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Grant request TWENTY-SEVEN students from Enrique Gines school in Frigiliana persented an official request to Mayor Javier Lopez for a grant to cover their end-of-year trip to Mallorca.

Journalists visit SIX Polish travel writers have visited Almuñecar to get to know what the town has to offer tourists.

Cave link NERJA TOWN HALL is to build a flyover to connect the Maro district with the Nerja Cave. It will overlook a 25,000square-metre botanical garden being built by the regional government.

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Sewage plant work starts after an 11-year delay WORK to build a much anticipated sewage plant in Nerja has finally started, bringing to an end years of delays and broken promises. Bulldozers have already moved into the Aguahierro area (pictured), close to the exit to Maro on the N340 road. They have begun to clear vegetation and bring in construction materials to the site earmarked for the plant. The sewage treatment plant is scheduled to become operational at the end of 2016, after two years of construction and an

further six months of testing. This will solve an alleged sewage problem at Burriana Beach, which has led to concerns that British tourists may be put off

coming to the town. The future plant will have the capacity to treat an average flow of 25,000 cubic metres of water per day, providing service to a population of 100,000 people.

The facility will also incorporate a system to enable treated water to be reused for irrigation purposes. With a budget of €23.2 million, the project will be carried

‘Peace walker’ takes to the road again A NERJA resident who walked to Gibraltar carrying a wooden cross in a bid to end the conflict at the border last summer is back on the road. Justo Marquez aims to walk the 2,300 kilometres from Motril,

where he is now residing, to the Vatican in a personal quest for world peace. He will set out on his epic journey on February 25, carrying the same wooden cross he took to Gibraltar. The cross is three

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metres long, two metres wide and weighs 10 kilos. Once there he intends to stay for 15 days, praying and fasting for world peace. The 50-year-old started training for his journey in

October, walking between 10 and 30 kilometres a day. He plans to post on his Facebook page - ‘Con la cruz desde España al Vaticano’ everything that happens to him during his journey.

out in a joint venture by companies CorsanCorviam and Isolux. It was in 2001 when the initial date for the commencement of work was set, announced back then for 2003. Then 11 years later, at the end of 2012, the Ministry of Environment endorsed the project’s allocation contract and the plans. In October last year, the project finally received approval.

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Letters 17 DUMPING GROUND: Rubbish has been deposited illegally for a decade.

Council to clear illegal dump

NERJA TOWN HALL is to seal off a plot of land on the border with Frigiliana, which is being used as an illegal rubbish dump. The council will remove the rubbish accumulated in the area and demand accountability from the owner of the plot, who is still to be identified. The decision comes after an online petition set up by residents to demand that the council remove the illegal tip. They posted pictures and videos of what they

considered ‘an embarrassment’ for a tourist town like Nerja. They also claimed dumping had been taking place with impunity in the area for a decade. The tip is located in a ravine in La Imaroga area, next to the Cerro de las Vacas on the border of Nerja and Frigiliana. All the illegal dumping, however, was taking place within the municipality of Nerja, according to Frigiliana Town Planning Councillor, Jose Antonio Gonzalez.

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NEWS Copper theft BENAMOCARRA Council has lodged a complaint about the theft of copper cable from the local Adolfo Alba Ruiz football stadium. L’oily thief A MAN, aged 32, has been arrested for allegedly stealing 1,320 litres of olive oil in Velez de Benaudalla, near Motril. Guardia Civil caught him trying to sell the oil without the proper labelling.

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Homeless man complaints RESIDENTS from the Burriana area in Nerja have shown their concern over a Filipino homeless man who has settled next to nearby cafés and shops. They claim businesses are being affected as customers avoid the area due to the man’s body odour. According to local news website Infonerja, the man has a search

and arrest warrant against him in his country. However, the National Police cannot do anything in this respect as there is no extradition agreement between the Spanish and Filipino governments. The councillor for Social Welfare, Nuchi Moreno, has claimed her department cannot take any sort of

action unless the man cooperates. In addition, Spanish law doesn’t allow throwing people out of an area unless they commit an offence. Moreno, who said the man is not dangerous, is working on a plan on how to deal with people who refuse any help.

Track vandalised THE Show Time bicycle motocross (BMX) team from Almuñecar has denounced that someone has been putting nails and thumbtacks on the El Pozuelo track. This, they claim, poses a danger to bikers. Port arrests TWO people were arrested at Motril port trying to board the Tinamar ferry to Melilla in a car that was stolen in Germany. Traffic cut TRAFFIC was halted in Calle Axarquia in Nerja after the engine of a car caught fire. No one was injured in the incident, which was dealt with by firefighters. Holy visitors SOME 13,418 people visited the Semana Santa (Holy Week) Museum located in Velez-Malaga’s Santa Maria church. August and November were the busiest months, with 2,296 and 2,528 visitors respectively. Porters protest PORTERS at the Axarquia Regional Hospital are to protest every Monday and Friday at 1pm against what they consider “unacceptable” cutbacks in their working conditions.

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THE meeting room at the Nerja Town Hall is hosting tomorrow (Friday) a conference on the procedures that foreign residents need to follow to vote in the European elections in May. It starts at 11am.

Avenue works WORK to refurbish the Avenida de Andalucia in Salobreña started on Monday. Residents will be told in advance of any power cuts, pledged the town hall. TEBA: Ruins of the castle with an amazing legend.

Knight fantastic! B URNS NIGHT is this weekend, and throughout Spain, many expatriates will celebrate the life and works of the 18th century Scottish poet, Robert

Burns. In Malaga Province, Spain has its own Scottish connection. In the small town of Teba, with fewer than 5,000 inhabitants, after ascending through the narrow, winding streets, visitors will find the ruins of a castle which has an amazing legend. Before he died in 1329, Robert the Bruce, King of Scots, requested Sir James Douglas, his most esteemed companion in arms, to take his embalmed heart to the Holy Land in a silver casket which Douglas carried round his neck. In 1330, Douglas, also known as Guid Sir James or Black Douglas, set sail with six other knights and 26 squires, ROBERT and heard of Alfonso XI of THE Castilla’s crusade against the BRUCE: The Muslims, so they travelled to Alplaque in Andalus to join him. Teba in his On the morning of August 25, 1330, the Nasrid army assembled memory. near the Castillo de la Estrella,

Quote of the Week Homosexuality is a sexual deficiency which can be corrected with treatment’ Newly-named Cardinal Fernando Sebastian Aguilar, who added that homosexuality is deficient because the objective of sex is procreation.

which was in their possession. The battle began and Scottish knights charged the Moorish soldiers. The Castillians won the battle and the Moors fled. Douglas followed them, but they turned and he was outnumbered and killed. The Moorish king, Muhammad IV of Granada, found the body and casket on the field, and realising who the knight was, sent them to Alfonso’s army with a guard of honour. They were returned to Scotland, and Douglas’s remains were deposited in his family vault at St Bride’s Church, and the heart of Bruce interred at Melrose Abbey. Every year in Teba, an event is held in August to commemorate these historic events.

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cent more bread was bought by 1.89 per Spaniards in April 2013 compared to a year earlier, according to the Ministry of Agriculture, Nutrition and Environment, and €3.90 billion was spent on bread alone, with each person consuming an average 36.12 kilos in a year.

Grant return THE regional government has asked the Canillas del Aceituno Council to return €800,000 in grants to build a football pitch. Of it, €540,000 is for interest.

Bike race THE sixth stage of the Tour of Spain bicycle race will go through the streets of Velez-Malaga.

Building permits MOTRIL Town Council has given the green light to the construction of a commercial building near the Alcampo supermarket and a block of flats in Avenida Salobreña.

Good location NERJA has been praised as a location for film and photo shootings by Spanish tourism magazine El Club de la Vida Buena.

And finally... AN internet provider has been ordered by a court in Barcelona to cut off the connection of a client who used P2P file-sharing programmes and has been found guilty of violating intellectual property laws for sharing thousands of music files online.

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Prison sentence for drug smugglers MALAGA Provincial Court has sentenced two men to threeand-a-half years each in prison for trying to smuggle more than 500 kilos of drugs from Morocco. The court has also fined them €1.5 million each, which would translate into an additional four months in prison in case they are not able to pay it. The events took place in May last year. The accused, both of Moroccan origin, were caught by Guardia Civil on a beach in Nerja carrying the drugs on board a vessel. They were trying to smuggle 514 kilos of hashish in 19 bundles, as well as another nine kilos which were being transported separately. Guardia Civil valued the drugs at €924,600, and charged the men with a crime against public health.

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Looking for ways to help local fishermen THE Junta de Andalucia is looking for ways to help the local shellfish fleet which had to remain tied up in port due to the ‘red tide’ that began last summer. The regional fishing representative, Elena Viboras, joined Fishing General Manager Margarita Perez from the national government, to deal with the matter.

They were meeting the Malaga fishermen’s guild, which asked the authorities to take action to help the hundreds of families affected. During the meeting, Viboras suggested that boats go to nearby fishing grounds not affected by the tide as a possible solution to the problem. European Union regulations prevent the harvesting of shellfish

when a red tide affects the fishing waters. The reason is that the algal bloom may produce poisons which are absorbed by shellfish. When eaten, infected shellfish can cause severe poisoning and even death. More than 400 Malaga families depend on the 150-boat fleet, with La Caleta Port in Velez-Malaga, Fuengirola and Estepona ports being the most affected.

From obese to ‘Ultraman’ A MOTRIL man has gone from weighing 167 kilos to being invited to participate in one of the most physically demanding competitions in the world. Miguel Gonzalez Pascual is training hard for the Ultraman UK Championship to be held in September. The ultra-endurance event will be held at Bala Lake in Wales, and follows the format of the original Ultraman established in Hawaii (US) in 1983. This means Miguel is getting ready for three days of competition in which he will cover a distance of 320 miles (515 kilometres) swimming, cycling and running.

The journey of this insurance broker began when he had to spend 15 minutes resting after going up the stairs to a client’s home. “I’ve always been fat, but it came to a point when I told myself enough is enough,” he said. Miguel decided to stop snacking between meals and eventually to train six days a week. “I’ve never been on a diet. I just learnt to eat the right amount of food,” he explained. The 42-year-old combined his new healthy eating habits with sports, first walking 10 to 20 minutes a day, and then running and going to the gym, until he began participating in different events. And it seems his efforts have paid off as Miguel is among only 35 people to take part in Ultraman, which is a by-invitationonly event. “I was friends on

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Street upgrades VELEZ-MALAGA TOWN HALL has spent €184,000 on refurbishing Calle Margarita and access to Calle Cercadillo de Santa Maria, next the Santa Maria church.

