Euro Weekly News - Costa Blanca South 3 - 9 April 2014 Issue 1500

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Negative balance BIGASTRO’S accounts from 2010 have revealed a deficit of €5.7 million. Mayor Charo Bañuls said they will work to redress the balance with a new financial plan.

Teen injured A 19-YEAR-OLD was injured after being hit by a car on the CV-905 in Rojales.

He was taken to Torrevieja Hospital with a head injury.

Cannabis find THE owner of a greenhouse in Fuente Alamo, Murcia, has been arrested after 354 cannabis plants were found along with equipment for the cultivation of the drug.

Off the fast track TORREVIEJA will not have a shuttle service linking the city to Alicante’s railway station and the high-speed AVE train.

Alicante City Council has rejected the possibility of facilitating a shuttle bus from the railway station to Torrevieja, Santa Pola, Benidorm and other tourist destinations in the province.

Alicante’s Councillor for Security, Finance and Traffic, Juan Seva, said a traffic and transportation

study concluded that entry and exit for a shuttle bus would cause too much congestion.

The news has angered the president of the hoteliers association, Hosbec, who is accusing Alicante of preventing further tourism from building in the province.

Antonio Mayor said it is crucial to get good links to the AVE and the main tourist destinations in the province, particularly Benidorm.

A few days before the start of Holy Week and after nearly a year of calling for the launch of shuttle buses, Hosbec continues its crusade and is now calling on rail

operator Renfe to apply for the implementation of a combined ticket for Madrid-Alicante-Torrevieja and Benidorm and to recognise the importance of these links.

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Letters HABANERA: Celebration and concert at the European Parliament.

Torrevieja makes history in Brussels TORREVIEJA has made history with a Habanera concert at the headquarters of the European Parliament in Brussels.

The concert, directed by conductor and composer Aurelio Martinez Lopez, was performed to an audience of 200, including ambassadors and MEPs, and was part of a special presentation of the 60th Anniversary of the International Contest of Habanera and Polyphony of Torrevieja.

Vice-president of the regional government, José Císcar, was part of the delegation which travelled to Brussels.

He highlighted the importance of Torrevieja’s voice being heard in the European Parliament as the Habanera and Polyphony competition was “one of the main cultural and musical references of the Valencian Community.”

Shopping centre developer backs out ALGORFA’S project to build one of the largest shopping centres in Spain has been shelved.

The Partido Popular (PP) government team has just given approval to a request from the developer to return the €1

million deposited in 2007 to guarantee the awarding of the work. Since then the council has failed administratively to process the partial plan for the shopping complex.

The project was for a 563,000-square-

metre development which would have created an estimated 2,000 jobs. It was planned for land on the Montebello II sector of Algorfa, close to motorway exits and the surrounding towns of Almoradi, Rojales and Los Montesinos.

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NEWS Road improvements ROAD improvements have been made in Los Altos. The work follows a number of meetings with the Residents Association and Torrevieja Council.

Model mothers EL CORTE INGLES in Alicante held a casting of mothers and daughters to mark Mother’s Day in order to find ‘real women.’ Winners will star in a fashion event and receive a €100 gift card.

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Food inspections increased FOOD inspections increased last year by 14 per cent across Elche and the Baix Vinalopo.

The Food Safety Unit of Public Health intensified the pressure in 2013 over the previous year, carrying out more surprise visits to all kinds of businesses related to the production, storage, distribution or sale of food.

As a result of these inspections, 31 per cent led to disciplinary proceedings.

Over 4,500 visits were carried out last year with 254 establishments having been found to be in

breach of hygiene and health regulations.

Inspections are not the only task of the Food Safety Unit. In 2013 they issued 48 food alerts; announcements at national or international level on the detection of an unsafe product. They also issue export licences relating to the sale of food outside of the European Community and are responsible for the Sanitary Surveillance Programme, taking random samples in stores, establishing traces of heavy metals, pesticides, hormones or antibiotics in products such as meat, honey, milk or eggs.

Sudden death A BABY, aged two months, died in the San Blas area of Alicante of natural causes.

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

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 paper corresponding to the car he was driving which was on false UK licence plates and not insured.

High flier THE number of people using RENFE’s Madrid-Alicante high speed train increased by almost a quarter in the year leading up to February compared to when it was launched last summer.

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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.

Holiday spends SPENDING by foreign tourists on the Costa Blanca amounted to €224 million in February, 4.4 per cent more than during the same month in 2013.

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 Ramon Bermudez Fernandez was born.

Sports scholarships SPORTS scholarships have been handed out to 21 young athletes in Torrevieja.

A total of €16,500 was given.

Dignity marches PROTEST group ‘Albatera no al Vertedero’ which is campaigning against plans for a waste site in the area travelled to Madrid to take part in the Dignity Marches as they continued to highlight their campaign.

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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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Volunteers wanted REACH OUT charity in Torrevieja is looking for volunteers. Call Karolina on 688 348 189 or the Reach Out Centre on 965 713 063 if you can spare a few hours a week.

Extra help MORE than half of the 10,000 secondary school students in Alicante Province are now receiving free additional evening classes to help with their studies to try and reduce the school dropout rate.

Boat impounded POLICE have impounded a vessel on Alicante’s Postiguet beach after it broke from its moorings and was carried on to the beach by the high winds. Authorities are trying to contact the boat’s owners.

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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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Schools in Santa Pola improved SINCE the beginning of the school year, public schools in Santa Pola have been subjected to improvement works in order to ‘ensure the maintenance and security of facilities.’

Councillor for Education, Tomas Martinez, said that the Hispanidad, Virgen de

Loreto and the Cervantes schools are where most of the actions have been focused, but maintenance work has been present throughout other schools.

At the CEIP Hispanidad, a playground has been added including a basketball court whilst

Body washed up on La Zenia beach A POLICE investigation is under way after a body was found washed up on the beach at La Zenia.

It was discovered on the beach by local residents after initially being mistaken for a dead dolphin. The body was wrapped in an industrial plastic bag.

Police and the coroner were on site as the bag was opened to find a man handcuffed. Early indications showed the victim, of around 1.8m in height, had a head wound and investigators believe he was tortured.

A post mortem examination will reveal the exact cause of death as police work on identifying the body.

shelving, air-conditioning and heating has been replaced or repaired as necessary.

CEIP Cervantes has undergone a complete remodelling, as the councillor explained €5,264.63 has been spent from city budgets.

Work has included installing a new electrical system, new toilets and the replacement of exterior structural elements such as gutters, downpipes and cornices.

The Virgen de Loreto school has also seen the remodelling of the toilet block.

The town hall has further committed its efforts, time and own budget to local schools following an accident in January 2013 at a school where pupils and a teacher were injured.

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The most wanted A UKRAINIAN man, wanted for the murder of a compatriot in 2011 in Torrevieja is amongst the 10 most wanted.

The Guardia Civil has released a list of their top 10 most wanted criminals and are seeking the help from citizens and international police forces.

Their last known whereabouts is Spain, but it is believed some may have left the country.

Among the wanted is escapee Laura Maria Espinola from Paraguay who is wanted for the murder of a person in 2012 who was found on the side of a road in Valencia.

WANTED: Andriy Lytvyn is wanted in relation to a murder in 2011 in Torrevieja.

Soldier dies in Pyrenees AN Alicante soldier has died whilst climbing in the French Pyrenees.

The soldier was from the Mountain Hunters Regiment ‘America’ 66, and was in the Pyrenees with two friends from his unit to practice mountaineering activities.

The 31-year-old went missing during the decent of the Midi D’Ossau peak and was buried under a metre of snow.

His body is being repatriated to Spain.

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Cocaine found hidden at airport CUSTOMS at Alicante-Elche airport has seized 42 kg of cocaine.

The drugs were detected in controls at the airport in a shipment from Argentina. It was in two shipping containers purportedly containing photographic and filming equipment with 72 packages of cocaine found in false bottoms of the containers.

Following the discovery and police investigation, two Dutch men were arrested in El Campello.

The detainees will report to Elche’s court number five.

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Fire restrictions THE Regional Government is restricting bonfires in mountainous or wooded areas of less than 500 square metres. Under new regulations they may be lit only between daybreak and 1.30pm.

Easy pay HIDDEN: cocaine was found in a shipment from Argentina.

35 years later...

MORE than 8,000 organs have been transplanted in the Valencian Community since 1979 when organ transplants began. The first transplant in the region was carried out at Valencia’s La Fe hospital with a kidney transferred on April 9, 1979. In the 1980’s the hospital began the heart transplant programme followed by liver and lung in the 1990’s.

Last year, 410 organ transplants were performed thanks to 180 donors, including nine live patients who donated organs.

A TOTAL of 16,321 Elche residents paid IBI rates and the IAE commercial activities tax in instalments last year; 17.5 per cent more than in 2012.

Wind damage HIGH winds sweeping across the province caused the collapse of a palm tree along Alicante’s Esplanade.

Clampdown on ‘illegal’ trip promotion in Benidorm COMPLAINTS about the sale of ‘illegal’ trips on Benidorm’s streets have increased fivefold in a year.

The city has imposed bans on activities in public spaces aimed at customer acquisition and business promotion with fines of over €1,000 imposed. This includes the street vendors selling the so-called ‘blanket’ trips involving excursions to other places where items are promoted and sold to the tourists.

In 2012 124 complaints were made and last year that number rose to 655.

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Safety, Pepe Marcet, said community policing has been activated to increase police presence in the city.

Change of venue a costly affair A BRIDE is to be paid €7,000 compensation after the Murcia restaurant where she was holding her wedding reception cancelled.

The bride and groom had booked the restaurant a year in advance and were informed of the cancellation just 15 days before their wedding forcing them to find a new venue and inform guests.

The Provincial Court of Murcia ordered the compensation to be paid for the inconvenience and stress caused as the bride-to-be also suffered from heart palpitations.

In court, the restaurant owners argued the reception cancellation was attributable to disagreements between the parties on the schedule of the open bar and the choice of DJ.

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More people going private for health THE economic crisis has not dented health insurers as the number of people taking out private health insurance policies in Alicante Province has seen an annual increase of 3 per cent.

Agents in the market say the increase is largely due to two main issues.

Firstly, the services offered by insurers include a wide range of

medical specialties, many of which are not covered by the national health system.

In addition, further cuts in the public health service, with consequent delays in diagnostic tests or increased waiting lists for operations has led to more people taking out private cover.

Health insurance policies are also

â‚Ź25m for airline FOUNDERS of the Valencian Infertility Institute (IVI) are investing in Air Nostrum.

The search for new partners in the airline began several months ago and of the four proposals submitted, the Air Nostrum board has selected the offer from a group of Valencian entrepreneurs with the participation of Carlos Bertomeu, current CEO, and Antonio Pellicer and Jose Remohi, co-chairmen and owners of the IVI Group.

The group has invested an estimated â‚Ź25 million, partly in capital and partly in debt.

becoming more competitively priced and are below the European average.

