST I am delighted that Mr Lee stretched his legs a little and hopped on a plane to Copenhagen, I’m not entirely confident that the same could be said for the Danes, especially if he flaunted the kind of conceited condescension on display in his article. A few corrections if I may, since his remarks frequently go unchallenged. Mr Lee implies that the burka is banned in Denmark and that this is a reason for the harmonious relations seen in the local Muslim community. The burka is not banned in Denmark, which is in fact one of the most liberal countries on earth. It is of course banned in France, which is an emerging hotbed of extremism. There’s a glimpse of where Leapy Lee’s policies would lead. Lee also seems woefully unaware that ‘Muslims’ are not a homogenous group. When it comes to integration, whether you are Arab, Indonesian, Thai, or Turkish will dictate your level of assimilation into a foreign culture far more than your religion. It’s fine to have an opinion, albeit it uninformed, but tapping into popular, justified anger through wild stereotypes and subtle lies is disgraceful.

impossible to police. Children play freely on the beach without having to watch where they are walking, and long may that continue. Please, please, please, keep the beaches pristine and dog free, w ith o u t th e n e e d for s pe c ia l fenced areas which would detract from a most pleasing vista. We are proud of our beaches and so are the thousands of people whether locals, or most usually, holidaymakers. Please do not let, in my opinion, selfish dog owners ruin it. Sorry to be so ‘anti-dog’ but enough is enough. Ian via email

can devote some space to your comments.

My understanding is that they serve their spirits from OPTICS and not anywhere near gentlemen’s size! Let’s get a grip here. Now I can appreciate the need for tighter stock control but optics in Spain... I hope for the gin and tonic brigade’s sake this illness is not catching. Philip in San Fulgencio via email EWN says: What an interesting concept for a feature. What do you miss about the UK and indeed what are you delighted you don’t have to put up with any more? If we receive enough responses we

Happy days GLAD to see the tv programmes restored. Pete via email

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Good old days or rose tinted spectacles? Colin Bird A weekly look Each week, Colin brings his slightly off-thewall view of the world to the pages of EWN in his own irreverent style.

IT’S a fact that many people of my generation are always banging on about the good old days. We tell ourselves that things were all Enid Blyton and Long John Silver when we were young and that the world was a kinder and safer place all round. The long hot summer days of our school holidays seemed to go on and on. We swam in open-air public pools, picked bluebells for our mums, rollerskated in the street and went fishing. And if we were lucky, spent a fortnight at the seaside. School stood small and distant as we lived every minute of the day to the full. Life was uncomplicated. Or was it?

OLD DAYS: I would switch back in a flash.

Most families happily lived in rented accommodation and mortgages were the exception not the rule. Cars were few if you lived on a council estate and even

televisions were a luxury that relatively few could aspire to, because then our parents only bought what they could afford to pay for in hard-earned cash. Now millions own their own homes - if the millstone of

interminable mortgage payments can be called ownership. There is a car or two in the driveway, we clamour to buy the latest in electronic wizardry and multiple foreign holidays are the norm.

But the pressure to maintain a certain lifestyle has become enormous. Medical science has made advances, but obesity has reached epidemic proportions, new diseases with weird sounding names constantly appear and the scourge of cancer marches on. It’s risky to let your children out to play and teenagers increasingly hit the town with the deliberate intention of becoming wasted, subsequently sharing their dinner with the rest of the world. Where the fear of mutual destruction kept the fingers off the nuclear button during the cold war years, today we have terrorist organisations that would destroy civilisation in the name of their God given the opportunity. ‘The good old days’ may be a slight misnomer, but given the opportunity I would switch back in a flash.

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John Smith Random thoughts... OVER the years it seems that there is always one expert who can warn you ag a i n st o n e se t o f circ u mstances and then in the next week another e x p e r t c o m p le te ly d is proves the assumption and states the opposite. There is no question that smoking is bad for you but should you take a glass of red wine every day to make sure you are healthy or will it a c t u a l l y d a m a g e y o u r health? The latest utterings of a group of MPs really do take the biscuit (assuming that it isn’t bad for your health!). According to the All Party Parliamentary Group on Hunger, there are a rising number of children starting school who are underweight and who don’t get enough to eat, having to rely on school dinners to get their nourishment. Unless I’m greatly mistaken, for years, we have heard experts and Jamie Oliver droning on about how children are unhealthy and obese

LATEST BUDGET: George Osborne introduced a sugar tax. and it was only in the latest budget that George Osborne introduced a sugar tax in order to cut the volume of sweet fizzy drinks that the youth of today favour. E v ery re p o rt s e e ms to bla me

feckless parents who have no money but can afford to purchase pizza, burgers, greasy chicken and fizzy drinks in between smoking, drinking, betting, fighting and some other past time beginning with f.

