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Families reach breaking point Charity handed out 7,000 food coupons this month alone as calls for help double

By Jacqueline Agathocleous

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AMILIES are spending weeks without electricity and are forced to go to a charity organisation for food and clothing, as the economic crisis’ grip on households grows stronger by the day.

“The situation is dramatic,” said Georgia Polyviou, head of the Alkionides charity. “We receive a call roughly every two minutes in the mornings from people whose electricity was cut off and who are seeking coupons for food.”

She said the situation was “100 per cent” worse than last year, with families that were last year making ends meet currently finding it difficult to survive.

“Single parents have been hit especially hard, after their benefits were slashed during the government’s reform,” said Polyviou, adding however that many other categories of people were suffering, such as large families and the unemployed. Last December, in the government’s effort to tidy up its finances, it decided to re-

form the benefits system. As a result, any benefits given to single parents by the welfare office were scrapped and responsibility was shifted to the finance ministry. As a result a single parent who may have received €800 a month from the state, ended up getting around €250.

And about 1,900 out of 6,200 beneficiaries were completely excluded, due to new criteria which was widely criticised for being unrealistic. Someone whose entire assets were worth €40,000 could receive €200 a month, with €50,000 they got €150 and €80,000 they got €100.

Last month, the labour ministry promised to spend some €2.7 million on assisting single parent families to pay off rent and loan instalments. “People are scared of having their homes repossessed as they can no longer meet their mortgage payments and loans.

“These are what we would call normal families last year, which have now found themselves in a very difficult situation due to unemployment,” said Polyviou.

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Paraplegic endures three-day ordeal in the New Mexico desert A PARAPLEGIC man who says he was stranded in the New Mexico desert without his wheelchair dragged himself six kilometres down a dirt road for three days before a motorist stopped to help him.

Ricky Gilmore’s jeans told part of the story and his body the rest - the skin on his left leg and buttocks shredded, a wrist sprained and his kidneys in bad shape from lack of food and water.

Gilmore, 49, is being treated for acute kidney failure from dehydration, a sprained wrist and a blood infection. He spent two days in intensive care and

it could be at least another week before he can go home. He was found along a seldom-travelled road on the Navajo Nation about 10 miles from his home in Newcomb, on the eastern side of the reservation.

Gilmore said he was dropped in the desert by a couple in a white truck whom he met while he was hitchhiking. He had invited them to his home for steaks and they later went for what he thought was going to be a joyride.

When he refused to share his alcohol with them, Gilmore said the man grabbed him by his feet and

threw him out of the truck while parked along the desolate road. It was early evening and Gilmore had no wheelchair, no food, no water and no coat to help him endure the flat desert scrubland.

“It was dark and I was shivering and the wind was blowing so I just crawled to a bush and dug in right there. It was cold that night,” he said.

But with the sunrise, survival mode kicked in and he started dragging himself along the expanse.

On the third afternoon, a man in a blue pick-up truck stopped and called for help.

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FOUR raccoons from Cyprus will travel tomorrow with the chairman of Animal Responsibility Cyprus (ARC) to go to their new home in Amsterdam in the Netherlands.

Accompanied by ARC’s chairman Kyriacos Kyriacou, the furry little creatures will find themselves in a sanctuary for exotic animals, the AAP. The AAP offers a home for animals that were sometimes unlawfully intended as pets and needed protection. It already hosts a trio of primates who had spent ten years of their lives caged in Kykkos monastery’s park in Nicosia.

The monkeys left in September last year.

Kyriacou will check in on them and discuss prospects for Cyprus hosting its own exotic animals sanctuary to host animals from Cyprus and neighbouring countries.

The raccoons themselves used to live in a pet shop in Paphos that shut down.

They spent five months in Aradippou before ARC arranged to move them to the AAP. The raccoons are flying with Cyprus Airways.

A plea to help out with expenses of about €350 went unanswered, but “we will find a way,” Kyriacou said. Anyone who still wants to help Tel: 99416852.

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By Poly Pantelides A GREEK company specialising in converting cars to run on liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) yesterday presented its credentials in Nicosia to potential investors and the public, expounding on how they stood to benefit.

The cabinet last month said it was allowing the introduction of LPG cars, paving the way for a cheaper and greener fuel. And yesterday, Greek based company Gas Theodorou told people they had been in Cyprus since 2009, “anticipating” the time when people would look to convert

their cars, said the company’s Giorgos Papadopoulos. Gas Theodorou runs Gas Service in Greece, a network of conversion outlets that convert and service cars using Italian technology parts, Zavoli.

There are plans for five stations in Cyprus, one in each district, which will be part of the Gas Service network but the company hopes it will grow in the coming year.

“We run the biggest LPGspecialised network in Greece, to fit any specific car model so the vehicle’s factory specifications are adhered to,” Papadopoulos said.

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ics, and potential investors – through a carpeted maze at Nicosia’s Cleopatra Hotel to a hallway leading to a conference space. “I’m here to see if this could be a good investment,” said Nicos Kkais who added that he was at the presentation on behalf of others.

Others wanted to know how they could receive training to convert cars to LPG. And a man wanted to know if a diesel-run car could be converted, to be told that right now it could not because that kind of conversion was currently more viable for much bigger vehicles.

The costs quoted for conversion run between €1,200 and €1,800 depending on the vehicle.

LPG is a blend of propane and butane that can be produced from natural gas or as a by-product of oil refining.

Its emissions are less harmful than those of petrol making it environmentally friendlier. It is also cheaper “The public is interested in the environment but also cost saving,” Papadopoulos said.

Gas Service claims to fit cars so that fuel efficiency is more or less the same at a usage of 10.5 litres per 100 km for LPG

versus 10lt/100km for fuel.

They also claim that the vehicle performance is not compromised. Given the efficiency claims, Gas Service says that drivers will be able to halve their fuel costs if they use LPG exclusively.

Conversion will result in dual-propulsion engine so that drivers can choose between LPG and conventional fuels.

Converting will take up precious boot space when installing a new tank which has only 80 per cent of stated capacity – as all LPG tanks, Papadopoulos said.

The cabinet has set as a goal a year for different departments to draw up legislative changes, commerce minister Neoclis Sylikiotis said in September.

Different ministries will need to cooperate for this to be done, Sylikiotis said: the labour inspection department, the road transport department, the state’s legal services, among others.

Nicosia’s Gas Service official outlet, Marcos Marcou, said they were talking with state stakeholders and were pushing to expedite procedures, and ensure legislation “benefits the consumer”.

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Denia swept for stray landmines after flooding

CYPRUS TODAY Celebrating Oxi day CYPRUS will today commemorate the 1940 resistance of the Greeks against the Axis forces, which signalled Greece’s direct involvement in the Second World War. Celebrated in Greece as well as communities in the world with a connection to Greece, the celebration hinges on the ‘OXI’ (no) response that Greek dictator Ioannis Metaxas is said to have given to Italian dictator Benito Mussolini on October 28.

Scholars debate Metaxas’ actual response.

A parade is due to take place in Nicosia with school students marching to drumbeats, bearing the flags of Greece and Cyprus. Politicians and state officials issued statements ahead of Ochi Day, hailing the heroism displayed by many.

Residents warned off after alert that Turkish landmines had been washed away

By Poly Pantelides

Paphos in focus A THREE-DAY conference will be held this coming week in Avignon, France on the history of the ancient city of Nea Paphos from antiquity until today.

The conference will be held between October 30 and November 1 and one of the sponsors is Paphos municipality with the mayor, Savvas Vergas addressing the opening ceremony. One of the topics on the agenda will be Paphos as the European Capital of Culture in 2017.

Paphos was selected over Nicosia, the other Cyprus contender, in September.

The conference, that is due to attract historians and archaeologists interested in the Nea Paphos’ excavations and the site’s history, is supported by the antiquities department.

Vergas is due to visit Marseille after Avignon to discuss cultural capital preparations. MarseilleProvence is a European culture capital 2013.

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THE UNITED Nations (UN) were yesterday looking for mines in the buffer zone close to Denia village on the outskirts of Nicosia thought to have been carried away by a torrent that started in the occupied village of Ayios Vasileios.

The UN received word from ‘TRNC’ authorities late Friday that they suspected some landmines from Ayios Vasileios may have been swept away by a river swollen by rains.

They started looking for possible mines yesterday morning in the Denia area. Residents, hunters and farmers working in the area were yesterday warned to stay away until further notice. A police spokesperson told the Cyprus Mail that there was a risk that poachers might unwittingly enter the buffer zone in that area looking for animals.

As a precaution, roads leading to the swollen torrent have been blocked, Denia community leader, Christakis Panayiotou, told the Cyprus News Agency.

“People are upset because tractors [and] agricultural vehicles go there,” Panayiotou said adding that he had not seen “in years” a torrent such as the one that may have carried away the mines.

“The area is blocked off by the UN… It is an

agricultural region and lots of people go there.

Hunters go and so do farmers and the risk is great,” he added. The UN told Panayiotou it may take a few days to know whether or not any mines were swept away because the water levels are too high.

Back in May, Denia village was evacuated so authorities could disable a bomb hailing back to the 1974 Turkish invasion, which was discovered lying at the bottom of a dry well.

School children and teachers were moved to the nearby village of Mammari when the discovery was made. About 500 residents had to wait for bomb experts to carry out a controlled explosion.

Two days later, the residents asked authorities to look for the remains of a mortar explosive. Police and explosives’ experts cordoned off a street and gutted a building, making off with “some very rusty remains,” Panayiotou said at the time.

But this time Panayiotou said the village was removed from the area where mines may have been swept and so most residents are not affected. “You have to have business there to go,” he said.

Panayiotou could not say if there was a specific number or kind of mines the UN was looking for. The Cyprus Mail could not get through to the UN yesterday and the police had no further information to relay.

‘Cyprus between Byzantium First results from Bosnian lab on and the West’ at the Louvre missing persons due next month PRESIDENT Demetris Christofias inaugurated an exhibition of Cypriot antiquities at the Paris Louvre Museum on Friday evening.

‘Cyprus between Byzantium and the West, from the 4th to the 16th century’ will be ongoing until January 28 next year and consists of 176 artefacts that are normally displayed in museums across Cyprus and Europe.

The exhibition includes icons, manuscripts, architectural fragments, silverware and ceramics to recount the island’s history between the 4th century and the onset of Christianity, up until the 16th century, the onset of Ottoman Cyprus.

French EU Affairs Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said on behalf of the French government that Christofias’ visit was a great honour, thanking his administration for chairing the council of the EU with great efficiency during difficult times.

“We are very proud to organise this exceptional exhibition,” Cazeneuve said. The Louvre and the Cyprus Antiquities Department worked to put together the exhibition in the context of Cyprus’ EU presidency. Admission is included in the Louvre’s general admission ticket, which costs €11.

THE FIRST results from the process of identification of missing persons from the ICMP lab in Bosnia are expected next month, Pancyprian Organisation of the Relatives of Undeclared Prisoners and Missing Persons President Nicos Serghides and Secretary General Nicos Theodosiou have said.

‘Missing Persons Day’ will be marked tomorrow. Drivers are being asked to keep their vehicle lights on between 7am and 10am as a symbolic gesture. Serghides said that complete answers on dozens of missing persons are expected to be given from the Bosnia

procedure. Theodosiou said that all 281 samples sent to Bosnia in August had been processed.

The samples concerned around 70 persons, most of who are thought to be included in the missing persons list. Serghides said the issue of missing persons was going through a “crucial phase”, adding that the Committee on Missing Persons (CMP), for reasons beyond its power, has not been able to establish the fate of every single missing person, warning of the grave danger that the fate of more than half would remain unknown forever.

Information given so far by people on both sides had now come to an end, he said, leaving more than 1,200 completely unaccounted for. He said that if Turkey was not forced to cooperate and provide information, the matter would never be fully resolved.

Theodosiou, commenting on the recent switch to the Bosnian lab said that so far indications were positive both on quality and speed. According to the latest figures, the remains of 330 missing individuals – 277 Greek Cypriots and 66 Turkish Cypriots – have been returned to their families for proper burial.

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Calls to charity up by 100% Growing numbers on the breadline in wake of rising unemployment, high electricity bills and benefit cuts (continued from front page) She said electricity bills were possibly the biggest problem for these families.

“We have a family that has not had electricity for a month,” said Polyviou. “Both parents lost their jobs and they have two young children.

What are they going to do? They simply cannot pay it.”

She said Alkionides had funded many electricity bills. “But we cannot pay them all.”

One 23-year-old woman sought help from the charity to pay a €425 electricity bill. “She returned to school as she had dropped out when she was younger. Her father is serving a 25-year prison sentence after being convicted of paedophilia, her mother is mentally ill and she has a younger brother who has dropped out of school. They had their electricity cut off a month ago.”

The school she is attending agreed to pay €125 towards the bill, while the remaining €300 was paid by Alkionides, which also gave her food coupons.

“Another woman who is suffering from leukaemia is working and earning €900. She is di-

Sign of the times: Men queue up for edible vegetables dumped at the end of market day in Nicosia vorced with two children and the father does not pay alimony,” said Polyviou. “They too are about to have their power cut.”

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€50 a week going on medical treatment that is not available for free, there is simply no way the woman will be able to pay up, she said.

“Electricity is the main problem, along with the lack of food. I have a lot of people with young children call me up and say they have €5 in their pockets and do not know where their next funds will come from,” said Polyviou.

“I would say around 16 per cent of the population is living under the poverty line,” said Polyviou. “The situation has deteriorated 100 per cent from last year.”

Recent official figures showed that the poverty and social exclusion rate increased in Cyprus between 2009 and 2010, placing between

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120,000 and 130,000 people under the poverty line based on a population figure of 839,000.

The figures however are two years old, and from a time when unemployment was still hovering between 6.0 and 7.0 per cent. It is now heading for double that figure after shooting up five percentage points in only 18 months, putting even more families below the poverty line.

Alkionides only used to hand out food coupons to poor families at Christmas and Easter.

“This month so far, we have given 7,000 food coupons. We simply cannot give any more,” said Polyviou.”

The charity, which also runs a house in London, for people who go there for medical treatment, is organising a number of events in November and December in the hope to help more.

“There are so many cases; I even get calls from children telling me they are hungry and if I can help,” said Polyviou. “Unfortunately, I am now in the horrible position of saying that we just cannot help.”

But it is not just local families that are in dire straits. The Future Worlds Centre (FWC) issued an urgent plea to the public last week for food and clothing for families of political refu-

gees, people under subsidiary protection and recognised refugees.

According to Danae Psilla of the FWC, the situation is “very bad”. “This initiative started after I visited a family of Palestinians, who sought food coupons from (clothes’ recycling NGO) Anakyklos,” said Psilla.

The family has three children, their father is paralysed through injury and their mother has been trying but cannot find work.

“They said the children do not have clothes and that they go to school without food; all they can afford is a small lunch, no dinner,” said Psilla. Psilla said the situation was getting progressively worse.

“Parliament is delaying approving the benefits they get, resulting in some families not receiving any aid in over four months,” she explained.

And it is not due to their lack of effort to get work. “These people who are looking for work, they are the last in line who will be given priority,” said Psilla. “First are the Cypriots, then EU workers as they know the English language better and then there are these people, who are always last on the list.”

Alkionides has a warehouse in Dali, where people can donate clothes, furniture and dried food to be handed out to people in need. To donate, contact Alkionides on 22 361295 from 8am to 1pm, Monday to Friday

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By Elias Hazou N THE midst of the financial squeeze, is the EU getting its money’s worth for the host of Cyprus reconciliation and development programmes it is funding?

The findings of a project titled ‘Reconciliation and Peace Economics in Cyprus’, funded by EuropeAid, would suggest not.

The project’s aim was to promote “a conducive environment for the further development of trust, dialogue, co-operation and closer relationship between the Turkish Cypriot and Greek Cypriot communities...”

But “From the start of the project, it was apparent that there was little hope for a settlement and the project concluded as the UN-sponsored talks again failed,” concluded British-based academics, Dr Kate Flynn and Dr Tony King.

They had been contracted by the EU’s EuropeAid organisation to run a two-year project exploring “reconciliation and peace economics” on Cyprus.

After extensive study, the researchers found that given fundamental disagreements between the two communities on the root cause of the Cyprus problem, it is “highly problematic from the outset to effectively apply reconciliation initiatives”.

Their findings were out-and-out depressing. Some highlights: “The two communities do not agree on what the Cyprus problem is and there is little agreement about arrangements for a post-solution state.

There is marked reluctance to recognise the other side, as well as interact even with the checkpoints open. Most Cypriots do not cross the Green Line or have only done so once or twice, so bi-communal contact is limited to a small percentage of the population. There is notable societal mistrust both within as well as between communities. There is suspicion about political leadership and the direction of the talks.”

No doubt the report stands out for it nononsense take on efforts to bring the two communities closer in a bid to help reunification efforts.

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‘Does it really help the peace process, or does it merely serve to incentivise a never ending process?’

And whereas the analysts are not stating that reconciliation is dead in the water, they do question the effectiveness of the projects and call for a rethink on their running.

Their report states that “the number of projects and events funded by the EU and others suggests that project fatigue detracts from significant interest in individual events.”

It goes on to say: “With no apparent programme co-ordination among the Cypriot Civil Society in Action projects, the EU is not making best use of its EuropeAid investment.”

The two researchers, whose own project cost €210,000, delivered their report to EU Aid in February, almost eight months ago, but decided to go public after getting zero feedback, with an item appearing in the Daily Telegraph on October 13 (“European aid: sleepy island in an aid cash row”).

The wording of their report might be read as suggesting that Cyprus reunification and reconciliation projects are self-perpetuating cash guzzlers with no clear sense of direction.

“My concern is that donors are providing what is supposed to be aid money, but the money is given for things not related to aid and development,” said project manager Flynn.

Flynn speaks of an uncoordinated “donor economy”, where funding applicants and recipients end up competing with one another rather than working together.

She’s quick to point out that she’s not singling out any individual organisation she says there is a lot of good work going on - but is rather worried about the “way

Ayios Dhometios checkpoint: the report found that most Cypriots do not cross the buffer zone or have only done so once or twice

EU peace funding under scrutiny generally that money is poured into this.

After all, it’s an investment, isn’t it?”

In 2006, the EU approved aid regulation 389/2006 to end the isolation of the Turkish Cypriot community and to help prepare for reunification. A total of €259 million was allocated for a five-year programme to be implemented by the Commission (DG Enlargement).

From 2011 on, EU assistance has continued in the form of annual allocations of €28 million, to build on the results achieved and support the ongoing UN process.

Figures seen by the Sunday Mail show that the EU budgeted €5.4 million for the “Cypriot Civil Society in Action” grant programme for the period October 2007 through October 2010.

“You’ve got all these projects but no coordination. There’s no clearing house, so to speak, where you could share the information and draw a conclusion as to where the peace process is headed. It’s not clear what EU aid aims to achieve with these funds,” Flynn told the Mail.

In October 2011, Flynn hosted a collaborative event for two EuropeAid projects in Nicosia.

But to her knowledge, no one from EuropeAid bothered to attend, although EuropeAid personnel were directly invited.

“No one [from EuropeAid] actually came up to talk to me, which was weird if one of their number did attend,” she said.

In late January of this year, Flynn emailed EuropeAid’s Nicosia office to request a meeting.

“I just wanted to discuss our project, do a follow-up. An appointment was made but then cancelled. I was told ‘we don’t have time’.”

She returned to Cyprus in September, again asking for a meeting. Emails sent

went unanswered.

Flynn is reluctant to speculate that this lack of interest might stem from her project’s findings.

“I honestly don’t have a clue what’s going on. There’s been no feedback whatsoever on our project, so I don’t know whether the folks in Nicosia or in Brussels even read our report,” she offers.

Yet Flynn is hesitant to brand aid activities related to the Cyprus problem as a “gravy train”: “But I do wonder whether EU aid money is a substitute for fruitful engagement in a constructive situation. Does it really help the peace process, or does it merely serve to incentivise a never-ending process?”

And for the most part it’s the same consultants and analysts who get the grants.

“The same folks are going back and forth.

Like in any other industry, one becomes versed in the code and uses the right language and rhetoric to appeal to donors to give you the money,” Flynn says.

In addition to the EU, a host of other donors are supporting the Cyprus peace process. These include the UNDP (United Nations Development Programme), supported by funds from USAID (United States Agency for International Development); and PRIO (Peace Research Institute Oslo), funded by the Norwegian Foreign Ministry and the British High Commission.

Cyprus-based Fiona Mullen, who has worked with various bi-communal projects, says it “sometimes feels that you’re banging your head on a brick wall. The effort is not echoed by political and business leaders on both sides.”

In this respect, she says, the findings by Flynn and King are nothing new. For example, research funded by the UNDP-ACT (UN

Development Programme - Action for Cooperation and Trust in Cyprus) had come up with similar results. The programme in question consisted of two parts: how much money is being spent by members of each community on the other side, and how a post-settlement economy might look like.

That programme’s full report has yet to be published.

Mullen suggests the report by Flynn and King was particularly poignant precisely because the researchers were unaware of earlier findings.

Flynn herself has told the Mail that she was a newcomer to the Cyprus peace process when she took up the project.

Part of the problem, which appears to be systemic, is the long lead-time between EU calls for grant applications and the actual implementation of projects. This can often lead to duplication. It can happen that by the time one project is completed, another programme - funded by a different organisation - may have already reached similar conclusions.

“So it’s not so much a question whether these programmes are useful, but it certainly does highlight the need for co-ordination, which Flynn and King pointed out,” says Mullen.

And she thinks the Telegraph article may have misrepresented certain aspects of what is going on in Cyprus, for example the article’s sardonic reference to a golf course inside the UN buffer zone.

Asked why, in spite of some findings pointing to little or no progress in reconciliation, such projects continue being funded, Mullen has this take: “Money keeps being poured into Cyprus probably because it’s a volatile region. People don’t want to walk away from it in case something else happens.”

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Urgent need to Recycling at home is the cheapest way of avoiding EU’s hefty rubbish fines

By Poly Pantelides

Cyprus faces huge EU fines for its landfills

THE GOVERNMENT is seeking to build three new expensive waste management plants even though forcing people to recycle at home would cost much less, Environment Commissioner Charalambos Theopemptou has said.

The plants are being touted as a solution to the imminent prospect of incurring huge fines from the EU for failing to implement its directive on waste disposal.

On Wednesday, the European Commission asked the European Court of Justice (ECJ) to impose huge fines on Italy for failing to comply with a 2007 court ruling to clean up its landfill sites.

Cyprus, which has also failed to comply with the 2007 court ruling, was referred to the ECJ on June 21 for violating the EU Landfill Directive which will enable the commission to request the imposition of fines if the court rules - as expected - that Cyprus infringed the directive.

The directive aims to limit negative effects on the envi-

ronment from piling waste onto landfills and also to protect public health.

In Cyprus, six landfills known to the commission continue to operate in breach of the EU legislation.

The interior ministry’s proposed solution is to build two new waste management plants - in Limassol and Nicosia - by 2015 to support the existing Koshi plant in Larnaca and enable Cyprus to clean up and sort out its landfills. A third new plant is also planned.

That might double rubbish collection fees per household bringing them up to €250-€300 per year. Recycling company Green Dot’s general manager, Kyriacos Papoutsas says the cost could be even higher at around €350 per annum.

The government’s waste management policy is based on a 2003 decision whereby rubbish gets sorted when it reaches the waste management plant even though a 2008 EU directive puts the onus on waste reduction and on the public to recycle their own rubbish as happens in elsewhere in Europe.

If individual households

Compulsory recycling at home would mean fewer waste management plants are necessary and businesses sorted their recyclables before rubbish collection, waste would be reduced by 50 per cent and only two plants would be needed to handle the island’s waste, Theopemptou said. It would also be cheaper on cashstrapped municipalities and households.

And sorting the remaining rubbish (e.g. sorting out what can be composted and collecting it) could reduce quantities even further, Theopemptou said.

London residents for exam-

ple can opt to separate their compostable rubbish and hand it over to authorities which give them high quality compost for their garden in return.

“But the 2003 law gives the impression that we Cypriots think we are above recycling,” Theopemptou said.

“Why doesn’t the government recycle? Why is recycling not compulsory?”

And the agriculture ministry’s environment department does not even have a waste reduction policy, he

Trying to beat the recession with meal deals

By Zoe Christodoulides AS THE recession digs deep into everyone’s pockets, restaurants are now trying to keep the punters at their tables with restaurant chains in particular offering a whole series of special deals.

“We’ve sensed the environment around us and had to put forward special offers because consumers are looking for them,” says Nasia Taouxi, the marketing manager of the wellknown restaurant chain TGI Friday’s which opened 16 years ago.

They now offer a variety of special deals including a Monday-to-Friday lunchtime deal for €9.90 which includes one main dish, des-

sert and a soft drink. Special ‘one plus one’ offers are also available on cocktails, and to lure in the families, children can eat for free at weekends.

“We’re trying to be sensitive to their needs.

Obviously there are some people that would really think twice about going out for a meal and we’re trying to give them an extra incentive,” says Taouxi. “It’s been an effective campaign so far.”

Marzano’s, the pizza chain offers a similar week-day lunchtime offer, a three-course meal for €12, while the fish restaurant chain Ocean Basket offers customers a €2 token for every €25 that they spend. The €2 can then be spent within the restaurant and customers can also wait to collect their tokens in return for a free meal.

Having first opened up in Paphos four years ago, the South African chain has been big on the idea of offering customers value for money from the get go. Having worked up quite a reputation for dishing up affordable priced seafood, the menu includes sushi and shellfish platters.

“For us it’s not just something we’re taking on board now that there’s a recession. We do take pride in the fact that we came onto the market offering good value for money and haven’t raised our prices in four years,” says CEO of Ocean Basket Vasilis Billis.

“But the recession has no doubt made things harder. Even the definition of ‘good value for money’ is changing as people are constantly on the lookout for the best and cheapest prices,” he admits.

With the chain now set on offering even bet-

Ocean Basket (above) and TGI Friday’s (left) two of the restaurant chains offering deals ter deals, they will soon be launching a budget meal scheme in the coming months. “It’s an extra measure that we’re taking as times are getting harder,” says Billis.

Although it may be harder for them to absorb the costs of offering meal deals, some smaller, one-off restaurants are also trying to tempt customers with bargains.

“If restaurants don’t have deals these days they don’t really stand much of a chance,” says Peter Larkin, manager of the Casa Vieja Spanish restaurant in old Nicosia. “The recession has definitely led to a drop in business that started last year. This year we’ve seen an even bigger drop.”

Well known for specialising in a wide variety of tapas, the restaurant has however successfully managed to keep its head above water by offering clientele a whole range of deals with details often sent out via SMS and Facebook.

“We try to offer something different each month,” explains Peter. “Sometimes it’s a special set menu for a good price, on other occasions we have special drink deals.”

At the moment, every first and third Thursday of the month diners can drink as much

free sangria as they wish with their meal. Every last Tuesday on the other hand is ‘Paella Night’ with all you can eat paella for just €9.90 per person.

“The promotional deals really do make a difference,” admits the manager. “Lately I’ve had customers calling up to see what deal is on offer on what night to see when they are going to come. People never used to do that, but now, they are becoming a lot more conscious of how they spend their money.”

Head of the Cyprus Consumers’ Association, Frini Michael sees the overall change as extremely favourable.

“Lower prices will rejuvenate the market, it has to be done. In times like these, reductions will draw in the consumers while the businesses will also benefit from increased clientele. It’s a two way thing,” she points out.

“But that doesn’t mean there isn’t more that needs to happen. While restaurants may be offering special meal deals, the price of a drink at most coffee shops is still extortionate. This desperately needs to change.”

As many popular restaurants set the wheels of change in motion, over-priced coffee shops and bars may soon follow suit.

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fight waste woes added.

Interior Minister Eleni Mavrou has told the Sunday Mail that getting the ball rolling on the plants would help Cyprus argue against the imposition of crippling fines.

The commission decided to refer Cyprus to the ECJ because “full compliance [was] not expected before 2015”.

The interior ministry told the House interior committee in August that it was expecting the ECJ to issue a verdict in favour of the commission by autumn 2013 at the latest.

