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Motril cars damaged NATIONAL POLICE in Motril have arrested a man, 44, on suspicion of having caused damage to at least five cars parked in the area.

Fruit boost A CAMPAIGN to promote mangos and avocados from the Axarquia area is to be put into place in more than 30 countries.

Cocaine haul A MAN, 31, has been arrested for possession of more than 100 doses of cocaine and not having a valid driving licence. He was using a false Equadorian licence when he was stopped at a routine check.

Campers fine THE council in Rincon de la Victoria has approved an ordinance to fine campers parked in unauthorised areas up to €500.

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Smuggler plunges from cliff as 26 arrested TWENTY-SIX members of a network bringing hashish into Spain by sea were arrested after a dramatic cliff-top operation that left one smuggler in hospital.

The drug was smuggled to shore via a cliff with extremely difficult access.

The gang had created a system with pulleys to hoist the packages from boats to land.

Guardia Civil mountain teams and boats were required to recover the drugs.

During the operation, one of the smugglers fell down the cliff and was injured, as well as suffering symptoms of hypothermia.

A Guardia Civil officer went down after him, also sustaining several injuries, and kept him warm until other officers were able to lift them to safety.

Almost 1,500 kilos of hashish, eight top-range vehicles, luxury watches, computer equipment and other items were seized in searches of properties in Nerja, Torre del Mar, Alhaurin el Grande and

Marbella. The investigation, which is still under way, resulted in the location of 10 properties in Spain and another abroad. More than

€3 million in assets have been frozen.

The operation began in July last year and two of the detainees are members

of the security forces who covered for the smugglers while the drugs were being unloaded.

Guardia Civil reported that the novelty of this operation was that the smugglers were SubSaharans who charged between €200 and €300 per shipment, compared to the €3,000 charged by Spanish or Moroccans.

In addition, they were willing to take more risks, including unloading drugs on dangerous cliffs during bad weather.

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Letters SWEET SUCCESS: Frigiliana held a sugar cane day.

Frigiliana savours its local treacle

HUNDREDS of people attended the first Sugar Cane Day held in Frigiliana and were able to visit Europe’s only working sugar cane processing plant.

The tour of the factory included a look back into history to see how it worked in the past and modern day treacle production.

Mayor of Frigiliana, Javier Lopez, commented on the number of people who had turned out for the occasion and underlined the importance of sugar cane in local gastronomy. He went on to compliment the quality of the local sugar cane saying it was “magnificent” and then underlined the fact that Malaga has the only working European

processing plant for sugar cane.

Tastings of treacle and juice, both made from sugar cane, were on offer courtesy of the council; attendants were also given a voucher, worth €5, to spend in any of the participating bars which were serving dishes that included sugar cane in their recipes.

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NEWS School improvement WORK to improve the Pablo Picasso public school in Almargen will cost €1.8 million and will benefit its 229 students.

Close call AN investigation has started into a fire less than 50 metres away from a Salobreña petrol station. No one was hurt in the incident.

Leisure activities MALAGA City Hall has created a programme with 2,700 places for youths between 16 and 35 in 84 activities, which will run until June 7. They include cooking and handicrafts.

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No sale leads to stabbing A MAN has been jailed for five and a half years for stabbing another man who did not want to buy a figurine off him.

The accused and the victim, who did not previously know each other, met in a bar in Torrox and began an argument centred on whether or not the victim would buy the statuette.

During the argument the accused pushed the victim and then took out a knife with which he cut the victim’s arm, causing only a superficial

wound. But then he stabbed the man in the abdomen with some force.

The victim fell to the floor bleeding profusely, at which point the accused ran away and threw the knife into a drain by the side of the road.

Judges presiding over the case concluded that the accused probably knew that the victim was seriously hurt and could die, but ran away anyway without trying to get medical assistance and as such the perpetrator was convicted of attempted homicide.

MOSQUITOES: They choose to bite humans rather than animals as their skin is thinner.

Local hero RIOGORDO has paid tribute to a priest who, in 1810, confronted the Napoleonic troops. The Cultural Association of Torrijos 1831 has recreated the scene, in which he rose up against the French, in the main square.

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AROUND 2,000 people took to the streets in Malaga to protest against new tariffs introduced by the municipal water company.

Email snoop A MAN has been sentenced to 18 months in prison by Malaga Provincial Court for erasing messages from a colleague’s email account.

TO mark World Book Day, Almuñecar is hosting a poetry and short-story competition for all 14 to 16 year-olds in the area.

Mystery shooter POLICE are investigating after an unknown person fired shots at buildings and vehicles in Malaga. He may have used a rifle.

Staff attacked MALAGA Province has registered the most attacks against healthcare staff in Andalucia since the beginning of the financial crisis, with 1,244 in five years.

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Puppies seized GUARDIA CIVIL seized 180 puppies brought into Spain illegally from Slovakia to be sold in different provinces including Malaga.

Payments delayed THE Junta de Andalucia regional government reportedly owes four months’ expenses to partially statefunded schools in Malaga and the rest of Andalucia.

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ORLD HEALTH DAY is celebrated on April 7, under the sponsorship of the World Health Organization (WHO).

It is held to mark WHO’s founding and seen as an opportunity to draw attention to a subject of major importance to global health.

The goal of the World Health Day 2014 campaign is better protection from vector-borne diseases, transmitted by mosquitoes, sandflies, bugs, ticks and snails. Mosquitoes, for example, transmit malaria although there is no danger of this in Spain, where they are simply annoying. The last confirmed case of malaria caught in Spain was in 1961.

In Spain, the two most prevalent species are the Ochlerotatus, which bites during the day, and the Culex pipens, or common mosquito, which bites after nightfall.

According to a study published in Nature magazine, mosquitoes are attracted by carbon

Quote of the Week Who do these people from the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe think they are to come to Spain and watch the police as if it was a banana republic?’

Esperanza Aguirre, President of the Conservative Partido Popular in Madrid.

dioxide (CO2) in the breath. With every breath, an adult human emits 100mg of CO2, and this happens about 13 times per minute. Mosquitoes detect a current of CO2 and realise that there is a human around with fresh blood to suck, according to Valencia University Professor Juan Rueda, from the Spanish Entomology Association.

Levels of CO2 are normally higher in adults and vary depending on a person’s diet and the amount of exercise they get.

The mosquitoes which ‘bite’ are females, with a life span of up to 60 days and need the proteins in blood for their eggs to mature. They choose humans over other mammals because their skin is thinner.

To facilitate the extraction of blood, mosquito saliva contains a powerful anti-coagulant which enters the bloodstream. The body recognises the foreign substance and attacks it, causing inflammation and itchiness.

Number of the week per cent of hashish seized in the EU is found in Spain, as well as 27 per cent of cocaine, according to the Secretary of State for Security, Francisco Martinez, who also pointed out that Spain is the main entrance to Europe for cocaine shipments.

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A GROUP of companies from Malaga is visiting the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain to create commercial ties thanks to the Chamber of Commerce.

More courses MAYOR of Malaga Francisco de la Torre has signed an agreement with the British Council to increase its presence in the area with new courses for teachers and youths.

Victims’ help THE Andalucian Victims’ Care Service attended to 1,570 people in the province, of which 79 per cent were women.

Food aid TORROX PP party is collecting for the food bank this week; its aim is to get 35,000 kilos.

And finally...

SPANISH students under the age of 15 have more problems using an MP3 player, purchasing combined transport tickets or using a robot vacuum than the average in the 34 countries of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.

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Officer held THE Guardia Civil have arrested one of their own, working in the port of Melilla, in an operation to clean up the force. A secrecy order has been placed on the case.

New rules RINCON de la Victoria has brought in new rules permitting families in need to receive help even if they have not paid their taxes.

Motril hashish A MAN, 27, has been arrested for crimes against public health for the possession of seven kilos of hashish.

He was discovered in a routine check of passengers getting of a ferry from Morocco.

PITIFUL: Dogs found in dirty cages with their food mixed with excrement.

Man arrested for animal cruelty A MAN, 33, has been arrested in Velez-Malaga for animal abuse.

The National Police investigation began in October last year when a dying dog with no microchip was found and taken to a shelter.

It was dehydrated, undernourished, suffering from vomiting and diarrhoea, had parasites and was almost blind due to previous injuries. It was

taken to a vet where it was treated and later returned to the shelter before being fostered by a family.

When the foster family were walking the dog, they met a man who claimed it was his and demanded that they return it as he wanted to use it for breeding. The family returned the dog to the shelter, which having veterinary reports that it had been abused, refused to give it back to the

alleged owner.

They reported the matter to the police who searched a property in Velez-Malaga and found 11 dogs living in dirty cages where their food was mixed with their own excrement.

The dogs have been taken into care by several local shelters which have collaborated with the police. The case is in the hands of a court in VelezMalaga.

Jumping red light leads to arrest for drugs GUARDIA CIVIL who stopped a car found 240 kilos of hashish.

The man, a resident of El

Ejido, was stopped in Castell de Ferro, Granada, for jumping a red light in his van.

â‚Ź150 for best tapa in Torre del Mar BY combining the two recent trends of social networks and food, Jordi Meson Tapas has started a competition on Facebook for the best tapa in the Torre del Mar area.

The prize is â‚Ź150 in cash and the inclusion of the winning dish on the menu of one of the best bars in Torre del Mar. Entering the competition is easy; make a tapa, take a picture of it, describe it and put it on his Facebook wall.

He would prefer that people use only local products although this is not a deal breaker in the competition.

Officers noticed that the van did not stop for a red light and decided to pursue it. When they inspected the van they found office furniture and several packages, which were later found to contain hashish.

The Guardia Civil suspect that the drugs were acquired in Morocco and destined for sale in the Almeria area.

The van had arrived in Spain a short while before, through the port of Motril from Melilla.

The man, 35, has been put on remand until his trial; he stands accused of crimes against public health.

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Hashish ‘mule’ A WOMAN, 28, was arrested at Malaga Airport after she was found to be carrying hashish pellets in her stomach, shoes and socks when attempting to board a plane to London.

Family conflict THE Junta de Andalucia regional government has created a free service aimed at resolving conflicts between parents and their children.

Beauty competition ALMUÑECAR is to hold a competition to find the best looking patios, house fronts and hidden corners of the town.

The competition is open to all residents.

Illegal lottery POLICE in Malaga seized 56,100 illegal lottery coupons, the largest haul ever to be detected in the whole of Andalucia.

Elderly care THE mayor of Motril has inaugurated a new day centre for the elderly which has air conditioning, a cafeteria and even space for a hairdresser’s.

Pigeon fines IN 2013, 34 people were fined by the Local Police in Malaga for feeding pigeons.

Penalties can be up to €500.

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Beach bonfires banned UNLESS permission is obtained from the council the building of bonfires on the beach in Rincon de la Victoria is now considered a serious infraction of the law and could bring a fine of up to €1,500.

The council has approved a municipal ordinance to regulate the use of the beaches with fines of up to €3,000.

According to the mayor of Rincon, Francisco Salado, this new ordinance will encourage the correct

BANNED: No more beach bonfires. usage of the beach and

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Fruit boost for Axarquia AXARQUIA subtropical fruit growers are hoping for a boost after a Malaga company came up with a new line of juice drinks.

Avomix, best known for its guacamole, is now marketing an original new line of fresh fruit drinks; the line will, initially, be comprised of mango juice, custard apple juice and a smoothie made from avocado and cinnamon.

Luis Bravo, director of

Avomix, explained ORIGINAL: Juice made from custard apples. that the new drinks’ line is made entirely of fresh fruit, with no artificial conservatives or colourings, and is a completely original concept in the drinks market.

