Euro Weekly News - Mallorca 8 - 14 May 2014 Issue 1505

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8 - 14 MAY 2014

ISSUE NO. 1505

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Riu group refurbishment THE hotel group Riu has announced that it will refurbish one of its hotels each year until all five of them on the island are completely renewed.

New hotel THE archaeological excavations on the corner of Plaza Cort have finished giving the green light for a hotel to be built on the newly available space in the centre.

Cala facelift THE Cala Sant Vicenc is to get a facelift to the tune of €600,000. This rundown neighbourhood has been in need of attention for some time.

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World trip to Palma CUNARD LINE’S Queen Elizabeth II arrived for a visit in the port of Palma this week.

The famous cruise liner was built in 2010 and this is the third time it has come to Palma.

The ship’s arrival is being seen as a good sign that Palma is firmly on the map with the cruise companies, bringing their high-spending customers to the city.

It is a welcome boost to the economy of the whole island. So far this year there have already been 108 stop-overs by cruise liners, up more than 10 per cent on the previous year.

In March alone 29,730 cruise passengers visited Palma, 10,000 more than in March 2013.

The QE II started its journey in Hamburg on January 8 and will finish it in the same place on May 11. In these four months the Queen

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Queen Sofia was Guest of Honour at the Palma Boat Show. EWN’s Stephenie Domfe took this photo - See Page 60

QUEEN ELIZABETH II: Aound the world in 123 days.

Elizabeth has crossed the Atlantic, visited the Caribbean, passed through the Panama Canal, crossed the Pacific, stopped in Australia and New

Zealand, Japan, China, the Persian Gulf, passed through the Suez Canal and entered the Mediterranean to reach Palma. From here it will proceed to Lisbon, which is the penultimate stop before finishing its voyage.

The ship was officially named by Queen Elizabeth II in 2010 at a ceremony in Southampton.

It is 294 metres long and 32 wide and weighs 90,901 tonnes when empty of passengers; it can reach speeds of 23 knots and carry 2,068 passengers attended by 900 crew members.

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Letters WATER SLIDES: Similar to those to be installed on the beaches.

Floating water parks for Calvia

THE beaches of Calvia are to have floating water parks to entertain the tourists this summer.

The parks will have slides and platforms as well as water skiing facilities and boats to take people on tours of the area; these installations are new to the island and are expected to be very popular with residents and tourists alike.

The parks will be privately run and the council of Palma will tender them out to individual companies as soon as all the by-

laws have been agreed. According to Daniel Perpiña, councillor for Beaches, there has been a lot of interest in acquiring the licences for these installations.

Perpiña underscored the fact that the new parks will not be similar to the council’s installations of a rigid slide but would include floating trampolines and climbing walls as well as other novelties.

Admission to the parks is expected to cost around €10 for one hour.

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NEWS German dies A GERMAN cyclist, 65, died from a heart attack on the road from Santa Margalida to Llubi. He had got off his bike and was pushing it.

Happy video THE Mallorca version of the ‘Happy’ video, recorded in March with the participation of hundreds of people is now available to see online.

Hiker rescued A GERMAN woman, 57, was rescued by firemen and Guardia Civil after falling and breaking her leg while hiking near Valldemossa.

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Summit on cyclist deaths TERESA PALMER, delegate from the Balearic Government, announced that she would get together with several relevant institutions on the island of Mallorca to discuss the increase of accidents in which cyclists are involved, with the aim of reducing the number of deaths.

Palmer explained that “social alarm” has been generated by the recent spate of these deaths. She went on to point out that “almost half of the deaths were due to the poor physical condition of the cyclists.”

The meeting will include representatives from the

Guardia Civil, the Consell de Mallorca and the Balearic Federation of Cyclists and matters up for discussion are the methods to adopt to reduce the problem, cycling lanes and awareness campaigns.

The Conselleria de Turismo (tourist board) will also attend as they are worried about the cycling routes offered by the tourist office.

Palmer underscored the fact that the traffic authorities on the island are continuously promoting campaigns for the safety of the cyclists.

€1/2m debt THE Balearic Health System reportedly owes around €500,000 to doctors and nurses working for the 061 emergency services.

Plane drill A DRILL was held at Son Sant Joan Airport in Palma, simulating a plane hijacking, in which firemen, police, army, airport authorities took part.

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School lunches for needy

THE Balearic Education Department has budgeted €800,000 to pay for school lunches for children whose families can’t afford them.

MALLORCA Railway Services (SFM) has improved the crossing on the Petra-Sineu road over the tracks leading to Manacor with an investment of €609,000.

Bus accident

Car sales A MAN has been sentenced to a year in prison and six months of daily fines for committing fraud in the sale of two second-hand cars in Palma.

Dangerous cycling A SWEDISH cyclist, 40, was injured when he lost control of his bike while overtaking a car on a downhill stretch of road in the Serra de Tramuntana.

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Woman injured A WOMAN, 38, was injured after her motorbike left the Soller road near Bunyola for reasons unknown and she fell off.

Unemployed homes THERE are 51,000 households in the Balearic Islands in which all members are unemployed, according to the National Institute of Statistics.

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FOUR women were slightly injured when a bus in Palma had to brake suddenly when a taxi crossed its path. The taxi driver reportedly fled the scene.