The Republic “must take all necessary measures to comply within a reasonable time span to avoid… the imposition of fines by a lump-sum and/or a daily fine for every day the violation continues,” the interior ministry’s permanent secretary, Andreas Ashiotis told the House in writing.

Italy, for example, is facing a huge lump-sump fine of €56 million and a daily fine of €256,819 although Cyprus’ comparably tiny economy will be fined less and is looking at €16,000 a day, Theopemptou said.

And the commission’s aim is to see the directive implemented, not to impose fines.

“Before deciding how to proceed, all information is taken into account including changes in the situation that first brought about the legal

Bugler wanted for annual Remembrance Day service in memory of war dead

By Bejay Browne

Workers at Koshi waste management plant sorting through rubbish action,” said the commission’s environment spokesman Joseph Hennon.

But Cyprus’ technical chamber ETEK, environment commissioner, and recycling agents have all asked the government to implement the existing infrastructure

and introduce waste reduction policies instead of rushing into tenders for waste management plants which will be “binding for the next decades” said ETEK in an announcement last month.

“We have been saying the same thing for years - basical-

ly everyone disagrees with the state,” Theopemptou said.

Be that as it may, Mavrou has previously put delays down to discussions and presentations, saying that it was time to end dialogue with interested stakeholders and take decisions.

A BUGLER is needed for the Remembrance Day service held to remember the war dead held in Peyia in Paphos in November.

Coordinated by Alan Wilson, who is also involved with MARCH - Military and Retired Cyprus Holidays for Heroes the service will be held on Sunday, November 11 in the Peyia Municipal Car Park.

“We are hoping to find a bugler for the service; one has yet to confirm but even if we have two that would be great,” said Wilson.

A bugler is needed to play The Last Post/Reveille.

The ‘Peyia Remembrance Service’ is now in its fifth year and attracted around 600 people last year, despite rainy weather. ”What makes the whole thing so special is the 300 or so ex-serviceman and women who turn out in their berets and medals,” Wilson said.

The service is held in Peyia car park, which is situated just below the church. Poppies will be on sale and Wilson has also distributed many to 14 outlets across Paphos. The event takes the form of a traditional Remembrance Day service.

Wilson, an ex serviceman who served for 12 years in the British army and has lived in Cyprus for the past 21 years, believes it is important to continue to mark Remembrance Day. “We have the privilege of gathering together in unity and peace to remember the passing of those brave military service personnel who died in conflicts past and present and to honour them for giving their all for our sakes,” he said.

MARCH provides holiday accommodation in Paphos for retired and injured military personnel.

Home owners in Cyprus who are involved in the scheme donate their property free for a week or two each year so that wounded, disabled or traumatised military and ex military personnel and their families are able to enjoy a holiday.

The Remembrance Day service will be held on Sunday November 11 in the Peyia Municipal Car Park at 10.30am. For further information regarding MARCH visit www.march-cy. org, or call Alan Wilson on 99850355

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World US East Coast bracing for Sandy

Obama and Romney line up elite lawyers

HURRICANE Sandy was downgraded yesterday morning but remained highly menacing as it pulled away from the Bahamas, making a slow path toward the U.S. northeast coast where it threatens to become one of the worst storms in decades.

The late-season storm has been dubbed “Frankenstorm” by some weather watchers because it will combine elements of a tropical cyclone and a winter storm and is forecast to reach the U.S. coast close to Halloween.

Forecast models show it will have all the ingredients to morph into a so-called “super storm”, stirring memories of the 1993 ‘Storm of the Century’, whose impact in the United States was particularly destructive.

Governors in states along the US East Coast declared emergencies on Friday, with officials urging residents to stock up on food, water and batteries.

The US Navy ordered all ships in the Norfolk, Virginia, area, including a nuclearpowered aircraft carrier, out to sea to ride out the approaching storm.

“We’re expecting a large, large storm,” said Louis Uccellini, director of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Center for Environmental Prediction.

“The circulation of this storm as it approaches the coast could cover about the eastern third of the United States.”

Sandy battered the Bahamas southeast of Florida on Friday after causing widespread destruction in eastern Cuba a day earlier.

On its current projected track, Sandy could make US landfall on Monday night or Tuesday, somewhere between North Carolina and southern New England, forecasters said.

Both prepare for possible recounts, challenges

By Samuel P. Jacobs AS President Barack Obama and Republican Mitt Romney scramble to come out ahead in the November 6 election, two other men are preparing for a legal showdown that could begin the next day.

They are the lawyers who have been tapped by the Obama and Romney teams to navigate any legal challenges to voting procedures or results in a tight contest that could dredge up memories of the disputed 2000 election that was settled by the US Supreme Court.

Leading Romney’s team is Benjamin Ginsberg, chief legal counsel for George W. Bush’s presidential campaigns in 2000 and 2004.

Obama has turned to Robert Bauer, a past White House counsel who has spoken out against Republican-led efforts to alter voting laws in states including Ohio, a politically divided state that could determine who wins the November 6 election.

Already, Ginsberg and Bauer have been quiet players in the 2012 campaign.

This fall, the duo negotiated the terms of the three presidential debates and the one between Vice President Joe Biden and Republican vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan. The agreement dealt with the details of the

Early voters fill out their ballots as they cast their vote in the US presidential election, at the Stephen P. Clark Government Center yesterday in Miami, Florida debates, such as the format of each event.

Before the Republican convention in Tampa, Florida, in late August, Ginsberg led the Romney campaign’s efforts to wrest greater control over the party’s rules, angering some Republican activists who saw the move as a power grab by Romney’s team.

Ginsberg and Bauer, who did not respond to requests for comment, have been engaged in the same type of election legal adventures so frequently that Joe Allbaugh, Republican George W. Bush’s campaign manager in 2000, teasingly calls them the “Bobbsey Twins”, after the children’s book characters.

For decades, Ginsberg and Bauer have given partisan legal advice for campaigns, recounts and election court battles.

“The truth is, there are very few lawyers who work in this area,” Ginsberg told The New York Times in 2004.

With Obama and Romney in a virtual dead heat in the polls, the state-by-state race for president has a range of chaotic possibilities.

The most likely scenario is that there will be a clear winner on election night, or the next morning. But the closeness of the race raises the possibility of a range of less conclusive, more confusing scenarios.

Among them: a disputed

result in a state because of voting delays, problems with ballots or vote counting.

A contested election would send Bauer and Ginsberg and law firms across the nation - rushing to courtrooms to question the validity of votes or any other irregularities that might have tipped the scales in a state’s voting results.

The close finish to the 2012 race comes after a campaign season dominated by legal wrangling, including fights over laws that require voters to produce photo identification and change early-voting periods. Democrats have succeeded in getting many of the voting restrictions tossed aside.

WORLD TODAY Twin blasts kill 13 in Baghdad TWO blasts hit a Baghdad Shi’ite neighbourhood and a bus full of Iranian pilgrims yesterday, killing at least 13 people on the second day of the Islamic Eid al Adha religious festival.

Sunni Islamist insurgents and al Qaeda’s Iraq wing often target Shi’ites in an attempt to stir up the kind of sectarian tensions that dragged the country close to civil war in 20062007 though bombings and attacks have eased.

In one attack yesterday, a roadside bomb planted near an open-air market killed seven people, including three children at a playground.

Another blast killed six people when it hit a bus carrying Iranian pilgrims to a Baghdad shrine, police and hospital officials said.

Berlusconi ‘will stay in politics’ FORMER Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, reacting to a Milan court’s conviction for tax fraud, said yesterday he would stay in politics.

Berlusconi told an Italian television interviewer he felt “obliged to stay in the field” in order to protect other Italians from what he called judicial injustices.

But it was not clear if Berlusconi, now a member of the lower house of parliament, meant he would run for high office or just stay on as an unelected political force of the centre-right.

“There will be consequences,” Berlusconi said, referring to his jail sentence on Friday - which will not be enforced until his appeals are exhausted.

Catholic Church wants Savile honour removed THE head of the Roman Catholic Church in England has written to the Vatican to ask whether it is possible to strip the late BBC presenter Jimmy Savile of a papal knighthood because of his role in a sex abuse scandal, a spokesman said yesterday.

Archbishop of Westminster Vincent Nichols wrote to the Holy See in the light of “deeply shocking” allegations and in recognition of the “deep distress” suffered by any abuse victims, a spokesman for the archbishop said.

Allegations that Savile, a cigar-chomping former DJ who was one of the BBC’s top presenters, sexually abused young girls for decades has thrown the publicly-funded BBC into disarray. On Thursday, police said some 300 victims had come forward and that they were preparing to make arrests.

Savile, a Catholic active in charitable works, died last year aged 84.

“The archbishop has written to the competent office of the Holy See with a request to investigate if anything can be done about Savile’s papal knighthood,” the spokesman said, adding that the letter was sent last week.

The papal knighthood is one of the highest honours bestowed by the pope and is reserved for lay people and the military. It was instituted in 1831 by Pope Gregory XVI. British newspaper The Daily Telegraph, which first reported on the letter, said Savile had been made a knight by the late Pope John Paul II in 1990 for his charity work.

It was unclear if the honour could be withdrawn posthumously.

The spokesman, speaking on condition of anonymity in line with church policy, said that “while it’s clear that the honour dies with the person”, Nichols had acted “in recognition of the deep distress of those who have suffered abuse and the disquiet at Mr Savile’s name remaining on the papal list”.

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World ‘Kidnap Westerners,’ urges al Qaeda chief

‘Assad forces return to heavy bombardment’ Syrian opposition activists report further undermining of Eid al-Adha ceasefire OPPOSITION activists in Syria said forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad had renewed their heavy bombardment of major cities yesterday, further undermining a truce meant to mark the Muslim Eid al-Adha religious holiday.

The bombardment came on the second day of the truce called by international peace envoy Lakhdar Brahimi, who had hoped to use it to build broader momentum to end the 19-month-old conflict which has killed an estimated 32,000 people.

“The army began firing mortars at 7am. I have counted 15 explosions in one hour and we already have two civilians killed,” said Mohammed Doumany, an activist from the Damascus suburb of Douma, where pockets of rebels are based. “I can’t see any difference from before the truce and now,” he said.

Heavy machine gunfire and the sound of mortar bombs could be heard for the second consecutive day along the Turkey-Syria border near the Syrian town of Haram, a Reuters witness said.

FIGHTER JETS Activists in the eastern city of Deir al-Zor and in Aleppo, where rebels control roughly half of Syria’s most populous city, said that mortar bombs were being fired into residential areas.

Residents in Damascus aired footage of fighter jets which they said were bombing the suburbs of Erbin and Harasta.

The Syrian army said it had responded to attacks by insurgents on its positions on Friday, in line with its earlier announcement that it would cease military activity during

the holiday, but reserved the right to react to rebel actions.

A statement from the General Command of the Armed Forces detailed several ceasefire violations in which it said “terrorists” had fired on checkpoints and bombed a military police patrol in Aleppo.

More than 150 people were killed on Friday, said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a British-based opposition organisation with a network of sources within Syria.

Most were shot by sniper fire or in clashes, the Observatory said, highlighting a temporary drop-off in the civil war’s intensity in which Assad’s forces have been conducting daily airstrikes and heavy artillery raids in most cities.

Forty-three soldiers were killed in ambushes and during clashes, it said, while state TV reported a powerful car bomb which had killed

An opposition handout picture shows Syrians inspecting the site of a car bomb attack in the Daf Shawk district of Damascus on Friday (AFP) five people in Damascus.

Violence had appeared to wane in some areas on Friday, but truce breaches by both sides swiftly marred Syrians’ hopes of celebrating Eid alAdha, the climax of the Haj pilgrimage to Mecca, in peace.

Brahimi’s ceasefire appeal had won international support, including from Russia,

China and Iran, President Assad’s main foreign allies.

But there are few signs that either side in the conflict has respected the truce. A Reuters cameraman in the Turkish border village of Besaslan in southern Hatay province said he could hear the sound of a helicopter circling on the Syrian side of the border.

AL Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahri has called on Muslims to kidnap Westerners, join Syria’s rebellion and to ensure Egypt implements sharia, SITE Monitoring reported yesterday, citing a two-part film posted on Islamist websites.

The Egypt-born cleric, who became al Qaeda leader last year after the death of Osama bin Laden, spoke in a message that lasted more than two hours.

“We are seeking, by the help of Allah, to capture others and to incite Muslims to capture the citizens of the countries that are fighting Muslims in order to release our captives,” he said, praising the kidnapping of Warren Weinstein, a 71-year-old American aid worker in Pakistan last year.

Zawahri’s message was first released on Wednesday, SITE said, just two weeks after the cleric issued a filmed statement calling for more protests against the United States over a California-made film mocking the Prophet Mohammad.

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Opinion Litany of costly blunders have now caught up with the banks FOR YEARS, Cyprus’ banks successfully promoted a positive image among society.

They gave money to charities, sponsored the arts, supported worthy social initiatives, fuelled the development of the economy and paid their shareholders healthy dividends. For the decade following the stock exchange bubble, they could do no wrong, in public eyes, as they financed the construction super-boom of the noughties, gave loans to people with minimum of fuss and issued credit cards to their customers without being asked.

In this period they were also the best advertisers of the media, spending millions every year on television, radio and newspaper advertising. This dependence ensured the media were never overly critical of the banks - valued customers with big advertising budgets that had to be kept happy. The positive reports about the banks’ activities abounded and helped the cultivation of the image of

the banks as agents of growth and prosperity. And when in 2007 the Central Bank Governor placed restrictions on housing loans, because the economy was over-heating, media and politicians all turned on him.

It was the first sign of how irresponsibly the banks had been behaving in their pursuit of higher profits but nobody took much notice as the economy was still booming and property prices were soaring thanks to easy credit. The banks were carried away by the property bubble as they had been eight years earlier by the stock exchange bubble, their top executives believing that they could do no wrong, with nobody, not even their boards, able to stand in their way. Boards of directors just sat back and allowed the mighty executives to take one reckless decision after the other.

All the costly blunders have now caught up with the banks, the executives who led them on the road to collapse have gone,

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insolvent Popular (Laiki) has come under the control of the state and the Bank of Cyprus needs state help to be able to re-capitalise. Over-expansion in Greece and the mindless purchase of billions of euro worth of Greek government bonds at a time when nobody with a little common sense would have invested in them, let alone smart bankers on obscene salaries bigger than the annual payroll of a medium sized business, have destroyed the sector. And the investigation into the banks’ portfolios, which will expose the scale of the debt write-offs and non-performing loans, is still to come.

On top of all the blunders, there was also the sale of the convertible bonds which wiped out savings of over a billion euro, as Popular and Bank of Cyprus tried to raise capital to cover losses. Had the banks’ top

brass knowingly deceived their customers or did they actually believe they would be able to pay seven per cent interest for six years, during the worst ever recession and collapse of their businesses in Greece?

Perhaps the bank bosses were still under the illusion that they could do no wrong when they were advising their customer to put their savings in convertible bonds.

But this is not all. Now, the banks have brought the economy to a standstill, charging extortionate interest rates – as high as 10.5 per cent in some cases - that are crippling businesses and preventing investment. They are turning the screw on their customers because of the reckless decisions taken by their top executives. It really beggars belief that apart from the extortionate interest rates and bank charges, the taxpayer will also be burdened with debts of billions to bail out these reckless banks, whose leadership destroyed the

economy.

Letting them collapse would have been a just punishment, but the country’s already big problems would multiply tenfold if this were allowed to happen.

First, the state would have to come up with tens of billions to pay the for the €100,000 deposits it had guaranteed; second, all the island’s banks would collapse because of the sector’s inter-dependence; third, Cyprus would never again be able to sell itself as a financial services centre as foreign deposits are moved to safer banks abroad; fourth, thousands of businesses would go under with the banks and the economy would contract to its post-invasion size.

In short, the economy is so closely linked to the survival of the banks we are obliged to do everything possible to keep them afloat, even though their irresponsibly reckless actions, past and present, do not deserve any support.

Letters to the Editor State’s job to support people with disabilities If private bodies want to exercise social policy, let them do with their own money and not that of the public by exploiting the word ‘love’ by broadcasting footage of mentally handicapped children in order to appeal for their needs.

Let them not use declarations that the Radiomarathon is for all children and not just for those with mental impairments, which they used as an excuse following our protestations against the Radiomarathon.

And when it comes to the poor, the relevant body is the labour ministry and social welfare services, and I wonder whether something like the Radiomarathon just causes the problems within the social welfare system to continue.

When it comes to children with health problems, it is the health ministry that should cover their needs and offer necessary services.

During our meetings with the Radiomarathon’s organisers we stressed the need to defend the dignity of persons with disabilities, particularly in the eyes of the public. If we identify gaps and omissions in social welfare or health services we should not create private bodies operating by their own rules to solve them but rather demand from the state – the wholly responsible body – to cover the gaps and solve problems.

It is not an accident that members of the original Radiomarathon team have distanced themselves [from the charity].

This institution needs to change character if it really aims to contribute to society. Otherwise, let it be abolished.

Dimitris Lambrianides, Vice Chairman of the Cyprus Confederation of Organisations for the Disabled and head of the Paraplegics’ Association

Down the slippery slope The natural forces that created the island left behind a legacy of riches but they also left behind a legacy of problems. The most notable of these is unstable land in which landslides are common. In Cyprus, landslides are usually triggered by heavy rainfall, earthquakes, erosion, and human activity.

At Pissouri, Kinousa or Polemi one can see the damage resulting from houses built on landslides. The Cyprus Geological Survey Department (GSD) has mapped vulnerable landslide areas in Paphos district and to a lesser extent, those in Limassol.

Problematic Paphos villages include Ayios Photios and Statos, Choletria, Theletra, Episkopi, Marathounda and Armou. Following devastating landslips at Ayios Photios and Statos, the government moved both villages to a new location. Choletria & Theletra villages were also relocated after suffering similar disasters.

The GSD map shows bentonite and mélange landslides.

These clays absorb huge amounts of water, expanding by as much as 15 times their original volume and shrinking back as they dry out.

The extreme forces exerted as they expand and contract can wreak havoc to anything built on them. Deposits of bentonite and mélange can be found at many villages, including Simou, Drinia, Phiti, Milia, Anadiou, Lasa, Krittou, Marottou, Kannaviou, Melamiou, Ayios Dimitrianos, Nata and Fionikaria.

The development of six houses on a hillside of soft clay at Armou is at great risk from the winter rains; local people avoided the area. But landslides in the area could also be triggered by excavations and vibrations caused

by vehicles, alterations to the surface water flow caused by roads and other hard landscaping, large discharges of water from swimming pools, sewerage problems caused by the non-permiable nature of the soil, etc. These factors may impact on neighbouring areas, damaging buildings, and accelerating nearby active slides. Clearly, anyone who was ‘duped’ into buying a property on this development, or any others built on unstable land is simply asking for trouble!

In 2006 heavy rain in Paphos triggered mud slides which resulted in damage to property and the tragic loss of two lives. The authorities worked hard to put matters right.

They improved and enlarged drains, and contoured and cleared ravines blocked by discarded rubbish.

Almost immediately, a developer in-filled one of the cleared ravines and started building houses. What happens the next time there’s some heavy rain?

Heavy rains also caused problems at a development at Pissouri. One owner went to check that the contents of his garden shed were keeping dry. Seconds after returning to the house he heard a loud crash; a 20 foot reinforced concrete wall had collapsed, crushing his shed and filling his garden and swimming pool with mud, water and goat excrement. If he’d lingered a few seconds longer in his shed, he may well have been killed.

Given Cyprus’ long experience of landslides and having to move whole villages to new locations, you would think that the law would prohibit the construction of property on unstable land. Unfortunately, this is not the case!

Nigel Howarth, Limassol

Sceptical of the EAC’s allegations Rugby the Police chief is not ‘battling’ about tampering with their fuses way to go With refernece to your article in the Cyprus Mail on October 23 titled: “Police Chief and Union Head get ready to battle it out in Court”, I would like to firstly stress and clarify that there is no ‘battle’ between myself and Mr Andreas Symeou or the Police Association.

Furthermore, I would also like to point out that my decision not to meet with Mr Symeou is based upon the expert opinion of the Attonery General issued on June 5, 2012.

According to the Attorney General, Mr Symeou’s election as Head of the Police Association cannot be considered valid as the procedure carried out during his election was improper: ‘the vote of censure will have to be regarded as rejected or rather that it was no accepted’.

Finally, I would like to emphasise that we always act in the public interest and within the framework of legality.

Michalis Papageorgiou, Chief of Police

Further to Rod James’s letter regarding the EAC and their ‘fuse’ scam, I am writing to say that exactly the same happened to me.

At the end of August, I received a letter dated April 6, stating that a fuse had been tampered with and a penalty of €227 was being charged. When I went down to challenge this, I was told that in fact, all three fuses had been tampered with, and had been replaced by fuses of a higher value.

Since we do not have any three phase appliances, it would be impossible to ‘blow’ all three fuses, and since they are very large ‘cartridge type’ which are not normally available to the public, I concluded that the only possible way they would ever be all changed, was by the EAC themselves, assuming that the fuses actually were incorrect, as six months after the event, I have no proof they were actually changed.

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ing and writing to the area manager resulted in negative replies from the initial letter writer, stating that unless I paid within two weeks, the electricity supply would be cut off.

There is no independent appeals procedure in accordance with EU rules.

I wonder how many of us have been targeted for a €227 contribution to subsidise EAC’s losses?

David Esterson, Paphos

Rugby is not only a great sport to watch, it offers structure and discipline to the players, especially to youngsters.

When did you last read of hooliganism at a rugby match?

But where does government spend the sport budget - football. Who has had their money withdrawn? The Cyprus rugby team. Who are on the verge of a world record for the longest run of winning games and have every chance of making it to major world events over the next few years?

Maria Zavallis-Roebuck, UK

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Obama of 2008 is gone forever Obama has taken a heavier beating from his political opposition than most presidents Comment Jonathan Schell

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FTER the second debate between US President Barack Obama and his Republican challenger, Mitt Romney, Obama’s supporters chorused in near-unison, “He’s back!”

The languid, disengaged, and lacklustre performer of the first debate had disappeared, and the impressive, beloved figure of the victorious 2008 campaign had reappeared. As the commentator Andrew Sullivan put it, “I saw the person I first saw...I saw the president I thought I knew.”

To my eye, however, the old Obama was not back. A new Obama had appeared. The old Obama was youthful, charming, graceful, and full of hope. His demeanor was crisp yet easygoing. His rhetoric soared. His smile could light up a stadium.

The Obama on display in the second debate and the third - was harder, chillier, sadder, and more sombre. There was tension in the lines of his mouth. His speech was clipped, as if under continuous rigorous control. His rhetoric did not soar, could not soar. The smile was rare and constrained.

But his command of detail and argument was rock solid. His sentences parsed. He spoke with a cold, disciplined energy. In repose (as witnessed on the split screen in the reaction shots) he was often perfectly immobile, almost stony, as if posing for a portrait.

One word for all of this would be “presidential”, in the sense of competent, seasoned and sobered by reality. But that word also connotes the fearsome qualities of ruthlessness and brutality that any honest portrayal of the office of President of the United States must include in our day. Obama has inhabited the White House for four years; now the White House inhabits him.

Twice this autumn, Obama had already performed before tens of millions of people - in his acceptance speech at the Democratic convention and in the first debate. Each time, his performance was flat. At the convention, he seemingly hoped to summon the old Obama, to charm and soar, but that man was simply no longer available.

The truth appears to be that his muse deserted him sometime in the first year of his presidency. The result was a simulacrum of the old Obama, as if he were acting the part of himself.

Then, in the first debate, no such futile effort was even made, and there was no Obama at all, neither old nor new. As so many commentators noted, in some sense he simply failed to show up. Perhaps he also thought that, well ahead in the polls, he did not have to bother to engage the pesky fellow who imagined replacing him in the White House.

At the second debate, the loss of the old Obama was apparently accepted and a new

President Barack Obama waves to supporters as he arrives for a campaign rally in Las Vegas, Nevada earlier this week one - existing, real, available, and now working in the Oval Office - made its first appearance.

Has the presidency hardened Obama? Has it brutalised him? There are reasons for thinking that it has.

First, Obama has taken, perhaps, a heavier beating from his political opposition than most presidents. The theme of Obama’s life, clearly expressed in his eloquent memoir Dreams from My Father, and shown in the recent Frontline documentary The Choice, is reconciliation. He is not a man whose identity was handed to him by birth. Born of a white mother and an absentee Kenyan father, residing in Indonesia as a boy, raised in adolescence by a white single mother in Hawaii, he was forced to figure out his place in life on his own.

He found it in the idea of reconciliation - both racial and ideological.

That was the theme of his defining speech at the Democratic convention in 2004, with its fa-

mous line, “There is not a liberal America and a conservative America; there is the United States of America.”

It was to be the theme of his presidency. So, when an ideologically implacable Republican opposition, in his very first days in office, threw the vision back in his face, adopting a policy of scorched-earth opposition, the rejection was about more than policy - it affected his very being. The dreams from his father were at an end, and he was left, as he only slowly realised, with the themeless pragmatism that has become the hallmark of his administration.

Unable to find common ground with the Republican opposition, he cut deals with the other powers that immediately surround the presidency: the military and security apparatus, big pharmaceutical companies, big banks and big media. Perhaps more important was the permission that he gave himself for vio-

lence and suppression of rights: drone strikes that have killed children as well as terrorists, the futile “surge” in Afghanistan, the continued operation of the prison at Guantánamo Bay, reliance on military tribunals, an unprecedented campaign against whistle blowers, and the assertion of a right to order the assassination of foreigners and Americans alike at his sole discretion.

All this, too, stood behind the performance of the man on stage during the second two debates. And if he is elected, it is this man who will govern. The Obama of 2008 is not back. He is not coming back. He is gone forever.

Jonathan Schell is a Fellow at The Nation Institute and a visiting fellow at Yale University. He is the author of The Seventh Decade: The New Shape of Nuclear Danger. © Project Syndicate, 2012

Self-pitying rants provoke all private sector workers Comment Loucas Charalambous THE MOST outrageous thing related to the state’s bankruptcy is the boundless audacity displayed

by PASYDY and the state school teachers unions POED and OELMEK.

It is infuriating to hear their self-pitying rants which are such a big provocation to all our fellow citizens who have joined the swelling ranks of the unemployed.

Their behaviour is even more repugnant when you consider that one of the main reasons so many people are suffering today is because for the last 35 years Hadjipetrou’s PASYDY and the rest of the gang have been having a non-stop party financed by state funds. They

have been enjoying provocative super-privileges with borrowed money that all of us now have to repay.

Our teachers and Hadjipetrou are sobbing and grieving because supposedly the inadequate measures proposed by the government ‘slaughtered’ the public employees and abolished their ‘conquests’. But what ‘slaughter’ are they talking about? The proposed wage cuts are between 11 and 15 per cent. Where is the problem?

Private sector employees, from the first day they start work, contribute 6.8 per cent of their wage to the Social Insurance Fund and another 7 per cent to a provident fund.

In other words, private sector employees have always been subjected to pay cuts of the level that public employees will only now experience. But

private sector employees are paid a pension that can be half of what state workers receive, while their provident fund payment is the same as the ‘retirement bonus’ paid to the public parasites who never contribute a cent towards it.

I will give an example of a public employee who retires at the top rung of the A7 pay scale and private sector worker who retires at 65, on the same annual salary of €39,247 (monthly salary of about €3,000). For the public employee the monthly pension is €1,510 and the retirement bonus €93,589. For the private sector employee the monthly pension is €900 and the sum he would take from the provident fund about €90,000.

So we have a private sector worker contributing all his working life 14 per cent of his

monthly salary in order to be paid a pension that is only 60 per cent of what the public sector worker would be paid, despite working fewer years and contributing nothing towards it. The retirement pay-off is about the same, but the public employee contributed nothing towards it.

This is the reality which becomes much worse as we go higher up the state’s pay scales.

But we had to wait for 35 years to go bankrupt and for the troika to come to put things right.

And we have Hadjipetrou and the teachers beating their breasts and pulling their hair because social justice is to be restored to an extent.