The new line was presented at Alimentaria, the biggest agricultural fair in Spain, in Barcelona.

Auntie pays a visit A TEAM from the BBC has visited Almuñecar to make a documentary about the English writer Laurie Lee and his relationship with the town.

Nick Bull and Heather Simone from the BBC have interviewed people who knew the writer, who lived in Almuñecar for many years, where he was known as the young foreigner who played the violin in the Mediterranean Hotel.

Laurie Lee was evacuated by a British ship during the Civil War and did not return until the late 1980s when he was already

famous for his works including ‘As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning’ and ‘Cider with Rosie’.

The BBC team was surprised by the celebrations being prepared by the local council in order to mark the anniversary of the English writer’s birth; there will be round-table discussions on his life and work as well as several conferences.

Almuñecar has a permanent tribute to the writer in the form of a plaque bearing his name and details in the Paseo Altillo, next to the Phoenician monument.

enjoy it. He went on to

say that the new law was necessary in order to protect and improve the quality of life for the population while at the same time defending the environment.

Fines of between €750 and €1,500 will be handed out to anyone making a bonfire, throwing their rubbish into the sea or using a gas cylinder.

Lighter fines of between €60 and €750 can be incurred for less serious infractions including unauthorised fishing or sand sculpting.

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Nerja burglars caught THE Guardia Civil in Nerja have arrested two people, thought to be part of an organised crime group, for burgling in Nerja.

The group had burgled a house in an upmarket area of Nerja and got

away with more than €10,000 worth of valuables. They only burgled houses if they knew a member of the household and, as such, had knowledge of the contents of the house.

Members of the group are all Romanian and between the ages of 25 and 28, among them a woman who was in charge of getting to know the victims in order to rob them.

LIFESAVERS: Red Cross course for the police.

SUBMARINE ROBOT: With the latest technology.

Police learn first aid

THE Special Groups (GEAS) of the Guardia Civil have been practising their underwater skills in El Chorro, Malaga, with a new, submarine robot to be used for rescue operations.

The robot with all the latest technology is able to search in deep waters and is equipped with a digital compass, cameras, a metal detector and sensors.

THE Red Cross in Velez Malaga have given the Local Police a refresher course in first aid.

About 150 police officers attended the classes in the town hall of Torre del Mar, taught by doctors, nurses and teachers from the Red Cross school in Almayate.

Submarine robot training in Malaga

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Most of the course was concerned with situations the police come across frequently, including alcohol poisoning, births and loss of consciousness.

Both the Red Cross and the police expressed their satisfaction with the outcome of the course.

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BRITISH man has been jailed for the death of a young father in Mallorca. A German man faces up to four years in jail over the same incident.

Briton Matthew Blue, 32, who had two young children and another on the way, was enjoying a night out with friends in the popular party area of Port d’Alcudia, just as many thousands of others do every year, mostly without incident.

But a comment from one of his friends was enough to draw the attention of another group of young men. That was to be fatal for Matthew. He was knocked to the ground and kicked in the head. He later died.

A family was left without a father, three young children left without a chance to have the normal

upbringing many of us take for granted. There will be no dad to take them to the park, no father to help bring them up. No cherished memories of a care-free upbringing.

Three young lives blighted.

Leaving aside the sentences (is 15 months enough punishment for the death of a man, even if it was not intended?) it was, and remains, a tragedy. It should be a lesson to everyone, young men in particular, that violence is never justified.

Too many young men seem to think a punch-up is just part of the night’s entertainment.

This tragedy is a lesson that drink-fuelled aggression can kill and leave young children with a life sentence to endure. Fun? Not for Matthew Blue and his three young children.

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Children shot with airgun SEVEN children were injured by plastic bullets in the playground of a Malaga school. A boy, 15, who lives in the area, was arrested for shooting at them with an airgun.

Fewer visits THE electronic prescription scheme launched by the Andalucian Health Department has reportedly cut the number of visits to the doctor by nine million in 10 years.

Rare mollusc THE Environmental Department has detected an endangered species of clam in the Bay of Malaga, as well as in Almeria and Granada.

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Almuñecar’s first tapa route starts THIRTY establishments will participate in Almuñecar’s first Tapa Route.

Jose Manuel Fernandez, Councillor for Commerce, inaugurated the route on the March 27 but the second half will continue between April 3 and 6.

One of Almuñecar’s greatest attractions, and gastronomic traditions, is the tapa which is available in almost every bar in the town.

Dining on tapas is a tradition that has not only not been lost but has become ever more

TASTY TREAT: Councillor Jose Manuel Fernandez and participants. popular, especially with tourists.

To participate in the route a ‘passport’ must be

Janitor accused of child abuse THE caretaker at the Gregorio Marañon de la Cala School in Rincon de la Victoria has been accused of sexual abuse of minors.

The man, 60, has been freed pending trial; he stands accused of abusing two girls, aged five and six.

The National Police discovered that one of the girls, five, had been touched ‘inappropriately’ and an investigation was initiated.

After warning the headteacher about the alleged touching, which took place in the school toilets, the parents of the girl were contacted but, initially, they did not want to press charges in order to protect their daughter.

After a month the parents of the girl decided to denounce the alleged abuse and a few days later another mother came forward to

report that her daughter, six, had also been abused by the same man. She said she had noticed a change in her daughter’s behaviour.

The council and Social Services in Rincon de la Victoria have been advised of the situation and the janitor has been suspended from his job, without pay, pending the outcome of the trial.

obtained, from any of the participating establishments, and stamped with at least six different tapas, with a minimum of three tapas from any of the established areas.

Once consumed the tapa must be rated on the passport, and at the end of the route all completed passports will automatically enter a draw to win prizes provided by some of the sponsors. These include spa weekends and trips around Andalucia.

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Royal thanks ONE of the quays in Puerto Banus will be named after Prince Salman to thank the Saudi Arabian Royal Family for their support for Marbella over the years.

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THERE is reportedly concern amongst the German and British tourism market due to delays in completing the Congress Hall in Palma.

MIJAS Town Hall has repeated that it will not allow community pools which do not comply with current laws to open this summer.

Religious minorities THERE are 187 minority religious groups in the Balearic Islands, according to the president of the Pluralism and Coexistence Foundation, Fernando Arias.

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Text alert THE Junta de Andalucia regional government has initiated this year’s antiallergy campaign in Almeria. The service sends text messages stating pollen levels to warn sufferers.

Burglar detained POLICE have detained a man, 30, in El Ejido for stealing bathroom fittings, worth more than €40,000, from a local building.

Missing man THE Guardia Civil in Nijar have intensified their search for a man, 39, who has been missing from his home for nearly two months.

Waste not A NEW waste processing plant has been opened and will service 48 villages and benefit around 80,000 Almeria residents.

Blood drive THE Almeria transfusion centre will make 27 collections in April through its mobile units, which will visit more than 20 municipalities with the aim of maintaining their blood reserves.

SEVENTY-FIVE per cent of immigrants living in the Balearic Islands have been there for more than five years.

Congress concerns

Summer closure

GUARDIA CIVIL and Local Police helped a shark to give birth to 10 young sharks on Playa del Castillo in Fuengirola, before she returned to the water.

Long-term residents

THE owner of a dog which has killed more than 20 chickens in Manacor has been charged for the third time.

A RESIDENT of Fuengirola has reportedly managed to get the bank to renegotiate the conditions of his mortgage after spending four months outside the office.

Shark birth

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Mortgage triumph

MARBELLA’S promotional video to the song ‘Happy’ by Pharrell Williams has received almost 120,000 visits, many of them from the UK.

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BLAZE: Scrubland and forest areas burned for three days.

Fire ravages Sierra de Gador A FIRE that blazed for three days through the Sierra de Gador, Almeria, has been brought under control.

More than 1,000 people and several mobile units worked to control the flames in difficult wind conditions. Among them were 500 agents from INFOCA (fire prevention and control), three pumping trucks, members of the Civil Protection Unit, environmental technicians and 231 members of the Andalucia Military Emergency Unit.

Although the fire is now out, INFOCA has continued to keep watch on the area to make sure there is no danger of it coming back to life.

The operation also had aerial support in the form of five helicopters, two amphibious planes and a spotter plane.

The INFOCA Forest Department said the affected area was 3,169 hectares of which 3,038 was scrubland and 130 forest areas.

INFOCA is still investigating the cause of the fire but it is likely to have been an electrical cable that fell and contacted the ground.

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Watchdogs NOVELDA police are increasing controls on dangerous dog breeds. Street patrols will check that pets are muzzled and owners have complied with national and local government regulations.

‘Bin and gone’ MUCHAMIEL’S new rubbish collection contractors will charge the town hall €500,000 less than their predecessors.

Twelve urbanisations will see collections reduced to five times a week.

Safety first A PEDESTRIAN crossing on a blind curve at the Salesianos tram stop in

Campello has been finally been resited.

A woman who failed to see an approaching tram was killed there last year.

Off yer bike!

LOCAL Police in Gandia are patrolling the town centre’s Paseo Germanias to prevent cyclists from riding there.

Persistent offenders will be fined, following residents’ complaints that they endanger pedestrians.

Grape news TEULADA Town Hall allocated €15,000 to boost the traditional Muscatel Fiesta. The local grapes are the best in the world, the mayor said, and the annual fiesta “has great potential.”

Sexual abuse A MAN, 76, has been sentenced to a year in prison for sexually abusing his partner’s granddaughter in Sineu in 2006.

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Burning body A MAN, aged 84, burnt to death in Rojales near the Cuevas del Rodeo, close to the local primary school with children witnessing him burning.

Illegal car A BRITISH man has been arrested in Fortuna, Murcia, after he could not produce a single document corresponding to the car he was driving, which was on false UK licence plates and not insured.

Castle disrepair GUARDAMAR Council has been criticised by the opposition parties for not repairing the wooden walkway that leads to the 12th century castle. They are calling for immediate action.

10,000 babies TEN THOUSAND babies have been born at Torrevieja Hospital since the maternity unit was opened in October 2006. The milestone birth came when baby Ramon Bermudez Fernandez was born.

Teenager injured A 19-YEAR-OLD was injured after being hit by a car on the CV-905 through Rojales. The young man was taken to Torrevieja hospital with a head injury.

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the public and the main political parties, but the gesture will not come cheap.

Aena, Spain’s airports’ operator, immediately announced the name change on its web page. It is now developing a programme for the name change, including some airport signs, announced Jose Manuel Vargas, president of state-run Aena. Other modifications will be carried out gradually, he added, without offering specific dates.

Chicken farmers halt abuses SPAIN’S poultry farmers threatened to sue DIA supermarkets for selling chicken as a loss leader.

The small farmers’ and growers’ union UPA claimed that the DIA chain sold whole birds at €2.15 a kilo, despite production costs of €2.73 a kilo.

As UPA members announced protests outside DIA supermarkets, the chain backed down ‘for the moment.’

“We cannot allow the big corporations to fool around with us,” warned UPA, which claimed that the sector lost €5 million during every week of the DIA offer.

Retail chains Leclerc and Vegalsa are also

accused of selling cheap chicken as a loss leader by the UPA producers, although the practice is not allowed under Spanish law.

Supermarkets use cheap chicken to persuade customers that they are patronising cheap establishments when this is not always the case, complained UPA’s Roman Santalla.

The union was satisfied that its rapid reaction and the loss leader accusation were sufficient to halt abuses, he observed.

The union would nevertheless be on the lookout to stem the loss leader practice on the part of any retailer, Santalla warned.

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Bumpy ride on toll roads THE government will create a state-owned company for lossmaking toll roads. A 30year, €2.3 billion bond will cover their debts with a 50 per cent haircut for creditor banks, sources revealed.