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EMBLEMATIC: Tio Pepe stands proud once again above Puerta del Sol in Madrid.

Return of an icon THE new neon Tio Pepe sign in the Puerta del Sol in Madrid is due to be lit in an official inauguration today (May 8).

The Tio Pepe advertisement watched over the central square from the late 1950s until 2011 when it was removed.

The Sherry bottle, topped with a Cordoba hat, wearing a short torero jacket and brandishing a guitar, was originally fixed to the top floor of the Hotel Paris.

But the building, belonging to a Mexican property group, was leased to Apple Retail Store and the sign was removed during renovation work.

Tio Pepe owners Gonzalez Byass always assumed it would return, but when they found it was absent from plans for the revamped building they challenged them, suggesting that restoration “should be obliged to include the historic Tio Pepe sign.”

It emerged that the building’s owners did not want to renew the Tio Pepe contract but other sites offered a new home to the emblematic advertisement.

Now, it is back with a new, improved, slim-line

Quote of the Week I haven’t been paid with money in an envelope in my f***ing life,” Vice-President of the Government, Soraya Saenz de Santamaria, following accusations in parliament that she had been paid almost €600,000 illegally by the conservative Partido Popular in the past years.

figure. Up to 20 people worked on the final touches to put the advertisement in place on the top of Number 11, Puerta del Sol, with the help of a crane, causing much expectation amongst the press, local residents and tourists alike.

The original Tio Pepe figure was created in 1935, coinciding with the 100-year anniversary of Gonzalez Byass, and the following year, it was used for the first time in an advertisement. The brand Tio Pepe was registered back in 1888. Luis Perez Solero designed the image, which has changed its appearance 12 times since its creation.

In 2009, the sign was declared part of Madrid’s historical heritage.

Tio Pepe is made in Jerez de la Frontera, Cadiz, and is a dry Sherry made from the Palomino grape.

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went to Catholic charity 77,072 people Caritas in 2013 to ask for help

finding work. For the first time, there were more Spaniards (53 per cent) than there were foreigners.

Just over 12,000 found a job thanks to the Caritas Employment and Social Economy Programme.

THE headmaster of the Sa Colonia de Sant Jordi Primary School has resigned after disciplinary proceedings were opened against him for allegedly entering illegal agreements.

Eco-demands ENVIRONMENTALIST group Oceana has demanded to know what civil liability policies have been taken out

by Cairn Energy for possible environmental damages that may arise from oil drilling near Ibiza.

And finally...

AN overweight man, 46, suffered a heart attack after being caught shoplifting in a Lidl supermarket in Madrid. He was hiding packets of ham worth €12 under his clothes and attacked staff who caught him.

He died in hospital shortly afterwards.

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Riu reforms THE hotel group Riu has announced that it will refurbish one of its hotels each year until all five of its hotels on the island are completely renewed.

New hotel THE archaeological excavations on the corner of Plaza Cort have finished giving the green light for a hotel to be built on the newly available space in the centre.

Run down THE Cala Sant Vicenc is to get a facelift to the tune of €600,000.

The rundown neighbourhood has been in need of attention for some time.

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Two jailed for death of Matthew Blue TWO men have been jailed for killing British father-of-two Matthew Blue, 32, following a fight in Port d’Alcudia in April 2009.

The two men, one British and the other German, stood trial at Palma Provincial Court for

involuntary manslaughter.

The events took place when three friends, including the victim, who had another child on the way when he died, went out for a drink and met another group at around 1am.

One of the victim’s friends

reportedly commented on the appearance of someone in the other group and a fight ensued.

Blue was punched in the head, and pushed to the floor, where he hit his head and was also kicked in the face.

He passed out but minutes

Beer Festival in Palma opens today and lasts until Sunday THE Palma Beer fair will be held in the city’s Parc de la Mar until Sunday (May 11).

The second edition of the fair will have 119 different beers with bottles priced at between €2 and €4. They will include local Mallorca beer made by four companies, as well as 32 different labels from all over the Balearic Islands.

The major national and international distributors will also be represented.

The fair will open from 11am to 10pm today (Thursday) and from 11am to 11pm tomorrow, Saturday and Sunday.

Entrance is free and there will also be food priced at between €1 and €3 served by eight restaurants.

Last year’s festival attracted more than 80,000 people, both locals and tourists, and it is hoped there will be more people this year.

later he got up, apparently fine.

An hour later he began feeling dizzy. His friends thought he was drunk and put him to bed.

At around 5am, one of his friends heard a noise and found him on the floor, unconscious. Paramedics were unable to revive him and he died in Son Dureta Hospital.

The Briton, who has been sentenced to 15 months in prison, admitted in court that he had kicked the victim when he was on the ground and that it was possible he had kicked him in the head, but said he had been drunk and couldn’t remember. He has already paid compensation to the victim’s family.

The German denied having been involved in the attack, but the British man said the German fought the victim, punching him in the head before he fled the scene. He has been sentenced to three years in prison.

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Four years in prison for hit and run drunk driver COURTS in Palma have sentenced a Spanish driver to four years in prison for a hit and run incident in which he killed a cyclist in Arta.

He not only fled the scene without helping the victim but also took off his licence plates to try and confuse the police and make finding him more difficult.