No resort A NERJA man, Miguel Bueno Jimenez, has started an online petition to stop the building of a multi-million-euro golf resort in the La Coladilla gully.

Best bonsai ALMUÑECAR COUNCIL has spruced up the town’s bonsai museum. Home to more than 200 plant species, the museum is open from Tuesday to Saturday, from 10.30am to 1.30pm, and from 4pm to 8pm. Entrance is €2.

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IN SHAPE: Miguel is looking for sponsors. Facebook with a person who took part in Ultraman, and decided to try it,” he said. Now Miguel is looking for sponsors to help him compete this September. He needs to raise money for his travel

expenses and the entry fee, which is €3,000. If anyone wishes to sponsor Miguel or provide financial assistance, visit www.lanzanos.com/proy ectos/de-167-kg-ahacer-ultraman-uk

A LANDMARK point has been installed near the remains of the San Sebastian shrine in Motril. The temple, built in 1523, was destroyed by fire during the Spanish Civil War in 1936.

Beach beat TORRE DEL MAR is hosting the Weekend Beach Festival this summer with more than 35 bands on July 4 and 5.

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Roadworks complete WORK to repair the MA3107 and the MA-3116 roads in Benamargosa has concluded, the regional government has reported.

Lack of funds? TORROX received €1.3 million in funds last year, according to the regional government. This statement comes after Mayor Francisco Muñoz complained about his town only receiving €300,000 from the €18.8 million budget for the Axarquia.

Snap happy SERAFIN CASTILLO, a wedding photographer from Nerja, has been nominated to receive the European Wedding Photographer Newcomer Prize from the Unionwep photographers association.

Farmer help THE Young Farmers Association (ASAJA) has asked both the national and regional governments to fight bluetongue disease which mainly affects sheep. They claim Malaga acts as a screen that prevents the disease from spreading through Europe.

Barriers down WORK to eliminate the architectural barriers in Calle Real in La Herradura has started with a budget of €26,122, the council has announced.

Carnival theme NERJA secondary school students have been invited to participate in an essay and drawing competition featuring the town’s carnival, to be held from February 28 to March 2.

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Heavy rainfall brings chaos to the Axarquia THE Velez Sur health centre in VelezMalaga opened its doors again on Monday after a hailstorm caused the A&E department to be evacuated. Filth accumulated on the main hall’s roof, and together with hail and rainfall of up to 50 litres per square metre put the ceiling in danger of collapse. The treatment rooms and the administrative area became flooded, forcing managers to move the A&E department to the Torre del Mar health centre, and then to the Velez Norte one. But these were not the only consequences the heavy rains left in the Axarquia. In Almuñecar, firefighters and corporation workers were kept busy from the early hours of the morning as streets, promenades, beaches, garages and commercial premises were affected by the downpours. The Civic Centre in La Herradura district was flooded after 90 litres per

BAILING OUT: Firefighters worked tirelessly in Almuñecar. square metre fell, and access to the Victoria Playa hotel was cut for more than an hour due to a landslide from a nearby hill. Meanwhile, firefighters were called to help in Torre del Mar, where a house was partially flooded. Nerja was hit by heavy rains and a

hailstorm as well, with hail still visible throughout most of the town the following day. Finally, in Salobreña an estimated 30 litres per square metre fell, according to data provided by the Spanish Met Agency (AEMET).

Pets blessed during animals’ patron saint celebrations RESIDENTS from the Axarquia kept with the tradition of honouring Saint Anthony on January 17. This saint is known in the Spanish tradition as the patron of animals, and is of special interest for pet owners. Celebrations started in the Nerja district of Maro with the lighting of 30 bonfires on Saint Anthony’s eve. Calle Real and Calle San Anton were the streets with most bonfires, whereas ornaments were placed on Calle Carmen for the event. Music was brought to every corner by Sevillanas choir ‘Arena y Sal’, which sang traditional music from Andalucia.

Squatters reported FOUR families with serious economic problems have been reported for occupying four schoolmasters’ houses which were standing empty in Torre del Mar. Parents and teachers from the Custodio Puga school have lodged a complaint with the Local Police as they say the families are to blame for recent incidents. In a public statement, they claim that ‘pills of unknown origin, cigarette butts and other objects’ were thrown into the school’s playground, in part occupied by these houses. None of the reported families understands the parents and teachers’ complaints. They claim they are victims of a “custom of accusing, with no discussion, squatters of whatever happens in a place.” The only family that has the right to dwell in one of these houses, which belong to the town council, has stepped forward to defend the squatters. They claim they have never had any problems with them, and add it is unfair the town hall let the four houses stand empty for eight years.

Burglar arrested BONFIRES: Celebrations started in Maro on Saint Anthony’s eve. On Sunday, the Animal Protection Association from Almuñecar

Drug sales point shut NATIONAL POLICE have dismantled another drug sales point on the Costa Tropical. Three people have been arrested as a consequence, two men and a woman, and have been charged with drug trafficking.

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The accused, aged between 22 and 28, allegedly ran the drug sales point in Motril. Officers seized 528 grammes of marihuana, 15 grammes of hashish and tools to divide and package the drugs.

organised a pet blessing event. Following the tradition, several priests from the town blessed the pets of whoever brought them to the event in order to grant them protection during the year. The public cleaning company, Limdeco, took advantage of the event to launch its latest campaign. Under the slogan ‘No le des la espalda al problema’ (Don’t turn your back on the problem), they took the opportunity to remind people that they should clean up after their pets in the streets.

A MAN, 23, has been arrested for allegedly stealing jewellery worth €4,000 from a house he broke into in Almuñecar. Guardia Civil said the burglar forced the door of a house in the Peña Escrita natural park on January 7. He stole computer equipment, a TV, and jewellery valued at €4,000. The arrested man, sold some of the jewels to a local pawn shop in Almuñecar the same day as the burglaries.

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New link AIRLINE Vueling has announced a new connection between Mallorca and Munich, to run daily beginning on June 20.

Smoke inhalation TWO people suffered mild smoke inhalation poisoning as the result of a house fire in Felanitx, which started in the kitchen.

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STUDENTS at a school in Calvia have been attending lessons without heating for more than a week. The boiler malfunction requires a replacement piece from the mainland, which has caused the delay.

GEORGE CLOONEY and Hugh Laurie are in Valencia for Disney’s new science fiction film, Tomorrowland. Filming will take place in Valencia’s futuristic City of Arts and Sciences. Tomorrowland is the tale of a curious teenager and former boy genius inventor, bound by destiny to uncover together the secrets of a place somewhere in time and space.

Green plans PLANS have been announced by Santanyi Town Hall to demolish the abandoned Porto Petro hotel to improve the overall environment. A green zone and a municipal sports centre will be built in its place.

First fatality A MAN, 63, died when his van crashed into a tree near Sant Llorens on the road towards Son Servera. This was Mallorca’s first road-related fatality of 2014.

COSTA DEL SOL

Winning province

Sailing quest

Visitors up

THE ONCE lottery for the Blind in Spain was lucky for one Marbella winner, with €100,000, and several in Ronda with €320,000 between them, and Torremolinos with €240,000

MORE than 300 entries have been made from 14 countries for the seventh International Sailing Competition being held in Torrevieja from tomorrow (Friday) until Sunday.

COSTA BLANCA SOUTH

Community service

SIXTEEN per cent more people visited Antequera in 2013, amounting to 261,876 in total. The most visited place was the Torcal landscape on the outskirts of the town.

Digital records

Body recovered

ESTEPONA TOWN HALL intends to digitalise all of the documents which exist in the municipal archives from the 19th century.

A POST-MORTEM examination is to be carried out to establish the cause of death of a man whose body was recovered from the sea on the beach of San Pedro close to La Curra, Cartagena.

Dangerous chase A MOTORCYCLIST, 41, was arrested by Local Police after a dangerous chase through Las Lagunas, Mijas, endangering other drivers, which ended when he crashed into a bollard.

Travel fraud THE manager of a travel agency in Fuengirola, aged 53, has been arrested for conning clients out of more than €20,000. The agency closed in December.

Rental murder

LAST year a total of 78 people were involved in community service work in Torrevieja. Since 2005 around 400 people have carried out such sentences in the city.

COSTA DE ALMERÍA

Piquersa pride

A BRITISH man has been found guilty of the murder of a 33-year-old man who was renting his Algorfa property, and dumping his body in the Sierra Escalona area of Pilar de la Horadada in May 2009.

THE Sultan of Oman has contracted Almeria company Piquersa to provide a fleet of road-sweepers destined for an area dedicated to the handling and processing of fish.

Notary killers

Lucky day

NINE Hells Angels have received a total of 67 years behind bars for the murder of a notary in Torrevieja in 2009.

HUERCAL-OVERA is to feature on the Spanish National Lottery ticket for March 6 to commemorate the

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Exencion de Villazgo of March 3, 1668, which brought to an end the paying of taxes by peasant farmers to landowners.

Panel smashed GARRUCHA TOWN HALL has condemned an act of vandalism at one of the town’s padel tennis courts where a glass panel was smashed.

English theatre HUNDREDS of schoolchildren in Huercal Almeria attended the ‘Educateatro’ school theatre featuring two shows in English with productions of Tarzan and Jack and the Beanstalk.

No kidding BETWEEN January and October of 2013, Almeria exported 7.9 million kilos of lactose products, the main one being goat’s milk, followed by cheese and yoghurt. This was an increase of 456 per cent on the same period in 2012.

COSTA BLANCA NORTH

Blaze doused FIRE destroyed 0.5 hectares of scrub and pines in a rural area of Teulada. A helicopter, air tractor and two fire engines brought the blaze under control within two hours.

Mystery fire A WOMAN driving through Muchamiel with her six-year-old son escaped from their blazing car which caught fire for unknown reasons. Neither was injured but the car was burnt out.

Historic finds EXCAVATIONS at a Denia townhouse uncovered 12th century Moorish plasterwork and three Christian tombs. A wall with drawings of a ship, a lute and a calendar also appeared during the work.

