Euro Weekly News - Costa Blanca North 26 September - 2 October 2013 Issue 1473

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Not the ticket!

Benidorm bus fares amongst the priciest in Spain BENIDORM bus fares are amongst the most expensive in Spain.

An ordinary ticket costs €1.50, said the local branch of the Esquerra Unida (EU) political party.

In contrast this would be charged at €1.40 in Alicante city, €1.25 in Gijon (Asturias), €1.20 in Granada, €1.05 in Murcia and Oviedo and €1 in both Fuengirola and Santiago de Compostela.

Not only are the tickets dear, EU continued, but there are few special tariffs or season tickets.

Retired people on low noncontributory pensions and the disabled get free passes in many towns and cities but not Benidorm, the spokesman complained. Local

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Facing fines DENIA dog-owners face €200 fines for not cleaning up their pet’s mess in the street. The children’s play area in the Chabas park is regularly fouled, residents claimed.

In the open CALPE Town Hall’s new internet portal gives details of the earnings, assets and debts of councillors.

It is the “most accessible” in the Valencian Community, said mayor Cesar Sanchez.

transport is aimed at tourists without benefiting people who live there all year round, he declared.

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Patients are denied specialist care DENIA’S Marina Salud hospital fails to send patients on to the La Pedrera.

The latter, which cares for the chronically ill and long-stay patients, has a specialist Cerebral

Damage Unit. Only 5 per cent of patients treated for strokes and similar ailments at the privately-run general hospital this year were transferred to state-run La Pedrera.

Between January 2012 and August 2013, Marina Salud referred just eight patients, admitted Manuel Llombart who heads the regional government’s Health department.

Sad figures ALZHEIMER’S Disease affects more than 26,000 people in the Valencia Community.

Approximately 3,400 new cases have been diagnosed this year.

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PAELLA COMPETITION: The winner came from Cuenca.

Valencia - eat your heart out!

WHERE does the world’s best Valencian style paella come from?

The answer is Cuenca.

The International Valencian Paella Competition was held recently in Sueca (Valencia) where Julian Garcia of the Posada Real in Santa Maria de Campo Rus (Cuenca) produced ‘the best paella in the world.’

Second place went to Casa Picanterra in Cullera, while third prize went to the Cambao Restaurant in Miami. Just two Valencian restaurants were amongst the unplaced finalists.

All contestants had to use the classic ingredients of chicken, rabbit, snails, two types of dried beans, green beans, tomatoes, garlic,

saffron, colouring, olive oil, salt and water.

The consistency of the rice, flavour, colour and appearance of the finished dish were all taken into account, plus the ‘soccarat.’

These are the almost burnt grains that stick to the bottom of the pan and which, connoisseurs claim, are the best part of all.

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Classifieds 73 - 75

Sport 79 - 80

NEWS Heightened experience ROCA RAMON and Gussi Ana married on top of Benicadell Sierra, 1,104 metres above sea level. Like the JP who married them and their 80 guests they are climbing enthusiasts.

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Moor problems at festival ALTEA has held Moors and Christians fiestas since 1977.

They grew in flamboyance each year until the crisis bared its fangs.

Then austerity gradually crept in and the inevitable began to happen.

This year the Beduin and Arsem ‘filaes’ have disbanded, as the Almoravides did last year. Once there were waiting lists for the

Moorish clubs, or peñas, but now they are outnumbered 11 to eight by the Christians. Fundraising is ever-more difficult and rents have soared for the temporary club houses, usually an empty locale, where food and drink are available to all-comers.

There is the added worry work

inspectors will descend as they did last year. Women formerly came down from inland towns to lend a hand and cook at some of the bestrun peñas, working for money in hand. Now they risk being asked to show a work contract or prove they are self-employed.

APASA animal protection society is to build a separate shelter for cats in Javea. It will cost €30,000 and house up to 60 cats.

High hopes THE Generalitat will privatise Castellon airport, paying a concessionary up to €2.7 million a year until a 350,000 passenger threshold is reached. This could take 10 years, sources admitted.

FAMOUS: University of Salamanca, the oldest university in Spain and one of the oldest in Europe.

Back to college

1.5m students heading for university

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OST of Spain’s approximately 1.5 million university students are now starting the new academic year.

In Spain, there are almost 80 universities (29 of them private) with almost 240 campuses.

The oldest which is still in operation is Salamanca University.

Founded in 1134, it was given the Royal charter of foundation by King Alfonso IX in 1218. It is the third oldest European university in continuous operation, behind Bologna, Oxford and La Sorbonne.

It was the first European institution to receive the formal title of ‘University’ as such; it was granted by King Alfonso X in 1254 and recognised by Pope Alexander IV in 1255.

The historical phrase ‘Multos et doctissimos Salmantica habet’ (many and very versed

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Law of averages DESPITE a hot and humid August with temperatures reaching 40 degrees in some areas, the summer average was “normal” said Spain’s Met office, brought down by a cool June.

All bunged up

Cyber targets

REPAIRS to a house in Villajoyosa’s Plaza de la Iglesia have already uncovered centuries-old burials. The ongoing work has now revealed adobe walls dating from the pre-Roman Iberian era.

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A THIEF caught redhanded stealing a television in Pobla de Valbona (Valencia) fled to the Local Police station, seeking protection after its Romanian owners beat him up.

TWO Spaniards were arrested for posing as Guardia Civil officers to rob an Aspe villa. One of the victims was also detained for growing the marihuana that the thieves stole.

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Help sought

Gone to pot

THE Valencian Community has 250 installations vulnerable to cyber attack.

They include the Cofrentes nuclear power station, airports and water treatment plants.

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I’m going into the workshop again, you can come as mechanics.’

King Juan Carlos I, joking to the press about his hip operation this week, which was carried out at the Quiron University Hospital in Madrid, just hours after receiving 16 new ambassadors at the Zarzuela Palace.

Salamanca has) gives an idea of the prestige the institution acquired.

Salamanca had a number of colleges (Colegios Mayores) founded as charitable institutions to enable poor scholars to attend the University.

Salamanca draws students from across Spain and is the top-ranked university in Spain based on the number of students coming from other regions. There are currently around 19,000 students in first and second cycle studies (not including Master’s degrees and similar).

Jose Luis Iborte, 85, from Huesca, has the Guinness Record for the highest number of university degrees in Spain and maybe in the world. He has eight Doctorate Cum Laude and 14 degrees with distinctions, including Philosophy and Letters, Political Science, Spanish, German, Classic and French Philology, Biology, Economics and Medicine.

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million tourists visited Spain in the first eight months of the year, which is 4.5 per cent more than the same period last year, according to the Ministry of Industry, Energy and Tourism. The number of British tourists rose by 6.8 per cent.

VILLENA’S water board, also responsible for its sewage treatment plant, has complained about wetwipes. They clog drains and machinery and should not be flushed down lavatories, a spokesman said.

Prices pegged TRAM fares will not go up in 2014, the regional government pledged.

Discounts for pensioners, students, the disabled and large families will remain in place.

Fiesta unfair THE regional government will not make Monday June 23 - eve of the Hogueras fiestas - a public holiday in Alicante city next year.

Vetoing this ‘puente’ is unfair discrimination, organisers complained.

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Crisis-hit restaurants APPROXIMATELY 50,000 bars and restaurants closed in Spain between 2008 and 2012. Five thousand - 10 per cent of the national total - were located in the Valencian Community.

In from cold OF 5,926 foreign residents newly registered in Alicante towns last year, 1,601 were Russian. There are now 11,666 Russians living in the province, 37 per cent more than in 2010.

Open fiesta SHOPS can open on the Monday of Benidorm’s fiestas next November.

Local traders will benefit from the influx of visitors, predicted satisfied owners of local businesses.

Nazi salute THE PP expelled a member of its youth branch, Nuevas Generaciones, photographed in Paterna (Valencia) giving the Nazi salute.

Four similar incidents are under review in the region.

CONSULS: UK consul Paul Rodwell and Bart Gommans, La Nucia’s foreign residents’ councillor.

Sign on your padron

LA NUCIA is encouraging foreign residents to register on the padron.

Paul Rodwell, the UK consul in Alicante, backs the scheme.

According to consulate estimates, approximately 5,000 Britons currently live in La Nucia although only 2,320 are registered.

All British citizens should register,

Mr Rodwell stressed during a recent visit. Inclusion on the padron is a vital first step towards accessing education, health care and citizen attention.

Allocations for police, social services, street cleaning and a host of other services are also based on the number of registered

inhabitants. The more residents who register the more public services will improve, Rodwell said.

The latest official figures show that on January 1, 2012 La Nucia’s registered population of 19,135 entitled the town to approximately €3.3 million in funding from the central government.

THAT last summer was hot is undeniable but was it so rainy?

According to Spain’s Met office, the Agencia Estatal de Meteorologia, (AEMET) it was.

When the ‘hydrological year’ draws to a close on September 30, the province will have had 17 per cent more rain than usual in the previous 12 months.

In fact, two thirds of last summer’s rain fell between August 25 and 30 August, AEMET revealed.

The Marina Alta was particularly hard-hit by rain over the last 12 months, with some weather stations recording a total of 1,000 litres per square metre.

Further south it was a different story, with less than 300 litres at Alicante Airport, Elche, Rojales, Orihuela and Crevillente.

Crane to the rescue for injured woman FIREMEN had to remove a window from an Elche woman’s home to get her to hospital.

The 38-year-old woman fell and broke her hip, hospital sources explained afterwards.

She managed to ring a family

member who sent the SAMU and DYA emergency services to her home.

On arrival medics sedated the woman, who was in considerable pain, and immobilised her to prevent

complications to the fracture.

As they were unable to take the stretcher via the lift or staircase, they requested help and a crane lorry from the fire brigade.

Firemen first removed an

apartment window so the stretcher could be put on the crane.

It was then lowered to the street where, two hours later, it was greeted with applause from neighbours.

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Marihuana found growing in Benissa CLANDESTINE marihuana plantations have become a regular Alicante province news feature.

It was recently Benissa’s turn following the arrest of a 35-year-old Spanish man. The Guardia Civil seized more than 300 marihuana plants camouflaged with green netting at his property in the rural Pinos area.

This ruse was not enough to deceive investigators who only days before had confiscated marihuana plants grown inside the town itself.

Illicit plantations are proliferating in the Marina Alta as well as on the coast and in inland areas.

In the last six months investigators have located indoor and exterior ‘nurseries’ in Javea as well as Benitachell’s Poble Nou. They all pale into insignificance beside the Lliber discovery last year.

Here Guardia Civil officers discovered 10,000 marihuana plants growing in 16 polytunnels - the largest plantation ever found in Europe.

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Taxi driver arrested for suspected Benidorm rape A BENIDORM taxi-driver has been arrested and charged with a rape committed five years ago.

The accused has been remanded in custody by a Villajoyosa judge.

The driver is said to have picked up a female tourist outside a Calle Mallorca pub in August 2008. He then allegedly drove her to a deserted spot in La Cala de Finestrat and raped her.

The results of DNA retrieved from the victim’s clothes and received in July

were decisive, said Guardia Civil investigators. So too was an identification parade for which the victim was able to identify the man without hesitation, investigators added.

The man was not on record for sex offences, they also revealed.

The driver only worked for them temporarily during the 2008 high season and had not worked for them since then, emphasised Benidorm’s Radio Taxi group.

The rape was “an atrocity,” said local drivers who described the Benidorm taxi sector as

“safe and peaceful.” At all times they and the taxi firm had collaborated closely with the Guardia Civil.

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‘Abuelos’ fall SIX alleged drug dealers from the Abuelos Clan were arrested in Benidorm’s Armanello district.

The area was cleared of residents years ago and awaits development but the economic crisis and legal hitches have delayed construction.

Squatters now occupy the abandoned homes, amongst them the recentlyarrested couple aged 58 and 47 known as Los Abuelos (The Grandparents). Their 31-year-old daughter was also

SWOOP: Partial view of the Armanello area. detained, along with her husband and mother-inlaw.

At one property police found 19 heroin wraps, numerous self-seal plastic

Juliet stood up POLICE located a 14-year-old Valencian girl near Manises airport. She had intended to run away with a French boy she met on the internet, police said later.

Leaving a note for her mother saying she loved her, she set off with a backpack and €50 to meet the boy, who was flying from Paris.

Alerted by the girl’s mother, police scoured the area and found her less than two hours later near the Quart de Poblet industrial estate. The boy failed to appear.

bags, jewellery, watches and €1,295 and £60 (€71) in cash. They impounded a vehicle, an iPad and building tools that included two chainsaws, circular saws and a hammer drill.

A second house was searched and a sixth family member arrested. Police found €949 in notes, more drugs and construction tools, mobiles and another iPad. They also discovered a .32-calibre revolver.

Armanello is strategicallyplaced on relatively flat terrain, usually giving ample warning of approaching police.

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Throwing in towel THE company running Benidorm’s municipal sports complex has begun bankruptcy proceedings.

Gest-Kal XXI requested a creditors’ meeting to rescind the agreement, town hall sources revealed. The contract to run the L’Illa sports complex for 10 years was awarded last April in exchange for an annual €15,000 payment.

Gest-Kal XXI also agreed to invest €160,000 in a new gym and equipment, paying for upkeep and other services.

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A MEMBER of the infamous Veselin Vlahovic gang that murdered and raped during the Bosnian civil war has been imprisoned for two years.

He and others led by the ‘Monster of Grbavica’ were arrested in Altea in March 2010

for a chain of Marina Baja robberies.

Vlahovic, a Montenegrin regarded in Altea as “quiet and polite,” was wanted for genocide, rape, torture and illegal detention committed during the Bosnian war.

He was later extradited but his henchmen are now

serving sentences in Spanish prisons.

The last to face justice was finally tracked down after his associates were tried and sentenced last February.

All accepted two-year terms following a deal between the defence and the Public Prosecutor.

Second Norwegian centre ALTEA’S Town Council has approved Oslo City Hall’s application to build a residential centre in Montemolar.

Technical and legal reports from all departments were favourable, said Economy councillor Pedro Barber.

When the project was declared of Community Interest in 2007 the previous council, then led by Andres Ripoll, did not object to this

designation or appeal against it, Barber pointed out.

The Costa Blanca is the secondmost important destination for Norwegian tourists and Altea’s Norwegian community has grown more than any other in recent years, he continued.

The €5.6 million project will bring direct and indirect employment to

the town, the councillor said. There would be jobs at the residence and others arising from services provided

by Altea businesses. “This will help to reactivate our economy and commerce,” Barber predicted.

