Costa Blanca South 10 - 16 January 2013 Issue 1436

ISSUE NO. 1436

10 - 16 JANUARY 2013 FRONT EXTRA

Police made to work by mayor LOCAL POLICE were forced to cover the Three Kings parade in Almoradi after a mayoral decree to ensure safety despite officers protesting against the additional working hours.

New heights THE General Plan in Torrevieja may be amended to allow 20-storey hotels in a bid to promote tourism.

Present laws allow just six floors.

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Abuse crackdown as mother killed A CRACKDOWN on domestic violence is set for 2013.

Orihuela’s ‘Coordination Committee Against Gender Violence’ met yesterday (Wednesday) to discuss any additional measures that need to be put in place to help combat abuse and protect victims.

The move came as the first fatality of the year was reported in Valencia. The victim, 33, was stabbed to death by her former

partner and the father of her two children.

The man who surrendered himself to police following the attack and is now awaiting trial.

Government Delegate in Valencia, Paula Sánchez de León, spoke of her ‘utter revulsion against this type of crime’.

Around 30 per cent of all British national arrests in the Alicante consular district last year were related to domestic

violence and the Spanish authorities are keen to highlight help is available to all residents of whatever nationality with helplines available in all languages.

Information guides on welfare rights for victims of gender-based violence are available in English and anyone can call the domestic violence hotline on 016.

The British Consulate also offers help. Visit www.ukinspain.fco.gov.uk

School spend €300,000 WAS spent on school repairs and maintenance last year Orihuela Councillor for Education Rosa Martinez (PSOE) has revealed.

SCANDAL: Allegations of mobile phone misuse are being investigated.

Phone probe is ‘welcomed’ THE Torrevieja mobile phone scandal rumbles on.

Town Hall employee Graham Knight from Torrevieja’s International Residents Office has denied downloading

anything inappropriate from his mobile phone, and has welcomed a full enquiry.

This follows claims that on one weekend in November 2009, €1,120 was billed to his official

phone for internet connections whilst in the UK. He is the latest employee to be embroiled in the ongoing mobile phone scandal.

New practices are now in place.

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Flash mob street dance MORE than 200 people from Callosa de Segura took part in a ‘flash mob’ where people appear to randomly start dancing. Organised by Callosa Productions, they danced to the current hit Gangnam Style.

BURNT OUT: Blaze destroys restaurant’s pergola and garden area.

Witness appeal following fire WITNESSES are being asked to come forward as investigations continue into the cause of two fires which occurred in Urbanisation Villamartin, Orihuela Costa.

Firefighters from Torrevieja were first called to a blaze outside a restaurant, currently undergoing refurbishment, close to the entrance of the golf course

Couple held after death of great-aunt POLICE believe a man killed his great-aunt after she refused to give him money for drugs.

According to neighbours, the woman, aged 78, let her nephew inside her Jacarilla home along with a woman, believed to be his

girlfriend. Once inside the man, 28, asked for money which his great-aunt did not have, saying she had been robbed recently.

Their discussion ended when the man allegedly struck the pensioner over the head with a

blunt object. Her husband called the emergency services, but she died later in Vega Baja Hospital from a severe brain injury.

Police later arrested the man and his girlfriend in Jacarilla, and investigations are continuing.

at around 2am on New Year’s Day. The flames destroyed a pergola more than 10 metres in diameter, as well as a pine tree and a palm tree in the area outside the building.

Fire crews spent 40 minutes and used thousands of litres of water trying to put out the blaze.

Early indications are that a stray firework from a nearby News Year’s Eve celebration setting alight debris may have been the culprit.

Healing day NGO PayaSOSpital in Alicante organised ‘A day of healing and madness’ with clowns, puppets and music shows for children in hospital.

Strike off CLEANERS in Alicante have postponed strike action after overtime payments were made.

However, although staff are back at work, they are still owed December’s pay.

Popular plan ROJALES Town Hall has announced a new initiative to protect victims of gender violence which has allparty support.

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Waitress hurt in attack A WAITRESS was treated in hospital after being hit against a wall by a customer at a Murcia cafe after he refused to pay for his drink.

Full strength STAFFING at the Local Police Headquarters of Guardamar is now at full strength with 46 officers following a new member from Castalla.

Watching brief TORREVIEJA’S Vyriato traffic system is at the forefront of CCTV and security in Spain with vehicle flow, crime and security all controlled from the police station opposite Carrefour.

€840m wins ALICANTE and Murcia were among the top El Niño lottery regional winners with a total of €840 million paid out in the postChristmas draw.

Cultural castle WORK is underway to redefine Orihuela Castle as a ‘major tourist attraction’ under the Heritage Act 2007.

Three hurt A WOMAN and two men were treated at Torrevieja Hospital after a crash at the roundabout of Urbanisation Pinomar, Guardamar and the N-332.

Healthy plan THE Dialysis Unit of Torrevieja Hospital is being expanded with more dialysis stations, improved infrastructure and better access.

Bad ending ALICANTE’S jobless stood at 226,227 at the end of December, 5.35 per cent more than at the end of 2011.

Road deaths are up but crashes down THERE were 1,000 fewer road accidents in Alicante last year.

But eight people were killed in crashes in the city, three more than in 2011.

In total 2,400 traffic accidents were reported last year in Alicante City compared to 3,400 in 2011 according to the town hall.

In 2011 Alicante held sixth spot in a table of Spanish cities with the highest accident rates, according to a study by insurance company Linea Directa.

Now the 30 per cent reduction in accidents is expected to see Alicante drop down the city crash index.

According to Department of Traffic Safety data, 5 per cent of the accidents were rated as serious due to injuries suffered, the same percentage as the previous year.

The fewest accidents occurred in May, while most accidents happened in January, and from August to October, the data added.

I don’t think it has been my best year’

Argentinian footballer Leo Messi, winner of the 2012 FIFA Ballon d'Or for skills demonstrated with FC Barcelona. “I am more interested in team prizes and awards,” he added.

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5,000 visitors ABOUT 5,000 tourists visited the Guardamar exhibition commemorating the 25th anniversary of the discovery of the Dama de Guardamar between July and December.

LONG health centre queues and waits after the festive break led to complaints in Elche.

On the run THIEVES crashed their Mercedes into a police car while escaping following a break-in at a Masymas supermarket in Fortuna.

They have not yet been caught.

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OR Marina Alabau, 2012 was truly a memorable year. She recently returned to Spain after winning last month’s World Windsurfing RS Title in Borocay, the Philippines, adding to the medal she gained as the first Olympian to win gold for Spain at the London 2012 Games.

And her success last year did not end there, for Marina was also named ‘Golden Andalucian Woman’ by the Andalucian Sports Journalists Federation.

The 27-year-old professional windsurfer almost won an Olympic medal five years ago in Beijing when she finished fourth in the women’s event.

The following year she won the Women’s RS:X World Championship in Weymouth, UK, adding to five European Championship wins in Cyprus, France, Israel, Poland and Madeira between 2007 and 2012.

Marina’s first contact with windsurfing was at the age of six when she enrolled in

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GOLDEN GIRL: Marina all at sea since age of six. a sailing school in Isla Canela, Andalucia.

Now living in Tarifa, on the Costa de Luz Atlantic coast of Spain, when not competing she works as a windsurfing coach.

Marina could in fact find herself as the last female windsurfing Olympic champion, as the sport may disappear at the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.

But one thing is certain; in 2013, Marina looks set to continue her winning ways, and to be a girl making headline news not only in Spain but also around the world.

Number of the week died in traffic accidents 1,304 inpeople Spain in 2012, which is 12

per cent fewer than in 2011. Only 23 per cent of fatal accidents occurred on dual carriageways.

TWENTY-THREE per cent of firms in Murcia have closed since the economic crisis began in 2008, with just 40,103 companies registered in the General System of Social Security in November .

Non payment A FATHER has been sentenced to three months in prison for non-payment of maintenance for two children for four years. Murcia’s provincial court also ordered him to pay €19,000 alimony.

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A YOUNG man, 19, died after he was hit by a train at Vallecas Station in Madrid. His body was spotted alongside the tracks by the driver of another train going in the opposite direction. National Police are investigating the incident.

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Motorists’ misery as tolls rise MOTORWAY tolls across Alicante and Murcia provinces have risen by another 2.4 per cent.

That means tolls have risen 13 per cent since July 2012. In that month tolls rose following the withdrawal of government financial support.

Another increase was made in September to account for the rise in IVA and with January’s annual increase, it means tolls have gone up 13 per cent in the last six months.

The price of the journey between Alicante and Valencia has increased by

€2 since last July and it now costs €16.85 in motorway tolls.

The continued rise in tolls in recent months is having a strong deterrent effect on drivers. Traffic on these roads is falling with 15 per cent fewer vehicles on the AP-7 between Alicante and

Valencia in August 2012 than in the same month of 2011.

The opening of toll-free motorways has also contributed to the decline in vehicles. However, in some areas it is almost impossible to avoid the toll, especially round the north Costa Blanca where the N-332 in Altea, Benissa and Gata de Gorgos make the journey a long and winding road.

The price of petrol and diesel is also expected to rise due to the disappearance in 2013 of exemptions for biofuels and the expected transfer of this new tax to the final consumer. This is likely to see an increase of 0.3 per cent on prices at the pump.

Man hurt by bottle PARADE FUN: Torrevieja’s procession delights visitors. THE KINGS: Los Reyes Magos arrive in Torrevieja. BY SEA: Torrevieja’s Three Kings arrive by boat

Three kings delight excited children throughout the Costa Blanca MILLIONS of sweets were thrown into the night air on what many children think of as the most magical day of the year.

The Three Kings celebrations were held in

towns and villages up and down the coast with excitement and expectations high for the youngsters who eagerly awaited the arrival of Melchor, Gaspar and Baltasar.

In Orihuela the parade had a Disney theme with The Lion King, Cinderella and Mickey and Minnie Mouse entertaining the crowds before the arrival of the real stars; the Reyes Magos.

It was a more traditional feel in Torrevieja which welcomed ducks, chickens and donkeys along the parade route together with 400 volunteers who took part.

A series of fireworks heralded the arrival of the Kings by boat in the marina, albeit an hour after the scheduled start time, before the procession headed through the town.

A SUPERMARKET cashier who tried to stop shoplifters was hit over the head with a bottle.

The store, in Calle Ramon Gallud in the centre of Torrevieja, was entered by four young men who were trying to steal food.

They were spotted by the staff member who went to stop them but was assaulted.

The perpetrators then fled the shop.

Officers are trying to trace the men through video surveillance cameras.

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An MBE for Age Concern’s Angela AVID fundraiser Angela Keay has received an MBE in the Queen’s New Year honours list for her charity work on the Costa Blanca.

It was in December when Angela was first contacted by the Ambassador for Spain, Giles Paxman, to say she had been honoured with the award and asked if she would like to accept it.

“I was very surprised and quite speechless and I had to then keep it a secret until the official list was published.”

Angela added, “It is one of the few accolades for someone to receive who does voluntary work.”

In 1997 Angela was one of the founder members of Age Concern Costa Blanca Sur which became a registered charity the following year. On January

QUEEN’S HONOUR: Angela Keay, recognised for her voluntary work in Spain with an MBE. 1, 2000 Angela took over as president.

During her seven-and-a-

half years as president she obtained mini buses which were converted to allow wheelchair access and spent two years working with Torrevieja Town Hall to secure premises.

The La Siesta Age Concern drop-in centre was opened in 2004 and is still a vital resource to the hundreds of elderly residents that use it.

Since stepping down as president she is now the Association Secretary of Age Concern Accion Social y Asistencial (ACASA) which is the National Casework Service of Age Concern in Spain.

She admits she spends more hours with her volunteering than she ever did when working for a living. She said: “I continue to do casework as I have done since the year 2000.”

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Stories making headlines from the United Kingdom

Rare reptile on film NATURE broadcaster Sir David Attenborough was the first to film footage of the rare pink iguana Conolophus Marthae in his new series on the Galapagos Islands.

Biggest reef VESPA ROUTE: Scooter and motorbike enthusiasts enjoyed a guided tour through historical areas.

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by Vespa ORIHUELA resembled more of an Italian city as more than 100 old motorcycles and scooters took part in the Vespa Route.

Organised by the Department of Tourism, the route lasted around two hours, giving riders the chance to explore the most historical areas of Orihuela.

A guide, who travelled with the group in a sidecar, outlined the

characteristics of the church of Santas Justa y Rufina, Santiago Apóstol and the Santo Domingo church during three stops.

The event was attended by owners of old mopeds as well as members of clubs from La Murada, Redován and Murcia.

This was the first Vespa Route, but the Department of Tourism is already working on new editions for 2013.

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by London bus NEIGHBOURS and friends in Elche are in shock after learning that a local mother has died after being hit by a bus in London.

The woman and her two children, from Altabix, were struck by a bus as they crossed Charing Cross Road in the capital city. All three were taken to St Mary’s Hospital in Paddington where the 44-year-old mother later died from her injuries. The children’s father was with them but it is thought he did not attempt to cross the road and was not injured.

The family were due to fly home to Spain the following day but he is now planning to stay in London until his daughter, aged 18, is well enough to travel home. She has now been released from hospital. His son, aged 11, is believed to have suffered minor injuries. Police believe the family may have looked the wrong way before stepping into the busy road.

A SCOTTISH reef – home to more than 100 million colourful and rare shellfish – could be the largest of its kind anywhere in the world.

The 7.5-square-kilometre area in Loch Alsh, a sea inlet between Skye and the Scottish mainland, is home to shells similar to scallops with neon orange tentacles.

Oompa attack A GANG who assaulted a man in Norwich included two men dressed as Oompa Loompas. The men had painted their skin orange and dyed their hair green like the characters from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

Lost seal A SEAL has ended up in the RSPB Fen Drayton Lakes near St Ives in Cambridgeshire, miles from the sea, after swimming up the River Great Ouse and crossing flooded land.

Safest water WATER from UK taps is the most stringently tested in the world and is safer to drink than bottled water, professors from Glasgow University have revealed.

Witchy Wales WITCHCRAFT is thriving in the Welsh countryside, with 83 witches and 93 satanists living and practising in the region.

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Friends complete cycle challenge TWO friends embarked on the challenge of daily routine began at 7am when they a lifetime and raised thousands for charity would start their ride. Sonia said: “We went through some immensely in the process. poor areas, they were Sonia Cooper and literally just eating to live.

Tina Kaylor from Los We visited children in Dolses left the sandy schools and gave them shores of the Costa pencils and you would Blanca behind them to have thought we had go back to basics, given them gold bullion. camping and cycling In some respects you across India to raise wish you could take the money for breast, SIGHTSEEING: Tina and Sonia kids here so they can see cervical and ovarian take a welcome break. how lucky they really are.” cancer as part of the The pair laughed and joked their way to Women V Cancer Cycle Challenge.

Organised by Action for Charity, the 350- the finish line making new friends and lifekilometre ride took them across rural long memories along the way.

Rajasthan in five days. “It was a fantastic Money is still being donated for their experience,” said Tina, “and we raised efforts and will now be given to a local about €8,000 for breast, cervical and charity. In the meantime Tina and Sonia ovarian cancer.” are already planning their 2014 adventure.

As part of a group of 63 ladies with ages “We will take this year off but 2014 is ranging from early 20s to late 60s, their looking good, maybe Cuba or China...”

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FRIENDLY FACES: Meeting the locals along the way.

ONCE IN A LIFETIME: Tina and Sonia complete their Indian cycle challenge.

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Salute to local fundraisers from the QEHB Charity A LOCAL charity has raised another €500 for a fund that treats injured military personnel in the UK. TRIQE has collected the cash for the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham Charity (QEHB).

On just two evenings of fun, laughter, games, raffles and sing-a-longs, approximately €500 was raised for the cause by the team of fund raisers based in urbanisation La Marina.

Bar Stop hosted the events. They have continually supported the charity and helped to raise money for the QEHB. The work they do became even more significant after owner Margaret Sample recently heard that her stepson had been badly injured in conflict in Afghanistan.

He was evacuated to the QEHB and received state of the art treatment and is now on the way to a full recovery.

Service personnel, who receive treatment at QEHB, are getting the very best of rehabilitation and attention. Work is also under way on completing Fisher House which is due to open in March. This is a family bedroomed unit with all facilities for families to spend time with their recovering loved one.

MILITARY ACTION: Fancy dress party was just one way supporters helped raise money.

The QEHB Charity uses the money raised by TRIQE and other supporters across Europe and the UK, towards rehabilitation and for families to spend time in Fisher House, free of charge.

Marion Ham from TRIQE said: “Each night a family stay in Fisher House costs the charity £25 (€30) so it is with pride that TRIQE knows exactly where the money is going. In just a

little more than two short years over €8,000 has been raised and sent to QEHB. “Without the support of patrons of Bar Stop, other bars’ participation and many residents and friends, this figure would not have been achieved. So TRIQE would like to thank each and every one, on behalf of the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, for their continued support to a very worthy cause.”

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Sixties night A GROUP of fundraisers wanting to give the Children’s Home in Elche a Christmas to remember ended their efforts by raising a total of €1,400.

Now Anne Day, Lorraine Johnson and Susan Reader, supported by their husbands, have decided to continue their fundraising efforts. They have already booked the next event; a Black and White Sixties Night at Quesada Country Club on Friday, February 8.

Following the success of the Cinderella Bling Ball held in November, PDQ are already booked and so is magician Graeme Mykal.

José Antonio Gonzalez of Grupo Barcelo Building Company and Real Estate Agency in Ciudad Quesada will be the main sponsor of the night and is donating all decorations for the evening.

Tickets cost €13.50 for a three course meal and half a bottle of wine per person.

For reservations email rod.day01@gmail.com.

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Tireless fundraiser loses fight for life

CHARITY fundraiser and helper Solvi Jansen passed away in the early hours of Christmas Day. Solvi and her twin sister, Kate, were well known because of their generous fundraising efforts throughout the Costa Blanca and in particular for the Easy Care Rescue Centre (ECHRC) in Rojales.

Co-founder Sue Weeding said the centre would not have survived without their support in the early days. “They truly have been incredible supporters and benefactors of the rescue centre from almost the beginning. Many of the early rescues were made possible because of their fundraising and their own personal donations.”

One of the great highlights for the EHCRC, and also for Solvi and Kate, was not only winning the Pride of Spain Special Achievement Award in 2010, but also the surprise donation the twins made on the same night of €10,000.

“Because of Solvi Jansen’s incredible kindness and compassion there are many happy horses who will be living the rest of their lives here at the rescue

LEGACY LIVES ON: Solvi Jansen with one of the donkeys at EHCRC, who will have a happy home thanks to her donations. centre,” added Sue. “Every day when we look at our very own special Solvi, the horse, who was rescued in April last year and named in honour of Solvi Jansen, we will always remember with love the extraordinary person she really was and all that she has done for us and all the animals here.”

Solvi had been fighting cancer for a long while and lost her battle in the early hours of Christmas Day. Even towards the end she still continued to make the labels for the donation tins and would sit for hours sticking them on the tins which are distributed throughout the Costa Blanca.

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Cancer charity ends the year on a high CANCER charity AECC raised a total of €2,574 last month.

The Santa Fun Run in Torrevieja saw 202 people take part, raising €1,202, followed by a Christmas market at La Ronda Commercial Centre which added a further €292 to the funds.

The Friendly Bar in the Citrus Centre at Playa Flamenca held a Christmas fun night and raffle, raising almost €600, and two teenage friends collected around €500 walking around local bars in fancy dress for three hours.

Maria Wilson, President of the Torrevieja charity, said: “Although it was close to Christmas the local community once again showed that people really do care about others and it has inspired me even more to raise as much money as I can to help the AECC’s early detection programme and the fight against cancer.”

The next event the Pink Ladies - who are members and friends of the charity are planning is the third annual St Valentine’s Ball at Las Ramblas Golf Club, with tickets now on sale.

For more information call Maria on 602 418 959 between 10am and 4pm.

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Stories making headlines from Germany

Government being sued AROUND 80 relatives of more than 90 civilians killed in an air strike in Afghanistan in 2009 are suing the German Government for a total €3.3 million.

Far shoppers GERMANY is becoming such an increasingly popular shopping destination for wealthy Russians and Chinese that customs officials can barely cope.

Long term OUT of the 4.33 million German jobless 3.03 million are classed as long-term unemployed, according to the Federal Employment Agency (BA).

Job sadness PSYCHOLOGICAL disorders like depression have become the number one reason for early retirement in Germany, according to figures from German statutory pension scheme Deutsche Rentenversicherung.

Had enough THIRTY POINT FOUR per cent of Germans who join the voluntary military service quit before completing the sixmonth trial period, according to figures by the Defence Ministry.

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Even exotic pets are for life RACCOONS, iguanas, crocodiles and even sharks were probably given as presents over the holidays.

And many will be surreptitiously dumped in the nearest nature park once they have lost their cuteness. That is the claim from the Terra Natura animal park in Benidorm.

Each year the obsession with giving exotic animals

as presents results in pets that soon outgrow their welcome.

“This fashion, which has flourished in recent years, means each spring the park receives an avalanche of donations,” warned experts at the park.

Veterinarians there called on parents to “be responsible” when buying a pet.

Tongue tied BONN POLICE are investigating an Indian man’s claims that he had his tongue lacerated by Islamists after he refused demands that he become a Muslim.

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A HUGE SUCCESS: Jeff Wiszniewski, Samantha Hull, Manuel David Mora and Jean Wiszniewski donate gifts.

Campaign success

MORE food donation campaigns are being run in 2013 to help the needy following the massive success of a Christmas campaign.

Residents of all nationalities took toys and food to the Office for the Urbanisations in La Marina for the town hall run initiative throughout December making the Christmas period a happier one for the neediest.

Now the town hall is reminding residents that collections for the poor will carry on all year round.

Councillor Jeff Wiszniewski said: “We were astounded by the response and were able to give every child a mountain of presents and every family a huge box of food.

We want to ride your bicycle BICYCLE usage in Elche is on the rise, according to the rental company Bicielx which provides the city’s bikes.

At present there are a total of 2,989 users who have changed their usual transport system to bicycle, an increase of 853 from 2011. The councillor for Transport Justino Delgado,

said it showed a positive result in the city making a conscious effort to reduce the carbon footprint and C02 emissions.

Last year 205,917 trips were made, representing a total of 286,162 since the service of bicycle rental was launched. There are 34 Bicielx stations around Elche, to house 492 bikes.

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Gerard 1st 2013 baby THE first child born in Spain in 2013 is called Gerard, born at the Verge de la Cinta Hospital in Tortosa (Tarragona).

The young Catalan was born 30 seconds after the chimes marked the arrival of the New Year.

He weighed 3.7 kilos and measured 54 centimetres and is the first child of Montserrat Espinosa, 34, and second of his father, Lluis Vendrell, 43, who has another child, Pol, from a previous relationship.

They are residents of Sant Jaume d’Enveja (Tarragona) and arrived at the hospital at 9am on December 31 when Montserrat went into labour.

She says that it was a “beautiful experience” which she plans to repeat.

SCANDINAVIAN PRESS Stories making headlines in Denmark, Norway and Sweden

Swine flu concern NORWAY - Doctors fear Norway could be in for an epidemic of swine flu after 84 human cases were reported at Akershus University Hospital near Oslo.

Royal bride A boy was first in Spain.

The second baby of the year was David, born at 12.01am in Gandia (Valencia) and the third place was shared by Eythem, born in Madrid at the same time as Blanca in Ronda (Malaga), 12.02am.

Three other first babies have foreign parents.

Spanish flag gone THE Spanish flag has been removed from several regional police (Ertzaintza) stations in the Basque Country.

Although the Security Department of the new Basque government has not ordered any flags to be removed from the Ertzaintza offices, they have been taken down in Eibar, Zumarraga and Beasain in Guipozcoa and Erandio in Vizcaya.

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This allegedly happened following a communiqué from the Human Resources department according to the unions representing the Ertzaintza.

When the PSE-EE came to power in the Basque Country, it was decided the Spanish flag would be placed in the entrance hall to the police stations with the European, Basque and Ertzaintza flags.

Mayors in corruption scandal MAYOR of Santiago de Compostela Angel Curras has been charged with corruption.

The Conservative Partido Popular mayor and his Cabinet Chief, Francisco Castro, have been charged in the ‘Pokemon’ investigation into alleged irregularities in the assignation of work to different companies.

In Santiago the investigation has focused on the Vendex Group. They are just two out of a group of Galician politicians charged in the investigation, with the mayors of Ourense, Francisco Rodriguez, and Boqueixon, in La Coruña, Adolfo Gacio, also charged.

SWEDEN - Royal Court spokesman Berrtil Ternert has announced that Princess Madeleine will marry American fiancé Chris O’Neill at the Royal Palace church in Stockholm on June 8.

Green shoots DENMARK - Prime Minister Helle ThorningSchmidt has predicted that Denmark will show the first signs of economic recovery this year.

Toll charge SWEDEN - A new road toll congestion charge of between eight and 18 kronor a day, similar to the one in Stockholm has been introduced in Gothenburg.

Taking action NORWAY - Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg announced that the country will increase investment on worldwide anti-deforestation and emission-cutting programmes this year.

Tree worry DENMARK - Up to 60 trees throughout the country will be analysed by the University of Copenhagen after fears that tree-destroying mould Phytophthora could cost the country hundreds of millions of kroner.