Shortcut wanted ALCOY Chamber of Commerce has called for direct access to Villena’s high-speed railway station from the A-31 motorway. Access from secondary roads also needs improvement, the chamber said.

Drunk driver A SUSPECTED hit-and-run driver was arrested in Elda two hours after seriously injuring a cyclist, who later needed an emergency operation. A breath test revealed the motorist was three times over the drink-driving limit when detained.

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STAT OF WEEK SPAIN’S tax authority Hacienda has now returned €10.1 billion in rebates on taxpayers’ 2012 declarations, 92.7 per cent of the amount due. Most rebates went to Cataluña, Andalucía, Madrid and Comunidad Valenciana.

Good result for IAG Airlines group had most passengers LAST year might not have been exceptional for airline Iberia but overall it was good for International Airlines Group. With almost 32 million passengers in 2013, the group, holding company of British Airways and Iberia, again had more passengers than any other airline in Spain, said airports operator Aena. It was a mixed result for IAG with Iberia

performing poorly. Its 10.88m passenger numbers last year were almost 28 per cent down on 2012. This was offset by low-cost Iberia Express’s 3.24m passengers, a 46 per cent increase. The IAG improvement owed much to Vueling, acquired by IAG last April. The 2013 balance was the first to include lowcost Vueling’s figures.

Retailers that are riding high MERCADONA, Inditex and Dia have weathered the crisis better than most Spanish retailers. Despite the fall in consumer spending they are well-placed on the Global Powers of Retailing list compiled by Deloitte and Stores magazine. El Corte Ingles and Eroski are also present amongst the 250 top retailers but have dropped in the rankings since last year. Juan Roig’s Mercadona supermarket chain, present only on the domestic market, rose two places to 42 and was the highest-ranked amongst the Spanish entries. In contrast the Inditex clothing chain - famous for the Zara label - also

moved up two places to 45 but is riding out the crisis thanks to the internet and expansion outside Spain where sales have fallen. El Corte Ingles, although third amongst Spain’s entries, dropped eight places and is now 62nd, its lowest ranking since 2002. The Dia supermarket chain, which combined good results in Spain with international expansion, advanced two places to 73rd position, well ahead of Eroski which fell eight places to 127. The Deloitte list is headed by the US supermarket chain WalMart, followed by the UK’s Tesco and Costco, the US cash-and-carry.

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Home front slump HOUSE sales fell by 15.9 per cent in November for the seventh month running. That month’s 21,847 transactions were the second-lowest since the INE statistics office began keeping records in 2007.

Dairy growth MILK group Pascual is seeking associates to expand into China, India and Africa. It expects international sales to rise from 5 to 15 per cent by the end of 2015.

Gulf between high and low SPAIN’S pay gap is widening. Executive salaries rose by 6.9 per cent last year but fell 3.8 per cent for middle management. Below these levels wages fell 0.4 per cent. An executive earns approximately €80,330 a year pre-tax, found a survey by the Eada business school and ICSA business consultancy.

The situation is polarising, claimed Ernest Poveda. Although executive salaries have risen, earnings for the two other sectors are settling to the same level. Executives in Madrid and Cataluña receive highest salaries, while Navarra has the best-paid employees, followed by Madrid, Cataluña and the Basque Region.

IAG: Holding company of BA and Iberia.

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-0.62% +3.63% -0.77% +0.18% -0.62% +0.39% -0.18% +0.05% +0.22% -2.28% +0.63% -0.32% -2.60% +0.70% +0.44% -1.49% -1.18% -1.05% -1.38% -1.87% -0.26% -0.84% -1.08% -0.88% -0.01% -0.33% -0.37% +4.69% -0.74% -0.31%

2.3M 15.0M 24.0M 3.4M 6.8M 7.2M 44.4M 3.7M 16.0M 97.4M 3.5M 6.2M 112.5M 7.7M 13.8M 21.1M 6.1M 16.8M 46.3M 4.9M 21.6M 13.6M 14.0M 2.9M 4.3M 5.6M 16.0M 9.6M 11.4M 6.7M

9.00 -0.80 6.00 -2.00 8.00 1.98 1.07

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NET VOLUME 253.72 881.89 15.27 135.41 94.60 25.99 1,449.27

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$ 2.21 $ 2.67 $ 2.99 $ 2.40 $ 8.01 $ 6.50 $ 55 $ 24.10 $ 9.04 $ 4.77 $ 2.72

0.47 / +27.01% 0.53 / +24.77% 0.59 / +24.58% 0.38 / +18.81% 1.17 / +17.11% 0.82 / +14.44% 6.93 / +14.42% 2.56 / +11.88% 0.95 / +11.74% 0.46 / +10.67% 0.26 / +10.57%

$ 27.96 $9 $ 40 $ 38.035 $ 24.47 $ 35.93 $ 22.09 $ 30.44 $ 38.48 $ 6.54 $ 6.345

6.54 / -18.96% 1.58 / -14.93% 6.06 / -13.16% 5.605 / -12.84% 2.67 / -9.84% 3.92 / -9.84% 2.40 / -9.80% 2.97 / -8.89% 3.50 / -8.34% 0.58 / -8.15% 0.545 / -7.91%

Most Advanced Ninetowns Internet Tec Grp Comp Lmtd Vimicro International Corporation NII Holdings, Inc. Origin Agritech Limited Idenix Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Pacific Biosciences of California, Inc. Rentrak Corporation Electronic Arts Inc. Maxwell Technologies, Inc. Shanda Games Limited Amicus Therapeutics, Inc.

Most Declined Elizabeth Arden, Inc. Performant Financial Corporation QIWI plc Atlas Air Worldwide Holdings SLM Corporation Agios Pharmaceuticals, Inc. ZELTIQ Aesthetics, Inc. Foundation Medicine, Inc. Strayer Education, Inc. Harmonic Inc. Prosensa Holding N.V.

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C O M PA N Y PRICE(P) Coca-Cola HBC AG 1717.00 Compass Group PLC 970.25 CRH PLC 1651.00 Diageo PLC 1948.00 easyJet PLC 1680.00 Experian PLC 1131.50 Fresnillo PLC 754.50 G4S PLC 258.75 GKN PLC 404.80 GlaxoSmithKline PLC 1655.50 Glencore Xstrata PLC 339.70 Hammerson PLC 519.50 Hargreaves Lansdown 1465.50 HSBC Holdings PLC 673.65 IMI PLC 1563.00 Imperial Tobacco Group 2222.00 InterContinental Hotels. 2000.00 International Consldtd. 427.20 Intertek Group PLC 2890.50 ITV PLC 205.20 Johnson Matthey PLC 3399.00 Kingfisher PLC 388.95 Land Securities Grp PLC 1028.50 Legal & General Gr PLC 230.05 Lloyds Banking Grp PLC 83.11 London Stock Exchange 1833.50 Marks & Spencer Group 484.50 Meggitt PLC 544.25 Melrose Industries PLC 312.15 Mondi PLC 1010.00 National Grid PLC 792.25 Next PLC 6205.00 Old Mutual PLC 192.25 Pearson PLC 1294.50 Persimmon PLC 1345.50 Petrofac Ltd 1258.00 Prudential PLC 1371.00 Randgold Resources Ltd 4023.50 Reckitt Benckiser Group 4694.50 Reed Elsevier PLC 926.50 Resolution Ltd 359.75 REXAM PLC 511.75 Rio Tinto PLC 3369.00 Rolls-Royce Holdings 1248.50 Royal Bank of Scotland 358.90 Royal Dutch Shell PLC 2261.00 Royal Mail PLC 600.25 RSA Insurance Group 102.35 SABMiller PLC 3076.75 Sage Group (The) PLC 410.80 Sainsbury (J) PLC 366.40 Schroders PLC 2554.00 Severn Trent PLC 1652.00 Shire PLC 3014.50 Smith & Nephew PLC 878.75 Smiths Group PLC 1517.00 Sports Direct International...717.25 SSE PLC 1313.50 Standard Chartered PLC 1325.00 Standard Life PLC 384.25 Tate & Lyle PLC 782.75 Tesco PLC 331.30 Travis Perkins PLC 1868.00 TUI Travel PLC 430.45 Tullow Oil PLC 903.00 Unilever PLC 2421.00 United Utilities Group 688.00 Vodafone Group PLC 239.03 Weir Group PLC 2212.00 Whitbread PLC 3943.50 William Hill PLC 359.70 Wm Morrison Sprmrkts 253.40 Wolseley PLC 3501.50 WPP PLC 1350.50

CHANGE 9.00 5.50 -2.00 17.00 1.00 6.00 23.00 -0.30 -2.30 10.00 1.43 1.50 12.00 -4.10 8.92 12.00 4.00 0.00 -16.00 2.00 6.00 0.70 -2.00 -0.10 -0.38 -4.00 -2.00 -0.50 4.00 -2.00 4.06 57.74 0.50 15.00 6.00 -5.00 6.69 69.00 17.00 1.00 -0.10 6.50 -14.50 -1.36 -4.87 -18.50 -3.83 -0.70 25.00 -0.39 -2.12 -5.00 7.00 -4.00 0.50 -6.00 6.00 -6.22 -5.00 -0.20 0.41 0.20 12.00 2.10 -3.70 -3.00 -0.50 -0.90 75.00 -9.00 -0.32 1.05 34.00 -2.00

% C H G. 0.53 0.57 -0.12 0.88 0.06 0.53 3.14 -0.12 -0.56 0.61 0.42 0.29 0.83 -0.60 0.57 0.54 0.20 0.00 -0.55 0.98 0.18 0.18 -0.19 -0.04 -0.45 -0.22 -0.41 -0.09 1.30 -0.20 0.52 0.94 0.26 1.17 0.45 -0.40 0.49 1.74 0.36 0.11 -0.03 1.29 -0.43 -0.11 -1.34 -0.81 -0.63 -0.68 0.82 -0.09 -0.58 -0.20 0.43 -0.13 0.06 -0.39 0.84 -0.47 -0.38 -0.05 0.05 0.06 0.65 0.49 -0.41 -0.12 -0.07 -0.38 3.51 -0.23 -0.09 0.42 0.98 -0.15

VOLUME 39.80 309.79 234.32 372.06 137.48 729.72 178.29 254.40 359.93 733.47 4,160.75 300.04 134.71 2,717.04 17.72 235.86 26.70 854.37 45.14 1,006.97 24.62 258.42 304.37 771.59 14,623.11 39.85 367.96 71.20 195.05 57.47 579.50 35.35 685.40 123.17 110.35 67.01 282.65 88.29 47.03 148.31 430.92 66.64 764.37 337.37 2,438.87 646.42 112.01 1,270.33 370.81 99.35 563.21 11.54 105.54 96.37 295.50 41.72 47.72 346.32 449.93 409.62 33.78 1,143.92 24.18 92.25 266.14 286.52 204.21 11,438.62 254.00 23.04 624.72 1,192.43 27.34 317.52

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Labour costs down LABOUR costs in Spain fell for a fourth year in a row in 2013. Households have seen a 10 per cent decline in income since 2008, according to the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development.

