Costa Blanca South 30 August - 5 September 2012 Issue 1417

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Taxing times!

Prices up across board as VAT rises EXTRA VAT woe will face millions of families throughout Spain from this weekend.

From Saturday, prices across the board will rise with the standard rate of IVA - the Spanish equivalent of VAT - increasing from 18 to 21 per cent. And certain items - including cinema and discotheque visits, health products, plus funeral and cleaning services - will soar 13 per cent as from September 1 they will be categorised into a different VAT rating as the government battles to put more money into the national coffers. • No escape - Page 4

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Outdoor bars OUTDOOR bars will be allowed in Murcia at Christmas, said the city council. Applications for bar installations will be accepted from September 17 to October 19.

Boy dies A BOY, 11, died by electrocution when he attempted to turn on a fan immediately after getting out of the kiddie pool at his Los Mateos (Cartagena) home.

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A SCUBA diver, 55, died of a heart attack in the water at Cabo de Palos (Cartagena).

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Anger over cost of San Miguel water WATER BILLS in San Miguel de Salinas have risen sharply, in some cases by up to 300 per cent.

Water is no longer supplied by the local council and the first bills are coming in, six months following a takeover by Gestagua y Grupo Generala.

They are now paying two or three times as much money for the same amount of water, residents complain.

Privatising the water supply was the town hall’s solution for providing infrastructure on urbanisations in the Las Filipinas area. Built in the 1980s many homes were not legal but developers had their own water supply from artesian wells. This was then distributed by private companies.

In 2005 the water, now used on 2,500 Las Filipinas properties, was officially pronounced unfit for domestic consumption.

Unable to meet the financial cost of solving the problem, the council assigned the

supply to Gestagua y Grupo Generala.

Prices have risen, with residents who in the past paid around €8 a quarter for 20 cubic

UPSURGE: Some bills have risen by 300 per cent.

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metres of water now charged €25 for two months’ supply, whether or not the water is used.

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UTE or joint venture group - pledged to invest €4.5 million in exchange for supplying water to the area for the next 25 years.

Despite promises of new pipes bringing quality water from the Taibilla reservoir by January, work at Las Filipinas has not begun. Until this is completed, the Taibilla water will arrive through antiquated infrastructure with pipes made from asbestos cement, a nowprohibited and potentially carcinogenic material.

Privatising San Miguel’s water supply was not a political decision, but prompted by the needs of Las Filipinas residents, claimed the mayor, Angel Saez. “There is no other solution,” he said, because the town hall cannot pay for the necessary work.

“I’d like nothing better than free water,” he insisted.

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Sheep poisoned SHEPHERDS have complained that their sheep have been sick and even died from poisoning in the Elche countryside.

They believe the cause is improper use of pesticides.

Youth services SEX education, employment, and entertainment are a few of the workshop topics offered through the Valencia Youth Institute (IVAJ) in Elche, advised Youth Councillor Manuel Rodriguez.

Love-locked PADLOCKS have come to be a symbol of love on Torrevieja’s Levante promenade where 30 have been fastened to rails by couples.

No name AN ORIHUELA square has never been named according to the municipal architect who found no records on the area just one minute from City Hall.

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Peace and quiet after a five-year wait AFTER five years of issuing complaints against the noisy supermarket located below their homes, residents of a Santa Pola block of flats have finally got what they wished for.

Residents at Calle Leon No. 6 have been putting up with excessive noise coming from lorries which make deliveries to the supermarket at ‘all hours of the day’.

“There was another supermarket prior

to this one and we never had a problem,” commented the president of the residents’ association, Pablo Jose Codero.

However, he said: “When the supermarkets changed in 2007, that’s when the noise began all morning until night-time. In addition to the noise from delivery lorries, we had to put up with noise from inside the establishment since it is not properly soundproofed.”

The residents, desperate for peace and quiet after making numerous reports, eventually hired an expert who compiled a report claiming that the noise exceeded the legal limit.

Finally, last Friday, Santa Pola Town Council officially recognised the illegal noise levels and gave the supermarket a period of 15 days to make the necessary adjustments to correct the situation.

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False theft report A COLOMBIAN man, aged 23, was arrested for falsely reporting that his mobile phone had been stolen after Alicante police verified that he had just lost it in a fight and wanted to claim on his insurance.

New use

NEARLY 3,000 passengers disembarked from the Queen Elizabeth cruise ship in Alicante’s port last week and toured the city during their nine-hour stop-over.

THE old Benalua Asylum in Alicante is being considered as the new home for the Justice building and Mayor Sonia Castedo has already begun to take the necessary steps for its acquisition.

Education row

Legal dispute

THE Valencia Region’s leftist group EUPV demanded the desegregation of students based on their gender in some schools, pointing out that it is in violation of the Education Law.

THE August 4 decree that demands €710 from unregistered immigrants for medical cover contradicts three Valencian laws, according to the regional council.

Suspect sought ALICANTE Police are looking for a man in his 50s who robbed a shoe store in the city centre at knife-point. He gained access by telling the assistant there was a leak from his flat above the shop.

Shooting on set FILM company Ciudad de Luz (Alicante) allowed the public to shoot on its sets yesterday (Wednesday), requiring no more than a booking and €20 a person.

€200 fire-suit TEN volunteers of a forest firefighting group (ACIF) in Salinas paid €200 each for fireproof suits necessary for their work with Alicante Provincial Fire Brigade Committee.

IN SPAIN: The Blairs, Cleggs and Camerons (clockwise from top left) and their chosen destinations.

Forget politics, it’s holiday time

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PAIN may not see eye to eye with Britain politically over the sovereignty of Gibraltar.

But this does not put off Britain’s bestknown politicians from choosing Spain as the ideal for sunshine breaks away from the pressures of work for summer holidays.

Returning to the UK in recent days with work once more beckoning, British Prime Minister David Cameron, wife Samantha and their children looked relaxed after a break in Mallorca.

Meanwhile, his coalition partner and

Marijuana plantation unearthed Shops take a break GUARDIA CIVIL officers arrested three people in Guardamar del Segura for large-scale marijuana cultivation.

They also confiscated five kilos of dried cannabis ready for sale, together with 50 flowerpots containing the remains of plants.

The plantation came to the attention of the authorities at the beginning of this month when they discovered cannabis on sale at the home of one of the men. A watch was kept on his house and after two weeks of surveillance, Guardia Civil officers entered and searched it. One of the rooms had been turned into a hothouse and drying room. The three men, all Spanish, aged 25, 27 and 34 respectively, were taken into custody.

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deputy Nick Clegg took a family holiday with his Spanish-born lawyer wife Miriam in Valladolid, an historic university city in north central Spain.

And former British Prime Minister Tony Blair and family holidayed at a friend’s home in Benahavis, near Marbella. The now jet-setting ex-politician was seen out and about dining in Marbella and after becoming a Catholic during his time as a Downing Street resident also attending mass with wife Cheri in nearby San Pedro during his Spanish break.

‘BRETON is a cold, distant, inaccessible person, impassive and imperturbable, but he always knows what he is doing, what he is saying, and with clear awareness of what is right and what is wrong.’

Jose Cabrera, forensic psychiatrist on mental state of the father of Ruth and Jose Breton, the two children who were reported missing in Cordoba in October, 2011.

MANY Elche shops have closed for holidays since the end of recent festivals, but even the ones that remain open have reported slow business. This summer has been ‘horrible’, explained Federico Murcia, owner of gift shop Regalos Federico. “Since the festivities have ended there we’ve had up to 70 per cent fewer customers,” he said.

Number of the week

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is the estimated price for a litre of petrol once the VAT increase hits the pumps on Saturday. EC statistics show fuel taxes have grown to 47 per cent for gasoline and 42 per cent for diesel; however, Spanish prices are 8 and 6 per cent respectively below the EU average.

Cost-saving CUTS made to civil servants’ meal allowances and similar expenses have saved the region €730,639 in just six months, according to government sources.

Road reopen THE main access road to San Juan Beach in Alicante, Avenida de Bruselas, is open for service again after almost a week of repairs on a cracked sewage pipe that caused unpleasant odours and interrupted traffic.

and finally...

THE multinational British-Dutch company, Unilever, has reportedly created a plan to adapt its brands, which include Knorr, Lipton, Rexona and Pond’s, to an ‘impoverished Europe,’ with strategies that will use cheaper formulas and smaller packages to reactivate sales.

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NO ESCAPE! VAT rises to hit everyone NO household - expatriate or Spanish - will escape an increase in spending following this Saturday’s IVA/VAT rises.

Whether simply buying an item of clothing, having a cigarette or selecting a CD, from September 1 it will cost more.

While many families have - when budgets have allowed - tried stocking up in advance on some items to help ease the VAT charges, with daily incidentals, including making phone calls and having a beer or wine facing increases, life is about to get a whole lot more costly across the board.

The standard rate of VAT in Spain is 18 per cent at present, but from Saturday this rises to 21 per cent on many things including alcoholic drinks, tobacco, television and radio services, clothes, phone calls, animals used in bullfighting,

agricultural machinery and overthe-counter pregnancy tests.

Also rising to 10 per cent VAT from Saturday will be items at present in the reduced 8 per cent rating, including: • Foodstuffs in general (with the exception of some basics in the 4 per cent band • Soft drinks • Animals destined for human consumption or breeding • Health and social services, plus dental work • Imported artworks and antiques • Motorway tolls • Taxi fares • Rubbish collections.

Odd items will be removed from the reduced 8 per cent rate and moved to the standard 21 per cent VAT rate from Saturday, meaning there will be a massive 13 per cent price increase in visits to the

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Cinema visits. cinema and to discotheques, and it will also cost 13 per cent more to die, with funeral service costs now moved to the standard VAT rate.

Only items identified to remain in the 4 per cent category rate will NOT go up in price, including: • Basic foodstuffs like bread, eggs, cheese, milk, beans, fruit and vegetables • Books, magazines and newspapers

Phone calls.

• School items (but not electronic purchases) • Medicines • Vehicles and transport for the disabled and part-handicapped including wheelchairs • Prosthesis and implants.

At present new property falls within the 4 per cent VAT category, and this will continue until the end of the year, but will increase to 10 per cent from January, 2013.

Many tourists visiting Spain during September have offset the planned increases in car hire, excursions, accommodation and airport transfers by paying in advance, with a number of websites helping them achieve such savings. But when they arrive from Saturday onwards and go to relax over a cooling beer, wine or even a soft drink, then they should prepare to pay more than they would have done had they visited in August!

BRITISH drivers ogling pedestrians are at fault for nearly one million crashes per year, revealed a 2,142 driver survey carried out by Direct Line.

Bypass rise THE number of gastric bypass operations has risen from 858 to 5,407 in six years, despite Health Department efforts to promote healthier lifestyles among Britain’s increasingly overweight population.

Appeal denied THE two men sentenced to life in prison for the racist murder of Stephen Lawrence in London in 1993 were denied their first bid to appeal their convictions at the Court of Appeal.

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BUTT OUT: Students picked up over 5,000 butts employees of the ‘chiringuitos,’ therefore little interest has been shown.

“We inform clients and give them a plastic cup to

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A cool drink for cup of cigarette butts A CUP full of cigarette butts can be exchanged for a cool refreshment at Santa Pola ‘chiringuitos’ or beachside bars.

The exchange is part of a campaign to promote awareness of the contamination created by cigarette butts that are thrown along the beach all while helping to maintain the coast to be litter-free.

The Beach Council and Local Development Agency collaborated with the Employment Workshop to kick off the campaign by inviting the workshop students to visit the beaches. By the end students picked up more than 5,000 cigarette butts, an accomplishment that was applauded by Beach Councillor, Loreto Serrano.

However, beachgoers have only come to learn of the initiative from

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collect the cigarette butts, but few people have actually participated,” explained workers from the Poseidon ‘chiringuito.’

As for the beachgoers, some were for the initiative, including Asuncion Planelles who expressed her intention to participate; however, others expressed opposition including Manuel Perez who pointed out, “The people who should be concerned with this issue are smokers, and they are the ones who are throwing their cigarettes in the sand.”

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Ikea town to be built

The budget for providing school materials was cut.

Subsidies restrictive DESPITE the progressive Union, Progress and Democracy party’s (UP y D) support of public subsidies, the co-ordinator of Murcia region, Rafael Sanchez, called recent aid, “too restrictive”.

Sanchez expressed his opposition to the reduction of public assistance for textbooks, claiming “It’s just another action that leaves regional education in

a tough situation.” He went on to criticise the cuts in the number of faculty members as well as the depletion of 75 per cent of the Ministry of Education’s resources, which were used to provide schools with essential materials. The Ministry’s budget has dropped from €4 million to only €1 million.

He demanded the council increase the budget.

THE Ikea group is planning to build a neighbourhood in Hamburg, which will have hotels, offices, restaurants and ecofriendly transportation.

Draft law A RABBI in Hof, Bavaria has been reported by a local doctor for allegedly circumcising baby boys; however, the Justice Ministry is expected to draft a law to allow this practice for religious reasons.

Brothel bill A GUNMAN injured three security men at brothel Artemis in Berlin, during an argument over the bill for the prostitution services he received.

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Plentiful harvest ALICANTE farmers expect this year’s pomegranate harvest to be plentiful and of high quality, with an estimated yield of 4,000 tonnes of the regional fruit.

Monday marked the first day farmers could begin their harvest of the Valencian pomegranate.

This variety of pomegranate, found predominately in Elche, Albatera, Catral and Crevillente, is collected approximately three to four weeks before the Mollar de Elche pomegranate.

This season’s harvest is expected to produce “more than 4,000 tonnes, a figure similar to, if not slightly more than, last year’s harvest due to new orchards,” said Andres Irles – vice-president of the Elche Pomegranate Producers and Vendors Association.

The Valencian pomegranate has got a “sweet flavour, but its seeds

are pink, not red like the Mollar variety, and its peel is redder and much more delicate” explained Irles.

This early-blooming fruit makes up just 10 per cent of the total pomegranate production, while the Mollar pomegranate accounts for the remaining 90 per cent.

“The fruit is of high quality due to the favourable climate that has been registered during the flourishing stage. Also, due to high temperatures within the past few weeks, the fruit is very sweet, despite its lack of exterior colour,” said the vice-president.

Irles also made positive predictions for the Mollar pomegranate, which will be collected at the end of September and beginning of October, stating “If the climate permits, we will have a greater production and better quality Mollar pomegranate than last season.”

SCANDINAVIAN PRESS Stories making headlines in Denmark, Norway and Sweden

Bear flees accident NORWAY - A DRIVER swerved to avoid hitting an elk with her car on a Hedmark country road, only to hit a bear shortly afterwards. The animal fled into the woods.

Bumpy fight DENMARK - A blogger is fighting to prevent the city of Copenhagen from levelling out the grass bunkers near the Norre Solgade in autumn.

Belly ache SWEDEN - A Spanish drug smuggler, aged 33, was brought from Stockholm airport to the hospital where an x-ray revealed 50 capsules of cocaine in his stomach.

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Vandalised bridge deemed safe THE act of vandalism that damaged a safety railing along an Alicante footbridge does not prove to be a risk, according to city technicians.

Last weekend, the city of Alicante sent experts to examine the damage done to the footbridge that runs between Raval Roig and the Postiguet beach.

A resident had informed the city that someone had removed the glass that formed part of the safety railing.

The railing will be repaired, but in the meantime, the council assured residents that there is no risk of falling since the railing is made of a highly resistant material.

Security in the area will also be heightened to prevent future acts of vandalism according to the government.

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Nationwide search still on for missing man and €30,000 cash

By Nicole Hallett POLICE throughout Spain are continuing to search for a British expatriate who has been missing for more than 10 days, along with €30,000 cash.

Interpol has also been alerted with border crossings keeping a watch out for 28-year-old Paul Scott.

The Manchester United fan had been a crew member on board the

DISTIGUISHING MARK: Paul Scott has a tattoo of 11 stars going from his wrist and up his arm.

yacht for six months before the money went missing.

He was one of four crew

aboard the British-flagged yacht hired privately by passengers to take them

Alicante suspect arrested A FUGITIVE wanted for his alleged involvement with a gang of thieves who committed robberies in Alicante province was arrested in Marseille (France).

The suspect, an Algerian man aged 25, allegedly fled from Spain in May to avoid an operation conducted by Alicante police during which 37 people were arrested for forming part

of a gang that supposedly robbed homes, cars and sold drugs.

A European warrant for the man’s arrest and return to Spain was issued, ultimately leading to his detention in France.

The criminal group was officially deemed disbanded upon the suspect’s arrest, commented National Police.

from Ibiza to Moraira, north of Alicante on the Costa Blanca.

After dropping off the passengers the yacht docked overnight in Denia, near Moraira, before a planned return trip to Ibiza to pick up other clients.

It was after a night out in Benidorm that the money and other items were discovered missing from the safe and there was no sign of Scott.

“Paul had been drinking a lot that night, so we are not sure if it was premeditated or if he found the key and it

was a spur of the moment thing,” said Ruth Cherrett, who is from Australia but has lived in Mallorca for 10 years with her husband, Dave.

“We had worked with him for six months and he is a really nice guy. We are devastated,” said Ruth.

Along with the cash, personal documents belonging to fellow crew members and jewellery given to Ruth by family went missing. Theft of the documents meant Russian clients had to book another yacht.

Paul has a distinctive tattoo of 11 stars from his wrist to his shoulder, standing for Manchester United Premiership wins, according to Ruth.

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Changing fashion in names THE most popular names for babies registered last year in the Valencian Community were Alejandro and Paula.

Last year, 25,631 boys were born in the community’s three provinces of Alicante, Valencia and Castellon, announced INE, Spain’s official statistics office.

Of these, 606 were named Alejandro, followed in popularity by Daniel (565), Pablo (525), Hugo (479), David (477), Marc (470), Adrian (447), Alvaro (389), Marcos (372) and Javier (325).

Paula was the most popular name amongst the 23,898 girls born in the Valencian Community during 2011, followed by Maria, registered 580 times, Lucia (565), Sara (527), Carla (521), Sofia (436), Daniela (414) and Alba and Aitana, both with 376.

Nationwide, Alejandro was the most popular name for boys with a total of 5,879 male

VALENCIA’S MOST POPULAR NAMES: Alejandro for a boy and Paula for a girl. newborns receiving this name.

They were followed by Daniel, Pablo and Hugo.

Mohamed, in all its phonetic variations, occupied 67th place in last year’s list of names, compared to 55th place in 2010 and 94th place in 2002, INE revealed.

Lucia was the popular name for girls throughout Spain, with Paula in second place, followed by Maria and Lucia.

The most commonly-

found names in Spain are still Antonio, Jose, Manuel, Francisco and Juan for males and Maria del Carmen, Maria,

Carmen, Josefa and Isabel for women. These, however, are more often encountered in the middle-aged or elderly

while names like Benigno, Eufemia, Alcibades and Calixta generally belong to people in their 80s or 90s.

Alicante suspect arrested in France A FUGITIVE wanted for his alleged involvement with a gang of thieves who committed robberies in Alicante Province was arrested in Marseilles (France).

The suspect, an Algerian man aged 25, allegedly fled from Spain in May to avoid an operation conducted by Alicante police during which 37 people were arrested for forming part of a gang

that supposedly burgled homes, stole cars and sold drugs.

A European warrant for the man’s arrest and return to Spain was issued, ultimately leading to his detention in France.