The driver, 32, was driving recklessly and over the speed limit in 2012 while he was coming back from drinking and partying all night and had not slept in over 22 hours when he ran over Joan Roig, 54, a resident of Sant Joan.

The perpetrator of the hit and run was driving a car that had no insurance

and was in terrible condition with tyres so worn out they could barely grip the road. After the accident instead of helping the victim, he went to his father’s farm and swapped his licence plates with those of another, similar car in order to confuse the police who were looking for the car.

He then drove the ‘swapped out’ car to the centre of Arta and parked it with a mattress over the bonnet so the holes in the windscreen were hidden.

The judges consider the accused guilty of aggravated manslaughter, not helping a victim and falsifying public documents. As well as the fouryear-sentence he is also

NEWS EXTRA Mystery death A SWEDISH tourist has been found dead in his hotel room. He appears to have died from a heavy blow to the head. Police are not yet sure if it was from natural causes or murder.

Traffic halted THE Guardia Civil traffic headquarters building is still not completed after more than two and a half years; the constructor went bankrupt before finishing it.

Sheet escape A BRITISH tourist is in hospital after falling from a third floor. The man, who was reportedly drunk, had tied together some sheets and was, apparently, trying to escape from the hotel.

MAN HOLE: Covers are disappearing.

38 man hole covers stolen

THIRTY EIGHT man hole covers have been stolen from the commercial estate between Son Banya and Mercapalma in the last few days.

Local Police in Palma are investigating the recent spate of thefts of the cast iron covers which was discovered when a car had an accident due to its wheel getting stuck in a coverless hole. The driver was unhurt.

Police suspect that the covers are being sold for their scrap value and are looking into local scrap merchants trying to locate the 32 large covers and six small ones.

To avoid future accidents the police are indicating the holes with

tape until they can be replaced.

banned from driving for three years and will lose his licence.

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€5m raised THE Govern Balear regional government has raised €5 million in the first year of the individual health card system. These cards cost €10.45 and identify the bearer to the health authorities.

Cyclist hurt A WOMAN, 50, was taken to hospital after an accident with a car on the Sineu to Costitx road. Emergency services said her condition was not too serious.

High risk THREE HUNDRED volunteers will form part of the Balearic fire fighting service for the high risk summer season which started on May 5 and will last until October 15.

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Butcher of Campos suspects he may have been drugged MARCOS FERRAGUT, also known as the ‘Butcher of Campos,’ stabbed Rafel Gaspar Miralles to death.

Ferragut’s defence team is alleging that during the night of the crime he only remembers “flashes” of the argument he had with the victim. His lawyers have requested

a blood analysis to establish if there were any drugs, apart from cocaine, in his system which could have affected his will and make him vulnerable to manipulation from a third person.

Ferragut’s version of events include him being blackmailed by

the victim for months. He denied having had an affair with the deceased or buying drugs from him at any time. He referred to a backpack that he had been asked to keep which, he later found out, was stolen and from that time he was blackmailed to the tune of

Birth forces plane to land A PLANE on its way to London from Nigeria had to touch down in Palma as one of its passengers was giving birth.

The African woman, 30, gave birth prematurely at 26 weeks explained emergency services which attended her. The mother and baby were taken to the Son Espases Hospital in

FORCED LANDING: For birth of a new passenger. good health although the baby, because it was

premature, had to be placed in an incubator.

The flight continued after a two hour delay.

€12,000. The Butcher says that Gaspar would call him constantly demanding money but when they would meet Gaspar would give him cocaine and insist he sniffed it - he claims to have been unable to resist.

According to Ferragut’s version on the day of the crime the victim had called him and gone to his house where they took cocaine together. Later in the evening the victim had asked him for cash and jewels in payment for the aforementioned backpack, they argued about this for hours and this, according to Ferragut, is when he only has “flashes” of memory.

He admits to hitting the victim with a bottle and then stabbing him but denies that there were any sextapes of him and the victim.

Ferragut admits that he had a drug problem for many years, but had given it up before even meeting Gaspar who was the one who always insisted he took some.

The case continues.

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Found wandering A MAN who was missing from his home in Arta has been found in Palma. The man, 50, was found wandering, disorientated around the streets.

47 registered AFTER eight months only 47 bicycles have been registered on the Palma Council’s bicycle list. The registry was created to make finding stolen bicycles easier for the police.

Road death A MAN, 50, died on the MA-3433 when he lost control of his van and crashed into an empty house.

Emergency services could do nothing to save his life.

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A social meeting for cake and coffee in Pollensa THE St. Andrews Community Church has established ‘Thank God It’s Friday.’

People can call in on the first Friday of each month to have a cup of coffee and a piece of cake and meet old friends and make new ones.

‘Thank God It’s Friday’ opened last week and made a significant impact.

People started to arrive just after the 10.30am opening and were delighted by a selection of freshly baked cakes and ‘proper’ coffee.

Local artist Helen really brightened up a

large corner of the St. Andrews Community Church with her beautiful paintings and people were interested to watch an artist working.

Pam Dabney who is organising the Friday meetings was pleased with the number of people who came. Pam said, “Our aim is to provide a place where people can call in and have a cup of tea or coffee and meet friends.

All donations received will be going to support the local community and benefit the establishment of the new Church.

The next TGIF will be June 6 from 10.30am to 12.30pm and everyone is welcome.

