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State committed to CY rescue plan Communications minister says time running out to discuss better deal By Stefanos Evripidou

NE WAY or another the government will implement the rescue plan for national carrier Cyprus Airways (CY), Labour Minister Zeta Emilianidou said yesterday in a veiled warning to the CY board, which submitted its resignation earlier this week. Communications Minister Tasos Mitsopoulos echoed his colleague, noting that time was running out for more dialogue. If the airline is going to survive, there is little room for manoeuvre, he said. Board members handed in their resignation en masse in protest against last month’s decision to allocate around €20 million of company funds to compensate staff made redundant as part of a last-ditch effort to save the airline from closure. The sum agreed between the government, board and airline unions last month was 50 per cent of the compensation package offered by the company in its last redundancy plan. It is understood the compensation offered is over and above what CY employees are entitled to by law; a common practice within the wider public sector, though rarely seen in private sector redundancy deals. According to government sources, before leaving ofﬁce, the previous government had agreed with the unions in December to give 80 per cent of the original compensation package. When the unions met with

the current government and board in April, they negotiated the figure down to 50 per cent. However, on Monday, the board reportedly sent a letter to President Nicos Anastasiades listing its grievances with the latest arrangement to rescue the airline based on a government proposal to reduce operating costs, which includes a redundancy package for 490 members, and the downsizing of its fleet by four planes. Three Lufthansa consultants will also be hired for a nine-month period to oversee implementation of the rescue plan. Since the April agreement, two CY planes have already been returned while the leases on a further two are due to be rescinded. Redundancies are expected to start next week, while compensation will be paid out in stages, starting in 2014. The government is also on the lookout for a strategic investor after Middle East Airlines declared they were no longer interested. According to reports, the board’s biggest problem lies with the €20m the airline will have to find from the company’s depleted assets and hand over in compensation to staff made redundant. Meanwhile the government’s own hands are tied by the European Commission which opened an “indepth investigation” last March into whether €104 million in state aid granted to CY complies with EU state aid rules. When making the an-

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Bone marrow donors found for sick boy

Tourists got caught out in a rainstorm in Nicosia yesterday as they took a tour round the capital on Segway as the bad weather continues (Christos Theodorides)

FIVE viable bone marrow donors have been found for five-year-old George Philippides from Kili in Paphos who has been diagnosed with leukaemia and needed urgent treatment. The good news was given to the Philipides family on Monday according to the boy’s uncle, Marios Philippides. He revealed yesterday that during the last few days suitable donors had been found in five countries including Germany, Israel and the USA, although only two of those donors were currently available. According to Philippides, if the donor is from a country in the same region then arrangements are made to bring that person to Cyprus in order to carry out specialised examinations to see if they are a match with the little boy. According to the head of Paediatrics at the Makarios Hospital, Loizos Loizou, both available donors are around 90 per cent compatible with the young boy. The final decision on any donor is made by the doctors, the uncle told reporters, adding that the family was awaiting news from them to see when to take the 5-year-old to a medical centre in Germany in two weeks to perform the operation. George is currently being cared for in the paediatric wing of the Makarios Hospital in Nicosia where he will remain until he leaves for Germany. He has two older brothers aged 18 and 21. A campaign began in April to find a suitable donor for him. Last month national guardsman, Andreas Vassiliou, who had received a successful bone marrow transplant in 2000, made a public plea for a donor to be found for the five-year-old.

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ON THIS DAY MAY 15

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35 years ago, Monday May 15, 1978

The ﬁrst machine gun is patented by London lawyer James Puckle.

Turkish Prime Minister Bulent Ecevit today told British leaders there was no hope of a breakthrough to the Cyprus dispute while the US maintained an arms embargo on Ankara. British ofﬁcials said Ecevit was urged by Prime Minister James Callaghan to adopt a more ﬂexible approach to Cyprus negotiations.

1948 The day after the State of Israel formally comes into existence Egypt, Transjordan, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and Saudi Arabia all declare war on the new country.

1957 Great Britain drops a hydrogen bomb on Christmas Island in the Paciﬁc, becoming the third nation, after the United States and the Soviet Union, with thermonuclear capabilities.

1988 The Soviet Union begins withdrawing its forces from Afghanistan nearly a decade after invading the country.

1990 Vincent Van Gogh’s ‘Portrait of Doctor Gachet’ is sold for $82.5 million at Christies’ Auction House in New York, setting a new world record for a single painting.

45 years ago, Wednesday May 15, 1968 The Foreign Minister, Kyprianou said on his return to Nicosia last night that he was hopeful talks between Greek and Turkish Cypriots would start soon. He told reporters that his meeting with the Turkish Foreign Minister Caglayangil, in Strasbourg last week, might prove to be helpful to the realisation of the talks.

55 years ago, Thursday May 15, 1958 The day-old French government today took strong measures to prevent the army-led revolt in Algeria from spreading to France. It banned public meetings and street demonstrations, rounded up right-wing shock groups and stopped all travel to Algeria in Save the Republic moves against the threat from the Right. The government strove to control the bid for power by army and rightwing civilians in Algeria and avert the danger of civil war in France.

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Home Free lessons in organic farming from non-profit group THE AMARANDOS non-profit organisation is offering free organic farming lessons. The organisation has a field of 3,400 square metres in Lakatamia for organic agriculture and to employ jobless individuals from the local community. The soil and water available for the field have been examined by the Food Lab laboratory and have returned encouraging results. The field was cultivated and compost has been added to the soil by Premier Shuku-

roglou Cyprus Ltd. The company has also provided the organisation with two bales of hay. Elysee Enterprises Ltd has donated plastic hoses that can water 1,500 square metres of land. Solomou Nurseries Ltd has also donated 1,500 seeds and some have been donated by Kyriakos Antoniou from Cyprus Seeds. The Amarandos organisation promotes organic agriculture and alternative energy sources in Cyprus. To participate in these free lessons call 99410692 or visit https://www.

facebook.com/amarandoscy Last week the agricultire ministry said it was accepting applications from the unemployed to take part in free agriculture training sessions. The programme is part of the government’s attempt to support the unemployed who want to learn about agriculture and work the land. Sessions in animal husbandry, plant production, and how to keep bees for the production of honey are part of the programme.

More fishermen to opt out of the profession over dwindling stocks UP TO 80 fishermen are expected to opt out of the profession this year, as overfishing and dwindling fish stocks draw dolphins closer to shore waters looking for food while the puffer fish continues to damage nets. About 120 fishermen holding a licence to operate smaller vessels less than 12 metres long, have applied to a different scheme to encourage fishermen to retire, leaving a smaller and more sustainable number of fishermen. There are currently between 450 and 500 licensed fishermen - applications have not been fully processed yet so a precise figure couldn’t be given. Kyriacou said the fisheries department expected to help between 70 and 80 of those licensed fishermen to retire, with some €3.0 million available in total. Fishermen who retire their small vessels will get €20,400 plus the value of their boat as designated by a committee within the fisheries’ department that should come to about €17,000 on average. Under previous equivalent

schemes, 12 bigger vessels have been retired with between 20 and 25 vessels remaining. And whereas there used to be eight Cyprusflagged trawlers, there are now just two that are active off Malta, Kyriacou said. Professional fishermen used to get state help for damaged nets that was set according to how often they went out to sea in the previous year and reached up to €1,700 a year for the busiest fishermen, Kyriacou said. With austerity measures in place, the government stopped paying the subsidy in 2012. Kyriacou said that a different compensation scheme would help control the puffer fish population, which is a consistent problem for fishermen in Cyprus. Dolphins sometimes manage to get fish out of nets without injury to themselves and can be a nuisance to local fishermen, but it is the Lagocephalus puffer fish that can inflict greater damage to fishermen’s nets, the department’s Yiannos Kyriacou said. Puffer fish damage nets and impinge on fishermen’s income with the professional fishermen in the Famagusta district previously protesting on what

they said were unreasonable fishing quotas. Daily Politis yesterday quoted a fisherman from Famagusta’s Paralimni as complaining about a pod of dolphins destroying their nets a few days ago. For the second year running, a €150,000 programme whose expenses are split with the European Commission, allows registered fishermen to net puffer fish during the summer (until September) in exchange for compensation. Trading puffer fish is illegal because of the species’ toxicity, but participating fishermen will get €3.0 per kilo, with the fish being disposed of as waste according to specified arrangements, Kyriacou said. Because puffer fish breed in June and July, the hope is that the scheme will control the population. The UN and the European Commission regulate fishing on regional and national levels. Restrictions vary from imposing quotas to specifying fishing season and methods for specific species. “We all fish in the same seas, there is no point for one country to protect a migrating species if they are not protected elsewhere,” Kyriacou said.

Burglary in Alassa JEWELLERY worth around €15,000, two handbags worth around €800, a hunting gun worth around €1,000 and €12,000 in cash were stolen from a house in Alassa in the Limassol district on Monday between 8.45am and 7.30pm. The owner’s car worth around €50,000 was also stolen. The robber used the car’s spare key to steal the vehicle and used it to get away. The Lania police department is investigating the burglary.

Car arson in Sotira village A 36-YEAR-OLD man has been arrested in connection with an arson attack on a car, which took place at around 2.30am yesterday. The attack took place while the vehicle was parked in an open space behind the ﬂat where the owner lived in Sotira village in the Famagusta district. Members of the ﬁre department extinguished the blaze. The damage has yet to be estimated.

Around 80 more to retire out of 450 to 500 licensed fishermen on the island By Poly Pantelides

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Wine awards for SODAP

Some €3 million is available to buy out ‘retiring’ ﬁshermen

The SODAP & Kamanterena winery in Limassol won two gold medals in the 13th Thessaloniki wine competition. The winery also won a silver medal in the Concours International Des Roses Du Monde 2013 competition, making Cyprus the world charter for quality wines. The wines awarded are the Saint Barnabas Commandaria, harvested in 2012, and Stroumpeli Maratheftiko Rose, vintage 2012.

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Another step towards restructuring Government spokesman upbeat on BoC’s prospects By Elias Hazou STRICKEN Bank of Cyprus (BoC) has taken another step in the long road toward its restructuring by absorbing the balance sheet of Laiki Bank, the banking regulator said yesterday. The absorption of Laiki’s balance sheet into BoC’s books took place late on Monday. Sources close to the Central Bank confirmed reported figures placing BoC’s assets at €38.3bn and liabilities at €34.7bn. The BoC has equity capital amounting to €3.6bn, of which €3.1bn from a 37.5 per cent ‘haircut’ on uninsured deposits at BoC, plus another €500m from the sale of assets of the ‘bad’ Laiki. These estimates are provisional, the sources stressed. Under a decision by eurozone finance ministers taken in March, Laiki is to be wound down with the full contribution of equity shareholders, bond holders and uninsured depositors. Laiki is to be split into a good bank and a bad bank. The bad bank will be run down over time while BoC would absorb the good bank. Laiki would transfer to BoC all of its assets, property titles and rights apart from certain exceptions. The exceptions relate mostly to Laiki shares in subsidiary companies out-

The absorption of Laiki’s balance sheet into BoC’s books took place late on Monday side Cyprus, Laiki assets and rights in the United Kingdom and Greece, and provisions relating to the offsetting of loans owed towards Laiki with deposits held therein. In return BoC will take on some of Laiki’s obligations, including the €9bn of Emergency Liquidity Assistance debt that Laiki has accumulated, as well as Laiki’s insured deposits (i.e. deposits of less than €100,000). The BoC, itself currently under administration by the Central Bank, is headed by an interim board of directors. The bank is also struggling with capital restrictions, put in place to avert a feared bank run. A Central Bank spokeswoman said yesterday that a further and substantial easing

of restrictions should be expected on Friday. Under an agreement between Cyprus and international lenders (the Memorandum of Understanding of April 2013), 37.5 per cent of uninsured deposits in BoC will be converted into class A shares with full voting and dividend rights, providing the largest part of the capital needs with additional equity contributions from the legacy (old) entity of Laiki. The remaining uninsured deposits of BoC will be temporarily frozen. Should the 37.5 per cent conversion turn out not to be enough in order to secure the 9 per cent capital adequacy that BoC requires, then up to a further 22.5 per cent of uninsured BoC deposits may be

converted into Class A shares. In other words, 60 per cent of the uninsured part of BoC deposits is susceptible to a ‘haircut’ or conversion into equity. The remaining 40 per cent of uninsured BoC deposits is for the time being not subject to such conversion but 30 per cent of it remains frozen. To ensure that BoC’s 9 per cent capitalisation targets are met, a more detailed and updated independent valuation of the assets of BoC and Laiki must be completed by the end of June. The valuation’s terms of reference will be agreed in consultation with the European Commission, the European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund - the troika of international creditors.

According to the MoU, “Following that valuation, and if required, an additional conversion of uninsured deposits into class A shares will be undertaken to ensure that the core tier one target of 9 per cent under stress by end-program can be met.” Sources tell the Mail that, following the valuation which should be completed by end of June, it would take about an extra 90 days to sort out the final balance sheet for BoC. That would determine the final ‘haircut’ on BoC uninsured depositors - essentially the new shareholders - and thus pave the way for a shareholders AGM to elect the new bank board. The same sources said the Attorney-general’s office has

furnished the Central Bank with a legal opinion, which recommends that BoC’s status of administration should end only once the haircut amount has been finalised. This is now the policy of the banking regulator, the sources added. Determining the new shareholder base is a key stage toward returning the island’s largest lender to normalcy. But the size of the ‘haircut’ will depend also on the success or failure of a string of lawsuits filed by depositors against the decision to seize their cash. The government is anxious that BoC return to normal business as fast as possible, arguing that this would end the period of uncertainty and inject some confidence back into the liquidity-starved market. But commentators have highlighted another factor: a power play between the government and the Central Bank. A law passed in March has given the banking regulator sweeping powers over commercial banks. Still, government spokesman Christos Stylianides yesterday sounded an upbeat note on BoC’s prospects: “The efforts for the survival and rescue of the Bank of Cyprus are on a solid path. The crisis is not over... but positive signs are emerging indicating that we are in a better position than a month ago,” Stylianides said. Another important step is the appointment of a new CEO, who needs the blessing of the Central Bank. Central Bank Panicos Demetriades yesterday met with an undisclosed number of candidates for the job. Among them, according to media reports, was the leading contender, 58year-old Michalis Kolakides, currently deputy CEO of Eurobank EFG.

Georgiades: we’re slowly losing our pariah status By Stefanos Evripidou CYPRUS IS slowly losing its pariah status among EU partners though the country still has a way to go before proving its reliability, said Finance Minister Harris Georgiades yesterday. Speaking from Brussels where he attended the Eurogroup meeting on Monday night, Georgiades said: “We’re doing well, the climate has changed.” The Eurogroup had welcomed the disbursement of the ﬁrst €3 billion of the EU bailout for Cyprus, €2 billion of which has already arrived in state coffers, while another €1 billion will be despatched at the end of June. Eurogroup President Jeroen Dijsselbloem noted that Cyprus had implemented all prior commitments as set out in the memorandum of understanding with the troika, triggering

the release of the first bailout disbursement. The Dutch finance minister also acknowledged that Cyprus’ anti-money laundering legal infrastructure was in place, though more work was needed on its implementation, particularly with regard to banks’ due diligence of real beneficiaries and the need to make information at the Registrar of Companies more accessible. The Eurogroup’s conclusions came after it was briefed by the troika on the results of an anti-money laundering audit undertaken by the Council of Europe’s Moneyval and private firm Deloitte. Georgiades yesterday said the climate in the Eurogroup has changed in favour of Cyprus, though there was still room for further improvement, since some of Cyprus’ partners maintain their reservations with regard to Cyprus’ ability to manage the current situation in a better way. “We need on our part to do plenty to prove

in practice that we are ready,” he said. The minister argued that the findings of the independent assessments of compliance with anti-money laundering (AML) regulations in Cyprus do not justify a stricter approach by Cyprus’ EU partners. However, recommendations to rectify any deficiencies will be integrated in an AML action plan to be agreed between the troika and Cypriot government during the first review of the bailout programme. “We have to clear our reputation as a state,” he said. “Money laundering is a global problem. The political climate has changed emphatically for the better, and this is not only related to efforts of the new government, but with the recorded declaration of Cypriot society to proceed with decisive steps, and correct existing problems that were allowed to be created,” he added. The ministerial committee set up to monitor

implementation of the bailout programme will meet this afternoon Some have questioned why EU paymaster Germany made a huge stink about Cyprus’ socalled failure to tackle money laundering in the run-up to the March decision, with German lawmakers and media voicing opposition to using taxpayers’ money to save allegedly ‘dirty’ Russian accounts. The intense criticism has since died down, with the Eurogroup clearly taking a softer approach to Cyprus. Some argue this is because the Monevyal/Deloitte audit proved Cyprus is not the ‘bad boy’ of Europe in terms of money laundering. Others have commented that the Eurogroup could hardly highlight Cyprus’ deficiencies and then approve the first tranche of the €10 billion bailout without setting stringent conditions first, particularly ahead of German elections this September.

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‘Where’s the logic in hiring executives for €1.3m? AG and By Elias Hazou CYPRUS Airways unions are questioning the logic behind reported intentions by the airline to hire three executives of Lufthansa Consulting for a combined fee of €1.3m. The three have been approached by the board of CY to supervise the restructuring of the ailing airline until the end of the year. It’s understood the Lufthansa execs were on the island for talks with the CY board last week. Reports yesterday said the three have been offered a whopping €1.3m between them for the remainder of the year - a ﬁgure, which if accurate, does not sit well with CY trade unions who are facing pay cuts of up to 25 per cent as part of the airline’s restructuring and downsizing. Unconﬁrmed reports said also the Lufthansa ex-

ecs would be acting as consultants but at the same time would be given executive powers. The airline could not be reached for comment yesterday. But Andreas Pierides, head of the airline’s largest union CYNIKA, said that if the reports were true they raised a series of questions. “First, who are these people, and are they familiar with the Cypriot market?” he said. “Second, why is the government and/or the company hiring people from Lufthansa? Would it not make more sense to hire consultants from Air FranceKLM, the same people who drafted the restructuring plan and know it inside out?” Moreover, Pierides asked, “given that these people are outsiders, how will they be held accountable for any mistakes or omissions? “And how is the company going to come up with the €1.3m to pay these foreign consultants? Not to mention that this amount is insulting to the airline employees who are facing 20 to 25 per cent cuts in

salary.” The trade unionist also questioned the wisdom of hiring consultants now, at the start of the summer season, since all the deals and routes for the summer are already in place. “If it was at the start of the winter season, then ﬁne. But now, what will they be doing to earn €1.3m? Work on their tans?” In a loaded comment, Pierides pointed out also that Lufthansa and Aegean Airlines - a competitor of CY - are partners in Star Alliance, the largest global airline alliance that has code-sharing agreements in place, among others. The proposal to restructure the national carrier includes offering a redundancy package for 490 members of staff, from the 560 earmarked in the original restructuring plan for the airline, providing 50 per cent of the redundancy compensation initially demanded by the unions. CY unions approved the latest rescue deal for the airline last week.

Government is committed to Cyprus Airways rescue ‘The biggest cost is the staff and they are still there. There is no room for manoeuvres anymore’ continued from page one nouncement, the commission said, on the face of it, it had “doubts whether these measures are in line with EU state aid rules”. The commission further doubted the credibility of the CY’s restructuring plan, and questioned the intention to grant compensation to redundant personnel over and above what they were entitled. In the same month, the airline revealed that it had more than doubled its losses in 2012 to €55.8 million, making the search for a further €20m now even more challenging. Another violation being investigated is the fact that CY already received aid in 2007, though EU state aid rules specify that companies in difﬁculty can receive rescue and restructuring aid only once over a ten-year period. The government, a majority shareholder in the airline, has since hired the services of Brussels-based lawyers to counter the charges. In a clear dig at the board’s decision to resign and the reasons given, Emilianidou yesterday said: “The board was present throughout (last month’s) negotiation.” Asked to comment on the shaky future of the air-

prus Mail yesterday he will try to hold a meeting today with the board and the ministers of ﬁnance and labour to discuss the problem, warning, however, that many months have already been spent in dialogue and not enough in implementing the rescue plan. “An agreement was reached last month. We have not started implementing the most important parts of it yet. The biggest cost is the staff and they are still there,” he said, adding, “there is no room for manoeuvres anymore.” Regarding the board resignations, he said: “When we sat down with the board and unions, the board didn’t say there was a problem. Today, they are telling us they had reservations

from the start. “But it was the board and unions that began negotiations ﬁrst, then the government joined in.” Mitsopoulos said the cabinet decision was to keep the airline aﬂoat, not just until the summer passes, but in the long-term. He argued against those who claim the government is only thinking in the short-term to guarantee summer tourist arrivals. “The company has reached a stage where even if it closed today, it won’t have a huge impact on tourism. Around 150,000 tourists may be lost but the company doesn’t transport as many passengers as it used to. “But our intentions are honest, to work to put the

THE ATTORNEY-General and the Central Bank Governor are expected to appear before Parliament’s ethics committee next week to discuss how the country’s banking system came close to collapse. Head of the ethics committee Demetris Syllouris said he would encourage members of the committee to submit written questions to avoid repetitions. The MPs want to look into how, as part of a bailout, the country’s second biggest bank has been forced to wind-down with the biggest, Bank of Cyprus, undergoing radical restructuring. Syllouris previously said the committee would look at whether the Central Bank Governor Panicos Demetriades supplied sufﬁcient and/or accurate information to parliament. The ethics committee’s report cannot be binding, since parliament’s job is to pass laws. A committee of inquiry is currently looking into the civil, political or criminal responsibilities. Syllouris said yesterday that he had been called to testify at the inquiry. He said yesterday he had asked Demetriades not to show up yesterday as originally planned, because some MPs would be absent from the hearings. Irni Charalambidou, MP for former ruling party AKEL, said Syllouris was accommodating ruling DISY leader Averof Neophytou “unilaterally and without prior communication” even though Neophytou was not a member of the ethics committee. The committee also discussed the possibility of taxing those people who managed to withdraw their money from ﬁnancial institutions on the island prior to the Eurogroup meeting on March 15. The ethics’ committee met behind closed doors. ΟΙ ΠΕΡΙ ΠΟΛΕΟΔΟΜΙΑΣ ΚΑΙ ΚΩΡΟΤΑΞΙΑΣ (ΑΙΤΗΣΕΙΣ ΚΑΙ ΙΕΡΑΡΧΙΚΕΣ ΠΡΟΣΦΥΓΕΣ) ΚΑΝΟΝΙΣΜΟΙ ΤΟΥ 1990 (Κ.Δ.Π. 55 ΤΟΥ 1990)

Cyprus Airways has already started to cut back on the size of its ﬂeet line, the minister told the Cyprus Mail: “A decision has been taken by cabinet, meaning the government has adopted the agreement. Since the government has taken a decision on Cyprus Airways, it has to be implemented.” The assumption appears to be, if this board refuses to implement the deal, the government will simply appoint another one. However, the ﬁnance ministry is responsible for new appointments and according to some sources, the ministry was not fully supportive of the 50 per cent compensation agreement. Asked to comment, Emilianidou repeated: “There is a cabinet decision on the matter.” Mitsopoulos told the Cy-

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company back on track and consolidate its finances. We are a remote island and we need a Cypriot-interest company, not a state company, but a company that will serve Cyprus,” he said. “Implementing the rescue plan is a precondition, some haven’t realised that yet,” he added. The minister bemoaned the conflicting climate that continues to plague the company: “One union fights another. I believe some have illusions that the state can give millions each year to keep it alive like in the past.” Ministers’ mind-boggling CY decision makes no sense Page 13

Ειδοποίηση δυνάμει του Κανονισμού 4(1) Δίδεται ειδοποίηση, σύμφωνα με τον Κανονισμό 4(1) των περί Πολεοδομίας και Χωροταξίας (Αιτήσεις και Ιεραρχικές Προσφυγές) Κανονισμών του 1990, ότι εγώ, η ΠΟΛΥ Χ¨ ΓΕΩΡΓΙΟΥ από Λευκωσία ιδιοκτήτρια τεμαχίου με αρ. 56 Φύλλο/ Σχέδιο 21/460508, ενορία Τρυπιώτη οδός Ονασαγόρου & Αριστοτέλους στην περιοχή του Δήμου Λευκωσίας, υπέβαλα αίτηση στην Πολεοδομική Αρχή Δήμου Λευκωσίας για εξασφάλιση πολεοδομικής άδειας για παραγωγή - πώληση παγωτού και υπαίθριο snack-bar. Παραστάσεις κατά της αιτήσεως μπορούν να υποβληθούν προς την πολεοδομική Αρχή μέσα σε προθεσμία 21 ημερών από τη δημοσίευση της Ειδοποιήσεως αυτής.