The criminal group was officially deemed disbanded upon the suspect’s arrest, commented National Police.

Vandalised bridge is deemed safe AN act of vandalism which damaged a safety railing along an Alicante footbridge is not a safety risk, according to city engineers.

Last weekend, the city of Alicante sent experts to examine the damage that was done to the footbridge which runs between Raval Roig and the Postiguet beach.

A resident had informed the authorities that someone had removed the glass which formed part of the safety barrier.

The railing will be repaired, but in the meantime, the council assures residents that there is no risk of it collapsing since the railing is made of a highly resistant material.

Security in the area will also be heightened to prevent future acts of vandalism, according to the government.

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The new office is the company’s second in mainland Spain and is designed to fulfil an important role in the company’s European expansion planning, supporting Avalon’s regional sales and administration function as well as developing business in Southern Spain. The two Spanish offices complement Avalon’s presence in Manchester and London.

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Discovering a newspaper that earns money in the Western World is, it seems, harder than finding an admired politician in Spain.

But without intending to, I found one on the industrial estate in BenalmĂĄdena on the Costa del Sol. Distributed free, written in English and published weekly, since 2007 while the remainder of Europe has plunged into economic crisis, the Euro Weekly News (EWN) has increased pagination from 64 to 120 (in Costa del Sol).

Income - entirely from

advertising - has risen and while five years ago EWN published four separate editions each week, it now produces six (with a total pagination of approximately 450).

EWN owners Michel and Steven Euesden, aged 50 and 52 respectively, are proud of their workingclass backgrounds with Michel’s undiluted energy and Steven’s mature and more reserved approach.

Michel - blonde, slim, high heels and with the longest nails in the world (painted blue and white) involves herself mainly in daily management, administration and editorial.

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Anything more? “We are permanently in touch with clients and we know how to adapt to what the market wants.�

They produce ‘tapas’ journalism with few long stories ‘unlike Spanish newspapers’, and articles on a wide range of topics from bank scams to foreign pensioners, jellyfish beach invasions to new restaurant openings.

There is financial advice and the latest on the Spanish royal family, plus recipes for slimming or advice on spicing up life. In addition to plenty of news and features, there is also wide-ranging advertising. “When our competitors were paying dividends during the boom years, we were investing. Today practically all of them have gone.�

Is there a lesson here, not just for other newspapers but for the rest of the business community?

Diego Spadoni, an Italian who has lived in Spain for 20 years and owns the Sol y Miel EWN Hotel near the headquarters, says so. This year he has lowered prices, turnover is down and clients

are not staying for as long, but even so he expects this month (August) to show 90 per cent occupation. “The great present need is to be more professional, have more initiative and connect better with clients. You have to work longer hours and watch costs. People who don’t know

what to do, open a bar. A Spanish classic,� says Spadoni.

Super-professional Dani Garcia agrees that opening a bar is no longer a good idea. “The sector is saturated,� says the Marbella restaurateur whose establishment - Calima - has two Michelin stars.

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paper El Pais the headlines ‘

We are permanently in touch with clients and we know how to adapt to what the market wants.’

Steven and Michel.

He has succeeded because he describes Marbella as ‘a protected bubble’, with a flow of rich, foreign clients compensating for the fall in national tourism. Additionally, Garcia emphasises the

importance of attention to detail, as ongoing plans will see him open a New York restaurant in November.

But for every winner there is a loser. Some four-star hotels in Benalmádena are offering

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rooms for €20, less than half of the price Spadoni charges at the two-star Sol y Miel.

Tourism is supposedly buoyant in Spain and has increased since last year.

“If the least affected sector in Spain is the way it is now, what must the rest be like?”

Spadoni asks.

So what about publishing, where lay-offs are frequent nowadays and the outlook appears grim?

Strangely, the greatest problem for the audacious Euesdens is the lack of firstclass staff. “They must speak English, naturally, as well as Spanish. We are looking not just for journalists and salespeople but also bloggers and people with computer expertise,” says Michel. “Help us to find them. Please!”

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Malaga 54%

Santander (67 per cent).

In descending order, Gijon, Logroño, Vitoria, Albacete, Valladolid, La Coruña and Bilbao all made the top 10 with more than 60 per cent.

In Andalucia, 54 per cent of Sevilla residents said they felt safe, as did 54 per cent of Malagueños.

Palma de Mallorca and Alicante both did slightly better with 56 per cent.

Perhaps surprising to many, only just over half of Barcelona's 1.5 million residents feel totally safe in the city.

And in Badalona and Hospitalet – two suburbs – only 47 and 48

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PAMPLONA may be one of the most dangerous places in Spain to be hanging out in the streets during the annual ‘Running of the Bulls’ festival.

But when it comes to day to day life, 70 per cent of residents feel safe and secure out and about in the famous Basque university city, giving it the top ranking in a Spanish city safety survey.

In total 5,416 people living in 30 Spanish cities were asked how safe they felt by OCU consumer group, with Pamplona just nudging into top spot.

It was closely following by Oviedo (68 per cent) and

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per cent say they feel secure.

While the majority of those taking part in the survey told OCU that they feel safe in their own homes, in Badalona one in four admitted feeling apprehensive after dark, even indoors.

Most survey participants agreed in general that they found the streets more dangerous at night, especially in unfamiliar neighbourhoods or in outlying areas away from the centre.

Alicante 56%

Palma 56%

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FLYING LOW: Valencia’s high-ranking officials told to use budget airlines.

Spend less, officials told

HIGH-RANKING regional officials have been told to travel using low-cost airlines wherever and whenever possible.

With Valencia’s Regional Government already in line for a bailout from the central government in Madrid, the Consell - the regional government’s ‘cabinet’ - is looking for ways to reduce spending.

In new guidelines that come into force this September, officials and politicians are also urged to travel

tourist class on other forms of transport by the regional president, Alberto Fabra. They have also been told that they should be accompanied by no more than two aides when on official business.

Austerity measures surrounding travel - formerly an unquestioned excuse for official jollies - follow others announced last year. These recommended that officials and politicians should limit spending on work-related meals to €20 a head.

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4:05pm I Want My Own Room 4:35pm Splatalot Gameshow filled with medieval, messy madness.

5:00pm Shaun the Sheep Children's animation.

5:10pm Wingin' It 5:30pm Roy 6:00pm Newsround Topical news magazine for children.

6:15pm Pointless 7:00pm BBC News at Six 7:30pm BBC London News 8:00pm The One Show 8:30pm EastEnders 9:00pm Waterloo Road 10:00pm Good Cop 11:00pm BBC News at Ten The latest national and international news, with reports from BBC correspondents worldwide.

11:25pm BBC London News 11:35pm Neighbourhood Watched

12:20am The League Cup Show 1:20am Holiday Weatherview Detailed weather forecast. 1:25am Countryfile 2:25am June Brown: Respect Your Elders 3:15am Doorstep Crime 999 3:45am Real Rescues 4:30am BBC News

BBC3 8:00am Programmes Start Again at 7pm 8:00pm The World's Strictest Parents 9:00pm Don't Tell the Bride 10:00pm Russell Kane 11:00pm Wilfred 11:20pm Great Movie Mistakes 2: The Sequel 11:30pm EastEnders 12:00am Family Guy 12:45am American Dad! 1:30am Russell Kane 2:30am Wilfred 2:50am Don't Tell the Bride 3:50am The World's Strictest Parents 4:50am Snog, Marry, Avoid?

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7:50am Rastamouse 8:00am Barney's Latin America 8:30am The League of Super Evil 8:40am Frankenstein's Cat 8:50am Arthur 9:15am Ooglies 9:30am Nina and the Neurons: In the Lab 9:45am Baby Jake 10:00am Tinga Tinga Tales 10:10am Little Charley Bear 10:20am Raa Raa the Noisy Lion 10:30am Bob the Builder: Project Build It 10:40am The Koala Brothers 10:50am Lunar Jim 11:00am Octonauts 11:05am Kerwhizz 11:30am Driver Dan's Story Train 11:40am Waybuloo 12:00pm In the Night Garden In a magical forest, colourful characters have adventures.

12:30pm BBC World News 1:00pm Coast 1:20pm To Buy or Not to Buy 1:50pm Hotel Reserve 3:15pm The Weakest Link

4:00pm Real Rescues 4:45pm The Hairy Bikers' Food Tour of Britain 5:30pm Flog It! 6:15pm Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is 7:00pm Eggheads 7:30pm Celebrity MasterChef 8:00pm Athletics 10:00pm Iceland Erupts: A Volcano Live Special 11:00pm The Boss is Back 11:30pm Newsnight In-depth investigation and analysis of the stories behind the day's headlines with Gavin Esler.

12:20am The Rob Brydon Show 12:50am James May's Things You Need to Know...

1:20am The Culture Show at the Edinburgh Festival 1:50am BBC News 5:30am Pages from Ceefax

BBC4 8:00pm World News Today 8:30pm BBC Proms 10:20pm Pugin: God's Own Architect 11:20pm Modern Times 12:35am Only Connect 1:05am The History of Safari with Richard E. Grant 2:35am Pugin: God's Own Architect 3:35am Modern Times

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4:40am ITV Nightscreen 6:30am ITV Morning News 7:00am Daybreak 9:30am Lorraine 10:25am The Jeremy Kyle Show 11:30am This Morning 12:25pm ITV News The latest national and international news. 12:30pm This Morning 1:30pm Let's Do Lunch... With Gino and Mel 2:30pm ITV News and Weather 3:00pm Murder, She Wrote

5:10am Deal or No Deal 6:05am Make Do and Mend 6:30am Quick Bakes with Eric Lanlard 6:55am Sali Mali 7:00am The Treacle People 7:10am The Hoobs 7:35am Freshly Squeezed 8:00am Paralympic Games Breakfast Show 10:15am Paralympic Games 2012 1:00pm Channel 4 News 1:05pm Paralympic Games 2012 2:00pm Paralympic Games 2012

6:10am Wildlife SOS 6:35am Wildlife SOS 7:00am Thomas and Friends 7:10am The Wotwots! 7:20am City of Friends 7:30am Jelly Jamm 7:45am Peppa Pig 7:50am Big School 8:00am Little Princess 8:10am Ben and Holly's Little Kingdom 8:20am The Mr Men Show 8:35am Thomas and Friends 8:45am Make Way for Noddy 9:00am Fifi and the Flowertots 9:15am Peppa Pig 9:30am Roary the Racing Car 9:45am Bananas in Pyjamas 10:00am Abby's Flying Fairy School 10:15am The Wright Stuff 12:10pm Ultimate Police Interceptors 1:10pm 5 News Lunchtime 1:15pm Celebrity Big Brother 2:15pm Pawn Stars 2:45pm Neighbours 3:15pm CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

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4:25pm Deal or No Deal 5:25pm Come Dine with Me 5:55pm The Simpsons Animated comedy series following the hilarious adventures of a working class.

6:25pm Paralympic Games 2012 7:30pm Hollyoaks 8:00pm Channel 4 News Includes sport and weather.

8:30pm Paralympic Games 2012 Tonight: Swimming, Wheelchair Basketball and Table Tennis 11:30pm The Last Leg with Adam Hills

4:15pm McBride: It's Murder, Madam 6:00pm 5 News at 5 6:30pm Neighbours 7:00pm Andy Bates' Street Feasts 7:30pm 5 News 8:00pm Stansted: The Inside Story 9:00pm Revealed 10:00pm The Hotel Inspector 11:00pm Celebrity Big Brother

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4:00pm Secret Dealers 5:00pm Midsomer Murders 6:00pm Don't Blow the Inheritance 7:00pm London Tonight 7:30pm ITV News and Weather 8:00pm Emmerdale 8:30pm Tonight 9:00pm Emmerdale Paddy and Marlon realise BBC3 their friendship is over.

9:30pm Coronation Street Family Guy Tyrone burns his bridges with Tommy and Tina. Ryan's 12:00am behaviour spirals out of control.

10:00pm Britain by Night 11:00pm ITV News at Ten and Weather 11:35pm The Jonathan Ross Show

12:35am Poms in Paradise 1:05am Jackpot247 3:35am Tonight 4:00am ITV Nightscreen 5:35am The Jeremy Kyle Show

12:15am The Odyssey 12:50am A Running Jump 1:35am Ben Rushgrove 2:30am Embarrassing Bodies 3:25am Brief Encounters of the Sporting Mind 3:35am Apocalypse: The Second World War

12:00am Celebrity Big Brother's Bit on the Side 1:00am Super Casino 4:55am HouseBusters 5:20am House Doctor 5:45am Michaela's Wild Challenge

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NO FAIR AIRLINE: Ryanair later refused to provide its own version of events.

Tight-lipped Ryanair enrage passengers RYANAIR could face legal proceedings from at least 100 passengers who were stranded for 12 hours on an internal Spanish flight.

Police and Guardia Civil officers were called to ease tensions after the flight from Menorca to Madrid was aborted after the crew detected a technical fault.

Passengers were returned to the airport building but claim Ryanair failed to explain.

Tempers flared and ‘scoundrels!’ and ‘hands up, this is a stickup!’ were some of the milder accusations from the 180 people waiting to fly to Madrid.

Police and Guardia Civil officers obliged Ryanair staff to stamp and validate passengers’ official complaint forms.

They also kept them informed of developments.

None of the crew was willing to explain what the fault consisted of or how the problem would be solved, said passengers.

Declining to give her name, she confirmed she and approximately 100 others intended to lodge an official complaint.

Ryanair refused to give its own version of events.

The company is currently under investigation by the Spanish authorities regarding three emergency landings made at Valencia airport on July 26.

The planes were low on fuel, but had been fuelled

according to European regulations, Ryanair boss O’Leary later said.

“And although Spain could investigate the company,” it cannot withdraw Ryanair’s licence,” he claimed.

Dinner and Dance Showtimes THREE Dinner and Dance Showtimes will be held during September, by Snoopy Productions supporting Paul Cunningham Nurses.

They will include great tribute artists Gene Pitney, Neil Diamond, Matt Christian and DJ Snoopy.

The first will take place next Thursday (September 6) at Asturias Restaurante in Punta Prima.

Then Olympia Mil Palmeras will host the second and third show on Tuesday September 11 and Wednesday 12.

All shows start at 7pm and tickets cost €20, available at all Paul Cunningham Nurses Shops and the office in La Marina, call Diane on 966 790 363, or from Tyna of Snoopy Production on 634 379 359.

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Stat of week ENERGY consumption since last year by Spanish businesses has dropped 4 per cent; the industrial sector by 6.6 per cent and the service sector by 1.4 per cent.

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Extra help for 200,000 €450 grant ongoing, but with strings attached THE government’s about-turn decision to continue payment of a subsidy to jobless people who have run out of dole credit has provided six months of new hope for an estimated 200,000.

With payments originally due to end on August 15, the government has now approved an extension until February.

Additionally the ‘Plan Prepara’ grant payment has been increased by €50 to €450 for people with at

RECORD!

Petrol hits €1.51 litre THE cost of a litre of 95 octane petrol has reached a record €1.511, and diesel €1.42, according to an EU Petrol Report. Prices vary in different regions and filling stations, with the litre price recorded as a national average.

least two other family members in their charge.

Several labour unions are sceptical and warned that people will have to be careful with the ‘fine print’.

People receiving the ‘Plan Prepara’ grant have to take training courses as part of a scheme initially introduced by the Zapatero government in February 2011, with an initial six-month duration. The latest extension is the third to be put into place.

Getting tough on sharp sales THE government has stepped in to halt what many feel was ‘sharp selling’ by many banks.

Buyers of preferred bank shares will now have to know exactly what they are investing in.

And they will need to personally sign a consent form before purchasing.

In some cases there must be a minimum investment of €100,000, Economy Minister Luis de Guindos has stated.

Tempted by high dividends and led by some banks to believe they were making a deposit, not an

Flirty way to get a good deal IN tough economic times, flirty women are more likely to get a good deal than men.

Women who act ‘flirtatiously’ when out shopping, or negotiating for major purchases including a car, are more likely to get a substantial discount than males, a study in both the UK and America shows.

It is thought a combination of flirting and friendliness may help women disarm male salespeople in sales negotiations.

Laura Kray of the University of California, Berkeley in the US, said that flirty women can often be seen to ‘convey assertiveness and power’.

investment, more than one million bank customers saw savings trapped after buying into unredeemable shares.

De Guindos described the shares as a ‘sophisticated product’, but many who invested originally discovered too late that they could get their money back only by reselling on the secondary market.

Many invested in banks subsequently nationalised by the Spanish government and found their chances of breaking even, let alone making a profit, were nil.

The latest legislation introduced last Friday will prevent situations like those of recent years, De Guindos added.

Meanwhile, banks with clients wanting to recover money ploughed into preferred shares are offering to exchange them for ordinary shares or other products.

With time, this may enable them to recoup their original investments.

But this course is not open to nationalised groups including Bankia, Novagalicia and Catalunya Caixa, as the European Commission is insisting that restructuring must be financed by creditors, including preference shareholders.

JOBLESS: Payment extended to those out of dole credit.

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Biggest problem is the community president

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We have a problem with the president of our community, who takes a fee for doing the job but fails to carry out some duties despite several requests.

One duty is maintaining the street lights, two of which have been out of order for some time. Recently a group of noisy youths identified the area as a good place to congregate.

We have repeatedly requested our president to You and the make the defective lights operational again, but Law in Spain have been ignored.

By David Searl It seems that at the last Annual General Meeting (AGM) the matter was raised but the lights remain dark. What action can we take to ensure that the president carries out duties for which she receives a fee from the community?

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Community of Property Owners is a democracy.

The problem with this is that a democracy is a do-it-yourself organisation.

The members discuss the issues at the AGM and settle disputes by majority vote. The AGM is the supreme authority. In your case, if the elected president fails to carry out his or her assigned duties, you should first make the complaint in writing, directly to the president and also to the assembled members at the AGM. Perhaps you could inform the other members by a circular in mailboxes.

Make sure your complaint is on the formal meeting agenda for discussion and vote.

This agenda is a serious matter.

Only issues which appear on the agenda can be voted upon. Then, the vote of the majority of members requiring the president to fix the street lights should do the trick.

If there are even more serious problems, one-fourth of the members, who represent one-fourth of the ‘cuotas’ or community fees, can force the calling of an Extraordinary General Meeting.

This meeting might have only one item on the agenda, which would be replacement of the president.

David will respond to queries but reserves the right to select letters which will be of interest to the greatest number of readers.

You can also consult David through lawyers Ubeda-Retana and Associates in Fuengirola. ask@lawtaxspain.com or call 952 667 090.

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Plastic payments keep home-life ticking ALMOST half of British households continue to depend on credit cards to pay their rising utility bills, a recent survey has shown.

£££ HALF of Britain’s employees spend an average of £367 (€458) of their own money each year on work-related expenses, with only 45 per cent claiming expenses back, revealed a Capital One study.

£££ HOME-OWNERS with five-year fixed mortgage rates, a clean credit

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history and enough equity may halve their monthly payments, according to Adrian Anderson of Anderson Harris.

£££ APPROXIMATELY 39 in every 10,000 mortgage applicants lied about their finances from April to July, representing a 23 per cent yearly rise, a study shows.

£££ THE campaign group, ‘Save our Savers’ has asked the government to abolish taxation of British saving accounts to boost returns for millions.

