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Girl power takes to the streets

Pets the way to do it!

MIJaS MIJ MIJa S COUNCIL has be begun to receive suggested female names following a school campaign to increase the number of streets in the town named after women p3

Police investigate animal poisonings

THE GUaRDIa CIVIL’S Nature Protection Service (Seprona) is investigating the appearance of pesticides disguised as dog treats around Torremolinos p7

Froome shows his tour de force p47

IT'S a journey they have made for many years - Mags Luffingham driving and Sue Fisher Jones wedged in the back seat with one or two panting dogs from PaD, because it's always hot in June and their destination always the same: Swan's school in Marbella.

This year, their travelling companion is bright eyed, tail thumping Maya, an abandoned sevenyear-old cross golden labrador, eager for a car journey and the excitement of the unknown.

Equally excited it seems, are the pupils of Swan's School on their arrival, always eager to see their ‘doggie’ companion(s) and so proud of what they have achieved in their 'annual Spelling Bee'.

The Spelling Bee was originally the concept of the President of PaD, Lisa Emeny, and has now become a yearly event. With pupils being sponsored to learn their spelling by family and friends, each form is keen to show their total, with the money being presented in ‘sweetie` bags by the pupil who has raised the highest amount.

Maya was particularly interested in the bags, [more tail thumping] and was slightly disappointed that they were not full of doggie treats, not realising that the money involved would buy sack loads of treats and so much more for herself and her friends.

The total raised this year was €3,457 but in the

last 12 years more than €75,000 has been raised by the pupils to help the animals in the PaD shelter. a fantastic partnership has been formed with groups of children regularly visiting the shelter to understand how their money is being spent, to pat, stroke, feed biscuits and play with the dogs in the garden. Puppies are always the main attraction!

On behalf of PaD, heartfelt thanks go to Swan's for their incredible concern and support, to the pupils for their excellent learning, to their sponsors for their continued generosity and to the staff for their wonderful organisation, in particular, Miss Janice, their liaison between shelter and school.

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Girl power takes to the streets

by Jemima Roberts MIJAS COUNCIL has begun to receive suggested female names following a school campaign to increase the number of streets in the town named after women.

Local women’s associations have been sending in proposals after the council decided to name all new roads after illustrious women following a project entitled Merezco una calle (I deserve a street), carried out by students at Mijas’ IES Cartima school, which found the number named after women is 42, compared to 178 named after men.

The students carried out research of 220 road names and found that of the few streets named after women, a remarkable 60% took the name of saints rather than famous female figures.

The town’s Councillor for Equality, Mari Carmen Carmona, met with Rosa Liarte, a teacher from IES Cartima, last month to discuss the campaign, commenting, “we found it very interesting because it shows it still takes so much for women to be noticed. The council want to prioritise equality which is why we wanted to get involved with the project Rosa has presented to us.”

The campaign began in an Equality and Social Change class when students were dealing with the issue of “backdoor sexism.” Through their research they found the number of streets named after men was almost four time the amount named after women. Ms Liarte explained “the children ques-

Mari Carmen Carmona and Ros Liarte pose in front of a road name

tioned whether sexism still existed so I set out to analyse the streets of Cartama to see how many of them had a man's name and how many women, and when they saw the results, the children could not believe it.”

Now both the students and their teacher are campaigning to the coun-

cil, and have caught their attention after carrying out an analysis of Mijas’ roads. The council has now committed to using women’s names for any new roads built in the extension of Las Lagunas and are taking suggestions on the names of important female figures from students.

Faster access to health tests

THE ANDALUCIAN HEALTH SERVICE (SAS) has passed a proposal to allow family doctors to refer their patients for complex health tests.

The move, which will come into place in midSeptember, aims to improve diagnostic speed and simplify the health care system. Previously only specialists were able to send patients for MRI and CT scans, as well as ultrasounds and other tests.

In addition, doctors will also be able to perform minor procedures and surgeries in new operating theatres.

The SAS now plans to work out how many patients each doctor is seeing to ensure there are enough physicians to carry out the work and further doctors and nurses will be hired if it is found there are not currently enough.

Patients suffering from chronic illnesses will also receive improved treatment after the SAS plans to put together coordinated teams comprising nurses, case managers, doctors and social workers to help those with long-term ailments.

According to a spokesperson from the SAS, “we are going to take advantage of the rest of the summer to finish the organisation work and implement out new measures from September 15.”

€40m tourist attraction mooted

A STUDY into the potential impact of a multi-million Euro “Malaga Eye” style ferris wheel in the city’s port, is due to be published in September.

The proposed attraction would see a permanent 100 metre wheel replace the current temporary 70-metre one, which has been in place since last year. The ride, which is designed by architect Jeronimo Junquera, would mean building a new plaza and access footbridge, which has raised doubts among the port authorities. The attraction’s proposers have commissioned a study by Malaga consultant, Afora Trafico y Transporte (Now Traffic and Transport), in the hope the results will assuage any doubts about the feasibility of the project, which already has the City Council’s approval.

A deadline for a decision over the attraction’s future has been set for November, at which point it will be decided whether the temporary wheel will be replaced or stay in position.

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World padel tour MIJAS’ MAyor, Juan Carlos Maldonado, has praised the Mijas Association of Unemployed (AdeMijas) for working with the council to help with parking at the recent world padel tour.

Juan Carlos Maldonado congratulates the association’s members

by Jemima Roberts Maldonado explained, "we want to thank the work of adeMijas and its partners within the council, who have helped to promote the municipality at the world padel tour, an international sporting event, which has been an important chance to showcase the town. it was essential to do things well because the influx of public has been massive and we had to keep day to day normality in the municipality. The project worked extraordinarily well." adeMijas’s main objective is ensuring the unemployed aged over 40 stay connected to the workplace. in their most recent initiative, members have been given public-private market experience through the parking scheme and have seen their work valued by the council. Mijas Council has said it will continue to work to eradicate unemployment in the municipality both through public schemes and with the collaboration of private initiatives.

A truth universally acknowledged ARRROYO DE LA MIEL’S public library has payed homage to Jane Austen in an event to commemorate the bicentennial of the author’s death.

The day, which celebrated the writer of novels including Pride and Prejudice, Emma and Sense and Sensibility, took place at the town’s Innova Centre from 10am and involved round table talks, screenings and a play about her work.

The free event also featured a lecture by University of Malaga professor, Juan Jesus Zaro, who gave a translation of her books. The vice president of the association, El Sitio de Jane, also spoke about the historical context of Jane Austen’s life. From 5pm a tour began, organised by the Arroyo de la Miel library, and at 6pm a play, Love and Friendship, was shown.

Self-cleaning toilets hit the beach FUENGIROLA’S COUNCIL has unveiled four new selfcleaning toilets on the beaches of Carvajal, Los Boliches, Fuengirola and Castillo, at a cost of €124,795.

The new additions join four others installed a year ago, which are now all open to the public for free. Jose Sanchez, Councillor for Beaches, said "we have seen the impact these toilets have had amongst users. For this reason, we decided to acquire four more, the same as the ones we bought last year, since they were in high demand.” The councillor went on to explain Fuengirola was the first municipality on the Costa del Sol to have offer the facilities.

Sanchez added the toilets came after requests from locals and visitors. Before now, only five public toilets were located along the coast, in addition to the 29 offered by chiringuitos, which are open to the public. As the councillor explained, “we thought it was a good idea to expand this number.”

The toilets, which can be used from 8am to midnight, are perfectly adapted for people with reduced mobility, and the entire toilet space, including the toilet and floor, is automatically cleaned for 30 seconds once they have been used, with a maximum visit time of 15 minutes per user. The automatic cleaning process ensures the facilities, which are very common across the rest of Europe, remain in perfect condition.

Sanchez added, "although these toilets have a selfcleaning system every time they are used, the Municipal Beach Service also carries out a daily review of them, to replenish toilet paper and perform a daily inspection of the equipment.”

Example of the self cleaning toilet systems

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Bank funds green project

by Jemima Roberts FUENGIROLA’S COUNCIL has teamed up with La Caixa bank’s social work team to put on an exhibition, entitled El Bosque (the woods), on the importance of conserving ecosystems.

The display, which runs until September 12 on the town’s promenade, includes examples of Spain’s main tree species, as well as their ecology and relationship with humans, in addition to presenting five of the most unique trees from the Iberian peninsula.

Ana Mata, vice president of the Provincial Council and deputy mayor of Fuengirola, teamed up with Rodrigo Romero, Councillor for Culture, to attend the launch of the educational exhibit, alongside Juan Carlos Martin, Area Director of CaixaBank, and Francisco Javier Gomez, curator of the display.

Ana Mata commented, "Fuengirola is a cultural hotspot in the summer season and this exhibit increases our offering, providing a new leisure activity which is aimed not only at children but also at adults.” She thanked the work of La Caixa, adding "Fuengirola has organised another summer activity which

will be useful for the municipality’s school children over the holidays, as well as locals and tourists.”

Juan Carlos Martin explained, "our foundation is committed to paying back what we get from society in the form of cultural and social contributions and that is what we are doing here today. This exhibition combines science, education and social work” Francisco Javier Gomez added "we have been told Fuengirola is a fashionable destination and we welcome this type of environmental initiative which will reach as many people as possible, so we can make them aware of the importance of conserving ecosystems.”

Spain has 14,732,247 hectares of wooded area out of a total area of 50,595,505 hectares of country, with forests representing 29% of Spain’s surface area. The forest is not a set of trees, but instead complex ecosystem, where the different elements that form it, including trees, shrubs, animals, fungi, and bacteria, play a fundamental role and are closely related to one another. As a component of the biosphere, woods fulfil a number of fundamental ecological functions.

Three arrested over burglary spree THE GUARDIA CIVIL have arrested two young people, aged 19, and another, aged under-18, for several thefts in Alora.

Police started investigations under Operation Dilamar after receiving complaints of burglaries from businesses in the area, including several banks, where the group attempted to force their way into ATM machines, although they only succeeded in damaging them.

Following their inquiries, officers located the three, arresting them for six aggravated burglaries, five of which were attempted robberies, as well as burglary from several businesses. Police also hold the group responsible for a car theft from a warehouse, and have managed to recover the vehicle.

Green people: part of La Caixa’s exhibition

Minimum pre-test driving lessons proposed ACCORDING tO Spain's General Directorate of traffic (DGt), a minimum number of driving lessons may be introduced as a legal requirement before candidates can take a test. this would include the theory test as well as the practical, meaning it would no longer be solely down to the student whether they felt they were adequately prepared to take the tests. the idea is to partly prevent a selection of inexperienced drivers who are supremely confident that they can have a good day and pass the tests, but in truth aren’t ready to face the realities of day-to-day driving. the exact minimum number of lessons which will apply has not yet been decided.

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Police investigate animal poisonings

by Jemima Roberts THE GUARDIA CIVIL’S Nature Protection Service (Seprona) is investigating the appearance of pesticides disguised as dog treats around Torremolinos.

The officers have warned the crime, which was reported by residents, carries a fine of up to €300,000 and up to two years in prison. Police have also warned dog and cat owners the poison, which has been strategically placed in areas frequented by animals, could be lethal and also poses a threat to children.

Two of the pesticides used, aldicarb and carbofuran, are banned by the European Union due to the danger they pose to public health, according to the Ministry for the Environment, while Torremolinos Council has warned the colourful chemical which comes in a powder form could look like candy to children.

Aldicarb, which has been banned since 2007, is described as a “deadly weapon” by animal activists as it stops the respiratory system, while carbofuran is one of the deadliest pesticides and can kill a bird with a single grain.

An animal charity, Animal Liberation, has said there is often a rise in poisonings in residential coastal areas during the summer months, with El Pinillo being one of the worst affected. They commented, “the pools open and some cats start to go near them. Dogs also come out more and people complaining.” The Guardia Civil have also criticised people for putting sulphur down on roads in an effort to keep animals away, saying it is illegal, as well as “useless, toxic, dangerous and polluting.”

The authorities recommend anyone finding a poisoned animal to not touch it and instead call the police or Seprona and ask for the area to be cleaned in case of further poison. The Ministry of the Environment has also collaborated with Seprona to launch the Andalucian Strategy Against Poison (EAV) to raise “social awareness and encourage the prevention of poison use as well as promoting police action.”

Cocaine delivery gang foiled THE NATIONAL POLICE have brought down a network of three people who were allegedly running a telephone-cocaine service in Fuengirola. The gang of two men, aged 57 and 61, and a woman, aged 58, has now been charged with drug trafficking and illegal weapon possession after police have seized 255 grams of cocaine, a pistol with 110 bullets, a rifle, four drugs scales, and €7,960, £325 and $100 in cash from their property. The trio were said to have been delivering cocaine to a group of regular customers from their cottage, under the business name tele-cola. Officers started investigating the gang in a crackdown on small and medium-sized drug rings after receiving information about a group in Fuengirola. Their inquiries led them to a house where they found drugs, firearms and cash.

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Motorway misery to continue THE TRAFFIC DIRECTORATE (DGT) has ruled out a series of measures to ease traffic congestion on Malaga’s roads this summer.

by Jemima Roberts Drivers complaineD after tailbacks reached 30 kilometres on the a-7 last weekend, calling on the authorities to allow the hard shoulder to be used. However the DGT says it would not be safe do so and instead has suggested motorway-users stay off the roads in peak hours. it is anticipated use of the province’s roads will increase by 5 per cent by the end of the summer, leaving drivers stuck in heavy traffic. The DGT has now recommended avoiding main roads between 8pm and 10pm, while traffic is at its heaviest, and making use of toll roads, which it claims save money on fuel consumption.

The association of Drivers has demanded the body lowers the cost of toll roads, however, to compensate for the extra traffic, while, mario arnaldo, president of european automobile association (aea), has suggested the DGT improve its communication programme to allow drivers to be aware of possible traffic jams.

He said, “the road capacity cannot be increased but information could be improved so drivers can plan their trips bet-

ter.” He added multiple car collisions also fuelled the problem, saying, “motorists must maintain safety distances. The motorway’s capacity is 4,000 vehicles per lane per hour but this decreases in the case of an accident.”

arnaldo also recommended the DGT find ways to reduce toll costs, claiming, “malaga could become the victim of its own success. Tourist companies must find ways to reduce the cost of toll roads for their customers.”

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Open Letter to UK Citizens Living in Spain, from Her Majesty’s Ambassador Simon Manley Given the success of the Spanish State visit to the UK the week before last, which, among other things, highlighted the importance of people to people links between our two countries, i thought it timely to return to the subject of citizens’ rights in the negotiations on our departure from and future partnership with the eU. in the year since the eU referendum, i’ve had the pleasure of meeting many of you across the country, from the Balearics to the Canaries, along the Costas and in Madrid, and our consular teams have met many more. i know from those conversations that there has been uncertainty for many of you. My teams and i have listened to your concerns about the future, including about your residency status in Spain, the level of your UK pensions, and your access to Spanish health and other social services, and have noted the questions you have about tax, inheritance, right to work and the implications of applying for Spanish nationality.

At our meetings, on our social media and in interviews, i have also pledged to keep you up to date as negotiations on our exit from the european Union continue. So, let me update you on where matters stand now, in light of the latest negotiation round in Brussels last week. the UK Government has been clear that citizens are our top priority in the exit negotiations. We want an agreement that provides citizens with greater certainty about their future.

Last week, we held constructive and substantive discussions with the european Commission on the bulk of the issues underpinning our respective positions on citizens’ rights. together we have taken a big step forward. there is a much clearer understanding on the detail of the positions on both sides and significant convergence on the key issues that really matter to citizens. it is clear both sides want to move towards an agreement.

As you know, on 26 June, the Prime Minister outlined to Parliament an offer to protect the rights of eU citizens in the UK. We are entering the negotiations with the european Commission and the other 27 eU Member States constructively and we therefore hope that the eU27 will offer reciprocal treatment for British nationals resident in the other Member States.