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Brexit and Spain IT was very interesting to hear first-hand about the number of people who attended the Conservative Association open debate on the Brexit on Wednesday April 13 in Mijas, and although we featured the story of the afternoon in our last Costa del Sol edition, we feel that it is something that should be shared with all of our readers. This was genuinely a nonpolitical gathering which wanted to air the views of both pro and anti Brexit speakers, and it obviously touched a number of minds as so many people, admittedly the majority elderly and in many cases unable to vote in the referendum, took the trouble to attend. In all honesty, those our reporter spoke to had already made up their minds and others who were undecided and had attended hoping to get some hard facts were really no better off. The basic argument from the anti Brexit speakers boiled down to better the devil you know than one you don’t know, meaning of course that at least one has an idea of how things will progress within the EU in the future. Opposing this view, there was a little bit of looking at the past through rose tinted glasses, but the main bone of contention centred on federal rule from Brussels and the fear of Turkey becoming a member of the Union. Naturally nothing was decided, but clearly rather than indifference to the whole matter, there was an obvious interest from the several hundred people who attended.

Are the children losing weight be c a use of t he j unk f ood or ar e they gaining weight because of it? The report itself doesn’t seem to see the irony in its basic concept that some of the money from the new sugar tax should be used to extend free school meals for poor children into the school holidays, and the fact that fat children might get thin and vice versa. A government spokesperson responded saying: “In the last Budge t, we announced £10 m i l l i on (€12.5 million) of funding per year to e x pand br eakf ast cl ubs i n schools up and down the country, and have vowed to continue free s c hoo l m eal s f or m or e t han 1.3 million children. “ We agr ee wi t h t he al l - par t y group that nobody should go hungry, especially when surplus food goes to waste. We will therefore carefully consider the recommendations made in Now we this report.” want to I just wonder what will be the hear your views. next contradiction, perhaps the moon is made of cheese after YOUR PAPER - YOUR VOICE all or that the tooth fairy does- YOUR OPINION n’t really exist. Every ‘truth’ www.euroweeklynews.com does eventually get disproved.

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Wanting to put things right with someone close is a good instinct to have. It would certainly give you peace of mind. Indeed, this should be a quiet and peaceful week and one that is long overdue. Being successful in business is only one part of success. The light is dawning that what you have always wanted has changed.

GEMINI (May 22 - June 21) Someone very special could come into your life. You must, however, be at the ball to meet the prince. This opportunity for happiness is not going to jump up and bite you. A phone call could be the start of it all. Accept invitations and get out and about. Be aware of what is going on so that you can be in the right place at the right time.

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energy until your weary head hits the pillow. Be kind to your body. Some things that are taken for granted should not be so. This can lead to neglect. In neither home nor business is this recommended.

VIRGO (August 24 - September 23) You are freer than you imagine. Your imagination is letting you down a bit at the moment. Not for some time have opportunities been throwing themselves at you like this. The question is not if you should take up an offer but rather which one you should choose.

CANCER (June 22 - July 23) What is the reason that you are being held back? Are you sure that you are, in reality, being held back at all? These are not trick questions. Being honest with your answers this week will lift a cloud from your horizon.

PISCES (February 20 - March 20) How you feel about someone will change dramatically during the week. This will surprise you. Thinking about it logically, though, you have been missing the point for some time. Someone who you always thought of as a friend turns out to be much more. How you deal with this is very much an individual thing.

SAGITTARIUS (November 23 - December 21) It may seem that everyone wants your attention at the moment. There are times when you would like nothing more than to go away and clear your mind. This is not only possible but essential. You need some quiet moments. Even a day away can renew your spirits and energy.

LIBRA (September 24 - October 23) Give others the benefit of the doubt and your infinite patience this week. Situations will change from minute to minute. It would be a waste of energy to take anything at face value. Time is often the first thing to solve many problems.

LEO (July 24 - August 23) With high energy you are seeking to get as much done as possible in a small amount of time. Rather than go at it ‘hammer and tongs’, it could be easier. Let someone help you out. They will find it satisfying

AQUARIUS (January 21 - February 19) Putting all of your eggs in one basket is rarely to be advised. It should particularly be avoided this week. For the sake of speed and ease it will be tempting to take short cuts and make decisions that are bland. These will, of their nature, not be of the ‘good’ or ‘great’ categories.

ARIES (March 21 - April 20) With your engine revving and the road ahead clear, a sense of great freedom is with you. There are those for whom this week is a chance to really make headway. For some, though, it is an irksome task. The difference is that some of you are taking a negative attitude. Make sure that yours is positive and you will have a chance to make real progress.

CAPRICORN (December 22 - January 20) So strong have been the practical considerations of late that you have been in a bad position. You need to live more for the ‘now’ and less for the ‘tomorrow’. Of course, life should be a mixture of both but sometimes it all gets a bit jumbled. Getting a few hours peace and quiet on your own may be all that you need. Getting enough sleep is

SCORPIO (October 24 - November 22) Although you are only too aware that you are capable of great good when you put your mind to it, it would be wise to bide your time this week. You may not realise that you are expending too much

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Quick Across 1 Most costly (7) 5 Looks for (5) 8 On one's own (5) 9 Long-winded (7) 10 Educator (7) 12 Earlier in time (5) 13 Relaxed and unconcerned (6) 15 Talk indistinctly; usually in a low voice (6) 18 Move around (5) 19 Gracefully refined (7) 21 Put into words (7) 22 Bet (5) 23 Contract conditions (5) 24 Hang freely (7) Down 1 Forceful and extreme and rigorous (7) 2 Distinctive odour that is pleasant (5) 3 Female sheep (3) 4 Public house or inn (6) 5 Sacred text (9) 6 Conceited and self-centred person (7)

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Each number in the Code Breaker grid represents a different letter of the alphabet. In this week’s puzzle, 8 represents P and 25 represents C, so fill in P every time the figure 8 appears and C every time the figure 25 appears. Now, using your knowledge of the English language, work out which letters should go in the missing squares. As you discover the letters, fill in other squares with the same number in the main grid and the control grid.