£££ APPROXIMATELY 130,000 people receive £7 (€8.75) or less state pension, about the same number that receive £230 (€287); however, this will change when the £140 (€175) flat-rate pension scheme is enforced, says Pensions Minister Steve Webb.

Daft ideas don’t take holidays but get summer-break boost IT’S a well-worn and rather tattered cliché.

But it really is beginning to appear that the lunatics have finally taken over the EU asylum.

One might file and forget the latest foolish proposals emanating from the EU merely as something thought up by tabloid journalists to fill pages during the annual July-August silly season.

But, sadly, this is not the case.

Perhaps the ideas floated by Spanish MEP Alejandro Cercas should not be taken too seriously. Maybe he was just acting the court jester during the holiday absence of those wannabe statesmen in Brussels. But, then again, it is important to ponder on the flood of directives - around 2,000 per year and some truly foolish - finding their way on to the statute books without parliamentary debate.

The following gem came as a surprise when I discovered it as an insignificant-looking paragraph hidden in a 65-page research document sent to me by a British MP. It concerned a proviso that every EU Commission directive must be perused by the European Scrutiny Committee at Westminster before being passed to the relevant ministers and departments.

This, I felt, was a practical safeguard until I discovered, tucked away, a further codicil stating that if an EU directive is not rejected by the

HOLIDAY MODE: The UK’s Houses of Parliament takes a long summer recess.

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scrutiny committee within six weeks, it will be deemed to have been agreed, and will pass directly - and without parliamentary debate - into the statute book.

Six weeks might appear long enough for even a parliamentary committee to make up its mind, but the British parliament enjoys a long summer break from the end of July until October, and the European Scrutiny Committee, along with all the others, does not sit during this period.

However, the European Commission is away from its office only during August, which means that for 12 weeks every year, the EU can issue proposals that will not be scrutinised at Westminster.

It raises the question just how JUST over 5,150 people in Spain have many potentially declared incomes of more than €600,000, ‘toxic’ ideas have, more than 5,300 fewer than five years ago. over the years, Experts say it is normal for the rich in bad passed into British times to invest away from home when their law without parliaown country is experienciing recession. mentary scrutiny or debate?

Spanish money on the run

When in opposition Theresa May promised to address this anomaly, but I have not been able to discover if any action has been taken. Now, coincidentally(?), along has come another sample of EU idiocy which might still slip under the wire.

The EU mandarins are forever banging on about the need to improve the eurozone’s ‘competiveness’, and emphasising the importance of this in getting the various economies moving again. But then someone like Señor Cercas comes along with an altogether daft idea that, unless enforced worldwide, would slam the EU brakes full on, resulting in even more misery and deprivation than is already being suffered by so many poor souls living in the real world.

Under these proposals all employers intending to make job cuts would have to ‘measure the happiness of their staff’, and carry out ‘psychological health’ checks before and after redundancy.

Ridiculous, perhaps, but this silly idea has already received European Parliamentary approval, clearing its way to becoming a commission directive.

European Scrutiny Committee, watch out!

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www.euroweeklynews.com WHEN making any investment, it is important to only use firms which are authorised and regulated and to look for arrangements which provide a high enough level of investor protection to give you peace of mind.

We unfortunately still hear stories of people losing money to unauthorised sales people.

For example, three Britons have recently been convicted over a £10 million Ponzi scheme which had targeted British expatriates in Spain.

The scheme ran from 2001 to 2009. Trading as Gilher Inc, the fraudsters promised investors 20% returns. The money was however never invested, and was instead diverted to support their own lifestyles. They owned luxury villas in the area and had an active social life there.

It is believed that 70 British residents in Mallorca were defrauded out of £10 million.

Most of them were retired, with many of them handing over their life savings. The amounts lost ranged between €11,000 and €223,000.

The investigation was carried out by the UK’s Senior Fraud Office, after receiving complaints from investors in November 2009.

In March Texan financier Allen Stanford was convicted by a US court of orchestrating a $7 billion Ponzi scheme.

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used the money to fund his other businesses and an opulent lifestyle. The largest Ponzi scheme in recent years remains Bernard Madoff’s $65 billion fraud, which came crashing down in December 2008.

Ponzi schemes basically use money from new investors to pay existing ones. The first investors will see returns, which help the scheme appear genuine and profitable to new investors. Those who invest later usually lose their money.

The capital is not actually invested and earning returns for the investors, and the schemes collapse when the unsustainable supply of new investors and money dries up.

According to the UK Financial Services Authority, too many Britons fall victim to investment scams.

Around £500m is lost each year to scams where people are

contacted to invest in shares, property or rare goods, with a promise of a high return. The majority of victims are men aged over 50, and most of them say they are experienced investors - so everyone needs to be on their guard, wherever they live.

Generally, the bigger the proposed return is, the greater the risk. Besides Ponzi schemes, “boiler room” scams involve fraudsters cold-calling people offering shares or other investments which turn out to be worthless, over-priced or nonexistent. Investors are promised high returns but usually end up losing their money.

Some victims have lost all their savings or their family home.

The Financial Services Authority warns that the tactics often sound like the “real deal, so it’s easy to be drawn in by their professional and high pressure sale tactics”.

How can you protect yourself from fraud?

When it comes to investments and pensions you should only work with firms which are fully authorised and regulated by a reputable national regulatory body like the UK Financial Services Authority.

Check this independently with the relevant authority. You can often do this online, for

example, you can access the Financial Services Authority register at www.fsa.gov.uk/register/home .do.

Only ever transfer money to an authorised institution or trust company. Never write a cheque or transfer funds to an unauthorised individual or company to invest it on your behalf.

Investing through a large established firm rather than being a one-man band will also give you peace of mind.

Compare the return being promised with comparable investments. If it is much higher then there is probably a catch. If nothing else it may be a much riskier investment than you realise.

Do not be tempted by get rich quick schemes. At the very least, limit the amount you invest and make sure you understand the investment and how returns are generated.

Most importantly, as the Financial Services Authority website warns (and the bold and use of capitals are theirs): “REMEMBER, IF IT SOUNDS TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE, IT PROBABLY IS”.

To protect your wealth, you should only invest through proven investments placed through a trustworthy and established firm, such as

Blevins Franks Financial Management Limited.

For example, if you place your investments in a Luxembourg regulated insurance bond, you will benefit from an exceptionally strong culture of investor protection.

Luxembourg’s regulations are governed by EU directives that require strict financial controls and supervision to provide investors with a secure onshore regime.

This regime provides maximum security from institutional risk to investors without limit. Your investment assets are completely protected should the insurance company fail.

The regime offers complete segregation of clients’ assets from either the creditors of the insurance company or any of its custodian banks.

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To keep in touch with the latest developments in the offshore world, check out the latest news on our website www.blevinsfranks.com

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C H A N G E ( P ) % C H G. -0.60 0.00

NET VOLUME 781.00

Admiral Group PLC

1077.50

-2.00

0.00

178.67

Aggreko PLC

2276.00

25.00

0.00

327.14

AMEC PLC

1045.00

-8.00

0.00

785.56

Anglo American PLC

1930.00

-56.50

0.00

3,584.36

Antofagasta PLC

1124.50

-17.00

0.00

1,531.94

ARM Holdings PLC

569.50

-1.00

0.00

1,905.17

Ashmore Group PLC

323.55

-15.00

0.00

1,767.28

Associated British Foods 1245.50

14.00

0.00

597.73

AstraZeneca PLC

2949.00

22.00

0.00

Aviva PLC

326.50

0.10

Babcock Int Group...

839.00

1.50

BAE SYSTEMS PLC

311.00

2.30

0.00

4,983.07

Barclays PLC

186.50

-3.80

0.00

51,764.53

BG Group PLC

1308.50

-4.50

0.00

3,169.31

BHP Billiton PLC

1948.00

-27.50

0.00

6,396.49

445.25

-0.90

0.00

11,828.58

BP PLC

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0.79153

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0.00

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12.00

0.00

2,152.21

Croda International PLC 2295.00

3.00

0.00

228.55

1705.00

15.50

0.00

3,393.99

Eurasian Nat Resources

377.50

-12.60

0.00

3,766.55

Diageo PLC

-7.80

0.00

3,274.29

-3.50

0.00

1,027.15

0.00

2,033.99

Fresnillo PLC

1620.00

-4.00

0.00

535.88

0.00

0.00

1,264.32

G4S PLC

252.75

0.40

0.00

1,966.46

750.00

6.00

0.00

1,390.72

GKN PLC

215.10

-1.60

0.00

12,132.70

-22.00

1,254.00

British Land Co PLC

530.50

0.00

8,275.15

British Sky Broad Gr

0.00

605.19

BT Group PLC

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222.00

-3.80

0.00

3,715.60

1459.50

10.00

0.00

6,613.12

Bunzl PLC

1082.00

8.00

0.00

442.25

Glencore Int PLC

362.12

0.85

0.00

16,347.28

Burberry Group PLC

1322.50

-15.00

0.00

697.10

Hammerson PLC

518.50

1.50

0.00

1,008.09

Capita PLC

682.50

3.00

0.00

470.55

Hargreaves Lansdown

575.75

6.00

0.00

323.99

Capital Shopping Cntrs

306.10

-0.10

0.00

683.92

HSBC Holdings PLC

552.50

-2.10

0.00

13,258.49

2134.00

-30.00

0.00

326.94

ICAP PLC

325.00

-0.20

0.00

1,088.15

IMI PLC

890.00

-4.00

0.00

663.34

Imperial Tobacco Group 2462.50

18.00

0.00

1,682.85

InterContinental Hotels 1640.00

6.00

0.00

553.90

International Consldtd

159.00

-1.50

0.00

6,848.18

2738.00

14.00

0.00

181.15

77.38

0.25

0.00

5,840.62

Carnival PLC

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1.9M 10.4M 4.2M 23.2M 88.8M 5.4M 5.0M 3.5M 32.4M 2.7M 9.8M 29.3M 22.1M 5.8M 45.2M 2.6M 11.3M 20.0M 12.1M 3.5M 10.2M 23.0M 23.1M 8.6M 9.3M 1.7M 3.3M 12.8M 5.2M 5.8M

745.00 1140.00

935.00

3302.50

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+0.85 0.00 +1.07 +0.39 +0.01 +0.73 -0.16 +0.72 +0.075 +0.11 +0.74 +0.16 -0.055 +0.41 -0.13 +2.07 -0.14 -0.06 +0.59 +0.67 +0.32 +0.305 +0.27 +0.34 +0.36 +0.60 +0.88 +0.92 +0.55 +0.39

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MMM 3M Co 92.83 AA Alcoa Inc 8.63 AXP American Express Co 57.49 T AT&T Inc 36.95 BAC Bank of America Corp 8.16 BA Boeing Co 71.09 CAT Caterpillar Inc 87.47 CVX Chevron Corp 112.01 CSCO Cisco Systems Inc 19.20 DD E. I. du Pont de Nemours and C... 50.35 XOM Exxon Mobil Corp 88.05 GE General Electric Co 20.80 HPQ Hewlett-Packard Co 17.58 HD Home Depot Inc 56.96 INTC Intel Corp 24.91 IBM International Business Machine... 197.77 JNJ Johnson & Johnson 67.60 JPM JPMorgan Chase and Co 37.17 KFT Kraft Foods Inc 41.87 MCD McDonald's Corp 88.92 MRK Merck & Co Inc 43.12 MSFT Microsoft Corp 30.56 PFE Pfizer Inc 24.01 PG Procter & Gamble Co 67.02 KO The Coca-Cola Co 38.47 TRV Travelers Companies Inc 65.40 UTX United Technologies Corp 80.08 VZ Verizon Communications Inc 43.17 WMT Wal-Mart Stores Inc 72.11 DIS Walt Disney Co 49.56

Compass Group PLC

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$ 2.6709 0.4309 / +19.24% $ 10.558 1.568 / +17.44% $ 19.35 2.43 / +14.36% $ 9.86 1.22 / +14.12% $ 2.33 0.24 / +11.48% $ 2.29 0.22 / +10.63% $ 4.82 0.45 / +10.30% $ 4.365 0.395 / +9.95% $ 4.37 0.38 / +9.52% $ 17.65 1.34 / +8.22% $ 50.62 3.83 / +8.19% $ 10.79 0.71 / +7.04% $ 51.59 3.38 / +7.01%

ITV PLC Johnson Matthey PLC

2180.50

9.00

0.00

399.31

Kazakhmys PLC

635.00

-20.00

0.00

2,539.66

Kingfisher PLC

285.50

2.80

0.00

5,785.34

Land Securities Group

799.00

-5.00

0.00

2,186.53

Legal & General Group

127.50

-0.30

0.00

12,089.13

Lloyds Banking Group PLC 34.12

-0.06

0.00

88,395.68

Marks & Spencer Grp

372.50

15.20

0.00

13,384.98

Meggitt PLC

376.85

-3.60

0.00

1,268.03

Morrison Supermarkets

287.50

1.50

0.00

4,888.03 4,373.45

National Grid PLC Next PLC Old Mutual PLC

Most Declined Autodesk, Inc. $ 30.12 Porter Bancorp, Inc. $ 2.0126 Spanish Broadcasting System, Inc. $ 3.13 P & F Industries, Inc. $ 5.33 Shoe Carnival, Inc. $ 22.56 Stratasys, Inc. $ 62.50 RRSat Global Communications Network Ltd. $ 5.10 Deswell Industries, Inc. $ 2.59 rue21, inc. $ 26.81 EMCORE Corporation $ 4.90 Zumiez Inc. $ 31.51 School Specialty, Inc. $ 2.65

Intertek Group PLC

5.59 / -15.65% 0.1974 / -8.93% 0.29 / -8.48% 0.45 / -7.79% 1.82 / -7.47% 5.02 / -7.43% 0.40 / -7.27% 0.20 / -7.17% 2.06 / -7.14% 0.34 / -6.49% 1.93 / -5.77% 0.16 / -5.69%

Pearson PLC

693.00

4.50

0.00

3178.50

0.00

0.00

360.86

145.00

-1.20

0.00

5,808.14

1217.50

5.00

0.00

1,090.20

621.00

0.00

0.00

715.35

1490.50

-25.00

0.00

717.97

Polymetal Intnal PLC

980.00

2.50

0.00

401.27

Prudential PLC

804.00

1.00

0.00

3,984.31

Randgold Resources Ltd 5631.50

-30.00

0.00

206.45

Reckitt Benckiser Group 3588.00

53.00

0.00

1,315.41 2,288.89

Pennon Group PLC Petrofac Ltd

Reed Elsevier PLC

555.00

2.50

0.00

Resolution Ltd

235.00

-1.80

0.00

2,023.76

REXAM PLC

420.00

-2.70

0.00

4,973.32

Rio Tinto PLC

2894.50

-47.00

0.00

6,923.28

Rolls-Royce Holdings PLC 850.00

-4.00

0.00

2,227.42

Royal Bank of Scotland

227.50

-5.00

0.00

8,899.91

Royal Dutch Shell PLC

2305.00

6.00

0.00

1,621.17

RSA Insurance Group PLC 112.50

0.10

0.00

6,729.31

SABMiller PLC Sage Group (The) PLC Sainsbury (J) PLC

2812.50

13.50

0.00

919.47

298.50

-2.60

0.00

2,719.78

322.60

0.30

0.00

3,719.66

1370.50

-4.00

0.00

143.35

Serco Group PLC

575.75

2.50

0.00

533.99

Severn Trent PLC

1858.50

10.00

0.00

316.72

Shire PLC

1950.00

19.00

0.00

771.42 1,704.30

Schroders PLC

Smith & Nephew PLC

654.50

10.00

0.00

Smiths Group PLC

1041.50

-4.00

0.00

431.33

SSE PLC

1340.00

8.00

0.00

1,545.76

Standard Chartered PLC 1410.00

18.50

0.00

2,724.61

Standard Life PLC

252.50

-0.30

0.00

5,896.02

Tate & Lyle PLC

655.00

3.00

0.00

758.77 15,889.40

Tesco PLC

340.75

1.00

0.00

Tullow Oil PLC

1385.00

-26.00

0.00

1,648.48

Unilever PLC

2285.50

26.00

0.00

1,407.61

United Utilities Grp PLC

722.00

3.50

0.00

1,710.83

Vedanta Resources PLC

963.50

-16.00

0.00

1,024.43

Vodafone Group PLC

185.50

0.65

0.00

37,817.84

Weir Group PLC

1710.50

-48.00

0.00

1,019.68

Whitbread PLC

2039.00

9.00

0.00

280.43

Wolseley PLC

2505.00

-18.00

0.00

1,066.50

WPP PLC

825.00

-8.50

0.00

5,302.26

Xstrata PLC

925.50

1.10

0.00

7,690.97

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Are you brave enough to ring some changes?

HOW do we take control of our finances?

Change.org is a global online petition Often it can be all about throwing some site that allows the public to bring matters weight around a little bit close to their hearts to a and actually making a wider audience in the hope difference. of changing the way things Most people want to be are done. debt free and therefore try A young lady using the to start saving a little American version of the A look something for a rainy day. petition site managed to at finance It’s something frequently get Bank of America to for females at the back of the mind, ditch a $5 debit card fee but unfortunately taking after 300,000 people Jane Plunkett the proper active steps is signed her petition against jane.plunkett@euroweeklynews. what holds a lot back. the bank fee. com Like most things in life, A disabled woman in facing up to a (financial) Spain has posted a petition problem and making a against any reform to conscious effort to rectify national abortion laws, matters is what can believing that it should ensure a return to the always be a woman’s path of prosperity. personal decision. She has Whether it’s paying off a received almost 122,000 credit card or making a signatures.

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Sweet success for Hershey’s HERSHEY’S, the US chocolate company, expects international sales to increase 20 per cent by 2017 thanks to availability of Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups in Japan.

Phone first AN INTEL Mint smartphone priced at $550 (€438) by Russia’s mobile service operator, Megafon, is the first in Russia to use the Atom Z2460 chip.

Pricey claim US BIOTECH giant Monsanto must pay $250,000 (€199,000) for what a Brazilian judge called ‘abusive and misleading propaganda’ concerning an advert for genetically modified soy.

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Spanish able to teach a lesson to the Chinese over breakfast WHEN it comes to breakfast in Spain, pan con tomate (tomato on toast with olive oil), pan con aceite (olive oil on toast) and churros - especially in winter - are all-time favourites.

And not only with the nationals, but equally with thousands of expatriates... though some do remain true to the full English!

In Mallorca, as well as to a lesser degree on mainland Spain, many like a savoury start to the day, including ensaimada.

And, of course, when it comes to breakfast out - a daily way of life for millions of workers in Spain from bankers to builders, from shop assistants to gardeners - it isn’t rare to see a fairly early morning coffee being served along with an accompanying small brandy.

But, according to a new survey, when it comes to breakfast and eating out, then the the Chinese are slow starters.

For only one in five urban consumers eat at fast-food restaurants between 4 and 11am, as opposed to a massive 75 per cent at lunchtimes.

With the total number of foreign fast-food outlets in China set to break the 50,000 mark this year - up from 48,477 in 2011 and 36,037 in 2006 - and 44 per cent of

FOOD FOR THOUGHT: Many Spanish eat breakfast out.

Chinese consumers planning to spend more on fast-food in the coming year, the potential for the sector is clear.

Tan Heng Hong, Senior China Research

Analyst at Mintel, the global supplier of consumer, product and medical intelligence, with offices worldwide including in London, says: “More has to be done to unlock opportunities in the breakfast market where usage is the lowest.”