Many of you will have seen press reports of our 26 June offer, whether in the UK or Spanish media. i hope you will also have read the detailed proposals which are set out in “Safeguarding the position of eU citizens in the UK and UK nationals in the eU” and i would encourage you to sign-up for email alerts (you can do so on the home Office gov. uk page) to receive updates, to ensure that you are receiving information and guidance from official sources. the first key element of the new proposal is residence status and working rights. Until the UK’s exit, eU citizens in the UK will continue to enjoy all the rights they currently have under eU law; they can continue to live and work in the UK just as they do now. the same rights also apply to you, British residents in Spain. You can continue to live and work here in Spain as you always have done. After the UK’s exit from the eU, we are proposing a recipro-

cal deal that would protect the right of UK nationals already in the eU to continue to live and work in the eU. We hope that the european Commission and the 27 other Member States will agree to this. the second key element is healthcare, pensions, education and access to benefits. it is our intention to treat eU citizens with settled status in the UK in the same way as if they were UK citizens for the purposes of access to education, benefits and pensions.

For you, the Government has announced that the UK will continue to export and uprate the UK State Pension and provide associated healthcare cover within the eU, issues which i know from my conversations over the last year were important to many of you.

At the moment, those of you who are UK pensioners and resident in Spain access healthcare through the S1 form. this means the UK reimburses Spain the cost of providing medical treatment. After the UK leaves the eU, we want to continue your healthcare entitlements on the same basis. healthcare in Spain was indeed one of the case studies cited in the detailed proposals made by the British Government on 26 June.

Subject to negotiations, we want to continue participating in the european health insurance Card scheme meaning ehiC holders continue to benefit from free, or reduced-cost, needs-arising healthcare while on a temporary stay in the eU — and vice versa for eU ehiC holders visiting the UK. We hope the european Commission will agree to this. the British Government has repeatedly said that, until exit negotiations are concluded, the UK remains a full member of the european Union and all the rights and obligations of eU membership remain in force. You can continue travelling throughout the eU on your UK passport, without any visa requirements. You can continue to access Spanish healthcare and draw your UK pension. if you have any difficulties accessing those rights, do please let our Consulates know. i will continue to engage with you and listen to you, as will my consular teams across Spain. in the meantime, please follow me on twitter (@SimonManleyFCO) and access the embassy’s social media (@ UKinSpain on twitter; British embassy Madrid and Brits in Spain on Facebook) to keep up to date with developments.

Princess Diana’s music collection among items to go on display at palace this summer RaRely-seen possessions belonging to Britain's late Princess Diana including her music collection and ballet shoes are to go on display this summer at london's Buckingham Palace to mark the 20th anniversary of her death.

Many of the objects selected to feature in the display were chosen by Diana's sons Princes William and Harry ‘to reflect their mother's commitment to duty and their personal memories of her’, the Royal Col-

lection Trust said last Friday.

Diana, the first wife of heir-to-the-throne Prince Charles, was killed in a car crash in Paris in august 1997 and a number of commemorative events have been planned to mark her death.

William and Harry attended a private service earlier this month to re-dedicate her grave on what would have been her 56th birthday.

The brothers have also commissioned a

statue to be erected in her honour outside their official London home. among the possessions to be featured in the display are a leather photo frame with pictures of family and friends, a burgundy leather briefcase, and her school ‘tuck box’, which she used to keep sweets and other treats in while she was away at boarding school, which has the name ‘D spencer’ written on it.

The tribute also includes a case of cas-

sette tapes, featuring albums by artists such as George Michael, Diana Ross and elton John, who famously sang at her funeral.

The exhibition opened last saturday and visitors to the palace will also be able to see a collection of more than 200 gifts made to Queen elizabeth during her 65year reign including a paperweight made from a dinosaur bone and a Union Flag badge worn in space by British astronaut Major Tim Peake.

Councillor slams sexist insults

by Jemima Roberts ENCARNACION CORTES, Benalmadena’s Councillor for Tourism and Beaches, has publicly condemned a series of degrading and personal comments left on her Facebook page.

The pregnant politician has been joined by several feminist groups in expressing her disgust at the criticism she has received, which has included comments about her body shape.

Councillor Cortes said she has been called a “bonbon”, an “almond shaped woman,” and “big and fat.” More worryingly, she added another social media user had said “the pregnancy and the heat should shut her up,” while someone else appeared to attack her for having morning sickness, saying he had been a father “three time and I have never had vomiting or cravings.”

The politician, who is also responsible for Benalmadena’s Port, has said the comments are purely personal and “use distressing and sexist language to talk about me as a woman, using old-fashioned and bigoted language which degrades me as a woman as enforces sexist stereotypes.”

She added, “these comments assault my

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Pensioner seriously injured in house fire

A WOMAN, aged 84, has been taken to hospital after receiving burns to 50 per cent of her body in a fire at a house in Malaga. The victim, who has not yet been named, remains in a “very serious” condition, suffering from burns and smoke inhalation at the Malaga Regional Hospital, following the blaze which took place on Calle Jonas, in the heart of the city. The woman was said to have been startled by the fire in the middle of the night after it broke out in her bathroom. As she tried to flee, her clothes caught light and she received second degree burns to the middle of her body. Firefighters from the Malaga fire department got to the woman at around 6am, giving her first aid before she was transferred to hospital. They continued to fight the blaze until 7.30am, when it was extinguished and the house was ventilated. Workers from the National Police and Public Health Emergency Enterprise also attended the scene.

Crash kills political activist Photo Credit Guia de Benalmadena

dignity and form part of a set of behaviours which undermine women.”

Benalmadena’s Mayor, Victor Navas, has joined hundreds of others in supporting Councillor Cortes, saying, “everything this country has fought for to achieve equality is ruined when people use personal insults as justification for the inability to maintain a serious and constructive political debate.”

In recent months, two other councillors on the Costa del Sol, Maribel Tocon, the first deputy mayor of Torremolinos, and Angeles Vergara, a spokeswoman for political party Cuidadanos, have also complained of receiving sexist comments on social media. They claimed users had criticised their personal appearance and relationships, leading Tocon to bring a case of hate crime to court.

JOSE ANTONIO VILLENA, a fifty-seven-year-old union representative for a public cleaning company, has died in a motorcycle accident. The man, who was also a member of Spain Communist Party, was killed at around 3pm after apparently losing control of his bike and hitting the central reservation near the San Roque football grounds on the A-7207 road. The emergency services received a call alerting them to the incident, and immediately deployed an air ambulance to transfer Villena to hospital as quickly as possible but he died at the scene. The local man was said to be highly popular and very involved in social and political events in the area where he lived and worked.

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Screwdriver sex attacker Mugging ring brought to justice ‘had a girlfriend’ LOCAL POLICE in Torremolinos have arrested a group of five Spanish and Colombian thieves who had been targeting tourists. The alleged criminals were found with a bag containing several mobile phones and memory cards as well as a wallet.

The ring was brought down after police were approached by the owner of a tobacconist on the El Bajondillo promenade who said his shop’s CCTV cameras had caught the five mugging an individual for their mobile.

According to media reports, the images showed alleged thieves “keeping watch and monitoring all customers, turning their heads on several occasions to stop people coming and going to the shop.”

Four officers looked at the tape and located the victim, a young Austrian tourist, who was staying with family at the Hotel Sol Principe. Police quickly distributed descriptions of the accused to other units and told them where they had been operating. Officers eventually found four of those shown on the tape, along with another person, 300 metres from the tobacconist, near the Los Corales beach. According to police they were “moving hastily” when officers approached them and seized mobile phones they were carrying.

After checking the identification codes of the telephones against a database they were sure they had found the ring.

Four of the ring were arrested while one, who was heavily pregnant, remained in a health centre.

Vehicle caught on CCTV cameras

by Jemima Roberts MALAGA POLICE have reported the thirty-one-year-old sex attacker behind four assaults in Fuengirola between May and July had a girlfriend.

The police also revealed the man probably committed the attacks after coming from his partner’s home, as well as announcing they caught him after working with the Family and Women’s Unit (UFAM) and Specialised and Violent Crime team (UDEV) to build up a profile of the man.

According to police, investigators considered the attacker, who used a screwdriver to threaten his victims before sexually assaulting them, be a “sexual predator,” who was likely to escalate his violence after allegedly trying to force one of the girls into his van.

Following detailed physical descriptions from the victims, police have revealed they looked at hundreds of CCTV images from the areas of each of the attacks, eventually finding a van registration number and locating the man. Officers then showed a photograph of the suspect to his four victims, who all positively identified him.

The man, whose name has not been released by the police, has since been jailed without bail and will now stay in prison until his trial. Police have revealed he is an electrician and body-builder from a well-known local family, and was previ-

ously denounced in 2009 for allegedly assaulting a disabled woman.

The alleged attacker, who is described as having short, dark hair, an athletic build, a tattoo on his arm, and as being between five foot five and five foot seven, assaulted his first victim on May 31 when he is said to have approached a young Spanish girl, following her through the door to a building and then into its lift with her. Once inside he allegedly threatened to kill her before forcing her to take down his trousers. The man fled before carrying out his attack however, after being disturbed by a noise.

Another Spanish victim was assaulted as she walked home along a street

after a night out with friends. The man tried to make the girl touch him before one of her friends caught her up and started screaming. Reportedly the man did not flee but simply walked casually back to his parked white van.

In his final attack, the alleged perpetrator targeted a British girl in her twenties at around dawn as she was leaving work. The man is said to have jumped into the back of the girl’s car as she sat in the driver’s seat, and threatened to kill her with a screwdriver, saying it was not the first time he had murdered someone. The man allegedly forced the British girl to perform several sex acts before leaving in a white van.

Cocaine delivery gang foiled THE NATIONAL POLICE have brought down a network of three people who were allegedly running a telephone-cocaine service in Fuengirola.

The gang of two men, aged 57 and 61, and a woman, aged 58, has now been charged with drug trafficking and illegal weapon possession after police have seized 255 grams of cocaine, a pistol with 110 bullets, a rifle, four drugs scales, and €7,960, £325 and $100 in cash from their property. The trio were said to have been delivering cocaine to a group of regular customers from their cottage, under the business name tele-cola. Officers started investigating the gang in a crackdown on small and medium-sized drug rings after receiving information about a group in Fuengirola. Their inquiries led them to a house where they found drugs, firearms and cash.

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Man jailed over hospital assault

by Jemima Roberts A YOUNG man, who has not yet been named by police, has been sentenced to nine months in prison for spraying a doctor and his patient in the face with a fire extinguisher in Benalmadena.

The Malaga Medical Union (SMM) has praised the speed with which the attacker was brought to justice and is now demanding the area’s health centres be fitted with CCTV and panic buttons and given security guards.

The man, who has also been given a €300 fine and order to pay €250 in compensation, committed the offence in the early hours of Sunday, and was swiftly convicted under Spain’s speedy trial process.

The perpetrator is said to have be-

come angry after calling Benalmadena’s home health service complaining he had ingested several litres of beer and other alcohol and was told his case would not be given priority as it was not disease-related.

He later turned up at the health centre’s emergency department in person where he was evaluated in triage and told to remain in the waiting room for a doctor. The man then picked up a fire extinguisher and burst into a doctor’s office, spraying both the medical professional and their patient, who was being examined following chest and back pain. The attacker then pressed an alarm button and fled the office in the ensuing confusion.

Making his way back into the waiting room, the man also sprayed those

Morning snackers detained A GROUP of four Spanish tourists could be facing a jail term after breaking into a cafe in Thailand. They were charged with stealing bread and Coca-Cola from the unit in Chiang Mai in the early hours of the morning around 4.00am. The group, all in their early 20s, were arrested at their hostel hours later and said to be ‘quite drunk’ at the time.

Population on the rise again ACCORDING TO the latest set of data released by the National Statistics Institute (INE), the population of Spain has increased for the first time in six years. As at January 1 2017, the total number on the national census came to exactly 46,528,966 – a rise of 88,867 since January 1 2016 and the first increase since the beginning of 2011.

Spanish nationals rose in number by 81,975 between the start and end of 2016, through a combination of returning expats and newborn babies, whilst the foreigner headcount went up by 6,892. As at the start of 2017, a total of 42.1 million residents in Spain were Spanish nationals and 4.4 million were immigrants.

there while shouting he had a right to medical attention. The centre’s security guards managed to stop him and detained him until police arrived. Both the doctor and his patient complained of itchy skin and eyes after exposure to the extinguisher’s toxic foam.

The SMM has condemned the attack, stating any abuse, either physical or verbal, against medical professionals will not be tolerated, while reminding members the union provides legal assistance if necessary.

A spokesperson for the SMM said, "these cases must be reported. There are more and more cases of patients visiting health centres and hospitals who are aware of their rights but not of their duties and one of the main ones is to respect the work doctors to.”

Illegal landfill blights tourist spot POLITICIANS hAve complained a rubbish collection point next to Torremolinos’ bullring has been turned into an uncontrolled landfill after bins have been allowed to overflow every day.

Following an accumulation of waste after the town’s recent children’s festival, the council’s opposition party, Partido Popular (PP), are leaning on the governing PSOE party to clean up the site, which has seen several altercations take place over claiming scrap products, preventing the “appalling image” it gives.

Maria Jose Jimenez, a spokesperson for the PP has now presented a motion to create a regulation over the area, which was meant to be a temporary solution but has been in place for two years, a move which has been supported by all other parties. The PP are seeking a permanent collection point which can be better controlled and prevent illegal fly tipping.

The dumping ground, which has been in operation since August 2015 and is only meant to operate from 2pm on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, is located in Torremolinos’ fairground, and receives garden waste, furniture, electrical appliances, and other waste, throughout the week.

The council claims, however, the bins are emptied each day and point out two recycling vehicles have been in place since May, collecting paints and solvents, as well as batteries, oils, electrical equipment and ink cartridges.

Online sex predator arrested A 48-YEAR-OLD man has been arrested by Malaga Police for allegedly offering girls €30 for cybersex through Facebook. The man, whose bedroom is said to have been full of toys, remains in custody after allegedly trying to groom a 15-year-old Malaga girl. Police also seized a mobile phone, two memory cards, three hard drives and a tablet from his home, which they are now analysing.

National Police officers began their investigation in June after learning the man had tried to contact several underage girls asking them to strip on camera in exchange for mobile phone credit.

It is understood the man tried to convince them by claiming some children were earning up to €60 in this way. Allegedly the man tried to obtain the girl’s phone number to start a video call, although she refused. He is then said to have sent her pornography in an attempt to sway her.

Officers then traced the alleged perpetrator’s account, tracking him down to La Linea de la Concepcion in Cadiz, where they arrested him. The General Directorate of Police has now reminded parents of the importance of using measures to protect their children from online grooming by using parental controls and teaching children about using the internet responsibly.

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Father and son A 19-YEAR-OLD has been arrested after physically assaulting his father outside the provincial police station, Malaga.

by Liam Griffin According to investigators, the victim had gone to the station to report that his son was mentally ill, and had abused him several times. Plainclothes policemen witnessed the event as they left the premises.

Witnesses state that the accused had thrown a suitcase with “considerable force,” which narrowly missed his father and impacted with a nearby car. When officers intervened, the accused reportedly became increasingly violent and attempted to punch them. the assailant was arrested for harming an officer and resisting arrest. the victim had initially gone to the station to report the accused, but explained that he was unable to do so to his own family. After a change of heart, his son attacked him.

Operational success

One of the marijuana grows in Galicia Photo Credit: National Police

THE NATIONAL POLICE have arrested a Cuban man in Marbella as part of the “Operation Desire” drug trafficking crackdown. The operation has been running since 2014 and has seen the arrest of over one hundred people in connection to drug trafficking in the region. Over the course of the last three years, investigators have seized 100 kilos of marijuana, 350 doses of heroine, 1.5 kilos of cocaine and €250,000 in cash. Following previous arrests, police were able to ascertain the identity of the Cuban citizen, who distributed drugs throughout Marbella and Galicia. The operation has now come to a close as National Police and Guardia Civil investigators have dismantled the three marijuana plantations in Pontevedra, Galicia.

