Euro Weekly News - Costa Blanca North 7 - 13 November 2013 Issue 1479

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ISSUE NO. 1479

7 - 13 NOVEMBER 2013

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Over the limit THREE people were hurt in a collision between two vehicles on the N-332 in Campello. One of the drivers was five times over the legal alcohol limit.

Bilingual signs FOLLOWING an agreement between Denia Mayor Ana Kringe and the Academy of the Valencian Language, the town’s municipal signs and signposting will appear in Valenciano as well as Spanish.

Flock shock THIRTY or so Barbary sheep in Alcoy’s Font Roja national park are causing too much damage and will be culled. They will be replaced by mountain goats.

Sign on the padron and help Benidorm BENIDORM has launched a ‘padron-awareness’ campaign.

“It’s your town. Register!” residents are urged as the town hall strives to bring the registered population up to 75,000.

Success would bring in €2

million more in funding from the central government. But more is at stake than receiving extra money, explained Benidorm Mayor Agustin Navarro.

“Benidorm not only faces the difficult task of increasing the municipal register but must also

ensure that it does not shrink,” Navarro declared. INE, Spain’s National Statistics’ Office, has modified the padron criteria, obliging foreign residents, even those from EU countries, to renew their registration on the municipal roll.

Private treatment for state system patients MORE than 7,000 Social Security patients in the Valencian Community could have operations in private clinics.

The regional government intends

to spend an estimated €9 million to reduce waiting times to 85 days and meet targets by the end of the year. Patients will have the right to turn down the private option if they

prefer, the regional health department announced.

About half of the 2,604 patients in Alicante Province likely to be affected by the new arrangement

are awaiting orthopaedic procedures. Seven private clinics in Benidorm, Alicante City, Elche, Alcoy and Torrevieja have agreed to participate in the scheme.

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Finance 21 - 26

Letters 27

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FAST WORK: AVE keeps good time.

AVE is flying along

THE Alicante-Madrid AVE high-speed train has achieved 85 per cent punctuality.

This is better time-keeping than any of Spain’s other AVE connections, rail operator Renfe announced recently.

With the trains reaching speeds of 306 kilometres an hour on the Albacete to Madrid section of track, some arrived at their destination with time to spare.

At present, AVEs between Alicante and Albacete cannot go above 200 kilometres an hour. If all goes according to schedule and

safety measures and signalling tests produce the right results, trains on this section should be running at 300 kilometres an hour after January.

This will considerably cut the present journey times and on the Friday and Sunday non-stopping trains, they will be reduced to two hours and five minutes.

More than 600,000 people have used the Alicante AVE since the service began last June, an increase of 41.2 per cent on last year’s figures.

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NEWS Easy ascent VILLAJOYOSA Town Hall has installed a viewing point at La Malladeta. The cliff-top Iberian sanctuary overlooks the Mediterranean and the route up there is now wheelchair-friendly.

Blaze controlled THE emergency services, plus unexpected rain, soon controlled a fire at Javea’s Tossal Gros. Police believe it was started by the same pyromaniac who has been operating in the area for years.

More shopping SEPTEMBER sales improved by approximately 4 per cent, Valencia Community retailers have reported.

Heart help TEULADA-MORAIRA has acquired six lifesaving defibrillators to use on heart attack victims. They will be located at the football pitch, sports complex, town hall and auditorium (Teulada) and Espai La Senieta and the sports centre (Moraira).

Healthy option CLINICA BENIDORM and IMED, Levante and Benidorm’s tourist board, will promote private health tourism in Russia and EU countries. Thirty Costa Blanca hotels will complement the offer with ‘wellness’ centres.

Buyers wanted RECEIVERS appointed by the Alicante courts hope to find a buyer for Supermercado La Nucia. Selling the oncebuoyant store will save jobs, they said.

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SALESIAN nuns have left Callosa’s Fundacion Asilo Hospital after 114 years.

Twice in recent days local residents and the Asilo’s own elderly occupants peacefully blockaded the exit to thwart their relocation to Alcantarilla in Murcia. Eventually they left under cover of night.

The council and civic groups supported the unsuccessful attempts to prevent their departure.

A 5,500-signature petition to the mother superior in Alcantarilla, begging her to reconsider the decision to recall the sisters, was also ignored. The oldest of the Asilo’s five nuns is 84-year-old

Callosa-born Sor Amor, who joined the order when she was 16.

Her family also asked the order to allow her to remain but the request, like all others, fell on deaf ears.

The nuns were recalled because they are needed for other tasks, owing to the ‘lack of vocations’, according to the convent.

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This is a first step towards re-establishing the normality which was shattered in 2004’

Foreign Affairs Minister Jose Manuel GarciaMargallo, referring to a declaration regarding Gibraltar agreed by the UK and Spain which has been taken to the UN.

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Cushy numbers REGIONAL broadcaster RTVV spent €840,839 between 2011 and 2013 on wages and expenses for five special employees. Their job is to cover the activities of Regional President Alberto Fabra.

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Festival to celebrate ‘firewater’

HE 22nd edition of the Fiesta del Orujo will be held in Potes, Cantabria, from tomorrow (Friday) until Sunday. This year, the ‘Orujero Mayor’, the patron of the festival, will be Cantabria-born actor Eduardo Noriega.

Orujo is a strong liquor made in Northern Spain, obtained from the distillation of marc, the solid remains left after pressing the grapes.

It is a transparent spirit with an alcohol content over 50 per cent (100 proof) and is also known as aguadente, or ‘firewater’.

In Cantabria it is mainly made in the Liebana Valley where it has become an artisanal craft for some families who after making wine for themselves distil the pomace in a still.

Young orujo is a colourless liquor, while aged orujo is amber. The aged variety is fermented and distilled the same way, but then poured into oak barrels to age for at least two years.

Cantabria has been distilling orujo since the 14th century at least.

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Cyber settling SAN VICENTE Town Hall suppliers can now present bills online. Internet payment will save time and money, the town hall said.

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The Fiesta del Orujo in Potes includes tastings and a contest wherein participants distil orujo in public with their own stills and judges award a prize for the besttasting batch. Many of the locals dress up in traditional costumes and there is also music as well as stalls selling regional products, conferences and other activities. Thousands of people attend the festival and hotels are fully booked. www.fiestadelorujo.es

IMPROVEMENTS to Campello’s Barranquet Park, inaugurated just five years ago, will cost €450,000. Changes include clearing away the sand that blocks the drains when it rains.

Long wait THE national government has postponed the next phase of channelling the River Barxell in Alcoy, approved in 2011. Work will now begin in 10 years’ time.

Learning curve BENIDORM COUNCIL is organising remedial classes for primary pupils from disadvantaged families. It is hoped this will encourage underperforming and special needs children to keep up their studies.

Lotto winner A BONOLOTO coupon processed by a Benidorm lottery office in La Cala won a second prize of €91,298.72.

The outlet also sold winning tickets for part of last year’s Christmas ‘gordo’ prize.

Family fortunes

Young orujo is colourless

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per cent of Spaniards under the age of 25 still live with their parents, according to the Spanish Youth Council. Only 22 per cent of the population under 30 have moved out, compared to 26 per cent in 2008. Most manage to leave by the age of 34.

Aged orujo is amber

TWO daughters of Alicante City’s former mayor Luis Alperi bought properties from a former partner of developer Enrique Ortiz. They paid well below market prices, allegedly as a ‘favour’ to Alperi.

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Easy terms for paying local dues JAVEA residents are now able to choose how and when they pay local taxes.

Up and till 2012, these were collected in the usual manner, with fines for late payment.

Payment by instalment was then introduced, prompted by the difficult economic situation. A year later, after ironing out problems, the scheme has

been definitively adopted, permitting residents to personalise their town hall payments.

They will have the choice of paying the total in monthly or three-monthly instalments, in person or by standing order. Those making one single payment at the beginning of the year will receive a 4 per cent discount.

Unexpected source of Legionnaires’ AN expert cited a Calpe hotel while addressing an international conference on Legionnaires’ disease in Australia.

He hoped this would help to establish new norms for hydrotherapy pools, said Doctor Sebastian Crespo, Head of Clinical Analysis and Molecular Biology at a Palma de Mallorca clinic.

Forty-two people were affected and six people died, the doctor reminded his Melbourne audience.

The first cases were detected between late November 2011 and January 2012, affecting pensioners, many of them British who were staying at the hotel. A further 17 tourists were taken ill in May and June of the following year.

The outbreak, which lasted eight months, was traced to stagnant water in out-of-sight cavities in the pool.

The hotel had to be closed while the hydrotherapy pool was rebuilt and all piping replaced.

The bacteria which cause Legionnaires’ disease are more often found in cooling towers and large air conditioning units in hotels and hospitals, according to Doctor Crespo.

The focus of the disease in the Calpe case was ‘a novelty’, he added.

Double fire in Gandia A 77-YEAR-OLD woman has died in an apartment fire in Gandia.

Her husband, aged 75, was affected by smoke inhalation but her granddaughter of 24 was unhurt.

Firefighters soon had the blaze under control but had to help trapped occupants escape from the flat above.

A day later, fire broke out again in the same apartment and residents were once again temporarily evacuated.

The next day, relatives of the victims went to repair the door that was broken down during the rescue, a fire brigade source explained later. It is believed they could have unwittingly stirred up the embers of the first fire.

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Costa Blanca in London THE Costa Blanca flew to London this week.

Jaoquin Albaladejo, who heads the provincial tourism department was amongst those attending the World Travel Market in London.

This is one of the most important trade fairs for the tourist sector and the Costa Blanca contingent was there to network and showcase the province’s 141 municipalities.

The UK is the province’s principal client source, who have made 3,187,233 plane journeys to and from the Costa Blanca so far this year. Sixty-seven per cent of British tourists who currently visit the Valencian Community are bound for its resorts, latest statistics show.

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Big-hearted restaurants THREE Alicante restaurants are providing free meals for the jobless two days a week.

The idea came to David Galvañ, owner of El Chef, when he overheard a child ask his parents if there was anything for dinner that night. He was so moved that he vowed to ensure that the unemployed could eat a hot meal twice a week. David mentioned the plan to friends, Paco, who owns Alvaro’s Cafe and Javier of Café Dilema, who wanted to help. Throughout November on Tuesdays and Wednesdays between 1pm and 2pm, unemployed families will get a meal at El Chef. “Above all I want to help the children,” he said.

David will provide the same food that he serves to customers: salad, the Menu del Dia’s main course and water. Javier will supply coffee and Paco will make the children’s merienda or tea.

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Rate increase IBI rates in Pedreguer will rise by 2.28 per cent inside the town and 15.31 per cent in rural areas next year. Rubbish collection charges will remain the same.

Orange alert LACK of rain has affected the region’s citrus fruit crop.

Although abundant, oranges, satsumas and clementines are small and will fetch low prices, growers predicted.

Chapel hidden PINES have concealed the familiar view of Santa Lucia chapel on Montgo, Javea residents complained. Generalitat regional government permission is needed before they can be felled, the town hall explained.

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Benidorm archaeological treasures listed at last LUIS DUART, late parish priest of Benidorm, was also an archaeology aficionado.

He arrived in the town in 1950 and was responsible for the first excavations in El Tossal at the end of the Poniente beach.

On his death in 1983 he bequeathed his collection of 1,396 finds to the town. This has now been catalogued by the archaeologist Victor Cañavete, who described it as “spectacular.”

The collection extends from the Neolithic age to the 19th century although “dating some out-ofcontext finds” proved difficult, he admitted.

Amongst Don Luis’s treasures are a hand axe and adze used around 10,000 years ago as well as Bronze Age pottery from between 3300 and 1200BC. The Greek, Iberian, Roman, Moorish and Christian cultures are all present in the priest’s collection.

The 1,143 coins in the collection are mostly Roman but include

CATALOGUED: Victor Cañavete and Eva Mayor with Don Luis’s finds.

17th century copper cob coins minted in Peru and Venezuela.

Cañavete was paid €1,200 for

the month he spent cataloguing the collection, revealed Heritage councillor Eva Mayor. It was a

minimal outlay, given the value of the Duart collection, she said in answer to Opposition criticism.

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Sex crimes A 26-YEAR-OLD Petrel man has been arrested and charged with sexual assault. He is accused of attacking at least eight young women between October 2012 and September this year.

Green fingers MORE than 2,400 marihuana plants were found growing inside a Montroi (Valencia) villa. It was one of the largest indoor plantations yet found in the Valencia region, police said.