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Probe into shooting of suspect by officer

By Maria Gregoriou

Justice minister orders an investigation into incident By Peter Stevenson ATTORNEY-general Petros Clerides has appointed a three-person committee to investigate the events which led to a plainclothes police officer shooting and severely injuring an alleged robber at a bakery in Lakatamia on Monday. Police handed over evidence along with CCTV footage from the incident to the committee yesterday. The officer who shot and injured the 34-year-old alleged knife-wielding robber on Monday was performing his duty as a policeman and had no other option but to fire, according to police association head Andreas Symeou. According to police the officer had initially asked the suspect to surrender and hand over the knife but he allegedly refused, and the officer was forced to shoot him in the foot as a warning. Despite the policeman’s repeated demands that the suspect drop his knife, he refused to do so, resulting in the officer having to shoot him again, once in the chest and once in the head. The suspect is in critical condition at the Nicosia General Hospital. “I fully support the officer, not only because he is a member of the force but because he did his job as he was supposed to and prevented irreparable harm,” he said. Symeou added that according to confirmed reports, the policeman could not have acted differently as the assailant was armed with a knife and was prepared to use it on him, a customer, or employee of the bakery. He expressed the certainty that the investigation ordered by Justice Minister,

Ionas Nicolaou, would find the officer innocent of any wrongdoing. The association would demand his promotion, Symeou said, adding that the officer’s actions would send a message to criminals. The 34-year-old alleged robber was named as Panicos Argyrou from Akaki. Police suspect him of a series of robberies – as many as 25 - carried out on bakeries in the Nicosia district over the last two months. The use of guns by police is the last and most painful form of state interventionism in constitutionally protected human rights, according to Ombudswoman, Eliza Savvidou’s office. “In cases where the use of guns is unavoidable it should be taken as a last resort and as an exceptional measure, to be exercised sparingly, as part of official duties and in accordance with the principles of legality, necessity and proportionality,” the statement said. Savvidou added that in order to ensure police used their weapons correctly they should be required to follow certain training that would create a culture of respect for citizens’ rights and to enhance transparency and accountability. The Friends of the Police association expressed their deepest sympathies towards the injured 34-year-old and hoped he would make a full recovery. In a statement the association also gave its full support towards the officer who was carrying out his duty and service for the benefit of society. “We applaud the immediate appointment of an independent investigative committee and call on the public to trust and help the police,” the statement concluded.

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National Guard commandos put on a display yesterday for Defence Minister Fotis Fotiou at a training ground at Stavrovouni. During his visit, Fotiou said efforts would be made to keep pre-election promises by President Nicos Anastasiades about re-

ducing conscription times. Speaking after a meeting at the Stelios Mavrommatis Army Base, the minister revealed that a new department of Special Forces commandos would be strengthened and enhanced with the purchase of modern equipment

Free blood pressure readings to mark 2013’s hypertension week By Maria Gregoriou AS ONE out of four adults, 25 per cent of Cypriot adults have hypertension the Cyprus Society of Hypertension will offer free blood pressure readings on May 18 along with medical advice on hypertension in Nicosia, Larnaca, Limassol and Paphos. This attempt to raise awareness and prevention falls within hypertension week, which runs through May 13 until May 19. An individual suffers from hypertension when their blood pressure is abnormally high. It increases the dangers for strokes, heart failure, sudden death, kidney damage and peripheral arterial disease. During a press conference yesterday hypertension was

named the silent killer. Mirto Azina, a medical ofﬁcer at the ministry of health said children from the age of 14 should start measuring their blood pressure. “If we all measure our blood pressure regularly, eat less salt and eat healthily we can prevent hypertension,” she said. Cardiologist Petros Agathaggelou said the goal was to educate people about what hypertension is and how it could be prevented. “People who are under medical care for hypertension often stop taking their medication because they feel no pain with or without the medicine so they cannot feel or see any difference in their condition,” director of cardiology at Nicosia general hospital, Evagoras Nikolaides, said. “The older you are the

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more likely you are to suffer from hypertension. We reach our peak at the ages of 60 to 65 and then the chances fall again,” Nikolaides added. One out of three Cypriots who are suffering from hypertension do not know it. One out of two adults of 60 years old and above has hypertension. Some 28 per cent of men and 21.6 per cent of women have hypertension in Cyprus while 23.7 per cent of Greek-Cypriots and 28.5 per cent of Turkish-Cypriots suffer from the condition according to statistics released by the society. Hypertension can be avoided by decreasing daily salt intake, drinking less alcohol, being at the right weight for your height, eating healthily by including vegetables and fruit in your diet, and exercising, which could be walking at a fast pace or cycling for at least 30 minutes per day. Measuring your blood pressure regularly can also be a precautionary measure. The Cyprus Society of Hypertension will be measuring blood pressure for free on May 18 at the Mall of Cyprus in Nicosia from 10am until 2pm, at Kimonos Square, Phinikoudes, in Larnaca from 10am until 2pm, at My Mall in Limassol from 10am until 2pm and at the port in Paphos from 4pm until 7pm.

NEARLY ten per cent of children in primary schools and ﬁve per cent in secondary schools in Cyprus suffer from asthma, it was revealed yesterday. The data was cited during a news conference yesterday by the Cyprus Respiratory Society and the Pediatric Society, which are organising events, for the second consecutive year, between May 19 and May 23 to mark asthma week under the slogan ‘As long as I am breathing, I hope’. During the week, a number of events will take place to educate people about asthma and to promote treatments. “Our message, as far as children are concerned is that they should not restrain from physical exercise as long as their asthma is being treated. Parents should accept that their child has asthma and teachers should also be told,” Michael Iasonidis, president of the Pediatric society said. “According to a survey, we found that eight to nine per cent of children in primary schools in Cyprus and ﬁve per cent of children in high school have asthma. If a parent or both parents suffer from asthma then their child is more prone to the illness. People who live close to factories or motorways are more likely to develop the illness,” Iasonidis added. Pulmonologist and professor, Dr Petros Bakakos from the University of Athens will be giving a speech on the challenges in the diagnosis and treatment of asthma at Alasia hotel in Limassol at 8.30 pm tonight. Spirometry services to measure breathing will be offered to the public on May 17 from 3pm until 6pm at the Mall of Engomi in Nicosia, My Mall in Limassol and Ermou Square in Larnaca. These services will also be available on May 18 from 10am until 1pm at The Mall in Nicosia, and at the harbour of Kato Paphos. Sports activities for children will be held in Nicosia and Limassol on May 19 from 10am until 1pm. In Nicosia the activities will be held at the Strovolos municipality athletic centre, close to the Ayios Demetris Park and in Limassol the activities will be held at Kalogeropoulio high school, Mesa Yitonia. Speeches on child asthma and sports will also be given and children’s breathing will be measured. Child lung specialist at Makarios Hospital, Panayiotis Yiallouros will give a presentation on everyday practicalities in the treatment of childhood asthma at Lemon Park in Nicosia on May 23 at 6pm. This event is not open to the public but pediatricians are invited to attend. For more information about asthma visit https:// myasthma.com/en

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Home CYPRUS TODAY Cop stations to be cut JUSTICE Minister Ionas Nicolaou plans to reduce the number of police stations on the island in an effort to make them more efficient and productive. The Minister has asked the chief of police to give him a detailed report of all the police stations on the island, where they are in relation to each other and how many officers work in those stations. “By closing certain police stations the force will become more productive and efficient,” Nicolaou said. He expressed the need to modernise the force as it has operated under a model designed in 1960.

Search and rescue drill with Noble Energy near EEZ A SEARCH and rescue exercise involving the supposed collision of a chemical tanker into the ENSCO 5006 drilling rig, near Cyprus’ Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ), was successfully carried out yesterday. The exercise was a joint effort between the defence ministry and Noble Energy, who have drilling rights within the EEZ, to establish whether the island’s search and rescue services were prepared to deal with any possible accidents involving oil or drilling rigs. “We have rights within our EEZ as we have obligations regarding international law,” Defence Minister, Fotis Fotiou said yesterday. “These obligations involve securing the safety of the area and dealing

with any incidents which may occur,” he added. Due to Noble beginning its exploratory drilling very soon, Fotiou felt that the nature of the exercise was of the utmost importance as it would enable the government to coordinate its search and rescue resources. The minister stressed the importance of such an exercise as it would involve the collaboration of most ministries and the relevant services. The exercise was coordinated by the Centre of Search & Rescue in Larnaca and involved a Chemical Tanker with a 15 man crew crashing into the ENSCO 5006 drilling rig. Due to the collision, six members of the crew were injured after machinery fell from the rig as well as

a chemical leak into the sea. A ﬁre also broke out which was dangerously close to spreading to the rig. At the end of the exercise, the hypothetical tanker sank which caused substantial sea pollution. Exploratory drilling conducted by Noble Energy in Block 12 of Cyprus’ EEZ has revealed a gross natural gas reserve from three to nine trillion cubic feet (tcf) with a 60 per cent probability of geologic success. Noble is expected to extract and transfer Cyprus natural gas by late 2018. Contracts were signed with the ENI/KOGAS consortium in blocks two, three and nine within Cyprus’ EEZ and Total for blocks ten and eleven during the second licensing round of negotiations.

Cyprus out of Eurovision CYPRUS took part in the first semi-final of the 58th Eurovision song contest last night in Malmo in Sweden but failed to progres to the final. Singing in 14th place, Despina Olympiou sang If You Remember Me. The second semi-final will take place tomorrow to decide which of the 33 participants will fill the 20 positions up-for-grabs in the final. A total of 26 countries will contest the final, with France, Germany, Italy, Spain, the UK and last year’s winners and hosts Sweden all receiving direct entries to the final.

President to visit France PRESIDENT Nicos Anastasiades will meet with his French counterpart Francois Hollande in Paris on June 12, it was conﬁrmed yesterday by government spokesman Christos Stylianides. Anastasiades will be accompanied by Stylianides, where issues on the economy and the Cyprus problem will be discussed with President Hollande, as France is a member of the Security Council.

Laat year sand had to be dredged from the sea to replace that lost in bad weather over the previous winter. This year there is no problem

‘Best condition in a decade’ Coral Bay beach promises lots of sand for frolicking in this year By Bejay Browne CORAL Bay beach in Paphos is in the best condition it’s been for the last decade according to local ofﬁcials. Peyia councillor and head of the beaches committee, Nikos Konikkos said: “The beach is the best we’ve seen for at least a decade and there is plenty of sand this year. In fact, I believe that in the coming months we will see that the beach will be bigger than usual, due to the sand which is being brought back into the area

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by the tide.” The blue-ﬂagged beach often loses thousands of tonnes of sand a year to the sea, and the winter of 2011 took its toll with some 10,000 cubic metres deposited in the water around 150 metres off shore. Urgent intervention was needed with SEMESKO Ltd undertaking the project to reclaim the sand lost from Coral Bay at a cost of around €58,000. Local councillors, businesses and beachgoers are now breathing a sigh of relief as the sand has managed to remain intact during the

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past winter months. Konikkos said that technicians had placed extra sand in places, on top of the usual coverage. “They put about one metre extra coverage,” he said, “to allow for normal tides to wash sand off the beach. This has now been washed back up onto the beach.” Often described as the ‘jewel’ of Peyia municipality, Coral Bay is a popular destination with both tourists and locals, who ﬂock to the area to enjoy the blueﬂagged sandy beach and sparkling waters. But last year’s summer

season was nearly a washout with the beach only seeing sand replacement being completed by the end of July. Almost all of the sand had gone from the beach during particularly bad storms. The damage to the beach was so severe that the once naturally sandy stretch was left mostly rock. But the coming summer season looks promising, according to Konnikos. “The winter weather wasn’t as bad as previous years and the beach is ready for people to visit,” he said.

“The municipality has decided to operate the 500 or so beds and the umbrellas as well this year, and municipality employees are already working at the beach.” According to Konikkos, the beds and umbrellas are usually contracted out to a local business but due to economic problems being faced by Peyia municipality, as well as a “number of other issues”, it was decided to keep the sunbeds under their control this season. “The municipality urgently needs money on a daily basis,” he said.

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Bahraini blogger, human rights activist escapes to Britain By Gwladys Fouche A BAHRAINI blogger and human rights activist said he had been granted asylum in Britain after being in hiding for two years. A leading voice among protesters during anti-government demonstrations in 2011, Ali Abdulemam hid to escape a government crackdown and was smuggled out by ﬁshermen.

A military court tried and sentenced him in absentia to 15 years in prison. “I have not seen my daughters since they were six-months-old. It is hard to know that your daughters know you only from a picture,” said Abdulemam, a 35-year-old former engineer with Gulf Air and author of the pro-democracy Bahrain Online blog. “I feel pain because I am not in my homeland. I did not choose this. I did

not want this,” he said. Sources close to Abdulemam said he was smuggled to Saudi Arabia inside a car with a secret compartment. From there, he travelled to Kuwait, where fishermen smuggled him into Iraq, from where he flew to London. Abdulemam, making his first public appearance since disappearing from view two years ago, said he had been granted asylum in Britain. Britain’s

Home Ofﬁce said it did not comment on individual asylum applications. A Bahraini government statement released to CNN on Monday said Abdulemam had not been tried in court “for exercising his right to express his opinions”. “Rather he was tried for inciting and encouraging continuous violent attacks against police ofﬁcers,” the statement said, adding that his website had been used “to incite hatred,

including the spreading of false and inﬂammatory rumours”. Abdulemam denies the government’s charges, and says he is campaigning for democracy and civil rights. Abdulemam declined to discuss how he got out of Bahrain to protect those who helped him. His wife, eight-year-old son and three-yearold twin daughters also still live in Bahrain.

Europe sees Cameron face leadership issues He seeks to defuse rebellion by anti-EU lawmakers as Labour says move is action of a panicked prime minister By Guy Faulconbridge and Andrew Osborn PRIME Minister David Cameron faced questions about his leadership yesterday after he buckled to pressure from within the Conservative Party to bring forward draft legislation enforcing a referendum on Britain’s European Union membership. Just hours after US President Barack Obama cautioned against rushing towards the EU exit, Cameron was forced by a rebellion in his party into promising a bill that would pave the way for an in-out vote on Europe. But the more Cameron concedes to his Eurosceptic lawmakers, the more they want, deepening the 25-year battle in his party over Europe and undermining his own chances of leading the party to victory in a general election set for 2015. Divisions over Europe helped bring down the last two Conservative prime ministers, Margaret Thatcher and John Major, and many politicians compared Cameron’s position to that of Major whose premiership was riven by rows over Europe. “There is no way that he (Cameron) can give in any further because he’s undermining his own position,” said Sheila Gunn, who served as spokeswoman to Major. Cameron’s advisers hope the draft bill on an EU vote will end the bickering that has damaged the party. But opponents said that by caving in on such a grave

Under ﬁre: David Cameron issue, Cameron has lost control of his own party and increased the chances of a challenge to his leadership. A Downing Street spokesman insisted Cameron was in charge yesterday and dismissed the idea that his government was in chaos. “David Cameron’s weakness has turned a European issue into a leadership is-

sue,” Labour foreign affairs spokesman Douglas Alexander said. Cameron’s offer of draft legislation marked a climbdown from a promise he made in January to renegotiate the terms of Britain’s EU membership and then hold a referendum by the end of 2017. But some lawmakers had called for further concessions and media reports said Cameron’s leadership could be challenged. Potential rivals include London Mayor Boris Johnson and Education Secretary Michael Gove. Since coming to power in a coalition government three years ago, the Conservatives have been rattled by the popularity of the UK Independence Party (UKIP), which campaigns for Britain’s withdrawal from the EU and tighter immigration laws. A Guardian/ICM poll showed that UKIP’s support

‘I’M PROUD TO BE A FRUITCAKE’ ENVIRONMENTALISTS inhabit a “fantasy world” where they would “get rid of technology” and live in “Tolkien-esque wonderful grass huts”, Conservative David Davies said yesterday. The Green Party’s Caroline Lucas described Davies as a “fruitcake” after he launched an impassioned speech denying climate change and deriding environmentalists. But Davies said he was “proud to be a fruitcake”, describing the snack as a cheap and reliable source of energy. The Tory MP attacked environmentalists who refuse to support nuclear energy or shale gas exploitation despite the fact that they reduce carbon dioxide emissions. He likened the green lobby to the Luddites who “smashed up spinning wheels”. Later he said: “Fruitcake is a cheap and reliable source of energy, I’m for fruitcakes, I’m proud to be a fruitcake, long may fruitcakes continue.”

had surged to a record high of 18 per cent, while support for Britain’s traditional parties had fallen by 4 per centage points each. UKIP took a quarter of the vote in local elections this month and unless Cameron can convince his party that he can win the next election he is likely to face more challenges to his leadership. “With the story changing every day, it’s very reminiscent of the old John Major days where, really, the government appears to be being blown around by events,” said UKIP leader Nigel Farage. UKIP’s poll rating has climbed steadily since Cameron’s pledge in January to renegotiate the terms of Britain’s EU membership and hold a referendum by the end of 2017. Cameron’s referendum promise then failed to satisfy Conservative critics who have been pressing him to bring forward the vote to before the next national election in 2015 or to pass a law committing the party to holding a vote by the end of 2017. Many Conservatives say they want to be part of the EU’s single market but that the closer integration of the euro zone means Britain should renegotiate its membership or leave. About half of British voters want to leave the European Union, which is viewed as anti-democratic and bureaucratic by many British politicians, but for voters utility bills, education and the economy are far more important.

Members of the London Fire Brigade simulate a rescue from a limousine in London yesterday. Transport for London and the London Fire Brigade carried out the exercise to highlight the dangers of hiring illegal limos. Luxury limos or novelty cars, many of which have not passed safety regulations, have become a big part of London’s nightlife (EPA)

Tycoon ‘loses £850,000’ at poker Tia killer is jailed for at least 38 years Sun charge in corruption probe A HEDGE-fund tycoon lost more than £850,000 in a poker game at the weekend, it has been reported. Talal Shakerchi was one of six players to pay €500,000 (£423,000) for a seat at an unofﬁcial game at the ﬁnal of the European Poker Tour in Monaco on Saturday night. Shakerchi, who set up his own hedge fund, Meditor, after working at Old Mutual, has reportedly won more than £1 million in live tournaments over the last few years. He began playing the game as a hobby before

moving on to play in live events, but luck was not on his side on Saturday. The 49-year-old lost his €500,000 buy-in within hours and went on to lose more than £850,000 on the table, The Times reported. Despite losing, he was heard to say at the end of play: “Goodbye, see you guys tomorrow,” to the remaining two players. Midlands-born Shakerchi is worth an estimated £100 million, according to the Sunday Times Rich List, and is said to be a generous philanthropist.

STUART Hazell was jailed for life with a minimum term of 38 years yesterday after finally admitting the murder of schoolgirl Tia Sharp. The 37-year-old changed his plea on the fifth day of his trial at the Old Bailey on Monday, having forced 12-year-old Tia’s family to sit through days of shocking and graphic evidence, including a sickening picture of her taken after she died. He had claimed that Tia was killed in an accident when she fell down the stairs, but prosecutors said that the window cleaner sexually assaulted her before murdering her and hiding her body in the loft of the home that he shared with her grandmother Christine Bicknell. There were sobs and a shout of ‘beast’ from the public gallery as Hazell was sentenced. Hazell, a convicted drug dealer, had lived with Bicknell in New Addington, south London, for more than five years before Tia died. The window cleaner, who had previously briefly dated Tia’s mother Natalie Sharp, developed a twisted sexual attraction for the schoolgirl, secretly filming her while she was asleep.

BRITISH prosecutors have charged a reporter on Rupert Murdoch’s Sun newspaper over alleged payments of more than £17,000 ($26,000) to ofﬁcials for details of conﬁdential government spending plans. The charges are part of a wide-ranging police investigation begun two years ago into claims journalists from Murdoch’s now-defunct News of the World newspaper had hacked into mobile phone voicemail messages. That inquiry has led to dozens of arrests of current and former staff at News International, the British newspaper

arm of Murdoch’s News Corp, and has been widened to examine claims of illegal payments to public ofﬁcials. The scandal forced the closure of the News of the World and has called into question the judgment of British Prime Minister David Cameron, who was friends with several of Murdoch’s senior executives. Sun reporter Clodagh Hartley allegedly paid for information between 2008 and 2011 about then-unannounced government decisions related to the 2010 Budget and to deﬁcit reduction plans, the Crown Prosecution Service said yesterday.