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Stories making headlines from Russia

High-flying officials GOVERNMENT officials might soon adopt helicopters as their official vehicles as more landing pads are due to be built in Moscow during the first quarter of 2013.

Adoption ban

SAFE: The Parador in Ronda, Malaga

Paradors one to close

THE Puerto Lumbreras Parador, in Murcia, will be the only one to close, instead of the seven

throughout Spain initially proposed by management.

Staff at ‘Paradores’ throughout Spain went on strike at the end of last year to protest the company’s redundancy plan which proposed 644 dismissals.

However, the agreement reached between management and unions following 11 hours of talks will result in 350 dismissals, some of which will be voluntary.

Dismissed staff will receive 25 days salary per year worked, with a maximum of 20 months of payments.

Twenty-seven ‘Paradores’ will close part of the year, for periods of two, three or four months, rather than the initially proposed five months.

Throughout Spain, the Paradores employ some 4,400 people.

SINCE the turn of the year the adoption of Russian orphans by US citizens has been banned after a new bill was signed by President Vladimir Putin.

TV threat FOUR Duma (parliament) deputies want to ban ‘foreign’ hosts from state television following a ‘derogatory’ remark about Russia by French born, American educated, journalist Vladimir Pozner.

Tractor tax RUSSIA has started charging a higher 27.5 per cent import duty on grain harvesters following massive imports of mostly American-made farming vehicles.

New missiles TWO new missiles even more powerful than the current RS-20B Voyevoda Inter Continental Ballistic Missile are being developed by Russia as a response to the US missile defence system in Europe.

War games THE BIGGEST Russian naval training manoeuvres in decades will take place in the Mediterranean and Black Sea at the end of the month, the Ministry of Defence recently stated.

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Girl, 5, dies in car crash on A-92 AN ALLEGED drunk driver, 25, has been arrested in Granada, accused of causing an accident in which a child was killed.

The accident occurred near Huetor Santillan in Granada Province at around 6am on the A-92 motorway. The girl, five, was travelling in a car with her family when their vehicle was allegedly rammed from behind by the detainee.

She died in hospital, and her father, 41, grandfather, 75, and mother, who is pregnant, were also injured. A man who was in the same vehicle as the detainee was slightly injured.

When the Guardia Civil arrived on the scene, the driver allegedly fled on foot but was arrested shortly afterwards and charged with negligent manslaughter.

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Councillor’s car set on fire GUARDIA CIVIL are investigating the circumstances in which a vehicle belonging to a councillor in La Carolina (Jaen) was set on fire.

Local Mayor Francisco Gallarin, who, like the councillor whose vehicle was destroyed, is a member of the Conservative

Partido Popular (PP), blames leftwing groups.

The fire gutted a personal vehicle belonging to the deputy mayor, Santiago Adan, and damaged the façade of his parents’ house. It was started intentionally in the early hours of the morning.

Gallarin claims that it is just the latest in a series of violent acts against the PP carried out by leftwing groups since the night before the General Strike in November 2012.

Death threats against the mayor were painted on a local wall, and another threatening

message appeared on the family home of a local councillor.

On December 27, the mayor claims he was insulted and members of the left-wing group and the Andalucian Workers’ Syndicate attempted to take over the town hall.

Meanwhile, the local left-wing party has expressed its support for Santiago Adan, as well as its disgust for the mayor attributing responsibility to ‘left-wing groups’.

No work forces immigrants home DANGER: The girl was said to have been playing on the escalator.

Tragedy strikes in shopping centre

A GIRL, nine, died after falling from the third floor of As Cancelas shopping centre in Santiago de Compostela.

The accident occurred before midnight when she was playing on the escalator. Her parents were having

dinner in a nearby restaurant when she climbed onto the handrail and fell.

The shopping centre claims the accident was not due to a lack of safety measures. Security tapes have been handed to the court investigating the matter.

FORTY per cent of immigrants living in Andalucia are unemployed, according to the General Workers’ Union (UGT).

Many of those unable to find work cannot renew their residency permits and lose healthcare. Immigrants have also seen aid for integration and education cut, laws change and are invited to return to their countries of origin.

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Plain speaking BENISSA COUNCIL has announced two twice-weekly language courses for adults and children in Chinese and Russian. They are the languages of the future, said Alejandro Angel of Interlingua Services.

Stolen treasure found in shop

Green machines

POLICE entered a Campello antique shop looking for ivory and left with an Iberian treasure.

Carrying out a routine check on banned ivory trading, officers from the Guardia Civil’s Seprona nature protection unit found a second century pottery jar worth an estimated €20,000.

The jar, a ceremonial wine vessel, was being restored and the Seprona officers found it in a back room inside a cardboard box.

It is decorated with scenes of a boar hunt and is an exceptional example of Iberian art, said Jose Luis

SAN VICENTE’S bicycle-sharing scheme prevented 5.2 tons of CO2 emissions last year. Over the last 12 months the bicycles were used 16,864 times and ridden 27,200 kilometres.

Clean sweep

News from our editions

A CLEANER and her mother allegedly took jewellery worth €100,000 from the shop where the former worked.

The younger woman was openly wearing a stolen necklace when arrested.

Top marks FIVE Calpe beaches monitored throughout last summer were pronounced ‘excellent’ by the regional government. The town hall’s Tourism department has pledged to continue the same high standards.

IBERIAN TREASURE: 2nd century wine jar.

Pineapple plot

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Youth killed

TWELVE alleged drug smugglers are on trial in Alicante City accused of smuggling 203 kilos of cocaine in pineapple shipments from Costa Rica.

They each face a nine-year sentence if found guilty.

A €12 charge for residents’ parking permits in blue zone areas of Almeria City has been ended by the council.

A YOUTH aged 19 died after crashing his car and falling into a swamp near the town of Iznajar (Cordoba). His body was retrieved by firefighters from the Lucena station.

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MALAGA CITY HALL has been asked to close the Sillero quarry in Churriana by a local residents’ association, as it says the quarry operates illegally and damages the environment.

Death free LAST year - the first for 12 years - saw no deaths of women from gender violence in Almeria Province.

Poison fire

Simon Garcia, an archaeologist from the regional government’s Culture Department.

Already considered unique for the quality of its decoration, the jar bears burn marks. These could be the result of accidental fire or through being used during funeral rites, he surmised. It was probably stolen from a looted grave now destroyed by plunderers.

“Without an archaeological context, we have little chance of learning more about the jar or the site where it was found,” Garcia lamented.

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Quarry claim

Missing man

CARELESS handling of rat poison is thought to have started a house fire on Carretera de Almeria, Adra. No injuries were reported.

THE family of Jose Abraham Lopez, 39, who went missing in Arroyo de la Miel at midnight on December 11, has made an appeal for information. If anyone can help, please call 652 930 088.

School change

Eco golf

ALMOST €59,000 has been spent converting a former school in Cantoria into a multi-use hall by Almeria Provincial Government.

IRRIGATION of 37 golf courses in Malaga Province using recycled water increased by 44 per cent during 2012, public water company Acosol reported.

500 protest

Pensioner rescued

FIVE HUNDRED people gathered in Almeria City to celebrate the Day of the Holy Family, which saw attendees demonstrating against abortion’s legal status.

DESPITE suffering from second-degree burns themselves, firefighters rescued a man aged 65 after a fire broke at his home in Calle Arandano, in Malaga City’s La Castañeta area.

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EU job aid EU FUNDS of €253,000 will be used to promote job opportunities for unemployed people aged 16-24 in Axarquia towns with a population of less than 20,000.

Double bill THE local regulations on waste collection tax in Torrox are to be revised as several cases of duplicate bills were discovered last year, the town hall said.

Garden cash RESIDENTS will not have to pay for garden management in 10 areas of Velez and 19 in Torre del Mar as the town hall takes over the responsibility and increases its investment from €1.2 million to €2 million.

On foot only CALLE DEL MAR in Velez is to be pedestrianised between Avenida de

Andalucia and the beach promenade, says the town hall, but no dates for the work have been given.

Energy saving TORROX TOWN HALL saved €140,000 on its electricity bill last year following a set of measures put in place to optimise local energy consumption, Environment Councillor Lauren Salvatierra announced.

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Film reality THE Balearic Film Commission ‘will be a reality this year’, according to the Balearic Government’s spokesman, Antonio Gomez.

Flexible shifts PALMA COUNCIL employees are being offered more flexible workdays in response to the extra two-and-a-half weekly working hours for civil servants introduced by the central government last year.

Serious crash A TWENTY-SIX-YEAR-OLD man was taken to Son Espases Hospital in Palma with serious head injuries after his car crashed into a wall in Santanyi on Monday.

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Stat of week 4.8 million people were unemployed in Spain at the end of 2012, an increase of 426,364 on the start of the year.

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for newly-hired pilots by 40 per cent, and introduces measures to increase productivity.

It also maintains the hierarchy between pilots and co-pilots which led to the last proposal being rejected and appealed before the National Court.

It was annulled as it didn’t take the opinion of Iberia Express into account.

Iberia said it was ‘shameful’ that the new agreement had been leaked and that the company and its pilots had had to hear of it in SALES of body-shaping underwear including the Press. bras, tights and girdles rose 80 per cent in The creation of Iberia the UK over Christmas and the New Year.

Express led to strikes and Leading supermarket chain Asda reported flight cancellations. five million pairs of Shapewear tights were In November, Iberia sold in December, with three pairs per announced plans to lay off minute being sold in the run-up to New Year.

4,500 employees and reduce salaries by up to 35 per cent.

SEPLA pilots recently signed an agreement VAT will not be increased government has no plans which will be used to again in 2013. This was to cut social benefits in negotiate the future of the pledged by the Minister of 2013 and that when company without strikes Economy, Luis de Guindos, possible, VAT, which was in and using voluntary in an address in which he general increased by 3 per dismissal plans to solve said this year will be better cent to 21 per cent in any excess of staff. than 2012.

September 2012, would be An agreement should De Guindos also said the decreased again. be reached by January 31.

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A down to earth Iberia pay deal NEW pilots joining Iberia - the Spanish national airline - are set to earn 40 per cent less than their colleagues.

This follows an agreement proposed by arbitrator Jaime Montalvo, who was chosen to mediate between Iberia and staff following the creation of subsidiary company Iberia Express.

The proposal confirms that the creation of Iberia Express is legal, reduces salaries

LINE-UP: Iberian planes at Madrid airport with one of the pilots (inset).

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Keeping fit with eye on finances

KEEPING FIT: Gyms are sound business.

FORGET the New Year resolutions to start keepfit regimes.

It seems the keep-fit business is booming, with a mere 2 per cent of people admitting that they fail to use club memberships once they have resolved to join a gym.

This finding, in a UK survey, puts a lie to the assumption that many consumers buy gym memberships and never use them.

And research has also revealed that the budget health and fitness clubs sector has enjoyed the biggest growth in the past year, with this now worth in excess of £145 million (€181.25m), with club numbers rising from 73 to 142 between June 2011 and November 2012, an increase of 95 per cent. Around one in six UK adults use health and fitness clubs.

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Court only solution in neighbourly dispute

Q. A NEIGHBOUR has moved his boundary wall on to our property. As a result of this move our property now suffers from flooding. We have had meetings and sent emails to the planning office, and their only response was that we ourselves should be ‘more neighbourly’. We have instructed three different lawyers during the past two years but they have been You and the unable to obtain any result Law in Spain from the planning office.

By David Searl We have obtained two quotes for fixing the problem, one costing us €18,000 and the other €10,000.

Our surveyor’s report states that, if the wall was moved back to its original position on the neighbour’s land, this would solve the flooding and would cost about €4,500.

Clearly it is against the law to cause damage to another property by your building actions. We question why the planning office does not take action against our neighbour to remedy the situation.

PF (Costa Blanca) A. Perhaps in your home country the local planning office has the authority to examine a situation like this and order the neighbour to put his wall back where it was.

Indeed, this seems like the most logical and effective system. However, Spanish law regards your problem as a civil matter between two citizens. This means you must go to court against your neighbour. You will claim that he has illegally invaded your land and his structure has caused you problems with flooding. You have your surveyor’s report and any other evidence, such as photos, to back your claim. You will seek an order against him to remove the wall and compensate you for the damages suffered.

You will also seek to have your legal and court costs paid.

I am very surprised that none of your three lawyers pointed this out nor explained why the planning office did not act. Unless there is more to the story you are almost sure to win the case.

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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A NEW regime will stop heavyhanded regulation of firms, according to Business Minister Michael Fallon. Examples of a ‘jobsworth’ approach he wants stopped include a blue cheese manufacturer being told it could not have mould on its cheese.

£££ FOREIGN firms will be able to borrow up to £50 million (€61 million) from the UK government in

an effort to boost trade with British companies.

In effect, the scheme guarantees payment to UK firms wanting to export to emerging markets.

SCOTLAND’S whisky industry has entered a golden age generating more than £4 billion (€4.91 billion) a year, research by the Scotch Whisky Association (SWA) has revealed.

The industry is worth £2.9 billion (€3.56 billion) with another £1.3 billion (€1.6 billion) generated through the supply chain, employing an estimated 36,000 people.

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Tight purse strings, but handbag sales soaring fashion accessories grew 45 per HANDBAGS, as many discovered cent to reach a glitzy £2.2 billion this Christmas, are a girl’s best (€2.7bn) in 2012, with this friend. representing a 9 per cent increase For despite tightening purse between 2011 and 2012. strings, sales of handbags have Tamara Sender, Senior Fashion grown 104 per cent in the last five Analyst at Mintel, said: “In years, according to research into tough economic times, fashion accessories in the UK. accessories have proved Sales of handbags for 2012 popular among consumers. were just shy of £1 billion Strong and fickle fashion (€1.25 bn), up from £468 trends in accessories mean million (€585m) in 2007. that women tend to This proved Britain’s purchase multiple items love affair with and use them as a cheap handbags knows no way of updating their look. bounds, with sales increasing BEST FRIEND: Girls still going mad for handbags.

11 per cent between 2011 and “In fact, accessories last year, Mintel, the UK’s leading accessories - including handbags, have proved so popular among consumer retail research company, man-bags, costume jewellery, belts, consumers with value sales of both revealed. scarves, hats, ties and hair handbags and costume jewellery But it is not just handbags which accessories - have also shown growing at a stronger rate than are being snapped up by Britain’s impressive growth. clothing. fashion lovers, total sales of fashion In the last five years, sales of “Trends that have helped boost the market last year included clutches, metallic handbags, costume jewellery with spikes, big and bold earrings and fake jewel-encrusted bracelets.”

In 2011, half of all British women bought at least one INSTAGRAM is facing a come into effect on referring to using photos bag, equivalent to an civil lawsuit as a result of January 16, mentioned for advertisements withimpressive 13.2 million changes it introduced to the power to sell users’ out compensation. women. While a third of its Terms of Service. photos without warning Facebook, which handbag buyers purchased The changes led to or compensation, and acquired Instagram several less expensive bags user protests and threats included a mandatory earlier this year for in the 12 months, one in to quit the photo-sharing arbitration clause, which US$715 million, has seven bought only one app. There is no opt-out forced users to waive denounced the lawsuit. expensive handbag. believe this option for current users, their rights to participate “We Research also shows that who can deactivate their in a class-action lawsuit complaint is without just under a quarter of profile, but lose the except under very merit and we will fight women did not buy a it vigorously,” stated rights to photos they had limited circumstances. fashion accessory in the previously uploaded.

Instagram later de- Facebook spokesman last 12 months, and this The terms, due to leted some of the parts Andrew Noyes. rises to 46 per cent of men.

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UK Inheritance Tax And The Expatriate Do you remember John Major telling us that he wanted “to see wealth cascading down the generations” in the UK? All these years later and inheritance tax is still with us. It remains with us even when we leave the UK to live abroad - you cannot leave inheritance tax behind you as easily as many other taxes.

Your liability to UK inheritance tax is not directly linked to where you are resident; instead it is determined by domicile. Many British expatriates remain liable for this tax even if they have lived abroad for many years.

Inheritance tax threshold and rate Inheritance tax is a combination of a death duty and in some circumstances a gifts tax. If you are a British domicile, it is charged on your worldwide estate at the time of your death, plus any assets you have given away as gifts over the last seven years. It is also payable on certain lifetime gifts.

The tax rate is a fixed 40%. Since April 2012 this will be reduced to 36% if you leave at least 10% of your estate to qualifying charities.

The first £325,000 is taxed at 0% – the ‘nil rate band’ per individual.

This threshold usually increases each year in line with inflation, but as part of austerity measures it has been frozen since April 2009.

by Bill Blevins, Financia l Correspondent, Blevins Franks

It is now scheduled to increase in 2015/16, but again only by 1% (rounded up to £329,000) instead of by the rate of inflation as in the past. There is therefore little relief for your heirs.

UK assets are always liable to inheritance tax regardless of domicile.

Spouses/civil partners There is no inheritance tax on assets passing between spouses and civil partners.

There is one exception. If you are a UK domicile but your spouse is not, they do not benefit from the blanket spousal exception. They would currently only receive a one-off allowance of £55,000, on top of the general £325,000 nil rate band (so a total tax free allowance of £380,000).

This should improve following plans announced at the 2012 Budget. If it goes ahead, from April

2013 the one-off allowance will increase to £325,000, giving nonUK domiciled spouses a total allowance of £650,000.

When it comes to leaving assets to the next generation (or indeed to anyone you wish), spouses and partners can benefit from double the nil rate band.

Since April 2008, any unused portion can be carried forward and used by the second partner on their death, giving a couple a potential combined threshold of £650,000.

It is the unused portion that gets carried forward, rather than the actual value.

So if the first spouse uses 50% of their allowance, the second spouse will have a nil rate band of £487,500 on their death (£325,000 of their own, and £162,500 from the first deceased spouse).

The domicile factor Domicile is a much more permanent concept than residence.

It is notoriously difficult to change your domicile, but not impossible if you have permanently left the UK, do not plan to return, have moved to a new country and plan to remain there permanently.

The basic rule is that you are domiciled in the country where

your life is centred, and which you regard as your homeland.

Even if you do successfully adopt a new domicile of choice, you will still be ‘deemed’ to be a UK domicile by HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) for the next 36 months.

Also, if you or your spouse returns to the UK in future, you are likely to immediately regain your UK domicile of origin.

Determining and changing domicile is complex and can be very costly for your heirs if you get it wrong, so it is essential to take professional advice. Blevins Franks specialise in this particular area and can review your situation and advise on whether you can adopt a domicile of choice outside the UK and how to do so.

Paying inheritance tax In most cases, inheritance tax bills should be settled within six months of the end of the month of death; after this interest starts to be applied.

This can cause problems for your heirs if your estate does not have enough illiquid assets, or if it takes longer than six months to obtain probate.

If much of your assets are overseas, e.g. property and bank

accounts here in Spain, bank accounts in Isle of Man, etc, then probate can be particularly complicated as it needs to be obtained in each country. You may be able to use arrangements for some of your assets that do not need to go through probate and should seek advice on this.

Inheritance tax is often described as a ‘voluntary tax’ since you can often take steps to lower the tax liability for your heirs. You should take advice on this, as well as on how inheritance tax interacts with Spanish succession tax. Blevins Franks has a deep insight into both UK and local taxes, and would guide you through the rules and the best solutions for your estate.

The tax rates, scope and reliefs may change. Any statements concerning taxation are based upon our understanding of current taxation laws and practices which are subject to change. Tax information has been summarised; an individual should take personalised advice.

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

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‘Dadgets’ want latest hi-tech HIGH-TECH gadgets turned out to be the popular choice of ‘I want’ by fathers at Christmas.

Consumer research prior to the festive buying season spelt out that fathers reign supreme in gadget ownership in Britain.

Gone are the days when Christmas meant socks or after shave for the man-of-the-house, with the five most likely in demand ‘Dadget’ gifts for gadget-driven fathers in Britain identified as: • Smartphone, owned by 78 per cent of fathers, compared to 62 per cent of consumers overall • HD televisions, owned by 73 per cent, compared to 64 per cent overall • SatNav, owned by 52 per cent, compared to 45 per cent overall • Tablet computers, owned by 36 per cent, compared to 24 per cent overall • Blu-ray players, owned by 34 per cent, compared to 21 per cent overall.

Meanwhile, home cinema

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GADGET MAD: Dads want electronic gizmos.

IT was a record year for banks in the US, just not one they would have wanted. Banks were fined a total of $10.7 billion (€8.1 billion), the highest annual figure, by US authorities, mostly for improper mortgage practices.

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systems, Smart TVs and 3D TVs were also in high demand.

Paul Davies, Senior Technology Analyst at Mintel, the consumer research analysts with offices worldwide, said while generally young consumers help to prompt the growth of modern technology devices, “data shows that dads are representing a ‘second wave’ of ownership.

“With smartphones and tablets being two of the most popular devices with fathers, perhaps they are keener to buy additional devices in order to regain personal or private ownership of products, as their children start to compete for usage time.”

In fact, the only gadgets that today’s technology-loving fathers are less inclined to buy

are the basic or standard versions of high-tech gadgets.

Fathers are 9 per cent less likely to have a ‘basic’ mobile phone and 5 per cent less likely to have a standard definition TV. Furthermore, fathers are also more likely to upgrade to the latest high-quality Blu-ray player whilst fewer hang on to its predecessor, the more basic DVD player.

APPLE took 53.3 per cent of the US smartphone market in the three months since the launch of the iPhone 5.

Homes boost NEW home sales in the US rose 15 per cent year on year to the highest rate since April 2010 when sales were inflated by a temporary $8,000 (€6,000) tax credit for homebuyers.

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Now is time to start putting the coppers away for next Christmas YOU may be breathing a sigh of relief that Christmas spending is over, but if you’re the parent of a child you had better start saving for next Christmas right now.

It seems traditional toys just don’t cut it any more.

That’s right, kids nowadays, of all ages, are much more interested in technology in the form of a mobile phone or iPad. This Christmas my twoyear-old niece got a bundle of presents from Santa; a colouring book, paints, three fairytale books, a tea set and much more. She opened each present with the delight and excitement that only a two-year-old can conjure up, but after only five minutes of playing with her new toys she put them aside to

Loose change A look at finance for females

START SAVING: Children want ever more expensive presents.

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pick up the nearest mobile or to play Angry Birds on the iPad. She can turn on the television with the remote control, she can flick through photographs on the mobile phone and she can play games on the iPad. All these things she is fascinated by and if she was allowed, would spend hours doing.

She’s not the only one.

All the children I know are

entranced by technology. They sit glue-eyed to the telly. They whine if you

take the mobile phone from their hands and they would push buttons on the computer for hours rather than read a book.

Just the other day I saw a wooden laptop in a toyshop, that when opened, has a blackboard to colour on inside. And according to Mattel, the top-selling product in 2012 has been a mobile phone case.

That suggests not only that traditional boardgames and toys just cannot compete with new exciting technology, but also that technology is taking up more and more of the children’s time, leaving less need for other toys.

So does this spell the end of traditional toys?

Will toddlers and children from now on be requesting a pricey tablet in their stocking rather than a Barbie doll or play truck? You’d better get saving!

Spain’s rich better off than a year ago SPAIN’S rich are now 8.4 per cent richer than a year ago.

The 200 richest people in Spain have €145 billion between them according to El Mundo special feature ‘Spain’s Greatest Fortunes’.

In just 12 months, the stock exchange assets of Inditex owner Amancio Ortega, 76, have increased by 64 per cent.

This, plus the real estate he owns, brings his fortune to €43 billion, which equals the assets of the other 99 on the stock exchange list put together.

His company Zara is so successful that his ex-wife, Rosalia Mera, who owns just

the list of 100 fortunes not on the stock exchange, with €6 billion, thanks to his 78.37 per cent share of the supermarket chain.

Roig says that Spain has a lot to learn from the effort made

by Chinese bazaar owners and says that the Spanish have to either improve productivity or lower their quality of life.

In March, Forbes magazine published the list of the world’s richest people, with 14 Spaniards on it who were worth more than €750 million.

SPAIN’S RICHEST: 200 people have €145 billion between them.

However, the El Mundo special under 7 per cent of it, is the Meanwhile, the founder of reveals there are 42 families in second richest person in Spain. Mercadona, Juan Roig, is top of Spain with more assets.

The list only includes the net value of companies based in has been approved by a programme valued at battle.

Hundreds of Spain which are US judge. about $600 million (€454 accidents and four deaths present on the The deal gives $500 million). were claimed to be a stock exchange, million (€378 million) in The settlement is the result of the alleged fault. but not what the cash, plus installation of largest in US history But the settlement does country’s richest override systems and a involving car defects, and not involve any admission own at a customer support follows a four-year legal of blame by Toyota. personal level.

Toyota’s billion dollar pay-out approved TOYOTA’S offer of a $1.1 billion (€832 million) settlement in a classaction lawsuit brought by consumers whose cars lost value due to sudden, unintended acceleration

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Big gust to wind sales IBERDROLA has sold 32 wind parks in France to General Electric, MEAG and EDF for €400 million, by selling all of its share capital in Iberdrola Renovables Francia (IBRF).

Prices up SPAIN’S Consumer Price Index (CPI) ended 2012 at 2.9 per cent after remaining stable in December. Prices had peaked to 3.5 per cent in October before falling again.