1 Writs, 4 Recites, 8 Grenada, 9 Barks, 10 Staff, 12 Latrine, 13 Rather, 14 Method, 17 Surmise, 19 Risks, 21 Evade, 22 Swindle, 24 Theseus, 25 Guess.

Down: 1 Wages, 2 Ire, 3 Snaffle, 4 Really, 5 Cabot, 6 Tarnishes, 7 Suspend, 11 Alternate, 13 Respect, 15 Earring, 16 Verses, 18 Irene, 20 Sheds, 23 Doe.

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7 Smile contemptuously (5) 11 Lacking in feeling, pity or warmth (9) 14 Ship's captain (7) 16 No longer active in your work or profession (7)

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1 Iris, 4 Steady, 9 Soldier, 10 Glare, 11 Fed up, 12 Cassock, 13 Lizard, 15 Candid, 19 Scalpel, 21 Sober, 23 Cross, 24 Evasive, 25 Assess, 26 Nose.

17 Playing in opposition to (6) 18 Pleasing to the senses (5) 20 Discuss with reasoning (5) 22 Existed once (3)

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2 Ruled, 3 Skipper, 4 Strict, 5 Edges, 6 Diamond, 7 Useful, 8 Meek, 14 Zealous, 16 Abstain, 17 Darned, 18 Pliers, 19 Sack, 20 Paste, 22 Bliss.

Across 1 Silla de montar (6) 4 Cup (vessel, amount) (4) 8 Molestar (5) 9 Free (at liberty) (5) 10 Forward (in position) (9) 14 Queen (5) 15 Beret (5) 16 Querer (4) 17 Cherry (6)

ENGLISH-SPANISH Across: 1 Cielo, 4 Firma, 7 Guarantee, 10/16 Hot air, 15 Primavera, 17 Oeste, 18 Arroz.

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Down 1 Jabón (4) 2 Diente de león (9) 3 Law (legislation) (3) 5 Berenjena (9) 6 Birds (large) (4) 7 Plano (llano) (4) 11 Abbot (4) 12 Cuervo (4) 13 Branch (of tree, family, science) (4) 15 Abeja (3)

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Down: 1 Caja, 2/8 Egg cup, 3 Orar, 4 Flag, 5 Ritmo, 6 Ayer, 9 Units, 11 Apio, 12 Race, 13 Mesa, 14 Cruz.

Cryptic The purpose of the Hexagram puzzle is to place the 19 six-letter words into the 19 cells. The letters at the edges of interlocking cells MUST BE THE SAME. The letters in the words must be written CLOCKWISE. The word in cell 10 (VULGAR) and one letter in four other cells are given as clues.

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LAST WEEK’S SOLUTION 1 Whiten 2 Cordon 3 Ardent 4 Hurtle 5 Centum 6 Depend 7 Tomato 8 Netted 9 Lounge 10 Author 11 Cranny 12 Nutria 13 Heater 14 Tennis 15 Senior 16 Reject 17 Titian 18 Coarse 19 Filter

Across 1 Share out all of the starters (5) 4 Reject not at home with a group of actors (7) 8 Mad Earl becomes worried (7) 9 Get rid of small fish (5) 10 Greek character from the tabloid press (5) 12 Funnily I earn it from lack of motion (7) 13 Finally understood this Roman type of architecture (6) 14 Recently left at a cathedral city (6) 17 Stops a Republican’s lies (7) 19 Locations for spectacles, we hear (5) 21 Instrument for weighing undone laces (5) 22 Raise tax in the Spanish-English quarter (7) 24 Young boy sent assorted poems (7) 25 Post the investment (5) Down 1 A head of department is liable to blend in (5) 2 Begin learning English at the meadow (3) 3 Main tip - adjust the kettledrum (7) 4 Adjudge Rodin a drunk (6) 5 Try some pasta stew (5) 6 A parent taking initially too much for flat (9)

7 They rap in treatment (7) 11 Think about intern, eat bananas (9) 13 Bifocals for tumblers perhaps (7) 15 As Wren's design returns (7) 16 Stares around for autumn flowers (6)

18 Vegetable in recipes we devise (5) 20 Blockade is back with, for example, a boat (5) 23 Turkish leader is in middle of Niagara (3)