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Europe Prosecutors reject Costa Concordia captain’s plea bargain on manslaughter charge PROSECUTORS rejected a plea bargain offer by the captain of the cruise ship Costa Concordia, which capsized off Italy’s west coast last year with the loss of 32 lives, lawyers said yesterday. Captain Francesco Schettino is accused of manslaughter, causing a shipwreck and abandoning ship. He has admitted making mistakes but says he should not be the only one blamed for the disaster. State prosecutors accepted plea bargains for five other officials, including four ship’s officers and the crisis coordinator of the vessel’s owners, Costa Cruises. The prosecutors said they had rejected Schettino’s offer to serve three years and four months in prison as he bore most responsibility for the disaster. The other officers had played a “marginal” role, they said. The giant Costa Concordia went down just outside the Tuscan port of Giglio in January last year after it struck rocks off the coast of the picturesque holiday island during a manoeuvre which brought the doomed vessel close to the shore.

CHAOTIC The accident triggered a chaotic night-time evacuation of more than 4,000 passengers and crew from the 290-metre-long ship, which is still lying on its side on a rock shelf just outside the port. A recording of a coastguard ordering Schettino to “get back aboard, damn it!” in a furious telephone call to the captain spawned a popular catchphrase that was printed on t-shirts in Italy. “It must be reiterated that the accused Schettino almost exclusively carries the weight for the striking chain of errors committed,” the Grosetto state prosecutor’s office said in a statement. Schettino’s lawyer Francesco Pepe told reporters that they had always intended to fight the case at trial and had only entered the plea bargain because the five other defendants had done so, leaving the captain isolated as potentially the sole defendant on trial. “We think now we will go to trial. We want the details of what really happened to come to light,” Pepe told reporters. The presiding judge is expected to rule on whether or not to approve the plea bargains for the other five by the end of the week. “I can only tell you that anyone who has been in a position of authority would feel very, very depressed, exactly as he feels,” Pepe said.

A multimedia presentation inspired by Genesis

Vatican at Venice Biennale Three artists commissioned for works to be exhibited were inspired by Genesis, not liturgical or religious but are thoroughly modern By Philip Pullella FOR most people, the relationship between contemporary art and the Vatican home of some of the world’s greatest old masterpieces - is like oil and water - they just don’t mix. The Vatican’s ‘culture minister’, Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi, wants to change that perception and so for the first time the Holy See will have its own pavilion this year at the 55th edition of the Venice Biennale, a sacred cow of modern art, opening on June 1. But don’t expect anything that looks remotely religious or liturgical at the world-class exhibition, which started in 1895 and takes place every two years in the gardens and in a converted industrial area on the Venice lagoon. “We are not sending any altar pieces,” joked Ravasi, whose formal title is president of the Pontifical Council for Culture. Instead, Ravasi’s department and the Vatican Museums have awarded three contemporary art commissions, handing them out with a theme and permission to let the artists’ imaginations run free - with no strings, moral or otherwise, attached. “They were not given specific themes such as Mary or Jesus but asked to reflect on

the ﬁrst 11 chapters of Genesis because they are essentially a portrait of humanity,” Ravasi said. Genesis recounts the creation of man and woman, the fall from grace and expulsion from Eden, the killing by Cain of his brother Abel, the Great Flood and the chance for humanity to start anew when the waters receded and the rainbow appeared. The three commissions were given to Italy’s Studio Azzurro cooperative, Australian-born American painter Lawrence Carroll and famed Czech photographer Josef Koudelka, each produced works on the themes of “creation”, “uncreation” and “re-creation”. “These are sentiments that can be shared not only by believers, Roman Catholics, but by members of other faiths and non-believers,” said Antonio Paolucci, director of the Vatican Museums. “There is no person who in his or her lifetime has not experienced high times, times of falling, depression, defeat, and times of having to get back up and start hoping again,” he said. “These three elements are universal.” The works have no outwardly religious content. One of the works inspired by the theme of creation is a multi-media work that shows a tangle of outreached hands on video screens while the

German woman covered for neoNazi murder gang, court hears A 38-YEAR-old German woman charged with complicity in a series of racist murders had a key role in creating an air of normality around her neo-Nazi cell, a prosecutor said yesterday. The case of Beate Zschaepe and the National Socialist Underground (NSU), the group blamed for the murders of eight Turks, a Greek and a German policewoman, has scandalised Germany and exposed an institutional blind spot for far-right extremism. The second day of the eagerly awaited trial was mostly taken up with legal arguments and a reading of the charges against Zschaepe, whose two presumed male accomplices, Uwe Boehnhardt and Uwe Mundlos, both committed suicide in 2011. “The NSU members considered themselves a murder squad, committing killings with racist and anti-state motives,” federal public prosecutor Herbert Diemer said. “Zschaepe had the critical role of creating an air of normality and legality for the terrorist group. This included giving innocuous reasons to neighbours and friends to explain the long absences of Boehnhardt and Mundlos, who were seeking possible targets and planning the deeds.”

viewer hears the sounds of children and animals. Koudelka’s 18 photos, some of them as large as 2.6m by 1m, show the destruction brought about by war and environmental neglect. Koudelka became famous in photography after taking

pictures of the Soviet invasion of then-Czechoslovakia in 1968. The negatives were smuggled out to the West and became symbols of resistance. He later ﬂed to the West. One of Carroll’s works in the re-creation section is a large

panel with electrical wires and light bulb sockets, some of them empty and some with light bulbs in them. “It’s vital that we have a dialogue between people and cultures and religions. I think it’s great that the Vatican is doing this,” Carroll said.

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DiCaprio’s wildlife charity auction brings in $38.8 million By Patricia Reaney

Crosses placed during 2012 for the 34 miners killed in the Marikana shooting as scores of Lonmin platinum mine workers (unseen) started a wildcat strike in Rustenburg, South Africa, yesterday. The workers are demanding an end to recent killings and the closure of the NUM (National Union of Mineworkers) ofﬁces in the area. Tensions have intensiﬁed between the NUM and new mine workers union, AMCU (Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union) (EPA)

Outrage as fighter ‘eats soldier’s heart’ Same man filmed before posing with bodies of guerillas By Bo Wilson A SYRIAN rebel leader who apparently took a bite from a soldier’s heart was yesterday accused of committing a war crime by mutilating a body. A group loyal to president Bashar Assad, which published a video clip of the act on the internet, described the act as a “crime that crosses all lines”. The man, identiﬁed by Human Rights Watch as Abu Sakkar, a well-known insurgent from the city of Homs, is seen carving into the soldier’s body and cutting out the heart and liver. He then says: “I swear to God we will eat your hearts out, you soldiers of Bashar. You dogs. God is greater... we will take out their hearts to eat them.” He then appears to put the heart in his mouth and takes a bite.

Peter Bouckaert of Human Rights Watch said: “The mutilation of the bodies of enemies is a war crime. But the even more serious issue is the very rapid descent into sectarian rhetoric and violence.” Human Rights Watch said Sakkar is the leader of a group called the Independent Omar al-Farouq Brigade. The group said he had been ﬁlmed before, ﬁr-

ing rockets into Shia areas of Lebanon and posing with the bodies of guerrillas from the Lebanese Hezbollah movement killed ﬁghting alongside Syrian government forces. The main Syrian opposition coalition said Sakkar would be put on trial. It comes after David Cameron and Barack Obama presented a united front at the White House on Syria,

saying they were working together to push for the end of Assad’s hardline regime. A Syrian minister yesterday asked for details of a conference to end the war as outlined by talks between America and Russia, one of the regime’s main allies. Syrian information minister Omran Zoabi said more information is needed before the government makes a decision to attend.

‘DEATH TOLL IN SYRIA LIKELY AS HIGH AS 120,000’ AT LEAST 94,000 people have been killed during Syria’s two-year conflict, but the death toll is likely to be as high as 120,000, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said yesterday. The group said that at least 41,000 of those confirmed killed were Alawites, the sect of President Bashar al-Assad. Rami Abdulrahman, the head of the Observatory, said that the Alawite death figures were confirmed by eight different Alawite

sources in coastal cities and in Homs. Syria’s conﬂict started as peaceful protests against the four-decade rule of the Assad family but turned into civil war, pitting the Sunni majority against minorities, in particular the Alawites, an offshoot of Shi’ite Islam. “We believe the real ﬁgure of those killed from both sides is above 120,000 because both sides are being discreet on their casualties,” Abdulrahman said.

Unpaid leave for Defence Department civilians U.S. Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel was set to announce yesterday that most of the Defense Department’s 800,000 civilian employees will be placed on unpaid leave for 11 days, as the military scrambles to comply with budget cutting targets by the end of September. The furlough is shorter than the earlier estimates of 14 days issued in March and 22 days in February, but is still going to be deeply unpopular with the Pentagon workforce. Ofﬁcials have cautioned it could discourage civilians from joining the department, sending them instead to work in the private sector.

“He made this decision after carefully studying all of the options,” said one US defence official, adding that Hagel was not happy about the move but that it was necessary to comply with a belttightening law. A second US defence official, also speaking on condition of anonymity, said more than 600,000 employees would go on unpaid leave but could not say precisely how many. They would not start their leave for several weeks, the official added. Defence spending has taken the single biggest hit from automatic spending cuts, known in Washington-speak as

the “sequester,” with a $46 billion reduction through the September 30 end of the current ﬁscal year. The cuts - which will deepen in the coming years unless Congress acts to reverse them - were included in a 2011 law aimed at reducing the federal government’s yawning deﬁcits and controlling the national debt. But top brass have warned Congress that the cuts will erode military readiness to respond in the future to global tensions, including over the civil war in Syria and Iran’s nuclear advances, and as the United States winds down the 11-year-old war in Afghanistan.

ACTOR Leonardo DiCaprio and Christie’s auction house raised $38.8 million through a charity art auction and donations, Christie’s said yesterday, with proceeds to beneﬁt environmental and conservation causes. The 33 works in The 11th Hour Auction organised by the star of the new ﬁlm The Great Gatsby sold for $31.74 million on Monday evening and set 13 records for artists including Carol Bove, Joe Bradley, Mark Grotjahn, Raymond Pettibon and Mark Ryden among others. A $5 million matching donation for three of the lots and additional gifts from donors brought the overall total to $38.8 million for The Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation, according to Christie’s.

DONATED “All I can say is thank you, thank you, thank you,” DiCaprio told the audience at the end of the auction. Many of the works, which were created for and donated to the auction by the artists, sold in spirited bidding in a packed auction house. Art collectors from around the globe also placed bids by telephone. “Christie’s is thrilled with the exceptional results of the sale, which realised $38.8 million,” said Loic Gouzer, international specialist at Christie’s and the head of the sale. “The works of art were of incredible quality and range, and highlight the generosity of the many artists who donated,” he added. A panel of environmental experts and the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation will decide which conservation projects will beneﬁt from the proceeds of the sale.

At the opening of the auction, DiCaprio, who has supported environmental issues through his foundation since 1988 and also produced and narrated the 2007 documentary The 11th Hour about the state of the environment, urged the audience to dig deep into their pockets. “Bid as if the fate of the planet depended on us,” he said. And they did. All of the 33 works were sold and many fetched prices that were three or four times their presale estimates. The top lot of the sale was an oil on cardboard mounted on canvas by Mark Grotjahn called Untitled (Standard Lotus No. II, Bird of Paradise, Tiger Mouth Face 44.01), which sold for $6.2 million as two determined bidders pushed up the price. Zeng Fanzhi’s The Tiger, an oil on canvas, fetched nearly double its high estimate with a price of $4.8 million, and Bharti Kher’s sculpture The Skin Speaks a Language Not Its Own went for $1.7 million. Each of the three works had a pre-sale estimate of $1.5 million to $2.5 million. DiCaprio donated Ocean V by Andreas Gursky, which sold for $600,000, and he bought an acrylic on canvas by Takashi Murakami for $700,000. A portrait of DiCaprio painted by Elizabeth Peyton sold for $1 million. Gouzer and DiCaprio had approached the artists and explained what they had hoped to accomplish with the auction, which they have been planning for a year. “We explained that we wanted great works and they were very reactive because of the cause. The artists are very sensitive to the fact that we are destroying our planet,” Gouzer said in an interview ahead of the sale.

Saudi Arabia announces six new cases of SARS-like virus SAUDI Arabia has confirmed six new cases of the SARSlike novel coronavirus in its Eastern Province, state media reported on yesterday and Monday, citing the health ministry. It reported four new cases late on Monday and a further two late yesterday. One of the new cases has been treated and the patient was released from hospital, while the other new cases were still being treated, the Saudi Press Agency reported. On Sunday, Saudi Arabia said it had had a total of 24 confirmed cases since the disease was identified last year, of whom 15 had died. In its latest outbreak in its Eastern Province, it said it had had 15 confirmed cases, of whom nine had died. World Health Organisation officials visiting Saudi Arabia to consult with the authorities on the outbreak said on Sunday it seemed likely the new virus could be passed between humans, but only after prolonged, close contact. The new virus (nCov) can cause coughing, fever and pneumonia. A virus from the same family triggered the outbreak of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) that swept the world after emerging in Asia and killed 775 people in 2003. French authorities announced on Sunday that a second man had been diagnosed with the disease after sharing a hospital room with France’s only other sufferer, who had recently travelled in the Middle East.

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World Iran defends post as chair of UN disarmament conference Diplomat expelled after caught wearing wig, with cash IRAN yesterday defended its election as the rotating chair of the world’s sole multilateral disarmament forum after the United States announced that its ambassador to the UN Conference on Disarmament would boycott any meeting led by Tehran. The UN Conference on Disarmament has been deadlocked for about 15 years. While the chairmanship of the Geneva-based body is largely ceremonial, it is a high-proﬁle position. “The Islamic Republic of Iran is a founding member of the United Nations,” said Alireza Miryouseﬁ, spokesman for Iran’s UN mission. “Its election to the presidency of the Conference on Disarmament, as the most important disarmament negotiating body of the UN, is its right in accordance with the established practice and rules of procedure of this organ,” he said.

INAPPROPRIATE Erin Pelton, spokeswoman for the US mission to the United Nations, said the selection of Iran was “unfortunate and highly inappropriate”. She said countries under UN sanctions for arms proliferation or human rights abuses should be barred from such formal or ceremonial UN posts. Iran is under sanctions by the United Nations, the United States, the European Union and other international bodies for refusing to halt a nuclear enrichment program that Tehran says is peaceful but Western nations and their allies suspect is aimed at giving it the capability to produce atomic weapons. The United States and Europe have also accused Iran of violating a UN embargo on Iranian arms exports in order to supply weapons to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. They say Tehran is supporting Assad’s efforts to defeat rebels seeking to overthrow him in the country’s twoyear civil war.

Russia catches US spy red handed in disguise

OJ Simpson in court in bid for freedom

By Steve Gutterman

A WEARY-looking OJ Simpson, weighed down by shackles and more than four years in prison, shuffled into a Las Vegas courtroom yesterday hoping eventually to walk out a free man. His arrival to ask for a new trial in the armed robbery and kidnapping case that sent him to prison could be heard before he was seen - as a loud rattling of the chains that bound his hands to his waist and restrained his feet. After the 65-year-old Simpson was seated, a guard removed his handcuffs and clicked them onto the chair arms next to him. The once glamorous football star and actor was subdued in his dingy blue prison uniform. Greyer and heavier, he briefly flashed a smile and mouthed a greeting to people he recognised before being stopped by a bailiff. Simpson’s drab appearance contrasted with the fancy clothing he wore during his historic, high-profile 1995 murder trial in Los Angeles in which he was acquitted of slaying his wife and friend. Simpson was later found liable for damages in a civil wrongful death lawsuit and made to pay $33.5 million to Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman’s families. Simpson listened intently as his lawyers tried to make the case that he had poor legal representation in the trial involving the gunpoint robbery of two sports memorabilia dealers in 2007 in a Las Vegas hotel room. Of the 22 allegations of conflict-of-interest and ineffective counsel his lawyers raised, Clark County District Judge Linda Marie Bell has agreed to hear 19. Simpson has said his former lawyer, Yale Galanter, had rejected appropriate defence moves and even met Simpson the night before the heist to bless the plan as long as no one trespassed and no force was used. Simpson is expected to testify today and say Galanter advised him that he was within his rights to retrieve family pictures and footballs being sold by memorabilia dealers.

RUSSIA expelled a US diplomat yesterday after saying he had been caught red-handed with disguises, special equipment and wads of cash as he tried to recruit a Russian intelligence agent to work for the CIA. Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) said Ryan Fogle, a third secretary at the US Embassy in Moscow, had been detained overnight carrying “special technical equipment”, a disguise, a large sum of money and instructions for recruiting his target. The Foreign Ministry summoned US Ambassador Michael McFaul to discuss the case today and released a statement demanding Fogle leave Russia without delay. “Such provocative actions in the spirit of the Cold War will by no means promote the strengthening of mutual trust,” it said. Russian television showed grainy footage of a man identiﬁed as Fogle being arrested, and the state-run Russia Today channel published photographs on its website that it said showed Fogle being detained in a blond wig. In one photograph, a man lay face-down on the ground with his arms being pinned behind his back. Another image showed two wigs, apparently found on him, as well as three pairs of glasses, a torch, a mobile phone and a compass. Also displayed was a wad of €500 notes and a letter addressed to a “Dear friend”. “This is an advance from someone who has been highly impressed by your professionalism, and who would highly value your cooperation in the future,” the letter said. “We are willing to offer you $100,000 and discuss your experience, expertise and cooperation, and payment could be signiﬁcantly larger, if you are willing to answer concrete questions,” it said, offering $1 million a year for

An image released by the Russian FSB shows Ryan Fogle being detained by the FSB in Moscow late Monday, wearing a blonde wig (EPA)

long-term cooperation plus possible bonuses for useful information. The FSB, a successor to the Soviet KGB, said Fogle worked for the Central Intelligence Agency and that he had been handed over to embassy ofﬁcials at some point after his detention. The embassy declined comment. McFaul, a former adviser to President Barack Obama, was holding a live question-and-answer session on Twitter as news of the detention was announced, but refused to take questions on the matter. McFaul has frequently been criticised by Russian media for his critical views on Russia and for meeting opponents of President Vladimir Putin. More than two decades after the end of the Cold War, spying - and spy scandals are still far from unusual. The last major spy scandal was in 2010, when 10 Russian agents including Anna Chapman were arrested in the United States and later deported in exchange for four Russians imprisoned on charges of spying for the West. US-Russian relations had thawed markedly under Obama’s ﬁrst-term “reset” of ties, but have chilled again since Putin, himself a former KGB spy, returned to the presidency a year ago. But both Obama and Putin have signalled they want to patch things up again, and the countries are trying to improve counterterrorism cooperation after the Boston Marathon bombings. FBI chief Robert Mueller visited Moscow for talks last week. Samuel Charap, senior fellow at the International Institute for Strategic Studies, said Moscow’s response would show whether it wanted to continue the recent thaw. “Does the Russian government do what the US did in 2010, and act quickly to defuse the issue, or does it use the incident to escalate tensions? That is the key question now.”

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Business More firms agree to Bangladesh pact although US going it alone MARKS & Spencer, Italian fashion brand Benetton and Spanish ﬁrm Mango have become the latest global retailers to agree to sign a one-of-a-kind pact to improve safety at Bangladesh factories following the building collapse that killed more than 1,100 workers in the country last month. The move comes after H&M, a trendy Swedish fashion chain that is the largest clothing buyer in Bangladesh, said that it would sign the same ﬁve-year legally binding factory safety contract.

Fitch upgrades Greece by one notch citing fiscal progress RATINGS agency Fitch upgraded its sovereign credit rating for Greece by one notch yesterday, citing progress in cutting its budget deﬁcit and the risk of a eurozone exit receding. After nearly crashing out of the euro last year and coming under attack for stalled reforms, Greece has won praise in recent months from its international lenders for getting back on track and pushing through unpopular austerity measures. “The price has been high in terms of lost output and rising unemployment and the capacity for recovery is still in doubt,” Fitch said. “Nonetheless, sovereign debt relief and an easing of ﬁscal targets have lifted central bank measures of economic sentiment to a three-year high and the risk of eurozone exit has receded.” The rating outlook is stable, Fitch said in a statement raising its rating to B-minus from CCC. It comes afterStandard & Poor’s also raised Greece’s rating to Bminus with a stable outlook from selective default in December. Moody’s Investors Service has a C rating on the credit. All three are still deep in junk territory.

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Within hours, C&A, Tesco and Primark, and Spain’s Inditex, owner of Zara, followed. The announcements come ahead of a Wednesday deadline imposed by worker rights groups that said they would increase pressure on brands that did not sign the agreement. Meanwhile, North American retailers said they may join together on their own Bangladesh safety agreement as an alternative. The National Retail Federation, one of the largest US retail trade associations, was set to speak last

night with other trade associations and its member companies about a possible accord among North American retailers. Three weeks after the collapse of a building housing garment factories, Western brands that rely on Bangladesh to produce clothing cheaply disagree over how best to ensure worker safety. The European agreement requires that the companies conduct independent safety inspections, make their reports on factory conditions public and cover the costs for needed repairs. It

also calls for them to pay annually toward the effort, to stop doing business with any factory that refuses to make safety upgrades and to allow workers and their unions to have a voice in factory safety. The eight companies join two other retailers that signed the contract last year: PVH, which makes clothes under the Calvin Klein, Tommy Hilﬁger and Izod labels, and German retailer Tchibo. The agreement has since been expanded to ﬁve years from two.

Among the holdouts, Wal-Mart, the second-largest clothing buyer in Bangladesh, said it had nothing to announce. And Gap, which had been close to signing the agreement last year, said that the pact is “within reach,” but the company is concerned about the possible legal liability involved. Labour groups applauded the retailers that agreed to the pact. They say the agreement goes a long way toward improving working conditions in Bangladesh’s garment industry, which long has been known to be dangerous.