Judging by the response last Friday, it looks like the Anglican Community Church has created a meeting place in Puerto Pollensa that will continue to grow.

ORGANISER: Pam Dabney with lots of cakes!

Crime figures are down in the Balearics CRIMINALITY in the Balearic Islands has been reduced in the first three months of the year.

Only 12,009 misdemeanours and offences were committed since the

beginning of 2014 which is 0.8 per cent less than last year.

Teresa Palmer, Balearic Government delegate, has explained that the work done by the police

HOUSE BREAKING: Down by four per cent. forces and the state authorities has reaped results and improved security on the islands.

Violent robberies are down by as much as 17 per cent and house breaking is down by four per cent; muggings are down by 4.3 per cent.

Palmer has commented that the combined police forces (Local, National and Guardia Civil) have been working very hard and she thanked them

for this.

Among the crimes that are rising in number are sexual aggressions, up by 20 per cent, and stealing cars, up by 5 per cent.

The government delegate also broke down the crime by area expressing the geographic figures as follows: in Palma crime has gone up by 2 per cent, in Ibiza it has risen by 5 per cent and in Calvia it has gone down by 12 per cent.

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Room on fire A HOTEL room caught fire in Cala Millor and had to be controlled by the fire brigade.

There were no tourists in the hotel at the time, only workers, and nobody was hurt although the high temperatures and volume of smoke damaged the room and a little of the facade of the hotel.

The fire brigade put out the fire in less than an hour.

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Russian criminal caught in Calvia AN alleged Russian mafia boss could get up to 30 years in jail for a string of offences.

Alexander Romanov was detained at the end of last year at his home in Calvia.

He stands accused of money laundering, belonging to an organised crime group, falsifying commercial documents and crimes against worker’s rights.

The prosecution has opposed bail as he is considered a flight risk due to the gravity of the crimes he is accused of and the likelihood of him running back to his own country. They are also concerned that if he is free he may destroy documents pertaining to his illegal activities.

The prosecution has stated

MONEY LAUNDERING: Investing in Mallorca.

that the funds Romanov moved in Mallorca, which were invested in tourist projects, came from the activity of an organised crime group which had managed to cover up its origin. The Russian is alleged to have used a group of Spanish people and companies to launder the money.

It is also alleged that Romanov falsified several documents to firstly cover up the origin of funds and at other times to avoid paying taxes.

Romanov’s wife, who was also arrested, was bailed for ₏100,000.

The case continues to be investigated by the prosecution and the police.

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Five kilos of cocaine found hidden in car in Palma Port

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Close theft A HOODED man stole €300,000 worth of jewellery at gunpoint from a jewellery shop in Palma. The shop is only 500 metres away from the National Police station.

Nature break BUNYOLA Council is promoting a plan to make the Serra de Tramuntana a destination for nature tourists in a bid to break with the seasonality of the local tourism.

Post boxes THE outlying urbanisations of Llucmajor are to have communal post boxes in order to avoid their present situation of having to go into the town to collect their mail.

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STOLEN LAMBS: Thieves have been caught.

Three detained for stealing lambs THREE men have been detained by the Guardia Civil for the alleged theft of lambs in the Son Servera and Manacor areas.

The men were breaking into remote farms in the dead of night and taking

away all the lambs they could catch.

The police investigation was set in motion due to the great number of this sort of thefts in the area, always with the same modus operandi and always at night.

GUARDIA CIVIL in Palma have confiscated five kilos of cocaine from a Colombian couple who had it hidden in their car which was coming through the ferry port from Spain.

The agents stopped the car because the man looked suspicious; after putting a sniffer dog through the car their suspicions were confirmed with the finding of five packets of cocaine.

The couple, aged 21 and 29, were detained and stand accused of crimes against public health and drug trafficking.

Routine stops with sniffer dogs are part of the daily life of the Port of Palma and just last week they found 100 kilos

FIVE KILOS: Cocaine found in a car. of hashish and six kilos of cocaine hidden in a food transporter.

Police hold 2 for robberies GUARDIA CIVIL in Mallorca have solved more than 90 violent robberies in one go.

Operation ‘Gabelli’ came to a head when they arrested two Capdepera residents as the presumed perpetrators of the crimes.

The two men, aged 32 and 23, have been charged in total with more than 300 offences, including the robberies, from 2012 to 2014 in which they stole, above all, electrical goods. They had specialised in high quality televisions and managed to steal more than 100 of them as well

as laptops, tablets and smart phones along with jewellery and cash.

They operated mainly in remote urbanisations like the Sa Font de Sa Cala, Sa Preduscada, Capdepera and in the centre of Cala Ratjada.

One of the men was caught when he was trying to sell the stolen goods and the other was arrested when several high value objects, worth €4,500, were found in his car.

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Lorry tips A LORRY carrying rubble and asbestos tipped over on the Cami de Son Reus, in Palma, and the protocol for dangerous goods was put in place to remove it.

More ops SON ESPASES Hospital carried out 19,717 operations in 2013, 11.4 per cent more than the previous year, reducing the operation waiting list by 29.8 per cent.

Rubbish news RESIDENTS in Llucmajor have complained that since the contract with company Emaya ended last year, rubbish collection in the area has been a disaster.

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Crime group are arrested GUARDIA CIVIL agents have caught a crime group who are thought to be responsible for over 50 crimes in the Magaluf and Santa Maria areas.