Job fee A SCHOOL in Granada which was charging job applicants €190 each for an interview has been reported to the Junta de Andalucia which will decide whether this is legal.

Pension age FROM this year, in order to retire on a full pension, Spanish workers will have to be at least 65 years and a month old, unless they have worked 38.5 years.

Appy ending SEVEN hikers who got lost in Peñalara, Madrid, were rescued thanks to their mobile phones using Whatsapp to contact emergency services and GPS tracking to locate them.

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A sobering sip of New Year reality!

INITIALLY, New Year’s Eve was spent trying to forget about Crispin and how he had discarded my desires to spend it together.

But lo and behold, I stumbled upon his Porsche in a Puerto Banus disco car park, and I have to admit that on entering the club, my mind raced as I

As I see it...

Ana Jefferson-Smith takes an irreverent look at life as a singleton expat in Spain automatically assumed the sad reality that he had chosen to spend the evening with his boozy

friends as opposed to me. Looking back, that would have been a positive compared to the reality.

Crispin was in fact dancing, very very provocatively, with another woman, with none of his normal group anywhere in sight!

There he was, alone with a mystery blonde, with his hands caressing her slender body and stroking her pursing lips.

MADDOCKS’ VIEW ON LIFE

COMMENT Cardinal points “WE’RE up against the Church,” Don Quijote once said to Sancho Panza. Now it is Mariano Rajoy’s turn, as senior prelate Cardinal Rouco pressures him to reverse liberal social legislation.

Many of the disillusioned, crisis-hit voters who brought Conservative Rajoy to power in November 2011 are not themselves Conservatives.

And Rouco is on a loser, because Rajoy knows that alienating them is politically more risky than upsetting a cardinal.

The scapegoat THE Gurtel corruption case involving the PP will not be shelved, despite the defence’s claims that accusations were based on illegal bugging ordered by then judge, Baltasar Garzon.

The government’s legal advisers replied that the Prosecution Department had already accumulated sufficient incriminatory evidence before the wiretaps.

In the meantime, only one person has to date sat in the dock over Gurtel. And irony of ironies, it was Baltasar Garzon.

Judge bans sex for father of 9 A FATHER of nine who owes $90,000 (€68,000) in child support has been banned from having sex as a condition of probation by a US judge until he can financially support his nine children from six different women. *** FISHING rods lightweight, easy to spot in pick-up trucks and portable - are the most commonly stolen item in Texas, US police have revealed. ***

JUST FANCY THAT...

SIXTEEN people were injured when a 33-tonne aquarium containing sharks, fish and turtles, burst in Shanghai, China. *** TWO sisters have been arrested in Florida, USA, after inadvertently pocket-dialling the hotel they had just robbed *** AUTHORITIES in Florida, USA, have

arrested a woman who set fire to a mattress while her ex-boyfriend slept on it with another woman. *** CHINESE fishermen using nets ‘caught’ a Porsche Cayenne 4x4 normally selling for more than $110,000 (€83,000).

Police believe it had been submerged for two years.

*** A US BURGLAR ate food from the fridge and slept in the guest bed before fleeing with $500 (€375) worth of jewellery and a bottle of Jack Daniels from a house in Florida. *** TWO MEN have been arrested in California, USA, for stealing thousands of dollars worth of cooking grease from a McDonald’s restaurant to resell to recyclers to turn into biodiesel fuel.

I froze, unable to tear myself away from the dreadful truth unfolding in front of my eyes.

How could he disrespect me in that way?

I should have known that being whisked off one’s feet seldom happens in the real world, and was too good to be true for me.

Clearly here was another woman - poor soul just like me - consumed by his masculinity, fooled by his words.

Determined not to let him ruin my girls’ night out any more by remaining in the same club, I decided to leave, for by now it was 6.30am and the sun would soon be rearing its head over the horizon.

So with our false eyelashes now jaunted and our pristine hair resembling a frizzy mess, we all retreated home to our respective beds.

Not hungover the following morning, I wondered if what I had seen had truly happened.

Had the man who encouraged the ‘L’ word into my mind three weeks ago just broken my heart?

I had to privately admit to being crushed.

And now there is the predicament of whether to accost him with what I had seen, should I wait for a confession, or merely refuse to answer any phone calls?

Part of me wants to humiliate and expose him.

But another side wants him to admit his sins and explain why he would risk hurting me so much.

Why he appeared to treat me with such grace in the past, only to shatter my illusions of 2013 altogether.

Only my dog Stella can comfort me now, and help me move on towards making 2013 start with happiness. She has always been a good listener.

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5:20am BBC News 7:00am Breakfast The latest news, sport, business and weather from the BBC's Breakfast team. 10:15am Wanted Down Under 11:00am Homes Under the Hammer Series featuring properties sold via auction. 12:00pm Rip Off Britain More holiday horror stories resolved by Gloria Hunniford, Angela Rippon and Julia Somerville. 12:45pm Cowboy Trap Clive Holland has help and advice for homeowners who have fallen victim to cowboy builders. 1:15pm Bargain Hunt 2:00pm BBC News at One The latest national and international news stories from the BBC News team, followed by weather. 2:30pm BBC London News The latest news, sport and weather from London. 2:45pm Doctors 3:15pm Privates

4.00pm - midnight 4:00pm Escape to the Country 4:45pm Perfection Nick Knowles hosts the general knowledge quiz show.

5:30pm Antiques Road Trip 6:15pm Pointless 7:00pm BBC News at Six The latest national and international news stories from the BBC News team, followed by weather.

7:30pm BBC London News The latest news, sport and weather from London.

8:00pm The One Show If it's got Britain talking then it will get talked about on The One Show.

8:30pm EastEnders The fallout continues in Albert Square.

9:00pm Waterloo Road School-based drama. Phoenix and Harley win the lottery.

10:00pm Silent Witness 11:00pm BBC News at Ten 11:25pm BBC London News 11:35pm Question Time

12:35am This Week A political review of the week presented by Andrew Neil, with Michael Portillo and guests. 1:20am Skiing Weatherview Detailed weather forecast.

1:25am DIY SOS The Big Build 2:25am Countryfile 3:25am Antiques Roadshow 4:25am You've Been Scammed 4:55am BBC News

BBC3 7:00am American Dad! 7:20am American Dad! 8:00pm Pixar: 25 Magic Moments 9:00pm Up 10:30pm World's Craziest Fools 11:00pm Russell Howard's Good News 11:30pm EastEnders The fallout continues in Albert Square.

12:00am Family Guy Subversive animated comedy.

12:25am Family Guy Animated comedy about the trials and tribulations of American family life.

12:45am American Dad! 1:10am American Dad! Animated series from the creator of Family Guy about CIA man Stan Smith.

1:30am Pramface Comedy series about two teenagers trying, and often failing, to come to terms with parenthood.

2:30am Growing Up Poor 3:25am Russell Howard's Good News 3:55am Pramface

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6:00am William Whiskerson 6:10am William Whiskerson 6:20am William Whiskerson 6:30am William Whiskerson 6:40am William Whiskerson 6:50am William Whiskerson 7:35am Homes Under the Hammer 8:35am Rip Off Britain 9:20am Cowboy Trap 9:50am Vivacious Lady 11:20am Magic Town 1:00pm The Daily Politics Andrew Neil and Jo Coburn with the latest political news, interviews and debate. 2:00pm Darts 5:15pm Rivers with Griff Rhys Jones

4:00am King Kong 6:15am ITV Nightscreen Text-based information service. 7:00am Daybreak 9:30am Lorraine 10:25am The Jeremy Kyle Show 11:30am This Morning A vibrant mix of showbiz news, fashion, cookery, gardening, travel, advice and DIY. 12:25pm ITV News The latest headlines from around the world.

Followed by a local weather forecast. 12:30pm This Morning A vibrant mix of showbiz news, fashion, cookery, gardening, travel, advice and DIY. 1:30pm Loose Women More lunchtime chat and fun with the girls. 2:30pm ITV News and Weather The latest headlines from around the world. 3:00pm Storage Hoarders Aggie Mackenzie helps two very different hoarders today.

6:00am Countdown 6:45am Baking Mad with Eric Lanlard Eric meets with the Mature Students' Bake Club to try their English-style eclairs. 7:10am The Hoobs The Hoobytug is broken. 7:35am The Hoobs A Hoob's home is the Hoobmobile. 8:05am Will and Grace 8:30am According to Jim 8:55am Everybody Loves Raymond Debra finds out that her parents have seperated. 9:25am Everybody Loves Raymond Frank offers to paint Ray's house, but not the colour that Ray and Debra want. 9:55am Frasier 10:30am Frasier 11:00am Undercover Boss Australia 12:00pm A Place in the Sun 1:00pm Channel 4 News Includes news headlines and weather. 1:05pm Jamie's 15 Minute Meals 1:35pm Superscrimpers: Waste Not, Want Not 2:05pm 7th Cavalry 3:40pm Countdown

7:00am Thomas and Friends 7:10am Igam Ogam 7:20am Fireman Sam 7:30am Jelly Jamm 7:45am Peppa Pig 7:50am Olive the Ostrich 7:55am Little Princess 8:10am Ben and Holly's Little Kingdom 8:20am The Mr. Men Show 8:35am Thomas and Friends 8:45am Noddy in Toyland 9:00am Fifi and the Flowertots 9:15am Peppa Pig 9:25am Peppa Pig 9:35am Roary the Racing Car 9:45am Milkshake Monkey 9:50am Bananas in Pyjamas 10:00am Tickety Toc 10:15am The Wright Stuff 12:10pm Trisha 1:00pm 5 News Lunchtime 1:05pm The Looney Tunes Show 1:15pm Celebrity Big Brother 2:15pm Home and Away 2:45pm Reza, Spice Prince of India 3:15pm The Mentalist

6:15pm Antiques Roadshow Michael Aspel and a team of experts examine curios and artefacts offered up by the public.

7:00pm Eggheads 7:30pm Great British Railway Journeys 8:00pm Heir Hunters 9:00pm Stargazing Live Astronomy special hosted by Brian Cox and Dara O Briain.

10:00pm Stargazing Live 10:30pm The Polar Bear Family and Me 11:30pm Newsnight

4:00pm Dickinson's Real Deal 5:00pm Tipping Point 6:00pm The Chase Quiz show hosted by Bradley Walsh.

7:00pm London Tonight 7:30pm ITV News and Weather The latest headlines from around the world.

Followed by a national weather forecast.

8:00pm Emmerdale Chas fears for her life as her stalker becomes violent.

8:30pm Tonight 9:00pm Emmerdale Chas is stunned when her stalker's identity is revealed.

9:30pm Nursing the Nation 10:00pm Trouble Abroad 11:00pm ITV News at Ten and Weather The latest headlines from around the world.

11:35pm The Jonathan Ross Show

4:30pm Face the Clock Rory Bremner challenges six contestants to answer questions against The Clock.

5:00pm Deal or No Deal 6:00pm Four in a Bed 6:30pm Come Dine with Me 7:00pm The Simpsons 7:30pm Hollyoaks 8:00pm Channel 4 News Includes sport and weather.

8:55pm 4thought.tv 9:00pm Location, Location, Location 10:00pm The Restoration Man It was love at first sight when theatre producer Vanessa Ford Robbins and her partner Nik Huddy saw Longhurst Lodge, a Victorian gate lodge nestled on the boundaries of a country estate in Surrey.

11:00pm Gypsy Blood Gypsy Blood examines the violent culture that some gypsy and traveller fathers hand on to their sons.

Filmed over two years by award-winning photographer Leo Maguire, Gypsy Blood is an intimate portrait of two gypsy families, their fight for respect and the price they pay in cycles of revenge that can erupt into sudden and terrifying violence.

4:15pm Little Girl Lost: The Delimar Vera Story Drama based on a true story. A woman resorts to desperate measures to prove that her late daughter, who was thought to have died in an apartment fire six years earlier, is still alive after spotting a girl who bears a striking resemblance to her. She sets out to acquire a sample of the girl's DNA to prove that she is her child.

6:00pm 5 News at 5 National and international news.

6:30pm Andy Bates' Street Feasts 7:00pm Home and Away Things are awkward at the Walker house after the argument the night before.

7:30pm 5 News National and international news.

8:00pm Benidorm ER Documentary series.

9:00pm Great Northern Cookbook 10:00pm Celebrity Big Brother Catch up with the latest events inside the Celebrity Big Brother house.

11:00pm Bizarre Burials Documentary exploring the variety of strange and sensational ways to make your mark when you die, from themed funerals and aeroplaneshaped coffins to death masks and ashes tattooed onto loved ones.

12:45am The Golden Rules of TV 1:10am Jackpot247 Join the presenters live and play roulette on your telly. 4:00am Tonight 4:25am The Jeremy Kyle Show 5:20am ITV Nightscreen Text-based information service.

12:40am Random Acts 12:45am The Undateables Looking for love can be tricky, but some find it harder than others. 1:45am Millionaire Boy Racers 2:40am The Horse Hoarder Pensioner Clwyd Davies harbours a compulsion to hoard horses.

3:05am Dispatches Dispatches reveals the secrets of car insurance that all drivers should know. 3:35am Time Team 4:30am The Churchills 5:25am Deal or No Deal

12:00am Celebrity Big Brother's Bit on the Side 1:00am Super Casino Live interactive gaming featuring roulette, blackjack and autowheel. 4:55am House Doctor Homeimprovement series. 5:20am Divine Designs Art historian Dr Paul Binski examines some of Britain's most fascinating works of religious art.

5:45am Michaela's Wild Challengef

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12:20am Darts Colin Murray introduces highlights from the night's men's best-of-9 set quarter-finals. 1:10am Darts 3:10am BBC News 5:00am Make a Musical

BBC4 8:00pm BBC World News The latest national and international news, exploring the day's events from a global perspective.

8:30pm The Sky at Night 9:00pm She-Wolves: England's Early Queens 10:00pm Carved with Love: The Genius of British Woodwork 11:00pm Metroland 11:50pm The Golden Age of Trams: A Streetcar Named Desire 12:50am The Riviera: A History in Pictures 1:50am Delphi: The Bellybutton of the Ancient World 2:50am Hotel Deluxe Documentary about the world of hotels for the super rich.

3:50am Carved with Love: The Genius of British Woodwork

Satellite channels SKY1 6:00am Stargate SG-1 7:00am Airline USA 7:30am Airline USA 8:00am Brainiac: Science Abuse 9:00am Dog the Bounty Hunter 9:30am Dog the Bounty Hunter 10:00am A League of Their Own 10:30am A League of Their Own 11:00am NCIS: Los Angeles 12:00pm NCIS: Los Angeles 1:00pm NCIS: Los Angeles 2:00pm NCIS: Los Angeles 3:00pm A League of Their Own 3:30pm A League of Their Own 4:00pm Stargate SG-1 5:00pm Stargate SG-1 6:00pm Futurama 6:30pm Futurama 7:00pm Got to Danceauditions.

7:30pm The Simpsons 8:00pm The Simpsons 8:30pm The Simpsons 9:00pm A League of Their Own 10:00pm Hawaii Five-0 11:00pm NCIS: Los Angeles

12:00am Cop Squad 1:00am Cop Squad 2:00am Brit Cops - Frontline Crime 2:55am Road Wars 3:45am Road Wars 4:35am Crash Test Dummies 5:00am Stargate SG1

SKY MOVIES COMEDY 5:40am Prom 7:25am Take Me Home Tonight 9:15am American Pie 2 11:15am Bad Teacher 1:05pm Johnny English Reborn 3:00pm How Do You Know 5:15pm No Strings Attached 7:15pm American Pie 2 9:00pm Johnny English Reborn 10:45pm Bad Teacher 12:25am Project X 2:00am The Pool Boys 3:30am No Strings Attached 5:20am Win a Date with Tad Hamilton

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Begins 3:50pm Battle: Los Angeles 5:50pm Colombiana 7:45pm X-Men: First Class 10:00pm Spider-Man 2 12:15am Batman Begins 2:40am Your Highness 4:25am Priest 5:55am Fantastic Voyage

TCM 6:00am The Hill 8:05am The High Chaparral 9:10am The High Chaparral 10:15am Bandolero!

12:15pm Men of The Fighting Lady 1:50pm The High Chaparral 2:55pm The High Chaparral 4:00pm The Longest Day 7:35pm Taras Bulba 10:00pm 16 Blocks 11:50pm River of Death 1:55am Valley of the Dolls 4:05am 16 Blocks

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4:55am BBC News 7:00am Breakfast The latest news, sport, business and weather from the BBC's Breakfast team. 10:15am Wanted Down Under 11:00am Homes Under the Hammer 12:00pm Rip Off Britain 12:45pm Cowboy Trap Clive Holland has help and advice for homeowners who have fallen victim to cowboy builders. 1:15pm Bargain Hunt 2:00pm BBC News at One 2:30pm BBC London News 2:45pm Doctors 3:15pm Privates

4.00pm - midnight 4:00pm Escape to the Country Jonnie Irwin heads to Norfolk to help a house buying couple find their ideal rural home.

4:45pm Perfection Nick Knowles hosts the general knowledge quiz show.

5:30pm Antiques Road Trip 6:15pm Pointless 7:00pm BBC News at Six The latest national and international news stories from the BBC News team, followed by weather.

7:30pm BBC London News The latest news, sport and weather from London.

8:00pm The One Show 8:30pm A Question of Sport 9:00pm EastEnders 9:30pm Room 101 10:00pm Silent Witness 11:00pm BBC News at Ten 11:25pm BBC London News 11:35pm The Graham Norton Show

12:25am The Village 2:05am Weatherview Detailed weather forecast. 2:10am Who Do You Think You Are? 3:10am Queen Victoria's Children Queen Victoria and Prince Albert shared a passionate marriage. 4:10am Question Time David Dimbleby chairs the first Question Time of 2013, from Lewisham in south London. 5:10am BBC News

BBC3 8:00pm Pop's Greatest Dance Crazes 8:10pm Doctor Who Science fiction drama.

9:00pm Gavin and Stacey Gavin starts his new job in Cardiff and Stacey is thrilled to be at home again.

9:30pm Gavin and Stacey Stacey is trying for a new job whilst ensuring that Gavin sticks to his recent promise.

10:00pm World's Craziest Fools 10:30pm Pramface 11:30pm EastEnders The fallout continues in Albert Square.

12:00am Sun, Sex and Suspicious Parents 1:00am Family Guy 1:25am Family Guy 1:45am American Dad! 2:10am American Dad! 2:30am World's Craziest Fools 3:00am Sun, Sex and Suspicious Parents 3:55am Stacey Dooley Investigates

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6:00am Compose Yourself 6:25am Curious Cat 7:35am Homes Under the Hammer Series featuring properties sold via auction. 8:35am Rip Off Britain More holiday horror stories resolved

by Gloria Hunniford, Angela Rippon and Julia Somerville. 9:20am Cowboy Trap Clive Holland has help and advice for homeowners who have fallen victim to cowboy builders. 9:50am Badman's Territory Western set in the 1890s.

11:25am Bombardier 1:00pm The Daily Politics Andrew Neil with the latest political news, interviews and debate. 2:00pm Darts

5:20am ITV Nightscreen 7:00am Daybreak 9:30am Lorraine 10:25am The Jeremy Kyle Show 11:30am This Morning A vibrant mix of showbiz news, fashion, cookery, gardening, travel, advice and DIY. 12:25pm ITV News The latest headlines from around the world. Followed by a local weather forecast. 12:30pm This Morning A vibrant mix of showbiz news, fashion, cookery, gardening, travel, advice and DIY. 1:30pm Loose Women More lunchtime chat and fun with the girls. 2:30pm ITV News and Weather 3:00pm Storage Hoarders

5:25am Deal or No Deal 6:20am Countdown 7:05am Sali Mali Sali Mali and Jackdaw have fun with a camera. 7:10am The Hoobs 7:35am The Hoobs 8:05am Will and Grace 8:30am According to Jim 8:55am Everybody Loves Raymond 9:25am Everybody Loves Raymond 9:55am Frasier 10:30am Frasier 11:00am Undercover Boss Australia 12:00pm A Place in the Sun 1:00pm Channel 4 News 1:05pm Jamie's 15 Minute Meals 1:35pm Kirstie's Handmade Treasures 1:40pm I Was Monty's Double 3:40pm Countdown

8:10am Ben and Holly's Little Kingdom 8:20am The Mr Men Show 8:35am Thomas and Friends 8:45am Noddy in Toyland 9:00am Fifi and the Flowertots 9:15am Peppa Pig 9:25am Peppa Pig 9:35am Roary the Racing Car 9:45am Milkshake Monkey 9:50am Bananas in Pyjamas 10:00am Tickety Toc 10:15am The Wright Stuff 12:10pm Trisha 1:00pm 5 News Lunchtime 1:05pm Looney Tunes 1:15pm Celebrity Big Brother 2:15pm Home and Away 2:45pm Reza, Spice Prince of India 3:10pm CSI: Miami

5:15pm Rivers with Griff Rhys Jones 6:15pm Antiques Roadshow 7:00pm Eggheads 7:30pm Great British Railway Journeys 8:00pm Heir Hunters Series following the work of probate researchers as they search for heirs of people who have died without a will. The heir hunters try to crack the case of Brian Yanchuk who died in Milton Keynes in 2004.

9:00pm Mastermind John Humphrys asks the questions as the hunt continues for the nation's Mastermind.

9:30pm Life in a Cottage Garden with Carol Klein Plantswoman Carol Klein shares with us a year in her garden at Glebe Cottage in North Devon.

10:00pm Italy Unpacked 11:00pm QI Quiz show. Stephen Fry looks at jollity with Julia Zemiro, Tim Vine, Rob Brydon and Alan Davies.

11:30pm Newsnight In-depth investigation and analysis of the stories behind the day's headlines with Emily Maitlis.

4:00pm Dickinson's Real Deal David and the team are in Mansfield where John Parker has his eye on an art deco mirror.

5:00pm Tipping Point 6:00pm The Chase Quiz show hosted by Bradley Walsh.

7:00pm London Tonight 7:30pm ITV News and Weather The latest headlines from around the world.

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8:00pm Emmerdale Jimmy is forced to make a hard decision.

8:30pm Coronation Street Kylie deals Nick a shocking blow. Stella's revelation leaves Karl confused.

9:00pm Wild Britain with Ray Mears Ray Mears explores the ancient woodlands and forests on the Isle of Wight.

9:30pm Coronation Street Can Nick hold it together? Karl confronts Sunita.

Carla is suspicious of Rob. 10:00pm Great Night Out 11:00pm ITV News at Ten and Weather The latest headlines from around the world.

11:35pm The Specialist

4:30pm Face the Clock Rory Bremner challenges six contestants to answer questions against The Clock.

5:00pm Deal or No Deal Can one of the players outwit The Banker and walk away with hundreds of thousands of pounds?

6:00pm Four in a Bed 6:30pm Come Dine with Me 7:00pm The Simpsons 7:30pm Hollyoaks 8:00pm Channel 4 News 8:55pm 4thought.tv 9:00pm First Time Farmers 10:00pm 16 Kids and Counting 11:00pm Rude Tube

4:15pm Mystery Woman: Sing Me a Murder Murder mystery.

6:00pm 5 News at 5 6:30pm Andy Bates' Street Feasts 7:00pm Home and Away Dex reveals to Romeo that he feels constrained by his dad's expectations.

7:30pm 5 News National and international news.

8:00pm The World's Biggest Bomb: Revealed 9:00pm Ice Road Truckers 10:00pm Celebrity Big Brother 11:00pm Celebrity Wedding Planner: Celebrity Big Brother Special

12:00am The Review Show 12:50am Darts Colin Murray introduces highlights from the remaining quarter-final men's matches. 1:40am Darts 3:40am BBC News

1:35am Jackpot247 Join the presenters live and play roulette on your telly. 3:35am That's Carry on 5:10am ITV Nightscreen Text-based information service.

1:10am The New Normal 1:40am Random Acts Channel 4's nightly short-form arts strand.

1:45am The Ricky Gervais Show 2:15am The Ricky Gervais Show 2:45am Bob's Burgers 3:05am Bob's Burgers 3:30am Glory Daze 4:15am St. Elsewhere The hospital generator fails during a city-wide blackout. 5:00am Deal or No Deal 5:55am Countdown

BBC4 8:00pm BBC World News The latest national and international news, exploring the day's events from a global perspective.

8:30pm Lang Lang Live at the Roundhouse 9:20pm Lang Lang: The Art of Being a Virtuoso The Chinese pianist Lang Lang is considered the world's top classical music star.

10:15pm Imagine...

Alan Yentob gains an insight into the creative world of Shirley Bassey.

11:15pm Shirley Bassey at the BBC January 2013 sees one of Britain's alltime great voices turn 76.

12:15am Legends: Petula Clark 1:15am The Sound of Petula Clark Petula Clark presents and stars in her own show from 1973, with backing singers and dancers.

1:45am Imagine...

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12:00am Celebrity Big Brother's Bit on the Side 1:00am Super Casino Live interactive gaming featuring roulette, blackjack and autowheel. 4:55am Motorsport Mundial The latest motor racing action from around the world.