Ban lifted AN EU trade ban on Iran was due to be lifted this week once inspectors give the all clear that the Middle Eastern country is fulfilling conditions on a nuclear deal. The ban was imposed over fears it was developing weapons grade nuclear capability.

Banks pay SPANISH banks’ debts with the European Central Bank fell by more than €110 billion during 2013. By the end of December their total debt stood at €201.8 billion.

Drinks go JAPANESE Suntory has agreed an €11.7 billion takeover of Beam Inc, owners of Jim Beam bourbon as well as Spain’s DYC whisky and Larios gin.

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Youth Guarantee to help the young unemployed... WITH Spain’s youth unemployment rate standing at 57.7 per cent the country has signed up to a European Commission ‘Youth Guarantee’. It is one of 17 countries that has already submitted a plan to implement the guarantee, described as an ambitious EU-wide reform aiming to help all jobless people under 25 find employment, continued education, an apprenticeship or traineeship within four months of becoming unemployed or leaving formal education. Another 11 European member states are still preparing their strategies to deliver a national Youth Guarantee scheme. Laszlo Andor, European Commissioner for Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion, said: “Leaving young people without help damages their lifetime prospects as well as Europe’s economic potential and social cohesion. It is in each Member State’s interest to act swiftly and put in place practical measures to help young people get a job or acquire the skills to get a job in the future.” In April 2013, EU ministers adopted a Council recommendation on establishing a Youth Guarantee, which sets out in detail the measures and reforms to be put in place in order to ensure that everyone under 25 gets a real chance to get a foothold in the labour market. Most elements of the Youth Guarantee can be co-financed by the European Social Fund, such as provision of job-search support or training, extension and modernisation of apprenticeship

COMMISSION: Fighting youth unemployment. systems, hiring subsidies or traineeship grants. Member states with regions suffering more than 25 per cent youth unemployment will be entitled to more money from the EU to tackle the problem. That will mean an €881.44 million boost from Europe, which Spain will have to match from its European Social Fund allocation and spend on getting under-25s off the dole queues. The Youth Guarantee is based on experience in Austria and Finland that show investing in young people pays off. For example, the Finnish Youth Guarantee resulted in a reduction in unemployment amongst young people, with 83.5 per cent successfully allocated a job, traineeship, apprenticeship or further education within three months of registering.

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For many member states, the implementation of the Youth Guarantee will require structural reforms. For example, public employment services must be able to ensure individual young people receive appropriate advice on job, education and training opportunities most relevant to their own situation, resulting in a tailor-made, concrete offer within four months. Another area requiring structural reforms concerns apprenticeships and vocational education and training systems. Member states must ensure they give young people the skills employers are looking for. The Youth Guarantee does not come cheap - the International Labour Organisation has estimated the cost of setting up Youth Guarantees in the Eurozone at €21 billion per year.

SPAIN got a welcome boost in the bonds market when it auctioned three year notes at the lowest yield recorded by news agency Bloomberg since 2004. The Spanish treasury will pay a yield of just 1.595 per cent. It was part of a bonds sale of €5.91 billion - the largest amount of bonds sold in auction in one day since January 2012. The low yields reflect a surge in confidence in the Spanish economy with investors deciding the investment is low risk. It came as the same time as Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy said that Spain’s economy, which only recently came out of a two year recession, had probably started accelerating in the last quarter of 2013. With borrowing costs declining it is good news for the treasury as it needs to pay less to service debt. With unemployment declining slightly and the economy growing the end of 2013 could be seen as a turning point for Spain.

Service sector recovery gets stronger as activity increases THE recovery in the Spanish service sector strengthened in December as both new orders and business activity increased at sharper rates. That said, there were signs that the rise in new business was at least partly supported by ongoing discounting. Meanwhile, the rate of job cuts eased, and was only marginal. The headline seasonally adjusted Business Activity Index which is based on a single question asking respondents to report on the actual change in business activity at their

companies compared to one month ago - increased to 54.2 in December from 51.5 in November. This was the second successive reading above the 50.0 no-change mark and signalled the sharpest rise in activity since July 2007. Commenting on the Spanish Services PMI survey data, Andrew Harker, senior economist at Markit, the financial information and services company and author of the report, said: “The latest services PMI data provide real optimism that in 2014 we could finally see the start of a

meaningful economic recovery in Spain. Activity and new business each rose at rates not seen since prior to the economic crisis, although the extent to which companies are relying on discounting to support growth of orders remains a worry. “There even looks to be signs of positive movement in the labour market, with the sector coming close to seeing a stabilisation in employment in December.” Businesses interviewed for the report said there were signs of greater customer activity during the month. Transport & Storage

led the overall expansion in activity, closely followed by Financial Intermediation. New business increased for the fifth successive month in December. Moreover, the rate of expansion quickened for the third consecutive month and was the fastest in almost six-and-a-half years. All six monitored sectors posted an expansion of new orders. Despite a sharp rise in new business, backlogs of work continued to fall. That said, the rate of depletion remained only marginal.

Staffing levels also continued to decrease during the month, but the rate of job cuts eased for the second month running and was the slowest since the current sequence of falling employment began in March 2008. Post & Telecommunications and Transport & Storage registered increases in staffing levels. A number of respondents indicated staff costs had fallen in December. However, rising energy prices at other firms meant overall input costs were unchanged from November. This followed two months of increasing input prices.

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Watch your purse and avoid being App-solutely fleeced! PARENTS beware! If you’re trying to keep a tight leash on your finances these days then something you might not have thought about, is controlling how your kids spend your money. Granted, their pocket money is theirs to do what they please with, but what about money that they might be spending without your consent? It’s been revealed that apps for mobile phones and tablets have been bleeding some mums and dads dry - and sometimes initially unbeknownst to both parents and kids. In America this week, computer giant Apple has been made to refund €24 million to parents whose children made in-app purchases without their

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parents’ consent. We all have apps on our devices and many parents have games to distract the little ones on long journeys or to get five minutes of me-time! But this is where the trouble starts. Once an app is downloaded then these socalled ‘in-app’ purchases can be made along

the way, which typically allow faster progression in a game. All that is needed to go ahead with an in-app purchase is a password. Parents have complained that a password prompt screen would sometimes randomly pop up on their screen without explaining this would finalise any purchase made in the app and that’s exactly why so many parents got caught out unknowingly buying in-apps for their gamehungry kids. In–app purchases can range from €1 to €100. Apple is now under onus to change its billing procedures to make sure customers have given consent before they are charged.

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Output increase INDUSTRIAL production in the euro-area rose 1.8 per cent in November, according to the EU’s statistics office. That was the biggest increase since May 2010.

Good signs SPANISH exports of goods and services rose 6.1 per cent in 2013. Exports were worth an estimated €350 billion, according to the Spanish government.

€1bn plan BARCELONA based Desigual clothing chain is targeting worldwide sales of €1 billion in 2014, up from €440 million four years ago. It plans to open 100 stores a year globally in an expansion drive.

What to do if there is no will? Q. My wife, just over 40 years old, passed away suddenly at the end of You and the 2013. We had been married for just over a year. We were married in Law in Spain Gibraltar. As my wife had several years By David Searl left on her UK passport, we never got around to changing her name on it. As a result, the Spanish death certificate is in her maiden name. She was joint owner with her father of two apartments here and now her father wants to sell them. I am a Spanish resident and my wife was also a resident. The father is not resident in Spain. My wife had not made a will. As the surviving spouse, how do I stand with relation to her property? KM (Costa del Sol) A. If your wife had made a UK will, the Spanish authorities would respect its provisions. If she had neither a UK will nor a Spanish will, the basic Spanish rules will apply. In the absence of surviving children, her father will inherit her property, including her shares in the two flats and any other assets she had.

Spanish law provides only that a surviving spouse inherits the right to live in the family home. The rest goes to the children, or, in this case, the father. He will need a lawyer to help identify him as the legitimate inheritor and he will pay Spanish inheritance tax, at the rate for immediate family. If resident in Spain, he

would have almost complete exemption from inheritance tax.

Send your questions for David Searl through lawyers Ubeda-Retana & Associates in Fuengirola at Ask@lawtaxspain.com, or call 952-667090

GOOD LIFE: Yachts at Palma in the sunshine.

Spain’s high quality of life SPAIN is the only country in the world that can boast two cities among the top 10 places with the highest quality of life in the world: Madrid and Palma de Mallorca. These are the conclusions of a study by the international team at Knight Frank, which takes into account various factors such as culture, education, cost of living, leisure activities, the range of top quality restaurants and the climate. In this ranking, Dubai was considered the city with the highest quality of life in the world, due to its 350 days of sunshine a year, the low cost of living there, the wide variety of luxury leisure activities and the educational facilities available to foreigners

looking to find a school for their children. Meanwhile, the largest island in the Balearics, Mallorca, came in second place as a result of its 300 days of sunshine a year and the high scores it received in the other general factors being evaluated. Madrid, the capital of Spain, achieved 10th place in this ranking thanks to its luxury leisure activities and the reasonable prices at which they are offered. Otherwise, the list of the top 10 destinations in the world for quality of life is made up of the Cayman Islands in third place, followed by Geneva and Cyprus, with London placed in sixth position, then Hong Kong, Singapore, Auckland and Monaco.