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SPECIALIST: Doctor Luis Perez Belmonte. NOW out of the clutches of the rainy, cold winter and fully in the essence of spring, with flowers blossoming along the Costas, we can really start to enjoy the warm weather. Although this comes at a cost to a few; increasing pollen counts, and sensitivity to allergies. This week we have asked Dr Perez Belmonte a few questions about allergies. - Is it true that in the modern era there are more allergies than there used to be? Over recent years allergies have started to appear a lot more often than in the past. This may be due to modern lifestyles and exposure to contamination. We now have specialists in allergies who can diagnose them whereas in the past this wasn’t possible, and anyone with signs of a possible allergy should see their doctor for a diagnosis and treatment. - I am sneezing a lot. Do I have an allergy? Allergies can cause all

sorts of symptoms and even seem like other illnesses. Symptoms include sneezing, an itchy nose and sore throat but can also cause breathing difficulties. The eyes and skin can also be affected. Others can affect the digestive system and in serious cases can cause collapse. - What are the best ways to control allergies? The first thing to do is get a diagnosis from a specialist. Then there are many different treatments ranging from tablets to vaccinations, depending on the type of allergy, which can help control symptoms and even cure allergies in some cases. - I think my child has a food allergy. Can this be cured over time? Sometimes children can develop allergies to certain foods, such as nuts, which stop them from leading a normal life. Although cases vary, they are usually unable to ‘get used’ to these foods. These allergies require attention from a specialist in paediatric allergies.

If you have any questions for Dr Perez Belmonte, please send them to: jefemedico@helicopterossanitarios.com The Coast’s Home GP service - wherever you are - at home - in the office - in the car - on the golf course your GP will get to see you any time, anywhere. A priceless service at an affordable price.

How can it damage your eyes? Tiny, delicate vessels supply blood to your eyes and these can be damaged by high blood pressure. This can cause three main eye conditions – • Retinopathy, which can lead to blurred vision and loss of vision • Choroidopathy, fluid build-up under the retina

causing distorted vision and scarring • Optic neuropathy, nerve damage which can cause vision loss How can you tell if your eye’s vessels are damaged? If you notice any changes in your vision, blurred vision or discomfort in your eyes, you should go to an optician for a thorough eye test which includes a health check. A good eye test which includes cutting edge technology such as Digital Retinal Photography will be able to take a picture of the back of your eye to help identify issues with your

blood vessels and spot any signs of other health conditions. If necessary your optician will refer you to a specialist or to your doctor for further tests and treatment. How can it affect your kidneys? High blood pressure can damage the blood vessels leading to your kidneys and inside the kidneys causing several types of kidney disease. It can lead to kidney failure, kidney scarring and kidney artery aneurysm. To find out more about kidney disease, visit the World Kidney Day website www.wor ldkidneyday.org.

How can hypertension be diagnosed? You can get a blood pressure test at your doctors, in many chemists or even use a home blood pressure monitor if you are concerned. If you have high blood pressure it can be easily controlled with medication. Specsavers Opticas is proud to support World Kidney Day and are celebrating their 10th anniversary in Spain this month. Pop into your nearest Specsavers and take the opportunity to get a free eye test and to see the amazing anniversary offers, or visit www.specsavers.es.

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Astronomy talk By Keith Baker THE Costa Blanca Astronomical Society is to welcome Dr Stuart Eves, from Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd as the next presenter in a series of public talks. A fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society for more than 20 years, Dr Eves recently received, from UK astronaut Tim Peake, the Arthur C Clarke award in recognition of his services promoting the science of Astronomy. With ever-advancing satellite technology, space exploration is reaping the rewards of both the quantity and quality of information made available about the state of the planet and other worlds whilst helping to unlock the

Dr Eves with UK astronaut Tim Peake. secrets of the universe. So, will advanced robotic satellites and probes make the need for manned space missions a thing of the past? Dr Eves will explain the technologies involved and how these will impact the fu-

ture of space exploration. The talk will take place on Saturday May 7 at 7pm in the Casa de Cultura, Denia. For more information, email cbastronomy@gmail.com or call 671 152 686

Oozing theatre success IN a fitting start to their 40th anniversary year, the Javea Players production of Robert Harlingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Steel Magnolias ended last Saturday to great acclaim. It was hailed as a splendid start to a special year. The theatre itself is a remarkable

achievement. They have created in a commercial space, a little theatre designed and equipped for the purpose of staging theatrical productions to professional standards that is oozing with the magic of theatre-land.

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Thanks for donation By Keith Baker CANCER CARE JAVEA would like to send their thanks to Javea Green Bowls Club for their wonderful donation of €450. The cheque was presented by Jenny Rich, the current captain, who chose Cancer Care as her nominated charity for her year as captain. The proceeds were raised from donated bowls items which were sold and various fun events and ‘fines’ over the last 12 months. This kind donation will enhance Cancer Care’s aim to support research and care to patients and relatives who have been affected by cancer.

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Spring fair time THIS Saturday, April 23, HELP of Denia is holding their Spring Fair at Gran Riu Rau, Jesus Pobre, from 11am to 4pm. There will be lots of stalls and attractions, traditional crafts, food and drink, fun

and games, plus entertainment from The Elderly Brothers, William and The Bassman, Celtic Knot and Denia Rock Choir. There will also be a Doggy Beauty Contest, so the event is sure to be well attended.

St George’s Fun Day CELEBRATE St George’s Day this Saturday, April 23 by attending a Fun Day in aid of the Royal British Legion and Paul Cunningham Nurses at The Emerald Isle in Orihuela Costa at 12 noon. Call 647 681 294.

