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Brussels battle for Cala Mosca A

t a decisive moment when the developer is determined to get the final green light to build 1,500 new houses on this last kilometre of virgin coastline, the European Parliament Petitions Committee has intervened to safeguard the interests of environmental protection. The previous intervention of the European Parliament in 2012, after local

political party CLARO presented its Petition supported by over 7,000 signatories, effectively paralysed the developerâ€™s building plans by insisting on an Environment Impact Study. However, the Developer can lawfully carry out this study, and when it was presented in 2014, it was seriously deficient. Despite repeated objections, at the end of 2016, the developer presented a final revised project which contained no significant changes. It maintained the objective of building 1,500 new houses and continued to locate the two endangered species found on Cala Mosca in public spaces where they would be exposed to obvious and no doubt definitive destruction. At its meeting recently on 28th

February, the Petitions Committee of the European Parliament intervened again to help save this emblematic last green, open area from being concreted over. Bob Houliston, who presented the original CLARO petition and Marta Guillen, Councillor of the Orihuela Cambiemos Party argued for support to counter the formidable power of the developer who has a huge advantage in the approval process; to ensure protection of the special environment of Cala Mosca; and to prevent those already living here having to pay the price of a deterioration in public services which would result from the mega building project and perhaps a 20 percent increase in the population of Orihuela Costa.

The Petitions Committee unanimously decided that the Cala Mosca issue was sufficiently important to be kept on its agenda. The President of the Committee said she would write to the Valencia regional government, which is responsible for the final decision on the building project, to insist that the proposal be subject to the most rigorous examination before any decision is made. Finally, the Committee President said she would request the European Commission, responsible for the application of environmental law, to carry out its own investigation of the Environment Impact Study. The decisions of the European Parliament Petitions Committee are very

important. They ensure that no quick approval will be given to the building project which, before the meeting in Brussels, seemed imminent. The decisions ensure that the regional government of Valencia is aware of the political importance of the future of Cala Mosca and that the European Union will be Continued on page 3

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Casas Manuel on Channel 4 Local estate agent, Casas Manuel, is set to appear on Channel 4’s new homes in the sun show, Sun, Sea and Selling Houses. The Rodriguez family from Liverpool feature in the first edition of the new show. Dad, Manuel, is originally from Spain. In 2001 he moved the whole family over to Benijofar where they started Casas Manuel from scratch. Manuel and Linda are the owners but their daughter Sophie and her husband Damon work with them as well as their daughter Charlotte. Day to day the family’s offices are a flurry of activity, selling homes in Spain to British buyers. They are bombarded by Britons coming over desperate for a slice of life in the sun and have become central to the community as those they have helped buy a home are frequently in the shop asking advice. The show airs on Monday March 13th at 4pm on Channel 4. Casas Manuel told us, “These are

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watching over their shoulders to ensure that a rigorous examination of the building proposal be carried out before any decision is made. Implicitly, the decisions imply that before any final decision, the Petitions Committee

should consider the issue again at a further meeting. Those opposed to the development have gained valuable support and time to ensure that the struggle to save Cala Mosca continues.

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Choose your tanatorio Did you know that if you live in Torrevieja you are not obliged to use the Tanatorio de Torrevieja in the sad Continued on page 5

Talk for expats on ‘Floor Clauses’ ■ MIREILLE TODDINGTON mireille@costablancapeople.com

The La Filipinas Neighbourhood Association in conjunction with Councillor Maria Jose Costa Medrano, has organised an informative talk for all local expat residents, in English, to explain and discuss ‘Floor Clauses’. The talk will be held at the Las Filipinas Social Centre, Blue lagoon at 12noon on Friday 10th March. A floor clause is included in many mortgages, basically its where the lender puts a limit on how low the interest rate can fall to, usually around 3 percent, and this in many cases is illegal. This means that no matter how low the

Euribor - the rate on which mortgage rates are based - falls, the customer must always pay the interest back at the fixed minimum interest rate. Therefore, if you have taken out a Spanish mortgage during the last decade, it is highly probable that you have been a victim of unfair interest. You can now recover the overpaid amounts and get a reduction on your interest. The talk on Friday 10th will provide more infroamtion on the definition of a floor clause, how to find if you have one in your mortgage paper work and how you can claim it back. Speakers will discuss the new procedure following the Real Decreto-Legislativo 1/2017 law and provide guidance on how your bank might respond and how to react to the response.

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For those who remember the large pit that was dug next to the CV905 it does not seem that long ago since the Habaneras shopping centre first made its appearance. However, it is in fact twelve years ago and during that time it has seen some major challenges to its position as one of the most modern and busy shopping centres in the region. When Zenia Boulevard came along in 2012 it was seen as a significant threat to the established shopping outlets and Habaneras has lost some of the shops and businesses that were originally trading there. However, the majority of the key high street stores still continue and the shopping centre has done its best to attract visitors through different offers and activities. Now into its twelfth year it’s celebrating the occasion from the 6th to the 25th March. In particular it has been advertising its free play activities for children with different workshops taking place over the week and at the weekend. The idea being that you can leave your children there whilst you go shopping. You can check what activities are available on its website in English: http://www.habaneras.es/en/

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Orihuela Costa stabbing

City Council analyses Orihuela Costa flood problems

A British man is in intensive care after he was stabbed at his home by another expat following a drunken row in a local bar. Guardia Civil officers arrested a 63-year-old UK national and during the arrest found him to be in possession of several weapons including a handgun and a set of knuckledusters. The man has been charged with the attempted murder of another Brit, aged 54 years old and identified so far only by his initials of S. A. M. who is being treated for a knife wound near his left collarbone. According to police reports the pair, who apparently knew each other socially, had started arguing whilst drinking in a bar on one of the urbanisations in Orihuela Costa last Sunday night, but this altercation did not go any further than a heated exchange. Later, however, the elder man went round to the victim’s home on Calle Cantabria at around 11.30pm that evening and attacked him, leaving him with what are potentially life-threatening injuries. Police were called to the scene and discovered the man covered in blood with the knife still in place. Medics say he is not yet out of danger and remains in intensive care.

The Councillor for Infrastructure and Integral Water Cycle, Juan Ignacio LópezBas, and the Councillor for the Environment, Miguel Ángel Fernández, have presented the Orihuela Costa Plains Water Master Plan, together with the manager of local company Hidraqua, Juan José Alonso.

Miguel Angel Fernandez said: “The Consistory commissioned a study by Hidraqua in order to help the government team detect the localised problems that occur in Orihuela Costa with regard to heavy rains and that cause continuous flooding. We need to counter this with adequate infrastructure for the capture and removal of rainwater from the roads and pavements.” “Thanks to the creation of this document we have a real vision of the coast of Orihueal and have detected the points of conflict and possible solutions”, explained the councillor. Continuing with the explanation, Lopez-Bas said that the City Council will have to seek funding to address the actions raised in the report which highlighted twelve conflicting points, the reparation budget for which amounts to 17 million euros. In order to meet the financial burden, the local government will seek European, state and regional funding in order that it can solve the issues that have persisted for so many years. Mireille Toddington

Allegations of corruption ■ SUZANNE O’CONNELL suzanne@costablancapeople.com

The mayor of Torrevieja, José Manuel Dolón, has asked that contracts linked to previous tourism fairs be investigated for improper allocation and processes. The same business organisations were given the contracts between 2005 and 2011 across Alicante province and in Orihuela. TurismoFitur was a campaign during this period to promote tourism in Spain. Torrevieja town hall contracted stands at the tourism fair and this is now being investigated for impropriety. The mayor said: ‘If there is a crime here we will demand that those responsible are brought to justice.’ Torrevieja paid out €1,207,408.65 to the same company that is now being investigated in Alicante. It is believed that the proper contracting procedure was not

applied. During the years 2005, 2006 and 2007 this would have been under the jurisdiction of Pedro Hernández Mateo (PP) who has already been convicted of corruption. The tourism fairs were held in Madrid, Valencia and Bilbao and huge profits were made from them. The same company, Equipamiento Integral para Stand Molinos, received the contracts but there was no one else who appeared to be offered the opportunity to bid and there was no publicity surrounding their appointment. In 2010 and 2011, the process of allocating the contract was modified and at least three companies were invited to bid. However, it is alleged that there was insufficient time for them to apply and ultimately only one company was able to put forward their proposal in time. The information is due to be presented to the Public prosecutor’s Office.

BITE SIZE NEWS: Continued from page 3 event of losing someone close. Most people think that there is no option but to use the local facility. This is not the case and many local towns provide a much cheaper service than that provided here. For example, there are tanatorios at Pilar de la Horadada, San Pedro Del Pinatar and San Javier thatcharge almost half of that charged by Torrevieja. The tanatorio is a private business and you can seek better deals elsewhere.

Dangerous dogs licence for volunteers Councillor Carmen Morate is keen to ensure that all the dogs at the animal shelter in Torrevieja have opportunity to be taken for a walk. One or two of them are classed as Perros Potencialmente Peligrosos (PPPs) or potentially dangerous dogs and, as such, those walking them are required to have a licence. Although some regions such as Barcelona, are making adjustments to account for this need, the majority of other areas in Spain are still constrained by the law. As a result of this Councillor Carmen Morate is seeking a change to local law to enable the voluntary walkers to apply for a licence to walk dogs rather than each, individual dog having to be licenced. Whilst this is being put into place, volunteers have completed a form and are issued with a covering note just in case they should be stopped by the police.

Women of the year The winners of the women of the year competition have been announced in Torrevieja. The announcement was made by África Celdrán the councillor for welfare and equality. The prizes are awarded in recognition of it being International Women’s Day on March 8th. Amalia del Río Molina has won the prize of Woman of 2017 for her exemplary optimism and improvement. She began her studies in later life and is now an auxiliary nurse. De Arancha Blanco, dancer and dance teacher, is the Business Woman of the Year 2017. The decisions were taken by a jury and the award ceremony will take place on 8thMarch at the Virgen del Carmen Cultural Centre, where there will be a performance by the Municipal school of dance.

Business of the year Awards have also been allocated to Torrevieja’s businesses. ‘Tabisam’ has been successful as the winning commercial business of the year. The successful applicant under the Continued on page 6

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BITE SIZE NEWS: Continued from page 5 title of ‘new business’ was ‘It Style’ which is a cosmetics shop and will now receive €800. The second prize in this category went to ‘Tien21’ which is an electro domestic company that’s part of a new business venture for ‘Hermanos Garcia’. The commercial renewal category was awarded to ‘Cárnicas Ríos’ and they will win the prize of €800. They have recently renovated their premises in order to improve their customer service. The winning urban business is ‘Óptica Mar’ who have won the prize of €800 for the second year running. They have continued to maintain an attractive image both inside and outside the building and combine creativity and quality in the way their products are displayed. All the prizes will be presented on the 31stMarch at the Virgen del Carmen Cultural Centre. Suzanne O’Connell

Charity fair on the 12th March On the 12th March on Torrevieja sea front by the statue of the Hombre del Mar there will be a charity fair (ONGs). This will provide opportunity for the public to find out more about local charities needing volunteers and what they do. This has now become a regular event in Torrevieja. On this occasion there’s a special twist as there will be a charity collection of clothing, shoes and toys that are no longer wanted. Money raised from these donations will go to the charity, protección civil. In particular they are collecting money for additional water pumps to help dry out people’s houses when they are flooded. They already have a couple of pumps but these were hard pressed to cope with demand during the latest serious floods in the area. If you do turn up on the day you’ll also be given a free ONG Torrevieja calendar which includes information about the different charities, their contact numbers etc. There will be activities for children and a timetable of other entertainment including: 10.30 Zumba workshop 11.30 exhibition of search and rescue dogs 13.00 simulation of vehicle accident and marine rescue by the protección civil of Torrevieja 17.00 exhibition of search and rescue dogs 18.00 animal shelter dog parade 19.00 event closes It’s hoped that people who would like to find out more about local charities as well as those who just want a day out, will come and take part in the event. Suzanne O’Connell

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Spain slammed by Amnesty Spain has been slammed by Amnesty International for torture, mistreating refugees and curtailing free speech. The organisation has vilified Spain’s poor human rights record in its annual country report on Spain. In the document the charity accuses the country of limiting freedom of expression, inadequate reception of refugees and of refusing to investigate allegations of police torture. Spain is using the offence of ‘glorifying terrorism’ as an excuse to limit free speech, Amnesty has said. In 2016 the High Court delivered 22 guilty verdicts against 25 people for the offence of ‘glorifying terrorism’, mostly these declarations were made on social media. The report then turns its attention

to Spain’s record on torture, mentioning in particular Juan Antonio Martinez Gonzalez, a man who died in Cadiz allegedly as a result of injuries inflicted by police. The European Court of Human Rights has made seven rulings against Spain for failing to investigate allegations of torture. Amnesty International went on to criticise Spain for its ‘inadequate’ treatment of refugees, saying that the country has so far only accepted a fraction of the refugees which Mariano Rajoy pledged to take in. This comes after 160,000 people took to the streets of Barcelona, protesting that the government has so far taken in only 1,100 of the 17,300 refugees it promised to accept.

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Underground shelters in Torrevieja It’s not commonly known but below the streets of Torrevieja there are five antiaircraft shelters that were constructed during the civil war. One of them is under the Plaza de la Constitución opposite the Inmaculada church and has the capacity of holding up to 600 people. Under the square in the centre of Torrevieja there is a shelter of about 20 metres long. The access to it is on calle Caballero de Rodas and it is one of five defensive infrastructures created during the Civil War. The shelters were constructed after the first bombing by Franco’s troops on the coast of Alicante in November 1936. According to official sources, the shelter’s structure was not destroyed during the civil war and was conserved in a good state beneath the banks and palms of La Glorieta. Opening up the history of the civil war is something that Torrevieja is considering doing as part of its tourism initiative with Cartagena. After the bombing of 1936 the governor of Alicante, Francisco Valdés

Casas increased the installation of antiaircraft defences and the construction of shelters for the population throughout the province. In addition, more weapons and telephone facilities were purchased so that there was a network of surveillance posts along the coast. It was expected that there would be a landing at some point between Benidorm and Torrevieja. Following the attacks on the 28th and 29th November in 1936 the defence work was accelerated and trenches were built on ‘Ferrís’ and ‘La Mosca’. Information about the anti-aircraft shelters is located in the municipal archive and the plans for the shelters can be seen along with details such as the height and access points. Alongside these public shelters, many people build their own private shelters too. These were often below the ground floor of private houses. Work on the public shelters was begun after the summer of 1937. A lookout was also positioned permanently on the outskirts of the

town and from this observation point information could be transmitted about approaching aircraft. The original warning bell was later replaced by a siren from the salt factory as a better method of alerting the town’s people. It is hard to imagine now that our holiday town ofTorrevieja was once a republican stronghold under attack from Franco’s armies. Alicante was the last retreat for republicans before defeat on March 28th1939. Rather than be arrested by Franco’s troops some of those who couldn’t escape on overloaded ships leaving Alicante port, chose to take their own lives. It is estimated that there were 14,000 republicans trapped in Alicante port and Franco would not let them leave. The British Government refused to assist in evacuating those left to certain death or incarceration in one of the many concentration camps constructed by Franco. The full story and awareness of the depth of atrocities of the civil war in Spain remains uncovered. Suzanne O’Connell

Celebrating St. David’s Day Torrevieja’s Royal British Legion’s Welsh Section enjoyed their St. David’s Day celebration on Wednesday 1st March at Harry’s bar in Quesada. It was a full Welsh menu that had been specially prepared for the day by the chef.

To accompany the food there was plenty of singing including Mr Brian Killey’s singing of Myfanwy. This, along with the resident comedian Mr Leo Wynn, combined to make the day a great success. Suzanne O’Connell

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EU citizens Chance to practise English Waste Consortium inspects Guardamar site no longer at the Natural Park to have UK residency rights Theresa May is to put an end to EU citizens’ rights to live in UK with ‘cut-off’ date expected within a week or so. It is not clear if the Government’s plan would be a breach of EU treaties. Theresa May is expected to announce that EU citizens arriving in the UK after 15th March will no longer be allowed to remain permanently. According to the Daily Telegraph, however, the plan will protect the 3.6 million EU citizens who are already in Britain – as long as British expats are protected in other EU countries. Conservative MP Iain Duncan Smith said: “Theresa understands that if you want to take control you have to command the high ground. She will be giving clarity by setting a clear deadline while the European Union looks increasingly muddled and mean-spirited.” The EU has reportedly argued that the cut-off date should be the same as when the UK actually leaves the EU. It is not clear if the Government’s plan would be a breach of EU treaties that guarantee freedom of movement. A Government source told UK media: “We have had some suggestion that the European Commission might attempt to force us to protect everyone who arrives up to the moment of departure. “We could end up with half of Romania and Bulgaria coming here if we wait that long.”

On Saturday 18th March the students from the English conversation classes held at CIAJ in Torrevieja will be able to practise their listening and speaking skills at the Natural Park of La Mata. An information day has been organised which will mean that the students can hear more about the natural park and the work of the volunteers in English.

be a great opportunity for young Spanish speaking volunteers to practise their English and improve their vocabulary,’ explains Crystal. ‘They will also see firsthand the work of the volunteers and if anyone then feels they would like to become a volunteer they will be made very welcome.’ It is expected that the event will take

The day will begin with a brief talk about the park and there will then be a presentation about the volunteer work that is done by the Asociacion de lasRutas y Caminos de la Sal. This group helps to care for the park by undertaking various activities, such as making new signs, restoring bird boxes and helping to monitor the park during the day. The volunteers will then take the students on a brief tour of the park. Crystal East organises the English language classes and is delighted by this opportunity for her students: ‘I think it will

about two hours and will start at 10am. The whole activity will be in English but there will be Spanish speaking volunteers onhand if there are any problems with the vocabulary. The event will be publicised by the CIAJ, now called the Concejalia de Juventud. Crystal has been organising the classes at CIAJ for five years and they continue to be a very popular way of helping people in the Spanish community practise their English whilst also enabling volunteers to meet others and contribute in return. Suzanne O’Connell

The first of the plants that from the Vega Baja zonal waste plan, the transfer plant planned for Guardamar del Segura, will go ahead this year. That is the forecast of the regional Consortium behind the initiative and was voiced by the regional secretary of the Environment, Julià Álvaro, who met recently with Guardamar Mayor, José Luis Sáez, (see picture) and the director general of the company Vaersa, Vicent García. The investment planned for the infrastructure is around five million euros and will create around 10 to 12 jobs to boost the local economy, said Álvaro. The regional secretary explained that currently in the Vega Baja talk of rubbish is associated with “bad practices and social rejection” but now they are working in search of consensus among all administrations, residents and social participation in the development of the projects across the Vega Baja. In this way, the main objective is to “immerse the residents in positive images in relation to waste management” to implement reduction policies, to make plants smaller and with better results, as well as to comply with the parameters which have been set as community guidelines for 2020. These guidelines include the benchmark that recycling reaches 50 percent, “when now we do not even reach 40 percent of what is recycled in the plant” admits Alvaro. The Mayor of Guardamar has assured the consortium that the plenary will give the go-ahead to the project and approve the start of the process. He explained that the municipal groups have all the necessary information and said that their representatives attended the meeting

held last week with the assistance of the general director, Joan Piquer. The Mayor has assured that all the parties are working on this subject “with responsibility” and trusts that the agreement will go ahead in unanimous step. From there, it will be necessary to initiate the procedures for the assignment

of land, details of facilities and access. As it is received, the Mayor said that ‘the Plenary will put the machinery in place’. At the end of the meeting, the representatives of the Generalitat, Vaersa and the City Council visited the location for the possible site of the plant in the Finca Pallaret and discussed the layout and logistics of the planned operation.

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APAH at Zenia Boulevard Animal rescue charity APAH was recently invited by the management team at Alcampo in Zenia Boulevard to hold a three day pet awareness event at the supermarket. Every week, volunteers from APAH visit the store to buy food and cat litter for the cats and dogs in their care, which led Marie Carmen the department manager for the Pet Supplies Section to invite them to host the event. Tables promoting the work that APAH does were placed at the store entrances giving information on the work APAH does in rescuing, rehabilitating and re-homing abandoned, neglected and abused dogs and cats in the South Costa Blanca. It was a great opportunity for the charity to raise awareness and funds and the weekend was a huge success. As well as informing people about the work APAH does, they charity asked for volunteers, had empty trolleys for people to donate pet food and supplies and

there were also photos of APAH’'s cattery, kennels and charity shops – as well as pictures of some of the dogs and cats which are currently being cared for, in the hope that some of them would be offered homes. Gary at Kameeleon, did a great rush job at short notice, printing T shirts with the APAH logo on, so that all

the volunteers would be instantly recognisable. Volunteers were overwhelmed by the amount of food donated by Alcampo’s generous shoppers both those from the expat community and Spanish. Lots of Spanish shoppers went out of their way to buy food for the charity's dogs and cats and praised the work local charities do in the community. Over the three-day event, trolley after trolley of food was donated and at the end the charity calculated how much money had been spent on APAH’s behalf - amount spent on food was 585.70 euros, and the amount of money donated was 290.15, making a total of 875.85, all of which will be used for the animals in the charity’s care and is a huge saving. APAH would like to thank the staff and management of Alcampo, the shoppers and its own volunteers for making the weekend such a huge success. Mireille Toddington

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Spain’s fiestas are Orihuela commemorates summer madness International Women’s Day Spain’s traditional summer festivities are the perfect excuse for some of the craziest events of the year – not content with organising a straightforward pétanque competition, some villages prefer to hurl gas canisters, climb poles, or spit olive stones.

periodic check points. So far, no community has yet made the event its own, but both the Birratlón organised by Madrid’s Complutense University and the five-kilometer, six-pint race in Valladolid have attracted plenty of thirsty runners.

The Brutathlón - This event involves throwing tree stumps, gas canisters and concrete slabs, lifting tractor wheels and dragging railway sleepers. And

Olive stone spitting - This year, the event celebrated its 20th anniversary in Cieza, a small town in Murcia, although other communities throughout Spain have also taken it up. The goal is to eat an olive and then spit out the stone “without any aid.” The organisers say they have their sights set on Olympic recognition, and that the record stands at 10.43 meters. Elche also stages its own version using locally grown dates. Cucaña - This event entails climbing a greased pole using only arms and legs. Held throughout Spain – Seville, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Cadiz and Orgaz have all tried it – it is also a popular fiesta event in much of Latin America. In coastal locations, such as Castro Urdiales in Cantabria, it is often adapted to a horizontal pole across water, as this tends to hurt less when you fall off.

these are just a few of the disciplines participants have to master in the annual Brutathlón, which is held in Los Molinos, a village located in the Guadarrama hills around 50 kilometers northwest of Madrid. The event is also staged in Aldea del Obispo, in Salamanca province. As its name suggests, here brute strength is the only requirement. The Birratlón - There is some evidence to show that a beer after running aids recovery. In which case, why wait until the race is over to “recover”? This is the ethos behind the Birratlón (birra is a popular word for beer), which sees participants having to complete a circuit on foot, taking in a beer at

Crazy Carts - Seven crazy cart races are set to take place in Spain this September. Contestants must design and build their own vehicles, which they then have to steer down a steep obstacle course. Some events have been incorporated into local festivals for at least a decade; other races are held at different times of the year. Energy drink company Red Bull is sponsoring a global cart race competition, which will be held in Barcelona on 31st October. Competitors are judged not just on their driving skills, but on the originality of their vehicle. Later in the year, the Sierra Nevada ski station in Granada will host its own downhill event with ski-fitted carts.