5:20am Divine Designs Art historian Dr Paul Binski examines some of Britain's most fascinating works of religious art. 5:45am Michaela's Wild Challenge

Satellite channels SKY1 6:00am Stargate SG-1 7:00am Airline USA 7:30am Airline USA 8:00am Brainiac: Science Abuse 9:00am Dog the Bounty Hunter 9:30am Dog the Bounty Hunter 10:00am A League of Their Own 10:30am A League of Their Own 11:00am NCIS: Los Angeles 12:00pm NCIS: Los Angeles 1:00pm NCIS: Los Angeles 2:00pm NCIS: Los Angeles 3:00pm A League of Their Own 3:30pm A League of Their Own 4:00pm Stargate SG-1 5:00pm Stargate SG-1 6:00pm Futurama 6:30pm Futurama 7:00pm Got to Dance 7:30pm The Simpsons 8:00pm The Simpsons 8:30pm The Simpsons 9:00pm The Simpsons 9:30pm John Bishop's Only Joking 10:00pm Stella

11:00pm A League of Their Own 12:00am Spartacus: Vengeance 1:15am Road Wars 1:45am Brit Cops - Frontline Crime 2:45am NCIS: Los Angeles 3:45am NCIS: Los Angeles 4:35am Crash Test Dummies 5:00am Stargate SG-1

SKY MOVIES COMEDY 5:20am Win a Date with Tad Hamilton 7:00am Wild Hogs 8:55am Dunston Checks In 10:30am Little Fockers 12:15pm Love and Other Drugs 2:15pm Horrible Bosses 3:55pm Eurotrip 5:30pm Wild Hogs 7:15pm Little Fockers 9:00pm Horrible Bosses 10:40pm Analyze This 12:30am Analyze That 2:10am Eurotrip 3:45am Love and Other Drugs 5:40am Dunston Checks In

SKY MOVIES DRAMA 4:40am That Thing You Do! 6:40am Movie Special 7:00am Love and Other Impossible Pursuits 8:50am The Butcher's Wife 10:40am Romeo and Juliet 12:45pm The Conspirator 2:50pm Life as We Know it 4:50pm Mother and Child 7:00pm The Tempest 9:00pm Anonymous 11:15pm Romeo and Juliet 1:20am Life as We Know it 3:20am Boys Don't Cry 5:25am The Tempest

SKY MOVIES ACTION 5:55am Fantastic Voyage 7:40am Tracker 9:25am Paycheck 11:25am Green Lantern 1:20pm Haywire 2:55pm Batman 5:05pm Batman Returns

7:15pm Rush Hour 9:00pm Green Lantern 11:00pm Haywire 12:45am The Recruit 2:45am The One 4:25am Invasion U.S.A.

TCM 6:00am Taras Bulba 8:10am The High Chaparral 9:15am The High Chaparral 10:15am The Longest Day 1:50pm The High Chaparral 2:55pm The High Chaparral 4:00pm Prisoner of War 5:35pm Thunder Over the Plains 7:15pm The Spider Woman 8:25pm We Stand Alone Together: The Men of Easy Company 10:00pm Band of Brothers 11:15pm Band of Brothers 12:25am Ned Kelly 2:20am Marlowe 4:10am Ned Kelly

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Letters for Your Say should be emailed to yoursay@ euroweekly news.com, posted to Euro Weekly News, C/Moscatel 10, P-62, Polígono Industrial, Arroyo de la Miel, 29630 Benalmadena, Málaga, Spain or faxed to 0034 952 440 887

Counting cost of taximen who are cheats ONCE again we have been ripped off by the taxi drivers.

Today - my birthday - we went to Calahonda, had a great day, and took a taxi home to avoid drink driving.

The charge was €17 for what is normally about €12.

When we asked why, the taximan said: “Oh, it’s Sunday.”

We need to have meters.

These people need to be sorted out as expats will not come here to be taken advantage of.

I lived here 28 years ago.

Then there were three prices: one for tourists, another for the Englishspeaking expats living here, and a third rate for the Spanish.

Today if they want to continue trying to have us over, they need to be fair, because expats will go somewhere else.

I really have had enough.

John Nesbitt (By email)

Editor's note: This letter was received prior to publication of the article Fare’s fair with taxi rates (Issue 1435).

Illegal route I READ the feature Registering an imported car in Spain (Issue 1431) with interest.

My neighbour, who has lived in Spain for nine years, has had the same car with him - on British plates - since the day he arrived.

He has NEVER driven back to the UK, he has NEVER taken it for a local ITV test, and he NEVER tries to avoid any police.

The reason: because he has a friend who owns a garage in the UK, who sends him a new MOT slip, or test certificate, upon request, without ever seeing the vehicle.

Clearly yet more criminal behaviour by the Brits here in Spain.

A law-abiding Brit Name and address supplied (Almeria)

Parking issue I HAVE been looking for the traffic rule that states: ‘When you put your hazard warning lights on you can park in a disabled bay without a blue badge.’

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By Phil Holman, Mijas Costa, Malaga

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Costa Blanca South registered, we have enjoyed the tacit acceptance of the town hall and the police, because by dint of immaculate book-keeping we have proved regularly that our money was used for vet bills and food for our animals.

However, in December, a new law came into place, and our group can no longer function.

Linda will keep the Paws telephone open (646 645 035). She is still willing to assist anyone wanting to pay for a feral cat neutering at a reduced rate.

On behalf of PAWS, La Marina (Alicante)

Editor’s note: The closure ‘PAWS to shut after 7 years’ was reported in Costa Blanca South (Issue 1435).

Pet run down THIS bird regularly visits my garden in winter, but I cannot find out what it is. About the same size as a robin it has a black breast and colours on the underside of its tail.

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Apart from ordinary cars I have noticed vans and delivery lorries that do this. Surely if there is NOT a rule to allow this, an easy solution would be for the police to clamp them.

If this were to happen and the word started spreading, unauthorised vehicles would not park in the bays.

At the moment I have a fractured hip and it is so frustrating having to try to get parked near where I need with all the disabled spaces illegally taken.

Mick Scarles, Javea (Alicante)

Better care WHEN I went to my doctor in England with a huge lump in my breast I was told to go away as there was ‘nothing wrong with me..

When I saw a doctor in Spain I was sent for a mammogram and then a scan and then for a biopsy. I had two tumours and a month later had an operation to remove them. For the past four-and-a-half years they have been taking care of me.

Without the Spanish health service I would have died. So thank you for giving me my life back. The health care here is so much better than in England. People are always ready to complain but forget how much the Spanish do for their guests.

Elaine Wheeler, Torremolinos (Malaga)

Gasmen alert IT’S that time of year again, the bogus gasmen are about in Mijas.

For those people who don’t know, these men look official and even have ‘ID’. But don’t be fooled. They knock on the door, say they need to check your gas system and then charge you hundreds of euros for €10 worth of work. I learned the lesson the hard way when I first moved to Spain and it cost me €300.

Never let them in. If you need a check-up call your local gas company and make an appointment.

Chris Adams, Mijas (Malaga)

Rescue demise IT is with great sadness we have to announce the demise of Paws Animal Rescue.

Although our small group, operating in La Marina (Elche, Alicante) for seven years, has never been fully

RECENTLY I watched in horror as a driver in a white van ran over my family pet as I stood by the roadside waiting for him to cross.

The driver did not stop, leaving me traumatised with my beloved pet dying in my arms.

Mrs A Francis, Velez Rubio (Almeria)

Think again IN the letter headed ‘Not Guilty’ (Issue 1344) stating how her husband had claimed UK Winter Fuel Allowance for the first time this year, Maggie stated: “I will certainly be claiming mine next year.”

Well, sorry to disappoint you, Maggie, but it is only one allowance per household unless, of course, you live in separate houses.

Not Yet Claimed (By email)

Warm thanks ON reading the article about winter fuel payments for British pensioners (Issue 1414), I wrote to the Pension Service Winter Fuel Team and have since received two back payments and this year’s allowance. Many thanks.

Heather (By email)

Crispin hope!

AM I alone in hoping that the nauseating Crispin (‘As I See It’ Issue 1435) turns out to be married with four kids and the carrier of a sexually transmitted disease?

Jon Allso Valencia

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3:40am BBC News 7:00am The Hitch-Hiker Dark thriller based on incidents from the life of mass murderer William Cook. 8:15am On Dangerous Ground 9:35am The Armored Car Robbery Crime caper. 10:40am The Sky at Night 11:00am A History of Britain by Simon Schama 12:00pm Meet The Ancestors 12:30pm Map Man 1:00pm Indian Food Made Easy 1:30pm Talking Pictures 2:15pm Scott of the Antarctic

7:00am Handy Manny 7:10am Handy Manny 7:25am The Hive 7:35am The Hive 7:40am Dino Dan 7:55am Dino Dan 8:05am Almost Naked Animals 8:15am Almost Naked Animals 8:30am Almost Naked Animals 8:40am Matt Hatter Chronicles 9:05am Ultimate Spider-Man 9:30am Victorious 10:00am Jessie 10:25am ITV News 10:30am The Jeremy Kyle Show US 11:25am The Jeremy Kyle Show US 12:20pm Saturday Cookbook 1:20pm ITV News and Weather 1:25pm Columbo 2:55pm My Tasty Travels with Lynda Bellingham 3:55pm Hulk

5:55am Countdown 6:40am Baking Mad with Eric Lanlard 7:10am The Hoobs 7:35am The Hoobs 8:00am Beach Volleyball 9:00am The Morning Line 10:00am Everybody Loves Raymond 10:30am Everybody Loves Raymond 11:00am Frasier 11:30am Frasier 12:00pm Undercover Boss USA 1:00pm The Big Bang Theory 1:30pm The Big Bang Theory 2:00pm The Simpsons 2:30pm Channel 4 Racing

4:00pm Coast 5:00pm Stargazing Live Dara O Briain and Professor Brian Cox celebrate the night sky.

6:00pm Stargazing Live 7:00pm Stargazing Live Astronomy special hosted by Brian Cox and Dara O Briain.

8:00pm Flog It! 9:00pm Dad's Army Classic wartime sitcom.

9:30pm Fawlty Towers Classic sitcom about a Torquay hotel run by a disaster-prone snob and his overbearing wife.

10:00pm QI XL Quiz show. Stephen Fry looks at jollity with Julia Zemiro, Tim Vine, Rob Brydon and Alan Davies.

10:45pm Oranges and Sunshine

6:30pm London Tonight Regional news update for the capital and the South East, plus local weather.

6:45pm ITV News and Weather The latest headlines from around the world.

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7:00pm You've Been Framed!

8:00pm Splash!

9:30pm Take Me Out Paddy McGuinness plays cupid once again as the fifth series of the dating show continues.

10:45pm The Jonathan Ross Show 11:45pm ITV News and Weather The latest headlines from around the world.

Followed by national and local weather forecasts.

5:00pm Come Dine with Me 7:30pm Channel 4 News Includes sport and weather.

7:55pm 4thought.tv 8:00pm Night at the Museum 2: Battle of the Smithsonian Shawn Levy's fantasyadventure sequel again stars Ben Stiller and impressive CGI effects.

10:00pm World Without End 11:55pm The 51st State

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6:30pm Animal Antics From criminal cats to piano-playing pugs, this is the news as it has never been seen before.

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2:10am BBC News

BBC3 8:00pm Great Movie Mistakes 2: The Sequel 8:10pm Merlin Fantasy period drama based on the King Arthur legend.

8:55pm Doctor Who Science fiction drama.

9:40pm Top Gear Motoring show.

10:40pm Armageddon 1:05am Family Guy 1:30am Family Guy Animated comedy about the trials and tribulations of American family life.

1:50am American Dad! 2:15am American Dad! 2:35am Pramface Comedy series about two teenagers trying, and often failing, to come to terms with parenthood.

3:35am Russell Howard's Good News 4:05am World's Craziest Fools 4:35am Live at the Electric

12:25am Darts 1:15am Sugarhouse Thriller.

Tom is a middle-class city boy whose life has reached breaking point.

BBC4 8:00pm Lost Land of the Tiger 9:00pm A History of Art in Three Colours Dr James Fox explores how, in the hands of artists, the colours gold, blue and white have stirred our emotions, changed the way we behave and even altered the course of history.

10:00pm Borgen 11:00pm Borgen 12:00am Pop Charts Britannia: 60 Years of the Top 10 Documentary chronicling our everchanging love affair with the British singles chart on the occasion of its 60th anniversary.

1:30am Ultimate Number 1s at the BBC 2:30am The Joy of the Single 3:30am Sounds of the 70s Exploring the musical culture of the 70s.

4:00am A History of Art in Three Colours

Channel 5 8:55am Little Princess 9:10am The Adventures of Bottle Top Bill and His Best Friend Corky 9:25am Angelina Ballerina 9:45am Rupert Bear 10:00am Ben and Holly's Little Kingdom 10:15am Toby's Travelling Circus 10:25am Roary the Racing Car 10:40am Jelly Jamm 11:00am Power Rangers: Super Samurai 11:35am Batman: The Brave and the Bold 12:10pm Inside Hollywood 12:20pm Celebrity Big Brother 1:15pm The All New Gadget Show 2:20pm Brave Warrior 3:50pm Mutiny on the Bounty

7:10pm Attack on the Iron Coast 8:50pm 5 News Weekend National and international news.

8:55pm NCIS 9:50pm NCIS US drama series based on the work of the navy's dedicated federal agency.

10:45pm Celebrity Big Brother Catch up with the latest events inside the Celebrity Big Brother house.

11:45pm 50 Shocking Facts About Diet and Exercise

Ben Stiller

8:00pm - Night at the Museum 2: Battle of the Smithsonian

12:00am Beowulf Digitally rendered epic based on the Old English poem of the same name.

2:05am The Store 3:20am In Plain Sight 4:05am Pushing Daisies Quirky US drama about a man who can bring the dead back to life.

4:50am ITV Nightscreen Text-based information service.

1:45am Pan's Labyrinth 3:45am Hollyoaks Omnibus Mercy wreaks havoc when she jumps to the wrong conclusion. 5:50am Smallville Drama series following the teenage years of the future Superman, Clark Kent.

12:45am Comedy Kings 1:15am Super Casino Live interactive gaming featuring roulette, blackjack and autowheel. 4:55am Michaela's Wild Challenge 5:20am The Great Artists 5:50am Rough Guide to Journeys Highlights of the travel series presented by Julia Bradbury and Toby Amies.

Satellite channels SKY1 6:00am Stargate SG-1 7:00am Dog the Bounty Hunter 8:00am Dog the Bounty Hunter 8:30am Dog the Bounty Hunter 9:00am Dog the Bounty Hunter 9:30am Dog the Bounty Hunter 10:00am World Wrestling Entertainment Superstars 11:00am Soccer A.M. 1:00pm Got to Dance 1:30pm Got to Dance 2:00pm Got to Dance 2:30pm Got to Dance 3:00pm Got to Dance 3:30pm Neverland: Part 1 (Part 1 of 2) 5:10pm Life of PI Special 5:30pm Treasure Island 7:30pm The Simpsons 8:00pm The Simpsons 8:30pm John Bishop's Only Joking 9:00pm Galapagos with David Attenborough 10:00pm Stella 11:00pm Species II 12:50am Street Crime UK 1:20am Street Crime UK 1:50am Street

Crime UK 2:20am Street Crime UK 2:50am Street Crime UK 3:20am Street Crime UK 3:50am Street Crime UK 4:20am Dog the Bounty Hunter 4:50am Futurama 5:00am Don't Forget the Lyrics

SKY MOVIES COMEDY 5:40am Dunston Checks In 7:10am Shanghai Noon 9:05am The Big Year 10:45am Junior 12:35pm Friends with Benefits 2:25pm Jack and Jill 4:00pm 30 Minutes or Less 5:25pm The Big Year 7:10pm Junior 9:00pm Jack and Jill 10:35pm Friends with Benefits 12:30am 30 Minutes or Less 1:55am Shanghai Noon 3:50am White Men Can't Jump 5:45am Snow Dogs

SKY MOVIES DRAMA

Impossible Ghost Protocol 2:55pm Safe House

5:25am The Tempest 7:20am Like Dandelion Dust 9:10am I Don't Know How She Does it 10:50am Water for Elephants 12:55pm The Terminal 3:10pm City of Angels

4:55pm Collateral Damage 6:55pm Sahara 9:00pm Mission: Impossible Ghost Protocol 11:15pm Safe House

5:10pm Red Riding Hood 6:55pm Water for Elephants 9:00pm I Don't Know How She Does it 10:40pm Moneyball

1:15am Collateral Damage 3:10am Black Hawk Down 5:40am Twister

1:00am The Stepford Wives 2:40am The Company Men 4:30am 4 Wedding Planners

SKY MOVIES ACTION 4:25am Invasion U.S.A. 6:30am Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol Special 7:00am Fortress 8:45am Tomorrow, When the War Began 10:40am Twister 12:40pm Mission:

TCM 6:00am Elmer Gantry 8:35am The High Chaparral 9:40am The High Chaparral 10:40am The Philadelphia Story 12:45pm Prisoner of War 2:20pm Thunder Over the Plains 4:00pm Escape from Fort Bravo 5:55pm Rider on a Dead Horse 7:25pm The Magnificent Seven 10:00pm Passenger 57 11:35pm Showdown in Little Tokyo 1:05am The Ultimate Warrior

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Bring down the curtain on showbiz star witch-hunts LEAPY LEE SAYS IT OTHERS THINK IT STAR STRUCK: Young girls were drawn to showbiz personalities. women in their 20s at the time of the alleged assault, he has had his home ransacked (very publicly) by an overly enthusiastic plod, been dropped from an appearance on TV show Big Brother and now finds his whole future on the line, and he hasn’t even been arrested.

It is almost beyond belief that a mere accusation of wrongdoing can cost someone thousands in earnings

or to lose their livelihood whether guilty or not!

Another much-loved, to date unnamed, performer is at this moment under observation in a clinic after almost suffering a nervous breakdown as a result of once again unsubstantiated accusations being levelled against him.

Heaven help me, even I have been searching the deep reaches of my memory as to whether any

of the seemingly endless supply of young girls, eager to exchange sexual pleasures with me or my band members was underage or not. It’s ridiculous in the extreme.

It is almost as though the authorities were getting their own back on the showbiz people who were offered these pleasures.

Back in those days, many of the present older members of these various

departments did, I’m sure, seethe with jealousy as their peers were reported indulging in those ‘swinging’ activities while they were stuck in the not so privileged corners of their own careers. What better way to create a ‘he who laughs last’ situation by finally bringing down those who were the objects of their jealousy?

Don’t dismiss this idea as typical Leapy ranting. Some people harbour this type of resentment for years; don’t be naïve enough to think there’s no chance of it lingering in a maggoty mind somewhere out there.

Broken any New Year resolutions yet? Mine are already in smithereens. Ah well, there’s always 2014!

Keep the Faith Love Leapy Leapylee2002@gmail.com

Bear saved AN ONLINE campaign has saved a 500lb black bear from being destroyed after it made continued trips to a Los Angeles, USA, neighbourhood. The local community has already raised half of the $250,000 (€188,000) needed to create a secure six-acre habitat home for him.

A rum do

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T’S time these disgraceful McCarthystyle showbiz witchhunts were stopped in their tracks.

The treatment by the authorities of artistes, whose careers are being wrecked by nothing more than hearsay and accusations by any female who decides to walk into a police station or talk to a newspaper, reeks of Big Brother.

And it is being coupled with an irresponsible media frenzy we should all be ashamed of. Why is it that showbiz folk are considered fair game? Just because they are in the public eye doesn’t mean they don’t have loved ones at home, families whose lives are being traumatised by these often wild accusations, none of which have so far been substantiated.

At the time of writing Jim Davidson is the latest to feel this unbelievable clodhopping weight of plod and publicity, an unacceptable situation which could ruin his career. Accused by two

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RESEARCHERS in Brazil claim to have found a faster way to age Cachaca, a spirit similar to rum, by zapping it with gamma radiation, as opposed to ageing it in barrels.

However, it’s too expensive to do on an industrial scale, with each radiation machine costing around £2.2 million (€2.7 million).

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4.00pm - midnight 4:25pm Chatsworth 5:25pm Songs of Praise 6:00pm Africa 7:00pm BBC News The latest national and international news stories from the BBC News team.

7:20pm BBC London News The latest news, sport and weather from London.

7:30pm Blandings Comedy series based on the stories by PG Wodehouse.

8:00pm Countryfile Matt Baker and Julia Bradbury head to the Hertfordshire countryside.

9:00pm Antiques Roadshow 10:00pm Ripper Street 11:00pm BBC News The latest national and international news, with reports from BBC correspondents worldwide.

11:20pm BBC London News 11:25pm Match of the Day 2

12:25am Room 101 Extended edition of Room 101. 1:05am The Celebrity Apprentice USA American version of the business-based competition. 2:30am Weatherview Detailed weather forecast. 2:35am BBC News

BBC3 8:00pm Growing Up Poor 9:00pm Up 10:30pm World's Craziest Fools 11:00pm Sun, Sex and Suspicious Parents 12:00am Family Guy Subversive animated comedy.

12:25am Family Guy Animated comedy about the trials and tribulations of American family life.

12:45am American Dad! Animated series from the creator of Family Guy about Stan Smith, who works for the CIA. 1:10am American Dad! 1:30am World's Craziest Fools 2:00am Olympics 2012 3:00am Sun, Sex and Suspicious Parents 4:00am Being Human Supernatural comedy-drama series.

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Channel 5

7:05am I Remember Mama 9:15am Life in a Cottage Garden with Carol Klein 9:45am A to Z of TV Gardening 10:30am Saturday Kitchen Best Bites 12:00pm EastEnders Omnibus The fall-out continues in Albert Square. 1:55pm Masters Snooker

4:50am ITV Nightscreen 7:00am Handy Manny 7:25am The Hive 7:35am The Hive 7:40am Dino Dan 8:05am Almost Naked Animals 8:40am Matt Hatter Chronicles 9:05am Rated 'A' for Awesome 9:15am Rated 'A' for Awesome 9:30am Big Time Rush 10:00am The Aquabats! Super Show! Mysterious Egg 10:25am ITV News 10:30am There's No Taste Like Home 11:25am Dinner Date 12:25pm May the Best House Win 1:25pm Dickinson's Real Deal 2:25pm Rosemary and Thyme 3:25pm ITV News and Weather 3:30pm Sparkling Cyanide

5:50am Smallville 6:30am Countdown 7:15am The Hoobs 7:40am The Hoobs 8:05am Will and Grace 8:30am Everybody Loves Raymond After hurting themselves during an intimate moment, Ray and Debra say they fell down the stairs. 8:55am Everybody Loves Raymond 9:25am Frasier 9:55am Frasier 10:30am Sunday Brunch 1:05pm The Big Bang Theory 1:40pm The Big Bang Theory 2:10pm The Big Bang Theory 2:40pm The Simpsons 3:10pm The Simpsons 3:40pm Honey, I Blew Up the Kid

8:40am City of Friends 8:55am Little Princess 9:05am Mio Mao 9:10am The Adventures of Bottle Top Bill and His Best Friend Corky 9:25am Angelina Ballerina 9:40am Castle Farm 9:45am Rupert Bear 10:00am Ben and Holly's Little Kingdom 10:15am Toby's Travelling Circus 10:30am Roary the Racing Car 10:45am Jelly Jamm 11:00am Power Rangers: Super Samurai 11:35am Batman: The Brave and the Bold 12:10pm Meerkat Manor 12:40pm Celebrity Big Brother 1:40pm Once Upon a Time 2:40pm Little Man

6:00pm Ski Sunday Ski Sunday returns with Graham Bell and Ed Leigh.

6:45pm Darts In 2012, Dutchman Christian Kist won a thrilling Lakeside final against England's Tony O'Shea.

9:00pm The Battle for Malta 10:00pm Tankies: Tank Heroes of World War II 11:00pm Speed Dreams: The Fastest Place on Earth

5:30pm All Star Family Fortunes 6:15pm You've Been Framed!

6:45pm London Tonight 7:00pm ITV News and Weather 7:15pm Dancing on Ice 8:45pm All Star Family Fortunes 9:30pm Dancing on Ice Find out which two couples will battle it out in the skate off.

10:00pm Mr Selfridge 11:00pm ITV News and Weather 11:15pm The Constant Gardener

5:25pm Deal or No Deal 6:25pm Time Team 7:25pm Channel 4 News 7:55pm 4thought.tv 8:00pm Come Dine with Me 9:00pm The Hotel 10:00pm Unknown

4:25pm Mannequin 6:10pm Loch Ness 7:55pm 5 News Weekend National and international news.

8:00pm Bulletproof Monk 10:00pm Celebrity Big Brother Catch up with the latest events inside the Celebrity Big Brother house.

11:00pm Over Her Dead Body

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10:00pm - Unknown

Botanist Dr Martin Harris is attending a science conference in Berlin when he realises he's left his papers at the airport and jumps in a cab and sets off to retrieve them. But en route he's involved in a massive pile-up that leaves him unconscious and hospitalised. Coming round, he discovers that no one knows who he is, and he has no proof of his identity.

12:00am Masters Snooker Highlights 12:50am Masters Snooker Extra 2:50am Holby City Hanssen has to face his demons from his past.

3:50am Who Do You Think You Are? Celebrity genealogy series.

BBC4 8:00pm The Sky at Night A look back at a Sky at Night episode from 1975. Uranus, Neptune and Pluto are all on view.

8:15pm The Sky at Night 9:00pm The Sky at Night Special 9:30pm Sir Patrick Moore: Astronomer, Broadcaster and Eccentric 10:00pm Mark Lawson Talks to...