The four men stand accused of

violent robberies in shops and businesses, robbing from cars and drug trafficking.

After receiving a lot of complaints, mainly in the Calvia and Santa Maria areas and all with

the same modus operandi, the Guardia Civil opened an investigation which resulted in the identification and subsequent arrest of the four men.

Many stolen items, valued at

over €60,000, were found in the suspect’s houses, among them were jewellery, watches, smart phones, televisions and a large amount of building tools.

They also found a kilo of dried marihuana buds, several sets of precision scales, paraphernalia for the preparation of the doses and €5,000 in cash.

During the operation, thanks to the items found in the residences, the agents were able to clear great demand from up over 50 crimes perpetrated on the buyers.

The fair was over- residents and tourists of flowing with not only the Magaluf area.

Anything easily identified buyers, but with the public which had come to has been returned to its spend the day and rightful owner and the rest interest themselves in the of the items are being held wine industry present on in the police station for later identification; police the island.

The organisers of the are asking anyone who event, Vi Primitiu, has been the victim of expressed their such a crime to drop by satisfaction with the the station in Son success of the fair Bugadellas, in Santa commenting that interest Ponsa, to see if they can identify their belongings. had been enormous.

Pollensa wine show closes with good sales figures THE Pollensa wine fair has ended with a good level of sales according to many of its participants.

Lluc Reus, director of the Pere Seda winery in Manacor, commented that they had sold more than last year and that the profile of the buyers had changed a little in as much as usually the greatest number of sales is made to professionals buying for bars and restaurants, but this year the biggest buyers have

PERE SEDA: One of the exhibitors at the fair. been foreign residents.

Smaller wineries including Vins Ca sa

Padrina or Santa Eugenia were almost completely out of stock due to the

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CONFISCATED: Marihuana and other drugs were found.

Over three kilos of drugs confiscated NATIONAL POLICE in Palma have detained two people, both Spanish, and confiscated over three kilos of marihuana, six grammes of cocaine, drug preparation paraphernalia, high precision scales, a hydraulic press and around €13,000 in cash.

The two people detained,

a man, 37 and a woman, 35, who both have very long criminal records for drug trafficking; are both residents of Palma.

The couple came to the attention of the police because of the lifestyle they were leading which did not correspond with their incomes; they were

22 allotments have owners THE environmental park, in Can Cirera Prim de sa Pobla, has become a sort of community centre; the park is host to the 22 urban allotments on which people grow all sorts of produce.

The allotments are not only popular with individuals, but also with companies and non-profit organisations including Caritas sa Pobla and the handicapped association Es Grif. According to the mayor of sa Pobla, Biel Serra (PP), in less than a year the park has managed to completely turn itself around and be of good service to the community in the form of allotments - previously it only had three.

Biel went on to comment that all 22 allotments have already been given out and there is a waiting list for more.

The council is now looking at the possibility of making more space for allotments and giving some of them to local schools so that they can teach the students about the necessity of green spaces within an urban environment.

The Can Cirera Prim de sa Pobla park has a chequered history as when it was originally opened the local government shut it down within 11 days due to incomplete paperwork and the park suffered as a result. With the opening of the allotments this park is once again an important part of the community.

spending a lot of money on expensive items but earning only average amounts.

Police observed how dealers would go to their house in Calle Ample de la Merce, in central Palma, and come away with large amounts of drugs which would then be distributed, in smaller amounts, on the streets.

During the house search the police also found a notebook with detailed annotations about their business transactions and, as such, the investigation is ongoing.

Star wars needs space THE STAR WARS museum of Mallorca is looking for a home.

Vicente Terres, one of Spain’s biggest collectors, has a collection of over 1,500 Star Wars related objects and wants them to have a museum of their own; they currently occupy too much room at his parent’s house.

If he manages to find a space it will be Spain’s first Star Wars museum and one of only two in the world - the other is in Quito, Ecuador.

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Found dead in Cambre A BOY, 17, who had been reported missing from his home in O Burgo, La Coruña, was found dead in the town of Cambre where he had apparently been hit by a train.

Diabetic dies A DIABETIC man, 20, died in hospital after he was found in the back seat of a bus in Huesca, where he had apparently passed out 36 hours earlier.

Man killed A MAN, 42, was found dead in his home in Mataelpino, Madrid, with numerous wounds to his head and body apparently caused by an axe.

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In ‘Kabul’ case La Paca clan admit to trafficking drugs THE ‘Kabul’ case, currently being heard in Mallorca, has two very different sides to the defence: those clans which admit to selling

drugs in the troubled area of Son Banya and those which do not.

Among those who do admit it is the ‘Clan

de la Paca’ which acknowledged the fact that they were selling cocaine in small quantities from their homes.

The ‘Los Valencianos’ and ‘La Sole’ clans have absolutely denied any involvement with trafficking drugs and the leader of the former, ‘La Chata,’ has claimed she hardly spends any time at all in Son Banya and travels frequently to Valencia to visit her husband who is in prison there.

The ‘La Sole’ clan denied selling drugs and two of the family’s sons had to be expelled from the court for telling their mother what to reply to the prosecution’s questions.