Cemetery to close?

THERE have been calls to close San Juan’s cemetery.

All parties on the local council voted to obtain sufficient evidence to call to suspend activity. This would be followed by the crematorium’s ‘definitive’ closure.

Izquierda Unida, which presented the motion, expressed satisfaction but nevertheless called for the mayor to close down the installation by decree.

The latest motion was not enough to close the crematorium, pointed out PP spokesman Santiago Roman. The town had commissioned a report by the same firm that assessed the impact of Elche’s crematorium for the regional Health Department.

“This is a legal weapon that we can use to halt activity,” Roman said.

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Treatment plant will protect beaches WORK has begun on Moraira’s €6.1 million waste treatment plant.

“This installation is much-needed to guarantee the quality of our beaches, our tourism and the local economy,” said Mayor Antoni Joan Bertomeu as he inspected the site.

A 2,500 square metre municipal plot has been made over to publiclyowned Epsar, responsible for the Valencian Community’s waste treatment.

The existing plant will be complemented with membrane technology to produce water suitable for irrigating the town’s parks and public gardens.

Its visual impact will be reduced by building only

MORAIRA: Mayor and Epsar staff inspect the site. the control room on the surface while the remaining installation will be semi-concealed below ground. The existing building will be renovated and a new deodorisation system installed.

The current pumping system is to get a complete overhaul and overland sewage pipes

will be diverted away from the Senillar marsh.

Problems here in the past were blamed for the loss of the Ampolla beach’s Blue Flag. The most recent incident occurred last July when a blockage in one of the pipes threatened to dump waste on the Ampolla beach.

A sporting chance LA NUCIA students training and studying at Cheste’s High Performance Centre will

get free travel.

Following an agreement between both town halls they will be able to travel

Fiesta clubs to change WHEN Benidorm’s fiestas begin tomorrow, Friday, November 8, the ‘peñas’ will play their usual important part.

This is the last year, however, that peñas, or club, whose members are all under 18 will be recognised by the local Peñas Association.

In 2014 at least seven members of each peña must be adults, the Association has decided.

Neither will minors be allowed to open their own ‘barracas’ or club headquarters during the five days of the fiestas.

“The youngest participants cause the most trouble,” said the Association’s president Mario Millar, “but we are all blamed and held responsible for the problems.”

to Cheste on the same bus as their Benidorm counterparts,.

This will benefit La Nucia’s 14-year-old champion swimmer Raul Rincon, a second-year student at Cheste, together with volleyball player Judith Monzu (14) and triathlon specialist Shadia de Frutos (12), who are both in their first year.

In return La Nucia’s sports installations will be available when needed by Benidorm clubs, given the impossibility of using the L’Illa de Benidorm stadium for sporting events.

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Safety call as two children run over PARENTS have demonstrated outside a Benidorm school where two children were run over.

The girl and boy, both aged seven, were on a zebra crossing outside the Aitana school at 5.30pm when the accident happened. The boy was taken to Alicante General Hospital, sources revealed. The

girl was initially admitted to Villajoyosa Hospital but later transferred to Alicante.

The young female driver was not speeding and tested negative for alcohol and drugs, according to police sources.

Protesting parents called for improved road safety and the removal of four communal rubbish bins which hide the crossing from view.

Speeds bumps are needed and police should direct traffic for OLIVA TOWN HALL is hoping the national government longer than their will allocate €3 million for a sugar museum. present 20-minute Oliva processed and exported cane sugar to Europe stints before and after between the 14th and 18th centuries, explained the children enter and leave school, they Councillor Vicente Roig. “Our town possesses a Gothic claimed. building that is unique for its architecture and its Parents and function as a factory.” residents have been All of the factory buildings, bar one, are now requesting better road municipal property and it will soon be possible to go safety measures for ahead with the restoration project and create the Museu years, a spokesman del Sucre, Roig said. said. “There are three The request for the budget allocation will be made schools here, with 600 through Joan Baldovi, a Compromis party MP in the children coming and Madrid Parliament. going each day.”

Oliva’s sweet notion

NEWS An airport with no name ALICANTE AIRPORT was renamed AlicanteElche last July.

The change was announced in the Official State Bulletin (BOE) although some of the local Spanish media still insist on referring to it as El Altet.

Newcomers could be forgiven for failing to realise that the airport boasts any name at all, as the new signs are not yet in place.

Elche Town Hall had hoped these would be ready for the town fiestas last August, but first has to evaluate tenders for installing the new signs. A decision is imminent, town hall sources disclosed, with an offer well below the stipulated €50,000.

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High hopes DENIA COUNCIL, awaiting €8 million from the regional government’s Plan Confianza fund, is ‘crossing its fingers’. It will be used for 15 projects backed by the PSOE Socialists.

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All lit up

Ecology crops THIRTY people are attending a course on organic agriculture organised by Javea Town Hall. They will learn about natural insecticides and fertilisers and how to market produce.

LA PLANA: Restoration and illumination for Javea’s windmills.

TWO of Javea’s centuries-old windmills are now floodlit.

There are 11 disused mills in the town and five of them are municipal property. Of these, the two closest

to Cabo San Antonio were the first to be equipped with floodlights. The three adjoining structures must first be renovated before the lighting can be installed.

The floodlights are energyefficient, with solar panels and battery-operated LED lights. They also incorporate security measures against vandalism and theft.

NEWS Conveyor belt theft A 39-YEAR-OLD Spaniard has been arrested and charged with stealing a conveyor belt.

He was detained by members of the Guardia Civil’s ROCA group based in Vergel. The unit was created specifically to stem the increasing number of thefts of agricultural produce and machinery in isolated rural areas.

The conveyor belt was taken from a Beniarbeig fruit warehouse and enquiries eventually enabled police to identify and locate the thief.

Flying the wrong flag sparks court case AN off-duty police inspector who ejected a fellow spectator from a sports meeting will not be prosecuted.

The plaintiff claimed in court that he was thrown out of the handball match at Alicante City’s Centro de Tecnificacion for waving

a Spanish Republican flag.

On the contrary, he was removed for provoking other spectators during a Spain versus Algeria match, the National Police inspector told the investigating judge assigned to the case.

Each time the Algerians scored he

waved the red, yellow and purplestriped Republican flag.

This could have triggered a clash between fans, said the Alicante court, confirming the examining judge’s conclusion that the man was expelled for his behaviour, not the flag.

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Homework needed all round as pupils in the region fail to make the grade THE region’s secondary-school pupils lag behind in maths as well as Valenciano and English composition.

Three-quarters failed to make the grade after diagnostic tests on 96,000 pupils by the Regional Education Department. Primary

pupils did slightly better with a 68 per cent failure rate.

The tests were not only aimed at assessing pupils and the schools but also the region’s Education Department, according to the woman who heads it, Maria Jose Catala.

“We must do our homework, too,” Catala said.

The department did not set out to classify who was best but to detect problems so that it can give positive support to the schools and institutes that need it, she added.

Property is Number One

ALICANTE sells more properties to foreign buyers than any other province in Spain.

For two years it has consistently outsold Malaga, Barcelona and Madrid. Alicante, Malaga and Murcia accounted for 50 per cent of all Spanish property sales to foreign buyers between January and July this year.

Of these, 29 per cent were located in Alicante which ‘exported’ €955 million in homes sold to international buyers, outstripping the €650 million exported by the province’s footwear manufacturers.

The central government in Madrid should incentivise residential international

tourism, claimed property sector association Provia.

Spain is looking to attract foreign investors with the new Start-up Law and streamlining red tape, Provia pointed out.

These measures are ‘pointless’ unless the government complements them with an adequate offer. Non-residents usually want high-end properties, not unsold stock left over from the construction boom.

Facilities are needed to build new developments or complete unfinished projects aimed specifically at foreign buyers, Previa maintained.

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Parking charges relaxed TEULADA has switched to its winter timetable for parking in restricted ORA ‘blue zones’.

Drivers now pay only between the times of 9am and 2pm from Monday to Saturday. There is no charge in the afternoon or on Sundays and fiesta days.

The town hall has adjusted the paid parking regulations to respond to the present economic climate, explained Teulada Mayor Antoni Joan Bertomeu.

It also facilitates trade in the town centre, he pointed out.

The winter timetable, which has proved popular in previous years, improves communication between Teulada and Moraira in a period when there is less tourism in the area, Bertomeu added.

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Sisters seek late inheritance justice DENIA resident Amparo Dominguez Arcos is fighting to be recognised as a rich landowner’s granddaughter.

Amparo is Galician-born and still returns periodically to Galicia. Five years ago while visiting her birthplace, Paradela de Meis

(Pontevedra), she learnt that her father was illegitimate. She was told his biological father was Jose Benito Torres Bouzas, who died in Argentina without heirs in 1954, leaving more than 62 properties worth around €10 million in Pontevedra to his former housekeeper. “She and her descendants have lived all this time off his estate, while my own father had to send his daughters out to work as cleaners and to emigrate,” she declared.

A 24-YEAR-OLD from Elche has been arrested on A Cambados (Pontedrugs’ charges at an Albanchez (Almeria) pop vedra) court threw out their festival. attempt to bring a paternity He was carrying three 2C1 tablets, five grammes suit and the Supreme Court of hashish, 14 grammes of marihuana, two grammes refused to authorise a DNA of ketamine, MDMA (ecstasy) in powder form and analysis. Failing to find pills, LSD and several doses of speed. satisfaction in Spain, He gave himself away by constantly touching a Amparo and her sisters Ana bag hidden in his clothes, Guardia Civil sources and Dolores are now taking revealed. the case to the Court of Synthetic 2C1 is comparatively new, the same Human Rights. sources explained. Although generally sold as They want all the earlier ecstasy, it is a psychedelic drug that can have rulings annulled or dam‘unpredictable’ results if consumed by someone who ages of €200,000 each for is unaware of what they are taking. their ‘pain and suffering’.

Elche drug-dealer arrested in Almeria

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Footlights as ‘high as a flag!’

“I’M as high as a flag on the Fourth of July,” sings Nellie Forbush (Jo Baldwin) when she tells that she is “in love with a wonderful guy.”

This is one of the many popular songs, from Footlights’ production of the Rodgers & Hammerstein hit musical South Pacific next week.

The show will be staged on November 13 and 14 at the Casa de Cultura, Calpe. It will be followed by a single performance on November 18, at the Casa de Cultura, Alfaz del Pi, at 8pm.

Tickets are priced at €12 for adults, and €8 for children under 14, and are now selling very well.

The easiest way to book tickets is from the box office, via email on footlights.boxoffice@gmail.com or telephone 652 404 798.

Tickets for the Alfaz del Pi show are also on sale at the AECC cancer charity shops in Alfaz, Albir and La Nucia.

Footlights are very proud of their record of donating well over €30,000 to local charities over the past 10 years.

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IN REHEARSAL: The cast of Footlights.

There will also be a final presentation on November 20, at the Teatro Municipal de Torrevieja, in association with the Costa Lions Club of Torrevieja.

Tickets for Torrevieja are available online from www.instanticket.es

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Spanish drivers lacking in motoring skills SPANISH drivers fail in energy-efficient and safe driving, a study by international driving services and solutions provider MiX Telematics has revealed.

The study, carried out among 800 professional drivers from the UK, France, Germany and Spain, suggests that both drivers and their employers should work together to achieve a safer and more efficient driving standard.

Fifty per cent of the motorists polled have received a formal warning or fine for their driving performance.

These warnings came in the form of sanctions and placed Spain at the top of the list, followed by France and Germany.

Ninety per cent of the 800 polled claimed that safe driving is very

PROFESSIONALS: 50 per cent fined or warned. important in their job, with only 25 per cent of them receiving guidelines from their employers to improve their driving.

Energy-efficient driving, however, seems to be less relevant as almost a quarter of those polled did not consider it important.

When asked about how their driving style was monitored, only 10 per cent of motorists said they had monitoring devices in their vehicle.

Sixty-one per cent claimed their performance was controlled through ‘observation’, Spain being the country where this type of control is more usual.

As for ways to encourage drivers to improve their skills, most of them said economic incentives were the best option.

But Spanish drivers claimed they were more concerned about good performance than receiving bonuses.

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Staff dig deep to help Keira

EMPLOYEES at a Costa Blanca business were so moved by the story of disabled youngster Keira Alvarez that they have dipped into their own pockets to help out.