Branches lopped TWENTY THOUSAND bank employees were dismissed last year and 4,451 offices closed. A total of 12,352 branches have shut in the last five years, 26.7 per cent of the pre2008 count.

Black gets blacker NO MORE than 5 per cent of Spaniards admit to working without paying tax or Social Security.

Only 8 per cent of the population confessed to the European Commission’s Eurobarometer to having bought something or paid for a service knowing it would not

be declared to the taxman.

Both answers failed to tally with the 33 per cent of Spaniards personally acquainted with someone working ‘on the black.’

The number of people who knew a clandestine worker grew by 6 percentage points in the period between 2007 and 2013.

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STAT OF WEEK SPANISH car factories produced 223,060 vehicles in February, a 9.02 per cent increase on the same period last year.

New name for Barajas BARAJAS airport is to be named after Adolfo Suarez, former president of the Spanish government.

The Ministry of Public Works’ decision was announced immediately after his recent death. “Neither was the decision prompted by the current online campaign as the Partido Popular suggested honouring Suarez in this way in 2009,” sources added.

The decision met with the approval of

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BARAJAS AIRPORT: To be renamed after Adolfo Suarez.

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C O M PA N Y MMM 3M Co AXP American Express Co T AT&T Inc BA Boeing Co CAT Caterpillar Inc CVX Chevron Corp CSCO Cisco Systems Inc DD E I du Pont de Nemours and Co XOM Exxon Mobil Corp GE General Electric Co GS Goldman Sachs Group Inc HD Home Depot Inc INTC Intel Corp IBM International Business Machine...

JNJ Johnson & Johnson JPM JPMorgan Chase and Co MCD McDonald's Corp MRK Merck & Co Inc MSFT Microsoft Corp NKE Nike Inc PFE Pfizer Inc PG Procter & Gamble Co KO The Coca-Cola Co TRV Travelers Companies Inc UTX United Technologies Corp UNH UnitedHealth Group Inc VZ Verizon Communications Inc V Visa Inc WMT Wal-Mart Stores Inc DIS Walt Disney Co

PRICE CHANGE %CHANGE VOLUME 135.66 90.03 35.07 125.49 99.37 118.91 22.42 67.10 97.68 25.89 163.85 79.13 25.81 192.49 98.23 60.71 98.03 56.77 40.99 73.86 32.12 80.60 38.66 85.10 116.84 81.99 47.57 215.86 76.43 80.07

+1.46 -0.43 0.00 +1.03 -0.02 +0.41 +0.085 +0.48 -0.02 +0.01 +1.55 +0.41 +0.194 +2.04 +0.79 +0.67 +0.79 +0.79 +0.69 +0.32 +0.24 +0.84 -0.29 +1.11 +2.03 +0.37 +0.15 +3.77 +0.42 +1.08

+1.09% -0.48% 0.00% +0.83% -0.02% +0.35% +0.38% +0.72% -0.02% +0.04% +0.96% +0.52% +0.76% +1.07% +0.81% +1.12% +0.81% +1.41% +1.71% +0.44% +0.75% +1.05% -0.74% +1.32% +1.77% +0.45% +0.32% +1.78% +0.55% +1.37%

2.7M 5.2M 30.5M 3.0M 5.8M 5.5M 32.9M 2.8M 12.4M 32.1M 2.5M 5.7M 29.3M 8.5M 7.5M 15.2M 4.9M 14.2M 46.9M 3.2M 18.5M 8.5M 24.5M 2.1M 3.6M 3.5M 20.7M 2.9M 4.7M 6.8M

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C H A N G E ( P ) % C H G. 3.84 3.00 0.90 4.00 -2.00 3.00 5.00

C O M PA N Y

0.59 0.33 0.24 0.25 -0.14 0.27 0.22

NET VOLUME 81.21 88.83 903.49 14.42 67.40 25.43 50.57

PRICE

CHANGE NET / %

Vimicro International Corporation $ 4.97 OncoMed Pharmaceuticals, Inc. $ 33.65 Reliv' International, Inc. $ 2.50 Egalet Corporation $ 13.99 Builders FirstSource, Inc. $ 9.10 Cara Therapeutics, Inc. $ 18.66 Multimedia Games Holding Company, Inc. $ 29.04 SMART Technologies Inc. $ 4.79 Atlanticus Holdings Corporation $ 2.29 Xencor, Inc. $ 11.73 American Capital, Ltd. $ 15.795

0.89 ▲ 21.81% 4.61 ▲ 15.87% 0.33 ▲ 15.21% 1.67 ▲ 13.56% 1.06 ▲ 13.18% 2.14 ▲ 12.95% 3.18 ▲ 12.30% 0.52 ▲ 12.18% 0.24 ▲ 11.71% 1.18 ▲ 11.18% 1.585 ▲ 11.15%

Most Advanced

Most Declined Momenta Pharmaceuticals, Inc. MannKind Corporation Fate Therapeutics, Inc. SORL Auto Parts, Inc. Ocera Therapeutics, Inc. Liquid Holdings Group, Inc. Achaogen, Inc. Auburn National Bancorporation, Inc. ProShares UltraShort Nasdaq Biotech UTi Worldwide Inc. The9 Limited

$ 11.65 $ 4.02 $ 9.74 $ 3.73 $ 10.46 $ 3.90 $ 15.53 $ 23.20 $ 17.82 $ 10.59 $ 2.41

2.36 ▼ 16.85% 0.81 ▼ 16.77% 1.52 ▼ 13.50% 0.56 ▼ 13.05% 1.11 ▼ 9.59% 0.3001 ▼ 7.15% 1.13 ▼ 6.78% 1.55 ▼ 6.26% 1.16 ▼ 6.11% 0.67 ▼ 5.95% 0.15 ▼ 5.86%

C O M PA N Y Centrica PLC Coca-Cola HBC AG Compass Group PLC CRH PLC Diageo PLC easyJet PLC Experian PLC Fresnillo PLC G4S PLC GKN PLC GlaxoSmithKline PLC Glencore Xstrata PLC Hammerson PLC Hargreaves Lansdown HSBC Holdings PLC IMI PLC Imperial Tobacco Group InterContinental Hotels International Consldtd Intertek Group PLC ITV PLC Johnson Matthey PLC Kingfisher PLC Land Securities Group Legal & General Group Lloyds Banking Group London Stock Exchange Marks & Spencer Group Meggitt PLC Melrose Industries PLC Mondi PLC National Grid PLC Next PLC Old Mutual PLC Pearson PLC Persimmon PLC Petrofac Ltd Prudential PLC Randgold Resources Ltd Reckitt Benckiser Group Reed Elsevier PLC Resolution Ltd REXAM PLC Rio Tinto PLC Rolls-Royce Holdings Royal Bank of Scotland Royal Dutch Shell PLC Royal Mail PLC RSA Insurance Group SABMiller PLC Sage Group (The) PLC Sainsbury (J) PLC Schroders PLC Severn Trent PLC Shire PLC Smith & Nephew PLC Smiths Group PLC Sports Direct Intrntnl...

SSE PLC Standard Chartered PLC Standard Life PLC St. James's Place PLC Tesco PLC Travis Perkins PLC TUI Travel PLC Tullow Oil PLC Unilever PLC United Utilities Group Vodafone Group PLC Weir Group PLC Whitbread PLC William Hill PLC Wm Morrison Sprmrkts Wolseley PLC WPP PLC

PRICE(P) 328.90 1489.00 915.50 1685.50 1848.75 1727.50 1086.50 844.25 242.60 394.40 1599.00 310.30 558.00 1466.00 607.55 1463.50 2427.00 1930.50 418.15 3081.50 191.55 3281.00 421.70 1023.50 206.50 74.78 1981.00 452.55 480.40 297.55 1049.50 821.25 6660.00 201.60 1043.50 1345.50 1440.00 1275.50 4513.00 4869.50 919.00 299.60 487.15 3368.50 1083.50 312.35 2337.00 565.00 89.12 2982.25 418.40 312.65 2610.00 1826.50 2965.00 914.50 1277.00 856.50 1469.00 1251.75 378.05 834.25 292.73 1887.00 439.70 747.25 2541.50 788.75 221.05 2486.00 4173.50 342.20 212.50 3424.00 1245.00

CHANGE -0.80 -4.10 1.00 9.00 -12.20 12.92 6.00 1.00 1.10 4.00 8.00 1.55 4.00 7.00 0.10 6.00 4.00 4.00 1.00 9.00 0.10 9.30 0.20 3.00 1.70 0.13 10.00 1.00 0.80 0.60 0.00 -1.00 60.00 0.50 -19.00 0.00 2.78 7.00 12.00 -17.00 3.14 1.10 0.17 31.50 9.50 1.42 -3.50 2.00 -0.45 -12.50 0.50 -3.48 11.00 5.00 21.00 5.50 5.00 4.50 0.00 -1.50 0.79 9.50 -2.70 2.00 1.50 -1.50 -20.00 1.00 0.75 -50.00 13.00 1.10 -0.50 11.00 8.00

% C H G. -0.24 -0.27 0.11 0.54 -0.66 0.75 0.56 0.12 0.46 1.02 0.50 0.50 0.72 0.48 0.02 0.41 0.17 0.21 0.24 0.29 0.05 0.28 0.05 0.29 0.83 0.17 0.51 0.22 0.17 0.20 0.00 -0.12 0.91 0.25 -1.79 0.00 0.19 0.55 0.27 -0.35 0.34 0.37 0.03 0.94 0.88 0.46 -0.15 0.36 -0.50 -0.42 0.12 -1.10 0.42 0.27 0.71 0.61 0.39 0.53 0.00 -0.12 0.21 1.15 -0.91 0.11 0.34 -0.20 -0.78 0.13 0.34 -1.97 0.31 0.32 -0.23 0.32 0.65

VOLUME 472.67 7.07 190.62 70.28 320.24 40.82 96.87 18.73 117.77 93.45 366.34 1,302.23 39.96 12.70 2,102.04 25.48 138.07 11.04 294.24 13.40 342.33 14.17 255.14 32.34 769.00 9,261.09 8.77 289.42 20.58 52.54 32.80 170.00 14.70 186.42 279.86 20.82 33.00 205.28 15.39 45.87 51.27 476.30 42.00 357.99 209.93 548.44 217.81 45.88 2,280.54 181.84 75.99 455.77 6.45 11.09 105.91 86.86 43.74 16.87 117.15 269.01 117.34 62.35 2,068.82 24.04 11.98 88.13 174.19 83.81 2,070.79 279.30 14.17 105.37 825.91 12.60 420.43

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FOREIGN EXCHANGE

Eurozone inflation provides a little cheer THE global economy shows signs of expanding gradually in most advanced economies, on the back of firming domestic and external demand coupled with an extremely accommodative monetary policy.

However, growth numbers are fairly uneven across the globe, as emerging markets have taken a hit as the US Federal Reserve winds down its stimulus measures.

Janet Yellen, in a hawkish stance, has also indicated to the markets that the Federal Reserve will wind down stimulus by the latter half of 2014 with a possibility of an interest rate hike as early as spring 2015.

European stock markets finished February in positive territory, after a fairly volatile period owing to the uncertainty from the Italian elections.

In terms of economic data, Eurozone inflation numbers came

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in slightly better than expected prompting intermittent strength in the Euro, dispelling deflationary risks to the economy. This has also buoyed up the currency and gives the European Central Bank (ECB) some breathing space in terms of interest rates and Mario Draghi’s Long Term Refinancing Option scheme, which are both put on hold for the moment.