The Councillor for Equality, Sabina Galindo, has presented the programme for International Women’s Day, which is commemorated annually on 8th March. She was joined by representatives of the associations and groups that are supporting the initiative: Vega Baja Acoge, Red Cross, Claras Campoamor, Afammer, and Women for the Third Millennium. The councillor said: “We continue to work to carry out activities and tools for equality and empowerment of women, since this last year we have has been developed the Municipal Ordinance on Equality of Women and Men, a pioneer in the Valencian Community.” The program is diverse and includes all aspects of life for women, such as the Afammer course ‘Organic Agriculture Production’, through which the participants can acquire necessary knowledge that can improve their job prospects. A total of 19 women will take part in this training, which ends on 31st March. On 2nd March, the photography exhibition ‘Mujeres de Orihuela y Pedanías’ will be inaugurated in the Sala Museo San Juan de Dios, which will remain open until 17th March before touring the different social and civic centres of Orihuela "Said the mayor. The photographic exhibition is organized by the association Claras Campoamor. In addition, on 2nd March will take place the conference of Juana Aznar, professor of the UMH, entitled ‘The value of care’. On 7th and 8th March equality workshops are

being held in the Auditorium of La Lonja, aimed at students and younger people. This activity is carried out in collaboration with the Dual FP of Equality for the Gabriel Miró. On 8th March, the day on which Women's Day is commemorated, at 7pm there will be a meeting at the Gabriel Miró Glorieta and the reading of a manifesto. From 6pm there will be children’s workshops with volunteers from Vega Baja Acoge,

Red Cross and the Social Forum. A lecture by Laura Freixas will be held on 9th March, entitled “The role of Culture in (un) equality”. This will take place at the María Moliner Library at 7:30pm, whilst on 12th March the Teatro Circo will host the Play ‘Polvorones’ with free admission. The program will end with the presentation of the report ‘Psychosocial Care Program for Immigrant Women, by Red Acoge’ starting at 7pm hours in the Maria Moliner Library. Councillor Galindo invited ‘all oriolanos and residents to participate actively in the programme and to continue advancing together in the fight for the equality’. Mireille Toddington

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WEEKLY EURO UPDATE A reversal of fortunes saw the euro move close to the front of the field, two thirds of a cent behind the US dollar, while the pound lost two euro cents and only narrowly avoided last place. Sterling continued with its recent habit of vacillating between success and failure: on five of the last ten working days it came top among the major currencies and on four it took the wooden spoon. The swings had precious little to do with economic reality or hard data: one of its losses came after The Times speculated about the possibility of a second Scottish independence referendum. In the US financial futures were pricing in a 30% chance that the Federal Reserve would increase its benchmark funds rate on 15 March. Today that likelihood is up to 90% following a string of senior Fed officials speaking out about the need for a rate hike "soon". The enhanced expectation helped the dollar into top position for the week. Perhaps the most important ecostat of the week was the

provisional reading for Euroland inflation. It came in at 2%, hitting the European Central Bank's target. That single figure is unlikely to affect ECB policy but in the longer run, once it moves above 2%, it must.

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Capparis spinosa, the caper bush, is a perennial winter-deciduous species that bears rounded, fleshy leaves and large white to pinkish-white flowers. This plant is the source of the well known gourmet condiment "capers" (the unopened green flower buds which are usually consumed pickled). The caper bush is a native Mediterranean plant with a natural distribution in coastal regions of the entire Mediterranean Sea basin. The caper bush grows as a low mounding shrub 2-3 ft (60-90 cm) tall with arching stems and dark green, semi-succulent alternate leaves. From May until September the plants bear a profusion of flower buds, which are the edible capers of commerce. Left unpicked these buds form sweetly scented pinkish-white flowers, adorned with long lavender stamens and a single stigma usually rising well above the stamens. The beauty of caper flowers is as fragile and short-lived as that of poppy flowers; the delicate flowers persist only a few hours - they open at dawn and close in the afternoon. Moreover, the flowers are rarely seen in caper gardens as the caper bud must be harvested before it opens.

foods. They are often used as a seasoning or garnish and are commonly used in salads, pasta salads, pizzas, pasta sauces and meat and fish dishes. Capers harmonize with most other Mediterranean spices and are frequently combined with pickled olives. Capers are also known for being one of the ingredients of tartar sauce and a “must”with steak tartar. The flavour of capers may be described as being similar to that of mustard and black pepper. In fact, capers’ intense flavour is developed, as

Cultivation A simple rule for cultivation of caper bush is to give plants similarly harsh conditions as it would grow in naturally. Caper bushes thrive when planted in lean well drained soil in a hot sunny location with little or no water. Although appreciative of some summer irrigation in well drained soil, a sure way to kill a caper bush is to over water it. Intense daylight and a long growing period are necessary to secure high yields. The caper bush can withstand temperatures over 104° F (40° C) in summer, but it is sensitive to frost during its vegetative period. A simple rule of thumb is that the caper bush can be planted where the olive tree grows.

Culinary Uses Capers are essential for several Mediterranean cuisines and are mostly associated with Italian (and Cypriot)

mustard oil (glucocapparin) is released from each caper bud. This enzymatic reaction also leads to the formation of rutin, often seen as crystallized white spots on the surfaces of individual caper buds. To make capers, harvest flower buds in the early morning immediately before flowering. The buds, when ready to pick, are a dark olive green. Rinse them in salted water to remove any dirt or grit then pickle in salt or a salt and vinegar solution. Capers can range in size from that of a tiny peppercorn (the petite variety from southern France, considered the finest) to some as large as the tip of your little finger (from Italy). If the caper bud is not picked, it flowers and produces a

fruit called a caper berry. Caper berries are processed in much the same way as capers. They have a stronger, more dominant but otherwise similar flavour. Their use is not as widespread as the use of capers and mostly restricted to Spain, which is also the main producer. Here they are often eaten together with olives and gherkins as a tapa or an appetizer.

Propagation Seed: Caper bush can be grown easily from fresh seeds gathered from ripe fruit and planted about 1 cm deep in a loose well drained seed-raising mix. Seedlings will appear in 2–4 weeks. Stem Cuttings: Collect cuttings in February, March or April. Use stems from the basal portions, greater than 1 cm diameter and 8 cm in length with 6-10 buds. Use of stem cuttings avoids high variability in terms of production and quality. Nevertheless, plants grown from cuttings are more susceptible to drought during the first years after planting. Once your caper plant starts growing it is a very strong survivor in difficult conditions and will be productive for 20-30 years. Enjoy… Marc Vijverberg

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WELCOME TO CHINCHÓN with Vivalia Travel Chinchón is one of the most picturesque and best known towns within the Autonomous Community of Madrid and the fact that it lies very close to the capital city

Chinchon is located 45 kilometers to the southeast of the city of Madrid. Surrounded by vineyards and olive groves of the Vega del Tajuña, the town was declared a Historic-artistic site in 1974. Chinchón is one of the most picturesque and best known towns within the Autonomous Community of Madrid and the fact that it lies very close to the capital city has not impinged on its

Irregular in shape and formed by houses of two and three floors with running balconies, it has been the scene of a great many events and presentations.Situated 45 km from Madrid, Chinchón is recognizable in the distance by its houses clustered together on hilltops. As well as its characteristic Plaza Mayor, with its wooden balconies and flat galleries, there is also the church of Nuestra Señora

conserving its own personality, with its dark gray and ochre colored landscapes, bunches of houses grouped upon hills surrounding its unique main Square and its winding streets that are a witness to the life and the history of the village. The town of Chinchon was declared, in 1974, a Historical Site by the Council of Ministers. Thanks to this fact starts the height of the hospitality industry and tourism, making Chinchón one of the most popular destinations, both domestically and internationally. The beautiful medieval square is Chinchón's most emblematic landmark.

de la Asunción (1534-1626), which was sacked and burned by Napoleonic troops in 1808. The current church

parish church of Nuestra Señora de Gracia and restored in 1856; and the remains of a 15th-century castle, rebuilt between 1590 and 1598 by the third Count of Chinchón and also burned in 1808 by Napoleonic forces. Prominent in the town centre are the nobles' mansions with their coats of arms and ancestral homes with beautiful courtyards and galleries resting on Doric, Ionic and Tuscan columns or with bases of stone. Chinchon is one of the "villas" with the most cultural activity in which the theatre, Teatro Lope de Vega plays a fundamental role. Don't miss their facilities or representations which take place in their stages, you will stay petrified. If you want to know more about the customs of Chinchon, access to La Posada Ethnological

was completed in 1828 and is a blend of Gothic, plateresque, Renaissance and baroque styles. Inside is the magnificent painting of La Asunción de la Virgen, painted by Goya. Other buildings of interest are: the convent of the Nuns of the Order of St.Clare, from the 17th century; the Clock Tower, belonging to the old

Museum, which, as its name indicates, is installed in a 19th century coaching inn. Submerge yourself in the most traditional side of Chinchon. In summer there are theater mode night visits organized while it represents the history of the city. And how could it not be, its impressive medieval market.

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What is wrong with being wrong?

he bible tells us that “the just man falls seven times a day.”This column does not question the accuracy of above statement, but my problem is that I would appear to have never met any of these “just”chappies. Don’t get me wrong, I regard most of the people I know as “just”men and women, but hell would freeze over before any of them would admit to being wrong seven times in the same day. Some of them have never been “wrong”once in their lifetime! Most people are incapable of accepting that they are ever wrong, even when indisputable facts are there to prove it. People will even say they are sorry sometimes but don’t hold your breath waiting for those three little words;“I was wrong!”If they do come out you will find them wrapped in a shroud of qualification and excuses, with most of the blame diverted elsewhere. Of course, as we see and hear daily on the airwaves, Government Ministers are the worst offenders. No matter how blatant the cock-up, they will pathetically wriggle and twist the truth to try and make black look white, while continuing to plead not guilty. Outright lies, spin doctoring, twisted half-truths, (you daren’t call a politician even a half-liar!) and deceptive comments are what we are tired hearing from Government spokesmen: But

above all, they are never wrong! It reminds me of the time I said to my father; “Daddy, I think you are making a mistake”, which earned the rebuke of: “I don’t make mistakes!” Why is it so difficult for people to admit they are wrong when being wrong is the most natural trait we are born with? Is it pure ego, pride, selfishness, a fear of losing face, or maybe they just want to dodge the consequences of their conduct? Why is it so hard to accept that being wrong is human and we are all the same? Perhaps we are inclined to pitch our image too high and don’t wish to be “found out.” Do we all believe our own “press” and come to believe that others expect of us what we are incapable of delivering and we acquire an inbuilt inability to say “I was wrong”? In reality, being wrong is human imperfection and not an option. So, if we are sure to be wrong, why not free ourselves from the fear of it by just standing up and saying “I was wrong”? One of the steps of Alcoholics Anonymous, arguably the most successful organisation of the past century, urges “When I am wrong, promptly admit it.” Didn’t Christ also say; “The truth shall set you free”? Ben Dunne re-invented himself when he found

enough humility in Florida to put up his hands and utter the magic words, “I was wrong” and he has enjoyed a better life ever since. Waterford hard man, John Mullane, also earned the respect of the nation when, instead of the customary attempt to appeal wrong doing suspensions, he said; “When you do the crime, you do the time”and he took his three months hurling suspension like a just man. Both Dunne and Mullane made themselves “OK guys” with the people and are remembered years afterwards for admitting they were wrong. When you can admit to being wrong, people tend to believe you in other areas. While being wrong is accepted by others as being human, being wrong and lying about it makes you unethical and questionable in all areas of your life. How long more will it take politicians to realise that the first one to fire his spin doctor, stand up and say he was wrong will be remembered long after the pathological political liars are forgotten? Character is the management of your own imperfection and the real test of character is admitting you are wrong when it is likely to cost you more than a lie. People are more likely to help you when you admit to being wrong: Not only this, but when you go to someone you have wronged and are willing to make amends; you will most likely find the other person meeting you half way. When you say “I was wrong” don’t then dilute it with a rake of excuses. Other people will put forward the reasons for you if they see you being honest. Even if you believe you were not 100% wrong in a dispute, admit to being wrong for the way you handled the incident. One

Christmas, many years ago, I wrote a short note to someone with whom I had had a major difference and we weren’t speaking for years as a result. Whilst I had not caused the rift, I was wrong in how I handled it so I wrote: “I want nothing done or said in return, but I just want to say I was wrong for the part I played in your upset during this incident and I am sorry.” Our close relationship resumed and as I requested, the letter was never mentioned again until it was found in a prayer-book after the person’s death. What I am saying is that the benefits of being honest about your “wrongs” far outweigh the negative consequences of the reverse. To get full benefit it must be clear that you do not expect any reward for admitting to being wrong, but admitting you are wrong refreshes not only your own soul but those of the people around you. Finally though; never say you are wrong if you are not. I have done this a few times, for peace sake or some other ulterior motive and it leaves a sourer taste in the mouth than not admitting when you really are wrong. I don’t think you have to say you are wrong seven times a day, but do it, the odd time at least – when it really matters.

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The importance of market value

Are you one of the many people that put your property on the market, knowing full well, that your asking price is unachievable? This occurs more often than you think, and a problem that has nothing to do with the property itself, but is a psychological dilemma for you, the homeowner. When you knowingly put your property on the market for a higher than market value price, then you’re not doing yourself any favours. You need to ask yourself why is it that you’re even on the market, and if you really do want to sell? If you’ve been on the market for more than a year, and there is nothing structurally wrong with your house, then I can guarantee the problem is your asking price. When your property has been up for sale for such a long time with offers you’ve been consistently refusing, this is the number one telltale sign that you need to change your way of thinking, and ask yourself what it is you really want to achieve. The property market is quite buoyant right now, but buyers won’t be duped into paying over the odds, so you need to ask your trusted Real Estate Agent for an up to date price assessment on your home. But more importantly, you need to listen to them. By keeping your property above market value, will deter buyers from even putting an offer forward. What do you think is going to be different now, compared to the last one to two years of being on the market? Think you’re going to attain a higher price? Wrong! The amount of time you’ve been on the market will ultimately affect your offer. I’ve heard every excuse in the book, when it comes to why people want the price they ask, and a reason like “taking the funds back to the U.K. will not buy exactly what I want,” does not change the true market value of a property here. No buyer will pay more for a home, just because they feel sorry for you, or because you couldn’t possibly buy what you want back in the U.K. Can you see how you always get cold feet when an offer is forthcoming? You’re quite happy to stay put, moaning and groaning on how long you’ve been for sale, as you get scared when you think things are moving too fast, when you know you’re going

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Quesada, detached villa with huge underbuild, own pool, good views, 3 beds, 2 baths, plus underbuild with separate kitchen and bathroom, ideal granny annexe, teenager annexe, 500sqm plot, very tastefully furnished.

Quesada, one bed mid terrace bungalow, south facing, cul de sac location, fully furnished, air con hot and cold, outside terrace and garden all for 48,000 euros, equal to 41,000 UK sterling. Local amenities of supermarket, bars and shops all walking distance away.

Los Montesinos, two properties, one 4 bed, 2 bath, other, 3 bed, 2 bath, all on one plot, swimming pool, jacuuzi, outside bar, BBQ, stables, paddock, all walking distance to Los Montesinos small town and schools. ideal for two families, can only be described as immaculate properties, sensibly priced at 395,000 euros for both. Further details and over 50 photos in office.

225,000 €

48,000 €

395,000€ for 2

to o h p ng i t i a Aw Los Montesinos, delightfull finca, 3 beds, 3 baths, pool, garage, designor kitchen, walking distance to Montesinos, approx. 500m plot, further land available. This property is presented immaculately, ideal residential home and or holiday home. Located within a small area of 6 other properties, of which all are residents.

195,000 €

Property urgently wanted for sale and or long term rental within this area, free no obligation valuation available

Quesada, next door to the famous Harrys Bar, 1 bed apartment, fully furnished, ready to move into tonight, ground floor, Municipal swimming pool next door, large car park, excellent views, air con hot and cold all for 27,500 euros, equal to 23,500 sterling. Absolute bargian. Would rent out at 240 or 250 euros amonth, over 10% return on your money!!!!!!!!! Or simple economic holiday home for not a lot of money?

27,500 €

to o h p ng i t i a Aw La Finca Golf ground floor apartment with 2 beds, 2 baths, superb location enjoying first line to the 5th Fairway, and totally amazing views for over 20 miles for 180 degrees. Presented in immaculate order within a gated community and the communal pool very close by. Designor kitchen, air con hot and cold, private parking, a true golfers delight with excellent rental potential or simply residential use for those who appreciate magnificient views.

128,500 €

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Feelings for married older man

I don’t like dad’s new partner

I am desperately attracted to my friend’s father. When we were left alone one time he made a pass at me. There’s a real spark between us. He’s 40 and I am 28. I have only known his daughter for a few months, so I don’t think I owe her any kind of loyalty. He says his wife isn’t interested in him anymore and he plans to leave her. Do you think he is only saying that? Should I go out with him?

Dad left mom six years ago for someone else, when we were small. Now he is getting married to this person, and he wants me and my brother to be at the wedding. I have never seen his girlfriend much. Now their wedding is approaching and I really don’t want it pushed in my face. My brother says he’ll go to keep the peace. Mum says I should go. She’s found someone else also. It appears as though your mum has given her blessing and is not objecting, so I would think seriously about how you would hurt your dad, if you didn’t go. The woman your dad left for, he is now marrying, and it will hurt of course. Adult relationships are complicated and you will realise that when you are older. You will have your brother there for support, and I am assuming your grandparents will be there also, so I would try to swallow up your feelings for just one day, and think about cementing future relationships. Sometimes we have to do things for others.

I think you should exercise caution here. He may be spinning you a line about wanting to leave his wife, so that he can have a fling with you. You seem not to have considered the feelings of your friend, and you will also be seeing this man behind his wife’s back. I wonder how you would feel in the same situation if a friend did that to you? If this man is not happy in his relationship with his wife, tell him you would consider dating him once he has left. WRITE TO SARA IN CONFIDENCE. A PSEUDONYM WILL BE USED IF YOU WISH. SARA READS ALL LETTERS AND CAN GIVE A PERSONAL REPLY. EMAIL YOUR QUESTION TO SARA@COSTABLANCAPEOPLE.COM OR SARA IS AVAILABLE FOR PRIVATE CONSULTATIONS, TELEPHONE 650 054 467.

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Donation Torrevieja Orihuela suffers 3.4 Netflix million euros in flood boss Hospital In memory of the much loved and admired Richard Vivian Jones, who sadly died during Christmas week of last year 2016, a donation of €580 was made to the pulmonary department of Hospital

having an artistic flair and skill. This last year he transferred to the newly formed group “The Deadwood Stage Company” Sadly his health deteriorated to such an extent that he was no longer fit to

damage

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Torrevieja on Tuesday 21st February. This sum was made up from the monies collected at Viv's Funeral and a generous donation of €250 from “The Torrevieja Barbershop Harmonizers” along with a donation of €100 euro from “The Deadwood Stage Company”. Viv, husband of Judith, died after some weeks in hospital following complicated breathing problems, namely Pulmonary Fibroses of the Lungs. Viv and Jude moved to Spain 14 years ago were well known for their contribution in time and effort to many societies and charities. He had been stage manager and an ardent back stage worker for several years for Campoverde Theatre Group

attend their meetings, but he will never be forgotten. He was a warm, quiet gentleman. Another of his interests, apart from supporting Wales in Rugby, was a fine voice as a member of “The Torrevieja Barbershop Harmonizers”. The photograph shows his wife Jude, presenting the donation to the director of the Hospital Jose David Zafrilla and pulmonary Chief Gabriel Mediero. Together with Vida and photographer Colin Nelson of “The Deadwood Stage Company” and Geoff Gosben President/Chairman of the “Harmonizers” The Hospital staff were somewhat overcome by the generous gesture as this was not a common occurrence.

The councillors for Infrastructure and Emergencies, Juan Ignacio López-Bas and Víctor Valverde, respectively, have outlined the aid requested by the City after the December floods. After the declaration of an ‘Affected Zone’ by the Council of Ministers, the city has been able to apply for aid aimed at repairing damage to municipal infrastructures. The Ministry of the Interior has detailed two types of aid. Firstly, expenses that had to be incurred to guarantee the safety of people, such as shoring up the river banks and to stabilise the bridges among other works. For this expenditure the City Council expects to recover 50 percent the investment that had to be made and which amounted to 72,369 euros. The second type of aid available corresponds to individuals affected by floods in their homes or shops, which have logged claims at the Municipal Office. More than 400 applications were received and those acceptable for compensation came to 230. Other aid requested by the City Council is one offered by the Generalitat Valenciana aimed at damages suffered to infrastructure and public goods, such

as problems in the tarmac, which has been detected in several districts where the flood water caused erosion. Likewise, López-Bas said that the report value presented to both Ministries shows that the municipal damages, including facilities, roads, buildings and public roads, amounts to 3,398,250 euros. In addition, the Councillor said that a total of 44 incidents were collated from the Town Hall and outlined how “Orihuela has been one of the municipalities most affected by the floods, so from the Consistory we will closely monitor the applications for these grants from both administrations.” Both Valverde and Lopez-Bas insisted on the importance of “knowing as soon as possible whether the grants for damage to infrastructure and public goods (3.4 million euros) will be collected at the regional level as a direct investment or as a subsidy. If it is through the latter, then this will have to be included in the Municipal Budgets for 2017 in order for the city to be able to financially cope. Both councillors highlighted the work done by the municipal technicians during the processing of these grants in such a short time and thanked them for their hard work. This included making detailed reports and providing all the documentation to outline all the incidents that had been detected.

Gender violence spikes in Spain A 91-year-old woman died last Wednesday in the western Spanish province of Badajoz after being stabbed by her husband. She was the fifth fatality in a four-day period that marks a particularly bad record for gender violence in Spain. The day before, two women were murdered in the Valencia region, and another one was stabbed to death in Barcelona province by her husband. All three suspects had restraining orders and had been repeatedly reported for episodes of violence. A day earlier, another woman died in the Galician province of Pontevedra in Spain’s north-west following a explosion that was allegedly caused by her husband. This brings the total death toll to 16 this year, the worst figure since 2001. Last week, more than 1,000 marchers converged on Madrid’s central square, Puerta del Sol, to show support for half a dozen women from an association called Ve-la Luz who have been camped out there for 13 days to demand that legislators make gender violence a matter of State. Protesters chanted slogans such as “This is not an isolated case, it’s called patriarchy” or “We want to be alive.” Their demands include activating a crisis cabinet meeting to deal with a recurring situation. Last year, 44 women died at the hands of their former or current partners, according to official records. Gloria Vázquez, president of Ve-la Luz, said: “We are sick and tired of the minutes of silence. We need to scream out to the world that we are being assassinated.”