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Vehicle test costs to fall THE price of putting your car through its ITV in the Valencia Region is being reduced from April 1.

The full Valencian Government approved the decrease of an average 17 per cent; the first price change since rates were frozen in 2010.

The price of the noise emission inspection not charged elsewhere in Spain - is also being reduced from €9.30

to €2.48.

Regional Councillor for Economy, Maximo Buch, said that the increasing number of vehicles subject to technical inspection and the lowering of the investments made by companies which have reduced costs, means that price reductions have been possible, whilst ensuring that the companies still make a sufficient profit.

Fashions on show FUTURMODA, the International Exhibition of Leather, Components and Machinery for Footwear and Leather Goods, received more than 2,000 visitors.

The latest edition at the IFA exhibition centre close to Alicante-Elche Airport, saw 2,243 people visit during the two days; a similar figure to the previous fair.

The guests were mainly Spanish, but there was also a presence of European buyers looking for designs for spring-summer 2015.

NEWS Palm grove adventure park delayed THE opening of Elche’s new multi-activity park has been delayed until October.

‘Elche Palm Grove Adventure’ is the official name given to the park which is being created in the Travalon Bajo on the road leading to the football field and El Altet. It will include an artificial lake, zip line, climbing walls, picnic and chillout areas.

Last summer the council announced it would be ready for this summer, but it has now been postponed.

The project has an investment of €1.5 million and is expected to give work to 30 to 35 people directly and another 70 indirectly.

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Alzheimer’s deaths triple in Murcia THE number of people dying from Alzheimer’s in the Murcia Region has tripled in the past 13 years.

Figures from the National Institute of

Statistics (INE) show that the number has gradually increased year on year from the 142 recorded in 1999 to 417 cases in 2012.

Neurologist and director of the Clinical Dementia Unit from Murcia’s Virgen de la Arrixaca Hospital, Almagro Carmen Antunez, explained that this increase is due to THE regional government, through the Valencian several reasons including Energy Agency and major distribution companies, is increased life expectancy planning to bring natural gas to more than 200,000 in Spain. This implies that people in the region in the next two years. more people reach old Head of the Valencian Energy Agency, Antonio age and therefore there is Cejalvo, said the plans include an investment of €6.29 an increase in people million, of which €1.38 million will be provided by the being diagnosed with regional government and the rest through the ageing diseases such as companies themselves: Endesa and Gas Natural Gas Alzheimer’s.

Distribution Cegás SAU. Antunez also suggested Formentera del Segura, San Fulgencio, Daya Vieja, that there is an increased Daya Nueva, San Isidro and Catral will receive 27 awareness and knowkilometres of pipes. Five kilometres of pipes are also ledge of the disease so being planned for the first phase in Altea to start in there are more diagnoses March next year, with Alfaz del Pi and Albir receiving where previously it may access from the secondary transmission pipeline from not have been Alicante-Benidorm-Altea. recognised.

Natural gas to be piped in

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Ikea celebrates 8 years in Murcia IKEA in Murcia has received nearly 25 million visitors since it opened eight years ago.

Of these visitors, 61.3 per cent are from the Murcia Province,

followed by Alicante with 23.6 per cent. Customers also came from Valencia (5.4 per cent), Albacete (3.3 per cent) and Almeria (3.4 per cent).

Ikea has not only been

New grandstand for Rojales A GRANDSTAND for 184 spectators has been installed on the football pitch at Rojales.

It is one of the most frequented sports premises in the municipality where 15 teams of the municipal football school train and play.

Seats are made of polypropylene on a structure of galvanised steel, at a cost of €9,000.

Councillor for Sports, Pedro Llopis said: “We endeavoured to make true this improvement as soon as we had the budget to do it. This improvement was highly demanded by football fans and families who have their children enrolled in the municipal sports schools.”

an ambassador of Scandinavian design in Murcia, but has also introduced millions of people to the Swedish culture, especially through its food.

In eight years, more than five million visitors have passed through the restaurant tasting over two million hot dogs and 332,000 plates of meatballs.

The store is hosting a range of events this week until Saturday to celebrate their anniversary. They are also trying to break the record for the longest line of tables and invite customers to purchase a Lack table at €6.99 and join the line in the car park where they will then receive a voucher covering the cost.

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Blackout for Earth Hour MURCIA and Orihuela turned off their lights and joined the global event ‘Earth Hour’ organised by

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Barn Dance A BARN dance takes place on April 12 at Lo Monte Hotel, Pilar de la Horadada, with a raffle for cancer charity American AECC. supper, tickets €5, call 966 762 881.

the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) in the fight against climate change.

Murcia Cathedral, the town hall, churches and numerous city monuments were plunged into darkness as San Javier also took park by turning

movement in the fight against climate change. It calls on citizens to “go further and adopt energy saving measures throughout the year” to create a more sustainable life plan respectful with the environment.

Getting beaches ready for the Easter crowds

Blood gift AROUND 40 people attended a blood drive organised by Transfusion the Centre in Alicante last Thursday, which will enable more than 100 transfusions to be carried potentially out, saving lives.

off its lights. Orihuela Town Hall also announced its participation along with Zenia Boulevard in La Zenia.

It is the eighth year that the WWF has organised the event which has become the world’s largest

EASTER RUSH: Repair work is being carried out at La Mata beach.

MAINTENANCE crews have been busy working on the beaches of Torrevieja, preparing them for Easter and the start of the season.

Cleaning and reviews of all the footbaths have been carried out, replacing those that needed it, and handrails have been replaced on the central beaches of El Cura and Los Locos.

Repair work on the pedestrian path of La Mata

is under way with a section being removed and replaced with new decking.

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€66,000 parking debt ORIHUELA Town Hall has to pay almost €66,000 in parking fees. The historic debt dates back to 2006-2009 when a previous administration agreed to pay for spaces in a public car park for judges and prosecutors at the city’s courts. A monthly payment plan for the spaces, operated by Doalco, was agreed but payments were then stopped. A judge has now ruled that the outstanding debt must be paid from public funds.

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National film competition launched RULES for the 4th National Short Film Competition have been announced as part of the Audiovisual Torrevieja 2014 event in Torrevieja.

Organised by Tourmaline Films in collaboration with the Department of Culture, the competition last year attracted filmmakers from across Spain.

The theme of the movie is free and must not exceed 30 minutes, with selected works being screened during Torrevieja’s film festival on June 6-7. Films must have been completed after January 1, 2012.

There are two awards with prizes of €300 on offer; Best Short Film and Best Animated Short Film.

Entrants must be registered before April 30 and submitted before May 7. For info email torrevieja audiovisual@turmalinafilms. com or call 966 706 613.

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Bay Radio pulls out all the stops for charity gala WITH less than two weeks until the Bay Radio Charity Gala Awards at Denia’s Marriott Hotel, we can now reveal the full list of entertainers.

As if the 20 charities being represented will not be entertaining enough, guests are being promised a night to remember with live music and magic from some top acts from the UK and Spain.

Benidorm’s Blues Brothers experience will be rocking the stage, followed by the UK’s number one Robbie Williams Millennium tribute act by Matt Holbrook. The audience will then be amazed by the magical hands of James Brown. A leading magician,

James was also a magic consultant on British TV’s Channel Four show, Troy. The ‘Master of Misdirection’ is flying over from the UK especially for the event.

Antiques expert Mark Stacey, who has appeared on numerous TV shows including Bargain Hunt and Flog It, is the guest auctioneer on the night, where top prizes include a holiday to Cyprus staying in an apartment, including two return flights from London Gatwick, and a diamond ring.

A raffle is also being held offering some equally impressive prizes, including meal vouchers valued at €40€50, spa treatments at the Marriott and ladies night-in packs.

One of the organisers of the Charity Gala, Sue Nutbrown, said she has been overwhelmed by the support of the local community for the awards and in donating auction and raffle prizes: “This has been one of the most humbling experiences of my life. The charities and their volunteers are just amazing and the community has come together, donating some fantastic prizes.

“The generosity of people has just overwhelmed me and the support that nearly everyone has shown for what Bay Radio is trying to achieve

GUEST AUCTIONEER: BBC’s Mark Stacey will be auctioning a range of top prizes on the night. in thanking people, who give up so much for so many, is unbelievable.”

Call now to secure one of the last remaining tickets, priced at €50 inclusive of a gala dinner, by calling 965 796 761 or email studio@bayradio.fm.

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Marathon radio broadcast A RADIO marathon took place to mark the fourth anniversary of Radio Santa Pola.

The event involved various personalities from the political, civil, media and social world, taking place at their studios in Calle Mayor.

The International Platform ELOOP which has an association with Radio Santa Pola, sponsored the event which included partner stations, news agencies and offices around the world.

There was also direct participation by ELOOP’s director and ambassador to Spain in San Agustin, Colombia.

For more information visit www.radiosanta polaonline.com

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Reading drive for Santa Pola SANTA POLA libraries have received 180 books valued at €2,200.

The books were donated to encourage reading in municipalities with fewer than 50,000 inhabitants as part of the Maria Moliner Awards and the ‘Municipal libraries; more for less’ campaign.

Street recognition PILAR DE LA HORADADA has named a new street after former president Adolfo Suarez, who died last week.

Mayor Jose Fidel Ros raised the proposal to pay a

“tribute to the first president of the Spanish democracy,” which all parties agreed upon.

Calle Presidente Adolfo Suarez is to be located in Mil Palmeras in Sector R5.

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Community help THE British community has helped to raised €245.20 for a local boy called Manuel who is suffering from LeschNyhan syndrome.

The money was raised at the diabetics clinic at Clinica Nuria Mateo Podiatric in Benijofar and will be allocated for the purchase of a hoist.

Podiatrist Nuria said: “Thank you very much to everyone for participating, Manuel’s family is very grateful.”

Lesch-Nyhan is a rare inherited genetic disorder

GIVING: Money raised will help improve the quality of life for Manuel. which results in poor muscle control and moderate intellectual

AFA solidarity run THE second solidarity run for AFA Alzheimer’s charity in Torrevieja takes place on June 1.

The 7.2km run starts at the La Mata natural park.

Registration is now open costing €7 if you enrol before May 9 with the price being €10 after this date, to include a runner’s bag.

There are four race categories available. Visit www.afatorrevieja.es/form.php to register.

disability. Symptoms may be alleviated but there is no cure.

Services THE Anglican Chaplaincy of St. Peter and St. Paul, Torrevieja, has announced its full list of Easter week services including Good Friday at 10.30am at La Zenia and at 2pm in Los Balcone.

Full service details can be found at http://c-of-etorrevieja.com/.

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Fill a heart with hope and help Philippines ‘FILL a heart with hope’ has been written by local singer Shani Ormiston in aid of the Lions Philippines Appeal.

In collaboration with producer Manuel Ortega, Shani has released the single which can be downloaded on CDbaby and iTunes for only 99 cents.

The Torrevieja Costa Lions Club has also specially prepared a coded card which, in return for a donation, will allow people to download the single without having to resort to online payment, meaning more money can be donated to the Philippines Appeal.