The Montemolar centre will be the town’s second Norwegian residence, following the centre built by Baerum Town Hall in 2002.

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Musical run A FIVE-KM run through Teulada’s streets was accompanied at 300metre intervals by music from drummers and pipers. Gabriel Domene of Corremundos Club won in 17 mins and 36 seconds.

Open Sunday MUCHAMIEL is to open a new outdoor market on Sundays.

This will clear the waiting list for stalls at the Wednesday municipal market, the town hall said.

Small world INVESTIGATORS at Elche’s Miguel Hernandez University (UMH) have discovered a new type of waterborne bacteria, the smallest yet discovered.

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A bank without money JAVEA’S Time Bank has been in business for a year.

An alternative to traditional volunteer activities, its currency of time and deposits are made in hours, not cash.

Members exchange services and expertise without money changing hands.

Services bought and sold through Javea’s Time Bank cover everything from household chores to beauty care and keep-fit, from childcare to helping with the elderly.

New members put their own services on offer and receive 10 onehour coupons to pay for those that interest them.

TIME BANK: Members meet up in Javea.

There is no age limit and the Bank is open to temporary residents,

although to join it is first necessary to register and attend meetings. In this way participants get to know each other and establish the basis of trust necessary to ensure that the scheme runs smoothly.

“This generates a running the residence. positive link where money This is the third year that Pons seems to lose all its power,” Quimica has supplied cleaning said Angelica Bendaña, one products and director Antonio Pons of the founders. recently renewed the firm’s agreement More information at the with the town hall.

Centro Social on Tuesdays Donations like these are vital, between 10am and noon, particularly at an “especially delicate or bancodeltiempoxabia@ moment in economic terms,” said gmail.com.

Marti as she thanked Pons for his help.

Clean donation for care home A LOCAL factory donated 345 litres of cleaning products to a residential home in Pedreguer.

The home has 48 elderly residents, some of them with “very special needs,” explained Pedreguer’s mayor Dora Marti.

Marti is also president of the Fundacion-Residencia Nuestra Señora del Carmen which is responsible for

NEWS Going the extra mile REGIONAL president Alberto Fabra refuted accusations of failing to fight Valencia’s corner in Madrid.

He was responding to claims that he should act with more forcefulness and extract more funds from the central government.

He was doing everything possible, Fabra said at a meeting behind closed doors.

“All I need now is to go to bed with Montoro.

And if necessary, I’ll do that too,” he said to general laughter in reference to Finance minister, Cristobal Montoro.

Despite the joke Fabra is making little progress in Madrid and has yet to persuade Montoro to increase the central government’s investment in the region.

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‘Operacion Estrecho’ A TOTAL of 80,542 passengers sailed from Alicante to Oran and Algiers between June 15 and September 15.

Most were North African workers in Europe taking summer holidays.

Campello art AN exhibition of oils, watercolours and sketches by Alicante artist Jose Cerezo opened at the Casa de Cultura in Campello, on show until September 30.

Cyber bullies TWO men were arrested after hacking into email accounts and sending threats and insults to the owners’ contacts.

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Wine-making tragedy

Alicante bus busts

TWO elderly Benissa men died as they made wine.

The Criminal Investigation unit is probing the incident, but there is little doubt the deaths were accidental, police said.

SNIFFER dogs at Alicante bus station recently detected three separate consignments of hashish.

More than two kilos were discovered within a seven-day period on buses covering routes from Algeciras and Malaga to Barcelona.

One passenger had more than 500 grammes camouflaged inside a Playstation.

Another was a 32year-old Moroccan from Algeciras.

Having been singled out by the dogs, he was searched and found with 850 grammes of hashish strapped to his legs. He had intended to sell it in Castellon, he admitted.

The third detainee was a Spanish man, 42, on the Algeciras to Barcelona line, who was found with 700 grammes of hashish.

The men, aged 69 and 72, died as they pressed grapes at a property in La Verdica that belonged to one of them.

They were later found by a relative.

They were probably overcome by the carbonic anhydride fumes given off by crushed skins present in the lagar, the vessel where grapes are pressed.

Investigators believe that one of the men must have fainted and then fell into the lagar. Presumably the other was similarly affected as he tried to save him, they said.

Carbonic anhydride poses one of winemaking’s greatest risks, especially in a small space with inadequate ventilation.

The simple, lit candle traditionally used in rural areas to consume carbonic anhydride would have been sufficient to prevent the tragedy, said a local JAVEA: Inspecting the site for new roundabout. man. He preferred to Diputacion for At the same time that remain anonymous out undertaking the project the roundabout is built, of respect for the dead and emphasised the the municipal water men’s families, he “climate and board, Amjasa, will explained, like other coordination” between renew water pipes and Beniseros who were both administrations. install storm drains. reluctant to comment publicly on the deaths.

A roundabout solution A ROUNDABOUT is to be built at the La Guardia and Portxol intersection in Javea.

The project, entirely funded by Alicante’s Diputacion, is muchneeded, acknowledged Javea’s mayor Jose Chulvi.

Residents have called for a roundabout at this point for years, he said.

Traffic flow will improve, benefiting the immediate area as well as Javea drivers and tourists who use the road.

He was grateful, the mayor added, to the

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Airport carousel tragic accident A FIVE-MONTH-OLD baby died at Alicante airport on a luggage carousel.

The mother, a 32-year-old American, her Canadian husband and their two children arrived late at night in Alicante after a

stopover in Gatwick.

Accounts vary, but all indicate that the tragedy occurred as the mother tried to retrieve a pushchair from the stationary luggage carousel.

The baby carrier was put on the belt but it is unclear whether the baby fell from this or his mother’s arms.

The stationary carousel began to move, either inadvertently activated by the mother or the weight of (Valencia) would be the baby carrier, witnesses needed, he claimed. said.

Calling for the high Within seconds the child’s speed connection is skull was fractured as he rational, Boluda said, so was ensnared in a gap long as the Mediterranean between the carousel Corridor linking Spain by rollers. Despite their efforts, rail with central and medical staff at the scene northern Europe becomes could not save the baby’s a reality. His association life. will “remain vigilant” to Red Cross counsellors ensure the central accompanied the government’s ministry of distraught parents to their Public Works keeps to the Denia hotel and assisted promised time schedule. them with the formalities.

Alicante-Valencia AVE link urged REGIONAL businessowners want an AVE between Valencia and Alicante.

A high-speed train would cut the journey to 50 minutes. This is half the current time, said Vicente Boluda who is president of another AVE, the Asociacion Valenciana de Empresarios.

Only 40 kilometres of new track between La Encina and Jativa

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More hotels TERRA MITICA will build three hotels adjoining the Benidorm theme park with accommodation for 4,000 guests. Work on the first hotel should begin by the end of this year.

Staff risks A CARER was injured after a patient at the Santa Faz psychiatric hospital threw a chair at him.

Spending cuts and inadequate staffing put them at risk, employees said.

Hiker rescue EMERGENCY services were called after a French tourist was injured near Denia’s Cova Tallada cave. She twisted her ankle and was airlifted by a Fire Brigade helicopter.

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Photo winner announced THE photograph entitled ‘Kayack en Portichol’ won the Teulada-Moraira photography competition.

The competition, a joint initiative by Teulada-Moraira Town Hall and the Spanish construction conglomerate, Acciona, was held on social networking sites Facebook and Twitter.

Sandra Romero won a tablet PC for her photo, which was chosen from the five that earned the most ‘likes’ and retweets.

The competition was part of the ‘TeuladaMoraira la que quieres’ (The Teulada-Moraira you want) campaign, which sets out to raise local awareness of the need to protect and respect the environment.

WINNER: Kayack en Portichol.

Mayor Antoni Joan Bertomeu has thanked all participants for so many

beautiful photos reflecting the natural surroundings of the coast.

Two rescued off coast of Alicante after yacht sinks TWO people were rescued off Cabo de las Huertas after their yacht began to sink.

The crew of two - a Spaniard from Santa Pola and a Dutch national - were making for Ibiza when the boat sprang a leak.

They transferred to a life raft and launched a radio distress beacon to alert the Maritime Rescue service.

Rapid-response vessel Salvamar Polaris was mobilised and the two men, who were ‘nervous’ but in good health, were taken to Alicante port.

A Cartagena-based vessel, the Mesana, was also sent to the scene to tow away the semi-sunk 18-metre yacht.

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HELPING HAND: John Griffith, with Keira and her mother Debbie.

Helping the needy

A CHARITY shop is appealing for people to give money to.

The Moraira Charity Shop, which stepped in to help disabled girl Keira with €2,500 for intensive therapy, as reported in last week’s EWN, has a large fund at its disposal to help the elderly or people in need. In the last year it has handed out €30,000.

And it is not alone.

The Charity Shop Library in Javea has also stepped in to help cerebal palsy sufferer Keira. The five-year-old needed not just the cost of the treatment, but approximately €600 for accommodation.

The Charity Shop Library stepped in with the full cost, plus another €400 for ‘extras.’

Georgina Harvey, of the Javea charity explained that they wanted to help as many people as possible. “We try to give away €60,000 a year,” she said.

Meanwhile John Griffith, who is on the committee of the Moraira Charity Shop, explained that they are always on the lookout for deserving causes.

Originally the shop was set up to fund and build a home for the elderly. But those plans were scuppered when planning permission was refused.

That led to the charity, which is overseen by the Masons, to change its rules to allow donations to the elderly and those in need.

He said: “When we saw the EWN story about Keira we wanted to help. But we want to help lots more people. If people who need assistance get in touch with us we can look at their individual cases.” http://morairacharityshop.com and http://www.charityshoplibrary.com.

BRITONS in Spain, and Mallorca in particular, are bracing themselves for another hit to their image with the return of ITV 2’s Magaluf Weekender.

Last year, series one gave an insight into what young Britons get up to whilst on holiday abroad, and attracted one million viewers aged between 16 and 24-years-old.

And much of it was not a pretty sight.

The series unashamedly played up to the image of drunken Brits abroad.

Drunken party antics seemed to be the main ingredients of the ‘reality show’ and more of the same is planned.

But perhaps even more shocking than the bad behaviour on show are Facebook comments about the first series. In them many young adults, who profess ‘to know Magaluf well’ say the series is ‘tame.’

Real life in the socalled ‘party capital’ they claim, is much more ‘exciting.’

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Alfaz honours eminent Norwegian resident ALFAZ Town Hall is naming a local park after the Norwegian sociologist,

Johan Galtung.

Galtung, who is nearing his 83rd birthday, has owned his Alfaz del Pi property for more than 40 years.

He founded the Peace Research Institute in 1959 and was appointed to the professorship in Peace and Conflict studies at the University of Oslo in 1969.

He recently returned from Georgia and Malaysia.

The park’s official inauguration is tomorrow,

GALTUNG: Second from right with the mayor and officials.

Friday. The new Johan Galtung park is also the location of Agustin Ibarrola’s anti-violence

sculpture prompted by the Oslo bombings and shootings that killed 77 people in July 2011.

Spending spree REMOVING restrictions on opening hours has prompted increased spending by foreign tourists.

Although the Valencian Community saw a 12 per cent rise in foreign tourists between January and the end of July, they spent 20 per cent more than during the same period in 2012.

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Stories making headlines from the United Kingdom

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IT’S so long to the controversial statue of Michael Jackson that stands outside Fulham football club. The club’s owners say it does not fit in with a new scheme for Craven Cottage, so it will be sent back to former Fulham and Harrods’ owner, Mohamed Al Fayed.

Cyber raid EIGHT men have been arrested for

allegedly stealing £1.3 million (€1.54 million) from a London Barclays Bank branch. They are accused of taking control of one of its computer systems using a keyboard video mouse device.

Bra fiddle JOHN LEWIS, Debenhams and House of Fraser retailers are being investigated by the Office of Fair Trading for allegedly fixing the prices of sports bras.

No crossing THE government plans to build more than 100 bridges just for animals. A 2,700 m2 wildlife bridge opened last year with €35 fines for humans caught using it.

SERVICE: To improve.

Scrap the ‘tax’ A POLL for the National Housing Federation has found 59 per cent of voters want the new ‘bedroom tax’ scrapped. The findings come after it was revealed one in three council tenants hit by the benefit change, officially the ‘spare room subsidy’ have fallen into arrears.

GERMAN PRESS Stories making headlines from Germany

Feeding time

Cheers!

MUNICH is in the midst of its beer festival, the Oktoberfest, to be held until October 6.

This celebration, reportedly the world’s biggest, is expected to attract more than six million visitors.

A TIGER has killed its carer during a routine feed at the Münster zoo in western Germany. which happened in front of visitors.

However, the zoo has decided the tiger won’t be destroyed.

FESTIVAL: Largest.

What snakes?

FRANKFURT police found seven snakes, three of them pythons, in the backpack of a woman they arrested for allegedly stealing €300 from a fellow passenger on a train. The woman claimed she knew nothing about them.

Survivor dies LITERARY critic and Holocaust survivor Marcel

PAVEL Astakhov, Russia’s children’s ombudsman, opposed the introduction of sex education to schools and suggested the young could learn about sex from reading Russian literature.

Budget cuts THE government has approved budget cuts over the next two years in what experts see as a sign that the Russian economy is not expected to revive soon.

On blacklist SOCIAL network Facebook was added to a blacklist by the Russian media watchdog for allegedly publishing ads for designer drugs on its website. A Facebook spokesperson told a Russian website the ads were caused by a computer bug.

Straight Tchaikovsky RUSSIA’S Culture minister Vladimir Medinsky has denied the

Oil mill INTERNATIONAL food producer Cargill has announced it has started to build a sunflower oil mill in the southern region of Volgograd. It is expected this plant will process up to 640,000 tons of sunflower seeds per year.

Summer time THE Duma could reverse Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev’s 2011 decision to keep Russia on summer time as the Duma’s Public Health Committee considers it has worsened people’s health.

Rents rise

Sex pay-out FOUR convicted sex criminals have been awarded between €49,000 and €73,000 in compensation for being held too long in preventative detention.

They were originally sentenced when a 10-year rule for preventative detention, withdrawn in 2011, still applied.

PROPERTY price rises of 10 per cent in a year in London have had a knock on effect on rents. The average rent is the capital is now £1,126 (€1,335) a month, up by 4.8 per cent year-on-year.

Dog treat DOGS can get a treat at an ice-cream parlour in Perranporth, Cornwall. It is selling special ‘doggy’ ice-cream in flavours like roast beef and gravy and cheese and biscuits.

S CANDINAVIAN P RESS

Stories making headlines from Russia

homosexuality of composer Tchaikovsky stating there is no evidence that suggests so. This follows a controversy started after a film biopic of Tchaikovsky ignored the composer’s sexuality.