The staff at Eurochange clubbed together to present a cheque for €1,000 to help pay for the expensive treatment that she needs to receive in the coming weeks.

Keira with her mother Debbie visited the company’s head office in Juan Fuster Zaragoza, Benidorm, to collect the cheque.

A company spokesman said: “It was a fantastic opportunity to meet Keira in person and get to know more about her case and treatment. She was starved of oxygen at birth due to placental abruption and was non-responsive until they finally found a heartbeat after 15 minutes of CPR and two shots of adrenaline. She was then admitted to ICU where she remained for

HELPING OUT: Staff at Eurochange hand Debbie (right). five weeks and in this time was diagnosed with severe brain damage (spastic quadriplegic cerebral palsy) and epilepsy.

“Thanks to the determination of her

over a cheque to Keira and her mother parents and the fighting character of Keira herself, her status has been improving with the therapies submitted. However, they are not enough and she needs an expensive

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treatment of hyperbaric oxygen (HBO) that fortunately is available at a specialised clinic in Guadalajara - up to now they had to travel to the US to receive it.

“The donation by Eurochange staff will go to help in the treatment and thanks to her page on Facebook https:// www.facebook.com/Therapyforkeira we can be updated on her progress.”

More info: http://eurochange.es/blog/.

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Tunnel hold-up THE 2014 regional government’s budget did not include money for the Serra Grossa tram tunnel. Although lacking only tracks, lighting and electricity, no date was given for its completion.

IVA scam AN Alicante tax official found guilty of a €1.2 million IVA tax fraud returned only €150,000. This was insufficient, judges said, and jailed her for eight years.

Cancer walk MORE than 1,000 walkers joined a march through Benidorm to support breast cancer association, Anemona.

CAMPAIGN: Adam King from Overseas FM and Mayor Chulvi highlight perils of drink-driving.

Drink-driving danger

THE dangers of drink-driving have been highlighted in Javea.

Mayor Jose Chulvi was joined by the Local Police and Overseas FM in spearheading an anti-drinkdriving campaign. Giving a demonstration of the perils of alcohol, Iceland’s car park was transformed into a test circuit to test the co-ordination skills of three volunteers.

A car was provided by Euromart Cars of Javea and in a series of tests created by osteopath Jeremy Kenton, volunteers were asked to drink standard bar measures of alcohol and drive around the test circuit.

They were breathalysed at the start and throughout

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their drinking session.

The experiment proved that with as little as oneand-a-half spirit-based drinks they were over the legal limit for driving.

Mayor Chulvi expressed concern that with the lead-up to Christmas, Spanish and expatriates risk not only their own lives but also those of innocent bystanders when they get behind the wheel of a car in a drunken state.

The legal limit of alcohol is 0.25 for car and motorbike drivers, and 0.15 for commercial drivers and those who passed their driving test within the last two years.

REMEMBRANCE services will be held this Sunday and on Monday by many of The Royal British Legion Branches in the North District.

Poppies have been delivered to businesses in the area and the legion spends £250,000 (€290,000) each day to help armed forces personnel and their families. By making a donation for a poppy people are supporting those who have dedicated their lives to serving their country.

For 90 years, the Poppy Factory in Richmond, Surrey (UK) has been making poppies, crosses and wreaths for The Royal British Legion’s annual Poppy Appeal.

For details of a service near you, please visit www.britishlegion.org.uk/ counties/spain-north or call 648 860 251.

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Moving time for HELP AFTER a week of hard work, a few dedicated volunteers have transformed an empty shop into a freshly-painted office and equipment store for HELP of Denia and Marina Alta.

David Goodall, volunteer office co-ordinator, said: “We are still located in La Xara, but the new premises are next to our charity shop in Avenida del Mar, and are better suited to our purpose.”

The original HELP Centre remains in Avenida Oeste

Len Roper and Sheila Whitelaw, office volunteers, with a customer Sybil Kent. and hopes to expand its range of activities, including a Parkinson’s support

AGM for u3a THE venue for the Annual General Meeting of u3a Moraira-Teulada is Salon de Banquettes, Avenida Mediterraneo, Teulada.

Doors will open to members at 9.30am on December 2. The meeting will start at 10.30am.

This is the AGM when the elections will be held for committee posts. The current committee will stand down, but may seek re-election if they wish. This meeting is very important to the smooth running of the u3a, so members are asked to attend.

More information: www.u3amoraira-teulada.org.

group. The new store holds a range of mobility aids which can be borrowed for short-term use, whilst recovering from surgery or illness; the office provides support to the charity’s band of volunteers as well as dealing with enquiries from the general public.

“If we don’t know the answer, we try to signpost people in the right direction to get an answer,” said David.

The office and store are open Monday to Friday 10am to 2pm and can be contacted on 966 427 044.

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Wife beater held A MAN was arrested in Palma for allegedly attacking his wife in the street following an argument motivated by jealousy. The woman reported that he frequently abused her.

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NEWS DESK Royal visit THE Prince and Princess of Asturias accompanied by their daughters spent the long holiday weekend in Almeria Province. For their stay they chose a chalet in the coastal town of Agua Amarga in the Cabo de Gata.

Marihuana seized

Chef strikes gold

GUARDIA CIVIL seized 10 kilos of marihuana which were being grown on the communal patio of a home in Petra, and arrested a man.

ALBOX TOWN HALL has awarded the winner of TV’s Masterchef, Juan Manuel Sanchez, the Gold Shield of Albox. The ceremony took place on Saturday during the town’s feria celebrations. Mayor Rogelio Mena said: “Juan Manuel is worthy of the distinction for representing the town’s entrepreneurship and humility.”

Good news UNEMPLOYMENT fell by 4,665 people in October in the Balearic Islands compared to the same month last year. This makes 12 months of falling unemployment rates.

Drunk driver A DRUNK DRIVER was arrested in Palma after his vehicle hit a parked car and then a tree before overturning in the road and losing one of its wheels.

Bottle attack A MAN, 22, was arrested in Inca for the alleged attempted manslaughter of another using a glass liqueur bottle with which he slashed the neck of the victim, aged 27.

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Niche market AN administrative assistant in Salobreña is facing five years in prison for an alleged case of illegal niche selling at the town’s cemetery. He’s been accused of fraud, tax levy and document falsification.

Anti-drugs drive ALMUÑECAR Local Police have launched a campaign to fight against drug dealing in the town. A sniffer dog is helping to find drugs at the town’s bus station and in school and high-school areas.

Fruity theft FOUR people have been remanded in custody for allegedly stealing a total of 1,000 kilos of custard apples from two different areas in Motril.

Police assault A MAN has been sentenced to a year in prison after he assaulted two Local Police officers who were trying to stop a fight in the streets of Nerja.

Graffiti ghouls GRAFFITI vandals struck the old town of Salobreña during Halloween celebrations.

HACKER: Nazi and fascist material recovered during the arrest in Torrevieja.

Right-wing teen hacker arrested A TORREVIEJA teenager has been arrested for sending death threats to journalists.

The right-wing 19-year-old was detained by police within 48 hours after an investigation was launched into cyber attacks. During the last two weeks, various digital media have been subjected to constant attacks that have crippled their websites, affected their normal operations and resulted in the loss of an estimated €100,000.

Agents from the Technological Research Unit of the National Police in Alicante were alerted to the hacker and arrested him at his home in Torrevieja, where they seized two laptops, hard drives, Nazi flags and fascist material.

Operating under the name of ‘Cyber Command Spanish Fascist Empire’ he sent emails to several media outlets making bomb threats and threatening to kill journalists. Reportedly self-taught, the hacker used a series of networks to carry out a ‘distributed denial of service’ attack (DDOS), by simultaneously hitting a website with multiple requests for information until the site was overloaded and no longer accessible.

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Gender change A SCHOOL in Huelva has accepted the change of gender of a 13-year-old who will now be allowed to wear a girl’s uniform and use the girls’ toilets.

Genetic test A GENETIC test to be used for the first time at a private clinic in Malaga will be able to identify 180 genetic diseases and 900 mutations.

Olive crop OLIVE GROWERS in the Antequera area report that olive oil production for this season is expected to reach 70 million kilos, double the amount made last year.

Be my friend MARBELLA wants to become the fourth city in Spain to join the ‘Chinese Friendly International’ initiative to become a ‘Chinese Friendly City’.

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Smart parking

Down to earth

MALAGA will be the first city in Spain to install an ‘intelligent’ system for metered parking in February next year. It will show drivers where there are free spaces.

A BRITISH man, aged 72, had to be rescued on Saturday afternoon after crashing while practising paragliding in an area of the Sierra Alhamilla.

Sign here SINGER India Martinez, nominated in the Grammy Latino awards, was in Almeria last week signing copies of her new album ‘Camino de la buena suerte’.

All that jazz THE 24th International Jazz festival takes place in the Maestro Padilla theatre in Almeria City from November 12 to 24.

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Buzz off!

PEST CONTROL workers have been brought in to Torrevieja to rid the city of mosquitoes which are remaining throughout the year. The city spends €95,000 a year on eradicating the pest.

Bomb arrest A MAN threatened to kill his mother and her partner with a bomb at their home in Orihuela. Police arrested the 47-yearold, who suffers from schizophrenia, after he barricaded himself into the property.

No cash MORE than 170,000 unemployed people in Alicante are not receiving any financial help.

Only one in three jobless in the province are getting benefits, according to the latest Labour Force Survey (LFS) for the third quarter of 2013.

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Cash wanted to restructure debt

KITCHEN appliance manufacturer Fagor Electrodomesticos needs €170 million to put it on its feet.

The San Sebastian company is a cooperative and most of its workers are also partners in the firm. It is currently in voluntary talks with its creditors and has debts that some sources place at €800 million.

The company is “viable,” managing director Sergio Treviño told a Diario Vasco interviewer.

But Fagor needs €170 million, he said, and needs it soon to restructure its debt and prevent a domino effect that could cause its collapse.

Fagor Electrodomesticos has 5,600 employees worldwide, of whom 2,000 work in the company’s five Spanish factories.

Spain’s mining sector in decline FIREDAMP, the miner’s enemy, recently took six lives in Leon.

Deadly methane gas released with the coal is rapid, silent and odourless. In the past the death of a caged canary was the only warning of firedamp’s presence, but the wellequipped miners in the Emilio del Valle pit found 694 metres were still vulnerable.

Firedamp and Spain’s geologically-complex mining areas make its coal uncompetitive.

Large quantities of methane in many mines in Leon and Asturias require heavy investment in maintenance and safety measures.

The mining sector’s decline began in the

1960s and accelerated in the 1980s.

At that time, 51,127 men were employed in Spain’s pits. Now there are fewer than 5,000.

Between 1990 and 2012 the industry required €24 billion of public money, but Brussels has decreed that by 2018 only mines able to survive without government funding may remain open. Jobs will be cut to 4,500 and uncertainty regarding the future prompted last year’s miners’ strike and march on Madrid.

Until then, the government has promised the unions that Spanish coal will generate 7 per cent of the output of the country’s power-stations.

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Short shift NISSAN took on another 308 people for a fourhour ‘mini-night’ shift at their Barcelona plant over the next three months.

They will be producing the X83 Primastar van.

Built up CONSTRUCTION company Ferrovial earned €485 million net between January and September, 2 per cent more than the same period in 2012.

Turnover increased by 4.9 per cent.

Outranked SPAIN fell eight positions in the World Bank’s ‘Doing Business’ rankings.

It came 44th out of 189 countries.

A smoking hot offer TAX authority Hacienda will auction between 200 to 300 new Estancos.

Although they also sell stamps, these are principally Spain’s tobacco shops, the only place where cigarettes can be bought over the counter.

This is the first time since 2003 that offers have been invited. Bids will be graded according to

requirements based on location, the distance from other Estancos, floor space and distance from schools. Once all conditions are met, the only other consideration taken into account will be the amount offered.

This is a far cry from the past when Estancos were inherited and remained a family business.

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STAT OF WEEK MORE bicycles than cars were sold in Spain last year.

Sales rose to 780,000 cycles, compared to the 699,589 new vehicles registered in 2012.

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IN TROUBLE: Worker at a Fagor plant.