Air Ambulance trapped in football stadium

WHEN a young woman in Cañete la Real suffered a number of epileptic fits, an air ambulance was called.

The reason for this was that the girl had to be taken to hospital in Malaga – at least one hour’s drive away for treatment but when the helicopter arrived and landed at the local football club, the gates to the pitch were locked.

More than 45 minutes were wasted as the authorities tried to find someone with a key to the stadium and in the end, emergency services had to break the lock in order to allow access for the ambulance carrying the girl who had suffered two further fits. The local council will be reviewing the situation of access to the pitch for the future.

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Flying the nest ONLY 15 per cent of the youth in Malaga province are able to emancipate themselves by the age of 30, according to The Andalucian Emancipation Observatory.

by Liam Griffin Due to high unemployment levels (43 per cent) and the lowest average youth salary (€781) in Andalucia, Malaga has been named as the most problematic province for young people.

According to Rocio Vazquez, a member of the Andalucian Youth Council, young women are at a bigger disadvantage than their male counterparts due to the gender pay gap.

She explained “the salary gap has increased in Andalucia, while nationwide figures indicate that although national young male workers earn approximately €100 more than women, in Andalucia the gap has wid-

ened to an average of €130.”

Vazquez criticised rising prices within the housing market for contributing to the problem, as some properties within the province take up to 80 per cent of young workers salaries, 20 per cent above the Andalucian average.

Vice-president of the association, Victor Reloba, warned that the youth aren’t the only group at risk.

“It is a mistake to think that the youth are the only group in danger, with salaries of €800, when €1,400 pensions cannot be paid,” he explained.

“If we don’t act now, we are heading to a collapse of the state welfare system,” he concluded.

Rental crackdown

Police catch heroin trafficker

THE NATIONAL POLICE have arrested a Dutch man, aged 34, in Benalmadena for trafficking large quantities of cocaine and heroin to Belgium.

The man, who is orginally from Roodendal in the Netherlands, was captured by Spanish police near his home on the Costa del Sol where he had been living on the run from the Belgian authorities. The accused is alleged to have been part of a criminal organisation importing drugs to a port in Antwerp in containers, according to police.

They added the gang had moved the drugs by hacking the computer systems of various tranposrt companies, allowing them to use their containers, and importing at least 2,200 kilograms of cocaine and 1,100 of heroin between November 1 2011 and July 1 2013.

Police had arrested several members of the gang in 2011 when they intercepted a container housing 176 kilomgrams of cocaine but until now the thirty-four-year-old had remained at large.

Are you feeling lucky?

CURRENT govERNmENT measures to prevent properties from being illegally rented have had no effect of the black rental market in malaga, according to a trade union spokesman.

During the summer season, many secondhomeowners and companies who own empty properties are renting without notifying authorities or abiding by legal guidelines. gonzalo Fuentes, representative for the CCoo trade union, announced that although legislation in 2016 saw an estimated 12,000 apartments registered in malaga, illegally rented apartments are still on the rise during the summer season.

“We must be aware that although we are in favour of regulating it, this type of underground illicit economy will not be removed,” lamented Fuentes.

Fuentes explained that in some cases landlords have illegally evicted their tenants in order to raise prices to extortionate levels during the tourism season.

THE JJoURNALIST Francisco Reyero has presented a lecture in Fuengirola’s House of Culture, entitled, Eastwood: my name defends me.

In his talk, the well-known journalist explored the American actor’s cinematic beginnings, touching on the work he shot in Spain.

Eastwood set out in 1964, an unknown actor from California, who accepted the proposal of Sergio Leone to shoot A Fistful of Dollars. At the close of the trilogy, his fate had changed. He explained, "after the westerns I made in Spain I suddenly became Clint Eastwood.”

Without a doubt, Clint Eastwood is one of the most famous directors and actors in the world. With a wide cinematographic reach, he has become a legendary actor. The thespian’s career and origins are closely linked to Spain, something that journalist Francisco Reyero reveals in his book Eastwood: my name defends me.

In addition to Reyero, who spoke about the actor’s work, as well as various anecdotes thus far unknown by the general public, the event was attended by the journalist onda Cero Jose Luis Salas.

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Knife-wielding man shouting ‘Allahu Akbar’ injures Boots Spanish police officer apologises for

morning-after pill campaign response

by Tahnee Wright A mAn was detained on Tuesday after attempting to cross the border between morocco and the Spanish enclave of melilla while threatening police with a knife.

The man, believed to be moroccan, approached the border at Beni Enzar at 7.35am and shouted ‘Allahu Akbar’ (God is Greatest) before he was brought down by police.

One police officer was cut on the

hand during the incident.

CCTV footage shows the man, dressed in a blue shirt and white shorts, walking across the border, waving the knife.

Spanish police keep their distance before one officer runs up behind him and knocks him to the ground by striking him on the head with a white traffic bollard.

Once felled, the man is tackled by several police and detained.

Interior minister Juan Ignacio Zoido said on Twitter: ‘The rapid, coordinated

and professional conduct of the police has avoided a serious incident in Beni Enzar. All my support to the hurt officer.’ melilla and its sister city Ceuta are two Spanish territories located on morocco's northern coast and as such represent the only two land borders between Africa and the European Union.

They have been hit by unrest before as migrants desperate to reach Europe regularly storm the border between both territories or try and smuggle themselves in, but this is the first attack of this type.

Spain has been spared the type of jihadist violence that has occurred in nearby Belgium, France and Germany.

But it was hit by what is still Europe's deadliest jihadist attack in march 2004, when bombs exploded on commuter trains in madrid, killing 191 people in an attack claimed by Al Qaeda-inspired militants.

British pharmacy chain Boots has apologised for its response to a campaign calling for it to cut the price of one of its morning-after pills and said it was looking for cheaper alternatives.

Boots was criticised by health campaigners and lawmakers after refusing to cut the cost of the emergency contraception pill, saying it could be accused of ‘incentivising inappropriate use’. the British pregnancy advisory service (Bpas) campaigned for Boots to cut the price of the Levonelle morning-after pill, saying it was more expensive in Britain than other parts of Europe.

Bpas’s campaign was backed by lawmakers from Britain's opposition Labour party.

Boots said pricing Ehc was determined by the cost of the medicine and the cost of pharmacy consultation.

‘We are committed to looking at the sourcing of less expensive Ehc medicines, for example generics, to enable us to continue to make a privately funded Ehc service even more accessible in the future,’ it said.

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Female bodyguards support Spanish victims of domestic abuse

by Tahnee Wright RepoRts of domestic abuse are rising in many countries - in the european Union, nearly 25 per cent of women say they’ve been physically abused by a partner.

A new organisation in spain is providing help to women in crisis. spain has a growing concern. Last year, there were more than 28,000 officially registered female victims of gender violence. A 2.4 per cent increase on the previous year, with many more cases going unreported.

‘Violence against women is the biggest problem in spain at this moment,’ Ana Maria perez

del Campo, president of the federation of separated and Divorced Women told CGtN. ‘there is a huge amount of regression in this country.

We’re going backwards.’ the increase in domestic abuse for the second year in a row is a real concern for spanish authorities, underlining the desperate situation many women find themselves in.

But there is one group who offers hope. eDeMM is an organization that offers 24-hour protection to vulnerable women free of charge. the project was set up by Carolina, a former police bodyguard, who prefers not to reveal her last name. the identities of its staff members are kept confidential. ‘We train bodyguards and

provide protection for women when they obtain court orders,’ Carolina told CGtN. ‘We fill in the gaps. We help to enforce restraining orders and provide assurance for women who are afraid to go outside.’

Carolina first set up the project in Bilbao and it now has operations across spain, although funding remains a problem.

‘We want this idea to go international,’ Carolina told CGtN. ‘that’s what we’re working towards, because there are victims all over the world.’ the project is not a solution to the issue of gender violence, but for many women in spain, it has been life changing.

Potential Catalan secession sparks fear amongst Spanish business leaders Almost three quarters of spanish business leaders fear Catalonia's plans for an independence referendum on october 1 could harm the country's economy, according to a study by Deloitte published in the spanish press. madrid has condemned as illegal plans by the northeast region's government to hold a referendum on seceding from spain and - if the yes vote wins - declare independence unilaterally within 48 hours. last week, the spanish government said Catalonia would lose access to some public funds if it used the money to prepare for the unsanctioned

referendum.

Nationwide, 74 per cent of 265 business leaders surveyed believe the Catalan independence movement threatens the spanish economy, while 43 per cent of those based in Catalonia itself agree, according to the Deloitte survey of Companies study commissioned for el Pais.

Despite concerns about the political predicament over Catalonia, confidence in Spain’s continued economic growth remains high, according to the poll. eight out of 10 directors polled said the economy had improved in

the first half of the year. Seven out of 10 expect to bill more in the second half of the year than in the first six months. spain has surpassed expectations for GDP growth this year. last week the International monetary Fund said it expected Spain’s economy to grow by around 2.5 per cent in 2018, up from its previous forecast of 2.1 per cent. opposition to seceding from spain rose slightly to 49.4 per cent in June, according to a poll by the regional government's Centre of opinion studies, from 48.5 per cent in march.

World’s oldest captive manatee dies in accident at Florida aquarium Snooty, the world’s oldest known manatee in captivity, has died in an accident at a Florida aquarium just days after his 69th birthday, officials said last Sunday. the giant marine mammal was found dead at Bradenton's South Florida Museum early on Sunday.

Initial signs were that Snooty swam into a normally closed underwater area housing plumbing for the manatee exhibit and was unable to get out, the museum said in a statement. ‘our initial investigation indicates that Snooty’s death was a heartbreaking accident and we’re all quite devastated about his passing,’ Brynne Anne Besio, the museum’s chief executive, said in a statement. three manatees in the exhibit who are being rehabilitated for a return to the wild were unharmed. the museum said it would carry out a full investigation and a necroscopy would be performed.

Snooty was born in a Miami aquarium on July 21, 1948, and moved to Bradenton, a tampa suburb, in 1949. he became the official mascot of Manatee County in 1979 and had more than a million visitors, the statement said.

About 5,000 people attended a birthday celebration for Snooty on Saturday, museum officials said.

West Indian manatees, also known as sea cows, were taken off U.S. Interior Department's list of endangered species in March. Manatees are native to the Florida coastline and their numbers have soared because of decades of conservation efforts.

Photo credit: Nuria Biosca Photo credit: Guinness World Records

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Swedish train will be named ‘Trainy McTrainface’

by Tahnee Wright A SwediSh rail operator has vowed to name one of its trains ‘Trainy McTrainface’ after a public vote, saying it would bring joy to people disappointed when Britain rejected the name Boaty McBoatface for a polar research ship following a similar poll.

Trainy McTrainface won 49 per cent of the votes in the naming competition, conducted online by train operator MTR express and Swedish newspaper Metro, beating choices such as hakan, Miriam and Poseidon. ‘(This is) news that will be received with joy by many, not just in Sweden,’ MTR wrote in a statement.

The train will run between the Swedish capital Stockholm and the country's second-biggest city Gothenburg.

Last year, the British government said a new £200 million (€223 million) polar research ship would be named after veteran BBC naturalist david Attenborough even though the name ‘Boaty McBoatface’ had topped an online poll.

The instigator of the Boaty name later apologised for his suggestion, which won more than 124,000 votes.

As a consolatory gesture, the research ship's remotely operated undersea vehicle, designed to collect samples from the deep waters of the Arctic and Antarctic, will be named Boaty McBoatface, the government said.

Balearic Islands vote for bloodless bullfights The Balearic islands voted on Monday to pass a law that forbids both the death of the bull or any bloodshed in bullfights. a traditional bullfight sees six bulls killed in a bullring by being stabbed by a matador's sword through the back, after the animals have previously been weakened in a ritual which sees them first stabbed in the shoulders by a picador's lance and then to have six short spears (‘bandelleras’) stuck into their back.

The new law forbids the bull's death in the bullring, as well as any physical or psychological damage, forbidding the use of ‘bandelleras, lances, knives or swords,’ while limiting the time a bull is in the ring to a maximum of ten minutes after which ‘it will be returned to the corral.’

Under the Balearics new law, the bull will be submitted for a medical check-up after the fight and then returned to the ranch from where it was raised.

The new law was passed with the approval of the Spanish Socialist Party (PSOE), left wing party Podemos and regional party Mes Mallorca, but was opposed by the right-wing People's Party and centre-right formation Ciudadanos.

The minimum age for attending a bullfight was also raised from 16 to 18 under the new law. Bullfighting has already been banned completely in the Catalan region in northeast Spain and in the Canary Islands and is generally seen as losing popularity among the younger generation of Spaniards.

Nevertheless, it is still the subject of bitter debate among those who view it as a Spanish cultural tradition and those who consider it a cruel aberration which has no place in a modern nation.

Ryanair in celebratory give-away POPULAR LOw-cOst airline Ryanair has celebrated its excellent first quarter sales figures with an offer of 500,000 highly reduced tickets. However, there was only a short window of opportunity to register interest which has now passed and also limited the period of travel to between september 2017 and January 2018. some of the flights on offer were from as little as €14.99 and unlike the fake promotion that allegedly celebrated their 35th anniversary last year, was completely genuine.

Dublin, Edinburgh and London are just a few European destinations where Ryanair flies to from spain and local airports san Javier and Alicante-Elche are among the busiest. the latter is home to one of the company’s bases. the give-away has been as a result of a net profit of €397m in the first financial quarter which ended on June 30. this is 55% more than the similar period in 2016 when it registered €256m. In the same three-month period from April to June, the Irish airline increased its overall revenue by 13% to €1.910bn compared to €1.687bn last year. chief Executive Officer of Ryanair, Michael O’Leary celebrated the increase in this quarter’s profit but warned that the figures had been distorted due to Easter coming earlier this year in March. He also noted that fares increased minimally by around 1% which offset the dropping value of the pound, declines in the amount of baggage being carried and the effect of recent bombing outrages in London and Manchester.

Passenger numbers are also up compared to the same three-month period in 2016 with 35 million travellers and increase of 12%.

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Hundreds of sheep killed in 650-foot plunge to death

by Staff Reporter A brown bear is believed to have chased more than 200 sheep off a cliff in the Pyrenees near the border between France and Spain.

209 sheep were found dead at the foot of the cliff near the Spanish village of Lladorre.

The sheep belonged to a farmer in Couflens, France.

The incident happened last weekend when the bear attacked one of the sheep, sending the entire flock into a panicked frenzy, plunging off the 650-foot (200 metre) cliff in an attempt to flee the predator.

Farmers have been incensed by the news, renewing the debate over the reintroduction of bears to the Pyrenees.

The French government said it’ll compensate the farmer, but the local branch of the French farmers’ federation, the Confederation Paysanne de l’Ariege, is thoroughly unimpressed. ‘Pastoralism - which protects biodiversity and keeps the mountains alive - is not compatible with the reintroduction of large predators,’ it said in a statement.

‘The state, which is responsible for the reintroduction of the bears, should remove the ones that are causing problems and should not reintroduce any more bears,’ it added. brown bears were all but wiped out by hunters in the Pyrenees in the 1990s and the French government has been trying to reintroduce the animals to the region since 1996-97 when two females and a male were brought from Slovenia.

There are now believed to be 35 brown bears calling this picturesque mountainous region their home.

Despite protective efforts, around 300 sheep are killed each year from bear attacks, according to France’s office of Hunting and wildlife.

For context, of the half a million-sheep living in the Pyrenees, about 15,000 die each year from natural causes such as disease, bad weather and falls. Sheep are also preyed upon by dogs, who may be responsible for many more sheep deaths than bears.

Last year, a similar incident occurred in the Pyrenees, resulting in the death of 130 sheep.

Renfe train strike

ANY plANs to travel by train today (Friday) using the services of RENFE will be best put on hold for another time.