Despite inflation coming in well below the ECB’s target of 2.0 per cent, Mario Draghi reassured markets in a statement saying, “we are clearly not in deflation, which is defined as a selfreinforcing fall in prices that is broad-based across items and

MIXED DATA: But expect the Euro to remain fairly weak. across countries.” With such divergent policies from Central Banks coupled with the crisis in Ukraine, it could bring further weakness to the Euro in the near term.

Compared to Sterling, the Euro looks to be fairly stable closer to the 1.20 mark despite the barrage of positive economic data from the UK that has been fairly

consistent over the last three quarters. The UK economy is due to move forward as the fastest among the advanced economies, so intermittent Euro weakness is set to persist over the month if data from the UK is continually optimistic.

Meanwhile, German IFO Business climate numbers as well as the ZEW Economic sentiment

continued to help the Euro maintain its strength, as markets are fairly confident of the recovery as Germany has also been upgraded to ‘stable’ from a ‘negative’ rating by Moody’s.

As far as Southern Europe goes, France disappointed in terms of services as well as manufacturing data, GDP estimates for Spain were revised downwards marginally and Italian GDP numbers revealed contraction in the region.

With such mixed economic data coming out of the Eurozone, markets are fairly circumspect on the recovery, which, although gaining traction slowly is not out of the woods just yet. With such caution and trepidation in the markets, expect the Euro to remain fairly weak over the coming month and to regain levels of 1.20 against Sterling, at best, as the UK economy is nicely set up for a surge forward.

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Spanish homes remain uninsured THE Spanish are cutting down on insurance.

Car owners increasingly downgrade from comprehensive cover to third party insurance, according to the Kelisto.es website. Property owners are giving house insurance a complete miss, and Kelisto’s Celia Duran calculates there are now 8.5 million houses and apartments - 30 per cent of the total - without any kind of cover.

This is a slight improvement on 2010, however, when there were a total of 9 million uninsured homes.

In the autonomous cities of Ceuta and Melilla, 78.3 per cent of properties are uninsured, followed by the Canary Islands (55.7 per cent), Castilla-La Mancha (52.7 per cent) and Extremadura (50.6 per cent).

A bigger stadium BARCELONA football club’s stadium, inaugurated in 1957, is no longer adequate for its needs.

Paid-up members will decide in a referendum whether or not €600 million should be spent on remodelling Camp Nou. The stadium’s capacity would increase from 99,000 to 105,000 with a roof for the existing structure.

Getting your advertising right WHY do you think the bookies have six paying-in tills but only one that pays out?

For me, gambling is a mug’s game. Then, during a moment’s reflection I had to admit that I have gambled all of my life.

Every time I started a new job or business venture I speculated. Each time I pull my plastic out and advertise I gamble on it being a success.

We all have to advertise including those manufacturing household name brands.

If you don’t yell you don’t sell but how do you make your advertisement work for you?

There are no guarantees but you can increase the chances of it doing so.

Never blame the messenger.

The newspaper or radio sells space so use it to sell your business. Advertising departments will help you but the obligation to sell is yours.

Every salesman has heard the term, KISS. It is an acronym of ‘Keep it simple, stupid.’

Talking shop Mike Walsh Mike Walsh was for 20 years Regional Assessment Manager for the Guild of Master Craftsmen, Britain’s biggest quality assurance body for businesses.

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In reading time you have about five seconds to grab the reader’s attention and interest him enough to act: Attention, Interest, Desire, Action (AIDA).

ADVERTISING: Important to get the reader interested.

An A5 flier should never have more than 50 words in it; a newspaper advert fewer words. Keep to the point and include your full contact details including web link and email.

The advert is your shop window. Get the reader interested enough to step inside and you have the opportunity to sell them what they want.

Readers’ needs may not coincide with your advert’s

offer. When they need your service they will refer back to it. For this reason a regular advert is more cost effective than the occasional half page.

Advertise how your business can help readers. A special offer and discounts always attract interest. Try selling something different.

Having attracted new clients treat them right and you will discover the best advertisement is word of mouth.

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Barefaced fundraising has succeeded THERE are some things in this world that are very close to a woman’s chest and breast cancer just happens to be one of those things.

Most women know or know of someone that has been affected by the disease making it a very real ‘reality’ for many girls.

Currently on the world’s number one social media site, you may have noticed a barrage of ‘selfie’ photos depicting women with no make-up on. The photos are said to be in support of those suffering from breast cancer and to raise awareness of the disease.

The trend has divided internet users, with some people loving the idea while others dislike it.

It does appear odd that

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not wearing make-up is being used to highlight cancer, as they don’t seem related and there is nothing terribly brave about not wearing make-up either.

While, implying that not wearing make-up is a fitting tribute to those affected by the disease is a bit like going without your midmorning snack for poverty and hunger.

But regardless whether women are uploading photos with good intentions

to join the fight against cancer or just to feed their ‘like’ ego, the fact remains that this spontaneous campaign has raised lots of money.

So any sort of smugness has been outweighed by the amount of cash that’s flown in. Over £8 million (€9.67 million) has been raised for Cancer Research UK from text and online donations. Apparently this is enough money to fund 10 new clinical trials testing new treatments for cancer and analysing tumour samples from patients.

No matter what your opinion about ‘no make-up selfies,’ surely anything that raises lots of money for research and gets people talking is a positive thing.

Remember, people do marathons, wear funny outfits, shave beards - do all sorts of things to raise

Internet robbery SPAIN’S broadband is the EU’s second-dearest after Cyprus, costing €38.70 a month for the cheapest medium-speed connection. Prices are lowest in Lithuania, where the same speed costs €10.30 a month.

Foreign fans FASHION exports grew by 47 per cent since 2008 although domestic sales slumped. Inditex and Camper now see €8 of every €10 of their turnover originating outside Spain.

NO MAKE-UP: Posting selfies to raise funds. money for charity. The fact that social media is involved has been fantastic in helping to raise a load of money that the charity might have struggled to raise otherwise.

If even 10 per cent of the people who post the ‘selfies’

donate money to Cancer Research, then it has been a success for the charity, and it doesn’t really matter if the other 90 per cent were posting pictures purely for compliments they would probably be doing that anyway!

Growing again SPAIN’S Central Bank says the economy will grow 1.2 per cent in 2014. The following year it expects the growth to accelerate to 1.7 per cent thanks to more domestic demand.

Who owns it, community or owner?

Two friends of mine have purchased a townhouse at the end of the terrace.

You and the When talking to them, we mentioned that the land at the side of their house is Law in Spain community property with access to all

By David Searl the residents. They replied that the seller had included the land in their title deed, the ‘escritura,’ and that the land now belongs to them. Now they are concerned about the situation as to the legality of the ‘escritura’ and the land.

Can you advise?

T.S. (Costa del Sol) A. This situation is similar to the terraces of an apartment building or the bits of garden behind many townhouses. It is your terrace and your bit of garden, as shown on your title deed. However, you are limited in what you can do with it, as we saw in a recent column.

Spanish courts have ruled that anything outside the enclosing walls of the building or block is finally controlled by the Community of Property Owners. Each homeowner has the ‘exclusive use’ of these areas, but the community has a say in what they can do with them. Properly, the terraces of an apartment building may not be enclosed, although they often are glassed in. Your community might allow the end townhouse to enclose the land, or it might insist the space remain open.

Send your questions for David Searl through lawyers Ubeda-Retana & Associates in Fuengirola at Ask@lawtaxspain.com, or call 952 667 090.

SPANISH OIL: Would create many jobs.

On track for fracking SPAIN’S offshore oil currently occupies the headlines, but there is inland oil too.

It was discovered in landlocked La Lora (Burgos) in 1963 and extraction started a year later. Production peaked in the late 60s and early 70s before dwindling.

Industry experts calculated that despite reserves of up to 100 million barrels, the Ayaluengo oilfield’s wells were too scattered to be profitable. Oil prices have risen since then and plans to increase production could be resumed.

The British Leni Gas and Oil (LGO) whose subsidiary Compañia Petrolifera de Sedano exploits the wells has ceded a 65 per cent stake in the latter to Italian company, Pansoinco.

In return Pansoinco will finance the cost of developing the Ayoluengo field between

now and 2017 in a deal that should be signed by April 30.

Meanwhile Repsol subsidiary Ripsa has extracted offshore oil since 1981 off the Ebra Delta in Cataluña. It produces 8,000 barrels of crude oil from three separate wells.

Further prospection plans off the Gulf of Valencia, the Balearics and the Canary Islands are meeting bitter opposition from environmentalists and the tourism and fisheries industries.

Oil and gas exploration and subsequent production in Spain would create 260,000 direct and indirect jobs, revealed a study by Deloitte for ACIEP, an association of Spanish companies specialising in hydrocarbon investigation, exploration and production.

OPINION & COMMENT

Ever-changing landscape is a constant delight I AM amazed by the way the landscape changes in Spain. Its harshness and unforgiving presence would lend you to think that nothing would survive, yet it does.

The land is actually very fertile and arable. On many walks I have seen areas of emptiness turn into vast areas of green one month, then empty the next. Several crops a year of lettuce, green beans and celery and polytunnels that make the area look like lakes from a distance change the landscape almost before your eyes.

Workers toil relentlessly, shredding and discarding the waste and packing the good produce into boxes. As the workers make their way through the field in the searing heat it is like watching an insect eating a leaf as the green gradually disappears.

A couple of days later the field is scattered with debris, the irrigation hoses removed and rolled up at the side of the field.

The tractors then come in and cultivate the area, ploughing the crop debris back into the land.

The irrigation hoses are replaced and the whole process starts all over again.

I love my walks, not just for the exercise but also for the experience of seeing the landscape change, and knowing why.

Primus Lambert (by email)

Caveat emptor?

I WAS in despair when I read your recent headline ‘British lead the way.’ Do people realise the vipers’ nest they are walking into when they buy in Spain, especially in this area?

The prevalence of corruption and control are enough to deter anyone. The British press have warned many times what can and does happen here all too frequently.

These people must be masochists, but ignorance is bliss. Buyers beware!

S Torgerson, Estepona (Malaga)

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hotels and apartments in the area it might be expected that the water quality would suffer unless there was an efficient treatment plant. Can anyone cast any light on this matter?

Paul Bennett (by email)

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No soft touch READING your newspaper I noticed the letter from T Freeman.

I would like to say that just this morning I had a phone call from someone pretending to be ringing on behalf of Microsoft as they thought I had a problem with my computer. Obviously I didn’t!

The caller sounded Asian and the number was 0019. Needless to say I told him: “I don’t have a problem, all is fine, goodbye,” and hung up. They are still trying, so readers beware.

Wendy Howard (by email) Editor’s note: Two readers, Yvonne Thomas and T Freeman, warned readers about a telephone scam currently doing the rounds.

I managed to capture this shot of the magnificent Alhambra in Granada on a recent visit.

Janice Overby (by email)

Smart question IT’S just a thought: do you own a mobile telephone or does a mobile telephone own you?

Think about it.

James the Sage, Motril (Granada)

Sign mystery WE live in Mojacar Playa and in common with many, have an apartment to sell as we have recently moved.

We placed the apartment with one of the local agents but as there was no response we chose a different agent. A ‘Se Vende’ sign was attached to the terrace railings and soon after it went missing. On searching around we found it in the garden and replaced it on the railings.

Within days it had gone again and on investigation we found the plastic ties on the terrace. A neighbour found the sign at the bottom of the road and once again we attached it securely to the railings.

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The same thing happened a few days later but this time the sign had gone!

We purchased and placed a personal ‘Se Vende’ notice with our private telephone number on the railings, which was pulled off after several days. Not to be beaten we have since replaced this and to date it is still in place four days on. I would point out our terrace railings cannot be reached from the road.