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Killer’s return is an affront to his victims THE article ‘Locals are concerned over killer’s return’ (Issue 1489) gave me chills as I read it. Manuel Gonzalez, the ‘tracksuit madman’, who was sentenced to 169 years and served only 16 has now returned to a small town of 1,600 people in Sevilla. He attacked 16 women and girls in a three-year span (19911993) meaning that effectively he served one measly year for each attack. That is an insult to his victims. Stabbing women with knives and arrows in their buttocks and genitals gets you ONE YEAR in prison? I understand the implications of the annulment of the Parot doctrine, but my perception is that criminals sentenced to very long terms (like Gonzalez’s 169 years) can and still should serve the full 30 years allowed by law. Gonzalez served just 16 of those, and he attacked a load of women. What the heck? Why isn’t he serving another 14 years? I would love a news story which interviewed the judge to find out how in the cosmos these decisions are made. Katrin Freiesleben, Alhaurin de la Torre (Malaga)

Absolutely disgusting RE your story (Axarquia, Issue 1487) about expats taking to the streets to protest against potential demolition orders on their homes, this situation is absolutely disgusting! Honest, community-minded citizens, who did NOTHING at all wrong, other than to choose to ‘migrate’ to Spain - with all the financial benefits that brings to Spain, a full member of the European Community - now find themselves robbed of their autonomy. No longer can they freely make decisions with regard to their homes, which in the main, represent their life savings. Instead they are effectively being held hostage by the Spanish authorities who seem hell-bent on causing continued

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Clueless experts I READ an interesting article (Issue 1487) in the Food and Drink Section. It stated new EU regulations limit the use of cinnamon as it contains coumarin, a naturally occurring toxic chemical. Studies have linked high coumarin intake to liver damage in a small number of sensitive people. I could sleep soundly with the knowledge that the EU is taking the health of its 500 million residents seriously. Blow me down, the very next EWN (Issue 1488) Health & Beauty section reports many health benefits of cinnamon. Research has found that cinnamon significantly reduces

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blood pressure in certain diabetic and pre-diabetic patients. It aids glucose control by enhancing the effectiveness of insulin and has a beneficial impact on blood-sugar levels. It has been widely used in Indian ayurvedic medicine. It is good for oral health, killing bacteria associated with gum disease. This confirms my longstanding belief that the world is full of ‘experts’ who haven’t got a clue what they’re doing. Pass another glass of tinto, please, to boost my immune system (Issue 1488) and for protection against cancer, Alzheimer’s, dementia, heart

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Still in love with Spain I AM writing in response to John Edward’s letter ‘Just not the place I fell in love with’. We first bought here in 1996 and in our opinion it has improved dramatically. We now have excellent roads, a good choice of supermarkets and can eat indoors in restaurants now that the smoking ban is in force. To us it is far more civilised and I welcome stronger ITVs if it means that cars on the road are safer. Does laissez-faire mean that people could drive around in dangerous vehicles and nonsmokers had to put up with breathing in others’ smoke? To us, Spain still provides a friendly and uncrowded place to live and a far better lifestyle than we could ever afford in the UK. Barbara Wicker, Torrox (Malaga)

I AM amazed that a woman was fined €200 for ‘jaywalking’ in Algeciras (Issue 1489). According to your article, the woman made sure it was safe to cross the road, and this should be enough not to fine her. I understand that the authorities have to do anything in their power to prevent accidents, but it seems it will get to a point in which we will be subject to fines for almost any action. The same happens when we drive alone on the motorway. Why shouldn’t we be allowed to drive at more than 120km/h when there’s no one around? Of course, we have to follow certain rules to protect ourselves and others, but aren’t we old enough to know when it’s safe to do something? It is clear to me that Algeciras City Hall has set up ‘Big Brother’ surveillance to catch people redhanded and receive extra money in fines. Johnathan Simons, Estepona (Malaga)

What freedom? BOTH Julian Assange and Edward Snowden would die of apoplectic laughter to read that, according to Mike Walsh (Issue 1489), ‘the US value freedom of expression’! Charlie Dowling, Orihuela Costa (Alicante)

Puzzle pleasure MAY I say how much I enjoy the Time Out section in the Euro Weekly News. I look forward to it every Thursday. Friends and I always gather at our local café to collect a copy of the paper and then settle down to complete the various quizzes, whilst enjoying a coffee or even a cheeky glass of wine! It is one of the highlights of our week. It may sound totally unexciting to many people but it gets us all out of the house for a bit of fun and socialising. So, thank you, Euro Weekly News, for bringing some pleasure into our lives. Joan Foster, Torremolinos (Malaga)

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OPINION & COMMENT

Careers over for household names I DUNNO, all these celebrity sex cases this week seem surreal. Headline after headline, knocking nails into the coffins of household names and their careers, whether ultimately found guilty or not. There is something about it all that has a whiff of unfairness. Many of these women’s complaints are nothing more than could be expected on a rowdy weekend night in the local boozer. ‘I felt his hand on my bum.’ ‘He brushed his hands against my breast.’ I know, I know; before all you gals start screaming, I do understand that any unwelcome sexual advances are out of order and some of the accusations are very serious indeed, but some are also a load of indignant twaddle. What about the boot being on the other foot? I myself have been ‘sexually assaulted’. I’ve been groped, had my behind squeezed, received obscene suggestions, and experienced the occasional serious grope to my

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nether regions. Most of these experiences have been accompanied by whoops and catcalls by whatever group of women the perpetrator was out with for the night. You don’t see me rushing to the Old Bill. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t enjoy it. In fact, I find someone grabbing your proverbials in public pretty demeaning. But then I’m a bloke. I can hear the sniggering and the ‘you should be so luckys’ from here. Therein lies the problem. If I lodged a complaint with the police, I probably wouldn’t even get it past the front desk. “Hey, Sarge, there’s a bloke here complaining he’s been groped by some bird. Wot shall I do with

SEXUAL HARASSMENT: Boot on other foot? him?” “Ha, ha! Tell him he should be so lucky and send him on his way.” Different attitude, ya see. I dunno; whatever the outcome of these cases something about it all just doesn’t seem quite right. Just had a ‘brisk’ exchange on

FB with folk who still believe the McCanns are guilty of their daughter’s disappearance. Well, all I can say is that this opinion sits alongside the beliefs of those who belong to the flat earth society. For somebody who has been exonerated from a crime to do everything in their power to keep the offence as high profile and fresh in the public’s mind as possible - for years - must be either demented or not guilty. Well these two, obviously highly intelligent, tragic parents are most certainly not demented. Give us a break! And that’s about it, apart from wishing my lovely daughter Charlene a very happy birthday and loads of love from a proud new grandad. Keep the faith Love Leapy leapylee2002@gmail.com

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Closed minded I LOVED Leapy's article ‘Missing global-warming con men’ (Issue 1489). Most people will not believe only a handful of people run our planet. They are so closedminded it’s not worth trying to explain. I’m just waiting for the so-called global warming experts to tell governments they need to tax humans for breathing, as we breathe out carbon dioxide which surely must be contributing to it. C B (By email)

Fear so... WE are at the mercy of a few multi-trillionaires running the world, according to Leapy. Once I would have called him paranoid, but after the global financial recession, I fear he is right. A Redmond (By email)

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BBC2/ 6:15pm Flog It! 7:00pm Eggheads 7:30pm Great British Railway Journeys 8:00pm The Great Interior Design Challenge 9:00pm Mastermind 9:30pm An Island Parish 10:00pm Italy Unpacked 11:00pm QI 11:30pm Newsnight

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4:00pm The Alan Titchmarsh Show 5:00pm Britain's Best Bakery 6:00pm The Chase 7:00pm ITV News London 7:30pm ITV News and Weather 8:00pm Emmerdale 8:30pm Tonight 9:00pm Emmerdale 9:30pm Birds of a Feather 10:00pm Benidorm 11:00pm ITV News at Ten and Weather 11:35pm Weight Loss Ward 12:35am Strictly Kosher

4:00pm The Alan Titchmarsh Show 5:00pm Britain's Best Bakery 6:00pm The Chase 7:00pm ITV News London 7:30pm ITV News and Weather 8:00pm Emmerdale 8:30pm Coronation Street 9:00pm The Martin Lewis Money Show 9:30pm Coronation Street 10:00pm Piers Morgan's Life Stories 11:00pm ITV News at Ten and Weather 11:40pm The Americans 12:30am Benidorm 1:25am Jackpot247

CH4/ 4:10pm Countdown 5:00pm Deal or No Deal 6:00pm Come Dine with Me 7:00pm The Simpsons 7:30pm Hollyoaks 8:00pm Channel 4 News 9:00pm Supersize v Superskinny 10:00pm The Undateables 11:00pm What Happens in Sunny Beach... 12:05am 24 Hours in A and E

ITV2/ 4:00pm The Alan Titchmarsh Show 5:00pm Britain's Best Bakery 6:00pm The Chase 7:00pm ITV News London 7:30pm ITV News and Weather 8:00pm Emmerdale 8:30pm Tonight 9:00pm Emmerdale 9:30pm Birds of a Feather 10:00pm Benidorm 11:00pm ITV News at Ten and Weather 11:35pm Weight Loss Ward 12:35am Strictly Kosher 1:30am Jackpot247 4:00am Tonight

CH4/ 4:10pm Countdown 5:00pm Deal or No Deal 6:00pm Come Dine with Me 7:00pm The Simpsons 7:30pm Hollyoaks 8:00pm Channel 4 News 9:00pm Jamie and Jimmy's Friday Night Feast 10:00pm 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown 11:00pm My Big Fat Gypsy Holiday 12:05am Brooklyn NineNine

ITV2/ 5:10pm The Real Housewives of Orange County 6:05pm The Millionaire Matchmaker 7:00pm Dinner Date 8:00pm You've Been Framed! 9:00pm Two and a Half Men 10:00pm The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift 12:10am Take Me Out

9:00pm Sunday • Hugh Jackman • Russell Crowe • Anne Hathaway • Amanda Seyfried

Saturday BBC1/ 6:20pm Dynamo: Magician Impossible 7:00pm Reflex 7:45pm BBC News 7:55pm Regional News 7:58pm Weather 8:00pm The Voice UK 9:15pm The National Lottery: Who Dares Wins 10:10pm Casualty 11:00pm Mrs. Brown's Boys 11:30pm BBC News 11:45pm Weather

BBC2/ 5:30pm Coast 6:00pm Wild Arabia 8:00pm Flog It! 9:00pm Dad's Army 9:30pm Morecambe and Wise in Pieces 10:30pm QI XL 11:15pm West is West

ITV/ 4:00pm All Star Family Fortunes 4:40pm You've Been Framed! 5:10pm Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang 7:20pm Local News and Weather 7:30pm ITV News and Weather 7:45pm Splash! 9:15pm Take Me Out 10:30pm The Jonathan Ross Show 11:30pm ITV News at Ten and Weather 11:45pm The FA Cup Highlights.