Torrevieja Costa Lions Club has donated €8,000 to the Lions Club International Foundation Disaster Fund for the Philippines since the typhoon struck last November.

For more information email idsbennett@ hotmail.co.uk or visit www.torreviejacosta lions.org

All the fun of the fair for longer THE third Sevillanas Fair in Pilar de la Horadada will be extended by a day this year.

The event takes place from April 30-May 4, taking advantage of the May 1 bank holiday and will feature musical events, parades, cuisine, stalls and, of course, Sevillanas dancing, with 4,000-5,000 people expected to visit.

The full programme, in three languages, is being released this week and will be available from the town hall.

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Teen to sing for those in need THE girl with the golden voice, Stefanie Lohse, is putting on two concerts in May to help raise money for those in need.

The 15-year-old held a concert last October, which was a sell-out so, in response, is offering two more; the first on May 11 at the Music and Cultural Centre in Los Montesinos and the second on May 25 at the Cardenal Belluga Theatre, San Fulgencio.

‘Power of Music’ will see Stefanie perform West End musical tunes and power ballads in English, German, Italian and Spanish.

Profits from the concerts, organised in conjunction with the respective town halls’ Social Services departments, will be used to buy food and other essentials for needy people in the area.

Tickets at €5 are available by calling 633 019 041 or can be bought from the Post Room and Vincent Real Estate in Benijofar, Pepas Bar and Radio NOVA in Quesada, Flabelos in Quesada and Los Balcones, Carpet

GOLDEN VOICE: Singer Stefanie is offering two concerts in May. Heaven, Queremon Gama and Le Petit Colchon in Los Montesinos, as well as at the Guardamar Sunday Market from Salchichas Alemanas.

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Walking back to nature in Murcia THE CDM sports centre in Orihuela Costa is organising a weekend hiking activity along the Cabo Cope and Puntas de Calnegre in Murcia.

The area is bathed by the Mediterranean Sea in Southern Mucia and the trip will include visits and hiking along beaches and unspoilt coves over two days from April 26-27.

Prices are €75-€85 per person, which include transport and overnight full board accommodation, guides and a support vehicle.

Those who wish to participate in the weekend trip must make their registration by next Friday.

Visit the CDM or Playa Flamenca Town Hall for more information.

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A triple fundraiser for HELP THE Mar Menor has been raising money for HELP Murcia Mar Menor.

It was ‘Céad Míle Fáilte’ in a prequel to St Patrick’s night at Paddy Singh’s bar in Los Urrutias where father and son group ‘Austin Friar’ entertained the crowds and raised €100.

‘Elaine’s Quiz with a Difference’ was held at Lui’s Lounge in San Javier and raised a further €190.

HELP MMM’s charity auction attracted many people to La Zona bar, with the event raising a total of €585.

HELP MMM is a registered charity which supports the local community. More info call 968 570 059.

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Coming together for cancer charity A FASHION show is being held to help raise funds for the AECC cancer charity.

The event has been organised by girls studying at the Nordic Institute of Rojales (DNRS), who formed the Pink it Together group. They have worked with APYMECO, the association of small and medium size retailers in Torrevieja, who will provide the clothing and jewellery for the show, which takes place on Sunday from 1pm at the municipal theatre.

Tickets cost €10 with a formal dress code. VIP tickets are available for €17.

There will be live music from Paul Michel, Lewis ‘Sounds of the Suburbs’ and Ashley Twaddle.

Maria Wilson, President of AECC Torrevieja, said: “I would like to thank Pink it Together who were ins-

pired to produce a charity event after attending the Zenia Boulevard on

International Breast Cancer day and also APYMECO for their support.”

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More refugees ‘need asylum’ HALF of all immigrants who jump the fence in Ceuta and Melilla are refugees but only 10 per cent of them receive asylum.

According to a report by the Spanish Commission for Refugee Aid (CEAR) around half of the immigrants who cross the fences come from war-torn countries and should be given asylum in Spain, although only around 10 per cent of them receive it.

CEAR has presented a petition to collect 100,000 signatures with which to ask the government to take away the concertinaed

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PLIGHT: Refugees at the fence. barbed wire from the top of the fence and ‘to respect human rights’.

CEAR said refugees “are people who never

expected to have to leave their countries and ask for asylum in order to preserve their lives and physical safety.”

Spain second in the EU for child poverty SPAIN comes in second place, after Romania, FOR child poverty within the European Union.

According to a recent study, €2.6 billion would solve the child poverty problem in Spain; this figure is less than is destined to sort out the motorways.

Caritas, Spanish charity, indicates that 11.7 million people in Spain are affected by penury, and the risk of child poverty in 2012, the last year for which there are

complete statistics, was 29.9 per cent which is nearly nine points above the average of the EU. Twelve per cent of the working population do not earn enough to lift themselves out of poverty.

According to Caritas’s figures at least a million and a half Spanish households are living in poverty, 69.8 per cent more than in 2007 when the recession began, approximately five million people.

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HAH Spring ball enjoys success OVER 160 people turned out in all their finery, to enjoy the HAH Mar Menor Spring Ball at the Principe de Asturias in Santiago de la Ribera.

Celia Ryan, who organised the event to raise money for the HAH charity said: “the atmosphere was brilliant, the ladies looked so glamorous and the men didn’t look too bad either!

“This is a new Spanish venue for HAH, and we were so impressed with everything, that we will be holding another ball here later in the year.”

A tombola held on the night raised €963 for HAH. For more information on the charity or to become a volunteer visit www.helpathome.es or call 968 134 978.

Pushing the boat out with a smile

THE Smile Charity Group will be pushing the boat out, quite literally, as they have a cruise up for grabs at their forthcoming fundraising event on Saturday.

Andres, owner of El Alto La Dolores Restaurant, has donated the seven night, Mediterranean cruise for four people (excluding port fees) as a raffle prize to help raise funds for the Children’s Care Home in Elche.

For more information on the BBQ on Saturday with entertainment by the Campoverde Reef Band, call 692 866 536.

Rainbow’s April visits THE Rainbow Centre for Spiritual Awareness has a number of mediums and healers visiting in April.

On Sunday at 11am - a divine service with Debbie Blevins and Davin Barnbourgh the following week. On Wednesday an evening of clairvoyance at 7.30pm, with Morag Bullock and Barbara Almond from the UK on April 16.

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Robbing the banks ONE of Spain’s most famous bank robbers has been sentenced to five years and three months in prison, despite his defence that he was only stealing from thieves.

He was found guilty of robbing a bank in Madrid in February 2007 when he got away with €16,510.

The prosecution had asked for a sentence of 15 years, but as he already had a sentence for possessing illegal arms, this was reduced to five.

Jaime Jimenez Arbe, AKA El Solitario, claimed he did not rob the banks but rather he was simply applying a ‘revolutionary tax’ on them because they were also thieves.

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Look who’s cooking...

WHAT do the British Ambassador to Spain and the Mohican-hairstyled Spanish chef of the moment have in common?

Not much, it might appear, but Simon Manley, 46, and David Muñoz, 33, share several passions. Running, food and the United Kingdom are three of them, and the pair have just been filmed cooking the classic British dish of roast beef with Yorkshire pudding, with a distinctive, modern Spanish twist.

In a new video on YouTube, David explains why he will soon be opening his first international restaurant in Britain. “I love it,” he says. “I lived in London for six years, and learnt almost everything there. London’s huge gastronomic diversity can be found nowhere else.”

Simon Manley added: “David’s decision to expand into the UK shows what a great place London is to start a new business or expand an existing one. What’s more, he’ll add

TWIST ON TRADITION: Simon Manley (left) and David Muñoz. even further to the incredible quality and variety of food which visitors to London can enjoy.”

David recently received his third Michelin star, making him the youngest Spaniard to win

the top Michelin ranking and the only holder of three stars in Madrid. His new restaurant, StreetXo London, will open this summer in Mayfair, bringing with it the culinary style that has made a table at his tiny

DiverXO restaurant among the most desirable - and near unobtainable - in Spain.

The video shows the two in Union Jack aprons producing a dish of roast beef with Yorkshire pudding at the ambassador’s official residence, with the addition of horseradish, papaya and a herb that grows beside Spanish rivers.

One of the top Foreign Office priorities for its ambassadors including Simon Manley at the British Embassy in Madrid - is to explain the benefits of investing in Britain, which is recognised as the easiest country in Europe in which to start a new business.

Meanwhile, the ‘Britain is GREAT’ campaign, which has a special emphasis on food, is also helping more British suppliers to sell their products to overseas markets.

Photos of British Ambassador Simon Manley with threeMichelin-starred Chef David Muñoz are available for download from the British Embassy Madrid photo gallery.

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Baby receives seven organs A 10-MONTH-OLD baby in Valencia has successfully undergone a seven-organ transplant.

The baby, Luna, received all the organs from one donor in an operation

carried out at Hospital de la Paz’s multitransplant unit in Madrid.

She was only a few days old when her digestive system shut down so she was immediately put on the transplant list and had to be permanently connected to a machine which fed her artificially.

During the operation she received a large intestine, small intestine, colon, liver, pancreas, spleen and stomach.

She was released from hospital two weeks ago and is making a good TWO workers who found a bomb recovery and leading an almost while carrying out repairs to the roof normal life.

According to NUPA, an of a building in central Madrid, took the explosive device to the police organisation which supports the families of children who are station.

The appearance of two workers dependent on a machine to feed carrying a bomb provoked the them, there are more than 130 immediate evacuation of the police children who need this type of multistation, as well as neighbouring organ transplant.

NUPA has begun a project to make buildings, for over an hour.

Members of the TEDAX (bomb the general public aware that this disposal unit) were called and they sort of total digestive system shutdown exists. Journalist Alba took the bomb away with them.

Initial analysis points to the bomb Santos has written a book for the being empty of explosive charges, campaign entitled ‘Inside There is a Secret for Heroes’. sources reported.

Two workers find Civil War bomb

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Identity theft

NOT GUILTY: The Supreme Court has absolved the man.

Innocent man died in prison THE SUPREME COURT has absolved a man who died in prison serving a sentence for a crime he didn’t commit.

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The man was condemned to prison by the Sevilla courts in 2011 for a violent robbery in which the thief was cut and left blood at the scene. This blood has now allowed investigators to identify the real culprit.

But the DNA tests were carried out on the blood only after the man had already been found guilty.

He had been wrongly identified as the culprit by the victim, and the judge hearing the initial case decided not to wait for the

result of blood tests, which eventually took a year and five months to complete.

In the original hearing the judge considered there was enough evidence to send the man to prison for stealing a woman’s handbag. He supposedly broke a window of the car she was driving and struggled with her to take the bag. The very close resemblance between the actual robber and the innocent man was thought to be the cause of his being found guilty.

A WOMAN, 25, was arrested in Castellon for presenting the health card of another when she gave birth.

The investigation began when police went to her home to arrest her for theft. They found a baby girl in the house which she claimed was not her daughter. She was taken into custody and police found that when she had the baby, she had presented the health card of another woman in order to get assistance at a health centre.