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NET VOLUME 556.67 95.98 196.00 93.82 424.60 499.07 769.44 424.83 441.63 1,030.25 45.76 809.11 11,740.68 627.20 1,178.26 4,863.78 348.21 401.88

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PRICE CHANGE %CHANGE VOLUME 125.90 82.16 36.24 133.03 83.59 118.01 22.57 61.09 89.82 26.54 162.05 76.99 24.33 179.23 93.37 52.51 97.24 45.23 35.53 76.06 31.17 81.15 39.61 86.40 107.51 68.63 50.49 199.16

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CHANGE 44.00 14.50 -65.30 6.00 23.50 -2.40 -2.40 14.50 0.30 2.50 1.00 17.10 10.00 9.00 -5.00 -6.80 -1.00 0.90 20.15 -0.40 11.00 1.40 0.01 8.00 0.60 -14.20 0.80 15.00 3.08 50.00 1.15 5.00 5.00 -2.00 -2.00 26.00 29.00 5.50 0.50 7.00 55.00 -7.00 -5.50 10.00 0.30 0.50 0.20 0.70 18.00 -7.36 29.00 -1.00 19.00 -2.50 2.90 10.00 1.02 -2.50 0.05 16.00 -3.50 5.75 17.00 -5.67 10.00 -1.65 -162.00 -9.00 2.60 -1.20 -13.00 4.00

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VOLUME 159.59 380.30 1,709.88 172.52 157.80 3,330.43 425.68 1,882.13 6,508.22 180.38 41.01 12,581.12 69.37 175.86 97.32 3,276.44 41.72 1,082.86 52.63 383.30 310.34 2,433.23 18,095.58 27.62 650.04 2,152.26 153.23 117.63 1,287.46 76.75 1,112.44 279.22 253.29 185.37 517.98 57.91 178.45 416.66 190.03 223.44 650.70 785.87 9,866.63 1,123.11 4,261.87 142.72 146.25 547.75 32.06 71.07 208.49 388.25 276.70 75.40 328.34 1,365.14 590.03 147.77 1,269.70 69.37 339.32 194.19 345.77 633.04 73.46 11,916.41 1,033.35 36.30 656.27 867.63 106.66 667.53

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Recovery in the UK gains momentum THE UK economy has been on a strengthening trend for the past few months thanks to improved economic data.

The feel-good factor is contagious and is gathering pace across the entire spectrum of the economy. In yet another good report out in early October, optimism in the UK financial industry advanced to its strongest level in 17 years! This is extremely good news that will likely weigh on the Bank of England’s monetary policy direction in the form of forward guidance which focuses on keeping interest rates low for at least three years.

The UK recovery has encouraged investors to speculate that the Bank of England will have to lift interest rates earlier than previously indicated. At the September meeting, Governor Mark Carney suggested that the

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unemployment rate will have to drop below 7 per cent before a rate increase is considered.

An increasing number of investors are betting that the Bank of England will have to raise interest rates earlier if the economy keeps overheating and the move higher in the pound certainly reflects this view.

The activity in the UK property market is also contributing to the recovery and it seems that the UK Government wants to keep momentum going and the good news flowing, especially as we move closer towards the general election.

In a surprise announcement at

NICELY PLACED: The Pound against the Euro. the Tory party’s annual conference in Manchester at the end of September, Prime Minister David Cameron launched the second phase of the state-backed Help to Buy scheme, which was originally due at the beginning of January 2014. The scheme was brought forward to early October despite mounting criticism that the scheme, enabling buyers to

purchase a house with a deposit of just 5 per cent, could fuel a dangerous property bubble.

In the Eurozone, confidence is also returning albeit at a much slower pace. The European Central Bank (ECB) stance is cautious and the central bankers do not seem in a rush to increase stimulus to support the recovery.

ECB President Mario Draghi

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acknowledges that the recovery is under way but he never fails to state that risks to the downside persist, especially due to the ongoing shutdown in the US and also to a key confidence vote in Italy in early October.

Silvio Berlusconi’s attempt to unseat Prime Minister Enrico Letta dramatically failed and this contributed to restore calm in the entire region. Italy’s political crisis has been threatening the stability of the region for the past few months and Letta’s victory removes a major risk for the single currency. Nonetheless, the coalition remains fragile and any sign of political instability in Italy could send jitters again through the entire region. Overall Sterling has been nicely placed in the last month to take advantage of wobbles in Europe and the US, especially with the backdrop of an improving economic outlook.

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Change of mood THE BFA-Bankia Group terminated their contractual relationship with Moody’s ratings agency. Any information or evaluation issued by the agency will henceforth be based on public information alone, the company said.

Prices down CONSUMER prices fell 0.1 per cent in October year on year, the first fall since October 2009.

Biggest reductions were in food and non alcoholic drinks.

Sales up SALES figures from small shops rose 2.2 per cent in September year on year following 38 consecutive monthly falls.

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Beware, the cost of lunch may be giving you financial indigestion…

Loose change A look at finance for females

Jane Plunkett jane.plunkett@euroweeklynews.com

“THERE’S no such thing as a free lunch,” my father says, and boy is he right.

In fact this simple little midday meal can cut a hefty chunk out of a person’s income. What may seem like a harmless, but necessary, midday munch can be responsible for big annual losses. So what can we do to still fill our bellies but reduce our spending?

Well, drawing up and sticking to a budget is an essential way to see where your money goes and to save for the things you want to do and buy, but

tracking every little thing can be daunting.

And that’s one of the main reasons why many people give up on their budgets. So a good idea is to start small, and looking at saving at lunch is a good place to begin, because it’s surprising just how much money people fork out for this meal.

In the US the average American spends €8 a day on lunch, which adds up to almost €2,000 a year. A typical Spanish lunch, along with the all-important afternoon coffee, is probably close to €8 a day too. In Rio de Janeiro the annual cost of lunch is close to €1,500, while splashing out for a steak and chips a couple of time a week in the UK will set diners back about €3,500 a year.

By making your own

ADDS UP: Eating out costs thousands a year. lunch every day it’s possible to save about €5 a day, which is about €1,500 a

year of extra cash. And it doesn’t have to be a massive chore either

preparing a to-go lunch.

When you’re making dinner make extra portions that can be put in the fridge in Tupperware boxes which are easy to just grab before leaving for work the next morning.

A tasty sandwich takes no time to prepare in the morning, while a few nuts, bananas or dried fruits on your desk are good snacks to help keep hunger at bay, and more importantly keep you away from splashing out €8 on a menu del dia.

Can they divide their Community?

Q. I am president of a Community of Property Owners, which has been functioning for the past 12 years. Our Community has 31 houses on one side of the road and 21 houses on the other side, as it was Phase One and Phase Two of the development.

1. Can we split into two Communities?

2. Does this require a unanimous vote? Our administrators say so, but we feel a majority vote should be sufficient.

3. Can we stay as one Community, but have different rules for each side of the road?

4. Smoking is a problem around the pool area. Some want it and a few don’t want it. However, it was agreed to accept it at the 2007 AGM. You and the B.C. (Costa Blanca)

Law in Spain

By David Searl

A. Yes, you can split into two Communities. And, yes, this requires a unanimous vote. Any change which involves modification of the original Statutes requires a unanimous vote, as set out in the Horizontal Law. It will be a long and complex process, requiring the legal dissolution of one Community and the creation of two new ones.

Yes, you can remain as one Community, with some different regulations for each side of the road.

If these rules do not involve changes in the original charter of the Community, a simple majority vote should suffice.

If the Community has voted to accept smoking in the pool area, that is the rule. If someone wishes to change it, they can put forward a motion.

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OPINION & COMMENT

Urgent talks needed for late night music bars WHY do I get the impression that the Spanish authorities want to close pubs and restaurants down?

In Calahonda’s El Zoco commercial centre (Mijas Costa, Malaga), to comply with regulations, the landlords are being told ‘no music must be heard.’

A lot of tourists use this complex as their holiday destination, mainly because of its music and late bars. There is no soundproofing in these old buildings and to make them legal would cost too much money.

These pubs and restaurants rely on the terrace space as they can’t squeeze everyone into a small area with music playing.

As a small business, if they want to thrive and make a living, they must give what the customers want.

The authorities should have a meeting with all late night business owners and come to a compromise to keep these bars and restaurants open. These bars need to open to accommodate the people that go down to the beach for the sun all day. Night-time is when they spend money and enjoy the night-life.

Let us keep the Costa del Sol a holiday destination and not an old persons’ retirement resort GKS (By email)

Inappropriate DB of Palma wants people to ‘cover up’ when out and about (Letters 1476).

I really do not understand why people think it appropriate to insist on others wearing clothes when it is warm enough for clothing not to be required.

The naked human body is no more offensive than the body of a hippopotamus.

In my view, the vast majority of people have accepted brainwashing by the people who have control of the major religions of Europe and the Americas to believe that they should be offended by the sight of naked bodies.

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I HAD to stop the car and take this picture. It was a stunning sunset taken near Coin (Malaga).

By Lucinda Monk (by email) Think of the money that could be saved if the security controls at airports, banks, etc, could be done away with because people would have nowhere to hide guns, grenades and rocket launchers.

And for me personally, I would not have to get dressed just to go to the shops for my daily bread.

Written in the ‘nudist colony’ ghetto of Vera Playa.

Mike Roberts, Vera Playa (Almeria)

A fine threat REGARDING your story about Alcoy Council threatening to fine people €750 for feeding stray cats (Costa Blanca North, Issue 1478). Perhaps a better way would be to fine owners for not neutering and spaying their cats instead of throwing them out when they become pregnant.

One person’s opinion when asked about neutering her tom cat was: “Oh, but that would spoil him.”

Enough said!!

Sheila Broderick (By email)

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Ticking off IN regard to the letter from Anthony Jones that prostitution should be made legal in Spain (Letters Issue 1478).

It has not been illegal since 1995, when it was decriminalised.

There are, however, restrictions imposed by some municipalities on where they can operate.

Pimping is illegal, but operating a brothel is legal, although the owner cannot directly benefit from the prostitutes’ earnings.

I wish readers would do a little research before putting pen to paper.

E G, Fuengirola (Malaga)

Justin Hunter’s letter calling for Sunday trading ( Letters 1476 ) drew a mixed response from readers...

Go home WHY does Justin Hunter want Sunday trading? These people who want to change the culture of the country they live in are annoying.

I would assume they came to live here because of the way of life and the weather. If they don’t like it, go back to where they came from.

GB, Albanchez (Almeria)

Quite right SUNDAY trading would be a huge boon to the community.

In the summer many tourist area shops can open all week, and it is noticeable that most shops take advantage. They would not pay the extra staffing costs if it did not work. Your correspondent is quite right - it is time to open on a Sunday.

P Wilson, Estepona (Malaga)

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Heart-warming DOES Mr Hunter really want to see Spain’s family life and the peace we have, sent into oblivion?

Isn’t it heart-warming to see several generations of families all together eating/walking/ enjoying life on the one day they can be together?

Did we not leave the UK to escape rampant commercialism of our lives among other things?

We do not need seven-day trading if we organise our lives accordingly.

Companies will employ extra staff?

Doubtful, existing staff will be forced to work extra hours as has happened in the UK. Yes, Spain should modernise and keep up with the times, but it must not destroy what is holy and rare in today’s world - family life, peace and tranquillity on one day a week.

Beverley and Peter, Alhaurin (Malaga)

Face facts WHILE the debate over global warming heats up, it’s surprising that many experts ignore one of the main causes of environmental degradation: runaway world population.

In 1900, the world population was 1.6 billion; in 1950, there were 2.5 billion; in the year 2000, 6.7 billion; and the projection for the year 2050 is that there will be almost 12 billion human beings.

The life expectancy in most developed countries is already well into the 80s, and the rest of the world will achieve this in due course. A human being lives an average of three generations (75 years or more). With only two births per couple, when my wife and I die we’ll have left behind 12 more beings on the planet.

It’s not arithmetic, but geometric. The Earth cannot sustain such growth, especially if we all aspire to a ‘First World’ lifestyle.

Confronting this inconvenient truth entails difficult moral, ethical and sociological problems, but if we continue to ignore them the consequences for humanity will be unimaginable.

Richard M McBride, Benidorm (Alicante)

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The Revolution Will be Televised (Comedy, 2012) BBC 3 from 1:30am to 2:00am Satirical series featuring bitesized comedy hits, from fictionalised characters to stuntled sketches, which brings the corruption, greed and hypocrisy of politicians, multi-nationals and tax-shy billionaires who have been taking the British public for a ride for years to the fore. Dale Maily enjoys a day out at an EDL march in Birmingham; James and Barnaby attempt to convince the public that MPs should have a pay rise; and James has a surprise for old friend David Cameron. BBC executives get a helping hand, Google and Nike get a rebrand and Network Rail feel the frustrations of being delayed.