Since the conservative Popular Party (PP) came to power in late 2011, the budget allocation for the prevention of gender violence has been cut by 19 percent, going from slightly over €31 million in 2010 to €25.2 million in 2016. “Ending gender violence is everyone’s responsibility, and thus getting the 2017 budget passed is also everyone’s responsibility,” said Health Minister Dolors Montserrat in reply to a congressional question about how this budget reduction may be affecting women. The head of the Observatory against Domestic and Gender Violence, Ángeles Carmona, has expressed “consternation” over the recent murders, and the women of Ve-la luz say they will not budge from Puerta del Sol until they get some answers. “How many more murdered women will it take before somebody does something?,” they chanted into their loudspeakers.

Breakthrough However, in a ground-breaking turn in Spain's ongoing war on domestic violence, Guardia Civil officers are systematically going through lists of convicted abusers to interview them in order to try to understand their mindset. The interior ministry called 'gender violence' a 'national emergency' this week after the new figures highlighted the shocking rise in domestic murder. In addition to the 16 deaths, six children have been orphaned, and a baby was killed when her father threw himself off a balcony holding her in his

arms to ‘get back at’ her mother. Two women a week have been murdered since the start of the year, with the latest three being here in the Comunidad Valenciana. Guardia Civil officers have already started their exhaustive quest to get into the minds of attackers and killers, having carried out full interviews with 30 convicted criminals across the country and preparing to do likewise with another 28. In total, they hope to quiz at least 200. The aim is to ascertain the signs to watch out for, in terms of attitude, psychiatric and psychological traits, and behaviour, and then to set up two permanent prevention and response units which will evaluate injunctions and other protection measures for actual or potential victims, reinforce safety networks for children caught in the crossfire, and look into the amount of funding assigned to town councils, ministries and regional governments to battle what is becoming one of the country's major causes of preventable death. As well as interviewing the attackers themselves, police will carry out qualitative research in the victim's immediate circle and collect eyewitness testimonies, as well as examining the site of the crime. A multi-disciplinary team will carry out the research and interviews, made up of prosecutors, judges, MPs heading up domestic violence departments, professional training bodies, prisons, police forces and universities.

'Domestic' versus 'gender' violence Spanish law has only recently been amended to separate domestic violence from other forms of assault and murder, and records of those killed by current or former partners – as opposed to murders in general – have only been kept since 2006. The overwhelming majority of deaths in relationships or committed by former partners are perpetrated by men against women, although a small handful of murders have been reported in the last two years involving men killing their boyfriends or husbands, or women doing so, and as yet no fatal crime has been recorded as a female victim dying at the hands of her wife or girlfriend. Statistically, the majority of victims of domestic violence are female and attackers are male, although the number of male victims – at the hands of either female or male partners – may be far higher than assumed, since men continue to suffer greater stigma and shame and may not report their ordeal. Technically, in Spain, 'domestic' violence is where the victim and perpetrator are family members – parents, children or siblings – or, in the case of relationships, where the victim is male; aggression in relationships or by ex-partners, where the victim is female, is known as 'gender violence' or 'sexist violence'.

predicts unlimited mobile video

Netflix head Reed Hastings has predicted that mobile carriers will soon offer data plans that give users unlimited video streaming to meet the rising popularity of watching TV and movies on mobile devices. “Ten to twenty years from now all the video you view is going to be on the Internet,” he said at the Mobile World Congress, the phone industry’s largest annual trade fair. “I think screens today are really stunning, you can see all the depth right in front of you. The beautiful thing is you can watch it on the move.” While watching video on mobile devices via Netflix and other streaming sites is growing, data caps imposed on plans by mobile operators act as a barrier to users wanting to watch a video on the go. Carriers offer unlimited data caps but they are usually very expensive. But Hastings said he believed mobile carriers will eventually create a two-tear system where video data is unlimited to meet the growing demand for watching TV series and movies on mobile devices. “What we are going to see I think is a number of companies pioneering new ways of offering services to the consumers where it is unlimited video data but it is limited to say one megabit speed,” he said. “So it is a slower speed but you get unlimited data on that and that turns out to be very efficient on network so an operator can offer unlimited viewing.” Netflix started streaming TV in the United States nearly a decade ago and has now launched in almost every country. It ended 2016 with nearly 94 million subscribers, adding five million outside the United States in the last three months of the year. Nearly half - 47 percent - of Netflix users are now outside the United States, a proportion expected to increase as it adds more customers. Mobile video traffic is forecast to grow by around 50 percent annually through 2022, to account for nearly three quarters of all mobile data traffic, according to a forecast by Sweden-based telecommunications operator Ericsson.

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Moonlight (2016) 7.8

Split(2016) 7.4

A chronicle of the childhood, adolescence and burgeoning adulthood of a young black man growing up in a rough neighborhood of Miami.

Three girls are kidnapped by a man with a diagnosed 23 distinct personalities, they must try to escape before the apparent emergence of a frightful new 24th.

Director: Barry Jenkins Writers: Barry Jenkins (screenplay), Tarell Alvin McCraney (story by) Stars: Mahershala Ali, Shariﬀ Earp, Duan Sanderson

Hidden Figures (2016) 7.9 The story of a team of African‐ American women mathematicians who served a vital role in NASA during the early years of the US space program. Director: Theodore Melﬁ Writers: Allison Schroeder (screenplay), Theodore Melﬁ (screenplay) Stars: Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer, Janelle Monáe

Director: M. Night Shyamalan Writer: M. Night Shyamalan Stars: James McAvoy, Anya Taylor‐Joy, Haley Lu Richardson

Allied (2016) 7.1 In 1942, a Canadian intelligence oﬃcer in North Africa encounters a female French Resistance ﬁghter on a deadly mission behind enemy lines. When they reunite in London, their relationship is tested by the pressures of war. Director: Robert Zemeckis Writer: Steven Knight Stars: Brad Pitt, Marion Cotillard, Jared Harris

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uTerrace property u1-2 Bed u1 Bath uQuiet Location uFurnished

Quad/ Semi Detached, 3 Bed, 2 Bath, Good Condition Off Rd Parking, Room For A Pool, 79m2 Build, 88m2 Plot, Large Solarium, Air Conditioning, Enclosed terrace, Com Pool

End of Terrace, 2 Bed, 1 Bath, Good Condition, Quiet location, 40m2 Build, 50m2 Plot, Air Conditioning, Sun Awning, Furnished

Semi-Detached, 3 Bed, 2 Bath, Quiet Location, Furnished, Extended, 93m2 Build, 207m2 Plot, South Facing, Air Conditioning, Immaculate Villa, Private pool

Reduced WAS 114.950€ NOW 107.500€

Close to amenities 65.000€

Walking distance to amenities 154.995€

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REF: NS188 EL OASIS / LA MARINA

u40m2 Build u50m2 Plot uLarge under build uAir Conditioning uStorage

A well MAINTAINED mid-TERRACE bungalow 'Fina' style property, in a QUIET area in La Marina Urb, within walking distance of local bars, restaurants and a supermarket. 40 m² of accommodation on one floor, 1/ 2 bedrooms, a large spacious lounge/ diner with an open plan kitchen and a fully tiled bathroom. A raised terrace ideal for outdoor dining and a fully paved garden area. External stairs lead to a large under build (separate entrance) with additional rooms and a further bathroom that could be used as guest accommodation. This property is in good decorative order throughout, and is to be sold furnished and equipped with all white goods. An internal viewing is highly recommended.

Close To Amenities 58.000€ Detached Villa, 2 Bed, 3 Bath, Air Conditioning, Central Heating, Immaculate Property, 207m2 Plot, Separate Apartment, South Facing, Extended, Solarium, Central Heating

Reduced WAS 128.000 € NOW125.000€

Detached Villa, 3 Bed, 2 Bath, Immaculate Condition, Great location, Solarium, Central Heating, 125m2 Build, 207m2 Plot, West Facing, Air Conditioning, Solar Hot Water, Room For A Pool

Very close to amenities 124.000€

Detached Villa, 3 Bed, 2 Bath, Good Condition, Furnished, Solarium, Southwest Facing, Air Conditioning, Double Glazed, Private Pool, Com Pool Use of Tennis courts

Quiet location 159.000€

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World Cup Top Goalscorers

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Come Dine with Me

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Time Team

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Storage Wars New York

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Where the Heart is

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Great Canal Journeys

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You're Only Young Twice

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Car S.O.S

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Doctor at Large

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Building the Dream

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Murder, She Wrote

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Obsessive Compulsive Cleaners

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River Monsters

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Midsomer Murders

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8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown

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A Touch of Frost

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Hogan's Heroes

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Inspector Morse

2.15am

Building the Dream

3.25am

Hogan's Heroes

3.10am

ITV3 Nightscreen

3.20am

Obsessive Compulsive Cleaners

3.55am

ITV4 Nightscreen

3.30am

Teleshopping

4.20am

8 Out of 10 Cats

4.00am

Teleshopping

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BBC1 7.00am 10.15am 11.00am 12.00pm 12.45pm 1.15pm 2.00pm 2.30pm 2.45pm 3.15pm 4.15pm 4.45pm 5.30pm 6.15pm 7.00pm 7.30pm 8.00pm 9.00pm 10.00pm 11.00pm 11.30pm 11.45pm 12.15am 12.45am 1.50am 1.55am

Breakfast The Housing Enforcers Homes Under the Hammer Heir Hunters Dom on the Spot Bargain Hunt BBC News at One Regional News and Weather Doctors The Doctor Blake Mysteries Escape to the Country Money for Nothing Flog It! Pointless BBC News at Six Regional News and Weather The One Show Who Do You Think You Are? The Real Marigold Hotel BBC News at Ten Regional News and Weather Peter Kay's Car Share A Question of Sport Beti and David: Lost for Words Weather for the Week Ahead BBC News

BBC2 7.00am 7.30am 8.15am 9.00am 10.00am 12.00pm 12.30pm 4.30pm 5.15pm 6.15pm 7.00pm 7.30pm 8.00pm 9.00pm 10.00pm 11.00pm 11.30pm 12.15am 1.15am 2.15am 3.15am 4.15am

ITV2 7.00am 7.25am 8.15am 9.00am 9.30am 10.00am 10.35am 11.25am 12.25pm 1.25pm 1.55pm 3.00pm 3.50pm 4.55pm 6.00pm 7.00pm 7.30pm 8.00pm 8.30pm 9.00pm 9.30pm 10.00pm 11.05pm 11.10pm 12.20am 12.50am 1.25am 1.50am 2.20am 2.45am 3.15am

You've Been Framed! Who's Doing the Dishes? The Ellen DeGeneres Show Emmerdale You've Been Framed! You've Been Framed! Psych Scorpion Who's Doing the Dishes? Emmerdale You've Been Framed! The Ellen DeGeneres Show The Jeremy Kyle Show The Jeremy Kyle Show Judge Rinder You've Been Framed! You've Been Framed! You've Been Framed! You've Been Framed! Two and a Half Men Two and a Half Men Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber FYI Daily Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber Family Guy Family Guy American Dad! American Dad! Two and a Half Men Totally Bonkers Guinness World Records Teleshopping

Anguish

8.35am

Blood Orange

10.10am

Imperium

12.10pm

Kicking Off

1.45pm

Florence Foster Jenkins

3.40pm

The Darkness

5.20pm

Anguish

7.00pm

Imperium

9.00pm

Florence Foster Jenkins

11.00pm

The Surprise

12.50am

The Darkness

2.40am

Kicking Off

4.25am

Blood Orange

6.15am

The Top Ten Show 2017

6.30am

Fences: Special

The World's Most Photographed Heir Hunters Money for Nothing Sicily: Wonder of the Mediterranean Victoria Derbyshire BBC Newsroom Live The Budget Channel Patrol Madagascar Bargain Hunt Eggheads The Hairy Bikers' Comfort Food Antiques Road Trip The House That Â£100k Built Incredible Medicine: Dr Weston's Casebook Mock the Week Newsnight Meet the Lords 1066: A Year to Conquer England Trust Me, I'm a Doctor DIY SOS The Big Build This is BBC Two

ITV1 7.00am 9.30am 10.25am 11.30am 1.20pm 3.00pm 4.00pm 5.00pm 6.00pm 7.00pm 7.30pm 8.00pm 8.30pm 9.00pm 10.00pm 11.00pm 11.30pm 12.00am 12.15am 1.15am 1.45am 4.00am 4.50am 6.05am

Sky Sports 1 7.00am 8.00am 9.00am 9.30am 10.00am 10.30am 11.00am 1.00pm 2.00pm 3.00pm 3.30pm 4.00pm 4.15pm 4.30pm 4.45pm 5.00pm 6.00pm 6.30pm 6.40pm 8.40pm 8.50pm 9.00pm 10.00pm 10.30pm 11.00pm 11.30pm 12.00am 12.30am 1.00am 1.30am 2.00am 2.30am

Football Gold WWE Experience Premier League Legends Premier League Legends Premier League 100 Club Premier League 100 Club The Premier League Years Premier League Review Great Sporting Moments Premier League Legends Premier League Legends Spanish Football Gold Spanish Football Gold Football Gold Football Gold Premier League Review Premier League 100 Club Spanish Football Gold Football Spanish Football Gold Spanish Football Gold Premier League Review Barclays Premier League World Premier League Legends Barclays Premier League World Premier League 100 Club Premier League 100 Club Premier League 100 Club Barclays Premier League World Premier League Legends Boxing Gold Darts Gold

8.00am 8.30am 9.00am 9.30am 10.00am 10.30am 11.00am 12.00pm 1.00pm 1.30pm 2.00pm 2.30pm 3.00pm 3.30pm 4.00pm 4.30pm 5.00pm 5.30pm 6.00pm 6.30pm 7.00pm 7.30pm 8.00pm 8.30pm 9.00pm 9.30pm 10.00pm 11.00pm 12.05am 1.05am 1.35am 2.00am

Game of Clones Hollyoaks Rules of Engagement Rules of Engagement Baby Daddy Baby Daddy Charmed Charmed How I Met Your Mother How I Met Your Mother The Goldbergs The Goldbergs The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory Baby Daddy Baby Daddy How I Met Your Mother How I Met Your Mother The Goldbergs The Goldbergs The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory Hollyoaks Game of Clones The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory Timeless Celebs Go Dating Supernatural The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory Celebs Go Dating

Sky Movies Premiere 7.00am

Television: Wed. 8th March

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Good Morning Britain Lorraine The Jeremy Kyle Show This Morning The Chancellor's Budget 2017 Judge Rinder The Home Game Tipping Point The Chase ITV News London ITV Evening News Emmerdale Coronation Street Little Big Shots Benidorm The Nightly Show ITV News ITV News London UEFA Champions League Highlights The Nightly Show Jackpot247 1000 Heartbeats ITV Nightscreen The Jeremy Kyle Show

Sky 1 7.00am 8.00am 9.00am 9.30am 10.00am 10.30am 11.00am 11.30am 12.00pm 1.00pm 2.00pm 3.00pm 4.00pm 5.00pm 5.30pm 6.00pm 6.30pm 7.00pm 7.30pm 8.00pm 8.30pm 9.00pm 10.00pm 11.00pm 12.00am 1.00am 2.00am 3.00am 4.00am 4.30am 5.00am 5.30am

Hawaii Five-0 Hawaii Five-0 Police Ten Police Ten Animal House Animal House Nothing to Declare Nothing to Declare A Town Called Eureka NCIS: Los Angeles Hawaii Five-0 Hawaii Five-0 Road Wars Futurama Modern Family Modern Family Futurama Futurama The Simpsons The Simpsons The Simpsons MacGyver The Blacklist NCIS: Los Angeles The Force: Manchester The Force: Manchester Road Wars Hawaii Five-0 RSPCA Animal Rescue Police Ten Animal House Animal House

7.00am

Channel 4

Channel 5

7.00am

Countdown

7.00am

Pip Ahoy!

7.45am

King of Queens

7.10am

Lily's Driftwood Bay

8.10am

King of Queens

7.20am

Little Princess

8.35am

King of Queens

7.30am

Paw Patrol

9.00am

Everybody Loves Raymond

7.45am

Bob the Builder

7.55am

Fireman Sam

8.05am

Thomas and Friends

8.20am

Milkshake Monkey

9.35am

Everybody Loves Raymond

10.05am

Frasier

10.35am

Frasier

11.05am

Undercover Boss USA

12.00pm

Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares USA

8.25am

Shimmer and Shine

1.00pm

Channel 4 News

8.35am

Noddy: Toyland Detective

1.05pm

A New Life in the Sun

8.50am

Paw Patrol

2.05pm

Find it, Fix it, Flog it

9.05am

Ben and Holly's Little Kingdom

3.10pm

Countdown

9.15am

Digby Dragon

4.00pm

Fifteen to One

9.30am

Peppa Pig

5.00pm

A Place in the Sun

9.40am

Peppa Pig

6.00pm

Couples Come Dine with Me

7.00pm

The Simpsons

7.30pm

Hollyoaks

8.00pm

Channel 4 News

9.00pm

Hidden Restaurants with

9.50am

Wissper

10.00am

Toot the Tiny Tugboat

10.15am

The Wright Stuff

12.15pm

GPs: Behind Closed Doors

Michel Roux Jr

1.10pm

5 News Lunchtime

10.00pm

The Royal House of Windsor

1.15pm

The Great British Benefits Handout

11.00pm

A Killing in My Family

2.15pm

Home and Away

12.05am

24 Hours in A and E

2.45pm

Neighbours

1.10am

Mutiny

3.20pm

NCIS

2.10am

Mutiny

4.20pm

Two Wrongs

3.05am

The Change-Up

6.00pm

5 News at 5

5.00am

Phil Spencer: Secret Agent

6.30pm

Neighbours

5.55am

Jamie's Comfort Food Bites

6.05am

Fifteen to One

7.00pm

Home and Away

7.30pm

5 News Tonight

8.00pm

Killer Landslides

9.00pm

GPs: Behind Closed Doors

BBC 4 8.00pm

100 Days

10.00pm

Climbing the Property Ladder

8.30pm

Reel History of Britain

11.00pm

Can't Pay? We'll Take it Away!

9.00pm

Jet! When Britain Ruled the Skies

12.05am

Nightmare Tenants, Slum Landlords

10.00pm

The Man Who Shot Tutankhamun

1.05am

Benefits Britain: Life on the Dole

11.00pm

Wild China

2.00am

Super Casino

12.00am

Imagine...

4.10am

Celebrity Sex Pod

1.05am

Britain in Focus:

5.00am

Now That's Funny!

5.45am

House Doctor

A Photographic History 2.05am

Horror Europa with Mark Gatiss

3.35am

The Man Who Shot Tutankhamun

6.10am

Divine Designs

4.35am

This is BBC Four

6.35am

Wildlife SOS

You're Only Young Twice

9.55am

Car S.O.S

7.00am

Gunsmoke

7.25am

Heartbeat

10.55am

Come Dine with Me

8.05am

The Saint

8.25am

Where the Heart is

11.25am

Come Dine with Me

9.05am

Hogan's Heroes

9.30am

The Royal

11.55am

Come Dine with Me

9.35am

Hogan's Heroes

10.30am

Judge Judy

12.30pm

Come Dine with Me

10.05am

The Professionals

11.00am

Judge Judy

1.00pm

Come Dine with Me

11.10am

Ironside

11.30am

Judge Judy

1.35pm

A Place in the Sun

12.10pm

Gunsmoke

11.55am

Inspector Morse

2.35pm

A Place in the Sun

1.15pm

Storage Wars Texas

2.05pm

Heartbeat

3.10pm

The Royal

3.45pm

Time Team

1.45pm

Snooker

4.10pm

Where the Heart is

4.50pm

Time Team

5.45pm

Storage Wars New York

5.15pm

You're Only Young Twice

5.55pm

Great Canal Journeys

6.15pm

Storage Wars Texas

5.50pm

Doctor at Large

6.55pm

Car S.O.S

6.45pm

Storage Wars Texas

6.20pm

On the Buses

7.55pm

The Supervet

7.10pm

Storage Wars Texas

6.55pm

Heartbeat

8.55pm

Grand Designs

7.45pm

Snooker

8.00pm

Murder, She Wrote

10.00pm

The Family

11.45pm

Lethal Weapon

9.00pm

Lewis

12.15am

8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown

12.45am

The Football Mavericks

11.00pm

A Touch of Frost

1.15am

8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown

1.50am

The Professionals

1.05am

Wycliffe

2.20am

Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares USA

2.50am

The Wine Show

2.10am

The Knock

3.20am

8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown

3.55am

ITV4 Nightscreen

3.30am

Teleshopping

4.25am

Food Unwrapped

4.00am

Teleshopping

ITV3

More 4

ITV4

Television: Thurs. 9th March BBC1

7.00am 10.15am 11.00am 12.00pm 12.45pm 1.15pm 2.00pm 2.30pm 2.45pm 3.15pm 4.15pm 4.45pm 5.30pm 6.15pm 7.00pm 7.30pm 8.00pm 8.30pm 9.00pm 9.30pm 10.00pm 11.00pm 11.30pm 11.45pm 12.45am 1.30am 1.35am

BBC2

Breakfast The Housing Enforcers Homes Under the Hammer Heir Hunters Dom on the Spot Bargain Hunt BBC News at One Regional News and Weather Doctors The Doctor Blake Mysteries Escape to the Country Money for Nothing Flog It! Pointless BBC News at Six Regional News and Weather The One Show EastEnders Would I Lie to You? EastEnders Britain on the Fiddle BBC News at Ten Regional News and Weather Question Time This Week Weather for the Week Ahead BBC News

7.00am 7.30am 8.15am 9.00am 9.30am 10.00am 12.00pm 1.00pm 2.00pm 2.30pm 3.00pm 3.30pm 4.15pm 5.15pm 6.15pm 7.00pm 7.30pm 8.00pm 9.00pm 10.00pm 11.00pm 11.30pm 12.15am 1.15am 1.40am 2.10am 3.10am 3.50am

ITV2 7.00am 7.25am 8.15am 9.00am 9.30am 10.00am 10.35am 11.25am 12.25pm 1.25pm 1.55pm 2.30pm 3.00pm 3.50pm 4.55pm 6.00pm 7.00pm 7.30pm 8.00pm 9.00pm 9.30pm 10.00pm 11.00pm 11.30pm 12.00am 12.30am 1.00am 1.30am 2.00am 2.30am 3.20am 6.50am

7.00am 7.15am 8.00am 9.00am 9.30am 10.00am 10.30am 11.00am 1.00pm 1.30pm 2.00pm 3.00pm 3.30pm 4.00pm 4.15pm 4.30pm 4.45pm 5.00pm 5.30pm 6.00pm 6.30pm 7.00pm 7.30pm 8.00pm 11.30pm 12.00am 12.30am 1.00am 1.30am 4.30am 5.00am 5.30am

Sky Movies Premiere Kicking Off

8.45am

Anguish

10.30am

The Top Ten Show 2017

10.50am

Florence Foster Jenkins

12.55pm

Imperium

3.00pm

Kicking Off

4.45pm

The Great Wall: Special

5.15pm

The Darkness

7.00pm

Florence Foster Jenkins

9.00pm

ITV1 7.00am 9.30am 10.25am 11.30am 1.30pm 2.30pm 2.55pm 3.00pm 4.00pm 5.00pm 6.00pm 7.00pm 7.30pm 8.00pm 8.30pm 9.00pm 9.30pm 10.00pm 11.00pm 11.30pm 12.00am 12.15am 1.15am 1.40am 4.00am 4.25am 6.05am