Following a recent survey by Mintel, he revealed that despite having the upper hand in quality, safety and service: “Foreign fast-food still has much work to do in flavour, affordability, health and variety in order to compete more effectively against Chinese fast-food, which has the largest share of the fast-food sector.”

Research also shows an interesting gender divide when it comes to foreign fastfood. More women (71 per cent) claim to eat at foreign fast-food restaurants than men (66 per cent).

Additionally while a quarter of all women eat at fast-food restaurants when there is a promotion including meal vouchers or coupons, only 19 per cent of men seek such special deals.

“To increase traffic among women, promotions such as vouchers and coupons can be a useful marketing tool. Women are interested in deals because they enjoy the thrill of not paying full price for an item,” said Hong.

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Pianist Vincent hits the right notes worldwide!

Concert pianist and music professor Vincent Russo has performed all over the world, recorded nine CDs and spends his time between Spain, Italy and Switzerland. Nicole Hallett reports.

Were your parents musical? various European countries and nominated Not really, though they appreciated Honorary Citizen of Osaka (Japan), music and art. My grandfather was a founding promoter of Greek theatre flautist at Naples Opera House. events and European music film Did you always want to festivals. be a pianist?

Career highlight?

Since a child, I have been Performing at the moved by the magic sound Leningrad Philharmonic of a piano. I started playing Hall in St Petersburg when 11 and gave my first (Russia), the mythical concert aged 13.

Carnegie Hall in New York Globally, where have and with major orchestras you performed? and noted conductors in the USA, Canada, South America, USA, Canada and Japan.

Russia, Japan and in several European Future? countries. I have performed in Mallorca Four live CD recordings of Rachmaninoff (1986), for national Spanish radio and as well as Schumann, Brahms and Scriabin television (1997-98) and Valencia and a double CD with Chopin works. They (2000). will be released gradually during 2013 and Achievements?

2014. Also, potential 2013 concerts in International ‘merit’ mentions from Mallorca and Valencia.

Read the full interview on www.euroweeklynews.com/features/interviews

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Vital Statistics • Age: 54 • Born: New York • In Spain: 16 years • Spanish base: Mallorca • Marital status: Single • Speaks fluently: English, Italian, Spanish, Catalan, French and Russian • Best thing about Spain: Warm, cheerful attitude • Worst: Unpunctuality • Hobbies: Researching Greek/theatre history, 17th century Flemish and Dutch art history, psychoanalysis

EWN COMMENT Pie in the sky A HOSPITAL in Lliria (Valencia) has never opened since building finished in 2009.

Castellon airport - the Valencian Community again - opened last year but has never received a single passenger.

Who knows, if the

second had not been built, perhaps the first would be functioning.

Public money and megalomania are a marriage made in heaven for spendthrift administrations. And hell for those at the receiving end of spending cuts.

Banking on secrecy SPAIN is apparently disinclined to extradite Herve Falciani, a former HSBC employee who revealed details of 24,000 Swiss accounts to the French tax authorities.

Arrested in Barcelona, he is wanted by Switzerland for breaching bank confidentiality - not an offence in this country.

Some governments have already acted on his information and this includes Spain, who collared Santander Emilio Botin. president Emilio Botin. Falciano deserves a medal, not extradition.

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Waste collectors mean bleary-eye starts to the day WHILE I love living in Spain, enjoying all that the weather and culture have to offer, I do have a pet hate; the rubbish collectors pitching up just as I am about to drift off to sleep or waking me up.

They are so noisy, between the vehicle and the tipping of the containers and the workers shouting, it is impossible to ignore.

I have to wake up early in the morning and as a result of this a couple of days a week I am exhausted at work, not having had the required hours of sleep.

I understand the reason, as this is the least busy time on the roads, but I wish they could do it a bit earlier.

Nicole Hauschild, Mijas Costa (Malaga)

Looking abroad

Snapped!

By Jean Smith from Fuengirola (Malaga)

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HERE is a photo of a butterfly taken at Benalmadena Butterfly House. This looks like the Scarlet Mormon from the Philippines, one of the larger butterfly species.

WHEN YOU WRITE

I WAS shocked to read that despite the 24.6 per cent unemployment in Spain, the Employment Ministry still had to advertise some jobs abroad because ‘no-one’ in Spain wants them (Issue 1415).

Here in Spain these benefits only last for a short time.

Surely people not working in Spain and who have no other source of income should be willing to do almost any job.

I read all the time that the various town halls offer work training programmes.

Michelle Tremble, Almeria

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Mallorca’s airport and a low-cost, nofrills airline.

We were notified whilst waiting on the bus to take us to the airplane that my suitcase had had an accident.

Upon arrival back in the UK we headed to make our claim. My suitcase was mangled - made to look like a bus had gone over it – and cut down one side.

Five items were missing, including an iPod, a mobile phone charger, a pair of sandals, an expensive lady shaver and a little case of gold jewellery.

While I understand the terms and conditions of airlines regarding placing

Costa Blanca South valuable items in suitcases and that accidents can happen, for five items to have gone missing does smell like theft to me.

L Bloom, Palma de Mallorca

Dumbing down I WAS intrigued by your article (Issue 1414) which pointed out that British expats in Spain are frequently criticised for knowing little about their chosen new homeland.

In a British survey it revealed that many nationals living in the UK are clueless about their own country and particularly in the field of geography.

This should come as no surprise to anyone acquainted with current methods of teaching and the dumbing down of modern examinations.

While the Spanish state system focuses on using the memory, acquiring knowledge and regularly testing students, the UK system has moved towards verbal reasoning exams, questions with multiple choice answers and project work.

Peter Sanderson, Estepona (Malaga)

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IN regards to the ‘Loose Change’ article by Jane Plunkett in the finance section (Issue 1412), while it may be true many people are not sure how much to tip in restaurants and we all have to watch the pennies these days, www.euroweeklynews.com and that in some places staff may not depend on tips, on the Costa Blanca it is very different. Here many depend on their tips to make ends meet.

This is because while they are paid FURTHER to L Grinyer’s letter ‘Travel around the minimum wage - currently Alert’ (Issue 1414), I too had a similar €5.02 an hour - for a 40-hour week, in experience this year at Palma de many cases staff work anything up to 70 hours or more.

Even with such poor EWN received a number of letters in reply to Mark from Torrevieja’s letter (Issue 1415) on Spain being pay most are behind the times and the Spanish ‘arrogant’ and ‘lazy’. courteous, professional and fees by 147 per cent? gies for the misunderskilled.

If someone leaves their standing.

C J Cotrelle, country to improve their family La Nucia (Alicante) WHILE I agree that paperwork WHEN I read Mark’s letter, I felt situation working abroad, how in Spain can take a long time to like burning the paper and quit- dare they say that no one go through the bureaucratic ting my English degree. should give them a chance on process, I think Mark is off the Fortunately, I am a cultivated the basis of their nationality.

HAVING read the most insultmark on his vehement dislike person, able to distinguish beWhat if Mark’s parents had ing letter to a complete nation of his Spanish heritage. tween the stupidity of a single found such a discriminatory from a person named Mark, Having lived all over the person and a national stereo- rule when they got to London? may I suggest that he returns IT was good to see world, I do not think the Span- type.

What I cannot understand to the UK, or, better still, go to that Benidorm aired ish are any more or less miserThink about the following. on EWN’s part is that a smiley live in an Eastern European on CNBC in the USA able, arrogant, rude, obnoxious Work ethic: a Spanish labour face was put next to the letter. country where he, I am sure, (Costa Blanca North, or lazy than people of other force built the machinery for Sonia Perello, Valencia will be appreciated.

Issue 1415). nationalities. the Heathrow Express, as well Editor’s note: The smiley Coincidentally, a study was Regardless of the The national health system in as the Metros of Hong Kong, face or sad face is put on published in the British Press news itself, this Spain far exceeds that of many Washington, Sacramento and articles agreed on or dis- that British workers were the hopefully will put the other countries.

Pittsburg. agreed on. In this case he laziest in the world, preferring name in people’s As for siesta, well, not all Healthcare: there are was agreeing with Mike to receive state benefits rather minds when thinking Spaniards take one and it is 800,000 health tourists coming Walsh’s Images of Spain than seeking paid employof a destination and something that is slowly going to Spain each year. article regarding the lack of ment. drive tourism more. out of fashion.

Education: was it not the UK understanding of English E V Botting, Mazarron Sarah Simons, Louise Harrow, Mijas Costa which raised university tuition by Spanish people. Apolo(Murcia) Benidorm (Alicante)

Off the mark

More like theft

Burning up

Insulted nation

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Britain’s broken pride

A close-call for bathers

LEAPY LEE SAYS IT OTHERS THINK IT BRITISH BOBBY: Police force was once the envy of the world. surrounded by a gang of seven black youths in a local park. After terrorising the lad and stealing his biscuits, they accused him of being a racist. When he denied the accusation, they shot him three times with an air rifle and made him kiss their feet. The next day, riding in his dad’s car, Oliver recognised one of his attackers. Mr Pettman approached the young man

and insisted he accompany him to the police station.

The youth was questioned and subsequently released.

The next day Mr Pettman was asked to go to the station. When he arrived, he was arrested, had fingerprints and DNA taken and was locked up for SEVEN hours. Apparently the youth had (falsely) accused him of assaulting him with a hacksaw blade!

Finally released without charge, Mr Pettman said he was now taking steps to sell his ÂŁ800,000 home and move to Singapore, where he was opening new offices. Both his daughter and son were now too traumatised to even go out and this event had simply been the last straw.

None of the gang has been arrested and in a statement the police

declared they (the police) were simply ‘following procedures’. Can you blame this law-abiding gentleman for deciding to finally throw in the towel? Of course you can’t. The whole episode is a disgrace and perfectly described by Mr Pettman as the product of a ‘broken Britain’.

I dunno, sometimes I really do despair of it all.

Finally a funny.

A friend was telling me that some years ago they were staying at a Magaluf hotel on their first visit to Mallorca. The wife noticed a sign outside the restaurant which advised guests to ‘dress for dinner’.

That evening, suitably attired in long evening gown, abundant jewellery and boa, she swept into the dining area only to discover the other guests in shorts, T-shirts and flip-flops. The hotel had merely been requesting the residents to wear clothes. Lovely!

Keep the faith Love Leapy leapylee2002@gmail.com

A BLUE SHARK measuring 1.5 metres came closer than usual to the shore of a Rome beach.

Lifeguards ordered swimmers out of the water when it was spotted 10 metres from the coast.

High life

CANNABIS plants as tall as 80 centimetres sprung up in the courtyard of the Saint-Martin-deRe prison in France where inmates are allowed to grow their own produce.

There yet?

A FRENCHWOMAN spent 18 hours on a plane that travelled from Lahore (Pakistan) to Paris and back again after she slept through the two-hour stop-over in France.

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I WISH people would stop having a go at me for knocking the UK. I NEVER have a go at the auld country itself but at what some irresponsible and downright traitorous individuals are turning it into! The beautiful country of my birth prided itself on freedom of speech, patriotism, its low crime rate, wonderful NHS care and a police force that was the envy of the world.

But, since the Labour government decided to buy itself votes by inviting in all and sundry, Britain has been reduced to a land of crime, deteriorating health services, no-go areas, feral gangs of hooded yobs, foreign spongers and a warped sense of justice.

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School books needed DUE to the ever increasing economic crisis, there are many families with four or more children struggling to meet daily needs let alone buy the necessary school books and materials.

The cost of this can range from €150-€300 per child, depending on the age or school attending.

With the help of two volunteers, the Christian humanitarian aid charity based in Mazarron (Murcia), GOmaD, has set up a new project for the collection of school books and materials.

To help this charity allow children to attend school with dignity, call 634 357 137 or email madmazarron@live.com.

GOmaD helps anyone within their community who need it.

They currently have 785 adults and children registered and this number is growing.

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Adhoc Theatre Co’s budding film star

By Jax Lawson THE Adhoc Theatre Company has a budding film star in their midst.

Known for his role as Stanley Gardner in ‘Run for Your Wife’, and Rene Artois in ‘Allo Allo the VIP’, Billie Anthony Gaddess’ talent has also been spotted by British film makers.

The Portobello Film Festival starts today (Thursday) and is known as the UK’s largest festival for independent film makers.

Among their many films will be two that have Costa Blanca resident Gaddess in them. Normally he plays funny and nice men, but that image is about to change.

Spotted online by the director of Solaris Films, Gaddess was auditioned and got the roll of ‘Billy the Debt Collector’ in the film ‘Dead Frequency’.

The follow up film ‘Entwinement’, which also features Mr Gaddess, will be shown at the festival in early September.

In the world of acting you never can tell how and when your next big break will come.

For the founder of Adhoc Theatre Company, it was being in the right place at the right time, and of course,

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The recent ‘Rock and Roll Again with Adhoc’ show starring The Cadillacs and Woody and the Peckers. knowing the right people.

Gaddess was such a hit with the sound and stunts advisor on ‘Dead Frequency’, that when Gary Allsopp was asked by film director Philip Routledge if he knew any quality actors for his latest film ‘The Hit’, Gaddess was given the job.

The film is due to be released next year. Versatile actor and stuntman Gaddess is playing Jeremy Cooper, a corrupt councillor. Gaddess also stars with Emmerdale actor James Conlon.

In November, Gaddess will be back to playing the nice guy, as he takes on the role of Rene Artois once again but in ‘Allo, Allo the full stage show’ for Adhoc Theatre Company.

The company would like to thank everyone who attended ‘Rock and Roll Again with Adhoc’ raising €400.

Meanwhile Adhoc still needs backstage and front of house staff.

Call 677 600 809, email adhocspain@hotmail.com or go to www.adhoctheatre.com.

Vega Baja Garden Club THE Vega Baja Garden Club starts its new 2012/13 season of monthly meetings on Monday September 3. They will take place at the normal venue, Los Rosales Restaurant at Campo de Guardamar on the Lemon Tree Road (CV 895) between Guardamar and Dona Pepa/Los Montesinos.

If attending, be there by 1.45pm for a prompt 2pm start.

The main speaker will be Chris Hughes (aka Greengrass) and his topic will be ‘Lawn Basics – six reasons why lawns fail’.

He will address the problems that so many people have with planting and maintaining a green lawn here in Spain.

There will also be our normal raffle and general garden Questions and Answers session.

For further information, contact Val on 966 716 527.

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Spain - The model of good practice?

H

UMAN rights groups have expressed outrage at recent ‘inhumane’ forced evacuations of Roma gypsies across France. Police raids left hundreds of Roma, including many children, homeless after caravans were impounded. Images of the dismantled camps and comparisons to former President Sarkozy's Roma-crackdown two years ago have been a PR disaster for President Hollande.

Now, to be fair, for a long time the French seemed not unhappy about a huge camp of immigrants near Calais, Sangatte, as long as those immigrants were expected to move on - illegally - into Britain.

But since I was the victim of a mugging

by Roma travellers on the Paris metro, which left me sweating like a dodgy MP on expenses-check day, it’s difficult not to have a bit of sympathy for one of their claims. The Roma arrived en masse from Romania and Bulgaria, defying France’s right until 2014 to bar immigrants from the EU’s newer member states.

However, maybe France should be advised to look to Spain as the model for integration. Of the 10-12 million Roma living in Europe, Spain has the second biggest community, estimated at 970,000 –

about 2 per cent of the total population.

Only 5 per cent of gypsies live in makeshift camps, and about half are NORA JOHNSON homeowners. Almost all have access to Nora, who has lived on the Costa del Sol for a number of years, is the author of psychological health care and at suspense and crime thrillers. least 75 per cent are believed to have some Roma gypsies sort of steady income. have melded Roma gypsies have melded into Spanish into Spanish mainstream culture — flamenco dancing and traditional Spanish dress have both mainstream been borrowed. culture.

While many European countries regard their Roma communities as problems, on their Spain has embraced its own by giving them ‘inhumane’ rights, celebrating their history and treatment, the bringing them into the fold. question as to In the final analysis, there are two issues. how social Firstly, the unrestricted movement of large cohesion can be numbers of people in a system that was maintained designed for freedom of movement in a appears to be completely ignored. limited way so social cohesion could be There are some problems in society that maintained. just don’t have a solution. And deporting And, secondly, the so-called ‘inhumane’ these people is not one – they’ll simply end treatment of a community regarded as up somewhere else – but I really can't ‘illegal immigrants’. Whatever your views think of an answer either.

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BBC4 8:00pm Africa's Magnificent Beasts 9:00pm She-Wolves: England's Early Queens 10:00pm Inspector Montalbano 11:40pm Doctors in the Death Zone 12:40am 20th Century Battlefields 1:40am Top of the Pops: 1977 2:10am She-Wolves: England's Early Queens 3:10am Africa's Magnificent Beasts The Secret Leopards. Episode 4.

4:35pm Bond: 007 at 50 Never Say Never Again.

6:55pm Local News and Weather All the very latest local news and weather.

7:10pm ITV News and Weather A round-up of the latest news headlines and a national weather forecast.

7:25pm You've Been Framed!

Comedy show which features a selection of camcorder catastrophes and video disasters.

7:55pm Fool Britannia 8:25pm Red or Black?

9:10pm The X Factor 10:10pm Red or Black?

10:55pm The Jonathan Ross Show 11:55pm ITV News and Weather A round-up of the latest 9:10pm news headlines The X Factor and a national ITV weather forecast.

12:10am Pride and Prejudice 2:30am The Store 3:50am In Plain Sight Drama about a U.S. Marshal attached to the highly secretive Federal Witness Protection Program. 4:45am ITV Nightscreen

Channel 5

5:45am Deal or No Deal Noel Edmonds asks the all-important question as contestants do battle with the Banker in their quest to leave the Dream Factory with ÂŁ250,000. 6:40am Quick Bakes with Eric Lanlard 7:00am Teleshopping 7:05am Paralympics Tonight 8:00am Paralympic Games Breakfast Show 10:15am Paralympic Games 2012 2:00pm Paralympic Games 2012

7:50am Castle Farm 7:55am Abby's Flying Fairy School 8:05am Roobarb and Custard Too 8:15am Ben and Holly's Little Kingdom 8:25am Play! 8:35am Noddy in Toyland 8:50am Bert and Ernie's Great Adventures 9:00am Little Princess 9:10am The Adventures of Bottle Top Bill and His Best Friend Corky 9:30am Angelina Ballerina 9:35am Mio Mao 9:40am Rupert Bear 9:55am Bananas in Pyjamas 10:15am The Mr. Men Show 10:30am Roary the Racing Car 10:40am Jelly Jamm 11:00am Power Rangers: Samurai 11:35am Batman: The Brave and the Bold 12:10pm Looney Tunes 12:20pm Celebrity Big Brother 1:50pm Ice Road Truckers: Deadliest Roads 2:50pm Mystery Woman: Redemption

7:30pm Channel 4 News Includes sport and weather.

8:00pm Paralympic Games 2012 Tonight Clare Balding and Ade Adepitan present live coverage of the 2012 Paralympics in London.

11:30pm The Last Leg with Adam Hills Adam Hills presents an alternative review of each day at the London 2012 Paralympic Games,.

4:30pm Michael 6:30pm Jesse Stone: Innocents Lost 8:15pm 5 News Weekend National and international news.