Is this a common occurrence around here and who’s responsible for it? What’s going on?

Mick Rawles (by email)

Recognition due I NOTED from the Euro Weekly News that Mijas Town Council erected a plaque in honour of Japanese tourists. Then I read elsewhere that British people are among the main buyers of property in the Costa del Sol and that the British market maintains its hegemony despite an increase in other foreign buyers.

Why then do the British not get similarly honoured, especially when you consider how long and faithfully we have contributed to the economy of Costa del Sol? Ann Grogans (by email)

Pure praise I’VE been visiting Garrucha for several years and have been impressed with the quality of the sea water particularly at the beach close to the harbour. One would imagine this mightn’t be the case, being so close to all the activity in the port.

Is there a sewage treatment plant in the area? With all the

Mean trick YESTERDAY while shopping in Vera I was asked by a small greyhaired man to reach some sweets for him from a top shelf When I got to the till my wallet, which contained my debit and credit cards, driving licence, medical card and a new Residencia card, was gone.

The staff, though sympathetic, did not appear surprised as if it was a regular occurrence and did not even take my name and address. I am over 70 and this has made me feel very vulnerable for the first time in my life.

Lindsay Baker (by email)

Time wasted MAY I warn readers that prepaid envelopes from outside Spain are NOT acceptable and postage must be paid? I found out the hard way, having spent three hours filling out a benefits form and copying relevant documents.

I now have to start all over again with loss of disability benefits in the meantime Paul Knight, Los Gallardos (Almeria)

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OPINION & COMMENT

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It’s a dog, not a little human...

HEN are people going to realise that animals are animals and not human beings?

When are they going to realise that treating our felines and darling doggies like Homo sapiens is not only dangerous but in the world of pooch pampering and odd haircuts, bordering on near unacceptable cruelty?

Frankly, allowing dogs and cats to actually lick faces and mouths can often make me feel physically sick. They’ve just been licking their nether regions, for heaven’s sake! How much muck gets transferred to your mouth when you allow them to slobber over you and the children?

I also thought the recent photo of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and baby George gave out the wrong message. I don’t care how docile their pet is. In the picture their dog’s mouth is about two inches from

LEAPY LEE SAYS IT OTHERS THINK IT

DISCONCERTING: In the recently-published official photograph, the dog’s mouth is just inches away from baby George’s face.

little George’s face. What if the dog suddenly got a sharp toothache or other unexpected pain? What if it was harbouring some form of jealousy? It could have ripped the little tot’s face in the blink of an eye.

Now we find our cats are spreading TB. Isn’t it time we all took a step back and tried to inject some common sense in the treatment of our pets?

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Please don’t get me wrong, I am a pet lover. The difference is I’ve always treated my animals like animals and believe me they are much happier for it.

I’ll give you an example. Many years ago, I managed a singing trio. These three girls had a miniature poodle which they absolutely doted on and treated like a baby. The thing was shampooed two or three times a

week, carried everywhere and generally ruined.

Consequently it was an overweight, snappy, badtempered little tyke and I hated it. One day they were offered a tour of South Africa and naturally couldn’t take the dog.

With great reluctance they had no choice but to leave it with me. Right, I thought, things are going to change. The first thing

I did was give it water to drink instead of milk! Instead of carrying the thing around I began taking it on long runs in Hyde Park. Shampooing was of course completely out of the window.

The transformation was nothing short of miraculous.

Within a couple of weeks, its little body had taken on a whole new shape and become toned.

Its curly coat was tight and firm and its whole demeanour had changed to a happy, lovable, healthy little DOG. Which was as nature intended.

On the girls’ return I expected them to be pleasantly surprised at the remarkable change in their little ‘oochy coo’. Not so, within two or three weeks of their usual treatment, it reverted to the miserable, pampered, snappy little cur it had always been. I rest my case.

Keep the faith Love Leapy Leapylee2002@gmail.com

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4:45pm More Creatures Great and Small 5:15pm Flog It! 6:15pm Pointless 7:00pm BBC News at Six 7:30pm BBC London News 8:00pm The One Show 8:30pm Gay, Married and Legal 9:00pm EastEnders 9:30pm MasterChef 10:00pm Have I Got News for You 10:30pm Outnumbered 11:00pm BBC News at Ten 11:25pm BBC London News 11:35pm The Graham Norton Show

BBC2/ 4:15pm Planet Earth 5:15pm The Great British Bake Off 6:15pm Antiques Roadshow 7:00pm Revenge of the Egghead 7:30pm The Voice: Louder on Two 8:00pm Antiques Road Trip 9:00pm Nature's Weirdest Events 10:00pm Kim Philby - His Most Intimate Betrayal 11:00pm Mock the Week 11:30pm Newsnight

ITV/ 4:00pm Dickinson's Real Deal 5:00pm Tipping Point 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 Ade at Sea 10:00pm It'll be Alright on the Night 11:00pm ITV News at Ten and Weather 11:35pm Edge of Heaven

CH4/ 5:30pm Four in a Bed 6:00pm Come Dine with Me 7:00pm The Simpsons 7:30pm Hollyoaks 8:00pm Channel 4 News 9:00pm The Hoarder Next Door 10:00pm 15,000 Kids and Counting 11:00pm Jockey School

ITV2/ 4:05pm The Jeremy Kyle Show 5:10pm The Real Housewives of New Jersey 6:05pm The Millionaire Matchmaker 7:00pm Dinner Date 8:00pm You've Been Framed!

9:00pm Two and a Half Men 10:00pm Tricked 11:00pm Celebrity Juice 11:50pm 4:00pm Escape to the Country

BBC2/ 6:15pm Antiques Roadshow 7:00pm Revenge of the Egghead 7:30pm The Voice: Louder on Two 8:30pm Antiques Road Trip 9:00pm Mastermind 9:30pm Gardeners' World 10:00pm A Very British Renaissance 11:00pm The Trip to Italy 11:30pm Newsnight

ITV/ 4:00pm Dickinson's Real Deal 5:00pm Tipping Point 6:00pm The Chase 7:00pm ITV News London 7:30pm ITV News and Weather 8:00pm Emmerdale 8:30pm Coronation Street 9:00pm Student Nurses: Bedpans and Bandages 9:30pm Coronation Street 10:00pm Martin Clunes and a Lion Called Mugie 11:00pm ITV News at Ten and Weather 11:35pm National Lampoon's Animal House

CH4/ 5:30pm Four in a Bed 6:00pm Come Dine with Me 7:00pm The Simpsons 7:30pm Hollyoaks 8:00pm Channel 4 News 8:30pm A Very British Mission 9:00pm Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. 10:00pm Gogglebox 11:00pm Alan Carr: Chatty Man

ITV2/ 4:05pm The Jeremy Kyle Show 5:10pm The Real Housewives of New Jersey 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 The Butterfly Effect

TV LISTING

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•Sigourney Weaver •Bryan Brown •Julie Harris •John Omirah Miluwi

Saturday BBC1/

Gorillas in the Mist (Film, 1988) Sigourney Weaver stars as Dian Fossey in this dramatic true account about Fossey's study of gorillas, and her efforts to stop the decimation of the endangered apes.

Dian travelled to Rwanda, Africa to enable her to research the affects poaching had on two rare breeds of mountain gorilla.

Whilst studying these gorillas her interest turned from plain research to passion and finally obsession.

Sunday BBC1/

5:30pm Final Score 6:15pm Shrek 2 7:40pm BBC News 7:50pm Regional News 7:55pm Weather 8:00pm The Voice UK 10:05pm The National Lottery Live 10:15pm Casualty 11:05pm BBC News 11:20pm Weather 11:25pm Match of the Day

4:55pm Songs of Praise 5:30pm The Boat Race 7:35pm BBC News 7:50pm Regional News 7:55pm Weather 8:00pm Countryfile 9:00pm Antiques Roadshow 10:00pm The Crimson Field 11:00pm BBC News 11:15pm Regional News 11:20pm Weather 11:25pm Match of the Day 2

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BBC2/

4:00pm The Glass Bottom Boat 5:45pm Mountain Gorilla 6:45pm Collectaholics 7:45pm Flog It! 8:30pm Dad's Army 9:00pm The Plantagenets 10:00pm F1 the Bahrain Grand Prix Qualifying Highlights 11:15pm Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle 11:45pm QI XL

ITV/ 6:30pm Local News and Weather 6:40pm ITV News and Weather 7:00pm You've Been Framed!

8:00pm Saturday Night Takeaway 9:25pm The Cube 10:25pm Law and Order: UK 11:25pm The Americans

CH4/ 6:15pm Fifteen to One 7:15pm Channel 4 News 7:35pm Lent Diaries 7:40pm Gadget Man 8:10pm Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. 9:05pm Hostages 10:00pm Colombiana

ITV2/ 5:00pm FYI Daily 5:05pm Kangaroo Jack 5:45pm Britain's Got More Talent 6:50pm Two Weeks Notice 7:50pm FYI Daily 7:55pm Two Weeks Notice 8:50pm The Incredible Hulk 9:50pm FYI Daily 9:55pm The Incredible Hulk 11:00pm Celebrity Juice 11:50pm Crazy Beaches

5:30pm Tennis 6:30pm Flog It! 7:30pm The Olympic Journey: Inspire 8:00pm Great Barrier Reef 9:00pm Border Country - The Story of Britain's Lost Middleland 10:00pm Louis Theroux's LA Stories 11:00pm F1 the Bahrain Grand Prix Highlights

ITV/ 5:00pm For Your Eyes Only 7:20pm Local News and Weather 7:30pm ITV News and Weather 7:45pm Catchphrase 8:30pm Off Their Rockers 9:00pm Endeavour 11:00pm ITV News and Weather 11:15pm Piers Morgan's Life Stories

CH4/ 4:25pm Hairspray 6:40pm Deal or No Deal 7:35pm Channel 4 News 7:55pm Lent Diaries 8:00pm Iceman Murder Mystery 9:00pm Secret History 10:00pm The Grey

ITV2/ 4:35pm Ant and Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway 6:00pm Cats and Dogs 7:00pm FYI Daily 7:05pm Cats and Dogs 7:55pm Year One 8:55pm FYI Daily 9:00pm Year One 10:00pm Fast and Furious 11:00pm FYI Daily 11:05pm Fast and Furious

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Tuesday BBC1/ 4:00pm Escape to the Country 5:00pm More Creatures Great and Small 5:30pm Flog It! 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 Shetland 11:00pm BBC News 11:25pm Regional News 11:30pm Weather 11:35pm Have I Got a Bit More News for You

BBC1/

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6:15pm Pointless 7:00pm BBC News 7:30pm Regional News 8:00pm The One Show 8:30pm Bang Goes the Theory 9:00pm EastEnders 9:30pm Don't Take My Car: Bailiffs Undercover Panorama 10:00pm Treasure Hunters 11:00pm BBC News

4:15pm Planet Earth 5:15pm The Great British Bake Off 6:15pm Antiques Roadshow 7:00pm Eggheads 7:30pm Escape to the Continent 8:30pm Great British Menu 9:00pm The Great British Sewing Bee 10:00pm Battle of Britain's Breakfast 11:00pm The Sarah Millican Television Programme

BBC2/ 6:15pm Antiques Roadshow 7:00pm Eggheads 7:30pm Escape to the Continent 8:30pm Great British Menu 9:00pm University Challenge 9:30pm Mary Berry Cooks 10:00pm The Money Programme Special 11:00pm Rev

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 I Never Knew That About Britain 9:30pm Coronation Street 10:00pm Undeniable 11:00pm ITV News at Ten and Weather