The spanish train company has cancelled 274 services between midnight and 11.00pm due to the strike called by members of the OGT trade union.

However, there will be trains running on all routes but with severe disruptions and delays especially with the usual weekend getaways. It’s planned to have 77% of trains running on the AVE and other long distance routes accounting for 277 trains.

At a regional level, fewer trains – 365 or 65% of the usual total – will run. For the vital rush hour, 75% of local trains will operate with that figure dropping to around 50% during the rest of the day. Freight trains will be those most affected with only a 20% skeleton service running.

RENFE has already offered passengers affected by the strike and have previously reserved seats to book them, if possible, on the nearest service to the one booked. If they have made a decision not to travel at all today, then full refunds or the chance to change their time and date and travel can be made free of charge.

Hopes for HIV cure revived by South African child

A South AfricAn child born with hiV has surprised experts by appearing to be effectively cured of the AIDS virus after just a year of treatment followed by eight and a half years drug-free.

Patients with HIV would normally need to stay on antiretroviral (ART) drugs for the rest of their lives to keep AIDS at bay. But this child, still off treatment and now almost 10 years old, has no signs of the disease.

This and other recent, isolated cases of remission have given additional hope to the 37 million people worldwide infected with the virus that causes AIDS. Yet experts urged caution, saying the case is extremely rare and does not suggest a simple path to a cure.

‘It's a case that raises more questions than it necessarily answers,’ said Linda-Gail Bekker, president of the International AIDS Society (IAS).

The child was part of a clinical trial in which researchers were investigating the effect of treating HIV-positive babies in the first few weeks of life, and then stopping and starting the ART medicines whilst checking whether their HIV was being controlled.

The United Nations HIV/AIDS agency said last week that 19.5 million people - more than half of the 37 million patients with HIV - are now on treatment.

The baby contracted HIV from its mother. Treatment with ART started when it was almost nine weeks old but was interrupted at 40 weeks when the virus had been suppressed, and the child was monitored regularly for any signs of relapse.

‘At age 9.5 years, the child was clinically asymptomatic,’ the researchers said.

The HIV/AIDS pandemic has killed around 35 million people worldwide since it began in the 1980s.

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Europe at the crossroads UNDER THE baleful influence of Wall Street and Washington, Europe once again stands at the crossroads of history. A recurring theme, our small continent has faced an uncertain future several times during the last 100 years.

In 1917 an American-backed coup d’état delivered Imperial Russia to the West’s corporate and banking elites. Never mind what you are told; follow instead the trail of the Tsar’s disappearing gold and fate of 184 million Russians through the Wall Street financed Gulag Archipelago.

In 1918, the Great War, described by Field-Marshal Allenby as “a lengthy period of general insanity,” drew to a close. So did the lives and limbs of 41 million martyrs to political vanities.

The ‘Bore War’ of 1939 escalated into world war in June 1940 when Germany’s peace proposals were snubbed. This calamity resulted in the martyrdom of at least 50 million mostly European peoples.

Never mind what we are told by the victors; at Yalta in February 1945, the war to ‘defend our freedoms’ delivered 22 nations to Joe Stalin’s tyrannical USSR. These nations occupation was to drag on for a further 45 years. Ironically, one of these betrayed nations was Poland whose occupation started the war.

In 1949 the guilty parties suggested that we join hands under the protective umbrella of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO). Since then, an estimated 35 million people have been martyred to NATO ambitions.

The USSR, drooled over as allies, in 1955 formed their rival Warsaw Pact. Governed from Moscow both the Warsaw Pact and the Eastern Bloc collapsed in 1990.

Today, the European Union’s governing, banking, media, foreign policy and defence requirements are governed by Wall Street, Washington DC and the Pentagon’s talking heads.

In 2010 I predicted that the EU would follow the Soviet Bloc into the dustbin of history. My words are

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today echoed by many of the political elite. I was ridiculed for predicting the end of American omnipotence, but they’re not laughing now.

Perhaps on this occasion we Europeans can get it right. Might I suggest we follow pragmatic examples set by China, Belarus, India, Iran, Syria, and the pivoting Middle East? For safety in numbers we welcome realpolitik by becoming a peaceful trading partner rather than belligerent rivals to these other nations.

By a single revolution in thought we remove the

Hair today gone tomorrow WHEN I was a kid, I was blessed with a mop of almost white blond hair.

I say blessed, but as a young boy growing up in the 50’s, hair was not something you thought that much about, until the time came around when Mum sent me off to Fred Lester the local barber, for a harsh trim.

The attention from female neighbours was certainly not welcome when they would comment to my Mum on those white golden locks, and my cheeks would flush with embarrassment.

If it became just a little too long and a visit to the barber shop was overdue, the unfortunate effect was that it would start to curl making the situation worse and attracting comments likening me to the Hollywood child star, Shirley Temple. Luckily the order of the day was short back and sides.

Then the Swingin’ Sixties rolled around and long hair became fashionable. Problem for me was the curly question.

All the pop idols of the day from the Stones to the inappropriately named Pretty Things, sported outrageously long hair. Even the Beatles, whose hairstyles look fairly moderate today, had styles that were regarded as long by previous standards.

But the one thing they all had in common was straight hair, and I was constantly looking for ways to take the kinks out of my own unruly barnet.

I wanted to look like John Lennon or Keith Richards, not Louise XIV.

Then in the seventies I came into my own and for some reason curls were in and became part of the glam rock boom. Hey, if it was good enough for the likes of Marc Bolan and Robert Plant, then it was good enough for me.

Out of sight man. I was hip and I was cooool!

Today, even though my body takes five hour lunch breaks, and I cannot remember where I put my underpants (oh, I’ve got them on), I am pleased to report that my hair is intact, and the envy of my contemporaries.

Okay, there’s almost as much in my nostrils and ears these days, but you can’t have it all.

I recently located a follically impaired buddy from my 70’s days through the magic of Facebook, and he was delighted to have re-connected, even though in his words: ‘You spent the seventies looking like a yak’s backside’.

Envy. Such an unattractive trait in a person I always think.

shadow of war, divert arms and munitions expenditure to social needs, and look forward to a mutually beneficial trading partnership with a trading bloc that we cannot hope to rival anyway.

This is the one outcome that keeps Wall Street, Washington DC the Pentagon and U.S arms conglomerates sleepless nights. Such a bloc would put the final nail in the coffin of American dollar imperialism. You decide; do you want to be a living European or a dead American.

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The way I see it… by

Harvey Mann

I arrIved in Berlin in January 1960 at the height of winter, as a young journalist this was to be my home for the next couple of years.

The following day I was introduced to a man who was going to shape my life, his name was ernesto Krieg originally a son of a German diplomat who had retired from his post in Caracas, venezuela, and stayed on as a business representative for a German company, however he died in the late fifties, ernesto was born in 1925 and spent all his informative life in Caracas.

When we met on a bitterly cold day in Berlin, he shook my hand welcoming me in the typical German formal way by calling me Herr Mann, however he soon dropped the formality and we became good friends using first name’s.

It was a known fact that journalists are quite free to roam almost anywhere with the right type of credentials and a bit of nous, many had either been inducted by their countries so called secret Government organisations to spy or provide information, in several cases many journalists had even volunteered, the man that arranged my time in Berlin was a Major (I cannot use his name even though he is dead) son of a former Hungarian immigrant who managed a Press agency in London’s Fleet street in the 1950s the home of the British Newspapers and Press agencies.

Within a few days and several meetings with officers from the French, american and British representatives and putting me through certain instructions, and how I could use my excellent knowledge of cameras, one in particular that I had made was miniature camera that was hidden in a hollowed out book with a tiny hole for the lens, and also my knowledge of electrical technology, ernesto and myself started to go to work. ernesto hated his German ancestry, his great love was venezuela, its life style, its people, so probing the infrastructure in eastern Berlin and east Germany was like manner from heaven for him. Within days of my instructors putting me through rigorous training, we started to make daily journey’s through Check Point Charlie, our papers were checked by the american authority’s on the West side, the barrier was lifted and we negotiated our way through tank traps into no man’s land, we parked the car within the russian/east German sector and walked into the large hut, escorted by two volks Politzie or vo Po’s as they were called, showing our credentials and body searched, if we were lucky we could continue, however sometimes to make our crossing difficult we would be grilled and searched again and again.

Once you were free to go, we drove in a zig zag again through the russian tank traps, a barrier was finally lifted and we could eventually cross into east Berlin, with a sigh of relief. during our forays into east Berlin and east Germany sometimes as far as Leipzig, we could meet friends and contacts made by various methods, there was not any internet or mobile phones, the people we would see could be helpful to the West, we could also see at first hand the preparations for escape routes for people who had particularly good knowledge of russian armaments and rocket science. all this just two years before Nikita Khrushchev, launched his ships laden with missiles heading for

Cuba, causing the world to be within days of an all-out war between america and russia.

So that’s all I can say on the subject of the years ernesto and myself had spent delving and prying into what went on behind the barbed wire, until the wall was finally built by the east Germans to keep their people entombed, but it still allowed us to continue our visits through Check Point Charlie.

My great friend ernesto would be turning in his grave if he knew what was going on in his beloved venezuela, at this present time if ever a county had imploded into chaos murder and financial ruin venezuela has, particularly the capital. Caracas is now packed with tanks, armoured personal carriers, thousands of soldiers and police with guns roam the streets, the shop counters are empty, and the street are covered in blood.

When the late Hugo Chavez took power in 1999, the country was awash with oil when the charge was $100 dollars a barrel, with the largest proven oil reserves in the world, an investor’s dream, the country has some of the finest beaches and the wonderful snow-capped andes.

Hugo Chavez reign brought wealth to venezuela, more schools for children, greater access to drinking water and plenty of food in the shops, people said that the country was a paradise, a complete utopia, but his leftish politics became a major thorn in the side of america.

Now Nicholas Maduro the president of venezuela has driven venezuela in the opposite direction, with a huge shortage of food in the supermarkets, shortage of medicines, rolling blackouts, rising unemployment, increased violence in the streets, even malaria once almost eradicated is back.

The IMF says that venezuela has a negative growth of (-8%) and an inflation rate of (48%) unemployment is expected to climb

to (30%) all this has cast a shadow of desperation the spread of unrest and a surge in criminality. after months of rioting venezuela is heading to the brink, this has worried neighbouring countries, his once opposition Henrique Capriles has been banned from running for any political office for 15 years. The new opposition leader is Freddy Guevara who has called for further 24 hour strikes, while hundreds have been killed in the demonstration. anti-Government lawyers accuse Maduro of being responsible for drug running and emptying the government coffers, and stealing the gold reserves.

In 2011 venezuela had $30b reserves now they have less than $10b, and their imports are down 50%. The oil production has ceased to a trickle owing to strikes.

With rising prices, many people unable to eat and the millions that are demonstrating on the streets, the once great country of venezuela is a paradise lost?

Opposition leader Freddy Guevara

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7:00am Breakfast 10:15am Wild UK 11:00am Homes Under the Hammer 12:00pm Food: Truth or Scare 12:45pm Rip Off Britain 1:15pm Bargain Hunt 2:00pm BBC News 2:30pm BBC London News 2:45pm Red Rock 3:30pm Escape to the Country 4:30pm Money for Nothing 5:15pm Flog It! 6:15pm Pointless 7:00pm BBC News 7:30pm BBC London News 8:00pm The Farmers’ Country Showdown 8:30pm Thief Trackers 9:00pm EastEnders 9:30pm Still Open All Hours 10:00pm Peter Kay’s Comedy Shuffle 10:30pm Mrs. Brown’s Boys 11:00pm BBC News 11:25pm BBC London News 11:35pm Not Going Out 12:05am The Sentinel

7:00am The TV That Made Me 7:30am Wild UK 8:15am Bargain Hunt 9:00am Gardeners’ World 10:00am Victoria Derbyshire 12:00pm BBC Newsroom Live 2:00pm Countryfile 2:15pm Two Tribes 2:45pm A Taste of Britain 3:30pm The Best Dishes Ever 4:00pm This Wild Life 4:30pm Hive Alive 5:30pm Swimming 7:00pm Eggheads 7:30pm Letterbox 8:00pm Celebrity Antiques Road Trip 9:00pm Mastermind 9:30pm Only Connect 10:00pm Gardeners’ World 11:00pm QI 11:30pm Newsnight 12:05am Cleverman

7:00am Good Morning Britain 9:30am Lorraine 10:25am The Jeremy Kyle Show 11:30am This Morning 1:30pm Loose Women 2:30pm ITV Lunchtime News 2:55pm ITV News London 3:00pm Judge Rinder 4:00pm Tenable 5:00pm Tipping Point 6:00pm The Chase 7:00pm ITV News London 7:30pm ITV Evening News 8:00pm Emmerdale 8:30pm Coronation Street 9:00pm The Secret World of Posh Pets 9:30pm Coronation Street 10:00pm Benidorm 11:00pm ITV News and Weather 11:30pm ITV News London 11:40pm Inside London Fire Brigade 12:45am Tipping Point

7:00am Countdown 7:45am Will and Grace 8:10am Will and Grace 8:35am Everybody Loves Raymond 9:00am Everybody Loves Raymond 9:35am Frasier 10:05am Frasier 10:35am Frasier 11:05am Undercover Boss USA 12:00pm The Simpsons 12:30pm The Simpsons 1:00pm Channel 4 News 1:05pm Couples Come Dine with Me 2:05pm Posh Pawn 3:10pm Countdown 4:00pm The Question Jury 5:00pm A Place in the Sun 6:00pm Four in a Bed 6:30pm Come Dine with Me 7:00pm The Simpsons 7:30pm Hollyoaks 8:00pm Channel 4 News 9:00pm Gogglesprogs 10:00pm The Last Leg 11:00pm Naked Attraction 12:05am Rude Tube

7:00am Childrens TV

12:50am Lip Sync Battle

7:00am Hollyoaks 7:30am Coach Trip 8:00am Made in Chelsea 9:00am Melissa and Joey 10:00am Black-Ish 11:00am Baby Daddy 12:00pm How I Met Your Mother 1:00pm The Goldbergs 2:00pm The Big Bang Theory 3:00pm Melissa and Joey 4:00pm Baby Daddy 5:00pm Black-Ish 6:00pm The Goldbergs 6:30pm The Goldbergs 7:00pm The Big Bang Theory 7:30pm The Big Bang Theory 8:00pm Hollyoaks 8:30pm Coach Trip 9:00pm The Big Bang Theory 9:30pm The Big Bang Theory 10:00pm Sinister 12:10am The Big Bang Theory 12:40am The Big Bang Theory

7:00am The Flash 8:00am The Flash 9:00am NCIS: Los Angeles 10:00am NCIS: Los Angeles 11:00am Hawaii Five-0 12:00pm MacGyver 1:00pm NCIS: Los Angeles 2:00pm NCIS: Los Angeles 3:00pm Hawaii Five-0 4:00pm MacGyver 5:00pm The Flash 6:00pm The Flash 7:00pm Futurama 7:30pm The Simpsons 8:00pm The Simpsons 8:30pm The Simpsons 9:00pm Modern Family 9:30pm Modern Family 10:00pm Zoo 11:00pm The Force: North East 12:00am Modern Family 12:30am Modern Family

10:15am The Wright Stuff 12:15pm The Yorkshire Vet 1:10pm 5 News Lunchtime 1:15pm Big Brother 2:15pm Home and Away 2:45pm Neighbours 3:15pm NCIS: Murder in the Family 4:15pm A Father’s Secret 6:00pm 5 News 6:30pm Neighbours 7:00pm Home and Away 7:30pm 5 News Tonight 8:00pm Cricket on 5 9:00pm Draining the Bermuda Triangle 10:00pm Big Brother 11:45pm Big Brother’s Bit on the Side

SaTUrday 29th July BBC1

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7:00am Breakfast 11:00am Saturday Kitchen Live 12:30pm Nadiya’s British Food Adventure 1:00pm Bargain Hunt 2:00pm BBC News 2:15pm Brendan Foster: A Life in Athletics 3:00pm Rugby League Challenge Cup 5:30pm Flog It! 6:00pm Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit 7:45pm BBC News 7:55pm BBC London News 8:00pm Pointless 8:50pm Would I Lie to You? 9:20pm Who Dares Wins 10:05pm Casualty 11:00pm BBC News 11:20pm Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

7:10am The Deep 7:30am The Deep 7:55am Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo 9:35am Mars Needs Moms 11:00am Monty Halls’ Great Irish Escape 12:00pm Homes Under the Hammer 1:00pm Nigel and Adam’s Farm Kitchen 2:00pm Natural World 3:00pm Mastermind 3:30pm University Challenge 4:00pm Only Connect 4:30pm Gardeners’ World 5:30pm Jessica Ennis-Hill and the Next Generation 6:00pm Swimming 7:00pm Cycling 7:50pm Proms Extra 2017 8:30pm Grand Tours of Scotland 9:00pm Dad’s Army 9:30pm All Families Have Secrets Patrick Gale’s Art of Fiction 10:00pm Queer as Art 11:00pm QI XL 11:45pm Imagine...