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Night out in aid of Cancer Research By Keith Baker AN opportunity to have a good night out and help a good cause is taking place at Laguna Ribs, which is located at Karting Javea, Calle Cannes. The event is being held on Wednesday May 11 and will feature music from local classic rock and blues band Hangover Tuesday, and the legendary singer Tony Rivers, who has worked with Cliff Richard, Al Stewart, Shakin' Stevens, Pink Floyd, The Who and many more, both on stage and in the studio. He has also sung with

Elton John and George Michael on Live Aid. Tickets are €15, including a three-course meal and one drink. €5 per ticket will go the Spanish national cancer research centre (www.cnio.es). Food will be served from 7.30pm, and music starts at 8.30pm. All the artists are donating their fees to the charity and Laguna Ribs are providing a really good value meal, making the €5 per ticket to charity possible. Tickets and information from Laguna Ribs (674 077 223 or debbie.smith501@gmail.com)

Challenge completed TINA KIRBY of ‘The Barbers’ in Javea Park was part of a team that entered the Mirador Challenge to raise funds for Cancer Care Javea, who would like to congratulate Tina, Michael Goldie, Laurence Reilly, Alan Sartain and Kate Humphrey on completing the Challenge and send a massive ‘thank you.’ They raised €690.

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Family fun day By Keith Baker ON Saturday May 7 2016 from 11am onwards, BARC (Busot Animal Rescue Concern, Registered Charity CV-01-044306-A) is holding a massive family and fun-packed fundraising event, called Wet Nose Day, in the Placa de Generalitat Valencia, Busot. All proceeds will go to the rescue, rehabilitation and rehoming of lost and abandoned animals in Busot and the surrounding area. The event is being run with the support of the town hall and Alcalde of Busot. Entry is only â&#x201A;Ź3 for adults, and children aged 16 and under are free. In the main arena there will be Fun Dog Show, a Dog Training Exhibition, a Line Dancing Show, and a Live Jazz Band. Running alongside the event is an exhibition of Busot School Childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Artwork created especially for Wet Nose Day. The exhibition will take place in the Casa De Cultura next door.

There will also be an opportunity to meet some dogs looking for their furever home. For children there will be a bouncy castle, a crockery smash/crazy kitchen, face painting, sponge throwing stocks and pillars, a treasure hunt, art exhibition and many other attractions. There will be a marketplace with many stalls selling beauty products, handmade jewellery, knitted dog coats and baby clothes, a pet stall, a professional pet portrait artist, The BARC Shop, The Card Shop, dog grooming, and much more. There will be a refreshment zone, including a burger and hot dog stall, light refreshments, and a bar. In the evening at 8pm there will be a free Disco and Karaoke Party with buffet at El Raco de Pipo in Busot. A great day and evening with fun for ALL the family, including the four-legged members! For more details call John on 965 975 470.

Rock choir debuts DENIA ROCK will be performing live for the first time this Saturday, April 23. Directed by Jan Dewland, they will be on stage at 3pm at the charming Riu Rau market in the centre of Jesus Pobre. They will be singing tracks by musicians

such as Coldplay and Paloma Faith. The Spring Fair is a charity event organised by HELP of Denia. There will be many attractions, including other music groups, craft work and local food and drink, running from 11am to 4pm.

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“I HAVE spent all my money on a great interior, but still can’t sell my property close to the asking price.” “Potential buyers have booked a viewing but many didn’t even bother to get out of the car to look around and drove off.” With over 25 years experience in the property industry as a Technical Architect, I have come across this sort of problem many times, and nine times out of 10 it can be solved, so let’s first look at the cause of the problem and then how you can fix it. In my experience most home owners selling their villa or apartment are looking for the best market price, and to achieve a good sale price they

have more often than not fitted a top end kitchen, new bathroom suites, knocked down a few walls, and given the interior a fresh coat of paint, so job done right? Well actually no! There is a what I call the ‘First Impression Golden Rule’ in presenting your home for sale, and most sellers overlook it or don’t even know about it. My First Impression Golden Rule is based on scientific studies and surveys carried out by psychologists, studies by the property industry and my own professional experience. Psychologists have known for many years that when you meet somebody for the first time, you immediately start taking in and processing information about them. Subconsciously you look at the way somebody is dressed, their body language, their personality, or notice whether they are driving an expensive car. In selling your property the

GOLDEN RULE: Save a budget to improve the exterior of your property. buyer’s process is exactly the same, but they start subconsciously making positive or negative decisions about your property as soon as they park up outside your villa or apartment block, and within 10 seconds they will have decided on their first impression.