8:20pm NCIS 9:15pm CSI: NY 10:10pm Celebrity Big Brother 11:10pm CSI: Miami

12:15am Cloverfield 1:55am Poetry 4:15am A Film From My Parish 4:25am The Fishmonger 4:30am Happy Endings 4:55am St. Elsewhere 5:40am Deal or No Deal

12:10am CSI: Crime Scene Investigation 1:05am Super Casino 5:00am HouseBusters 5:25am Divine Designs 5:50am County Secrets

Satellite channels

SKY1

9:30am Chris and Wes: Let's Do This 10:00am World Wrestling Entertainment Superstars 11:00am Soccer A.M. 1:00pm Lion Man 1:30pm Lion Man 2:00pm Raising Hope 2:30pm Raising Hope 3:00pm Best of Oops TV 4:00pm Modern Family 4:30pm The Middle 5:00pm Modern Family 5:30pm The Middle 6:00pm Futurama 9:00pm A League of Their Own 10:00pm Airplane II: The Sequel 11:40pm Top Ten Show 11:50pm Road Wars 12:50am Squad

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1:50am 99 Most Bizarre... 2:50am Brit Cops: Frontline Crime

SKY MOVIES COMEDY 11:20am Cyrus 1:00pm Due Date 2:45pm Brave: Special 3:15pm White Men Can't Jump 5:15pm Just Married 7:00pm Made in Dagenham 9:00pm Cyrus 10:40pm Due Date 12:20am White Men Can't Jump 2:20am Just Married 4:00am Jimmy Hollywood

SKY MOVIES DRAMA 7:05am Cleopatra 11:10am The Death and Life of Charlie St. Cloud 12:55pm Footloose Special 1:15pm Burlesque 3:20pm Just Go with it 5:20pm The Death and Life of Charlie St.

Cloud 7:05pm Sweet Home Alabama 9:00pm Burlesque 11:00pm Just Go with it 1:05am The Kids are All Right 3:00am Somewhere

SKY MOVIES ACTION 7:30am The Chaperone 9:30am Transformers: Dark of the Moon Special 10:00am Shanghai Noon 12:00pm Shanghai Knights 2:00pm Killer Elite 4:00pm Colombiana 6:00pm Shanghai Noon 8:00pm Shanghai Knights 10:00pm Killer Elite 12:00am Colombiana 1:50am The One 3:25am Paycheck Techno-expert

TCM 8:20am Gunsmoke 9:20am Norma Rae 11:30am The Champ 1:55pm Monte Walsh 4:00pm Elvis: That's the Way it is 5:50pm The Grapes of Wrath 8:20pm The Savage Guns 10:00pm Posse 12:05am The Specialist 2:10am Posse 4:05am The Specialist

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Ooh er Madame I AM Emma Bovary (which is who I believe probably possesses slightly less dangerous than all the above qualities. I am at being Spartacus). Having just heart an unreconstructed woman. re-read Madame Bovary by Men should not cry or talk about Gustave Flaubert I’ve come to their feelings and yes I know that the above conclusion. that statement is inherently sexist Suzanne has a degree in Fine Art from Goldsmiths and an It is eerie how alike we are MA in Writing from Lancaster University. She is currently but if they try it with me I’ll be off (apart from the fact that in the teaching in Alicante and writing a book for teenagers before you can mutter ‘new man’. (which doesn’t have a vampire as its central character). novel she is known for her Masculinity and confidence turns me beauty and I for my hips); the on, although machismo I’m happy to ennui, the sniping and petty jealousies and the say turns me off. inability to commit to one man.

Now Emma Bovary desired a fey, fawning but wealthy Once as a young woman I was accused by an ex man to adore her and keep her in a style to which she felt of having a feet of clay complex, which meant that she deserved. I on the other hand want to be swept off my I coated all my men in gold then stood back feet by a man who knows his own mind (and has a ‘thing’ horrified as the gold fell off to reveal ordinary clay for Telly Tubbies), is buff and brave but doesn’t mind like figures (which actually quite truthfully summed buying roses or earrings and of course must love me up Daniel whose skin resembled plaster of Paris, but totally, never criticise me and stump up for then I’ve always had a soft spot for Goths) and as expensive meals out. All this must be much as I protested at this slur (while edging out of achieved without tears or declarations of the door) I had to agree that his evaluation was, in love and whilst living in a different essence, correct. house, town or preferably country.

While believing myself to be a deeply flawed As George Clooney wisely said; human being I refuse to associate with similarly “...instead of figuring out how to make flawed men (another reason I am single). I may look it (a relationship) work, I looked for a like a Telly Tubby but I still believe I’m in with a way to get out of it. The truth is you chance with George Clooney, although knowing me shouldn't be married if you’re that kind I’d doubtless find fault with him too (OK yeah that of person.” was stupid!). I want my men to be strong, fearless, And unfortunately Emma Bovary confident, sensitive and built like brick houses. and I are both that kind of person My ideal man would be a cross between a except I’d never swallow arsenic in mercenary and Mother Teresa with the intelligence case my husband found out about of Einstein (but not the hair) and the face of a Calvin my rabid spending… I’d swallow the Klein model, the one with black hair and a chiselled receipts instead, then disappear. chin coated with stubble (hmm!) or George Clooney But don’t tell anyone.

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1:55am BBC News The latest national and international news stories, followed by Weather.

7:00am Breakfast 8:40am Match of the Day Highlights and reaction to all of the latest football action. 10:00am The Andrew Marr Show Andrew Marr talks to key figures from politics, current affairs and the arts.11:00am Sunday Morning Live 12:00pm Country Tracks Travel series celebrating the British countryside.

1:00pm BBC News 1:10pm F1 the Belgian Grand Prix - Highlights

3:40am Pages from Ceefax 7:00am Guess with Jess Jess, the black-and-white cat, and his farmyard friends explore the world around them.

7:10am Louie 7:20am Wibbly Pig 7:30am Dipdap 7:35am Chuggington 7:45am Rastamouse 8:00am Roar 8:30am Copycats 9:00am Deadly Art 9:15am Paradise Cafe 9:40am Wingin' It 10:00am Who Let the Dogs Out? Wacky dog training talent show presented

by Zak George and narrated by Rik Mayall.

10:30am Junior Bake Off Junior baking competition. 11:00am Saturday Kitchen Best Bites 12:30pm The Great British Bake Off 1:30pm A Tale of Two Cities 3:25pm Coast A look back at part of an episode of coast.

3:30pm Escape to the Country

4:45am ITV Nightscreen 6:30am ITV Morning News 7:00am CITV 9:25am Dinner Date 10:25am ITV News 10:30am House Gift 11:25am There's No Taste Like Home 12:25pm The Hungry Sailors 1:25pm ITV News and Weather 1:30pm The X Factor 2:35pm Britain Then and Now 3:30pm Columbo

4.00pm - midnight

4:15pm Burghley Horse Trials 2012 6:15pm Oceans 7:15pm Swimming with Crocodiles 8:15pm Richard Hammond's Crash Course 9:00pm Top Gear 10:00pm Toughest Place to be a...

11:00pm Best of Men

5:25pm Doc Martin Comedy drama series about a top London surgeon who developed a phobia of blood.

6:30pm The Talent Show Story 7:25pm Local News and Weather All the very latest local news and weather.

7:45pm ITV News and Weather A round-up of the latest news headlines and a national weather forecast.

8:00pm Coronation Street More drama and turmoil from the residents of Coronation Street in the longest running TV Soap.

9:00pm The Cube 10:00pm The Last Weekend 11:00pm ITV News at Ten and Weather Round-up of the day's news.

11:15pm Harry's Mountain Heroes

4:15pm A Question of Sport 4:45pm Ocean Giants Documentary taking a look at whales and dolphins, nature's supreme vocalists.

5:45pm Songs of Praise 6:20pm The Indian Doctor Drama about an Indian doctor who moves to a Welsh mining village in 1963.

7:00pm BBC News The latest national and international news stories, followed by Weather.

7:20pm Regional News All the latest local news.

7:25pm Weather 7:30pm Britain's Hidden Heritage 8:30pm Countryfile News and stories concerning the heart of the British countryside.

9:30pm Inspector George Gently 11:00pm BBC News 11:20pm Regional News 11:23pm Weather 11:25pm Match of the Day 2 12:35am In with the Flynns 1:05am The Sky at Night 1:25am Weatherview 1:30am The Dark: Nature's Nighttime World 2:30am Holby City 3:30am Good Cop 4:30am The Riots: In Their Own Words 5:30am BBC News

BBC3

12:30am The Edge of Love 2:15am BBC News The latest national and international news stories, followed by Weather. 5:30am Pages from Ceefax News and information from the BBC’s Teletext service.

8:00pm Himalaya with Michael Palin 9:00pm The Thirties in Colour 10:00pm Creation 11:40pm Darwin's Struggle: The Evolution of the Origin of Species 12:40am Paul Simon Live at Webster Hall, New York.

1:40am Imagine...

3:10am Himalaya with Michael Palin It's the conclusion of Michael's trek and, in Bhutan, he has one last look at the high Himalaya.

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5:40am Deal or No Deal 6:35am Quick Bakes with Eric Lanlard 7:00am Teleshopping 7:05am Paralympics Tonight 8:00am Paralympic Games Breakfast Show 10:15am Paralympic Games 2012 2:00pm Paralympic Games 2012

7:50am Castle Farm 7:55am Abby's Flying Fairy School 8:05am Roobarb and Custard Too 8:15am Ben and Holly's Little Kingdom 8:25am Play! 8:35am Noddy in Toyland 8:45am Milkshake Monkey 8:50am Bert and Ernie's Great Adventures 8:55am Little Princess 9:10am Mio Mao 9:15am The Adventures of Bottle Top Bill and His Best Friend Corky 9:30am Angelina Ballerina 9:40am Rupert Bear 9:55am Bananas in Pyjamas 10:15am The Mr. Men Show 10:30am Roary the Racing Car 10:45am Jelly Jamm 11:00am Power Rangers: Samurai 11:35am Batman: The Brave and the Bold 12:10pm Looney Tunes 12:20pm Celebrity Big Brother 1:15pm The Slipper and the Rose

4:00pm Belle's Magical World 5:50pm The Wizard of Oz 7:55pm 5 News Weekend National and international news.

8:00pm Cricket on 5 8:55pm John Barrowman's Dallas 9:30pm John Barrowman's Dallas 10:00pm Celebrity Big Brother 11:00pm 9/11: Escape From the Impact Zone 11:45pm Reign Over Me

CH5

11:35am Batman : The Brave and the Bold

7:30pm Channel 4 News Includes sport and weather.

8:00pm Paralympic Games Tonight 2012: Swimming, Athletics and Wheelchair Basketball It's a huge night of athletics.

11:30pm The Last Leg with Adam Hills

9:00pm Top Gear

BBC4

8:00pm F1 the Belgian Grand Prix Highlights 9:00pm Great TV Mistakes 9:10pm Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom 11:22pm Family Guy 11:45pm Bad Education 12:15am American Dad! 12:37am American Dad! 1:00am Our War 2:00am The Comedy Marathon Spectacular 3:00am The Revolution Will be Televised 3:30am Bad Education 4:00am The Comedy Marathon Spectacular

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12:45am Rugby Highlights 1:40am The Store 3:45am British Superbike Highlights 4:35am Motorsport UK All the very latest motor sport action from around Britain. 5:25am ITV Nightscreen

12:15am Submarine 2:05am Water Lilies 3:30am Veronique 3:35am Hollyoaks Omnibus 5:40am Ultimate Frisbee 5:45am St. Elsewhere

2:15am Super Casino 5:00am HouseBusters 5:25am House Doctor 5:50am County Secrets Series that throws a spotlight on some of the UK's most scenic counties.

Satellite Satellitechannels channels SKY1 7:00am The Hour of Power 8:00am Raising Hope 10:00am Best of Oops TV 11:00am World Wrestling Entertainment Superstars 12:00pm WWE Experience 1:00pm Raising Hope 2:00pm Futurama 4:00pm Modern Family 4:30pm The Middle 5:00pm Modern Family 5:30pm The Middle 6:00pm The Simpsons 7:30pm Raising Hope 8:00pm Sinbad

9:00pm Terra Nova 10:00pm Strike Back 11:00pm An Idiot Abroad 12:00am Brit Cops: Frontline Crime 1:00am Emergency with Angela Griffin 2:00am Raising Hope 2:30am 99 Most Bizarre... 3:30am Dog Squad 4:00am Dog Squad 4:30am Airline 5:00am Gadget Geeks

SKY MOVIES COMEDY 6:00am Dragnet 7:50am Knucklehead 9:40am Brave: Special 10:10am Father of the Bride 12:00pm Diary of a Wimpy Kid 1:40pm Bad Teacher 3:25pm It's Kind of a Funny Story 5:10pm That's My Boy 5:30pm Father of the Bride 7:20pm Diary of a Wimpy Kid 9:00pm Bad Teacher 10:45pm It's Kind of a Funny Story 12:30am The Pool Boys 2:15am The Truth About Cats and Dogs 4:00am Knucklehead 5:45am Death Becomes Her

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SKY MOVIES DRAMA 5:15am The Lost Valentine 7:00am Prom 8:50am Easy A 10:25am Africa United

12:00pm The Help 2:30pm The Bodyguard 4:45pm Prom 6:35pm Eat Pray Love 9:00pm The Help 11:30pm The Bodyguard 1:45am Easy A 3:25am Transformers: Dark of the Moon Special 3:50am Casino Jack

SKY MOVIES ACTION 5:30am The Chaperone 7:25am Thunderbirds 9:05am Spy Kids 10:40am Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams 12:25pm Fast Five 2:40pm Hanna 4:40pm Spy Kids 6:15pm Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams 8:00pm Gone in 60 Seconds 10:00pm Fast Five 12:15am Hanna 2:10am The Chronicles of Riddick 4:15am Circle of Pain 5:50am Thunderbirds

TCM 10:40am Young Dillinger 12:35pm Elvis: That's the Way it is 2:25pm The Savage Guns 4:00pm Something Big 6:05pm Hondo and the Apaches 7:55pm I Died a Thousand Times 10:00pm Stir of Echoes 12:15am Cobra 1:55am Stir of Echoes

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www.euroweeklynews.com OF late, many people I have met have extolled the virtues of seizing the day, or to: “Live not one’s life as though one had a thousand years, but live each day as the last,” as Roman Emperor, Marcus Aurelius Antonius, once said.

I am all for it - in theory - but first consider the consequences.

If today were my last day I would certainly not work, but would rush around like a mad person ensuring that my will was in order, that all proper goodbyes had been said. It would, in a word, be exhausting.

Still, I am sure the mantra doesn’t mean it quite so literally, so let's now assume that we mean to enjoy each day to the ultimate not really knowing it were the last - as if you had a chance of piecing together the best day ever.

Paying scant regard to the kids’ inheritance, I would probably spend any saved euros on gathering all my friends together for a massive party, or rent a yacht for that final day, with Champagne on tap and James Blunt serenading me.

I would absolutely not bother with my greens for the day, but eat caviar and foie gras (sorry, goose!) and lashings of chocolate truffles. Bedtime would be some diffuse hour because you can sleep when you’re dead, right?

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Carpe Diem The elementary flaw with Carpe Diem (a term conjured up by another Roman, Horace) is that for most of us, the next day actually doeth come - and there will still be bills to pay, kids to be ferried to school and dishes to be washed. None of which are easily manoeuvred with the mother of all hangovers. An obvious omission for the Russian Oligarchs who actually do live like this, but then they have probably seized more things than just the day.

And if you live each day like that, then surely it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy; without sport, salad or sleep, that final day will certainly come round a whole lot sooner. So what people actually mean when they say Carpe Diem, is more like; “Try to have a bit of fun during the daily humdrum, but don’t forget to exercise, eat well and brush your teeth and be sure to get a good night’s sleep. Oh, and achieve at least one important life goal each day between school pick-up and cooking the dinner.” But then, that doesn't sound nearly as enticing, does it? More like jolly hard work.

Bear in mind that old Marcus allegedly popped his Roman clogs

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at the hand of an assassin, according to the blockbuster movie Gladiator and popular folklore, which is not ideal.

Apart from the two Roman chaps, it took several centuries and nigh on two millennia for the next significant voice on the subject - Eckhart Tolle who contributed to the debate with his book, ‘The Power of Now’, jampacked with soul searching exercises to be done by the reader: All quite exhausting.

Instead, may I suggest a more appropriate Spanified version of the aphorism; " “Seize mañana,” which happens to sit particularly well with my own procrastinating tendencies - never do today, what you can put off until tomorrow. I knew I was Spanish at heart...

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RECENTLY put the spotlight on the pernicious nature of television as a mindbending re-laxative. Sadly, the conventional press hardly comes up smelling of roses either.

Successful people are often criticised. The venerable Bruce Forsyth, arguably Britain’s most popular entertainer was often lampooned by the orchestrated media over his relationship with his then wife, Anthea Redfern.

His sin; he wanted privacy from Press intrusion.

The conventional Press never vigorously confronts government ministers with questions their readers are screaming for.

Wonderful candidates would be PM David Cameron or Foreign Secretary William Hague. Leading Trade Unionists doing their job are routinely demonised.

The latest to raise the ire of editorial is Rail, Maritime and Transport Union boss, Bob Crow. If you are a public figure this behaviour comes with the territory. As U.S. President Harry Truman said: “If you can’t stand the heat get out of the kitchen.”

New York Tribune editor John Swinton, in 1893, addressed the New York Press Association: “There is no such thing as an independent Press, unless it is

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ASSANGE: Vilified for doing his job? never appear in print. If I should permit honest opinions to be printed in one issue of my newspaper, like Othello, before twenty-four hours, my occupation would be gone. The business of the New York

journalist is to destroy the truth, to lie outright, to pervert, to vilify, and to fawn at the feet of Mammon. We are intellectual prostitutes.”

The onus really is on readers to keep an open mind and use

the internet to search for more balance. What is insidious is the Stalinist orchestration of major dailies on a single issue. They all sing to the same hymn sheet. A glaring example is coverage of the Pussy Trial in Moscow. Co-ordinated media coverage of the affair should alarm all of us.

Why does the media react in fury to a two-year sentence on three women, old enough to know better, for cavorting on the altar of one of Moscow’s most revered places of worship.

There they screamed blasphemies and obscenities.

Their supporters hacked down Christian crosses. One of those sentenced wore a tee-shirt carrying a Communist slogan.

What if these punks had behaved similarly in a British synagogue or mosque? These extreme feminists want football banned and describe footballers as sperm chasing seed. Why is the palace press championing them? That is worrying.

Their behaviour offended Christians, who in Russia take their religion seriously. It took them six months to apologise.

How odd that the media critical of the punks’ sentencing is the same media that is hostile to Julian Assange, who as an investigative journalist has been doing their jobs for them.

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7:00am Breakfast 10:15am Rip Off Britain 11:00am Homes Under the Hammer 11:58am BBC News and Weather 12:00pm Escape to the Country 12:45pm Cash in the Attic 1:15pm Bargain Hunt 2:00pm BBC News The latest national and international news stories, followed

by Weather. 2:30pm Regional News All the latest local news. 2:40pm Doctors Drama series set in a busy Midlands medical practice.

3:10pm Only Fools and Horses More laughs with Peckhamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most famous market-trader brothers.