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No one is born a racist LEAPY LEE SAYS IT OTHERS THINK IT

BLACK OR WHITE: How racism can be passed on.

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O child is born a racist. It is the world of adults that instils the idea that some of us may be different, or in some way unacceptable to others.

To a child born in this 21st century, particularly in the West, it is perfectly normal for them to be surrounded by children of all creeds and ethnic backgrounds. Watch any group of children in creches or playgrounds and you will observe them all playing happily together, with no hint of favouritism or antagonism towards each other.

So when does the ugly face of racial intolerance begin to manifest itself? Of course, a great deal of it is passed directly from the parents. Racist parents, constantly demonstrating intolerance of others, will sooner or later instil it into their own offspring.

But I think in many cases it starts earlier than that and in my opinion, it is the media that must accept a lot of the blame.

I think many of the children’s charities should sit down and have a rethink as to how they use the media to circulate their appeal campaigns. Day after day we are inundated with emaciated children, covered in flies with

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Deadly bananas A BRITISH family had to evacuate their home after discovering dozens of venomous Brazilian wandering spiders in a bunch of bananas they had bought from a Sainsbury’s supermarket.

Jet-setting gator bulging eyes and inflated bellies. There are no watersheds to these appeals, so from a tender age little ones are constantly exposed to sights of the appalling living conditions and deprived suffering of children and babies.

And 99 times out of 100 they are all black!

Is it any wonder then that youngsters begin to observe each other differently? What makes it worse is that these children are, by the very state of their circumstances, also observed by these young minds to be inferior to those with full bellies, white parents and taps full of water.

And how do the black tots react to this situation? Well to me it’s obvious. Firstly they must, after observing these images of deprived children, most of whom are the

same colour as themselves, begin to themselves feel in some way inferior. This must soon be taken over by any number of emotions. Jealousy, confusion, mistrust, anger and, above all, among both black and white, the previously unrealised fact that they are indeed not all the same. And there you have it. All the ingredients of future unrest and possible conflict. The birth of racism.

What these charity groups can do about the situation, I have no idea. Perhaps the best plan of action would be a watershed to showing these images. At least it would prevent impressionable minds from becoming racists before they can speak.

Keep the faith, Love Leapy Leapylee2002@gmail.com

OFFICIALS were baffled when a small alligator was found underneath the escalator in Terminal 3 of Chicago O’Hare Airport.

Canine reward POLICE OFFICERS in Nottinghamshire, UK, who look after retired police dogs will be entitled to claim up to £500 (€591) a year to cover veterinary bills.

The chief commissioner said the dogs deserve a pension.

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Unable to save his family, Maximus losses his will to live and allows himself to get captured and put into the Gladiator games to meet his death. The only desire that fuels him now is the chance to rise to the top so that he will be able to look into the eyes of the man who will feel his revenge.

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PAIN’S President Mariano Rajoy would doubtless have preferred to pretend that the US does not monitor Spain’s communications.

The Spanish right now are concerned about surviving on a day-to-day domestic basis. Few are going to waste precious energy over working themselves into an outraged lather about 90 million eavesdropped communications.

They left that to the media, which embraced the NSA scandal as a change of flavour after the usual StrasbourgBarcenas-Crisis fodder.

The government reluctantly responded by summoning the US ambassador for an explanation while quavering about “erosion of trust.”

The NSA subsequently claimed that Spain and France carried out the original eavesdropping before passing the information to the US.

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Rajoy must be relieved he did not do a Dilma Rousseff and cancel a Washington visit. Although, unlike his Brazilian counterpart, he has yet to receive an invitation and is unlikely to do anything to spoil his chances of getting one.

Danger money SIX coalminers died in Leon, overcome by methane as they worked 694 metres below ground.

These were the last in the inevitably long line of deaths that occur wherever men have to hack out coal to earn a living.

The devastating blow to the families of the men who died is also another debilitating blow to Spain’s struggling coal industry.

Miners went on strike and marched on Madrid last year to protest at reductions in subsidies and their future is still uncertain.

The Leon deaths are a further reminder that however much a miner is paid he earns it. Very often with his life.

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Right side of the law RAJOY prudently stayed away from the Madrid protest against the Court of Human Rights ruling on the Parot Doctrine.

The Strasbourg ruling forced the government to backtrack on plans to make ETA convicts serve longer than their original sentences, to the dismay of victim support associations. No minister was present at the demonstration organised by the most vociferous groups although most

PRUDENT: Spain’s President Mariano Rajoy. of the PP hierarchy attended. Used to turning out for anti-government demos in the Zapatero days, Esperanza Aguirre, Madrid Mayor Ana Botella, and others expected a warm welcome. To their surprise they got the bird, were booed and barracked. One of the associations, the AVT, called for the government to “reconsider” the Strasbourg decision. Rajoy knows there is nothing to reconsider because the government’s compliance is what living under rule of law means.

Anything less reduces it to the same level as lawbreakers and terrorists.

Long-term terms THERE has never been a “life means life” sentence in Spain, although this is about to change.

Some legal experts here have questioned whether this is wise or ethical as it eliminates the possibility of rehabilitation and prejudges its impossibility.

Those used to the British system are happy enough to see it applied in some circumstances. How many people would feel easy at seeing Ian Brady on the street?

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MADDOCKS’ VIEW ON LIFE

Famous quote

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I’d rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate.’

This week

Always be prepared for a change in the weather

George F Burns (1896 –1996), American comedian, actor, and writer.

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1885: Canada’s transcontinental railway is finished after five years of work.

1895: German physicist Wilhelm Conrad Rontgen discovers X-rays.

1916: Montana suffragist Jeannette Rankin is the first woman elected to the US House of Representatives.

1918: The First World War ends at the 11th hour on the 11th day of the 11th month of the year.

1928: Michinomiya Hirohito is enthroned as the 124th Japanese monarch in an imperial line dating back to 660 B.C. 1939: Hitler survives a bomb attack in which seven people were killed and 63 were wounded.

1969: Children’s TV show Sesame Street makes its debut on American television.

1970: French General Charles de Gaulle dies at his home of a heart attack.

1985: Prince Charles and Princess Diana make a fourday visit to the US. 1989: The Berlin Wall is breached after nearly three decades keeping East and West Berliners apart.

1991: American basketball player Earvin ‘Magic’ Johnson announces he is HIV-positive.

1995: Environmental activist Ken Saro-Wiwa is hanged in Nigeria along with eight others.

2000: Hillary Clinton becomes the first First Lady to earn a seat in the US Senate.

2004: Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat dies in Paris aged 75.

I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it's the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills. It's probably the most important thing in a person.’

Audrey Hepburn (1929 –1993) British actress and humanitarian.

World of English Tourist agency, former Czechoslovakia:

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Take one of our horse-driven city tours. We guarantee no miscarriages.’

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Eighteen years have passed since American Jesse and Frenchwoman Céline met on a transEuropean train and fell in love. Jesse wrote a novel based on the experience which became a US bestseller and led him to meet Céline again after an interval of almost a decade. The couple now lives in Paris, proud parents to two young girls. However, their lives are far from perfect.

Starring Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy.

Directed by Richard Linklater. Runtime 109 minutes. Rated 15.

SCORPIO (October 24 - November 22) Someone with a larger-than-life imagination makes you smile but that was not their intention.

Try to be diplomatic and steer them in a different direction. Some feelings of loneliness will not be assuaged by working more. Perhaps it is time to consider taking on a pet or giving a current pet more attention.

SAGITTARIUS (November 23 - December 21) Sometimes, you find it hard to do things just for the pure enjoyment of it. Realise that not everything has to have a purpose or a profit. Look round this week and seek out something that will please your senses and bring a smile to your lips.

CAPRICORN (December 22 - January 20) Contact with a less than ideal situation makes you realise just how lucky you are. It has been clear that the weeks are changeable and your situation at the moment far from settled. Pity those whose day-to-day life is completely predictable.

AQUARIUS (January 21 - February 19) This being a family oriented month, much of it may be spent getting together with relatives and going over old times. Perhaps you are compiling a photo album for older members of the family or vice versa.

PISCES (February 20 - March 20) An exciting invitation may set tongues wagging and make a loved one jealous. You, meanwhile, are quite bemused by the whole thing. What comes out of this week is that you are of considerable value to others. The mere thought of you not being around sends ripples through your social circle.

ARIES (March 21 - April 20) Being asked to take on a new and demanding task this week may see you wishing that you had been less visible.

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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 (EXISTS) and one letter in four other cells are given as clues.

ALMOND

PEERED

AWARDS

RATHER

BAIRNS

SEARED

DESIRE

SERIES

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LAST WEEK’S SOLUTION 1 Nitric, 2 Carrot, 3 Pieced, 4 Cleave, 5 Parrot, 6 Sortie, 7 Travel, 8 Inroad, 9 Screen, 10 Arouse, 11 Potent, 12 Invent, 13 Eureka, 14 Fossil, 15 Sermon, 16 Thwack, 17 Tonsil, 18 Piracy, 19 Mitten

IF ITʼS YOUR BIRTHDAY THIS WEEK: This will be a super month for romance in all its guises. Physical relationships can be important to you and this month is all about getting a balance.

Your Stars who gained fame for his role as Jack Dawson in ‘Titanic.’

November 7: David Gueta, 46.

French DJ and record producer.

November 8: Gordon Ramsay, 47.

Scottish celebrity chef, winner of 15 Michelin stars.

November 10: Ellen Pompeo, 44.

American actress known for her role as Meredith Grey on TV show ‘Grey’s Anatomy.’

November 11: Leonardo DiCaprio, 39.

American actor and film producer TAURUS (April 21 - May 21) An interest in technology is not something new to you. What is great, though, is that the penny has suddenly dropped. This week sees you understanding more and wanting to know more.

GEMINI (May 22 - June 21) An urge to get moving must mean that the new year is round the corner. Certainly, you are questioning where you want to be in the months ahead. A house move or work placement may be on your mind.

CANCER (June 22 - July 23) Be aware that not everyone is willing to work as hard as you.

November 9: Florentino Fernandez is a Spanish comedian, actor and showman. Born in Guadalajara, Fernandez was signed up to work on TV with journalist Pepe Navarro when he was working as a security guard. Fernandez started impersonating celebrities and eventually ended up hosting his own TV shows. He has starred in films, theatre and dubbed Canadian actor Mike Myers to Spanish in the Austin Powers films.

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November 12: Anne Hathaway, 31. American actress, winner of an Academy Award for her role as Fantine in ‘Les Miserables.’

6-Star Quiz

WE DIDN’T START THE FIRE (PART TWO) All the answers are people/events named in Billy Joel’s famous 1989 UK top 10 hit single.

1. What generic name was given to the campaign of mutually-targeted television advertisements and marketing campaigns that started in the 1980s between soft drink manufacturers the Coca-Cola Company and PepsiCo? 2. What was the name of the 40-year-old electrical engineer, who, on December 22, 1984, shot four young men who he said were threatening him on a New York City subway? He was charged with attempted murder but was acquitted of the charges, though convicted of carrying an unlicensed gun.

3. What was the name of the controversial Muslim minister who, in December 1963, made his infamous ‘the chickens have come home to roost’ statement about President Kennedy’s assassination, thus causing the Nation of Islam to censor him?

4. What was the name of the Vietnamese communist, who served as president of Vietnam from 1954 to 1969?

5. Which famous music festival, held at Max Yasgur’s 600-acre dairy farm in New York in August 1969, was billed as An Aquarian Exposition: Three Days of Peace and Music?

6. Which former US vice president was elected president in 1968?

1. COLA WARS, 2.BERNIE GOETZ, 3. MALCOLM X, 4. HO CHI MINH 5. WOODSTOCK, 6. RICHARD NIXON

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Nonagram 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 P) and there must be AT LEAST ONE NINE LETTER WORD. Plurals, vulgarities or proper nouns are not allowed.

TARGET: Average: 23

November 13: Whoopi Goldberg, 58. American comedian, actress, singersongwriter and political activist.

When approached by someone wanting you to trust them, be sure of their motives. Do what you feel is right but remain firmly in control, especially financially. It may not be the time to make a particular move, although others think that it is. There's no problem with discussing things and talking them through..

VIRGO (August 24 - September 23) Be aware that leopards do not change their spots, they merely hide them. Those who demand your trust need a cool checking out and don't be afraid to say 'no' as and when necessary.