They do not give up their protests, shouting at the top of their voice: hands off CoLA, hand off 13th salaries, hands off non-contributory pensions,

hands off retirement bonuses etc.

Hadjipetrou and his fellowfighters are making one mistake. This time they are not dealing with our demagogue politicians who satisfied their every demand and fuelled this arrogance and audacity.

Now is the time for all us who have been paying for the public employees’ super-privileges all these years, to shout our slogan: hands off the troika, Mr Hadjipetrou, you and the insatiable, indolent teachers.

Leave the troika alone. Allow it to put things in some order as nobody else is capable of doing it. It is fortunate that your greed and stupidity brought the troika to Cyprus, which, believe it or not, was the best thing you have done for the country in your destructive career.

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Governor’s comments on capital and banks were very misleading Comment Averof Neophytou IN HIS SPEECH, the governor of the Central Bank on October 22 at a luncheon organised by the Association of International Banks of Cyprus stated, among other things, that “the direct recapitalisation of Cyprus banks from the ESM [European Stability Mechanism] will be possible when this facility becomes available”. But, continued the governor, this “does not prevent replacing part of the

EFSF loan with a direct capital injection into the banks from the ESM”.

In the European Council conclusions of October 19, the Council explicitly “invites the legislators to proceed with work on the legislative proposals on the Single Supervisory Mechanism (SSM) as a matter of priority, with the objective of agreeing on the legislative framework by 1st January 2013”.

Of course the same conclusions note “the Commission’s intention to propose a single resolution mechanism for member states participating in the SSM once the proposals for a Recovery and Resolution Directive and for a Deposit Guarantee Scheme Directive have been adopted”.

From this it is obvious that the

direct involvement of the ESM in the recapitalisation of banks can only become a reality after the relevant directives are adopted by the Member States, and once the legal framework for the single supervisory mechanism is drawn up.

Only when these conditions are met can the single supervisory mechanism come into operation, and only then will the ESM be able to directly participate in the recapitalisation of banks. And there are serious doubts whether it will operate in a retroactive manner, especially if one takes seriously into account recent statements made by the German finance minister.

So it is not wise for someone to claim that the Cypriot banks could be directly funded by the ESM,

since first of all the ESM does not exist yet. A bank would be financed directly only when the conditions set by the European Commission are satisfied.

Naturally, it would be useful if we were able to have clear positions in the next summit of heads of governments for the retroactive ability of the ESM for Cypriot banks and the replacement of part of the EFSF loan with direct capital injections from the ESM. It has not yet been determined whether the loan from the EFSF can be converted into direct funding to the banks from the ESM can even happen.

And in order for that to concern us, firstly the requirements of the European Commission have to be met and the legislative framework

of the ESM completed. The rest of the member states have to accept the ability of the ESM to operate retrospectively, and finally we will see whether a loan from the EFSF can be converted into direct bank funding.

Of course direct funding from the ESM can also hide traps because it will finance viable banks. And we are not able to know right now what stance they will take on our financial sector and whether they will consider it as having viable prospects for growth.

And because problems are not solved with assumptions, let us confine ourselves at present to today’s brutal realities.

Averof Neophytou is deputy leader of DISY

Self-interest is decimating healthcare Public health sector is creaking at the seams while the private sector fleeces us Comment Hermes Solomon

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YPRUS is where the insignificant is accomplished readily and the significant rarely.

To better serve the sick, public health ambulances are now stationed at public health centres throughout the capital. Their sirens are audible 24/7, delivering those with minor complaints to the nearest public health centre, or if serious, to the Nicosia General.

To better serve patients’ pockets and win the hearts of sick voters, expensive drugs are going to be cheaper said former minister of health, Stavros Malas, without telling us which, what and where, but only why and when, intimating that pharmacists’ ‘happy days’ could well be numbered.

A pensioner friend with Parkinson’s disease, parts with 320 euros monthly for a range of drugs unobtainable in the public sector’s pharmaceutical dispensaries from where others take home bags full of aspirin type panaceas buck-

shee. Another, who thought he was covered by a two million euro private health insurance, now finds himself laying out a non-reimbursable 250 euros a month for specific drugs targeted to treat a post op complication.

Drug corporations, like those of tobacco, fuel and booze, have always milked the poor or sick with governments taxing the cream off the top.

But the cost of private medicine and pharmaceuticals is fast growing beyond our reach, causing us - when beset by a bout of arrhythmia or dizziness - to flock in our thousands to public service A&Es. And is there any wonder when most family doctors, having collected their 50 euro consultation fee, direct us there rather than accept responsibility for a diagnosis.

And why should they, when they earn six times as much from surgery consultation than public service doctors earn at public health centres/ hospitals working eight or more hours a day in search of that diagnosis?

In ‘the old days’, a family doctor would send us to see ‘his preferred private sector specialist’, but most private sector hospitals/clinics are now owed millions by ‘financial crisis’ hit patients, who can no longer borrow money to throw at unreasonably priced private healthcare.

Then how much is your good health worth? Private hospital/clinic specialists claim it is priceless ahead of advising a costly operation, the truly ill resembling flies flapping their wings helplessly in troubled water, drowning to decide.

Second and third opinions serve only to enrich ‘specialists’ and confuse the drowning.

Today, the reception area at the Nicosia General could be mistaken for a field hospital jam packed with elderly injured combatants (les poilus), who courageously struggle to get there, queue endlessly and hobble ‘miles’ to be examined, waiting hours to be prescribed treatment, collect medicaments and finally, exhausted, struggle home. Free of cost it might be, but not of stress, pain, despair and insupportable inconvenience.

On the other hand, the private sector, once the pride of the island, has become an ogre milking patients dry. It, like the public sector, is no longer viable. And don’t think you can escape this assumption when private health insurance companies stipulate not only amounts, but where, when and how an illness should be treated, reimbursing according to their stipulations/calculations and not yours.

Are private healthcare costs arrived at conscientiously or

Nicosia General could be mistaken for a field hospital jam packed with elderly combatants is the whole shebang but a cruel cartel of insurance companies conniving with the private healthcare sector, fleecing the fearful or truly sick - eine Milchkuh?

Heart by-passes can cost up to 30,000 euros and a simple appendectomy 5000 euros greedy surgeon’s fees being the root cause of the private sector’s downfall and responsible for the sick, or not so, inundating public health services. And should post op complications ensue, you could easily find yourself deserted, alone and unloved by your insurance company, family doctor, his ‘preferred’ private specialist and the private hospital/clinic, beset by an inadequate follow-up or accountability and despatched to the public health service, today’s alms house.

I know of a family doctor who, after a bungled operation performed by a ‘preferred’ private sector surgeon, professed that he’d mislaid the patient’s file during a subsequent patient/doctor confrontation. Another refused to visit the home of a patient who had suffered a suspected

mild stroke, insisting he be transported in a private sector ambulance to a ‘preferred’ private hospital, and there, undergo a brain scan and neurologist’s examination at exorbitant expense.

It is cynically claimed that every third adult citizen of the Republic is either a doctor, lawyer or bank employee.

Then why is our health service in tatters, our economy bankrupt and our legal system antiquated and unworkable?

Are there simply too many self-interested cooks dipping their ‘greasy’ fingers into the broth?

As standards of healthcare fall dramatically, a review of the island’s healthcare services is seriously overdue.

We cannot permit greed to destroy the goose that laid the golden egg. Combining the two systems (private and public) under the NHIS (National Health Insurance Scheme) would greatly improve efficiency and reduce unacceptably long waiting lists in the public sector. Yet politicians have done little other than talk about its inception this past ten years,

when public health nurses, doctors and auxiliaries’ pay in no way compares to that earned by their equals in the private sector.

Now, after much time wasted filling greedy pockets, some politicians claim that funds to combine the two are no longer available when, in reality, the NHIS would be paid for by subscribers and a significant reduction in fees charged by the private sector, wherein I include those of family doctors and so called specialists!

Seven hours a day, five days a week, each private family doctor consultation lasts an average of 15 minutes, giving us a total of 140 consultations at 50 euros each - an approximate annual income of 350,000 euros. Now tell me what percentage of that extortionate total is taxed!

In today’s healthcare conflict, the logic of optimisation demands the balancing of competing interests. It is time that this ‘malignant cancer’ of self-interest, decimating our health services, administration, banking and legal system was cut out!

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Opinion The medieval city of L’Aquila, where 309 people died in an earthquake in 2009

uotes of the week “Haircuts and shaves given without unnecessary conversation”.

Sign spotted in a New York barber’s shop “I’m so dyslexic that I’m accused of rewriting Shakespeare”.

Hollywood star Henry Winkler, who famously played The Fonz

Predicting disaster is a risky business The six Italian scientists imprisoned for failing to predict a deadly earthquake have been put in an impossible position

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IX YEARS in jail and an average fine of over a million dollars: that was the punishment given to six Italian scientists on 22 October for getting their earthquake advice wrong. So what will the expert geologists and vulcanologists in Italy say the next time they are asked about the likelihood of an earthquake? They will refuse to say anything, of course.

More than 5,000 scientists have signed a letter supporting their colleagues who found themselves standing trial for manslaughter in the medieval city of L’Aquila, where 309 people died in an earthquake in 2009. But the case is a bit more complex than it first appears.

People always look for a scapegoat when disaster strikes, and it’s understandable that the bereaved people of L’Aquila wanted someone to blame.

Most of them were glad when the six Italian scientists were convicted: at least somebody was being punished for the crime. But it wasn’t exactly the crime that those 5,000 foreign scientists thought they had been accused of.

Even lawyers and judges know that you cannot predict an earthquake with any certainty. What the six were actually accused of was being too reassuring about how likely an earthquake was.

There were hundreds of small shocks around L’Aquila in the weeks before the big one struck, and the six scientists were sent to the city to assess the level of danger. They judged the risk as minor, and one, foolishly, said there was “no danger”.

On the basis of this scientific advice, it is claimed, thousands of citizens decided to sleep in their houses rather than outside - and 309 of them were crushed in their houses a week later when the magnitude 6.3 quake brought them down. So the scientists’ crime was not a failure to predict the quake, but a failure to state clearly that it could happen.

It’s still a stupid charge. Half of the

Comment Gwynne Dyer really big earthquakes are preceded by a flurry of smaller shocks, true - but such clusters of small shocks are quite common, and only 5 per cent of them are followed by a major quake. So the scientists were caught on the horns of a familiar dilemma.

Fail to issue a warning before a big quake, and you will be discredited (and maybe, if you are Italian, charged with manslaughter). But issue warnings every time there is a 5 percent risk, and you will cause 19 needless mass evacuations for every necessary one. You will be “crying wolf”, which is usually counter-productive.

The scientists’ conviction will probably be reversed on appeal, bringing this whole foolish episode to an end. For the rest of us, however, this just illustrates how hard it is for human beings to deal sensibly with big but incalculable risks.

The biggest incalculable risk of a purely natural order that we know about is the mega-tsunami that will be unleashed when the western flank of Cumbre Vieja volcano on the island of La Palma in the Canaries slides into the Atlantic Ocean.

In an eruption in 1949, a chunk of rock about 500 cubic km in size, with a mass of 150 billion tonnes, became detached from the main ridge and slid two metres down towards the sea.

This is bad news for people living around the Atlantic Ocean. In some future volcanic eruption (there have been six in the past 500 years), that whole mass may slide all the way into the ocean and generate a tsunami that

would initially be about 600 metres high.

It would travel outwards in an expanding circle at some 1,000 km per hour, destroying everything on the western coast of Africa in one hour. It would inundate England’s south coast in three, and reach the east coast of the United States, Canada and Cuba in six. Brazilians would have to wait a little longer.

The waves would reach up to 20 km inland in low-lying areas. Many tens of millions would die.

So let’s imagine that there’s another eruption on Cumbre Vieja, and a committee of global experts is convened to watch the western flank for signs of movement. Should they advise evacuation along all the vulnerable coasts?

That’s several hundred million people.

Who will give those people food and shelter? How long must they stay inland? And the economic damage would be huge.

The experts can’t wait until the last minute to give their advice: you can’t evacuate the entire US east coast in six hours. If they advise evacuation, and nothing bad happens, they will be the most unpopular people on the planet. If they don’t, and the worst does happen, they will be seen as guilty of mass manslaughter, just like the Italian scientists at L’Aquila.

Since it will always be much likelier that no catastrophe is going to happen this time, the experts will almost certainly issue reassuring statements intended to keep people in their homes.

Just like the Italian scientists. And yet some day, next week or a thousand years from now, that mass of rock on Cumbre Vieja will really fall into the sea.

Damned if you do, and damned if you don’t.

Gwynne Dyer is an independent journalist whose articles are published in 45 countries

“Who vetted the knighthood? Coco the clown?”

Jimmy Savile’s former BBC radio colleague, Paul Gambaccini “If I had been groped in my younger days, I would think ‘Oh, he’s a dirty old man’ and I would make a point of keeping out of the way of the miscreant and have a giggle with my friends about it”.

Crime writer PD James, now Baroness James, 92 “People always disapprove of me - when I marry, when I divorce, when I lose weight, when I put it back on. They disapprove of everything”.

Actress Dawn French

on the floor so it would crunch along your path as you paraded between the desks. Hilarious”.

Broadcaster Sue MacGregor makes a belated apology to her teacher for her “disrespectful” behaviour as a schoolgirl “Apologies from politicians are about as rare as away wins for Queen’s Park Rangers”.

Education Secretary Michael Gove, who has said “sorry” to one of his teachers for his “pathetic” behaviour in the classroom 30 years ago “I don’t even remember what a headache is”.

Fidel Castro, former Cuban leader, denying “stupidities” that he is in failing health

“Wills and Kate were having a private moment and it was invaded. She does have a great pair of boobs, though, right?”

Singer Cheryl Cole on the photographs of the Duchess of Cambridge sunbathing topless “My wife is always right”.

Pop star Donny Osmond’s response when asked about the secret of a happy marriage

“Terrorists become very conservative in the end.

They become fine, upstanding members of the community”.

Irish writer Colm Tobin “We poured Horlicks

“Honest, I’m sure I’ve got a tattoo of your name on me somewhere”.

Broadcaster Danny Baker reports on a comment he overheard in a fish and chip shop in Blackpool “Is Plebgate the first political scandal to involve an actual gate?”

Annie Pierce, of Birkenhead, in a letter to the Daily Telegraph

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News Review Eurozone exit?

A FORMER vice chairman of Moody’s has said he believes Cyprus could be the first country to exit the eurozone, given the island’s anti-austerity government.

In his blog on Monday on the respected Project Syndicate website, Christopher Mahoney called Cyprus “an economic, financial and political mess, worse than Greece, and it may not be too big to fail”.

Mahoney said he had been following the Cyprus situation closely because Cyprus “seems like the most scary sovereign credit in the eurozone”.

He also said Cypriot banks were never in terrific condition, given the nature of the Cyprus economy and the close relationship with Greece which has never been the “land of good loans”. He said Cypriot banks were insolvent “on an intergalactic scale”.

AEL Limassol fans cheer before the start of the UEFA Europa League football match with Fenerbahce in Nicosia on Thursday night (AFP)

Fears ignored THE NATIONAL Guard could have completed a controlled destruction of the munitions stored in containers at Mari naval base “by the summer of 2011”, a prosecution witness said in the ongoing trial on Monday.

Lt colonel Nikos Georgiades, an officer in the Ordnance Corps, told the court of a meeting held at the defence ministry

Pomp, ceremony and football on February 7, 2011, where he warned politicians of the risk of keeping the munitions in containers for an extended period of time.

Candidate clean INDEPENDENT presidential candidate Makaria-Andri Stylianou on Monday made public her income and financial assets ahead of elections next February.

Stylianou has served in the education sector for 25 years and she is currently assistant head at a primary school, with a clear monthly income of €2,964.90. After her mortgage and other loan instalments, she is left with €1,224.76, on top of benefits she receives as a single parent to a large family.

She also receives €441 a month in alimony. She owns half the mortgaged flat she is currently living in and drives a Mazda Capella.

Charity backlash FOR THE first time in its 22-year history, an active backlash has emerged against the annual Radiomarathon charity drive for children with special needs, which ended its two-day fundraiser on Tuesday amid protests in Nicosia and Limassol calling for its abolishment.

According to the Pancyprian Organisation for the Blind, the charity perpetuates stereotypes, violates equality principles and facilitates people to assuage their conscience once a year and ignore the disabled during the remaining 51 weeks.

State proposals THE European Commission said on Tuesday it had received Cyprus’ counter proposals on the bailout adjustment programme and would announce a date for the start of negotiations when it was ready.

After almost three months since the troika had submitted its proposals, the government finally sent its response on Tuesday in a bid to get on with the negotiations ahead of a November 12 deadline.

Cyprus’ proposals include spending cuts worth around €670 million and some €310 million in revenues. The government wants a four-year adjustment period instead of the three the troika wants.

The package does not include cutting the 13th salary or scrapping the wage indexation system, as troika had recommended.

‘The charity perpetuates stereotypes, violates equality principles and facilitates people to assuage their conscience once a year’

Police anger THE APPOINTMENT of Andreas Kyriacou as deputy police chief ensures President Demetris Christofias will leave a “non-meritocratic and scandalous legacy” behind, chairman of the House Legal Affairs Committee Ionas Nicolaou said on Tuesday.

DISY deputy Nicolaou accused Christofias of provocatively adopting a ‘jobs for the boys’ mindset, with the sole criteria for getting one being devoted to Christofias and his leadership.

The DISY deputy accused Christofias of ignoring around 15 more senior and experienced officers, some with masters degrees, to appoint Kyriacou, who allegedly has no university degree.

Kyriacou, 49, from Larnaca entered the force in 1982 as a 19-year-old youth.

More recently, he served as head of the presidential guard while two months ago he was appointed head of the central intelligence service.

was seeking.

Accountant General Rea Georgiou on Tuesday informed the House Watchdog Committee on the committee’s report, saying the investor’s initial proposal for the project was “problematic”.

More gas CYPRUS’ OFFSHORE block 12 may potentially carry “a lot more” than the 7 trillion cubic feet (tcf) of natural gas originally estimated, Noble Energy’s country manager for Cyprus John Tomich said on Wednesday.

Houston-based Noble is the first and so far only company to win an offshore concession in Cyprus’ exclusive economic zone, known as block 12, though bids are currently being evaluated by the government for the remaining blocks.

Exploratory drilling conducted by Noble revealed an estimated gross natural gas reserve of 5 to 8 tcf, with a gross mean of 7 Tcf.

Last chance

Family reunion

CHINESE company Far Eastern Phoenix (FEP) must give a final answer early next month on whether it plans to invest in the old Larnaca airport building, according to a report compiled by the ad hoc committee in charge of the issue.

The committee also said the relevant contract would span a 19-year period, as opposed to the 50-year contract FEP

A SYRIAN couple who have sought asylum in Cyprus were reunited with their two-year-old son on Thursday three months after they believed the toddler had perished in their bombed out home outside Damascus.

In an story that could be almost be described as miraculous, the boy was found wandering on the streets by stran-

QUOTES OF THE WEEK “Some people want to keep their eyes closed and even blame Christofias and our government for the global crisis” President Demetris Christofias “Marcos, you saddled us [with the cargo] and now you’re pulling back. I can’t see anything happening” Former Defence Minister Costas Papacostas’ reported comment to former Foreign Minister Marcos Kyprianou about the munitions stored at Mari naval base “Each citizen seeking public office has a moral obligation to go through a public check, before and after taking up any post” Presidential candidate Makaria-Andri Stylianou after making public her financial assets

“Persons with disabilities do not seek social pity or exclamations of mock-admiration.

They seek policies of equal social incluusion” Statement by the Pancyprian Organisation for the Blind

“I think that the first country to exit the eurozone may be Cyprus, and soon” Christopher Mahoney former vice chairman of Moody’s

“The bankers that brought the system to its current condition are not the bestt advisors regarding the ways it should be reformed” Central Bank goverernor Panicos Demeetriades (right)

“They thought the baby died. How was he going to survive the ruins?”

Lawyer Stella Constantinou on a Syrian family who were reunited with a child they thought had died

“We made that nice discovery of 7 tcf but we think there is a lot more potentially there and we will be chasing additional gas fields” Noble Energy’s country manager for Cyprus John Tomich

“I offered on behalf of the Cyprus republic to mediate with the Syrian side to receive a delegation of the Holy See” President Christofias

gers, handed over to Syrian rebels, and placed in a camp where incredibly, even amid all the chaos and confusion, he was recognised by friends of his parents.

The family was reunited on Thursday with the help of Limassol-based lawyer Stella Constantinou.

Quiet match DESPITE fears of crowd trouble, Thursday night’s Europa League football match between Cypriot champions AEL and Turkey’s Fenerbahce passed without incident, with fans on both sides keeping their cool throughout the game, and beforehand.

Fenerbahce went on to beat AEL 1-0.

Given the potential volatility of the occasion, and under UEFA’s watchful eye, authorities weren’t taking any chances; a force of some 400 police were deployed for the overall security operation, in and around the stadium and at various points in Nicosia.

Police gave the all-clear shortly after midnight.

Pomp, ceremony PRESIDENT DEMETRIS Christofias spent the day in Rome on Thursday where he met Pope Benedict XVI for the fourth time, became the first president of Cyprus to pay a “state visit” to a group of Knights and met with the Community of Sant’ Egidio.

The private meeting between Christofias and the Pope at the Holy See lasted 40 minutes, during which the two discussed the Cyprus problem, the continued destruction of Cyprus’ religious and cultural heritage, the situation in the Middle East and the global economic crisis.

Tax amnesty PARLIAMENT rushed through an amending law on Thursday extending the so-called ‘tax amnesty’ by 14 more months.

The initial law, passed a year ago, provided for writing off penalties and interest on back taxes accrued up until December 31, 2008, applying to individuals and companies alike.

It provided for any interest or fines exceeding 5.0 per cent of the total amount due to the Inland Revenue Department to be written off, provided that the arrears would be settled in full by the end of March this year; this was subsequently extended to October 2012.

The period has now been extended for a third time to 31 December 2013.

17 SUNDAY MAIL • October 28, 2012

Coffeeshop

Comrade Tourist does Europe ANOTHER ugly union tyrant, who had been keeping a low profile for months, hogged the limelight in the last few days.

Macho, moustachioed president and secretary of the last 25 years of bank employees union ETYK, Loizos Hadjicostis, decided to enlighten us with his moral wisdom about the banking crisis on Friday, issuing a long statement slamming this week’s public hate-figure finance minister Vassos Shiarly, for his role in the convertible bonds scandal.

Hadjicostis showed a despicable lack of sympathy for a fellow moustache, adopting the cowardly, but very popular practice, of kicking a man when his down. He accused the much-maligned Shiarly of having a big responsibility for the convertible bonds scandal, of being paid a big bonus and of being involved in B of C work after he became a minister.

The self-righteous union tyrant was in moralistic mood, saying that Shiarly’s disputing of the Central Bank’s report on the convertible bonds, which blamed the bank’s head honchos that he was one of, “makes every citizen realise that we are on a catastrophic course, not only for the economy, but also for principles and values.”

When illustrious members of the Kyproulla establishment start preaching moral principles and values or lamenting their erosion, the bullshit detectors immediately hit red, indicating that there are no more lies left to tell.

Hadjicostis was merely deflecting attention away from the emphatic defeat of ETYK. On the day he attacked Shiarly, Laiki Bank announced pay cuts of up to 17 per cent for its staff, without consulting the union. Such a humiliating defeat for the mighty tyrant was bound to spark moral indignation.

IN HIS announcement, our new teacher of morality said that for “someone who contributed to the onset of the collapse of the banking system, to have the right to suggest remedies and play the saviour” he had to do the following things: “1)To have the courage to apologise to society, shareholders and employees for his participation in the destruction of the banking system; 2) To apologise to all those asked today to make sacrifices because of his mistakes; 3) To return the hundreds of thousands of euro he was paid as bonuses for his allegedly big successes as a banker; 4) Shiarly must clarify whether he agrees or not with the President’s assertion that the main responsibility for the economic destruction of the banks belongs to the bankers.”

You have to admire the union bully’s nerve. Hadjicostis was the biggest cheerleader of Andreas Vgenopoulos, the Greek wheelerdealer, who came to Kyproulla, used a host of empty promises to take over Laiki Bank on the cheap, made hundreds of millions out of the deal for himself and then led it to bankruptcy.

Vgenopoulos made a much bigger contribution to the collapse of our banking system than Shiarly, but Hadjicostis carried on brown-nosing him even after his scams were revealed and he was forced to step down as chairman by the Cyprus Central Bank. In fact, after Vgenopoulos was forced out, the ETYK tyrant hosted a dinner to honour the man who singlehandedly bankrupted Laiki, and did not once ask him to return the hundreds of millions he made, or to apologise for his participation in the destruction of the banking system.

ON THE CONTRARY, during the dinner Hadjicostis gave Vgenopoulos the full Arslikhan treatment, thanking him for his “very constructive, honest, with good will, co-operation they had as the heads of the social partners of the Marfin-Laiki group.” It was through this co-operation and “pro-worker policy” followed by Vgenopoulos that the participation of an ETYK member on the bank’s board was established, the toady tyrant said, before presenting him with a gift in appreciation for leading Laiki to insolvency.

As ETYK was represented on the board of Laiki, why did its director do nothing to stop the catastrophic decisions taken by Vgenopoulos, which eventually led to pay-cuts of up to 17 per cent for the union’s members? Unless of course Shiarly was to blame for Laiki’s collapse as well.

THE BULLSHIT detectors were also hitting red as Akelites tried to tell us there was nothing wrong with the B of C writing off debts of AKELcontrolled companies, worth close to 10 million euro. The moralising about the biased media wanting to harm AKEL was preceded by the customary lie – these companies had nothing to do with AKEL. In the case of the €6.5 million debt write-off of Delta Trading, the company that did all its business with the Soviet Union in the good old days of the Cold War, the person negotiating with the bank on behalf of the company was the AKEL secretariat’s member responsible for commercial affairs, Venizelos Zannetou. All the shareholders of the company were AKEL members, but the party had nothing to do with Delta Trading.

Zannetou was at the negotiations, not as the party’s representative but as an independent business consultant. Our establishment was so impressed with Zannettou’s negotiating skills it has written to ask him to represent us at negotiations with the B of C to which we owe 100 grand and want written off. We are waiting to hear what fee he will charge, but if he can get 6.5 million written off, a hundred grand would be a piece of cake for him.

WHEN attacking the banks for all our problems, Akelites try to keep the argument general, but if they have to name a bank it is invariably the B of C board they accuse of screwing up and of investing Greek government bonds. They never mention Laiki which is in much deeper trouble and never Vgenopoulos.

If they so happily attack the B of C which wrote off debts of €10 million, what has Vgenopoulos and Laiki done for AKEL to ensure that they are above comradely criticism?

Whatever it was, it must have been worth a lot more than €10 million, to secure such fierce loyalty from the commies and for Vgenopoulos to still be welcome at the palazzo when he visits.

ONLY TWO weeks are left for the crunch meeting of the Euro group that will have to approve our bailout but there is still no word from the troika about its arrival.

On Friday, state radio announced that it was a matter of hours before an arrival date was announced, but the hours passed and nothing was announced. The comrade president is obviously getting a bit nervous at the prospect of not having any money to pay the public parasites and himself at the end of November, because he knows that if we miss the 12th deadline it would be next year before we get the loan.

He had a nerve telling the CyBC on Wednesday that he had contacted “leading official of the EU”, to tell them we were ready and waiting for the troika. The guy had the troika’s proposals since the end of July, and did not even look at them, preferring to go to the Olympics with his entourage and then to New York. Despite the public plea of the Euro Group’s president in mid-September, he decided to deal with the bailout in October, eventually, sending his pathetic counter-proposals prepared by his clueless pourekka, to the troika on Monday.

The problem is that the troika has pooh-poohed pourekka’s propos-

Has the comrade embraced Catholicism? On Thursday he completed his third visit to the Vatican, to meet the Pope. He went once as House president, again as president in 2009 and also welcomed the Pontiff to Kyproulla in 2010.