ITV1 7:00am Grizzly Tales for Gruesome Kids 7:10am Grizzly Tales for Gruesome Kids 7:20am Sooty 7:30am Share a Story 7:35am Dino Dan: Trek’s Adventures 7:50am Dino Dan: Trek’s Adventures 8:00am Oddbods 8:05am The Oddbods Show 8:15am Super 4 8:30am Mr. Bean 8:45am Mr. Bean 9:00am Thunderbirds are Go 9:25am ITV News 9:30am Weekend 10:25am ITV Racing Live 11:20am Gok’s Lunchbox 12:15pm 1000 Heartbeats 1:15pm ITV News 1:25pm Tipping Point 2:30pm ITV Racing: Live From Ascot 5:00pm The Chase 6:00pm Little Big Shots USA 7:00pm ITV News London 7:05pm ITV News 7:15pm You’ve Been Framed!

8:15pm Catchphrase 9:00pm The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug 12:00am ITV News 12:25am The Chase

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7:10am Mobil 1 The Grid 7:40am Motorsport 8:05am Triathlon 9:05am Everybody Loves Raymond 9:30am Everybody Loves Raymond 10:00am Frasier 10:30am Frasier 11:00am The Big Bang Theory 11:30am The Big Bang Theory 11:55am The Big Bang Theory 12:25pm The Simpsons 12:55pm The Simpsons 1:25pm The Simpsons 1:55pm Four in a Bed 2:25pm Four in a Bed 2:55pm Four in a Bed 3:30pm Four in a Bed 4:00pm Four in a Bed 4:30pm A Place in the Sun: Winter Sun 5:30pm Big House, Little House 6:30pm Channel 4 News 7:00pm Formula 1 8:30pm UEFA Women’s Euro 2017 11:00pm 47 Ronin

CHANNEL 4

7:00am Childrens TV

7:00am Rude(Ish) Tube Shorts 7:10am The Goldbergs 7:35am The Goldbergs 8:00am Couples Come Dine with Me 9:00am Couples Come Dine with Me 10:00am Coach Trip 10:35am Coach Trip 11:05am Coach Trip 11:35am Coach Trip 12:05pm Coach Trip 12:40pm Astro Boy 2:30pm Toy Story of Terror 3:00pm The Goldbergs 3:30pm The Goldbergs 4:00pm The Goldbergs 4:30pm The Goldbergs 5:00pm The Goldbergs 5:30pm The Big Bang Theory 6:00pm The Big Bang Theory 6:30pm The Big Bang Theory 7:00pm The Big Bang Theory 7:30pm The Big Bang Theory 8:00pm The Big Bang Theory 8:30pm The Big Bang Theory 9:00pm The Big Bang Theory 9:30pm The Big Bang Theory 10:00pm This is 40 12:40am Gogglebox

7:00am Ashley Banjo’s Secret Street Crew 8:00am Futurama 8:30am F1 Show 9:00am NCIS: Los Angeles 10:00am NCIS: Los Angeles 11:00am NCIS: Los Angeles 12:00pm NCIS: Los Angeles 1:00pm NCIS: Los Angeles 2:00pm NCIS: Los Angeles 3:00pm Dogs: An Amazing Animal Family 4:00pm It’s Me or the Dog 4:30pm It’s Me or the Dog 5:00pm Modern Family 5:30pm Modern Family 6:00pm Modern Family 6:30pm Modern Family 7:00pm Modern Family 7:30pm The Simpsons 8:00pm The Simpsons 8:30pm The Simpsons 9:00pm Duck Quacks Don’t Echo 10:00pm Crocodile Dundee 12:00am The Simpsons 12:30am The Simpsons 1:00am A League of Their Own

CHANNEL 4

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7:20am Last Man Standing

7:00am Childrens TV

7:45am Last Man Standing

10:10am Fireman Sam:

7:00am Rude(Ish) Tube 7:30am Couples Come Dine with Me 8:25am Couples Come Dine with Me 9:30am Hollyoaks Omnibus 12:00pm Come Dine with Me 1:00pm Binky and Jp’s Baby: Born in Chelsea 2:00pm Kevin Can Wait 2:30pm New Girl 3:00pm New Girl 3:30pm The Big Bang Theory 4:00pm The Big Bang Theory 4:30pm The Big Bang Theory 5:00pm The Big Bang Theory 5:30pm The Big Bang Theory 6:00pm The Big Bang Theory 6:30pm The Day After Tomorrow 9:00pm Don’t Tell the Bride 10:00pm Binky and Jp’s Baby: Born in Chelsea 11:00pm The Change-Up 1:15am Tattoo Fixers on Holiday

7:00am The Hour of Power 8:00am Futurama 8:30am Futurama 9:00am Drone Racing 2017 10:00am Drone Racing 2017 11:00am WWE Raw 12:00pm MacGyver 1:00pm MacGyver 2:00pm MacGyver 3:00pm MacGyver 4:00pm MacGyver 5:00pm Modern Family 5:30pm Modern Family 6:00pm Modern Family 6:30pm Modern Family 7:00pm Modern Family 7:30pm The Simpsons 8:00pm The Simpsons 8:30pm The Simpsons 9:00pm Dogs: An Amazing Animal Family 10:00pm Ross Kemp: Extreme World 11:00pm The Force: North East 12:00am Zoo 1:00am A League of Their Own

11:30am Funniest Cutest Kittens Ever 12:30pm Police Interceptors 1:30pm Police Interceptors 2:25pm The Time Machine 4:10pm The Nightmare Neighbour Next Door 5:10pm The Nightmare Neighbour Next Door 6:05pm Can’t Pay? We’ll Take it Away!

7:00pm Can’t Pay? We’ll Take it Away!

8:00pm Cricket on 5 8:55pm 5 News 9:00pm Live Boxing: Carl Frampton v Andres Gutierrez 9:30pm FIA Formula e Live: Montreal 11:10pm Live Boxing: Carl Frampton v Andres Gutierrez

SUNday 30th July BBC1 7:00am Breakfast 11:00am Sunday Morning Live 12:00pm Cycling 1:00pm Bargain Hunt 2:00pm BBC News 2:15pm Homes Under the Hammer 3:00pm Escape to the Country 4:00pm Songs of Praise 4:35pm Cycling 7:35pm BBC News 7:50pm BBC London News 8:00pm Wild Alaska Live 9:00pm Countryfile 10:00pm Poldark 11:00pm BBC News 11:20pm BBC London News 11:30pm The Heroes of Super Saturday: Jess, Mo and Greg 12:20am The Peacemaker

BBC2 7:05am A to Z of TV Gardening

ITV1

7:00am Grizzly Tales for Gruesome Kids 7:50am The Instant Gardener 7:20am Sooty 7:30am Share a Story 8:35am Gardeners’ World 7:35am Dino Dan: Trek’s Adventures 7:50am Dino Dan: Trek’s Adventures 9:35am The Beechgrove Garden 8:00am Oddbods 8:05am The Oddbods Show 10:05am Countryfile 8:15am Super 4 8:30am Ninjago 11:00am Saturday Kitchen Best Bites 9:00am Thunderbirds are Go 9:25am ITV News 12:30pm Nigel Slater: Eating Together 9:30am Weekend 10:25am Judge Rinder 1:00pm Food and Drink 11:20am Long Lost Family 12:20pm Love Your Garden 1:30pm Miss Potter 1:25pm James Martin’s French Adventure 3:00pm Rugby League 1:55pm Rebound 2:55pm Tipping Point Challenge Cup Semi-Final 3:55pm Bear Grylls Survival School 4:25pm A View to a Kill 5:30pm Swimming 7:00pm ITV News London 7:10pm ITV News 8:00pm World War One Remembered: 7:30pm Diana, Our Mother: Her Life and Legacy Passchendaele 9:00pm Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix 11:00pm Pride 11:30pm ITV News 11:50pm Judge Rinder’s Crime Stories 12:50am Lilting 12:50am Take Me Out

8:10am Last Man Standing 8:35am Everybody Loves Raymond 9:00am Everybody Loves Raymond 9:30am Frasier 10:00am Frasier 10:30am Sunday Brunch 1:30pm Eat the Week with Iceland 2:30pm The Simpsons 2:55pm The Simpsons 3:25pm The Simpsons 3:55pm A Place in the Sun 4:40pm Homes by the Sea

Heroes of the Storm 11:25am Cats Make You Laugh Out Loud 11:55am Police Interceptors 12:50pm Police Interceptors 1:50pm Ace Ventura: Pet Detective 3:30pm Zookeeper 5:25pm Cheaper by the Dozen 7:05pm Now That’s Funny!

8:00pm Cricket on 5 8:55pm 5 News Weekend

5:45pm Channel 4 News

9:00pm Dirty Dancing

6:15pm Formula 1

10:00pm 5 News

8:30pm UEFA Women’s Euro 2017

10:05pm Dirty Dancing

11:00pm The Handmaid’s Tale

11:05pm The Dirty Dancing Story

12:10am Naked Attraction

12:35am Rugby Sevens

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MONDAY 31st July BBC1

7:00am Breakfast 10:15am Animal Park Summer Special 11:00am Homes Under the Hammer 12:00pm World War One Remembered: Passchendaele 2:00pm BBC News 2:30pm BBC London News 2:45pm Red Rock 3:30pm The Code 4:15pm Escape to the Country 5:15pm Flog It! 6:15pm Pointless 7:00pm BBC News 7:30pm BBC London News 8:00pm Fake Britain 8:30pm When the Boat Comes in 9:00pm EastEnders 9:30pm I Am Bolt 11:00pm BBC News 11:30pm BBC London News 11:45pm Peter Kay’s Comedy Shuffle 12:15am Have I Got a Bit More Old News for You 1:00am Who Do You Think You Are?

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7:00am The TV That Made Me 7:30am Wild UK 8:15am Bargain Hunt 9:00am The Sheriffs are Coming 10:00am Victoria Derbyshire 12:00pm Triathlon World Series 1:30pm Coast 2:00pm Two Tribes 2:30pm A Taste of Britain 3:15pm The Best Dishes Ever 3:45pm The Great Rift: Africa’s Wild Heart 4:45pm This Wild Life 5:15pm The Life of Mammals 6:15pm Antiques Roadshow 7:00pm Eggheads 7:30pm Letterbox 8:00pm World War One Remembered: Passchendaele 9:00pm University Challenge 9:30pm Nadiya’s British Food Adventure 10:00pm Man in an Orange Shirt 11:00pm Normal for Norfolk 11:30pm Newsnight 12:15am Inside the Factory

7:00am Good Morning Britain 9:30am Lorraine 10:25am The Jeremy Kyle Show 11:30am This Morning 1:30pm Loose Women 2:30pm ITV Lunchtime News 2:55pm ITV News London 3:00pm Judge Rinder 4:00pm Tenable 5:00pm Tipping Point 6:00pm Cash Trapped 7:00pm ITV News London 7:30pm ITV Evening News 8:00pm Emmerdale 8:30pm Coronation Street 9:00pm Countrywise 9:30pm Coronation Street 10:00pm Holiday Horrors: Caught on Camera 11:00pm ITV News and Weather 11:30pm ITV News London 11:40pm Britain’s Busiest Motorway 12:10am Sugar Free Farm

7:00am Countdown 7:45am Will and Grace 8:10am Will and Grace 8:35am Everybody Loves Raymond 9:00am Everybody Loves Raymond 9:30am Frasier 10:00am Frasier 10:35am Frasier 11:05am Undercover Boss USA 12:00pm The Simpsons 12:30pm The Simpsons 1:00pm Channel 4 News 1:05pm Couples Come Dine with Me 2:05pm Posh Pawn 3:10pm Countdown 4:00pm The Question Jury 5:00pm A Place in the Sun 6:00pm Come Dine with Me 7:00pm The Simpsons 7:30pm Hollyoaks 8:00pm Channel 4 News 9:00pm Location, Location, Location 10:00pm 999: What’s Your Emergency?

11:00pm Public Enemies 12:05am 60 Days in Jail

7:00am Childrens TV 10:15am The Wright Stuff 12:15pm The Yorkshire Vet 1:10pm 5 News Lunchtime 1:15pm Hotel Inspector: Million Pound Nightmare 2:15pm Home and Away 2:45pm Neighbours 3:15pm NCIS 4:15pm The Ultimate Legacy 6:00pm 5 News 6:30pm Neighbours 7:00pm Home and Away 7:30pm 5 News Tonight 8:00pm Cricket on 5 9:00pm All New Traffic Cops 10:00pm The Accused 11:30pm Inside Broadmoor 1:30am Car Crime UK: Caught on Camera

7:00am Hollyoaks 7:30am Coach Trip 8:00am Made in Chelsea 9:00am Melissa and Joey 10:00am Black-Ish 11:00am Baby Daddy 12:00pm How I Met Your Mother 1:00pm The Goldbergs 2:00pm The Big Bang Theory 3:00pm Melissa and Joey 4:00pm Baby Daddy 4:30pm Baby Daddy 5:00pm Black-Ish 5:30pm Black-Ish 6:00pm The Goldbergs 6:30pm The Goldbergs 7:00pm The Big Bang Theory 7:30pm The Big Bang Theory 8:00pm Hollyoaks 8:30pm Coach Trip 9:00pm The Big Bang Theory 9:30pm The Big Bang Theory 10:00pm Made in Chelsea 11:00pm Binky and Jp’s Baby: Born in Chelsea 12:00am The Big Bang Theory 12:30am The Big Bang Theory

7:00am The Flash 8:00am The Flash 9:00am NCIS: Los Angeles 10:00am NCIS: Los Angeles 11:00am Hawaii Five-0 12:00pm MacGyver 1:00pm NCIS: Los Angeles 2:00pm NCIS: Los Angeles 3:00pm Hawaii Five-0 4:00pm MacGyver 5:00pm The Flash 6:00pm The Flash 7:00pm Futurama 7:30pm The Simpsons 8:00pm The Simpsons 8:30pm The Simpsons 9:00pm The Simpsons 9:30pm The Simpsons 10:00pm A League of Their Own 11:00pm Micky Flanagan Thinking Aloud 12:00am Modern Family 12:30am Modern Family

TUESDAY 1st August BBC1

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7:00am Breakfast 10:15am Animal Park Summer Special 11:00am Homes Under the Hammer 12:00pm Going Back Giving Back 12:45pm Rip Off Britain 1:15pm Bargain Hunt 2:00pm BBC News 2:30pm BBC London News 2:45pm Red Rock 3:30pm The Code 4:15pm Escape to the Country 5:15pm Flog It! 6:15pm Pointless 7:00pm BBC News 7:30pm BBC London News 8:00pm Fugitives 8:30pm EastEnders 9:00pm Holby City 10:00pm In The Dark 11:00pm BBC News 11:30pm BBC London News 11:45pm New Tricks 12:45am When the Boat Comes in