LEO (July 24 - August 23) Social demands are made, but try to shuffle them to the weekend. Be diplomatic or someone close could become irritated. Keep an eye on the small print because something fundamental may have changed in a long-standing arrangement. Suddenly, at the weekend, you are thrust into the limelight.

LIBRA (September 24 - October 23) Career and home are in disharmony but a bit of compromise soon sorts things out. You don't like playing the 'bad guy', but honesty is also important to you. Speaking your mind can be liberating although, initially, you may see it as a nuisance and embarrassing.

Good: 29 Very good: 42 Excellent: 52

LAST WEEK’S SOLUTION amen, emit, item, main, mane, mate, matt, mean, meat, mien, mine, mini, mint, mite, mitt, name, tame, tamp, team, temp, time, ament, amine, anime, matin, matte, meant, tempi, tempt, inmate, mitten, pitman, pitmen, imitate, intimae, timpani, intimate, IMPATIENT

Word Ladder KEEP

DOWN

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

KEEP SEEP SEEN SEWN SOWN DOWN

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Unscramble the name of a famous footballer: SIGN UP GOAL ACE

Across 7 Public show of respect when silver is found in house (6) 8 Key inside a boat on a lake (6) 9 An island of global importance (4) 10 With adjustment, the rope seat works (8) 11 Healing claimed in error (7) 13 Guide one through the story line (5) 15 Makes money and gives ear to directions (5) 17 Strange new form of gemstones (7) 20 Blame the salesman and the fish (8) 21 Part of old tree contains new pine (4) 22 Cleaner creating awful smell in area around London (6) 23 Figures about European countries (6)

Unscramble the name of a Grammy winning American rock band (three words): FLOG ONE SINK

FUNAGRAM SOLUTION: PAUL GASCOIGNE, KINGS OF LEON

Play on Words

001 5 Intro to a comic turn (8) 6 Terrible ordeal in Texan city (6) 12 Rude Italian bloke lost head with worker (8) 14 Hot burnt residue is on hot pot (7) 16 A lion goes round very quietly

in Syria (6) 18 Note about milk curdling substance (6) 19 Trained, grew round a stake (5) 21 Train track runs back to a fibber (4)

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LAST WEEK’S SOLUTION

Each number in the Code Breaker grid represents a different letter of the alphabet. In this week’s puzzle, 19 represents B and 10 represents Q, so fill in B every time the figure 19 appears and Q every time the figure 10 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.

Across 1 Leave off (6) 4 Small amount (6) 9 Become rusty (7) 10 Precise (5) 11 Anthropoid (3) 12 Disturb (8) 14 Elder (6) 15 Plays for time (6) 18 Vindictive (8) 20 Automobile (3) 23 Attentive (5) 24 Law officer (7) 25 Small, sharp instrument (6) 26 Type of hound (6)

Down 1 Russian country house (5) 2 Operating physician (7) 3 Footwear (4) 5 Egg dish (8) 6 Not full or plentiful (5) 7 Correspondence (7) 8 Hard-wearing casual trousers (5) 13 Prophesy (8) 14 Keep up (7) 16 Deficient (7) 17 Speculate (5) 19 Enraged (5) 21 Shoulder firearm (5) 22 Surrender (4)

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

JAMAIDPAN

Answers: Turn of the century, Made in Japan

Down 1 Really enjoy eating a good salad plant (6) 2 Strain first Italian vehicle (4) 3 Thereʼs nothing to marvel about in a change of home (7) 4 Enthusiastic, as found in flea germs (5)

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LAST WEEK’S SOLUTIONS CRYPTIC Across: 1 Babysat, 5 Cocoa, 8 Respite, 9 Exact, 10 Satin, 11 Forests, 12 Lessen, 14 Slacks, 17 Grown-up, 19 Trail, 22 Arras, 23 Rampant, 24 Dunes, 25 Sorbets.

Down: 1 Burns, 2 Beset, 3 Science, 4 Tee off, 5 Cheer, 6 Classic, 7 Artists, 12 Laggard, 13 Sporran, 15 Latimer, 16 Sports, 18 Nests, 20 Adage, 21 Lotus.

QUICK Across: 1 Discuss, 5 Sheds, 8 Cheddar, 9 Again, 10 Asset, 11 Chemise, 12 Desist, 14 Giggle, 17 Shallot, 19 Sofas, 22 After, 23 Tuition, 24 Tired, 25 Cleanse.

Down: 1 Dacha, 2 Seems, 3 Updates, 4 Struck, 5 Spare, 6 Evading, 7 Sincere, 12 Distant, 13 Shatter, 15 Inspire, 16 Static, 18 Lurid, 20 Feign, 21 Since.

Across 1 Forks (cutlery) (9) 5 Hard shoulder (5) 7 Pala (para cavar) (5) 9 To draw lots for (7) 10 Year (12 months) (3) 11 Unhurt (5) 12 Onza (5) 14 Seguro (9)

Down 1 Té (bebida) (3) 2 Peligroso (9) 3 Embalse (9) 4 Fear (terror) (5) 6 Trinchar (carne) (5) 8 Otra vez (5) 9 Espinillas (5) 13 That (3)

ENGLISH-SPANISH Across: 1 Abrir, 3 Falda, 5 Ill, 7 Calidad, 9 Dill, 10 Here, 13 Lechuga, 14 Más, 15 Sects, 16 Souls.

Down: 1 Amigdalas, 2 Rice, 3 Fall, 4 Addresses, 6 Lilac, 8 Dream, 11 Gums, 12 Pais.

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TOP TEN GAMES CONSOLES FOLLOWING the SEGA Mega Drive console’s recent 25th anniversary, this week’s top 10 looks at the world of gaming consoles.

1. PlayStation 2 The second iteration of the PlayStation series is probably the most known and successful console to date. In its 12-year lifespan, the PlayStation 2 sold more than 150 million units and more than 1.5 billion games, many of them released exclusively for the console.

2. Nintendo Wii 1 in terms Even though not very powerful of hardware, the Wii brought a new form of player interaction with the motion control.

Its remote controller detects movement in three dimensions, which made games more accessible to casual players.

3. Atari 2600 Launched in 1977, the Atari 2600 popularised the use of ROM cartridges in videogames. It’s been described by experts as the console behind the first videogame boom and the one that the videogame industry is built upon.

4. PlayStation The original PlayStation was born as a result of a

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Additionally, the console introduced advanced graphics and sound capabilities compared with other consoles at the time.

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Originally from Newcastle, Jacky was a strong student, a successful career woman and

a loyal wife, before she swapped all of that for a life as a dominatrix in London in command of her own dungeon.

She said: “A series of unplanned events; fate led me to a fetish club and from there came my business plan to open a dungeon.” As her alter ego, Mistress Kimberley, a high class dominatrix dressed in black leather, Jacky often indulged the strange fantasies

collaboration between Sony and Nintendo to bring a CD-ROM add-on to the Super NES. The two companies parted ways and Sony released the PlayStation, which became the first home console to sell 100 million units.

5. Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) The NES helped revitalise the videogame market after

of her clients including high profile businessmen, MPs, TV personalities and even a pregnant woman.

'Instant Whips and Dream Toppings' by Jacky Donovan is out now and available in paperback and E-book format from Amazon.

a drop in sales in 1983 by introducing for the first time game franchises like Super Mario, The Legend of Zelda, Donkey Kong, Metroid and Final Fantasy.

6. Xbox 360 Microsoft’s second attempt in the console market has been their most successful one up to date. The Xbox 360 features Xbox Live, a service used to compete in online games, as well as downloading music and films that players consider the best available.

8. SEGA Mega Drive Also known as Genesis in the US, the Mega Drive was SEGA’s most successful console. It saw the birth of Sonic, the Japanese console manufacturer’s response to rival Nintendo’s flagship character Mario.

9. Nintendo 64 Nintendo’s third console and the last home system to use cartridges to store games, the Nintendo 64 was the console the critically acclaimed ‘The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time’ was originally launched for.

10. SEGA Dreamcast Initially designed to beat the original PlayStation, the Dreamcast is known for being SEGA’s last home console. It saw, however, the release of many creative and innovative games that console fans still praise today.

GAME CONSOLES: Many are still successful today.

App of the Week GNEO GNEO is a productivity app available for iOS devices that helps you take action with your to-dos by prioritising all the things you need to get done.

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Sudoku 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.

Boggled 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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What do cats eat for breakfast?

Mice Krispies.

What do clouds wear under their shorts?

Thunderpants.

What did the grape say after the elephant sat on it?

Nothing, it just let out a little whine.

Excellent: 29

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

LAST WEEK’S SOLUTION fitter, fife, fire, fires, first, fief, toff, toft, tote, totem, tiff, tire, tier, ties, otter, bolt, blot, blotter, fritter, fret, test, term, terms, time, timer, times, loft, lime, rift, riff, rife, refit, remit, rest, erst, emit, emir, merit, mitt, mire, item, items, trier, sett, serf, semi, smite, strife, stet, stem, rite.

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Parents and children dressing alike?

SOME high street fashion retailers appear to have come up with a new way to make money… selling matching outfits for parents and children.

Do you think that nowadays children are often dressed in more adult clothing? Do you think this has an effect on their childhood?

THE idea of parents and children wearing matching outfits got a mixed reaction from our readers.

Diana Feria, a mother who is about to open a shop in Arroyo de la Miel for second hand baby items said; “My husband and I share the belief that every person, be it adult or child has his or her own personality and linking them by dressing alike is not “logical.’ We’ve never dressed like our children or made them dress in the same way as us, because we each have our own identity to express. Even if we had twins we would never dress them alike.”

Elise Clement said there is nothing wrong with matching outfits, however, she does

Diana Feria: Not ‘logical.’

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believe high streets should be cautious with the designs and ensure they are suitable for children. “Too many kids are dressing too old and want to look older too quick.”

The Rojales student, 14, said when she was younger she did want to dress like her mum wearing her high heels “but most little girls do, it’s just dress up. I wouldn’t want to dress like her now, we have different styles.”

But Sharon Carter, a mother of two from London who is holidaying on the Costa Blanca, said: “I’ve never really noticed matching mother and child outfits in the stores, apart from maybe in the odd magazine with celebrities doing it. I can’t see it catching on and becoming the norm.

Children’s fashion should not mimic adult styles.”

Tony Michael and Bev: It’s ridiculous.

and Celeine Lonsdale who live in La Alfoquia, Tony is retired and Celeine is a nurse for Almeria Angels, said: “We are not keen on the idea of matching outfits. Kids should be brought up as kids. They shouldn’t be wearing adult type clothing. We think they should enjoy their childhood and not be dressed as adults.”

Michael and Bev Thistleton, both retired, of Live in Albanchez, agreed: “Matching outfits are ridiculous.

Children are dressed in adult clothing and are growing up too quick. It does have an effect, they want to grow up too soon and it can be dangerous for children.”

Tony and Celeine: Not keen on the idea.

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Myths, legends and rumours…

Some sayings don’t stand up to closer examination Nora Johnson

Breaking Views A Costa del Sol resident for a number of years, Nora is the author of psychological suspense and crime thrillers. To comment on any of the issues raised in her column, go to www.euroweeklynews.com/columnists/nora-johnson

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HE recent discovery of gold particles in the leaves of eucalyptus trees in Western Australia has completely overturned the old saying “Money doesn’t grow on trees.”

Which made me wonder which other sayings simply don’t stand up to closer examination…

Murphy’s Law (“if anything can go wrong, it will go wrong and at the worst possible moment”) is also way off the mark. For instance, ripping off a shirt button or breaking a shoelace when in a rush is probably down to the extra stress you’re under when you know you’re late and need to get somewhere fast.

Likewise: “Healthy as a horse.” Any horse owner will tell you that a horse is like an Italian sports car. If it can break down, it will.

“Ne’er cast a clout till May be out.” In

NOT TRUE: Lightning never strikes in the same place.

other words, don’t break out the barbie until May’s safely behind you. Really? This year in the UK, it was more like July before it was anywhere near warm enough to mothball those winter woollies.

“Lightning never strikes in the same place twice.” Rubbish! Lightning strikes repeatedly wherever the surface offers

points of conductivity - usually in those places where the conditions produce lots of thunderstorms. After all, that’s the sole purpose of lightning conductors: to make the inevitable strikes harmless by offering them a seductive sitting duck that’ll deal with the discharge safely.