Therefore, the other woman’s details were on the baby’s birth certificate.

She had reported that her handbag, with documents inside it including her health card, had been stolen.

The detainee was charged with identity theft and has a criminal record for robbery and theft.

British paedophile arrested A BRITON, 45, wanted in the UK for raping a girl, five, was arrested in a café in Palma de Mallorca city centre.

National Police report he had been living in Mallorca using a false identity and is accused of sexual attacks against the child between 2001 and 2005, although not reported until 2011.

He is on the list of UK sex offenders.

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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 carrying out 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

Marbella is happy

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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 over 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.

Palace 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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Savage dog

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: The forest and scrubland area 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 re-sited. 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.”

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

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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Local hero RIOGORDO has paid homage to a priest that, 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.

Beauty contest ALMUÑECAR is to hold a competition for the best looking patios, house fronts and hidden corners of the town. The competition is open to all residents.

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

School works WORKS to improve the Pablo Picasso public school, in Almargen, will cost €1.8 million and will benefit the 229 students who attend the school.

Motril aged THE mayor of Motril has inaugurated a new day centre for the elderly which has air conditioning, a cafeteria and even a space for hairdressing.

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Briton jailed for killing in Palma At around 5am, one of his friends A BRITISH man has accepted 15 months in prison for killing another heard a noise and found him on the Briton following a fight in Port floor, unconscious. Paramedics were unable to revive him and he died in d’Alcudia in Mallorca.

He and a German man stood trial at Son Dureta Hospital.

The Briton admitted in court that he Palma Provincial Port for the involuntary manslaughter of Briton, had kicked the victim when he was on the ground and that it was possible he Matthew Blue, 32, in April 2009. had kicked him in the head, but Three friends, including the victim, went out for a drink The Briton he had been drunk and couldn’t remember. The and met another group in the street at around 1am. admitted that German denied having One of the victim’s he had kicked been involved in the attack and is facing four friends reportedly the victim when years in prison. commented on the The British man, appearance of someone in he was on the the other group and a fight however, says the German ground ensued. fought the victim, punching Blue was punched in the head and him in the head before he fled the pushed to the floor, where he hit his scene. This was confirmed by one of head and was also kicked in the head. the victim’s friends, as well as by a He passed out but minutes later he police officer who was told when he got up, apparently fine. An hour later arrived at the scene that the attacker he began feeling dizzy, but his friends had left.

Matthew Blue had two children and thought he was drunk and put him to another on the way when he died. bed.

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Stories making headlines in Europe

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GERMAN PRESS Lufthansa strike

BRITISH PRESS Fumes banned NORWAY- In its draft of environmental policies the Norwegian Labour Party has said all petrol and diesel cars could be banned in Olso by 2035.

Unisex dorms NORWAY - In a bold move the Norwegian army is making female soldiers share unisex dorms with male colleagues. So far there has been a drop in sexual harassment cases.

Holiday sex

Guinness record

Pull now!

BERYL WALKER has been crowned the oldest paper girl in the world by the Guinness World Records. The 88-year-old took the job 35 years ago when her grandson gave it up.

A FATHER whose son is terrified of the dentist has pulled out his son’s tooth using a string tied to a remote controlled ‘quadcopter.’

Tattoo removal BRITAIN’S most tattooed man, who changed his name to Body Art, has decided to spend £6,000 on laser removal so that he can start afresh with new tattoos.

Praise be!

A GROUP of street buskers has got around a ban on busking by forming themselves into a religion called the Church of the Holy Kazoo, and therefore exercising their right to preach in public.

POPULAR BBC programme, Top Gear, is facing a law suit after politically incorrect Jeremy Clarkson made a remark about ‘slopes’ on a Burma special.

RUSSIAN PRESS Easier visas THE Russian government is considering a new law to lengthen the validity of tourist visas, from 30 days to six months, and making the requirements for obtaining them easier.

Astrid cash SWEDEN - Astrid Lindgren, author of children’s classics like Pippi Longstocking has been chosen to appear on the 20Krona Swedish banknote.

Soyuz docks A RUSSIAN Soyuz spacecraft, manned by three astronauts, has successfully docked at the International Space Station after failing to make it on the first attempt. This marks the beginning of their six-month stay in orbit.

Silly walk NORWAY Hoping to put a smile on faces, the small town of Orje is installing a pair of zebra crossing signs inspired by Monty Python’s Ministry of Silly Walks.

Top gear

JEREMY CLARKSON: Appears on Top Gear.

DENMARK - Due to a falling birth rate Denmark is now encouraging couples to have more sex while on holiday.

Apparently 10 per cent of all Danish children are conceived abroad.

ASTRID LINDGREN: Will appear on the 20-Krona Swedish banknote.

Royal household THE DUTCH Royal Court has been reduced by five ladies-in-waiting because Queen Máxima, wife of King Willem-Alexander, does not have the number of activities that former Queen Beatrix had as head of state.

Sochi dogs A CHARITY founded

by Russian billionaire, Oleg Deripaska, has taken 10 stray dogs to the US. The dogs, rescued from the streets of Sochi, were vaccinated by the charity before travelling.

Radical factions AS fear of imminent invasion fades, proRussia and pro-Ukraine groups hunker down for a long fight in the eastern city of Kharkiv.

Blame game CLAIMS that classified information, released

by NSA leaker Edward Snowden, may have allowed Russia to evade US efforts to anticipate Moscow’s invasion of Crimea hold little water, according to US and foreign intelligence officials.

DUTCH PRESS Campers popular USING a camper on holiday is growing steadily in The Netherlands, Bovag says.

There are now 85,628 campers registered, 26,000 more than

five years ago, a growth of 44 per cent.

Amber alert AMBER alerts sent by police to trace a missing child appear to be very effective. Two million people receive these

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messages immediately by SMS, email, Twitter or Facebook; another eight million indirectly through other media.

Chinese milk DUTCH companies gained contracts up to €20 million for

LUFTHANSA pilots will go on strike for three days in protest at cuts made by the airline, which will affect their pension schemes.

Presidential visit CHINESE President Xi Jinping’s visit to Germany is expected to cement flourishing trade ties. The visit is mainly aimed at ‘relationship building.’

Two dead TWO girls, aged four and eight, were killed and four people injured in a family house fire in Dederstadt, Lower Saxony.

Priest stalking A 71-YEAR-OLD woman has been jailed for 14 months for stalking a Catholic priest for more than 13 years. The elderly woman harassed the priest with letters, emails, text messages and phone calls.

Dual citizenship THE German government has reached an agreement to loosen citizenship laws. The new laws will allow people born in Germany to foreign parents to hold two passports.

renewal and increase of Chinese milk production with respect to investments, safety and sustainability.

Record jackpot A YOUNG man in Holland Casino in the city of Enschede won €2,960,221.50 tax free with a bet of €7.50, RTV Oost reports.

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DIVORCE and separation rates continue to drop while the rate of annulments is on the rise.

According to a press release by the CGPJ (General Judiciary Council) in 2013 there were 1.7 per cent fewer divorces and separations but 8.5 per cent more annulments.

Unfortunately for the overloaded court system the ancillary cases that accompany annulments and divorces are the same; these include custody battles and alimony cases.

This drop in divorces, both by mutual agreement and non-consensual, has been attributed to, among other things, the expense involved at a time of recession.

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Divorce rates continue dropping ROYAL YACHT: Is up for sale in Port Adriano in Mallorca.

King’s yacht looking for a new owner

THE yacht ‘Fortuna’ used by the Spanish Royal Family for more than 13 years, has been renamed ‘Foners’ and is in Port Adriano, Calvia, Mallorca, waiting for a new owner.

It was repaired in Porto Pi, Palma de Mallorca, following the King’s decision to give it up last May as a show of austerity due to its high maintenance costs.

It had been given to him in 2000 by businesses and institutions which were

part of the Balearic Islands Tourism and Cultural Foundation (Fundatur). The National Heritage Department returned it to them and they decided to sell it.

The 41-metre-long yacht was specially equipped for the King and originally cost €18 million.

It was built in 1997 in Cadiz, and replaced the former ‘Fortuna,’ a name which can only be used for the King’s Yacht, which was donated in 1979 by Saudi Arabia’s King Fahd.

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Violence is never justified A

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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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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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

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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

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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 up 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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• Liam Neeson • Maggie Grace • Famke Janssen

Taken 2 (2012) Mills has already seen his share of kidnapping, having rescued daughter Kim (Maggie Grace) from the clutches of Albanian human-traffickers two years earlier. Life since has been peaceful and, after completing a bodyguard assignment in Istanbul, Bryan is pleased to be surprised by Kim and ex-wife Lenore (Famke Janssen), who have travelled to Turkey for a holiday. However, the bliss doesn't last long as, following a romance-rekindling lunch, Bryan and Lenore are ambushed and kidnapped.

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Hair (Game Show) BBC 3 from 9:00pm to 10:00pm Steve Jones hosts a competition in which young amateur hairstylists try to win the title of Britain's best amateur hairdresser. It's the grand final and just three stylists remain, battling it out to be crowned the champion. Royal hairdresser Denise McAdam and celebrity stylist Alain Pichon put the finalists through their paces, creating vintageinspired victory rolls and the most difficult cut of all, the highly-technical graduated bob. In the freestyle round, the competitors must create their most breathtaking hairstyles yet on the theme of Hollywood Glamour, and there's a curveball in the shape of the models. At the end, one stylist will be awarded the coveted title of Britain's Best Amateur Hairstylist.

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FINANCE The UK Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne delivered his Budget to Parliament on 19th March. By far the biggest surprise was the announcement of a complete overhaul to the pension regime.

Here is a summary of the issues that may affect British expatriates. I will cover more issues in my next article.

Personal tax Personal allowances increase £10,000 for the 2014/15 tax year, and again to £10,500 for 2015/16. The higher rate threshold also increases to £41,865 from 6th April 2014, and by a further 1% a year later.

The Government will consult on whether to withdraw the personal allowance from non-UK residents, except those with ‘strong economic connections in the UK.’ As previously announced, married couples and civil partners will be able to transfer up to 10% of their personal allowance to their partner. This may apply to expatriate couples if one of you has UK source income.

Savings On 1st July 2014, cash and shares ISAs will merge into a “New ISA” or “NISA”, with an annual limit of £15,000. Expatriates will still be liable to tax in their country of residence on interest, dividends and gains arising within ISA wrappers.

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By Robert Croizat, Senior Partner, Blevins Franks The amounts that can be invested in premium bonds will increase to £40,000 in 2014/2015 and £50,000 from 2015/2016. There will be more £1 million prizes.

Winners resident outside the UK may be liable to tax in their country of residence.

Pension reform Several measures were introduced in one of the largest reforms of the

defined contribution pension system since 1921. Pension holders are now being granted a far wider range of access to their funds after retirement.

These changes came into effect on 27th March 2014: • A reduction in the minimum income requirement for accessing flexible drawdown to £12,000.