7:00am The TV That Made Me 7:30am Animal Park Summer Special 8:15am Bargain Hunt 9:00am Garden Rescue 9:30am Great British Menu 10:00am Victoria Derbyshire 12:00pm BBC Newsroom Live 1:00pm Britain’s Great War 2:00pm Two Tribes 2:30pm A Taste of Britain 3:15pm The Best Dishes Ever 3:45pm The Great Rift: Africa’s Wild Heart 4:45pm This Wild Life 5:15pm The Life of Mammals 6:15pm Antiques Roadshow 7:00pm Eggheads 7:30pm Letterbox 8:00pm Sir Gareth Edwards at 70 9:00pm Inside the Factory 10:00pm Is it Safe to be Gay in the UK? 11:00pm Detectorists 11:30pm Newsnight 12:15am The Mash Report 12:45am Queer as Art

7:00am Good Morning Britain 9:30am Lorraine 10:25am The Jeremy Kyle Show 11:30am This Morning 1:30pm Loose Women 2:00pm ITV Lunchtime News 2:20pm ITV News London 2:30pm ITV Racing Live 5:00pm Tipping Point 6:00pm Cash Trapped 7:00pm ITV News London 7:30pm ITV Evening News 8:00pm Emmerdale 9:00pm Midsomer Murders 11:00pm ITV News and Weather 11:30pm ITV News London 11:40pm Martin Clunes: Islands of Australia 12:40am Play to the Whistle

7:00am Countdown 7:45am Will and Grace 8:10am Will and Grace 8:35am Everybody Loves Raymond 9:00am Everybody Loves Raymond 9:35am Frasier 10:05am Frasier 10:35am Frasier 11:05am Undercover Boss USA 12:00pm The Simpsons 12:30pm The Simpsons 1:00pm Channel 4 News 1:05pm Couples Come Dine with Me 2:05pm Posh Pawn 3:10pm Countdown 4:00pm The Question Jury 5:00pm A Place in the Sun 6:00pm Come Dine with Me 7:00pm The Simpsons 7:30pm Hollyoaks 8:00pm Channel 4 News 9:00pm Craft It Yourself 10:00pm Old People’s Home for 4 Year Olds 11:00pm First Dates 12:05am 24 Hours in A and E

7:00am Childrens TV 10:15am The Wright Stuff 12:15pm The Yorkshire Vet 1:10pm 5 News Lunchtime 1:15pm GPs: Behind Closed Doors 2:15pm Home and Away 2:45pm Neighbours 3:15pm NCIS 4:15pm A Trace of Danger 6:00pm 5 News 6:30pm Neighbours 7:00pm Home and Away 7:30pm 5 News Tonight 8:00pm FIA World Rally Championship 9:00pm The Dog Rescuers with Alan Davies 10:00pm Celebrity Big Brother 12:05am Celebrity Big Brother’s Bit on the Side

7:00am Hollyoaks 7:30am Coach Trip 8:00am Made in Chelsea 9:00am Melissa and Joey 10:00am Black-Ish 11:00am Baby Daddy 12:00pm How I Met Your Mother 1:00pm The Goldbergs 2:00pm The Big Bang Theory 3:00pm Melissa and Joey 4:00pm Baby Daddy 4:30pm Baby Daddy 5:00pm Black-Ish 5:30pm Black-Ish 6:00pm The Goldbergs 6:30pm The Goldbergs 7:00pm The Big Bang Theory 7:30pm The Big Bang Theory 8:00pm Hollyoaks 8:30pm Coach Trip 9:00pm The Big Bang Theory 9:30pm The Big Bang Theory 10:00pm Tattoo Fixers on Holiday 11:00pm 8 Out of 10 Cats 11:55pm The Big Bang Theory 12:25am The Big Bang Theory 12:55am Gogglebox

7:00am The Flash 8:00am The Flash 9:00am NCIS: Los Angeles 10:00am NCIS: Los Angeles 11:00am Hawaii Five-0 12:00pm MacGyver 1:00pm NCIS: Los Angeles 2:00pm NCIS: Los Angeles 3:00pm Road Wars 4:00pm MacGyver 5:00pm The Flash 6:00pm The Flash 7:00pm Futurama 7:30pm The Simpsons 8:00pm The Simpsons 8:30pm The Simpsons 9:00pm A League of Their Own 10:00pm Crocodile Dundee II 12:10am Modern Family 12:35am Modern Family

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7:00am Countdown 7:45am Will and Grace 8:35am Everybody Loves Raymond 9:35am Frasier 10:05am Frasier 10:35am Frasier 11:05am Undercover Boss USA 12:00pm The Simpsons 12:30pm The Simpsons 1:00pm Channel 4 News 1:05pm Couples Come Dine with Me 2:05pm Posh Pawn 3:10pm Countdown 4:00pm The Question Jury 5:00pm A Place in the Sun 6:00pm Come Dine with Me 7:00pm The Simpsons 7:30pm Hollyoaks 8:00pm Channel 4 News 9:00pm Tried and Tasted: The Ultimate Shopping List 9:30pm Food Unwrapped 10:00pm Old People’s Home for 4 Year Olds 11:00pm The Windsors 11:30pm Fargo 12:35am 999: What’s Your Emergency?

7:00am Childrens TV 10:15am The Wright Stuff 12:15pm Celebrity Big Brother 2:10pm 5 News Lunchtime 2:15pm Home and Away 2:45pm Neighbours 3:15pm NCIS 4:15pm Escape From Polygamy 6:00pm 5 News 6:30pm Neighbours 7:00pm Home and Away 7:30pm 5 News Tonight 8:00pm FIA Formula E: Montreal Highlights 9:00pm GPs: Behind Closed Doors 10:00pm Celebrity Big Brother 11:05pm Celebrity Botched Up Bodies 12:05am Celebrity Big Brother’s Bit on the Side

7:00am Hollyoaks 7:30am Coach Trip 8:00am Made in Chelsea 9:00am Melissa and Joey 10:00am Black-Ish 11:00am Baby Daddy 12:00pm How I Met Your Mother 1:00pm The Goldbergs 2:00pm The Big Bang Theory 3:00pm Melissa and Joey 4:00pm Baby Daddy 5:00pm Black-Ish 6:00pm The Goldbergs 6:30pm The Goldbergs 7:00pm The Big Bang Theory 7:30pm The Big Bang Theory 8:00pm Hollyoaks 8:30pm Coach Trip 9:00pm The Big Bang Theory 9:30pm The Big Bang Theory 10:00pm Don’t Tell the Bride 11:00pm Gogglebox 12:05am The Big Bang Theory 12:35am

7:00am The Flash 8:00am The Flash 9:00am NCIS: Los Angeles 10:00am NCIS: Los Angeles 11:00am Hawaii Five-0 12:00pm MacGyver 1:00pm NCIS: Los Angeles 2:00pm NCIS: Los Angeles 3:00pm Hawaii Five-0 4:00pm MacGyver 5:00pm The Flash 6:00pm The Flash 7:00pm Futurama 7:30pm The Simpsons 8:00pm The Simpsons 8:30pm The Simpsons 9:00pm Freddie Fries Again 10:00pm Colony 11:00pm Ross Kemp: Extreme World 12:00am Modern Family

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7:00am The TV That Made Me 7:30am Animal Park Summer Special 8:15am Bargain Hunt 9:00am See Hear 9:30am Great British Menu 10:00am Victoria Derbyshire 12:00pm BBC Newsroom Live 1:00pm Britain’s Great War 2:00pm Two Tribes 2:30pm A Taste of Britain 3:15pm The Best Dishes Ever 3:45pm The Great Rift: Africa’s Wild Heart 4:45pm This Wild Life 5:15pm The Life of Mammals 6:15pm Antiques Roadshow 7:00pm Eggheads 7:30pm Letterbox 8:00pm Celebrity Antiques Road Trip 9:00pm The Sweet Makers: A Victorian Treat 10:00pm Man Up 11:30pm Newsnight 12:15am Birds of Paradise

7:00am Good Morning Britain 9:30am Lorraine 10:25am The Jeremy Kyle Show 11:30am This Morning 1:30pm Loose Women 2:00pm ITV Lunchtime News 2:20pm ITV News London 2:30pm ITV Racing Live 5:00pm Tipping Point 6:00pm Cash Trapped 7:00pm ITV News London 7:30pm ITV Evening News 8:00pm Emmerdale 8:30pm Coronation Street 9:00pm Love Your Garden 10:00pm Long Lost Family 11:00pm ITV News and Weather 11:30pm ITV News London 11:40pm Holiday Horrors: Caught on Camera

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7:00am Breakfast 10:15am Animal Park Summer Special 11:00am Homes Under the Hammer 12:00pm Going Back Giving Back 12:45pm Rip Off Britain 1:15pm Bargain Hunt 2:00pm BBC News 2:30pm BBC London News 2:45pm Red Rock 3:30pm The Code 4:15pm Escape to the Country 5:15pm Flog It! 6:15pm Pointless 7:00pm BBC News 7:30pm BBC London News 8:00pm Thief Trackers 8:30pm EastEnders 9:00pm Panorama 9:30pm EastEnders 10:00pm Who Do You Think You Are? 11:00pm BBC News 11:30pm BBC London News 11:45pm Kicked Out 12:25am Queer Britain

7:00am The TV That Made Me 7:30am Animal Park Summer Special 8:15am Bargain Hunt 9:00am Museum of the Year 9:30am Great British Menu 10:00am Victoria Derbyshire 12:00pm BBC Newsroom Live 1:00pm Britain’s Great War 2:00pm Two Tribes 2:30pm A Taste of Britain 3:15pm The Best Dishes Ever 3:45pm Natural World 4:30pm This Wild Life 5:00pm The Life of Mammals 6:00pm Golf 7:00pm Eggheads 7:30pm Letterbox 8:00pm World Athletics Championships 2017 Preview 9:00pm 10 Puppies and Us 10:00pm Top of the Lake 11:00pm The Mash Report 11:30pm Newsnight 12:15am Birds of Paradise

7:00am Good Morning Britain 9:30am Lorraine 10:25am The Jeremy Kyle Show 11:30am This Morning 1:30pm Loose Women 2:00pm ITV Lunchtime News 2:20pm ITV News London 2:30pm ITV Racing Live 5:00pm Tipping Point 6:00pm Cash Trapped 7:00pm ITV News London 7:30pm ITV Evening News 8:00pm Emmerdale 8:30pm Eat, Shop, Save 9:00pm Emmerdale 9:30pm James Martin’s French Adventure 10:00pm Inside London Fire Brigade 11:00pm ITV News and Weather 11:30pm ITV News London 11:40pm Schofield’s South African Adventure 12:10am Lion Country: Night and Day

7:00am Countdown 7:45am Will and Grace 8:10am Will and Grace 8:35am Everybody Loves Raymond 9:00am Everybody Loves Raymond 9:30am Frasier 10:00am Frasier 10:35am Frasier 11:05am Undercover Boss USA 12:00pm The Simpsons 12:30pm The Simpsons 1:00pm Channel 4 News 1:05pm Couples Come Dine with Me 2:05pm Posh Pawn 3:10pm Countdown 4:00pm The Question Jury 5:00pm A Place in the Sun 5:30pm UEFA Women’s Euro 2017 8:00pm The Catch 8:30pm UEFA Women’s Euro 2017 11:00pm 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown 12:05am Real, Fake or Unknown

7:00am Childrens TV 10:15am The Wright Stuff 12:15pm The Yorkshire Vet 1:10pm 5 News Lunchtime 1:15pm Celebrity Big Brother 2:15pm Home and Away 2:45pm Neighbours 3:15pm NCIS 4:10pm Out of Reach 6:00pm 5 News 6:30pm Neighbours 7:00pm Home and Away 7:30pm 5 News Tonight 8:00pm All New Traffic Cops 9:00pm Nightmare Tenants 10:00pm Celebrity Big Brother 11:05pm In Therapy 12:05am Celebrity Big Brother’s Bit on the Side

7:00am Hollyoaks 7:30am Coach Trip 8:00am Made in Chelsea 9:00am Melissa and Joey 10:00am Black-Ish 11:00am Baby Daddy 12:00pm How I Met Your Mother 1:00pm The Goldbergs 2:00pm The Big Bang Theory 3:00pm Melissa and Joey 4:00pm Baby Daddy 5:00pm Black-Ish 6:00pm The Goldbergs 6:30pm The Big Bang Theory 7:00pm The Big Bang Theory 7:30pm Hollyoaks 8:00pm Hollyoaks 8:30pm Coach Trip 9:00pm The Big Bang Theory 9:30pm Kevin Can Wait 10:00pm New Girl 10:30pm New Girl 11:00pm The Inbetweeners 11:35pm The Inbetweeners 12:05am The Big Bang Theory 12:35am The Big Bang Theory

7:00am The Flash 8:00am The Flash 9:00am NCIS: Los Angeles 10:00am NCIS: Los Angeles 11:00am Hawaii Five-0 12:00pm MacGyver 1:00pm NCIS: Los Angeles 2:00pm NCIS: Los Angeles 3:00pm Hawaii Five-0 4:00pm MacGyver 5:00pm The Flash 6:00pm The Flash 7:00pm Futurama 7:30pm The Simpsons 8:00pm The Simpsons 8:30pm The Simpsons 9:00pm Duck Quacks Don’t Echo 10:00pm Karl Pilkington: The Moaning of Life 11:00pm A League of Their Own 12:00am Modern Family 12:30am Modern Family

Pick of the week Wild Alaska Live Sunday 30th July, BBC1, 8pm Last weeks puzzle answers (Issue 926) Cryptic Solution

Easy Solution

Soduku Solution

General Quiz Solution to 926

Codebreaker Solution

1 Humans 2 Lakh (or Lac - so that 150,000 rupees is 1.5 Lakh rupees, also shown as INR 1,50,000) 3 Torah 4 Honda 5 Craps (from crapaud, ‘toad’) 6 Rye 7 Russia (via his influence over Nicholas II, the last Tsar of Imperial Russia) 8 Jade 9 Rocky Marciano (Rocco Francis Marchegiano, 19231969) 10 Music (recording, engineering and producing - for acts such as The Beatles, Rolling Stones, Who, Clapton, Dylan, Eagles, etc)

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Life

La Mari of Chambao to open Malaga Fair THE musical highlight of the forthcoming malaga Fair will be an appearance from local singer and songwriter maría del mar Rodríguez carnero known as la mari.

La Mari loves to perform in the open air Photo Credit: Chambao.es

Chambao perform

ing at Castle Soha

By Michael Cano She will officially open the Fair at 11.50pm on August 10, enjoy the fireworks and then appear with her band Chambao at 12.20am.

With different musicians but always using the name Chambao (a kind of open sided tent) she has released eight albums as well as a number of DVDs and has been nominated for a number of Latin Grammy awards.

Her music is a gentle style of New Flamenco mixed with Soft Rock and Electronic music and deals with a number of matters which affect her life and the world at large.

Her latest band is very Latin orientated and she is touring her Nuevo Ciclo (New Cycle) album which incorporates Flamenco, Rock, Rap and Classical music which she describes as being a natural progression for her as the music itself is “organic, actual and very much live”.

Although she has performed around the world, she always loves returning to Malaga her hometown and to play to a local audience is exciting for her especially as she has fought off the ravages of breast cancer which left her devastated

when first diagnosed.

She thanks her family, friends, original band and her “darling dog” who was with her all through the treatment period and she now has a different outlook on a life which has been given back to her.

As well as publishing a book on her experiences, she has also donated her royalties from Cuba to a Cuban Breast Cancer charity.

As well as having her own band, La Mari is in constant demand to duet with other singers and speaks warmly of working with Ricky Martin who she says is a consummate professional. Other big names she has performed with include Rosario, Vanessa Martin, Macaco and Bebe.