CH4/ 6:30pm Come Dine with Me 7:00pm The Simpsons 7:30pm Hollyoaks 8:00pm Channel 4 News 8:55pm Lent Diaries 9:00pm Dispatches 9:30pm Shop Secrets: Tricks of the Trade 10:00pm One Born Every Minute 11:00pm 8 Out of 10 Cats

ITV2/ 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 Mom 10:30pm Mom 11:00pm American Pie Presents: The Naked Mile

ITV/ 4:00pm Dickinson's Real Deal 5:00pm Tipping Point 6:00pm The Chase 7:00pm Local News and Weather 7:30pm ITV News and Weather 8:00pm Emmerdale 8:30pm UEFA Champions League 11:00pm ITV News at Ten and Weather 11:35pm UEFA Champions League

CH4/ 4:30pm Deal or No Deal 5:30pm Fifteen to One 6:30pm Come Dine with Me 7:00pm The Simpsons 7:30pm Hollyoaks 8:00pm Channel 4 News 8:55pm Lent Diaries 9:00pm Kirstie's Best of Both Worlds 10:00pm New Worlds 11:15pm True Stories

ITV2/ 4:05pm The Jeremy Kyle Show 5:10pm The Real Housewives of New Jersey 6:05pm The Millionaire Matchmaker 7:00pm Dinner Date 8:00pm Britain's Got More Talent 9:00pm Two and a Half Men 9:30pm Two and a Half Men 10:00pm The Vampire Diaries 11:00pm Celebrity Juice 11:50pm The Faculty4:00pm Escape to the Country

Wednesday BBC1/ 5:00pm More Creatures Great and Small 5:30pm Flog It! 6:15pm Pointless 7:00pm BBC News 7:30pm Regional News 8:00pm The One Show 9:00pm MasterChef 10:00pm Monkey Planet 11:00pm BBC News 11:25pm Regional News 11:30pm Weather 11:35pm Marine A: Criminal or Casualty of War?

BBC2/ 4:15pm Planet Earth 5:15pm The Great British Bake Off 6:15pm Antiques Roadshow 7:00pm Eggheads 7:30pm Escape to the Continent 8:30pm Great British Menu 9:00pm Under Offer: Estate Agents on the Job 10:00pm Ian Hislop's Olden Days 11:00pm W1A 11:30pm Newsnight

ITV/ 4:00pm Dickinson's Real Deal 5:00pm Tipping Point 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 Big Star's Little Star 10:00pm Law and Order 11:00pm ITV News at Ten and Weather 11:35pm Paul O'Grady's Animal Orphans

CH4/ 4:30pm Deal or No Deal 5:30pm Fifteen to One 6:30pm Come Dine with Me 7:00pm The Simpsons 7:30pm Hollyoaks 8:00pm Channel 4 News 8:55pm Lent Diaries 9:00pm Secret Eaters 10:00pm Dead Famous DNA 11:00pm Sci-Fi Pets: Give a Dog a Clone

ITV2/ 4:05pm The Jeremy Kyle Show 5:10pm The Real Housewives of New Jersey 6:05pm The Millionaire Matchmaker 7:00pm Dinner Date 8:00pm Britain's Got More Talent 9:00pm Two and a Half Men 9:30pm Two and a Half Men 10:00pm Through the Keyhole 11:00pm Couples Retreat

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NEWS EXTRA

Unemployed courses LA HERRADURA is hosting a course for the unemployed under the title ‘Ocupados 2014,’ the courses will last four months and cover a range of subjects, including German for beginners.

Bull exhibits THE Bull museum, in Roquetas de Mar, is hosting an exhibition by three national artists and sculptors of the art of bullfighting.

Football win STUDENTS from the Almuñecar International School won their football sevens tournament, in the sub-19 category, in Sotogrande.

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Easter Bunny coming to Nerja Donkey Sanctuary ON Easter Saturday, 19 April, between 1pm and 5pm the Easter Bunny will visit the Nerja

Donkey Sanctuary.

There will be an Easter egg hunt at 2pm.

Please note that the

Squid too small SEPRONA (Guardia Civil Nature Protection) agents have confiscated a total of 42 kilos of squid in the port of Motril.

After inspecting all the day’s catches, from several boats, the agents confiscated the 42 kilos of squid because they were too small and did not weigh enough according to the guidelines set out by the Maritime Fishing Law. The fishermen who caught the squid have been denounced for illegal fishing.

final time for entries to the Easter Egg Hunt is 1.45pm. There is a €5 entry fee per child to include the Egg Hunt and meeting the Easter Bunny, plus a drink and a hot dog or burger.

There will also be Pony Rides at €3 a ride.

To keep the adults entertained there will be a bar and BBQ with live music.

Everyone can meet the donkeys, mules, horses, cats, pigs and sheep and feed them if they wish. There will be a €2 donation for

NERJA DONKEY: Come along and meet me. buckets of food or else bring your own carrots and apples.

Nerja Donkey Sanctuary is situated near the Nerja Arch, just off the N340 opposite the Repsol butane gas

depot. For detailed directions and to find out more about them, you may wish to look at www.nerjadonkeysanctu ary.com.

Entry to the Sanctuary is free.

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The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug.

Directed by Peter Jackson this is the second instalment of his adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkein’s 1937 novel. Ian McKellen stars as Gandalf who is investigating an evil at Dol Guldur. Martin Freeman has a starring role as Bilbo Baggins who is continuing his quest with the 13 dwarves to reclaim the Lonely Mountain.

Run time is 161 minutes and it has a certificate of PG 13.

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again. Although there are adjustments to be made, you are now more at ease.

Whichever way you go now will be a lucky improvement in your sphere.

GEMINI (May 22 - June 21) The buzz in your head is not a mysterious thing. It is the sound of something quite different. Clearly, it is time to act on an idea held for a long time. The buzz will not go away until you are satisfied. Get with the yoga and plan your approach.

LEO (July 24 - August 23) A branch is dangling in the wind.

You feel that, if you grasp it, finances will improve. Your hesitation is felt as weakness but it is good to check.

See this branch from all angles. The last thing that you want is to tug on it and find that it is too much to hold.

CANCER (June 22 - July 23) An emotional journey which you made last year comes to mind

VIRGO (August 24 - September 23) Are you hoping that a recent acquaintance will provide the

6-Star Quiz CHOCOHOLICS 1. In Roald Dahl’s 1964 children’s book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, what was the name of the eccentric chocolatier who owned the factory?

2. In the UK, the Isle of Man and Ireland, the chocolate bar Snickers was sold under what brand name until 1990?

3. In which 1994 film does the title character philosophise: ‘Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re gonna get’?

4. The operetta The Chocolate Soldier, composed by Oscar Straus, was based on the play Arms and the Man, written by which dramatist?

5. What is the name of the model village on the south side of Birmingham, best known for its connections with the Cadbury family and chocolate?

6. What is the name of the Yorkshire-born author of the 1999 novel Chocolat, which tells the story of Vianne Rocher, a young mother, whose confections change the lives of the townspeople?

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Your Stars

April 6: Miguel Angel Silvestre. Spanish Actor.

Born in Castellon de la Plana and best known for his role in the popular TV series ‘Sin Tetas no hay Paraiso.’ He originally wanted to be a professional tennis player but after an injury his aunt introduced him to theatre and he got hooked. As well as TV he also made a film with director Pedro Almodovar.

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answer to a question? Your friends have given their opinions but you are still not convinced. Here is a situation where expert advice is needed, not a random opinion.

let in. As you are currently seeing things so clearly, make some choices. Your quality of both life and work will change for the better. You are not being selfish.

You know there is such a thing as necessary self-preservation.

LIBRA (September 24 - October 23) There is a lot to take on board this week. At times, you may feel that it is too much to cope with. You, however, are made of stronger stuff. Are you telling me that Fred down the road is better than you?

No, of course not.

SAGITTARIUS (November 23 - December 21) Sometimes you feel that you are on a stage. Attention is on you, lights shining bright, people waiting. There is no problem with doing what is expected, but maybe an uneasy feeling about where you are.

SCORPIO (October 24 - November 22) Yours is a big heart, but be more selective about what and who you

CAPRICORN (December 22 - January 20) There is a difficulty with someone not standing on their own two feet. It's someone close, but it's certainly not you. It is not possible to stand by and see bad mistakes happen. On the other hand, there needs to be a balance so as not to enforce dependency.

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.

AQUARIUS (January 21 - February 19) Working in the dark is not your favourite thing. Blazing lights on everything is more your style.

Why, then, do you not have control of the facts? Maybe hiding in the shadows and avoiding something has put you where you are.

LAST WEEK’S SOLUTION

PISCES (February 20 - March 20) Throwing money at a problem will not make it go away, it will merely be a delaying tactic.

Life is not always so simple that it brings you comfort. Coming to terms and dealing with something is necessary for your peace of mind.

LOTTERY UK NATIONAL LOTTERY

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

TARGET:

Average: 19

Very good:34

Good: 24

Excellent: 42

abed, bade, bake, band, bane, bank, bard, bare, bark, barn, bawd, bead, beak, bean, bear, bend, bide, bier, bike, bind, bird, brad, brae, bran, braw, bred, brew, drab, drib, kerb, abide, bairn, baked, baker, bared, beard, biked, biker, braid, brain, brake, brand, brawn, bread, break, bride, brine, brink, debar, rabid, rebid, banked, banker, barked, binder, braked, brined, debark, inbred, rebind, riband, bandier, bawdier, brained, webinar, WINDBREAK

Word Ladder NEWS

Move from the start word (NEWS) to the end word (ITEM) 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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STEM ITEM

TAURUS (April 21 - May 21) Starting on a new hobby or job has opened your eyes to much that is round you. You ask yourself why it was not so clear to you before. This does not matter. This is where you are and where you need to be at the moment.

IF IT’S YOUR BIRTHDAY THIS WEEK: You will see shadows if you look over your shoulder too much. Decide to live in the light in the months to come. Be yourself and let others accept it.

NEWS SEWS SEES SEEM

ARIES (March 21 - April 20) There is something comfortable about your life at the moment.

Even though there seems to be a good reason to change it, you hesitate. A situation seems to have become outdated and no longer works well.

1. WILLY WONKA, 2. MARATHON, 3. FORREST GUMP, 4. GEORGE BERNARD SHAW, 5. BOURNVILLE, 6. JOANNE HARRIS

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Cryptic

Quick

Across 7 The rest of the afternoon (6) 8 First person in business gives a long, angry speech (6) 10 Not off to go without holiday in the services (2,5) 11 Move the golf shot (5) 12 The Yugoslav people in general (4) 13 Beer off, left to start a riot (5) 17 Zulu seen by river formerly an African river (5) 18 Sweet smell, it’s said, of money (4) 22 Aircraft seen in tree? (5) 23 Boil rocks in wood scrap (7) 24 I am at present visiting Rhode Island coastal resort! (6) 25 Grumble about Ben catching a flightless bird (6) Down 1 Bodyguards for the lawless sectors (7) 2 Agent prevaricated but answered (7) 3 Way to strike or flog (5) 4 Messes around with violins (7) 5 VAT I’d worked out for the ship’s crane (5) 6 The Sussex town in a little western

Across 7 Give to a charity (6) 8 Head (6) 9 Light-coloured (4) 10 Catch up with and pass (8) 11 Artist (7) 13 Discourage (5) 15 Talk (5) 17 Competition (7) 20 Shares (8) 21 Great anger (4) 23 Containing salt (6) 24 Ecstatic (6)

part (5) 9 Broadcast share in genuine show trial (9) 14 Beauty display from leaf insect (7) 15 Left former idol to find dictionary (7)

16 Really wanting to make thin cig (7) 19 A character in different places (5) 20 Second class fighting force, it’s daft (5) 21 Went on horseback round cowboy show (5)

Code Breaker Each number in the Code Breaker grid represents a different letter of the alphabet. In this week’s puzzle, 17 represents T and 16 represents Q, so fill in T every time the figure 17 appears and Q every time the figure 16 appears. Now, using your knowledge of the English language, work out which letters should go in the missing squares. As you discover the letters, fill in other squares with the same number in the main grid and the control grid.