He has become so friendly with Pope Benedict XVI he probably addresses him as Benny. The comrade even ignored the rules of protocol by laying his hand on the Pope (see picture) like he would an old friend. So many

visits to the Vatican and he has still not learnt the requirements of protocol which clearly state: “As with other monarchs, etiquette prohibits people from touching the Pope.”

The comrade was accompanied on his visit by his wife and foreign minister Erato Kozakou Marcoullis who looked like they had just been to a funeral. Erato looked like the mean widow of a Mexican landowner in a Western, and Elsi like her kindly and loyal maid

als and is drafting new ones. What’s worse for the comrade is that the troikans have let it be understood that they would not come to Kyproulla unless he agrees to their proposals first.

The visit took place in a cupboard over which SMOM had territorial sovereignty.

A retired ambassador, who occasionally visits our establishment, informed us that for years SMOM had been sending requests to the Cyprus foreign ministry requesting the establishment of diplomatic relations, but these were ignored, as the order was considered something of a joke.

THE COMRADE has not allowed the problems of the economy to interfere with this travel plans. In the last few days, apart from visits to Brussels and the Vatican, he has also flown to Athens, Rome and Paris in order to open exhibitions of Cypriot antiquities.

To show that he was not going to these cities for the sole purpose of opening exhibitions he also arranged to see heads of state or Prime ministers during the visits. In Athens he met both the president and the PM, in Rome he saw the PM and in Paris he saw the president. It made you wonder whether these people had nothing more important to do than waste their time meeting the comrade tourist?

The only reason they gave him an appointment was because he is holding the EU presidency. If he were not, he would have had to restrict his statesman tourism to cutting the ribbon at the exhibitions.

DURING his Rome visit on Thursday the comrade also visited a joke entity, even more pseudo than ‘TRNC’, known as the Sovereign Military Order of Malta (SMOM).

SMOM is a Roman Catholic religious order set up by the crusaders, which likes to call itself a sovereign state. The only problem is that this sovereign state has no territory of its own.

Our government in its great wisdom established diplomatic relations with SMOM in June and on Thursday the comrade became the first president to pay it a ‘state’ visit.

OUR COMRADE, obviously did not get the joke. Apart from establishing diplomatic relations with this joke state, he also agreed to visit it and be decorated by its leader - Prince and Grand Master of the order of the Knights of Malta Fra’ Matthew Festing – with the Collar of the Order Pro Merito Melitensi.

Not to be outdone, the comrade also decorated Grand Master Flash, who must be a bit of a fruitcake as he insists on being addressed as His Most Eminent Highness, with the Grand Collar of the Order of Makarios III. OK Tof, was decorated for recognising SMOM but why did we decorate Grand Master Flash? What did he do to deserve the highest decoration of the Republic?

Does flattery of the Comrade earn someone the Grand Collar now?

HARAVGHI wins the award for the headline of the week. In its Thursday edition, its headline read, “The paternity of the toughest measures belongs to DISY.” It was referring to the counter-proposals that the Tof government had prepared and sent to the troika last Monday. Given that the government is not to blame for anything, DISY must be responsible for the anti-popular measures included in the government’s counter-proposals.

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Two women kiss in front of people taking part in a demonstration by the Alliance VITA, which is against gay marriage and adoption by same-sex couples in Marseille. On October 31 a draft law authorising gay marriage will be approved by government ministers, amid mounting opposition (AFP) A Pakistani vendor sharpens knives at a stall ahead of the Muslim sacrificial festival of Eid al-Adha in Karachi (AFP)

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Lifestyle

At just 41, Greg Coffey has quit hedge funding with £450m in the bank. But will retirement suit him? Simon English on the master of the universe who just wants to play a little cricket

E

ARLY one evening not too long ago Greg Coffey was trading markets across the world from three mobile phones entirely as normal - and also doing something else entirely normal for other people that he himself never found time for: bathing one of his three young children. Something, somewhere happened. An interest rate was suddenly raised or a stock index went crazy-go-nuts or a politician said something stupid. The lines went berserk and while juggling the four things in his hands, one of the phones fell into the bath. The trade was lost. The child confused.

This may not be the precise point at which Coffey, an Australian hedge-fund hero the Wizard of Oz to his fans - decided to chuck it all in.

But it was a moment. Really, what was he still doing here?

He had seriously begun to wonder whether it was worth it; whether he wanted a different life. Whether he had enough and had had enough.

If, from the outside, his life looked absurdly glamorous good looks, mansions across the globe - he was no longer happy. Friends claim he had been heard to say lately that he really wanted to take his kids to school once in a while.

They raised eyebrows, but assumed he wasn’t serious.

Last week Coffey stunned the City and his army of admirers in London when he suddenly quit trading altogether, at the age of 41 and with a fortune of about £450 million. If you think that sounds like a fine plan, or think you would probably have walked away far sooner, that’s part of the reason why you don’t have £450 million.

While people who know him well insist he comes over as a remarkably normal bloke in person, there’s no question he was obsessive and compulsive, and had been for 20 years. A typical day for Coffey would begin at his Kensington home, which he shares with his wife Ania, a former financial analyst, and their children, at 5 or 6am as he readied himself for the beginning of London trading at 8am. Once on top of things, he would make the 20-minute dash to his offices in the heart of hedge-fund land and home to his employer, Moore Capital.

Those 20 minutes were always a worry. Something might happen while he was under a bridge and without mobile phone reception. He might lose money or miss a chance to make some. For that reason he didn’t like the Tube. He didn’t like planes.

He didn’t like how long the ride in the lift took…

Coffey and his team would then trade throughout the day. If it could be bought or sold, the Actuarial Sciences grad had a view on what the right price was. If it was trading too high, he’d short it (bet it would fall). If it was cheap, he’d buy.

Coffey would be adjusting his positions on a 24-hour basis, trading through until 9pm when the US market closes. That would be the right moment for that race home, back to the trading floor he had set up in his own house, ready for when Hong Kong and Singapore opened at 11 or 12am London time.

From that point on, his New

seen this before. “In a way, his retirement is remarkably similar to the retirement of Roger Guy in his forties from Gartmore in 2010 after 17 years of fund management.

Running a hedge fund is not easy and incredibly stressful.

I managed one for nine years and the only time I relaxed was when I was on a plane where there is no mobile reception.”

He adds: “There is also a more fundamental factor causing so many high profile players to retire - in the modern age of information speed and availability, the ‘edge’ of the star fund manager is increasingly being removed. In the old days good fund managers could gain information before their competitors by shrewd analysis and intelligent questioning. Now everyone receives information at the same time and the largefund manager has the disadvantage of extra costs.” Harry Hedge Fund may have had his chips, in other words.

Nothing about Coffey had

If you think that £450 million sounds like a fine plan, or think you would probably have walked away far sooner, that’s part of the reason why you don’t have £450 million

Trading places York desk would monitor moves in America and in the Far East markets.

He would be called, would expect to be called, in the middle of the night if anything at all was moving notably. Knowing his will, staff pondering whether to wake the boss usually decided it was better to call than not.

When Coffey suddenly announced his retirement, saying only that he wanted to spend more time with his family, some sniped. He’d lost his nerve. The trading game had changed and left

him behind. He was being outpaced - outthought! - by computers trading automatically. He wasn’t a wizard, he was a dinosaur.

There’s no disputing that his performance was no longer what it had been. Clients had pulled hundreds of millions out of his funds as a previously invincible track record began to look merely adequate.

Some say superstar traders always fall to earth in the end.

Alan Miller, a senior City fund manager who runs his own firm, SCM Private, says he’s

suggested he would join the quitters. He had made most money working for GLG Partners, in 2008 being offered a now legendary $250 million “golden handcuffs” deal tying him to the firm. He turned it down, and was assumed to be planning to set up his own fund.

For now, Coffey isn’t allowed to speak for himself due to the exit terms agreed with Moore Capital, an extremely private firm that doesn’t like to talk about itself or anything else much. He is said to still be in London, though plans to spend more time in Australia, where he was born, and Scotland, where he recently bought the Ardfin Estate - 12,000 acres on the island of Jura that is said to be good for hunting red deer.

He loves cricket and might do more work for a charity foundation set up by former Australian cricketer Steve Waugh.

Some say such characters can never truly walk away for long. They always want to have another go, to prove to everyone that they have still got it. Perhaps Coffey is different.

One man who knows him well said: “Maybe in six months he will be bored out of his brains and itching to get back in the game. I don’t think so though. I think that’s it.”

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Lifestyle

FOR YOUR EYES The best thing about the Bond films was always the girls. Fitter, wittier and hotter than 007, we’ve been smitten since Ursula Andress slinked out of the sea in a skimpy bikini. Here, six of the best talk about life after the spy who loved them

Strong character: Honor Blackman

Attracted to dangerous men: Denise Richards Bérénice Marlohe, 33 Skyfall Born in Paris to a Cambodian Chinese father and a French mother, Bérénice has appeared in several French TV series, including a medical drama in which she played a transsexual. She plays Sévérine, a mysterious femme fatale, in Skyfall opposite Daniel Craig. She is single.

“Daniel is extremely sexy in the flesh. His sexiness has intensified with his status as Bond, but he is also very charming, a true gentleman.

We have a steamy shower scene in Skyfall and it helped that he has a beautiful sense of humour. It’s important to be able to laugh because then you feel relaxed and it’s easier to make the audience believe what you’re doing is truthful.

“Depending on how you define “action”, Sévérine gets a lot. She is a complex, mysterious woman who is hard to define as either good or evil.

I wanted to train with guns and learn how to fire them because I knew that sensation of power would help me create the character. Before filming I would play with fake guns at home, like when you are a child and you have a magic tool that helps you enter a world of imagination.

At firing practice, the targets already had little bullet holes so I never knew if I was a good shot. I like to think I was super-good.

“Playing a Bond Girl has changed things for me because I receive more scripts and have more choices. I’m not worried about being typecast, because I didn’t just create a Bond Girl, I created a real woman in a real story.”

Honor Blackman, 87 Goldfinger Before she got the role of Pussy Galore in Goldfinger opposite Sean Connery, Honor starred in The Avengers

from 1962 to 1964. Her second husband was the late British actor Maurice Kaufmann, with whom she starred in the 1971 thriller Fright. They adopted two children, Barnaby and Lottie, and divorced in 1975. She lives in London.

“I absolutely hate the expression Bond Girl, it implies a bimbo, somebody who falls on their back as soon as she sees Bond. Pussy Galore was a strong character. I’d been playing Cathy Gale in The Avengers and I looked all right and they knew I did judo, so I suppose Iwas a dead ringer for Pussy.

“Her name was more of a problem in the US. Goldfinger wasn’t distributed there until a newspaper published a picture of me talking to Prince Philip at a gala with the headline: ‘The Prince and The Pussy’. I think they thought, ‘If royalty approves, it must be all right.’

Sean Connery is probably

In action (from left): Bérénice Marlohe in Skyfall, Honor Blackman in Goldfinger and Denise Richards in The World is not Enough

the sexiest man I’ve ever met, which made the filming easy.

Of course, at the beginning you have to be quite strict with yourself, but since I was meant to fall for him it was perfectly all right that my heart was beating so fast. It’s more fun to work with someone who is attractive and professional, which he was, but it was a terrible test for a married woman.”

Denise Richards, 41 The World is Not Enough The actress and model starred in Saved by the Bell and Wild Things before landing the role of Christmas Jones in The World Is Not Enough in 1999. She married Charlie Sheen in 2002 after meeting him on the 2001 film Good Advice. They divorced in 2006. She lives in LA with her daughters Sam, Lola and Eloise.

“Before I got the role of Christmas I’d never even seen a Bond film, and I was surprised at how much attention it got. I had never been to London, and suddenly I was renting a beautiful apartment next to Kensington Palace for six months. I didn’t sleep the night before my first day on set; it felt like the first day of school. I was filming a scene with Judi Dench and was almost too intimidated to say my lines. But Bond is a welloiled machine: the same crew have done almost all of the movies; it’s like joining a family.

“Christmas is strong and opinionated just like me, but I got a lot of flack for playing

‘Before filming I would play with fake guns at home, like when you are a child and you have a magic tool that helps you enter a world of imagination’ Femme fatale: Bérénice Marlohe a scientist in those tiny shorts.

People also remember Christmas for the line ‘I thought Christmas only came once a year’. I didn’t think about it at the time; I’ve certainly done racier scenes, like in Wild Things. Bond is tasteful; it’s a PG after all.

“I’m attracted to dangerous men. My ex-husband Charlie certainly has a dangerous side.

When Charlie is going through a hard time I’m the first one he calls. We’ve been through a lot of shit together, but we’ll always be there for each other.

Going through a divorce was difficult, but ours was just the worst because it was so public and so hurtful. I always say that if we can get through what we went through and still go on vacation together, then anyone can do it.”

Maud Adams, 67 The Man with the Golden Gun & Octopussy Maud was a Swedish model living in New York when she started going to acting classes and was signed to the agent William Morris, who first introduced her to Cubby Broccoli.

She played Andrea Anders in The Man with the Golden Gun and the title role in Octopussy in 1983.

“I was a model when I played Scaramanga’s mistress in The Man with the Golden Gun in 1974. I was surprised they cast me: I was skin and bone, not an action heroine, but Andrea was a rather meek character.

One scene involved me being beaten up by Roger Moore in a hotel room. I think they wanted to toughen up his character a bit.

We were filming on Phang Nga island in Thailand, which they now call James Bond Island. There was only one hotel, which I was told doubled as a brothel, and there were only a couple of real bathrooms, but the men were gentlemanly enough to give them to Britt Ekland and me. We had a lot of fun because Roger and Cubby were always very gregarious and we would have a Jack Daniel’s cocktail hour in the evenings. I made friends with Britt immediately.

“I was astounded to then get the title role in Octopussy in 1983 because no Bond Girl

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Clockwise from right: Maud Adams in The Man with the Golden Gun; Ursula Andress in Dr No and Famke Janssen in GoldenEye

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The original Bond girl: Ursula Andress

Rib breaking performance: Famke Janssen

has been asked back before re re or since. Roger and I were ne both older; I think that’s one of the reasons they cast me o because they didn’t want to g scare him with a very young n girl. I have also appeared in w a third Bond movie. I show g up in the background during n a scene in 1985 at a dock in o San Francisco in A View to a Kill. e “After the first Bond movie it was hard to avoid type-dcasting. I came out of a modelling career, so I wasn’t an w accomplished actor. I grew ay as an actress along the way n and there were times when s I wanted to be thought of as d something more than a Bond e Girl, but that was a long time d ago. Now I’m more inclined s to believe that as an actress you’re lucky if you’ve had a elong career and if people ree member you from any of the m work that you’ve done. So I’m very happy and proud to be called a Bond Girl.”

Famke Janssen, 46 Goldeneye nd The Dutch actress and ed former Chanel model turned

down a place at the American Film Institute Institu after getting the role of Xe Xenia Onatopp, the ex-Soviet lus lust object in GoldenEye in 199 1995. She has since featured as Dr Jean Grey/ Phoenix in the X-Men series and recently rece made her directo directorial debut with Brin Bringing up Bobby, sta starring Milla Jov vovich, which she p produced with h her boyfriend C Cole Frates.

“As Xenia, I did str strangle a lot of m old men between my thighs but my really thighs, phy big physical scene was Pierc in the spa when with Pierce en I tried to entrap him with my ende up breaking a legs. I ended rib.

“Being tossed toss around, strangling people and biting them exhaust was exhausting to film, but

Cyprus Handicrafts

there’s something so silly and fun about it that I look back on it very fondly. I remember shooting a scene dressed in lingerie where I’m straddling an admiral and because I was dressed provocatively it was supposed to be a closed set.

I was standing around in my garter belt and I spied a crack in the curtains and 40 men staring at me. I quickly got used to it and realised that it was nothing compared with the millions of people who were going to see the film.

“Pierce is definitely in the top tier of Bonds. He has a natural suaveness. He is everything you imagine James Bond to be. Personally I could never really identify with Bond women.

“The Bond movie gave me opportunities I didn’t previously have. At 31, suddenly my name was out there and I had meetings with directors and actors that I never would have dreamed of. It certainly changed my career and things worked out beautifully.”

Ursula Andress, 76 Dr No The original Bond Girl won a Golden Globe for her role as Honey Ryder in Dr No (1962).

She also appeared in the Bond parody Casino Royale in 1967 with Peter Sellers. She lives in Italy.

“I first read the Dr No script in my living room; Kirk Douglas was there. We were laughing and he told me it would be an easy part, so I accepted and went off to Jamaica to film it.

I was work-shy, but I took the role because I never thought the film would be released outside England. When I got to Jamaica I didn’t know anyone. I was so deadly scared,

too scared to say my name.

When I first met Sean he was very serious-looking but he was adorable to me. I spoke to him just yesterday, we have stayed friends through the years and all the success.

“There’s absolutely nothing sexy about me coming out of the water in the white bikini.

I just walk out in a very determined way. I was lucky that at that moment the world was ready for an image of a new woman.

“It’s amazing that people are still so attached to Bond.

Bond has nothing to do with Ian Fleming any more. The new films are too exaggerated, they’re like a video game for me. Daniel Craig is a very good actor but Sean is my James Bond, he was the best.

“After Bond there were lots of offers but I never got over being work-shy. Success is a very difficult position and I didn’t want it to control me.

I gave up millions to have my freedom. I was in Hollywood at the end of the golden age and I met everybody. I saw the parties and the actors but I am a gypsy of the world so I didn’t stay.”

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Title role: Maud Adams

22 SUNDAY MAIL • October 28, 2012

Property If you want to sell to the Russian market you might have to change your game

LEGAL ISSUES WITH GEORGE COUCOUNIS

Assignment for securing loan facilities

House sale through a buyer’s stomach?

By Antonis Loizou FRICS WE KNOW that ‘the way to a man’s heart is through his stomach’. This is particularly applicable for countries such as Cyprus, where men pay particular attention to food (as opposed to the northern European countries to drink). This is borne out by the oversized bellies that we have.

Using hosting as a means of breaking the ice between sales people and prospective clients is nothing new and it reminds us of the period 1980-1990 when there was a good demand for house sales in the Protaras area from Swedish prospective buyers, and during inspection/after and before, drinks was part of the procedure and, for more serious candidates, lunch. It became something of a free lunch excursion by a good percentage of non-serious Swedish clients.

The British market that followed was more “professional” in its dealings, but being by nature trusting (when out of their own country) the lunch etc was not necessary but it helped. The initial Russian clients (period 2000) were quite different to the ones that we have now. The new generation of Russian clients are more reserved, of a lower budget and less devoted to drinks (there are numerous exemptions).

We will refer to a sale under our management project Poseidon Beach Gar-

dens in Larnaca. By chance it was the last working day prior to the summer holiday and the builders were organising a souvla for themselves. At the same time we inspected a property and of course, we were immediately welcomed (sales staff and two Russian clients) and we had a good time. The party was taking place within a house under construction (of interest), which was sold for €2.8m, subject to the condition that for each year over a threeyear period, we would repeat the souvla party in August. This was placed in the sales contract, which was duly deposited at the Lands Office (we keep a copy as a unique souvenir of over 35 years of office experience). During the course of the feasting, our client mentioned that he was to organise a business party in his Moscow house. We offered (and he accepted) to send over the chef (the contractors’ foreman) duly equipped with everything, including the souvla, the charcoal, Cyprus wine, ladies fingers, etc, save the meat.

The party in Moscow went well and the 20 guests were all happy.

We are now keeping our fingers crossed and we are expecting some of the party attendants to come over for the same purpose. If successful we will organise another trip to Moscow, but this time to include a three-person dancing group of folkloric dancing. One of the guests in Moscow was so over enthusiastic about Cyprus peanuts presented

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in their shell, that we dispatched a kilo of them to his house (small investment and big expectation). Another showed interest in our brand of hiromeri (hiromeri as you know it but cut in very thin slices like prosciutto.

For those who might have been inspired by our experience above, note the following recommendation regarding Russian clients.

Invite your prospective client to your home and not as a priority to a restaurant.

Do not show off, he has more than you do.

Make a barbecue near the dining area so the guest can watch the whole procedure.

For drinks wine is okay (have local of good quality), whiskey is okay, but have also vodka available. Do not push your guests for more and more drinks if you detect that they are not up to it.

At the end give the man/woman a small present. Cyprus lace for the women and silver worry beads (giving your own free explanation of what it is) will help and they cost very little.

From there on you need a bit of luck as well.

Antonis Loizou & Associates Ltd – Real Estate Valuers & Estate Agents, www.aloizou.com.cy, ala-HQ@ aloizou.com.cy

THE development of the real estate market, despite the economic crisis, created the need to update the specific performance law to cover the assignment of an agreement between a purchaser (assignor) and a third person (assignee) being a bank or other credit institution, to secure a financial obligation or loan. The law extending the meaning of the word “agreement” to include the sale, exchange, buy-back or distribution agreement of an immovable property allows the signing of an agreement between a purchaser in a valid sale contract and a third person. The deposition of an assignment agreement at the Land Registry requires a contract already deposited, such as a sale contract and it constitutes an encumbrance over the said contract maintaining the priority order created by the deposition of the contract. The said assignment agreement is mainly entered into by a purchaser of an immovable property without a separate title deed and a bank or credit institution defining the financial obligation or loan secured.

The purchaser assigns all his rights deriving from the sale contract into the name of the assignee, as a continuous security for the payment of the amount owed.

The assignee also has the right to institute an action in case of breach of the sale agreement and a claim for damages and he can proceed with legal or other proceedings without the prior written consent of the purchaser as assignor. Moreover, the security of the amount stated in the assignment agreement includes all financial obligations of the principal debtor related or deriving from the aforesaid security, either existing, future or arising before or after the agreement is signed or they are personal or joint with any other person or they derive from the guarantee given. The assignor declares the sale contract is and will remain valid and that he will not do any act or omission which will

make it void or voidable and in the event of an omission or breach, he is obliged at his own cost to enter into a new sale agreement. He also consents for the assignee to disclose any information required – personal data to any potential assignee or any other person who will enter into an agreement with the assignee. When the loans or credit facilities secured by the assignment agreement have become due and payable, the assignee may claim possession of the property and the assignor is obliged to deliver it. When the assignor will be registered as owner of the property after the said obligations become due, he is obliged to mortgage it in favour of the assignee.

After the assignment agreement is lodged at the Land Registry, the immovable property affected cannot be transferred, unless the assignment agreement is previously withdrawn or deleted from the Land Registry records. When the amount secured is paid off, the assignee is obliged to withdraw the assignment agreement and when he refuses or neglects to do so or he refuses re-payment of the amount due, the assignor may apply to court and claim the issue of an order for the deletion of the assignment agreement. There is a provision in the law stating that when the assignor does not fulfil his obligations the assignee may file an action for the specific performance of the sale contract and the court will issue the relevant order. When the said order is issued in favour of the assignor and he refuses or neglects to do all necessary acts for its execution, the assignee may take all necessary actions and apply to the Land Registry for the property to be registered in accordance with the order.

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IKEA to go green by 2020 Company to be ‘forest positive’ by 2020, sell only energy-efficient products from 2016

By Alister Doyle

will grow at least as many trees as it uses to make products such as beds or cupboards. Already, IKEA says it does not take wood from natural tropical forests, such as in the Amazon or the Congo basins.

By 2017 it would buy 10 million cubic metres of wood - half the projected total for that year and four times current amounts from sources such as those certified by the non-profit Forest Stewardship Council.

Environmentalists backed the shift. John Sauven, head of Greenpeace UK, said it “puts IKEA at the forefront of leading com-

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KEA, the world’s largest furniture retailer, will shift to renewable energy by 2020 and grow more trees than it uses under a plan to safeguard nature that has won support from environmentalists.

The Swedish-based group, which wants to build on many customers’ desire for a greener lifestyle, also said it would limit sales by 2016 to energy-efficient products including induction cookers and LED light bulbs.

“This will be a great driver of innovation,” said Mikael Ohlsson, chief executive of the firm which is known for its flat-packs and giant stores that are expected to be visited by 776 million people this year.

Ohlsson said he had no doubt the People & Planet Positive strategy would save money both for IKEA and its clients, although he declined to estimate total savings.

Under the plan, IKEA will invest €1.5 billion from 200915 in solar and wind power to produce at least 70 per cent of the group’s energy.

By 2020 it would produce as much renewable energy as it consumes.

IKEA already owns wind farms in six European nations and has 342,000 solar panels on its stores, warehouses and factories that generate 27 per cent of the group’s electricity.

“We are a little under half-way in terms of investments” to the 2015 goal, said Steve Howard, chief sustainability officer. The company would also halve its greenhouse gas emissions from its operations by 2015, from 2010 levels.

By 2020 IKEA, one of the world’s top users of wood,

IKEA predicted visitors to its stores would double to 1.5 billion by 2020

IKEA is one of the world’s top users of wood, which goes to construct its furniture

Hotel: the arch in London

Admiralty Arch sold for $96m ADMIRALTY Arch, a gateway between The Mall and Trafalgar Square in London, will be converted to a hotel after being bought for about £60 million ($96 million) by Spanish investor Rafael Serrano, a source close to the sale said.

The 99-year leasehold deal is one of an expected wave of property disposals by the British government as part of a cost-cutting drive.

Southern European investors are attracted to London’s property market for its safe haven qualities and liquidity as well as the appeal of an investment in sterling.

Serrano’s previous London ventures include the luxury Bulgari hotel in Knightsbridge. In August, Spanish property company Allegra European Holdings exchanged contracts to buy a block containing the London headquarters of social network company Facebook for about £60 million.

Located at the other end of The Mall from Buckingham Palace, the 100-year old Admiralty Arch was formerly occupied by the Cabinet Office government department.

It was built by King Edward VII as a tribute to his mother Queen Victoria.

panies” trying to transform their businesses in the face of environmental threats.

Mark Kenber, head of the UK-based Climate Group think-tank, said IKEA’s plan was a roadmap to a “clean industrial revolution” and urged other businesses to follow.

Both Kenber and Greenpeace confirmed the remarks, provided by IKEA. The firm said other environmental experts had praised the strategy, including the WWF conservation organisation.

Many companies, from chip maker Intel Corp to Wal-Mart Stores Inc, are setting green goals and moving towards renewable

energy as part of efforts to combat global warming and ensure supplies.

As part of the shift to energy-efficient products, induction hobs use 40 per cent less energy than conventional cookers.

IKEA announced the shift to LED lighting, which can last 20 years, earlier this month. Changing all 12 billion incandescent bulbs worldwide to LEDs would cut global greenhouse gas emissions equivalent to those of the Netherlands.

A shift to more efficient appliances, such as fridges, cookers or lightbulbs, would reduce energy use by the average household by 30 per cent. “That is like having a 10 per cent pay rise for most people,” Howard said.

IKEA also set stricter targets for palm oil, leather and cotton supplies.

It would tighten bans on child labour and enforce workers’ rights, partly with unannounced audits of suppliers. The company would also ensure greater supplies of clean water in communities where it operates, cut waste and promote recycling.

IKEA predicted the number of visitors to its stores would double to 1.5 billion by 2020, and forecast a potential €45-50 billion in turnover, up from €27.5 billion for 2012.

It predicted the number of stores would rise to 500 from 338 and that staff numbers would rise to above 200,000 from 154,000.

Ohlsson said IKEA had freedom to act partly because it is not listed on a stock market. “We are owned by a foundation, it means also that our whole focus is customers throughout the chain and not stock exchange and owners,” he said.

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Economy in the twilight zone Long and anxious wait for answers Comment Costas Apostolides OR the past three months or so Cypriots have been waiting with trepidation for the final decisions based on the economic measures outlined by the troika, publicised weeks ago, and the government’s counter proposals, given last week.

Wherever you go people are discussing both how the measures will affect them personally and the economy as a whole.

Both the population and the economy are in the twilight zone, uncertain as to whether the economic measures are the sunset or the new dawn. Most of the discussion has been on the cuts and taxes suggested by both the troika - the European Commission, the European Central Bank (ECB) and the International Monetary Fund - and the government which relate to the government’s need to close the budget deficit which is of the order of one billion euros at present, over the period November 2012 until 2016. This has been known to be manageable for some time, but the government delayed in dealing with it, and set off the credit rating agencies on a downward rating spiral for Cyprus. Initially, the problem was the government deficit, but this has been overshadowed by the much bigger problem of the losses of Cypriot banks in Greece.