This fine performer loves to play in the open air and in a previous interview just prior to last year’s Fuengirola appearance she said “there is nothing better than enjoying the balmy summer atmosphere and sensing the audience’s mood which in turn inspires me to give my best performance.”

il Fuengirola Photo Credit: RT N

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what’s on

Reggae time THE FESTIVAL, Estepona Summer Party 2017, will this year offer up a concert by La Negra Mayte and reggae music, it has been announced.

The free event, which takes place today and tomorrow on La escollera beach, next to the Punta Doncella lighthouse, will tonight host an evening of flamenco rock from 9.30pm, starting with an acrobatic dance show. from 11pm, La Negra Mayte will host a night of soul, swing and funk, entitled III Spetto fest, while tomorrow night reggae fans will enjoy live music from Barbados-based band, Magnet Man, who are stopping in estepona to perfrom songs from their acclaimed album, ragga rock. The event, which kicks off at 9.30pm, will also see Danish singer-songwriter Jens Mallins, the “Reggae Viking” perform, alongside backing by Ubuntu reggae, and Don Spider & G.I.B. Crew, among others.

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Prefiero, para Basic Spanish for everyday needs by

Jane Cronin

At the end of last week’s article I gave you some homework.

In fact, there was rather a lot, but I hope you had a go at least! here are the answers: Translate into English No puedo firmar hoy. i can’t sign today. ¿Quieres visitar a tu amigo?

Do you want to visit your friend?

No necesito correr. i don’t need to run.

Me gusta hacer los deberes. i like doing homework.

No voy a leer todo el libro. i’m not going to read all the book.

Translate into Spanish Do you want to have a lot of money? ¿Quieres tener mucho dinero?

I like watching the news.

Me gusta ver las noticias (or “el telediario”) I can’t drink and drive.

No puedo beber y conducir.

Are you going to write a letter? ¿vas a escribir una carta?

I need to go to the chemist.

Necesito ir a la farmacia. today we are going to learn a couple of ways in which these sentences can be made even longer, whilst at the same time giving us the opportunity to

express more interesting ideas.

Firstly, we are going to look at one more “first person” word, which is prefiero. Prefiero means “i prefer”. Of course we can only use “i prefer” in a sentence if we are contrasting one idea with another. For example, let’s take one of our homework sentences: “i don’t like going out much.” it’s easy to see how we can extend this idea with the contrast of what we do like doing: “i don’t like going out much; i prefer … to stay at home.” We can use words we have already learnt to express this, by changing “stay” to “be”, like this: “No me gusta salir mucho; prefiero estar en casa” (i.e. i prefer to be at home). Let’s try another one: “i don’t need to run; i prefer to walk.”

“No necesito correr; prefiero andar”. What about this one: “i’m not going to read everything; i prefer to listen ”No voy a leer todo; prefiero escuchar”.

We don’t always need to change the main verb in these sentences, we might want to change other information. For example: “No quiero ir a Murcia, prefiero ir a Elche” (i don’t want to go to Murcia, i prefer to go to Elche.” “No voy a comprar un vestido; prefiero comprar pantalones” (i’m not going to buy a dress; i prefer to buy trousers.”)

And now for the second way we can extend our sentences – and this really is exciting! We can use the word para to explain our purpose in during

something. the way we are going to use para it means “to” in the sense of “in order to”. some of you might already know this word as meaning “for” as in “para mí” (for me). However many of the “little words” in spanish have more than one meaning, as is the case with para. the great thing as well is that after para we can still use our verbs in the infinitive form.

Let’s get straight on to an example of what i’m talking about, again using our homework as a starting point: Me gusta ver las noticias para aprender más español. i like watching the news to learn more spanish (in order to learn more spanish). if that isn’t abundantly clear, see if you can get this one: Voy a ir a Inglaterra para visitar a mi familia. (i’m going to go to England to (in order to) visit my family.

We’re running out of space now and i think we need to spend a bit more time on this next week, so in the meantime, what do these sentences mean in English?

Necesito firmar esto para comprar mi casa.

Voy a volver a casa para ver el fútbol.

Quiero aprender español para hablar con mi vecino.

Book Review The Seagull

by Ann Cleeves

A visit to her local prison brings Di vera stanhope tanhope face to face with an old enemy: former detective superintendent, and now inmate, John Brace. Brace was convicted of corruption and involvement in the death of a gamekeeper - and vera played a part in his downfall.

Brace promises vera information about the disappearance of Robbie Marshall, a notorious wheeler-dealer, if she will look out for his daughter and grandchildren. He tells her that Marshall is dead, his body is buried close to st Mary's island in Whitley Bay. However, when a search team investigates, officers find not one skeleton, but two. this cold case case takes vera back in time, and very close to home, as Brace and Marshall, along with a mysterious stranger known only as 'the Prof', were close friends of Hector, her father. together, they were 'the Gang of Four', and Hector had been one of the last people to see Marshall alive. vera must confront her prejudices and unwanted memories to dig out the truth, as the past begins to collide dangerously with the present ... the seagull is Ann Cleeves' searing new novel featuring the character most famously played on tv by Brenda Blethyn, is about corruption deep in the heart of a community, and about fragile, and fracturing, family relationships. info@bookworldpuertobanus.com www@bookworldpuertobanus.com | 952 816 084

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Horoscopes and Puzzles

Code Breaker

Each number in the Code Breaker grid represents a different letter of the alphabet. In this week’s puzzle, 1 represents T and 21 represents Z, so fill in T every time the figure 1 appears and Z every time the figure 21 appears.

Now using your knowledge of the English language work out which letters should go in the missing squares. As you discover the letters, fill in other squares with the same number in the main grid and the control grid.

POSTBAG

Kenny, my mother is coming to me in my dreams recently. She is just ready to tell me something when she is called away and the she disappears. It makes me wonder if she is unsettled in the Spirit World, or unhappy maybe? Gwen J. Gwen, great that you have had contact with your mother in this way. I am sorry that it must be very frustrating for you not to get the message that she wants to give you. Her sheer ability to come through to you means that she has freedom, and that strong ability and determination to return to you means that something is very well with her. Anything bad would have seen her partially appear or to seem unsettled. I feel that your mother needs to know that you can see her and feel her and I feel that this is what she needs to hear right now. Talk to her and tell her that she can talk to you at any time and that you are so happy to have her connect with you with love!

If It’s Your Birthday This Week

Venus bids that love energy will take you further if you let it. There are many closed doors behind you but the open door ahead right now is your direction and your true destiny.....so walk on through!

As Venus enters into the fourth house a well deserved reward is coming your way.

Recently you have been treading over egg shells in a matter that was veering somewhat out of control. Your patience and understanding and your forgiveness combine to ensure that this could never happen again on your watch as karma does what it does so very well!

Uranus is both enabling and manipulative, caring for your immediate wants and needs, which seem to be out in the open at long last. Boosting greatly your willpower and your creativity, it is your unconventional side that leaves you to make it clear that you are being stubborn for good reason. You will get your way in the end, but was it really worth it?

You are frank and outspoken, your tastes are lavish and you are flamboyant. Such bluntness means that those who stick around you are those who have passed your tests. This week take a back seat and get to grips with someone who is vying for your love and attention; but who cannot get close to you to tell you what’s really on their mind.

Emotionally one door may have closed but it is up to you to ensure that another opens up for you.

Venus, your trusty planetary leader is a force to be reckoned with in actions with the fourth house.

You are extraordinarily sensitive, and this has led to hurt feelings about the way you handled things.

You could not have done any better! Really!

Virgo is the opposite sign to Pisces, in which Venus is exalted. You have had your say, but this may have really hurt those who love you but find it hard to permeate your innermost energies. Whilst others may be left feeling self conscious it is up to you to cope with the current Venus ingres and make amends in any way that you feel fit to do.

The Venus sextile brings a mixed blessing to you this week. You are a very private and personal individual, and when love comes you seek both the retention of your dignity and a refinement. Your great aloneness is a strong attraction to others, but don’t play games! Do not let ulterior motives supersede your affection, as this time around, love is the key!

Venus sextiles Uranus and dreams and wishes are really only one step away from reality, if they are what you especially need right now. Yes, you have been tested, and any further decision shows you best where you are and what ambition truly is. You were prepared to fight, but in the end it wasn’t necessary; now be yourself to see things through.

You have the innate ability to understand the feelings of others, and a desire to please which makes you well liked. However, you find it hard to take sides right now, as a conflict looms, and why should you? As an intellectual air sign you attract companionship and demand meaningful and sustained relationships, and that’s not what is on offer now!

Take a time for yourself in this your busiest time of the year. Looking within and liking what you see are the positive energies that you need right now and Venus enters to bring love values in all that you do this week.

Be prepared to stand in for somebody, and feel able to ask those around you for any help and support that you may need to get through!

The midweek entry of Venus arouses passions and backs you all the way. As a cardinal sign, Cancer is urging you to accept the initiative for what it is, and to stop asking questions; since you do not want to hear the answers. Actions speak a lot louder than words, and once you dispel doubt, focus on your true aims right now, and go all out for gold.

Venus in Scorpio is in detriment, since Scorpio is in opposition to Taurus, which Venus rules. You are not seeing somebody else’s view of events right now and wanting to control the situation is not an option open to you. Adopt an air of mystery and intrigue which allows you to keep your emotional dignity, and allows you to see how others react.

A highly psychic energy flows through your veins, and begs you to use your energies well to establish yourself right now. You are both inspired and creative and prepared to take things to the next stage, as indeed you should! Intuition tells you that there are pitfalls, but that on this, your spiritual journey of life, there comes a time to enjoy just being you!!

Cryptic Crossword

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Across 1 Wan publican’s first drink (4) 3 Circus performers with fleece in a musical (8) 9 Take back religious education pamphlet (7) 10 Flower beheaded more quickly (5) 11 Five plus one for each adder (5) 12 Invisible nun wandering around diocese (6) 14 Tomfoolery? Not for leaders in Civil Service (6) 16 Prize required for astrophysicist (6) 19 River possibly making a U-bend (6) 21 Glendower’s land heard plaintive cries (5) 24 Frank almost gets sharp (5) 25 Evil ruler going under (7) 26 Singer turning into bear (8)

Down

27 Small crudely built house is closed (4)

23 Youngster devouring hot fish (4)

1 South American rave-up in ruins (8) 2 Tulip may be illuminated (3,2) 4 Stop copper and solicitor (3,3) 5 Old friends providing gems (5) 6 New part, new port (7) 7 Son’s beginning to anger father (4) 8 Material contained in half a brick (6) 13 I mention sound or vision (8) 15 Rough terrain for coach (7) 17 Quarreling — or turning up on side (6) 18 Time to add salt and pepper? (6) 20 Raised collection when in distress (5) 22 Girl with head of hair like a leprechaun? (5)

Quick Crossword Across 1. Pharaoh’s tomb (7) 5. Documents to be filled in (5) 8. Stow (5) 9. Out of the ordinary (7) 10. Moral (7) 11. Ostentatious (5) 12. Powerful (6) 14. Pursued (6) 18. Books (5) 20. Injurious (7) 22. Steal (7) 23. Early part of life (5) 24. Garb (5) 25. Make intelligible (7)

Down 1. Own (7) 2. Freshwater fish of the carp family (5) 3. Red Indian style haircut (7) 4. Twofold (6) 5. Smoke ducts (5) 6. Harshly loud (7) 7. Foolish (5) 13. Regret (7) 15. Get a move on (7) 16. Marine mammal (7) 17. Alter (6) 18. Lukewarm (5) 19. Retail businesses (5) 21. The animals found in a particular area (5)

Doggies Quiz What dog name is (primarily) associated with each the following books/TV shows/stories/historical situations or people?

1 The Adventures of Tintin?

2 Sputnik 2?

3 Stephen King’s rabid eponymous St Bernard?

4 Doctor Who? 5 Bill Sikes, Oliver Twist?

6 Call of the Wild (novel and movie)?

7 Hagrid’s ‘cowardly’ boarhound, of Harry Potter fame?

8 Three-headed hound of Hades?

9 US Army WWI most decorated war dog, and highest ranking?

10 HMV (His Master’s Voice) early logo?

11 Dorothy Gale?

12 Milo’s dog, The Phantom Tollbooth’s ‘watchdog’?

13 Stolen Jules Rimet Trophy, 1966?

14 US President Bill Clinton?

15 King Arthur?

Fill the grid so every column and every 3x3 box contains the digits 1-9

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health

Healthy ways to avoid a caesarean section EnCOuragIng hEalthy eating and physical activity during pregnancy limits excess weight gain and lowers the odds of having a caesarean section, finds a study published by the British Medical Journal (BMJ). the benefits are consistent, regardless of a woman’s age, ethnicity, body mass index (BMI) and underlying medical conditions, suggesting that all women should be given advice on diet and lifestyle as part of routine antenatal care.

Both maternal obesity and excessive weight gain in pregnancy (gestational weight gain) put mother and infant at risk, both in pregnancy and in later life, with considerable costs to the health service and society. interventions based on diet or physical activity, or both, in pregnancy minimise gestational weight gain, and therefore may have a role in preventing adverse pregnancy outcomes.

So researchers from the International Weight Management in Pregnancy (i-WIP) Collaborative group set out to assess the effects of diet and physical activity based interventions in pregnancy on weight gain and outcomes such as caesarean section, stillbirth and admission to a newborn intensive care unit.

Interventions included access to a dietician, specific antenatal classes for advice on diet and lifestyle, or structured exercise of moderate intensity such as aerobics or using a cycling machine. the research team analysed individual participant data from 36 randomised trials involving over 12,500 women, grouped according to age, pregnancy history, ethnicity, body mass index (BMI), and underlying medical conditions. Overall, the trials had a low risk of bias.

Diet and physical activity based interventions consistently reduced gestational weight gain, regardless of age, pregnancy history, ethnicity, BMI, and existing medical conditions, and remained when studies at high risk of bias were excluded. interventions also lowered the odds of caesarean section, but had no effect on offspring outcomes, such as stillbirth or admission to an intensive care unit.

When they included additional study-level data, they found additional benefit for gestational diabetes. the authors outline some study limitations, including the fact that participants were mostly white and of medium to high education status, a factor favouring compliance with interventions. nevertheless, they say their analysis “confirms that diet and physical activity based interventions in pregnancy reduce gestational weight gain.” and they say discussions about diet and physical activity in pregnancy, which are delivered as part of antenatal care, “should incorporate specific estimates

of benefit for caesarean section and gestational weight gain, and the likelihood of preventing gestational diabetes.” importantly, such interventions in pregnancy “could be considered in global efforts to reduce caesarean section in relevant populations,” they conclude. a linked editorial says this study provides reassuring information for women and healthcare practitioners that lifestyle interventions are safe in pregnancy, and help control weight gain.

Men’s

HealtHy eating can keep your body and mind sharp and extend quality of life, and older men are no different from anybody else.

CalCium and Vitamin d Older adults need more vitamin D and calcium to help maintain strong and healthy bones. Calcium-rich foods include low-fat and fat-free dairy like milk and yogurt, fortified cereals and fruit juices, dark green leafy vegetables and canned fish with soft bones. Older adults need three servings of calcium and vitamin D every day. If you take a calcium supplement or multivitamin, be sure to choose one that contains vitamin D. Fibre Fibre helps keep bowel functions normal and is good for your heart. If you need to lose weight, fibre keeps you full longer so you do not feel hungry as often. Men older than 50

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Enthusing over the Ask the olive leaf infusion Optician

Known THrouGHouT the world, almost since the dawn of time, the health giving properties of the humble olive has been well documented. whether used for cooking, in salad dressings, as a preservative or just nibbled with a plate of tapas, the olive and it’s oil are full of healthy mono saturated fats, essential for maintaining a healthy body.

However, although dry olive wood is perfect for our winter fires, we normally throw the leaves away, which is a shame, as drunk as an infusion with hot water, they have amazing health benefits: The benefits of olive leaves are nothing new, as they were used in the past for treating severe fevers and malaria.