Sky Sports 1

You've Been Framed! Who's Doing the Dishes? The Ellen DeGeneres Show Emmerdale Coronation Street You've Been Framed! Psych Scorpion Who's Doing the Dishes? Emmerdale Coronation Street You've Been Framed! The Ellen DeGeneres Show The Jeremy Kyle Show The Jeremy Kyle Show Judge Rinder You've Been Framed! You've Been Framed! You've Been Framed! Two and a Half Men Two and a Half Men Release the Hounds Family Guy Family Guy Family Guy American Dad! American Dad! Two and a Half Men Two and a Half Men Release the Hounds Teleshopping ITV2 Nightscreen

7.00am

Flog it! Trade Secrets Heir Hunters Money for Nothing An Island Parish Great British Railway Journeys Victoria Derbyshire BBC Newsroom Live The Daily Politics Two Tribes Beat the Brain Building Dream Homes Channel Patrol Rivers with Griff Rhys Jones The Hunt Bargain Hunt Eggheads The Hairy Bikers' Comfort Food Antiques Road Trip The Great Pottery Throw Down Brexit: Britain's Biggest Deal Match of the Day Newsnight Top Gear Top Gear Panorama The Real Marigold Hotel Royal Recipes This is BBC Two

Imperium

11.00pm

Anna

12.45am

The Darkness

2.35am

The Surprise

4.30am

Anguish

6.15am

The Lego Batman Movie: Special

6.45am

The Top Ten Show 2017

Football Gold Football Gold WWE SmackDown! Premier League Legends Premier League Legends Barclays Premier League World Premier League 100 Club The Premier League Years Football's Greatest Football's Greatest Great Sporting Moments Premier League Legends Premier League Legends Spanish Football Gold Spanish Football Gold Football Gold Football Gold Football's Greatest Football's Greatest Premier League 100 Club Premier League Legends Premier League Legends Barclays Premier League World Live Super League Premier League Match Pack La Liga Show Barclays Premier League World Premier League Match Pack Premier League Darts La Liga Show Premier League Match Pack Premier League 100 Club

Good Morning Britain Lorraine The Jeremy Kyle Show This Morning Loose Women ITV Lunchtime News ITV News London Judge Rinder The Home Game Tipping Point The Chase ITV News London ITV Evening News Emmerdale Buy Today, Pay Tomorrow? Tonight Emmerdale Harry Hill's Alien Fun Capsule Prime Suspect 1973 The Nightly Show ITV News ITV News London UEFA Europa League Highlights The Nightly Show Jackpot247 Buy Today, Pay Tomorrow? Tonight ITV Nightscreen The Jeremy Kyle Show

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Hawaii Five-0 Hawaii Five-0 Police Ten Police Ten Animal House Animal House Nothing to Declare Nothing to Declare A Town Called Eureka NCIS: Los Angeles Hawaii Five-0 Hawaii Five-0 NCIS: Los Angeles Futurama Modern Family Modern Family Futurama Futurama The Simpsons The Simpsons The Simpsons Duck Quacks Don't Echo Arrow Stan Lee's Lucky Man A League of Their Own The Force: Manchester Hawaii Five-0 Stop Search Seize Police Ten Police Ten Brit Cops: Frontline Crime Animal House

7.00am 7.25am 8.30am 9.25am 10.25am 10.55am 11.25am 11.50am 2.05pm 3.05pm 4.10pm 5.15pm 5.50pm 6.20pm 6.55pm 8.00pm 9.00pm 10.00pm 11.00pm 1.05am 2.10am 3.30am

You're Only Young Twice Heartbeat Where the Heart is The Royal Judge Judy Judge Judy Judge Judy Inspector Morse Heartbeat The Royal Where the Heart is You're Only Young Twice Doctor at Large On the Buses Heartbeat Murder, She Wrote Heartbeat Rosemary and Thyme A Touch of Frost Wycliffe The Knock Teleshopping

SOAP UPDATE

Eastenders - Mick receives an unexpected offer. Bex remains in turmoil. Lauren confides in Whitney about her relationship.

Channel 4 7.00am 7.45am 8.10am 8.35am 9.00am 9.35am 10.05am 10.35am 11.05am 12.05pm 1.00pm 1.05pm 2.05pm 3.10pm 4.00pm 5.00pm 6.00pm 7.00pm 7.30pm 8.00pm 8.55pm 9.00pm 10.00pm 11.00pm 12.05am 1.05am 2.05am 3.00am 3.55am 4.40am 5.10am 6.05am

Emmerdale - Pierce enjoys the moment. Chrissie and Rebecca take action. Jacob's anxiety soars. Vanessa is unhappy with Pierce. Jacob and David face an uncertain future. Ronnie and Lawrence decide their fate.

Countdown King of Queens King of Queens King of Queens Everybody Loves Raymond Everybody Loves Raymond Frasier Frasier Undercover Boss USA Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares USA Channel 4 News A New Life in the Sun Find it, Fix it, Flog it Countdown Fifteen to One Crufts 2017 Couples Come Dine with Me The Simpsons Hollyoaks Channel 4 News The Political Slot Crufts 2017 A Very British Hotel Extremely British Muslims : Boys to Men Rich Dog, Poor Dog Britain's Weirdest Council Houses A Killing in My Family The Supervet Shipping Wars Four in a Bed Phil Spencer: Secret Agent Fifteen to One

BBC 4 8.00pm 8.30pm 9.00pm 10.00pm 11.00pm 12.00am 12.50am 1.50am 2.25am 2.55am 3.55am 4.55am

ITV3

Rude(Ish) Tube Shorts Made in Chelsea Game of Clones Hollyoaks Rules of Engagement Rules of Engagement Baby Daddy Baby Daddy Charmed Charmed How I Met Your Mother How I Met Your Mother The Goldbergs The Goldbergs The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory Baby Daddy Baby Daddy How I Met Your Mother How I Met Your Mother The Goldbergs The Goldbergs The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory Hollyoaks Game of Clones The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory Gap Year Celebs Go Dating Brooklyn Nine-Nine Brooklyn Nine-Nine

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100 Days Top of the Pops Thailand: Earth's Tropical Paradise Sound Waves: The Symphony of Physics Attenborough and the Giant Dinosaur The Nazis: A Warning From History World War Two: A Timewatch Guide Top of the Pops Sounds of the Eighties Sound of Song Sound Waves: The Symphony of Physics This is BBC Four

Channel 5 7.00am

Pip Ahoy!

7.10am

Lily's Driftwood Bay

7.20am

Little Princess

7.30am

Paw Patrol

7.45am

Bob the Builder

7.55am

Fireman Sam

8.05am

Thomas and Friends

8.20am

Milkshake Monkey

8.25am

Shimmer and Shine

8.35am

Noddy: Toyland Detective

8.50am

Paw Patrol

9.05am

Ben and Holly's Little Kingdom

9.15am

Digby Dragon

9.30am

Peppa Pig

9.40am

Peppa Pig

9.50am

Wissper

10.00am

Toot the Tiny Tugboat

10.15am

The Wright Stuff

12.15pm

GPs: Behind Closed Doors

1.10pm

5 News Lunchtime

1.15pm

Nightmare Tenants, Slum Landlords

2.15pm

Home and Away

2.45pm

Neighbours

3.20pm

NCIS

4.15pm

Perfect Life, Perfect Lies

6.00pm

5 News at 5

6.30pm

Neighbours

7.00pm

Home and Away

7.30pm

5 News Tonight

8.00pm

Nightmare Tenants, Slum Landlords

9.00pm

The Nightmare Neighbour Next Door

10.00pm

The Great British Benefits Handout

11.00pm

Celebrity Sex Pod

12.05am

100% Hotter!

1.00am

Super Casino

4.10am

Cruising with Jane McDonald

5.00am

Now That's Funny!

5.45am

House Doctor

6.10am

Divine Designs

6.35am

Wildlife SOS

More 4 9.55am

Come Dine with Me

10.35am

Come Dine with Me

11.00am

Come Dine with Me

11.30am

Come Dine with Me

12.05pm

Come Dine with Me

12.35pm

A Place in the Sun

1.35pm

A Place in the Sun: Home or Away

2.45pm

Time Team

3.45pm

Time Team

4.50pm

Great Canal Journeys

5.55pm

World's Weirdest Homes

7.30pm

Crufts 2017

9.00pm

Grand Designs

10.00pm

Walks with My Dog

11.10pm

24 Hours in A and E

12.10am

8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown

1.15am

Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares USA

2.15am

24 Hours in A and E

3.15am

Walks with My Dog

4.15am

8 Out of 10 Cats

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ITV4 7.00am 7.15am 8.20am 9.30am 10.00am 11.05am 12.05pm 1.10pm 1.45pm 5.45pm 6.15pm 6.45pm 7.10pm 7.45pm 11.45pm 12.45am 12.50am 1.55am 2.55am 3.25am 3.55am 4.00am

Football Rivalries Gunsmoke The Saint Hogan's Heroes The Professionals Ironside Gunsmoke Storage Wars Texas Snooker Storage Wars New York Storage Wars Texas Storage Wars Texas Storage Wars Texas Snooker Dawn of the Dead FYI Daily Dawn of the Dead Fishing Impossible Hogan's Heroes Hogan's Heroes ITV4 Nightscreen Teleshopping

Britain on the Fiddle BBC1 - 10.00pm

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CIUDAD QUESADA

MONTEBELLO, NR CIUDAD

ENTRE NARANJOS, VISTABELLA GOLF

NEW LOWER PRICE: €99,000

OFFERED AT: €120,000

OFFERED AT: €67,000

TEXT: CASA19

TEXT: CASA20

TEXT: CASA15

TEXT: CASA25

2 Bedrooms, 2 Bathrooms, SemiDetached Villa ♦ Fully Furnished ♦ Roof Solarium with Golf Views ♦ 241m2 Plot ♦ Off Road Parking with Electric Gate ♦ Communal Swimming Pool

2 Bedroom, 2 Bathroom Detached Villa ♦ Fully Furnished ♦ Sun Room ♦ Utility Room ♦ La Marquesa Golf Views ♦ Communal Swimming Pool

2 Bedroom, 1 Bathroom Ground Floor Apartment ♦ Fully Furnished ♦ Extended Covered Terrace ♦ Views ♦ Tiled Garden ♦ Close to La Marquesa Golf Course ♦ Communal Swimming Pool

2 Bedroom, 1 Bathroom Top Floor Apartment ♦ Fully Furnished ♦ Large Roof Solarium ♦ Communal Swimming Pool ♦ Close to Amenities

MONTEBELLO, NR CIUDAD

ENTRE NARANJOS, VISTABELLA GOLF

CIUDAD QUESADA

OFFERED AT: €137,000

NEW LOWER PRICE: €60,000

OFFERED AT: €93,000

OFFERED AT: €119,000

TEXT: CASA9

TEXT: CASA1

TEXT: CASA24

2 Bedroom, 1 Bathroom Ground Floor Apartment ♦ Fully Furnished ♦ Covered Terrace ♦ Tiled Front Garden ♦ Lake View ♦ Communal Swimming Pool ♦ Close to Amenities

2 Bedroom, 2 Bathroom Detached Villa ♦ Fully Furnished ♦ Superb Condition ♦ Extended Roof Solarium ♦ Communal Swimming Pool ♦ Close to La Marquesa Golf Course

2 Bedroom, 2 Bathroom Linked Bungalow ♦ Solar Powered Hot Water ♦ Large Roof Solarium ♦ Golf Course Location ♦ Short Walk to Amenities ♦ Communal Swimming Pool

CIUDAD QUESADA

MONTEBELLO, NR. CIUDAD QUESADA

OFFERED AT: €150,000

NEW LOWER PRICE: €98,500

FREE

CIUDAD QUESADA OFFERED AT: €137,000

TEXT: CASA21

3 Bedroom, 2 Bathroom, Detached Villa ♦ Fully Furnished ♦ Well Maintained ♦ Sun Room ♦ Roof Solarium ♦ Communal Swimming Pool ♦ Off Road Parking

TEXT: CASA5

2 Bedroom, 1 Bathroom Detached Villa ♦ Fully Furnished ♦ Extended Kitchen ♦ Roof Solarium with Mediterranean Sea Views ♦ 214m2 Plot + Hot Tub Room ♦ Communal Swimming Pool

TEXT: CASA4

3 Bedroom, 2 Bathroom SemiDetached Villa ♦ Fully Furnished ♦ Roof Solarium ♦ Open Front Terrace ♦ Communal Swimming Pool ♦ Priced to Sell

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ITV2 7.00am 7.25am 8.15am 9.00am 9.30am 10.00am 10.35am 11.25am 12.25pm 1.25pm 1.55pm 2.30pm 3.00pm 3.50pm 4.55pm 6.00pm 7.00pm 7.30pm 8.00pm 9.00pm 9.30pm 10.00pm 12.00am 12.30am 12.55am 1.30am 1.55am 2.25am 3.20am 6.50am

Flog it! Trade Secrets Heir Hunters Money for Nothing Big Dreams Small Spaces Victoria Derbyshire BBC Newsroom Live The Daily Politics Two Tribes Beat the Brain Building Dream Homes Channel Patrol Rivers with Griff Rhys Jones The Hunt Bargain Hunt Eggheads The Hairy Bikers' Comfort Food Antiques Road Trip Gardeners' World Only Connect The Secrets of Your Food QI Newsnight Robot Wars The Borderlands Andrew Marr: My Brain and Me Terry Pratchett - Back in Black This is BBC Two

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Sky Movies Premiere Anguish

8.45am

Florence Foster Jenkins

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Fences: Special

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The Darkness

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Imperium

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Anguish

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Florence Foster Jenkins

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Anna

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You've Been Framed! Who's Doing the Dishes? The Ellen DeGeneres Show Emmerdale Emmerdale You've Been Framed! Psych Scorpion Who's Doing the Dishes? Emmerdale Emmerdale You've Been Framed! The Ellen DeGeneres Show The Jeremy Kyle Show The Jeremy Kyle Show Judge Rinder You've Been Framed! You've Been Framed! You've Been Framed! Two and a Half Men Two and a Half Men American Pie 2 Family Guy Family Guy American Dad! American Dad! Two and a Half Men Ibiza Weekender Teleshopping ITV2 Nightscreen

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Hawaii Five-0 Hawaii Five-0 Police Ten Police Ten Animal House Animal House Nothing to Declare Nothing to Declare A Town Called Eureka NCIS: Los Angeles Hawaii Five-0 Hawaii Five-0 NCIS: Los Angeles Futurama Modern Family Modern Family Futurama Futurama The Simpsons The Simpsons The Simpsons The Simpsons Modern Family Stan Lee's Lucky Man The Blacklist Ross Kemp on Gangs The Force: Essex Roard Wars Stop Search Seize Police Ten Brit Cops: Frontline Crime Animal House

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You're Only Young Twice Heartbeat Where the Heart is The Royal Judge Judy Judge Judy Judge Judy Inspector Morse Heartbeat The Royal Where the Heart is You're Only Young Twice Doctor at Large On the Buses Heartbeat Murder, She Wrote Doc Martin Agatha Christie's Marple Blue Murder Inspector Morse Inspector Morse Rory Bremner's Great British Views On the Buses ITV3 Nightscreen

SOAP UPDATE Emmerdale Pierce has a plan. Jai struggles with the past. Laurel tells the truth.

Coronation Street Peter's plan backfires. Adam's problems lead Tracy into the lion's den. Sarah reveals a secret from her past. Peter finds solace with Chloe. Adam puts himself in harm's way. Bethany asks Nathan for a favour.

Good Morning Britain Lorraine The Jeremy Kyle Show This Morning Loose Women ITV Lunchtime News ITV News London Judge Rinder The Home Game Tipping Point The Chase ITV News London ITV Evening News Emmerdale Coronation Street Schofield's South African Adventure Coronation Street Lethal Weapon The Nightly Show ITV News ITV News London Play to the Whistle The Nightly Show Jackpot247 Storage Hoarders ITV Nightscreen

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Countdown King of Queens King of Queens King of Queens Everybody Loves Raymond Everybody Loves Raymond Frasier Frasier Undercover Boss USA Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares USA Channel 4 News A New Life in the Sun Find it, Fix it, Flog it Countdown Fifteen to One Crufts 2017 Couples Come Dine with Me The Simpsons Hollyoaks Channel 4 News Crufts 2017 Gogglebox The Last Leg 8 Out of 10 Cats How'd You Get So Rich? Oldboy Catastrophe Time Crashers Shipping Wars Four in a Bed Kirstie's Handmade Treasures Fifteen to One

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Little Princess

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Thomas and Friends

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Paw Patrol

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Ben and Holly's Little Kingdom

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Wissper

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10.15am

The Wright Stuff

12.15pm

GPs: Behind Closed Doors

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5 News Lunchtime

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Winter Road Rescue

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Home and Away

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10.0 Earthquake

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Home and Away

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The Gadget Show

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Naughty Toddlers Make You

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The Graham Norton Story

11.30pm

When Celebs Sing Pop... Badly

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Benefits Britain: Life on the Dole

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Conspiracy: Pearl Harbor Cover-Up

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House Doctor

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World News Today Top of the Pops The Good Old Days The People's History of Pop Classic Albums Unfinished: The Making of Massive Attack Amy Winehouse in Her Own Words Britpop at the BBC Top of the Pops The People's History of Pop Classic Albums Unfinished: The Making of Massive Attack This is BBC Four

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Football's Greatest: Bobby Charlton

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Come Dine with Me

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Come Dine with Me

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Ironside

1.35pm

A Place in the Sun: Home or Away

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Gunsmoke

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Time Team

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Storage Wars Texas

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Time Team

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Great Canal Journeys

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Paul O'grady's 100 Years of

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Storage Wars Texas

Movie Musicals

6.40pm

Storage Wars Texas

7.30pm

Crufts 2017

7.15pm

Storage Wars Texas

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Grand Designs

7.45pm

Snooker

10.00pm

The Team

12.15am

Born to Raise Hell

11.20pm

24 Hours in A and E

1.15am

FYI Daily

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24 Hours in A and E

1.20am

Born to Raise Hell

1.25am

Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares USA

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The Professionals

2.25am

Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares USA

3.15am

Hogan's Heroes

3.25am

24 Hours in A and E

3.50am

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Food Unwrapped

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tv PICK Leathal Weapon - ITV - 10.00 pm US drama series based on the film franchise. Riggs and Murtaugh respond to a noise complaint at a party at the Hollywood hills home of heavyweight boxer Ronald Dawson. When gunshots go off, they are drawn into a major case involving illegal gunrunners with advanced military technology. Riggs becomes personally invested in the case when he discovers one of their targets is a pregnant woman who reminds him of his deceased wife. Meanwhile, Trish worries about Murtaugh's health, as partnering with Riggs tests his limits.

Television: Sat. 11th March BBC1

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Breakfast Saturday Kitchen Live Mary Berry Everyday Football Focus BBC News Weather Bargain Hunt Escape to the Country Kung Fu Panda Final Score Celebrity Mastermind BBC News Regional News Weather Pointless Let's Sing and Dance for Comic Relief Who Dares Wins Casualty Mrs. Brown's Boys BBC News Weather Match of the Day Match of the Day: FA Cup Highlights This Country Line of Duty Line of Duty Weather for the Week Ahead BBC News

BBC2 7.35am 9.10am 10.30am 11.00am 12.00pm 1.00pm 2.00pm 2.30pm 4.40pm 5.10pm 5.40pm 6.10pm 7.00pm 8.00pm 9.00pm 9.30pm 10.00pm 11.00pm 11.45pm 1.55am 2.55am 3.55am 5.20am

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Totally Bonkers Guinness World Records Emmerdale Omnibus Coronation Street Omnibus Ant and Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway The Voice UK You've Been Framed! Paul Blart: Mall Cop FYI Daily Paul Blart: Mall Cop King Kong FYI Daily King Kong Scorpion American Pie: The Wedding FYI Daily American Pie: The Wedding Family Guy Family Guy Family Guy American Dad! American Dad! Release the Hounds Totally Bonkers Guinness World Records Teleshopping ITV2 Nightscreen

Kicking Off

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The Darkness

10.35am

The Great Wall: Special

11.05am

Get a Job

12.40pm

Warcraft

2.55pm

Florence Foster Jenkins

5.00pm

The Top Ten Show 2017

5.20pm 7.25pm

Imperium Get a Job

9.00pm

Warcraft

11.10pm

Florence Foster Jenkins

1.05am

Imperium

3.05am

Anna

4.55am

Anguish

6.30am

The Lego Batman Movie: Special

ITV1

Yellow Canary The Happiest Days of Your Life Coast Natural World Homes Under the Hammer Two Greedy Italians: Still Hungry Little Paris Kitchen The Red Shoes Gardeners' World University Challenge Only Connect Flog It! Natural World Natural World Grand Tours of the Scottish Islands Dad's Army Geri's 1990s: My Drive to Freedom Live at the Apollo L.A. Confidential Taboo Taboo Rabbit Hole This is BBC Two

7.00am

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Football Gold Football Gold Football Gold Barclays Premier League Preview Football Gold Football Gold Game Changers Barclays Premier League Preview The Fantasy Football Club Soccer A.M. Barclay's Premier League Live Football Gillette Soccer Saturday Live International Rugby Rugby Gold Rugby Gold Rugby Gold Nissan Game of the Day Nissan Match Choice Football Football Football Football Football Football Football Football Football Football Football Football Football

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Made in Chelsea Melissa and Joey Melissa and Joey Young and Hungry Young and Hungry Baby Daddy Baby Daddy How I Met Your Mother How I Met Your Mother Young and Hungry Young and Hungry Step Up The Goldbergs The Goldbergs The Goldbergs Black-Ish The Big Bang Theory Mirror Mirror The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory Red 2 Gogglebox Celebs Go Dating Celebs Go Dating Celebs Go Dating Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Rude(Ish) Tube Rude(Ish) Tube

Room - Channel 4 - 10.00 pm Oscar-winning Brie Larson and Jacob Tremblay star in director Lenny Abrahamson's acclaimed drama, adapted by Emma Donoghue from her 2010 novel. Seven years after being abducted by a rapist, 'Ma' remains confined within a secure single-roomed shed, along with her five-yearold son Jack. Jack has never seen the outside world - his entire universe is bounded by the 10ft by 10ft space he shares with his loving mother. They have basic washing facilities, a toilet, a bed, a cooker, a TV and a wardrobe, where he sleeps, partly to screen him from the nightly sexual abuse Ma suffers from their captor 'Old Nick'. Jack doesn't question the situation - it's all he's ever known. In fact, he views Old Nick as their provider and everything on television as pure fantasy. But Ma recognises that Jack is starting to join the dots and, after troubling news from Old Nick, she realises it's imperative they do everything they can to escape.