Over the past few days the more positive view that the sun is about to rise has gathered momentum. First the political parties and the government finally realised that the economic situation is difficult and that the positions of the troika on many issues (wage

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Reform of the civil service is one of the troika proposals that the government has agreed on cuts, taxes etc) are political suicide. As a result the acute criticism of the government was moderated, and they basically agreed that the banking problems should be dealt with directly by the European Central Bank, or by other mechanisms, thereby eliminating the need for a government funded bank bailout.

Second the governor of the Central Bank made a statement that the Central Bank was ready to discuss with the troika its proposals, with the emphasis on how to proceed with the recapitalisation of the banks and the

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release of loans to business and households with the aim of stimulating growth. The governor also stated that the branches of Cyprus banks in Greece should become separate entities, thereby reducing the implications of Greek developments on the Cyprus banking system.

Third the government finally sent last week its counter proposals to the troika, to everyone’s relief, and so the ball is now in the other court.

These development and the indications that there will be agreement between the Greek government and their own troika team, took the Cyprus stock exchange out of its slump and in eight days sent Cyprus share prices up by 41 per cent. Even if one allows for share prices being unnecessarily low, this appears to be “irrational exuberance” in the extreme.

On the positive side Cyprus is now aligned with Italy, Spain and Portugal in pushing for the recapitalisation of the banks by the European Central Bank. Essentially that would mean that the ECB would at last be able to act more like the Central Bank that it should have been all along.

The government appears to propose spending cuts of €670mln for 2013, plus €310 mln increase in taxation. The troika has put more emphasis on budget cuts and loans than on taxes. Another difference is that the government keeps the thirteenth salary, and presents its compromise proposals to the unions and business for the cost of living allowance (CoLA) which imply no payments for two years at least owing to falling GDP. On the structural changes proposed by the troika the government agrees on the following: Reform of the civil service pension scheme, and has set up a committee of experts to ex-

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amine how the changes can be made, with the social insurance scheme being adopted for the civil service as well.

The introduction of the national health scheme as soon as possible.

Establishment by law, of a three year medium term budget plan with which annual budgets have to comply.

Introduction of an appropriate structure for managing the government debt.

Encouragement of public/private co-operation.

Improvement of tax collection.

Reform of the way the civil service operates, by introducing personnel mobility between departments and improved procedures.

Reduction of overtime in the civil service.

The major disagreements with the troika will be on privatisation (notably CyTA), the recapitalisation of the banks, the placing of co-operatives under central bank supervision, CoLA, the minimum wage, and proposals for enabling banks to take over immovable property mortgaged on non-performing loans.

The proposals provide a basis for negotiation and convergence of views, but the time schedule is too tight to meet the November 12 deadline. It is possible, however, that, since the cases of Spain and Portugal are highly complex and will be considered concurrently by the Euro Group, these issues may not be resolved and more time will be given. It all depends on how the recapitalisation of the banks will be dealt with. If that is resolved, there is scope for agreement on time.

Costas Apostolides is Chairman of EMS Economic Management Ltd costas.a@highwaycommunications.com

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Business & Jobs Obama says exec pay rules must be changed PRESIDENT Barack Obama said in an interview released on Thursday that the next important step for making the US financial sector safer is to make sure executive pay is less closely tied to risky bets.

In an interview published on Friday in Rolling Stone magazine, Obama said that despite passage of DoddFrank financial reform legislation, there is more to be done to make financial markets safe after the damage caused by the crisis of 2007-2009.

“The single biggest thing that I would like to see is changing incentives on Wall Street and how people get compensated,” Obama said.

It’s questionable, even after enactment of Dodd-Frank reforms, that those incentives have completely been changed, he added.

The Rolling Stone interview stirred controversy because of the president’s use, at one point, of a barnyard epithet that some saw as an attack on Republican Mitt Romney.

The White House did not dispute the remarks but a re-election campaign official stressed that the comments were “part of a casual conversation at the end of the interview”. The wide-ranging interview covers Obama’s first term, what he views as his biggest accomplishments and his fierce fight with Romney for the White House.

The president and Romney are running neck and neck ahead of the November 6 election and have stepped up their campaigning.

Obama points to financial reform as a signature accomplishment of his four years in office.

Domicile status and liability to pay UK inheritance tax Investment Bill Blevins Bill Blevins is Financial Correspondent at Blevins Franks International.

ONE OF the most financially damaging taxes facing wealthier British families is UK inheritance tax.

Living overseas does not automatically protect you from inheritance tax since liability does not rest on residence or even nationality, but on domicile.

Domicile is a complex UK common law concept. If claiming a change of domicile the onus is on you (or more usually on your family when inheriting your assets) to prove you were non-UK domicile at the date of death, in the event of a challenge from HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC).

Anyone who is UK domiciled or deemed UK domiciled is liable to inheritance tax on their worldwide assets. The current tax threshold for inheritance tax is £325,000 per individual or £650,000 for spouses/civil partners. Any amount bequeathed over these figures is taxed at 40 per cent. Transfers between spouses are exempt. The exception is for transfers from a domiciled to a nondomiciled spouse/civil partner who only receive a £55,000 allowance (in addition to the threshold). The government is consulting on increasing this to £325,000.

Assets situated in another country may also be liable to inheritance tax there, although in most cases the UK would give credit for the tax paid overseas. This would

It takes at least three years to shed UK domicile for inheritance tax be the case for British expatriates living here in Spain or in Portugal for example, but not France which has a special double tax treaty for inheritance tax. If you are a non UK domicile you are only liable to inheritance tax on assets situated in the UK. If you are an expatriate with a worldwide estate worth over the inheritance tax threshold, you need to take professional advice from a firm such as Blevins Franks to establish your domicile status. Blevins Franks are highly experienced in determining domicile and how double tax treaties affect an expatriate’s tax position.

Under UK law you can only ever have one domicile at a time. You can never be without a domicile. Your place of domicile does not have to be the country where you have your closest personal association. You can live in Spain for many years and remain a UK domicile.

The basic rule is that you are domiciled in the country where your life is centred, and which you regard as your homeland. Changing your

domicile is seen as very serious step in the UK. There are three types of domicile under English law: Domicile of origin - a child takes his father’s domicile of origin at the time of birth, not necessarily the country where you are born. A child of a single or widowed mother takes the mother’s domicile.

Domicile of dependence - applies to women married before 1974, children and mentally disordered persons.

Domicile of choice - can be acquired by moving to another country which then replaces either domicile of origin or dependence.

To acquire a domicile of choice you must be physically present and a tax resident in your new country, in this case Cyprus, and have formed the intention of living here permanently, and not foreseeing any reason to return to the UK, such as widowhood or illness. You need to sever as many ties as possible with the UK. This includes disposing of UK property; resigning from memberships; cutting business interests; scaling

down UK bank accounts, investments etc, and setting up new ones elsewhere.

You should also be careful about the number of trips you make to the UK. Even stipulating in your will that you wish to be buried in the UK will count against your case. HMRC will look for any indication that you regard the UK as your homeland and may return for good one day.

It takes at least three years to shed UK domicile for inheritance tax purposes. You will be deemed domiciled in the UK for inheritance tax if you were UK domiciled at any time in the previous three years, or were resident in the UK for any part of at least 17 of the last 20 tax years.

Although the link to domicile of origin can be removed, it is not destroyed and can be instantly reinstated. If you leave Cyprus and move to a third country, you would re-acquire your UK domicile of origin unless you can demonstrate you have moved to a new domicile of choice.

Inheritance tax is often described as a “voluntary tax” since tax planning devices are available to mitigate or avoid it. There are a number of ways in which your domicile status can be satisfactorily tested, but professional guidance will be required. In practice HMRC will not consider this until it becomes relevant for some tax purpose. If you get it wrong your heirs could receive an unexpected tax bill. Speak to an international tax and wealth manager like Blevins Franks for clarity on your situation.

The tax rates, scope and reliefs may change. Any statements concerning taxation are based upon our understanding of current taxation laws and practices which are subject to change. Tax information has been summarised; an individual must take personalised advice. To keep in touch with the latest developments in the offshore world, check out the latest news on our website www.blevinsfranks.com

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Brand name firms cry foul over unauthorised sellers on Amazon Brands seek an end to unauthorised discounting on Amazon

By Alistair Barr MAZON.COM Inc is grappling with a problem that eBay Inc has struggled with for years: the proliferation of unauthorised thirdparty sellers that undercut the world’s top consumer brands.

The sellers offer online shoppers goods ranging from Guess watches to LG televisions and Adidas sportswear at low prices, upsetting Amazon suppliers who want the world’s largest online retailer to crack down on unauthorised discounting.

On eBay, the brands mostly complained about are counterfeit products sold by third parties. The problem on Amazon is that while the goods are authentic, sellers often get them from leaks in supply chains, then sell the products online at below the minimum advertised price set by the label.

The brands want Amazon to help them weed out such sellers, but the online retailer prefers not to get involved, according to industry executives. Amazon declined to comment.

Amazon has little incentive to discipline sellers because it takes a cut of third-party sales through its lucrative 3P (third party) marketplace, these executives say. That business accounted for 40 per cent of Amazon’s second-quarter unit sales and has provided a big boost to revenue and margin growth.

This platform for independent sellers is different from Amazon’s traditional online retail business, known as 1P (first party), where the company buys products from manufacturers at wholesale prices and sells them online itself.

“Wall Street may be excited

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about Amazon’s 3P growth, but it’s a freight train out of control,” said Wes Shepherd, chief executive of Channel IQ, which helps companies monitor online prices and sellers.

“Amazon is so big, manufacturers feel the need to be there, but at some point something has to give,” he added. “Many major brands are very frustrated and are rationalising their business with Amazon right now.”

Amazon shares have risen 40 per cent so far this year, outperforming the Nasdaq Composite Index’s 16 per cent rise in part because of hopes for improved profit margins from 3P and other services.

3P sales offer Amazon gross margins of 90 per cent to 100 per cent, while its traditional retail business has gross margins of about 20 per cent, according to Nomura estimates.

To enforce the minimum advertised price, brands often withhold sales to distributors and sellers that do not comply. But when unauthorised sellers obtain a product without a manufacturer’s knowledge, severing the flow becomes difficult.

Unauthorised sellers are also active on eBay, but since the site does not specialise in brand-new products where pricing is paramount and does not compete as a retailer in its own right, the labels are less concerned about discounted goods there.

In contrast, Amazon treads a fine line because its retail operation relies on brands supplying it with products, while the 3P operation needs lots of sellers competing on price to thrive.

“Amazon has to work this out with its suppliers,” said Scott Tilghman, an analyst at Caris & Co. “They will say, ‘We recognise third-party

Amazon shares have risen 40 per cent so far this year

sellers violate rules, but we can only police it so much.’”

He added: “Depending on the breadth of violations, it definitely could dampen 3P growth.”

Some brands, including German chef knife maker Wüsthof, said they stopped selling goods on Amazon after the company priced some products below the minimum advertised price. When Wüsthof complained, Amazon cited competition from third-party sellers, according to Todd Myers, Wüsthof’s vice president of sales in the United States. Myers said Amazon told Wüsthof to crack down on these thirdparty sellers itself.

Others, such as Swiss Gourmet, distributor of Swiss Diamond cookware in the Americas, have threatened to pull out unless Amazon limits discounting and cracks down on unauthorised thirdparty sellers.

Ralph Lauren Corp, Hugo Boss AG and Guess Inc have all protested recently about unauthorised sellers. Adidas AG plans to ban dealers listing its products on Amazon and eBay starting in 2013.

LG Electronics USA started a new pricing policy this month and may cut off sellers who break it.

It is not easy to curtail third-party sellers. For instance, Wüsthof had severed ties with a seller called Abe’s of Maine. But that company was able to obtain Wüsthof knives from other distributors and continues to sell them on Amazon.com.

When contacted by Reuters, an Abe’s sales rep confirmed Myers’ account. A search on Amazon on Thursday showed Abe’s of Maine as a third-party seller of 24 Wüsthof items.

“They can try as much as they can, but we will sell their products still,” said an Abe’s

employee who said he was a sales representative named Lawrence but declined to give his surname.

It is difficult to know how many unauthorised online sellers there are, but tracking them down for consumer brands is a growth business, e-commerce experts say.

Since Channel IQ started its tracking service in 2009, the firm has signed up about 200 manufacturers, including LG Electronics, Olympus Corp, Harman International Industries Inc and Weber Grills.

When Channel IQ started, it said it fielded complaints from clients about eBay sellers that mostly focused on counterfeit goods. EBay tackled this problem with a programme called VeRO that lets brands request listings be pulled if they suspect fake items. In 2010, the focus shifted to Amazon.

“In 2011, complaints got louder. And this year it has become frenzied,” Shepherd said.

Gerard Florendo, an ecommerce marketing analyst at Guess, said third-party sellers on Amazon can price “way lower” because of lower overheads. “We call it out whenever we see resellers selling below” the minimum advertised price, he said.

“But we don’t have a police force to enforce this. We are already stretching our resources.”

Sometimes unauthorised sellers can help Amazon foster a relationship with a major retailer. Home Depot Inc, the largest US home improvement chain, has an official Amazon store selling lights and fans from its inhouse Hampton Bay brand, in part to compete with unauthorised sellers that have sourced Hampton Bay products through leaks in the supply chain.

Gloomy outlook for eurozone strugglers

By Andy Bruce

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THE EUROZONE’S most vulnerable economies, particularly Spain, face a much tougher 2013 than thought just three months ago, marked by prolonged recession and ever-rising unemployment, a Reuters poll showed on Wednesday.

The survey adds to a growing sense that austerity is putting too great a burden on debt-stricken countries, a week after the International Monetary Fund said they should be allowed more time to cut budget deficits.

Forty-nine economists polled this week slashed their 2013 outlook for Greece and Portugal as well as Spain, which they believe faces a downturn next year three times larger than projected by the government.

On the eurozone periphery, only Ireland looks on course for a return to modest growth any time soon.

All 16 economists who answered an extra question said they agreed with

the International Monetary Fund’s idea of giving debt-stricken countries more time to cut their budget deficits.

Severe budget austerity measures have caused these economies to shrink far more than authorities predicted, leaving millions more people out of work. Next year promises no reversal to the trend of rising unemployment, the poll suggested.

“In that environment, I find it very difficult to see how the growth outlook is going to be that materially different next year,” said James Nixon, chief European economist at Societe Generale.

Depression-mired Greece may have to wait until at least 2014 before its economy grows. And the survey also underlined why Spain, the eurozone’s No 4 economy, is the new focal point of the sovereign debt crisis.

After shrinking 1.6 per cent this year, Spain’s economy will contract another 1.5 per cent next year, the poll showed - three times more than the 0.5 per cent predicted by the government.

The 2013 outlook for Spain’s economy

has now been slashed for the last six Reuters polls.

“The current status quo is not sustainable, with the stark perception of an economic and financial crisis spiralling out of control pulling the rug from under Spanish consumers and businesses,” said Raj Badiani, economist at IHS Global Insight.

Greece’s depression will continue deep into 2013, the poll showed. After shrinking around 6.4 per cent this year, economists expect a 3.0 per cent contraction for next year - the sixth consecutive downgrade to the Greece outlook for 2012 and 2013.

Athens is struggling to strike a deal with its ‘troika’ of lenders - the European Commission, European Central Bank and International Monetary Fund - on a further two-year austerity package worth nearly 12 billion euros to get its next aid tranche from its 130 billion euro bailout.

Unemployment seems set to soar, reaching 26.1 per cent by the end of next year from 25.1 per cent in July.

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***************************** PREMIER MASSAGE with English lady for stress, body pains & relaxation. Tel: 99736426 for appointments – Paphos area ***************************** CHINESE ACUPUNCTURE, cupping, skin honing, massage. For alleviation of aches, pains, stress and improvement of body tone. Pafos area - call 9922 1851 for appointment ***************************** CLINICAL PILATES. Personalised Clinical Pilates by Physiotherapists in Nicosia. Individual

Limassol - tel: 25 761117 fax: 25 761141

One female black and white, the other a male tabby, both friendly. Please call 22-679893 *****************************

Paphos - tel: 26 911383 fax: 26221049

99520511 mon-frid 10-2pm. *****************************

LESSONS ***************************** NATIVE GREEK SPEAKER, graduate from some of the best Universities in the UK and France in Modern Languages, offers private tuition in the Greek, English, French and Italian languages. Tel. 97-824349 ***************************** TIME FOR A CAREER CHANGE? Learn how to teach English! The London Teacher Training College is offering TEFL Certificate courses in Cyprus. For more information call now on 99839307. ***************************** ENGLISH LESSONS with qualified teacher, €17 per lesson in student’s home. Nicosia. Contact Katerina 99710226 *****************************

PERSONAL

Nicosia Wednesday/Sunday 99013596

HEALTH & FITNESS WE BUY GOLD FOR CASH – BEST PRICES ON THE MARKET, in any condition, any carats. Call us for a quote tel: 99758048 ***************************** WHOEVER HAS UNWANTED CD/DVD, books, decorative items and homeware in good condition can donate it to the Hiv Cyprus Foundation so we can re-sell them at the Gynaikopazaro in Nicosia every first Saturday of the month in support of these families. We can even collect them from your house or if you dont live in Nicosia you can send them via Akis/Travel Express and we can pay the fare. For further

Nicosia - tel: 22 818583 fax: 22 676385

MAN AGED 59 YEARS GOOD LOOKING, resident America, future stay in Cyprus, would like to meet women aged 40 to 50 years for a serious relationship. Serious proposal accepted by divorced or widowed.

Tel 001917 3800371 Loucas Eracleous 89 - 01 - 118 Street Richmond Hill NY 11418 ***************************** AUSTRIAN INGENEUR, 50 years, searching for a nice women. Mobile:004917365562 or 00491726293462

PLEASE HELP Tia Needs a Home. My owners left without me. I am spayed - microchip vaccinated - flea / worm. Very good on / off lead. Very placid and quiet temperament, good with cats - dogs - children. Yes I am perfect for you. Tia would make a great companion for a retired person or family. Tel 96531177 *****************************

SERVICES

GOLDEN RETRIEVER CROSS medium to large size. He is sweet natured and very friendly.

He needs permanent or temporary foster home. He is looking for a forever home! At the Nicosia Dog Shelter, many more dogs and puppies like this one are looking for forever homes ! To provide a temporary foster home or to adopt contact Elena on 99520511 mon-frid 10-2pm. *****************************

JJ PAINTING & DECORATING All aspects of internal and external decorating call jay 97731647 UPHOLSTERY, RUG, BLINDS + CURTAIN CLEANING Rugs from 20€ - Carpets from 38€ Fabric Suites from 85€ - Leather Suites from 95€ - Mattresses from 25€. Curtains, Roman blinds, Vertical Blinds need to be surveyed. Collection Service available. For a free quotation call Mark on 70006766 All areas DO YOU WANT A SHINY LOOKING FLOOR? Full repair & restoration of chipped, scratched, dull and stained, Marble, Terrazzo, Stone & Ceramic tiled floors and surfaces. Professional cleaning, repair & sealing of internal/external ceramic tiles & grout lines. For a free professional consultation & demonstration contact Mark at Premier on 70006766 or 96333961 All areas

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PETS *****************************

TWO KITTENS FOR ADOPTION approximately four months old.

DULUX, a medium sized male poodle cross , gray white colour, around 2 years old is looking for a forever home! He is very loving and friendly! At the Nicosia Dog Shelter, many more dogs and puppies like this one are looking for forever homes ! To provide a temporary foster home or to adopt contact Elena on 99520511 mon-frid 10-2pm. *****************************

VERY HANDSOME MALE GERMAN BRACKE MIX , medium sized, around 4 years old.

Good temperament. A kind dog and very friendly. Give him a chance! At the Nicosia Dog Shelter, many more dogs and puppies like this one are looking for forever homes ! To provide a temporary foster home or to adopt contact Elena on

LOGS FOR SALE olive, carrob and eucalyptus. Delivered to your door free 12 euro per 20 kilo bag tel 99682243 or 99588114 By the Tom the log man.

KEEP YOUR HOME COOLER IN SUMMER AND WARMER IN THE WINTER by having Windowfilm professionaly fitted. Stops up to 86% of heat from entering/leaving your home! Windowfilm increases privacy, blocks harmful uv-rays

Larnaca - tel: 24 652243 fax: 24 659982

classified contents Employment Opportunities pg 27 Employment Miscellaneous 27 Pets 27 Lessons 27 Health & Fitness 27 Personal 27 Services 27 For Sale Miscellaneous 28 For Sale Land/ Property Business 28 For Sale Motor vehicles -Wanted 28 To Let Nicosia 28 To Let Limassol 30 To Let Larnaca 31 To Let Paphos 31 To Let Protaras, Ayia Napa, Paralimni -To Let Athens 33 Land For Sale Bulgaria -For Sale Nicosia 33 For Sale Limassol 33 For Sale Larnaca 33 For Sale Paphos 33 For Sale Ayia Napa 33 For Sale Famagusta Protaras -For Sale Athens -Property& Home Services display ads 34

abbreviations bdrm c/h a/c s/pool f/f apt pm pw sw nw st rd p/s c/l swb r/cass e/w

bedroom central heating air conditioning swimming pool fully furnished apartment per month per week south west north west street road power steering central locking short wheel base radio cassette electric windows

Please note tel nos. that begin with: 22 = Nicosia 23 = Paralimni/Protaras 24 = Larnaca 25 = Limassol 26 = Paphos

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which cause fading, reduces glare and saves energy costs on air-con/heating. Call Ian on 99979671 ***************************** SWIFT SERVICE AND REPAIRS air-cons, commercial and domestic fridges and freezers, ice machines, cool rooms, supply and fit air-cons VRV S. Call Nik on 99579602 Limassol ***************************** COMPUTER ASSISTANCE. PC repairs &servicing. Fully qualified engineer over 35 years experience. Island wide coverage.

Call Bill 99114617. email:bill@ computass.comadmail ***************************** EXPERIENCED PAINTER at very reasonable prices! Decorative coatings, house painting, sprits and graphiato, varnishing, damp proofing and protection from humidity for walls and ceilings. Free estimates! Call Harry on 97768020 ***************************** K.D.FLYSCREENS LTD We manufacture top quality slid-

ing screens, opening doors and roller systems.

We also do repairs. For a FREE QUOTE please contact Phone: 99119582 Website: www.kdflyscreens.com ***************************** WE UNDERTAKE REFURBISHING of houses or holiday homes, construction of pergolas, undertaking of plumbing, house painting, garden work.

For information call JIMMYS: 96587137, MELIS: 96547879 *****************************

FOR SALE Two houses one is preserved erected on land 658 sq m Medolonginou Street, Agios Andreas, Nicosia.

Opportunity for an investment also.

No agents accepted.

Tel: 99473668

FOR SALE MISCELLANEOUS CLOTHES STOCKS AND SHOP FITTINGS FOR SALE. Excellent women’s brands for sale including Italian, Spanish and French clothes and shoes. Also women’s dummies and modern wall fittings (clothes rails.)

Selling at very low prices for clearance. Tel: 99-168943

LANDSOUGHT TO RENT OR BUY

LANDSOUGHT TO RENT OR BUY Urgently Required land, building sites, apartments, houses, offices shops, businesses, for sale or rent. Investia Estate Agents Ltd. Tel 24620344, 24650384 i n v e s t i a @ c y p r u s v i e w. c o m www.cyprusview.com

FOR SALE BUSINESS/ PROPERTY/LAND TIMI, PLOTS, a few selected available, seaview, near the 2 golf courses, Venus Rock and airport 60% building factor, €99.000. Half registration fees til the 31.12.12. Tel. 99621914 ***************************** LARNACA, ALETHRIKO, plots for sale, 525 sqm, 90% building factor, near highway LimassolLarnaca, 5 min from airport, quiet residential area €109.000.

FOR SALE B.P./LAND Half registration fees till the 31.12.12. Tel. 99621914

330 908 www.cyprusre.com/ listing-paf-0007

PLOT LOCATED IN MESA GEITONIA, LIMASSOL 617sqm.

100% build. Ideal for the construction of apartment building or 1 or 2 large houses. Price reduced to € 360.000 tel. 99 330 908 www.cyprusre.com/ listing-lim-0170

SALE OF FIVE ADJACENT PLOTS in Paphos.Considered a significant investment opportunity because the plots are located in a central area of Paphos(very close to the central public market).Sale of either all together or independently. Prices: €220000 – 250000 each. Call 99494753

RESIDENTIAL PIECE OF LAND of 985sqm in the village of Pareklisia. Partial sea views, near to electricity and water supplies. €135.000 D.C. (Cyprus) Real Estate Tel: 99 330 908 FOR SALE PLOT IN THE CENTER OF LEFKARA Village 670sqm, high build factor, near all shops, and amenities €210.000 negotiable Tel: 99 330 908 FOR SALE PLOT of 528sqm located in Paphos Municipality in the Agios Paulos area. It offers a large 100% build factor, and is suitable for the construction of a large house or apartment building. Price € 260.000 tel. 99

SELEC Fencing & Decking Specialist

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Fully Qualified 30 years’ Experience

♦ Quality approved workmanship ♦ 15 years experience + guaranteed work ♦ English workers ♦ also garden gates ♦ sheds ♦ chain link fencing ♦ free estimates ♦ all types of fencing & decking

Tel. SELEC fencing 99176557

FOR SALE B.P./LAND

SUMMER OFFER 30% OFF ALL AREAS • External & Internal painting • Damp Damage Repairs • Spritze Repairs • Free Estimates + very clean work • All areas. All types of woodwork stained and preserved • All work guaranteed

Tel. Tony on 99176557

TREMITHOUSA, plots for sale in a very quiet area, unobstructed sea and mountain views, 600 – 700 sqm, prices from €170.000 Tel: 99510420 PRIME LAND IS AVAILABLE FOR LONG LEASE IN LIMASSOL. 40,000 sq.m. , zoning Ka7 (80% -45% - 3 stories).

Regular amphitheatrical shape overlooking Ladies Mile. Close to New Limassol Hospital with direct access to Limassol – Paphos Highway. Water supply, electricity and telephones are readily available. Suitable for immediate development. Ideal for various health facilities and resorts, holiday centres, commercial and shopping centres, entertainment enterprises etc.

Information: Tel. 22 674338, 99621554

FOR SALE B.P./LAND €85.000; Armou: 4000m2, BD10%, €350.000 (with building permit); Marathounta: 7693m2, BD10%, €150.000; Pegeia: 1942m2, BD10%, €300.000; Stroumpi: 846m2, BD90%, €150.000. 99632096/99588110 WWW.CYLANDIA.EU

WANTED TO RENT FLAT OR HOUSE TO RENT, 2-3 bedrooms, veranda/terrace or garden, prefer furnished, SW of Nicosia (in approx area Lakadamia to Kapedes and Kalo Chorio) alan.tye@birdlifecyprus. org.cy, 22455072, 99089083.

PROPERTY TO LET NICOSIA

FOR SALE LAND in Anthoupoli (half plot) 288 sq.metres. for information 99621554.

FOR RENT, 1 bedroom flat, furnished, at Trigonaki, Aglangia, near the University. The flat has solar panels, A/C for hot and cold, parking at piloti, big veranda, small building, quite street, suitable for a couple or for an individual, tel. 99562776.

LAND FOR SALE: Drousia: 251m2, BD90%, €50.000; Drymou: 1143m2, BD10% €70.000; Innia: 335m2, BD90% €80.000 (stone house); Lasa: 3679m2 BD90% €300.000; Lasa: 2342m2 BD10% €80.000; Letympou: 669m2 BD10%

FOR RENT 3 bedroom flat completely renovated in Strovolos.

135sqm, quite family owned building recently painted. c/h, a/c, storage room. Stainless steel appliances, washing machine. Sky satellite tv. €650/ month Call 99 330 908.

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FOR RENT 3 B/R apartment fully furnished close to Central Bank.