“Cracking your knuckles gives you

arthritis.” Most medical studies have found no link whatsoever between this annoying habit and arthritis. The cracking sound isn’t bones being mangled out of shape but the release of pockets of gas from between joints. That said, long periods of knuckle-cracking may contribute to lesser grip strength. So best pack it in, anyway.

Basically, these sayings are all just metaphors that were never meant to be taken literally. And straight out of the “I saw you coming” school of coffee-table books!

Finally, on a completely different note, many thanks to all of you who’ve purchased my novels, The De Clerambault Code, Soul Stealer and Retribution, which I wrote about here two weeks ago. And helping The De Clerambault Code, at the time of writing, reach the top 80 eBook thrillers on Amazon! Keep those great comments coming to my website and donations to Cudeca!

Nora Johnson’s thrillers Retribution, Soul Stealer, The De Clerambault Code (www.nora-johnson.com) available from Amazon and iBookstore. Profits to Cudeca.

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“I HAD a minor car accident about five years ago, but I don’t think my neck pain has anything to do with that.” This is something that we often hear but commonly whiplash injuries cause numerous neckrelated problems including headaches, shoulder and arm pain.

Most car accidents are minor collisions where noone seems to be hurt.

Typically the persons involved are more concerned about the state of their vehicle than they are about their own state of health. If there are no cuts or bruises then people tend to assume that they are OK...

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Babies remember music played whilst in womb SCIENTISTS believe that babies who were played music whilst still in the womb remembered the tune months after being born.

Researchers at the University of Helskini (Finland) gave a CD to 12 pregnant women and asked them to play it five times a week during the last three months of pregnancy before destroying the CD after giving birth to ensure any memory of the songs came from pregnancy.

The researchers said that the babies could remember the tune of Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star up to four months after birth.

The researchers believed: “These results show that babies are capable of learning at a very young age and that the effects of learning remain apparent in the brain for a long time.”

However, the study did point out that playing classical music in the womb may not be a way of boosting a baby’s intelligence later on in life.

Unborn babies recall music up to four months after birth.

Dress-size matters SIZE 16 women are among the happiest and most comfortable in their own skin, according to a new study.

The research found 74 per cent are happy with their appearance, nearly twice as many as the 42 per cent who are size six. And 49 per cent of women whose weight has fluctuated in the past three years, reveal they were at their happiest with a fuller, size 16 figure.

The research also found 52 per cent of size six women would like to be curvier.

The results showed women sized 14 to 18, have a more positive frame of mind when it comes to their appearance. And in comparison, those sized six to 10 are much more critical of their look, with just 59 per cent saying they are happy with their appearance.

The findings also suggest size six ladies are often envious of those with curves, with 35 per cent wishing for a fuller figure because it’s ‘sexier’.

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FORGET the little black dress, the little chocolate dress is sure to win over the hearts and stomachs, of most women.

Made entirely out of chocolate, Scottish designer Lauren Smith has unveiled her design at Salon du Chocolat’s fashion show in London (UK) as part of National Chocolate Week after teaming up with Lindt.

The strapless number complete with rippling skirt took two weeks to make, 24 hours to hand paint, weighs 50kg and was made with Lindt Excellence chocolate by award-winning food artist Paul Wayne Gregory.

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Celebrate European wine day THIS Sunday wine amateurs are called to celebrate the European Day of Wine Tourism.

Organised by the European Network of Wine Cities (RECEVIN), this day aims at promoting wine tourism both at a national and international level.

It also aims at promoting areas surrounding vineyards as economic assets, as it has done since it was first held five years ago.

Countries joining the wine-friendly network include France, Italy, Greece, Germany, Portugal and Slovenia.

In Spain, cities like Aranda de Duero, Jerez de la Frontera, Tomelloso, Vilafranca del Penedes and Villarobledo are part of the association.

Activities will include guided tours in vineyards, wine and tapas tastings.

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The curse of the Monte Rosa Damnation was to dog every nautical league of its last voyage Mike Walsh Mike Walsh. Based in Mediterranean Spain, is an international journalist, author and professional writer.

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OT far from Costa shorelines lies the wreck of a once proud ocean liner.

Was the MV Monte Rosa cursed by fate?

The ship’s damnation was to dog every nautical league of its last voyage.

Setting out from Japan in February 1954, its 1,276 passengers and crew had every reason to look forward to a pleasant voyage. Their ocean odyssey would be crowned by a homecoming to an England many had not seen for years.

Passengers included military families of servicemen based in the Far East. Various were survivors of the Korean War. Among the wounded were veterans of the Battle of the Hook. Many were stretcher-carried up the gangways, The ‘Dukes’ from the Duke of Wellington’s Regiment, outnumbered in battle by five to one, had taken honours but casualties, too.

Sailing from Yokohama and Kure, the

ILL-FATED: MV Monte Rosa sank while being towed to Gibraltar.

Monte Rosa’s passengers and crew were to endure the voyage from hell.

Defects in the super liner’s propulsion system needed constant running repairs.

The luckless liner spent more time wallowing helplessly in the Indian Ocean than sailing. The three-week anticipated passage to Port Said in Egypt took an excruciating eight weeks to accomplish.

It must have brought great relief to all on board when Monte Rosa finally limped into Port Said. Now, only the Mediterranean lay between them and England.

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Those aboard endured eight weeks of hell

The liner had known far happier days. It had once cruised the sun-drenched Aegean, Ionian, Adriatic and other seas that make up the Mediterranean. However, that was before the 1939-1945 World War.

From 1930 to 1945, the 13,882-tonne liner had been one of Germany’s fleet of super liners. Built by Hamburg shipbuilders Bohm and Voss the Monte Rosa was one of five sister-ships. Under the Kraft Durche Freude (Strength through Joy) leisure scheme Monte Rosa was to later provide German workers and their families the opportunity to take cruises that were previously the preserve of the elite. During the war the liner was used as a troopship.

Departing the Egyptian port, the ill-fated liner embarked on the last leg of its voyage.

But, sailing off Algiers an engine room fire resulted in a cataclysmic explosion. Four crew members were killed. The rescue of the remaining 1,276 passengers and crew was successful, but the hulk, whilst being towed to Gibraltar, sank beneath the waves.

The Monte Rosa, seized as a war prize in 1945 and renamed MV Empire Windrush, pioneered West Indian immigration to Britain. Other liners soon joined in the massive Caribbean exodus. However, the MV Monte Rosa aka MV Empire Windrush will forever be known for its part in changing the face of Britain forever.

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

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OVEMBER and December are popular months for planting over-wintering garlic. The plants that grow can be harvested at two stages of growth: As young stems when like large spring onions.

Grown to maturity for harvesting bulbs for storing in the late spring.

Since garlic needs little space, crops can be grown in large flowerpots on apartment terraces as well as in raised beds and the open garden.

How to grow Garlic is best grown by sowing individual cloves or segments broken off from sizeable bulbs. Plant in a friable, well-draining soil which has been manured for preceding crops but not in recently manured soils.

However, if you have a wood-burning stove or an autumn bonfire the ashes can be worked into the soil before planting or sprinkled around growing corms to top up the soil’s natural potash levels.

If you have a heavy soil, mix in some sand to improve drainage and place a little sand under each clove when planted.

It is wise to water garlic less than onions and if your vegetable plot is watered by a traditional flooding from irrigation channels or is liable to flood after heavy autumn rains, it’s wise to sow garlic on the ridges between the flooded growing strips or specially prepared ridges in the normal growing areas.

Raised beds are excellent

for growing garlic as the soil conditions are right and cloves can be planted only eight to 10 centimetres apart, although double that will often yield larger bulbs.

When planting, if the soil is well prepared, it is sufficient to push each corm down into the soil until the tip is covered with two or three centimetres of soil.

If planted more shallowly they can rise out of the ground after rain or when the roots start to grow.

Alternatively, dig narrow

GROWING: Sow individual cloves.

trenches or individual holes with a narrow trowel or stick.

The only care during the growing season will be to ensure they don’t dry out, and weeding.

By the way, garlic planted under or between rose bushes can help deter fungal attacks and aphids. ©Dick Handscombe www.gardenspain.com November 2013

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Planners criticise roundabouts

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HE property boom may be long over with the construction of new buildings grinding to a halt in recent years, but the construction of roundabouts does not seem to have been affected.

Francisco Toscano, Socialist Mayor of Dos Hermanas, Sevilla, blamed TV broadcasts of the Tour de France and former Mayor of Las Rozas Santiago Bonifacio, who used to comment about being “amazed” to see the “elegance and fluidity” of traffic flows absorbed by large French roundabouts without needing traffic lights.

Today, Dos Hermanas has more than 100 roundabouts along with Las Rozas (Madrid) which claims to be the only Spanish town of over 50,000

inhabitants without traffic lights.

Town planner Jose Maria Ezquiaga said that roundabouts are useful tools to regulate traffic at intersections, but they are not the only solution: “There are major roads such as in Castellana, regulated by traffic lights that work just as well or better.

“Roundabouts work when the size and design is suited to the intensity of the traffic, but many create more problems than they solve.”

Some also criticise the design and addition of monuments and sculptures on roundabouts saying they distract drivers.

Last year, 7 per cent of injury accidents on roads, occurred at roundabouts.

ROUNDABOUTS: No shortage.

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Evil pair preyed on children An EWN special report WHEN two seemingly respectable young Scottish men, Charlie and Will, arrived in Albir near Benidorm in the summer of 2003 they were readily accepted into the local community. Before long they had secured jobs, cooking and washing pots.

Little were people to know

that Charlie and Will were Charles O’Neill and William Lauchlan, convicted paedophiles and murder suspects. In 1997, they had murdered Allison McGarrigle but had avoided being charged.

The mother-of-three had threatened to expose their serial abuse of young boys and then threatened no more, as she was strangled, stuffed into

a bin and then dumped in the sea.

However, rumours soon began to spread through Albir.

The pair was regularly seen chatting to youngsters and inviting them back to their home, a converted singledecker bus they had bought with funds sent to them by a mysterious benefactor in Scotland.

extradited back to the UK, but only for parole violation and were back in Spain (Gran Canaria) in March 2007, when seven-year-old Yeremi Vargas vanished. His mother remains convinced that they murdered her son.

In November 2007, they showed up in Blackpool where once again they began to ply their evil trade. However, they were being monitored by the police and were soon arrested.

In 2010, they were finally convicted of Allison McGarrigle’s murder along with a spate of service personnel and sexual offences and are their families here in both now serving life Spain who find terms.

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And when it was discovered they had a 15-year-old boy living on the bus they were run out of town.

Incredibly they only went as far as Benidorm where, in April of 2004, they abducted, drugged and attempted to sexually assault another 15-year-old boy.

Arrested in Madrid later the same year, they were

The George Rutherford Golf Trophy in aid of The Royal British Legion annual Poppy Appeal ON November 15, the Benidoleig and District Branch of The Royal British Legion will host a golf tournament at The Oliva Nova Golf Club.

The George Rutherford Trophy is named after its president, who is one of the few survivors of the D Day Landings.

Although George is currently recuperating in

a residential care home in Javea, he is hoping to be able to present the trophy and prize to the winner of this first ever tournament in his name.

The tournament will play Stableford with a shotgun start at 8am.

Cost of tournament €50 to include breakfast, lunch with wine €16.

Buggies €20. Prize-giving

will take place at the luncheon.

There are many prizes including ‘nearest to the pin’ sponsored by Telitec; ‘longest drive’ €250 cash sponsored by Squadron Leader Scott Taylor Ret’d; trophies and prizes for overall winner and group winners plus bottles of cava sponsored by Solar in Spain for each winner.

All participants in the tournament will receive golf goodies from GolfMed. All proceeds from the tournament will go directly to The Poppy Appeal. Please support this very worthwhile charity and enjoy a great tournament. With your help we can make a real difference to the ex-

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Long healing process LAST week I told how BB, my Rottweiler had become aggressive toward my daughter following his lifesaving operation for bloat.

On the morning of my radio show when I went downstairs, I heard BB talking to me. Many of you will understand that dogs do talk to us in many ways.

His is a baby yap, one that cannot be ignored. I was delighted because I had not heard this since he had come home. I immediately went upstairs and informed Susan that he was my old BB again.

After my radio show, I decided to have a chat

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with Nazli from the Pointer Clinic, explaining I had a major problem with BB and also, in spite of eating greedily, he was losing weight. I asked her if the operation could be one of the causes.