7:50am Rastamouse 8:00am Barney's Latin America 8:30am The League of Super Evil 8:40am LĂŠon Animated comedy shorts. 8:45am Frankenstein's Cat 8:55am Newsround Topical news magazine for children. 9:00am What's New Scooby-Doo? 9:25am Buzz and Tell 9:30am Nina and the Neurons: In the Lab 9:45am Baby Jake 10:00am Tinga Tinga Tales 10:10am Uki 10:20am Raa Raa the Noisy Lion 10:30am The Large Family 10:40am The Koala Brothers 10:50am Dirtgirlworld 11:00am Octonauts 11:05am Kerwhizz 11:30am Driver Dan's Story Train 11:40am Waybuloo 12:00pm In the Night Garden 12:30pm BBC World News 1:00pm The Daily Politics 2:00pm My Life in Books 2:30pm To Buy or Not to Buy 3:15pm The Weakest Link

5:25am ITV Nightscreen 6:30am ITV Morning News 7:00am Daybreak 9:30am Lorraine 10:25am The Jeremy Kyle Show 11:30am This Morning The popular morning lifestyle magazine show with advice, chat and competitions.

12:25pm ITV News 12:30pm This Morning 1:30pm Loose Women 2:30pm ITV News and Weather 3:00pm Dickinson's Real Deal

5:45am St. Elsewhere 6:30am Quick Bakes with Eric Lanlard 6:40am Freshly Squeezed 7:05am Paralympics Tonight 8:00am Paralympic Games Breakfast Show 10:15am Paralympic Games 2012 1:00pm Channel 4 News Includes news headlines and weather.

1:05pm Paralympic Games 2012 2:00pm Paralympic Games 2012

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4:00pm Wanted Down Under 4:45pm Hairy Bikers' Best of British 5:30pm Flog It! Antiques show which helps amateur auctioneers, collectors and bargain-hunters make a saving.

6:15pm Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is 7:00pm Eggheads 7:30pm Celebrity MasterChef 8:00pm Celebrity Antiques Road Trip 9:00pm University Challenge 9:30pm Lorraine's Fast Fresh and Easy Food 10:00pm Horizon Documentary series exploring topical scientific issues.

11:00pm James May's Things You Need to Know...

James May goes on an intriguing journey to answer the big questions in life.

11:30pm Newsnight Comprehensive coverage of the day's important national and international news stories.

4:00pm The Alan Titchmarsh Show 5:00pm My Tasty Travels with Lynda Bellingham 6:00pm The Chase 7:00pm Local News and Weather All the very latest local news and weather.

7:30pm ITV News and Weather A round-up of the latest news headlines and a national weather forecast.

8:00pm Emmerdale Popular long-running soap opera, set in a Yorkshire village.

8:30pm Coronation Street More drama and turmoil from the residents of Coronation Street in the longest running TV Soap.

9:00pm The Paul O'Grady Show 9:30pm Coronation Street More drama and turmoil from the residents of Coronation Street in the longest running TV Soap.

10:00pm A Mother's Son 11:00pm ITV News and Weather A round-up of the latest news headlines and a national weather forecast.

11:35pm Land of the Dead

5:20pm Come Dine with Me 5:55pm The Simpsons Animated comedy series following the hilarious adventures of a working class.

6:25pm Paralympic Games 2012 7:30pm Hollyoaks 8:00pm Channel 4 News Includes sport and weather.

8:30pm Paralympic Games 2012 Tonight Presented by Clare Balding and Ade Adepitan.

11:30pm The Last Leg with Adam Hills

12:20am Toughest Place to be a... 1:20am Richard Hammond's Crash Course 2:05am BBC News The latest national and international news stories, followed by Weather. 4:20am Super League Show 5:00am Spark

1:15am Jackpot247 3:20am Champions League Weekly 3:45am ITV Nightscreen 5:35am The Jeremy Kyle Show

4:05pm Marrying Mum and Dad 4:35pm Splatalot 5:00pm Shaun the Sheep 5:10pm Wingin' It 5:30pm Sam and Mark's Big Wind Up 6:00pm Newsround Topical news magazine for children.

6:15pm Pointless 7:00pm BBC News The latest national and international news stories, followed by Weather.

7:30pm Regional News All the latest local news.

8:00pm The One Show Magazine series featuring a mix of interviews, topical reports and features from around the UK. 8:30pm Fake Britain 9:00pm EastEnders 9:30pm Panorama 10:00pm New Tricks 11:00pm BBC News 11:25pm Regional News 11:30pm Weather 11:35pm Citizen Khan

12:05am Gavin and Stacey 12:35am The Lock Up 1:15am Arachnophobia 3:00am Weatherview Detailed weather forecast.

3:05am Engineering Giants 4:05am The Riots: In Their Own Words 5:05am Britain's Heritage Heroes 5:35am BBC News The latest national and international news stories, followed by Weather.

BBC3 8:00pm Don't Tell the Bride 9:00pm Small Teen Turns Eighteen 10:00pm Our War 11:00pm The Revolution Will be Televised 11:30pm EastEnders Another visit to the residents of Albert Square, for a regular dose of drama, excitement and tears.

12:00am Family Guy 12:45am American Dad! 1:30am Our War 2:25am The Revolution Will be Televised 2:55am Don't Tell the Bride 3:55am Small Teen Turns Eighteen

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6:30pm Neighbours 7:00pm Home and Away 7:30pm 5 News National and international news.

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9:00pm Frontline Police Documentary series with Rav Wilding.

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Spain’s bureaucracy is like a zoo’s reptile house IT is said that when you enter a hospital you leave your dignity outside; enter an airport and you often leave common sense there with it.

We have all endured airport stopovers, especially at night when many flights are curtailed so that nearairport dwellers get their shut-eye.

I particularly detest Madrid’s Barajas Airport terminals; soulless, they invented the term. The seats, if you can find one, are not worth the

By Mike Walsh pursuit.

Footsore travellers, using their during www.michaelwalsh.es bags as pillows, kip the down on the bare 1920s. marble floors.

Mother told us that her mother’s These unfortunates would be policy was to padlock the better considered if they found cupboard if you were out of themselves in a refugee camp. work.

Is it not beyond the bovine wit of It appears the spirit of airport interior designers to grandma now hovers over provide reasonable space for Girona.

City hall and customers to rest? supermarkets there and Times were tough in Britain elsewhere are locking street bins

SOULLESS: Can’t airport designers better accommodate the weary traveller?

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to deter scavengers. This is to avoid the ‘humiliating’ scramble for food.

Frankly, I think locking these skips, many containing food that is wholesome, but past its sell-by date is humiliating. In Madrid, foragers can be fined up to €750.

Would it not be cheaper to give the poor buggers a little food?

Spain’s bureau-cracy reminds one of a zoo’s reptile house; there

is just the occasional lifting of an eyelid. My friends often summer in Britain as do many others. I must concede that after six rainless months and temperatures stuck in the 30ºC plus region I am looking forward to heading north for a breather.

During the British Raj our forbears spent their summers high in the Himalayan foothills where the climate is similar to

England’s. I did ask my friends if there was anything else of Britain they missed. They replied, yes, British bureaucracy and helpfulness is a dream compared with Spain’s over-staffed paper chase.

Politicians here are savvy enough to know that jettisoned jobsworths won’t vote for them if they are ditched.

Democracy does have its shortcomings.

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OFF THE HOOK: It is not older women, but older fathers that affect children’s risks of autism and schizophrenia.

Older fathers could raise the risk of autism in children MEN wishing to become fathers later in life have been advised to consider freezing their sperm.

This comes after a study showed older men fathering children could raise the risk of autism and schizophrenia, and possibly dyslexia and low intelligence in their offspring.

Ninety-seven per cent of genetic mutations were caused by the age of the father, while the mother’s age had no effect at all, scientists in Iceland discovered.

The child of a 40-yearold father had two-and-a-

half times as many potentially damaging mutations as that of a 20year-old; 65 mutations transmitted compared to 25.

Mothers transmitted around 15, regardless of age.

This gap was found to increase with every passing year.

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“The number of mutations coming from the mother is constant, which makes sense as her eggs are formed before she is born, whereas men constantly generate sperm through to old age.

The very important conclusion we can draw from this is that the concern focused on the increasing age of mothers is probably misplaced.

They may be off the hook and men are on it, as disorders from these mutations are much more common than the risks associated with older mothers.”

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Torrevieja RBL launches Bowls Club

By Irene Laverick TORREVIEJA Branch of the Royal British Legion has a newly formed RBL Legionnaires Bowls Club.

It meets every Tuesday and Saturday, 1.30pm for 2pm start, at La Siesta Bowls Club.

Meanwhile, the next meeting of Torrevieja RBL will be on Friday September 14, 6.30pm for 7pm start at the Rocajuna Bar at Punta Prima.

Following the meeting members and guests will be entertained by Andy Jones, who has been sponsored by Lloyds International Bank.

From October the regular meetings will continue to be held at Casa Ventura.

Membership to Torrevieja RBL is open to ex-military and non-military; all are welcome.

They hold meetings on the second Friday of every month.

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Charity rides to rescue as horses left to die TWO horses that were left to starve to death have been rescued by the Easy Horse Care Rescue Centre. A third horse was dead when the charity arrived.

The rescue centre was alerted by two holidaymakers who went to the groupâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s La Zenia charity shop and reported seeing the skeletal animals. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We acted immediately,â&#x20AC;? says Sue Weeding, co-founder of Easy Horse Care, â&#x20AC;&#x153;and went straight to the premises that day where we found several horses that were left there starving. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was an appalling state and I knew that if we didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t act quickly we would lose them.â&#x20AC;?

Sue and her team tracked down the owner of the premises who was equally shocked and assisted them in

NEGLECTED: Horses left to die. getting the horses out. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This is sadly just another example

of how horses are just being left to starve to death as the owners lose interest or simply canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t afford to keep them in these difficult economic times,â&#x20AC;? said Sue. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thanks to the great work happening in our charity shops and the publicâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s support of them, we are able to help these and all the other horses and donkeys currently in our care,â&#x20AC;? she added.

For more information call Sue on 652 021 980, visit www.easyhorsecare.net or follow them on Facebook. The Rescue Centre open days are every Sunday and Wednesday throughout the summer from 1-4pm. Los Montesinos charity shop needs volunteers. If interested, please contact Vicky on 636 062 000.

Winners of the canine obedience course THE winners of the Campoverde Canine Club obedience course were presented with their certificates and trophies at the Pinar de Campoverde Polideportivo Sports Ground. There was a tie for first place in the

basic class, Frances Race with Charlie and Irene Allen with Odin. The winner of the Intermediate class was Julie Mansell and her dog Tazz. The winner of the agility class was Marlene Smythe and her poodle Dudli.

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The work would involve telephone answering and office reception duties with occasional help at fundraising activities.

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5:30am BBC News 7:00am Breakfast 10:15am Rip Off Britain 11:00am Homes Under the Hammer 11:58am BBC News and Weather 12:00pm Escape to the Country 12:45pm Cash in the Attic Series which looks at the real value of household junk. 1:13pm BBC News and Weather The most up to date news and weather forecasts.

1:15pm Bargain Hunt Game show in which two teams compete for the best bargains before they go up for auction. 2:00pm BBC News The latest national and international news stories, followed by Weather. 2:30pm Regional News All the latest local news. 2:40pm Doctors 3:10pm Only Fools and Horses

7:50am Rastamouse 8:00am Barney's Latin America 8:30am The League of Super Evil 8:40am LĂŠon Animated comedy shorts. 8:45am Frankenstein's Cat 8:55am Newsround Topical news magazine for children. 9:00am What's New Scooby-Doo? 9:25am Buzz and Tell 9:30am Nina and the Neurons: In the Lab 9:45am Baby Jake 10:00am Tinga Tinga Tales 10:10am Uki Children's series. 10:20am Raa Raa the Noisy Lion 10:30am The Large Family 10:40am The Koala Brothers 10:50am Dirtgirlworld 11:00am Octonauts 11:05am Kerwhizz 11:30am Driver Dan's Story Train 11:40am Waybuloo 12:00pm In the Night Garden 12:30pm The Daily Politics 2:00pm See Hear 2:30pm To Buy or Not to Buy 3:15pm The Weakest Link

4:50am ITV Nightscreen 6:30am ITV Morning News 7:00am Daybreak 9:30am Lorraine 10:25am The Jeremy Kyle Show 11:30am This Morning 12:25pm ITV News 12:30pm This Morning 1:30pm Loose Women 2:30pm ITV News and Weather A round-up of the latest news headlines and a national weather forecast.

3:00pm Dickinson's Real Deal

5:10am FIA GT1 Championship 6:05am British Formula Ford 6:30am Sheepdog 6:40am Freshly Squeezed 7:05am Paralympics Tonight 8:00am Paralympic Games Breakfast Show 10:15am Paralympic Games 2012 1:00pm Channel 4 News Includes news headlines and weather. 1:05pm Paralympic Games 2012 2:00pm Paralympic Games 2012

7:00am Thomas and Friends 7:10am The Wotwots! 7:20am City of Friends 7:30am Jelly Jamm 7:45am Peppa Pig 7:50am Big School 8:00am Little Princess 8:10am Ben and Holly's Little Kingdom 8:20am The Mr. Men Show 8:35am Thomas and Friends 8:45am Make Way for Noddy 9:00am Fifi and the Flowertots 9:15am Peppa Pig 9:25am Peppa Pig 9:30am Roary the Racing Car 9:45am Bananas in Pyjamas 10:00am Abby's Flying Fairy School 10:15am The Wright Stuff 12:10pm Robson's Extreme Fishing Challenge 1:05pm The Family Recipe 1:10pm 5 News Lunchtime 1:15pm Celebrity Big Brother 2:15pm Home and Away 2:45pm Neighbours 3:15pm NUMB3RS

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4:00pm Wanted Down Under 4:45pm Hairy Bikers' Best of British 5:30pm Flog It! 6:15pm Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is 7:00pm Eggheads 7:30pm Celebrity MasterChef 8:00pm Celebrity Antiques Road Trip 9:00pm Restoration Home 10:00pm Vexed Detective drama about two police detectives with very opposing views to the job and life in general.

11:00pm he Boss is Back 11:30pm Newsnight Comprehensive coverage of the day's important national and international news stories.

4:00pm The Alan Titchmarsh Show 5:00pm My Tasty Travels with Lynda Bellingham 6:00pm The Chase 7:00pm Local News and Weather All the very latest local news and weather.

7:30pm ITV News and Weather A round-up of the latest news headlines and a national weather forecast.

8:00pm Emmerdale 8:30pm Coronation Street 9:00pm All Star Mr and Mrs 10:00pm Mrs Biggs 11:30pm ITV News at Ten and Weather

5:20pm Come Dine with Me 5:55pm The Simpsons Animated comedy series following the hilarious adventures of a working class.

6:25pm Paralympic Games 2012 7:30pm Hollyoaks 8:00pm Channel 4 News Includes sport and weather.

8:30pm Paralympic Games 2012 Tonight Presented by Clare Balding and Ade Adepitan.

11:30pm The Last Leg with Adam Hills

4:15pm Mind over Murder 6:00pm 5 News at 5 National and international news.

6:30pm Neighbours 7:00pm Home and Away Independently, Bianca and Heath try to work out what they mean to each other.

7:30pm 5 News National and international news.

8:00pm Secret Interview 9:00pm Celebrity Big Brother 10:00pm Dallas 11:15pm Celebrity Big Brother 11:45pm Celebrity Big Brother's Bit on the Side

12:20am The Midwives: Delivering Under Pressure 1:20am BBC News 5:00am Making Media 5:30am Writing for Walford

12:10am Memphis Belle 2:00am Jackpot247 4:00am The Jacket 5:40am ITV Nightscreen

4:05pm Marrying Mum and Dad 4:35pm Splatalot 5:00pm Shaun the Sheep 5:10pm Wingin' It Live-action comedy.

5:30pm Jedward's Big Adventure 6:00pm Newsround Topical news magazine for children.

6:15pm Pointless 7:00pm BBC News The latest national and international news stories, followed by Weather.

7:30pm Regional News All the latest local news.

8:00pm The One Show Magazine series featuring a mix of interviews, topical reports and features from around the UK. 9:00pm The Flowerpot Gang 10:00pm Who Do You Think You Are? 11:00pm BBC News The latest national and international news stories, followed by Weather.

11:25pm Regional News 11:30pm Weather 11:35pm National Lottery Midweek Draws 11:45pm Not Going Out 12:15am Enemy of the State 2:20am Weatherview 2:25am The Tube 3:25am When I Get Older 4:25am Doorstcrime 999 4:55am BBC News The latest national and international news stories, followed by Weather.

BBC3 5:00am To be Announced 8:00pm Top Gear 9:00pm Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade 11:00pm The Revolution Will be Televised 11:30pm Family Guy 12:15am American Dad! 1:00am The Revolution Will be Televised 1:30am Bad Education 2:00am Our War 2:55am The Comedy Marathon Spectacular 3:55am Don't Tell the Bride 5:00am To be Announced

BBC4 8:00pm World News Today 8:30pm The Sky at Night 9:00pm 20th Century Battlefields 10:00pm The $750,000,000 Thief 11:20pm Africa's Magnificent Beasts 12:20am I Love Special Olympics 1:20am The Sky at Night The world of astronomy with Patrick Moore.

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4:00pm The Alan Titchmarsh Show Chat show that celebrates the very best of British. Featuring celebrity guests, unsung heroes, and discussions on the hot topics of the day.

12:15am Married to the Moonies 1:20am The Shooting Gallery 2:15am Wheels 2:20am Green Day 2:50am Spotlight 3:05am Behind Enemy Lines II: Axis of Evil 4:40am The Silent City 4:50am Brief Encounters of the Sporting Mind 4:55am St. Elsewhere 5:40am Deal or No Deal

12:45am Cricket on 5 1:45am Super Casino 4:55am HouseBusters 5:20am House Doctor 5:45am Michaela's Wild Challenge

Satellite channels SKY1 7:00am Don't Forget the Lyrics 8:00am Oops TV 9:00am Stargate SG-1 10:00am Stargate SG-1 11:00am Lie to Me 12:00pm Lie to Me 1:00pm Oops TV 2:00pm Stargate SG-1 3:00pm Stargate SG-1 4:00pm Modern Family 4:30pm The Middle 5:00pm Modern Family 5:30pm The Middle 6:00pm A League of Their Own 6:30pm Futurama 7:00pm The Simpsons 7:30pm Futurama 8:00pm The Simpsons 9:00pm Emergency with Angela Griffin 10:00pm A League of Their Own 11:00pm An Idiot Abroad 12:00am Cop Squad 1:00am Road Wars 2:00am The Good Guys 3:00am Sun, Sea and A&E 3:55am Lie to Me 4:45am Lie to Me 5:35am Airline

SKY MOVIES COMEDY 5:40am Dunston Checks In 7:15am Broadcast News 9:30am Father of the Bride 11:20am No Strings Attached 1:10pm Bridesmaids 3:20pm Father of the Bride 5:10pm Ramona and Beezus 7:00pm Dinner for Schmucks 9:00pm Bridesmaids 11:10pm No Strings Attached

1:00am Dinner for Schmucks 3:00am Family Jewels 4:40am Top Secret

SKY MOVIES DRAMA 8:35am The 5th Quarter 10:20am The Karate Kid 12:45pm Jake Gyllenhaal/Anne Hathaway Face 2 Face 1:05pm Love and Other Drugs 3:05pm Love, Wedding, Marriage 4:45pm Letters to Juliet 6:35pm The Karate Kid 9:00pm Love and Other Drugs 11:00pm Easy A

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SKY MOVIES ACTION 10:25am Superman IV: The Quest for Peace 12:00pm Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World 2:20pm Colombiana 4:10pm The Other Guys 6:00pm Ironclad 8:00pm Gone in 60 Seconds 10:00pm Colombiana 12:00am Fast Five 2:15am The Other Guys 4:05am Reign of Fire 5:50am Thunderbirds

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Rescued AFTER Jan van der Vliet found these two adorable white cats in the rubbish dump he gave them appropriate Dutch names. Pluimpje: Dutch for little feather as the female was like a ball of fluff and Decibel for the male as he tends to make a lot of noise.