CH4/ 5:00pm Come Dine with Me 7:30pm Channel 4 News 8:00pm Speed with Guy Martin 9:00pm Bigfoot Files 10:00pm Hostages 11:00pm Underworld: Rise of the Lycans

ITV2/ 4:30pm FYI Daily 4:35pm Honey 5:25pm You've Been Framed! 6:25pm You've Been Framed and Famous! 7:30pm The Perfect Storm 8:30pm FYI Daily 8:35pm The Perfect Storm 10:00pm Die Another Day

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Les Miserables (2012) The drama follows the life of Gallic convict Jean Valjean who jumps parole and builds a new existence as a respectable town mayor. With the kindling of revolution beginning to smoulder, he finds himself caught between his misunderstood past and attempts at redemption, before being forced to make some decisions that will forever affect his life.

Sunday BBC1/ 4:15pm Escape to the Country 5:00pm Songs of Praise 5:35pm Hidden Kingdoms 6:35pm BBC News 6:50pm Regional News 6:55pm Weather 7:00pm Fake or Fortune? 8:00pm Countryfile 9:00pm Call the Midwife 10:00pm The Musketeers 11:00pm BBC News 11:15pm Regional News 11:20pm Weather 11:25pm Meet the Fockers

BBC2/ 1:00pm Saturday Kitchen Best Bites 2:30pm The Big Bread Experiment 3:30pm Bowls

ITV/ 6:50pm Local News and Weather 7:00pm ITV News and Weather 7:15pm Dancing on Ice 8:45pm All Star Family Fortunes 9:30pm Dancing on Ice 10:00pm Mr Selfridge 11:00pm ITV News at Ten and Weather 11:15pm Birds of a Feather 11:45pm The FA Cup Highlights.

CH4/ 4:20pm Deal or No Deal 5:25pm Channel 4 News 5:55pm Jamie and Jimmy's Friday Night Feast 7:00pm Mirror Mirror 9:00pm The Jump 10:00pm Unstoppable 11:50pm G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra

ITV2/ 4:50pm FYI Daily 4:55pm Miss Congeniality 6:00pm Peter Pan 7:00pm FYI Daily 7:05pm Peter Pan 8:15pm Despicable Me 9:15pm FYI Daily 9:20pm Despicable Me 10:00pm The Magaluf Weekender 11:00pm The Bourne Supremacy

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Monday BBC1/ 6:15pm Pointless 7:00pm BBC News 7:30pm Regional News 8:00pm The One Show 8:30pm Inside Out 9:00pm EastEnders 9:30pm Panorama 10:00pm Britain's Great War 11:00pm BBC News

BBC2/ 6:15pm Flog It! 7:00pm Eggheads 7:30pm Great British Railway Journeys 8:00pm The Great Interior Design Challenge 9:00pm University Challenge 9:30pm Food and Drink 10:00pm The Many Faces of Dick Emery

ITV/ 6:00pm The Chase 7:00pm Local News and Weather 7:30pm ITV News and Weather 8:00pm Emmerdale 8:30pm Coronation Street 9:00pm A Great Welsh Adventure with Griff Rhys Jones 9:30pm Coronation Street 10:00pm The Bletchley Circle 11:00pm ITV News at Ten and Weather 11:35pm Piers Morgan's Life Stories

CH4/ 6:00pm Come Dine with Me 6:30pm Coach Trip 7:00pm The Simpsons 7:30pm Hollyoaks 8:00pm Channel 4 News 9:00pm The Jump 10:00pm Benefits Street 11:00pm Meet the Polygamists

ITV2/ 5:10pm The Real Housewives of Orange County 6:05pm The Millionaire Matchmaker 7:00pm Dinner Date 8:00pm You've Been Framed! 9:00pm Two and a Half Men 10:00pm M.O.M. 10:30pm Dads 11:00pm The Job Lot 11:30pm Plebs

4:00pm Perfection 4:45pm Escape to the Country 5:30pm Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is 6:15pm Pointless 7:00pm BBC News 7:30pm Regional News 8:00pm The One Show 8:30pm EastEnders 9:00pm Holby City 10:00pm Death in Paradise 11:00pm BBC News 11:25pm Regional News 11:30pm Weather 11:35pm The Zoo Next Door

BBC2/ 5:15pm The Secret Life of Elephants 6:15pm Flog It! 7:00pm Eggheads 7:30pm Great British Railway Journeys 8:00pm The Great Interior Design Challenge 9:00pm Children's Emergency Rescue 10:00pm Inside the Animal Mind 11:00pm House of Fools 11:30pm Newsnight

ITV/ 4:00pm The Alan Titchmarsh Show 5:00pm Britain's Best Bakery 6:00pm The Chase 7:00pm Local News and Weather 7:30pm ITV News and Weather 8:00pm Emmerdale 9:00pm Celebrity Who Wants to be a Millionaire? 10:00pm Paul O'Grady's Animal Orphans 11:00pm ITV News at Ten and Weather 11:35pm Sports Life Stories

CH4/ 4:10pm Countdown 5:00pm Deal or No Deal 6:00pm Come Dine with Me 6:30pm Coach Trip 7:00pm The Simpsons 7:30pm Hollyoaks 8:00pm Channel 4 News 9:00pm The Jump 10:00pm The Taste 11:00pm Benefits Street

ITV2/ 4:05pm The Jeremy Kyle Show 5:10pm The Real Housewives of Orange County 6:05pm The Millionaire Matchmaker 7:00pm Dinner Date 8:00pm You've Been Framed! 8:30pm You've Been Framed! 9:00pm Two and a Half Men 9:30pm Two and a Half Men 10:00pm Die Another Day 11:00pm FYI Daily 11:05pm Die Another Day

Wednesday BBC1/ 4:00pm Perfection 4:45pm Escape to the Country 5:30pm Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is 6:15pm Pointless 7:00pm BBC News at Six 7:30pm BBC London News 8:00pm The One Show 8:57pm BBC News and Regional News 9:00pm Waterloo Road 10:00pm Outnumbered 10:30pm Mrs. Brown's Boys 11:00pm BBC News at Ten 11:25pm BBC London News 11:32pm BBC Weather 11:35pm Match of the Day

BBC2/ 4:15pm Coast 5:10pm The Secret Life of Elephants 6:10pm Flog It! 6:55pm Party Political Broadcast by the Labour Party 7:00pm Eggheads 7:30pm Great British Railway Journeys 8:00pm The Great Interior Design Challenge 9:00pm The Restaurant Man 10:00pm Horizon 11:00pm Mock the Week 11:30pm Newsnight

ITV/ 4:00pm The Alan Titchmarsh Show 5:00pm Britain's Best Bakery 6:00pm The Chase 7:00pm ITV News London 7:25pm Party Political Broadcast by the Labour Party 7:30pm ITV News and Weather 8:00pm Emmerdale 8:30pm Coronation Street 9:00pm Midsomer Murders 11:00pm ITV News at Ten and Weather 11:35pm The Jonathan Ross Show

CH4/ 4:10pm Countdown 5:00pm Deal or No Deal 6:00pm Come Dine with Me 6:30pm Coach Trip 7:00pm The Simpsons 7:30pm Hollyoaks 8:00pm Channel 4 News 9:00pm The Jump 10:00pm 24 Hours in A and E 11:00pm Turtle Boy: A Bodyshock Special

ITV2/ 4:05pm The Jeremy Kyle Show 5:10pm The Real Housewives of Orange County 6:05pm The Millionaire Matchmaker 7:00pm Dinner Date 8:00pm You've Been Framed! 9:00pm Two and a Half Men 10:00pm Benidorm 11:00pm The Magaluf Weekender

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GEMINI (May 22 - June 21) When discussing a holiday with others, be aware that agreement is not always easily met. Although you are not inclined to compromise, it is necessary to go with the majority decision. Patience is thin on the ground at the moment, but try not to over-react.

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before? Looking into their recent past is likely to tip the balance. What you find shows clearly if there has been a change of heart on their part or if they are trying to pull the wool over your eyes.

LEO (July 24 - August 23) Your attention is needed on more than one front, and some decisions are at odds with your personal thoughts and attitudes. Being reminded that 'business is business' does nothing to relieve your conscience. You may have to upset someone by telling the truth, which may affect your longer-term finances but do you really have any choice?

CANCER (June 22 - July 23) After the 24th it is much easier to see the path ahead. This is particularly true of a financial situation, so there's no sense in fussing until you understand what needs to be done. Someone who has in the past been

TAURUS (April 21 - May 21) Everything on the home front is emphasised and there will be a flurry of activity. Get others involved in any changes. Work in the garden or painting is much more enjoyable and half the work if you

LIBRA (September 24 - October 23) A disagreement with a friend upsets you but is short-lived. To avoid such a situation in the future, look at how you should have dealt with it. There is always something to know that guides us to a better position. It will make you smile that someone has taken you for a fool because you have the last laugh.

VIRGO (August 24 - September 23) Are you willing to take a risk on someone who has let you down

SCORPIO (October 24 - November 22) A great feeling of joy comes over you more than once in the week ahead. Your inner child has been set free, and this is likely to be because of recent restrictions, which are now lifted. Do not feel guilty about this because it is a choice that will serve you well in the future.

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.

SAGITTARIUS (November 23 December 21) Travel arrangements may have to be changed at the last minute. Do not fret, however, because success is more likely at the end of the month. During a dream, or when reading a book, an idea comes to you. Can this really make a difference to your future?

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CAPRICORN (December 22 January 20) The need to plan ahead is frustrating when you know exactly what ought to be going on. Patience is something that you need to cultivate, or you risk upsetting someone close. Spending time with a colleague makes you realise how good things could be, but a lot of effort is involved.

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Friday January 17

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Almeria

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Mallorca TODAY:

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

TARGET:

Average: 11

Very good: 20

Good: 14

Excellent: 24

brut, burp, cert, curb, cure, curt, ecru, pert, pure, rube, true, brute, buret, crept, cruet, cuter, eruct, erupt, rebut, truce, tuber, utter, butter, cutter, putter, BUTTERCUP

REINTEGRO 12

MAIL

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Saturday January 18

LUCKY STARS 4

TODAY:

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LOTTERY 7

Alicante TODAY:

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unco-operative is more flexible. You wonder at this and try to see an ulterior motive, but it is most likely that they have seen the error of their past actions.

enlist the help of someone you get on well with.