3 W.C., fully air-conditioned extra storeroom, owned covered parking. Excellent condition.

Information: Tel. 99621554

os, 2-Bedr. 3rd floor corner flat. bright, 2 balconies, large, open plan lounge, kitchen with fitted oven-Hobs, AC hot/cold, solar heater, storeroom, parking.Tel: 97-694336, 99-692316.

FOR RENT studio Nikis Ave. 430, Ag. Andreas 295, 1 bdrm Platy 480 furnished, Kennedy Ave. furnished 440, 2 bdrm Lykavito furnished 575, Nikis Ave. furnished 500, Acropolis brand new furnished 550, Ag. Dometios ground floor with garden 600, 3 bdrm Ag. Omologites house ideal for cultural centre/ spa 850, Strovolos 600, 4 bdrm Acropolis ground floor 800, Dasoupolis new independent house 1200. 21 PROPERTY FINDER LTD. A.M. 627, A.A. 108/E 99474839, 99646822

FOR RENT – three-bedroom flat in Lykavitos, Nicosia. Open plan fully-equipped kitchen and living area, two bathrooms, air conditioning and central heating. Big veranda. Near the town centre and University of Cyprus. Contact 99-721911 / 99-454141

WHOLE FLOOR OFFICE FOR RENT in Ayios Andreas, Nicosia, 240 m2, 8 offices plus conference room, reception area, kitchen and WC, structured cabling, hot and cold aircon, 1800 euros pcm, tel. 99 895649 TO LET Lykavitos, off Kallipole-

3 BEDROOMS flat on second floor in a block of six flats, in a nice position at Strovolos area, fully a/c, c/h, covered parking place for one car, recently painted. Rent €650pm. (furnished if required). Tel: 97773358. ***************************** LUXURY HOUSES: 1. 5 bedrs detached house, 550sq.m, built in 2 big plots of land, big garden with grass, big swimming pool with extra fence for children and big covered patio with bbq area, big recep-

TO LET NICOSIA tion areas with marble floor, fire place and bar, big kitchen with all electrical appliances and sitting room with fire place, maid’s room, floor heating, full a/c, blinds on the windows, master bedroom with en suite bathroom and shower, big bathroom for the other 3 bedrooms and extra shower in the 5th bedroom - Strovolos €2500 (H5ST10001-R), (photos in the website).

2. H3ST10010-R, 2 Bedroom plus office semi-detached house 180sq.m with central heating, fully a/c, covered parking in a quiet area off Tseriou avenue.

Strovolos, €600 (photos in website).

3. 2 bedr fully renovated semi detached house 120 sq. m, a/c for hot and cold, small yard, FULLY FURNSIHED or not, double glazed windows with aluminum shutters, in a quiet area off Nikis behind Burger King - ACROPOLIS €650 (H2ACS0001-R), (photos in the website).

4. H3ST10012-R, 3 bedr luxury

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TO LET NICOSIA semi detached house with central heating independent, a/c, 3wc, parquet floor, fire place, electrical appliances in the kitchen, curtains, SHARED SWIMMING POOL, in a very quiet neighborhood in the area near Falcon school. Strovolos € 1200, (photos in website).

5. 4 bedr new luxury detached house, separate maid’s room, central heating, full Ac, 260sq.m, big kitchen with all the electrical appliances, blinds on all the windows, 4wc, 2 showers, 1 bathroom, 2 covered parking, big garden with grass in a quiet neighbourhood in a dead end near French Ambassador house - Strovolos €1400 (H4ST10045-R), (photos in the website).

6. 3 bedr+big attic room with shower and wc luxury new house,210sq.m, central heating, full a/c, 4wc, blinds on all windows, cooker and oven in the kitchen, small garden, covered parking near Alpha Mega supermarket - STROVOLOS €1200 (H4ST10007-R), (photos in the website).

7. 3 bedr upstairs and one downstairs luxury detached house built in 2 plots of land with big garden and big over floor swimming pool 4 X 10, central heating, full a/c, 2 covered parking, FULLY NICELY MODERN FURNISHED, double glazed windows(PVC), electric shutters on all windows, in a very quiet neighbourhood, in the centre of Latsia near Carrefour LATSIA €2700 (H4LAT0010-R), (photos in the website).

TO LET NICOSIA 8. 4 bedr luxury detached house + big separate maid’s room, central heating, full a/c, big sitting and dining area, big separate family room with fire place, big kitchen with breakfast area, 4wc, parquet floor all the house, mature garden on the front and back of the house, 3 covered parking, in a quiet area - PARISSINOS €2300 (H4PA20006-R), (photos in the website).

9. 3 bedr upstairs and 2 separate bedroom in the basement luxury detached house(all the bedrooms with en suite bathrooms/shower), also separate kitchen and sitting room in the basement which has also separate entrance from the house, central heating, full a/c, solid parquet floor all the house, big sitting and dining room with fire place, big fully equipped kitchen with breakfast area and family room, big overfloor, swimming pool with covered patio area with fully equipped bar(bbq, fridge, freezer, cooker),mature garden around the house,2 parking places, alarm system near the Cyprus Conference CentrePLATY AGLANTZIAS €3500 (H5PAG0002-R), (photos in the website).

10. 4 bedr semi detached house with central heating, 4 a/c, 3 wc, 2 bathrooms, 180sq.m, electrical appliances, small yard, bbq area, off Kostantinoupoleos street near French ambassador residence.- STROVOLOS €900 (H4ST10043-R), (photos in the website).

11. 4 bedr luxury semi detached

TO LET NICOSIA house with good size garden with grass, big covered patio with bbq area, central heating, a/c units, 3wc, 2 bathrooms, 2 covered parking, FULLY FURNISHED AND EQUIPPED, in a quiet area in a dead end close to all amenities and schools.

ANTHOUPOLIS €1300 (H4ANT0002-R), (photos in the website).

12. 2 bedr + attic room luxury house with central heating, full expensive air conditions Daikin, blinds, cooker and oven in the kitchen, in a quiet area near Sampson farm - STROVOLOS €700 (H3ST10013-R), (photos in the website).

13. 3 bedr detached house with extra room for office,250sq.m, central heating independent, 4a/c, big renovated, kitchen with cooker and oven, big sitting and dining room with parquet floor and fire place,1bathroom,1 shower,2wc, 2 covered parking, big verandas surrounded by trees and bushes off 28th October street - Makedonitissa €1300 (H4STI0043-R), (photos in the website).

14. 4 bedrs new luxury detached house, all the bedrooms very big and all with big bathroom/ shower, sitting room upstairs, attic room with shower and wc, office space/maid’ s room with shower and wc, central heating, full AC,450sq.m, big sitting and dining areas, big kitchen with sitting area and fitted cooker and oven,6 wc, 2 covered parking’s, big yard with tiles and garden with

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Advertiser TO LET NICOSIA grass, bbq area in a very quiet neighbourhood near the CYBC ( RIK) station and near a neighbourhood park – Aglantzia €2000(H4AGZ0005-R), (photos in the website).

15. 4 bedr luxury detached house, separate maid’s room, 600 sq.m, central heating, full a/c, 6 wc, 4 bathrooms, big sitting and dining areas opening on to the garden, big kitchen with electrical appliances, built in 2 big plots of land with huge garden with grass, swimming pool, 2 covered parking, in a quiet neighbourhood close to Alpha Mega supermarket Engomi - €3000 (H4PA20005-R), (photos on the website).

For many more properties with photos visit our website at www.landtouristestates.com which is updated daily. LANDTOURIST ESTATES LTD 22-422225/96422225/96422226, www.landtouristestates.com ***************************** LUXURY FLATS: 1. 3 bedr furnished apartment, 140sq.m, near Cyprus Hilton, kitchen, bathroom and extra guests toilet, large sitting room, opposite a small park, recently renovated independent oil central heating, air conditions, solar heater, covered parking – Acropolis €630 (A3ACS0040-R), (photos in the website).

2. AINIC0006- R, 1 bedr., fully furnished and equipped apartment, 50sq.m, 2AC for hot and cold, covered verandah,

TO LET NICOSIA covered parking, nice view, off Makarios avenue between Hilton and DEBENHAMS shop.

Nicosia centre, € 450 (photos in website).

3. 2 bedrs luxury big apartment in a small building with 4 apartments only, very big bedrooms with parquet floor, 125sq.m, central heating independent, 3ac,Fully nicely furnished separate kitchen, big sitting and dining area,2wc,covered parking behind Hilton hotel off Kennedy and Makarios close to the centre.– NICOSIA CENTRE €600 (A2NIC0026-R), (photos in the website).

4. A1DAS0010-R, 1 bedr luxury spacious apartment with big sitting and dining room, big bathroom, big bedroom with shutters, covered veranda, storage heaters, 2a/c, cooker and oven in the kitchen, covered parking in a quiet area in a small modern building near Acropolis Park. Dasoupolis €400 (photos in website).

5. 2 bedrs big luxury flat, 110sq. m+big covered veranda, CH ind, 3 a/c, cooker, oven in the kitchen, roller blinds, 2 bathrooms, 2 wc, parquet and granite floor, big bedrooms, big sitting and dining room, covered parking, intercom, on a small building with 6 flats only near Coca Cola factory 2 km from McDonalds in Egomi – Agios Dometios €550 (A2ADO0013-R), (photos in the website).

6. 1 bedr new modern luxury apartment, 50sq.m, 2 a/c for

TO LET NICOSIA hot and cold, nicely modern furnished, 3rd floor, covered parking, 6 year old in a quiet neighborhood off Kantaras street. - STROVOLOS €400 (A1ST10009-R), (photos in the website).

7. New 2 bedr luxury apartment, 90sq.m, storage heaters, 3 a/c, cooker and oven, covered verandah, 2 wc, NICELY FURNISHED, covered parking and storage room of Kyriakou Matsi street near the centre – Agioi Omologites €650 (A2AOM0008-R), (photos in the website).

8. A1ACS0007- R, 1 bedr luxury spacious apartment with 2 a/c for hot and cold, electrical appliances in the kitchen, big bedroom, covered veranda, blinds, covered parking, in a quiet area near Acropolis park.

NICELY FURNISHED. Acropolis €450 (photos in website).

9. 3 bedr luxury spacious floor apartment on the 4th floor of award winning building,200sq. m+big covered veranda, central heating independent, full built in air conditions, lighting fixtures, curtains and blinds on all windows, big spacious living room with fire place, big kitchen with double cooker, oven and microwave and breakfast area, double glazed windows, all the bedrooms with en suite shower/bath, big satellite dish with sky decoder,2 covered parking and storage room, close to American embassy and other amenities – ENGOMI €1600 (A3ENG0025-R), (photos in the website).

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10. A2ADO0006-R, 2 bedr luxury upper flat, fully renovated, 120sq.m, fully furnished, AC for hot and cold, 2 bathrooms en suite in the bedrooms (one with Jacuzzi), 3wc,parking, near of Ag. Dometios police station, Coca Cola factory and close to Alpha Mega supermarket and University of Nicosia.

Price includes common expenses. Agios Dometios, only €500 (photos in website).

11. 3 bedr luxury spacious ground floor apartment with separate entrance, big verandas and garden, big sitting and dining room, central heating independent, full a/c, 2wc, very big master bedroom, electrical appliances in the kitchen, aluminum shutters on windows, parquet laminate floor all the flat, covered parking, storage room, in a very quiet neighborhood in a dead end street, off Athalasas Avenue behind Stephanis near English School €800 (A3ST10030-R), (photos in the website).

12. A2LYK0006-R, 2 bedr penthouse apartment with big veranda 60sq.m, storage heaters, full a/c, 2 bathrooms(one en suite), big sitting room, big separate kitchen with cooker and oven, blinds, covered parking near Agios Antonios market CLOSE TO THE UNIVERSITY. Lykavitos €510 (photos in website).

13. A2ST10028- R, 2 bedr new luxury apartment on the 1st floor of a 2 storey building, with a/c for hot and cold, fully nicely modern furnished, big

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covered veranda, parking, in a quiet neighbourhood. (no common expenses). Strovolos €600 (photos in website).

14. A2NIC0001- R New luxury finished 2 bedr apartment with separate electric floor heating for each room, a/c units, parquet floor all the flat, big sitting and dining area, electrical appliances in the kitchen, fully modern furnished and equipped, big bedrooms, covered veranda, central satellite dish, cable net service, blinds on the windows. In the centre opposite the walls, Nicosia centre, €670 (photos in website).

15. 2 bedrs new luxury apartment, sitting room open plan with kitchen which includes cooker, oven, refrigerator and washing machine, 2 wc, central heating ,full AC, blinds on the windows, very big covered verandas, covered parking and storage room in a dead end off Athalassas avenue near Laiki popular bank and Hellenic bank headquarters. - DASOUPOLI €580 (A2DAS0006-R), (photos in the website).

For many more properties with photos visit our website at w w w. l a n d t o u r i s t e s t a t e s . com which is updated daily. LANDTOURIST ESTATES LTD 22-422225 / 96-422225 / 96422226 www.landtouristestates.com ***************************** 2 BDRM flat in the centre of Nicosia. Rent €450. For information call 99453663, 99663927.

LIMASSOL SEMI-DETACHED 2 bedroom with A/C Split level house in Pissouri Village. Main bathroom, guest W/C, utility, open plan lounge/sitting area kitchen, spacious veranda, garden, private parking place, f/furnished and fully equip, satellite TV 30 English speaking channels, Rent, 650 euro pm. Please contact 0035799681606.

A SEMI-DETACHED 3 bedroom townhouse in Ypsonas, 2 bathrooms, guest toilet, separate kitchen, utility, lounge area and office. Newly painted inside, unfurnished, easy access to the motorway, a/c in bedrooms, spacious veranda and private parking place. Rent 750 Euros pm. Please contact 0035799681606.

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120sqm, 2 bathrooms, kitchen.

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TO LET LIMASSOL fully furniture. Alfa Mega area.

(Neapoli) 4 a/c and full kitchen equipment. Covered parking.

117 sm2. Title deed if you prefer to buy. 200m from the sea.

Excellent condition. For rent €650.00incl common expenses. Tel: 99429501. ***************************** BRAND NEW OFFICE FOR RENT on busy shopping street in Limassol 170sqm, raised flooring, ready to be occupied.

Price €3000/month tel. 99 330 908 www.cyprusre.com/listinglim-0155.

BRAND NEW SHOP FOR RENT on busy shopping street in Limassol 190sqm basement, 150sqm shop area + 75sqm upper floor ready to be occupied. Price € 6000/month tel.

99 330 908 FOR RENT 2 bedroom flat located in Germasoyia with partial sea views, 85sqm less than 10 years old with title deeds Price €135.000 tel. 99 330 908 www. cyprusre.com/listing-lim-0361 GROUND FLOOR HOUSE, furnished renovated this year.

Laminated parke floor, and big wardrobes in the 3 bedrooms.

Rent €590.00 Tel 99497576 99886775 OFFICE FOR RENT opposite sea with amazing sea views.

120sqm, 2 bathrooms, kitchen.

Security system, cabling and server room ready. Price € 1400/month negotiable tel. 99 330 908 www.cyprusre.com/ listing-LIM-0103

LARNACA VERY LONG TERM RENT 160 sq m on ground floor. Very clean spacious open plan living. Perfect for expat or retired couple looking for a quiet life in peaceful area. Only one minute walk to Orphanides, Marks and

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Spencer and St Raphael Clinic.

Own courtyard. Small dog welcome. Sky satellite link. Also suitable for office space. Only English spoken on 99890128 FOR RENT: 2 bedroom apartment. Quiet block in Drosia, Larnaca. Fully furnished with new furniture. Freshly painted.

Heating/cooling. Big verandas.

Includes parking. Reasonable price, will rent fast! Call 97774512.

FOR RENT 2 bed, 2 bath, new built apartment, in a quiet scenic location In Alethriko, Larnaca 5 min. to Larnaka, 5 min. to the beach Fully furnished, A/C, communal pool, under covered parking, Long term rent, €350.00 per month For more info pls call 99639378 ***************************** PROTEA APTS LARNACA Residential and holiday apts for rent monthly or weekly Larnaca – Dhekelia road, close to Golden Bay Hotel 1 & 2 bedroom apts, furnished and with low rent with swimming pool, 2 minutes walking distance from the beach, with a new pedestrian crossing in front of the building. Contact us on 99672466, 99404522, and 99078590 ***************************** LARNACA FLAT FOR RENT: Fully-furnished spacious 2-bedroom first floor flat in central location near Metro supermarket, A/C, private parking, intercom system, en-suite bathroom, small block. Phone: 99354789 ***************************** FULLY FURNISHED one bedroom flat near Larco hotel Larnaca. Price €370. Tel: 99202543 ***************************** 1. K.S.L LETTINGS – APARTMENT FOR RENT Fully Furnished 1st floor 2 bedroom apartment. High quality furnishings throughout. 400 Euros per calendar month. Pyla.

2. K.S.L LETTINGS – Properties Required for waiting Long Term Tenants. We desperately require 2/3 & 4 bedroom villa’s with private swimming pools for waiting tenants in the Larnaca District. Please call us for a free valuation. Tel.(00357) 24815104 3. K.S.L LETTINGS – LARGEST RANGE OF PROPERTIES. OVER 200 RENTAL PROPERTIES IN THE LARNACA DISTRICT AT THE MOST COMPETITIVE RATES! FLEXIBLE CONTRACTS AVAILABLE. Tel. (00357) 24815104 4. www.KSLlettings.com – Villa For Rent Simply Stunning !

Fully furnished 5 bedroom, 5 bathroom Villa with a good sized rear garden & private pool, located in the village of Oroklini. Call for further information quoting Ref. TLL1415.

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PAPHOS ARMOU – large detached 4 bed villa – 1 x ensuite – u/f, a/c, fire place, private pool, large kitchen with extra utility room, private parking, sea and mountain views, quiet location. €650. For more information call - 99774314 or 99621875 €290 CHLORAKAS, Acropolis Heights 2-bed , Beautiful pri-

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***************************** 1. 1 bedroom, fully furnished apartment in Peyia in a small complex in a very quiet area, air condition throughout, spectacular sea and mountain views and communal pool, pets allowed Price: €270 o.n.o

UNIVERSAL AREA For Rent: Short Winter let. 3-6 Months Luxury 2 B/Room en suite Apt, f/f including 2 bathrooms, SKY TV, Ftv card, Nilesat TV, Wi-Fi Internet, Air Con, BBQ area, Com Pool, large patio, ground floor. Located on a small complex in a quiet location Universal Area 15 Mins walk to Harbour. Rent 375 Euros (incl of Com charges) Mob: 99129750 email: fish.10@live.co.uk

2. 2 bedroom, fully furnished apartment in Peyia in a small complex in a very quiet area, 1 bathroom, air condition throughout, spectacular sea and mountain views and communal pool, close to all amenities, pets allowed Price: €320 o.n.o

children Ref:1027 Price €500 Anavargos: 3 bed part furnished extremely large apartment, walking distance to the general hospital, lift, quiet building: Ref:1162 Price €400 Mesogi: 4 bed very large unfurnished modern villa with private pool, nice residential area, gardens, near amenities, pets welcomed, not far to the International School of Paphos. Ref: 783 Price €800 Secret Valley: 3 bed villa fully furnished in modern style, landscaped gardens, quiet location, Private pool, not far from Aphrodite Hills and golf area of Secret Valley. Ref:1033 Price €650 Mandria: 4 bedroom villa offered unfurnished in very nice location, walking distance to all amenities, garden ,with Private pool, pets welcome Ref:1174 Price €750 Lower Peyia: Very large 5 bedroom luxury villa offered fully furnished, Large astro turf garden ,with Private pool, Jacuzzi, central heating, excellent sea views. Ref:1167 Price €3000 Stoumbi: Modern newly built property with private pool, stone features, outside gardens, nice location and views: Ref: 737 Price €800 Tsada: Very large villa with spacious living areas, kitchen with lots of cupboards, fire place, central heating, peaceful location with valley view’s Ref: 955 Price €1300 PROPERTIES WANTED FOR SALE/LONGTERM/HOLIDAY LETTING. PLEASE CALL US FOR A LISTING OF YOUR PROPERTY OR SEND US INFORMATION AND PICTURES TO OUR EMAIL BELOW: OFFICE: 120 MARKARIOS AVENUE, PAPHOS. OFFICE: 26600450 MOBILE: 97614070 many properties available on WEB: www.flowron.com Email info@flowron.com WEB: www.holidayrentalsinpaphos.com Your Vision Our Mission ***************************** LONG TERM RENTALS

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3. 2 bedroom, fully furnished apartment in Peyia in a small complex, quiet area, 1 W/C downstairs, 1 bathroom , air condition throughout ,communal pool, balcony, lovely sea and mountain views, close to all amenities, satellite dish, pets allowed, Price: €370 o.n.o 4. 4 bedroom fully furnished detached Villa in Peyia in small complex, private swimming pool , BBQ area and small garden, 1 en-suite bathroom in master bedroom, downstairs bedroom and bathroom, air condition throughout, 2 balconies, very spacious rooms, with additional storage space, lovely sea and mountain views, close to all amenities, satellite dish, pets allowed. Price : €750 o.n.o ALL THE ABOVE PROPERTIES ARE PRIVATELY OWNED PLEASE CALL: 99351008/99563020 ***************************** FLOWRON PROPERTY SERVICES LTD: PROVIDING AN EXCEPTIONAL SERVICE FOR TENANTS AND LANDLORDS. PROPERTIES AVAILABLE FOR RENT LONG & SHORT TERM RENTAL. FULL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT WITH KEY HOLDING AND RENT COLLECTIONS OFFERED Yeroskipou: 2 bed furnished apartment, cosy furniture, communal pool, walking distance to all local amenities, Ref: 1034 Price 375 Konia: 3 bedroom unfurnished spacious town house with communal pool in nice residential area, walking distance to all local amenities, suit a family with

1. CHLORAKAS 1 bed ground floor furnished apartment with central heating, communal pool and parking, sky TV. €350 pcm including all bills Call 96 545 174 for more info and to arrange a viewing.

2. KISSONERGA 2 bed town house, small garden, off street parking, close to bus and shops. NO POOL €350 pcm Call 96 545 174 for more info and to arrange a viewing 3. SEA FRONT 2 bed apartment with massive balcony, fully furnished, parking. a/c, comm. pool, on site facilities, walking distance to amenities. €435 pcm Call 96 545 174 for more info and to arrange a viewing 4. PAPHOS 2 bed 2 bathroom house, a/c, ceiling fans, fly screens, storage, satellite TV, private parking, swimming pool, From €390 pcm Call 96 545 174 for more info and to arrange a viewing.

THIS IS JUST A SMALL SELCTION OF PROPERTIES THAT ARE AVAILABLE FOR MORE INFORMATION ON THESE

“Friends for Life Limassol Hospice Care Appeal”

Friends for Life Limassol Care Appeal will be holding their Annual Christmas Fair on the 8th and 9th of December

Wish to inform their valued customers On Tuesday 13th November they will hold their not to be missed Déjà vu afternoon from 2.30 until 4.30 at the Leontious Street Charity Shop Limassol between St Barnabas Church and Mitsubishi traffic lights.

Come and purchase your Christmas and New Year Party Clothing plus Festive Decorations

At the Atlantica Miramare Beach Hotel Limassol 11am to 7 pm daily The organizers wish to inform those who have Craft items to exhibit there are still a few tables 180x80 available to rent at 30 Euros each per day.

For booking and further information please call Anne

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Also wanted for waiting clients. www.johnalice-properties.com johnalicecy@gmail.com Tel: 00357 99984681 FOR RENT A selection of 1 to 5 bedroom houses & apartments F/F & U/F Universal, Peyia, Tomb of the Kings, Tsada, Timi & Kato Paphos Landlord & Owners please call 99329357 Or please view at are website www.cyprussands.com Fully Registered Company in Cyprus ***************************** PEYIA – 3 bedroom villa with modern quality furniture and finishes.

Central heating, sky, alarm, infinity pool and stunnning sea and mountain views €700 per month, call : 99389426 ***************************** BRAND NEW APT, opposite Poseidonio Gym, near Carrefour, F/F, a/c, great quality, 1 bdrm, from €340p.m.Tel 99403261 ***************************** MR RENT PAPHOS, THE LEADING PROPERTY RENTAL AGENCY IN PAPHOS OFFICE: 26271858 (00357) IF

TO LET PAPHOS YOU HAVE A PROPERTY TO RENT WE ARE THE RENTAL AGENCY TO CONTACT OFFERING FULL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT & RENT COLLECTION SERVICE 1.

UNIVERSAL AREA €450 spacious 3 bedroom first floor apartment, master with ensuite. Situated on small complex with no pool. Fully furnished with modern furniture, fully equipped kitchen with dishwasher. Balcony leads to a large private roof terrace with shaded barbeque area offering views of the sea, storage & sunbathing deck.

2. SEA CAVES €500 we are delighted to offer this detached 2 bedroom villa situated on a corner plot in a quiet residential area offering sea views. Gated drive for off street parking.

Fully enclosed good sized low maintenance garden with private pool offering privacy and shaded areas. Available unfurnished or part furnished. Pets allowed at owners’ discretion. website reference number: RTL_482 3. KAMARES €625 we are delighted to offer this 2 bedroom 2 bathroom bungalow offering magnificent sea views. Lovely enclosed garden & private pool.

Available unfurnished though includes central heating throughout plus modern gas fire for those winter months.

Outdoor storage facilities, shaded patio area, fly screens & shutters. website reference number: RTL_386 4. PEYIA €700 price includes

TO LET PAPHOS pool cleaning. If you are looking for a villa with breathtaking views & privacy than this property is for you. This modern detached 3 bedroom, 3 bathroom villa is furnished with modern furniture, including satellite TV. One bedroom & bathroom on ground floor. a spacious enclosed garden with private pool offering stunning views. off street parking. website reference number: RTL_401 5. TALA €725 modern 3 bedroom detached villa located in a peaceful residential area between Tala & Kamaras offering sea & mountain views. Separate kitchen with top brand appliances inc dishwasher.

Includes central heating, flyscreens & sky satellite. Private pool & enclosed garden with storage. Available unfurnished or furnished. website reference number: RTL_566 6. MANDRIA €750 modern detached 4 bedroom villa, master with ensuite. Fully enclosed low maintenance garden offering private pool. Available unfurnished to include white goods, blackout blinds, curtains, ceiling fans & log burner for those winter months.

Immaculate condition.

Pets allowed at owners’ discretion. Website reference number: RTL_633 offers considered.

7. KATO PAPHOS €800 large 4 bedroom detached villa situated in the sought after residential area of Limnaria. Walking distance to the beach and the many amenities of Kato Paphos. Spacious living accom-

TO LET PAPHOS modation offering an enclosed garden with c/pool. Fully furnished with modern furniture & solar panels. website reference number: RTL_442 8. TSADA €2000 fantastic 4 bedroom 4 bathroom villa offering breathtaking sea & mountain views from every aspect. Spacious living areas with central heating and real fireplace.

Covered verandas leading to private pool with Jacuzzi and large stone built bbq area.

Separate storage rooms, utility

TO LET PAPHOS room & garage. Available fully furnished or unfurnished. Offers considered. website reference number: RTL_639 Tel: 97790883 office: 26271858 visit our website for many more properties www.mrrentpaphos.net email: info@mrrent-paphos.net ***************************** RENTAL POINT - PAPHOS PROPERTIES AVAILABLE TO RENT IN THE PAPHOS DISTRICT. JUST A SMALL SAMPLE OF AVAILABLE

TO LET PAPHOS PROPERTIES. ALL TYPES OF PROPERTY URGENTLY REQUIRED FOR LONG TERM RENTAL. CALL 97648440 FOR MORE INFORMATION. LANDLORDS CALL IF YOU HAVE A PROPERTY FOR RENT.!!!

1. MESA CHORIO – 2 bed 2 bath fully furnished ground floor apartment set on an elevated position on this prestigious development. Open plan living area. Good sized kitchen.

2 double , bedrooms, master

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TO LET PAPHOS with en-suite shower room.

Family bathroom. Large patio areas with enclosed gardens and lovely sea views. Covered parking and security gates..

Comm swimming pool, and landscaped gardens. Euros 425.00 a month. 2 bed apartment same complex Euros 400.00 a month.