RYANAIR has pledged to improve customer service. Speaking at the company’s AGM CEO Michael O’Leary said: “We should try to eliminate things that unnecessarily piss people off.”

Reich-Ranicki has died in Frankfurt at the age of 93.

Often called the ‘Pope of Literature,’ German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung described him as “the man who taught us to read.”

RUSSIAN PRESS Sex education?

Niceair

Stories making headlines in Denmark, Norway and Sweden

No cuts

Online-bullies

DENMARK - The Social Liberal Party, partner of the ruling Social Democrats party, wants to ban all non-medical circumcision of boys as a way of ‘protecting the unprotected.’

SWEDEN - An anti-bullying centre has opened in Stockholm following several cyber-bullying cases in the country. The centre is to host international conferences to train teachers how to prevent bullying.

Britons arrested

Poor children

NORWAY - Police have arrested two British men for allegedly threatening clients of their paving business in Baerum.

There are around 60 British paving companies in Norway according to police.

NORWAY - 15.6 per cent of children in Oslo come from families below the poverty line, according to a report by Statistics Norway. This is double the national rate.

Rat city DENMARK – Nearly 700 calls were made to Copenhagen City Hall in July to complain about rats. The bad condition of the city’s ancient sewer system is said to be forcing the rodents to the surface.

RATS: On patrol.

Ferry trip NORWAY - 10,000 reindeer from the Finnmark islands in northern Norway will be taken by ferry to their autumn pastures mainland to protect them from the cold.

Musical date SWEDEN – An annual competition to choose the country’s rep for the Eurovision Song Contest, will take place on March 8 at the Friends Arena in Stockholm.

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Deal netted

TEACHERS on the Balearic Islands are planning their second week of protests against the regional government’s language policy in schools. The Balearic Islands Trade Union claimed a 69.97 per cent turnout for the protest on Tuesday.

THE fishing industry in Almeria province has been given a massive boost with the news that Mercadona will supply their stores in Madrid with fish caught in the ports of Almeria, Adra and Garrucha.

Mystery hero A MYSTERY man managed to rescue a total of nine people who were bathing in the Cala del Plomo, (Nijar). Nothing is known yet about the hero who saved the swimmers with the aid of a rope in the tiny cove.

Clean-up MORE than 50 volunteers took part in the cleaning of the beaches Piedra Villazar and Cantal, in Mojacar on Sunday. As part of the world beach cleaning day 30 divers helped to clear rubbish from the sea bed while other volunteers helped to clean the beaches.

Festival planned THE third edition of the Almeria Western Film Festival (AWFF 2013) is set to start.

The festival will open to the public on October 2 and will continue to October 5.

Bike tour MORE than 140 motorcyclists from all over Spain took part in a tour of the province at the weekend covering a distance of around 650 kilometres.

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Big rise THE Valencia Region has seen Spain’s highest increase in international tourist arrivals in the first eight months of the year. The Frontier Tourist Movement Survey (Frontur) highlighted an increase of 11.8 per cent in the region, to 4.3 million tourists.

Signed up THIRTY people of British, Irish, French, Belgian and Scandinavian nationalities have signed up to Torrevieja’s free basic Spanish language courses, which have now been running for over a decade.

Fire damage NINETY wildfires have burned 71.66 hectares of forest land since the start of the year across the Murcia Region.

Dream on FOUR Torrevieja athletes are being supported by the local council in their Olympic dream. Grants of €14,000 will

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AXARQUIA

Immigrants saved WALK FOR LIFE: The annual charity walk saw a massive turnout.

TAPE CUT: Officially under way.

Taking a Walk for Life

THE now annual cancer charity walk in Arboleas, the Walk for Life saw a massive turnout on Saturday afternoon.

The afternoon event started at the town hall square with live music from the Doghouse Band and a welcome speech followed by Reverend Pauline, who covers the Andalucia region, saying a prayer before a minute’s silence.

The tape to officially get the walk under way was cut by Spanish lady Claudia, accompanied by her daughter, on behalf of Claudia’s husband who is terminally ill with cancer.

Rebecca Long accompanied by her husband Louis also helped in the cutting of the tape.

This brave lady, like everyone that has been affected by cancer had her own story to tell and was full of praise for the Walk for Life charity.

Rebecca said: “As well as my husband Louis, Walk for Life has been brilliant. They helped us out with a translation service and even paid our diesel money when we were travelling to Torrecardenas hospital in Almeria City twice a week for chemotherapy.”

News from our editions

more than €200,000 were stolen from their clients after obtaining their credit cards PIN.

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Cyclist hurt

be shared among the four who have a good chance of reaching the next Olympics in Rio de Janeiro in 2016.

A GERMAN cyclist, aged 48, has been admitted to the Manacor Hospital with severe injuries to her body after she was involved in a collision with a 4x4 in Cala Millor.

Still life

Bouncer in jail

‘STILL life and more’ is the title of the new exhibition on display at the Casino Mediterráneo Orihuela Costa

by German painter Willibald Gitterer which will be on display until October 29.

A COURT in Palma has sentenced a bouncer to 16 months in prison after he punched a client in the face, causing injuries to the victim’s nose and upper lip and a broken tooth.

MALLORCA

TWO women were arrested by Local Police officers for allegedly trying to steal a British woman’s handbag in Magaluf. The victim’s boyfriend was also arrested after he assaulted a minor who was with the arrested.

In custody A COUPLE, the owner of a brothel and one of its waitresses, have been remanded in custody for their alleged implication in a swindle case in which

Theft arrest

FOURTEEN immigrants have been rescued by the Maritime Safety Service when they were trying to reach the Castell de Ferro coast on a dinghy. The migrants, all men of Maghribian origin, were in good health.

In hospital A 15-YEAR-OLD BOY was run over by a car while trying to cross the N340 road in Motril. He was admitted to the Santa Ana Hospital with severe injuries to his body. At the time of going to press, he was stable after undergoing surgery.

Sea rescue TWO young men were rescued by the Provincial Maritime Service after they got trapped in the Salobreña Rock due to heavy waves.

Biker flees A MOTORCYCLIST fled the A7 motorway in Rincon de la Victoria after being involved in a collision with a car in which three people, two adults and an eight-year-old girl, were injured.

Drug pushers NATIONAL Police officers have dismantled a drug-selling point and seized 130 marihuana doses in Velez-Malaga. Two people, a 31-year-old man and a 30-yearold woman have been arrested and charged.

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Voice over MALAGA-BORN actor Antonio Banderas will lend his voice to one of the characters in the second SpongeBob SquarePants film.

Fruit gift MORE than 1,000 kilos of fruit which was being sold illegally in Marbella was handed over by Local Police to the Bancosol food bank and Aspandem Association for the Disabled.

Pay-out THE Andalucian Health Service has been ordered to pay €600,000 to a girl, nine, who was left severely disabled after an infection at birth.

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Economy set for expansion SPAIN’S economy is set to advance this quarter.

This is what the government, particularly Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy, has promised all along and analysts are cautiously agreeing.

But the improvement will be minimal

according to statistics prepared for the Savings Banks Foundation (Funcas).

A third-quarter GDP increase of 0.1 per cent on second-quarter figures is now predicted instead of the zero growth that Funcas forecast in July.

The increase will reduce the GDP’s anticipated fall by two decimal points to 1.3 per cent instead of the 1.5 per cent expected this year.

Predicted growth of 0.7 per cent for 2014 will owe less to domestic demand and report continued, to the consumption than the extent that the capacity for export sector, the one dealing with them is area that remains ‘seriously compromised’ in buoyant. ‘more than a few’ The improvement prosecution departments. will fail to provide No kind of filter exists in employment and the the judicial machinery for crisis is set to channelling these claims. continue next year, As a result, an Funcas said. ‘overwhelming’ number of Although the petitions have to be unemployment rate is rejected, the report said. expected to shrink Most alleged fundafrom this year’s 26.5 mental rights violations are per cent to 25.9 per related to breached cent in 2014, this will indemnity guarantees and be the result of a the employee’s right to reduction in the judicial protection against working population reprisals for claiming and not the number rights. of jobless.

Sacking claims clog up courts AS the crisis continues, appeals against dismissal have escalated.

Lawsuits launched by aggrieved workers claiming that employers breached their fundamental rights have become commonplace instead of exceptional, the Fiscalia General del Estado (State Prosecution Service) said.

The increase is overloading public prosecution departments, claimed the 2012 report, published at the start of the 2013-2014 Judiciary Year.

The Fiscalia is barely prepared to handle so many complaints, the

Madrid falls from tourist favour THE 34 million foreign tourists visiting Spain between January and July broke all records.

But while this was 3.9 per cent more than in 2012, the 2.4 million foreign tourists who visited Madrid during the same period fell by 5.7 per cent.

The Madrid region has now experienced three consecutive months of dwindling foreign tourism, a Ministry of Industry survey revealed.

Although there were more US

tourists, there was a noticeable fall in Italian, French and Latin American visitors to Madrid.

Nationally, the Valencian Community experienced the steepest rise in foreign tourism during the first six months of the year, with a 12.2 per cent increase.

Cataluña continued to receive more foreign tourists than any other region, followed by Baleares, the Canary Islands and Andalucia.

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STAT OF WEEK Cataluña’s wine and cava exports increased by 0.7 per cent to €261.3 million during the second quarter. They account for 19.2 per cent of the region’s foreign sales.

New job JOSEP PIQUE, ex-president of Vueling, goes as chief executive to Spanish construction company OHL. Early rumours named him to replace Antonio Vazquez as Iberia president.

Bonds sale

FORECAST: PM Rajoy may be right.

SPANISH region CastileLeon is hoping to raise €200m with a bonds sale, the first by an autonomous region since January.

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Cookie monster’s money tips!

IF a child is confronted with a tasty marshmallow, what do they do? Eat it or save it for later?

This simple scenario is the basis of a very famous psychological experiment to test a child’s self-control. The results point to how a child may fair financially in the future.

In 1972, 1,000 children were studied - each child was sat in a chair and one delicious marshmallow was placed in front of them.

The children were told: “You can have one marshmallow now, or two in 10 minutes, if you wait.”

Most of the children tested wolfed down the little pillow of sweetness within moments.

Only one third of the children waited the 10 minutes to receive two marshmallows. The experiment proved just how hard it is for children to have self-control and be able to see benefits in the future.

But teaching children selfcontrol is vital according to the

IRRESISTIBLE: How many children would be able to resist the temptation of a sweet treat in front of them?

Loose change A look at finance for females Jane Plunkett results of the study, which followed the same 1,000 children for more than 30 years.

In short, the two thirds that showed no self-control in the marshmallow test were in deep

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financial trouble by their early 30s. The high self-control children, however, are apparently doing very well. They are entrepreneurs, own their own homes and have retirement plans.

Self-control and learning to save at a young age is extremely important and, luckily for parents, Sesame Street is here to help.

Over its four decades, the children’s programme has taught tiny tots a lot of valuable lessons.

Now Sesame Street friends Elmo, Grover and Cookie Monster are teaching children self-control in order to save money too.

In one episode the furry puppet Elmo explains to kids the importance of savings. Elmo explains that when we want something, we can’t have it immediately - that we have to build towards getting it.

He uses the example of a ‘stupendous ball’ he wants that costs $5. Throughout the episode Elmo has to do small jobs to earn $5 over some time.

If the self-control of our threeyear-old selves really does predict financial prosperity in the future, then I suggest all parents ensure that their children listen carefully to what the Cookie Monster has to say!

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Orange alert FRENCH mobile operator, Orange, wants Spain’s monopolies commission (CNC) to suspend the agreement between Telefonica and Yoigo to provide 4G services, as this amounts to price-fixing they claimed.

Ideas man EMILIO BOTIN has appointed Rodrigo Rato, ex-president of Bankia, as special adviser to Santander’s international board.

Rato will ‘contribute ideas for the bank’s international strategy.’

Tough decision INDUSTRIAL bakery Panrico is suspending 4,000 employees’ September pay cheques.

Panrico, consistently undercut by supermarkets’ own-labels, will use the cash to pay suppliers.

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Inditex still growing despite narrowing profit margins INDITEX, the world’s biggest clothing retailer, has seen sales grow, even though profit growth has slowed.

The owner of the Zara chain signalled it was not immune to the depressed European markets, where cut price competition combined with a cold spring and foreign currency fluctuations combined to drive down profit margins after a particularly strong 2012.

But analysts said the Spanish group’s model of rapidly-changing fashion ranges remained among the best in the industry, and noted fast-growing Asian markets had overtaken Spain as its biggest source of sales for the first time.

“We continue to believe Inditex will deliver double digit earnings growth in the

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GROWING: Zara leading Inditex growth. medium term and can hold its multiple,” said Bernstein analysts, referring to the company’s shares, which trade at 25 times earnings forecasts for 2013 versus a sector average of 16, according to Thomson Reuters data.

Inditex, which owns eight brands including upmarket Massimo Dutti and teen label Bershka, said net profit rose 1 per cent to €951 million in the six months to July, reported Reuters.

That beat analysts’

average forecast of €926 million, helped by control of costs and a lower tax rate.

The gross margin slipped to 58.6 per cent of sales versus 59.6 per cent the year before. However, Inditex said it expected gross margins to end the year broadly stable - 50 basis points higher or lower

Counting on higher harvest

than what it considered to be an exceptional margin in 2012.

It also reported a pick-up in sales growth following a weak spring season.

Retail sales fell in Spain for the 37th straight month in July and the country still accounts for 19.3 per cent of Inditex’s sales, albeit down from 21.5 per cent a year ago.

However, the group said sales in Asia, Australia and Africa had overtaken Spain to account for 21.7 per cent of the total, up from 20.2 per cent a year earlier.

Inditex’s shares have tripled in value in five years. imploded five years ago, although they have lost some of their lustre this year as investors bet on signs of recovery at other Spanish businesses and baulk at their rich valuation.

OLIVE OIL: Prices have risen.

HIGH olive oil prices after last year’s droughtstricken crop could leave a smile on farmers’ faces.

Prices for premium oils are up a third from last year.

With this year’s Spanish crop expected to yield about 1.4m tonnes it could mean a financial fillip for growers.

Spain’s debt continues to grow despite cutbacks WHILE a return to economic growth is on the cards, Spain’s national debt continued to rise in June.

The country owes an eye-watering €942.8 billion according to the Spanish Central Bank. That is the equivalent of 92.2 per cent of the country’s economic output for a year.

The bank forecasts, if trends continue, that it could reach 100 per cent within three years.