Divisions hamper Europe’s plans to tackle failing banks EU ministers divided on whether big depositors should be shielded from losses By Annika Breidthardt and Ingrid Melander THE European Central Bank clashed with Germany yesterday over how quickly the eurozone should complete a system to deal with failing banks. A separate rift also emerged at a European Union finance ministers meeting over whether or when big depositors should suffer losses, as they did in Cyprus’ bailout. ECB board member Joerg Asmussen called for a single scheme across the eurozone to close troubled banks. Such a unified mechanism should be in place by the time the ECB starts overseeing banks next year, he said ahead of the meeting. Those views were in conflict with German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble, who has said the next step should be the coordination of national schemes to shut down problem banks, rather than a system with shared eurozone risk. “We want a single European resolution regime, together with a single resolution agency and a single resolution fund that is financed by a levy from the banking industry,” Asmussen said, underlining what EU leaders agreed to establish last June. “This should come into place in parallel with the single supervisory mechanism, hopefully by the summer of next year.” The frank remarks reflect a growing sense of alarm in Frankfurt over government foot-dragging in completing the two-legged bank-

Left to right: Swedish Finance Minister Anders Borg, French minister of Economy, Finances and Foreign Trade Pierre Moscovici and British Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne at yesterday’s meeting (AFP) ing union - with a system of ECB-led bank supervision, on one hand, closely followed by a single agency to close troubled banks and a fund to cover the costs. A third plank, which would involve a single system for guaranteeing deposits, already looks unlikely to be created and has largely been dropped. Asmussen’s remarks set him sharply at odds with fellow German Schaeuble, who he previously worked for. Schaeuble has said a single agency to restructure or close failed banks can only be established if the EU’s treaty is changed, a lengthy and complex process. Schaeuble’s chief argument is that a ﬁrmer legal basis is needed when dividing up the costs of bank failures. But some EU dip-

lomats see that as a tactic to stall discussions until after German elections, set for September, and prevent the issue being used to rally voters against Chancellor Angela Merkel. After more than three years of tackling a debt crisis that has forced five eurozone countries to seek bailouts for their economies or banks, dividing up the bill from bank collapses remains one of the most contentious issues facing Europe. Yesterday, finance ministers discussed an EU proposal for a ‘bail in’, which would establish an order for how losses are distributed when banks are closed, with losses first handed to a bank’s shareholders, then junior bondholders, then senior bondholders and, ultimately, large de-

positors. Asmussen and Michel Barnier, the European commissioner in charge of ﬁnancial regulation, argued in favour of making big depositors - those with more than €100,000 in accounts the last in line for losses if a bank goes to the wall. “They would only be called on... after other creditors,” Barnier told ministers in a part of the meeting that was broadcast to journalists. Barnier and Asmussen argued that such a provision would not make it more expensive for banks, which rely on deposits to reﬁnance their activities, to raise funding. “First shareholders have to be burned, then all junior bank bondholders, then unsecured senior bank bondholders and uninsured

depositors at the very end,” Asmussen said. “This means we want to establish a clear depositor preference and that also includes, in any case, that deposits below €100,000 will be protected.” But opinion was divided among ministers in the room on this point, as well as over how much ﬂexibility countries should have in exempting their banks’ savers from losses. France’s Finance Minister Pierre Moscovici said he was against a blanket preferential treatment for unsecured depositors but was in favour of a “presumption of exclusion from the bailin” which could be lifted. Others took a different tack, with Spain saying deposits should be protected and Luxembourg taking a similar line.

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Opinion

Ministers’ mind boggling CY decision makes no sense THE BOARD of Cyprus Airways may have made many mistakes during their term but they deserve congratulations for taking a stand over the agreement on redundancy compensations between the government and the unions. All members of the CY board submitted their resignations in protest against the government’s scandalous decision to allocate €20 million of the airline’s money to compensate staff who would take early retirement. The board had made it quite clear that the company did not have the money while the government, which reached this deal, cannot provide the funds as it had been strongly warned by the European Commission against offering any financial support to the airline. So how did the ministers who negotiated with the unions agree to such a deal? Did they not know that the airline was on the brink of bankruptcy and did not have €20 million to pay as compensation? But even if it could raise this amount, would it not be better being used in the effort to save the company from looming closure? It is not even as if the airline’s overpaid and underworked employees have a right to compensation that is 50 per cent higher than the redundancy pay they are entitled to by law. Why is it that workers at state companies believe they are entitled to bigger redundancy pay-offs than private sector workers? Are they a higher class of worker? They certainly did not have a more taxing working life. On the contrary, the CY unions squeezed so much money out of the company in benefits, overtime and salaries for their members that the company is now, technically, bankrupt. These privileged workers are giving one last illustration of their greed and selfishness by trying to squeeze even more money out of the company they had been plundering for decades. Worse still, the government, betraying gross populist irresponsibility, has given its approval to the costly, preferential treatment of CY staff. By what logic does the government expect a bankrupt company to give €20 million it has no legal obligation to pay in additional compensation to staff? Surely it should have taken a position on principle - that state workers should not be treated differently from private sector workers when it came to redundancy pay. Instead we have a bankrupt state committing a bankrupt state company to pay €20 million it does not have to workers who are not entitled to it. Our economy may have collapsed but our politicians have learnt nothing from the experience and remain as irresponsible as they have always been.

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Time for a heliocentric Cyprus energy vision Comment Karl Michael Meuller

YPRUS’ economic action and direction does not have to be limited to the implementation of the memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the troika. Part of the Cyprus economy has to grow in order to offset the implosion which is predicted for the near future. Is Cyprus really confined to only concentrating on the MoU transposition? Clearly not. Cyprus could indeed do much more than that in order to get out of the present crisis faster, the MoU providing the basis for this, as well as pilot projects of the European Commission. I am a fan of the solar revolution for this country which the Dean of the University of Cyprus, Professor Constantinos Christofides, so convincingly describes in his article in the Cyprus Mail on April 14. I think Cyprus can even pull off this solar miracle without paying for it. But Cyprus is a unique and exceptional case? Ok, so be it. One should not forget that Cyprus has, as the bailout materialised, on several counts been declared a special case: for instance a one-sided banking and financial services based business model. But if Cyprus is declared an exception, it should strive to be a test case, a template, a model, not just a guinea pig – to quote President Anastasiades - in the eurozone laboratory. Now let it be Christmas for Cyprus for a change. Forget a conventional business case for going solar and photovoltaic and an “old-style Energiewende” (= energy turnaround). Cyprus is a shining advertisement for the use of solar power already by being a world champion of the use of solar energy for water-heating, with more sunny days than some African countries. So there is a strong, valid case for a photovoltaic industry in trouble, with factory closures, insolvencies, redundancies, panel gluts, to resuscitate its moribund industry. How? Simply by creating a ‘World Solar Showcase Cyprus’, a brand ‘Green State Cyprus’. And for this, the industry should give a miniscule fraction of its valueless stockpiles of panels and other photovoltaic devices - many millions now mainly creating storage and recycling costs - totally for free, at zero cost. I look out of the window - indeed very sunny. The photovoltaic industry, meanwhile, standing on its last legs, is badly in need of shaping up. For this same reason, these promotional gift panels should be the Mercs, BMWs and Ferraris at the high end of technology and be given away speedily if Cyprus is to be the photovoltaic world example within, say, one or two years. Some people in the industry I have spoken to are enthralled by this idea.

Cyprus is a shining advertisement for the use of solar power Mutual benefits of solar donations I can see Cyprus becoming the solar electricity flagship store, producing 80 to 90 per cent of its energy from the sun. The advantages are manifold. Its example could re-energise the flagging fortunes of DESERTEC and other huge ventures. Apart from import substitution for non-renewable fuels, Cyprus could soon export three times as much of this much cheaper solar energy than it uses itself. It would, instead of reaching unattainable EU goals, become the showcase for delegations from the world over, a place of solar pilgrimage so to speak. It would lower energy prices dramatically and help the fast creation of electric transport infrastructures, research facilities and of new, profitable, energy-intensive industries as spin-offs. Cyprus does not know how much natural gas will be available, and under which political, financial and technical conditions. But the sun is Cyprus’ today - inexhaustibly. It is beckoning, not competing, but contributing towards its fast economic resurrection if Cyprus seizes this opportunity now. Cyprus would reinvent itself almost overnight into a new business model, as the eurozone wants it to. This transformation would strongly reduce unemployment, helping Cyprus to escape the vicious cycle of austerity-induced recession. Aiming to be the number one solar champion, one would

see a still popular government which steered Cyprus cleverly through stormy waters just by providing the right conditions and a partly MoU-required legal framework for this solar economic rebirth. Starting with reforming the electricity provider and having primarily in mind Cypriot consumers who are burdened by comparatively expensive electricity prices. Out of need not greed, Cyprus would advertise its solar exploits, and the brands involved, as much as possible without paying for that either. Comparable to testimonials by stars, it would, while ﬂaunting its history and beaches, very visibly carry and use its ‘solar’ Louis Vuitton bag, Rolex watch, and Nespresso machine before an impressed world audience. And wherever possible it would be on the internet, on TV, on billboard advertisements the world over, near public beaches and resorts, in hotel folders, football and rugby stadiums, and through special guided ‘solar energy tours’ and fairs, both in Cyprus and elsewhere. This could be part of an integral new tourism advertisement drive. Therein lies the deal, mutual interest and beauty of such solar panels, ‘Christmas presents’ for Cyprus. All the actors involved would beneﬁt strongly. Most of all, the photovoltaic industry – at death’s door now - would receive a huge, worldwide boost. Instead of wrecking their industries even more by engaging in ‘panel trade wars’, the EU and China should act in unison

‘The sun is Cyprus’ today. It is beckoning, not competing, but contributing towards its fast economic resurrection if Cyprus seizes this opportunity now’

in turning Cyprus into a solar miracle and an advertisement for their ailing companies. The ‘special case’ argument used against Cyprus must, after the tough bail-out deal for the country, also work in its favour. This means, if need be, exemptions of Cyprus and its ‘solar gifts’ from EU competition, internal market and cartel rules – as a one-off, or a template. It would be private sector gifts, not taxpayer’s money. And it would in any case not be of systemic importance for the EU as a whole. One could call it experimental if one still likes experiments. It is in the interest of Cyprus, of the eurozone and the world to speed up its recovery without another debilitating bailout for this tiny member state. Does it hurt more to continue to be and be seen as ‘a reluctant paymaster, in a rather last-moment, incoherent, and improvised approach, or to allow - or let the European Commission allow - tiny one-off exceptions from sticking to the rules of EU competition and internal market acquis? That is the question for the prosperous and virtuous among the eurozone to ponder. After all, as can be seen repeatedly of late, every member state tries to salvage or to get little exceptions and exemptions within the EU here and there from time to time, even if they are not up to their neck in it, like Cyprus. Moreover, we should try not to let the perception gain ground that some EU member states are more equal than others. Ok, if the hardware comes for free, who, with respect to the panels, is paying for the modest cost of the construction work? The government of Cyprus? Not likely. Let me make another proposition for this issue soon under the following heading: ‘the sense of the big Cypriot Family’. Dr. Karl Michael Meuller is the Austrian Ambassador to Cyprus

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Showbiz

Robbie shocks with Savile joke

Rod admitted the drugs had terrible side effects

Steroids made Rod less of a manly man ROD Stewart was “addicted to steroids” even though they made his penis shrink. The “I Don't Want to Talk About It” hitmaker has admitted he became reliant on the drug to help soothe his vocal cords ahead of gigs, but the habit had a number of nasty side-effects, including reducing the size of his manhood. In an interview with Mojo magazine, he said: “I let myself down on tours in the late '80s when I was addicted to steroids. In those days we didn't have in-ear monitors and the band kept getting louder and drunker, and I kept blowing my voice out. The steroids will take down the swelling in any membrane - including your knob - and it's what you do when you're in a bit of a pinch and need to do a show and you can't sing.” Despite the beneﬁt to his voice, the 68-year-old rocker says the drugs made him “bloated” and had more serious repercussions when he suffered from internal bleeding. He explained: “Steroids make you fat and bloated, you can't sleep and you get really irritable. It's one of the most horrible drugs in the world. One night, on stage in Shefﬁeld, I thought I was in the kitchen with my mum because the steroids had eaten a hole in my stomach. I was bleeding internally and hallucinating. What the audience must have thought!” Rod - who has overcome thyroid cancer - still uses steroids around “once a year” to help him through a particularly challenging performance, however, he feels the after-effects for days. He added: “I will still use them around once a year if I'm really struggling. It gets you through the show, but you pay for it. You can't sing for a week.”

ROBBIE Williams stunned the audience at the Sony Radio Awards on Monday when he made a joke about Operation Yewtree, launched in the wake of the Jimmy Savile scandal. The Take That singer, 39, made the quip to a room full of celebrities and radio industry insiders at the Grosvenor House hotel in central London. Speaking before he played a short set at the start of this year’s awards, Williams said he had not recognised anyone's names other than his own as he looked at the table plan for the event. He then added, to shocked laughter: “Looking from up here, it looks like the stars of Operation Yewtree 2014. Too soon? Too soon.” He also made digs at Nick Grimshaw, seated in the crowd, after Radio 1 refused to play his last hit, “Candy”. He joked that when he performed at the Brits, industry bigwigs had told him: “Radio 1 don’t play you any more – you’re fat

and old. “Ain’t that right, Nick? “You b******.” He added: “I’ve been allowed back on Radio 1 with Dizzee Rascal, so thanks for that. “Not that it keeps me awake at nights thinking about it.” He also said there were tickets left for his forthcoming tour, adding: “That didn't used to happen.” The event’s host, Chris Evans, brought on his four-year-old son, Noah, to introduce Robbie. And Noah, who was attending the event in his pyjamas, described the singer as his “favourite”. Robbie said hello to the little boy - and added that the youngster’s presence meant he couldn't make any of the jokes he had been intending to tell. But Rob had some kinder words to say about the music biz at large. He went on: “You are the reason I have four or ﬁve houses.”

Let me entertain you: Robbie’s joke about the probe in the wake of the Savile scandal stunned his audience

Angelina Jolie undergoes precautionary mastectomy Actress carries dangerous 'faulty gene' By Elaine Lies OSCAR-winning actress Angelina Jolie said yesterday that she had undergone a preventive double mastectomy after ﬁnding out she had a gene mutation that leads to a sharply higher risk of both breast and ovarian cancer. Jolie, writing in the New York Times, said her mother’s death from cancer at 56 and the discovery that she carried the BRCA1 gene mutation led to her decision out of fears she might not be around for her six children. “We often speak of 'Mommy’s mommy’, and I ﬁnd myself trying to explain the illness that took her away from us. “They have asked if the same could happen to me,” wrote Jolie, 37, in the editorial My Medical Choice. “I have always told them not to worry, but the truth is I carry a 'faulty' gene,” she added. Her doctor estimated that she had an 87 per cent risk of breast cancer and a 50 per

The death of her mother (left) from cancer and her own genetic predisposition pushed Angelina Jolie to undergo a double mastectomy cent risk of ovarian cancer. “Once I knew this was my reality, I decided to be proactive and to minimise the risk as much as I could. I made a decision to have a preventive double mastectomy,” she said. Three months of surgical procedures were completed at the end of April, through-

out which Jolie continued to work. She said her partner, Brad Pitt, was by her side throughout, and thanked him for his love and support. She said she was revealing her decision to help dispel the shadows that still hang over cancer and to enable other women to get testing

and make informed treatment choices, as she had. “The decision to have a mastectomy was not easy. But it is one I am very happy to have made,” she said, adding that her chances of developing breast cancer had dropped from 87 per cent to 5 per cent. Spokesmen for Jolie and

Pitt, one of Hollywood’s biggest power couples, were not immediately available for comment. Jolie, who won a best support actress Oscar for her work on Girl, Interrupted in 1999, is raising six children with Pitt. The couple got engaged last year.

Peaches never planned baby to arrive on mum's birthday

Synchronicity: Phaedra shares his grandmother’s birthday

PEACHES Geldof said she never planned the “crazy synchronicity” that saw her son born on her late mother's birthday on April 24. The star, who said she was upholding “family tradition” by being criticised over her choice of name for her baby son Phaedra, insisted she was amazed to be told he would share the same birthday as her late mother Paula Yates. She told Hello! Magazine: “It wasn't an option. Maybe it is if you go private, but we didn't and were given the date randomly by a consultant. “I was pretty amazed when I read it

though, and had to smile. I couldn't help feeling mum must have had a hand in it.” The 24-year-old wed musician Tom Cohen, 22, father of Phaedra and his big brother, 13-month-old Astala, in the grounds of her father Sir Bob Geldof's country home in Kent last summer. Astala had also originally been due on April 24, but his birth was brought forward so Peaches could have a Caesarean. She said: “It's like mum was very determined that one of her grandsons would be born on her birthday. “There's this kind of crazy synchronic-

ity to it.” Revealing the new arrival's full name to be Phaedra Bloom Forever, she said: “We chose Bloom because my middle name is Honeyblossom and also in homage to the Nirvana album In Bloom. 'Forever' we chose purely because it sounds cool. I love his name and think he sounds like a rock star. “We liked Phaedra because it features in a song both Tom and I love by Lee Hazlewood, called 'Some Velvet Morning'. It's nothing to do with some band called Tangerine Dream, as has been reported. I've never heard them.”

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Education Grammar tests for UK primary pupils

Extremists splitting up students at events By Dominic Harris PREACHING by extremists and discrimination through segregation at student events has become a widespread trend at many UK universities, a student equality group claims. Radical preachers spoke at nearly 200 events at universities including Cardiff and University College London (UCL) over the last year. Research found that segregated seating for men and women was promoted or implied at more than a quarter of the events, at 21 separate institutions, despite university rules forbidding it. Student Rights, which was set up to tackle extremism on campuses and carried out the research, said universities were failing to provide students with work and study environments that are free from discrimination and harassment. In its study of events promoted to students by unionafﬁliated societies between March 2012 and March 2013, Student Rights found 180 that featured “speakers with a history of extreme or intolerant views”. Of these, 46 (25.5 per cent) explicitly promoted segregation by gender, or implied that it would be the case through promotional material or by providing separate contact details for men and women. Six of the events were subsequently cancelled. Among the events highlighted was a gender-segregated event at UCL on March 9, Student Rights said. A lecture, Islam vs Atheism, was organised by the Islamic Education and Research Academy (IERA), and pitted writer Hamza Tzortzis against Prof Laurence Krauss in a debate. A policy of segregation was suggested by the IERA in a statement before the event, which said: “As for seating, it is according to when the ticket was booked and gender.” Students raised the issue with UCL, which gave assurances that segregation would not be allowed. But the sexual segregation policy was enforced at the event, with separate entrances for men and women - although couples were allowed to enter together - and segregated seating.

Michael Gove: scheme has low aspirations

By Alison Kershaw

University of Oxford is the world’s top university in four subjects: philosophy, languages, geography and Eng Lit

Lack of investment threatens rankings UK universities score high in research and graduates By Alison Kershaw THE UK has one of the top university systems in the world, according to new research. It reveals that the UK is in 10th place overall in new rankings of the world’s best higher education systems. But the second annual Universitas 21 tables also reveal that while the UK scores highly in terms of its research and the graduates it produces, the nation is falling behind when it comes to investment. Researchers at the Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research at the University of Melbourne ranked the university systems of 50 countries based on four areas - the investment by government and the private sector, “output”, which includes research performance as well as producing an educating workforce that meets the job market needs, international networks and collaborations, and the “environment”, which includes government policy and regulation, diversity and participation. The ﬁndings show that the UK is sec-

ond for “output”, behind the United States. But it came 22 places lower, in 24th spot for investment. This is the highest gap for any of the countries examined, the research found. It also reveals that the UK came 13th in terms of “environment” and seventh for international networks and collaboration. The rankings show that the United States and the UK were placed ﬁrst and second respectively on the quality of their best three universities, while Switzerland and Sweden were top in terms of world class institutions per head of population. Lead author Professor Ross Williams said: “The Universitas 21 rankings provide a benchmark that a country can use to evaluate the performance of its higher education system against the world’s best and against other countries in their region or at similar levels of economic development. “The message from the 2013 rankings is that in a competitive global world if a nation does not continually improve its system of higher education its relative performance will decline. In the medium term this is likely to show up in

reduced economic competitiveness.” Sally Hunt, general secretary of the University and College Union (UCU) said: “Pound for pound, UK universities provide the best value in the world, but this report shows that as we continue to spend less on higher education, the rest of the world is investing more. “To compete with, let alone really challenge, America and the emerging economies that are increasing spending on education, the government needs to invest more, which is the best way to achieve sustainable growth.” The tables come the day after separate university rankings found that Oxford and Cambridge are the top universities in the world for seven disciplines Oxford - the UK’s best performing institution in the latest QS World University Rankings by subject - took first place for four subjects; philosophy, modern languages, geography and English language and literature, while Cambridge was ranked first in the world for three - maths, linguistics and history. The rankings also put Imperial College London first for civil engineering.

HUNDREDS of thousands of British primary school pupils will be assessed on their spelling, punctuation and grammar this week in a new test brought in amid government concerns about literacy standards. Eleven-year-olds in England will sit a 45-minute paper on grammar followed by a 15minute spelling test on 20 commonly misspelt words including “separate”, “preferred” and “necessary”. The spelling, punctuation and grammar (SPaG) test has been introduced for the ﬁrst time this year, and is part of the annual Sats tests taken by pupils in England at the end of primary school. Ministers insisted the new test will help to raise standards for thousands of children. But it has sparked some controversy, with the National Association of Head Teachers (NAHT) suggesting it is a “waste of time”. As well as checking pupils’ spelling, the test will assess punctuation, including use of colons and apostrophes, and grammar use, including subordinate clauses. Alongside the SPaG tests, which checks the technical side of English, pupils will also complete a separate writing composition marked by teachers. A sample SPaG test conducted last year suggested that around 125,000 11-yearolds would fall below the level expected for the age group. Education Minister Liz Truss said: “Many children struggle with the basics of the English language at primary school, then don’t catch up at secondary school.” NAHT general secretary Russell Hobby said: “This test is a distraction and a waste of time. The experts are clear: grammatical skills are best assessed through writing composition, and we already have a perfectly good assessment of that. The current test will show whether pupils know the names of words, not whether they can use them well.”