• An increase in the capped drawdown limit to 150% of equivalent annuity.

• The total pension wealth people can have before they are no longer entitled to receive lump sums under trivial commutation rules increases to £30,000.

• An increase to the small pension pots lump sum limit to £10,000, and the number of pots that can be taken as a lump sum increased to three.

From 6th April 2015 members of defined contribution schemes will have much more flexibility in how

they deal with their pension on retirement. The requirement to buy an annuity has already been removed and the 25% tax free lump sum continues to be available, but from April 2015 retirees will have three choices for the balance of their pension: 1) Withdraw their entire pension fund on retirement, with the withdrawal taxed at their marginal income tax rates, rather than 55% as currently the case.

2) Purchase an annuity.

3) Flexible drawdown benefits over time.

Remember, you need to consider local tax in your country of residence.

A consultation has been launched regarding transferring out of Defined Benefit Schemes into Defined Contributions Schemes.

Consideration will be given to allowing individuals aged 75 and over to claim tax relief on pension

contributions.

The Government will consult on increasing the minimum pension age so it remains ten years below state pension age.

HM Revenue & Customs has been given new powers to help prevent pension liberation schemes being registered, and to make it easier to de-register them. This measure is designed to catch schemes which allow members to access their pension fund before reaching retirement, which HMRC views as fraud.

My next article will look at capital gains tax, property tax and inheritance tax.

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

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

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Last Holiday (2006) Comedy starring Queen Latifah as a shy woman who is told she only has three weeks to live.

On one last holiday, she finds her newly liberated personality opens many new doors.

BBC3/ 8:00pm Great TV Mistakes 8:30pm Doctor Who 9:15pm Doctor Who 10:00pm Live at the Apollo 10:30pm Russell Howard's Good News 11:00pm Life and Death Row 12:00am Family Guy 12:50am Old School 2:20am Impractical Jokers 2:50am Killer Magic 3:20am Russell Howard's Good News 3:50am Live at the Apollo 4:20am Great TV Mistakes 4:30am Bluestone 42

Old School (Film,2003) BBC 3 from 12:50am to 2:20am Riotous campus comedy in which a lawyer unwittingly gives his thirty-something friends an opportunity to recapture their college years when he relocates to a local university. Having caught his wife cheating on him, the out-of-luck attorney finds his new house turning into a 24-hour party pad for a variety of misfit college students, middle-aged slackers and elderly retirees as he struggles to avoid being evicted by the new Dean of Students.

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Starsky and Hutch (Film, 2004) This affectionate, full-throttle cinematic remake of the 1970s US cop TV series roared on to our screens in thick clouds of burning rubber in 2004. While it seemed impossible that David Starsky and Ken Hutchinson could be played by anyone other than Paul Michael Glaser and David Soul in the original, surprisingly Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson (pictured) do a sterling job here, so much so that after 20 minutes or so, you're hooked and willing the pair on. Sure at times it's a spoof, but the original never took itself very seriously either, so it's never a problem.

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Tropic Thunder (Film, 2008) BBC 3 from 10:20pm to 12:00am While filming on location, Vietnam war epic Tropic Thunder is derailed by star Tugg Speedman's (Ben Stiller) inability to emote. Director Damien Cockburn (Steve Coogan) attempts to liven up proceedings by dropping the principal actors into the middle of a real jungle, claiming he's going to capture their performances with guerrilla-style film-making and hidden cameras.

But the hapless group - including drug-addled comedy star Jeff Portnoy (Jack Black) and po-faced method man Kirk Lazarus (Robert Downey Jr.) - are completely unaware when a series of unfortunate events leads them into the middle of a real war zone.

Taking no prisoners, Stiller's Hollywood satire mercilessly lampoons the ego-driven industry with a clutch of close-to-the-bone gags that caused a wave of controversy on the film's release.

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Gorillas in the Mist (Film, 1988)

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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.

Not even her live-in lover, Bob Campbell (Bryan Brown) could stop her from putting her life at risk to protect the Gorilla's from poachers and animal traders.

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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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The real Spanish driving rules...

Ulrica Marshall

Expat Strife Swedish-born Ulrica is a freelance journalist living in Mallorca with her family. Her debut novel $Expat Wives is available on Amazon and iBooks.

To comment on any of the issues raised in Ulrica’s column, go to www.euroweeklynews.com/columnists/ulrica-marshall

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IKE most of my friends at the time, I couldn’t wait to take my driving test and began lessons with an instructor as well as my mother, who nearly had a coronary the first time she handed over the car keys.

Still, after many lessons and some hard graft, I got my UK licence and have pretty much remembered all the rules of the road ever since.

Fast forward a couple of decades, I am now spending a fair bit of time behind the steering wheel in Spain and I have had plenty of time to consider their psychology of driving. It is an entirely different cup of tea. Never having been to a driving school

SCARY: Driving can be a daunting business. here, I have taken a wild stab as to their Highway Code, judging by many (though, admittedly, not all) the drivers out there…

Parallel parking: Seek out a spot which looks roughly big enough, then pull in at speed, enlarging the space using the bumpers until sufficient for the size of your car. Always fold in wing mirrors, since other

people are typically bad drivers.

Speed limit: The numbers indicated on the little signs are suggestions only or a recommended minimum. Shave off two minutes of your journey time at all cost. Sign up for our other popular course: Learning to avoid radar speeding fines.

Motorway driving: Choose a lane and stay there, drivers needing to pass should do so by

zig zagging into pole position.

Don’t be afraid of hogging the fast lane even if you drive an articulated lorry. When you need to exit, do so at the very last minute by cutting across all lanes of traffic at an acute angle. If in doubt, watch re-runs of Formula 1 for inspiration.

Roundabouts: Annoying hurdles. Make them more interesting by launching car into the traffic when you like rather than when traffic allows unless the Guardia Civil happens to be there.

Overtaking: As often as possible - add a touch of exhilarating danger by narrowly avoiding oncoming cars in the other lane.

Insurance: An optional extra a bit like the driving licence come to think of it. In case of accidentally damaging another car, drive away at great speed.

Admit nothing.

Choice of car: Only foreigners are silly enough to drive prestige cars. Anything old,

worn with big bumpers is advisable.

Indicators: A strange addition to car manufacturing, purpose uncertain. Use sparingly if at all.

Inter-driver communication: Flash headlights to signal ‘get out of my way,’ apply hazard lights when parking in the middle of a busy street - in fact hazard lights are a ‘get out of jail free’ for all slightly tricky scenarios, the horn can be readily used to vent your anger at any annoyance such as parents dropping off children at school and taking more than one second to do so, or should you take an ad hoc dislike to another driver. Equally shouting obscenities or waving a clutched fist are useful.

If you have any personal ideas of what must be in the Spanish manual or there are any particularly hair raising driving incidents to divulge, do feel free to write to me at ulrica@euroweeklynews.com.

Until next time, drive safe!

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Mountains of taxpayer-funded waste!

Nora Johnson

Breaking Views A Costa del Sol resident for a number of years, Nora is the author of psychological suspense and crime thrillers.

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EMEMBER reading about all those EU butter mountains and milk lakes decades ago?

Seems as though not much has changed in the UK either, as far as waste’s concerned. According to a recent report, MPs have travelled all over the globe including to Los Angeles, Australia and Brazil, all at taxpayers’ expense - £1.7 million (€2.06 million) since 2010.

Six went on a £5,000 (€6,000) trip to Paris last year to investigate ‘cafés, gift shops and broadcasting rights in the French Parliament.’

Result? They’re considering increasing the range of children’s products in Westminster gift shops.

Nine MPs missed the last Budget because of a £50,000

PARIS: MPs on ‘fact finding’ trip. (€60,000) trip to the South American region of Patagonia to visit a Welsh-speaking colony. Yes, it’s got Welsh speakers.

They emigrated in the 1800s.

Fascinating of course, but there’s no earthly reason why British politicians need to travel there.

Why not communicate on Skype or visit a Welsh valley instead?

Great to see austerity hasn’t yet

reached the Houses of Parliament, then! Seems as if it hasn’t reached many other taxpayer-supported institutions either.

The programme-cutting BBC is again wasting licence fees on an EastEnders-themed makeover in its new £1 billion (€1.2 billion) London HQ - to make it more ‘inspiring.’

And a snapshot of waste by

local authorities is always illuminating.

Stoke-on-Trent’s spending £10,000 (€12,100) on texts to the obese reminding them to diet.

As for the Met, they’re spending £100 (€121) to change a light bulb - maybe not such a bright idea when budgets are being cut (police officer numbers are currently at their lowest in over a

decade) and up to 65 police stations across London face closure. And the NHS? £5 billion (€6.06 billion) annually is lost to fraud - another form of preventable waste - that could pay for nearly 250,000 new nurses.

Finally, to return to MPs, whilst they’ll continue travelling abroad and spending taxpayers’ money, you have to wonder, don’t you, how many foreign politicians visit Westminster and spend as much on hotels, transport, meals and entertainment, thus bolstering the UK economy?

After all, Westminster’s parliamentary traditions have served as a model for democracies all over the world.

Basically, we’ve no reason to mock African politicians’ corrupt practices. Most international visits are simply taxpayer-funded jollies for MPs. But don’t let’s ever forget that we’re all in this together.

What a waste!

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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.

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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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Strong and silent or chatty man?

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

more manly and appealing.

Our question to women out there: Are you more attracted to the

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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 usually bar, but deep down we all want don’t 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 ly true changed when I saying: “I’m very quiet. I Williams, on the Costa Blanca for the guy.” ltimate U : A more a met my husband was attracted to Mike winter, was always attracted to the silent in ANN nd 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 sil 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.

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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.

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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.

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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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Suarez was an excellent negotiator and communicator and his good looks, charismatic personality and charm appealed to the people.

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The man who brought democracy to Spain

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MILITARY ESCORT: The horse-drawn carriage carrying the coffin passes through Madrid.

Peter Fieldman London-born journalist and author, Peter spends his time between Paris and Madrid.

His novel ‘1066 The Conquest’ available on Amazon or www.1066TheConquest.com

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HE legacy of Adolfo Suarez who passed away last week in Madrid, is the Spanish Constitution, which brought to an end 40 years of dictatorship.

As the horse-drawn carriage carrying the coffin draped with the national flag, left the Congress building to pass slowly through the centre of the city with a military escort, the thousands of mourners, of all generations, who lined the streets, came not just to pay their last respects, but also to express their gratitude to the man who brought democracy to Spain.

Francisco Franco had groomed the young king, Juan Carlos, to take his place. But after Franco died in 1975, the king faced opposition from political and military leaders as well as a population demanding reforms. His first decision was to remove the prime minister appointed by Franco, Carlos Arias, and in July 1976 he chose 44-year-old Adolfo Suarez as the new prime minister.

It was a new era. Suarez was of a similar age to the king and had worked for many years for the Franco regime in the Falange movement and Opus Dei as well as a spell as director of Spanish Television. The media was important, youth was important and together,

Adolfo Suarez’s death on March 23 in a Madrid hospital, was peaceful, with his family by his side.