Despite austerity measures that have seen cuts in public services across the board, debt has grown 15 per cent in a year. The figure broke the target of 91.4 per cent set by the Spanish government.

Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy’s aim to reduce public spending by €150 billion between 2012 and 2014, is proving a tough target with unemployment of 26 per cent reducing the tax take and pushing up spending on benefits.

Banks face ‘haircut’ BANKS owed billions by insolvent frozen fish company Pescanova are being asked to take a 70 to 75 per cent ‘haircut.’

A KPMG audit showed the company had a debt of €3.6 billion, making it one of the country’s biggest bankruptcies.

Most of that is believed to be owed to the Sabadell, Popular, Caixabank and NovaGalicia banks.

New chairman Juan Manuel Urgoiti was due to meet bank representatives. It is thought he wants them to accept losses as part of a plan to relaunch the firm.

But he might have his work cut out as, in an independent action, accounting firm

PwC is drawing up a viability plan to save the company. Measures could include a fire sale of assets and an exchange of debt for shares. That would give the banks control of the company. Whether the banks want to get into the frozen fish industry is another question.

Urgoiti is a former chairman of Banco Gallego and sits on the board of directors at success story Inditex, owners of Zara clothing retailers. Former chairman Manuel Fernandez de Sousa and nine former executives face a string of charges in the criminal courts. Several are alleged to have made millions of euros fraudulently.

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Just who do you think you are kidding ?

INTERESTING to read in the finance pages (Issue 1472) that Telefonica (or Movistar) bosses think they can stop losing customers. They must be kidding! They had better think again unless they change their customer service.

Telefonica rebranded as Movistar largely because it had such a dire reputation for service.

If my experience is anything to go by nothing has changed. I have now moved to a smaller provider after a long list of delays and problems with Movistar and am very happy to have done so. My new phone company actually seems to want my custom. It is cheaper and offers far better service.

So if Movistar, which lost 248,000 customers in March, really wants to turn things around they should sack their head of customer services and employ someone who actually cares for their clients.

Jonathan McNamara, Elche (Alicante).

Justice questions TWO stories attracted my attention (Costa del Sol Issue 1472).

Firstly, Assault revenge. “A man, 26, was arrested in Malaga for allegedly sexually assaulting a woman, 29. Her partner, 35, was arrested for beating the attacker unconscious.” Should the partner of the sexually assaulted lady just have stood by and done nothing to protect/defend his lady companion?

Secondly, Bazaar attack. “Four people were arrested in Malaga for allegedly attacking the owner of a Chinese bazaar. The victim’s husband was also arrested for hitting them with a stick.” Should he have just stood by and done nothing to protect/defend his wife?

Two defenders of innocents protecting their loved ones and arrested? Is this sensible, true justice?

Jack Nusbaum, Torremolinos (Malaga).

Big picture…

SO! Mary Hopkins (Letters, Issue 1471) is perfectly happy to buy from the looky looky men without looking at the bigger picture.

She asks can someone “explain”

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Money monsters I AGREE with CG that the ruination of Africa is charity (Letters Issue 1470). Some of these charities seem to be money-making ‘monsters.’

A few months ago I managed to get in touch with two of these so called charities, I complained about their use of young children on the TV adverts. The answer I got was that they were ‘paid actors,’ this referred to a little lad standing in a cot with tears in his eyes.

Can you believe it?

Then a few weeks later they began showing an advert with a baby a few months old, could that be another actor? They are sick making money the way they are doing.

I think they should be educating the populations about birth control!

NW Comares (Malaga).

Some exile!

I took this picture of housemartins, at the bottom of our garden, being fed by mum and dad. It was extraordinary watching them as neither parent alighted but fed them on the wing.

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why the police are set on stopping them. I will try!

They most probably do not pay their dues, social or taxes. Many of the goods are counterfeit and some are most probably dangerous (small loose bits dangerous to children, lead paint etc) and are often shoddy and sub-standard.

The source of the goods comes from cheap (sweat shop) labour, and most probably from black (drugs/ arms/laundered) money.

They are also taking money away from legitimate traders and shops.

When the police arrive they pack up and run away because they know they are breaking the law and selling fake goods.

If you cannot afford designer goods why buy sub-standard ones that fall to bits?

Go to the normal shops and buy something really comparable. I know

these people need to make a living but there are other jobs like cleaning, gardening, window cleaning.

Mick Scarles, Javea (Alicante)

Looky out!

AFTER visiting Torrox Costa market we took some friends visiting from the UK to a favourite Chinese restaurant on the front for a menu del dia.

For the next couple of hours we were pestered every 10 to 15 minutes by hawkers with no respect for our privacy.

They were not deterred with a wave of no thanks or even a ‘no gracias’ so our conversations or meal had to be interrupted to, as politely as possible, tell them to go away.

As the restaurant owners, who I believe have the right to stop them entering their premises and can be fined if they are caught selling there, seem to turn a blind eye, maybe they are on a percentage.

We felt like sitting targets. We would like to be able to have an internationally recognised sign on the table that says no hawkers and be left to enjoy the meal and company.

We now seriously think twice about returning to any restaurant where we have been pestered.

Diane Clark (By email)

IN response to the letter from Charles Roasad (Gibraltar suffered as well, Issue 1472) on the subject of the award for gallantry for Gibraltar. l find his comparison between the way the citizens of Gibraltar and Malta were managed in some cases amusing.

I’m sure the citizens of Malta would have been delighted to have been sent to Jamaica or Madeira.

Unfortunately nobody asked them.

As for being bombed by the Italians that’s a joke - they used to drop their load in the sea and be home before tea. Ask any Maltese, they loved being bombed by the Italians.

As for not asking for the award, see page 73 in the same paper reference Felix Alvares’s comment.

(The chairman of the Equality Right Group welcomed a UK Parliamentary question about the George Cross).

Clive Graham (By email) Editor’s note; the letters referred to are about a call for Gibraltar to be awarded the George Cross, as happened to Malta in World War 2.

Well done!

GREAT news about Keira having her therapy paid for (Issue 1472). Well done to all at Moraira charity shop, you are the sort of people that make life worthwhile!

Diana Evans, Javea (Alicante)

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Burka controversies are a ploy to bring in Islamic message

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HAT no one seems to realise is that all this burka business is simply yet another ploy to bring the Islamic ‘message’ into the front rooms of the ‘infidels.’

Another weapon in the hands of those who would take over our culture and ultimately our democratic freedom.

A dozen or so years back no one had even heard of Islam, let alone be interested enough to discuss its pros and cons. Now it’s everywhere.

You can’t pick up a newspaper without some Islamic follower spouting off about being ‘offended’ by some action taken by the follower of a different faith, generally Christian.

As a Christian country, the UK populace has to be made completely aware that our culture is totally unacceptable to these people, irrespective of how many ‘moderates’ declare otherwise.

To these extremists we are the evil face of the non-believer and the ultimate goal of their branch of

CHOICE: Democratic right.

LEAPY LEE SAYS IT OTHERS THINK IT Islam is to rid the world of all who don’t totally encompass the teachings of the prophet Mohamed.

We have to make some kind of stand against those who would take away our freedom and plunge our free thinking, often tragically naive populace back into the dark ages.

The lessons are there for the taking.

All we have to do is take a leaf out

of many Islamic countries’ book.

Some don’t allow Christian churches to be erected. Therefore we curb the building of mosques, before there’s one on every street.

They don’t allow anyone, even in private, to worship anything other than Islam. We therefore have to firmly discourage the taking over of whole streets by praying congregations. We have to let these people know that halal meat can never be obligatory and pork will always be on the school menu.

We must bring home loud and clear that the Union Jack is the flag of our country and it will be flown

over every school in the land if so desired. We must endeavour to prevent ‘no go’ areas and make it absolutely clear that Sharia law is not the law of our land and never will be. Most of all we must stop being petrified to cause offence to these people. So they’re easily ‘offended.’ So what? What are they going to do if we ban the burka in all public institutions (which we should). Declare war?

In Islamic countries I’ve seen Western women smacked on their bare arms and calves with pretty hefty sticks wielded by ‘religious police.’ I’m not condoning the physical removal of women’s face masks, but if something isn’t done, I can see the only course of action being one of violence.

Do you really want to see our suburbs resembling those of the Syrians? For all our sakes, and especially our children, please God let it never come to that.

Keep the faith.

Love Leapy. leapylee2002@gmail.com.

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The land of my fathers Male voice choirs and the Welsh flag are two things I love

I

HAVE nothing against the Welsh. After all, as man and boy, I was blissfully happy in the land of someone else’s father.

However, not everyone agrees. Their most famous lyricist, Dylan Thomas once said, “Land of my fathers? They are welcome to it.”

The Welsh comedian, Max Boyce, did not share his sentiments. Tongue in cheek he reminded the English that if an iron was run over Wales then his land would be bigger than England once the wrinkles (mountains) were ironed flat.

The Welsh sense of humour tends to be sardonic. What do you call an Englishman in the knockout stages of the World Cup? The referee.

There is delicious rivalry. What do you call a Welshman with several sheep? A pimp. Their brand of humour can be enlightening. I recall using a lane approaching a Welsh farm. The notice said, ‘Slow! Free Range Children.’

Noted for their sullen insularity the Welsh are notoriously anti-stranger. I thought it was because they thought me English. No, my son, who hails from Wrexham, said:

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“They show dislike for me too.”

Whoever penned the lines ‘There‘ll be a Welcome in the Hillside / There‘ll be a Welcome in the Vale,’ should be dragged before the courts for misrepresentation.

WALES: A land I was happy in.

I have asked locals in real Welshspeaking Wales, the Lleyn Peninsular, Anglesey and Snowdonia if it is true that they do not welcome visitors.

Agreeably they agree.

Venting my frustration with a friend who lives in Llangollen. “Everywhere else changes,” I said, “but not Llangollen, Corwen, Bala, and Anglesey. If one of

Owain Glyndwr’s warriors were to revisit he would not see change.”

“That is music to my ears,” she told me.

A neighbour in our Welsh village hailed from Birmingham. “All I can see is bloody mountains.” “Oh,” my mother sympathised.

“Perhaps we should drill holes through them for you.”

“And what would you see,” he retorted.

“More bloody mountains.”

It has been said the Welsh are the Irish who could not swim. At the time of the first millennium, when Saxon immigrants were overrunning Shakespeare’s sceptred isle, the Britons (the Welsh to you and me) retreated towards the West. An early form of ‘white flight’, the then indigenous locals looked upon the new English as smelly heathens.

I am not sure if the enmity between the Welsh and the English is genuine or teasing. I think the latter, for in truth I was very happy in Wales.

They can be quirky, but who isn’t? One thing I do love of theirs - two actually. Their male voice choirs that bring a lump to my throat. And of course their flag. I could die for their flag. Cymru am byth.

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7:00pm Eggheads 7:30pm Strictly Come Dancing: It Takes Two All the latest news and gossip from behind the scenes of Strictly Come Dancing.

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TCM 6:00am Kings Go Forth 7:55am Gunsmoke 10:05am South Sea Woman 11:40am In Like Flint 1:50pm Gunsmoke 4:00pm Good Day for a Hanging 5:40pm Firecreek 7:40pm The Tall Men 10:00pm Exit Wounds 11:55pm Soldier 1:45am Exit Wounds 3:25am Soldier 5:05am Off Set

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MADDOCKS’ VIEW ON LIFE

Famous quote

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Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself’

This week

The stricken liner Costa Concordia is raised from the seabed...

CS Lewis, (1898 –1963), Irish writer, poet, academic and literary critic.

in history

Women’s wit

48 BC: Upon landing in Egypt, Roman general and politician Pompey is murdered on the orders of King Ptolemy of Egypt.

1066: William, Duke of Normandy, invades England marking the beginning of a new era in British history.

1399: Henry IV is proclaimed king upon the abdication of Richard II. 1540: The Jesuit order founded

by Spanish priest Ignacio de Loyola is established in Rome after receiving a charter from Pope Paul III. 1580: Sir Francis Drake becomes the first British navigator to sail round the world.

1779: John Adams is appointed to negotiate treaties of peace and commerce with Great Britain during the American War of Independence.

1913: Rudolf Diesel, inventor of the engine that bears his name, disappears from the train while travelling from Belgium to England.

1936: General Francisco Franco is named head of the rebel National government in Spain during the Spanish Civil War. 1940: Germany, Italy and Japan become allies with the signing in Berlin of the Tripartite Pact providing mutual assistance.

1949: Communist revolutionary Mao Zedong officially proclaims the existence of the People's Republic of China.

1957: West Side Story premieres on Broadway.

1960: More than 60 million Americans watch the first-ever televised presidential debate between John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon.

1955: American actor James Dean dies in a car accident aged 24.

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If you want to know what a man’s like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.’

J.K. Rowling (1965-), British novelist, best known as the author of the Harry Potter series.

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At a Zurich Hotel:

Because of the impropriety of entertaining guests of the opposite sex in the bedroom, it is suggested that the lobby be used for this purpose.

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LIBRA (September 24 - October 23) Concentrating on hearth and home gives you great satisfaction. As a born homemaker, you relish the idea of making something beautiful. This week it may be possible to show more of your skills when someone seeks your advice. This time it is on more of a personal note and you could end up helping with appearances.

SCORPIO (October 24 - November 22) Making a new start is not always the exciting thing that people imagine. When there are still old matters to be resolved, it takes the edge off the pleasure. It may be worth cooling off a new relationship until your social life is more settled.

SAGITTARIUS (November 23 - December 21) Get both business and personal plans sorted out in the coming week. Thereafter, changes to your routine may be necessary, which is disruptive. The best-laid plans can need adjustment, so donʼt beat yourself up over that.

CAPRICORN (December 22 - January 20) Someone close has ideas about how things should be at home this Christmas. Although you wish to show an interest, and should, they may be more ʻhands onʼ than you. Do whatever your talents allow to help because this will not be forgotten.

AQUARIUS (January 21 - February 19) The pleasure you will get from helping in the home this week should not be underestimated.

What you have been thinking of as a chore turns out to be a great ball of fun.

PISCES (February 20 - March 20) Your relationships to others linked to the home environment are going well.

MASSED

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PITTED

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PRINTS

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LAST WEEK’S SOLUTION 1 Girdle, 2 Praise, 3 Hailed, 4 Reward, 5 Triple, 6 Saying, 7 Rigour, 8 Neatly, 9 Endure, 10 Gravel, 11 Enable, 12 Patrol, 13 Veered, 14 Pretty, 15 Helped, 16 Barely, 17 Rental, 18 Headed, 19 Shreds.