A negative first impression can also lead to lower offers, which can be extremely costly. For example, if you are selling your apartment for around €500,000 and you are offered 20 per cent less, that’s €100,000 off your asking price, or if you are selling your

villa for around €1,500,000 an offer of 20 per cent less is €300,000 off your asking price. That’s a lot of money to lose but in next week’s article I will write about some of the different ways you can avoid this scenario. So stick to my First Impres-

sion Golden Rule and don’t spend all your money on only improving the interior of your home. Save a budget to improve the exterior of your home as well and go for that important first impression. You will then enjoy 10 out of 10 viewings and have offers for or close to your asking price. Remember, you will never get a second chance to make a first impression on the buyer. Next week I will look at how you can improve the potential buyer’s first impression of your property and make a sale for or close to your asking price. If you are selling your property we have buyers for Mallorca and Ibiza, or if you’re buying a home in Spain contact me, we have a wide selection of property on offer. John Graham of Graham & Associates Fellow of The Architecture & Surveyors Institute. Email: gk.ipad@me.com

Brexit looms large on the UK A MONTHLY report from the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors has identified a “climate of security” caused by the looming Brexit vote and stamp duty changes, which may prompt lower sales and prices in the UK property market. The report is based on a wide survey of estate agents which, for the first

time in eight years, saw more experts expect a decline rather than an increase in the short-term future. Part of the story is the natural decline in sales due to the enforcement of the new stamp duty on April 1, as figures in the previous few months were dramatically higher as buy-to-let investors in particular sought to purchase before

attracting higher fees. A significant part of the caution, however, is due to the financial and political uncertainty on the cards as the nation gears up to decide whether or not to leave the European Union. While the consequences of a Brexit for the property market and Britain’s wider economic health are, by definition, unknown, it is precisely that lack of certainty that has spawned concern. London in particular is facing a more pessimistic outlook following years o f c o n s i s t e n t l y o ff t h e charts growth, and prices have already fallen in some areas. The city also entertains a mayoral election on May 5 which some experts are factoring into their analysis.

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Repossession opportunities By Emily Chettle FOR some buyers price is everything and motivation can be to simply find the cheapest available property. In recent years Spain has had one of the worst economic crises known in Europe, but as the country emerges from the dark depths of economic depression are there still options available for good value properties? Bank repossessions offer a valid, if somewhat melancholic opportunity. One option, which might sound a little distasteful for many, is bank repossessions. Profiting from someone elseâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s misfortune is never a nice thought, but it is a legal option for buying property usually below market value.

For many expats the exchange rate is also a key element. Is sterling strong against the euro? Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s worthwhile budgeting and researching to see what you can get for your money and how far it will go. Bank repossessed properties typically mean that the bank who financed a property, has taken the property back, either by forced sale or through an agreement with the owner. For many of the properties offered, the bank has been responsible for the completion and is the responsible seller. Typically offered bank repossession properties are far below market prices, which is why it can be a very good investment to buy directly from the banks or sites that specialise in this type of sale.

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Small but beautiful spaces By Emily Chettle WHEN it comes to gardens, limited space needn’t be a handicap to originality and design. Some may not be blessed with huge outdoor spaces, which is the norm in many Spanish towns where either a roof terrace or balcony is a bonus, but that’s not to say you can’t be creative with what you do have. With a little design knowhow even the smallest back lawn, the most petite of patios or the tiniest of balconies can become an enjoyable place in which to spend time. Whether you’re looking to transform an inauspicious roof space or balcony garden into a stylish urban garden, or create the ideal al fresco dining area perfect for those beautiful Spanish summer days, there are so many tricks of the trade in order to make the most of your space and sometimes having a small garden or space

BALCONIES: There are so many tricks of the trade to make the most of your space. can be a blessing in disguise. Think small but perfectly formed with no lawnmower needed and weeds sprouting in every possible position. Smaller spaces are easier to maintain. The key is using the space intelligently. Storage

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By using cushions and throws the space can be transformed into an extension to the living room. Instead of thinking of the constraint that comes with limited space, it should be thought of as an advantage.

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JUST a few thoughts about spring gardening in Spain to help you avoid unnecessary problems. 1. If you live inland watch local weather forecasts regularly, there can still be shocks. Last Friday we woke to 10 degrees centigrade but within an hour cold rain dropped this to four, and an hour later inland ridges and peaks were covered in snow. Since then every hour has been 10 to 23 degrees. 2. If visiting garden centres check where recent supplies have been sourced from. Many Italian and French nurseries and garden centres are suffering from disease problems which have even been wiping out olive groves. 3. Minero and honey fungus attacks can occur at any time in the spring on fruit trees so give all a

SPRING: Avoid unnecessary problems. mixed spring neem and propolis foliar spray before or after spring pruning. 4. If you can’t find these products in local nurseries mail order from Trabe. 5. Citrus trees will benefit from a spring feed. For the past

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7. If you are still looking for a source of ecological grown vegetable plantlets look out for trays with label from ‘Cucala Agricola’. They are based in Alicante Province and produce over 50 million plantlets a year. 8. If buying perennial plants and shrubs check the extent to which they are root bound before buying. If all are root bound try another garden centre or carefully untangle root balls before planting. 9. The recent rain has not really raised water bed levels, so do continue to take precautions against the possibility of another summer of droughts. There are several hundred practical actions you can take described in ‘How to use less water in your garden’ whether in your own garden, gardens you tend under contract, gardens you supervise for an urbanisation management committee or municipal gardens. The book is most easily available from Amazon Books and The Book Depository. 10. Where possible choose

drought-resistant plants, shrubs and trees. 11. Fantastic displays of annuals are now in garden centres which means that many young plants have been forced in hothouses outside Spain and the first flushes of flowers will finish soon after they are planted in the garden or on apartment terraces and balconies. So try and source less forced plants and ones only showing the first few flowers so as to be sure of the colours. 12. The drying out of annuals is always a challenge especially on apartment terraces and balconies. The book ‘Apartment gardening Mediterranean style’ lists preferred plants and explains in detail how to reduce the risk of plants drying out, as does the aforementioned book. Sorry, the above probably means a busy month but attention to detail now will pay off during the summer months. © Dick Handscombe April 2016