Mobil 1 The Grid

7.45am

King of Queens

All Star Family Fortunes

8.10am

King of Queens

The Voice UK

8.40am

Everybody Loves Raymond

1.25pm

ITV News and Weather

9.05am

Everybody Loves Raymond

1.30pm

Italy v France

9.30am

Frasier

4.30pm

England v Scotland

10.00am

Frasier

7.30pm

Local News and Weather

10.30am

The Big Bang Theory

7.45pm

ITV News and Weather

11.00am

The Big Bang Theory

11.30am

The Big Bang Theory

8.00pm

Ant and Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway

11.55am

The Simpsons

9.30pm

The Voice UK

12.25pm

The Simpsons

10.45pm

ITV News and Weather

1.00pm

Jamie and Jimmy's Friday Night Feast

11.05pm

Lethal Weapon

2.00pm

Come Dine with Me

12.00am

Rambo: First Blood Part II

2.30pm

Come Dine with Me

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Schofield's South African Adventures

3.00pm

Come Dine with Me

3.30pm

Come Dine with Me

2.25am

Jackpot247

4.00pm

Come Dine with Me

4.00am

Who's Doing the Dishes?

4.35pm

A Place in the Sun

4.50am

Nightscreen

5.35pm

Location, Location, Location

6.35pm

Channel 4 News

7.05pm

Dogs Behaving Badly

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Ninja Warrior Futurama Futurama Futurama Futurama Game Changers Fantasy Football Club 2016/17 Soccer A.M. 2016/17 Live Premier League Football Kong Skull Island Special Portrait Artist of the Year 2017 Modern Family Modern Family Gillette Soccer Saturday (Live) Supergirl The Flash MacGyver Star Wars: Episode III NCIS: Los Angeles A League of Their Own Duck Quacks Don't Echo Police Ten Police Ten Police Ten Police Ten Police Ten Police Ten Police Ten Futurama Road Wars

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On the Buses

7.25am

On the Buses

7.55am

Murder, She Wrote

8.55am

The Belles of St. Trinian's

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FYI Daily

10.00am

The Belles of St. Trinian's

10.45am

Carry on Camping

11.45am

FYI Daily

11.50am

Carry on Camping

12.35pm

Inspector Morse

2.50pm

Rosemary and Thyme

3.55pm

Agatha Christie's Marple

6.00pm

Lewis

8.00pm

Midsomer Murders

10.00pm

Midsomer Murders

12.00am

Carry On Forever

1.00am

Wycliffe

2.05am

Marchlands

3.00am

ITV3 Nightscreen

3.30am

Teleshopping

MOVIE pick

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12.05pm

Sky 1

8.00pm

Crufts 2017

10.00pm

Room

12.20am

The Adjustment Bureau

2.15am

Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares USA

3.05am

Hollyoaks Omnibus

5.10am

Shipping Wars

5.55am

Four in a Bed

6.20am

Building the Dream

BBC 4 8.00pm

Derided at the time, largely because it was produced by the then king of schlock Dino De Laurentiis, John Guillermin's remake of the 1933 classic actually has a lot going for it. The Oscar winning special effects sit happily with the tongue-in-cheek campiness that the three leads play along with and there's a superb John Barry score that is among the best of his long career.

Britain's Outlaws: Highwaymen,

Channel 5 7.00am

Milkshake!

10.55am

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

11.30am

Access

11.35am

Benefits Britain: Life on the Dole

12.30pm

Benefits: Yorkshire Dole

1.25pm

Benefit Beauty Queens

2.25pm

Dance Moms

3.20pm

Dance Moms

4.15pm

Dance Moms

5.10pm

The Nightmare Neighbour Next Door

6.05pm

Can't Pay? We'll Take it Away!

7.05pm

Can't Pay? We'll Take it Away!

8.05pm

NCIS: Los Angeles

9.00pm

NCIS

9.55pm

5 News

10.00pm

Football on 5

10.50pm

Football on 5

11.20pm

Live Boxing on 5

1.10am

Super Casino

4.10am

London Boulevard

5.50am

House Doctor

6.15am

Wildlife SOS

6.40am

Angels of Jarm

6.50am

Roary the Racing Car

7.00am

Ironside

8.00am

Ax Men

Pirates and Rogues 9.00pm

She-Wolves: England's Early Queens

10.00pm

Follow the Money

11.00pm

Follow the Money

12.00am

Top of the Pops

12.35am

Top of the Pops

1.15am

People's History of Pop

2.15am

Blues America

3.15am

Blues America

4.15am

Sounds of the Eighties

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Come Dine with Me Come Dine with Me Come Dine with Me Come Dine with Me Come Dine with Me Location, Location, Location Coast v Country Rivers with Jeremy Paxman Four in a Bed Four in a Bed Four in a Bed Four in a Bed Four in a Bed Come Dine with Me Come Dine with Me Come Dine with Me Come Dine with Me Come Dine with Me Jutland: WWI's Greatest Sea Battle Japan Tsunami: Caught on Camera Japan's Tsunami: How it Happened 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown Father Ted Father Ted Japan's Tsunami: How it Happened

ITV3

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Sky Sports 1

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Fishing Impossible

10.00am

Bundesliga

11.00am

ITV Racing: The Opening Show

12.00pm

Monster Carp

1.00pm

Monster Carp

2.00pm

Storage Wars New York

2.30pm

ITV Racing: Live from Sandown Park

5.00pm

The Great Outdoors

6.00pm

FYI Daily

6.05pm

The Great Outdoors

6.45pm

It's Not Rocket Science

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Snooker

12.15am

6 Bullets

1.20am

FYI Daily

1.25am

6 Bullets

2.35am

Ax Men

3.30am

World Cup Rivalries: Brazil v Italy

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ITV4 Nightscreen

4.00am

Teleshopping

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BBC1 7.00am 8.40am 9.30am 10.00am 11.00am 12.00pm 1.15pm 2.15pm 2.25pm 2.30pm 5.00pm 6.00pm 6.35pm 6.50pm 6.55pm 7.00pm 8.00pm 9.00pm 10.00pm 11.00pm 11.20pm 11.25pm 11.30pm 12.00am 12.30am 1.20am 2.40am 2.45am

Breakfast Match of the Day Match of the Day: FA Cup Highlights The Andrew Marr Show The Big Questions Sunday Politics Bargain Hunt BBC News Weather for the Week Ahead Match of the Day Live Escape to the Country Songs of Praise BBC News Regional News Weather The Big Painting Challenge Countryfile Call the Midwife SS-GB BBC News Regional News Weather Match of the Day 2 Would I Lie to You? American High School Celebrity Apprentice USA Weather for the Week Ahead BBC News

BBC2 7.00am 7.45am 8.15am 9.15am 9.30am 10.00am 11.00am 12.30pm 1.00pm 1.30pm 2.15pm 3.20pm 5.00pm 6.00pm 7.00pm 8.00pm 9.00pm 10.00pm 11.00pm 12.40am 1.10am 2.05am 3.05am 4.05am 5.05am

ITV2 7.00am 7.10am 7.30am 10.10am 12.40pm 2.00pm 2.05pm 2.40pm 3.00pm 3.15pm 3.30pm 3.50pm 4.15pm 4.45pm 6.20pm 7.20pm 7.25pm 8.15pm 9.15pm 9.20pm 10.00pm 11.00pm 11.30pm 12.00am 12.30am 12.55am 1.30am 1.55am 2.25am 3.20am

Totally Bonkers Guinness World Records You've Been Framed! Emmerdale Omnibus Coronation Street Omnibus The Voice UK 2awesome Guidance Fame High Third Wheel Third Wheel L.A. Story You've Been Framed! You've Been Framed! Ant and Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway Nanny McPhee FYI Daily Nanny McPhee Mr Bean's Holiday FYI Daily Mr Bean's Holiday Ibiza Weekender Family Guy Family Guy Family Guy American Dad! American Dad! The Cleveland Show The Cleveland Show Ibiza Weekender Teleshopping

Anguish

8.50am

Kicking Off

10.35am

The Top Ten Show 2017

10.55am

Bravetown

1.05pm

Get a Job

2.40pm

Warcraft

4.55pm

Florence Foster Jenkins

7.00pm

Bravetown

9.00pm

Get a Job

10.35pm

Warcraft

12.45am

The Darkness

2.35am

Anna

4.25am

Florence Foster Jenkins

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Fast and Furious 7 Special

ITV1 7.00am 10.25am 10.30am 11.00am 11.55am 12.25pm 1.25pm 2.25pm 2.30pm 3.45pm 4.45pm 5.45pm 6.45pm 7.00pm 7.15pm 7.45pm 8.45pm 10.00pm 11.00pm 11.20pm 11.50pm 12.50am 1.40am 4.00am 4.50am 6.05am

7.00am 7.30am 8.00am 8.30am 9.00am 9.30am 10.00am 11.00am 12.30pm 3.30pm 4.30pm 7.30pm 8.00pm 8.15pm 8.30pm 11.00pm 11.30pm 1.00am 1.30am 2.00am 3.30am 5.30am 6.00am 6.30am

Premier League Legends Football Football Football Football Football The Sunday Supplement Goals on Sunday Football Fight Night Live Nissan Super Sunday Football Football Gold Football Gold Football Football Goals on Sunday Football Football Goals on Sunday The Premier League Years Football Football Premier League 100 Club

7.00am 7.50am 8.10am 8.40am 9.05am 9.40am 12.15pm 2.00pm 2.30pm 3.00pm 3.30pm 4.00pm 4.30pm 5.00pm 5.30pm 6.00pm 6.30pm 7.00pm 7.30pm 10.00pm 11.00pm 1.05am 2.10am 3.10am 4.00am 4.55am

Made in Chelsea Melissa and Joey Melissa and Joey Baby Daddy Baby Daddy Hollyoaks Omnibus Planet 51 Brooklyn Nine-Nine Brooklyn Nine-Nine Black-Ish The Goldbergs The Goldbergs The Goldbergs The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory The Twilight Saga: Eclipse Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Sleepy Hollow Celebs Go Dating Celebs Go Dating Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Gap Year Hollyoaks Omnibus

CITV ITV News Countrywise Peston on Sunday Wild Australia with Ray Mears Chopping Block Who's Doing the Dishes? ITV News and Weather The Voice UK Little Big Shots The Chase Tipping Point Local News and Weather ITV News and Weather Harry Hill's Alien Fun Capsule 5 Gold Rings The Voice UK The Good Karma Hospital ITV News and Weather The Nightly Show Peston on Sunday Rugby Jackpot247 Chopping Block Nightscreen The Jeremy Kyle Show

Channel 4 7.15am

King of Queens

7.40am

King of Queens

8.05am

King of Queens

8.30am

Everybody Loves Raymond

8.55am

Everybody Loves Raymond

9.25am

Frasier

9.55am

Frasier

10.30am

Sunday Brunch

1.30pm

The Simpsons

2.00pm

The Simpsons

2.30pm

Cheaper by the Dozen

4.20pm

George Clarke's Amazing Spaces

5.25pm

Location, Location, Location

6.30pm

Channel 4 News

7.00pm

Crufts 2017

9.30pm

The Jump Live Final

10.30pm

Homeland

Sky 1

11.30pm

War Child

12.40am

Gogglebox

7.00am 8.00am 8.30am 9.00am 9.30am 10.00am 11.00am 12.00pm 1.00pm 1.30pm 2.00pm 2.30pm 3.00pm 3.30pm 4.00pm 4.30pm 5.00pm 5.30pm 6.00pm 6.30pm 7.00pm 7.30pm 8.30pm 9.00pm 10.00pm 11.00pm 12.00am 1.00am 2.00am 3.00am 4.00am 4.50am

The Hour of Power Ninja Warrior Ninja Warrior Futurama Futurama Supergirl The Flash WWE Raw 2017 - 1 Hour Futurama Futurama Futurama Modern Family Modern Family Modern Family Modern Family Modern Family Modern Family Modern Family Modern Family Modern Family The Simpsons The Simpsons The Simpsons Wild Things Hawaii Five-0 NCIS: Los Angeles Macguyver Force: Essex, the Stop, Search, Seize Arrow Air Ambulance ER Police Ten

1.45am

Mama

3.25am

The Last Leg

4.20am

Phil Spencer: Secret Agent

5.15am

Shipping Wars

5.55am

Jamie's Comfort Food

6.05am

Fifteen to One

7.00am 9.00am 10.05am 11.05am 12.10pm 1.10pm 1.15pm 2.00pm 4.05pm 5.05pm 5.10pm 6.00pm 8.00pm 10.00pm 11.00pm 12.05am 1.05am 1.10am 2.30am 4.20am 5.10am 6.05am 6.30am

Inspector Morse Heartbeat Heartbeat Murder, She Wrote Blue Murder at St. Trinian's FYI Daily Blue Murder at St. Trinian's A Touch of Frost Carry on Up the Jungle FYI Daily Carry on Up the Jungle Agatha Christie's Marple Midsomer Murders It'll be Alright on the Night Carry On Forever The Constant Gardener FYI Daily The Constant Gardener Inspector Morse May the Best House Win May the Best House Win On the Buses ITV3 Nightscreen

Sky Sports 1

Sky Movies Premiere 7.00am

A to Z of TV Gardening Island Parish Sark Winter Around the World in 80 Gardens Coast Gardeners' World Countryfile Saturday Kitchen Best Bites Nigel Slater's Dish of the Day Simply Nigella MOTD2 Extra Rivers with Griff Rhys Jones Shall We Dance? The House That Â£100k Built Back to the Land with Kate Humble Six Nations Rugby Special Robot Wars Top Gear Down the Mighty River with Steve Backshall Face of an Angel Women's Six Nations Highlights Taboo Taboo Question Time Holby City This is BBC Two

Television: Sun. 12th March

BBC 4 8.00pm

Channel 5 7.00am

Milkshake!

10.55am

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

11.30am

Football on 5

12.20pm

Football on 5

12.50pm

The Gadget Show

1.50pm

Gorillas in the Mist

4.20pm

Celebrity Carry on Barging

5.15pm

Celebrity Carry on Barging

6.15pm

Cruising with Jane McDonald

7.10pm

Inside Windsor Castle

8.00pm

Inside Windsor Castle

9.00pm

The Nightmare Neighbour Next Door

9.55pm

5 News

10.00pm

5 News

12.35am

Harry Brown

2.20am

Super Casino

4.10am

Secrets of the National Trust

5.00am

Witches: A Century of Murder

5.50am

House Doctor

6.15am

Wildlife SOS

6.40am

Angels of Jarm

6.50am

Roary the Racing Car

7.00am

British Touring Car Crashes and Smashes Hogan's Heroes Rugby Sevens World Series Highlights The Car Chasers The Car Chasers Shed and Buried Storage Wars New York Storage Wars New York Storage Wars New York Monster Carp Monster Carp Snooker Storage Wars Texas Fishing Impossible Snooker Lock Up FYI Daily Lock Up Sporting Funnies The Football Mavericks ITV4 Nightscreen Teleshopping

Revolution and Romance: Musical Masters of the 19th Century

9.00pm

Dazzling Duets at the BBC

10.00pm

The Lunchbox

11.40pm

Sound Waves:

12.40am

The Horizon Guide to Mars

1.40am

Edwardian Insects on Film

2.40am

Time Shift

3.40am

Dazzling Duets at the BBC

9.55am 11.00am 12.00pm 1.00pm 1.35pm 2.05pm 2.40pm 3.10pm 3.40pm 4.10pm 4.40pm 5.15pm 5.50pm 6.20pm 6.55pm 7.25pm 7.55pm 8.25pm 9.00pm 10.00pm 10.35pm 11.05pm 11.35pm 12.05am 1.10am 2.10am 2.40am 3.10am 4.10am

Building the Dream Walks with My Dog Vet on the Hill Come Dine with Me Come Dine with Me Come Dine with Me Come Dine with Me Come Dine with Me Four in a Bed Four in a Bed Four in a Bed Four in a Bed Four in a Bed Come Dine with Me Come Dine with Me Come Dine with Me Come Dine with Me Come Dine with Me Nazi Megastructures Father Ted Father Ted Man Down Man Down 24 Hours in A and E Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares USA Man Down Man Down Nazi Megastructures Food Unwrapped

The Symphony of Physics

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Television: Mon. 13th March BBC1

7.00am 10.15am 11.00am 12.00pm 12.45pm 1.15pm 2.00pm 2.30pm 2.45pm 3.15pm 3.45pm 5.15pm 6.15pm 7.00pm 7.30pm 8.00pm 8.30pm 11.00pm 11.30pm 11.40pm 11.45pm 12.30am 1.15am 2.15am 3.15am 3.20am

Breakfast The Housing Enforcers Homes Under the Hammer The Fugitives Dom on the Spot Bargain Hunt BBC News Regional News Doctors Escape to the Country A Service of Celebration for Commonwealth Day Flog It! Pointless BBC News Regional News The One Show Match of the Day Live BBC News Regional News Weather Have I Got a Bit More Old News for You Live at the Apollo Line of Duty Line of Duty Weather for the Week Ahead BBC New

BBC2 7.00am 7.30am 8.15am 9.00am 10.00am 12.00pm 1.00pm 2.00pm 2.30pm 3.00pm 3.30pm 4.15pm 5.15pm 6.15pm 7.00pm 7.30pm 8.30pm 9.00pm 9.30pm 10.00pm 11.00pm 11.30pm 12.10am 12.15am 1.15am 2.15am 2.50am 3.45am 4.45am

ITV2 7.00am 7.25am 8.15am 9.00am 9.30am 10.00am 10.35am 11.25am 12.25pm 1.25pm 1.55pm 2.30pm 3.00pm 3.50pm 4.55pm 6.00pm 7.00pm 7.30pm 8.00pm 8.30pm 9.00pm 9.30pm 10.00pm 10.30pm 11.00pm 11.30pm 12.00am 12.30am 12.55am 1.25am 1.55am 2.25am

You've Been Framed! Who's Doing the Dishes? The Ellen DeGeneres Show Emmerdale Coronation Street Coronation Street Psych Scorpion Who's Doing the Dishes? Emmerdale Coronation Street Coronation Street The Ellen DeGeneres Show The Jeremy Kyle Show The Jeremy Kyle Show Judge Rinder You've Been Framed! You've Been Framed! You've Been Framed! You've Been Framed! Two and a Half Men Two and a Half Men Family Guy The Great Indoors American Dad! American Dad! Family Guy Family Guy The Cleveland Show The Cleveland Show Two and a Half Men The Great Indoors

Imperium

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Bravetown

11.15am

Maggie's Plan

1.10pm

Warcraft

3.25pm

Get a Job

5.00pm

Bravetown

7.10pm

Maggie's Plan

9.00pm

Warcraft

11.10pm

Get a Job

12.45am

Anna

2.35am

Imperium

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Anguish

6.30am

Fences: Special

ITV1 7.00am 9.30am 10.25am 11.30am 1.30pm 2.30pm 3.00pm 4.00pm 5.00pm 6.00pm 7.00pm 7.30pm 8.00pm 8.30pm 9.00pm 9.30pm 10.00pm 11.00pm 11.30pm 12.15am 1.15am 1.40am 4.00am 4.50am 6.05am

Sky Sports 1 7.00am 7.15am 7.30am 7.45am 8.00am 9.00am 10.30am 11.00am 1.00pm 1.30pm 2.00pm 3.30pm 4.00pm 4.15pm 4.30pm 5.00pm 5.30pm 6.00pm 6.30pm 7.00pm 7.10pm 7.40pm 8.10pm 8.40pm 10.45pm 11.45pm 12.15am 12.45am 1.45am 2.00am 2.30am 2.45am

Football Gold Football Gold Football Gold Football Gold WWE Raw Goals on Sunday Football The Premier League Years Football Football Goals on Sunday Premier League Legends Spanish Football Gold Spanish Football Gold Football Football Football Football Premier League 100 Club Football Gold Football Football Soccer AM: The Best Bits 2016/17 Football Premier League Review 2016/17 Soccer AM: The Best Bits 2016/17 Premier League Legends Premier League Review 2016/17 Scottish Football Round Up Soccer AM: The Best Bits 2016/17 Scottish Football Round Up Premier League 100 Club

Rude(Ish) Tube Shorts Made in Chelsea Coach Trip Hollyoaks Rules of Engagement Rules of Engagement Baby Daddy Baby Daddy Charmed Charmed How I Met Your Mother How I Met Your Mother The Goldbergs The Goldbergs The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory How I Met Your Mother How I Met Your Mother Last Man Standing Last Man Standing The Goldbergs The Goldbergs The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory Hollyoaks New Girl The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory The Hunger Games First Dates Abroad First Dates Hotel Celebs Go Dating

Sky Movies Premiere 7.00am

Flog It! Heir Hunters Money for Nothing Great Interior Design Challenge Victoria Derbyshire BBC Newsroom Live The Daily Politics Women's Six Nations Highlights Beat the Brain Building Dream Homes Channel Patrol Australia with Simon Reeve The Hunt Bargain Hunt Eggheads Top Gear The Hairy Bikers' Comfort Food University Challenge Mary Berry Everyday Meet the Lords Cradle to Grave Newsnight Weather Down the Mighty River with Steve Backshall Incredible Medicine: Dr Weston's Casebook Panorama Countryfile Who Do You Think You Are? This is BBC Two

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Good Morning Britain Lorraine The Jeremy Kyle Show This Morning Loose Women ITV Lunchtime News Judge Rinder Dickinson's Real Deal Tipping Point The Chase Local News and Weather ITV Evening News Emmerdale Coronation Street The Kyle Files Coronation Street Broadchurch The Nightly Show with Davina Mccall ITV News at Ten and Weather The Chase The Nightly Show with Davina Mccall n/R Jackpot247 The Jeremy Kyle Show Nightscreen The Jeremy Kyle Show

Sky 1 7.00am 8.00am 9.00am 9.30am 10.00am 10.30am 11.00am 11.30am 12.00pm 1.00pm 2.00pm 3.00pm 4.00pm 5.00pm 5.30pm 6.00pm 6.30pm 7.00pm 7.30pm 8.00pm 8.30pm 9.00pm 11.20pm 12.20am 1.20am 2.20am 3.15am 4.10am 5.10am 5.40am 6.05am 6.30am

Hawaii Five-0 Hawaii Five-0 Police Ten Police Ten Animal House Animal House Nothing to Declare Nothing to Declare A Town Called Eureka NCIS: Los Angeles Hawaii Five-0 Hawaii Five-0 Road Wars Futurama Modern Family Modern Family Futurama Futurama The Simpsons The Simpsons The Simpsons Star Wars: Episode IV The Blacklist The Force: Essex Road Wars Stop Search Seize NCIS: Los Angeles Brit Cops: Frontline Crime Wild Vets Animal House Animal House Futurama

7.00am 7.25am 8.25am 9.30am 10.30am 11.00am 11.30am 11.55am 2.05pm 3.10pm 4.15pm 5.20pm 5.50pm 6.20pm 6.55pm 8.00pm 9.00pm 10.00pm 12.00am 1.00am 3.05am 3.30am

You're Only Young Twice Heartbeat Where the Heart is The Royal Judge Judy Judge Judy Judge Judy Inspector Morse Heartbeat The Royal Where the Heart is You're Only Young Twice Doctor at Large On the Buses Heartbeat Murder, She Wrote Doc Martin Foyle's War Killer Women with Piers Morgan Inspector Morse ITV3 Nightscreen Teleshopping

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Channel 4 7.00am 7.45am 8.10am 8.35am 9.00am 9.35am 10.05am 10.35am 11.05am 12.00pm 1.00pm 1.05pm 2.05pm 3.10pm 4.00pm 5.00pm 6.00pm 7.00pm 7.30pm 8.00pm 8.55pm 9.00pm 9.30pm 10.00pm 11.00pm 11.50pm 12.50am 1.50am 2.45am 3.40am 4.35am 5.30am 5.55am 6.05am

Countdown King of Queens King of Queens King of Queens Everybody Loves Raymond Everybody Loves Raymond Frasier Frasier Undercover Boss USA Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares USA Channel 4 News A New Life in the Sun Posh Pawn Countdown Fifteen to One Sun, Sea and Selling Houses Couples Come Dine with Me The Simpsons Hollyoaks Channel 4 News The Political Slot Dispatches Food Unwrapped 24 Hours in A and E How'd You Get So Rich? Tattoo Fixers Gap Year A Very British Hotel Extremely British Muslims : Boys to Men Escape to the Wild Building the Dream Four in a Bed Jamie's Comfort Food Phil Spencer: Secret Agent

BBC 4 8.00pm

100 Days

8.30pm

Reel History of Britain

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The Big Painting Challenge

10.00pm

Britain in Focus:

Channel 5 7.00am

Milkshake!