ARIES (March 21 - April 20) A rather slow start to the week leads you to feel bored but be assured that the weekend will be far from dull. A recent conversation or correspondence with an old friend leads to unexpected contact.

Andreu Buenafuente, born January 24, 1965. Buenafuente is a Spanish late night show host and comedian. His breakthrough came in the 2000s with the late show ʻLa Cosa Nostra,ʼ which was broadcast on Catalan regional TV. He currently hosts ʻEn el aireʼ on La Sexta TV channel. In 1989 he founded El Terrat, one of Spainʼs most important media companies.

3 27

6 39

REINTEGRO 8

SLOT

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

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PISCES (February 20 - March 20) Who is trying to push you into a corner? Maybe it is being done so subtly that you have not even noticed. Who wants a decision from you? Appear to take pressure lightly and not give in to an irritation.

1. The American cyclist Lance Armstrong admitted to doping in all of his seven Tour de France victories in his television interview given to whom in January? 2. In February, the University of Leicester held a media conference to announce that a skeleton found in Leicester in 2012 during an archaeological dig was that of which former king of England? 3. Former oil executive Justin Welby was formally enthroned as the 105th what in March? 4. British businessman James McCormick was convicted at the Old Bailey in April on three counts of fraud after selling fake what, based on a device for finding golf balls to countries including Iraq and Georgia? 5. Which team, playing in their first FA Cup Final, defeated Manchester City with a last minute goal by Ben Watson at Wembley Stadium in May? 6. A group of train drivers in Sweden began wearing what to work in June, as a protest against their employer’s ban on shorts?

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IF ITʼS YOUR BIRTHDAY THIS WEEK: Social life is important because friendships will be made that last a long time. Your popularity should not be taken for granted, but built on. As you need other people, they also need you.

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AQUARIUS (January 21 - February 19) It is difficult to avoid repeating mistakes made in the past. Your approach to certain situations has not changed and therein lies the problem. Someone who blames you for a mistake shows ignorance but that does not make it less upsetting.

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Across 1 No alms arranged? Looks fishy (6) 4 Flying with little boy frequently (5) 8 Follow headless queens around (5) 9 Famous actor, one appearing in Lionel Bart musical (7) 10 Tearing out from hard rock! (7) 11 The almanacʼs partial cure (4) 12 American soldier right about outfit (3) 14 Snap part of tree (4) 15 Insects hiding in police station (4) 18 Group from Chinese Taipei (3) 21 Inside thereʼs time to relax (4) 23 Endure in the grip of the Thundergod (7) 25 Peril of poor description (7) 26 Legend on the move (5) 27 Wild animal doing wrong (5) 28 Ukraine port some passed over on the way back (6) Down 1 Transport made from ledges (6) 2 Callas going round to a famous opera house (2,5) 3 Needles boss like at sea (8) 4 ʻHot Fiveʼ help out (4) 5 Girl involving one in love entanglement (5) 6 Thursday, mid-afternoon, Iʼll rush (6)

Across 1 Break in pieces (5) 4 Two-wheeled vehicle (7) 8 Time between noon and evening (9) 9 Be sorry for (3) 10 Stage of development (5) 12 Foretell (7) 13 Possess (3) 14 Implements (5) 16 Night bird (3) 18 Science of matter (7) 20 Prevent from happening (5) 21 Sprint (3) 22 Credit (9) 25 Assume a reclining position (3,4) 26 Not including (5)

7 Mr Federer is acknowledged on the radio (5) 13 Cordial welcome for delighted helper (4-4) 16 Can sort out boxes (7) 17 Stand or, otherwise, drop it (6)

Code Breaker Each number in the Code Breaker grid represents a different letter of the alphabet. In this week’s puzzle, 16 represents B and 1 represents Z, so fill in B every time the figure 16 appears and Z every time the figure 1 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.

19 Sounds fishy but he works on pianos (5) 20 Left one with a Shakespearean heroine (6) 22 Despise rough corns (5) 24 Floor covering from Illinois (4)

LAST WEEK’S SOLUTIONS CRYPTIC Across: 1 Sleigh, 4 Moscow, 7 Eavesdrop, 9 Oman, 10 Goat, 11 Canal, 13 Litmus, 14 Soften, 15 Pewter, 17 All out, 19 Daisy, 20 Cord, 22 Wept, 23 Mutineers, 24 Otters, 25 Tutors. Down: 1 School, 2 Ivan, 3 Hyenas, 4 Madras, 5 Slog, 6 Wanton, 7 Earthworm, 8 Postpones, 11 Cured, 12 Lowly, 15 Pacino, 16 Rapids, 17 Aspect, 18 Totals, 21 Dupe, 22 Writ. QUICK Across: 1 Detach, 4 Trusts, 9 Corrode, 10 Prize, 11 Sue, 12 Parakeet, 14 Astral, 15 Leader, 18 Solution, 20 Ass, 23 Nurse, 24 Survive, 25 Locate, 26 Lesson. Down: 1 Docks, 2 Torment, 3 Clog, 5 Repeated, 6 Smile, 7 Shelter, 8 Feral, 13 Farthest, 14 Arsenal, 16 Diaries, 17 Bossy, 19 Lyric, 21 Stern, 22 Urge.

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ENGLISH-SPANISH Across: 1 Sage, 3 Usado, 8 Ama de casa, 9 Estar, 10 Plata, 12 Alcachofa, 14 Brass, 15 Into. Down: 1 Saucepan, 2 Giant, 4 Sheepdog, 5 Día, 6 Fabricas, 7 Zapatero, 11 Again, 13 Car.

Unscramble the name of a famous NFL American football team (three words): SENSATIONAL WRENS Unscramble the name of a famous, awardwinning English actress: IS ULTRA JEWEL

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English - Spanish The clues are mixed, some clues are in Spanish and some are in English. Across 1 Cigüeña (5) 3 Buckets (pails) (5) 7 Naranja (6) 9 Pulga (4) 10 Sunlight (3,3,3) 13 Yesterday (4) 14 Tin (ore) (6) 16 Evitar (eludir) (5) 17 Barcas (5) Down 1 Lento (ritmo, movimiento, caída) (4) 2 Rum (3) 4 Acorn (7) 5 Cisne (4) 6 To deserve (7) 8 Tile (floor) (7) 11 For (going to) (4) 12 Perros (4) 15 Dos (3)

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

PRINTS

ASCEND

RAILED

CEASED

RECEDE

CHAFED (10)

SEDUCE

CLEATS

SHELLS

DATING

STATUE

DECENT

THENCE

FELLED

VOLLEY

HELPED

WELLED

PITTED

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LAST WEEK’S SOLUTION Answers: Back to basics, All in the mind

Funagram

Down 1 Hair washing agent (7) 2 Destiny (3) 3 Rushing stream (7) 4 Show disapproval (3) 5 Small and light boat (5) 6 Flesh-eating mammal (9) 7 Select by vote (5) 11 Nuisance (9) 12 Devoutly religious (5) 15 Sports ground (7) 17 Correspondence (7) 18 Danger (5) 19 Rocky Mountain state (5) 23 Tawny brown colour (3) 24 Vase (3)

MALLIND

1 Thrust, 2 Muster, 3 Screws, 4 Darted, 5 Tucked, 6 Speeds, 7 Melted, 8 Drinks, 9 Reeled, 10 Mended, 11 Retain, 12 Steeds, 13 Intend, 14 Tested, 15 Resent, 16 Stitch, 17 Settle, 18 States, 19 Tramps

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Obesity: a public or a personal matter? With projections that half of Britons will be obese by 2050, healthcare experts want hard-hitting campaigns similar to anti-smoking publicity to tackle the problem. Should governments and ‘experts’ be telling people how to live their lives? Or should people be left alone to do as they please? PAUL RHODES, aged 52, lives in Market Harborough in Leicestershire, UK, and was on holiday in Almeria. He said people need educating and part of obesity awareness lies in how you are brought up, and is down to parents. “There should be more information on food packaging and how much fat food actually contains,” he said. He thought supermarkets did a good job with their healthy living campaigns; the problem is that children are playing on computers and phones and not exercising. He believed anti-smoking campaigns had worked in that there were fewer people smoking nowadays. He also felt there were a lot more fast-food outlets in the UK than in Spain, which might be a contributing factor. Retired couple Ken and Jan Greisen, aged 64 and 65, live in Los Gallardos (Almeria). According to them: “Smokers actually pay more in tax than they take out of the NHS; obese people do not.” They believed that problems stemming from obesity, like diabetes, are the cause of personal lifestyle choices, and there should definitely be campaigns making people aware of the consequences. Some said that sufficient campaigning had already been done, the problem was that people weren’t acting on what they already knew. Steph Mortensen, a graphic designer living in Torremolinos (Malaga), thought it was up to individuals to follow experts’ advice. “We

STREET TALK don’t need any more big campaigns,” she said. “But we do need people to heed what we all know already, which is that poor diet and lack of exercise have consequences, not only on health but also on the ecomony in areas like healthcare systems and national wellness indexes.” Claudia Davies, 57, on holiday from London, expressed both sides of the coin. “People should be able to live their lives,” said the retired health service employee. “However,” she added: “I used to work in the health service and when people get so obese, it can cost the health service and ultimately the government thousands and thousands to treat that patient. So I guess they do have the right to warn people and prevent them from being that overweight.” Finally, there were those who believed individuals needed to take more responsibility. Joanne Byron, JAN AND KEN

55, from Los Montesinos (Alicante), believed it was the responsibility of parents to prevent children from being obese, whilst adults should be responsible for themselves. “I think a lot of people don’t even realise they are obese so they need to make people more aware of it, but I think the government has more important things to sort out.”

JOANNE

Ministerio del Interior, Gobierno de España

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ATER cannon are all the rage. Boris Johnson and the Metropolitan Police want them, although in the past their use was limited to Northern Ireland. In Spain they have not been used for years, although Interior Minister Jorge Fernandez Diaz recently fitted up the National Police with a nice new €408,000 model.

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The London mayor was warned that using water cannon is a step nearer to stifling the democratic right to protest. Johnson’s reaction was not revealed, but stifling the democratic right to protest is just up Fernandez Diaz’s street since his Public Safety Law is actually the Government Safety Law.