2 MESOGI 3 bed 3 bath furnished apartment in handy location close to the shopping areas.

Large open plan living area and dining area.. Fully fitted dining/ kitchen with appliances . Guest WC. Utilty room. 3 double bedrooms one with en-suite. Family bathroom. Balcony & and parking. Euros 500.00 a month.

Suit non-drivers!

3. TOMB OF THE KINGS – 3 bed fully furnished apartment in established block. Own entrance via stairway. Open plan living area. Dining kitchen. 3 bedrooms and family bathroom.

A/C, sat TV. Internet available.

Large balcony area. Parking.

Euros 350.00 per month 4. KISSONEGA - 3 bed 2 bath unfurnished villa. Set in enclosed gardens the villa consists of open plan living area. Full itted kitchen. Small utility area. Conservatory room. Ground floor bed room with en-suite. Stairs to two double bedrooms and family bathroom. Pool and off street parking. Euros 600.00 per month 5. STROUMBI – 2 bed fully furnished stone bungalow set in quiet location. Open plan living area with working fireplace.

Spacious dining kitchen. 2 double bedrooms and family bathroom with corner bath.

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Landscaped gardens, swimming pool and covered parking. Realistically priced Euros 500.00 per month or close offers only 6. UNIVERSAL AREA. 2 bed fully furnished apartment. Living area, fitted kitchen. 2 double bedrooms and family bathroom. A/C, Enclosed garden area, comm. Pool and parking.

Euros 375.00 a month or offers.

1 & 2 bed apartments available on Universal starting at 250 euros per month.

7. CORAL BAY - 3 bed, 3.5 bath furnished/unfurnished villa situated very near to the centre and within easy walking of beaches and restaurants. Open plan living area with fully fitted kitchen.

Doors out to garden and pool.

Ground floor bedroom with ensuite. Separate guest WC. Stairs to 2 double bedroom both with en-suite and balcony areas. Private pool, gardens, BBQ area and covered verandahs. Central location.Euros 650.00 per month or close offers.

8. STROUMBI– 3 bed 2.5 bath large unfurnished villa in quiet village area. Spacious open plan living area with feature fireplace and dining space Good sized fitted kitchen and breakfast area. Guest WC with storage area.3 double bedrooms.

Master with en-suite bathroom.

Family bathroom. Enclosed gardens, pool and off street parking. Realistically priced Euros 550.00 per month. OVNO FOR FULL LISTINGS OF APARTMENTS/TOWNHOUSES AND VILLA PLEASE CALL FOR DETAILS. ALL TYPES

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and one WC for Guests.

Fully Air-conditioned, Central Heating €390.000 TEL 99668822/99680700

PLEASE CALL 97648440 or email:- inforentals@aol.com ***************************** REFURBISHED stone-built village house located in Kili Paphos. Consists of 3 large rooms 1 small. Traditional wood burnt fireplace, fully tiled secluded yard and garage. Tel: 99210610.

NICOSIA, FLAT FOR SALE: 2 bdrm flat with title deeds, 110 sq.m., fully renovated, best central area, 800m from the European University, excellent view, €99.000. Tel. 99621914. **************************** FOR SALE is a building with 4 flats, each 3 bedroom. 2 on the ground floor with yards, and 2 on the first floor. 2 on first floor completely renovated. Located in quite area.

Building recently plastered and painted. €850,000. Negotiable Call: 99 330 908 **************************** HOUSE FOR SALE/RENT new independent 4 bedrooms house located in Kaithea (Latsia) area in Nicosia. The house is build on a plot of 299 sq m, with covered area 147 sq m. Master bedroom with en-suite bathroom. Provision for central heating and a/c. Price for sale: €265.000 incl VAT. Price for rent: €900 monthly. For further information or to arrange a viewing please contact 99844789 **************************** FOR SALE PENTHOUSE between Armenias Str and Hilton Hotel. 3 bedroom, main bedroom with shower, c/h, fireplace, large verandas.

For more information please call: 99467596.

ATHENS ***************************** TO LET Ambelokipi, off Kifisias Ave. Penthouse, one bedr. flat, renovated, large fitted kitchen, balcony 10 sq.m. Very close to Panormou metro, buses, trolleys to centre, all shops nearby.

Rent: €350. Tel: 97-694336, 22428200.

PROPERTY FOR SALE LIMASSOL BARGAIN PRICE DETACHED HOME FOR QUICK SALE with title deeds. Located on a quite cul de sac in Germasoyia within a short 2 minute drive to the beach and tourist area. 3 bedroom.

325sqm plot, 160sqm house.

Price € 385.000 tel. 99 330 908 www.cyprusre.com/listing-lim-0337

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Semi-detached house in Archangelos area split level on a hill, no houses in front, 3 big bedrooms, 2 big bathrooms and TV room big lounge & dining area, fireplace, fitted kitchen, 40 sq.m. store room, C/H, A/C, solar.

For information call: 99496541

**************************** HOUSE FOR SALE AT ARCHANGELOS AREA (Nicosia) WITH SEMI-DETACHED STUDIO FOR HOUSEKEEPER AND GARDEN 300 sq.m - with Title. 3 bedrooms (one big with dressing room and bathroom). Open big space Kitchen with Dining and Living Room. Two Bathrooms

LARNACA **************************** ARADIPPOU, Larnaca Magnificient Villa fully furnished reduced by thousands to €280,000. 3 - 4 bedrooms, lounge (marble floors), dining/sitting, utility, kitchen, ensuite, bathroom. Many extras. Walk in condition e-mail: weetotie@cytanet.com.cy or phone 97851329 ****************************

PAPHOS **************************** LOFOS – TALA, 3 bedroom

FOR SALE PAPHOS bungalow for sale, living room, kitchen, bathroom, shower room, central heating, air con, private pool, landscaped gardens, lovely views. Call: 99342913 – no agents **************************** 1. PAPHOS, FLATS FOR SALE OR RENT: Kissonerga, 3 bdrm flat with title deeds, in a block of 4 flats only, fully renovated, 2 baths, 146 sq.m closed area, c/h, a/c, covered parking, excelent view of sea and mountains, half registration fees titll 31.12.12 reduced to €135.000 or rent €450 per month. Tel. 99621914. **************************** FOR SALE- PAPHOS 1. REGINA GDNS- 2 Bedroom Townhouse set on a luxury complex with 3 communal pools, private parking, private driveway, rear patio, solar panels, TITLE DEEDS. Covered area 92sq. mtrs. Priced to sell at €115,000.

2. FAROS BEACH- 2 Bedroom fully furnished apartment, situated 120m from a popular beach off Tombs of The Kings.

Sea views, solar panels, private parking, spacious balcony, large family bathroom, TITLE DEEDS AVAILABLE. Priced to sell at €138,000.

3. ATHENA GARDENS- Beautiful 2 Bedroom fully furnished ground floor apartment in Geroskipou with communal pools, gardens, large patio with roll down canvas sidings (low electricity bills). This property comes with many many extras and it is priced at 25% below value at €140,000.

Covered area 96sq. mtrs.

4. UNIVERSAL- 2 Bedroom end of terrace Townhouse, situated close to the new school and bus route, with front garden, rear patio area, and communal pool, this property comes fully furnished and is priced for a quick sale at €98,000. TITLE DEEDS IMMINENT. 5. LIMNARIA GARDENS- 1 Bedroom fully furnished spacious top floor apartment with lounge leading to patio overlooking communal pools on a luxury complex. Shutters all round, heated pool with Jacuzzi, 200m from beach.

Priced to sell at €135,000.

FOR SALE PAPHOS 6. SECRET VALLEY- Splendid 3 Bedroom detached villa with master bedroom en-suite, enclosed gardens, private pool next to Secret Valley Golf Course and set in a quiet cul-de-sac. This beautiful villa comes furnished with high quality furnishings and a covered area of 154sq. mtrs.

Set on a plot of 408sq. mtrs.

Very reasonably priced at €370,000.

7. LOWER PEGIA- 3 Bedroom 2 Bathroom detached villa with totally enclosed gardens, workshop and storage units.

Master bedroom en-suite, downstairs bathroom, private 8mx4m pool, to be sold including quality furniture.

Covered area 132sq. mtrs on a plot 378sq. mtrs. TITLE DEEDS. Priced to sell at €295,000.

8. MARATHOUNDA- Superb 4 Bedroom detached villa with a covered area 310sq. mtrs on a beautiful plot of 928sq. mtrs. Set in an unspoilt area offering marvellous views.

All bedrooms en-suite, large lounge with stone carved fire surround and wood burning fire, black granite work surfaces, traditional stone arches, private 8mx4m pool, outbuildings, garage. Many many extras. Price includes all furniture and white goods.

TITLE DEEDS. Priced well below the market value at €475,000.

For further details please contact 99874804 or E-mail: rocpropertiescyp@gmail. com **************************** FOR SALE special offer, €79,000 first floor apartment in Protaras, fully furnished with 2 bedrooms and a swimming pool. Walking distance to the beach of Ayia Triada and all amenities. Tel: 97 608941. ****************************

AYIA NAPA **************************** 1.AYIA NAPA, Studio for sale, 38 sqm, furnished and fully renovated, with title deed, in licensed complex, 5030m from Nissi Beach €49.000.

Tel. 99621914. LARNACA ****************************

U SEFUL PHONE NUMBERS St Paul’s Anglican Cathedral, Byron Avenue,Nicosia

CAR BOOT SALE SATURDAY 3 November 2012 1400 – 1700 in the Cathedral Car Park Car Spaces € 13 individual tables on request (€3 per table) Refreshments available Reservations and information: Agnete 99 823785 Sylvia: 22 466753/99 836405 (in aid of St Paul’s Anglican Cathedral Funds) Having a clearout?

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POLICE DIVISION HQ

HOSPITALS ........ 1400

Nicosia ........................22 802 020 Limassol ......................25 805 050 Larnaca .......................24 804 040 Paphos ........................26 806 060 Famagusta ..................23 803 030

Nicosia General .............22-801400 Nicosia Makarios ...........22-405000 Limassol Old ................25-305333 Limassol New ................25-801100 Larnaca Old...................24-630312 Larnaca New .................24-630300 Paphos ..........................26-821800 Famagusta ....................23-821211

Drug Law Enforcement Unit ......................................... 1498 (Confidential Information) Rescue Co-ordination Centre ............................. 1441 (Immediate Response Service for Aeronautical or Maritime Accident & Incidents) Game Fund Service: (Wildlife and hunting) Central offices (Nicosia): 22867786, 22-867897 Nicosia: 22-664606, 99-445697 Limassol: 25-343800, 99-445728, Larnaca/Famagusta: 24-805128, 99-634325 Paphos: 26-306211, 99-445679 Forest Fires ..................... 1407

Narcotics Helpline ......... 1410 (Outside hours.............. 22-304160) AIDS Advisory Bureau ................................ 22-302826 Domestic Violence Centre .......................................... 1440 (Emergency Centre for Victims) Drug Info & Poison Control ............... 1401 Cyprus Samaritans ... 77777267 Police Duty Officer ......... 1499 (Confidential Information) Airports Larnaca ..........................77778833 Paphos ...........................77778833

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Advertiser FOR PAPHIAKOS ANIMAL WELFARE SOS HELPLINE, 24 HOUR MEDICAL EMERGENCY SERVICE - CALL 99655581 CONTACT DETAILS FOR PAPHIAKOS. Paphiakos & C.C.P. Animal Welfare Education/Information Centre, No. 12 Dedalos Building, 8049 Kato Paphos PO Box 61272 8132 Kato Paphos Web. www.cyprusanimalwelfare.com www.facebook/paphiakos Email info@cyprusanimalwelfare.com Larnaca Emergency Service - The contact point for animal emergencies in Larnaca is Maria at the Paphiakos Animal Welfare Charity Shop, telephone 24623494 or 99325897 STOP, SHOP AND GIVE TO THE ANIMALS! ALL DONATIONS ARE WELCOME AT OUR CHARITY SHOPS! PAPHIAKOS & C.C.P. ANIMAL WELFARE Registered Charity No 1529 Contact our shops and we can take your clutter The Charity Shops are located at: Shop No.1 Agapinoros Street, Kato Paphos Tel 26910325 Shop No.2 Ap Pavlou Avenue, Kato Paphos Tel 26942894 Shop No.3 Gr. Afxentiou Avensia Court 3 Larnaca 24623494 Shop No.4 9 Ayiou Ioanni Street 3061 Limassol 25561695 Peyia Information Centre & Shop & T Rooms 26622828 Polis Information Centre & Shop & T Rooms 99223572 Book Exchange Shop Trimithousa 99771763 Our shops are always happy to receive your unwanted goods!

NOW YOU CAN HELP BY COLLECTING YOUR ALUMINIUM CANS AND HANDING THEM IN AT ANY PAPHIAKOS CHARITY SHOP OR THE CLINIC. SAVE AN ANIMAL AND SAVE THE ENVIRONMENT!!

PAPHIAKOS CAR BOOT SALE EVERY SATURDAY at the Ambassador Restaurant and outside in the grounds at Paphiakos. Free parking. Sellers from 7am, buyers from 8am. For information & bookings please call MIKE on 96702600.

FORTHCOMING EVENTS FOR PAPHIAKOS CHARITY NO. 1529 WORLD ANIMAL DAY. On Thursday October 4th Paphiakos will be micro chipping pets for only €20 including all the paperwork. For further information telephone 26953496.

To celebrate World Animal Day on Thursday October 4th Paphiakos will be offering free spaying/neutering for all feral and unwanted animals as they do throughout the year. Contact 26953496 for further details.

PAPHIAKOS SHELTER OPEN DAY The Open Day will be held on Sunday October 7th between 10am and 3pm. It will be a Family Fun Day out with a lot of different activities. There is car parking, toilets and refreshments on site so enjoy and join in the celebration of animals and what they bring to our lives. Entrance is €2 CHARITY HAIR CUT. On Thursday 4th October 09.30-17.30 without an appointment Andri at Atlantic Bay Hotel (2nd Floor) will be charging €5 for a haircut with all proceeds going to Paphiakos. Telephone Suzanne on 99151996 or Andri on 99604783.

PAPHIAKOS CHRISTMAS BAZAAR. Saturday November 24th 9am – 3pm at the Crazy Spoon Restaurant. For further details contact 99151996. Stalls, Santa’s Grotto, Donkey Rides, Pirate Pat and many more.

CHEMISTS NICOSIA SUNDAY 28/10/2012 N. Demetriades, 272 Ledra St. Tel: 22665755, 22420283 (H) E. Piera Issegiek, 23C Nikis Ave. Tel: 22490580, 22499232 (H) S. Papanastasiou, 320A Arc Makarios III. Tel: 22372337, 22321430 T. Argyrou, Pavlou Mela 28B, Engomi, Tel: 22658628, 22427414 C. Hatzigiannis, 49B Arch Larnakos, Aglantzia, Tel: 22333311 22436322 LIMASSOL S. Nicolaou, 31 Georgiou A Germasoyia, Tel: 25325450, 25383877 Gr. Gregoriou 37B Kosti Palama Tel: 25754111, 25566818 (H) E. Pitsiakou 26A+B Troodous & Apostolou Varnava Tel: 25662177, 25344887 (H) LARNACA M. Severis, P. Valdaserides St. Tel: 24639410, 24662497 (H) A. Kalaitzi, New Hospital Road. Tel: 24638387, 24639719 (H) PAPHOS N. Nicolaou, P.E.O. 14 N. Antoniades St. Tel: 26934224, 26953371 (H) H. Irakleous, 62C Ellados Ave. Tel: 26942343, 26954204 (H) PARALIMNI P. Kyzas, 82 Makarios Ave. Tel: 23823270, 23823308 (H)

NICOSIA MONDAY 29/10/2012 D. Evangelou, 34E Metochiou St. Tel: 22774123, 22352123 (H) A. Pontou, 38A Eleftheria St, Anthoupolis. Tel: 22382550, 22384724 (H) H. Christofides, 43A Pericleous St, Strovolos. Tel: 22511351, 22319454 (H) C. Iacovides, 6C Crete St. Tel: 22752877, 22255058 (H) K. Georgiou. Tifa, 100 Kyrenia Ave, Platy. Tel: 22340340, 22514500 (H) LIMASSOL A. Tsogarakis, 59B Gladstone St. Tel: 25369444, 25366653 (H) E. P. Terides, 37 Omonia Ave. Tel: 25567526, 25714469 (H) M. Kodjamani 9 Spyrou Kyprianou Tel: 25336337, 25107742 (H) LARNACA A. Demetriou, 44 Arch. Makariou Str., Tel: 24822422, 24812188 Z. Perikleous, 24 Gr. Digheni Ave., Tel: 24624374, 24645918 PAPHOS I. K. Konstantinou, 11 Ellados Ave., Tel. 26100292, 26653482 PARALIMNI M. Klepiniotou, 16 Agiou Georgiou, Tel: 23820422, 23822330 (H)

DOCTORS ON DUTY NICOSIA Pathologist: Costas Schizas, Tel: 22311077, 99606611 Urologist: Achilleas Corellis, Tel: 70007773, 99562642 Gynaecologist: Androula Perikleous, Tel: 22355928, 99623550 Paediatric Surgeon: Panicos Theodorou, Tel: 22469000, 99612311 LIMASSOL Pathologist: Polikarpos Evripidou, Tel.: 99514910, 25251919 Surgeon: Nearchos Zaoskoufis, Tel.: 99622236 Neuro-Surgeon: Michalakis Spirou, Tel: 99624939 Paediatric: Ntia Argiropoulou, Tel.: 25356777, 25356767 Paediatric Surgeon: Yiannakis Koualis, Tel: 25731673, 25732256 Doctor: Lampros Theodosiou, Tel: 25581712, 99624372

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Compiled by Rosie Ogden

A festival of motoring fun for classic fans WHETHER you are a classic motoring fan, classic film buff or simply a lover of all things retro, this year’s Footman James Classic Motor Show promises to be one to remember, so if you’re in UK next month you might want to take a trip to the NEC in Birmingham.

The show is the biggest and most popular classic car exhibition in the UK and attracts tens of thousands of visitors from all over the world.

To tie in with this year’s theme ‘What’s the story?’ title sponsors Footman James’ stand will feature two stars from the screen: Del Boy’s Reliant Regal Supervan (pictured) from the Only Fools and Horses series and, in honour of Bond’s 50th anniversary, the Jaguar XKR from Die Another Day is also expected to draw the crowds.

The three day show, which runs from 16-18 November, will also have another story from the screen: the tale of the mammoth restoration of the original Roger Moore Saint Car – the iconic Volvo 71 DXC. Purchased by Volvo Enthusiasts’ Club founder Kevin Price back in 1997, the restoration of the car began in 2007 and now, some five years later, is to be unveiled at this year’s show.

New for this year is the Vintage Mobile Cinema, which will screen some of the best classic motoring films of all time, as voted for by fans in a Classic Film Festival poll in the run up to this year’s show.

The 45,000 visitors expected at this year’s show can also take part in a daily game show, ‘The Generation Challenge’: ‘Wheeler Dealer’ host Mike Brewer will guide participants as they battle through a range of motoring challenges to get to the grand final when they will test their memory on the conveyor belt challenge to win a range of prizes including a luxury hamper and a ride in their dream classic.

Andy Fairchild, managing director of Footman James, said: “We have sponsored the Classic Motor Show for 18 years now, this being our third year as title sponsor, and from day one, we have been immensely proud to support the flagship event of the classic vehicle movement.

“In addition to our feature stand at the motor show you can also see us on our stand at the Footman James Classic Motorbike Show.

Once again we will be sharing the stand with our club partners, The Vintage Motor Cycle Club, which will feature a number of show-stopping classics and the chance to win your very own 1973 Laverda SF1 750cc motorcycle − worth over £6000!”

Other attractions include the Restoration Theatre, with expert demonstrations covering all kinds of vehicle restoration techniques and ‘Dream Rides’ - giving you the chance to take a 10-mile passenger ride in your dream car in return for a charitable donation.

Del Boy’s Reliant Regal Supervan from the Only Fools and Horses series will be at the event, along with James Bond’s Jaguar XKR from Die Another Day (top)

Motoring

VISITORS TO LONDON NEXT WEEKEND CAN ENJOY A SPECIAL TREAT

The event will feature 500 pre-1905 vehicles making their way from Hyde Park in London to Madeira Drive, Brighton

Celebrities to take part in the world’s oldest motoring event THE world’s oldest motoring event, the annual London to Brighton Veteran Car Run, will be run this year on Sunday November 4.

One hundred and sixteen years since it was first run, the event will feature 500 pre-1905 vehicles making their way from Hyde Park in London to Madeira Drive, Brighton.

The event is part of a weekend Celebration of Motoring that includes the RAC Future Car Challenge (for low energy use vehicles) and the Regent Street Motor Show (celebrating the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries of motoring).

This year the thousands of spectators who line the route will be treated to the sight of some well known faces – including Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason, TV adventurer Charley Boorman, Coronation Street actor Tony Hirst and former Formula One drivers Jochen Mass and Sir Stirling Moss OBE. Nick Mason has taken part in the London to Brighton Veteran Car Run every year since 1985 and only failed to finish on two occasions.

This November he will once again be on the start line in London with a 1901 Panhard et Levassor Roi-des-Belges owned by his company Ten Tenths Limited.

Charley Boorman will make his debut on the event. He

Sir Stirling and Lady Moss will be amongst a host of stars has accepted a ride with John and Diane Shawe in the family’s 8hp 1904 English Mechanic veteran car.

The Shawe family has taken part in the London to Brighton Veteran Car Run 33 times since 1972, reaching the finish line on 30 occasions.

Jochen Mass competed in 114 Formula One World Championship Grands Prix, driving for Surtees, McLaren, ATS, Arrows and the March teams.

Most recently, he drove an AC Cobra in the Goodwood Revival. He will take part in the run with Dr Alexander Schroeder-Frerkes in his 1904 Autocar.

Sir Stirling and Lady Moss will be passengers alongside

Mr and Mrs Chris Jaques, from Forest Row, Sussex in their 1903 Panhard Levassor.

Tony Hirst, best known for playing Paul Kershaw in the iconic British Soap Coronation Street, has raced in the Silverstone Classic and is passionate about cars. His great grandfather Frank Morriss was a pioneer of British Steam Cars and played an active role in the London to Brighton run since the 30’s.

Tony will be taking part alongside David Starks from Devon in his 1904 Tourer Cadillac.

David has taken part in the event over 25 times, and has been involved with motor sports since 1950’s from rallying, hill climb to classic rac-

ing trials.

Meanwhile, ultra-marathon runner Duncan Philips will run from London to Brighton - as he has a friendly wager that he can beat Dan Suskin from the USA in his 1902 Delahaye.

Founded in 1897, the Royal Automobile Club’s promotion of the development of motoring in Great Britain began with the famous 1000 Mile Trial in 1900. In recent years the RAC has focused on running the three largest annual free-to-spectate motor shows in the UK. Saturday November 3 sees the third annual RAC Future Car Challenge, which runs from Brighton to London and showcases the performance of low energy vehicles. A wide range of electric, hybrid and low fuel consumption conventional vehicles are expected.

The weekend of free motoring action continues with the Regent Street Motor Show, also on Saturday 3 November. Here the world’s premier concours event for veteran cars will be joined by future cars and iconic vehicles to celebrate the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries of motoring.

Regent Street will be closed to traffic, making for a relaxed and spacious family shopping experience, with displays, stage shows, award presentations and passenger rides.

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Sport Stoner on pole despite crashing at hairpin

The visiting Under 19 Youth representative team are all of Cypriot origin

Cypriot youth representative squad to be touring Cyprus

IN BRIEF

CYPRIOT community history is being made this week when the community for the first time sends an Under 19 Youth representative team to play friendly games in Cyprus; the players are all of Cypriot origin, aged 15 to 18.

The initiative was sparked by the Cyprus Sports Organisation (KOA) and the Cypriot Football league in the UK (KOPA), in a bid to find Cypriot players good enough to play for the Cyprus National Youth sides, and also to play for club sides in Cyprus.

The initiative began last season with players sourced through English Youth Leagues, Cypriot Youth Clubs and the KOPA League.

A sub committee was formed consisting of Tony Antoniou, Nick Demetriades, Kokos Georgiou, Kypros Kyprianou, Mario Michael, Michalakis

Community history being made this week Michael, Andy Savva and Michael Yiakoumi.

Their first job was to appoint a management team and it was decided Tom Loizou, a former Leyton Orient manager and UEFA A coach, would be manager, and the coaches selected were David Cumberbatch UEFA B licensed coach and John Fitsiou, who was the Leyton Orient First Team fitness coach. Also on board are Peter Theori, a UEFA B licensed coach who works at Leyton Orient centre of excellence, and Jack Demetriou, a chartered physiotherapist with a wealth of experience in professional sport, and also the England U 23 physiotherapist. Completing the management team is goal keeping coach Nick Christofi.

The management team thereafter selected the final 20 players to go on the Cyprus tour, with the side warming up last week by defeating Winchmore Hill FC 7-0 at Haringey Borough Stadium.

The team left London last night, arriving in Cyprus this morning. Tomorrow they play the Cyprus Under 18 national team in Nicosia’s GSP stadium at 3pm, on Tuesday they will be in training and on Wednesday they will play the AEL Under 18 team in Limassol. On Thursday they will tour Nicosia, courtesy of the Cyprus Tourist Board, followed by a visit to the Presidential Palace. On Friday they will play the New Salamis Under 18 team at New Salamis FC Ammochostos Stadium in

Larnaca, at 4pm.

The team have also been invited to welcoming functions arranged by the Mayors of Limassol and Larnaca, and to watch a League match, before they return to London the following Monday afternoon.

The squad selected for the Cyprus tour include: Matthew Agapiou (Hatfield), Mario Aristidou (Anorthosis), Anastasi Manoli (Livadia), Phanos Chambi (Anorthosis), George Pascoulis (Headstone), Kyriacos Tiritanou (Aradippou), Andreas Komodikis (Omonia Youth), Nicholas Sage ( Headstone), Alex Anderson (Omonia), Stephan Stephanides (Wormley FC), Marino Hadjisavva (Wingate Finchley), Kyriacos Georgiou (Olympia), Jack Christodoulou (Wingate

Finchley), Christopher Antoniou (Anorthosis), Nicholas Kyriacou (Omonia Youth), Christopher Elia (Enfield Town), Loukas Prokopiou (AEK Youth), Stavros Brown (KLN), Amerigo Sarno (Dynamo) and Aristides Savva (Wingate Finchley).

Apart from KOA and KOPA funding the tour, a special thank you for financial support goes to Dino Ippocratous and Lighthouse Claims, Andy Savva and Brunswick Garage, Haringey Borough, the Cyprus Tourist Organisation, Cyprus Airways and the Cyprus High Commission.

Any football players of Cypriot origin, between the ages of 15 and 18, wishing to attend the next trial, should contact KOPA General Secretary Michael Yiakoumi, tel: 0044 7958 207412 or email: yiakoumi@aol.com

CASEY Stoner ignored his injured right leg and the ongoing pain caused by surgery to fractures and ligaments to take pole at the Australian MotoGP - the fifth time in a row he has done so.

Riding in his home country, and on a circuit named after him, the retiring 27-year-old caused panic when he flew off his Repsol Honda at the hairpin called Honda Corner, crashing to the floor.

There was immediate concern owing to Stoner`s recent injury problems, but he was quickly on his feet and setting a fastest time of one minute 29.623 seconds.

The time was half a second quicker than Championship leader Jorge Lorenzo, whose Yamaha will be second on the grid.

Stoner’s team-mate Dani Pedrosa is third and, despite conceding a second to his colleague, will be pleased to have kept Lorenzo, his title rival, in his sights.

Lorenzo leads the race for the title with 330 points and Pedrosa is 23 shy of him, meaning the result of this race will be pivotal.

Stoner was the talking point, though, on a weekend which is a long lap of honour for him. He admitted afterwards, however, that his crash could have had consequences.

“I was lucky I didn’t come down on my foot - if it had been the other way it could have been a different story,” he said.