10.15am

The Wright Stuff

12.15pm

GPs: Behind Closed Doors

1.10pm

5 News

1.15pm

Nightmare Tenants, Slum Landlords

2.15pm

Home and Away

2.45pm

Neighbours

3.15pm

NCIS

4.15pm

Driven Underground

6.00pm

5 News

6.30pm

Neighbours

7.00pm

Home and Away

7.30pm

5 News

8.00pm

FIA World Rally Championship

Highlights - Mexico 9.00pm

Naughty Dogs Make You Laugh Out Loud

10.00pm

Inside King's Cross: The Railway

11.00pm

Oj Simpson: Getting Away with Murder

12.05am

Sabotage

2.05am

Super Casino

4.10am

GPs: Behind Closed Doors

5.00am

Now That's Funny!

5.45am

House Doctor

6.10am

Divine Designs

6.35am

Wildlife SOS

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Gunsmoke The Saint Hogan's Heroes Hogan's Heroes The Professionals Ironside Gunsmoke Storage Wars Texas Storage Wars Texas The Car Chasers The Car Chasers Hogan's Heroes Hogan's Heroes Ironside The Professionals The Saint Storage Wars Texas Storage Wars Texas Rugby Parking Wars Get Carter FYI Daily Get Carter Bundesliga Rugby The Professionals Hogan's Heroes Barcelona's European Glory ITV4 Nightscreen Teleshopping

A Photographic History 11.00pm

Storyville

12.25am

Brexit: Britain's Biggest Deal

1.25am

Oceans

2.25am

Art of China

3.25am

Britain in Focus: A Photographic History

ITV3

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Car S.O.S

10.55am

Come Dine with Me

11.25am

Come Dine with Me

12.00pm

Come Dine with Me

12.30pm

Come Dine with Me

1.05pm

Come Dine with Me

1.35pm

A Place in the Sun: Home or Away

2.40pm

A Place in the Sun: Home or Away

3.45pm

Time Team

4.50pm

Time Team

5.55pm

Penelope Keith's Hidden Villages

6.55pm

Car S.O.S

7.55pm

The Supervet

8.55pm

Grand Designs

10.00pm

Vet on the Hill

11.00pm

Britain's Benefit Tenants

12.05am

24 Hours in A and E

1.05am

Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares USA

2.05am

Vet on the Hill

3.05am

24 Hours in A and E

4.10am

8 Out of 10 Cats

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New palm trees for Costa promenades The Coordinator for Coastal Services, Luisa Boné, has issued details of the latest work done on the seafronts of La Zenia and Cala Capitán. The improvement works have mainly seen the replanting of thirteen palm trees, approximately four meters in height, and the repair of the walkway and planters to ensure good irrigation for the trees. Luisa Boné also gave a general update of the Costa’s beaches, explaining that the council has ‘also carried out a program of actions along the entire coastline, ranging from returning normality to our beaches following the severe damage caused by the recent strong winds, as well as work carried out to improve the general look and aesthetics of the promenades’. The coordinator also said that the replacement of the thirteen palm trees formed part of this programme. The trees had been dead for several

The Councillor for Beaches, Luisa Boné has reported the results received from the Department of Agriculture, Environment, Climate Change and Rural Development on the quality of bathing water on the beaches of Orihuela Costa. For the classification of bathing water awarded in 2016, the analytical results of four seasons are all evaluated, and according to the quality of the water at each of the sampling points, a rating that can range from inadequate to good, sufficient and excellent is awarded. Boné explained that last summer - from 1st June to 15th

Sometimes people think that by using a broker for insurance that it may cost more money. There is however, no reason why this should be the case. Like with everything in this world, one is free to shop around for the best price whatever the purchase may be, but with insurance, you need think further than the cost. In Spain, there are not any English comparison sites, unlike the UK, where there are many, each competing for business, with a bombardment of comical TV advertising. Here it’s a little subtler. Of course, we do have those that work solely by telephone, where you get your quote for say, car insurance, and everything thereafter is then done by post or perhaps email. This, of course is very impersonal and may be mistakes could creep in. Also, you never to get to meet the person or the company selling you the insurance and, by telephone, it’s never quite the same. With Liberty Seguros, however, it’s a different and pleasant kettle of fish. They have over 300 brokers, many of which have dedicated employees to look after expatriates and in most cases always speak your language, especially English but also other European languages too, including Dutch, German and Scandinavian. By visiting your nearest Liberty broker, and there’s sure to be one near you, it’s much more friendly and personal. You can pop into a nice warm office; perhaps have a coffee; sit down face to face with a dedicated and professional insurance advisor, who can answer any questions you may have about many different

September - biweekly sampling was carried at each of the eleven points designated as bathing areas. These are: Punta Prima, Cala Mosca, Cala Estaca, Cala Bosque , Cala Cerrada, Cala Capitan, La Caleta, Calas de Aguamarina, La Glea, Barranco Rubio and Mil Palmeras. These samples resulted in the Orihuela Costa’s coastal waters qualifying as ‘excellent’. Councillor Bone said: “This is good news for our beaches, since this result is an essential requirement in order to maintain the blue flags that we already have.” Mireille Toddington

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years which did not present a good image of the coast to tourists. The palm trees were killed by the palm weevils, which also damaged the irrigation system. Mireille Toddington

Orihuela Costa bathing water scores top marks

types of insurance. They will also be as transparent as possible so that you’re not surprised after you’ve contracted your insurance. Liberty provides insurance for car, home, life, pet, business and commercial, leisure like golf, marine, and personal injury; almost anything you want under one roof without you having the need to maintain Liberty’s advertising carries the slogan ‘The Expats Number 1 Choice’ and with over 175,000 expat clients in Spain, you can perhaps see why! Liberty Seguros can be contacted by telephone on 902 255 258 for the name of your nearest broker or agent, or visit www.libertyexpatriates.es for more information on all the insurances they offer. Don’t be ‘brokerless’, a friend in need is a friend indeed!

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Shake your shamrock in Cabo Roig St. Patrick's Day may still be little under a fortnight away but already Cabo Roig is starting to turn Green. In case you've forgotten, Friday March 17 is the date for your diary with the organisers expecting a bumper turnout of over 10,000 people, making the event the second largest in Europe, after Dublin, and sixth in the world. Activities start on St.Patrick’s Day just after noon, with local artists providing music and entertainment throughout the afternoon. The parade proper will get underway shortly after 3.00pm, lead off by a procession of classic cars and motorbikes, prior to St. Patrick himself leading off the parade followed by the Grand Marshal, local politicians, organisers and dignitaries. Following them will be the parade itself, with floats from many of the local pubs and business, dance schools, local clubs and associations, all providing entertainment for the spectators along the entire Cabo Roig Strip. For those who would like to support this non-profit, valuable and colourful touristic event for the community, there are a number of ways to do so. To be part of the parade of classic and specialist cars, please drop an email to: info@SundayDriversClub.com and details will be sent out to you and if you'd like to participate in the event and enter a float in the parade, please send an email to: stpaddysdaycaboroig17@gmail.com. There are prizes to be won for the best three floats: €500 first prize plus €300 and €200 for second and third. You can also support the event through a number of fundraising activities. There is a special Ladies Day at Milo's Bar, Cabo Roig, on March 14 from 2.00pm to 6.00pm. Price is €5.00 and includes finger food. Ladies will have the opportunity to purchase some

very nice clothing items and accessories that have been donated to the organisers. It's a fun day of pampering... music by David, including learning a few salsa steps, plus demonstrations on teeth whitening, nails, hair, beauty, massage, personal training and a lot more. Donations should be made to Milo's Bar between 10.30 and 12.30pm on the 14th and those attending should purchase their tickets before the day to allow for catering numbers.

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JB welcomes new arrival JB Band is well into the 2017 season with a number of concerts planned both on the Costa Blanca South and North as well as new ventures with the Royal British Legion. However, the Bass section are more excited over their new arrival......a 'new' BBb Bass all the way from the UK. With the growing international interest in JB, the band has secured the services of a top class bass player from Norway leading to the need for an instrument. With the moneys earned over the year from raffles and drinks at concerts, kindly donated by Avalon, as well as Christmas

Caroling, the Band managed to raise enough funds to purchase the Bass. With some nifty bidding on E-bay, a Bass was soon winging its way from Yorkshire. Even more amazing is that the seller turned out to be an old school friend of the Euphonium player, Jayne. Mike Thornton (picture) said 'It's not brand new but it's new to me. We'd have to sell a lot more raffle tickets to raise the £3,500 for a brand new Bass'. No-one in the band is paid, not even their MD Brian Webber and last year JB Brass Band donated over €1,000to various charities. The band continues to swell in

numbers and are also happy to welcome a Euphonium player from Belgium, a Percussionist also from Norway as well as two new members from the UK since January. To complete all sections, the band is looking for Trombone players although anyone is welcome. The new Bass and players will make their debuts at the Band's first concert of the year 'A Celebration of Irish Music' on 18th March in Union Musica, San Miguel. Tickets are 5€ and information on concerts or the Band is available on www.justbrass.org

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Brits in Spanish holiday slump Brits are being ‘put off holidays in Spain’ by drop in value of pound sterling. More than 40 percent of Britons will change their holiday plans because of the postBrexit devaluation, according to data from leading travel insurer Columbus Direct. Holidaymakers converting £500 to euro will get £65 less than they would have

done last year. Due to this drop, up to eight million holidaymakers will opt for a ‘staycation’ rather than holidaying abroad. Spain and the Eurozone is losing popularity generally as a destination, as Britons believe they can get more value for their money in other countries such as Japan, Malaysia and Mexico.

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Two men Barcelona club boycott have died in for no knickers incentive a drink as much as you can contest Five onlookers have been taken into custody for not helping the victims who died of alcoholic poisoning. The five are being held for the crime of failing to help a victim, in the case when two men both aged 39 years of age have died. The pair were found in their home in Villaluenga de la Vega, Palencia, after drinking massive and excessive amounts of alcohol. The Court of Carrión de los Condes, Palencia, is investigating the deaths of the two Rumanians, whose bodies were found without any signs of violence, and ordered the custody of the five fellow countrymen for the crime of an omission to help, according to the Government Sub-delegation in Palencia. The Guardia Civil has taken charge of the investigation and is awaiting the results of the autopsies to confirm the cause of death. The Rumanians were part of a local community of compatriots and were perfectly integrated into the small village of some 70 inhabitants. It was agreed by the neighbours they were good and hardworking people and had never been in any trouble or caused any problems before.

A Barcelona nightclub that offers free admission, a drink on the house and €100 to female revelers prepared to prove they are wearing no underwear has prompted a boycott campaign by a group of female lawyers angry at what they see as continued sexism in advertising. The management of the Bailódromo Caña Dulce, a club in Barcelona’s La Sagrera district has dismissed criticism of their policy, saying: “If people don’t talk about you, you don’t exist. This is just a bit of fun in a very familyoriented place where everybody knows everybody else.” “It all started one night when a girl who was getting married decided to do a striptease, and I had this idea to advertise the club,” explains one of the club’s promoters. He adds that the offer, which has been limited to Saturday nights this month, has so far only been taken up by two women: “One of them asked her husband’s permission, hitched up her skirt and when we saw that she had no underwear on, we gave her €100.” The management at the club says its

mainly Latino-based clientele has not complained about the new initiative, adding that as a result of the media coverage it has received some 20 phone calls from people to confirm that the offer will be running this Saturday. The women’s legal group that has called for the boycott, Dones Juristes, set up a website in December to encourage the public to report sexist advertising, and says it will be looking into whether it can have the Bailódromo Caña Dulce’s advertisement and offer removed, as well as calling for a boycott of the club by current or would be patrons. This is one of the worst cases we have seen; the message insults and humiliates women,” says the organisation’s Marisa Fernández. She says that since Dones Juristes set up the website it has received many complaints, but that most companies deny accusations of sexism. The management of Caña Dulce said it didn’t intend to offend anybody, playing down the matter, and saying: “Nudity is normal, we see it on the television all the time.”

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The Brexit effect Net migration to the UK has fallen by 15 percent after the big Brexit vote, while 17 percent more EU citizens are leaving the country for foreign climes. The net migration refers to the total change in population. The figure is calculated on the total immigration numbers (those coming into the country) minus the emigration figure (those leaving the country).

For the first time in 10 years net migration has fallen by 49,000 people, from 322,000 in 2015 to 273,000 in 2016, according to the official figures from the Office for National Statistics. The number of Spaniards registering as UK residents has also fallen, from 50,000 people in both 2014 and 2015 to 48,000 people in 2016.

In terms of people emigrating from the UK, the number of EU citizens leaving has risen by 17 percent from 85,000 in 2015 to 103,000 in 2016. The total number of emigrants has risen by 9 percent, from 297,000 in 2015 to 323,000 in 2016. Spain is the most popular EU destination for British expats, with almost 310,000 settled here.

World’s super yacht seized in Gibraltar The crew of Sailing Yacht A, the largest luxury vessel of its kind in the world, received an unpleasant surprise when they stopped off in Gibraltar last week. What should have been a short stay to refuel has turned into an unwelcome stopover after authorities there impounded the vessel over a multi-million-euro dispute. German Naval Yards, which built the futuristic-looking, 143-meterlong vessel in Kiel out of steel, composite and carbon fiber, is claiming €15.29 million from its Bermuda-based owner, Valla Yachts Ltd. The owner of the company, Russian multi-billionaire Andrey Melnichenko, was due to attend a hearing in the British Overseas Territory regarding the alleged

outstanding debt. The vessel cost €400 million to build. Aware that Sailing Yacht A, with its distinctive three masts each taller than Big Ben, would be stopping in Gibraltar, the shipyard contacted a law firm there, Triay Stagnetto Neish, which filed a claim in court against the owner, charter company, and operator of the vessel for breach of contract. Sources familiar with the case told Spanish newspaper EL PAÍS that an official at Gibraltar’s Supreme Court upheld the complaint and ordered the Philippe Starckdesigned vessel to be impounded. Local newspaper the Gibraltar Chronicle has published a breakdown of the debt, which includes €9.8 million worth of

work that should have been paid on 27th January. A spokesman for Sailing Yacht A told the Gibraltar Chronicle that it is not unusual for pending amounts to be paid after the construction of a vessel of this size and cost. He said he was surprised at the claim brought by German Naval Yards and pointed out that the owner paid the pending amount into an escrow account pending resolution of the dispute. Launched in October, Sailing Yacht A had previously docked at the Norwegian port of Kristiansand and was headed to the Spanish port of Cartagena to undergo further work. The shipyard and the owner had already sought arbitration in a London court.

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Award winning food at Casa Mia Casa Mia is a family run business and is situated locally in El Chaparral, Calle Fray Angelico, 10. 03184. Parents Peter and Maureen (Daughtry), along with daughter Lisa, started the business in May 2004. In August 2012 the family team were joined by son Mark, who had just retired from the British Army. With Peter and Maureen now retired, the restaurant is being run by the brother and sister team, along with Sam “the Pizza Princess” and Viv, who is front of house. A small dedicated team working together to serve customers wonderful, freshly prepared food. There is a choice of thirty three mouth-watering pizzas, delicious pasta dishes, along with all your favourite steaks, meat and fish dishes, also a selection of homemade desserts to complete your meal. All dietary needs are catered for, including Vegetarian, Celiac and other food intolerances. Allergen

information is available on each menu choice. The restaurant also offers a Loyalty Card Scheme, which customers think is a marvellous system and rewards regular visits. Casa Mia has twice won The Costa Blanca People’s Culinary Award for Best Set Menu for their fabulous value Menu de la Noche in 2015 and 2016. “Being nominated was truly wonderful but to win, twice, was magnificent,” said the team. Recently the restaurant was awarded Trip Advisor´s

Certificate of Excellence 2016. The restaurant is open evenings Monday to Saturday from 6 pm til late. Breakfasts are served Tuesday to Saturday from 9am until 1pm, where you can “Pick your own Breakfast” from just €3.90. The restaurant is closed on Sundays, except on Mothering Sunday and Easter Sunday, where a traditional Sunday roast is served. Bookings in advance only. Casa Mia also caters for private functions, from a buffet menu to a full 3 course evening meal. Please visit the website casamiarestauranttorrevieja.com where you can find all the menu choices and up-to-date information on upcoming specials. The restaurant is also on FaceBook and Trip Advisor where comments and feedback are most welcome. Lisa, Mark, Sam and Viv are all looking forward to YOUR visit!

Vivace Celebrates its 10th Anniversary Vivace Classical Choir is now well into rehearsals for its forthcoming 10th Anniversary “Celebration Concert”, with an evening of some of the favourite pieces sung by the choir over the years. Two performances of the concert will take place, the first in La Siesta Church on Friday 31st March at 7.30pm, and the second in the Casa de Cultura in San Miguel de Salinas on Saturday 1st April at 8.00pm. Over the ten years, the choir has sung works from four different centuries, by many composers, from the earliest work , Vivaldi’s “Gloria” written 1715, to the latest, “The Armed Man” by Karl Jenkins, first performed in the year 2000. So the choice was extensive, but Musical Director Tom Pargeter has planned a fascinating programme of contrast, with extracts from religious works such as Handel’s “Messiah” and Mozart’s “Requiem”, glorious music from the world of opera with the wonderful Slaves’ Chorus from Verdi’s ”Nabucco”, adding a little humour to the mix with an item from the Victorian parlour repertoire, and including the rousing chorus “O Fortuna”

from Carl Orff’s “Carmina Burana”. There will certainly be something for everyone in the programme! After over 10 years in charge, Vivace’s Musical Director Tom Pargeter is handing over the baton after these two concerts. Starting with 16 singers in October 2006, Vivace now has some 60 members. Tom has really enjoyed the time, and hopes very much that the choir will continue to go from strength to strength, offering the opportunity for local singers to learn and perform major classical works. The concert in La Siesta Church will be on Friday 31st March, starting at 7.30pm. Entrance is €6 to be paid on the door. Doors will open at 7.00pm.

From the very beginning, Vivace has been based in San Miguel de Salinas, so it is fitting that the final performance will be in the Casa de Cultura in San Miguel de Salinas on Saturday 1st April, starting at 8.00pm. Doors will open at 7.30pm. Tickets are €5, and can be obtained by telephoning Douglas Brown on 659616356. Tickets can also be got from Bargain Books in San Miguel. As this is Tom’s last concert as Musical Director, the singers are looking forward to what will be a very special evening. Our picture shows Vivace performing Handel’s “Messiah” in the beautiful Church of the College of Santo Domingo in Orihuela.

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Overuse of Omeprazol sparks GP concerns Doctors in Spain have warned against ‘excessive and inappropriate use’ of the stomach-protector pill Omeprazol, saying it can lead to infections in the digestive system, reduced absorption of vitamins and even cancer of the oesophagus and stomach. One in three patients who take Omeprazol regularly should not be doing so, GPs reveal. Although prescriptions for it have not increased in the last few years – quite the opposite, says digestion specialist Dr Mercedes Ricote – it can be purchased over the counter, leading to many taking it without medical advice. Dr Ricote, of the Digestion Working Group wing of the Spanish General Practitioners' Society (SEMERGEN), says Omeprazol is one of the most-consumed anti-acid drugs in Spain, both as a treatment for stomach acid itself, or taken prior to doses of other medication which can cause nausea and burning. According to the ministry of national health, nearly 54.4 million boxes of Omeprazol were sold on prescription in 2013; then 53.6 million in 2014 and 52.3 million in 2015, showing that although fewer GPs are advising patients to take it, the drug is still being taken ‘excessively’. “The point of Omeprazol is to protect the stomach against harsh medication, but the general public uses it because they believe it makes them feel better or that it stops the side-effects of drugs altogether,” Dr Ricote explains. “Some mistakenly take it as a solution for stomach acid, and many even do so to avoid feeling bloated and full before a

heavy meal or drinking session – which is definitely not what it's for. “It's not designed to be used as an occasional treatment for one-off incidences of acid; it is for when the patient suffers acid two or more days a week, and in that case, it will be prescribed as part of a continual treatment programme and only when your GP sees fit.” Omeprazol abuse alters the Ph balance in the digestive system, which can lead to infections such as salmonella, cause severe diarrhoea, and prevent crucial vitamins – particularly B12 – from being absorbed. Also, patients who buy it over the counter to treat stomach acid instead of seeing their doctor are, effectively, delaying diagnosis of the real cause of their discomfort – which, although rare, could be as severe as gullet or stomach cancer, Dr Ricote warns. “Although not a frequent side-effect, overuse of Omeprazol can lead to magnesium and calcium levels dropping – especially if it is taken for a long time – and this can be so severe as to lead to risks of fractures. “We've seen patients who have used the drug to excess and suffered broken hips, wrists and even vertebrae as a result.” Dr Ricote says GPs need to try to 'educate' patients about the correct use of Omeprazol and pharmacists should quiz customers about why they are buying it to ascertain whether they really need it.

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Carredent: quality, personal and affordable dental care Carredent British Dentist Torrevieja would like to extend a warm welcome to the friendly family dental practice for those seeking advanced, quality, personal and affordable dental care. You don't have to be a celebrity to appreciate the benefits that come with having a dazzling smile - after all, we're all in the public eye everyday and your smile leads the way every time you introduce yourself. It's one of your most important features why not make it your best feature. More than anything else, it means providing personalised, gentle, one-to-one care. Carredent told the Costa Blanca People, “We really do mean care. The way we see it, our practice is like a family and when you come to us for dental care, that's just how we treat you - like one of the family. Speaking of family, we wouldn't be a truly comprehensive practice if we didn't provide care for all the important people in your life. There are special issues involved in providing dental care for children and we have the experience, as well as the technical know-how to give your kids the star treatment. After all, we're parents too.” “Good dental care is a life-long health and image concern. So we pride ourselves on building life-long relationships with our patients. One smile at a time.” Carredent is located in Torrevieja next

to Carrefour supermarket, and have been providing high quality dental work in Spain since 2003. General Dental Advice Your teeth are important and at Carredent, the team believes that prevention is far better than cure. Not only will it help keep your teeth

and gums healthy but can save you a lot of money on dental procedures. • Visit the dentist every 6 Months for regular examinations. • Patients with dentures should also attend on a regular basis as Carredent checks for oral cancer. • Bring children from a very early age so they can get used to all the different noises and surroundings. • Children under the age of 16 are free with a paying adult at Carredent.