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If it ain’t broke... A RECENT poll revealed that 80 per cent of Spain’s population do not back Alberto RuizGallardon’s harsh and misogynist reforms to the 2010 abortion law. Mariano Rajoy repeatedly reminds critics that reform was set out in his election

programme. So it was, although the PP gave the impression that it would only reverse the right of girls aged between 16 and 18 to terminate without parental consent. Government sources admit there could be modifications although there will be no ‘substantial changes’ according to Ruiz-Gallardon. In its present form it has certainly pleased hard-core right-wing PP voters who will theoretically turn out in force for the May Euro-elections. Ruiz-Gallardon’s law will subsequently be amended sufficiently to silence critics within the PP itself, keeping everybody happy. This might work but only if the 80 per cent who do not like the new law stay at home in May. Rajoy has the reputation of a wily Gallego but he could still shoot himself in the foot by fixing what ain’t broke.

Retrospective justice THE general amnesty granted in 1977 is brandished as a cast-iron reason for not pursuing crimes committed during Franco’s time. Spain can therefore turn deaf ears to UN requests to co-operate with an Argentinian enquiry into torture allegations against Jose Antonio Pacheco - aka Billy the Kid - and Jesus Muñecas during the dictatorship’s last years. Parallel to this, Judge Ismael Moreno accused China’s leaders of genocide in Tibet and wants to question them. All very worthy, but he knows and we know and the Chinese know that nothing is ever going to come of it. Lamentably, the same could be said for the Argentinian investigation.

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Spanish wines are proving to be a popular tipple with the Chinese SPANISH wines have proven to be very popular in the Chinese market. The Apostoles Palo Cortado Muy Viejo wine has been chosen as the best wine of 2013 by Wine in China magazine. The Sherry obtained 96 points in the Top 100 Wines Evaluation 2013, the highest ranking in the contest organised by the Chinese magazine. The production of the Apostoles Palo Cortado Muy Viejo dates back to 1862, when it was created in honour of Queen Isabel II after she visited the Gonzalez Byass winery vineyards.

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Another 11 Spanish wines ranked among the best 100 wines of 2013, seven of them obtaining a Silver Medal Prize and four of them a Bronze Medal Prize. Wine in China magazine also awarded a prize to the 50 wines with the best price-quality relationship, choosing seven Spanish wines in this category. The Spanish ambassador to China, Manuel Valencia, was awarded the ‘Wine Culture Promotion Outstanding Contribution Award’ for his work to promote wine culture. Finally, the Rioja Certificate of Origin was given the ‘Best Wine Culture Promotion Organisation’ award.

Avocados reduce snacking EATING an avocado at lunchtime can help reduce the need to snack in the afternoon. A study of 26 healthy but overweight adults found that participants who added half a fresh avocado to their lunch reported 40 per cent decreased desire to eat in the following three hours as well as a 28 per cent reduced desire to eat over the subsequent five hours. Although increasing the calorie and carbohydrate intake, avocados did not increase blood sugar levels, leaving people feeling fuller for longer.

New temple of pork opens in Barcelona IT seems that restaurants which build their menu around a key ingredient are the latest trend in Barcelona. Following the opening of L’eggs restaurant last summer, ‘Pork... Boig per tu’ restaurant has recently opened in the Born district of the Catalan city. With a name meaning ‘Pork... Crazy about you,’ the star of the dishes served in this restaurant is, needless to say, pork. Michelin Star chef Oriol Robiera is behind the project, which aims at offering a succulent menu exclusively made of pork cuts grilled over a wood stove. The so-called ‘temple of pork’ also aims at attracting wine and beer amateurs, offering a manzanilla fino sherry wine

CHOPS: Pork cuts are the new star. from Sanlucar de Barrameda (Cadiz), and unfiltered beer brewed in Liverpool (UK). It also has an extensive Champagne selection, with more than 30 varieties. Pork... Boig per tu follows the trend started by

L’eggs restaurant last summer. In this restaurant, head chef Paco Perez uses innovative techniques from the award-winning molecular gastronomy restaurant El Bulli to create new dishes with eggs as the main ingredient.

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Nine tips to keep your hair looking good this winter • Moisturising. The cold air, rain or snow can cause almost irreparable damage to your hair. Use creams and hair oils to keep it hydrated. • Adequate shampoo. Detect what

type of hair you have and acquire the right products for your hair. • Heat tools. In winter especially, the hairdryer is almost essential. It is a bad idea to go outside with wet hair in cold

weather. It is as bad as abusing your hair with hairdryers and curling irons. Use these items sparingly and dry your hair with the towel first to reduce drying time and thus the risk of damage.

Children learn to know when they’re full at the dining table CHILDREN who eat their meals at the dining table are less likely to be overweight according to new research. The results come from a study of children aged between two and five in more than 100 child care centres in America. They found that children tend to be slimmer as they learn when they are full. Children who are allowed to eat in front of the TV are more likely to be overweight because they do not learn to recognise when they have had enough. Children who serve themselves were also found to eat less than those who are given pre-plated food.

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WE all know somebody who has a fat dog or cat. It’s unfortunate but true just as our general population is getting more obese, so are our pets. If you love your pet, you tend to spoil them. The health risks to the overweight family pet are many. One of the most common complications is the

development of diabetes. According to one study, heavy or obese pets are two to four times more likely to develop diabetes. Other problems can develop in the liver, which stores fat. When kitty is overweight, an increased amount of fat can build up, a condition called hepatic lipidosis. Since it can result in decreased liver function, it can be lifethreatening if an obese cat, for any reason, does not eat, loses weight rapidly, or is otherwise stressed. The risk of lameness and arthritis in heavy or obese dogs and cats is three to five times that of pets with optimal weight. Also, obese cats are twice as likely to develop non-allergic skin conditions.

Veterinarians generally need to take extra precautions when anaesthetising and performing surgery on obese cats. Since many of the anaesthetics are taken up by fat, an overweight animal will take longer to come out of anaesthesia as the anaesthetic must be removed from the fat by the body. In the end the responsibility for a fat pet can be placed on the shoulders of you, the owner. You’re not doing your pets any favours when you give them that extra can of food or kitty treat when they beg for it. Withholding things they like may have to be done for their own good! For your local radio frequency log on www.talkradioeurope.com

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• Home treatments. In winter you will have more time to apply them on your hair. Softener creams, brightener teas; apply any remedy you decide to improve your hair for at least 15 minutes. • Avoid the frizz. With the cold your hair usually shows more frizz than when the weather is drier. To combat this effect you can buy anti frizz sprays. • Hair loss. Hair falls are cyclical with seasonal changes. If you are noticing more hair loss than usual, use fall protection shampoo for one month and you will notice how your hair returns to normal. • Hair treatments. After the summer is the best time for hair treatments. Keratin treatments are the best because they nourish the hair, give it an extra shine, seal the cuticles and last for three months. • Haircut. Winter is a good time to have a good haircut, for two reasons: we get rid of the summer devastation and maintain perfect hair. • Good food. Food is the key to keeping your hair healthy and shiny; you know that what you ingest is directly reflected on the outside. To maintain healthy and beautiful hair you need to eat properly.

Hope for heart disease THE Welsh are leading the way with research related to regenerating damaged heart tissue. If successful, the results could lead to new treatments for heart failure, giving hope to patients of incurable heart disease. A team of scientists from Cell Therapy Limited are testing their experiments at Cardiff and Swansea university labs. The current research has identified ‘a very potent type of stem cell which is heart specific.’ The hope is the therapy will produce a large number of cells whose job will be to regenerate the section of the heart suffering damage, and trial results ‘look very positive.’

Edible gel could help prevent snacking SCIENTISTS say they have invented a gel which gives people a feeling of being full. It is hoped the edible gel, which swells in the stomach, creating the feeling of fullness, could help slimmers as it reduces the need for snacking and helps prevent overeating. According to a recent survey by the Overseas Development Institute, more than 1.4 billion people are now classed as obese or overweight. The ingredients of the gel are derived from seaweed, starch and citrus peel, and form water soluble gums that can be used as normal food thickeners.

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MANY gardeners have started the annual garden cutback and clean-up as described in Chapter 6.9 of ‘Your Garden in Spain’ and everyone will have the problem of what to do with all the prunings, weeds and leaves, etc. Some will be lucky in that the local council collects bags of garden rubbish from their house every week and sends them away to a central burning or composting unit. Some have to drive a few kilometres to load their garden rubbish into hods or large containers at a green collection point. And others have no legal means of getting rid of garden waste other than obtaining a fire certificate and burning waste on the premises or recycling as

CUTTINGS: Try and compost as much as possible. much as possible back into the soil. This has happened in our village as the two other possibilities mentioned above are no longer legal or proving too expensive. If everyone went down the route of burning, then once clean air locations would become polluted, and if plastic sacks are burned, gases with significant health risks will be released. So what are the green and low-cost options available?

First, build or buy one or two composters and compost as much kitchen and garden waste as possible. The amount that can be composted can be increased significantly by using a shredding machine. Second, saw up all branches and use in woodburning fires or stoves. Third, if you grow spring edible peas, decorative sweet peas or broad beans keep the straightest and partially bushy prunings to use as support sticks. A good source is the pruning

of deciduous fruit trees. Fourth, citrus leaves and cuttings take time to rot down, but if a neighbour keeps rabbits, citrus and also olive prunings are tasty treats. Fifth, fairly dry waste material can be wrapped in newspaper to be used as firelighters. Sixth, if you have an oleander or myporum hedge, build a 40centimetre wall around the hedge and fill it with shredded waste. This will rot down and act as a mulch to reduce summer watering needs and provide recycled nutrients to keep the hedge healthy. Fill in low areas of the garden with garden waste, covering each year’s infill with soil until the desired level is achieved. Lastly, make a pile of shredded material, cover it with soil and rocks and create a rockery without having to import soil. All are practical but if

you don’t want the bother, build or purchase a small incinerator and use it carefully away from hedges and overhanging trees.

Stop press Having reviewed the title and cover of the book about the 950kilometre walk Clodagh and I made across Spain a

few years past, the book has been repackaged as ‘Our 52 day retirement adventure along the Spanish Pyrenees’. It is available from Amazon Books as a traditional book and as a Kindle e-book. © Dick Handscombe www.gardenspain.com January 2014

OLIVE AND CITRUS PRUNINGS: Good as tasty treats for feeding pet rabbits.

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