The most surprising incident so far in the case was when a son of the ‘La Sole’ clan testified that the drugs the police found in the clan’s chicken house actually belonged to a cousin of the ‘La Paca’ clan - he claims that it was POPULAR SURNAMES: Garcia is still king overall. planted there by the cousin and the separate from the rest of the the Balearics, most in police. country. For example in Spain Menorca - add to this the 863 The case continues with the there are 53,000 people with people called Pons Pons and testimony of the ‘Clan de los Bizcos’ the surname Pons, around a a pattern can be seen to and, due to its complexity, is not third of them (18,250) are in emerge. expected to finish until around May 15.

Maria Mari Mari most common MARIA MARI MARI is the most common name and surname in the Balearic Islands according to the Institut Balear d’Estadistica (Ibestat).

There are 91 people with the name Maria Mari Mari, the majority of them live in Ibiza; Maria Torres Torres is the second most numerous with 62 people with this name spread across the archipelago and Maria Mari Torres will get 50 replies if shouted in the streets.

The Balearic Islands have the third lowest diversity of surnames in Spain, probably due to being an island and

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New use SELVA Town Hall has purchased the old Moscari Franciscan nuns’ convent with plans to turn it into a centre for social, administrative and cultural purposes.

PIRATE PREMIERE: Raised funds for Great Ormond Street.

SPECTACULAR: Make sure you get your tickets.

Have a great time at the pirate mutiny show and help charity

THE Pirates Mutiny Charity Premiere has raised over €700,000 for Great Ormond Street Children’s Hospital over the last 10 years.

This year the group is showcasing the new Pirates Mutiny show that will run through the season on Saturdays.

The money raised from the Pirates Mutiny Premiere on Saturday night at 7pm will this year go towards GOSH and four charities in Mallorca.

These are the Cancer Support Group Mallorca, Milk on Mondays Appeal with Mediterranea, The Son Espases Children’s Ward and Stop FA which helps sufferers of Friedreich’s ataxia, an inherited disease that causes progressive damage to the body’s nervous system, particularly to the nerve tissue in the spinal cord.

There will be lots of different ways you can donate to the charities throughout the evening, including a raffle, special prize draw and silent and main auctions.

If you or your company would like to donate any prizes to the event please contact Globo Events: +34 636 599 321 / info@globo-events.com Box Office: +34 971 130 411 All ticket prices include the show, sangria, lager and soft drinks. All other drinks will need to be

paid for. No meal is served. All tickets include entry into the after show party.

To buy raffle tickets before the event please go by the Pirates Box Office, Globo Balear Office, Radio One Mallorca Station in Cafe Del Mar or contact Globo Events on 636 599 321.

If you are yet to book your seats to the Ultimate Pirates Party and Charity Event of the year please do so by calling the Box Office on +34 971 130 411 or online at www.piratesadventure.co m. The prices for adults and children are: Main Deck: €29/€19.50 Quarterdeck: €49/€29.50, VIP Captain’s Table: €69/€39

(red and white wine are included at these tables).

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Case shelved A PALMA court has shelved the complaint against the former headmaster of Marratxi high school who was accused of violating the privacy of a student by including her full name in an email sent to teachers.

Care attack A PSYCHOLOGIST, 29, working at a care centre in Palencia died, after she was stabbed in the neck several times by a patient.

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Art show ALTEA announced that ‘Balconades’ pictures will be displayed on Old Town balconies between July 18 and August 31.

Artists have until June 13 to present their work.

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NERJA hosted a round table on the ‘Present and Future of Audiovisual Production and Cinematographic Tourism in Nerja’. The council sees cinematographic tourism as a possible new revenue stream for the town.

PEDREGUER Town Hall finished 2013 with a €1.7 million surplus but cannot reinvest this in improvements to the municipality.

Instead, it must pay off the previous council’s debts, sources lamented.

THE Gandia area ended this year’s citrus fruit campaign with 30 per cent losses compared to 2013. Growers blamed low prices for oranges and rising costs.

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Restoration project THE new regional president of Murcia has promised to support the initiatives to restore two emblematic monuments in San Pedro del Pinatar, the Floridablanca bathing station and the Molino de Quintin windmill.

BBQ ban

Calpe most sought after with Trivago CALPE was the most looked-for Marina Alta location on the Trivago website in 2013.

Trivago, which looks for and compares the prices of 500,000 hotels worldwide, is used by more than 45 million people a month.

The Valencian Community accounted for 10.2 per cent of all Spanish searches on the internet hotel comparison site. In all, 4.6 per cent of these enquiries were for Calpe, compared to 1.7 per cent for Javea, Benicassim and Cullera (both in Valencia Province) or Denia’s 3 per cent.

The average value of a Calpe booking cost €475, according to Trivago, followed by Javea (€415) and Denia (€392) although Benidorm bookings at an average €549 were the highest-priced.

“Although we must not ignore the traditional promotional channels, it is obvious the use of online searches is becoming increasingly popular,” said Calpe’s councillor for Tourism Jan Van Parijs.

“Calpe hotels and the Tourist department are all in favour of new technology,” Van Parijs added. is to close after being forced to enter into voluntary bankruptcy proceedings following a decline in the number of customers.

Helping families

COSTA DEL SOL

Top temperature THE region of Murcia had its hottest April since 1941. According to the Meteorological Agency, the average temperature was 17.9ºC, 3.7 above average.