His coffin was taken to the Congress where it lay in state for 24 hours during which time more than 30,000 people filed past after spending up to four hours forming an endless, silent queue in the adjacent streets. After the funeral procession in Madrid, the cortege made its way to Avila, close to the village of his birth, where with much of the population braving the cold wind to pay their respects in the walled city, Adolfo Suarez was finally laid to rest next to his wife in a special tomb in Avila Cathedral.

The thousands who lined the streets came to give a last farewell to a man of integrity, a statesman devoted to his country, democracy and the well-being of the people. As a final gesture, the Government announced the renaming of Madrid’s airport as Adolfo Suarez Madrid Barajas.

Adolfo Suarez and the king began the transformation of Spain.

Suarez was an excellent negotiator and communicator and his good looks, charismatic personality and charm appealed to the people. He was Spain’s JFK. Within 12 months he had formed a new political party, the UCD (Union de Centro Democratico) to unite the rightwing parties. He called for a referendum to reform the nation’s political structure; all Spaniards over 21 would be granted the right to vote, there would be two houses - the congress and the senate whose representatives would be elected by the people, and political parties would be legalised.

The result of the referendum was a resounding success and on June 15, 1977, the first free elections since 1936 took place, preparing the way for Spain to become a Constitutional Monarchy.

The UCD obtained 34 per cent of the vote and the socialist party PSOE around 30 per cent. Suarez had become Spain’s first and youngest democratically elected prime minister. However, without an overall majority the Government was obliged to seek consensus with the opposition parties and the military to ensure that the ‘Transicion’ could proceed smoothly and peacefully. Suarez legalised the Communist Party in April 1977 and in October the same year opened discussions with the PSOE and Communist Party in order to guarantee stability and put into effect the necessary economic and social reforms. It became known as the Moncloa Pact.

By 1980 Suarez faced several setbacks including a censure motion orchestrated by the PSOE, which failed. Although he won a vote of confidence in the autumn, in January 1981 Suarez resigned as

Prime Minister, although he remained in Parliament. On February 23, a group of armed Guardia Civil officers led by Colonel Antonio Tejero burst into the chamber. Despite shots in the air and warnings to all those present to lie down, Suarez remained seated, staring unflinchingly at the soldiers facing him.

It was an example of his courage and strong personality. The attempted coup d’etat failed and in 1982 the PSOE party swept to victory and 38-year-old Felipe Gonzales became in turn the country’s youngest ever prime minister.

After the election defeat Adolfo Suarez left the UCD to form his own party the CDS (Centro Democratico y Social). But in 1991 after a series of poor results, he abandoned both the party and national politics. Although he received titles and honours he disappeared from public life.

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HEN professional footballer David Beckham purchased a £600,000 Damien Hirst ‘Daddy’s Girl’ daubing for his daughter there was a predictable response from the more level-headed public.

Beckham has ‘more money than sense’ was the top reader’s response. Hundreds of other correspondents agreed.

I imagine many of us will have read Hans Christian Andersen’s, The Emperor’s New Clothes. The amusing tale tells of how an emperor and his toadying subjects were taken for fools by a couple of smoothtalking conmen posing as tailors.

Having convinced the ruler that the clothes they made for him were so finely woven you could see through them, the conceited ruler, as naked as the day he bathed, appeared in front of the townspeople.

The subjects applauded their ruler’s ‘fine raiment’ whilst fully aware that the scammed emperor was in truth naked.

Many people today are as gullible and as foolishly influenced by fashion.

History is marked by periods such as the Georgian or Victorian age, the Classical or Romantic periods, the Age of Enlightenment and The Renaissance. In terms of culture could our epoch be

Mike Walsh Mike Walsh. Based in Mediterranean Spain, is an international journalist, author and professional writer.

described as the ‘You Can’t Fix Stupid Period?’

There are excellent artists today whose works are on a par with any found in art galleries.

Writers as compelling as Jack London, unknown composers whose minuets and etudes match those of John Field.

Unrecognised, they remain outcasts, pushed aside by frauds and the chattering class.

I recall a mixed bunch of town dignitaries standing in awe of a ‘monument.’ It appeared to be a slightly curved metal telegraph pole and was said to symbolise ‘reach and change.’ What it did symbolise was a four letter word that the editor of this family newspaper won’t allow me to use.

I would put money on it that every one of those town worthies, as soon as the press

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The ‘you can’t fix stupid’ age.... had disappeared, mouthed the forbidden word. Are they any different from the flatterers who applauded the emperor’s supposedly new robes?

If Beethoven or Brahms, James Conrad, Wilfred Owen or Oscar Wilde were to approach publishers today their living room walls would be papered with rejection slips.

Modern art and culture are fraudulent because their value is equally artificial. It is based on a make believe currency that would be devalued overnight if fools who shell out an emperor’s ransom for it saw it for the rubbish it is.

“The refined, the rich, the professional do-nothings desire only the peculiar, and sensational, the eccentric, the scandalous in today’s art. I have fed these fellows what they wanted and satisfied these critics with all the ridiculous ideas that have passed through my head.

“Today I am celebrated but when I am alone, I do not have the effrontery to consider myself an artist at all, not in the grand meaning of the word. ... I am only a public clown, a mountebank.” These are the words of Spain’s celebrated Pablo Picasso.

GIFT: David Beckham with daughter Harper.

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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.

Smoking cause of 20% of TB cases in Spain 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).

The society 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, who added “Disease control, especially in children and young adults, is a key to further improve these figures.”

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.

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in history 1896: The first modern Olympic Games are held in Athens, Greece with athletes from 13 nations and with a crowd of 60,000.

1904: With war in Europe a mere decade away Britain and France sign the ‘Entente Cordiale,’ effectively a declaration of friendship and diplomatic agreement between the two powers.

1940: Germany invades neutral Norway, who would eventually pose the most effective resistance in all of Nazi-occupied Europe.

1959: Seven men, all military test pilots, are introduced by NASA as America’s first astronauts.

1968: 2001: A Space Odyssey, Stanley Kubrick’s science-fiction classic, debuts in theatres.

1968: Martin Luther King, Jr is shot dead in Memphis, Tennessee.

1970: Legendary actor John Wayne wins his first and only Academy Award.

1973: Art master Pablo Picasso dies near Cannes on the French Riviera. A life-long communist, Picasso never returned to Spain after Franco’s victory in 1939.

1974: Eurovision winner ABBA is launched as the first and only Eurovision winner to be catapulted from previously-unknown status into international stardom.

1986: A bomb in a Berlin disco kills three and injures 140 for which a Libyan terrorist group is blamed, leading to a downward spiral of American attacks on Libya followed by the Libyan bombing of the Pan Am passenger flight over Lockerbie.

1994: The presidents of Rwanda and Burundi die in a plane crash that was supposedly brought down by rocket fire, further fueling the deadly ethnic conflict in Rwanda.

2005: Prince Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles marry, over 30 years after their romance began.

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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.

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. One step at a time avoids confusion.

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

REARED

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LAST WEEK’S SOLUTION 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

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.

Your Stars April 7: Russell Crowe, 49. Film actor.

Born in New Zealand, Crowe came to mega-fame with his role in ‘Gladiator.’

He made his first public appearance on Australian television.

April 3: Leona Lewis, 28. Singer.

British pop singer, first discovered by Simon Cowell on TV talent show “The X Factor.” Her single “Bleeding Love” reached number one in over 30 countries.

April 4: Robert Downey Jr, 48.

Actor.

Golden Globe winner in 2000 for his role in Ally McBeal, he is now best known for his roles in Sherlock Holmes and Iron Man. April 5: Pharrell Williams, 40. Rapper.

Rapper and music producer, he was once the lead singer of N.E.R.D. - a hip hop band. He is also a partner in The Neptunes.

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. You may not go to the woods this week, but you will receive an offer.

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. Show everyone what you are made of this week by getting it sorted..

VIRGO (August 24 - September 23) Are you hoping that a recent acquaintance will provide the 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. A few pennies will be well spent and save you lots of tension later.

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

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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.

RATTLE

AWARDS

QUOTED

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

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.

AGREES

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 the world of theatre and he got hooked. As well as TV he also made a film with director Pedro Almodovar.

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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. We can all end up in the wrong place, so do what is necessary to get back to where you want to be.

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. A friend may help, but you will manage this.

April 8: Julian Lennon, 50. Singer.

Son of the Beatle’s John Lennon, Julian is also a photographer and a philanthropist.

April 9: Kristen Stewart, 23. Actress.

Best known for playing Bella Swan in the Twilight Saga she has won many Teen Choice awards and People’s Choice awards.

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. Let others know that the lights are about to be switched on.

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. I do not want to appear dramatic, merely practical.

10-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?

7. Which confectionery company was the first sponsor of Coronation Street, beginning in July 1996?

8. Which future James Bond appeared in Big Fry chocolate bar commercials as the Big Fry Guy from 1967 to1969?

9. Which Liverpool-born comedian advertised Roses chocolates on television in the 1960s?

10. Which two chocolate ‘treats’ were advertised using the slogans (a) how do you eat yours? and (b) a taste of paradise?

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 Good: 24 Very good: 34 Excellent: 42

LAST WEEK’S SOLUTION 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

ITEM

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.

NEWS SEWS SEES SEEM STEM ITEM

The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug.

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.

1. WILLY WONKA, 2. MARATHON, 3. FORREST GUMP, 4.

GEORGE BERNARD SHAW, 5. BOURNVILLE, 6. JOANNE HARRIS, 7. CADBURY, 8. GEORGE LAZENBY, 9. NORMAN VAUGHAN, 10. (A) CADBURYS CREME EGG and (B) BOUNTY

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Quick

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

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)

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

Play on Words T E TEASE S E 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

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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.

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)

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)

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

JAM JAM BREAD JAM JAM Answers: Dot the I’s and cross the T’s, Money for jam

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

Funagram

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.

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)

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.

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

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TOP 10 DEADLIEST ANIMALS OUR planet is full of animals that can kill us, either intentionally or in self defence; here are the top 10 killers to avoid based on their level of danger to humans: 1. Mosquito Generally harmless but some of them can transmit extremely dangerous diseases like malaria, yellow fever and philariasis. Only the females suck blood. There are over 3,500 species of mosquito and new species are being discovered every day.

2. Asian Cobra Responsible for almost all1of the 50,000 deaths by snakebite every year. This snake is revered in the mythology of many native cultures and is often seen with snake charmers in India. They can be found on the Indian subcontinent as well as all over Southeast Asia and normally feed on rodents, toads, frogs, birds and other snakes.

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“The Fault in Our Stars” is John Green’s fourth novel and tells the story, in first person, of a 16-yearold cancer patient called Hazel.

In Indianapolis, Indiana, 16year-old Hazel Lancaster is forced by her parents to go to a support group for cancer patients where she meets, and subsequently falls in love with, fellow attendee Augustus Waters.