11:00pm Leaving 12:20am Imagine...

Alan Yentob gains an insight into the creative world of Shirley Bassey.

1:20am Shirley Bassey at the BBC January 2013 sees one of Britain's alltime great voices turn 76.

2:20am Legends: Petula Clark 3:20am The Sound of Petula Clark Petula Clark presents and stars in her own show from 1973, with backing singers and dancers.

3:50am Mark Lawson Talks to...

1:30am The Store 3:30am Monk 4:20am Pushing Daisies Quirky US drama about a man who can bring the dead back to life. 5:05am ITV Nightscreen Text-based information service.

12:15am Beverly Hills Cop 2:15am Four Brothers 4:05am Smallville 4:45am St. Elsewhere Axelrod tries to keep Santa Claus alive after he collapses at a children's party.

5:30am Deal or No Deal

12:55am Bizarre Burials 1:55am Super Casino Live interactive gaming featuring roulette, blackjack and autowheel. 4:55am House Doctor 5:20am HouseBusters 5:45am Rough Guide to Bang for Your Buck Highlights of the travel series presented by Julia Bradbury and Toby Amies.

Satellite channels SKY1 6:00am Best of Oops TV 7:00am The Hour of Power 8:00am Dog the Bounty Hunter 8:30am Dog the Bounty Hunter 9:00am Dog the Bounty Hunter 9:30am Dog the Bounty Hunter 10:00am Road Wars 11:00am World Wrestling Entertainment Superstars 12:00pm WWE Experience 1:00pm A League of Their Own 2:00pm Neverland: Part 2 (Part 2 of 2) 3:40pm The Hobbit 4:00pm Treasure Island 6:00pm The Simpsons 6:30pm The Simpsons 7:00pm Got to Dance 8:00pm Got to Dance 9:00pm Glee 10:00pm Hawaii Five-0 11:00pm NCIS: Los Angeles 12:00am Street Crime UK 12:30am Street Crime UK 1:00am Street Crime UK 1:30am Street Crime UK

2:00am Street Crime UK 2:30am Street Crime UK 2:55am Street Crime UK 3:20am NCIS: Los Angeles 4:10am NCIS: Los Angeles 5:00am Don't Forget the Lyrics

SKY MOVIES COMEDY

SKY MOVIES DRAMA 6:00am Lucky Christmas 7:40am Movie Special 8:00am You May Not Kiss the Bride 9:45am Like Crazy 11:25am The Decoy Bride 1:00pm The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel 3:10pm Albatross

5:45am Snow Dogs 7:25am The Dilemma 9:20am Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me 11:00am Ice Age 12:25pm The Change-Up 2:25pm Due Date

4:50pm War Horse 7:20pm The Decoy Bride 9:00pm The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel 11:10pm Like Crazy

4:05pm Little Nicky 5:45pm Ice Age 7:15pm Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me 9:00pm Austin Powers in Goldmember 10:40pm The Change-Up

12:50am Racing with the Moon 2:45am Burlesque 4:50am Losing Control

12:35am Due Date 2:15am Shanghai Knights 4:15am How Do You Know

SKY MOVIES ACTION 5:40am Twister 7:35am Jaws 3 9:20am Master and Commander: 11:50am Immortals 1:45pm Alexander

4:45pm Troy 7:30pm Kingdom of Heaven 10:00pm Immortals 11:55pm The Eagle 1:55am Ironclad 4:00am 22 Bullets

TCM 6:00am The Philadelphia Story 8:05am Rider on a Dead Horse 9:35am Escape from Fort Bravo 11:30am Angel and the Badman 1:25pm The Magnificent Seven 4:00pm The Kentuckian 6:05pm Return of the Gunfighter 8:00pm The Man From Snowy River 10:00pm Hell on Wheels 11:00pm Deadwood 12:05am Badlands 1:45am Body Heat 3:40am Badlands 5:15am Off Set

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2:35am BBC News 7:00am Breakfast 10:15am Wanted Down Under 11:00am Homes Under the Hammer 12:00pm The Sheriffs are Coming 12:45pm Cowboy Trap Clive Holland has help and advice for homeowners who have fallen victim to cowboy builders. 1:15pm Bargain Hunt 2:00pm BBC News at One The latest national and international news stories from the BBC News team, followed by weather. 2:30pm BBC London News 2:45pm Doctors 3:10pm Father Brown

4.00pm - midnight 4:00pm Escape to the Country 4:45pm Perfection 5:30pm Antiques Road Trip 6:15pm Pointless 7:00pm BBC News at Six 7:30pm BBC London News 8:00pm The One Show If it's got Britain talking then it will get talked about on The One Show.

8:30pm Inside Out Mark Jordan investigates the sometimes deadly chemicals being bought by teenagers to get high.

9:30pm Rip Off Britain 10:00pm Miranda Sitcom starring and written by Miranda Hart.

10:30pm Mrs. Brown's Boys Agnes is desperate for a holiday but cannot find anyone to look after Grandad.

11:00pm BBC News at Ten 11:25pm BBC London News 11:35pm Have I Got Old News for You

12:05am Blandings Comedy series based on the stories by PG Wodehouse. 12:35am The Graham Norton Show The award-winning host continues his unique chat show. 1:25am The Celebrity Apprentice USA American version of the business competition. 2:45am Weatherview Detailed weather forecast.

2:50am BBC News

BBC3 8:00pm Top Gear 9:00pm Don't Tell the Bride Another brave bride leaves the most important day of her life in the hands of the man she loves.

10:00pm Young, Mormon and Single Documentary which follows four single Mormons looking for their eternal partner.

11:00pm World's Craziest Fools 11:30pm EastEnders 12:00am Family Guy Animated comedy about the trials and tribulations of American family life.

12:25am Family Guy Animated comedy about the trials and tribulations of American family life.

12:45am American Dad! 1:10am American Dad! 1:30am World's Craziest Fools 2:00am Young, Mormon and Single Documentary which follows four single Mormons looking for their eternal partner.

3:00am Stacey Dooley Investigates 4:00am Being Human

ITV

Channel 4

Channel 5

7:05am Homes Under the Hammer 8:05am Rip Off Britain 8:50am Cowboy Trap Clive Holland has help and advice for homeowners who have fallen victim to cowboy builders. 9:20am Don't Get Done, Get Dom 10:05am MasterChef: The Professionals The competition to crown Britain's next culinary superstar continues. 10:35am Return to Forgotten Britain 11:35am Click Guide to all the latest gadgets, websites, games and computer industry news. 12:00pm BBC News 12:30pm BBC World News 1:00pm The Daily Politics 2:00pm Masters Snooker

5:05am ITV Nightscreen Text-based information service. 7:00am Daybreak 9:30am Lorraine 10:25am The Jeremy Kyle Show 11:30am This Morning Presented by Phillip Schofield and Holly Willoughby. 12:25pm ITV News The latest headlines from around the world. Followed by a local weather forecast. 12:30pm This Morning Presented by Phillip Schofield and Holly Willoughby. 1:30pm Loose Women More lunchtime chat and fun with the girls. 2:30pm ITV News and Weather The latest headlines from around the world. 3:00pm Storage Hoarders

5:30am Deal or No Deal 6:25am Countdown 7:10am The Hoobs There's nothing a Hoob hates more than getting wet. 7:35am The Hoobs 8:00am Will and Grace 8:30am According to Jim 8:55am Everybody Loves Raymond 9:30am Everybody Loves Raymond 10:00am Frasier 10:30am Frasier 11:00am Undercover Boss USA 12:00pm A Place in the Sun 1:00pm Channel 4 News Includes news headlines and weather. 1:05pm Jamie's 15 Minute Meals 1:35pm An American Guerrilla in the Philippines 3:40pm Countdown

8:05am Ben and Holly's Little Kingdom 8:20am The Mr. Men Show 8:35am Thomas and Friends 8:45am Noddy in Toyland 8:55am Milkshake Monkey 9:00am Fifi and the Flowertots 9:10am Milkshake! Show Songs 9:15am Peppa Pig 9:35am Roary the Racing Car 9:45am Bananas in Pyjamas 9:55am Little Lodgers 10:00am Tickety Toc 10:15am The Wright Stuff 12:10pm Trisha 1:00pm Looney Tunes 1:10pm 5 News Lunchtime 1:15pm Celebrity Big Brother 2:15pm Home and Away 2:45pm Neighbours 3:15pm CSI: Miami

7:00pm Eggheads 7:30pm Great British Railway Journeys 8:00pm The Polar Bear Family and Me 9:00pm University Challenge 9:30pm Winterwatch 10:30pm Why the Industrial Revolution Happened Here 11:30pm Newsnight

4:00pm Dickinson's Real Deal 5:00pm Tipping Point 6:00pm The Chase 7:00pm London Tonight 7:30pm ITV News and Weather 8:00pm Emmerdale 8:30pm Coronation Street 9:00pm Cornwall with Caroline Quentin 9:30pm Coronation Street 10:00pm Lewis 11:00pm ITV News at Ten and Weather 11:35pm Happy Birthday E.T

4:30pm Face the Clock Rory Bremner challenges six contestants to answer questions against The Clock.

5:00pm Deal or No Deal 6:00pm Four in a Bed 6:30pm Come Dine with Me 7:00pm The Simpsons 7:30pm Hollyoaks 8:00pm Channel 4 News Includes sport and weather.

8:55pm 4thought.tv 9:00pm Dispatches 10:00pm Embarrassing Fat Bodies In the Layers of Fat feature, the Embarrassing Bodies team lift the underbelly on fat.

11:00pm What Happens in Kavos...

4:15pm Jane Doe: The Wrong Face Mystery thriller.

6:00pm 5 News at 5 National and international news.

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

8:00pm Cowboy Builders 9:00pm The All New Gadget Show Entertainment show devoted to gadgets.

10:00pm Celebrity Big Brother Catch up with the latest events inside the Celebrity Big Brother house.

11:00pm Botched Up Bodies

BBC1

10:00pm - Miranda Sitcom starring and written by Miranda Hart. Miranda has been caring for her ill mother for five very long days.

Trapped in her flat and being barked at by Penny, she is forced to think about her life regrets. Before she has the chance to tick off her bucket list she gets ill, and Tilly, Gary and Stevie offer no sympathy or help at all.

Miranda Hart & Patricia Hodge 12:20am Masters Snooker Highlights 1:10am American Football Matt Roberts presents highlights from the weekend's NFL play-offs.

2:10am Masters Snooker Extra 4:10am Film 2013 5:00am How it Works 5:55am Your Paintings An adventure inside some of the most exciting paintings held in British collections today.

BBC4 8:00pm World News Today The latest national and international news, exploring the day's events from a global perspective.

8:30pm Great British Railway Journeys Documentary series 9:00pm Art Deco Icons David Heathcote explores the dramatic 1930s London Transport HQ in St James's, London.

9:30pm Only Connect 10:00pm Lost Kingdoms of South America 11:00pm Storyville 12:45am Spies of Warsaw Classic tale of spying, intrigue and romance, based on the novels of Alan Furst.

2:15am Carved with Love: The Genius of British Woodwork 3:15am Art Deco Icons David Heathcote explores the dramatic 1930s London Transport HQ in St James's, London.

3:45am Lost Kingdoms of South America

12:35am Monk 1:30am Jackpot247 Join the presenters live and play roulette on your telly.

4:00am The Jeremy Kyle Show 4:55am The Jeremy Kyle Show 5:45am ITV Nightscreen Text-based information service.

12:05am One Born Every Minute 1:10am Random Acts Channel 4's nightly short-form arts strand presents a tall tale from the big top.

1:15am On the Verge of a Midlife Crisis with Sharon Horgan 2:10am Scandal The hit US drama starring Kerry Washington comes to Channel 4. 3:05am The Promise 4:35am Supersize v Superskinny 5:30am Supernanny US

12:00am Celebrity Big Brother's Bit on the Side 1:00am Celebrity Wedding Planner: Celebrity Big Brother Special 2:00am Super Casino Live interactive gaming featuring roulette, blackjack and autowheel. 4:55am House Doctor Home-improvement series.

5:20am Divine Designs Paul Binski presents the series examining the history of religious art in Britain. 5:45am Michaela's Wild Challenge

Satellite channels SKY1 6:00am Best of Oops TV 7:00am Airline USA 7:30am Airline USA 8:00am Dog the Bounty Hunter 10:00am A League of Their Own 11:00am NCIS: Los Angeles 3:00pm A League of Their Own 3:30pm A League of Their Own 4:00pm Stargate SG-1 5:00pm Stargate SG-1 6:00pm Futurama 6:00pm Futurama 7:00pm Got to Dance 7:30pm The Simpsons 9:00pm Diversity in Dublin 10:00pm Galapagos with David Attenborough 11:00pm Spartacus: Vengeance 12:10am Spartacus: Vengeance 1:25am Fringe 2:25am Road Wars 3:15am NCIS: Los Angeles 4:05am Road Wars 5:00am Stargate SG-1

SKY MOVIES COMEDY 4:15am How Do You Know 6:30am Rio Special 7:00am American Pie 2 9:00am What Women Want 11:20am American Pie 1:10pm No Strings Attached 3:10pm Swinging with the Finkels 4:50pm Something Borrowed 6:50pm What Women Want 9:00pm American Pie 10:40pm American Pie 2 12:30am No Strings Attached 2:20am Swinging with the Finkels 3:50am Swingers 5:30am Win a Date with Tad Hamilton

SKY MOVIES DRAMA 4:50am Losing Control 6:30am Les Miserables Special 7:00am Cupid, Inc 8:30am Love and Other Impossible Pursuits 10:20am The

Top Ten Show 2013 10:40am Chicago 12:45pm The Hours 2:45pm Les Miserables Special 3:15pm Conviction 5:10pm Love and Impossible Pursuits 7:00pm Just Go with it 9:00pm Chicago 11:00pm The Hours

4:15pm Rambo: First Blood Part II 6:00pm Daylight 8:00pm The Tourist 10:00pm Escape From L.A. 11:45pm First Blood

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1:00am Just Go with it 3:00am Conviction 5:00am Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol Special 5:30am Cupid, Inc

SKY MOVIES ACTION 6:30am The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Special 7:00am Spy Kids 8:40am Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams 10:30am The Avengers Special 11:00am The Tourist 12:50pm Escape From L.A. 2:35pm First Blood

1:20am Rambo: First Blood Part II 3:00am Rambo III 4:45am Braddock: Missing in Action 3

TCM 6:00am TCM Shorts 6:15am Angel and the Badman 8:05am The Kentuckian 10:05am Return of the Gunfighter 12:00pm The Man From Snowy River 1:50pm The High Chaparral 2:55pm The High Chaparral 4:00pm Forty Guns 5:30pm Fort Utah 7:05pm The Hallelujah Trail 10:00pm Shirley Valentine 12:10am From Noon Till Three 2:00am Shirley Valentine

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Olympics just cannot disguise what a shambles the year was L

OOKING back over 2012, what stands out for you? Take away the Jubilee/Olympics temporary feelgood factor and it was a pretty awful year, especially for those flooded out of homes and businesses (some more than once) and those out of jobs.

It was another year, too, of political cock-ups, ‘lapses of judgement’ nowadays you ‘mis-say’ things, act ‘inappropriately’ or apologise not for the actions, but for ‘any distress caused’, nobody lies or cheats - and U-turns like the one forced over a pasty tax.

In fact, wait long enough and two U-turns arrive at the same time. Nuff said.

But, for me, the low point of the year was when Francis Maude advised drivers to store petrol: “Maybe a little bit in the garage as well in a jerrycan.” This triggered queues and panic-buying at petrol stations, an outcry by fire services and the AA and a woman ending up badly burned. All supposedly for a strike that hadn’t even been called at that point.

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Breaking Views NORA JOHNSON Nora, who has lived on the Costa del Sol for a number of years, is the author of psychological suspense and crime thrillers. To comment on any of the issues raised in Nora’s column, go to www.euroweeklynews.com/columnists/ nora-johnson

It was then, however, that I found myself caught up in the omnishambles hopelessly trying to get from one end of the country to the other.

A review of 2012’s most-read Wikipedia articles threw up surprising differences, too, in what’s been popular across the various language versions of the online encyclopaedia.

Facebook headed up the English edition as did ‘adult video actresses’ in Japan, the @ symbol making it into second place in Spain and The European Regional Development Fund third in Poland.

Fun people, the Polish! The Russian edition led with an article about the country, though entries for ‘porn site’ and ‘unemployment’ maybe shed greater light on ordinary Russian lives.

Looking ahead to predictions, I won’t bore you with mine as the media have been plastered with them. Except to say I’m sure fad diets will still stick around despite a UK government minister’s warning to Brits of the dangers.

After all, people have been following them for centuries. Diets like consuming tapeworms, arsenic pills, vinegar and wearing rubber undergarments by the Victorians. Ancient Greeks advocated even weirder weight-loss methods, including wrestling, walking around naked and avoiding sex.

Modern Greeks appear to have given these up. Perhaps MPs should follow suit and stop publishing fad policies?

Nora Johnson’s thrillers Soul Stealer & The De Clerambault Code (www.norajohnson. com) from Amazon in paperback/eBook (€0.89;£0.77) and iBookstore. Profits to Cudeca.

@ SYMBOL: Second most popular in Spain.

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2:50am BBC News 7:00am Breakfast The latest news, sport, business and weather from the BBC's Breakfast team. 10:15am Wanted Down Under 11:00am Homes Under the Hammer Series featuring properties sold via auction. 12:00pm The Sheriffs are Coming 12:45pm Cowboy Trap Clive Holland has help and advice for homeowners who have fallen victim to cowboy builders. 1:15pm Bargain Hunt Tim Wonnacott takes his bargain hunters north of the border to Edinburgh's Ingliston Centre. 2:00pm BBC News at One 2:30pm BBC London News The latest news, sport and weather from London. 2:45pm Doctors Mrs Tembe organises a walking tour for her church group, but the guide is anything but helpful.

3:10pm Father Brown

4.00pm - midnight 4:00pm Escape to the Country 4:45pm Perfection Nick Knowles hosts the general knowledge quiz show.

5:30pm Antiques Road Trip 6:15pm Pointless 7:00pm BBC News at Six The latest national and international news stories from the BBC News team, followed by weather.

7:30pm BBC London News The latest news, sport and weather from London.

8:00pm The One Show If it's got Britain talking then it will get talked about on The One Show.

8:30pm EastEnders The Brannings are a family in crisis, and Dot attempts to pull them back together.

9:00pm Holby City 10:00pm Death in Paradise 11:00pm BBC News at Ten 11:25pm BBC London News 11:35pm Harry and Paul's Magnificent Sporting Moments

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Channel 5

5:55am Your Paintings An adventure inside some of the most exciting paintings held in British collections today. 6:25am Your Paintings An adventure inside some of the most exciting paintings held in British collections today. 7:05am Homes Under the Hammer 8:05am The Sheriffs are Coming 8:50am Cowboy Trap 9:20am Don't Get Done, Get Dom 10:05am MasterChef: The Professionals The competition to crown Britain's next culinary superstar continues. 11:05am You've Been Scammed 11:35am HARDtalk 12:00pm BBC News The latest national and international news, plus top interviews and analysis. 12:30pm BBC World News 1:00pm The Daily Politics 2:00pm Masters Snooker

5:45am ITV Nightscreen Text-based information service. 7:00am Daybreak 9:30am Lorraine 10:25am The Jeremy Kyle Show 11:30am This Morning Presented by Phillip Schofield and Holly Willoughby. 12:25pm ITV News The latest headlines from around the world. Followed by a local weather forecast. 12:30pm This Morning Presented by Phillip Schofield and Holly Willoughby. 1:30pm Loose Women More lunchtime chat and fun with the girls. 2:30pm ITV News and Weather The latest headlines from around the world. 3:00pm Storage Hoarders

5:30am Supernanny US 6:15am Deal or No Deal 7:10am The Hoobs What do you do when you've ruined Groove's best ever painting of an Icecreamasaurus? 7:35am The Hoobs 8:00am Will and Grace 8:30am According to Jim 8:55am Everybody Loves Raymond Robert meets a beautiful woman who is a big fan of Ray's sports column. 9:25am Everybody Loves Raymond At a college football game, Frank catches a ball from a record-setting field goal. 9:55am Frasier Frasier, Niles and Martin await the results of Maris's plastic surgery. 10:30am Frasier 11:00am Undercover Boss USA 12:00pm A Place in the Sun 1:00pm Channel 4 News 1:05pm Jamie's 15 Minute Meals 1:35pm Kirstie's Handmade Treasures 1:50pm The 39 Steps 3:40pm Countdown

7:10am Igam Ogam 7:20am Fireman Sam 7:30am Jelly Jamm 7:45am Peppa Pig 7:50am Olive the Ostrich 7:55am Little Princess 8:05am Ben and Holly's Little Kingdom 8:20am The Mr. Men Show 8:35am Thomas and Friends 8:45am Noddy in Toyland 8:55am Milkshake Monkey 9:00am Fifi and the Flowertots 9:10am Milkshake! Show Songs 9:15am Peppa Pig 9:20am Peppa Pig 9:25am Peppa Pig 9:35am Roary the Racing Car 9:45am Bananas in Pyjamas 9:55am Little Lodgers 10:00am Tickety Toc 10:15am The Wright Stuff 12:10pm Trisha 1:00pm Looney Tunes 1:10pm 5 News Lunchtime 1:15pm Celebrity Big Brother 2:15pm Home and Away 2:45pm Neighbours 3:15pm NCIS

7:00pm Eggheads 7:30pm Great British Railway Journeys 8:00pm The Polar Bear Family and Me 9:00pm Winterwatch 10:00pm Locomotion: Dan Snow's History of Railways 11:00pm The Sarah Millican Television Programme Sarah Millican returns with her comedy series featuring stand-up and unique interviews.

11:30pm Newsnight

4:00pm Dickinson's Real Deal David Dickinson and the team are in Bangor.

5:00pm Tipping Point 6:00pm The Chase Quiz show hosted by Bradley Walsh.

7:00pm London Tonight 7:30pm ITV News and Weather The latest headlines from around the world.

Followed by a national weather forecast.

8:00pm Emmerdale Declan is devastated to learn the extent of Megan's deception.

8:30pm FA Cup Replay Adrian Chiles presents live action from a third round replay.

11:00pm ITV News at Ten and Weather The latest headlines from around the world.

11:35pm River Monsters

4:30pm Face the Clock Rory Bremner challenges six contestants to answer questions against The Clock.

5:00pm Deal or No Deal 6:00pm Four in a Bed 6:30pm Come Dine with Me It's the second day in Colchester, and the turn of smooth talking PR man Darius G Laws.

7:00pm The Simpsons 7:30pm Hollyoaks 8:00pm Channel 4 News Includes sport and weather.

8:55pm 4thought.tv 9:00pm Supersize v Superskinny 10:00pm The Undateables 11:00pm Utopia Brand new drama - a dark and enigmatic thriller.

When five online strangers are drawn together by the legendary manuscript of a cult graphic novel, they find themselves pursued by a secret and deadly organisation known only as The Network.

The online comic book forum agree to meet after gaining possession of the original manuscript for the cult graphic novel 'The Utopia Experiments'.

Unbeknown to them however, a shadowy organisation known as The Network is in pursuit of the manuscript - and they are prepared to kill to track it down.

4:15pm High Noon Psychological thriller by Nora Roberts. Emilie de Ravin ('Lost', 'Once Upon a Time') plays a tough police lieutenant and expert hostage negotiator, who juggles her career with the demands of a young daughter and agoraphobic mother (Cybill Shepherd, 'Moonlighting'). However her real problems begin when she is targeted by a vengeful stalker. She thinks that it is a subordinate whom she had to suspend, which throws everyone off the scent.

6:00pm 5 News at 5 National and international news.

6:30pm Neighbours 7:00pm Home and Away Brax and Heath meet up with Kyle through a girl called Mac who was harbouring him.

7:30pm 5 News National and international news.

8:00pm Great Northern Cookbook 9:00pm Benidorm ER 10:00pm Body of Proof US mystery series. A bride falls to her death at her wedding and all the guests are suspects.

11:00pm Celebrity Big Brother Catch up with the latest events inside the Celebrity Big Brother house.

12:05am Weight Loss Ward Second of two programmes.

1:05am Jackpot247 Join the presenters live and play roulette on your telly. 4:00am Loose Women More lunchtime chat and fun with the girls. 4:50am ITV Nightscreen Text-based information service.

12:25am Random Acts Channel 4's nightly shortform arts strand presents the return of the infamous singing man. 12:30am What Happens in Kavos...

1:30am Pokerstars.co.uk and Monte-Carlo Casino EPT Grand Final 2:30am KOTV Boxing Weekly 2:55am Beach Volleyball 3:50am Cottage to Let 5:20am Smallville Drama series following the teenage years of the future Superman, Clark Kent.

12:00am Celebrity Big Brother's Bit on the Side 1:00am Botched Up Bodies 2:00am Super Casino Live interactive gaming featuring roulette, blackjack and autowheel. 4:55am House Doctor Home improvement series.

5:20am Divine Designs 5:45am Michaela's Wild Challenge

12:05am - Flightplan

Horror abounds in this tense thriller.

Imagine being on a plane with your daughter, having a nap, and waking up to discover that not only has she disappeared, but that the crew and everyone around you insists that she was never on board in the first place.