UK’s education minister unimpressed with Mr Men history lessons BRITISH Education Minister Michael Gove criticised the use of the popular “Mr Men” cartoon ﬁgures to teach 16 year olds about Adolf Hitler, saying such play-based learning infantilised students and led to a culture of low aspirations. In a speech delivered last Thursday, Gove lashed out against an online resource for history teachers that promotes using the “Mr Men” ﬁgures for revision

on Nazi Germany. British media reports on Gove’s speech were accompanied by a picture of Mr Fussy, a ﬁgure with a Hitler-style moustache and hair-do, one of a panoply of characters such as Mr Happy and Mr Cool created by author Roger Hargreaves. “I may be unfamiliar with all of Roger Hargreaves’s work but I am not sure he ever got round to producing Mr Anti-Semitic Dicta-

tor, Mr Junker General or Mr Dutch Communist Scapegoat,” Gove told an education conference in Brighton. “What makes the setting of higher expectations more difﬁcult is the culture of excuses and low aspirations which some in the education establishment still defend,” Gove added. The website ActiveHistory, which offers the Mr Men lesson plan, stresses that

the Mr Men exercise is a revision tool, and students should have ﬁnished studying the rise of Hitler before embarking on the cartoon exercise. Gove came under pressure about his own plans to revise the history curriculum earlier this year when historians criticised him in an open letter, saying the scope of his proposed teaching programme was too narrowly focused on Britain.

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The life and loves oves of T B

IRKENSTOCK sandals with white socks! Only Terence Stamp could get away with it. The tugboat captain’s son was the youngest, most stylish and, yes, beautiful of the working-class lads who stormed the film world in the 1960s, and remains a potent screen presence and an enduring style icon today at the age of 74. He’s a mainstay on the best-dressed lists. Today the black hair has retreated to a laurel wreath of silver, but the periwinkle eyes still pierce and the bone structure is holding up. He’s wearing a hat given to him by the late Mayfair tailor Dougie Hayward, a billowy mac, and a corduroy jacket and waistcoat subtly mismatched with trousers sporting a Regencystyle, double-buttoned flap rather than a fly. “I had a blind date with Brigitte Bardot,” he says in his flat, matter-of fact East End drawl, “and I put on these trousers: I’d nicked them from Far from the Madding Crowd [John Schlesinger’s 1967 adaptation of Thomas Hardy’s novel, in which Stamp starred with Julie Christie]. They’re not like normal strides but I felt comfortable in them. It’s the first time I realised that if you feel good, you look good.” He really does say “strides”, calls a suit a ‘whistle’ and calls me “man”. “You can ask me anything you like, man,” he says, explaining that today’s trousers are copies of the originals, which he’s still got somewhere. ‘OK,’ I say, ‘was the date with Bardot successful?’ “Well, it was and it wasn’t,” he smiles. “She was probably the most desirable woman I had ever seen but I can’t say it went well because we didn’t have a language in common.” Bardot was startled to find

With Julie Christie in Far from the Madding Crowd 1967

Terence Stamp, photographed by Terence Donovan, in Far from the Madding Crowd (1967)

that Stamp was a vegetarian. “She put a fork into her starter, steak tartare, and said, ‘I am a cannibal!’ And I thought, ‘I bet you are,’” he recalls. “I often wonder if that evening contributed to her

becoming the great vegetarian. I’d love to see her again.” We meet on the South Bank, where Stamp’s romance with Christie was immortalised by Ray Davies in The Kinks’ ‘Waterloo Sunset’, and where the British Film Institute is mounting a retrospective of his films this month. The eldest of five, born in 1938, and raised first in inner London when wartime bombs started falling, Stamp always knew how to dress. He may have grown up “proper poor, with lino, a scullery and no bathroom” but he remembers dragging his mother Ethel down Commercial Road aged about three looking for the perfect outfit. At 15, he was telling a Brick Lane tailor to put his buttonhole on the right, not the left, lapel. “I always knew what I wanted, and it wasn’t what others wanted,” he says. “I didn’t follow fashion. Fashion didn’t exist.” In his most recent film, Song for Marion, Stamp played a grumpy pensioner who takes the place of his wife (Vanessa Redgrave) in an oldies’ choir after she dies of cancer, and based his performance on his distant, emotionally buttoned-up dad Tom. “I remembered all the things I got from Tom, how stylish he was,” says Stamp. “He was so poor but when he had a suit made

it was f***ing great - dove grey, gabardine... My mother told me his mother was an alcoholic and she would pawn his clothes. So he bought a padlock for his wardrobe door.” Stamp’s laughter is a wonderful thing. Anyway, Stamp was part of the generation who escaped. The ﬁrst of his family to win a scholarship to grammar school, he went to work for an advertising agency. But he’d wanted to act since seeing Gary Cooper in Beau Geste as a child, and James Dean in East of Eden as a teenager. So when he was excused National Service due to problems with his feet (he had his shoes handmade later in life), he decided to give acting a go. After another scholarship, to the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art in South Kensington, he did a tour of Willis Hall’s Second World War drama The Long and the Short and the Tall and moved into a ﬂat with his costar Michael Caine, who was six years older. At this point, Stamp smirks and makes a ‘higher, higher’ gesture with his hand. Is he saying that Caine lies about his age? “I don’t know,” Stamp smiles. “He has very different memories of a lot of events than me, but maybe that’s me getting it wrong.” They shared a room with

Film icon speaks to Nick Shrimpton, flat-sharing w joys of sex twin beds, so when either took a girl home – “more often him” - Caine would dump his mattress and sheets in the living room behind the sofa to signal that each should withdraw to his separate territory. Stamp says he wasn’t really much of a womaniser; also, that he never got seriously into drink and drugs in the 1960s because he had to stay sharp and ﬁt to keep up with the older Caines and Finneys and O’Tooles. “Yes, I was a cheap date,” he says. “I was anyone’s after a couple

of Scotches. The same with grass: I’d be stoned instantly.” Nonetheless, he did all right. As well as Bardot and Christie he dated Jean Shrimpton, the original supermodel, who left David Bailey for him, and who he once said was the love of his life. “Yes, yes. And I kind of knew it at the time, but I was driven,” he says. “It was my fault. She didn’t leave me for no reason. She left me because she saw I was a lunatic. I wasn’t ready for a twin-soul relationship.” He hasn’t seen

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Curtis on seducing Jean ith Michael Caine and the x after 70 her since, though he remains friends with Christie. Directors, as well as women, were throwing themselves at him. Peter Ustinov cast him in Billy Budd in 1962, which won him an Oscar nomination. In 1965 he took the part of the nonentity who kidnaps a girl in the adaptation of the John Fowles book The Collector because the great William Wyler was directing, but he wasn’t really right for it. In screen tests alongside prospective actresses, Stamp lit up the screen so much that

Wyler admitted: “I haven’t been able to look at the girls.” He doesn’t regret passing up the part of Alﬁe, which went to Caine, though he does have misgivings about the singing role of King Arthur in Camelot, which went to Richard Harris: “[Director] Josh Logan went down on his knees to me, and I was such a c***. But I was frightened.” The Italian director Federico Fellini loved Stamp and introduced him to the Indian guru Krishnamurti in 1968, which started his spiritual ad-

ventures. The same year Pier Paolo Pasolini cast him as the mysterious, Christ-like serial seducer in Theorem. I picture Stamp constantly doing double takes in the 1960s, unable to believe his luck with women and work. “Yeah, all the time,” he concedes. “I knew I was an East End spiv who got lucky, a chancer, winging it. I didn’t get this inner confidence till I came back from India.” The ashram filled the gap when work dried up for him in the 1970s, and he was changed after his return. The BFI season feels like a vindication of his decision not to do “crap” films for money, he says. He is philosophical about not having children, and about being single after his six-year marriage to Elizabeth O’Rourke, a Singaporean-Australian pharmacist 35 years his junior, ended in 2008. “I was married and I can’t call that a mistake,” he says. “But I am set in my ways. I have never been in a relationship where the silence was mutual. And being lonely for me isn’t the same as other people understand it.” It seems there is no shortage of female company. Stamp is famously fit, thanks to regular high-intensity workouts and a rigidly healthy diet due to various food intolerances.

Does sex get better with age, I ask? “Awareness gets better with age. Sex? No, of course not. But you are not so pre-

occupied with it because you don’t have an erection all the time.” He says he gets approached more these days by young women, older women, and (platonically) men, more so than in his heyday. He thinks this is because he used to be unattainable, huge, on the big screen; now anyone can see him, diminished and familiar, on their mobile phone. There is no rancour when he says this, nor when he says that films today are made for “children” whereas in his day “we saw it as a modern art form and gave it our best shot”. He and Shrimpton were the most photographed couple of their day, but it was nothing compared to what today’s celebrities have to endure. The greatest example of how Stamp differs from your average film star is that he is technically homeless. In America, he stays in a friend’s guest house in Ojai, California, or in the New York flat and Hamptons house owned

by his brother Chris, who used to manage The Who and Jimi Hendrix, and who died last November. Stamp also has the use of properties in Geneva and Gstaad owned by Chris’ Swiss widow. In London he stays with two friends, in Notting Hill and Knightsbridge, or in hotels: “My favourite is the Savoy, but I often can’t afford it,” he says. “The absolute, honest truth is I would love to come back to England, but my taste has exceeded my earning capacity by so much that whenever I see something I like, I am millions short. And I can’t really go back to Plaistow, you know.” “I feel I’m kind of an urban icon,” Stamp says, “that I’ve earned my place, because, you know, what the English love best is longevity. I will be 75 this July. I am ﬁve years away from being 80. That’s ridiculous. But it’s all still working, so I’m delighted.” He puts on his hat and walks into the Waterloo sunset.

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NICOSIA Stolen (12) K-Cineplex (Screen 1) at 8 and 10.15pm, weekends also at 5.30pm; K-Cineplex (Screen 1) at 5.30, 8 and 10.15pm, weekends also at 11.20am, 1.20pm and 3.30pm. Tel: 7777-8383 Evil Dead (18) K-Cineplex (Screen 4) at 8 and 10.15pm, weekends also at 5.35pm; K-Cineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 4) at 8 and 10.15pm. Tel: 7777-8383 The Host (12) K-Cineplex (Screen 3) at 7.45 and 10.15pm, weekends also at 5.25pm; K-Cineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 3) at 5.25, 7.45 and 10.15pm, weekends also at 11.30am and 3pm. Tel: 7777-8383

The Croods (K) K-Cineplex (Screen 5) (in Greek), weekends only at 5.30pm; K-Cineplex (Screen 6) (in English), weekends only at 5.30pm. Tel: 7777-8383 K-Cineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 4) (in Greek) at 5.30pm, weekends also at 11.20am, 1.20pm and 3.15pm; K-Cineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 5) (in English) at 5.30pm, weekends also at 11.20am, 1.20pm and 3.15pm. Tel: 7777-8383 Silver Linings Playbook (12) K-Cineplex (Screen 6) at 7.45 and 10.15pm. Tel: 7777-8383

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listings Today Exhibition DIY Cyprus Group exhibition. Opens May 15, 8pm until June 15. Is Not Gallery, 11 Odysseus, Chrysaliniotissa, Nicosia. MondaySaturday: 10am-1pm and 4pm-8pm. Tel: 22-343670

Other Events Microchip Day Discounted microchipping for pets, spa treatments and dogs available for adoption. May 15. Angel Paws Pet Spa, 35 Armenias. 11am-7pm. €20 for microchip and bath. All proceeds will be donated to the Nicosia Dog Shelter. Tel: 22-252995

Tomorrow

Music The Flying of the Swans The Cyprus Symphony Orchestra collaborates with Finnish conductor Esa Heikkilä and Cypriot pianist Nicolas Costantinou. May 15. Rialto Theatre, Limassol. 8.30pm. €12/7. Tel: 77-777745 Alexis Descharmes Recital with modern French violoncellist. The programme includes contemporary music with a special emphasis on Cypriot composers. May 15. Artos Foundation, 64 Ayion Omoloyiton Avenue, Nicosia. 8.30pm. Free. Tel: 22459333/22-445455. www.ifchypre.org

Theatre Educating Rita Theatro Dentro presents comedy by British playwright Willy Russell May 15 until June 8. Theatro Dentro, 1 Digenis Akritas Avenue, Nicosia. On Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays at 9pm. In Greek. Tel: 99-520835

Exhibition Bread and Roses An exhibition of art by graduating students of the Cyprus College of Art 2013. Opens May 16, 6.30pm until May 25. Cornaro Institute, 23 Mehmet Ali Street, Larnaca. Open daily: 10am-5 pm. Tel: 24-25 4042

Music The Flying of the Swans The Cyprus Symphony Orchestra collaborates with world famous Finnish conductor Esa Heikkilä and distinguished Cypriot pianist Nicolas Costantinou. May 16. Strovolos Municipal Theatre, Nicosia. 8.30pm. €12/7.Tel: 22-463144/22-313010. www.cyso.org.cy

Leonidas Balafas Winner of popular Greek talent show performs live with a programme that flirts with blues, reggae, jazz, rock and funk sounds. May 16. Diachroniki Music Stage 2 Yianni Koromia Street, Kaimakli, Nicosia. 10pm. €10. Tel: 99-783455

Ongoing Other Events Berlin – Alexanderplatz Remastered Screening of 14-episode mini-series by Rainer Warner Fassbinder. May 8 until June 6. Goethe-Institut Cyprus in Nicosia. Every Wednesday, Thursday and Friday at 7pm. In German with Greek subtitles. Free. Tel: 22-674606

Kai Mi Heirotera Theatro Lexi presents comedy by Giorgos Tsiakkas satirizing Europe and Cyprus today. Until May 18. Latsia Municipal Theatre, 57 Yiannos Kranidiotis Avenue. Wednesday through Friday at 8.30pm. €15. In Greek. Tel: 22-878688 Playing Doctor Theatro Skala presents the contemporary American comedy by William Van Zandt and Jane Milmore. Until May 26. Skala Theatre, 15 Kyriakou Matsi Street, Larnaca. On Saturdays at 8.30pm and Sunday at 6.30pm. In Greek. Tel: 24-652800

Exhibitions Magic of the Paint Brush Painting exhibition by husband and wife team. Until May 17. Gallery of the Goethe-Institut Cyprus, 21 Markou Drakou (UN buffer zone next to Ledra Palace Hotel). 2pm-7pm. Tel: 22674608 Free Range Unicorns: Two Dimensional Possibilities Photography and video installations. Until May 17. Paphos Municipality Gallery, 7 Gladstonos Street. Monday-Friday: 9am-3pm. Saturday: 9am-1pm. Tel: 26-930653

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Centuries Away from Alaska Dionysos Theatre presents play by Akis Dimou, directed by Tonia Misiali. Until May 26. Dionysos Theatre, 29 Diagorou Street. On Fridays and Saturdays at 8.30pm and Sundays at 6.30pm. In Greek. €15. Tel: 99621845/22-818999

A Steady Rain D-tale presents two-character melodrama by Keith Huff. Until May 16. WhereHaus 612, 5 Michael Kousoulide, Pallouriotissa Industrial Area, Nicosia. On Tuesdays and Thursdays at 8.30pm. €12/15. Tel: 99-535625

Gethsemane A play about British public life by David Hare. Until May 31. THOC New Theatre Building, 9 Gregori Afxentiou, Nicosia. On specific days at 8.30pm and on Sundays at 6pm. In Greek. €12/6. Tel: 77-772717/22-864300

Water Stories Solo painting exhibition by Ero Farmaka. Until May 20. Kypriaki Gallery Gonia, 45 Stadiou Street, Larnaca. Monday-Saturday: 10am-1pm and 4.30 pm-8pm. Sunday: 11am-2pm and 4pm- 7pm. Tel: 24-621109

The Dispute The Main Stage of THOC presents tragic comedy by Pierre de Marivaux. Until May 17. THOC New Theatre Building, 9 Gregori Afxentiou, Nicosia. Friday and Saturday at 8.30pm and Sunday 6pm. In Greek. €12/10. Tel: 77-772717

Sovrakaless Play based on the book by Terrence McNally and the film The Full Monty. Until June 9. WhereHaus 612, 5 Michael Kousoulide, Pallouriotissa Industrial Area, Nicosia. On Specific days at 8.30pm. In Greek. €15/12. Tel: 70-000612

Woman in Art Solo painting exhibition by Giorgos Kotsonis. Until May 31. Peter’s Gallery, 31 Ioanni Polemi Street, Limassol. 10am-1pm & 4pm-7pm. Tel: 99679242

Thematic Cartography An exhibition of work by artist in residence Jan Blythe. Until May 18. Cornaro Art Institute, 23 Mehmet Ali Street, (Near St Lazarus Cathedral), Larnaca. Open Tuesday to Saturday. 10am-5pm. Tel: 24-254042

A Matter of Choice Solo art exhibition by Lefteris Olymprios. Until May 30. Gallery Gloria, 3 Zinonos Sozou Street, Nicosia. Monday-Friday: 10.30pm-12.45pm and 5pm-8pm. Saturday: 10.30pm-12 .45pm. Tel: 22-760286 Cluster A generative audiovisual performance by Kurt Hentschlager. Until May 31. The Office, 32 Kleanthis Christofides Street, Nicosia. Tel: 99-848495 The Real Truth Solo painting exhibition by Anna Varelli. Until May 31. Apocalypse Gallery, 30 Chytron Street, Nicosia. Monday- Friday: 10.30am-1pm and 5pm-8pm. Saturday: 10.30am-1pm. Tel: 22-766655 Beautiful Things for Beautiful People at Affordable Prices An exhibition of collectors’ items, small antique furnishings, engravings and more. Until June 10. Opus 39 Gallery, 21 Kimonos Street, Nicosia. Monday: 5pm-8pm. Tuesday-Friday: 10.30am-12.30pm and 5pm-8pm. Tel: 22-424983 Within Narratives Solo art exhibition by Stelios Kallinikou. Until June 15. Penindaplin Gallery, 49 Ellados, Limassol. Opening: Monday-Friday: 4pm-8pm. Saturday: 12-4pm. Tel: 25-340727

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Museum showcase

Saturday, May 18 Cyprus Museum: (1 Museum Street, Nicosia. Tel: 22865854. www.mcw.gov.cy/da) 6pm-7pm: Guided tour (in Greek) 6.30pm-7.30pm: Guided tour (in English) 7.30pm: Opening of exhibition Fragments: Ceramic Finds from Byzantine and Medieval Nicosia, Temporary Exhibition Hall 8.30pm-11pm: Reception in the Museum gardens with live music by Kind of Brass

Cyprus Folk Art Museum (Cyprus Folk Art Museum – Society of Cypriot Studies, Archbishop Kyprianos Square, Next to St John Cathedral, Nicosia. Tel: 22-432578. www.cypriotstudies. org. cypriotstudies@gmail.com) Tours, exhibitions, workshops and traditional Cypriot games Tours English: 10am, 12, 5pm, 8pm Greek: 12.30, 3.30pm, 6.30pm, 7.30pm Contributions for conservation accepted.

5pm-7pm: Engraving Workshop for children aged 6-12 7pm-8pm: Guided tour of exhibition Terra Mediterranea – In Crisis

Byzantine Museum and Art Gallery (Archbishop Makarios III Foundation, Arch. Kyprianos Sq., Nicosia. Tel: 22-430008. www.makariosfoundation.org.cy) 9am-1pm: free entry Western European Painting Hall: periodical exhibition Makarios and the Fine Arts (April 6, until January 19, 2014)

The Museum of the History of Cypriot Coinage (51 Stasinou Ave., Agia Paraskevi, Nicosia. Tel: 22-677134. www.boccf.org) Exhibition A Cypriot Coin: Design Proposals at the Museum of the History of Cypriot Coinage

Museum of National Struggle Local Museum of Ancient Idalion

A painting from the special tour: A Journey into 18th century Venice through the Collections of the Leventis Gallery. Bottom right: Cyprus Folk Musuem and inset sample from the exhibition Fragments: Ceramic Finds from Byzantine and Medieval Nicosia

IT’S TIME to relish those relics! The long-standing mid-May tradition of International Museum Day (IMD) is upon us and it’s time for some of the island’s best cultural havens to open their doors to the public. For free, of course. International Museum Day has become a regular rendezvous for lovers of culture around the globe after being born out of an initiative by the International Council of Museums (ICOM) in 1977, and celebrated annually around May 18 to raise awareness of the important role the cultural institutions play in our society. Traditionally, IMD can last a day, a weekend or a whole week. Each year the global event takes on a different topic and the theme for 2013 is ‘Museums (memory + creativity) = Social Change’. Within the framework of this year’s IMD theme, museums are melding their core mission of preservation with creativity, in ways that not only drive renewal and visitor growth but show that they make a p positive impact in their community. omFor years now, the Cyprus National Committee of the International Council of g Museums (ICOM) has been promoting the event in the hope of keeping city museums and heritage organisations on the public radar in a bid to keep them relck evant. If you need extra incentive, check rogrammes out some of the special programmes D. on offer for this year’s IMD. ial Highlights include a special presentation and tour of key hool, works by the Venetian School, e AG from the collections of the Leventis Foundation, an event dation’s to be hosted in the Foundation’s premises. he great Masterworks created by the 8th cenVenetian painters of the 18th ping stone tury will serve as the stepping-stone for this unique presentation, which aims to take the public on a journey not only through the history of art but also across time and space, offering a glimpse of everyday life in this unique city as it is represented in the artworks of that era. This year at the Cyprus Museum celebrations for International Museum Day and European Night of Museums will be combined. The day begins with guided tours of the museum in English and Greek followed by the opening of the exhibition Fragments: Ceramic Finds from Byzantine and Medieval Nicosia, in the Temporary Exhibition

Hall. Then head out to the museum gardens for a reception and live music by Kind of Brass, a wind instrument band performing music from the Mediterranean, the Balkans, and Latin America. It’s all happening over at the Folk Art Museum, which is under the auspices of the Society of Cypriot Studies. Go along and try your hand at the lovely craft of crochet. During the session you will learn the various basic techniques of crochet with Kiriaki Kosta. Rolandos Loucaides will be discussing the loom and the art of making cloth. There are also workshops in making ancient pottery, shadow puppets and Cypriot handicrafts. Charalambos Charalambous will be showing visitors how to make and use the traditional ﬂute pithkiavli, while renowned artisan Adonitsa Hadjichristodoulou will present handmade and painted pottery from the village of Kaminaria. Meanwhile kids can busy themselves taking part in yp traditional Cypriot games and exploring an exhibition of children’s artefacts and dolls. Pambos Charalambous Constantinos Tsiolis and Skevi alambous, Papam Papamiltiadous will also present time-honoure Cypriot fairy tales and there’s a oured of couple puppet shows to enjoy with ev everyone’s favourite Greek, hunchbac backed character, Karagiozis. On Su Sunday, the Ethnological Museum (The Hadjg Hadjgeorgakis Kornesios Mansion) will h a cre be hosting creative workshop at Maroudia’s for child dren of seven seve to 12 years. The workshop aims children i t t att a reinterpretation of children’s relationship to mu museums as a space and as a home during the Ot Ottoman period in Cyprus. It will be delivered in Gr Greek and require registration. Ch Chrystalleni Loizidou and Evi Tselika will be giving a guided tour of the exhibition at Maroudias. This will be followed a reading-performance at Maro Maroudia’s by Ellada Evangelou, Christina Kaili and Lia Lapithi. A researcher dramaturge, an activist social scientist and a ﬁne artist, each via their own medium, side by side, explore the boundaries of history and feminist theory. Here three contemporary women will read passages from three literary queens from Byzantium in an attempt to engage the audience into a critical dialogue with history and feminist theory. Rounding off the evening is a reception and live music by Nava, a ten member ensemble who perform original compositions and traditional music from Central Asia. By Ledha Socratous

(Archbishop Kyprianos square, old Nicosia. Tel: 22-305878) 6pm: Guided tour (in Greek) and drinks

(Idalion Tel: 22-444818) 10am-11am: Guided tour of the Museum (in Greek). 12-1pm: Guided tour of the State Gallery of Contemporary Museum (in English)“The contemporary Cypriot cinArt ema could take back(Corner this of Stasinou Ave. And Kretes expressive the Nicosia. Tel: 22-458228) The A.G. Leventis Galleryfreedom”Street, 7pm: Presentation by Theopisti Stylianou(40 Gladstone Street,Moving Nicosia. Silence Tel: 22- members “Any visual style can Lecturer at the Multimedia and Lambert, 668838/22-667277.state. info@leventisgalproﬁt from a sound Graphic lan- Arts Department of the Cyprus lery.org) guage, by using University of Technology titled The MuSpecial presentation-tour entitled A Jour- advanced digital technologies seum as well Experience: Past, Present and Future ney into 18th century Venice through the as old analog techniques. 8.30pm: Concert by Funkystraat and Collections of the Leventis Gallery. Live performances sustain reception Limited spaces available. and Times: amplify the ﬁlms as 10.30am, 12, 3.30pm & 4.30pm can breathe musicians Thalassa Agia Napa Municipal new life into silent cinema, The Leventis Municipal Museum which inappropriately (14 Kryou remained silent for such a Nerou Street, Agia Napa. Tel: Museum of Nicosia longLaiki time.” 23-816366. www.thalassamuseum.org. (17 Hippokratous Street, Geitonia, cy) Nicosia. Tel: 22661475/22-671997. Opening Hours: 9am-10pm www.leventismuseum.org.cy) 10am, 12, 4pm, 7pm Guided tours Open from 10am until 10pm 8pm-10pm: Music and dance event by Presentation of works by contemporary dancing school Rythmos artists inspired by medieval pottery. Pottery exhibition with work of Myro 5pm-6pm: Opening – Special guided tour. Psara (until June 30) The public is invited to come and meet the Museum’s ‘world’ 6pm-7pm & 7pm-8pm: Guided tours Sunday, May 19

Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation Museum of the George and Nefeli Giabra Pierides Collection (86-90 Phaneromenis Street, Nicosia. Tel: 22-128157. www.boccf.org) Exhibition The Dancing Statue at the Museum of George and Nefeli Giabra Pierides. An Imaginary Museum for Children within the Museum. The programme was prepared by artist Maria Loizidou.