IF ITʼS YOUR BIRTHDAY THIS WEEK: Although you may be looking for someone or something special in the months ahead, perhaps you are asking too much. When the time is right it will happen.

September 26: Olivia NewtonJohn, 65.

Actress known for her role as Sandy in musical film Grease.

September 27: Gwyneth Paltrow, 41.

American actress, singer and food writer.

September 28: Brigitte Bardot, 79.

Former French actress, currently an animal rights activist.

Your Stars

September 29: Brett Anderson, 46. Leader of the English glam rock band Suede.

September 30: Monica Bellucci, 49.

Italian actress and fashion model.

October 2: Maribel Verdu 43. Spanish actress and winner of two Goya Awards, the Spanish equivalent to the American Academy Awards. Verdu has starred in more than 60 films as well as in TV shows. She is better known to Englishspeaking audiences for her role in Guillermo del Toroʼs Panʼs Labyrinth. Verdu started her career at age 13 appearing in several commercials.

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Aim to build on that this week because the chance to make a real change to your surroundings opens up. Comfort is top of your agenda and the continuing sales give scope.

Restlessness can be channelled into an energetic response when others seek help.

TAURUS (April 21 - May 21) This week is mainly concerned with financial matters, and it is easy to both save and make extra money.

Keep your energy levels high by making the most of chances to exercise and get out in the fresh air.

ARIES (March 21 - April 20) Your mind is as sharp as a razor this week, so woe betide anyone who tries to trick you. Itʼs a great time to use your talents fully, particularly in regard to a business venture. It is possible that your strengths are a little unrecognised so donʼt be afraid to try something entirely new.

GEMINI (May 22 - June 21) The repayment of a favour should see you with extra money in your pocket. Holding on to it is your best bet. .

CANCER (June 22 - July 23) A social gathering turns up an old friend who makes an offer.

Although you may feel unworthy,

October 1: Julie Andrews, 78.

British actress who gained international recognition with her roles in Mary Poppins and The Sound of Music.

please be reminded of the times in the past when you have given them support. It will be through others that real progress will be made.

LEO (July 24 - August 23) Keep energy levels high by being at the hub of any social activities. Accept all invitations, however dull you feel they may turn out and allow yourself to be surprised.

VIRGO (August 24 - September 23) As you have decided to rearrange both your business and home life, it is a busy time, indeed. You enjoy a challenge so it will not worry you that other people have different ideas.

DAYDREAMING 1. According to the ‘fortune-telling’ nursery rhyme, a child born on which day of the week would be ‘loving and giving?’

2. According to the Western Christian calendar, what is the first day of Lent?

3. In which 1980 British gangster film did Bob Hoskins star as Harold Shand, an old-fashioned London gangster who was aspiring to become a legitimate businessman, albeit with the financial support of the American Mafia, with a plan to redevelop the then-disused London Docklands as a venue for a future Olympic Games?

4. On which day of the week does the British monarch traditionally offer ‘alms’ (known as Maundy money) to deserving senior citizens, one man and one woman for each year of the sovereign’s age?

5. The Bee Gees’ songs Stayin’ Alive, How Deep Is Your Love, More Than a Woman and Jive Talkin’ all featured in which 1977 John Travolta dance movie?

6. What was the name of the second wife of the actor, comedian, composer and musician Dudley Moore, whom he married in 1975?

7. What was the title of the first UK Top 10 hit single by the American all-female group, the Bangles?

8. Which day of the week is named after the Norse god of thunder and rain and farming?

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Victor works for the man who controls New York's entire underworld. But when the ruthless crime lord gives an order that results in the deaths of Victor's right-hand man's wife and daughter, he makes a dangerous enemy.

Meanwhile the mysterious Beatrice ensnares the sleuthing hit man in a dangerous web of blackmail and seduction.

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TARGET: Average: 9

Very good: 18

Good: 12

Excellent: 22

LAST WEEK’S SOLUTION ache, acre, arch, cape, care, carp, cart, cert, chap, char, chat, cure, curt, cute, each, echt, ecru, etch, pace, pact, puce, race, tach, tech, acute, apace, caper, caput, carat, caret, carte, cater, chart, cheap, cheat, chert, chute, crape, crate, crept, cruet, cuter, eruct, pacer, parch, patch, peach, perch, ratch, reach, react, recap, recta, retch, teach, trace, truce, acuter, apache, apercu, carpet, charta, curate, hepcat, preach, teacup, arcuate, capture, chapeau, chapter, chateau, trachea, PARACHUTE

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 HOME

ROOM

Move from the start word (HOME) to the end word (ROOM) in the same number of steps as there are rungs on the Word Ladder. You must only change one letter at a time.

HOME HOSE HOST HOOT ROOT ROOM

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

1. FRIDAY, 2. ASH WEDNESDAY, 3. THE LONG GOOD FRIDAY, 4. MAUNDY THURSDAY, 5. SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER, 6. TUESDAY WELD, 7. MANIC MONDAY, 8.

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CRYPTIC Across 1 Boringly blacklist a supporter (7) 5 Dispute about right to get fish (5) 8 Fled with bag of plunder (7) 9 Kingdom in actual miles (5) 10 Race off hard on the heels of and catch (5) 11 Many set fire to the coal (7) 12 My, thereʼs a terrible rise in unhappiness (6) 14 Striking red-heads? (6) 17 Telling jokes without lying? (5-2) 19 Back a horse? Say that again! (5) 22 A quaintly pleasing accent (5) 23 Severe examinations can reveal alternative bargains (7) 24 Engagement, in seventh heaven (5) 25 Serb mob destroyed military aircraft (7) Down 1 Rare British manager is wearing less (5) 2 Trained assassin from town in Japan (5) 3 Kid from school? Eat here! (7) 4 Country folk cook elk and soy (6) 5 Youngster is a swollen-headed prude (5) 6 A pragmatist sees the point in trials, possibly (7) 7 Moderates fits of anger (7) 12 Motherʼs wise to knead (7) 13 Chiselled figure limiting time for regulation (7) 15 This would make me a lord (7) 16 Confidence in broken lab mop (6)

The clues are mixed, some clues are in Spanish and some are in English.

Across 1 Pothole (in road) (5) 4 Águila (5) 7 Pesadilla (9) 8 Caballero (hombre educado) (9) 12 Viajero (9) 14 Melocotón (5) 15 On (indicating place, position) (5) Down 1 Owl (4) 2 With (3) 3 Octogésimo (9) 4 Stars (in sky) (9) 5 Good-looking (f) (5) 6 Plano (4) 9 Stage (phase) (5) 10 Paso (4) 11 Boss (4) 13 Costilla (3)

18 Lived in abnormally lewd time (5) 20 Go after, as in revolutionary (5)

QUICK Across 1 Calm (6) 4 Pointed (5) 8 Repeat itself (5) 9 Hunting dog (7) 10 Skull (7) 11 Charges (4) 12 Place (3) 14 Prison room (4) 15 Formerly (4) 18 Intention (3) 21 Back area (4) 23 Binged (7) 25 Equivocating (7) 26 Similar (5) 27 From that time (5) 28 Choose (6)

21 First of all Peter eats some tomato skins but they are nuisances (5)

LAST WEEK’S SOLUTIONS CRYPTIC Across: 7 Denote, 8 Heaven, 9 Rapt, 10 Decrepit, 11 Restful, 13 Giant, 15 Wager, 17 Neolith, 20 Glad hand, 21 Lent, 22 At once, 23 Atoned.

Down 1 Austere (6) 2 Announce (7) 3 Spanish omelette (8) 4 Classify (4) 5 Nimble (5) 6 Church's district (6) 7 Imprint (5) 13 Endure (8) 16 Drinking cup (7) 17 Commands (6) 19 Cash (5) 20 Overpower (6) 22 Once more (5) 24 Bee colony (4)

Down: 1 Legate, 2 Boat, 3 Needful, 4 Check, 5 Material, 6 Region, 12 Treading, 14 Deadpan, 16 Allots, 18 Tandem, 19 Eager, 21 Lion.

QUICK Across: 1 Spot, 4 Chilly, 8 Saffron, 9 Shake, 10 Lair, 11 Terminus, 13 Startling, 17 Exterior, 19 Once, 21 Minus, 22 Examine, 23 Dainty, 24 Seek.

Down: 2 Puffins, 3 Turn, 4 Confectionery, 5 Insomnia, 6 Learn, 7 Cease, 8 Sulk, 12 Garrison, 14 Genuine, 15 Beams, 16 Cede, 18 Tonga, 20 Bars.

Unscramble the name of a 2010 American psychological thriller film directed by Martin Scorsese (two words): INSULTED TRASH Unscramble the name of the home ground of a current Premier League team (two words):GRACE CAN’T VOTE

Play on Words GOODBYE ARMS ARMS

P O O R

Answers: A farewell to arms, Downpour

Funagram

ENGLISH-SPANISH Across: 1 Salida, 4 Isla, 8 Attic, 9 Donde, 10 Breakfast, 13 Swans, 15 Chica, 16 Wood, 17 Poesia.

Down: 1 Soap, 2 Later, 3 Ducharse, 5 Son, 6 Ave, 7 Edificio, 11 Ships, 12 Baya, 13 Saw, 14 Ajo.

Co d e B r e a ke r

Each number in the Code Breaker grid represents a different letter of the alphabet. In this week’s puzzle, 24 represents C and 23 represents Z, so fill in C every time the figure 24 appears and Z every time the figure 23 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.

LAST WEEK’S SOLUTION

FUNAGRAM SOLUTION SHUTTER ISLAND CRAVEN COTTAGE (Fulham F C)

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Butter Stick Similar to that of a glue stick you may find in a school pencil NO KNIFE: Butter it! case, but rather than glue it contains butter!

For those that struggle to butter bread in the traditional way with a knife.

2 The eye-drop funnel-glasses

A set of spectacles with a small funnel placed in the middle of each of the lenses to ensure you never miss, unless you blink of course, in which case you’re back to square one!

3 No-more-tears onion-glasses

Very few people can slice into an onion without it ending in tears.

Boggled

SCORING: 4 letters: 1 point 5 letters: 2 points 6 letters: 3 points 7 letters: 4 points 8 or more letters: 11 points Average: 9 Good: 11

TARGET:

Very good: 16 Excellent: 20

Last week’s solutions goes, goer, goof, goon, sore, gorse, gorge, gown, gone, goner, foes, fore, forego, forge, fine, finer, were, wren, ewer, owner, inner, serow, serge, sere, sewer, roof, rowen, renown, woof, wooer, worse, wine, winner, grog, groin, grow, grown, egress

7 Mop shoes

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An oft-asked question was, "What do you do in the Winter?"

In 1982 two Bluecoats, one from Wales, one from Scotland, found themselves working together, and falling in love. At the end of the season,

separated, their love letters answered this question.

In an age before mobile phones, texts, social networking, digital cameras, and the internet, these letters explore the difficulties, frustrations, doubts, and occasional hilarity of loving at a distance, and surviving Thatcher’s Britain.

The letters span the period

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4 Pocket tie

from near the end of the 1982 season to the start of the 1984 season, and cover working at three Pontin's Holiday Camps.

The two Bluecoats in question, Martin and Angela, retired and moved to Spain in 2012.

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have been borrowed from the Elizabethan neck ruff, excepting you place it on your face and it is specifically used to protect your hair from liquid based foods.

10-inone gardening tool Forget gardening with one tool at a time, this invention operates like a giant penknife and includes GARDENING: Easy. everything you need for gardening, it does however look 5 Noodle hair guard The design for this item could rather big and heavy.

For those that enjoy practical clothing. The front is an ordinary office tie but the back is fitted with pockets for all of the items you can’t fit in traditional methods of transport like trouser and jacket pockets or brief case.

SU DOKU 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.

6 The

and babygrows This design is featured in several Japanese inventions, MOPPING: No problem. and basically proves you can put a mop-head on anything. Save time on mopping and buy the cat some mop shoes or even get the baby grow version and let the kids do the job!

8 The umbrella tie

Underneath a jacket it looks like a normal tie (except for the handle that sticks out a bit) but unclip it and you’ve got a handy umbrella in case it rains.

9 The subway sleeper

This stylish red builder’s helmet with built-in plunger on the back means you can stick it to the window behind you on the subway and doze off without anyone noticing.

10The toilet roll hat

Isn’t it annoying when you’ve got a cold, and you have to keep blowing your nose? The toilet roll hat takes care of that, for the times you’re too sick to care about having loo-roll on your head.

App of the week Candy Crush Saga Switch and match your way through more than 300 levels in this addictive puzzle adventure available for iOS, Android and Blackberry devices.

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JAPANESE inventions are renowned for their ingenuity, inventiveness, and, sometimes, utter insanity.

In Japan there is an art to absurd inventions known as Chindogu which literally translates to ‘unusual tool.’ These are everyday gadgets made to solve unique problems but in reality are completely impractical.

How many English words can you find in the Boggled grid, according to the following rules?

The letters must be adjoining in a ‘chain’.

They can be adjacent horizontally, vertically, or diagonally.

Words must contain at least four letters and may include singular and plural or other derived forms.

No letter may be used more than once within a single word, unless it appears twice.

No vulgarities or proper nouns are permitted.

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A drunk walked into a bar.

After staring for some time at the only woman there, he walked over and kissed her. She jumped up and slapped him.

He immediately apologised and explained: “I’m sorry. I thought you were my wife. You look exactly like her.”

“Why you worthless, insufferable, wretched, useless drunk!” she screamed.

“Funny,” he muttered, “you even sound exactly like her.”

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Love’s annoying little traits…

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OMEN on the Costa Blanca, whilst deeply in love with their partners, didn’t have to think too long about what annoyed them most. “My list is far too long,” joked housewife Linda Williams, aged 27, from Dolores.

Whilst saying what was most annoying was often his lack of help around the house and with the children, she did get him to change his ways, even if she did have to nag a little.

“If he helps me I get it done quicker so we have more time together just the two of us.”

Lisa Yates from urbanisation Oasis, who runs a family restaurant, has not been quite so successful in getting her Spanish partner to change his annoying characteristics.

One of her biggest gripes is his getting a clean glass for every drink he has, even if it is the same drink and leaving the old cup lying around.

She has been a little more devious to make her point clear. She said: “Once I hid all

You love your partner… but what is the most annoying characteristic that he or she has?

Did you let your partner know? How did you overcome it?

LINDA: Got her man to change his ways.

TINA AND LARRY: Just go with flow.

the cups and glasses so he could not find them. He also keeps using my phone charger so I hide that as well.” She added: “I don’t think there’s any getting over these habits, you just learn to live with it.”