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Introducing the BMW M4 GTS By Matthew Elliott BOASTING sleek, powerful, motorsport looks and a lap time of 7.28 minutes around the hugely taxing Nürburgring-Nordschleife circuit, the BMW M4 GTS is a modern day masterpiece channelling new levels of excellence. The special edition model is limited to only 700 units and comes in celebration of 30 years of the BMW M3. Also suitable for public roads, it has allowed specialist engineers at the company to creatively develop some of the highest powered technology available today. We’ve taken a radical route with the set-up of the BMW M4 GTS to create a sports machine for the race track that delivers top-end dynamics and inspirational performance. It allows us to demonstrate what is possible today with a road-legal car. Owners can drive their BMW M4 GTS to circuits such as SpaFrancorchamps, the Nürburgring or Laguna Seca, for clubsport events, for ex-

ample, and then set lap times there that raise the bar to extremely high levels for road-legal cars,” said Frank van Meel, CEO of BMW M GmbH. An award winning six-cylinder in-line turbo engine from the BMW M3/M4 is used but with water injective technology to raise output to an impressive 368 kW/500hp while increasing torque to 600 Nm (442 lb-ft) and maintaining the healthy fuel economy of the Coupe. Powering from a standstill to 100 km/h in a 3.8 second flash, it can hit a limited top speed of 305 km/h (189.5 mph). An excellent weight-power ratio of 3.0 kg/hp allows for a potent driving experience enhanced dramatically by a stylish efficiency driven interior. This is seen through lightweight

BMW M4 GTS: A modern day masterpiece.

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NEW TECHNOLOGY: Driverless cars will operate well in daylight and darkness. SPECIALISTS at Ford are pioneering the development of a new generation of night-vision systems which require no natural light or illumination to function. They will focus on improving Light Detection And Ranging technology (Lidar) which shines light on a particular target, before employing state-of-the-art sensors to construct a complete image of the car’s environment. The move is related to the ongoing competitive

panelling construction, doors and boot area, along with carbon-fibre bucket seats and door pull loops rather than solid handles. Light but extremely strong high-tech material makes up the bulk of the exterior, while even the exhaust system has a titanium muffler. The car also

enhancement of autonomous cars rather than manned vehicles, which of course are required to have headlights on in the dark. Ford now say that the technology will allow driverless cars to operate equally well in both daylight and darkness. The promising Ford system would issue 2.8 million laser pulses each second to form a picture of the road ahead, allowing the internal system to paint a 3D image of traffic and other potential hazards.

features the debut of Organic Light Emitting Diodes (OLED), a seven-speed M Double Clutch Transmission, the ability to manually select gears, and exclusive M light-alloy wheels in star-spoke 666 M Styling, which are critical to the fantastical mechanical traction and corner grip.

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Benitachell Bowls Club ON Wednesday April 13 Benitachell’s dedicated Bowls Club Winter League players and the Berleen team faced their final game at home against Quesada. No more getting up for an away game at 6am, leaving home to arrive at the Teulada car park for 7.30am then, after a long day, getting back at 7pm. San Luis Orcas were the outright winners this season and the second place was still up for grabs between Benitachell, Javea Green and Quesada. The weather was superb and BBC Winter League ready, having received a confidence boost, as always, from a hard working and excellent Captain Bert McLean in his address prior to the visitors arriving.

BBC SQUAD: Finished in second place, their best season for many years. The game was the last chance to take second place. The tension could be cut with a knife and the nerves of all players were up tight. BBC has been undefeated at home this season and needed to uphold this record if they wished to take second place. It is not important who had top rink this week, or, who had lost but a team effort supporting each other in the endeavour to win. This BBC did, an amazing

game on all rinks, so much concentration and enthusiasm. Supporters from BBC, of course, and some from Javea Green and Quesada as well, went a long way to make an exciting morning. It has to be said, that until you have been in this type of situation, you have no idea of the tension generated out on the green. All players could be seen watching the scoreboards and cheering each other on, con-

gratulating great bowls. Quesada are great bowlers and fought hard to gain the coveted second place, but, as the final bowl came to rest BBC had achieved 10 points out of 12 giving them the much cherished second place, the best season for many years. BBC Berleen team fought hard but were beaten by Quesada. Congratulations to BBC’s squad of dedicated bowlers on a job well done.