Oral Hygiene Advice • Brush teeth at least twice a day remembering to Brush the gum margin also (where the tooth meets the gum). • Use a fluoride toothpaste • Use a medium bristled toothbrush with a small to medium head. • Change your toothbrush every three months or when the toothbrush begins to splay. • Use dental floss on a daily basis to clean in between your teeth. • Children under the age of 7 years - parents should always brush their teeth. • Healthy gums should be pink in appearance and should NOT bleed. Diet • Don't eat or drink sugary foods or snacks in between meals. • Safe foods and drinks between meals, nuts, crisps, water, milk & other sugar free drinks. Important Any patient who has ulcers which have not healed within 3 weeks should consult their dentist and have them examined. For long procedures Carredent provides special cine-glasses to help patients pass the time without having to think about the procedure they are undergoing. Contrary to popular belief root canals and most procedures are completely painless and there is nothing to fear as you are in the hands of caring, registered trained and certified professionals who care about your comfort as much as you.

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Vitamin D essential for health Most experts agree that vitamin supplements are useless, but there's more evidence that vitamin D could be the exception. When it comes to vitamins and minerals, more may not necessarily better. While it may be enticing to reach for that vitamin-C packed drink when feeling under the weather, your body can't actually process it all. And a balanced diet typically carries enough B, C, and E

vitamins to keep your body running smoothly. However, there is growing evidence that there could be one vitamin that is worth getting more of with the help of supplements and that’s vitamin D. Though how much of this vitamin the body is actually able to use is still up for debate, it's difficult to get much vitamin D from food. Especially if a person is deficient in vitamin D, a supplement can

help get to the recommended daily amount. Technically, two different vitamins — D2, which mainly comes from supplements and food, and D3, which comes from the sun — the fat-soluble vitamin D works in our bodies to help build up bone strength. It's also used by our muscles for movement and by our immune system to fight infections. Studies have found that people who consistently took vitamin D supplements lived longer, on average, than those who did not take them. Other studies suggest vitamin D is also helpful in protecting bone health. And now, even more evidence suggests it could help prevent acute respiratory tract infections, which include things like colds, the flu and sinus infections. A meta-analysis released Wednesday in The BMJ reviewed 25 randomised controlled trials that looked at whether the risk of contracting one of these infections decreased among those who took vitamin D supplements. It found that for those taking supplements either daily or weekly, the risk of getting at least one acute respiratory tract infection was reduced. That was especially the case in people who were deficient in vitamin D. “What we found is that those with the lowest vitamin D levels experienced the greatest benefit from supplementation,” Dr. Adrian Martineau, study author and a professor of respiratory infection and immunity at Queen Mary University of London, told NPR. Their risk of infection decreased by half. How to get more vitamin D Exposure to the sun helps us produce vitamin D, but it's also found in fatty fish like salmon and tuna. There are small

amounts of the vitamin in beef liver, cheese, and egg yolks as well. Since vitamin D is not found in too many foods, it's often added to milk, breakfast cereal, and orange juice. There is a debate about whether supplements are the right choice for everyone, but it does seem that those who are deficient could stand to benefit from adding a supplement to their existing diet. The suggested daily dose of vitamin D for most healthy adults is 600 IU (the measurement tool for fat-soluble vitamins), of which a serving of milk has

about 25 percent of the daily amount. The National Institutes of Health recommends 600 IU per day (or 15 mcg). Just don't go too far. Vitamin D overuse — anything above that 4,000 IU/day limit, or almost seven times the recommended daily amount — has been linked with symptoms like vomiting, constipation, weakness, and weight loss, and it's almost always because of overused supplements. Luckily, your body knows how to regulate how much vitamin D it makes, so you won't get too high a dose from sitting in the sun.

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Treating varicose veins The era of great discoveries in medicine passed by without bringing us remedy for many diseases that affect our daily life. This has been the case for varicose veins, because we have not been able to prevent them from appearing or curing them with just one pill. But doctors have not given up or lost time, we have developed many advances and we continue to look for ways to improve in our daily fight against this disease. At first we only had surgery as an effective treatment. Varicose veins usually appear on accessory superficial veins that can be removed without problems for circulation. This was very effective for large veins, but had the aggressiveness of the operating room and left numerous unsightly scars. In addition, we were unable to remove the small veins and capillaries that are inside the skin, so the aesthetic results were mediocre. To solve these problems, for many years we have tried a myriad of methods to get rid of those diseased veins or try to regain their original shape. All these techniques are grouped under the common name of "SCLEROSIS" and are categorized physical and pharmacological.

Physical sclerosis basically consists of mechanical or heat injury to the veins that we want to make disappear. In order that the burn does not affect the tissues surrounding the vein and can cause scarring, technologies such as Laser and Radiofrequency have been used. Its effectiveness is greatly limited by the enormous difficulty of achieving direct contact with all affected venous segments. Its other great inconvenience is the

high cost of the equipment that technology has been providing us, which has a high cost of treatments. Despite its low efficiency and high cost, the exploitation of its futuristic image still achieves some commercial impact. Pharmacological sclerosis consists of introducing drugs into diseased veins to make them recover or disappear. The

injected product is distributed without difficulty through all the veins affected, however deep or twisted they are, obtaining a complete effect. During recent years, the best drugs have been trialled at different concentrations and ratios, as well as the application methodologies, until perfecting the results and minimizing the complications. Nowadays, medical science considers injectables the best treatment for varicose veins, but there are still important methodological differences between the different medical equipment that affect the perfection and the durability of the results obtained. When the treatments are intensive and rushed, there is a cosmetic impact. When they are too soft or slow, rapid relapses occur. The QUPA team is committed to balanced, paused and complete treatments that allow us to offer our patients the guarantee of an ideal result. Contact QUPA now for a free assessment of your varicose veins and advice on how to rid yourself of the problem for good. See QUPAâ€™s main advert on page 57 of this weekâ€™s Costa Blanca People.

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David and Beverley via email ask: Hi Aunty. Thanks for all the helpful advice published in your column. We have an Outlook email account (previously Hotmail and still has the hotmail.com address) and until recently we had to login by entering both our email address and our password. We prefer it that way as we believe it is more secure but recently we’ve not needed enter our login details as Outlook has saved our name and password, and try as I might, I cannot find a way of reverting back to how it was. No amount of searching Outlook help or Google searches has revealed the answer. Can you throw any light on the problem please? Aunty Says: The exact procedure will really depend on how you are accessing you email and what versions of things you are using, but I’ll try and give you some idea of where to look. If you access your email via an app on your computer, such as Windows Live Mail or Outlook, then look for a security section somewhere under the “tools” menu or the settings icon and from there look for something like “email account settings” and a tick box which will be something like “Always prompt for logon credentials” or “remember passwords”. However If you are using the web to get to your email then it will be your browser (Google Chrome, Firefox. IE or Edge etc)

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that will be storing your login details and again this will be different for each browser. If you email me some more details of how you are accessing your emails I can give you some more specific instructions. Alan via email asks: Dear Aunty. I have been having problems with websites opening unsolicited pages and it is usually when I have just started up Google Chrome and go to various websites that I use. Once the first webpage is opened and I click on the down arrow to scroll down, quite often another website will appear and it starts redirecting me to sites which offers to check for malware, which I never pursue. I have done full scans with Windows security twice but it does not find any problems. Is this a problem related to cookies or is it to do with Google Chrome? I have used Firefox browser sometimes and not had the problem. Any ideas on what I can check for? Aunty Says: Hi Alan. It sounds like you have some nasty infections and you will first need to do a full scan with Malwarebytes and see what it finds. This may well clean your system but if not then try the Chrome Cleanup Tool (type it into Google search) and follow the Chrome reset options. Joan via email asks: Hi Aunty. I have a Samsung tablet and I’m continually getting an error message “there

is insufficient storage to install this app” but as far as I know I haven’t asked to install anything. I only have a few photos and I don’t use the tablet for much other than Facebook, a bit of chatting with Skype and browsing the web. Aunty says: This app could be anything Joan and quite likely an update for one of your existing apps or an Android system update. A bit of housekeeping to remove any unused apps plus clearing out some cache will fix this but it can be very fiddly. There are a couple of free apps that you can download that will save you hours of time but as you have no space you will need to free up a small amount of storage to allow the cleanup app download. Go to “settings” and “App Manager” and look down the list for any apps that you no longer use and click on “Clear Data” and “Clear Cache”. Do this for a couple of apps and hopefully you will clear enough space to install the free Clean Master app from the Play Store. If you don’t already have an SD memory card then invest €15 in a 32GB card and use the Clean Master app to help move photos and apps from your tablet’s internal memory onto the SD card. Well that’s all for another week. Email me your questions to auntyvirus@costablancapeople. com and I will see if I can get you sorted

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Spain’s economy Spanish village ranks third ‘ruined for 50 years’ in world for cleanest air Leading Spanish economist and Donald Trump advisor has claimed his country’s economy has been ‘ruined for 50 years’. Roberto Centeno, who was an advisor to US president Donald Trump’s election team on hispanic issues, says Spain has borrowed €603 billion that it ‘cannot conceivably pay back’. In a blog post he said: “Spain is moving steadily towards the suspension of payments which is the result of out of control public waste, financed with the largest debt bubble in our history, supported by the European Central Bank with its crazy policy of zero interest rate expansion and without any supervision. “It will lead to the ruin of several generations of Spaniards over the next 50

years.” He went on to describe Spain’s production model as ‘third world’. Mr Centeno said: “We have a third world production model of speculators and waiters, with a labour market where the majority of jobs created are temporary and with remunerations of 600 euros, the largest wage decline in living memory. “And all this was completed with a broken pension system and an insolvent financial system,” he added. The rant comes after Spain saw 13 consecutive quarters of growth in February, which was much stronger than that of its neighbours. The economy has also defied expectations after GDP growth for 2016 reached 3.2 percent, the same as in 2015.

Spain ranked for global empty homes Spain has the fourth largest number of empty homes in the world. A total of 3,443,365 residential properties are sitting unoccupied across the country, which is equivalent to 13.66 percent of the total housing stock. Only Malta, Greece and Mexico have more empty houses, according to a study by non-governmental global group Organización para la Cooperación y el Desarrollo Económicos. Colder countries were found to have a lower rate of empty

homes, with only 1 percent of houses vacant in Switzerland and Sweden.

“Today is a bad day: the wind is blowing in from the south,” says Pedro José María de Pablo, the Mayor of Campisábalos, standing next to an air quality monitoring station. In this small village in Spain’s Guadalajara province, the wind generally blows from the northwest without crossing any major industrial zones. This fact, coupled with a reduced population of just 68 people – dropping to just 20 in winter – and its location 1,300 meters above sea level, makes Campisábalos the municipality with the most pristine air in all of Spain, and the world’s third cleanest, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). The village is located in the northwestern portion of the province. Getting there requires driving down several secondary roads and the residents character has been shaped by the surrounding geography. “The weather plays a big role, the cold makes us hard workers,” explains the Mayor. “Many of us moved to Madrid, where nearly all of us have been successful.” In a nearby field, cows graze with the same sort of calm that emanates from the landscape, where the only thing that breaks the skyline is a group of 50 or so wind turbines. The few people who still live here work mainly as farmers and livestock breeders. There are hardly any cars, and the only vehicle in sight is a tractor passing by the front of the church. The noise of the

engine blends in with the drip of the public fountain and the sound of the church bells that ring out at 6pm. Air pollution occurs when there is a concentration of particulate matter, much of it created by humans. The WHO recommends that particles of the type PM2,5 (fine particulate matter) should not be in excess of 10 micrograms per cubic metre (μg/m3) as an annual

average, and those of the type PM10 (larger matter) should not exceed 20 μg/m3. The Campisábalos monitoring station, located on a hilltop 800 meters from the village, shows measurements of 5 and 6 μg/m3, respectively. It’s not just that there’s no particulate matter in Campisábalos. There’s nothing, period. The only presence on the streets, which are lined with stone houses, is the wind and the odd dog. No businesses, no stores – just a local nature center that doubles as a bar.

In the entire world, only Muonio in Finland and Norman Wells in Canada enjoy cleaner air than this hamlet located 160km from Madrid. At the other end of the spectrum, the city of Onitsha, in southeast Nigeria, has pollution that is 30 times the recommended WHO levels.

Premature deaths In November of last year, the European

Environment Agency noted that pollution causes around 30,000 premature deaths in Spain and 520,000 across the EU. And Brussels has just issued an ultimatum to several member states, including Spain, telling them to improve their air quality. Some people who were born in Campisábalos note that their relatives typically lived to ripe old ages. “My grandmother died at the age of 94; my aunt at 96, and my mother at 94. And the Mayor’s mother is over 100 years old,” says Carmen García, a Madrid resident who was born in the village.

Networks Objection to Mrs Clegg Self-employment figures Theatre presents Networks Theatre, the English-speaking theatre in Orihuela, presents Truth and Dare, a play with original music created by Inés Ruiz and Jo Papangelou. It’s an emotional rollercoaster with touching songs that really involve the audience in the story of Alex and Nicole; two souls that

fall in love. A million reasons to be together, only one to be apart. What will happen in the end? Will they listen to their hearts and be themselves or lose love forever? Truth and Dare is another great show in Networks Theatre season of quality theatre that is all in English. If you have yet to discover their spell-binding performances then book your ticket now. Fr further information visit the Networks website where you can book tickets for this and every show. The show will be presented in March: on Friday 10th at 9.15pm and on Saturday 11th at 6.30pm and 9pm. Ticket prices are 6€ for Adults and 3.50€ for Students. Book your tickets now online at www.networkstheatre.com. Mireille Toddington

Spanish lawyer Miriam González, the wife of the former deputy prime minister, was far from pleased to receive an invitation addressed to ‘Mrs Clegg’. Miriam González Durántez recently received an invitation to take part in an event to mark the International Day of Women, held annually on the 8th March. She was not surprised to have been invited, as she has been very active in women's rights for many years, however, she was surprised that the invitation was addressed to ‘Mrs Clegg’. She is married to former Liberal Democrat party leader and ex-deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg, but such was her displeasure at being addressed in such a way that she posted the invitation on Instagram and described it as ‘ironic’. A similar situation arose in Parliament recently, when Prime Minister Theresa May referred to the Shadow Foreign Minister Emily Thornberry, who is married to judge Lord Nugee, as ‘Lady Nugee’.

Thornberry was quick to protest, asking if it was correct for the Prime Minister to address a member of the House of Commons by her husband's surname instead of her own. Miriam González’s objection has aroused much interest in the media. Some newspapers supported her, but an article in the Daily Mail accused her of being aggressively feminist and in response there were some very negative comments from readers. The tradition of women adopting their husband's surname dates back to the Middle Ages and was introduced by the Norman invaders, and most British women follow suit. In Spain, however, women retain their parents’ surnames. One comment made in the press pointed out that women never have a surname of their own, as such; and said that if they want to swap their father’s name for their husband’s name, then there really isn't much difference.

More than half of self-employed workers, 55.2 percent, have been in business for five years or more, but nine in 10 are on lowest income bracket. Two-thirds of selfemployed workers have been in their current professional situation for at least three years, according to a report by the Federation of Associations of Autonomous [self-employed] Workers (ATA). A total of just under 3.2 million of Spain’s workforce are self-employed, of whom over 1.97 million – nearly 62 percent - are sole traders, whilst the remaining 1.22 million are registered as either limited or public-limited companies. The report shows that 86 percent of sole traders do not earn more than the bottom band for paying Social Security, or national insurance – a total flat fee of €267.03 irrespective of earnings aimed at those with a gross monthly income of a maximum of €893 a month. Only 0.8 percent of self-employed non-company workers earn more than three times the lowest-band maximum, or a gross monthly income exceeding €2,679. One in five sole traders employ at least one other person, or 21.6 percent of the total, a growth of 0.7 percent of the total on 2015, with the overall figure of oneman bands becoming employers increasing by 4 percent in the last year. Over the course of 2016, Spain’s selfemployed – sole traders and companies – created an net average of 193 jobs a day, or 45,011 throughout the year, in addition to the 25,479 who started working for sole traders or small companies on a selfemployed basis themselves, giving a total of 70,490.

This does not take into account indirect employment created through the services provided by ‘autonomous’

workers and the money they spend on supplies or non-work-related expenses. The number of women who are selfemployed has gone up, now reaching just over a third of the total – of all Spain's ‘autonomous’ workers, just under 35 percent are female and 65 percent are male. Women aged under 35 are entitled to a 30 percent discount on their monthly Social Security payments, as are men under 30. But the majority of the selfemployed do not qualify for this helpful benefit, since almost 46 percent of them are aged between 40 and 54 years old. The under-25s only represent 1.9 percent of self-employed workers in Spain. Almost one in four ‘autonomous’ workers are in some kind of commercial profession – 23.8 percent, to be precise – whilst 11.9 percent are in agriculture, 10.6 percent in the building trade or similar activities, and 9.2 percent in catering.

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quick ACROSS 1. Splendid (11) 9. Rivalling (7) 10. Repeated (5) 11. Gait (5) 12. Limit (7) 13. Passes on (6) 15. Grasp (6) 18. Temporal (7)

20. Fetter (5) 22. Virile (5) 23. Adolescent (7) 24. Affluence (11)

5. 6. 7. 8. 14. 16. 17. 19. 21.

DOWN 2. Entertain (5) 3. 12 a.m. (7) 4. More speedily (6)

Map (5) Most close (7) Daring (11) Sly (11) Permission (7) Reading-desk (7) Despicable person (6) Faithful (5) Accumulate (5)

cryptic

Remember: every item on the board belongs to one and only one person, no item will ever be shared. Using only the clues provided and simple deductive logic and reasoning, fill in the grid with Xs and Os to determine the solution.

ACROSS 1. Very frightened by corpse! (6,5) 9 & 18Ac. Being allocated insufficient fare (2,5,7) 10. Bail arranged before one defence plea (5) 11. Constricted by an investment (5) 12. Concentrated on how the use of a verb may vary (7) 13. Call for a replay (6) 15. Look, the proverb is used to make an up an down movement (6) 18. See 9 Across 20. ‘ave to become elliptical! (5)

22. Support a proud walk (5) 23. Produce another printing of a book about children (7) 24. Grizzly sport of yesteryear (4-7) DOWN 2. Gives some form to play groups (5) 3. One found in the farmyard or store, maybe (7) 4. A small item for military group (6) 5. One’s health is associated with this brown bread (5) 6. They rally round when Fred’s in

trouble! (7) 7. Vote twice, as faithless ones do (65) 8. It will clear hazards from the main routes (11) 14. Exclusive group needing a place to lie by the lake (7) 16. I will be often in his mind (7) 17. It’s rearranged air return for part of Croatia (6) 19. Part of the route recommended is not so near the centre (5) 21. Nora’s upset by this crime (5)

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Solution for Logic Puzzle Erica Geoffrey

$6.25

Rebecca

$5.80

Hannah

$5.35

Samantha

$4.90

Tuna on rye Italian sub B.L.T. Cheeseburger Club sandwich

Water Iced tea Root beer Ginger ale Orange soda

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$6.70

1. Rebecca ordered the root beer.. 2. Of the salesperson who ordered the club sandwich and the person whose order cost $6.25, one is Samantha and the other ordered the iced tea.. 3. Samantha owes $4.90.. 4. Geoffrey ordered the Italian sub.. 5. The person who ordered the B.L.T. owes 45 cents more than the person who ordered the ginger ale.. 6. Hannah owes 45 cents more than the salesperson who ordered the orange soda.. 7. Erica ordered the water.. 8. The person who ordered the root beer is either the team member who ordered the B.L.T. or the salesperson who ordered the cheeseburger.. 9. Hannah didn't order the tuna on rye.. 10. Samantha ordered the orange soda..

Across: 1 Defender; 5 Gala; 9 Vast; 10 Attested; 11 Pique; 12 Brusque; 13 Inventiveness; 18 Monarchy; 19 Gnat; 20 Release; 21 Lanky; 22 Elan; 23 Strident. Down: 2 Evasion; 3 Extrude; 4 Establishment; 6 Antique; 7 Address; 8 Refuse; 13 Immerse; 14 Vanilla; 15 Normal; 16 Niggard; 17 Slacken. CRYPTIC: Across: 1 Protests; 5 Flat; 9 Eggs; 10 Ham actor; 11 Ambit; 12 Festoon; 13 Entrenchments; 18 Pressman; 19 Tyre; 20 Seaweed; 21 Makes; 22 Rued; 23 Inaction. Down: 2 Regimen; 3 Tastier; 4 Traffic warden; 6 Let-down; 7 Thrones; 8 Hansom; 13 Exposer; 14 The pace; 15 Easter; 16 Extract; 17 Torpedo.