STREET TALK

Steve Kendrew, an electrician from Cambridge-

shire who was visiting relatives in Almeria province, may have

STEVE: Nod in agreement. other men nodding in agreement.

He said: “My wife knows she is always right. How do I overcome it? I just nod in agreement and carry on regardless.”

Tina and Larry Kelly, who are both retired and split their time between Arboleas and

Dublin, have been married for 50 years. Larry said: “My wife talks too much, sometimes I just switch off.”

Tina said: “My husband is a perfectionist, everything he does has to be 100 per cent perfect. Sometimes it drives me mad, he won’t leave a job until it is done. I just go with the flow.”

And Chris Reynolds, 49, a chef on holiday in Fuengirola from his Bournemouth, UK, home said: “My wife thinks things to herself, doesn’t tell me, then when I do not know what she is talking about she accuses me of not listening!

“That is annoying.

The first few years I honestly thought she was right and I either missed things or forgot them. It only slowly dawned on me that it was because she never told me in the first place that I could not remember things.

“She still does it after 25 years, so I don’t suppose there is anything I can do about it now.”

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Girls dressing up for girl friends CHARITY PERFUME: Is based on the scent of coffee beans.

Coffee scent goes on sale worldwide A COFFEE perfume has been created to help funds for a cancer charity.

As part of the ‘World’s Biggest Coffee Morning,’ being held tomorrow (Friday) by Macmillan Cancer Support, the three fragrances, based on the scent of coffee beans, will be available to purchase.

Macmillan hopes to raise over £15m

(€17m) from the coffee mornings which are taking place across the world, including many parts of Spain.

For more information visit www.macmillan.org.uk/ coffee

WOMEN spend more time getting ready for a night out with girl-friends than for a date.

A new study on 2,000 women conducted by Malibu Rum found that on average, women spend 40 minutes getting ready for a date, but more than an hour getting ready for a night out with friends.

Two thirds of the women involved in the study said the reason behind this is they want to ‘wow’ their friends by looking the best they can and also admitted to comparing their appearance to that of their pals. And for this reason spend more time preening than they perhaps normally would.

Whereas 50 per cent of women admitted they have to rush to get ready for a date night, because their partners are ready considerably faster and lack patience.

NIGHT OUT: Everyone wants to ‘wow’ their friends.

For some, however, it’s about the revelling and enjoying the process with a cocktail or glass of wine, and the music on whilst choosing the best outfit, hair and make-up to complete the look.

That’s why, according to the study a further 44 per cent of the women surveyed also admitted they enjoy the experience of getting ready to go out with friends just as much as the night out itself.

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Clinica Britannia offers the widest range of medical professionals CLINICA BRITANNIA is Calpe’s leading private medical and health centre.

Having been established for more than 10 years, the clinic is now undergoing a full refurbishment and modernisation under the watchful eye of new owner Dr. Vicente Mera bringing the premises up to the same, perfecting high standards as the professionals who work there.

Clinica Britannia houses an extensive and eclectic range of health professionals with four medical practitioners, practice nurse and dental team on hand, accompanied by physiotherapists, podiatrist and chiropodist, counsellors and chiropractors.

CLINICA BRITANNIA: Dr Mera heads up the extensive and professional team at Calpe’s leading private practice.

They can offer varicose vein treatments and even menopause-andropause and anti-aging medicine.

There is also a Chinese doctor on hand for acupuncture and alternative medicines, something Dr. Mera believes works well alongside conventional medicine: “We want to be able to offer patients the best possible treatment for them and if, for any reason, a patient cannot take tablets, we have an alternative and

acupuncture is good for back pain.”

Dr. Mera also believes prevention is better than cure: “We run numerous campaigns throughout the year such as flu, diabetes, and cancer detection.”

The clinic has diagnostic testing for stomach inflammation and irritable bowel syndrome as well as

an extensive full genetic test which can detect any genetic abnormality or trait which could increase a person’s risk of inheriting and contracting a range of diseases from cancer to dementia and cardiovascular disease.

Knowledge is power and armed with this knowledge, Dr. Mera believe patients can adjust their lifestyle habits and live a healthier and longer life.

For those needing treatment, they work in conjunction with Clinica Benidorm and the Levante Hospital. They accept all forms of medical insurance and are often used by national health patients wanting to pay privately for a second opinion and

equally, often refer patients to the national health for treatment if they are entitled to it.

The clinic is open Monday to Friday from 9am-5pm with a 24 hour emergency medical call out service available.

For more information on how you can get the best possible multi-lingual medical advice and practices, call 965 837 553 or the 24 hour emergency number on 607 255 755.

Alternatively visit the clinic in Av. Ejércitos Españoles, 16-BIS (first floor), Calpe.

Their new website www.clinicabritannia.com is currently under construction.

Sea water may kill bacteria that causes stomach trouble A GULP of sea water could be good for us.

In a trial, scientists asked people to drink deep sea water with the idea it will help kill the Helicobacter

Pylori bacteria which is the main cause of stomach ulcers.

Around four in 10 people have the bacteria, which usually lives harmlessly, but it can trigger an

ulcer in around 15 per cent of those infected.

A team at the Kochi Medical School in Japan gave 23 people who were infected with the

bacteria deep-sea water and found it reduced bacteria numbers by 60 per cent, compared with 25 per cent in those consuming conventional water.

Probiotics can help mental disorders LOWER levels of healthy bacteria in the digestive tract could cause mental health issues such as ‘anxiety, autism and schizophrenia.’

Some scientists are beginning to recognise the power of healthy gut bacteria, especially seeing that the average adult carries up to five pounds of bacteria in their digestive tract.

A study published in Nutritional Neuroscience from The Great Plains Laboratory, has shown that HPHPA levels - the chemical byproduct of the clostridia bacteria - are much higher in the urine of autistic children.

Probiotics are commonly consumed in fermented foods with specially added active live cultures, such as in yoghurt, and boost good bacteria. Treated with probiotics, HPHPA levels can drop and the effects of mental health problems can be reduced.

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Spectrum FM promote the sensational Kriz K SPECTRUM FM Spain’s largest English speaking radio station not only bring you the best music 24/7 via FM radio and the internet @ www.spectrumfm. net but we also bring you many great live acts and events throughout the Costas.

The real ‘gem’ we have had the pleasure in working with this summer is ‘Kriz K Michael Buble Live Act.’ Kriz K is truly a real tribute to Michael Buble, so much so that Kriz K is actually the World recognised official No 1 tribute to the great man himself and is signed to Michael Buble’s agent!

Kriz K is a true international act, this summer alone Kriz K has performed his sensational act in the UK, France, Italy, Egypt, Spain and has just returned from performing in New York City.

Kriz K has also performed alongside Philip Schofield in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat and supported JLS on tour.

This is simply a ‘must see’ act, the voice of Kriz K is something rather special, the first

time we heard Kriz K warming up for his show we honestly thought he was miming to Michael Buble until he paused half way through the track, he really is that good!

We have received so many great messages from people that have seen the show and all want to know the same thing; “when is he back performing here again?”

We are pleased to announce the following dates to see this truly sensational act; October 1 El Cid Restaurant, Benidoleig (call 966 404 364) October 4 Don Quijote, Moraira (call 606 721 288), October 5 Restaurant El Paraiso, Parcent (call 966 405 398) and on November 29 something rather special; The Spectrum FM ‘Kriz-Mas Ball’ in aid of AKIRA at Salon de Canor in Teulada (Call 610 719 507 / 634 393 696).

For details of all dates visit Facebook page; ‘Spectrum Costa Blanca.’

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Spanish people drink more beer SPANIARDS today drink more beer than in 2012, a study has revealed.

Beer represents an average 1.36 per cent of their shopping basket, that is 1.1 per cent more then last year, the study carried out by the Agriculture, Food, and Environment ministry claims.

The amber nectar is the favourite drink for the summer months and December, unexpectedly beating the traditional cava during the Christmas holidays.

The average beer drinker in Spain is a father of two, aged between 35 and 64 years old.

By regions, Andalucia is where more beer is drunk in Spain, followed by Murcia, Castilla La Mancha and Extremadura.

Last on the list are Cantabria, Navarra and Asturias, probably because local drinks like cider are more popular.

Non-alcoholic beer is not very popular in Spain, the study claims.

Only 1.6 litres in 10 litres consumed are alcohol free. In fact, non-alcoholic beer sales have decreased by 4.8 per cent in Spain in the last year.

BEER: Best served cold.

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Local products only ICELANDAIR, Iceland’s main airline, has found a new way to promote its homeland culinary products. The Reykjavik-based company is offering on board menus made entirely with ingredients from Iceland.

From sandwiches to traditional cakes, every meal the company offers is made with Icelandic products.

Some like it hot SCIENTISTS from University College London have found Sichuan peppers, a popular ingredient in China, contain a chemical that activates touch sensors in the mouth.

This could be why some people enjoy their food the hotter the better, while for others the sensation caused by eating chillies is painful.

Researchers are unsure

exactly how it happens, but when chillies are placed inside the mouth, chemicals called capsaicinoids activate the parts of the tongue that determine if food is hot or cold.

The peppers also contain a chemical called sanshool, that activates touch sensors. The findings could be used to discover why taste differs from person to person.

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Are you now a sugar junkie?

SUGAR is addictive.

That’s the conclusion from a group of French scientists who said that laboratory rats chose sugar over cocaine, despite being addicted to the drug.

Research shows that Britons consume, on average, almost 160 teaspoons of sugar each week and 60 grammes a day. Including natural sugars, that daily total rises to 93.5 grammes.

Despite the high levels, according to the National Diet and Nutrition Survey, a rolling research programme that aims to give a yearly snapshot

SUGAR: An addictive substance. of our eating habits, we are now eating fewer sugary snacks.

However, it is the hidden sugars that are keeping levels high.

“We have swapped sodas for smoothies and

fruit juice and this is one of the worst things you can do in terms of sugar consumption,” says Anna Raymond, spokesman for the British Dietetic Association.

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Kitchen designs by Built 2 Spec include all appliances and granite work surfaces and staff bring samples to the client’s home, so every aspect is taken care of and there’s no need to go to the shops.

As well as kitchens, Built 2 Spec design and manufacture specially made wardrobes to fit according to the space in your home; be it walk in, built in or free standing drawer units for bedroom suites or children’s bunk beds. All are available in a choice of colours and materials.

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Built 2 Spec also provide a building service using professional tradesmen in all associated work, including plumbing and electrics. The company’s building division also includes extensions, nayas and patios.

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Built 2 Spec representative Craig North says the company prides itself on “a professional, personal service, and rely on recommendations from clients.”

Craig says the feedback they have received from previous clients has been excellent, “We have been told our wardrobes are one of a kind and we outperform various bigger companies. Clients have also said we finish products to a higher standard and much quicker than others in the area.”

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People really need to plan if they are to make the best of their location, the climate and the investment they have made in buying and improving a house.

Naturally what people plan for will depend on their circumstances. For instance if they are an enthusiastic and still fit gardener it could be the design and development of the botanic garden of their dreams.

But if still working and a non gardener, a minimalist low maintenance garden might be the most sensible solution. Most will aim for somewhere between.

However, whatever people aim for they should focus on creating an oasis from the increasingly stressful world of what is becoming in many areas an overbuilt

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By Spain’s best known expatriate gardening author living in Spain for 25 years.

and ugly coastline of Spain.

Start by planting high hedges for privacy, security and noise reduction. Then aim to satisfy the following generic needs: • The creation of summer shade and sheltered winter sun by the maximum use of the natural shade provided by the shadows of the house and by planting flowering or evergreen trees, palms and internal hedges if a large garden.

• Sufficiently large cool surfaced terraces to enable outdoor entertaining and leisure activities, some shaded by trees or plant covered gazebos.

• A network of attractively paved paths connecting the various terraces, main features and doorways of the house.

• Interesting features such as fountains, ponds and rockeries, and a swimming pool or Jacuzzi.

• In the remaining spaces make attractive plantings of flowering and perfumed deciduous and evergreen plants.

• Consider planting a perpetually flowering/ fruiting lemon tree, one or

Use rainwater for plants. more orange or mandarins and, if at a low altitude, a grapefruit tree.

• People who enjoy fresh vegetables can try to fit in at least a small raised bed in a corner of the garden and aim to produce them organically.

We manage to harvest fresh vegetables daily throughout the year.

Reduce the size of your water bill in achieving the above by being creative in collecting and distributing rainwater.

To help gardeners new to Spain, as well as longtime residents who want to rethink their gardens, we describe 400 of the most practical plants for Spanish gardens in our book, ‘Your garden in Spain - from planning to planting and maintenance.

The descriptions of each plant include indications of their drought and frost resistance and suitability for coastal or inland gardens.

Luckily, although many plants were late to flower this summer, autumn gardens are now even better than normal. The recent rain did wonders in brightening up plants and made the soil easy to work.

So if you are planting up a new garden or filling in gaps in an established garden it’s possible to now plant out some of the more hardy plants and trees before the winter sets in.

More delicate plants should be planted in the spring if you expect cold winds and frosts. Be sure you reflect on the impact of the frosts and dry summer months of the past few years on your garden before buying new plants.

If you want a simple garden recognise that a Spanish style garden can be achieved with only five plants. Namely palms, cordylines, lantanas, hibiscus and irises.

To these could be added geraniums if you are prepared to spray twice weekly from March to November against the dreaded geranium moth.

If you have a larger garden it often makes sense to lay out your plot as a series of interconnected mini gardens each with a different style and type of plants.

We suggest some creative ideas in our book to help you create something special and appropriate to your outdoor lifestyle. And we don’t forget the special needs of penthouses and apartment terraces for which Clodagh and I wrote the dedicated book ‘Apartment gardening – Mediterranean style.

See the advert on this page if you are interested in buying this. © Dick Handscombe www.gardenspain.com September 2013.

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INTEREST RATES: Are at an all time low.

Consumers can ask for removal of mortgage clause THE Supreme Court has reaffirmed an earlier ruling saying that if transparency rules were not followed, minimum interest rate clauses on mortgages would be null and void.

The transparency rules include banks failing to inform customers fully of the clause and burying the information amidst paperwork, failing to offer comparison products and not informing clients that if the interest rate fell to a certain level the mortgage

would become a fixed rate mortgage.

Such clauses mean currently, as interest rates fall to an all time low, customers are not benefiting and continue to pay higher interest rates on their mortgages as the clauses prevent the rates charged from dropping to the actual market level.

The ruling was issued after a number of banks asked for clarification on the original

Supreme Court ruling.