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LETHAL DOSE: Just 280 grams of milk chocolate can kill a dog.

Chocolate is lethal for cats and dogs CHOCOLATE made for human consumption can cause death in cats and dogs as they are sensitive to a class of chemicals called methylxanthines.

Caffeine and theobromine are members of this family.

Our pets simply cannot metabolise and excrete methylxanthines as efficiently as humans.

The half life of those compounds in the human body is in the order of two to three hours; in the dog it is more like 18 hours.

In a dog the compounds are taken up by the liver and transmitted via the bile

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into the intestine. They are then converted back into the original methylxanthines for another circuit through the animal.

This repeats itself a number of times and instead of getting rid of the substances the animal will go through a cycle of poisoning itself.

There are many formulations of chocolate with varying amounts of caffeine and theobromine.

The lethal dose of sweet milk chocolate for a dog is two ounces per kilogram of bodyweight.

For a five kilogram dog this would be about 280 grams.

A lethal dose of milk chocolate for a 25kilogram dog would be about 1.4 kilograms. Dark chocolate is at least 10

times as lethal. A 25kilogram dog could die from the methylxanthines in just five ounces.

Symptoms include vomiting, hyperactivity, restlessness, hypersensitivity to touch (a dog will jump when touched), very rapid heartbeat and an increased breathing rate, a loss of control of leg muscles, muscle tremor seizures, general weakness, coma and finally death.

In my opinion it would be a tragic mistake to encourage a dog to develop a taste for chocolate. A small dog left alone in a house with a box of chocolates might well follow its nose to the goodies and kill itself by poisoning, so be careful to keep any chocolate well out of reach.

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SINCE his parents were killed in an unfortunate accident in Holland, the local lunatic, Nial McCulmore, has been making a misery of the lives of the residents of the village of Brackenhead by persistently searching at dead of night within their paper bins for something he cannot find.

Brain damaged in a childhood incident in which four other choir boys lost their lives, he is driven by

VIRGO (August 24 - September 23) A great light shines on your romantic life. Whether it is meeting up with old chums or a new date, there is electricity in the air for you. Equally, a business coupling is particularly fruitful and you count your blessings to have gone down a particular path.

LIBRA (September 24 - October 23)

IF ITʼS YOUR BIRTHDAY THIS WEEK:

When looking at where you have come from, it is gratifying to know progress continues.

The months ahead convince you the path you took was right.

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The usually flamboyant attitude which is yours at this time of the year is now subdued, but this will not last for too much longer and soon things will be back to normal.

You will be looking to spice up your romantic life and your partner will be only too willing to go along with your suggestions.

excitement. Rather than setting down hard-andfast plans, it may be better to be flexible.

SCORPIO (October 24 - November 22)

CAPRICORN (December 22 - January 20)

Expectations are high. With energy peaking early on, projects gain momentum and there are early results. A suggestion made to a loved one some time ago is now acceptable and there could be some

Just joking WHEN the expensive printer in an office began to print black lines on every page, the manager called a repair shop where a friendly man informed him that the unit needed to be cleaned.

Because the store charged €100 for such cleanings, he said, the manager might try reading the manual and doing the job himself.

Pleasantly surprised by his candour, the manager asked, “Does your boss know that you discourage business?”

“Actually it’s my boss' idea,” the employee replied. “We make more money when we let people try to fix things themselves first.”

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wary of someone who would like to part you from it. At the weekend, events take a romantic turn but timing may be bad owing to other commitments.

TAURUS (April 21 - May 21) Although you feel more in control as the week comes to an end, do not make the mistake of counting your chickens before they are hatched. If you do, you could end up with egg on your face. Continue to plan to get the best results but bide your time.

ARIES (March 21 - April 20)

GEMINI (May 22 - June 21)

There will be good news regarding an application or legal document.

Following on from that your finances take a turn for the better and this could be long term. Having extra cash is great, but be

Colleagues are far from helpful at the moment and you may even feel that matters are going backwards. It may be necessary to move away and leave them to haggle among themselves.

Perhaps later you may step in and take control of the confusion. If your business life is far from good then it is more than balanced by harmony at home.

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As the moon shines on you, it is almost possible to feel the light. After a few recent hiccups it is now possible to get down to achieving your heart's desire.

Whether that is what you will want at the end of the day is neither here nor there. What matters most to your wellbeing now is to see some results.

Cast your net wide this week and be prepared to take advantage of a state of freedom. With high energy and an expansive mind, you are in a good position. Avoid being thrown out of kilter by activities around you. It may be difficult to make real progress at times

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Your love life is highlighted and, although you may be suspicious of your good luck, this is a new phase. Whereas before you had some reason to mistrust you are now able to have confidence. It is a great time to progress your inclinations on the romantic front.

There is a lot going on and sometimes you need to take a step back. A feeling that you have covered some ground before is not unfounded. However, there are certain aspects of your life which need to be revisited. Only in this way are you able to see the real progress that has been made.

his deranged obsessions and his belief that the comic book gods and goddesses who form the main interest in his life, have hatched a plan to have him reveal the truth when Jenny Gorem - who had been blamed for the tragedy – reluctantly returns to the village to face her past.

When wealthy Gerard Carter stands upon the face of the ancient sundial his wife, Brighid, believes that the vandalism has allowed through the forces that will see the wreck of a car raised from the waters of a local river bed and Police Sergeant, Meakin Mild, make the assumptions to start a murder enquiry, fifteen years after the event.

Beware those who underestimate the lunatic as those who risk exposure seek to keep hidden the truths which claimed so many lives.

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CANCER (June 22 - July 23) Your mind is sharp and it is easy to spot problems before they arise.

Some dispute regarding a trip is disappointing. However, you are not able to please everyone in this instance. A glitch in a close relationship needs sorting out now before things get worse.

LEO (July 24 - August 23) Having been given a chance to take responsibility at the beginning of the month, you are determined to do your best. Certainly, it is a time to concentrate on any business matters which need attention.

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ASSISTANT funeral director Bernie Tiede was one of the most beloved residents of Carthage, Texas. Bernie befriended Marjorie Nugent, an affluent widow who was as well known for her sour attitude as her fortune. He often travelled with Marjorie and even managed her banking affairs. The people of Carthage were shocked when it was reported that Marjorie had been dead for some time, and Bernie was being charged with the murder.

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Crosswords CRYPTIC Across 1 Grab something from the car (6) 5 Greek character leading very small rebellion (6) 8 Use a converted Old Testament character (4) 9 Look at the next page for value of total sales (8) 10 It sharpens art quality (8) 11 Besides itʼs included in chapel service (4) 12 Logos I designed for these cold dwellings (6) 14 Fools could start lifts (6) 16 Gather about a piano (4) 18 Serious or only a big hat (8) 20 Classy ferries go off and are sure to succeed (4-4) 21 An element of jazz in classical music (4) 22 Senior journalists in little apartment (6) 23 Flogs suntraps (6) Down 2 Continuing the French con trick (7) 3 Bridge support rusts badly (5) 4 Got dosh from frankfurters (7) 5 Become lost in accident and emergency department (5) 6 Hate our eccentric US writer (7)

ENGLISH - SPANISH The clues are mixed, some clues are in Spanish and some are in English.

Across 1 Kitchen sink (9) 5 Cansado (persona) (5) 7 Ribbon (5) 9 Smooth (skin, hair) (5) 10 Ruido (5) 11 Tin cans (5) 12 Juncos (plantas) (5) 14 Seguro (contra robo, incendio, daño) (9)

Co d e B r e a ke r 7 The French son moves for the holidays (5) 13 Great musician makes her soup (7) 14 Military policeman cares about tent dwellers (7) 15 The root vegetableʼs a standard crop (7) 17 Avoid fool appearing topless (5) 18 The deanʼs very fast (5) 19 ʻAbracadabraʼ, Zoroastrian exposes blade (5)

QUICK Across 1 Writ issued by authority of law (7) 4 Subject (5) 7 Injure with hot liquid (5) 9 Keeps (7) 10 Pardon (7) 11 White lily (5) 12 US five-cent piece (6) 14 Former name of Chennai (6) 18 Alloy of copper and zinc (5) 20 Rubeola (7) 22 Female thespian (7) 23 Solid (5) 24 Wander (5) 25 Cul de sac (4,3)

Down 1 Gordo (persona) (3) 2 Direcciones (de casas) (9) 3 To find (9) 4 Freno (5) 6 Asado (al horno) (5) 8 Playing card (5) 9 Ensalada (5) 13 Ver (persona, objeto) (3)

Down 1 Maintain (7) 2 Methods (5) 3 Scream (6) 4 Sum (5) 5 Artist (7) 6 Prices (5) 8 Burrow (5) 13 Main division of a book (7) 15 Prize (5) 16 Hang (7) 17 Entertained (6) 18 Wild pigs (5) 19 Shabby (5) 21 Sudden thrust (5)

LAST WEEK’S SOLUTIONS CRYPTIC - Across: 1 Appro, 4 Ailing, 9 Demesne, 10 Thora, 11 Real, 12 Virgins, 13 Cry, 14 Newer, 16 Oread, 18 Ell, 19 Genesis, 20 Cuff, 23 Adobe, 24 Exempla, 25 Treats, 26 Aegis.

Down: 1 Andiron, 2 Pampa, 3 Oast, 5 Interpol, 6 Idolise, 7 Goats, 8 Heavy, 13 Crescent, 15 Winsome, 17 Defrays, 18 Ester, 19 Giant, 21 Unpeg, 22 Hera.

QUICK - Across: 1 Batch, 4 Cursed, 9 Arrange, 10 Spree, 11 Dust, 12 Zealous, 13 Bee, 14 Rogue, 16 Lusty, 18 Lie, 19 Sincere, 20 Cite, 23 Aorta, 24 Steward, 25 Pulled, 26 Spend.

Down: 1 Boarder, 2 Terms, 3 Hint, 5 Unstable, 6 Serious, 7 Dregs, 8 Seize, 13 Beverage, 15 General, 17 Yielded, 18 Least, 19 Scalp, 21 Irate, 22 Mess.

ENGLISH - SPANISH Across: 1 Cama, 3 Straw, 8 Pestaña, 9 Cue, 10 Lirio, 11 Leche, 12 Oro, 13 Indoors, 14 Essay, 15 Caer.

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

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•FRIENDS UNLIMITED Quesada: 966 719 862 or www.helpvegabaja.com.

•FRIENDS UNLIMITED, the social arm of Help Vega Baja, meets every Thursday between 2pm and 4pm at The Club in Rojales. Call 966 719 862.

•LADIES CARD MAKING & CRAFTING GROUP, PAL Social Club, Torrevieja, 2pm-5pm: Call Maureen 966 789 977.

•LIONS CLUB Torrevieja Costa: 966 789 571 or davedanie@gmail.com.

•MABS Cancer Support Group meetings: sue@mabscancersupport.org.

Costa Blanca South’s best guide to local non-profit clubs, charities and societies Email whatson@euroweeklynews.com Fax 952 440 887 Post Euro Weekly News, Calle Moscatel 10, P-62, Poligono Industrial Arroyo de la Miel, 29631 Benalmadena, Malaga.

•ANGLICAN CHAPLAINCY of St Peter and St Paul in Torrevieja offers services in six locations. www.c-of-e-torrevieja.com.

•BAKER FOUNDATION for Spiritual Awareness, Playa Flamenca: Sunday Service 11am; Clairvoyance Tuesdays 7.15pm; Healing Thursdays 10.30am12pm. 966 760 665.

•CHRISTIAN CHURCH English language meets at Alpha Centre, Los Nietos Viejos (Mar Menor) Sundays 10am: 968 133 724 www.losnietoschurch.es.

•CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY CHURCH Pilar de la Horadada: Sunday service 11am; Thursday Bible Study and Prayer 5pm. 966 769 300/650 509 606

•ROYAL BRITISH LEGION, Orihuela Costa and District meet at Olympia restaurant, Mil Palmeras, third Thursday of month at 7pm. Email helenlloyd1@gmail.com.

•CYCLING GROUP Rojales: 966 716 442/653 433 933.

•VELVETONES LADIES HARMONY CHORUS rehearse at El Paraiso Restaurant, Torrevieja, 2pm4pm. Call 965 327 446.

•MODEL BOAT BUILDING GROUP Los Alcazares: 968 170 870 or www.rcmarmenorsailinggroup.eu.

•TORREVIEJA COSTA LIONS CLUB: Meet second Thursday of month, 7.30pm at Cabo Severa Hotel, La Mata. 617 069 064 or davedanie@gmail.com.

•PHILIP SCOTT LODGE No 10671 of RAOB now meet at a larger location; Bar Catorce in Benjofor from 7pm – 9pm. Call 653 066 919.

FRIDAY

•SHARE & CARE GROUP: An informal get together for anyone affected by cancer at MABS Cancer Centre, San Javier at 11am. Call 693 795 247.

•THE MABS Mazarron JIGSAW BEREAVEMENT GROUP meet August 31, 2pm at Cat’s Bar Sector A, Camposol. Call 620 582 418.

• ALICANTE BUSINESS CLUB – no joining fees or membership – meets first Friday of month at Captain’s Table in Benimar at 1pm. www.alicantebusinessclub.org.

•CANTABILE SINGERS rehearse at Restaurant El Paraiso in Torrevieja, 2pm-5pm. 965 077 457 or jenmorton@hotmail.co.uk or www.cantiblesingers.es.

• C H O I R El Pinar de Campoverde: 966 763 446.

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• MABS BOOKS SALE - weather permitting – T h e A r c h e s Re s t a u ra n t , L o s A l c á z a r e s 10am-1pm.

•50+ SOLOS - for singles, divorcees and widowers – meet first and third Saturday of month at different restaurants in Torrevieja.

•CHESS CLUB Daya Vieja: 660 825 390.

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•INTERNATIONAL CHRISTIAN ASSEMBLY Torrevieja: Sunday service and children’s church 11am; Ladies meeting Thursdays 11am. 966 799 273/660 127 276.

•ORIHUELA CHURCH SERVICES: Call 966 733 093.

• PILAR CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY CHURCH, Calle Canalejas 3, Pilar de la Horadada: Sundays 11am; Thursdays 5pm Bible study and Prayer; weekday

SUNDAY

•ROMAN CATHOLIC MASSES in Orihuela Costa: Don Joaquin Carlos - Fridays 5.30pm to 6.30pm.

•ST NICHOLAS ECUMENICAL CHURCH Camposol Sundays 10.30am: 968 138 952 or www. stnicholaschurchspain.com.

•TORREVIEJA CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP, Avenida de las Cortes Valencianas 68: Services Sunday 10.30am with Communion and children’s Sunday School plus Wednesday 6.30pm.

• KNITTING CLUB Mazarron: 619 493 183.

•CYCLING GROUP Rojales: 966 716 442/653 433 933.

•FREE REIKI by The Reiki Healing Association on the first and third Tuesday afternoons of each month. If not well, three free treatments given.

Call Age Concern 966 786 887.

MONDAY

•SEEKERS LADIES CLUB Torrevieja: 966 784 033.

•ROJALES NEIGHBOURHOOD WATCH GROUP meets September 3, 11am in the Municipal Centre in Ciudad Quesada. Meeting open to residents in the 03170 postal area. www.rojalesnw.info <http://www.rojalesnw.info> or email david.east82@gmail.com.

•SAMARITANS Drop-in Café: Telephone 902 883 535.

• S E W ‘ N ’ S O s Sewing Group (MABS): mabsmurciane@gmail.com.

TUESDAY •HELP AT HOME volunteers meeting on September 4, 11.30am at Bacchus Restaurant Oasis, Los Narejos. www.helpathome.es.

•SEWING CRAFT CLASSES Torrevieja: 966 708 199.

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• MABS Volunteers meeting on September 5, 11am at Las Claras, Los Alcazares. Call 693 362 823.

•ARPO (Association of Retired Police Officers) Costa Blanca South meet second Wednesday of month at Sackos Bar, El Limonar, Torrevieja, at 10.30am. Contact Jim Wood, Secretary on 966 188 369 or email jameswood1226@hotmail.com.

•VE G A B A J A A S T R O N O M Y G R O U P meet second Wednesday of month, 3.30pm-5.30pm at Lo Maribou Restaurant in Ciudad Quesada.

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Some of the younger crowd decorated cupcakes. down to their efforts.

But they were not alone and members of Showtime also played a large part in the day with each of the three members Matt Christian, Geoff Watts and Paul Christie taking to the stage to entertain the crowds until midnight, accompanied by DJ Snoopy and Nick Barker who kindly donated his time and proceeds from the sale of their Showtime CD.

Late summer fair HELP Murcia Mar Menor is holding a late summer fair next Thursday (September 6) at The Arches in Los Alcazares starting at 1pm.

Entertainment will be provided by Tony Lincoln and Corky.

The stalls, which will be set up from 12pm, include kitchen ware, cards, cakes, English wool, jewellery, Asian food and clothes as well as HELP MMM’s own stall.

The highlight of the afternoon will be Ziggy’s fashion show with their volunteer models.

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PCN nurse Susie with organisers Tyna and Gill and Showtime members Matt Christian and Geoff Watts.

By Gemma Quinn THE Viva La Vida Fun Day in C.C. La Fuente, Campoamor, raised hundreds of euros for their chosen charity, Paul Cunningham Nurses.

Dozens turned out to support the event throughout the day and night.

For the youngsters there was a bouncy castle and candy floss provided by Linda Carroll from Shandon Bells, as well as face painting, body armour and balloon modelling by Emma Ziri Tiger Faces.

Seven-year old Serryn was the winner of the fancy dress competition and the younger crowd even got to try out their creative skills by decorating one of the cupcakes made by one of the organisers of the day, Gill Bray.

Accompanied by friend Tyna Trevett, the pair spent weeks preparing the event and its success is largely

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There were a number of raffles with the top prize being a Nokia Touch Phone, as well as an auction with prizes donated by a local companies offering everything from designer purses to evening meals for two.

The businesses that made donations for the raffle and auction included Bijou Angels, Vanilla Hair and Beauty, Fox on the Fairway Restaurant, Treasure Chest, Dress To Impress, Walsh’s Supermercado and Essential.

Showtime donated dinner show tickets for two people at Olympia Mil Palmeras valued at €40.

Lead Nurse for Paul Cunningham Nurses, Susie was on hand to answer any questions about the charity.

“We are extremely grateful people come together for occasions such as this. Money raised will help provide continued care for the terminally ill in the community,” she said.

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Velvetones Harmony Chorus THE Velvetones Harmony Chorus start rehearsals after the summer break this Wednesday (September 5).

The ladies, who come from UK, Ireland, Sweden and New Zealand, meet every Wednesday, 10am-1pm, at the restaurant El Paraiso, Jardin del Mar 1, near the Carrefour in Torrevieja.