Nazli explained it can

take six to eight months for the wound from the operation to heal and after such an operation he will feel uncomfortable when lying in certain positions.

That could certainly be the cause of him being grumpy and wary when we were going to touch where he was feeling extra tender.

I have known Nazli about 20 years and trust her professionally. Now BB is having extra food (four meals a day) and we only touch him when he comes to us and not his body. We just tickle him under the chin.

Nazli did emphasise that he is not out of the woods yet and time, patience and love will work with the healing process.

Meanwhile, my daughter Susan, whom he had ‘gone for,’ will take him for short walks.

I will update readers next month.

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M100 - BENITACHELL, top floor apartment of a 2 storey block, 2 bedrooms, quiet location, stunning panoramic views. 420€ pcm - 965 745 969 (89468) 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) TO RENT, a spacious one bedroom apartment in excellent condition. Situated in Moraira, includes garden & swimming pool.

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ROLLER SHUTTERS REPAIRS, cords, slats, winding mechanisms, motors. Calpe + 40 kms. Tony Bowers 659 464 992 w w w . t o l d o s a l c h e m y. c o m (219022)

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

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SEWING MADE TO MEASURE loose covers.

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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) NUSKIN independent distributors wanted and party planners, stay at home mums, this is your extra income for Christmas and every Christmas thereafter. Call 629 293 042 or email ageloc.mk@gmail. com (218913)

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SOFT FURNISHINGS LOOSE COVERS, CURTAINS ETC. Made to Measure. Choose from a wide range of beautiful fabrics in your own home. Tel: 965 771 397 or 686 453 827 (217958)

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XXX RELAXATION Readers of a sensitive disposition may find some of the advertisements in this section offensive.

TILING JUST TILING, all floors terracing, kitchens, bathrooms. No job too small. From Oliva to Altea.

Contact Geoff 620 237 869 / 966 456 546 (217857)

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TAX AFFAIRS

SITUATIONS WANTED SPANISH young woman, English speaker, offers to w ork with elderly: health care, housework and translations. Qualifications and experience working in UK. References available. Tel 617 653 406 (217559)

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GENTLEMEN the amazing chewable fast-acting Kamagra. Also blues and jellies. All guaranteed.

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The fourth generation of Toyota’s compact sports utility vehicle has seen more features added with an all-wheel drive engine line-up, new equipment and new technology.

The all-wheel drive version of the 2014 RAV4 combines the Euro 5 compliant 2.0 litre D-4D turbodiesel with the Integrated Dynamic Drive System, Toyota’s all-wheel drive technology.

The Integrated Dynamic Drive System enhances performance, handling and safety under all driving conditions, the manufacturer claims.

Using information from various sensors (speed, steering angle, and yaw rate), the system continuously controls the torque transfer between the front and rear wheels via an electromagnetically controlled coupling positioned in front of the rear differential.

Front to rear torque distribution can vary from 100:0 to 50:50, with frontwheel drive (100:0) automatically engaged under normal driving conditions to improve petrol consumption.

For off-road driving, the system allows drivers to lock torque distribution in a fixed, 50:50 ratio to speeds up to 40km/h.

Mated to a six-speed manual transmission, the 1,998cc engine develops

124hp/91kW at 6,000rpm, and 310Nm of torque between 1,600 and 2,400rpm.

The 2014 RAV4 will be available in a new Dark Brown Metallic body colour with a new, angular, 10spoke 18” alloy wheel design. The interior may now be finished in a choice of four colour schemes: Black, Grey, Terracotta and new Beige, which features two-tone seats and a

RAV4: Facing the future. leather finish to the main dashboard panel and central door panels.

Equipment upgrades will also define the 2014 RAV, which will be available from €26,000.

The vehicle now incorporates Toyota Touch 2, a system featuring a 6” full colour WVGA touch screen in high resolution.

Both safety and driver

convenience are further enhanced by the availability of a new Rear Cross Traffic Alert (RCTA) system.

The RCTA system employs the Blind Spot Monitor (BSM) radar to alert the driver backing out of a parking space to approaching vehicles which may not be visible in either the rear view monitor or door mirrors.

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SPORT

THE Calpe Bowls Club played the Onyx team at Javea and were beaten 82 shots to 51.

The results were as follows, Stan Walmsley, Val Street and Sheila Garnham lost 16 - 17, Alan Steed, Terry Street and Enid Duxbury won 22 - 12, Kate Sayers, Barry Stephens and Tony Sayers lost 8 - 24, Ray Collom, Geoff Pack and Liz Griffiths lost 5 - 29 and Alan and Alison Edwards and Geoff Hutchinson won 21 - 17 in a friendly.

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Hart-less City crush Norwich, MotoGP final Tony Matthews

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THE Ifach Golf Club Ladies played an Autumn Away Day at La Galiana Campo de Golf.

The First Division in the competition was won by Sonia Apblanalp with 35 points, with Sandy Coates (34) in second, and Marlis Achcar (33) in third.

The winner of the Second Division was Jane Titcombe (33), followed by Jan Adams (28) in second and Toni Rowe (27) in third.

The Club would like to thank Sandy Coates and Liz Roberts for organising the day.

The club’s men also played in a Men’s Contra-Par competition for the Don Scholes Trophy, won

by John Woods, who scored three holes under par.

DUSTIN JOHNSON: Ranked world no. 23.

OVER the last 48 hours, Europe’s top clubs competed in the Champions League while tonight, Spurs, Swansea and Wigan play in the Europa League, with Jermain Defoe hoping to eclipse Martin Chivers’ tally of 22 European goals for Spurs.

This weekend it’s Chelsea-WBA, Liverpool-Fulham, Manchester UnitedArsenal, Spurs-Newcastle and Sunderland-Manchester City in the Premiership; Burnley-Bournemouth, Leicester-Nottingham Forest and Reading-QPR in the Championship while 64 teams compete in the 1st round proper of the FA Cup. On Sunday, Jorge Lorenzo or Marc Marquez will win the 2013 MotoGP world title in Valencia. Marquez leads his fellow Spaniard by 13 points. And the World APT tennis championships are under way in London.

FOOTBALL ROUND-UP * Last weekend Cardiff beat Swansea 1-0 in the historic first-ever all-Welsh top-flight game... Arsenal (leaders by 5 points) beat Liverpool 2-0... Newcastle upset Chelsea 2-0... Manchester City, who axed ‘keeper Hart, thrashed Norwich 7-0 - the biggest PL win this season and City’s best since 1968...

WGCHSBC Champions: Dustin Johnson (USA) won golf’s Shanghai International; Ian Poulter was second, Graeme McDowell third.

Manchester United won 3-1 at Fulham... Hull edged nine-man Sunderland 1-0 (Cattermole and Dossena were red-carded, the latter for a leg-breaking tackle)... Stoke ‘keeper Begovic scored after 14 seconds v Southampton (1-1)... WBA beat Crystal Palace 2-0 and the Everton-Spurs and West Ham-Villa games ended goalless. * In La Liga, Barcelona (1-0 winners v Espanyol) lead Real Madrid (3-2 victors over Rayo Vallecano) by six points, Almeria beat Valladolid 1-0. * Martin O’Neill and Roy Keane should by now be Eire’s manager and assistant-manager; Alex McLeish or Chris Coleman could be Crystal Palace’s next boss and Craig Bellamy, Ryan Giggs and Tony Pulis all fancy the Welsh job, if Coleman leaves. * Manchester City’s Yaya Toure says black players WILL boycott the 2018 World Cup if hosts Russia can’t sort out racism. FIFA President Sepp Blatter wants teams/countries expelled, even docked points.

And after racist chanting during their Champions League game with Manchester City, CSKA Moscow’s ground will be partially closed for their next game v Bayern Munich.

SPORT IN GENERAL * Sebastian Vettel easily won the Malaysian Grand Prix - his seventh successive F1 victory. And boss Ross Brawn will leave Mercedes in December. * The first autumn Rugby Union international ended England 20 Australia 13. Joel Tomkins, switching from the League code, made his England debut. * Cricketers Ian Bell and Jonathan Trott hit centuries as England drew their first warm-up game down under. * Novak Djokovic beat David Ferrer in the Paris Masters and Serena Williams has won 11 titles and $10m (€7.7m) in prize money this year. * Tony McCoy will also claim his 19th NH jockey’s title.

Levante Golf Society La Sella competition THE Levante Golf Society played a competition at La Sella.

La Sella member Peter Jenkins came first in Division 1 with 35 points with Clive Wright (34) in second and Mike Harding (34) in third.

In Division 2 Harris McCrea

won with 34 points, beating runner up Alan Overton’s (30) with Frank Carroll (28) placing third.

There are three competitions remaining in the Levante Golf Society’s Player of the Year competition, the first of which is

the first round of the Autumn Trophy at La Sella on November 15. Currently, Alan Overton (65) leads the table, followed by Peter Jenkins (60), Mike Cuerden (59) and Dave Geeson (58).

The competition is also close in Levante’s Ford Leagues table.

Currently Roy Molyneux (146) leads followed by Mike Cuerden (138), Dave Geeson (138) and Angela Hov (138).

At the end of April the top two players with the best aggregate total from four competitions will qualify for the finals.

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Spectrum Trophy THE Orba Warblers played the ‘Spectrum IFA Trophy’ game at Villaitana.

The trophy was won by Arthur Sullivan with a score of 42.

Division One was won by Sylvia Mortensen (38), followed by Roy Booth (30), with David Knight (30) in third place.

Division two was won by David Edwards (34), with Barbara Pollitt in second and Peter Gibson in third.

Nearest the pin prizes went to Roy Booth and Jorgen Mortensen who also claimed a two’s ball. The other two’s went to Michael Taylor, Bob Edwards and Sylvia Mortensen.

The next meeting for the Warblers will be on November 13 for a medal game at Bonalba. www.orbawarblers.com

Peter is the tops TORREGOLF.EU played a Stableford competition at El Plantio.

Peter Greasby was the winner in Category 1 with 37 points, followed by Ron Matthews (32) in second, Phil Brigham (32) in third place and Sue Owens (30) in fourth place.

Winner of Category 2 was Chris Rose (32), with Bente Kildegaard (31) second, Svend Kildegaard (31) third.

The Full Monte Prize, courtesy of The Full Monte, supporters club of CD Montesinos and sponsored by Vince Lannon, went to Ann Holland.

Nearest the pins went to Bente Kildegaard, Ron Matthews, Sue Owens and Alan Darby.

And the nearest the pin on the sponsored hole went to Doug While.

Next game at Altorreal on November 12.

Call David Winder on 626 774 157.

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Bowls northern league results

THE BBC Tigers played Javea Quartz at home in the Northern League. The final score was 8-2 with the Challengers winning by 20-16.

The Lions were also at home but to El Cid’s Javelins. The final shot difference was 83-61 giving the Lions 8 points to 2. For the Challengers it was a much closer result of 16-15 to Lions.

The Jaguars travelled to Finca Guila to play the Swifts and, although the games were very tight on all rinks, they lost 0-10 as did their Challengers.

In other leagues, the Winter League team travelled south to meet Greenlands where they had their first defeat of the season going down 4-8 and the Berleen lost 16-21. And all top four teams won in the Winter Fours League, sponsored by Dragon Insurance Group and Direkt Optik, with Wishing Stars taking an early lead in the table with a 25 shot difference.

CELEBRATION: Members took part in 10th anniversary tournament.

Happy birthday Pego!

THE Pego Golf Society played a Stableford Pairs, with 48 members and guests taking part at Oliva Nova for its 10th Anniversary Tournament.

The guests were Terry Oram, Chris Anderson and Ian Bracket.

First place went to Ronnie Webb and Tony Jerman with a score of 48 points, with Barry Levett and Lynn Harrison (45) in second, Alan Barwick

and Patrick Lynch (45) in third, David O’Conner and Nigel Sidall (40) in fourth, Angus Muir and Dave Eley (40) in fifth and Jim Gillies and Thelma Saull (40) in sixth.

Nearest the Pins went to Mike Phillips and David O’Conner.

The special prizes for nearest the hole went to Ronnie Webb and Martin Gates.

There were three two’s from David O’Conner, Ronnie Webb, and Steve Patton. Balls in the water was won by Stephen Halstead, and the correct number was 109.

Pego Golf welcome guests and visitors to join them, for more information contact Martin Gates, email pegosecretary@gmail.com or visit www.pegogolfsociety.com.