They share a common love of books which leads them into a strong, but ill-fated, friendship,

blighted by their illnesses.

Green’s inspiration for the book came when he was working as a student chaplain at a children’s hospital. He wanted to express the humanity of sick and dying children and that a short life could also be a full one.

The title was inspired by a line in Shakespeare’s play Julius Caesar.

The book was first published in January of 2012 and is presently number one on the New York

3. Australian box jellyfish The most toxic sea dwelling creature known to mankind. Each tentacle has enough poison to kill over 60 humans. They are distinguished from other jellyfish by their box like medusae. This creature actually hunts its prey rather than just drifting, as the majority of jellyfish do. Stings from these creatures are not only fatal but also extremely painful.

bestseller list.

Time Magazine called the book “damn near genius.”

4. Great white shark Probably the most feared animal in the world and the subject of many horror films.

This sea dwelling creature has registered 65 deaths worldwide since 1876 and is one of the ocean’s most deadly predators. Found in all major oceans this creature can grow to 6.4 metres and weigh over 3,324 kilos.

App of the Week OVER 1500: OVER Over is a simple photo app that allows you to add attractive typeface to your camera photos. Text options are a bit more stylish than with Camera+. Available for iOS devices.

Just Joking What’s the difference between a 16” pizza and a musician? A 16” pizza can feed a family of four.

Doctor: You’re overweight.

Patient: I think I want a second opinion.

Doctor: You’re also ugly.

I used to like my neighbours, until they put a password on their Wi-Fi.

ELEPHANT: A vegetarian killer.

Sudoku Fill the grid so that every row, every column and every 3X3 box contains the digits 1-9. There’s no maths involved. You solve the puzzle with reasoning and logic.

6. Australian saltwater crocodile The biggest living reptile on earth as well as the biggest terrestrial and riparian predator; mature males can reach up to 5.2 metres in length although the females are much smaller, generally around three metres when mature.

They are best known for their ‘death roll.’

7. The elephant Despite being vegetarian these animals are responsible for around 600 deaths every year through trampling and goring with their tusks.

This animal is scattered throughout subSaharan Africa, South Asia and Southeast Asia.

the tiger, with some males exceeding 250 kilos. A pride of lions usually consists of related females and their offspring with a small number of adult males.

Generally the females hunt as they are more agile than the males whose principal role is the protection of the pride.

5. African lion These big cats hunt in packs in sub-Saharan Africa, they are the second largest cat, after

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POLAR BEAR: A vicious attacker.

8. Polar bear The largest of the land dwelling meateaters, these bears are extremely protective of their young and will viciously attack any perceived threat. A full grown polar bear can cut off a human head with the swipe of its paw. Males can grow to around 700 kilos and females around 350 kilos. Although most polar bears are born on land they spend most of their time at sea, their preferred food being the arctic seal.

9. Cape buffalo Another vegetarian killer. This African buffalo has been known to stalk and attack the hunter who wounded it. Each year it is responsible for more human deaths in Africa than any other predator, possibly due to its unpredictable nature. Males can reach a height of 1.7 metres and weigh up to 900 kilos.

10. Poison dart frog Also known as the poison arrow frog; this small but deadly creature exudes enough venom through its skin to kill 10 fully grown men. Natives in the rainforests of South America run darts over the skin of these frogs to use in hunting other animals. These brightly coloured amphibians are not predators - rather their skin is a self-defence mechanism.

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

The letters must be adjoining in a ‘chain’. They can be adjacent horizontally, vertically or diagonally.

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

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

No vulgarities or proper nouns are permitted.

TARGET:

LAST WEEK’S SOLUTION

Average: 24 Good: 31 Very good: 45 Excellent: 55

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

LAST WEEK’S SOLUTION shin, ship, ships, shop, shops, shod, sips, nibs, bishop, bishops, hint, hips, hops, hods, tamp, tamps, puds, phis, pods, puma, amps, umps, dumb, dump, dumps, sphinx, spud

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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 more quality and variety. Evidence of this is the soaring sales of

BENEFICIAL HOBBY: Home-made bread has become more popular. 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 for gourmets 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 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.

He attributes his success to being one of the very few companies that offers this high-end product.

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PAELLA: Don’t forget the saffron.

Valencia is home of all rice dishes

VALENCIA isn’t only famous for burning effigies - it is also the place of origin of Spain’s most emblematic and international dish: the paella.

Some rice dish connoisseurs believe that the best local dish is not paella but rather ‘Alubias y Nabos,’ a rice dish made with beans and parsnips in which the meat

component can be either a lamb chop or bacon.

Another local Valencian delicacy is the ‘Fideua,’ this is very similar to the paella as far as colouring and taste, but it is made with very fine noodles instead of rice. As in a paella - the cook decides what to put in - there are no rules, just so long as you remember the saffron.

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EL PUERTO is hip, happening, and the place to be this summer if their launch party last Saturday was anything to go by.

Now under new management, Salva Celdrran, who has run numerous beach bars along the coast, marked the start of the summer season and his winning of the chiringuitos contract at Campoamor marina, with a party for regulars and new customers alike.

The food was flowing and music pumping as there was live entertainment with a guest set by a DJ who frequents clubs and bars in Ibiza.

The feel of Del Puerto may be a bit more chilled and calm on a daily basis when they are not hosting parties and it offers the perfect seclusion for a quiet drink and tapas allowing customers to sit and relax and take in the views over the beach and marina at Campoamor.

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The best of the beach bars DEL PUERTO: Guests enjoyed drink, food and entertainment.

PARTY ATMOSPHERE: Del Puerto put on a show to mark the start of the season.

It is raised up from the beach meaning you can enjoy its position but without sand in your toes as there is access from the road or via the marina, but there is also direct beach access, giving you the best of both worlds.

Food is freshly cooked on site and the menu boasts an impressive range including lighter

sand-wiches, bocadillos and salads. Breakfast is also served as Del Puerto opens daily from 9am with prices starting from just €1.25 and an English breakfast is €6.

An extensive tapas menu is available with everything from Russian salad and patatas brava to sardines, steamed mussels and battered prawns with dishes from

€0.75. Full meals are also available including paella, steaks, roast chicken and pork loin.

The launch party was such a success and in much demand, that Salva is already planning another party for April, with the exact date to be announced very shortly.

But in the meantime, try something different, make the most of living in

Spain and enjoy the hospitality and privileged location of Del Puerto.

Open daily from 9am-7/8pm and later in the summer.

Del Puerto • Calle Calderon dela Barca 2, Puerto de Campoamor • 965 077 738

RECESSION: Has hit sales after seven years.

Cava sales down THE president of the Cava Regulatory Council, Pedro Bonet, has confirmed that last year Cava sales went down by 0.77 per cent.

He attributes this descent to the seven years of recession during which Cava sales had not suffered very much but admits that now, finally, the industry is feeling the pinch.

He goes on to comment that the boycotting of Catalan products has not helped the industry.

The most hard hit foreign market was the UK, second largest outside Spain, with a drop of 16.7 per cent.

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Printing your own pizza to take away PIZZAS, sweets and ravioli, among other foods, could be printed on 3D printers.

Printing food sounds like Science Fiction but for Kyle Von Hasseln it’s a reality. At the South by Southwest Fair (SXSW), in Austin, USA, Hasseln presented a 3D printer capable of reproducing food.

The Chef Jet and the Chef Jet Pro will cost between $4,000 (€2,900) and $10,000, (€7270) respectively and will be available for purchase at the end of this year.

At the moment the product is going through a road test in a bakery in Los Angeles, Von Hasseln explains, where they are making all sorts of preserves, sweets and

TASTY: Print your own pizza. even chocolates.

The process of printing food begins with a computer programme which divides the food into layers to be printed on top of each other.

Inventions of this type thrill but they also invite suspicion as this sort of machine distances us from the origin of our food rather than getting nearer to it.

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Fox produces ‘Cocina2’ in Spain SPANISH chefs, Sergio and Javier Torres, are the hosts of a new Fox programme which will go around Spain discovering the best local produce on offer.

The 15 episode programme is a gastronomic tour of the country in

which the two Michelin-starred chefs will go to a different region each week and explain what the ‘must have’ products are and what to do with them.

They will have the help of a local chef to guide them each week.

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ALTHOUGH some towns have had displays of annuals for some weeks and garden centres have been stocking up for a month, safe plantings really start in April.

However with Easter being late this year splendid displays can be developed by then if you are still into

the English garden idea that annuals and especially any new colour is a must.

A bed of antirrhinums in front of flowering bougainvillea can be an eye catcher

as can petunias cascading from a first floor balcony.

But recognise that such displays require good soils, regular feeding and daily watering.

If you are not acquainted with the range of annuals available in Spain we included descriptions and photographs of 25 in the book ‘Your garden in Spain - From planning to planting and maintenance’.

They range from marigolds to candytuft, sweet peas to tobacco plants and low growing nasturtiums to three metre high sunflowers.

Annuals can be found for window boxes, large pots, hanging baskets, and flowerbeds.

The greatest problems with annuals are as follows.

1. Having shallow roots they are thirsty.

2. Regular dead heading is required to stimulate flowering.

3. Shade is required during the hottest months.

4. Many can be flattened by heavy rains and winds.

5. Most are not frost hardy.

6. Maintaining constant temperature conditions when growing from seeds.

7. The difficulty of good seed composts in Spain.

8. Soils and composts need to be very fertile, rich in humus, water retaining but well-draining.

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You are what you eat WHEN it comes to diet for dogs, as a behaviourist I try to give out an opinion that is logical and makes sense.

We are what we eat. Food call: affects behaviour; for eats please r all dog tr o F 813 example, many children who / 634 152 1 887 007 7 9 are hyperactive change their diet and, hey ho, they are different.

Many studies have been Dogman carried out to verify that a David THE 11am turday 10am to balanced diet like dried food is on TRE every Sa Listen to David braltar/Sotogrande) 98.7fm far healthier for dogs than raw Costa del Sol (GiCalahonda) 91.9fm m (San Roque to Motril) 88.9, Costa Calida 92.7f food. If anyone adds anything (Calahonda to rrevieja to Elche) 105.1fm Ibiza) 104.6fm, (To & ia nca nd Bla Ga to Costa ) 88.2fm, (Calpe to the dried diet then the (Elche to Calpe cia) 95.3fm (Denia to Valenfm balance of the food intake is Mallorca 103.9 totally different and can affect not only behaviour, but also A good example is a trigger allergies. To be direct; a dog with a skin problem. Food dog on dried food will show a allergy is a very common healthy coat and does not break component of itchy skin in dogs. wind.

Chicken, beef, lamb, corn, soy, Usually foods with ‘tasty bits’ of wheat, egg and dairy products are food, that is meat, satisfy the common ingredients which induce human’s emotional needs more these allergies, but, whether they than the dog’s nutritional needs are raw or cooked, the immune and are often the cause of obesity system looks at them the same. (a common killer of dogs).