As a result the BBVA has removed the clause from customers’ contracts and other customers who felt they were mis-sold their mortgage can now ask for its removal.

The Supreme Court did say the minimum interest rate clause was legal as long as customers were fully aware of it and realised the risks arising from variable interest rates.

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Infanta Cristina’s home on sale for almost €10m CONSTRUCTION: Spain showing more activity.

New build homes are all the rage once again ACCORDING to a recent report by the EU statistical office, Eurostat, the heart of the construction sector in Spain is beating once again.

National production increased by 4.1 per cent

in June compared with the same month in 2012.

This increase places Spain as the second most active Eurozone nation in this sector.

Marc Pritchard of Taylor Wimpey España, said

there has been little new construction since 2008.

“What’s big is new build. Our sales figures across all our developments show exactly this.”

He said the Spanish

property market has been “incredible” over the last 12 months, adding that he hasn’t seen interest levels as high for many years as people used their summer holidays to hunt for their ideal second home.

THE Duke and Duchess of Palma have put their Barcelona mansion on the market for €9.8 million.

The price tag is being advertised on a Russian estate agency website and is accompanied by 11 photos of the villa.

Infanta Cristina, the daughter of Spain’s King and Queen, is selling the property to finance her move to Geneva to take up a job with La Caixa.

Her husband Iñaki Urdangarín, the Duke of Palma, is due to follow her when their Spanish home is sold, although he is still under investigation over a money laundering and fraud case surrounding his firm the Noos Institute in Palma de Mallorca.

King Juan Carlos lent his daughter €1.2 million in 2004 to purchase the mansion, a figure which she gradually paid back without interest and which she declared to the tax authorities.

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How to work out the real age of your cat HOW old is your cat? We all know of elderly felines, and may know Cat Years..........Human Years their real age.

But here you can find out your 3 months.............5 years cat’s human 6 months............10 years age in the David THE Dogman 1 year..............15 years chart below.

2 years.............24 years You might be 3 years.............28 years surprised!

4 years.............32 years While past 5 years.............36 years charts may 6 years.............40 years Listen to David on TRE every Saturday 10am to 11am have shown Costa del Sol (Gibraltar/Sotogrande) 98.7fm 7 years.............44 years (San Roque to Calahonda) 91.9fm that one cat (Calahonda to Motril) 88.9, Costa Calida 92.7fm 8 years.............48 years Costa Blanca (Torrevieja to Elche) 105.1fm year is (Elche to Calpe) 88.2fm, (Calpe to Gandia & Ibiza) 9 years.............52 years 104.6fm, (Denia to Valencia) 95.3fm equivalent to Mallorca 103.9fm 10 years............56 years seven human 11 years............60 years years, a new 12 years............64 years scale has been drawn up of late.

13 years............68 years It’s now believed that after the 14 years............72 years first two years of a cat’s life each 18 years............88-91 years* feline year is approximately four 20 years............91-96 years* years.

21 years............96-106 That should give a more years* realistic ‘human equivalent’ age.

Sources differ on latter years The longest-living cat ever was reputedly 34-years-old according to some sources.

How old is The Siamese and the Manx your cat? breeds are generally held to be

the longest-living cats. Keeping your cat indoors can double its lifespan, claim some sources.

The Guiness Book of Records lists 23-year-old Pinky who lives in Hoyt, Kansas, USA as the oldest cat in the world.

But now a feline called Cola from Orpington, Kent, UK, is challenging for the title. Her owner, Mary Goldsmith, claims Cola is nearly 28-years-old.

For your local radio frequency log onto www.talkradioeurope.com.

VISITORS: Enjoyed a commemorative lunch.

Aircrews made welcome THE Costa Blanca Aircrew Association was joined by members of the Cyprus Aircrew Association for a Battle of Britain Commemoration Lunch, at Restaurant La Cumbre, Benitachell.

The 15 Cyprus Aircrew Association members were visiting the Costa Blanca as a return event for the visit made by the Costa Blanca Association to Cyprus in 2012.

UFO and Mysteries NEXT meeting on October 4 at 10am for 10:30am at the cafeteria in the Social Center Plaza de Constitucion Javea. A presentation on EMFs given by Peter Williamson. All are welcome. For more information please contact Jeanine on 965 795 148 or 658 957 102 or email ufojavea@gmail.com.

International Theatre Workshop in Dénia THIS new cultural initiative has been designed to ease the

intergration of foreigners with permanent residence in the province of

Café Concert Se7en SATURDAY sees the Costa Calida’s largest one day music fest, again by popular request at the Playa Grande, Puerto de Mazarron.

Starting at 3pm with music until midnight, there’s something for everyone. Six different musical talents will be giving their all for this, the last of the ambulance funding concerts.

If the weather is bad the event will be held in the hotel rather than the beach as planned.

The concerts, held over seven years, have

provided the bulk of the €57,536 cost of a new ambulance.

Hosted by Costa Calida International Radio and supported by PALS, who acknowledge with thanks the help from the Lions, the show will present a great afternoon and evening of entertainment at a cost of just €5.

There will be tombola and a raffle offering a top prize of a 32 inch Samsung TV. Tickets at the door or from CCIR or PALS. More information: 626 460 465.

Alicante, offering theatre classes in Castilian Spanish to practice the language in a more comfortable way.

Pedro Blasko, artistic director of the Cervantes workshop in Navaleno (Prov. de Soria), Castilla y León, is creating an international workshop in Dénia.

The first course will begin in January 2014 and will end with a show in April of the same year.

The minimum attendance

of persons will be 10 per class.

For anyone interested in the workshop with a basic knowledge of the Spanish language may enrol in Restaurante Arena, Ctra. Dénia-Jávea 54c, 03700 Dénia Tel. 966 425 860 or by email: tallerdeteatrodenia@blas koservice.com as from September 15.

The courses are free and open for all residents of Dénia and the surrounding areas.

CB Drumming Circle MEETING frist Sunday of each month at 4 pm until finish at the Club de Tenis Buenavista, Benissa.

You do not have to be ‘musical,’ if you have a ‘heartbeat’ you can DRUM! There is no audience, no rehearsal, no right or wrong, no teacher. It’s about much more than drumming!

Come along! Places limited: email: alex@ambience therapies.com or 966 497 796. Mobile: 652 517 949.

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Cities, towns and villages drift effortlessly by. The large panoramic windows provide us with an excellent view of the surrounding countryside.

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Some of these guarding towns, others blending in to the purples, greens and browns of the autumn countryside.

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Factories sit beside fields of sweetcorn and cabbages. Flats overlook little farmhouses. Then, without warning you come to a series of very beautifully designed and almost futuristic buildings which form the ‘City of Arts and Science.’

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CARPENTER - All types of woodwork, floors, decks, doors, renovations, etc. 20 years of experience. Call Raul 657 434 369. Free quotes given.

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A1 SPECIALIST CLEANING. Carpets, upholstery, 15 years experience 965 058 177 / 697 511 071 marc@barnaclebills.co.uk www.britishbusinesspagesin spain.es (208039)

Building Services

QUICK RENOVATIONS. www.eurobuild.es. We build and refurbish fast, at the best price & quality. Call 677 671 713 (217896)

WANTED FOR CASH. Buy fur and leather of all kinds, designer and crocodile handbags. Oriental rugs, paintings, coins from around the world. Porcelain, furniture, silver and silver plated cutlery, postcards, records, clocks of all kinds, bracelets, wall and floor clocks. Tel 656 646 627 (218660)

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COMPUTER SERVICES: Internet, ADSL. Repairs, maintenance, new or second hand. All your computer needs call David 629 672 538 or 965 584 071 (209006)

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Carer/Nurse AT MICHAEL’S Several very nice, high quality ornaments to choose from! 650 photos: www.michaels-javea.com (219753)

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Camping

IT IS ILLEGAL TO SKIPPER BOATS WITHOUT A VALID LICENCE. If you are caught skippering a power boat without a licence, you WILL BE FINED. Possessing an (internationally recognised) RYA licence saves money. Contact us now with NO OBLIGATION. Richard Plaster 638 056 224 / enquiries@serenitysailing.com / http://serenitysailing.com/powe rboating-level-2 (207534)

MINI DIGGER, Dumper, Bobcat with operator for hire. Pedregeur based. Keith 639 620 448 (216682)

I BUY RECORDS 50’s to the 90’s. Best prices for good records. Tel: 622 750 117 / 962 851 809 (217984)

Carpentry

Damp “RISING DAMP” can cure Rising Damp, Leaking Flat Roof or Terrace. WE can make your Underbuild Dry. Villa Re-painting Due! We can protect your villa and stop PENETRATING DAMP with a Protective coating. You can also pay in Sterling. Phone/email us for a free survey now. Tel 965 050 065 Mobile 634 322 672 www.dryzoneespana.com (219819)

Driver DRIVER/CHAUFFEUR AVAILABLE. Will drive you in your own car, anything legal considered. Shopping, dining, etc, by the hour, day or week.

Enquiries to Paul and Sue 965 732 741 / 626 795 587 (217871)

Driving School ENGLISH speaking driving school in Benidorm - EUROVIAL - unbeatable special offers flexible hours - intensive courses - refresher lessons Benidorm, next Hotel Baly - 645 475 949 / www.autoescuelaeu rovial.com (218112)

Electronic Cigarettes NICMAXX. Very high quality electronic cigarettes delivered to your door. Easy order online or by phone. Quantity discounts and cash on delivery option. www.nicmaxx.eu or Tel 962 839 156 / 635 706 359 (217914)

AT MICHAEL’S Large wardrobes – matching chests.

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ALL washers/dryers/dishwashers/boilers/electrics in the house repaired. 626 828 974 (209015)

ALEXANDERS Antique Jewellers pay top London prices. Est 2003, Open MonSat 10am-2pm. Javea port seafront. 965 792 595 (217798)

BEAUTIFUL land (27,000sqm) with small log cabin for sale.

Guadelest Valley. €63,000 contact - naturemoves@gmail.com (217823)

GOLD WANTED. English jeweller will buy broken, unwanted jewellery and coins. 664 890 990 (219021)

Locksmith

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Rewiring with all paperwork issued. Surge protectors. 20 yrs experience on the Costa Blanca.

ELECTRICS GOODMANS. Follow us on Facebook. Mark tel. 608 669 165 / 965 831 082 (217766)

Firewood FIREWOOD. Stored one year under roof. Best prices. Carlos 607 470 223 (206683)

Floor Polishing FLOOR POLISHING, all marble types. Excellent professional, excellent service. Free estimates. Tel: 627 103 412 (209250)

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Handyman PURELY MAINTENANCE For all your maintenance needs - big or small, contact Carl on 965 878 866 or 669 218 928 email p u r e l y m a i n t e n a n c e @hot mail.com (217916)

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Land For Sale

LOCKSMITH/ELECTRICIAN/CARPENTER for emergency safe opening Altea area.

Call Michael Rice 686 513 510 or Calpe area Sean Gannon 667 507 630 (218537)

Metal Works

CHIROPODIST/PODIATRIST, Philip Mann, clinics in Benissa, Moraira, Javea, Calpe and Albir.

686 912 307 (206724)

Insurance

DISCOUNT TYRES, Call 966 875 600 (216579)

Mobile Homes

For Sale/Wanted

MOTOR INSURANCE. For the most competitive quotes in English call Linea Directa on 902 123 153, you could save as much as 30% and you can transfer your existing no claims bonus. Call Linea Directa on 902 123 153 for motor insurance with a human voice in English from Monday to Friday 9am to 6pm and save money now!

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1994 RENAULT SAFFRON 2.5D. Tyres like new and new battery. ITV Sept 2014 €750 ono. Tel 965 793 481 or email joki@hotmail.co.uk (218729)

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WE BUY, Sell, Remove all types of Mobile Homes. We pay CASH and cover all of Spain. More details call Suzi Caley 616 250 727 / 951 063 059 or email suzica ley@gmail.com (207499)

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MOTORHOME, Adriatik 2006 High top, 5 berth, LHD, length 6m, Fiat Ducato 2.8JTD, 38,500km, cruise control, A/C cab, extras, one owner, €19,900. 965 835 975 Calpe (218691) CARAVAN for sale. Elddis touring caravan. Al fresco 520. Top of the range. UK plates. 4 berth.

Separate shower/WC. Good condition. 1,600€. Call Jennifer 659 618 160 (209142)

Painter/Decorator W. D GILMOUR. Painter & Decorator. Established 35 years in Moraira. Estimates FREE. Call William on 609 691 776 or 966 197 170. (217855)

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Gardening TREE SPECIALIST, cut and removal of palm/pine trees. Size not a problem. Also dangerous & difficult work. Garden cleaning and gravelling. Free estimates. 627 103 412 (209250)

www.decorlux.es painting, decorating, renovation. Covering the Costa Blanca and inland since 1996. Estimates free. Tel 649 181 526 (217755)

SOS INSURANCE. www.sosin suranceinspain.com. Best prices available. CALL US FIRST for all your insurance needs, including best deals on funeral plans.

Buildings and contents cover from just 98 euros per year. Tel: 966 787 123 / 686 116 297 (216735)

FOR the Perfect Finish and Fastest in Villa painting (average villa three days) speak to The Airless Paint Spraying and Machine Hire for a quotation for us to paint, or to hire you a machine. Instruction is free. 965 846 620 / ehohara@gmail.com.

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THE TEAM Gardening Maintenance. Pool and Jet Cleaning.

Quote Euro Weekly News for 10% discount. Call Stephen 650 984 348 (217949)

KITCHEN cupboards looking tired/outdated? Reface/repaint instead of replacing. See examples www.repaintit.es 678 179 346 (217935)

ALL palm tree services. Please call Lee 618 146 228 or Thomas 699 524 934 (97547)

Pest Control

LANDSCAPER - trained and registered. Do the right thing!

Get the expert for quality and service. Call Andy 634 809 379 (219943)

CHEAP, all insects and rodents.

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Pet Insurance PROTECTAPET. Spain’s leading pet insurance. 965 756 371. www.protectapet.eu (216721)

Piano Tuning PIANO TUNING and repairs.

PIANOMAN 607 346 658 + 608 191 616 pianoman@pianoman.es (217980)

Plumbing www.100percentplumbing.com Call for a free quotation 965 835 939 (87006) PAUL FAULKNER - PLUMBER. Dripping tap to complete kitchen and bathroom refurbishments, including tiling. Fully legal. 965 792 134 / 676 861 963.

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24 hour call out. 634 303 830.