12:05am Flightplan 1:40am Weatherview Detailed weather forecast. 1:45am BBC News

BBC3 8:00pm Total Wipeout 9:00pm Growing Up Poor 10:00pm Sun, Sex and Suspicious Parents 11:00pm Pramface 11:30pm EastEnders The Brannings are a family in crisis, and Dot attempts to pull them back together.

12:00am Family Guy Animated comedy about the trials and tribulations of American family life.

12:25am Family Guy Animated comedy about the trials and tribulations of American family life.

12:45am American Dad! 1:10am American Dad! 1:30am Sun, Sex and Suspicious Parents 2:30am Pramface Comedy series about two teenagers trying, and often failing, to come to terms with parenthood.

3:00am Young, Mormon and Single 4:00am Sun, Sex and Suspicious Parents

12:20am Masters Snooker Highlights 1:10am Masters Snooker Extra 3:10am Wonderland 4:10am Robbed, Raided, Reunited

BBC4 8:00pm World News Today The latest national and international news, exploring the day's events from a global perspective.

8:30pm Great British Railway Journeys 9:00pm Elegance and Decadence: The Age of the Regency 10:00pm The Riviera: A History in Pictures 11:00pm Illuminations: The Private Lives of Medieval Kings 12:00am Borgen 1:00am Borgen 2:00am Elegance and Decadence: The Age of the Regency 3:00am Illuminations: The Private Lives of Medieval Kings 4:00am The Riviera: A History in Pictures

Satellite channels SKY1 6:00am Stargate SG-1 7:00am Airline USA 7:30am Airline USA 8:00am Brainiac: Science Abuse 9:00am Dog the Bounty Hunter 10:00am A League of Their Own 10:30am A League of Their Own 11:00am NCIS: Los Angeles 12:00pm NCIS: Los Angeles 1:00pm NCIS: Los Angeles 2:00pm NCIS: Los Angeles 3:00pm UK Border Force 4:00pm Stargate SG-1 5:00pm Stargate SG-1 6:00pm Futurama 6:30pm Futurama 7:00pm Got to Dance 7:30pm The Simpsons 8:00pm The Simpsons 8:30pm The Simpsons 9:00pm Last Resort 10:00pm Stella 11:00pm Species II 12:50am Brit Cops - Frontline

Crime 1:50am Road Wars 2:50am Road Wars 3:45am Road Wars 4:35am Crash Test Dummies 5:00am Stargate SG-1

Riding Hood 10:30am Footloose Special 10:50am Jane Eyre 1:00pm Country Strong 3:00pm Big Miracle

4:10pm Batman 6:20pm Batman Returns 8:30pm Batman Begins 11:00pm Colombiana

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5:00pm Mr Popper's Penguins 35mm Special 5:20pm Red Riding Hood 7:05pm The Adjustment Bureau 9:00pm Jane Eyre 11:00pm Big Miracle

1:00am Battle: Los Angeles 3:00am Rush Hour

5:30am Win a Date with Tad Hamilton 7:10am Love and Other Drugs 9:15am Wild Hogs 11:05am The 40 Year Old Virgin 1:05pm Tower Heist 3:05pm Arthur 5:05pm Prom 7:00pm Love and Other Drugs 9:00pm Tower Heist 10:50pm The 40 Year Old Virgin 12:50am Arthur 2:45am Wild Hogs 4:35am Sweet Home Alabama

SKY MOVIES DRAMA 5:30am Cupid, Inc 7:00am Beautiful Wave 8:45am Red

1:00am Burlesque 3:05am Girl, Interrupted 5:20am A Valentine's Date

SKY MOVIES ACTION 4:45am Braddock: Missing in Action 3 6:30am Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol Special 7:00am The Avengers Special 7:30am Priest 9:10am Batman 11:25am Batman Returns 1:40pm Batman Begins

TCM 6:00am The Hallelujah Trail 8:40am The High Chaparral 9:45am The High Chaparral 10:45am Forty Guns 12:15pm Fort Utah 1:50pm The High Chaparral 2:55pm The High Chaparral 4:00pm The Broken Land 5:25pm Hondo and the Apaches 7:05pm Billy Two Hats 9:00pm 'Neath the Arizona Skies 10:00pm Dirty Harry 11:55pm Ironweed 2:50am The Yakuza 4:40am The High Chaparral 5:30am The Making of Band of Brothers

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1:45am BBC News 7:00am Breakfast The latest news, sport, business and weather from the BBC's Breakfast team. 10:15am Wanted Down Under 11:00am Homes Under the Hammer 12:00pm The Sheriffs are Coming 12:45pm Cowboy Trap Clive Holland has help and advice for homeowners who have fallen victim to cowboy builders. 1:15pm Bargain Hunt The teams face a welcome in the hillside as they scour the Royal Welsh Showground for bargains. 2:00pm BBC News at One The latest national and international news stories from the BBC News team, followed by weather. 2:30pm BBC London News The latest news, sport and weather from London. 2:45pm Doctors 3:10pm Father Brown Drama series based on the novels of GK Chesterton.

4.00pm - midnight 4:00pm Escape to the Country 4:45pm Perfection Nick Knowles hosts the general knowledge quiz show.

5:30pm Antiques Road Trip 6:15pm Pointless 7:00pm BBC News at Six The latest national and international news stories from the BBC News team, followed by weather.

7:30pm BBC London News The latest news, sport and weather from London.

8:00pm The One Show Matt Baker and Alex Jones present the stories that matter from across the country.

9:00pm Food Inspectors 10:00pm Africa David Attenborough takes a breathtaking journey through the vast and diverse continent of Africa.

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 A Question of Sport

12:05am Film 2013 Film news and reviews.

12:40am When a Man Loves a Woman Powerful domestic drama about a couple whose ideal life together is threatened by a guilty secret. 2:40am Weatherview Detailed weather forecast. 2:45am BBC News

BBC3 8:00pm The World's Strictest Parents Wayward British teenagers experience strict parenting on the other side of the world.

9:00pm Don't Tell the Bride Another brave bride leaves the most important day of her life in the hands of the man she loves.

10:00pm Growing Up Poor 11:00pm Con Air 12:45am Family Guy Animated comedy about the trials and tribulations of American family life.

1:10am Family Guy Animated comedy about the trials and tribulations of American family life.

1:30am Growing Up Poor 2:30am Sun, Sex and Suspicious Parents 3:30am World's Craziest Fools 4:00am Growing Up Poor

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5:25am Rock Types at Great Heights 6:20am Vikings 7:00am Homes Under the Hammer 8:00am The Sheriffs are Coming 8:45am Cowboy Trap Clive Holland has help and advice for homeowners who have fallen victim to cowboy builders. 9:15am Don't Get Done, Get Dom 10:00am MasterChef: The Professionals The competition to crown Britain's next culinary superstar continues. 11:00am You've Been Scammed 11:30am See Hear 12:00pm BBC News 12:30pm The Daily Politics 2:00pm Animal Park 2:30pm Masters Snooker

4:50am ITV Nightscreen Text-based information service. 7:00am Daybreak 9:30am Lorraine 10:25am The Jeremy Kyle Show 11:30am This Morning Presented by Phillip Schofield and Holly Willoughby. 12:25pm ITV News The latest headlines from around the world. Followed by a local weather forecast. 12:30pm This Morning Presented by Phillip Schofield and Holly Willoughby. 1:30pm Loose Women More lunchtime chat and fun with the girls. 2:30pm ITV News and Weather The latest headlines from around the world.

3:00pm Storage Hoarders

5:20am Smallville Drama series following the teenage years of the future Superman, Clark Kent.

6:05am Deal or No Deal 7:00am The Treacle People 7:10am The Hoobs Something's keeping the Hoobs awake. 7:35am The Hoobs If a Hoob can't find their Hoobarama then a Hoob can't play Hoobarama! 8:00am Will and Grace 8:25am According to Jim 8:55am Everybody Loves Raymond 9:25am Everybody Loves Raymond 9:55am Frasier 10:30am Frasier 11:00am Undercover Boss USA 12:00pm A Place in the Sun 1:00pm Channel 4 News Includes news headlines and weather. 1:05pm Jamie's 15 Minute Meals 1:35pm Superscrimpers: Waste Not, Want Not 2:00pm Passport to Pimlico 3:40pm Countdown

7:20am Fireman Sam 7:30am Jelly Jamm 7:45am Peppa Pig 7:50am Olive the Ostrich 7:55am Little Princess 8:05am Ben and Holly's Little Kingdom 8:20am The Mr Men Show 8:35am Thomas and Friends 8:45am Noddy in Toyland 8:55am Milkshake Monkey 9:00am Fifi and the Flowertots 9:10am Milkshake! Show Songs 9:15am Peppa Pig 9:20am Peppa Pig 9:25am Peppa Pig 9:35am Roary the Racing Car 9:45am Bananas in Pyjamas 9:55am Little Lodgers 10:00am Tickety Toc 10:15am The Wright Stuff 12:10pm Trisha 1:00pm Looney Tunes 1:10pm 5 News Lunchtime 1:15pm Celebrity Big Brother 2:15pm Home and Away 2:45pm Neighbours 3:15pm CSI: Miami

7:00pm Eggheads 7:30pm Great British Railway Journeys 8:00pm The Polar Bear Family and Me 9:00pm Winterwatch 10:00pm Funny Business 11:00pm Mock the Week...Again Topical comedy.

11:30pm Newsnight In-depth investigation and analysis of the stories behind the day's headlines with Gavin Esler.

4:00pm Dickinson's Real Deal 5:00pm Tipping Point 6:00pm The Chase Quiz show hosted by Bradley Walsh.

7:00pm London Tonight 7:30pm ITV News and Weather 8:00pm Emmerdale Alicia makes a difficult decision about her and David.

8:30pm Coronation Street 9:00pm Midsomer Murders 11:00pm ITV News at Ten and Weather 11:35pm FA Cup Highlights

4:30pm Face the Clock Rory Bremner challenges six contestants to answer questions against The Clock.

5:00pm Deal or No Deal 6:00pm Four in a Bed 6:30pm Come Dine with Me It's the third day in Colchester and the turn of American army wife Adrena Austin.

7:00pm The Simpsons 7:30pm Hollyoaks 8:00pm Channel 4 News Includes sport and weather.

8:55pm 4thought.tv 9:00pm Gok's Style Secrets Gok comes to the rescue of a 53 year-old single mum who's been dateless for nearly two decades.

10:00pm One Born Every Minute Two strong-willed first-time mums give birth at Leeds General Infirmary.

11:00pm True Stories

4:15pm Seventeen and Missing Mystic chiller.

6:00pm 5 News at 5 National and international news.

6:30pm Neighbours When Karl tells the hospital board about the 'ghost' file, Aidan breaks down.

7:00pm Home and Away Casey and Sasha struggle to define their new relationship.

7:30pm 5 News National and international news.

8:00pm Ice Road Truckers 9:00pm Charley Boorman's South African Adventure Charley Boorman continues his epic ride through South Africa on his trusty BMW motorbike.

10:00pm Celebrity Big Brother 11:30pm Celebrity Wedding Planner: TOWIE Special

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Morena Baccarin.

12:20am Masters Snooker Highlights 1:10am Masters Snooker Extra 3:10am Dara O Briain's Science Club 4:10am See Hear 4:55am How God Made the English 5:30am Divine Women

BBC4 8:00pm World News Today The latest national and international news, exploring the day's events from a global perspective.

8:30pm Great British Railway Journeys 9:00pm The First World War From Above The story of the Great War told from a unique new aerial perspective.

10:00pm Spies of Warsaw Classic tale of spying, intrigue and romance, based on the novels of Alan Furst.

11:30pm World War Two The British fought the Second World War to defeat Hitler.

1:00am Fig Leaf: The Biggest CoverUp in History 2:00am Guilty Pleasures 3:00am The Art of Cornwall 4:30am Art Deco Icons David Heathcote explores the dramatic 1930s London Transport HQ in St James's, London.

12:35am Safari Vet School 1:05am Jackpot247 Join the presenters live and play roulette on your telly. 4:00am Serenity

12:10am Random Acts 12:15am Embarrassing Fat Bodies 1:15am Abbey Road Studios: In Session with VW Beetle 2:10am Barclaycard Mercury Prize: 2012 Albums of the Year Live 2:25am Barclaycard Mercury Prize: 2012 Albums of the Year Live 2:40am Revenge

12:30am Celebrity Big Brother's Bit on the Side 1:30am Comedy Kings 1:55am Super Casino Live interactive gaming featuring roulette, blackjack and autowheel. 4:55am House Doctor Property guru Ann Maurice is in Ashfield to find out why a spacious bungalow won't sell. 5:20am Divine Designs 5:45am Michaela's Wild Challenge

Satellite channels SKY1 6:00am Stargate SG-1 7:00am Airline USA 7:30am Airline USA 8:00am Brainiac: Science Abuse 9:00am Dog the Bounty Hunter 10:00am A League of Their Own 10:30am A League of Their Own 11:00am NCIS: Los Angeles 12:00pm NCIS: Los Angeles 1:00pm NCIS: Los Angeles 2:00pm NCIS: Los Angeles 3:00pm UK Border Force 4:00pm Stargate SG-1 5:00pm Stargate SG-1 6:00pm Futurama 6:30pm Futurama 7:00pm Got to Dance 7:30pm The Simpsons 8:00pm Got to Dance 9:00pm Got to Dance 10:00pm Glee 11:00pm Fringe 12:00am Last Resort 1:00am Brit

SKY MOVIES DRAMA

Batman and Robin 1:15pm Twister 3:15pm Kingdom of Heaven

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5:20am A Valentine's Date 7:00am Stay Cool 8:40am 4 Wedding Planners 10:10am You May Not Kiss the Bride 11:55am That Thing You Do! 1:55pm Our Family Wedding 3:45pm The Tempest

5:45pm Batman Forever 7:50pm Batman and Robin 10:00pm Kingdom of Heaven

4:35am Sweet Home Alabama 6:30am The Avengers Special 7:00am Snow Dogs 8:45am Analyze That 10:25am Bad Teacher 12:05pm The Dilemma 2:00pm The Hangover Part II 3:45pm Horrible Bosses

5:45pm Rabbit Hole 7:25pm I Don't Know How She Does it 9:00pm Romeo and Juliet 11:00pm Anonymous

Cops - Frontline Crime 2:00am Road Wars 2:55am NCIS: Los Angeles 3:45am Road Wars 4:35am Crash Test Dummies 5:00am Stargate SG1

5:25pm Analyze This 7:15pm Bad Teacher 9:00pm The Hangover Part II 10:45pm Horrible Bosses 12:25am Analyze This 2:10am Analyze That 3:55am The Top Ten Show 2013 4:15am How Do You Know

1:20am I Don't Know How She Does it 3:00am Losing Control

SKY MOVIES ACTION 4:50am American Ninja Confrontation 6:30am 8:20am The Avengers 8:50am Batman Forever

2: The Batman Special 11:00am

12:25am Killer Elite 2:25am Black Hawk Down

TCM 9:30am 'Neath the Arizona Skies 10:30am The Broken Land 11:55am Billy Two Hats 1:50pm The High Chaparral 2:55pm The High Chaparral 4:00pm Canyon River 5:35pm Day of the Evil Gun 7:20pm Escort West 8:45pm The Spider Woman 10:00pm Breakdown 11:45pm Hell on Wheels 12:45am Border Shootout

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T is no secret that shops face a difficult future.

According to business recovery firm, Begbies Traynor, 140 UK retailers are in a ‘critical condition’.

I have news for them; much the same can be said for their customers, so stop making things worse for us.

Thanks to newspapers most of us are up to the tricks used by retailers to separate us from our hard-earned. Shopping often seems to be a constant battle of wits between buyer and seller.

It is said that the optimist is the person who thinks the chocolate bar is going to be the same size as the wrapper. The optimist is also the person who thinks three for two deals are all they are cracked up to be.

Sleight of hand can be assumed in all weights and measures.

The 20 per cent extra might easily be the 20 per cent removed a little earlier.

I have no sympathy for shoplifters. We are constantly reminded that we the customers end up paying. How is it that we also end up paying when it is the retailer doing the pilfering of purses? Most of us

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are loath to check the till receipt before going on our way. After recent experiences that, however, seems the best way of saving money.

Being of the old school I can make a pretty good prediction as to how much my shopping basket will come to. It did seem odd that the bill was often a little higher than I had expected.

One afternoon the till receipt

seemed to be nearly double expectations; I queried it and discovered I had been charged for two cooked ducks. I am sorry, but when set against my modest single bloke’s shopping needs that was a little bizarre to say the least.

Perhaps I should have called a store detective or the police.

The supermarket would have done so if they had found unpaid for ducks in my pocket.

Stuff happens: I got my refund and I let it drop.

Giving the supermarket the benefit of the doubt I did ponder about mistakes always being in their favour.

The following week I was tempted by teabags reduced from ₏3.99 to ₏1.99. You’ve guessed it; when I got home and checked my till receipt I found I had been charged the full ₏3.99 for the purchase.

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Yes, shoplifting is a problem; especially when the stores are doing it and the victims are their customers. There is a Spanish saying: ‘Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me.’ I have to shop, but in future I will be taking my calculator and

suggest others do likewise. No longer under any illusions, when I enter a store in future I will do so with the same competitive attitude as does a premier division sportsman when he enters the arena. This is a no-holds-barred contest between me and them.

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Losing and regaining driving licence points

Losing points

SINCE the Spanish penalty point More experienced drivers start with system for drivers was launched in 12, rising up to 15 if no offences 2006, four offences have been are made over a period of six years. identified as the - 93 per cent of those who attend courses to regain points are men, despite 42 per cent of Points are most common. drivers in Spain being women. lost for traffic According to the - 45 per cent of those taking courses are aged offences, DGT national traffic and when 26-40. They are followed by those aged 41-55 (25 per cent) and REMEMBER: authority, exceeding Turn on the hands-free. they reach 18-25 (23 per cent). the speed limit is A weekly focus aimed - Alcohol consumption is the most common offence among zero the the reason for losing at keeping expatriate readers licence is single drivers. Married people more frequently exceed the speed before they can take a special points in 42 per cent informed on various aspects of limit or use the phone while driving. awareness course (€320 fee), a suspended. of cases. Driving Life in Spain - Almost 94 per cent of those who took educational theoretical test and a When losing without a seat belt courses said they would drive more safely after it. psychophysical exam. Then they points, drivers (13 per cent), using

By Raul Candela re-start with eight points. Should can regain up to the mobile phone (9 Source: INTRAS traffic studies institute they lose all their points again in six points if they per cent) and the following three years, there is a alcohol consumppass a traffic 12 month driving ban (six if tion (9 per cent) are the other main educational course (costing €170), offence) reasons. which can only be done once every will have their points reinstated to professional).

Drivers can check how many Unlike Britain, the Spanish points two years.

12 (or eight for new drivers). system is a totting down process.

Drivers who do not lose any When licence is suspended, points they currently hold at the Drivers with less than three years more points for between two and drivers have to wait six months following link (needs registration experience start with eight points. three years (depending on the (three if a professional driver) and NIE): http://bit.ly/W9BVc.

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Life in Spain

Q AND A

A COMMON complaint among British expatriates and other foreign visitors is that shops in Spain are often closed between 1pm and 5pm.

On Sundays it gets worse for shopaholics as in most places it is forbidden to open by law. So the end of the week can get very dull indeed if all you want to do is go shopping.

However, especially since the crisis broke out, a new trend has seen many municipalities in Spain asking permission of regional governments for their businesses to open all hours. Some cities and towns had already been allowed to, as they were classified as an ‘area of major tourist affluence.’

This is mostly seen in coastal resorts, where most of the foreign community live or spend their holidays.

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Who needs to go shopping on a Sunday?

Areas of ‘major tourist affluence’ for 2013 - Costa del Sol: Manilva, Estepona, Fuengirola (to be confirmed), Malaga (to be confirmed), Mijas.

- Almeria: Garrucha, Carboneras, Mojacar, Roquetas de Mar, Vera.

- Axarquia: - Applications pending.

- Costa Blanca: Alfaz del Pi, Altea, Alicante (costa), Benidorm, Benissa, Benitachell, Calpe, Denia, El Campello, El Altet, Los Arenales, Finestrat, Gata de Gorgos, Guardamar del Segura, Javea, Ondara, Orihuela Costa, Pilar de la Horadada, Els Poblets, Rojales, San Fulgencio, Santa Pola, Teulada, Torrevieja, El Verger, Villajoyosa.

LOVELY SUNDAY: Spanish families enjoy a day out together on Sundays at the beach or in natural parks.

But although business hours have become more flexible in these areas, they are not allowed to open 24/7 all year round, but only during those times of the year with more visitors (summer and Easter, mostly).

Often it is mainly large shopping centres plus a few shops in tourist areas

QUESTION: We have been registered on the local padron in Calpe since 2008, now we are planning a move to a town in Tarragona. What should we do?

which take the chance to open longer.

In fact, the Spanish Government ruled last summer that shops could open 90 hours a week (previously 72) on working days. But most small shops decided to stick to the old hours.

Yes, it can be annoying to wait until 5pm during

week days for shops to open, especially for those who have not adapted to Spanish timetables.

But, who needs shopping on Sundays?

Remember, this is ‘sunny Spain’. Here, there is a very popular word that involves the concept of how Spaniards have traditionally seen Sundays: ‘el dominguero’. A rough translation could be ‘the Sunday driver.’ Now this can sometimes be used as a mocking word to make

ANSWER: You should sign up on your new town council’s padron. When moving to a different autonomous community it is general practice that the old council is notified by the new town hall on

fun of those who only go out in their cars on Sundays.

But there is nothing wrong in being a ‘dominguero’. In fact, it looks like the best choice for leisure on Sundays; going out, having some fresh air and sun, cooking a great lunch and tightening bonds with family and friends.

Much better than shopping.

Enjoy life to the full; you are living in Spain now.

DRIVERS can lose two, three, four or six points depending on the offence.

A maximum of eight points can be lost in a day, except for very serious offences.

These are some of the most common reasons: Six Points - Alcohol more than 0.50 mg/l (0.30 professionals and new drivers).

- Consumption of drugs and other substances, or refusing to take an alcohol or drugs test.

- Speeding at more than 50 per cent and at least 30kph over the limit, (that is 180kph on motorways, 135 on A and N roads with a limit of 90kph and 80 on urban roads).

- Dangerous driving, for example driving the wrong way down one way streets and racing.

Four Points - Driving on a motorway with a prohibited vehicle.

- Driving with more than 50 per cent of authorised occupants.

- Not obeying traffic officers’ signals.

- Driving without the right licence.

- Throwing dangerous objects, including cigarettes, from a vehicle.

Three Points - Speeding by 30-40kph over the limit.

- Changing direction illegally.

- Failing to comply with the safe following distance.

- Driving using a mobile (hands-free phone excluded).

- Driving without a seat belt or helmet.

Two Points - Speeding by 20-30 kph over the limit.

- Dangerous stopping or parking.

- Driving with systems to avoid vigilance (speed radar warning) - Driving without lights at night.

your behalf. However, it may be advisable to send a copy of the padron certificate (volante) or an email notifying them of the move, to your old town hall.

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Health trends for 2013 Greater risk for diabetics M ARKETING communications group JWT predicts 2013 will bring vegan babies, allergy-cautious menus and bee stings to cure joint pains.

It also envisages people being more likely to turn off their phones and disconnect from their busy lifestyles. Instead they will spend time focusing on eating healthy and living carefully.

Here are a few trends JWT predict for the year:

Adult playgrounds Cities worldwide are trying to tackle obesity and overall inactivity by designing playgrounds for adults. Complete with workout equipment rather than giant swings and slides, these workout spaces are meant to encourage adults to get more active.

Allergen-free With food allergies rising worldwide, companies will build facilities dedicated to manufacturing foods free of allergens like dairy, peanuts, egg, soy and shellfish.

Bee venom Bee venom therapy – an ancient practice that dates back to Egypt, Greece and

ADULT PLAYGROUNDS: One of the trends predicted for this year.

China – involves systematically stinging patients suffering from joint and nerve conditions including arthritis and multiple sclerosis, which can allegedly improve circulation, decrease inflammation and stimulate the immune system.

Detox For some, a new year means cleansing bodies

and ridding junk from their diets and kitchen cupboards. But 2013 will also see detoxing our homes and the environment around us.

Consumers and brands are turning to chemicalfree and toxin-free products to use every day.

Chia These seeds are rich in protein, antioxidants, fibre and omega-3 fatty acids.

Fitness on the go Hotels are designing guest rooms to accommodate people doing yoga or cardio, or providing workout videos, while some airports, like San Francisco International Airport, offer yoga rooms.

Food sharing Experts predict 2013 will be the year for peer-

to-peer services like carsharing and accommodation-sharing.

A new trend, foodsharing, has people sharing their homemade meals with others or bringing people together in the homes of amateur chefs.

JOMO It’s the flip side of FOMO or the fear of missing out. In 2013, people will find a joy in missing out on things (JOMO), so they can slow down, savour the moment and focus on what’s really important in their lives.

Mindful living This involves savouring every bite without distraction from electronics, whether phones or TVs. Vegan babies As veganism (the refusal to consume animal products including dairy and eggs) gains more interest among families, more parents are starting to spread their eating habits to their newborns.

Standing desks Heading into the New Year, experts predict more upright desk features for offices, including standing workstations.