Back on track: Stoner

Ferrari move to calm India over navy flag row

Malaysia’s Fung closer to Wales prop Jones to miss dream pairing with Mickelson autumn internationals

FERRARI moved to placate angry Indian authorities yesterday with an assurance a navy flag on their Formula One cars was not a political statement of support for Italian sailors detained for killing local fishermen.

Indian motorsports federation (FMSCI) head Vicky Chandhok said he had had talks with Ferrari after the Indian Sports Ministry wrote to him and race promoters expressing concern about the Italian team’s gesture. “(Ferrari) were very clear that they do not want to interfere in the Indian judicial system. They have the utmost respect for India and the Indian public and do not want to hurt any sentiments here,” he said.

MALAYSIAN Nicholas Fung was one step closer to fulfilling his dream of playing with American major winner Phil Mickelson after he won the Palembang Musi Championship yesterday to qualify for next month’s Singapore Open.

Victory in the $150,000 tournament in Indonesia yesterday shot Fung to the top of the Southeast Asian golf tour’s order of merit and qualified him for the $6 million European and Asian Tour event in Singapore.

“This is fantastic,” Fung told reporters. “Now I get to play in the Singapore Open. It is my dream to play with Phil Mickelson,” the world number 1,372 added.

WALES tighthead prop Adams Jones will miss the autumn internationals against Argentina, Samoa, New Zealand and Australia because of a knee injury, the Welsh Rugby Union (WRU) said on Friday.

“The Ospreys prop will undergo a rehabilitation period of between six to 10 weeks with regular assessments to establish an accurate return to play time,” a statement on the WRU website (www.wru.co.uk) said.

“He originally injured his knee in early September and has been troubled with symptoms since that injury, but suffered a re-injury during the Ospreys’ Heineken Cup fixture against Leicester last weekend.”

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Sport ‘Hot sauce’ spices up DolphinsJets rivalry

Hanson feeling McIlroy pressure in Shanghai Hanson has world number one breathing down his neck ahead of last round’s play

By Mark Garrod PETER Hanson had world number one Rory McIlroy breathing even more down his neck with a day to go at the BMW Masters in Shanghai.

A third-round 70 took Hanson to 16 under par, but his Ryder Cup teammate shot 69 and was only one behind yesterday as he chases a fifth victory of the season today.

South African George Coetzee’s 66 brought him only three behind and then comes a further two-stroke gap to a chasing pack which includes Luke Donald, Justin Rose and Irish pair Michael Hoey and Shane Lowry.

Hanson was caught first by McIlroy and then by Belgian Nicolas Colsaerts - another of the European stars in Chicago last month - when he followed a birdie on the second with three bogeys by the eighth.

But the Swede regained control with birdies at the ninth, 11th, 13th and 15th.

McIlroy matched two of those, made a 14-foot putt to narrow the gap to one again on the 16th and then

lipped out from nine feet at the next.

“The wind was blowing from the opposite direction, which made some of the holes trickier,” Hanson said. “It was not as easy to go low and my driving was not great, but it was still a good round.

“I need to play better, but if I can get back to how I was the first two days I think I have a good chance. To win would mean a lot. This is the start of a big stretch and it’s nice to find a bit of form.”

MCILROY FAVOURED He was the only member of Jose Maria Olazabal’s side at Medinah not to contribute to the points total and was angry not to be given more than two games in the week.

McIlroy, 23, winner of the Shanghai Masters on the course a year ago, dropped his only shot at the long third and had to wait until the 11th for his second birdie of the day, but he remains today’s favourite for a first prize of over £720,000.

Colsaerts was only one behind when he came to the

420-yard 16th, but driving into thick rough and then going over the green with his third led to a double bogey and he followed it immediately with another, pushing his tee shot to the 17th into the lake.

That enabled Donald, Rose, Hoey, Lowry, last year’s Masters champion Charl Schwartzel and Swede Alex Noren all to move into a tie for fourth on 11 under, five back.

The highlight of Rose’s round was driving the green at the dogleg 380-yard 11th and sinking a 30-foot putt for eagle. He came home in 32 for a 69, but is in danger of falling further behind McIlroy in the race to be Europe’s money list winner this season.

The Northern Irishman has already sealed the PGA Tour title in America and could take a huge step today towards emulating the double achieved by Donald last year.

Robert Karlsson played with Hanson and McIlroy, but fell 10 behind with a 75, while Welshman Jamie Donaldson, who led by four after his opening course-record 62, is now eight back after disappointing rounds of 74 and 72.

A third-round 70 took Hanson (above) to 16 under par, but McIlroy shot 69 and was only one behind yesterday as he chases a fifth victory of the season today

Baghdatis to face Simon Williams to take on Sharapova in WTA final

By Nemanja Bjedov MARCOS Baghdatis will take on local player Gilles Simon in the opening round of his final tournament of the season: the BNP Paribas Masters in Paris.

If the Cypriot manages to overcome 27-year-old Simon, against whom he holds a 2-1 lead in their overall head-to-head series, he would then have to face topseeded Roger Federer who has received a bye into the second round.

Baghdatis returns to the event for the first time since 2008, when he was eliminated in the first round by American Sam Querrey.

However, a year earlier he reached the semifinals where he lost to Rafael Nadal in three sets.

Baghdatis last played in the BNP Paribas Masters in 2008

SERENA Williams and Maria Sharapova will face each other in the final of the WTA Championships in Istanbul, the British Broadcasting Corporation reported yesterday.

Williams, the American world number three, booked her place in today’s final with an emphatic 6-2 6-1 win over Agnieszka Radwanska in 61 minutes.

Sharapova, the world number two from Russia, had to work much harder before overpowering world number one Victoria Azarenka 6-4 6-2.

The match featured a sixth game in the second set that lasted 15 minutes.

Sharapova, who was serving, finally broke Azarenka’s resistance to take a 5-1 lead and soon served out to clinch her place in

Sharapova (above) worked hard to defeat Azarenka

the tournament’s final.

In the day’s opening semi-final, Williams broke Radwanska three times in the opening set.

Radwanska, who played in the longest match in the tournament’s history on Friday, looked more fatigued as the match wore on and was broken three more times as powerful Williams secured an easy victory.

Nonetheless, Belarusian Azarenka guaranteed she will finish the year as world number one by beating Li Na to qualify for the semifinal, while Sharapova will finish ranked number two.

“Victoria and Maria have been playing the best tennis of the year,” said Williams.

“It’ll be last match of the year for me, so I’m excited,” she added.

Lance Armstrong ordered to return his prize money from seven Tour de France victories LANCE Armstrong has been ordered to return the prize money from his seven Tour de France victories as the International Cycling Union leadership again resisted pressure to resign and attempted to move on from a scandal which

has engulfed the sport.

The UCI on Monday ratified the decision taken by the United States Anti-Doping Agency to ban Armstrong for life and strip him of all results since August 1998, including his seven successive Tour

wins. The 41-year-old declined the opportunity to cooperate with USADA. At a special meeting of the UCI’s management committee, it was ruled the 1999 to 2005 Tours will be forever without a winner and Arm-

strong and all other affected riders were told to return prize money won while using performance-enhancing drugs.

Results following any future disqualifications relating to 1998 to 2005 will not be reallocated.

THE New York Jets-Miami Dolphins rivalry does not require much additional spice, but the temperature has risen for today’s AFC East divisional encounter after a week of sharp insults and jibes.

In the build-up to their first meeting of the season last month, Jets head coach Rex Ryan said he wanted his defence to put some “hot sauce” on Dolphins running back Reggie Bush.

That comment was noted by Miami at the time but the temperature heated up in the game, which Miami won 23-20 in overtime, when Bush was taken off injured.

The running back injured his knee at the close of the second quarter after a helmet-to-knee tackle from Jets safety LaRon Landry.

A few days later, Jets cornerback Darrelle Revis was ruled out for the season and Bush chimed in with a “what goes around comes around” comment.

Ryan this week said that his “hot sauce” comment merely meant that he wanted his defence to keep a close eye on Bush and said the Dolphin should apologise for inferring otherwise.

“I never want to hurt a player,” said Ryan, who apologised for his phrase.

That might have been enough for the two clubs, but Landry reignited the flames by saying of Bush: “Whenever he sees me, he will remember that hit.”

Tough-talking aside, the game has genuine extra significance this season given the inconsistent performances of the teams in the AFC East.

The New England Patriots were expected to run away with the division, but they are only 4-3 while Miami are 3-3 with the Jets and Buffalo Bills both at 3-4.

An even greater divisional rivalry resumes in Dallas today with the New York Giants heading to Texas to face the Cowboys.

The Super Bowl champion Giants lead the NFC East on 5-2 and are looking strong contenders to go all the way again but they need no reminder of the toughness of the task facing them having lost 24-17 to the Cowboys in the opening game of the season.

The unbeaten Atlanta Falcons (6-0) return from their bye week to face a Philadelphia Eagles team who, at 3-3, are facing the season-defining stage of their campaign.

Todd Bowles takes charge as defensive coordinator for the Eagles after the firing of Juan Castillo, while quarterback Michael Vick comes up against the team where he made his name.

Meanwhile, neither the Denver Broncos (3-3) nor the New Orleans Saints (2-4) have winning records but the face-off between Peyton Manning and Drew Brees is an appetising one and both sides have the potential to make surges towards the playoffs in the second half of the season.

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Sport Reds’ confidence ‘really high’ - Rodgers LIVERPOOL boss Brendan Rodgers is sensing a confident mood among his players ahead of today’s Merseyside derby.

The Reds take on local rivals Everton at Goodison Park in a Barclays Premier League game that many have the hosts down as favourites for.

The Toffees, currently fourth in the table, have made an impressive start to the season and there has been talk about the chances of them sustaining their form for the rest of the campaign to secure a Champions League berth.

David Moyes’ side are already six points ahead of 12th-placed Liverpool, who are still finding their feet under their new manager following Rodgers’ appointment over the summer.

The Reds head into the contest with some momentum, though, having beaten Reading last Saturday 1-0 and then Anzhi Makhachkala by the same score in the Europa League on Thursday.

Those results made it three consecu-

tive clean sheets, including the 0-0 league draw with Stoke, and Rodgers has emphasised that his team are feeling good about their game right now.

“Everton have started well and there is obviously talk of them being in the top four,” Rodgers said.

“They obviously feel they have the quality and experience to go and do that.

“For us, it is really about taking it game by game and looking to improve, and that is certainly what we are doing at the moment.

“The players have a real strong mentality at the moment. We have three clean sheets in the last three games, we have got some victories and the confidence is really high.”

Rodgers has expressed his unhappiness this season with the way his team have been treated by officials, and with that and the likely intensity of tomorrow’s encounter in mind, the manager is looking for a strong performance

from referee Andre Marriner.

“I have seen it (the Merseyside derby) over the years - the real firecrackers of games, full of intensity and passion, which they should be because that is what derbies are about,” Rodgers said.

“But it is also important to stay calm, and I think the referee has a big part to play in it as well because I have also seen over the games some of the challenges. I think the history of this game shows there have been a lot of red cards.

“I would hope this weekend that we might get a decision that goes our way for once.”

Rodgers will continue to monitor the condition of goalkeeper Jose Reina ahead of today’s game.

Reina has been nursing a hamstring problem picked up on international duty with Spain and missed the Reading and Anzhi matches, but has been back in training at the Reds’ Melwood complex.

Liverpool boss Brendan Rodgers has emphasised that his team are feeling good about their game right now

Magpies’ Shola itching to get the nod

Di Matteo is still willing to support inconsistent Torres

SHOLA Ameobi has warned Demba Ba and Papiss Cisse he will not be satisfied with playing a supporting role to their double act.

The 31-year-old got the nod alongside Ba for last Sunday’s 1-1 derby draw at Sunderland, and although he was sacrificed before half-time following Cheick Tiote’s sending-off, he has no intention of surrendering his place as West Brom head for St James’ Park today.

The Senegal internationals played key roles in last season’s superb surge up the Barclays Premier League table, Ba scoring 15 of his 16 goals during the first half of the season and Cisse contributing 13 following his arrival from Freiburg in January.

As a result, Ameobi found himself largely providing the back-up, but with manager Alan Pardew insisting there is nothing to choose between the trio, he is hoping for an extended run in the team.

He said: “I am a guy who feeds off the manager. If I know he’s got confidence in me, that’s when I produce my best game.

“It’s important as a player that you know your manager has got faith in you, and ... he makes me feel a part of what he is doing here, and that’s very important to me.

“I feel very, very good, my game is there and I’m just itching to play more football, and if I get the nod, I have to show what I can do because we have got two other great strikers at this club who have kept me out of the team.

“I have to make sure if I get my chance, that I take it.”

Ba has already scored six times this season with Cisse currently on two, although he might have added to his tally during Thursday night’s 1-0 Europa League victory over Club Brugge in which he was twice denied by keeper Bojan Jorgacevic.

Ameobi has only one goal to his name so far, the opener in a 3-0 win against Bordeaux earlier this month.

‘I have no concerns with Fernando’

By Ben Rumsby ROBERTO Di Matteo has launched his most sustained defence yet of Fernando Torres after the striker’s latest Chelsea horror show.

Torres arguably looked more than ever like a £50million misfit in Tuesday’s Champions League defeat at Shakhtar Donetsk as his Jekyll-and-Hyde form showed no sign of abating.

The 28-year-old has been performing better outside the box than at any point during his nightmare first 18 months at Stamford Bridge but is still nowhere near the ruthless goalscorer Chelsea made the most expensive player ever acquired by a British club almost two years ago.

Although he has netted six times this season he has fluffed countless other giltedged chances, especially when put clean through.

And unlike last term, when he played second fiddle to Didier Drogba, Torres has no such excuses at present, having been the only player to start all of Chelsea’s matches this season.

He will almost certainly continue that run in today’s

Torres (below) looked more than ever like a £50m misfit in Tuesday’s Champions League defeat at Shakhtar Donetsk crunch top-of-the-table clash with Manchester United and Di Matteo refused to acknowledge he was still struggling.

“I have no concerns about Fernando,” he said, admitting Tuesday was not the Spaniard’s best game.

“He always works hard for the team and, whether he scores or not, he’s always contributing.

“We can’t just rely on one

player. We want to share the responsibility.

“Sometimes, he gets more chances, sometimes less.

But he’s been scoring goals, he’s been making goals, and we can’t expect him to be scoring every game.”

Pointing out Torres had scored almost one goal every two games, he added: “He just had a difficult season but I think this season is completely different.

“He started very well, he’s playing well, he’s looking good, so I would rather focus the energy on now and the future.

“I think he’s shown all the signs from this season.

“He’s scored in the Community Shield, he’s scored four in the league, he’s scored one in the cup.

“So he’s been scoring goals.

But he’s been making goals as well.”

Asked about Torres’ recurring failing from one-on-one chances, Di Matteo said: “Strikers are instinctive and it’s difficult to understand what goes through their minds when they’re in that position.

“I’ve never been a striker, so I wouldn’t be able to know that.

“They have that instinct and he’s always had it and he still has it.”

Southampton boss Adkins: Bale a shining example for up-and-coming stars SOUTHAMPTON boss Nigel Adkins thinks Gareth Bale is the perfect role model for the club’s new batch of upand-coming stars.

Bale returns to St Mary’s Stadium today for the first time since he left the south-coast club for Tottenham as a left-back, having just gradu-

ated from the club’s famed academy, which also produced the likes of Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, Theo Walcott and Alan Shearer.

The 23-year-old has added bags of strength, power and skill to his game since moving to White Hart Lane and he is now considered one of the

most devastating attacking players in the world.

Yet, despite his rise to stardom, Bale is also regarded as one of the most grounded players in the Tottenham squad.

James Ward-Prowse and Luke Shaw are just two of the players who have re-

cently made the step up from academy to first team, and Adkins thinks the duo could learn a lot from how Bale has handled himself throughout his career.

“He is a shining example of how professional you need to be to be successful at the top level,” the Southampton manager said.

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Reading tie 3-3 with Fulham after late Robson-Kanu goal

Fergie: European exit is bad for rivals

Nets in final 13 minutes that see four goals

SIR Alex Ferguson has dismissed the idea Manchester United’s Barclays Premier League title rivals would gain a significant advantage if they got dumped out of Europe.

Ferguson is virtually certain the only realistic challengers to his side this season are Manchester City and today’s opponents Chelsea.

Yet, whilst United continue to march on purposefully in the Champions League, City and Chelsea both have a problem.

Indeed, City seem certain to tumble through the exit door after collecting just one point from their opening three games.

Chelsea have done a bit better.

However, their defeat to Shakhtar Donetsk on Tuesday means they only have a point advantage over Juventus as they cling to second spot.

Whilst clearly a blow to their pride, not participating in the Champions League would surely have a beneficial effect in keeping legs fresh for Premier League battles.

Ferguson does not think so.

“It is never a good thing to lose a game of football,” said the United boss.

“If you are knocked out of the Champions League it would not be a good thing.

If you were knocked out of Europe completely it would be even worse.

“We are better when we are playing in all the competitions. I much prefer that.”

Indeed, it could be argued that United would be in no better position in the Premier League than City are in Europe if they were to lose at Stamford Bridge.

Already four points behind Roberto di Matteo’s men, the Red Devils cannot get out of the habit of conceding early goals.

It is a failing that has already condemned them to two defeats this season, whilst Chelsea have only dropped two points.

Reading 3 Fulham 3

By Duncan Bech HAL Robson-Kanu salvaged a point late in the game for Reading during a chaotic finish to the Barclays Premier League clash with Fulham at the Madejski Stadium.

Robson-Kanu prodded home from close range in the dying seconds of a breathless final 13 minutes that produced four goals.

Dimitar Berbatov appeared to have struck the winner for Fulham moments earlier after driving home Steve Sidwell’s pass, but Reading refused to throw in the towel.

The Royals’ search for a first Premier League win of the season continues, but they will take comfort from twice hauling in their opponents’ lead.

They created the first chance for former Fulham striker Pavel Pogrebnyak, who will have nightmares over the fifth-minute sitter he nodded wide of the left post from five yards out.

The Russian had done the hard work, outmuscling Fulham’s defence as he leapt to connect with Nicky Shorey’s cross, only to head the ball wide.

Wonderful link-up play masterminded by Hugo Ro-

But despite their efforts yesterday, the result leaves Reading still searching for their first Premier League win of the season, while Fulham move into sixth dallega presented Berbatov with a half-chance, but his hard shot drifted outside the right post.

It was then Rodallega’s turn to rue his lack of composure as he sent a wonderful cross by Kieran Richardson straight into the arms of Alex McCarthy.

Reading surged ahead

with a magnificent 27thminute goal from Mikele Leigertwood who drilled the ball home from 20 yards.

Skipper Jobi McAnuff did the initial damage with an intelligent run that ended with an inch-perfect pass to the unmarked Leigertwood who gave the diving Mark Schwarzer no chance.

Turner earns Norwich draw with Villa Aston Villa 1 Norwich 1

By John Curtis NORWICH defender Michael Turner denied Aston Villa manager Paul Lambert victory against his former club with a late equaliser in the Barclays Premier League clash at Villa Park.

Christian Benteke justified Lambert’s decision to axe Darren Bent from his starting line-up for the third time in four matches with Villa’s 27th minute opener.

But Villa were forced to defend desperately after left-back Joe Bennett’s sending-off early in the second period, before

Turner’s late equaliser for Norwich earned his side a share of the day’s spoils

Turner earned the Canaries a deserved share of the day’s spoils.

Fittingly the Norwich goal was created by Wes Hoolahan who was the most creative player on either side.

Villa have now won only one of their last 19 league matches and they were indebted to a trio of fine saves from keeper Brad Guzan for earning them a share of the points.

Norwich fans greeted the arrival of Lambert - who left the Canaries in acrimonious circumstances in the summer - into the dugout with a chant of “there’s only one Chris Hughton” in reference to their club’s current boss.

However, there was no verbal animosity directed at their former manager.

Rodallega’s wastefulness continued as once again he directed a glorious opportunity straight at the grateful McCarthy.

Heavy rain had given way to sunshine and the capacity crowd were enjoying a lively encounter between two well-matched sides.

Fulham attacked with

great speed, but occasionally were left exposed to the counter.

Berbatov yelled in frustration as he sought to offload the ball only to be surrounded by static teammates, and Reading quickly regained possession.

Jimmy Kebe was finding space down the right with McAnuff just failing to reach one cross.

Moments later Jason Roberts, who again did not wear a Kick It Out T-shirt during the warm-up, darted past left-back John Arne Riise before his deflected shot was bundled to safety.

Reading’s ascendancy was brought to an abrupt halt in the 62nd minute when Fulham equalised through Bryan Ruiz.

The Costa Rican forward exchanged passes with Damien Duff before dispatching a tremendous shot struck with vicious force past McCarthy.

Fulham were energised by the goal and began spraying the ball around with greater urgency, spending lengthy spells around Reading’s area.

They were rewarded when Chris Baird fired his second goal in two matches, heading home Ruiz’s corner in the 78th minute - seven days after condemning Aston Villa to defeat with another late strike.

The score did not come without cost, however, as the Northern Ireland international then limped off having injured himself during the celebration.

Substitute Garath McCleary equalised in the 86th minute from close range as play swung from end to end in a high-octane conclusion that gripped the crowd.

Former Manchester United man Berbatov appeared to have stuck a classy winner, but Robson-Kanu had the final say.

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Red Bull’s Vettel powers to pole in India SEBASTIAN Vettel continued his dominance of the Indian Grand Prix weekend by securing the 35th pole position of his Formula One career.

After winning the last three races to take up the lead in the world title battle, Vettel is on course to extend that advantage should he score a second successive victory at the Buddh International Circuit today.

The 24-year-old German, quickest in all three practice sessions, edged out Red Bull team-mate Mark Webber by just 0.044 seconds, nailing his second flying lap in the top-10 shoot-out after making an error on his first run.

It is the first time in Red Bull’s history they have managed to lock out the front row of the grid for three consecutive races.

Behind the Red Bulls will be the McLarens of Lewis Hamilton and Jenson Button, the former a quarter of a second behind Vettel.

For Fernando Alonso, trailing Vettel by six points in the standings, the Spaniard will have to fight his way through as he starts fifth in his Ferrari followed by team-mate Felipe Massa.

Lotus’ Kimi Raikkonen, still in with an outside chance of the title, lines up sev-

enth in his Lotus, with Sauber’s Sergio Perez a superb eighth.

Pastor Maldonado, who was fastest at the end of the first session in his Williams, starts ninth, with Nico Rosberg 10th for Mercedes.

A slight mistake in Q2 cost Romain Grosjean dear as the Frenchman missed out on a place in the top 10 by 0.025secs to Massa.

The Lotus driver will start 11th ahead of Nico Hulkenberg in his Force India, with team-mate Paul Di Resta a lowly 16th, his worst grid slot since last year’s Belgian Grand Prix.

In between the duo are Williams’ Bruno Senna, Michael Schumacher in his Mercedes and Toro Rosso’s Daniel Ricciardo, whilst Sauber driver Kamui Kobayashi finished a staggering 1.2secs down on team-mate Perez and starts 17th.

Jean-Eric Vergne, out-qualified by Toro Rosso team-mate Ricciardo for the 14th time this season, will start 18th ahead of the Caterhams, Marussias and HRTs. Vitaly Petrov will line up in front of Heikki Kovalainen, the Finn beaching his Caterham in the gravel at the death in Q1 as he attempted to at least get ahead of the Russian.

Marussia duo Timo Glock and Charles Pic will start 21st and 24th, sandwiching HRT pair Pedro de la Rosa and Narain Karthikeyan, the latter in his home grand prix and avoiding the final grid slot.

Vettel hailed his weekend as “great” so far, but knows his work is far from done going into the race.

“We’ve had no problems with the car, the boys have been pushing hard, and we’ve had lots of feedback from the factory from yesterday to today,” said Vettel.

“The best chance of doing well is focusing on every single step. Today was qualifying, we got a good result and now we concentrate on the race.”

With title rival Alonso four places behind him, Vettel added: “We know a lot of things can happen in the race, so it doesn’t mean a lot. I’m just very happy to start on pole.”

Webber knows he missed out on an opportunity for pole, but lacked pace on his second run as he failed to get heat into his tyres.

Webber said: “I did my best, and it was a close run thing between Seb and I, but I am surprised to end up second so I’ll take that.”

Vettel continued his dominance of the Indian Grand Prix weekend by securing the 35th pole of his F1 career

Arteta ends QPR resistance Gunners capture vital Premier League win Arsenal 1 QPR 0

By Jim van Wijk

M

ikel Arteta’s late goal gave Arsenal a much-needed 1-0 win over struggling QPR at the Emirates Stadium, where England midfielder Jack Wilshere returned for the Gunners after more than a year on the sidelines.

Arsenal had endured a difficult spell following the international break with successive defeats at Norwich and Schalke preceding a heated annual general meeting on Thursday.

It was, though, far from a vintage Arsenal display against a hard-working QPR side, who owed much to goalkeeper Julio Cesar. The Brazilian was finally beaten by Arteta’s scrambled effort with eight minutes left after QPR full-back Stephane Mbia had been sent off for kicking out at Gunners defender Thomas Vermaelen.

Wilshere’s previous Arsenal league appearance came in May 2011 and he missed the whole of the 2011-12 campaign with niggling ankle and knee problems, which ruled him out of Euro 2012 and the

The late goal by Arteta (right) came with eight minutes left, securing victory over QPR for the battle-weary Gunners London Olympics.

The 20-year-old’s first touch yesterday afternoon was greeted by huge cheers around the stadium, and it was a positive start by the hosts.

Mbia diverted Andre Santos’ low cross goalwards, which Cesar cleared with his legs.

In the 10th minute, a looping header from Aaron Ramsey dropped onto the top of the crossbar.

There was almost a dream return for Wilshere when he collected the ball in midfield

and charged to the edge of the QPR penalty area before drilling in a low, left-foot shot which Cesar spilled but then collected as Santi Cazorla looked for a rebound.

QPR, still without a Barclays Premier League away win and bottom of the table, looked dangerous on the counter-attack, especially through Shaun Wright-Phillips who stretched Santos at every chance.

Arsenal threatened again on the half-hour as Olivier Giroud’s angled shot was parried

away before Lukas Podolski crashed a 25-yard free-kick into the defensive wall.

Wilshere then fed Santos out on the left, and the Brazilian cut back inside but curled a tame effort at Cesar.

After the interval, there was a moment of concern when QPR midfielder Esteban Granero stood on Wilshere’s foot and left the England man on the floor. He hobbled off for some treatment but was able to rejoin the action.

In the 50th minute, a floated

free-kick from Arteta into the QPR penalty area was headed goalwards by Per Mertesacker, but Cesar made a good save at full stretch.

At the other end, Junior Hoilett put the ball in the Arsenal net, chipping Gunners goalkeeper Vito Mannone, but play had already been stopped by an offside flag against three QPR players.

The match was becoming an increasingly scrappy affair, as referee Anthony Taylor struggled to keep order following a

series of free-kicks.

With 25 minutes left, Wilshere was replaced by Theo Walcott, then Podolski came off for Gervinho as Arsene Wenger looked to inject some pace down the flanks.

QPR made a double change as Djibril Cisse and Nedum Onuoha replaced Bobby Zamora and the injured Armand Traore.

The best opening of the game fell to Cazorla after good work from Walcott down the right, but the Spaniard blasted the ball over from 12 yards.

QPR were reduced to 10 men with 10 minutes left when Mbia was shown a red card for kicking out at Vermaelen after he had been fouled by the Gunners skipper.

Gervinho picked up an injury, and was taken down the tunnel on a stretcher. He was replaced by Andrey Arshavin.

QPR continued to defend bravely, as Cesar clawed a deflected clearance onto the post.

The visitors’ resolve, however, was finally broken in the 84th minute.

Arteta bundled the ball in after Giroud’s header was saved superbly by Cesar and the Spaniard’s follow-up header hit the crossbar.

Ramsey’s shot was pushed wide by the impressive QPR keeper, who also denied Cazorla as Arsenal continued to press in the closing stages.

Mannone saved from QPR substitute Jamie Mackie in stoppage time to secure a welcome victory for Wenger’s battle-weary Gunners.