LAST WEEK’S SOLUTIONS CRYPTIC Across: 1 Restrain, 4 Lime, 7 Sling, 9 Rigid, 11 Theme, 12 Seize, 13 Dearer, 15 Spurns, 19 Diets, 21 Tiara, 23 Ad-lib, 24 Elgin, 25 Sore, 26 Reappear.

Down: 1 Resided, 2 Saint, 3 Israel, 5 Evoke, 6 Ages, 8 Geese, 10 Drier, 14 Arena, 16 Peace, 17 Seminar, 18 Stable, 19 Danes, 20 Sold, 22 Angle.

QUICK Across: 1 Peach, 3 Bless, 7 Stamina, 9 Ruler, 10 Extra, 11 Darling, 12 Sadden, 14 Shorts, 18 Insects, 20 Learn, 22 Amuse, 23 Elevate, 24 Bonus, 25 Dense.

Down: 1 Possess, 2 Apart, 3 Brandy, 4 Error, 5 Soldier, 6 Shrug, 8 Irate, 13 Disturb, 15 Halve, 16 Sincere, 17 Assets, 18 Italy, 19 Clean, 21 Again.

ENGLISH-SPANISH Across: 1 Coser, 4 Siglo, 7 All, 8 Aliento, 9 Sash, 10 Screws, 14 Perhaps, 16 Ajo, 17 Abeja, 18 Stars.

LAST WEEK’S SOLUTION

Down: 1 Crabs, 2 Sales, 3 Real, 4 Suitcases, 5 Gun, 6 Oro, 11 Etapa, 12 Shoes, 13 Casa, 14 Pea, 15 Rie.

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

Across 1 Interruptor (eléctrico) (6) 4 Soup (thick) (4) 8 Silla (asiento) (5) 9 Owner (of land, property, company) (5) 10 Medusa (9) 13 Dose (of medicine) (5) 15 Climate (5) 16 Ganar (sueldo) (4) 17 Caballos (animales) (6) Down 1 Enfermo (4) 2 Imagen (5) 3 Descuidado (persona) (8) 5 Deber (dinero, explicación, respeto) (3) 6 Garlic (3) 7 Building (house, office etc) (8) 11 Cielos (5) 12 Abanicos (para darse aire) (4) 13 Tinte (producto) (3) 14 Southern (side, part) (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 (SERVES) and one letter in four other cells are given as clues.

AGREES

RATTLE

AWARDS

REARED

BREAST

RESTED

DARTED

SEARED

HAULED

SEATED

LEADER

SERVES (10)

LEERED

TESTED

PLEDGE

TRIBAL

PRICES

VEERED

QUOTED

LAST WEEK’S SOLUTION

Funagram Unscramble the name of a US state and its capital: SEVENTEEN SANE HILLS FUNAGRAM SOLUTION: NICHOLAS PARSONS. TENNESSEE, NASHVILLE

Unscramble the name of an English radio and television presenter and actor: SON SPOILS AN ARCH

Down 1 Settee (4) 2 Grotto (6) 3 Get better (7) 4 Change (5) 5 Conflict (6) 6 Feebleness (8) 12 Acceptance as satisfactory (8) 14 Gangster (7) 16 Acquire (6) 18 Menace (6) 19 Heavenly body (5) 22 Became larger (4)

1 Enters, 2 Meters, 3 Panted, 4 Houses, 5 Resent, Seared, 7 Waters, 8 Earned, 9 Tramps, 10 Weakly, 11 Beards, 12 Prayer, 13 Weaker, 14 Papers, 15 Elapse, 16 Awards, 17 Adhere, 18 Repeat, 19 Crease

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Stress can double women’s risk of infertility STRESS can double the risk of infertility for women. That’s the conclusion by scientists who carried out a study of 501 women, following them for a year, which is the clinical cut-off to define infertility.

They found that women suffering from stress are half as likely to conceive after 12 months of trying compared to those with lower levels of stress hormones.

Women aged between 18 to 40 without known fertility problems and who had just started trying to conceive were followed and a saliva test was used to determine stress levels.

The researchers say they don’t want women to blame themselves for not getting pregnant, but suggest light exercise or Yoga to lower stress levels and improve the chances of falling pregnant.

Blood test could detect if a child is going to be obese A BLOOD test for children may be able to detect if they will become obese by the time they are teenagers.

Researchers at the Universities of Southampton, Exeter and Plymouth have

developed the test and claim that checking for specific DNA changes at the age of five can predict how much body fat a child will have at the age of 14.

The test will assess the level of changes in the PGC1a gene, which regulates fat storage in the body.

They hope it will be used to identify children at risk of being overweight and provides further evidence that obesity in childhood is not just due to lifestyle, but may also involve important basic processes that control genes.

PGC1a GENE: Regulates fat storage in the body.

WhatsAppitis?

What’s that?

A WOMAN, aged 34, was diagnosed with tendinitis after using her mobile phone continually for six hours.

Medical journal The Lancet has reported that the woman, who was 27 weeks pregnant, was diagnosed at Christmas after feeling a sharp pain in her wrist.

She then spent around six hours instant messaging people using WhatsApp on her mobile with the pain increasing.

Doctors said the tendinitis was caused by continually using her phone in what they believe could be the first case of ‘WhatsAppitis’.

Smoking causes 20% of TB cases SMOKING causes 20 per cent of tuberculosis (TB) cases in Spain.

That’s the claim by the Spanish Society of Pulmonology and Surgery Thoracic (Separ) which warned that 20 per cent of TB cases are attributable to smoking and, although in 2012 there were more than 5,700 cases, this disease is decreasing compared to previous years.

Coinciding with the commemoration of World TB Day, Separ, which has its headquarters in Barcelona, reports that in 2012 there were 4,516 cases of respiratory tuberculosis, 89 of tuberculous meningitis and a further 1,109 cases related to TB. “The decrease in respiratory tuberculosis in Spain means that the incidence of tuberculosis maintains a downward trend,” said Separ President Pilar Lucas: “Disease control, especially in children and young adults, is a key to further improve these figures.”

According to data provided by Separ, Catalonia is the region

SMOKING: It has been linked to cases of tuberculosis. that has declared more cases of respiratory tuberculosis (886 cases), followed by Andalucia

with 660 cases, Madrid 578, Valencia 434 and Galicia with 422 cases.

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Strong and silent or chatty man?

Relationship experts believe male silent types are considered more attractive because their fewer words are considered

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them, particularly my husband. It took PPOSITES attract for me two weeks of ‘accidentally’ bumping entrepreneur Anna into him to even get a ‘hello’ from him.”

Plaster, 34, from Algorfa Pamela Roderick runs a greenhouse (Alicante). She said she has nursery outside Mijas pueblo (Malaga). previously been drawn to the She agrees that men who keep to more rugged, themselves are more appealing. She was gregarious think they are the material for long- attracted to her husband specifically for types who lasting relationships. “I think most that reason: “He didn’t say much when were suited to women would admit they are we first met, but I knew that when he her bubbly tual MIKE and JULIE EVERT: Mu initially attracted to a manly spoke, he was sincere. I think that kind of personality. “I t quiet. attraction because he’s no exterior and the loud guy at the simplicity is masculine and attractive. I used to go out bar, but deep down we all want don’t usually with outgoing, with her husband Mike. that sensitive soul. There’s more staying see that in a eccentric types super She’s not sure that silent power in the silent types,” she believed. who were a bit Retired civil servant Sharon Cole- chatty types are more attractive, wild, but that e tely tru e changed when I saying: “I’m very quiet. I Williams, on the Costa Blanca for the guy.”

Ultima : or A m N a in AN met my husband was attracted to Mike winter, was always attracted to the silent d n as fou who is the complete because he is expressive types. She said: “There is definitely love w pe. ty t n opposite and is quiet and outgoing. If he was a something attractive about them, maybe e il s and patient. I think we silent type, I doubt he’d ever be able to a bit of mystery. When I was younger and complement each draw me out, and that’s one of the things looking for relationships, I was drawn to other’s personalities,” she said.

I love about him.”

Julie Evert is a schoolteacher from Student Karolina Byron, aged 21, is PAMELA RODERICK: Thinks quiet means honest, Bristol, on holiday in Fuengirola (Malaga) attracted to ‘men’s men’ but doesn’t which is attractive.

STREET TALK

How drama was removed from Spanish politics Cassandra Nash

A weekly look and not entirely impartial reaction - to the Spanish political scene

ON Franco’s death in November 1975, his then Prime Minister Carlos Arias Navarro took charge of the government. He lasted seven months because he did not see eye to eye with King Juan Carlos.

The King, wanting a prime minister who was open to change and receptive to democracy, chose Adolfo Suarez whom he had known since 1968.

Women were immediately taken with

Suarez’s good looks which did not necessarily endear him to male critics, who said he resembled a store assistant.

His immediate past endeared him still less to those with families on the losing side in the Civil War. Suarez was by then the minister and secretary general for the Movimiento, Spain’s one and only legal political party during the dictatorship, but Juan Carlos chose well.

Suarez, still Movimiento secretary general at the time, revealed what was to King Juan Carlos (left) and Adolfo Suarez.

come when he addressed parliament on June 9, 1976, in the preliminaries to allowing political parties. “We are simply going to remove the drama from our politics. We are going to raise political normality to the category of what is simply normal at street level. We are going to lay foundations of lasting understanding beneath rule of law.”

In 1977 Suarez and the UCD won the first democratic general elections since before the Civil War, rapidly dismantling the dictatorship within a framework of legitimacy and consensus.

Political parties and outlawed trade unions were legalised, the Communist Party was allowed into the fold and the Constitution was passed in 1978.

At the beginning of his reign Juan Carlos said he wanted to be King of all Spaniards. Adolfo Suarez made it possible.

Three brave men ADOLFO SUAREZ’S party Union del Centro Democratico was seriously disunited from the outset. By January 1981 the increasingly beleaguered president, isolated and undermined within his own party, resigned and MPs met to vote in his successor Leopoldo Calvo Sotelo on February 23.

This was the time and place chosen for a military coup which King Juan Carlos and the fledgling democracy were strong enough to dismantle. But as MPs and ministers cowered on the floor of the invaded parliament chamber beneath the muzzles of the conspirators’ guns, Adolfo Suarez remained defiantly upright.

So did Emilio Gutierrez Mellado, a general now staunchly committed to democracy but once a military spy for Franco. So did Santiago Carrillo, leader of Spain’s Communist Party.

The three vastly different men are now dead, but 35 years ago they were clear proof that the ‘two Spains’ were finally reconciled and military coups were past history.

The last word “No se puede adelantar por la derecha” (you don’t overtake on the right), Adolfo Suarez, during a 1995 interview.

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Home-made bread fever IT can be bought in internet forums, it is passed around colleagues at work, some people make it themselves from yeast and bacteria; the buying and selling of ‘mother dough’ is on the rise in Spain.

Home-made bread doesn’t just make economic sense, it is also an absorbing hobby. Iban Yarza, pioneer in the home-made bread community and participant in the TV programme ‘Robin Food,’ comments that four years ago people would look dumbfounded if you said you made your own bread but now it has become increasingly popular.