Guilt-free chocolate Creators will cut the fat, preservatives and artificial flavouring and offer consumers a healthier version of chocolate.

Online groceries In 2013, online grocery shopping will slowly become more mainstream as consumers are starting to shop from the comfort of their homes.

PEOPLE with diabetes are almost 50 per cent more likely to suffer a heart attack. The National Diabetes Audit analysed the care of two million diabetics in the UK and found that type one and type two sufferers were at greater risk of having a heart attack.

According to the report 14,476 of those included in the study had a heart attack, 4,694 more than expected.

The report also found people with diabetes have a 40 per cent higher risk of death than the general population, with 65,700 diabetics dying in 2011.

Drop a dress size.

New diet pill A DIET pill that helps people drop-a-dress-size could be on sale within months.

An American company wants to sell lorcaserin, under the brand name of Belviq, across Europe and plans to produce a version for children as young as six, if regulators give permission.

The pill is taken before breakfast and dinner and regulates appetite, making users feel less hungry.

In a study of 7,000 people, dieters who took the pill for a year lost an average 8 per cent body weight and in extreme cases up to 40 per cent.

Side effects suffered by some included headaches, dizziness and nausea.

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Energy giant’s Bolivian shame BOLIVIA’S seizure of two Spanish-owned companies will gladden the hearts of many, especially when they hear the reason.

President Evo Morales accuses Iberdrola of overcharging customers in rural areas. Many in Spain will find common parlance with that.

Something else refreshing, the president adds that the country’s constitution clearly states that the public interest must come before private

interests in energy-related use.

An independent arbiter will now reach a settlement on what the shamed and exiled energy giant settles for. Don’t hold your breath waiting for the Spanish PM to follow the Bolivian president’s example.

Legal brothels no panacea THE recession must be patchy when I read that 800 punters bolted from a Catalan brothel

Recession’s silver lining EVERY cloud has a silver lining; every recession too it seems. Road deaths in Spain have dropped to levels last seen in 1960, when there were very few vehicles on the road. Then there was just the occasional ass; nothing much new there, then. Today there are fewer car journeys than at the peak. People are easier on the gas because cars are expensive and add fat. Bike use is cheap and eats fat.

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By Mike Walsh after a call was received www.michaelwalsh.es warning of To comment on any of the issues raised in Mike’s column, go to a bomb www.euroweeklynews.com /columnists/mike-walsh being planted there. The French and other nationalities see Spain as the free-for-all Berlin was in the seedy 1920s. The two fingers MORALES: of blame are directed at rivalry between pimping gangs.

Public Communities and law interest enforcement officials are comes first. fighting a losing battle in the struggle to curb violence.

So, legalised prostitution has not been the panacea the liberals promised. All it has done is boost immorality, organised crime, venereal disease, drug trafficking and money laundering. It has also fuelled pornography and with it sex exploitation including that of minors. Well done, brave new world.

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Time Out On first meeting New York hedge-fund magnate Robert Miller (Richard Gere) on the eve of his 60th birthday, he appears the very portrait of success in American business and family life. But behind the gilded walls of his mansion, Miller is in over his head, desperately trying to complete the sale of his trading empire to a major bank before the depths of his fraud are revealed. Struggling to conceal his duplicity from loyal wife Ellen (Susan Sarandon) and brilliant daughter and heir-apparent Brooke (Brit Marling), Miller’s also balancing an affair with French art-dealer Julie Cote (Laetetia Casta).

1h40 Directed by: Nicholas Jarecki Starring: Richard Gere, Susan Sarandon, Tim Roth, Brit Marling

CAPRICORN (December 22 - January 20) An investment made recently is built upon and brings peace of mind.

Finances do need consideration but more in the long than the short-term.

AQUARIUS (January 21 - February 19) You realise this week how liberating it is to share your thoughts and feelings with someone close. It is not always easy to do this, until you realise everyone has them. Some hopes and dreams are more attainable than others, of course, and someone has to find out which are which.

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Beginning in 19th century Scotland, The Rocking Horse Garden follows the lives of the fishing communities on the coast of Fife. Fishing boats track herring shoals through cold and treacherous waters, while their women, the Herring Gutters, follow them. Conditions are hard, but the community keeps up a lively spirit.

Jessie, one of the young women

IF ITʼS YOUR BIRTHDAY THIS WEEK: Make this a year to build on friendships. Busy as you are, your wellbeing is tied up with those close to you. Money is not everything.

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After a relaxed weekend, it might prove difficult to take up the reins of work again. However, midweek sees you trotting along happily and minding your own business when someone stops you in your

Time is precious this week because you are in demand. A chance lost in the past presents itself again but wonʼt be too easy. Holding back just a little makes you more desirable.

Ana Rosa Quintana, born January 12, 1956. She is a Spanish anchorwoman and journalist. She has worked for more than 30 years in television and runs one of the most successful morning shows on celebrities and daily-life news. She also launched her own lifestyle magazine ʻARʼ and perfume ʻAna Rosaʼ.

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ARIES (March 21 - April 20)

PISCES (February 20 - March 20)

falls in love with a boat builder and wood carver of great skill. Misfortune follows the family and the young couple, left feeling accursed, emigrate to Australia. The epic journey under sail is full of incident and tragedy.

One hundred years later, a great

granddaughter finds Jessie’s diary and travels back to Scotland to follow in her footsteps.

Influencing this family’s fate is a sinister creature, well known in Scottish myth.

It is a beast who preys on humans, the legendary horse from the sea, the Kelpie. A great read.

TAURUS (April 21 - May 21)

confidence works wonders for your mood.

Something that you read sets you thinking about doing some writing or creating something artistic, perhaps even a musical.

GEMINI (May 22 - June 21)

With a mind as sharp as a needle, you spin through the week, weaving your own charming spell. A bit of extra

Although energy is not high, there is the need to have some kind of challenge. With the brain active, it is an ideal time to plot and plan your next moves. Maybe something that has been delayed might now be advanced. You find it hard to choose between opportunities.

SU DOKU

CANCER (June 22 - July 23) The imagination stirs and the heart races at a suggestion this week.

Your strong intuition tells you it is the right thing to do.

HOW TO PLAY Fill the grid so that every row, every column and every 3X3 box contains the digits 1-9. There’s no maths involved. You solve the puzzle with reasoning and logic.

LEO (July 24 - August 23) Reading the small print or being sure what is offered in a personal encounter is most important this week. Leave nothing to chance or you could be out of pocket.

VIRGO (August 24 - September 23)

LAST WEEK’S SOLUTION

Being over-generous with cash midweek could see you making a poor move. Perhaps someone needs to be more hardworking or perhaps less of a spendthrift. Propping up a bad habit would be doing them no favours.

LIBRA (September 24 - October 23) A suggestion made by you recently did not seem to be taken seriously. This week, however, negotiations could be opened.

Circumstances change and it may seem someone gave up too early. Bide your time and even hold your tongue when someone in a strong position spouts rubbish.

UK NATIONAL UK LOTTERY THUNDERBALL

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• The fight we had last night was my fault.

My wife asked me what was on the TV and I replied “dust.”

STEALING THE SHOW 1. What is the name of the Norwegian artist who produced the painting that has been the target of several high-profile art thefts, The Scream?

2. Actress Zsa Zsa Gabor was attacked and robbed in a lift in New York’s Waldorf Towers in August in 1970. What was the value of her gems stolen: (a) $50,000 (b) $150,000 or (c) $250,000?

3. What was stolen from the headquarters of the Brazilian Football Confederation in Rio de Janeiro in December 1983?

4. Whose coffin turned up 10 miles from its original Swiss cemetery on May 17, 1978, having been stolen two months earlier?

5. Which famous painting by Leonardo da Vinci was stolen from the Louvre by Vincenzo Peruggia in August 1911?

6. What was stolen from the shop window of football outfitters William Shillcock in Birmingham in September 1895?

7. Which British rock singer was mugged and had his $50,000 Porsche Turbo-Carrera stolen by a gunman on Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles, in April 1982?

8. Which oblong block of red sandstone, stolen from Westminster Abbey on Christmas Day in 1950 by four Scottish students, turned up at Arbroath Abbey the following April?

9. Sunflowers, the Potato Eaters, Still Life with Irises, Wheatfield with Crows, and Still Life with Bible were among 20 paintings worth £315 million by which famous Dutch artist, which were stolen from a museum in Amsterdam in April 1991?

10. Which British band-leader’s signature tune was Somebody Stole My Gal?

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How many English words of four letters or more can you make from the nine letters in our Nonagram puzzle? Each letter may be used only once (unless the letter appears twice). Each word MUST CONTAIN THE CENTRE LETTER (in this case D) and there must be AT LEAST ONE NINE LETTER WORD. Plurals, vulgarities or proper nouns are not allowed.

Word ladder CORN

Confidence in a close relationship should be maintained. Possibly someone who envies your position would like to see discord.

Move from the start word (CORN) to the end word (BEEF) in the same number of steps as there are rungs on the Word Ladder. You must only change one letter at a time.

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LAST WEEK’S SOLUTION

SCORPIO (October 24 - November 22)

Just joking • What do you call a man with no arms and no legs sitting on your front porch?

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An emotional cut-off from the past is not as bad as anticipated. Indeed, it confirms in your mind who you are and what your place in the world is.

Inherited traits knit easily with your present life and bring contentment. All that you want to change at the moment are certain things round you that have been outgrown.

BEEF

CORN TORN TERN TEEN BEEN BEEF

Mystery and suspense

Nonagram

Three novels in one

Arbitrage

1. EDVARD MUNCH, 2. C - $250,000, 3. JULES RIMET TROPHY, the original FIFA WORLD CUP TROPHY, 4. CHARLIE CHAPLIN’S, 5. MONA LISA (LA GIOCONDA or LA JOCONDE or PORTRAIT OF LISA GHERARDINI, WIFE OF FRANCESCO DEL GIOCONDO) - it was recovered two years later, 6. THE (original) FA CUP - the FA fined holders Aston Villa £25 to pay for a replacement. Almost 60 years later, the thief admitted that the cup had been melted down to make counterfeit half-crown coins, 7.

ROD STEWART, 8. STONE OF SCONE, also known as the STONE OF DESTINY and often referred to in England as the CORONATION STONE, 9. VINCENT VAN GOGH - all of the paintings were found in abandoned car hours later, 10. BILLY COTTON

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Across 7 I am unfortunately returning a sausage (6) 8 A television one found in Los Angeles or a Baltic country (6) 9 Makes a profit from a bottle of Cabernet Sauvignon (4) 10 Many having an inclination to domestic work (8) 11 Hates hot ales concoction (7) 13 Sodium along with the Italian Signor will provide fasteners (5) 15 Long for twelve months at this point (5) 17 Tousled doctor is most noisy (7) 20 Princess precise concerning the region (8) 21 Carry note into pub (4) 22 Excellent guess (6) 23 Reportedly, more vulgar food retailer (6)

The clues are mixed, some clues are in Spanish and some are in English.

Across 1 Sello (Correos) (5) 4 Dog (5) 7 Margarina (9) 8 Eternity (9) 12 Hammers (tools) (9) 14 Rosas (flores) (5) 15 Caracol (5) Down 1 Arena (4) 2 Brazo (de persona) (3)

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Down 1 Regained consciousness for a short time in minor film role (4,2) 2 Captures suitcases (4) 3 Raw rice enough for the aviators (3,4) 4 Old London river boats (5)

5 Model flag (8) 6 Possibly aligns a green light for example (6) 12 Nut trail meanders, so go back (4,4) 14 Stew made from pet goat (7) 16 Rile about a team having a

cure-all (6) 18 Didnʼt use drapes properly presented (6) 19 Note twisted vine is donated (5) 21 Put you name down for something to read (4)

Down 1 Tragedy (8) 2 Middle Eastern country (5) 4 Small cake (6) 5 Prepare for competition (5) 6 Analyse (7) 7 Transmit (4) 8 Electrician's tool (6) 13 Fidgety (8) 15 Desert (7) 17 Easygoing (6) 18 Extreme (6) 20 Foundation (5) 22 More than enough (5) 23 Part of the eye (4)

CRYPTIC Across: 7 Recipe, 8 Looted, 9 Life, 10 Cheyenne, 11 Western, 13 Pilot, 15 Fairy, 17 Footmen, 20 Dominoes, 21 Goad, 22 Herein, 23 Asides.

Down: 1 Feline, 2 Mine, 3 Peccary, 4 Blues, 5 Novelist, 6 Lean-to, 12 Termites, 14 Dog star, 16 Avocet, 18 Enamel, 19 Joint, 21 Gait.

QUICK - Across: 1 Canvas, 5 Search, 8 Thin, 9 Cinnamon, 10 Perspire, 11 Dash, 12 Region, 14 Punish, 16 Pass, 18 Besotted, 20 Positive, 21 Boil, 22 Serene, 23 Stable.

Down: 2 Achieve, 3 Venus, 4 Section, 5 Since, 6 Abandon, 7 Cross, 13 Inspire, 14 Possess, 15 Special, 17 Alone, 18 Bribe, 19 Tibia.

ENGLISH - SPANISH Across: 1 Sopa, 3 Herbs, 6 Onion, 8 Peras, 10 Uña, 11 Grave, 12 Dance, 13 Sea, 14 Sheet, 15 Sweat, 16 Calor, 17 Caer.

Down: 1 Sponges, 2 Primavera, 4 Espadas, 5 Berenjena, 7 Nuestro, 9 Sweeter.

1. Unscramble the name of an English novelist, poet, critic, and teacher: SLINKY IMAGES 2. Unscramble the name of a popular BBC Television religious programme (three words): FORGE PASSIONS

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Each number in the Code Breaker grid represents a different letter of the alphabet.

In this week’s puzzle, 10 represents P and 14 represents Q, so fill in P every time the figure 10 appears and Q every time the figure 14 appears. Now, using your knowledge of the English language, work out which letters should go in the missing squares.

As you discover the letters, fill in other squares with the same number in the main grid and the control grid.

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QUICK Across 1 Twilight (4) 3 Immaculate (8) 9 Excess (7) 10 Once more (5) 11 Declare (5) 12 Sour (6) 14 Go by (6) 16 Agree to (6) 19 Roam (6) 21 Begin (5) 24 Amusement park attractions (5) 25 Instance (7) 26 Ominous (8) 27 Charges (4)

3 Retratos (9) 4 Saucers (para tazas) (9) 5 Queen (5) 6 Obedecer (4) 9 Neumáticos (5) 10 To love (4) 11 Blue (4) 13 Mar (3)

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Hexagram The purpose of the Hexagram puzzle is to place the 19 sixletter 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 (DEPEND) and one letter in four other cells are given as clues.

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LAST WEEK’S SOLUTION 1 Chosen, 2 Events, 3 Angers, 4 Beards, 5 Letter, 6 Pledge, 7 Breast, 8 Welled, 9 Agrees, 10 Bellow, 11 Tweeds, 12 Writer, 13 Millet, 14 Statue, 15 Patrol, 16 Charms, 17 Gaiter, 18 Spires, 19 Grease

FUNAGRAM SOLUTION KINGSLEY AMIS SONGS OF PRAISE

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NO MYTH: Eggs are a normal part of the human diet.

Egg facts EGGS have been a normal part of the human diet for centuries. However, there are some myths surrounding their consumption.

The notion that eating just the whites is healthier than the whole egg is false.

Egg whites contain little nutrition, mostly just a little protein and sodium.

The yolk contains a lot of nutrients not available anywhere else, including the amino acid leucene, which triggers muscle

growth and fat-burning. It also contains choline, vital for healthy cell membranes, and brain-function.

Eggs do contain cholesterol, but not large amounts. And studies have shown eating cholesterol does not necessarily make cholesterol levels go up.

Also, eggs won’t cause obesity; one egg has just 70 calories which is balanced, with six grammes of protein, and five grammes of unsaturated fat.

PERSIMMONS are the fastest-selling exotic fruit in Britain.

Sales of the fruit overtook kiwi, mangos and avocados in the build up to Christmas and more than four million persimmons were sold in British supermarkets in 2012.

The growth is believed to be largely down to its health benefits. They are rich in vitamins A and C and have twice as much fibre per 100g than an apple. Nothing is wasted; the whole fruit can be eaten, including the skin.

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BAKER’S DOZEN: Always serving extra to avoid punishment.

Why a baker’s dozen is always thirteen MANY societies throughout history had extremely strict laws concerning baker’s wares. For example in Ancient Egypt should a baker be found cheating someone, their ear would be nailed to the door of their bakery. In Babylon if a baker was found to have sold a ‘light loaf’ the baker’s hand would be chopped off.

Similarly, harsh measures could be historically found throughout Europe.

As it wasn’t that hard to accidentally cheat a customer, given the exacting standards required, bakers began giving more than outlined to make sure they went over and never under.

In England it became common practice that if a customer

and New Year’s Day. Between Christmas Eve and Boxing Day, the average person consumed 15,000 calories.

A turkey dinner with all the trimmings has an average 1,450 calories and alcohol also added to the indulgence with two glasses of mulled wine adding 490 calories and

the large noon dinner.

Rather than calling these earlier meals that broke the fast by the word meaning breakfast (dinner), the name stuck as meaning the largest meal of the day. As time passed the largest meal got moved to later in the day until it was eaten when we used to have supper (which used to be a light meal.)

ordered a dozen loaves of bread they would be given 13.

Likewise, when selling any quantity, 13 measures were given when only 12 were purchased.

This made sure the baker would never accidentally break the law and be subject to the severe punishments.

Festive feasts pile on the pounds THE average person will have consumed 38,000 calories over the festive period and gained up to 6lbs in weight.

The figures were compiled by weight-loss experts Vitagetics, who found the typical adult gorges on the equivalent of 15 days worth of food between Christmas Eve

THE English word for dinner comes from the French word ‘disnar,’ meaning breakfast.

Traditionally, dinner (meaning breakfast) was the first meal of the day, eaten around noon.

It also happened to be the biggest meal of the day, with a lighter repast coming later, known as supper. Eventually more meals started being added to the day with people eating before

two glasses of champagne 178 calories.

The recommended calorie allowance for an eight-day period is around 20,000 for men and 16,000 for women.

Breakfast, traditionally biggest meal of the day.

CALORIE COUNTING: Forget it at Xmas!

Linking flavours AMERICAN scientists have investigated the chemical links between popular food combinations.

They discovered ingredients with the same flavour compounds and chemicals that give food its taste are often combined, such as strawberries and cream.

Some food groups, such as mushrooms, fish and nuts, have few flavour links, so are unlikely to be combined. But chocolate shares many flavour compounds with other foods, and could explain it’s use in savoury dishes.

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O here we are. Double digitdays, untold hours and minutes into the brave new year. How are your resolutions working out? Or did you wisely abstain from making any heartfelt pledges in the days following the Christmas excess?

‘Everything in moderation’, as one particularly insightful relative always points out, sipping on her one small sherry while I merrily tuck into my fifth glass of bubbly.

The problem is that I am woefully bad at living life in moderation. Excess is simply so much more fun: ‘All or nothing’ would be a more appropriate motto for me, which is why I am now approaching halfway through a ‘dry’ January.

The first few days were a breeze. There really is nothing like a good old New Year’s Eve knees-up followed by a stinking hangover to reinforce the vows of ‘never again’. Taking refuge in Northern Europe nicely circumnavigated the pitfalls of Kings Day festivities, which could otherwise have rocked my resolve. But as the days pass, it is

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easy to lose sight of the original reasons for the detox. Back in Spain, friends blink bewilderedly at me when refusing a copa. It seems a foreign concept here, maybe it’s just further north we inflict these periods of abstinence on ourselves?

By Day 10, I am pretty sure my liver is like a newborn baby’s and surely a breath test would confirm me a pseudo-saint, halo and all?

To strengthen my resolve, I have canvassed advice on how to persevere, which I am of course delighted to share with you here.

It might seem blindingly obvious, but you have to remove yourself from the haunts you usually frequent, especially if the

NEW YEAR: Have you made any heartfelt pledges? bartender produces your ‘regular’ as soon as you walk through the door. This is the time to seek out cafés, juice bars or anywhere without a drinks’ licence really.

Diversion tactics are also important; you need to fill the time you have created with something else. Perhaps one of

the other resolutions, such as hiking or ballroom dancing? Both are infinitely easier with a clear head and clean blood. Or if physically challenged, why not start a blog for your friends and family in distant countries. Every Tom, Dick and Harry seems to write one these days and with a

bit of luck some talent scout might discover your literary skills and give you a whopping publishing contract. Trend-setters say that aliens are the new vampires as far as fiction is concerned, so start your masterpiece now. Move over, JK Rowling!

Look in the mirror. Chances are your skin is more luminous, eyes clearer and, assuming you didn’t replace the pints with pies, you may well be a bit trimmer, too.

Still missing the Merlot? Police in Spain are clamping down on drink drivers and even with the best intentions, it can be hard to judge the alcohol in your glass, so save yourself a bundle of cash and a stint in the penitentiary, not to mention any horrid accidents.

In fact, the only legal way to ship you to and from the bar (except walking) is by horse, since they have a mind of their own, so maybe use your dry January to take some riding lessons, setting you up for a galloping return to the social fold come February.

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• The weather in January is often sunny and dry so it is pleasant to work outdoors.

The five main tasks are as follows.

• Cut back and prune all perennials, shrubs and trees.

• Divide and replant perennials.

• Clear all weeds and rubbish from

growing areas, paths and terraces.

• As appropriate, loosen the surface soil and top up mulching.

• Shred pruned material to add to the compost heap.

• Make it possible to walk down paths.

Next week we will comment on the cut back of a range of plants/trees. (c) Clodagh and Dick Handscombe www.gardenspain.com January 2013

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www.euroweeklynews.es FOR Susan Lakes, supporting the local community is important. “But it has become increasingly difficult over the years as funds have been a little tight, but I try to give back to the local community where I can,” said the Benalmadena, Costa del Sol resident.

Another expatriate hit by the recession is Pauline Loughran from Rojales on the Costa Blanca.

“I had a direct debit set up supporting local charities, but had to stop it last month. But I will try to continue to donate the odd bit here and there whenever I can,” Pauline remarked.

Fellow Costa Blanca based expat Joanne Cole supports local charities through her work at The Card Place in Benimar as well as through donations.

“I prefer to contribute with items as opposed to money,” she said. “I have always donated items of clothing to EMAUS, a charity caring for homeless children on the Costa Blanca, and will continue to do so in 2013.”

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STREET TALK GIVING something back is important, but when it comes to donations, especially in the present harsh economic times, do

people still give generously, and do they prefer local charities in favour of global corporations? EWN reports:

Being charitable getting tougher

Aaron and Elena Sparks.

Aaron and Elena Sparks, Marbella residents on the Costa del Sol for 26 years, strive to donate to the needy.

“We favour local charities because we want to help our community; knowing you’re

Maite Llorens. making a difference to people is very humbling,” said Aaron.

Sixty-year-old Javier, who preferred not to give his family name, last year made donations to a charity active in Spain and internationally.

“It is important to do something to help where we can. And no matter how challenging life becomes, the economic crisis will not be affecting my 2013 donations,” said the Costa Blanca resident.

Pauline Loughran.

For Maite Llorens, also from the Costa Blanca, she prefers to give money to a street beggar than to a fixed charity. “But even that depends, for I advised a young woman outside Mercadona she ought to be looking for work. I couldn’t understand a word she said in reply, but it didn’t sound very friendly!”

Meanwhile, Ian Caulcott of Torre in Almeria has a fixed policy when giving to beggars.

“If they have any disability, then fine... but if they are able to walk and appear healthy, then I avoid giving them cash, believing local clubs and associations are more worthy causes.”

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Pretty boy lessons WITH the proper technique, parrots can be trained to say the right words when required.

They can talk because their tongue is shaped

Dogs are Titanic survivors TWO toy dogs survived the sinking of the Titanic. They escaped with their owners in lifeboats that were almost empty. Miss Margaret Hays of New York saved her Pomeranian and Henry Sleeper Harper of the Harper publishing house saved his Pekinese Sun Yat Sen.

like humans.

Of all parrot species, the easiest to train to speak are African Grey parrots.

Generally, the smaller the parrot, the harder they are to be taught to speak.

Parrots can easily remember and mimic words that are spoken when excited, which is why almost the first word they learn is ‘hi’ or ‘hello’, because these words are often said in a heightened, excited tone.

This is also the reason why parrots learn to curse.

New laws could affect your dog ALL dogs irrespective of breed or age need a Dog Licence which is free from the local ‘Ayuntamiento.’

Without a registration the fines are extremely heavy.

Spain has announced new laws No 50/99 which could affect you. A list of dogs

GERMAN SHEPHERD: Now listed as dangerous.

considered dangerous has been drawn up as follows:Pit Bull and all Bull breeds All Mastiffs Canary Island Prey Dog Caucasian Shepherd Bordeaux Brazilian Fila Akita Doberman Rottweiller Corsican Can German Shepherds.

Most dogs over 25 kilos are included on the list. For more information ask at your local town hall.

The new decree prohibits the training of dogs to attack, or to guard or defend their owners or to give them any sort of training that might increase their aggressiveness. Fines vary from €2,400 to €15,025.

Dogs are banned from areas where children play.

A lost dog must be reported to the police immediately.

Dangerous dogs must be muzzled in public and on a short (one metre) lead.