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Real Madrid recover from their midweek troubles, but barça stay ahead The weekend started with a rip-roaring game between Betis and Real Sociedad, the Basque side edging home by the odd goal in five. Then it was the turn of Real Madrid to visit the tiny ground of in-form Eibar, and put their midweek drama behind them, without the sanctioned Bale and Morata, or the rested Casemiro, Kroos and Cristiano Ronaldo. This seemed to bring the best out of Benzema, who quickly popped in two goals before providing another for James. After the break, the excellent Marco Asensio scored a fourth, before the home side found a consolation goal. Barcelona ground on, however, making mincemeat out of hapless Celta, and trotting out 5-0 winners (two of which came from Messsi) to go one ahead of the Madrid side, who have a match in hand, however. Atletico returned to form, seeing off Valencia 3-0, Antoine Griezmann twice finding the, net despite losing the services of Fernando Torres, after his midweek scare. In the nether regions, Leganés gave themselves a little boost by overcoming fellow relegation candidates Granada, and Deportivo beat Sporting in another bottom-of-the-table clash. In the second division, second-placed Girona hammered Getafe 5-1, but Levante retained their big lead when they overcame Elche 2-1. In 2B, neither Barcelona B nor Alcoyano could do better

than draw their home games, so remain 1st and 2nd respectively in group 3, whilst Hercules again lost and are now somewhat off the pace. In England, Manchester City had a 0-2 win at struggling Sunderland, Liverpool beat Arsenal, and Spurs overcame Everton 3-2. There were valuable wins for Leicester and Swansea. Manchester United could only draw at home with Bournemouth. In Belgrade’s European indoor athletics championships, top honours went to Britain’s Laura Muir, who doubled up, winning 1500 meters and 3,000, in less than 24 hours, both in fine style. Serbian long jumper Ivana Spanovic won her event with a great leap of 7.24, fourth best ever indoor mark, with Britain’s Lorraine Ugen second, jumping 6.97 for a British record, on a weekend of many notable performances. Spain’s only gold was won by Adel Mechaal, who took the 3,000 in a finely-judged tactical race, but local lad Jorge Ureña took second in the heptathlon, just failing to equal Peñalver’s Spanish record. Both Spanish tennis players who reached their respective finals came to grief – Fernando Verdasco going down unsurprisingly to Andy Murray in the Gulf, whilst Nadal lost to the huge-serving Sam Querrey in Acapulco. Malcolm Palmer

The Celts Open Day Last Saturday we celebrated our monthly Open Day at La Serena our home course with almost 60 competitors. We would like to thank all the staff at La Serena for their support and help with all our tournaments. Thank you to Camillus and Philip who merit a special mention for their organisation of our monthly opens and as usual had the event running smoothly. Can I remind our members especially our prize winners that we hold our monthly presentation of all prizes at each of the Open Days for that months’ competitions. Our captain Alisdair McLean was at hand to present the monthly prizes, Alisdair presented his vice-captain Terry Fitzgerald to assembled players and guests. The winners as follows; Medal results, Category 1 Andy Currie 70. Category 2 Nuala McEnery 74. As we had two blank weekends with The International League and the Evolve Tour we only had one weekly competition, winners were, James McEnery 36 points, 2nd William Thomson 34 points and 3rd Pauvla Serakova 33points. The results of the Open Day were; In the visitors’ section, we had one prize

winner, Heather Blemings with 43 points. NTP's, Dave Mullett, Steve Powell, Mike Sephton, Mark Brailey, Janet Bryan and Tony Head. Category III, winner Kevin McBride 39, 2nd Mike Sephton 37 and 3rd Janet Bryan 37. Category II, winner Alan Proudfoot 38, 2nd Pauvla Serakova 38 and 3rd Jan Jenkins 37. Category I, winner Camillus Fitzpatrick 37, 2nd John O’Brien 36 and 3rd Tony Head 36. Second over-all went to Thomas McEwan, he of the doubting (Thomas) nature with 40 points and the winner on the day was Trevor Austin our own bionic man on 41 points. Congratulations again to all those who participated and well done to all the prize winners. A special thank you to all those who stayed for the presentation, it is a nice acknowledgement of your fellow competitors and of all the hard work that goes on behind the scenes. As our tournament suggests Open Day, you are more than welcome to come along and play in our tournament as a guest. We always welcome new members and guests and if you would like to play in one of our Open Days or join or club why not give me a call? For further details on membership call 615466398 or e-mail johnobrienalicante@gmail.com.

COSTABLANCA PEOPLE Imanyo Golf Society CRIBBAGE LEAGUE “Captains Cup”, Imanyo golf society Captains Cup was sponsored by The Vegetable Garden and Mick The Grip, they both made sure we had a great days golf with an excellent presentation back at Imanyo’s. We played at Alicante Golf where we were greeted with the usual organised set up and the course was in great condition. Eighteen players took part and the format we played was full handicap Stableford, we split into two groups with a winner from each group and one being the overall winner. Upon return to Imanyo’s four holes were drawn for double point’s which made it more interesting. Winner of the Captains cup from group A was Andy Godfrey with 35 points which included 9 bonus points, runner up in group A was Danny Collins with 31 points which included 7 bonus points. Winner

Archers Jays pair Kevin & George won all their games to help their team win 6-3. 2 pairs from Lo Crispin Tavern won 2 games each to win 5-4. Keith & Dorothy won all their games to give Charlies Magpies a 6-3 win Spanglish Voles had 2 pairs win 2 games

to help them to a 5-4 win. Bob & Pat from Da Vinci’s Ospreys won all their games for a win of 6-3. The Clubs pair Bruce & Graham won all their games for a 5-4 win. Steve & John from Rojales Steakhouse won all their games to win 6-3.

from group B was Mick Billins with 22 points which included 4 bonus points and runner up in group B was Alec Aspen with 21 points which included 3 bonus points. Only four of the six nearest the pins were won, hole 3 in one shot by Danny Collins, hole 8 in two shots by Andy Speck, hole 12 in one shot was Andy Godfrey and hole 15 in two shots by Eamon Murphy. The football card was won by Terry Fitzgerald with Blackburn winning €20 and raising €20 for this year’s charity, Caritas Daya Nueva. We would like to thank The Vegetable Garden and Mick the Grip for sponsoring the day, also Antonio, Norma and staff at Imanyo’s Bar for the fantastic food and great hospitality. www.imanyogolfsociety.com imanyogolfsociety@gmail.com

Mick The Grip presenting the cup to Andy Godfrey.

Las Ramblas Social Club Monday we played best 2 from 4 all count on the par 3's conditions were good the winning team with a good score of 101pts were Rod Doel, Dave Pulling, Lindsay Forbes and Marleen Billen. Wednesday we played the 3rd round of the Eclectic Joker with the sun shining and the results were: Cat.1: 1st Brian Staines 41pts. 2nd Terry Field 37pts 3rd John Shervell 36pts. Cat 2: 1st Ron Percival 38pts. 2nd Reg Akehurst 37pts 3rd Jan Svendsen 35pts. 2's Club: Rod Doel and Brian Staines Friday we played 3 2 1 and the scoring was pretty close. Unfortunately I am unable to publish the result due to a possible error on one of the cards. More next week! Mike Mahony

San Miguel Golf Society The long course, dry with very tightly cut and somewhat bare fairways and greens a million miles away from the slickness of those at Lo Romero last week, found many out. Gold category players with their generally longer hitting and more consistent play faired best, all five category winners beating those taking the prizes in the other categories, with the exception of Bronze’s Chris Hamblett who, along with John Osborne and best of the day Robin Eastman, was one of only three to break par. The day’s medal results, by category and in reverse order, were the following: Bronze Category: 5th Ralph Tilbrook (84 on CB), 4th Carmel McCann (82), 3rd Marg Birtwistle (78 on CB), 2nd Norman McBride (78 on CB), and 1st Chris Hamblett with 71. Silver Category: 5th Roger Webb (82), 4th Scotty Philips (80), 3rd Phil de Lacy (79 on CB), 2nd Ivor Turkington (79 on CB) and 1st, for the second week in a row in his category, Brian Mulligan with 77. Gold Category: 5th John Aitchison (75), 4th Humphrey Kelleher (74), 3rd Tony Sims (72), 2nd John Osborne (71), and 1st, with the day’s best return, Robin Eastman with 70. The Abacus was won, due to the early departure of the true winner, by Keith Wickham. Nearest the pins on the par 3’s (open to all) went to Robin Eastman (5 and 12), Andy Shaw (8) and Keith Wickham (15). Keep up to date with all SMGS matters by logging on to our website www.smgs.org or simply give Theo Boelhouwer a call on 694494824 to find out more about the society and its weekly golf get-togethers. Next week we will be at El Plantio.

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COSTA COBRAS RFC: THE NEXT STEP FORWARD S. F. Costa Cobras RFC are beginning to forward with a good mix of Spanish and British players, but also we are at the moment talking to a local club that have contacted us to act a feeder club for them. This will help to develop the club and all been well, if it all comes off, will mean that we will be able to start playing friendly matches and give the players much needed match experience before we enter the league, specially for the new players to the sport. This will be a first in Spain and will help develop both clubs and give the chance for everyone at the feeder club to get match experience as well. Also this week we will be getting our new club shirts for training and the summer beach rugby tournaments. Keep an eye on the Costa Blanca People for all updated information on the club; this is going to be the year for the Cobras. We will also be doing the fun quiz in the Power Pub on 31 March at 21.00 again. We are all been well having a fun

day at the beginning of May as well, dates to be confirmed very soon. We are now training at the football ground in San Fulgencio on Monday and Wednesday from 20.30-22.00 and then meeting up at Power Pub in the town after training and using this is our club house. All the players are training at the same time, but once we get more juniors and seniors we will be doing two separate sessions. Everybody welcome, from beginners to experienced players, the more the merrier. So come along and join in and have fun with the newest rugby club on the Costa Blanca For more information about the club contact myself, Dutch, on 692 767 242 whatsapp. Also I am down at Zoco market on Sunday from 09.00-13.30, so come on down and find more out about the club and rugby in the area. Also a big thank you to our shirt sponsors the Power Pub in San Fulgencio, Legal and Tax in Spain and Autocenter Rojales, orders for the shirt been taken now.

Monte win but… CD Montesinos 3 – 2 Sporting Orihuela CF It has to be said that CD Montesinos are coming into the final part of the season on patchy form. This week they entertained a Sporting Orihuela side who were hammered last week against one of the top sides, (Benijofar) but who this week were unfortunate to leave “The Cauldron” at Montesinos with a defeat. However, it is always said that a side that does not play well but still wins is a good side, so with that logic in place, CD Montesinos took all three points from a scrappy game in front of just over 200 loyal supporters. Vazquinho opened the scoring after 18 minutes when he latched onto a through ball and his low shot comfortably beat the visiting keeper. However, the lead lasted just two minutes as Montesinos failed to clear the ball inside their own area allowing Sporting to equalise on 20 minutes. Just before half time, centre half Joao headed home from a corner to send Montesinos into the break with a 2-1 lead and the home fans expected the flood gates to open, which was not the case. The second half was more one sided as Montesinos tried but failed to increase their lead and even with a series of substitutions, the score line stayed the same until the closing minutes when on 40 minutes the unthinkable happened and the visitors equalised, this time with an own goal from Bashir who tried to head clear but the ball found its way into the net. With time running out, CD Montesinos pushed forward looking for a winning

Rockets Golf Society ABBEY ANGLING We fished the 9th and penultimate round of the Abbey Angling Cup on the 28th February at the Embalsa de Argos, the match was again transferred from Murcia as the road was still impassable. The water level is now back to normal and it seems as if spring has now sprung with the temperatures soaring. Richard Wood drawn on the early pegs did exceptionally well taking the top spot with over 27kgs fishing the method feeder 1st Richard Wood with 27.640kgs fishing the method feeder using corn 2nd Ian Brown with 20.920kgs fishing the method feeder using maggot 3rd Richard King with 14.660kgs fishing the feeder using corn There are still some vacancies available for membership at the club All details are available on our new website abbeyangling.es or from me on 965328368

RODS & REELS This week’s 9th round of the Winter Series was fished on the El Bosquet Complex on the 1st March. It was another glorious sunny day and the wind had now disappeared. I did at last get back to my winning ways after a disastrous few week’s to take the top spot with over 27kgs, and the pleasure of beating Neil (The Boy)

into second place off the hot peg. The warm weather has seemed to have made an improvement to the weights and there were no dry nets. 1st Terry Screen with 27.340kgs fishing the pole using maggot pellet and bread 2nd Neil Mc Birnie with 22.580kgs fishing the pole and feeder using pellet and corn 3rd Bill Cannon with 13.880kgs fishing the pole using pellet and corn We held our joint Dinner Presentation Evening at the Abbey Tavern on Saturday 25th February ,and it was an excellent evening with the meal and the entertainment being first class. As always our thanks go to Mick Hill for his time and effort in the organizing of a great evening There are still some vacancies at the Club and if anyone is interested in joining please contact Bill Reade on 966790416 TIGHT LINES Terry Screen

Today we made our way up the Motorway to Font de LLop Golf for our February away day. Weather very good with lovely sunshine but when we arrived we found we had to battle the dreaded wind which did not make for easy golf. Course in very good condition with its winter coat on and the Greens were very slick. Having said that some very good scores were returned. Geoff Wild came in with 40 points, after having a blob on the first hole, to have the best score of the day and take first place in the Silver Category. The Handicap Secretary has got his knife sharpened. In Second place was Ken Hopkins with 33 points and Andy Billings took 3rd place with 27 points. In the Gold Category Ron Chambers scored 32 points for his first win for a long time. In Second place was Malcolm Anderson with 29 points and in Third place was Mic Hithersay with 28 points Nearest the Pins were Hole 3 Arthur Williams Hole 8 Malcolm Woods Hole 16 Malcolm Anderson and Hole 17 Geoff Wild. Ron Chambers took the Longest Drive. The 14th March we are back to Vistabella for our Home game first tee 09.00. Please be at the course by 08.15. Anyone who would like to join our Society or just to have a game with us please contact Ron on 678 849 142 or email sanmigron@gmail.com

goal and, on this occasion, fortune looked favourably on their efforts with a cracking goal after good play from Aure and Vaz who played in Alfredo to slot home the winner and keep his side in with a real shout of a top two finish. Man of the match Vazquinho. With results elsewhere favourable to CD Montesinos, this latest win moves the club up into joint top position on the same points as Benijofar (35 points) but with a game less. Next week-end will go a long way to deciding their season as they are away at Callosa, who are two points behind them but with a game in hand. A win at Callosa will go a long way to finishing in a top two position. The game is almost certainly going to be played on Saturday, 11th of March in Callosa and the club have asked

as many supporters as possible to turn up for the boys. Time and date have yet to be announced so keep an eye on our website (www.cdmontesinos.com) or our facebook page (cdmontesinos) for further information. CD Montesinos www.cdmontesinos.com Frederick Griggs Trophy. This game will be played on Saturday 3rd September, when CD Montesinos will entertain Racing San Miguel, at Los Montesinos, kick-off 7.00pm. VAMOS MONTE!!! CD Montesinos team:- Dani, Fernando, Manu, Bashir, Carlos Lorente, Coko, Vaz, Fran, Alfredo, Carlos Ventura, Joao. Sub’s:- Rodrigo, German, Auren, Dimitri, Dario. Goals for CDM: Vaz, Joao and Alfredo

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Maybe India was the problem for England? The cricket team have wrapped up the ODI series in the West Indies before most of us even realised they had started. Wednesday’s comfortable victory was followed by a slightly more nervous chase on Sunday. Having bowled the West Indies out for 225 England looked well set. But, what is an England chase away from home if it is not riddled with spinners causing the batsmen trouble? England were suddenly six down and struggling, but recovered when Woakes joined to steady the ship and drag England to the series victory. Is that a pig we can spot flying across

Sir Dave Brailsford

Team Sky? Sir Dave Brailsford may only be guilty of being very vague, allegedly, possibly, maybe. Equally he might be guilty of heading up a whole operation of systematic cheating, we just don’t know. One thing is for sure though, for a team that was so openly anti-doping you’d have thought they might have written a few things down. You know, just in case any questions were ever asked. I don’t buy the whole “we haven’t done anything wrong, so why do we need to have kept notes?” attitude that is being peddled. Ahem. In a completely unrelated thread, Mo Farah has responded once again to suggestions he might be up to no good due to his links with the allegedly drug pushing coach Salazar. Farah has said, yet again, that people can come and test him any time, any place and he will happily prove he is clean. Just not next Tuesday at 3pm as he might be, er, busy. Someone should have told Sky Sports Football that Tony Bellew is an Evertonian. They might have mentioned it once or twice in Sunday’s game with Spurs. Bellew beat David Haye in London in what many have suggested was the fight of the year. Considering it is only just March, that is a fine accolade. Haye’s Achilles tore in the 6th round when he slipped on a bit of wet canvas. I know, it’s wet in London. Who’d have thought it? Anyway, Bellew broke his hand, probably punching Haye’s ego. Bellew fancies a rematch, Haye needs a rematch and AJ looks on somewhat amused.

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Those early Saturday kick offs are normally rather dull affairs, but Zlatan and Tyrone were on personal missions to ensure that was not the case this weekend. The whole circus around “did they or didn’t they mean it” and trust me, they both meant it, led to everyone being distracted from the real talking points. Just how bad was Phil Jones? How on earth did Paul Pogba miss hit that shot? And, what happens to the opposition goalkeeper when he sets foot on the Old Trafford turf? Having tipped United, live on Manchester radio, to be the team that gets closest to Chelsea come the end of the season it was pretty obvious they were going to drop points. Still, Jose came out in the post-match presser claiming he had nothing to say as “he isn’t of the generation that cries in the media.” Wait, what? Jose. Jose. Jose! Would you like me to send you some of your media quotes this season? Unless you literally mean tears falling from you eyes, we have you bang to rights on this one. Jose, possibly trying to distract everyone from the fact that United failed to beat a Bournemouth side that has been rolling over and having their tummies tickled wherever they have played recently, went on to say that as it is so long since United had been awarded a penalty they have simply stopped practising them. Yeah, of course you have Jose. All in all, and there

has been some stiff competition this season, that was the most shambolic display of officiating I have seen this campaign. Andrew Surman must still be trying to work out how he managed to get sent off whilst Zlatan and Mings got away with it. I am still trying to work out whether Arsene dropping Alexis Sanchez for the trip to Anfield was a cry for help, a resignation letter or a suicide note. Alexis has been the talisman all season

that they might have forgotten how to play on real grass considering their last game was against Sutton, but wasn’t it all just a little predictable? Everyone knew that Liverpool would get into their opponents and if they could get ahead then the game was theirs. Klopp must be wishing they could play their closest rivals every week and Arsene must be so looking forward to the visit of Bayern in the week. “Harry Kane, a one-season wonder” sang the Spurs fans as Kane netted another brace in Tottenham’s win over Everton. But forget that eh, Sky? Yeah, let’s focus on the silly little handshake him and Alli have devised and not talk about how Kane is the next off the

Alexis Sanchez

and, we believe, is a player that Arsenal would like to tempt into a new contract. Dropping him for a crucial match against an old rival isn’t making that contract getting signed anymore likely. I am starting to form the opinion that Arsene is only sticking around to wind up Piers Morgan. If that is the case, crack on Mr Wenger, I am 100% behind you. I suppose Arsenal did have the excuse

Harry Kane

production line of great English league scorers like Owen, Fowler, Shearer, Wright, Lineker, Greaves and Ferdinand and how he will probably never truly transfer it over to England matches. It is hard for Redknapp to come up with new ways to look like a prat on live television, but he pulled it out of the hat in spectacular fashion. As for Souness, the fact you would go for Lukaku over Kane is the very reason why you are sitting in a TV studio and not a dugout. How many more games do Leicester need to win before the owners are proven right to bin off Ranieri? Craig Shakespeare has steadied the ship and suddenly Vardy and Mahrez look like a couple whose marriage counselling is actually working. Hull are receiving a lot of praise under Marco Silva, but they really need to start picking up more points if they are to take advantage of the fact there are still other teams in the relegation battle who might be worse than them. Hull weren’t helped by the fact that Palace went to WBA and out-bigged them. It’s very rare that a Pulis team gets bullied, but Big Sam will have been mightily relieved to pick up a win that sees Palace move ahead of Middlesboro in the race to escape. As for Boro, Steve Gibson must be looking at Leicester and wondering whether he should be rolling the dice. If they are basing their survival on being tight at the back then I would humbly suggest they stop conceding goals as they certainly are not scoring enough. If you are in a relegation battle,

Stoke are now the kind of team you travel to and beat up a little bit, before leaving with three points. If you lose there 2-0, you are in proper trouble. Burnley scored twice away from home! Burnley scored twice away from home! The problem was, they were playing a resurgent Swansea side who put aside the disappointment of a shocking penalty decision going against them to recover and come out the sunny side up of a five goal thriller. The Swans share 27 points with Leicester and Bournemouth, five points away from the drop zone. Anything could yet still happen to any of them. Watford and Southampton should be end in the mid-table no man’s land and put on a cracker of a game at Vicarage Road. Paul Merson once again showed he is a man in the know, claiming Southampton could go and bully Watford as they are a little soft. Has he watched Watford this season? Either way, the Saints took their EFL Cup disappointment out on Mazzarri’s men and held on for 4-3. One saving grace for the likes of Leicester, Bournemouth and Boro has to be the fact that Sunderland are surely halfway up the creek with no paddles whatsoever. Jermain Defoe crashed a shot against the bar but you just knew that a very average City side were going to score eventually, and they did. If I was feeling generous I would say that is what a good side can do, play badly and win. But I’m not feeling generous.

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In sight · Torrevieja 2 -Buriol 0 Torry completed the double over Bunol, taking this match 2-0 to add to the 3-2 victory they enjoyed there last Ocober. After their fine win in Castellon last weekend, Torry are showing tremendous spirit and capability, with the promise of escape from the bottom four looking a distinct possibility. On recent form and with the side gaining momentum, it would be a brave man to bet against them. Manager Pedreno has worked patiently to steer his side into calmer waters and after securing no less than twelve new players in January, is beginning to see the fruit of his labours. These back to back wins suggest what fans have known all season long - Torry is a first rate side and can pull themselves out of the mire with that little bit of consistency. March has always promised to be the month that was make or break for the club and it got off to a winning start, courtesy of two Pastor strikes, one in each half. But make no mistake, this was an exquisite team performance with excellence shining through in every department. However, once again the tormentor of the opposition was Lewis Allen, whose constant pressure on the Bunol defence left them weary and wounded. Torry started the game on the front foot with Bunol hardly able to break out of their half. Torry were able to press down the flanks through the speed and craft of Pastor and Luis Carlos, or drive through the middle using the deft skills and tenacity of Molina and Lewis. Molina was making his home debut and his guile and endeavour in midfield enamoured himself to fans seeing him for

the first time. He debuted in Castellon and was instrumental in the win there and this victory against Bunol. Sergio Duran also making his debut was ruthless and efficient in midfield and he and Dani Salazar were impeccable at the heart of the team, grafting away with a must win attitude and showing great creative talent. Jose Carlos was rock steady, pulling off a magnificent second half save when Bunol had their most enterprising period. The back four were unbeatable, Javi Meca shouting out his captain's instructions to willing listeners who never put a foot wrong. Pastor took his eye off the ball for a split second when sent through into the box midway through the first half, forcing him wide and ultimately losing out to the bye line. He made up for it five minutes later, when he out battled his much bigger opponent inside the box, twisted him round and made room to drive his shot into the net. It was pure desire and a lot of skill and a joy to behold. Pastor just missed a cross from the left as it skimmed his head and he was a constant threat on the Bunol goal. Lewis tried to get in on the act with a 25 yard free kick that was saved at the expense of a corner by goalkeeper Joan. Torry continued in the second half where they left off in the first. Lewis timed his run to perfection, speeding past the Bunol defence and looking likely to unleash a left foot pile driver into the net. Instead he realised that Pastor had joined him in the middle and he squared the ball to him with precision, allowing the Oz bound winger to score his second. More should have followed but the linesman

had a poor game, missing a couple of infringements and penalising Torry for offside, when it patently was not the case. Torry remain in the relegation places but at Muro on Wednesday evening has the chance to make that leap out, should they win and Bunol lose. More home games on the following two Sundays, against Alzira, then Segorbe could be

magic moments for a side that has clearly found their rhythm and poise. The side has always had bags of talent, now it has composure, grit and a winning mentality. It will need to demonstrate all these qualities consistently from here on in if division three status is to be retained. Muro will pose a big test, as they know that a win for them sees them back in salvation territory. This may not be a

game for the purists, but it will be one for big hearts and fierce determination. Bring it on! Team: José Carlos, Vicente Boix, Calzado, Javi Meca ©, Jorge, Sergio Durán (Nica 72’), Pastor (Joel 81’), Dani Salazar, Lewis (Borja Mir 84’), Molina & Luis Carlos Jeff Scott Vice president CD Torrevieja

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