Advance Moves back Loris Ford-Dunn FIFTEEN-YEAR-OLD Loris Ford-Dunn has had a busy winter testing his new ktm Supermotoland.com SMR 450cc race bike, as he hops up from the youth Supermoto championships of Spain and into the highly competitive adult classes for 2016. But Loris is no stranger to Supermoto racing where ra c e rs ba ttle on c irc uits made of asphalt, with offroad jump sections thrown in to make some of the most spectacular and close racing seen in Spain. Last year Loris finished in fourth place in the Spanish Youth championships for 85c c ma c hine s in his first year of racing. He knows that he is now stepping up to the top c la s s , a ga ins t ma ny ra c e rs tha t have much more experience than himself, but he is relis hing the opportunity to learn from the best. This year will essentially be a learning year as he gets used to the more powerful bike and the tougher com-

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Villa down, six on the bounce for Rosberg, Bingham out in one Tony Matthews International Sports A former player and now the world’s most prolific author of football books with almost 150 published since 1975, Tony is also the sports correspondent for Spectrum Radio and lives on La Pilica in the Sierra Cabrera Mountains overlooking Turre. Costa de Almeria

FOOTBALL • Last weekend, top of the PL table Leicester (who had Jamie Vardy sent-off) drew 2-2 with West Ham, Arsenal were held 1-1 by Crystal Palace , a n d Ma n c h e s te r City (with a Sergio Aguero treble) won 3-0 at Chelsea while on Monday, Tottenham won comfortably by 40 at Stoke. • At the bottom, Sunderland won 3-0 at Norwich, Newcastle also beat Swansea 3-0 and Manchester United sent Aston Villa down with a 1-0 win at Old

Trafford. Elsewhere Liverpool, fresh from their th rillin g E u ro p a L e a gue win, won 2-1 at Bournemouth and Watford 1-0 at West Brom. • Games left: Leicester vs Swansea (h), Manchester United (a), Everton (h), Chelsea (a)… Tottenham vs WBA (h), Chelsea (a), Southampton (h), Newcastle (a)… Manchester City vs Stoke (h), Southampton (a), Arsenal (h) and Swansea (a)… and Arsenal vs WBA (h) tonight, Norwich City (h), Manchester City (a) and Aston Villa (h). • Middlesbrough, Burnley, Brighton, Hull, Derby and Sheffield Wednesday occupy the top six places in the Championship. Wigan, Burton Albion and Walsall s tan d 1 -2 -3 in F L 1 and Northampton are champions of FL2.

• In Spain’s La Liga, Real Madrid beat Getafe 5-1, Barcelona lost 2-1 at home to Va le nc ia , a nd in-form Atletico Madrid defeated Granada 3-0. • The Champions League semi-finals will see Manc he s te r C ity pla y R e a l Madrid and Bayern Munich meet Atletico Madrid… this after City saw off PSG 1-0 (3-2 on aggregate), Real hit back to beat Wolfsburg, also 3-2, Atletico knocked out the favourites and holders Barcelona and Bayern eased past Benfica. • In the Europa League semi-finals, Liverpool, who c a me ba c k from 2-0 a nd the n 3-1 dow n to be a t Borussia Dortmund, will play versus Villarreal and Shahktar Donetsk take on holders Sevilla. • This weekend’s FA Cup semi-finals at Wembley fea-

ture Everton v Manchester U nite d on Sa turda y a nd Crystal Palace v Watford on Sunday. • This season’s Scottish Cup final will feature Hibe rnia n a ga ins t R a nge rs who both won their respective semi-finals on penalties, Hibs v Dundee United and the ‘Gers v their Glasgow rivals Celtic. FORMULA ONE • Nico Rosberg made it six Grand Prix victories on the bounce by winning last Sunday’s race in Shanghai by 37.8 seconds from Sebastian Vettel, with Daniil Kvyat third. Lewis Hamilton, who started at the back of the grid and suffered a bump in his Mercedes early on, as did a few other cars, finished a creditable seventh but is now 36 points behind Rosberg in the driver’s standings.

The next race is in Russia on May 1. ROUND-UP • After beating Andy Murray in the semi-final, back-to-form Rafael Nadal went on t o def eat Gael Mont f i l s i n t he f i nal t o clinch his ninth Monte Carlo Masters title. • And on Sunday, MotoGP Marc Marquez can complete a Spanish double by winning the MotoGP on home soil in Jerez. • Reigning champion Stuart Bingham was knocked out of t hi s year ’s Wor l d Snooker Championships in the first round by Ali Carter. Meanwhile, Steve Davis has retired, 35 years after winning his first title. • Notts and England cricketer James Taylor (26) has retired from the game due to a serious heart condition.

• Three County Cricket games start on Sunday: Durham-Middlesex, SurreySomerset and Warwickshire-Yorkshire. • This Sunday 38,000 runner s wi l l com pet e i n t he London Marathon. • This weekend’s semi-finals of Rugby Union’s European Challenge Cup will feature Saracens-Wasps on Saturday and Leicester-Racing 92 on Sunday. • And last weekend Christ i an Wade r an i n a r ecor d six tries as Wasps beat Worcester 54-35 in the Premiership. • Ricky Hatton said Tyson Fury should fight Anthony Joshua sooner rather than later to see who is the best British heavyweight boxer. • We have Premiership Darts in Bournemouth right now, and again in Birmingham from April 28.