In Britain, the brew from green olive leaves was also used for aiding the sick returning from tropical colonies.

Decades later, it is believed by scientists that the oleuropein substance, contained in the olive leaves was indeed responsible for the treatments and cures. oleuropein is active against bacteria and insect pests, thus protecting the olive tree. This property has also been found to help protect humans too.

European researchers discovered that oleuropein was effective at lowering blood pressure as well as increasing blood flow.

Another olive leaf benefit is its positive effects on brain function. Studies show that oleuropein reduces the symptoms or occurrence of age-related disorders, such as dementia and Alzheimer’s disease.

The olive leaf has antiviral properties, giving it the ability to prevent the common cold as well as treat dangerous viruses. research shows that olive leaf extracts effectively fight against a number of diseasecausing microbes, including some of viruses that cause influenza and other respiratory infections.

The powerful compounds found in olive leaves destroy invading organisms and

don’t allow viruses to replicate and cause an infection.

In fact, the olive leaf is so beneficial to our health that treatment with olive leaf extracts reversed many HIV-1 infection-associated changes in a study done at the new York university School of Medicine. olive leaves show an important role as a natural cancer treatment because of its ability to stop the angiogenic process, which stimulates the growth of tumors.

The compound oleuropein has an antioxidant and antiangiogenic effect by inhibiting the reproduction and migration of advanced tumor cells.

Historically, olive leaves are known as a symbol of peace, so it is not surprising that olive leaf tea provides a soothing, relaxing, gently mellow herbal brew that evokes a sense of wellbeing.

Some lemon or honey enhances the flavour; it is excellent chilled and drunk over ice. olive leaf tea leaves can be added to a marinade, especially for fish, or used in a spice rub to season a variety of dishes.

health

need 30 grams of fibre a day; good sources are whole grains, fruits and vegetables. For products with a label, choose those with at least 3 grams of dietary fibre per serving.

Potassium Increasing potassium intake along with decreasing sodium (salt) may lower your risk of high blood pressure. Good sources of potassium include fruits, vegetables and low-fat or fat-free milk and yoghurt. Choose low-sodium foods and replace salt with other herbs and spices to reduce your sodium intake.

HealtHy Fats For weight control and overall health, limit fat calories to 20 percent to 35 percent of your diet. Most of the fats you consume should come from heart-healthy unsaturated fats. Try extra-virgin olive oil, canola oil, walnuts, almonds and avocadoes. Healthy older men without heart disease should limit saturated fats, which comes from meat, full-fat dairy and fried foods, to 10 percent of total fat calories. Men with high cholesterol need to cut more saturated fat from their diet and should limit it to 7 percent of total fat calories.

How can I be sure my vision is good enough to drive?

Ask the Optician – Amrik Sappal, Store Director from Specsavers Opticas Fuengirola Q - I can read fine and don’t think I need glasses, do I really need to worry when I drive?

A - Good eye sight is essential to road safety and poor vision greatly contributes to risk of accidents.

Your eyes are probably fine, but to make sure we recommend that all drivers should have regular eye tests every two years, especially from the age of 40.

If you notice any changes in your vision and have difficulties with seeing clearly in difficult conditions such as at night you should have your vision checked immediately Q Are some glasses better for driving than others?

A Yes - thin rims and high sides improve all-round vision and plastic or polycarbonate lenses are less likely than glass to shatter in an accident. There are glasses specifically created for driving such as Specsavers ultraDrive lenses, which provide excellent eye protection in bright light and make colours appear sharper.

Q - I struggle with bright sunshine when I am driving what can I do?

A - Polarising lenses reduce glare, making them ideal for driving during bright daylight hours.

Another good option is to invest in photochromic lenses that instantly adapt to light changes, darkening in bright light.

There are Specsavers stores in Marbella and Fuengirola on the Costa del Sol, to make an appointment or find your nearest store visit www.specsavers.es.

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Day wine delights

A GOOD friend of mine, who enjoys the odd glass of wine early on a summer afternoon, actually just before lunch …….

Well, to be precise, sometime in the morning, has a special term she uses for her favourite alcoholic tipple.

“Darling …..” she will often say to me “It’s almost lunchtime, let’s have a lovely glass of day wine!”

What she really wants, is a glass of vino rosado, rose wine, cava rose, or whatever you prefer to call that pale or dark pink glass of delight.

There’s no doubt that Rose has become very popular in recent years, particularly in our warm Spanish summer, when a couple of ice cubes, thrown into a large wine glass with a few glugs of pink vino rosada is a perfect accompaniment to sunny afternoons in the company of friends.

However, there are other ways to use the pink liquid, to brighten up a party, amuse your friends or use up a bottle you haven’t quite finished …… However unlikely that might be.

Here are a few of our favourite ideas:

Drunken strawberries

Raspberry rose sorbet

FruiT inFuseD with wine is still healthy, right? Whilst you try to figure out whether they count as one of your five-a-day, nibble on these sugarcoated bites that will only take you five minutes.

If you’re in the market for a refreshing sorbet flavour, why not give rose a try? A simple combination of rose, raspberries and sugar, this dessert is ready to go in no time. We strongly encourage pouring more wine on top, why? Because we can!

Candy floss champagne cocktails

R aspberry r ose wine cupcakes

OkAy, SO this is basically just a fancy cocktail, but you have to admit that cotton candy dipped in champagne sounds pretty irresistible.

However, although you can make this special drink with any sparkling wine, using rose champagne would be the perfect combination.

WhilsT There is rose baked into these petite cakes, the icing is where it packs a punch.

The recipe calls for a raspberry and wine reduction, making the buttercream icing super flavourful, just the way we like it.

Rose jelly shots These aDulT jelly shots will definitely be a crowd pleaser.

Keep it classy, ditch the normal shot glasses and serve these in your best stemware for the perfect mix of high and low at your next event. add some vodka to the mix too ….. and your guests will never want to go home.

Rose wine ice lollies These Five ingredient wine lollies are everything you need on a hot summer day. Combine lemon, vanilla, sugar, strawberries and of course rosé, and these sweet treats are good to go. Talk about refreshing.

Rose wine Jellies THeSe clASSIc sweeties just became even more fun to eat, as all you do is soak a batch of gelatin with rose to make these fun jellies, then once they’ve cooled, roll the gummies in sugar and voila, bon appetite.

Raspberry rose sorbet mimosas For a grown up sweet treat, try topping off your favourite scoop of strawberry or raspberry ice cream with some bubbly. Drink up and then get a spoon to finish off the creamy dessert that will leave your taste buds tingling.

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Manchego is forever a winner FOREVER CHEESE importers of Italian, Spanish, Portuguese and Croatian cheese and specialty foods, is pleased to announce that the El Trigal brand of Manchego cheese they import has been granted a Superior Taste Award of three stars. Products submitted for these awards are evaluated based on their overall taste, texture, aroma, and appearance and given a score up to 100%. Those scoring 90% and above are given three stars for exceptional taste, the highest honour. Judges called the El Trigal aged Manchego “truly delicious and genuine,” and “well-textured with a stunning flavour profile.”

The International Taste & Quality Institute gives out the Superior Taste Awards once a year in Europe. The jury is made up of 135 Michelin-starred chefs and Sommeliers, all experts in their field. The members participate in rigorous sensory analysis of each product. The tastings are completely blind and products are not compared to each other; each is evaluated on its own merit.

El Trigal Manchego is made outside of Toledo, Spain, by the Corcuera family. They have been making Manchego for over 70 years and were instrumental in establishing the protected designation of origin for the

cheese. They make 3 Month, 6 Month, Raw 8 Month, 1 Year, and Reserva (15 month) Manchego, which are sold under the El Trigal brand in the U.S. Michele Buster, of Forever Cheese, first connected with the Corcuera family in 1996.

A fateful meeting in a Madrid parking garage included sampling their Manchego atop a car, which Ms. Buster described as love at first taste, despite the lingering scent of exhaust in the air. From that point on, she worked to import their cheese to the U.S., aware that it was something very special.

“I’m very proud of our close relationship and all that we have accomplished together,” she said. “This award is well deserved and an indication of the consistent high quality of their cheese.”

Queso Manchego DOP is a Spanish pressed sheep’s milk cheese aged a maximum of two years. It must be made from Manchega sheep’s milk in the province of Albacete, Ciudad Real, Cuenca, or Toledo in CastillaLa Mancha. The cheese is firm and compact with lots of butterfat and a savory flavour that grows more intense over time. El Trigal aged Manchego is complex and full flavoured with aromas of buttered popcorn.

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Is all petrol and diesel the same?

IT´S A common question that often triggers big arguments. Is branded petrol and diesel better than supermarket fuel, or should you just buy the cheapest you can find?

The problem is that most people don’t know how the fuel business works, and the truth is a well-kept trade secret.

Premium fuels, such as Shell V-Power Nitro+ and BP Ultimate, are not the same as regular petrol or diesel , although you can mix them freely with standard fuels without problems.

Petrol like this is known as ‘super unleaded’. Confusingly, the petrol that is labelled as ‘premium unleaded’ on forecourt pumps is actually standard petrol. When it comes to fuel, super is better than premium!

These ‘super unleaded’ fuels cost several pence per litre more than regular unleaded. For this extra money, you get a different, more sophisticated package of additives for cleaning and lubrication, and fuel with a higher octane rating.

It’s a similar story with ‘super’ diesels, like BP Ultimate Diesel.

Octane (petrol) and cetane (diesel) ratings describe the way a fuel burns inside an engine. Broadly speaking, a higher rating means a fuel will burn more efficiently and effectively inside your engine. This may improve performance and/or economy slightly – although not all drivers will see a noticeable difference.

All fuels sold in the UK conform to the relevant British Standards.

This means that they should all work in roughly the same way and you can mix them freely in your car’s fuel tank.

The standard petrol and diesel that’s sold on garage forecourts is mixture of two things – Base fuel and an additives package.

The base fuel is the same for all companies – in fact, it usually comes from the same tanks at the local fuel refinery/distribution centre. What varies is the additives package that goes into the fuel. These additives packages are secret recipes of extra ingredients that help keep the engine clean and improve lubrication inside the engine cylinders.

Each fuel company has its own additives packages and these are different. So it is possible (but not common) for some drivers to feel that their car responds better to the additives used by one fuel manufacturer over those of another.

Advanced tech for the new Toyota XEVO HAS announced that its technology will come equipped in the 2018 Toyota Camry, set for release any day now. The eighth generation of this best-selling car is the first Camry model to showcase Toyota’s Entune 3.0 multimedia system, including the Entune 3.0 App Suite Connect, powered by the Xevo Journeyware platform.

Xevo’s Journeyware suite of products seamlessly connects drivers and their vehicles to mobile applications, content, and services, dramatically enhancing the in-car experience for Camry drivers.

“The 2018 Toyota Camry is a beautiful new car and we are thrilled that our technology will make it even better,” said Dan Gittleman, CEO of Xevo. “We love working with Toyota as a partner, and can’t wait to see Xevo technology in all these cars as they hit the road.”

The new-and-improved multimedia Entune 3.0 App Suite Connect gives Toyota owners their favourite incar experience wherever they go, with personalized preferences. The App Suite also gives drivers’ access to Telenav’s Scout GPS Link, enabling drivers to easily transfer the turn-by-turn directions displayed on their mobile device to the multimedia display inside their car.

Xevo’s Journeyware platform includes Xevo Engine, the technology powering the Entune 3.0 App Suite, and its smartphone connectivity systems. Xevo Engine middleware delivers unprecedented reach across all devices and screens with minimal hardware requirements.

It is device and network agnostic and can be integrated with embedded HTML5 browsers, navigation applications, and on-board diagnostic information to drive in-vehicle HMI improvements and capture analytics. With the power of Xevo Engine, the Entune 3.0 platform leverages the customer’s smartphone to create an in-vehicle experience that offers integrated and upgradeable entertainment, smart-phone based navigation, and information services.

“The Entune 3.0 system is a tremendous asset of the

2018 Camry, equipping this best-selling, beloved car with cutting-edge connectivity,” said Sandy Lobenstein, Vice President of Connected Strategy and Product Planning for Toyota Motor North America (TMNA) and Executive Vice President, Business Planning and Strategy for Toyota Connected. “Deploying Xevo’s connected car technology in these vehicles will help them stand out in the market and deliver the most convenient, safe, and pleasant driving experiences to our customers.”

Through Entune 3.0, the 2018 Camry Sedan will also come equipped with Scout GPS Link by Telenav and Xevo Engine Link. Scout GPS Link was the first brought-in navigation solution to be powered by OpenStreetMap (OSM) data when it launched in 2016

and 2017 Toyota vehicles. The new 2018 solution is also built on OSM data and will bring more interactivity and a full navigation experience into the vehicle head unit.

The Scout GPS Link update will be made available for Toyota owners for both iPhone and Android mobile phones as a free download on the Apple App Store and Google Play.

“We’re very excited to bring the new Scout GPS Link in-vehicle experience to the 2018 Camry through our partnership with Xevo and Toyota,” said Sal Dhanani, President of the Automotive Business Unit and Co-Founder of Telenav. “We have evolved Scout GPS Link to provide a fully interactive and seamless navigation experience in the vehicle to meet the needs of Toyota’s drivers.”

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England hockey boss in health scare DANNY KERRY, the man who masterminded the Great Britain women’s gold medal winning performance at the 2016 Rio Olympics has suffered a heart attack.

In news that has only just been made public in a statement by England Hockey, the 46-yearold was taken ill on July 15 during the recent World League Semi-Final being played in South Africa.

Mr Kerry still continues to receive treatment in a Johannesburg hospital and is shortly due to fly back to England “for a further period of rest and recovery” and expected to return to work in September.

During his absence, the England team took bronze medal place after a 5-2 victory over Argentina at the weekend.

“Danny’s health has remained our sole and absolute priority,” said England Hockey performance director Ed Barney. “We wish him the very best over the coming weeks as he continues his recovery.”

Kerry expressed his “huge thanks and debt of gratitude” to the doctors who treated him in South Africa, and to England team doctor Cath Lester.

He went on to say: “I would also like to convey how proud I am of how both players and staff continued through the tournament in such a professional manner, particularly during the Saturday I was admitted.”

Kerry’s term in charge has coincided with the most successful era in the history of the England and Great Britain women’s teams.

Froome shows his tour de force

BRITAIN’S SUCCESSFUL weekend of sport was rounded off in perfect style when Chris Froome won the Tour de France for the fourth time in five years on Sunday.

The Team Sky rider is now second in the all-time list after completing his third successive victory.

Rigoberto Uran was second, 54 seconds behind, with Romain Bardet third.

As tradition dictates, the final stage is essentially a processional one as the group makes their way to Paris. Such are the informalities that Yoann Offredo stopped to greet family and friends as the race passed close to his home and Cyril Gautier wrote a marriage proposal on a piece on paper that was then broadcast across the world on television.

“Each time I have won has been so unique, such a different battle to get to this moment,” said Froome after he’d been crowned the winner. “They are all so special but this will be remembered as the closest and most hard fought.”

Team SKY director Nicolas Portal puts Froome’s success down to what are described as ‘cannibal instincts’. “He is normal off the bike, someone you can become friends with, but this guy has won the Tour de France four times and been on the podium in the Vuelta. On the bike he has his strength and this cannibal instinct. He just wants to win and his team-mates have to keep him calm.

“When there’s a little bit of crosswinds he just wants to go. To be honest, that is strange because when you know him he’s quite calm.”

Team-mates were also quick to show their support for the record breaker. Luke Rowe said: “He doesn’t get the respect for how much of an intelligent rider he is, sometimes he seems erratic or he just moves freely, but he’s intelligent and thinks things through.”

Froome’s win puts him ahead of American Greg LeMond and two others with three wins each. He’s still one behind the all-time greats with five victories - Jacques Anquetil of France, Eddy Merckx from Belgium, and Spain’s Miguel Indurain. Lance Armstrong’s seven successive victories have been removed from the Tour de France role of honour.