With the wealth of foods that are The idea of this approach is that available to help many different raw food is closer to what a dog conditions, the lack of evidence would eat in the wild. that raw food provides any

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WINNER: John Van Beek accepts the cup from Ron Ordell, captain of Los Alcazares team.

Taking revenge MAZARRON BAY BRIDGE CLUB took revenge over Los Alcazares Duplicate Bridge Club in a Team Event at the Rincon de Elias Restaurante in Bolnuevo.

Forty boards (rounds) were played in teams of four, which involved the movement of players, cards and tables that would have confused Pythagoras but was carefully orchestrated by Hans Vos and Ron Ordell.

The team from Mazarron were Anita and Henk Landwehr Johann, Cilla Brooks and Evelyn Bleasdale, Hans Vos and

Gerhard, John van Beek and Mike Patrick, Ian Christie and Leen Oudenaarden, Jean Boone and Jon Thompson, Joe Hayes and Trevor Worthy, Lawrie Hunt and Phil Carter.

A special thanks goes to Jon Thompson for organising the venue and lunch, Hans Vos for organising the match and the scoring and John van Beek for captaining the winning team and to all those who took part.

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Latest from Rascals LATEST show from Rascals is ‘The Best of Times is Now.’ The show starts off with a colourful scene of four numbers from Bugsy Malone. This lively show is a true variety with different genres of song and dance interspersed by comedy items to put a smile on your face.

Snippets from other popular musicals, Oliver, Chicago and the Blues Bros are included in this production.

The spectacular finale starts with Music Was My First Love sung firstly by six of Rascals’ lady soloists with a very modern dance by four of the dancers finishing off with the full cast coming on stage. The second song in this section will have you singing along to Sing, sing a song

followed by the title song The Best of Times is Now. Book tickets via Sue on 966 784 874 or look for ticket outlets.

First performances at the School of Music and Culture in Montesinos on Wednesday and Thursday May 7 and 8, followed by further performances on Thursday, May 29 at the Casa del Cultura, Guardamar and Sunday, June 15 at the Virgen del Carmen, Torrevieja.

All performances start at 7.30pm and tickets are €6. To find out more about Rascals look on www.therascals.org.

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DRY DIET: For now the best option for dogs. advantages, and the potential risks of raw food, I can’t recommend that it is a good choice at this time.

As research is done, we may one day find that there are advantages, but, for now, high-quality commercial food is the better choice.

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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,” notes 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

ALPINE’S ROOTS: Steeped in motorsport and adventure. 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

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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,” adds Signatech-Alpine’s Team Principal, Philippe Sinault. “The human adventure which started at the beginning of 2013, the

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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, SignatechAlpine was an allFrench 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 underlines. “I like the spirit you find in endurance racing and I am also drawn by the idea of team racing.

Driving for SignatechAlpine is the ideal way for me to cut my teeth in the discipline.

The Alpine A450 was due to make its first public appearance of the year this week at the European Le Mans Series’ official preseason test at Le Castellet, France.

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SEAT will have a compact SUV (Sport Utility Vehicle) in its product line-up after working on its design and development for almost two years.

Marketing will begin in 2016.

“This is an excellent piece of news, as it takes SEAT into a new territory, in one of the largest, fastest growing segments in the world,” declared SEAT Chairman Jürgen Stackmann.

He added “the SUV is an important pillar in the future corporate strategy

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SEAT enter the compact SUV market and is a major step forward on the road to reaching sustainable profitability for the company.”

The SUV decision is a clear sign of the Volkswagen Group’s commitment to the Spanish brand. The new model means achieving a foothold in a growing segment that represents close to one million cars per year in

Europe alone, one that has increased more than 40 per cent over the past five years, and will continue to grow in the future.

Moreover, its future marketing implies the further broadening of SEAT’s product range, enabling the brand to maintain its current growth momentum, following the successful

launch of the Leon family, which is receiving numerous accolades and awards across Europe.

The new SUV will be developed by the SEAT Technical Centre at Martorell, called by the company “a unique hub of excellence in southern Europe with more than 900 engineers dedicated to innovation.”

Porsche to replace engines of current 911 GT3 models S

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

911 GT3: Porsche are replacing all the engines.

relevant Porsche Centres are in direct communication with customers worldwide to discuss the further course of action.

Porsche points out that no other 911 models or other model series are affected by this action.

Peugeot 308 establishes a new fuel consumption PEUGEOT have called up a new fuel consumption record with its recently declared European Car of the Year, the 308.

The manufacturer has

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added to its range new 130 hp PureTech turbo petrol engine.

A standard production hatchback has established a new fuel consumption record: 2.85 litres of fuel per 100 km (99.1 mpg) and 1,810 kilometres (1,124 miles) on a tank of fuel.

A Peugeot 308 hatchback, strictly standard, fitted with new PureTech three-cylinder turbo petrol engine and a six-speed manual gearbox ran more than 32 hours, consuming 51.4 litres of fuel.

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Casal in exciting boxing return TORREVIEJA will host native son and Spanish National Champion Emiliano Casal in a night of boxing on April 4 in the Pabellon Cecilio Gallego (blue pavilion in the sports centre) which will include eight amateur international bouts with boxers from the UK, Spain and Norway.

These will include a heavyweight bout, including the main bout of the evening with Casal whose professional record includes 18 victories and two defeats.

This is an exciting and unique experience for Torrevieja as Emiliano, the current Spanish National Champion, has not boxed in his home town since 2007. Since that time, Emiliano has won the Transcontinental title at Super Lightweight in 2009 with a victory over Sento Martinez.

On Friday, April 4, he hopes to continue rewriting history when he takes on Juan Carlos Lopez, known as ‘King Daluz.’

Tickets for the evening are on sale at the Sporting gymnasium and from Pizzeria El Gato in La Zenia for €10 euro in advance or €15 at the door. Ringside tickets are on sale at €25.

Additional info by phone on 663 170 781 or casalemiliano@hotmail.com

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LA SERENA: The members after their Texas Scramble.

Good turnout for Quesada QUESADA Golf Society had a good turnout for their Texas Scramble at La Serena.

The winning team was Brian Smith, Paul Flanagan and Eddie Scott with a very creditable gross score of two over par.

In second place was the team of Victor Dew, Ted Hooker and Dave

Windy day for TMGS TMGS had extremely windy conditions for its match at Font Del Llop for their final round of the Captain’s Stableford.

A big ‘thank you’ goes to the Font Del Llop Golf course for their generous offer of a free game before August for those that attended.

In the Gold Division Gerd Cromm’s notable 32 points gave him the top spot, followed by Steve Higgins in second (25 points) followed by Alan Rixson who needed only 19 points to take third.

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In third place was the team of John King, Les Lindores, Keith Armstrong and Sheila McSweeney.

The winners of the Nearest the Pins were David McSweeney, Paul Flanagan and Sheila McSweeney.

The next game is an individual stableford at a new course on their

doorstep, La Marquesa.

Anyone in the Quesada area looking to join a very friendly golf society and play golf once a fortnight at a wide variety of courses at very reasonable cost, please contact the membership secretary Les Pancott on 966 716 723.

Better Eurogolf ball SIXTY-EIGHT players took part in Eurogolf’s Team Game which was a Two Ball Better Ball (basic Stableford with best score counting on each hole) at their La Marquesa home course.

Keith Wright and Margaret Richings placed first with 46 points, followed by Terry Sayers and Brian Heard in second, also with 46 points.

Dave Nicholls and Mike Gillett were third with 45 points, and Tony Hitt and Alec Relph were fourth also with 45 points.

Nearest the pins went to Tom Corbett (5th), Dave Nicholls (11th), Cindi Green (15th), and Tony Stanley (17th).

Football winners were Chris Stanley, Bob Buckeridge, Sue Gillett and Morag Turner.

Alan Marshall was the TOFF’s overall winner from the March 25 match.

In the Gold Division, it was Malcolm Foskett in first with 37 points followed by Bill Martin, also with 37 points.

Alan Marshall won the Silver Division (38 points), followed by Gordon

Great start but a poor result RACING entertained Algorfa at home with a 9:15am start time.

Racing got off to a great start with Dani Zarkov heading in a great goal from a super corner delivery from Sam Broadway, making it 1-0 for the home side.

Racing continued to dominate for large periods but couldn’t finish the chances that came their way.

At 39 minutes Algorfa gained possession in the Racing area and took full advantage in striking the back off the Racing net for a 1-1 half

time score.

Racing started brightly in the second half but once again failed to hold the ball up front, lead to Algorfa’s second goal at the 51-minute mark.

Finally on 58 minutes the stand-in strike force of Rubio and Gudmundsson linked up well and Gudmundsson brought the score level, 2-2.

A terrible Racing mistake down the right side once again allowed Algorfa midfielder to gain an easy ball and go on to slot the ball in.

Sam Broadway nearly singlehandedly brought the tie level with several great efforts but to no avail, resulting in a final score of 2-3.

For info on Club Racing Playas de Orihuela, contact CDM on 965 503 915.

All training and home games are played at CDM sports centre Playa Flamenca. The Club represents the Orihuela Costa area with teams for three-year-old players through to adult level and play in the Valencian Ferderacion and Elche ligas.

Bourne in second, also with 38 points.

In the Bronze, it was Gill Gordon in first with 37 points, Peter Sanderson in second with 34 points.

Nearest the Pins went to John Barraclough (5th), Gill Gordon (11th), Pino Perito (15th) and Gina Ashworth (17th).

Best front nine went to Alex Relph and best back nine went to Pino Perito.

THE blue side of the town were determined to keep the reds of CD Montesinos at bay, and their plan worked as CD was unable to penetrate a stubborn Montesinos Todo Deportes in the first half.

Missed chances in the 1st half went to Paredes whose shot was saved by TD keeper then Orourker and Dario went close.

With leading CD scorer Vaz rested, Edu was on his own and he went close on 40 minutes Juanpe sent on Rodrigo for Dario but CD couldn’t break down the resilient TD defence, leading to a halftime score of 0-0. The second half was yet again all CD. Angel headed over Edu went close his shot saved, then the game came to life.

TD no. 2 fouled Diego in the box and his second yellow saw him sent off.

Marcos, who just came on for Dani, coolly converted the spot kick, 10. CD got their second penalty when Orourker was tripped in area.

The reds saw the game out after a Manu tackle saved embarrassment.

Final score CD Montesinos 1, TD Montesinos 0.

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MAN OF THE MATCH: Juan Andreo.

Mazarron take the points MAZARRON won a somewhat hectic and at times frantic game against CD Alberca by two goals to one to make it two wins from three games for new coach Javi.

In the first half hour very little of note happened except for a narrowly wide shot from Tico

following good work by Jose Ruben.

A penalty kick by Beltran gave the visitors the lead at half time.

Mazarron’s Tolo and Ruben were called offside in the opening stages of the second half but a goal in the 60th minute made

the score 1-1.

Mazarron took a deserved lead in the 70th minute when Alcaraz fed Tolo on the right and his cross was put away by an unmarked Jose Ruben.

Juan Andreo was named Man of the Match.