Casino closure CARTAGENA’S Parque Mediterraneo casino

€40,000 in La

CALPE: In favour of new technology.

THE lighting of any form of fire or BBQ in Murcia’s regional parks is now prohibited.

The ban came into force last Thursday and will remain in place until October.

HELP Association Vega Baja donated €988 to families in Catral and through the AMICS office food parcels were gathered and distributed.

GYMNASTS from the Almuñecar Rythmic Gym School have gone through to the finals in the individual competition. They will be held in Conil, Cadiz, on June 1.

Cine tourism

Debt settling

Bitter taste

Almuñecar gymnasts

RED CROSS members gave the children of the Algarrobo an informal chat about the importance of reading; around 250 children between the ages of six and 10 attended the event.

VILLAJOYOSA Town Hall has saved €72,000 on postage in the last five years.

Savings were made by improving the notification system and staff reorganisation, municipal sources said.

THE crime rate in La Nucia dropped by 6 per cent last year while police efficiency rose by 27 per cent during the same period.

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NEWS DESK

Train works WORKS on the AVE high-speed train tracks between Antequera and Granada will affect circulation on part of the A-92 motorway throughout this month.

No apology

A MEETING held between Malaga Bishop, Jesus Catala, and the family of a transsexual child, ended without an agreement from the bishop to apologise for his comments.

Esperanto convention MORE than 150 people from all over the world were expected in Ronda for an Esperanto congress, which included classes and a flamenco recital.

Not looking A WOMAN caused an accident during the Malaga Triathlon when crossing the road in front of a cyclist, who sustained a broken collarbone.

Hunters protest THE Andalucian Hunting Federation is against plans to convert the Sierra de la Nieves area into a National Park, as they say it would affect ‘social hunting.’

CONCEPCION GUILLEN, from La Herradura, was the winner of €40,000 on the EuroMillons when she got five numbers right. She shared the prize with 13 others.

Cross winners THE Barrio Alto cross won the May Crosses competition in La Herradura with a carnation-clad, ceramic cross bringing home the €400 prize and bragging rights for the next year

COSTA DE ALMERÍA

Winners announced MAYOR Gabriel Amat of Roquetas de Mar has announced the winners of the recent tender for works on the market. Work begins now to be completed by summer 2015.

Truck crash TWO trucks crashed at kilometre 563 of the A-7, causing traffic diversions for three hours. Nobody was injured in the incident.

Over the limit LOCAL POLICE stopped a man in Vera last week for driving erratically. When tested, he was found to be five times over the legal limit for alcohol.

Swan Lake BALLET enthusiasts were treated to Swan Lake and Sea Sing in Vera last week. The dancers were from across Andalucia.

Blaze at Bedar STRONG winds fanned the flames of a fire in Bedar last week, resulting in two hectares of scrubland being destroyed.

INFOCA were supported by land and air.

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Plans for health screening for immigrants entering the EU EUROPEAN Ministers of Health have spoken of the need to carry out health screening on immigrants and refugees entering the EU. At a two-day council in Athens, they discussed the impact of the financial crisis on the public health system, including the controversial proposal, which some consider

violate the fundamental rights of those checked. It remains to be decided whether screening would be the same for all immigrants or if the systems would be different depending on where they come from.

European Commissioner for Health, Tonio Borg, said at a press conference “we have

legal obligations towards the immigrants, but we are also obliged to protect our own citizens and the public health system.” Regarding the loss of access to the public health system for illegal immigrants in countries such as Spain and Greece, Borg explained that European States are only obliged to fulfil minimum

services, such as providing basic health care and emergency care for children and pregnant women. The Greek Health Minister, Adonis Yeoryidais, said that Greece doesn’t want it to appear to immigrants that they can come to the country and do as they like, because it would attract millions.

Only 47 per cent of Catalonians would say ‘yes’ to absolute independence for Cataluña CONTRARY to popular opinion only 47 per cent of Catalonians would say ‘yes’ to an independent Cataluña if they were asked right now.

This is the main fact derived from the political survey done by the Centro de Estudios de Opinion (CEO); 19 per cent would vote against, 8 per cent would vote ‘yes’ to Cataluña being a state but not

independent, 11 per cent would abstain and 9 per cent haven’t made their minds up.

This is the preliminary report, requested by the president of the Generalitat (Cataluña regional government) Artur Mas, which is hoping to reflect what may happen on October 9 when Cataluña goes to the polls.

According to the survey many Catalonians are worried that if they become an absolutely independent state they will lose many advantages, including the right to be part of the European Community whereas if they remain a part of Spain and become an independent region they will be better off.

He added that those who had entered illegally should leave and said that migration “shouldn’t be a burden for just one country” and should be divided amongst all. That’s why the Greek government considers their country and others such as Italy, which see a high number of immigrants arriving, should be given funds sooner to help deal with the problem. However, the EU Commission proposes that immigrants need to be able to access better health care, but also need to be controlled more to prevent contagious diseases from spreading.

Regarding the creation of an identification system for immigrants arriving in the EU, Borg explained that it must be voluntary, but added that he is convinced immigrants will collaborate in order to receive better care.

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Stories making headlines in Europe

GERMAN PRESS Berlusconi ‘absurd’

BRITISH PRESS Homeless magazine SWEDEN - A magazine, Faktum, sold by the homeless, has caught media attention after it covered the story of homeless Swedes who beg in Spain’s most popular tourist areas.