The chorus has a repertoire of songs in English from barbershop to musicals and entertain audiences at concerts and sing-outs in aid of local charities.

Drop in for a cup of coffee and see us in action or get in touch with Judith Phillips, our musical director (634 363 556) or June Brady, our chairwoman (965 327 446).

€2,172 raised at children’s fun day for research into a genetic syndrome A CHILDREN’S fun day was held at the Abbey Tavern Gardens in la Florida to mark the first birthday of Finley, a little boy with special needs who lives on the Costa Blanca.

A total of €2,172.42 was raised at Finley’s Fun Day. The money will go to the Baylor college for medicine PTLS fund.

This is in Texas (USA) where Dr Potocki and Dr Lupski work. They are the doctors that put their names to the syndrome that Finley has;

‘Potocki Lupski Syndrome’ (PTLS).

At 19 weeks Finley was diagnosed with a rare genetic syndrome, PTLS and Charocot Marie Tooth Disease (CMT).

PTLS is the duplication of chromosome number 17.

It comes with various health concerns including poor feeding, low body weight, low muscle tone, poor fine motor skills, a heart condition and speech delays among others.

The condition is extremely

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especially Sunshine FM and the Abbey Tavern,” said Finley’s mother Leanne Baker.

“We will cherish the memories forever and so much good will come from the money raised, thank you.”

Hondon Valley British Legion out in force THE Hondon Valley British Legion was presented with a €126 donation towards the Poppy Appeal by Peter Day and Fiona McLean from Juke Box Legends. This was on top of the €235 raised by the raffle which was part of the festivities at the bar in Barbaranja.

Juke Box Legends provided the country music. There was also a BBQ to complete the magic of the balmy evening.

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FINLEY’S FAMILY: (From left) Leanne, Finley, Charlie and Ricky Baker all wore t-shirts saying ‘is my son/brother/I am totally rocking this duplicated chromosome or what?’ rare and as such much more research needs to be done.

“I am completely overwhelmed by the support from everyone on the day and a big thank you to all those involved in making it so special

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Meeting friends unlimited FRIENDS UNLIMITED resume their meetings next Thursday (September 6) with an insight into the life of a couple of local characters before their retirement to Spain.

Sandy Hollywood will give her light-hearted talk on ‘Things that go bump in the night’ and John Hollywood, will give a talk on the highs and lows of his life as a top class chef with ‘A chef’s point of view’.

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demonstrators, artistes and all those attending the meetings, menus of the day and coach trips, Friends Unlimited have raised more than €4,000 for the HELPCARE programme.

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For more information about Friends Unlimited please call the coordinator Pat Perrin on 966 719 862.

To arrange for someone from HELP to give a talk at a club or for more information about HELP Vega Baja, call either of the offices.

San Miguel de Salinas on 966 723 733, open 10am-1.30pm Monday to Friday, and Torrevieja on 965 704 282, open 10am-1.30pm Monday, Wednesday and Fridays.

Their 24-hour emergency help-line number is 965 704 285.

Or contact them by email on office@helpvegabaja.com or on their website www.helpvegabaja.com.

ROJALES PANTO: A scene from The Wizard of Oz.

Getting ready to pave the streets with gold AFTER the very successful production of The Wizard of Oz which raised €1,500 for local worthy causes, the short summer break is almost over for the Rojales Panto Group.

Scripts and work on scenery for their next production Dick Whittington directed by Christine Smith has already begun and rehearsals start this Wednesday (September 5) at the Cultural Centre Quesada.

Dick Whittington will once again be

staged at the Escuela de Musica in Los Montesinos in January.

They are currently seeking new members of all ages to join them for what promises again to be a fun filled family show.

New members can choose to tread the boards or help with backstage work and scenery.

Contact Barry at bazbov@yahoo.co.uk, Chris at shimserv@googlemail.com or call Christine on 965 077 090.

Fun and fundraising Tel: 968 133 111 www.vivalosnietos.com

HELP Murcia Mar Menor raised €192 from the tombola prize stall and games which were held

for the children at the Community Day held at Mar Menor Golf Resort.

The main aim of the day was for the children to have some fun, which they reportedly did.

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Semi hardy varieties – withstand a few degrees of frost The elegant specimen flowered Hibiscus Coccineus a marsh/pond plant originally from what is now Florida and Georgia in the USA. We have plants – mostly raised from our own seeds – on the shallow margins of our two ponds.

The single and double red flowered varieties of Hibiscus Rosa Sinsensis thought to have originally come from surrounding counties and islands in the Indian Ocean. These are the exotic plants used in many gardens and as garden and street lining hedges.

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www.euroweeklynews.com OVER the past few years there has been a tidal wave of negative press and accompanying horror stories about illegal property in Spain.

Indeed, hardly a week has passed when the media, national and international, has not focussed upon some disaster or another that has

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Frankly, some of these problems have been down to the crass stupidity of some buyers and some have been the problem of

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a significant number of properties that have legality problems. Notable examples, of course, are those properties that transgress the 1988 Ley de Costas, which restricts building close to the coast. This law, despite being eminently sensible, has been almost completely ignored and has resulted in vast numbers of properties being built in direct contravention to its regulations. In theory, they should all be demolished but this is, quite literally, unthinkable.

In fact, given the present economic crisis and Spain’s past reliance on the property industry, the very last thing the country needs is any more bad press about buying property in Spain and no worse press can be gained than threatening widespread demolitions (particularly of foreign owned properties!).

In reality, Spain should wake up to the fact that its reputation for ‘safe’ properties is not great and that this needs to be corrected. In the past, Spain could afford to be cavalier about ignoring the bad press that was generated, as money was coming in and the country could (and did) shrug aside any bad PR. However, those days are long past and Spain must now develop a reputation, fast, as somewhere with a squeaky clean property market.

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Frustratingly, of course, an amnesty would end up

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Your weekly music news with Melissa Jayne 1. Sam & The Womp – Bom Bom 2. Rita Ora – How We Do 3. Wiley – Heatwave 4. Emeli Sande – Read All About It Pt 3 5. Taylor Swift – We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together 6. Florence + The Machine – Spectrum 7. Devlin Ft. Ed Sheeran – Watchtower 8. Calvin Harris – We’ll Be Coming Back 9. Angel – Wonderful 10. Trey Songz – Simply Amazing

Official Spanish Top 10 1. Carly Rae Jepsen – Call Me Maybe 2. Fun – We Are Young 3. Jose De Rico – Rayos Del Sol 4. Loreen – Euphoria 5. Train – Drive By 6. Gustavo Lima – Balada 7. Maroon 5 – Payphone 8. Tacabro – Tacatà 9. Gotye – Somebody That I Used To Know 10. Efecto Pasillo – Pan Y Mantequilla

Official UK Top 10 Downloads 1. Little Mix - Wings 2. Lucy Spraggan - Last Night 3. Sam and the Womp - Bom Bom (Radio Edit) 4. Owl City & Carly Rae Jepsen - Good Time 5. Rita Ora - How We Do (Party) 6. Wiley - Heatwave (feat Ms D) 7. Public Enemy - Harder Than You Think 8. Taylor Swift - We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together 9. Florence + The Machine - Spectrum (Say My Name) 10. Emeli Sandé - Read All About It, Pt. III

One Direction score fastest selling pre-order single BOY BAND One Direction have scored the fastest-selling pre-order single in history with their forthcoming EP ‘Live While We’re Young’.

The fivesome who were put together through The X Factor have gone to the top of the pre-order charts in more than 40 countries, including the UK, New Zealand, Australia, Italy, Spain, France, Singapore, Brazil and Mexico - despite the album only going on sale last week.

The album is due to be released on September 30, and will showcase the

Vibe’s Top Tip USHER – Numb: is the latest single to be released from Usher’s seventh studio album ‘Looking 4 Myself’.

As always in true Usher style, the track is predominantly RnB with elements of dance and electro, and lyrically it has been described as “an inspirational song about finding your destiny and becoming numb to all the negativity that comes as you chase your dreams”.

Numb is currently available for digital download, and will be officially released in the US on the August 28, although a definite release date for the UK has not yet been set.

Hot Gossip first material from their as-yet-untitled second LP. The song ‘Live While We’re Young’ was written by Savan Kotecha, Rami Yacoub and Carl Falk - and is described by their PR company as “pop perfection - an immediate, energy packed song mixing rock

undertones with smooth harmonies, about living for the moment”.

Meanwhile in other One Direction news, former N-Dubz star Fazer has revealed he has written a song for the boys - by accident. When asked by Capital FM if he’d consider writing for them, he replied: “It’s funny you say that, I didn’t intentionally make a record for them but I actually came up with something the other day when I was writing and I was like, “This would actually sound great for One Direction.

“So, I will submit that in the next few weeks and see what happens."

Lady Gaga likes to ‘record songs naked’ LADY GAGA has ‘really taken to the idea’ of recording her music naked.

The songstress is famed for her bizarre behaviour and eccentric wardrobe outfits, but Gaga has reportedly started stripping off her clothes before laying down vocals during her recording studio sessions. “Gaga has really taken to the idea of naked recording. She has been recording vocals while she’s been completely starkers,” a source told British newspaper The Sun. “She thinks it makes her voice sound better.”

JLS: “Our new album is called Evolution” JLS have revealed the title of their fourth album in a message to fans on the internet. The former The X Factor runners-up announced on Twitter that the LP, called ‘Evolution’, will be released in the UK on November 5 - and they also

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They said: “We’ve just landed and obviously all you guys know that our album name has been leaked a little bit sooner than we expected. We’re very excited about it and this is the album we wanted to make, we wanted to make this for our fans.

“We didn’t go by any kind of guidelines or anything like that, we just made what felt right and we’re really excited about it!” According to news site Digital Spy, a ‘deluxe’ version of the album will apparently include a second disc with bonus tracks and there is also reported to be a poster version of the album planned.

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ROUNDABOUT CHARITY SHOP. We are now into summer and very soon we will be feeling the heat! It is time therefore for another visit to the shop where you might find a bargain or two.

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Spiritual Healing is available Sunday and Tuesday. Contact Wendy on 965 323 028.

(95454) THE ROYAL NAVAL ASSOCIATION, Torrevieja Branch, meet at 17.00 on the first Wednesday of each month at the Restaurante Casa Ventura, Calle Arbizu, San Luis, Torrevieja.

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More stock always required please contact Chrissie 965 977 228/617 647 395 (95460) THE ANGLICAN CHURCH, La Fustera. For more info: contact Frank Bentley on 966 495 188 (95461) CANCER SUPPORT GROUP (MABS) MURCIA/MAR MENOR Help and support is just a phone call away, Avda Rio Nalón, Tel: 693 275 779 or 968 432 525 (95462) PILAR CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY CHURCH has moved to: Calle Canalejas, 3. Pilar de la Horadada. Sunday Service 11am & Thursday at 5pm for Bible Study and Prayer. All welcome from any church background or none. Info: PilarChristian.CommunityChurch@ gmail.com or Eddie on 966 769 300 / 650 509 606 (95463) TCF is a multi-national English speaking church now located on Avenida de las Cortes Valencianas 68, Torrevieja. The Sunday Service, including Communion and Creche/Sunday School, commences at 10.30am with a Bible Study/Prayer Meeting on Wednesday evenings at 6.00pm. Telephone 966 700 391 or call in to the Church any day between 9.00am until 1.00pm. Monday to Friday to find out more about Church ac-

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Anyone needing any help or advice on welfare, or any information regarding the branch can contact either Sheila on 965 791 270 or Roger on 965 790 123 (95472) TORREVIEJA STROKE SUPPORT GROUP meets each Friday 3pm to 5pm in The Annex, (behind Age Concern Centre), Calle Paganini, Urb. La Siesta. Our aim is to support stroke survivors and their carers by a range of facilities from speech therapy, rehabilitation exercise, group discussion etc. For info: Louie 96 671 8964 or Carol, Secretary: 966 765 488, e-mail: strokesupportgroup@hotmail.co m Donations and further voluntary helpers are needed and guest speakers with relevant knowledge or experience are very welcome. (95473) THE ROYAL BRITISH LEGION Gran Alacant Branch meets 1st Tuesday of every month at The Norwegian Club on Sierra Mar Urbanisation at 7pm for 7.30pm prompt. For further info contact Barbara Turnbull, Branch Secretary on 608 994 456 or e-mail b_dmt1966@ya hoo.co.uk (95474) CAMPELLO CONTRA CANCER in conjunction with AECC Association Español Contra Cancer has opened a charity shop at C/Virgen de los Desamparados No 13 (next door to Mas y mas) El Campello. The shop is open Mon-Fri 10 - 2pm and is run by unpaid volunteers and all monies raised goes to the AECC. We urgently need donations of clothes, books, large and small furniture etc, and we will arrange collection of large items. We need volunteers to help out in the shop and also clothes rails, shelves etc. for display. Please support your local Cancer charity and if you wish to obtain literature or simply talk to someone. Please stop by at the shop. Contact Mina or Trisha. Tel 650 071 278 or 610 921 413. e-mail aecc_campel lo@hotmail.com (95475)

International Christian Assembly Calle Pilar de Horadada 5, Torrevieja Evangelical non-denominational Sunday services 11am children’s church 11am House groups in Torrevieja, Los Balcones, San Javier Ladies meeting Thursdays 11am. Pastor, Rafael Restrepo All nationalities welcome 966 799 273 / 660 127 276. (95476)

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Low-grip conditions conquered JAGUAR announced its introduction of All-Wheel Drive to the 2013 Model Year XF and XJ ranges.

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By Keith Nicol WEEK ONE of Tercera group six was spread out over three days finishing with Elche Ilicitano playing Villareal C on Monday night.

That game finished 2-0 to Viillareal C, making it seven winners on week one and eight other sides who avoided defeat. The other ‘new’ teams in the division fared very well overall.

Promoted Utiel visited champions Catarroja and took all three points from the fortress Mundial 82. In sweltering heat and playing on long grass, Burianna netted three second half goals to be 3-0 winners in their tie with Jove.

Llosa just avoided the drop last term, owing much to a gifted 3-0 win when Castellon failed to play them in a protest non show!

They kicked off this time with a real 3-0 win against the usually tough Saguntino.

Speaking of Castellon, they kicked off at Borriol in 90 degree heat and scored an early goal to lead at the break. Borriol deservedly

NEW SEASON: Players return for the pre-season. equalised mid way through the second half with a Victor Albalat strike to share the points.

Fans were treated to a six goal thriller in the local derby between Crevillente and Novelda. Former Torry man Dani Mesenguer missed a penalty on 21 minutes before Perales gave Novelda the lead with his first of a hatrick.

Carrasco equalised for his new club to level it before the interval. Novelda then came twice from behind to take a share of the spoils.

Orihuela couldn't find a way through at Eldense and let the group average down in terms of goals. Good news for Diego Meijide who helped his new club kick off

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with a clean sheet, but a disappointing start for last season’s 2B runners up, who still hope to return to that division once exhausting the appeals and legal processes. The final decision will be made tomorrow (Monday 3 September) and if in favour of Orihuela will throw both 2B group 3 and our own group into a mess. La Nucia and Gandia also played without scoring.

In the anticipated match of the day, last year’s third played fourth, with Muro coming out on top by two goalsy. A penalty in each half won them the match with Alzira reduced to ten men and only the one goal down.

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MO’S MEDALS: Farah victorious at Birmingham Grand Prix.

Chelsea still top, Villa bottom, Frankel wins again as Lance retires

FOOTBALL – Chelsea remain on top of the PL (by three points) after a third successive win, Torres scoring again in a 2-0 win over Newcastle.

‘RVP’ netted for Manchester United, 3-2 victors over Fulham.

Everton rumbled struggling Aston Villa 31.

Wigan won at

Southampton. Reigning champions Manchester City (gifted an equaliser) drew 2-2 at Liverpool.

Swansea, yet to concede, whipped West Ham by 3-0. Goal-shy Arsenal (at Stoke) are missing their ‘Reliant Robin’. And points were also gained by WBA at Spurs and QPR at Norwich, both 1-1 scorelines.

Elsewhere, unbeaten Blackpool lead the Championship while Oxford United, Yeovil and Celtic head Leagues 1 and 2 and the SPL respectively.

This weekend’s PL games: Liverpool v Arsenal Man City v QPR Newcastle v Aston Villa Southampton v Man U Swansea v Sunderland Spurs v Norwich WBA v Everton West Ham v Fulham Wigan v Stoke

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A former football player and the world’s most prolific author of football books (more than 100 published), Tony is also the sports reporter for Spectrum Radio and lives in the Cabrera mountains.

Soccer Shorts – Barcelona beat Real Madrid 3-2 in the 1st leg of the ‘SSC’ at the Nou Camp where 80,000 fans saw some superb goals, a Messi penalty and a goalkeeping clanger.

There’s been plenty of European action this week as well as some intriguing second round Capital (League) Cupties.

The transfer window closes at 12 midnight tomorrow and I expect a fair batch of last minute

signings following those of Nuri Sahin (Real Madrid to Liverpool), Matt Jarvis (Wolves to West Ham, £10m), Steven Fletcher (Wolves to Sunderland, £14m) and Victor Moses (Wigan to Chelsea, £7m) while QPR bad boy Joey Barton is keen on joining Olympique Marseille.

And Andy Thorn is this season’s first managerial casualty, sacked by hardup Coventry City.

CYCLIST LANCE ARMSTRONG STRIPPED BARE Seven-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong has been banned for life and stripped of all titles by the US Anti-Doping Agency, following allegations (etc) of drug abuse. Said Armstrong: “I’m fed up. Enough’s enough. I’m retiring.”

DID YOU KNOW? DARIO GRADI has been associated with Crewe Alexandra, as manager (two spells), caretaker-manager, Academy manager, for 29 years: 1983-2012. Sir Alex Ferguson has been boss of Manchester United since 1986.

LIFE BAN: Lance Armstrong stripped of all titles by the US Anti-Doping Agency.

GENERAL ROUNDUP - The London Paralympics started yesterday (well worth watching).

GB cyclist Chris Froome is on course to win the Tour of Spain (Vuelta a España) which ends in Madrid on September 9.

New Zealand beat Australia 22-0 to win

Rugby Union’s Bledisloe Cup for the 10th successive year.

Warrington Wolves gobbled up Leeds Rhinos 35-18 in last Saturday’s RL Challenge Cup final at Wembley. Hampshire (150-6) defeated Yorkshire (140-8) to win cricket’s T20 Cup for the third time in four years.

Afghanistan lost to Australia in a 50-over international (wow!).

Frankel, the greatest racehorse ever, made it 13 straight wins at York – the first 12 over one mile, the latest, in the Juddmonte International Stakes, over 10 furlongs.

It was Dani Pedrosa first, Jorge Lorenzo second and Cal Crutchlow (the first Brit on the podium for 12 years) third in last weekend’s Czech Republic MotoGP (there are six races left this season).

Jacksonville Jaguars, a top NFL team, will play several games at Wembley Stadium between 201316.

The US Open tennis tournament started at Flushing Meadows on Monday with Andy Murray (versus Alex Bogomolov), Novak Djokovic and Roger Federer, all going for glory.

And Team GB Olympian gold medal winners Mo Farah (2 miles) and Robbie Grabarz (high jump) were both victorious in front of 15,000 fans at the Birmingham Grand Prix meeting last Sunday.