Ethnological Museum (The Hadjgeorgakis Kornesios Mansion) (20 Patriarchou Gregoriou Street, old Nicosia. Tel: 22-305316. www.mcw.gov. cy/da) 3pm-4.30pm: Creative Workshop at Maroudia’s for children of 7-12 years old. Workshop delivered in Greek, for Registrations: 22-797394 3.30pm-4.30pm: Guided tour of exhibition At Maroudias 5pm-6pm: A reading-performance 6pm-7pm: Presentation

Nicosia Municipal Arts Centre, Associated with the Pierides Foundation [Old Power House]

The Department of Antiquities is organising the following:

(19 Palias Elektrikis Street, Nicosia. Tel: 22-797400. www.nimac.org.cy) Opening Hours: 10am-3pm and 5pm-11pm. Free entry. 3pm-5pm: Film Workshop for teenagers

7.30pm-8.30pm: Guided tour of the Museum by an Archaeological Officer of the Department of Antiquities 8.30pm-10.30pm: Reception and live music by Nava

For a full listing of the day’s events see facing page

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Aiyia Fuxia(rpt) Niose Me News Allantopoleio Grigoriou Vals Me 12 Theous Grey’s Anatomy Medical drama, starring Ellen Pompeo as a surgeon, struggling with a series of private and professional crises.

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Hidden Agenda (Capital, 21.00) What’s Ken Loach’s problem? He’s declined a knighthood, and recently reacted to Margaret Thatcher’s death by saying they should privatise her funeral and accept the cheapest bid (“It’s what she would have wanted”). The waspish Mr. Loach is a man on a mission - and he made Hidden Agenda in the early 90s, a time when Thatcher’s government was deeply mired in the Northern Irish ‘Troubles’. That’s the setting for this fiery political thriller (“based on both the Stalker and Colin Wallace affairs,” explains Time Out), with ethical policeman Brian Cox determined to investigate when an American human-rights campaigner is killed by British security forces; what he finds are facts

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which important people would like to see covered up - and anyone expecting a balanced view is clearly in the wrong movie, but the film is exciting and of course very angry. Controversial and not much liked at the time (when it was accused of being simplistic and one-sided), easier to enjoy now that passions have faded. Up the people, Mr. Loach! Made in 1990.

Burden of Evil (Novacinema1, 22.00) Never mind the burden of evil, what about the burden of being ranked No. 80 on Maxim magazine’s list of the 100 hottest women? “This girl Natalie is like a supermodel trying so hard to act like a tough cop

girl,” scoffs an unimpressed man (I assume it’s a man) from Argentina at the Internet Movie Database - and that Argentine hater has a point because Natalie Zea looks exactly like what she is, a former soap star (and hot chick, at least according to Maxim magazine), making her a strange choice for the lead in this runof-the-mill thriller. “When the daughter of a powerful senator is kidnapped by a psychopath, the senator requests a particular homicide detective, Caitlyn Conner, to head up the case,” explains the synopsis; “She knows the kidnapper better than anyone else: he just killed her husband”. Nat is Caitlyn, of course, going after the evil kidnapper. Maybe she can strike him with her striking good looks. Made for TV in 2012.

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1 Deselect? (6) 4 Stop short (6) 9 Produce another photograph? (9) 10 Young man of 50 now (3) 11 Synthetic most recently put in the picture (7) 13 One existing organ (5) 14 A brand of eye defect (11) 18 Noisy and reckless travelling at 100 mph (3-2) 19 Raven I’d disentangled, it had entered by force (7) 21 Some standard colour (3) 22 One can get no lower than this (3,6) 24 Fashionable clothing ultimately trendy (6) 25 An attractive bar (6)

1 Not yet ready to drop (6) 2 Leg protection found underfoot? (3) 3 Envy company doctor (5) 5 Catch one object of assistant navigator (7) 6 Sent pictures via the tube (9) 7 He read about ivy (6) 8 Boycotted post included extorted money (11) 12 Sound correspondence (9) 15 Impulse I’m upset about (7) 16 Said the gallery was in South Dakota (6) 17 How one behind-thescenes might be quick to act (6) 20 Is it a blooming ﬁddle? (5) 23 Number inwardly contented (3)

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HOW TO PLAY: Fill in the grid so that every row, every column and every 3x3 box contains the digits 1-9. There’s no maths involved, you solve the puzzle with reasoning and logic. With the ‘X’ sudoku, the shaded X must also contain the numbers 1-9.

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CRYPTIC: Across – 1 Drive home; 8 Anon; 9 Education; 10 Bore; 13 Seven; 15 Lurked; 16 Didcot; 17 Dapper; 19 Ferret; 20 Rover; 21 Love; 24 Flatterer; 25 None; 26 In a lather. Down – 2 Rude; 3 Vice; 4 Hatred; 5 Moored; 6 Unconcern; 7 Intestate; 11 Fledgling; 12 Grapevine; 13 Sever; 14 Niger; 18 Roll-on; 19 Festal; 22 Cert; 23 Here.

QUICK: Across – 1 Whistling; 8 Gift; 9 Scallywag; 10 Daft; 13 Lazed; 15 Hyphen; 16 Rarest; 17 Reefer; 19 Litter; 20 Reset; 21 Sect; 24 Pipsqueak; 25 Easy; 26 Swindling. Down – 2 Hack; 3 Sill; 4 Layman; 5 Neater; 6 Cigarette; 7 Statutory; 11 Chorister; 12 Upper-case; 13 Lever; 14 Davit; 18 Review; 19 Lessen; 22 Full; 23 Fawn.

ARIES March 21 - April 20

LEO July 23 - August 22

SAGITTARIUS November 23 - December 21

Life is about to become speedier and demand more nervous energy. However, you may have no objections to this because if you have been bogged down in practicalities, it can be good to move up a gear or two and start to engage your intellect and interact more with others. A friend can also surprise you with an off the wall suggestion.

Has your social life recently been sacrificed on the altar of success, responsibilities and looking out for everyone else’s needs? If so, make some firm moves to allocate some time to have fun at some point this week. A change really can be as good as a rest, but this may mean letting go of the need to have your finger on the pulse.

If there have been any kind of tensions or misunderstandings in your world, as much as your instinct may be to bluntly tell someone where they are erring, Mercury is starting to encourage you that a lot more can be gained by listening more attentively. A greater sense of harmony and co-operation can work wonders, truly!

TAURUS April 21 - May 21

VIRGO August 23 - September 23

CAPRICORN December 22 - January 20

A lovely surprise is possible between now and the end of the week as Venus and Uranus engage in a delicious tryst. This may see money gifted to you from a past good deed, or a savings plan may come out better than you had hoped. You could also have a genuine slice of inspiration which, if you go with your hunch, can work out well.

If you’re someone who is naturally inventive, the rest of this week gives you a super platform to use your talents in a way which can attract goodness and rewards. Allies that you have that are experienced, wise or well connected, can also help you to get ahead. If you have a germ of an idea, run it past them to see what they think.

The Moon spends one last day in your opposite sign, and is also supported by Mars in Taurus. All this would normally help you to express yourself in a well balanced way, and get people on-side. Yet, with Venus and Neptune giving a blurry edge, work at being even clearer than usual. People can easily misunderstand each other right now.

GEMINI May 22 - June 21

LIBRA September 24 - October 23

AQUARIUS January 21 - February 19

You could ﬁnd yourself craving a spark. Perhaps you have been just a bit too meditative of late, and now need to break out and have some fun. Even if this doesn’t happen today, random events are more than possible before the week is out. Zany, inspirational or unpredictable friends can suit your mood perfectly. Reach out!

You might ﬁnd yourself in more of an escapist mood. This could see you watch travel shows, or anything linked to culture or history. Books on these subjects can also take on extra fascination. If you are in a relationship, you may yearn for some extra sophistication. But then you can link with a friend to go to see a show or museum.

Care with expenditure continues to be important, but you may want to do something on a whim, even if it is not the most sensible course. Your love life and ﬁnances can beneﬁt the rest of this week from being true to your more individualistic side. The more you don’t follow convention and are spontaneous, the more you can thrive.

CANCER June 22 - July 22

SCORPIO October 24 - November 22

PISCES February 20 - March 20

The Moon is in your sign for one more day Cancer, and after yesterday’s potentially confusing or highly charged atmosphere, you may be in the mood for a change of mode. How this comes about could however, be something of a surprise, because something you learn conﬁdentially about your work could really lift your spirits.

If there’s someone who has been captivating you recently, and the vibes feel good, you might find yourself wanting to firm up the arrangement. Even business partnerships can take on added importance in terms of deciding where to take the situation. You can also find that your connections to others could prove fortunate now.

That side of you which shimmers, moves, evolves and beguiles is very strong just now. Yet you may ﬁnd it harder to deal with life’s realities, or you may be able to tap into your imagination to useful effect. If you do need to discuss hard and fast practical situations, shake off this hazy mindset or you will seem like you’re being unrealistic.

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Advertiser TO LET NICOSIA 11. 2 bedr luxury apartment with a/c for hot and cold, separate kitchen, big covered veranda, FULLY NICELY FURNISHED, covered parking, near the Ministry of Education – Acropolis €550 (A2ACS0036-R), (photos in the website) 12. 2 bedr new luxury apartment,7 years old, 89sq.m, central heating independent, 3 A/C, 2 bathrooms, 2 wc, cooker and oven in the kitchen, blinds, covered verandah, covered parking and storage room in a quiet area opposite Akropolis Park – €500(A2ACS0038-R), (photos in the website. 13. New luxury finished 3 bedr penthouse (floor apartment) on the 5th floor,165sq.m+ big verandas(one bigger with bbq), solid parquet floor all the flat,3wc,2 bathrooms, central heating ind, full a/c, big separate Italian kitchen with electrical appliances and dining area, big sitting room, covered parking and storage room off Makarios Avenue walking distance to the centre €850 (A3NIC0030-R), (photos in the website). 14. 2 bedr brand new nicely finished ground floor apartment with economic a/c for hot and cold, FULLY NICELY MODERN FURNISHED, covered veranda, covered parking, on a small 2 storey building off Kennedy Avenue near the centre. No extra common expenses – Nicosia Centre €500 (A2NIC0032-R), (photos in the website). 15. 3 bedr luxury penthouse apartment with central heating

TO LET NICOSIA independent, full a/c, 2 wc, big sitting and dining room with fire place, separate kitchen, NICELY MODERN FURNISHED, big covered and uncovered veranda, covered parking, in Strovolos near the Municipal building €575 (A3ST10014-R), (photos in the website). 16. 3 bedr luxury apartment, 150sq.m + very big verandah, nicely modern furnished storage heaters, 3ac, 2 bathrooms, 2wc, parquet floor in the bedrooms, big sitting and dining room with open plan kitchen, covered parking, off Makarios Avenue behind Hilton hotel – Nicosia Centre €700 (A3NIC0017-R), (photos in the website) For many more properties with photos visit our website at www.landtouristestates.com which is updated daily. LANDTOURIST ESTATES LTD 22422225 / 96-422225 / 96422226 www.landtouristestates.com ****************************** 2 BDRM flat in the centre of Nicosia. Rent €450. For information call 99453663, 99663927. *****************************

LIMASSOL ***************************** GROUND FLOOR HOUSE for rent in Potamos Germasogia, 3 bedroom, kitchen, dining/ sitting room, 2 wc, garden with trees and verandas, A/C, parking available & covered garage for 2 cars. €700pm Tel

TO LET LIMASSOL 99185490 2 BDRM furnished flat, in Katraki building, 100 metres from the sea and Debenhams Olympia. Price €480 (included common expenses) Tel: 99406415 Andreas. ***************************** FLAT FOR RENT near Debenhams (300m from sea) f/furnished, 2 bedrooms, parking space, quiet building. €450pm. Tel 99958781 or 99712344 ***************************** TO LET Hebrew homes, by Limassol twin towers, Kosher or Free, 3 monthly let. Call 035799036312. ***************************** TO LET Large 4 bedroom unfurnished house in the village of Asomatos nr Akrotiri Limassol. Fully A/C & Heating (storage heaters). 5 wc’s, large kitchen/ diner, lounge and sitting room. Large loft with own shower/wc (suitable for office/playroom/ gym). Carport - prominent position in cul-de-sac - lots of parking. €850 pcm (negotiable). Available from April 2013. Tel. 99831431 ***************************** TRADITIONAL VILLAGE STONE HOUSE IN APESHIA. Very quiet village, 20mins from Limassol. Road to heritage school/Troodos. 2 bedrooms, office available top floor with veranda great view of mountains. Small courtyard with trees. Electric solar water. A/Ctoilet in main bedroom. Semi/ full furnished. Fitted kitchen with electrical appliances, fire-

TO LET LIMASSOL place. Toilet/shower. €550pm negotiable. Tel 96891800. ***************************** GROUND FLOOR HOUSE, furnished renovated this year. Laminated parke ﬂoor, and big wardrobes in the 3 bedrooms. Rent €590.00 Tel 99497576 99886775 *****************************

LARNACA ***************************** TO LET SEAFRONT STUDIO, fully furnished, sleeps 2 adults, all amenities including satellite, common pool and tennis court, basement parking, spacious verandas. Rent €1000 pm incl utilities. Available 1st June 2013. Better rate for full season or year booking. Tel 99657055 ***************************** TO LET SEAFRONT 2 BEDROOM FLAT, modern fully furnished, easily sleeps 4 adults, all amenities including satellite, common pool and tennis court, basement parking, spacious verandah. Rent €2000 pm incl utilities. Available 1st June 2013. Better rate for full season or year booking. Tel 99657055 ***************************** FOR RENT fully furnished 1 bedroom ﬂat near Larco Hotel Larnaca. Price €370. Tel 99202543 ***************************** 1 BEDROOM ﬂat in Ermou

TO LET LARNACA Square area Larnaca - 2 bedroom ﬂat in Phaneromenis area Larnaca. Call 96693375 **************************** 1. Superior Real Estate Larnaca. 3 bedroom detached unfurnished property set on a fantastic development in the village of Tersefanou. Available for immediate occupation. Ref. TLL973. Tel 24815926

2. Superior Real Estate Larnaca. 2 bedroom fully furnished apartment, nr the Metro/American Academy Larnaca. Ref. TLL1654 Please call to arrange a viewing Tel. 24815926 3. www.superiorrealestatelarnaca.com – LARGE RANGE OF RENTAL PROPERTIES. From studio apartments to 5 bedroom villa’s for rent, all properties have detailed descriptions, professional photographs. Interactive Virtual/ Video Tours. Please visit our website. www.superiorrealestatelarnaca.com

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PAPHOS ***************************** 1. Sea Caves Paphos, luxury 3 bed unfurnished villa with pri-

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Advertiser TO LET PAPHOS vate pool on a big plot. One bed downstairs, kitchen white goods include dish washer. Spacious bedrooms, dressing room, balconies, separate outdoor storeroom, enclosed garden. €1000 2. Secret Valley, 3 bed un/furnished villa with private pool on a big plot. Spacious living space, good sized bedrooms. Pool and garden maintenance included in rent. Lovely sea and country side views. €700 3. Peyia, Beautiful 3 bed un/furnished villa with amazing sea views. Private pool, lovely garden, double bedrooms, master en suite. €500 4. Koili, brand new 4 bed unfurnished villa. Finished to a very high quality in a very

TO LET PAPHOS quiet location. Italian kitchen, fire place, under floor heating, shutters, fly screens, pool, one bed downstairs. €850 PAPHOS TO RENT Tel: 99389198. For listings and many other properties please visit our web www. paphotorent.com and give us a call. ***************************** PEYIA, luxury villa, 3 double bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, fully or part furnished, private pool, quiet location, paved garden area, sea and mountain views. Sky satellite, €550 ono, please call: 99771532 – no agents **************************** LEYTIMBOUv- Stunning 2 Bedroom Traditional Stone House that’s been completely Mod-

TO LET PAPHOS ernized to a very high standard although all the Original Features remain, Beamed ceilings, Under Floor Heating Flagstone ﬂoors, 2 en-suites with power showers, Large Enclosed Courtyard, Double Glazed Windows with Shutters, Open Fireplace €350 TREMITHOUSA - Superb Detached 3 Bedroom Villa with Large Pool, F/F to a very High Standard, Mater En-Suite, Family Bathroom with Jacuzzi, Beautifully Fitted Kitchen, Utility, Separate Shower room, Spectacular Mountain and Sea views, Quite Cul-DeSac location €700 KISSONERGA - Beautiful Detached U/F 3 Bedroomed Villa ,Large Pool,2 Bedrooms Upstairs Master En-suite ,Fam-

TO LET PAPHOS ily Bathroom, modern Fitted Kitchen ,Downstairs Bedroom with En-suite Shower room, Low maintenance Garden, Large Terraces and Separate Storage Room €600 KALEPIA - Fabulas Detached 3 Bedroom F/F OR U/F Villa, 2 En-suites, Great Views, Large Pool, Gated Driveway, Garage €600 URGENTLY WANTED – 3 Bedroom U/F Detached Villas 600/700 MORE PROPERTIES AVAILABLE FOR INFORMATION PLEASE CALL 99862922 ***************************** FOR RENT a selection of 1 to 5 bedroom houses & apartments F/F & U/F Universal, Peyia, Tomb of the Kings,

SPECIAL OFFER In Kokkinotrimithia, 15km from Nicosia in a good area, (in the centre, opposite Maragos bakery, 41/2 acres or 7 plot with 90% building factor. For more information please call 99673286, 99918830.