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Pool Services YES YOU CAN HAVE A POOL - We design & install Wooden Above-Ground Pools. Pools installed from 1,185€. With above ground pools there is “No Planning Permission Required”. You can also pay in Sterling. Phone or email for a FREE BROCHURE NOW. info@piscinasmadera.com - Tel: 965 050 064 / 634 322 672 www.piscinasmadera.com

HOUSE FOR REFURBISHING. Gata de Gorgos, 160m2 area, 825m2 plot, 2.5km from Gata, 10kms from beach. 965 832 658 / 629 991 543 (217990)

Roller Shutters

Property Maintenance QUALIFIED plumber, building, painting, tiling, villa maintenance and key holding. Moraira 690 738 650 (209238)

M141 - Second floor, 2 bed, 2 bath apartment in the sought after Port Xabia complex, Javea, walking distance to beach and all amenities 600 € per month plus bills. 965 745 969 (89468) JALON VALLEY. Quality villas and apartments to let. Long and and short term. All facilities. Tel 605 231 331 (217907)

BENIDORM AND SURROUNDING AREAS. REMOVALS. 655 239 797 (217937)

ANYBODY that has a 3/4 bedroom villa with private pool and garden for long term rent, unfurnished in Moraira, Montemar or La Fustera. Telephone 966 497 224 (217917)

MR SHIFTER House Removals and Clearance. Full or part loads. Spain and UK fortnightly. Fully insured. Spanish mobile: 722 218 087 (209207)

NEW HOUSE. Benissa coast, 335m2 area, 2025m2 plot, 3 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, pool, big garage, sea views, 415,000€.

15 DAYS SWIMMING POOL. www.edenpool.net. We build your pool in 15 days, at the best price & quality. Pool experts. Call 677 671 713 (217896)

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Swimming Pools

SCRAP VEHICLES wanted for cash. Call 646 726 377 (219836)

VAN SPAIN-UK-SPAIN leaving every 2 weeks. Great rates.

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CUSTOMER waiting for 3+ bedroom property in La Nucia. Must have a garden and ideally a private pool. Our family are wanting to rent on a long term basis and can make an immediate decision. 966 260 877 (209100)

Removals/Storage EUROPEAN removals and transport with scheduled UK routes.

UK Company, fully legal, taking loads from 5kg to 24,000kg.

Lowest prices and the best service. 952 816 582 or www.fo cus-transport.com (201300)

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VAN leaving Spain for UK 4th October. Returning UK to Spain 10th October. Space available both ways. Contact Christine 965 571 837 / 638 261 341 w w w. s p a i n 2 u k 2 s p a i n . c o m (209222) FURNITURE VAN FOR HIRE with driver. Careful local moves, Costa Blanca & UK. Hourly rate or fixed price. Call 676 644 014 (217894)

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MADE TO MEASURE loose covers. Choose from a wide range of materials in your own home.

Javea area 686 453 827 (216679)

TOTAL POOL CARE. Leak detection, structural repairs, regrouts and retiling, replacement pumps, lights, sand filters etc. Tel 654 687 536 (215238)

Situations Vacant FREE accommodation in Spain this winter in return for handyman work. For further details email: oasisparks@yahoo.co.uk or 696 090 776 (218521) K9 Club Urgent Appeal. K9 has a position of a live in kennel manager available. This would suit a couple who love animals as duties would include caring for both dogs and cats. This position has become available due to the current managers moving abroad. For further information phone 600 845 420 or e mail K9 on k9clubinfo@gmail.com (217702) LOOKING for hairdressers. Full time and part time. Call Elin 606 569 924 / 965 888 688 (97532) INTERNET and software company is looking for motivated people for our sales department.

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Building surveying. MCIOB, CAAT. From 245 EUROS + IVA. Insured and legally registered in Spain. Tel: 653 733 066 / 962 807 247 www.costablancasur veyors.com (206563)

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APARTAMENTOS PLAYA ALBIR SL. Quality rental accommodation with reception, 2 beds, 2 bath. Washing machine, air con, sea views and swimming pool.

Available for short or long term let. apartments@playa albirsl.e.telefonica.net / Tel/fax 966 866 206 (209176)

APARTMENT for rent in BENIDORM. 1 bedroom, sunny terrace, long term, no pets, no children. Available for 2 people.

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REPAIRS, cords, slats, winding mechanisms, motors. Calpe + 40 kms. Tony Bowers 659 464 992 www.toldosalchemy.com (219022)

Property for Rent

M100 - BENITACHELL, top floor apartment of a 2 storey block, 2 bedrooms, quiet location, stunning panoramic views. 420€ pcm - 965 745 969 (89468)

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Tax Affairs Skip Hire CONTENEDORES MATA - SKIP HIRE 3-5-10m3. Tel 965 790 172 / 679 440 046 (217930) JAVEA SKIP HIRE 626 670 038, Moraira, Benissa, Calpe, Denia from S & W TOOL HIRE & FERRETERIA MORAIRA (217861)

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Solar Power LOWEST PRICES IN SPAIN, www.solarmegastore.es (209575)

Telecoms FED UP PAYING TOO MUCH FOR YOUR MOBILE PHONE CALLS? THEN CONTACT TELITEC TODAY. CALLS TO SPAIN 7C PER MINUTE INCLUDING MOBILES. CALLS TO UK 5.3C PER MINUTE. NO MONTHLY FEES, NO CONTRACT. WWW.TELITEC.COM TEL: 902 889 070 (0)

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UK TV. Set up fee only €29.99.

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New X-Trail, a new benchmark in Nissan makes world debut BUILDING on Nissan’s respected 4x4 heritage, the new Nissan XTrail made its world debut at the 2013 Frankfurt Motor Show.

It adds crossover style and efficiency to the previous generation model to set a new benchmark for the Japanese manufacturer.

The design behind the X-Trail aims at blending the lines of a modern crossover with the appeal of a typical Sports Utility Vehicle (SUV).

Its silhouette features a number of Nissan signature cues including the ‘boomerang’ rear lights and structured headlights with LED daytime running lamps.

The spacious interior has

4x4: New XTrail offers permanent four-wheel drive. The third row folds forward to increase space. theatre-style seating and the option of two extra seats to make room for seven inside.

Practical touches include rear side doors that open to almost 80

degrees to allow easy access.

The middle row seats recline and slide while, where fitted, the third row folds forward to increase luggage space.

In addition, a double load floor provides flexible storage options.

The X-Trail will be one of the most advanced cars on the road

when it is launched in the first quarter of 2014, claims Nissan.

Fully connected, X-Trail is the first model to benefit from the latest generation NissanConnect in-car navigation, information and entertainment system.

NissanConnect offers Smartphone connectivity, to keep owners connected to the outside world wherever their journey takes them.

It also provides access to a projected range of apps covering music, social networking, entertainment and travel through a large, 7-inch colour touch screen.

The car adopts Nissan’s advanced electronic fourwheel drive system, ALL MODE 4x4i.

Controlled via a rotary switch on the centre console, it offers a choice between two-wheel drive, Auto mode or Lock offering permanent four-wheel drive.

Engineering innovation will also allow the X-Trail to lead its class in terms of engine efficiency thanks to downsizing, say the manufacturers.

By reducing power sapping friction in its drivetrains, the car provides excellent performance from the latest generation of downsized engines, providing the pace of a bigger powerplant with the economy and emissions of a smaller one.

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Toyota Corolla - more success TOYOTA’S iconic Corolla model has reached a new milestone.

The Japanese manufacturer announced Corolla sales exceeded 40 million units worldwide in July.

The first-ever Corolla was built in November 1966 in a factory specially designed for that purpose in the Japanese city of Takaoka.

This facility was later joined by another two in Australia and in Malaysia in order to produce regionspecific models of the iconic car.

The Corolla doubled its annual production from 480,000 to 1.1 million units between 1965 and 1968, proof of how the model contributed to Toyota’s success.

One in five cars Toyota has sold in 76 years of history has been a Corolla, currently produced in 15 manufacturing facilities around the world.

Corolla exports to the US began in 1968, and its success made it possible to reach the 1 million units sold landmark just four years after its launch.

In 1997 the Corolla became the world’s best selling model with 22.65 million units, and since 2002 more than 1 million units per year have been sold.

The original Corolla was designed to meet its customers’ needs.

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Otherwise you might end up on the wrong side of the law.

In Spain if your car is not properly scrapped it is still your responsibility.

Nightmare scenarios are common where an owner is paid by a person promising to scrap the car, only to see it still driving around the streets months later, or involved in crashes or even criminal activities.

And it might turn out YOU are still the legal owner and the person the Guardia Civil comes looking for.

And that will leave you with the headache of explaining that it wasn’t you that ran the person over etc.

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He pays by car’s weight, depending on the model.

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Home loss for Monte v Almoradi B CD MONTESINOS hosted Almoradi B in a match on September 22.

Vaz made the first attempt to score for Monte but the shot was well saved. Dimitry also had a shot chipped in from

Fernando’s free kick but the shot went wide.

It wasn’t long before Almoradi scored as a result of bad defending from Monte and debut keeper Alex was left powerless.

In the second half Monte seemed to be dominating the match with Wallace and Angel replacing Rubio and Diego and the referee sending off two of Almoradi’s team members, one for a second simulation and the

other for a deliberate hand ball.

With several good, yet unsuccessful attempts from Monte, the score ended at CD Montesinos 0- 1 Almoradi B. The next match is a home

game to Bigastro on Sunday, kick off at 5pm.

For more information see the website cdmontesinos.com or email thefullmonte2011@hotmail .com.

Javea win at Benitachell

BBC: Peter Emmett, Press Officer for Costa Blanca Bikers España group with Brian Doggett, BBC President.

The first invitation challenge at BBC ON Sunday October 6 the Benitachell Bowls Club will host a game between The Bay Radio Benitachell Bowlers and Costa Blanca Bikers.

The Invitation Challenge will see 32 bowlers in traditional whites take on 32 bikers in black leathers and all in support of efforts to raise €1,000 on the day for the Children of Emaús.

Commencing at 1.15pm the event will also have cheerleaders and live music on hand to entertain.

Organisers say a full range of bar snacks and drinks will also be available throughout the afternoon to purchase in the clubhouse.

Email peter@peteremmett.com.

THE recent Masters Competition held over four days at Benitachell Bowls Club saw the Javea team of Tony and Anne McKenna, Jan and Alan Phillips and Jo Morris win the team prize.

Jo Morris retained the singles title and then with Tony McKenna won the pairs title. Carol and Ken Davey with Gary and Sue Kent and David Meare came second in the team event and Carol, Ken and David contested an excellent triples final, only to lose on an extra end.

Tony, Anne, Jan and Alan won the Rinks title earlier in the week.

MASTERS COMPETITION: Held over four days at BBC.

Chance to learn rugby FROM October 1, four new rugby schools will open in Alicante province joining the already successful academy running in Villajoyosa.

New rugby schools in Benidorm, Altea,

ORBA WARBLERS: The team played at La Galiana.

Alfaz de Pi and Polop will be available to boys and girls aged between eight and 14.

Organisers say with admission at just €10 per child per month, this is an excellent opportunity for children in Spain to have fun, keep fit and learn about the ‘oval’ ball game.

The locations and training hours of the schools are, Benidorm Pista Atletismo Foites, Mondays and Wednesdays 5.30pm 6.30pm, Altea Campo Futbol, Tuesdays and Thursdays 5.30pm 6.30pm, Alfaz del Pi Pista Atletismo, Tuesdays and Thursdays 5.30pm 6.30pm, Villajoyosa Campo Rugby, Tuesdays The Society would like to thank and Thursdays 5.30pm Margaret for her donation of a 6.30pm and Polop Campo birthday prize won by Robin de Futbol times and dates to be confirmed.

Wheatley and Vicki Loeber.

The next game will be held on For details about October 2 at Oliva Nova competing joining, or to find out for the Paul Kelleway Plate. Guests more contact Gonzalo on are welcome and you can book in at 699 240 010 or Miguel www.orbawarblers.com.

Lago on 649 127 213.

Winning ways for Warblers DEREK GRAY won the singles knock out over John Daniels by 3 to 1 when Orba Warblers Golf Society played at La Galiana.

Winning the title in the doubles match were Andy Loeber and Michael Taylor.

Ron Steele was the winner for the club competition with 38 points,

followed by Tony Young (37) in second, Tim Harrison (35) in third and Allan Wilson (35) in fourth.

Division two was won by Brooke Williamson (33) with Paul O’Gorman (33) in second and Ken Robinson (32) in third.

Nearest the pins went to Steve Robinson and Margaret Hoare.

Montgo medal contest MONTGO Golf Society played a medal competition for the Hannah Marsden Trophy.

The winner was Russ Peters with a net score of 66 points, in second place was Bob Edwards (68), third place went to Neil Carter (70) and Glenys Cuming (70) came in fourth place.

Nearest the Pins went to Stella Fox, Sally Burrowes and Jan Jones. And the two’s went to Sally Burrowes, Jan Jones, and Russ and Bob. Special prizes went to Shaun O’Gorman, Geoff Willcock and Mike Saull.

The Society’s next game is on Friday, October 4, when they will be holding a medal competition for the Oliva Nova Cup sponsored by the Golf Club. www.montgogolfsociety.net

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San Javier at El Valle

THE San Javier Golf Society played an individual stableford at El Valle Golf on Wednesday September 18.

Winner of Category 1 was Bob Gallard with 36 pts closely followed by Dave Archer (35).

Category 2 was won by Kevin Parker (37) with Bernie Waspe (35) in second.

Next game will be at La Serena on October 7.

Javea win at Benitachell in recent Masters Competition.

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Vila in Valencia ON Saturday La Vila Rugby Club travelled to the ‘Rio Turia’ ground in Valencia, to take part in a pre season tournament organised by the ‘Comunidad Valenciana’ federation.

The tournament was between four local teams - Cau Valencia, Valencia Tecnidex, Akra Alicante and La Vila.

La Vila won against both Akra Alicante and Valencia Technidex, but lost to the overall tournament winner, CAU Valencia.

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PRE SEASON TOURNAMENT: Played between four local teams.

Tourists first win GLENROTHES travelled to Albir for the 7th annual Spanish cricket tour.

A touring party of 22 made the trip which cumlinated in two games on Saturday and Sunday.

Skipper Greig Hopcroft won the toss and elected to bat first.

Glenrothes managed 210 runs for nine wickets in their 40 overs, a good total and would be a challenging chase for the home side.

The wickets of Spanish internationals Spencer, Munoz and Pennick saw Alfas slump to 11 for three in only five overs.

Sporting Alfas were all out for 129 to give Glenrothes their first Saturday performance.