All dogs that have any record of aggression or any dog that shows aggressive behaviour or any dog considered by the authorities to be dangerous, must now be registered and in possession of a special ‘Licencia Municipal.’

Spain is a federal country and has 17 different Comunidades or regions with their own parliament, government and laws. A law in one Comunidad could be different from a similar law in another, therefore I strongly urge you to check with your local municipality.

In Valencia, Madrid, Barcelona and other large cities a list has been made of dogs which could potentially be dangerous, and the Rottie, Doberman, Pit Bull Terrier, Dogo Argentino, Akita Dogo de Burdeos, Staffordshire,

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Presa Canaria, Fila Brasilero, are on the list, and also their crossbreeds.

Even if your dog is not one of those listed breeds, but has bitten a person in the past, it will be classified as if it was on the list.

If you want to own a dog which is on the dangerous list, you have to go and see a psychologist and do a test on a computer (not difficult) just the same as for driving a car. It costs between €60 and €72.

If you are a Spanish resident you will have to apply for a document from the Ministry for the Interior, confirming you do not have a criminal record. If you are not a resident in Spain, you have to apply for such a document in your country of origin and have it translated into Spanish.

Take the originals with you to your local town hall.

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Lucy Stray another day LUCY isn’t so much our pet, but she is always on our doorstep at meal times and likes to sleep on our windowsill in the sunshine. It’s much more rewarding to have adopted a stray rather than to have bought a pedigree breed, they have much more personality.

Rachel Sweeney, Javea DON’T STRAY: Lucy is a member of the family.

Submit fun pet pictures to petoftheweek@euroweeklynews.com, in as high a resolution as possible. Please include name of the pet, your full name, where you live and if relevant a couple of lines to explain the circumstances of the photo. Due to space restrictions not all submissions will be used.

RABBIT obesity is among the number one killers of pet rabbits. Not only will it lower their quality of life, but will shorten it abruptly.

The top cause of rabbit obesity is spoiling them too much with treats, as it is sometimes difficult for owners to keep track of how much they are given, along with the wrong food.

Bunnies getting fat Obese rabbits will eventually develop cardiovascular problems, diabetes, arthritis, skin problems, and feet problems that slowly shorten their life. But symptoms appear only when the condition is

severe leaving a very small window for treatment. Vigilance is the number one shield against rabbit obesity.

Be mindful; regulate the diet, encourage exercise and organise regular vet checkups.

Do not spoil your pet with too many treats.

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If a boat is stopped by a Guardia Civil patrol out on the water and found to be without insurance then the boat invariably will be impounded and the owner fined.

Often the fine will be greater than the cost of an insurance policy so whichever way you look at it, no insurance is hardly a risk worth taking; controls are often and fines are punitive.

For a compulsory third party insurance from Edward William Marine Services, say for a family four-seater speed boat, capable of 17 knots or more, for water-skiing the premiums start from €170 per annum, valid anywhere, with €2 million cover as standard.

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Their insurance policies are available in English or Spanish.

The insurance certificates come in an international format with further options of both a Spanish and or English copy at no extra charge. So

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All boats are considered and then invariably accepted for insurance. All agents have underwriter experience and are authorised to make a decision there and then. At Edward William ‘there is a

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Resale properties RECENTLY, I wrote about the importance of obtaining a Licencia de Primera Ocupacion before you pay any money for your new build property in Spain.

This is an essential document and you should never sign an Escritura, unless this has been issued and your lawyer has confirmed, in writing, that he has a copy.

However, much the same applies to resale properties although the relevant document is called a Licencia de Segunda Ocupacion.

Like the Licencia de Primera Ocupacion, this document is issued by the local town hall and, in theory, certifies that a property is legal and therefore entitled to be connected to all the necessary services, such as electricity, mains water and a landline telephone.

Unfortunately, not all lawyers acting for a buyer apply for a Licencia de Segunda Ocupacion during their conveyancing of a resale property and few buyers know about its importance sufficiently well to insist upon it being an inherent part of the conveyancing process.

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As a consequence, it is not uncommon to find property owners with very significant problems with their properties and sometimes potentially considerable financial liabilities.

Indeed, being unable to obtain a Licencia de Segunda Ocupacion should act as a ‘red flag’ to you, as a buyer.

It indicates that your intended property may be subject to infra-structure works (‘Land Grab’) and certainly means that obtaining mains water, electricity or a landline will be impossible, should the property lack any (or all) of these services. Furthermore, it may mean that the

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Over the past few weeks, I have been contacted by several people who have fallen foul of buying a resale property that lacked a Licencia de Segunda Ocupacion.

Equally, over the past few months, Iberdrola have been threatening to cut off the electricity of a number of properties because they are still on ‘builder’s electrics’.

In fact, many old housing estates in Spain are only partly urbanised, which can make life tricky for foreign buyers, who may be ill advised by their lawyer or agent and think their property is free from potential liabilities just because it is located on an estate.

If an estate has not been fully urbanised then the owners of properties will have to pay for the costs of completing the urbanisation infra-structure.

The Licencia de Segunda Ocupacion is far from a property buyer’s problem ‘catch all’ and you must not consider it as such.

However, being unable to obtain it should be an indication that all is not well with your intended property.

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Your weekly music news with Melissa Jayne Official UK Top 10 1. James Arthur – Impossible 2. Will.I.Am Ft. Britney Spears – Scream And Shout 3. PSY – Gangnam Style 4. Bruno Mars – Locked Out Of Heaven 5. Taylor Swift – I Knew You Were Trouble 6. Olly Murs – Troublemaker 7. Rihanna – Stay 8. Rihanna – Diamonds 9. Swedish House Mafia – Don’t You Worry Child 10. Labrinth Ft. Emeli Sande – Beneath You’re Beautiful

Official Spanish Top 10 1. PSY – Gangnam Style 2. Rihanna – Diamonds 3. Pablo Alborán – Tanto 4. Taylor Swift – We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together 5. Bruno Mars – Locked Out Of Heaven 6. Alicia Keys – Girl On Fire 7. Will.I.Am – This Is Love 8. Maroon 5 – One More Night 9. Pitbull – Don’t Stop The Party 10. Kesha – Die Young

Boyzone member Shane Lynch has reportedly warned One Direction about the dangers of soaring fame whilst being in a boyband.

Speaking to the Irish Sun, Shane admitted that he was concerned that the young fivesome may be led into temptation by partying hard and losing their way.

He said: “I think Boyzone probably should have seen a psychiatrist at the height of our fame, but we didn’t. We were young and it’s ridiculous when you look back. It’s a fierce, dangerous thing to be in as a kid. I remember fans nearly

Hot Gossip knocking in windows of our cars and jumping under the wheels to stop us moving.”

Shane revealed that One Direction’s recent success reminded him of what life used to be like in the heyday of Boyzone when they were topping the

charts. He continued: “It is similar to what the One Direction lads are experiencing - that mayhem. And you look at One Direction and there’s no easy way for them to find the road forward. A drink is a drink and if you can stick to a drink, then fair enough.

But if you get sucked into a world of drugs then who knows, you have to go through that to find out.”

Shane, who now runs Prestige Wrap, a car-customising business, will team up with his fellow band members next year to work on a new album to celebrate 20 years in the music industry.

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Official UK Top 10 Downloads 1. Will.I.Am – Scream & Shout (Feat. Britney Spears) 2. James Arthur – Impossible 3. Taylor Swift – I Knew You Were Trouble.

4. Rihanna – Stay (Feat. Mikky Ekko) 5. Bruno Mars – Locked Out Of Heaven 6. Pitbull – Don’t Stop The Party (Feat. Tjr) 7. Rihanna – Diamonds 8. The Lumineers – Ho Hey 9. Olly Murs – Troublemaker 10. Calvin Harris – Drinking From The Bottle (Feat. Tinie Tempah)

Shane Lynch warns 1D about drugs

apper Azealia Banks has apologised to the gay community for using the derogatory term ‘f****t’ during a twitter row with US celebrity gossip columnist Perez Hilton. The war of words broke out after Perez criticised Azealia for her feud with newcomer Angel Haze with the 212 Adele’s 21 is rapper concluding biggest selling their argument album of the with the message: “omg u century. should just kill yourself... Like for

MUSIC NEWS real... lol what a messy f****t you are.” However, Azealia did attempt to justify her response by tweeting: “A f****t is not a homosexual male. It is any male who acts like a female. There’s a BIG difference.” The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation later slammed Azealia for using the word, stating: “Our society knows that that term is a derogatory word

for gay men, and in this case it was used to attack someone in a very public altercation with hundreds of thousands of fans and young people following.”

Azealia did say sorry for her actions, by tweeting: “My most sincere apologies to anyone who was indirectly offended by my foul language.”

Adele in Oscars return?

Singer Adele is reportedly returning to the music industry at The Oscars.

Adele took a break from her music career after the birth of her son last October, but according to reports, the 24-year-old will be taking to the stage at the awards ceremony to perform her James Bond theme tune Skyfall, which will mark the film’s 50th anniversary.

In other Adele news, her record-breaking album 21 has been named as the fourth biggest-selling album of all time, surpassing Oasis’s album Morning Glory. Her album has sold more than 25 million copies worldwide, and was last year named at the biggest selling album of the 21st century.

Vibe’s top tip

Calvin Harris and Tinie Tempah are living for the moment Drinking From The Bottle: is the brand new single to be released from Scottish

producer Calvin Harris, featuring vocals from rapper Tinie Tempah.

It’s the sixth track to be released from Calvin’s third studio album 18 Months.

The track itself is a mixture of house and dance, and lyrically is about forgetting

all your worries and living for the moment. It is currently available for

digital download, and will be officially released on January 26.

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•ANGLICAN CHAPLAINCY of St Peter and St Paul in Torrevieja. 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 10.30am-12pm. 966 760 665.

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

•HOPE CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP: Sundays 11am. Avenida de Antonio Quesada. Pastor Dave 622 919 604.

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.

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

•ORIHUELA CHURCH SERVICES: 966 733 093.

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

PilarChristian.CommunityChurch@gmail. com or 966 769 300.

•PINOSO VINEYARD CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP, Calle Veintiocho de Marzo, Sunday

11am. www.pinosovcf.com or 667 049 647.

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

•ST NICOLAS ECUMENICAL CHURCH, Calle Sobrija 2248, D20, Urb. Camposol. Sundays 10.30am; first Songs of Praise, second Holy Communion, third Morning Prayer, forth Holy Communion and fifth service by church members. 968 138 952.

•TORREVIEJA CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP, Avenida de las Cortes Valencianas 68: Services Sunday 10.30am with Communion and children’s Sunday School plus Wednesday 6pm. 966 788 771.

THURSDAY

FOOTLIGHTS YOUTH THEATRE production of CATS. Calpe from February 14 to 16, including a Saturday matinee, and Torrevieja on March 9.

652 404 798.

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

•LADIES Card making and crafting group, Torrevieja, 2pm-5pm. 966 789 977.

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

•SCOTTISH COUNTRY DANCING Torrevieja, afternoons at Restaurante Los Rosales, Guardamar.

966 783 508.

CATS ON THE COSTA: The average age of the group is 16.

FRIDAY •CANTABILE SINGERS rehearse at La Siesta Church, 2.15pm-4.15pm. 966 796 866. www.cantabilesingers.es.

•CHESS CLUB Daya Vieja. 660 825 390.

•TORREVIEJA STROKE SUPPORT GROUP meets 2.45pm-5pm in The Annex Municipal Buildings on Calle Paganini. www.torreviejastrokesupport.com.

•SPANGLES ‘Noche A Capella’ show. 9pm. Town Hall Theatre, Los Alcazares. 968 432 525 or 868 186 020.

Useful numbers CONSULATES British

96 521 6022

Emergency consular assistance 902 109 356

ALICANTE Airport

96 691 9000

Guardia Civil

96 592 1100

Municipal Police

96 510 7200

Red Cross

96 525 2525

MURCIA Airport

96 817 2000

ORIHUELA Guardia Civil

96 530 0139

Red Cross

96 530 5151

PEGO Municipal Police

96 577 0118

SANTA POLA Town Hall

96 541 1100

Guardia Civil

96 541 1290

Local Police

96 541 1103 96 541 6936

Monday of month, 10.30am at Alfaz del Pi Culture Centre. www.u3amarinabaixa.com.

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TUESDAY

•AL-ANON FAMILY GROUP Torrevieja - don’t suffer alone through another person drinking. 692 799 318.

Guardia Civil

96 571 0113

Municipal Police

96 571 0154

Red Cross

96 571 1818

•FREE KNITTING CLUB Mazarron. 619 493 183.

•SEEKERS LADIES CLUB Torrevieja meets every other Tuesday, 2pm at Bar Sacko’s, El Limonar. 966 784 033.

•CAMPOVERDE THEATRE GROUP. Mondays and Thursdays, 2pm at Rendevous, La Zenia. 966 774 127.

•COSTA BLANCA MOUNTAIN WALKERS: different difficulty walks. www.cbmwalkers.org.

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VILLAJOYOSA Guardia Civil

96 589 1143

Municipal Police

96 589 0050

Red Cross

96 589 1400

SATURDAY

•SEWING CRAFT CLASSES Torrevieja. 966 708 199.

MABS BOOK SALE - The Arches Restaurant, Los Alcázares 10am-1pm (weather permitting).

The MABS Book Stall is a regular feature at The Arches Restaurant on a Saturday and is popular with book-lovers from Los Alcázares and the surrounding areas. Browse the stall and enjoy a coffee or bargain breakfast while you choose your books.

•MABS Coffee Morning. 396 Avda de los Covachos Camposol Sector B4, 11am. 689 052 123.

•CRIME WATCH SPAIN: Torrevieja: 966 786 266. Catral: 965 992 838. Montesinos: 685 444 335. colaborando.crimewatch@skynetlink.com.

WEDNESDAY

•DROP-OFF POINT for non-perishable food items to help the needy at Benijofar Town Hall, Monday to Friday, 8.30am-3.30pm.

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•FAST emergency number 968 970 626.

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CB. North

648 169 045

•COMPUTER CLUB Torrevieja. 966 700 041 or www.torreviejacomputerclub.com

CB. South

625 912 078

•MABS ART WORKSHOP Café Golf, San Javier 10am-12. €2 donation. 968 192 768.

•LA BAMBA’S Ballroom/Latin/Sequence Dancing, Los Rosales Restaurant, Guardamar. Monday Sequence class 7.30pm. Social Dance 8.30pm. Friday Social Dance 7.30pm-10.30pm. Wednesday New Beginners 2pm. Improvers 3pm. Intermediate 4pm5pm. 616 478 157.

The Samaritans

902 883 535

•STRICTLY SOCIAL friendship club Punta Prima.

966 730 569.

•PEPA Charity Shop Gandia. 650 304 746 or www.pepaspain.com.

•VELVETONES CHOIR rehearses at Windsor Bar, San Luis, Torrevieja, 10am-1pm. 966 785 313.

•PRACTISE SPANISH FOR FREE: Saturday 10am-12pm. Sunday 11am at Athenea bar, Pilar de la Horadada.

966 762 308 or rogeames@hotmail.com.

• PATIENCE LODGE No 2177(GC) RAOB meets 10.30am-12.30pm at Algorfa Hotel near La Finca golf in Los Montesinos. 966 188 105.

•PHOENIX CAR CLUB first Sunday classic car meet from 11am. Torres Hotel, Los Montesinos. www.phoenixcarclub.com.

•SPANGLES ‘Bella A Capella’ show.11.30am at the Auditorio de Castalla in Castalla. 677 647 518.

MONDAY •SAMARITANS Drop-in Café. 902 883 535.

•SEWN SOs Sewing Group (MABS): mabsmurciane@gmail.com.

•3A MARINA BAIXA general meetings fourth

•A1 DUPLICATE BRIDGE CLUB: 966 722 897.

•BADMINTON at Pilar de la Horadada 10am-1pm.

966 786 774.

•VELVETONES LADIES HARMONY CHORUS rehearses at El Paraiso Restaurant, Torrevieja, 10am-12.30pm. 965 327 446.

•ROYAL NAVAL ASSOCIATION, Torrevieja Branch, meet at 5pm on the first Wednesday of each month at the Restaurante El Paraiso, Urb. Jardin del Mar 3, Torrevieja. 966 722 895 or 966 921 996.

•SAMARITANS emotional support helpline 8pm12am. 902 883 535.

•TOASTMASTERS INTERNATIONAL. 966 798 036 or www.toastmasters.org.

•NEIGHBOURHOOD www.nhwinspain.com or 620 417 777.

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COMING UP •A GAME OF LOVE, a new play from Networks Theatre. Orihuela Costa, January 25 and 26 at 9pm. www.networksenglishstudies.com/theatre.

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HIS weekend there are crucial games at both ends of the Premiership with Arsenal taking on Manchester City and Aston Villa meeting Southampton.

The other PL fixtures are EvertonSwansea, Fulham-Wigan, Manchester United-Liverpool, Norwich-Newcastle, Reading-WBA, QPR-Spurs, StokeChelsea and West Ham-Sunderland.

The big game in League One features Bournemouth against Swindon while Gillingham, first, and second-placed Port Vale meet in League Two. As always there were shocks in the third round of the FA Cup. Macclesfield, 82 places below Cardiff, beat the Championship leaders 2-1, and Luton, 60 places below Wolves, ousted the Wanderers 1-0.

Brighton knocked out Newcastle 2-0, making it another fruitless 720-mile round-trip for Alan Pardew’s team.

Oldham won 3-2 at Nottingham Forest while Blackpool (at Fulham), Bournemouth (at Wigan) and Bolton (v Sunderland) gained creditable draws.

Robin van Persie’s brilliant ‘Fergie time’ equaliser earned Manchester United a 2-2 draw at West Ham who reintroduced Joe Cole (signed from Liverpool).

After a bust-up with his manager, Mario Balotelli helped Manchester City beat Watford 3-0 and holders Chelsea walloped Southampton 5-1 with €8.63 million debutant Demba Ba scoring twice. Spurs licked Coventry 3-0 in a repeat of the 1987 final while gallant Hastings, up from the seaside to the Riverside, lost 4-1 at Middlesbrough.

Elsewhere, Liverpool beat Mansfield 2-1, Daniel Sturridge (€14.79 million from Chelsea) and Luis Suarez (with his hand) on target; Aston Villa ousted Ipswich, Huddersfield won at Charlton, Norwich defeated Peterborough, Leicester overcame Burton Albion and Swansea drew with Arsenal.

The fourth round (on January 26/27) includes Bolton or Sunderland v Everton or Cheltenham, Brighton v Swansea or Arsenal, Crystal Palace or Stoke v Manchester City, Leeds or Birmingham v Spurs, Macclesfield v Wigan or Bournemouth, Millwall v Villa, Norwich v Luton, Oldham v Liverpool,

Milan players walk off SPORTS SCENE

By Tony Matthews 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.

Frank Lampard is now Chelsea’s second highest scorer of alltime with 192 goals, 10 behind Bobby Tambling’s club record haul of 202.

• South African pace-man Vernon om Philander took five for seven in New ck.c rsto e t Zealand’s all-out total of 45 in the t Shu s/ first cricket Test in Cape Town. That ork W to Pho was the lowest Test score for 39 years.

The hosts declared on 347 for eight before bowling out the Kiwis again for 275 to win by an innings and 27.

• England’s cricketers are in India for the One Day International series.

• Former Australian bowler Glenn McGrath has been inducted into Cricket’s Hall of Fame, while another Aussie, Mike Hussey, has retired.

• Olympic tennis champion Andy Murray won the Brisbane International tournament to set him up nicely for the Australian Open which starts on Monday.

• Next month, Darren Clarke will play in India’s new Golf League (modelled on cricket’s 20/20 game). ksb / Sh • It’s Harlequins first, uttersto ck.com Saracens second, Leicester third and Wasps fourth in Rugby’s Aviva Premiership.

• The Masters Snooker championship starts on Sunday at London’s Alexander Palace.

• And disgraced cyclist Lance Armstrong might ‘reveal all’.

Southend or Brentford v Chelsea, WBA or QPR v Sheffield Wed or MK Dons and West Ham or Manchester Utd v Fulham or Blackpool.

REVEALING: Lance Armstrong.

RIP

FORMER Bradford, West Bromwich, Chelsea, Manchester City, Luton, Crystal Palace, Stockport, Peterborough and England striker Derek Kevan has died, aged 77.

Between 1951 and 1969, the ‘Tank’ scored 235 goals in 440 games, including 173 in 291 starts for WBA. Promoted with Chelsea (1963), he

• AC Milan players walked off the pitch during a friendly in Pro Patria when home fans chanted racist abuse. “We will do this again” said Milan’s skipper Prince Boateng.

• Real Madrid chief Jose Mourinho wants to manage in the UAE before he retires.

• Wolves sacked manager Stale Solbakken immediately after their Cup exit at Luton. He’s the sixth managerial casualty since Christmas and the 20th this season. Dean Saunders will be the new man in at Molineux.

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helped Stockport win the Fourth Division (1967), gained 14 England caps (eight goals) and played in the 1958 World Cup. • Wing-half Keith Ripley, who made 305 League appearances with Leeds, Norwich, Mansfield, Peterborough and Doncaster, has also passed away, aged 77.

FUTURE GOAL: Jose Mourinho.

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Push for promotion on the cards for Mazarron CAP Ciudad De Murcia 1 – 2 Mazarron Fc MAZARRON’S excellent recent form means a push for promotion is not out of the question.

A hard fought 2-1 away victory at Ciudad de Murcia made it five wins and two draws from the last eight

games with just a solitary defeat.

New signing Baeza made his debut in midfield with juvenile central defender Victor replacing the previously ever-present Pepelu who was unavailable.

After a quiet opening, Mazarron took the lead in the 18th minute when Baeza’s free kick was headed into the roof of the net by top scorer Jose Ruben.

But the lead lasted barely

Orihuela back on the road again THIS coming weekend ITV Orihuela RFC are hoping to make it three in a row with a win away against Lorca.

But it won’t be easy against another team which has improved this season.

Orihuela has been winning games and getting bonus points where they would never get anything last season.

After two try bonus point wins at the end of last year, spirits are very high at the club which is looking to start the new year with a bang, especially with the next two away games being against both Murcia teams.

And being only two points behind second place there is a big incentive to keep the wins coming.

After the Christmas break Orihuela were back in training last week in preparation for the encounter.

This coming weekend the Costa Blanca Rugby Supporters Club will be televising all the live Amlin and Heineken Cup matches at the rugby bar in Rojales, The Steakhouse. Starting on Thursday with Bayonne v Dragons, followed on Friday by either Ulster v Glasgow or Saints v Castres, on Saturday Quins v Connaught at 2pm, then Racing Metro v Sarries and Leinster v Scarlets. On Sunday at 1.30pm Edinburgh v Munster and finally Ospreys v Tigers.

Training is at the Miguel Hernandez University ground at 8.15pm on Tuesday and Thursday for the seniors and juveniles.

New players are always welcome no matter what age or skill level.

More information: Call Garry on 692 767 242, and for the juniors contact Oscar on 600 871 606 (Spanish).

WINNING WAYS: Incentives are there for ITV Orihuela to keep good form going.

five minutes before Ciudad de Murcia equalised when a slip by Victor allowed Candel to sneak in behind the defence and place the ball past Jose Iker.

Mazarron always looked dangerous on the break and Baeza shot wide following good work by Alfonso and Poyato before Cecilio played a superb through ball to Ruben who raced on before placing a shot just wide of the post.

Mazarron began the second half in attacking fashion and should have regained the lead almost immediately. Unfortunately, Cecilio headed wide from just four yards after a brilliant run and cross down the left by Ruben.

At the other end Jose Iker made the first of a number of good saves to keep Mazarron level, before Cecilio missed another great chance when he ran clear only to hit his shot straight at the keeper.

However, Mazarron took the lead in the 59th minute when Alfonso was fouled on the right touchline.

Once again Baeza took the free kick and this time found the head of Barrachina who guided the ball into the corner of the net. Ruben continued to cause problems for the Ciudad de Murcia defence and from yet another cross Alfonso almost made it 3-1.

After 65 minutes a tremendous shot from a Ciudad de Murcia forward was tipped onto the bar by Jose Iker.

Murcia continued to put pressure on the Mazarron defence in the closing stages but were unable to grab an equaliser.

Once again it was a great team effort by Mazarron with everyone playing their part and in this form.

Man of the Match was Jose Iker.

AWAY DAY: Mazarron supporters followed their team to Murcia.

ACTION: The keeper was called into action when Mazarron travelled to Murcia.

Tee off for 2013 FIFTY ONE members and guests turned out for The Members Golf Society first competition of the year at Campoamor.

Pre-tournament favourites Darren Hancock and Richard Wale came through with a net score of 68.2 to take the winners rostrum in the two ball Texas Scramble team competition.

Not far behind was course professional Joe Dean and his partner Alex Alfody with a net score of 69.0 and in third

place with 72.2 was Mick O’Regan and George Chapman.

The Guest prizes were taken by the pairing of Mike Hughes and Terry Fields with 67.4, the lowest score of the day; they were followed by Andy James and John Anton with 69.4.

In the longest drive challenge Darren Hancock and Jackie Hughes took the prizes.

For more information: www.tmgs.org or call the Match Secretary on 966 719 604.

WINNING PAIR: Richard Wale and Darren Hancock took first prize.