TO LET PAPHOS Tsada, Timi, Kato Paphos & Kissonerga Landlord & Owners please call 99329357 Or please view at our website www.cyprussands.com Fully Registered Company in Cyprus ***************************** MR RENT PAPHOS, THE LEADING PROPERTY RENTAL AGENCY IN PAPHOS OFFICE: 26271858 (00357) IF YOU HAVE A PROPERTY TO RENT WE ARE THE RENTAL AGENCY TO CONTACT OFFERING FULL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT & RENT COLLECTION SERVICE

1. MESOGI €500 we are delighted to offer this beautifully restored traditional stone village house set in a picturesque courtyard with stone built barbeque & covered verandah. this spacious character home offers a modern fitted kitchen, separate dining room & separate living room with modern gas fire, guest wc. Gas central heating throughout. 2 bedrooms both with ensuite bathrooms & walk-in wardrobe. Plus an additional room perfect for an office or 3rd bedroom. This property is full of charm & unique detail and well worth taking a look. website reference number: RTL_687 2. KONIA €600 this fantastic price includes pool cleaning & gardening. Modern detached 3 bedroom villa, master with ensuite. Real fire to living area for those winter months. Good sized storage room & guest wc. Available unfurnished

TO LET PAPHOS though includes, a/c throughout, blackout blinds, pressurised water system, flyscreens & shutters. Situated on a corner plot with large beautifully landscaped garden, offering a lovely private pool, mature plants & fruit trees. Gated entrance & covered off street parking. Website reference number: RTL_685 3. KAMARES TALA €750 a spacious 3 bedroom bungalow, master with ensuite. Living area with real fire place for those winter months. Separate utility room. Good sized low maintenance garden with private pool offering breathtaking panoramic sea views. Large outdoor storage room. covered car port. Available furnished with good furniture. Situated in a quiet residential area with free membership to the Kamares club. Website reference number: RTL_471 4. SECRET VALLEY €750 spacious modern detached 3 bedroom villa situated on a corner plot in a peaceful residential area. Offering large private pool with a low maintaince enclosed garden with sea views. Off street parking. Fully furnished with modern furniture and includes gas central heating throughout. Modern fitted kitchen with granite worktops. One bedroom on ground floor with bathroom. Pets allowed at owners discretion. Viewings highly recommended. website reference number: RTL_561 5. KAMARES TALA €850 a stunning 4 bedroom 3 bathroom

CHURCHES GRACE CHURCH, LARNACA 8 Ayiou Neofytou St Sundays 10 a.m. Also Midweek Meetings Details: Colin 24530700 HOLY CROSS CATHOLIC CHURCH, PAPHOS GATE, NICOSIA Sunday Masses: Saturdays 6.30 pm, Sundays 8.00am, 9.30am & 6.30pm Weekday Masses: 6.30 pm Monday to Friday Tel: 22662132 Email: holcross@logos.cy.net

LARNAKA COMMUNITY CHURCH APHRODITE STREET, LARNAKA 10.00 AM MORNING SERVICE and SUNDAY SCHOOL For more details ring Fred 24365152

International EVANGELICAL CHURCH (Reformed) Limassol 352 St. Andrew’s Street (1½ blocks from Starbucks/Fat Boy) Sunday worship 10:30am Wednesday Bible Discussion 7pm For info: 99384742 ALL ARE WELCOME

St Helena’s Anglican Church, Larnaca St Helena’s Court, Grigoris Afx Sunday Service: Holy Communion 9.30 am

NICOSIA CHRISTIAN CENTRE 10 PINDOU STR, ENGOMI, NICOSIA, TEL. 22464375 SERVICES: SUNDAY 10AM, WEDNESDAY 8PM

Family oriented evangelical church Contemporary Christian Worship Sunday 10am (Holy Communion - 1st Sunday of the month) Sunday School (Juniors and Teens) Outreach and Evangelism Bible Studies

Tel. 99 293489, 99 279960 Email: immanuel.church.nicosia@gmail.com Website: www.immanuelchurchnicosia.org

ALL WELCOME Tel:24651327 ofﬁce@sainthelenas.com

THE ORTHODOX CHURCH OF ST ANDREW AND ST JOHN THE BAPTIST MESA GEITONIA, LIMASSOL The Orthodox Liturgy in English served fortnightly on Saturdays at 9.00 am. We also hold a Discussion Group every Thursday evening at 7.30 pm For information please call Fr. Christopher Klitou Mobile: 99957144 Fax: 25710318 You can email us at: klitoux@logos.cy.net or visit our website: www.christopherklitou.com

THE REFORMED CHURCH OF LIMASSOL Clear exposition of the Bible in the presence of God, and relevant to our lives. Our Sunday services start at 10:30 am sharp, and the Wednesday Bible discussion at 7 pm. International Evangelical Church (Reformed) is located at 352 St. Andrew’s Street. 1½ blocks from Starbucks / Fat Boy, and 1 block from the Municipal Gardens, Zoo. For further information call Steve at 99384742, or email: iee.limassol@gmail.com All are welcome! PROPHETIC CALL-OUT Grieved by preachers living in sin ? Pastors collaborating with idolaters? Bored with just being a spectator? In Prophecy there is no ‘us and them: Everyone contributes (1 Cor 14:26) 10am start 9/2/2013 God willing, Meet: Entrance Palaiopafos, Kouklia Instruments/shofars welcome

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St Barnabas’ Anglican Church 153 Leontiou A Street Limassol www.stbarnabas-cyprus.com Telephone: 25362713 - All welcome ALL SAINTS GREEK ORTHODOX CHURCH (ENGLISH) Sunday Divine Liturgy 8-10am. Followed by Fellowship hour (coffee) Services are now being held at the underground Chapel of All Saints of Cyprus at St. Panteleimonos Church Makedonitissa Archangelos (Engomi) For more info please contact Fr. Joseph Coleman Tel. 99938924

THE ORTHODOX CHURCH OF AGIOS ARSENIOS, LIMASSOL (near Tsirion Stadium) The Orthodox Liturgy in English Saturday, 4 February at 8:30 am For information please contact: Father M. Spanou at 99 – 401365 (msspanou@googlemail.com)

9 Larnakos Street Katholiki Area Limassol Sundays: 9:45, 11:00 AM, 1:30 PM Wednesdays: 7:30 PM 25 751193 or 99 758729 www.cbm-odbc.org

GRACE NEW TESTAMENT CHURCH Invites you to COME AND EXPERIEBNCE THE LOVE OF GOD WITH US Int. Christian Business Fellowship Meeting Centre Sundays: 10.00am Sunday School 11.00 am Main Service (Dine with us centre services) Wednesdays: Prayer meeting 6pm Address: To Arsinois Str., 1010 Nicosia (Next to Western Union Office to KISA) Contact: 99988900 or 97667932. \VISITORS ESPECIALLY WELCOME!!!

The Anglican Church of Paphos Ayia Kyriaki (St. Paul by the Pillar) Sunday 8.15am Holy Eucharist 6.00pm Sung Eucharist th 4 Sunday 6.00pm Choral Evensong Wednesday 9.00am Holy Eucharist 3rd Wednesday (BCP) St. Stephen’s, Tala st rd 1 & 3 Sunday 11.00 am Holy Eucharist 2nd & 4th Sunday 11.00am Morning Worship St. Luke’s, Prodromi 1st & 5th Sunday 9.30am Morning Worship 2nd , 3rd & 4th Sunday 9.30am Holy Eucharist 1st & 3rd Wednesday 9.30am Holy Eucharist 1st Sunday 6.00 p.m. Peace & Wholeness with Holy Eucharist 4th Sunday every quarter 9.30 am Holy Eucharist from BPC Church Office: 26-953044 Fax: 26-952486 Email: anglicancofp@cytanet.com.cy for directions to each church

DEUTSCHE GOTTESDIENSTE IN ZYPERN Nikosia: Am 1. und 3. Samstag im Monat in der St. Paul’s Cathedral um 18 Uhr Limassol: Am 2. Sonntag im Monat im Gemeindehaus in Germasogeia um 11 Uhr Am 4. Sonntag im Monat in der St. Barnabaskirche um 18 Uhr Paphos: Am 2. Samstag in der Kirche an der Paulussaeule um 16 Uhr Agia Napa: Am 4. Sonntag im Monat im Hof des Klosters um 9.30 Uhr Näheres Informationen durch Pfarrer Dr. Herold, Tel 25-317092 oder im Internet www.ev-kirche-zypern.de

St. Paul’s Anglican Cathedral Byron Avenue, Nicosia, 22 445221/22 677897 www.st-pauls-nicosia.com

Sunday 0930 : Holy Communion Sunday School in the hall 1800 : Evening Prayer Monday/Tuesday/Thursday 0830: Morning Prayer Wednesday 1030 : Holy Communion First Monday of each month 1930 : Guild of St Raphael Parish Office : Mon-Fri : 0900 – 1100 Saturday 1000-1200

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Advertiser detached villa in this peaceful sought after residential area. Beautifully furnished with modern furniture. gas central heating throughout plus real ﬁre for those winter months. Low maintenance landscaped garden with private pool offering the most beautiful sea views. Only 15 minutes drive to the International School of Paphos & includes free membership to the Kamares club. website refence number: RTL_686 6. LOWER PEYIA €900 price includes pool cleaning, gardening, water and community tax bills. This 4 bedroom detached bungalow all with ensuite bathrooms, offers spacious accommodation of 200 sq metres. Available unfurnished. Situated in a quiet residential area. A lovely enclosed garden with fruit trees, a gazebo & private inﬁnity pool with sea views. website reference number: RTL_683 7. SEA CAVES €1,200 price includes pool cleaning & gardening. Situated in this sought after residential area we offer this suburb 3 bedroom detached villa set in stunning landscaped gardens on a 1200 sq metre plot, offering a private kidney shaped swimming pool with sea views. Separate kitchen and spacious living area with conservatory. Master bedroom with ensuite. Downstairs guest wc. Available furnished or part furnished with classic furniture. Large garage/storage area and covered car port. website reference number: RTL_684 8. AGIA MARINOUDA €2,500

TO LET PAPHOS luxury modern 4 bedroom villa with additional office plus maids quarters and separate annex for guests. This amazing property offers an ultra modern fitted kitchen, sitting room & living room. Beautifully presented with modern furniture. Includes gas central heating. Entrance with electric gates leading to a spacious landscaped garden with private pool & entertainment area. Situated close to the elea golf course with sea and country side views. Viewings highly recommended. website reference number: rtl_681 Tel: 97790883 Tel: 99133422 office: 26271858 visit our website for many more properties www.mrrent-paphos.net email: info@mrrent-paphos. net **************************** FLOWRON PROPERTY RENTALS : Offering a full range of property services, the company you can TRUST.

Melanos 2 bedroom fully furnished top ﬂoor apartment with exceptionally large veranda and amazing views. Sitting/dining area, kitchen and guest WC. Family bathroom. Outside veranda. Covered parking and communal pool. Includes communal fees. REF 1147 Amount €300 SPECIAL OFFER Lower Peyia 3 bedroom furnished older style villa in a small cul-de-sac. 3 bedrooms upstairs, family bathroom. Sitting room, spacious kitchen downstairs in a quiet location. Private pool and BBQ area.

TO LET PAPHOS REF 1242 Amount €600 Timi 4 bedroom furnished large house on outskirts of Timi Village in its own private grounds surrounded by fruit trees. Very nice standard and lots of living space. Large quality kitchen. 3 large bedrooms upstairs, master with ensuite, family bathroom. Additional room used as office and upstairs loft. REF 1049 Amount €650 Armou 4 bedroom modern villa offered unfurnished. Woodburner and airconditioning throughout. Dowstairs is large living room, large kitchen, dining area and guest cloakroom. Upstairs 4 bedrooms, Family bathroom. Private pool and great sea/mountain views. REF 1001 Amount €900 Secret Valley 4 bedroom large unfurnished villa in nice residential road. Private pool, gated, covered parking. Downstairs bedroom, sitting room, kitchen. Upstairs 3 bedrooms all with ensuite shower rooms. REF 1241 Amount €900 Peyia 3 bedroom villa, unfurnished. Bedrooms all with fitted wardrobes and family bathroom. Airconditioning, flyscreens, fans and sat TV. Sitting/dining area, kitchen with white goods and guest cloakroom. Outside private pool with shaded offstreet parking and great mountain and seaviews. REF 1214 Amount €550

TO LET PAPHOS heating, private pool and great seaviews in peaceful residential location. REF 988 Amount €750 Sea Caves 5 bedroom modern, fully furnished luxury villa in centre of Sea Caves/Coral Bay property with central heating double garage and downstairs bedroom. Outside – large grounds with private pool and beautiful seaviews. REF 9999b Amount €1,800 Please call for a free viewing on 26600450 – 97616070 many more properties including commercial lettings on our website at www.flowron.com – Your Vision is our Mission LANDLORDS FLOWRON PROPERTY RENTALS WOULD LIKE TO HEAR FROM YOU, WE WELCOME ALL PROPERTIES FROM STUDIOS VILLAS **************************** PEYIA – 3 bedroom villa with modern quality furniture and finishes. Central heating, sky, alarm, infinity pool and stunning 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 €340 p.m. Tel 99403261 *****************************

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PROPERTY FOR SALE NICOSIA ***************************** FOR SALE BEAUTIFUL VILLA, Nicosia, Strovolos 550sqm build in two lots 1250sqm. 6 bds, 6 bath, under floor heating, A/C, basement, two car garage, beautiful landscape, well, pool, quiet area, great for families. Motivated seller. Price reduced 1.500000.Call 99432074 mpapadmd@gmail. com **************************** FOR SALE upper floor house 210 sq.m built on 301 sq. m land, Lapatsa area, Pereous 1a. 4 bedrooms with attic room (not finished), c/h ,4 a/c, aluminium doors& window, covered parking and storage room. Price €310.000 pm call 22431095 99330632. *****************************

PAPHOS ***************************** REDUCED TO 300K. Detached modernised stone bungalow in peaceful Paphos village, 3 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, large kitchen/diner and large sepa-

FOR SALE PAPHOS rate lounge. Open views to the coast and Troodos, a real must see. contact 99246121 or jimicyprus@gmail.com for further info. EXO-VRISI – 2 bed townhouse in quiet cul-de-sac. Panoramic sea views, car port, a/c, ceiling fans, tastefully furnished, plus all white goods, €105.000 o.n.o with title deeds Call : 26954147/ 99137828

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Sport IN BRIEF Haye pulls out of fight with Charr DAVID Haye has been forced to pull out of his heavyweight bout with Manuel Charr next month after suffering a hand injury in training. Haye was set to fight for the first time since stopping fellow Briton Dereck Chisora inside five rounds in their controversial bout at Upton Park last July against former world title challenger Charr at the Manchester Arena on June 29. But after injuring his left hand on Sunday, the 32-year-old yesterday announced via a press release the contest has been postponed for the time being. “I pick up injuries now and again in training, and sometimes carry them into fights, but this was one I simply couldn’t recover from in time,” said the former WBA heavyweight champion. “I need to rest it up for at least four weeks.”

NY Yankees run halted THE Cleveland Indians snapped New York’s fivegame winning streak on Monday with a 1-0 victory, before the Yankees hit back with a 7-0 triumph to earn a split of their double-header. Justin Masterson pitched a four-hit shutout and Jason Kipnis homered in the first inning to swing the first game at Progressive Field in the hosts’ favour. Vidal Nuno delivered five scoreless innings in the second meeting, though, and a six-run seventh inning secured the Yankees a sixth win in seven. Vernon Wells and Lyle Overbay had two RBI apiece.

Hoylake host HOYLAKE, which will host the Open Championship for the 12th time next year, was yesterday named as the venue for the 2019 Walker Cup. The 47th biennial match between the best amateurs of Great Britain and Ireland and the United States will be played in September 2019 at Royal Liverpool as the club celebrates the 150th anniversary of its foundation. Great Britain and Ireland won 14-12 at Royal Aberdeen in 2011 and will defend the trophy at the National Golf Links of America on September 7-8.

Pirelli tyre changes to come after Canada GP

Marshal: Woods lacked character

‘The sooner we could do it, the better’

TIGER Woods has been accused of “lacking character” as his war of words with Sergio Garcia at the Players Championship shows no signs of abating. Paired together at Sawgrass in a third round played over two days due to bad weather, it took less than two holes for tensions to come to the surface, with Garcia feeling he was put off on his approach to the second by crowd noise caused by Woods preparing for his own shot from the trees.

By Ian Parkes PIRELLI are to now bring in changes to their tyres from the Canadian Grand Prix for the sake of the fans. The Italian manufacturer has responded quickly to the criticism that followed Sunday’s Spanish Grand Prix during which there were 79 pit stops, at an average of almost four per driver. Motorsport director Paul Hembery conceded after the race that the rubber used at Barcelona’s Circuit de Catalunya was “too aggressive”. It was suggested changes would be made for the British Grand Prix at the end of June but, following meetings within the company Hembery said: “The sooner we could do it the better.” Speaking to Press Association Sport, Hembery added: “Four stops was not what we wanted, and to make a change we needed to do it as soon as possible so teams have time to react for the rest of the season. “The tyre from Canada onwards will combine elements of the structure from last year, with some elements of this year’s tyre. “The ﬁne details are being sorted and will be ﬁnalised in the next couple of days. “But we wanted to make sure people understood we had noted their comments, so we’ve reacted and we’ll make sure we get back to where we were last season, which is two to three stops per race.” Even F1 supremo Bernie Ecclestone waded into the

‘SAID NOTHING’

The Italian manufacturer has responded quickly to the criticism that followed Sunday’s Spanish Grand Prix during which there were 79 pit stops debate by stating “the tyres are wrong, not what we intended when we asked Pirelli to produce something which did a half race”. Asked whether the pressure from Ecclestone forced them into a change, Hembery added: “He was only sharing the comments of the majority, that we had gone a step too far and we needed to come back a bit. “So I wouldn’t say it was pressure from him, it was really from the fans from a sporting point of view. “From what we saw on Sunday, we felt no, this was going in the wrong direction.”

A potential concern now will be Red Bull, one of the most outspoken critics of this year’s tyres, will become the main beneﬁciary, as stated by Hembery on Sunday. Red Bull owner Dietrich Mateschitz commented yesterday F1 had become “a competition in tyre management”. Naturally, Hembery is hoping Red Bull do not go on to dominate, but can offer no guarantees as he said: “We would hope that’s not the case, but we always face that risk.” The changes will be for all four dry-weather com-

pounds - supersoft, soft, medium and hard - and there may even be a re-think on the tyres to be used in Canada. At present the soft and supersoft are due to be used, but Hembery said: “One of the problems we have is if we are less aggressive with the structure, it means we don’t then want to be too conservative with the compounds. “That could result in an over-reaction and you go completely in the other direction, so we’re evaluating that at the moment and we’re going to advise the teams on Thursday.”

Woods insisted he had been told by marshals that Garcia had already played before pulling a fairway wood from his bag, with the fans cheering the indication that the world number one would attempt to go for the green on the par five. However, two marshals have denied that was the case, with Sports Illustrated quoting Gary Anderson as saying: “He didn’t ask us nothing, and we didn’t say nothing. We’re told not to talk to the players.” John North was the chief marshal for the first three holes and is also quoted by Sports Illustrated as saying: “Nothing was said to us and we certainly said nothing to him. “I was disappointed to hear him make those remarks. We’re there to help the players and enhance the experience of the fans. He was saying what was good for him. It lacked character.” Woods went on to make a birdie on that hole and win the tournament, while Garcia made a bogey six and saw his hopes of the title disappear in the final round when he hit two balls into the water on the 17th.

Krajan new Baghdatis coach on trial basis By Nemanja Bjedov MARCOS Baghdatis’ loss to Bulgarian Grigor Dimitrov in the opening round of the Internazionali BNL d’Italia in Rome was his ﬁrst match under new coach Croatian Zeljko Krajan who, until recently, coached Croatia’s Davis Cup team and rising WTA star Laura Robson of Britain. “My wife knows him,” explained Baghdatis. “It’s not good that I change coaches all the time; I need stability. I asked Ivan Ljubicic if he could help me out and we thought of him (Krajan). He’s from the same city as Karolina which helps when I am in Croatia. “We are on a trial basis until Wimbledon. He has worked a lot with the women’s tour, but he was Top 100 before on the ATP World Tour, so I think he has a lot to offer. He is the Croatia

Davis Cup coach as well. I think he can help me a lot,” the 27-year-old Cypriot added. Baghdatis had earlier mutually agreed to part ways with compatriot Yiannos Hadjigeorgiou, with the Cypriot number one noting: “The main issue was the lack of sporting infrastructure available in Cyprus ... as well as the difficulties we face for intensive training, due to the lack of domestic professional players. As a result, Cyprus remains a very difficult choice for the needs of my workouts and preparation. “For this reason, we decided Yiannos could not take me any further, despite our best efforts during recent months.” The Limassol native will have the chance for more clay-court practice ahead of the French Open as he partners 2009 US Open champion Juan Martin del Potro in the doubles competition at the Rome Masters. They face Italian wild cards Paolo Lorenzi and Potito Starace in the first round this afternoon.

Baghdatis’ loss to Dimitrov in the opening round of the Internazionali BNL d’Italia was his ﬁrst match under Krajan

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Sexton: I’ll miss Wilkinson on summer tour

Wilkinson was a high-proﬁle omission from Gatland’s 37man British and Irish Lions squad named last month

LEINSTER fly-half Jonny Sexton would have loved the opportunity to learn from Jonny Wilkinson had the Englishman been selected to tour with the British and Irish Lions this summer. Wilkinson, 33, was a high-profile omission from Warren Gatland’s 37-man squad named last month, with Sexton and Saracens’ Owen Farrell the two number 10s selected. Sexton, whose Leinster side face Ulster in the RaboDirect PRO12 final just a week on from an Amlin Challenge Cup final date with Stade Francais, may only face opposition from Farrell for the fly-half berth, but would rather have the experience of Wilkinson alongside him in the squad. “A lot of people have said to me that it is great he wasn’t picked because it gives me a better chance now,” he said. “But I look at it the other way. I would have liked him to go and would have loved to have learned from him, he is a bit of a legend. “I obviously looked up to him when I

was 16 and he was winning the World Cup with England.” Sexton will move to French Top 14 side Racing Metro following the Lions tour, after just under a decade turning out for his boyhood club. He may sneak in a few French lessons during his time away on tour and is feeling in good shape after an injury lay-off earlier this season gave him time to recuperate. “Hopefully I’ve used up all of my injuries for the year over the past few months,” he said. “It feels strange to be so fresh at this time of the year - I feel I’m just starting after the fact I’ve had two months off and I have played four games since [returning from injury] means I feel great. “I’m starting to get a bit of match fitness and sharpness back, so hopefully I will peak at the right time for the two finals with Leinster and then the tour.” With Sexton’s Leinster and Ireland team-mate Brian O’Driscoll missing the first Lions’ squad meeting in Lon-

don due to a slight back injury, the idea of not making the tour will be picking away at the players until the first Test in Brisbane on June 22. But although Sexton admits the threat of injury remains constant, it is not something that is playing on his mind during the important fixtures coming up. “Since the squad has been picked, at the back of the mind you’re praying that it doesn’t happen,” he said. “But once you get out on the pitch your competitiveness comes through and it is the last thing you think about. “It is about winning and there are two finals with Leinster, it isn’t like they are friendlies. Two competitive games, high pressure; they are the sorts of preparation you want.” Gatland confirmed on Monday that O’Driscoll was only suffering a minor back spasm and had not flown to London as a precautionary measure, with the 34-year-old likely to feature in Leinster’s Amlin Cup final on Friday.