With the descent in quality of the bread on sale in supermarkets many people are fed up with the ‘plastic’ texture and are yearning for

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HAT would you try if you had no fear?

This is an important question to ask yourself, so listen carefully to the first thought which comes to you.

Did you know that 97 per cent of our fears never manifest? This month it is time to let go of fear and follow your heart!

April is the first month of spring, and there is a lot to be excited about! The birds are singing, the buds are blooming and the Spanish sun is beginning to blaze. The air is full of promise, so what are you going to begin this spring?

On March 30, the astrological new year begins. You will now feel you have the energy to move forward with your plans, the confidence to connect to new people, and the energy to cement your goals. Make the most of this energy during the first two weeks of April. On April 15 the full moon is ruled by the sign of Libra. This airy sign brings the focus to your relationships.

The full moon will be eclipsed, so this could bring an abrupt ending, or surprising new beginning in the arena of love and partnership. The month ends with a solar eclipse on the day of the new moon in Taurus.

BENEFICIAL HOBBY: Making bread has become more popular. more quality and variety. Evidence of this is the soaring sales of cookbooks dedicated to this art including one written by Yarza himself: ‘Pan Casero’ (home-made bread).

Part of the fun, comments Yarza, is you are working with something organic, something alive that expands and changes while you manipulate it. The benefits are obvious: it’s fun and you can eat it.”

Snail caviar FIFTEEN years ago Blas Hervias, director and founder of Blanc Gastronomy, came up with the idea of dedicating himself to the commercialisation of snail eggs as ‘white caviar’.

From the company’s offices in Puerto Real, in Cadiz, Hervias explained he first became interested when he read about the medicinal properties of snail secretions and eggs.

He signed agreements with the Universities of Cordoba and Cadiz to investigate the properties of these commodities about

which there was nearly no information at the time.

After investigation he began to commercialise the product but said the main retail area is outside Spain in the more adventurous markets of Dubai and Singapore, among others.

Blanc Gastronomy has been going for five years and today produces ‘to order’ around 300 kilos of white caviar. Hervias goes on to comment that within Spain the product has been well received by chefs but has not yet reached the household cooking market.

Have no fear, spring is here

By Sally Trotman www.sallytrotman.com Based in Mallorca, Sally Trotman is a qualified Counsellor who works with Astrology, Numerology and the Tarot. Each month she will deliver the forecast as an intuitive tool to aid increased self awareness.

SPRING: Start of a new astrological year.

So consider at the end of this month, the foundations of your life, and where you need to make changes.

April is the fourth month of the year, and this is a great time to ground your ideas, so begin

planting new seeds for the year ahead and make a plan. On April 20 we move into the practical sign of Taurus. The bull is a powerful and patient animal, and the influence of this animal will give you the strength and focus

you need to lay solid foundations for the year ahead.

This month the universe is conspiring to help you! It may at times feel as if it’s a bumpy ride, with sudden changes, a twist in the road or even a whole new

direction opening up to you, but know that any unplanned change will benefit you. During this month you are being asked to take action. It is time to fearlessly move forward with your plans.

Know that you have all the tools to succeed now, so believe in your success and it will surely come.

Sally Trotman can help you in a unique way to fulfil your potential, making 2014 your best year yet. A trained Counsellor, Yoga and Meditation Teacher, Numerologist and Reiki Master, Sally works in a unique way, combining her natural intuition with a number of powerful, transformative tools which will enable you to begin living the life you desire and deserve.

Sally lives in Palma, Mallorca where she offers individual and group sessions. Sessions are also available via Skype.

Please visit her website www.sallytrotman.com for more information, and to listen to her 10 minute spring meditation, to help you relax into the new beginnings awaiting you.

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THE earliest known flower arranging is believed to date back to Ancient Egypt.

Egyptians were decorating with flowers as early as 2,500 BC, using them for burials, processions and table decorations with flowers chosen for their symbolic meaning.

The Ancient Greeks also used flowers and herbs for adornment, often focusing on garlands and wreaths rather than vases with the most popular foliage used by the Greeks and the Romans being acorns, oak leaves, laurel, ivy, bay and parsley.

The garland wreath was a symbol to the Greeks of power, honour and dedication and was often awarded to athletes, poets, leaders and soldiers.

The Chinese were also flower arranging as far back as 207 BC to 220 AD, in the Han era. They used flowers for religious teaching and medicine.

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PORTS car manufacturer Porsche will be replacing the engines of all 911 GT3 vehicles of model year 2014.

This is the corrective action derived from intensive internal analyses that were initiated in response to two engine fires.

Meanwhile, it has been confirmed that engine damage resulted from a loosened screw joint on the connecting rod.

The loose connecting rod damaged the crankcase, which in both cases led to leakage of oil which then ignited.

After becoming aware of the two accident cases, Porsche promptly took action to avoid any risk to customers by advising them to cease using the affected 785 vehicles until further notice and have them picked up by a Porsche Centre.

Now, engines with optimised screw fittings will be used in all Porsche 911 GT3 vehicles of model year 2014, including in those that have not been delivered yet. The relevant Porsche Centres are in direct communication with customers worldwide to discuss the further course of action.

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LPINE’S successful return to motor racing in 2013 harvested one race win and three podium finishes, which confirmed the legendary marque meant business.

The priority for its second season of the modern era is the Le Mans 24 Hours.

“A new chapter in the brand’s extraordinary history began last season,” noted Bernard Ollivier. “We were aware that it was an ambitious programme when we announced it, yet the talent of everyone involved with the team and the hard work they all put

in helped us to claim our first successes of the modern era. That was just the beginning.

“Alpine’s roots are steeped in motorsport, human adventure, a taste for technical challenges and exciting production car projects. We also have an international calling and are delighted to announce we will have a British driver in our line-up for 2014.”

“Winning the Teams’ and Drivers’ titles in 2013 was a tremendous reward for everybody’s efforts,” added Signatech-Alpine’s Team Principal, Philippe Sinault.

“The human adventure which started at the beginning of 2013, the popularity of Alpine’s return to motor racing and the different trophies we have won since have sparked off an incredible energy, and our second season promises to be even more captivating! Everyone in the team is ready for the year’s challenge and the focus of their motivation is very much on the Le Mans 24 Hours.”

In terms of its drivers, Signatech-Alpine was an all-French operation in 2013, but this year has

seen it take on a more international dimension with the arrival of the upand-coming British youngster Oliver Webb.

The 22-year-old is poised to start his first season of endurance racing after a strong early career in single-seaters.

Like his new team-mates, he intends to use his experience to win with Signatech-Alpine, while his integration in the squad has been facilitated by his ties with France through his French mother.

“This will be a new adventure for me,” he said.

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THIS WEEK’S ACTION...

On Tuesday in the Champions League

Lewis Hamilton Lewis Hamilton ‘comfortably’ won the Malaysian GP last Sunday - his 23rd race victory overall. Team-mate Nico Rosberg was second with Sebastian Vettel third.

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One ‘L’ of time for Liverpool and Lewis quarter-finals, it was Manchester United v Bayern Munich and Barcelona v Atletico Madrid, while last night Chelsea visited PSG and Real Madrid played Borussia Dortmund. This evening eight teams compete in the Europa League.

Tomorrow, GB start their vital Davis Cup tennis

match against Italy in Naples; on Saturday, it’s the Cambridge-Oxford Varsity boat race, the Grand National from Aintree (my each-way tips: Monbeg Dude and Lion Na Bearnai), plus important PL games featuring Cardiff-Crystal Palace, Chelsea-Stoke, Manchester CitySouthampton and Norwich-

CHARITY EVENT: A ‘Texas Scramble’ will be held at Santa Clara Golf Club.

Acompalia Charity Golf Event to be held in May ACOMPALIA, the palliative care and hospice charity for Granada Province, has announced a charity golf event that will take place at the Santa Clara Golf Club in Otura, near Granada, on Tuesday, May 13. This is a ‘Texas Scramble’ event, with teams of four players.

Men’s, women’s or mixed teams are all welcome.

The fee for participating in the event will be €49 per player (€196 per team).

The fee includes coffee on arrival, on course refreshments, buffet lunch, open bar and great prizes.

Guests not participating in the tournament are

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welcome; a delicious buffet lunch is available at €17 (cost price to Acompalia) for those spectators who want to enjoy this option.

The event begins with a shotgun start at 10am, following registration which opens at 8.30am. Prizegiving will be held after lunch, which is provided for players and non-playing guests. All are welcome to chat with Acompalia volunteers to find out more about the charity.

Tina Emmott, president of Acompalia, says she is excited about the event and anticipates plenty of interest.

“Passionate golfers all speak the same language,” she said. “A shared love of sport transcends language and cultural barriers, and we believe our vision for palliative care will do the same.”

Ron Withers and Terry Everett have taken the lead in organising the tournament.

A downloadable/ scannable entry form and payment guidelines will soon be available on the Acompalia website at www.Acompalia.org.

Acompaliagolf@aol.com.

Please contact Tina on 958 784 055.

WBA... And on Sunday, it’s Everton-Arsenal and West Ham-Liverpool, Rangers v Raith Rovers in the Ramsden SL Cup final, the third F1 Grand Prix of 2014 in Bahrain and the County Cricket season starts!

RECENT SOCCER ROUND-UP In the Premiership, battling Crystal Palace stunned Chelsea 1-0. This allowed Liverpool (eight wins on the bounce) to take over top spot hammering Spurs 4-0 after Arsenal (4th) had drawn 1-1 with Manchester City (3rd).

WBA and Cardiff scored in the 94th and 95th minutes in a 3-3 six-point relegation battle at The Hawthorns...

Swansea eased their worries with a 3-0 win over Norwich... inform Everton won 3-1 at Fulham... Southampton battered poor Newcastle 40... Manchester United got back on track by beating Aston Villa 4-1... Stoke edged out Hull 1-0... And Sunderland met West Ham on Monday.

North of the border, Celtic, who clinched their 45th SL title eight days ago, are on course to win the PL by a record margin.

Likewise their rivals Rangers, who have won all 15 away games this season, are 32 points clear of Dunfermline in SL1.

Atletico Madrid (2-1 winners v Athletic Bilbao), Barcelona (1-0 v Espanyol, courtesy of another Lionel Messi penalty) and Real Madrid (5-0 v Rayo Vallecano) are 1-2-3 in La Liga with 76, 75 and 73

Squash champion Congratulations to Preston-born Laura Massaro who became the first Brit for 15 years and the first English woman ever, to win the World squash championship. points respectively. Meanwhile Juventus are racing away in Italy’s Serie A. FORMULA 1 Lewis Hamilton ‘comfortably’ won the Malaysian GP last Sunday his 23rd race victory overall. Team-mate Nico Rosberg was second with Sebastian Vettel third. This was the first Mercedes onetwo since 1955 when Manuel Fangio and Karl Kling were driving.

CRICKET England (193-7) bowed out of the Twenty20 World Cup at the hands of South Africa (196-5). This was bitter disappointment, having beaten favourites Sri Lanka when Alex Hales (116) became the first Englishman to score a century in the competition.

Meanwhile, England’s

women reached the semifinals of their 20/20 cricket World Cup. SNIPPETS • Unbeaten Bayern Munich have clinched their 24th Bundesliga title.

• Five Manchester United stars - Ryan Giggs, Nicky Butt, the Neville brothers, Gary and Phil and Paul Scholes, have applied to the FA to buy Salford City.... all have links with the non-League club.

• Of the five West Midlands football clubs, only WBA made a profit in 2013. The others, Villa, Birmingham, Walsall and Wolves, lost £87.5m between them.

• Novak Djokovic beat Rafael Nadal 6-3, 6-3 to win the Masters Open in Miami.