Prior has the edge on Cook ahead of Ashes

Petersen in for injured Smith

Wicketkeeper’s cricketer-of-the-year accolade has yet to be won by skipper By David Clough MATT Prior will begin England’s momentous Ashes summer one up on his Test captain Alastair Cook, after winning the cricketer-of-theyear award. Prior, who Monday night became the ﬁrst wicketkeeper to win the annual accolade, beat last year’s recipient James Anderson and Cook - who were both also short-listed. Cook, for all his proliﬁc run-scoring and success as captain in two formats, has yet to win the award - a fact not lost on Prior. The wicketkeeper will not be crowing about an honour of which he believes any one of several team-mates might have been equally deserving recipients. But he was not entirely averse either to joking at his captain’s expense. “Everyone congratulated me, except Cooky ... so maybe that says something! “Jimmy Anderson’s performance in India - for a seamer bowler to perform like he did was phenomenal that’s worth a player-of-theyear award. “Then there’s Cooky, the way he led from the front in India. “There are a number of guys who have put in huge performances. “They’ve obviously just pulled a name out of the hat! So I’m hugely honoured - but

Cook, for all his prolific run-scoring and success as captain in two formats, has yet to win the award it could have been a number of guys.” Prior, whose year was capped by an heroic and unbeaten century to help somehow draw the Auckland Test in March, is renowned as a selfless cricketer. He explained what makes him tick when he takes the field. “Anytime I go out to play an innings, the first thing you think about is what you need to do to get into the best position to win or save a game. “It’s ‘what do I need to do to get the scoreboard in the right place’, rather than

‘how many runs do I need to average 50’. “I just can’t perform like that. I can’t do it. “There have been times in the past where people have said ‘you need to look after that bit, or get more notouts’. “I’m not saying I’m the ultimate team player. It’s just the way I play sport - to win. That’s where I get the enjoyment from.” As for his Auckland tour de force, Prior added: “I’ve had a huge amount of plaudits - basically because I was there at the end. “Ian Bell played an unbelievable innings that day to take so much time out of the game; Stuart Broad - I’ve never seen Broady bat that long without getting off the mark or even playing a shot in anger, having a slog or something. “That was a huge effort to get us over the line.” The 31-year-old is not about to start believing his own hype either, with the ﬁrst Test set to start against New Zealand at Lord’s this week. “It’s a ﬁckle world - if I punch one on Thursday, I’ll be rubbish again. “Everyone else can say their bits - I’ll just concentrate on catching as many balls as I can and keep working hard. “In years to come, when I hope I’ve played a few more years and caught a few more catches, we can see where I sit.”

Prior, who Monday night became the ﬁrst wicketkeeper to win the annual accolade, beat last year’s recipient Anderson and Cook, who were both short-listed

OPENER Alviro Petersen has been added to South Africa’s Champions Trophy squad in place of the injured Graeme Smith. Smith, who was captaining Surrey, has returned to South Africa for ankle surgery and will play no part in the tournament, leaving the way clear for Petersen. Like Smith, Petersen has been playing county cricket, for Somerset, giving him plenty of time to get used to conditions for the competition, which takes place The Oval, Edgbaston and Cardiff’s SWALEC Stadium next month. Initial signs show the 32year-old is in good form, scoring 495 runs at 82.5 in three ﬁrst-class knocks for Somerset as well as 42 in his only YB40 innings. Cricket South Africa selector Andrew Hudson said: “We have decided on a like-for-like replacement and Alviro is the obvious choice in this regard. “He is a specialist opening batsman and also brings some very useful experience on board following the loss of both Smith and Jacques Kallis. “In addition he is in the form of his life, having made almost 500 runs in three County Championship Division One matches for Somerset, including two centuries. “With the tournament being played early in the England summer we envisage that bowling conditions will favour the seamers and getting good partnerships going up front is going to be paramount to success. He handled these conditions extremely well during our Test tour to England last year.” Petersen has an average of 31.21 in his 17 one-day appearances for the Proteas, with four half-centuries and a top score of 80.

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FOOTBALL IN BRIEF Blatter unhappy Roma only fined for fan abuse FIFA president Sepp Blatter has criticised as “unacceptable” the Italian Football Federation’s decision to only fine Roma after their fans racially abused three AC Milan players. Roma were fined €50,000 (£42,000) after Sunday’s match was suspended for two minutes shortly after the half-time interval by the referee. Blatter (inset) said he could not understand the leniency of the fine and warned that FIFA’s Congress would agree much tougher sanctions for racism at the end of the month. Blatter told FIFA’s website: “What is most surprising and is not understandable for me, is that the disciplinary committee of the Italian Football Federation has taken a decision, not even 24 hours after the event, by

just imposing a ﬁne. “They have not made any investigation of what happened. And just to give a pecuniary sanction is not valid, that is not acceptable. “What is €50,000 for such an incident? I’m not happy and I will call the Italian Federation. That’s not a way to deal with such matters.”

Heynckes hints at retirement BAYERN Munich coach Jupp Heynckes will sit on the coaching bench for a Bundesliga game for the last time when the champions meet his former club Borussia Moenchengladbach in the season finale on Saturday, and hinted on Monday that he might retire. The 68-year-old, who won the Champions League with Real Madrid in 1998 and had a long playing and coaching career at Gladbach, will make way for Pep Guardiola after the end of the season following two years in charge at Bayern. “Saturday will be my last Bundesliga game as a coach,” Heynckes, who coached Bayern in three stints in his career, said. “What will happen after that, we will have to wait until after our two finals. I will probably say something in June after the German Cup final.”

Anastasiou ushers in new Panathinaikos era GIANNIS Anastasiou was officially unveiled as the new Panathinaikos coach yesterday and said the club needed to develop their own philosophy rather than copy models from abroad in order to recover from a shock sixth-place finish this term. Anastasiou, 40, has been given the task of trying to restore the fortunes of the Athens club after a season of struggle financially and on the pitch. The former Greece international, whose appointment was announced on April 24, replaces Giannis Vonortas, who will return to coaching the academy

youth side after acting as caretaker coach for the ﬁnal few weeks of the season. “It’s a great honour and responsibility to be given this chance; the goal of the club is to operate at the highest European level and to do this the club must use its own philosophy, not something based on other foreign clubs in England or Germany,” Anastasiou told a news conference. “We want to become better and develop in all areas as a club. We know that a lot of hard work is required and we are ready for it.”

Drogba’s Galatasaray were beaten 2-1 by Fenerbahce on Sunday in a high-octane encounter

Drogba hits back at banana-waving fan By Ece Toksabay GALATASARAY striker Didier Drogba hit back at a Fenerbahce fan who waved a banana towards him and team-mate Emmanuel Eboue during the weekend’s league encounter by highlighting some home truths about racism. Ivory Coast players Eboue and Drogba, who was instrumental in Chelsea’s run to the Champions League title last season, were heckled during Sunday’s 2-1 league win by Fenerbahce in the high-octane encounter. A Fenerbahce fan was stabbed to death and more than 100 fans were detained

following Turkey’s most popular derby. Drogba, whose Galatasaray team have already secured the Turkish championship, wasted little time in highlighting that both Fenerbahce goals were scored by Cameroon striker Pierre Webo. “You call me monkey but you cried when Chelsea beat Fenerbahce in 2008, you called me monkey but you jumped in front of your

screen when I won the Champions League,” Drogba said on Galatasaray’s Facebook page. “You called me monkey but you got mad when I became champion with Galatasaray and the saddest thing is you called me monkey and forgot that you jumped when my ‘monkey’ brother scored twice yesterday ... and you call yourself a true fan? Check all the Galatasaray fans comments

and learn from them.” Drogba also posted an image on the online photosharing network Instagram depicting humans evolving from apes. A man claiming to be the supporter who waved the banana told a local television show that he had the fruit in his hand to eat but declined to give his name. “I didn’t wave the banana with the aim of racism, I just joined a jeering against (Galatasaray goalkeeper Fernando) Muslera,” the man said during a phone-in interview. “I am not like that. I apologise to Fenerbahce and Galatasaray fans,” the man added.

Barca’s Messi will miss rest of season due to the extent of hamstring damage

PSG condemn troublemakers PARIS St Germain’s Ligue 1 title celebrations were cut short on Monday when 30 people were injured in clashes between spectators and police in the west of the French capital. “Thirty people were injured, three of them members of the police forces,” Paris chief of police Bernard Boucault told a news conference. “Twenty-one people were also arrested for questioning after throwing projectiles or causing damage.” Boucault said “hundreds, maybe thousands of troublemakers” spoiled the celebrations, adding “we did not underestimate the means needed to tackle such a situation. Some 800 police ofﬁcers were called up”. He said nobody had been seriously hurt.

Gala striker exposes racism of heckling Fenerbahce fan

Messi underwent a scan yesterday to determine the extent of his injuries

BARCELONA forward Lionel Messi is set to miss the rest of the season after tests revealed the extent of the damage to his right hamstring. Messi initially suffered the injury in the first leg of a Champions League quarterfinal against Paris St Germain and he has been in and out of the team ever since. He came off the bench to inspire a Barca win against PSG in the Nou Camp return but looked a shadow of his brilliant best as the Spanish champions were hammered 4-0 in the first leg of their semi-final meeting with Bayern Munich. He failed to make an appearance as Bayern duly completed a 7-0 aggregate win in Catalonia. Messi underwent a scan this morning with a Barca statement revealing the results. It read: “Tests this Tuesday morning showed that Leo Messi has an elongation in

the femoral biceps in his right leg. The expected absence is two to three weeks. “How the injury evolves will determine the player’s availability for future games.” Messi started Sunday’s win at Atletico Madrid but limped off after 67 minutes after experiencing further problems with the injury. Barca’s ﬁnal game of the Primera Division season - they have already wrapped up the title - is scheduled for June 1 at home to Malaga. It is unlikely Messi will be risked by Barca boss Tito Vilanova, especially as the 25-yearold will be needed by Argentina for their World Cup qualifying doubleheader against Colombia and Ecuador in June. Messi has enjoyed another wonderful season in Spain, scoring 46 league goals - four short of the record-breaking tally of 50 he notched in 2011-12.

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‘Citizens acted too quickly in getting rid of Mancini’ Former City defender says Italian treated ‘harshly’ By Andy Hampson FORMER Manchester City defender Andy Hinchcliffe believes the club have acted too soon by sacking Roberto Mancini as manager. City finally put an end to three days of intense speculation over Mancini’s position by announcing his departure late on Monday evening. The club said the Italian had failed to achieve this season’s “stated targets” while there was also a desire to develop a “holistic approach to all aspects of football” at City. But after winning the Barclays Premier League last year and the FA Cup in 2011, despite European disappointments, Hinchcliffe feels Mancini deserved more time. Hinchcliffe told Sky Sports News: “I am not surprised, there have been so many rumours that Roberto is going to be leaving the club. “But I do think he has been treated rather harshly, it has been a difficult season, there have been reasons why City haven’t done as well in the Premier League. Losing to Wigan in the FA Cup final was maybe the final straw. “I am disappointed, I felt they should have given him at least another 12 months, another Champions League campaign to prove his worth. “He signed a long-term contract at the back end of last year and I felt the owners got it right.

The club said the Italian had failed to achieve this season’s ‘stated targets’ while there was also a desire to develop a ‘holistic approach to all aspects of football’ at City “You thought they realised it’s not going to be success year after year - you do have to put things in place, lay the foundations. “Getting Mancini on board with a long-term contract seemed the right move but things have drastically changed.”

The reference to the ‘holistic approach’ in the statement in which City announced Mancini’s departure has been interpreted by some people as a reference to other aspects of his management style. Mancini certainly attracted criticism for some comments about certain players, which

may not have helped dressing room harmony. Hinchcliffe feels it may not just be failings on the ﬁeld which have cost Mancini. Malaga coach Manuel Pellegrini, who reputedly has excellent man-management skills, is the overwhelming favourite to succeed Mancini.

Hinchcliffe said: “All this talk about a holistic approach - do they think Pellegrini will get the best out of the club and players, something more than Mancini did? “Was there a fractured relationship with some players? Pellegrini might be able to put that right and Manchester City could move forward more quickly with a manager that understands players better.” That said, Hinchcliffe feels two successive failures in the Champions League may have been the ultimate factor. He said: “Playing in the Champions League knockout stages is absolutely vital. “Maybe that is the overriding factor, the one thing they were not completely sure about. Maybe they feel they will have a better chance under Pellegrini.” Mancini’s departure came on the first anniversary of their dramatic title success and also on the eve of a Premier League game at Reading. Assistant manager Brian Kidd has taken interim charge of the team for the trip to the Madejski Stadium, Sunday’s final game of the season against Norwich and next week’s tour of the United States. Former City manager Brian Horton, who knows himself what it is like to fail to live up to expectations, can see both sides of the argument. Horton, who like Mancini enjoyed the support of the fans, was axed in 1995 after disappointing Premier League finishes. Horton told Sky Sports News: “It’s a shock with what he has achieved - to win the cup and then the league, then second in the league and FA Cup - most clubs would take that. But having said that, with the money he has had and the owners, second best is not good enough. It is a bit of a shock but I can understand it.”

Rodgers eyes top four finish next season Fans back Hammers move LIVERPOOL boss Brendan Rodgers believes he and the club are in a better place to mount a top-four challenge next season. The Northern Irishman left Swansea to take over from Kenny Dalglish last summer and has endured an up and down first season at Anfield. Although the Reds will finish some way adrift of the European places they have bettered last season’s points total with one game still to go in the Premier League and their form over the second half of the campaign has been encouraging. Rodgers will now turn his attention to improving his squad over the summer ready for next season’s attempt to qualify again for the Champions League. The Reds manager told the Liverpool Echo: “This year has provided a great learning curve for me and I look

Liverpool’s boss will now turn his focus to improving his squad over the summer back and see that it was learning that I needed. “I knew the expectancy of the club but, going into next season, I am a much better prepared manager for that. “We want to make signiﬁcant improvements next year in the points total be-

cause the reality is we are 30 points behind the leaders and 11 points behind the top four. “But I’ve seen enough and, if we improve our mentality in the summer - by signing players who have that consistent winning mentality we can then improve again, like we have done in the second half of the season. “That’s the job of the recruitment team and the club to identify those types of players. “They might not always be the best players but what we need in the second year of this project is to ﬁnd a great level of consistency. There is a process of getting into the top four and becoming champions and that is consistency. “I’ve loved every minute of being here and the small steps of where we want to go. But now I want to make bigger steps.”

WEST Ham’s plan to move into the Olympic Stadium has the backing of 85 per cent of the club’s supporters, according to a comprehensive poll conducted by SMG YouGov. The survey showed that 51 per cent of those questioned believed the move would provide West Ham with the resources to improve the squad and build the club. The other reasons given for supporting the move included growing the club’s supporter base and the belief the Olympic Stadium would provide an improved fan experience. Only 5 per cent of the 11,858 supporters questioned were against West Ham leaving Upton Park under any circumstances while 10 per cent said they would consider backing the move but they required more information. Those supporters have been offered the chance to take part in on-going consultation sessions throughout this summer. West Ham plan to move into the Olympic Stadium, with a post-conversion capacity of 54,000, for the start of the 2016/17 season. The club’s vice-chairman Karren Brady said: “I am delighted that the SMG YouGov independent poll shows that such an overwhelming majority of our fans are in favour of our plans to move to the Olympic Stadium. “I would like to thank each and every supporter that took the time to have their say on what is an historic and monumental decision for the club. “We must now engage further with the fans who’ve requested more information but it is fantastic to know that the consensus among our supporters is that they are behind the move.”

Loss likely despite Chelsea’s Europa run CHELSEA’S income from their Europa League run will barely make a dent in their expected losses for the season, despite making the final. The Stamford Bridge club made a profit last season for the first time in the Roman Abramovich era, helped by their Champions League triumph, but that is not likely to be the case for the current year even if they beat Benfica in Amsterdam tonight. Income from the Europa League is small compared to the riches that are handed over to Champions League-winning clubs and Chelsea also splashed out heavily on transfers last summer. Instead, what is likely to reduce the level of Chelsea’s losses are the new sponsorship deals signed last year, including one with Russian energy giant Gazprom worth a reported £18 million a season. Last season, Chelsea received £51.7m from their Champions League exploits but income from UEFA for their European campaigns this term is expected to be around £36m, a drop of £16m. The exit from the Champions League before the knockout phase was costly - income from the group was £29.5m - with only around £6m to come from the Europa League. The prize for winning the Europa League is 5million euros (£4.25m) while half that amount goes to the runner-up, plus some bonuses and TV marketshare money from the earlier knock-out rounds. In their annual figures for 2011/12, Chelsea recorded a £1.8m profit, but that was helped both by the Champions League final income and a £28.8m profit on transfers. Last summer Chelsea spent £32m on Eden Hazard and £25m on Oscar, both of which fees will be taken in to account for the current financial year, plus the drop in income from European football. It means that Abramovich’s club are looking at significant losses again, though perhaps not on the scale of the £67.7m and £70.9m they reported in 2011 and 2010 respectively.

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Sport Eriksson argues Benfica are more gifted than Chelsea BENFICA are more technically gifted than Chelsea but will still go into today’s Europa League final in Amsterdam as the underdogs, according to former England coach Sven-Goran Eriksson. The Swede knows a great deal about Benfica having twice been in charge of the double European champions during his globetrotting career. “Sure, Chelsea are the favourites with a very balanced squad and with very expensive players, but in my opinion the technique of Benfica’s players is a tad better,” Eriksson told the A Bola daily newspaper. The 1961 and 1962 European champions lean heavily on skilful midfielders Eduardo Salvio, Nicolas Gaitan, Pablo Aimar, Ola John and Nemanja Matic to provide the ammunition for Paraguayan sharpshooter Oscar Cardozo and attacking partners Lima and Rodrigo. Cardozo, Lima and Rodrigo have bagged 71 of the club’s 118 goals this season. Eriksson, who was at the helm when the Portuguese team lost 1-0 to AC Milan in the 1990 European Cup final in Vienna, believes Benfica will quickly forget about their agonising 2-1 defeat by archrivals Porto on Saturday. Both sides went into the game undefeated and Porto’s victory put them in pole position to win the domestic championship. “A European final is unique,” said Eriksson. “As soon as they start preparing for the final, the Porto match will vanish from their minds.” Eriksson came close to landing a treble for Benfica in 1983 when they won the domestic league and cup double but lost 2-1 on aggregate to Anderlecht in the twolegged final of the UEFA Cup, the forerunner to the Europa League. The Swede won the Portuguese league three times in all in his two spells at the club. In what has become an iconic image in Portugal, coach Jorge Jesus sank to his knees in dispair when Porto scored

their stoppage-time winner. “This was a very painful loss in the very last move of the match,” said Jesus. “We feel deep sorrow but no one can take away the work we’ve done, nor our quality.” Benfica have good memories of Amsterdam where they won the last of their European Cups against Real Madrid in 1962. Beating all-conquering Real, who had won the trophy five years in a row from 1956-60, was probably the greatest moment in the club’s proud history. Jesus, who was in charge when Benfica were beaten by domestic rivals Braga in the 2011 Europa League semifinals, is looking forward to taking on last year’s Champions League winners Chelsea. “There won’t be many finals like this either in my career or the career of my players,” he said. “Motivation won’t be a problem and winning the Europa League would bring us international recognition.” Chelsea can turn to their own ranks for tips on the opposition because Brazilian internationals David Luiz and Ramires were both signed from the Portuguese side. “I am happy to meet them in the final because they are top players,” said Benfica captain Luisao. “David is having a brilliant career and I am a fan of Ramires on and off the pitch. He is a great guy.” Ramires has been a mainstay of Chelsea’s midfield this season, while the versatile Luiz can play alongside his compatriot or in the centre of the defence. Meanwhile, Chelsea captain John Terry, forward Eden Hazard and midfielder John Obi Mikel yesterday travelled to Amsterdam despite doubts over their fitness. The trio were part of Chelsea’s 25-man playing party which travelled to Holland for today’s clash at the Amsterdam Arena, the Blues confirmed on their website. Terry (ankle) and Hazard (hamstring) suffered injuries in Saturday’s Barclays Premier League win at Aston Villa.

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Uncompromising style: sacked Manchester City manager Roberto Mancini is now likely to head to French club Monaco

City face anxious wait for new boss By Ian Herbert

anchester City face an anxious wait as they attempt to make Manuel Pellegrini their next manager, with a deal not yet signed and the club’s Abu Dhabi owners aware Barcelona could potentially frustrate their plans. City have spent weeks attempting to convince the 59year-old of the merits of the Etihad, ahead of the dismissal of manager Roberto Mancini, which was announced Monday night — 24 hours after chairman Khaldoon alMubarak broke the news to the Italian. But though contracts have been exchanged with Pellegrini and a verbal agreement reached, City are aware the Chilean, who is in line to become the Premier League’s second oldest manager after 63-year-old Arsene Wenger, is talking to other clubs. They will harbour concerns that Barcelona — who are worried about Tito Vilanova’s ability to continue as manager because of his health problems — have been asked

to be kept informed of Pellegrini’s intentions for next season. Pellegrini’s appointment as City manager, which requires the payment of a £3.3 million break-clause in his Malaga contract, may not be conﬁrmed until next week and possibly even later. As a continental-style ‘head coach’ at City, he would exert far less control than that invested in Mancini in 2009. City found themselves the subject of ridicule yesterday over their announcement that he had been sacked because of the club’s desire for a more “holistic” managerial approach. But Pellegrini was the man who introduced an overarching technical football philosophy across all teams at Villarreal; a club who believe that they have accomplished just as much as Barcelona but not been recognised for it because they are less wealthy. These are the qualities that City chief executive Ferran Soriano and sporting director Txiki Begiristain have sold to the Abu Dhabi owners, in persuading them to sack Mancini. City said Mancini had been

axed because he hit only one of the club’s targets for the season — qualifying for the Champions League. But his uncompromising style made him difﬁcult to work with and his frequent public criticisms of staff were considered by Soriano to be an embarrassment. Mancini is now likely to head to French club Monaco, with whom he signed a precontract agreement after talks about taking over for the 2012-13 season, last year. The club will be seeking a top manager to match their ambitions after promotion to Ligue 1, having already closed in on signing Colombian Radamel Falcao from Atletico Madrid. Brian Kidd will take City’s side for their meaningless Premier League match at Reading tonight and on the post-season trip to New York and St Louis, where they will play Chelsea twice, next week. The future of David Platt, the assistant Mancini hired, and members of his Italian backroom team, will be decided in the coming days. Mancini’s dismissal came a year to the day since Sergio Aguero’s goal against Queens

Park Rangers clinched the title, City’s ﬁrst in 44 years. Kevin Parker, general secretary of the Manchester City Supporters Club, said: “After the weekend I think we were all expecting it to happen but I think we are all a bit disappointed it happened yesterday of all days. May 13, 2012 is a special date for City fans and that’s been a little bit tarnished.” Former Manchester City kitman Stephen Aziz yesterday launched a stinging Twitter attack on axed manager Roberto Mancini. Aziz, now an assistant kitman at Sunderland, tweeted: “Arrogant, vain, self-centred, no manners, ignorant — just some of Mancini’s traits. “Most managers would have won trophies with this team. A lot of staff and players will be happy! “I just didn’t like the guy . . . generally not a nice person.”