EU drugs SWEDEN - Tabloid Aftonbladet has singled out eight European Parliamentary candidates who have confessed to using narcotics; among them two Centrists and two Greens.

Human rights NORWAY - Norway’s human rights record took a slamming in a UN hearing when Saudi Arabia and Russia highlighted its shortcomings on protecting its Muslim minority.

Arctic whisky NORWAY - A group of enthusiastic amateurs plan to launch the world’s first Arctic whisky distillery on the island of Myken, off the north coast of Norway.

Good month DENMARK - March saw the lowest ever number of traffic deaths with only 195 accidents that caused personal injuries; the second lowest figure for March in a decade.

Otter comeback TWO otters, a male and a female, have been spotted in the lake area of Nieuwkoop, raising hopes that the species could be making a comeback to the busiest part of Holland after an absence of 30 years.

Shakespeare high

Capital UFO

A COMEDY troupe has taken Shakespeare to new heights and marked the 450th anniversary of his birth by performing an abridged version of one of his plays on an easyJet flight from Gatwick to Verona.

A BIZARRE object was spotted hovering above North London prompting some to speculate that it could be a UFO. The object appeared to be black in colour and was rotating.

Celine Dion punishment GARETH DAVIES, from Kent, has been fined £3,000 and had his sound equipment confiscated for playing Celine Dion’s power ballads too loudly in his council flat.

Duck walk

THE German government has dismissed remarks made by former Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi as ‘absurd’.

He said Germans did not believe that the concentration camps had existed.

Rottweiler vote

Sick days

RUSSELL HOYLE, from Teesside, is alleged to have provided false information to the electoral register after his pet Rottweiler, Zeus, was issued with a voting card.

WORKERS in the north-east of Germany are the sickliest with an average of 18.5 days off a year in Mecklenburg. In the south-east, the average was 12.1 days per year in Bavaria.

PASSERS-BY in Peckham, London, were surprised to see a man walking two ducks on a lead down the busy high street; apparently nobody in the area seemed to think it was weird.

Nutella gang A GROUP labelled the ‘Nutella Gang’, so named for stealing 2,500 jars of the chocolate spread, have been imprisoned for a total of 15 years and six months.

RUSSIAN PRESS Three bodies THREE dismembered bodies have been found in St Petersburg. The bodies, thought to belong to a woman and two boys, were found in cardboard boxes in a vacant lot in the Krasnogvardeysky district of the town.

Junk rating CREDIT rating agency Standard & Poor’s has cut Russia’s credit rating to near junk status and has now turned its sights on the country’s blue chip companies including Gazprom and Rosneft.

Unrelated sanctions PRESIDENT PUTIN has said that the new punitive measures taken against Russia by the West are based on false claims of supposed interference in Ukraine.

RUSSIA ONLY: Internet to be named after children’s character.

Luxury Berlin

Ten dead A WILDFIRE raging in Siberia caused an explosion at a munitions depot, killing at least 10 people and forcing the temporary closure of a section of the Transsiberian railroad.

Cheburashka net A RUSSIAN senator has proposed the creation of a Russia-only internet, which would be separate from the US and EU. He wants to name it after the popular children’s character Cheburashka.

NUTELLA GANG: Jailed for stealing the choc spread.

DUTCH PRESS Funny king AFTER the first year of his reign, the Dutch consider King Willem-Alexander as more charming, more humorous and less formal than his mother Beatrix when she was queen.

Beatrix is considered to be more

FOREIGN tourists in Berlin are spending more than ever, with the rich Chinese leading the way followed closely by the Russians and Middle Eastern countries.

compassionate and more concerned, a survey by Maurice de Hond shows.

them fatal. They include all kinds of violence like mistreatment, rape, kidnapping and murder.

Honour crimes

Bike parking

LAST year there were some 500 notifications of so-called ‘honour’ crimes in The Netherlands, 20 of

BUILDING company BAM has received an assignment from Utrecht to build the world’s

biggest bicycle park. The threestorey building near Central Station will hold 12,500 bicycles.

Suicide attacks TWO jihad fighters from The Netherlands committed suicide attacks last year. One attacked a civilian target in Iraq with a rucksack bomb, the other committed suicide with a car bomb in Syria.

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Funds needed to pay for puppy’s hip operation FUNDS are being raised to pay for an operation for a puppy found at Son Reus pound with a fractured hip.

The four-month-old puppy was reportedly taken to the pound by someone claiming that he had been hit by a car. He allegedly remained there for almost three weeks and could have been put to sleep, but expat Luisa Powell read about him on Facebook and decided to rescue him. The puppy currently weighs 8.5 kilos and is not a potentially dangerous breed.

He has been given a microchip and was x-rayed and examined for free at Clinica Veterinaria Paguera.

It needs to be done as soon as possible as the puppy is on medication but cannot walk properly or play. He was in a small cage at the pound and his muscle mass is very

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ABANDONED PUP: Has a fractured hip. reduced (hind legs and back end), so he will probably need physiotherapy after his operation.

He won’t be a large dog, travels well in a car, seems to get on well with cats and other dogs, and is said to be very loving and friendly.

The clinic has also helped with providing facilities, equipment and products, and money is being collected at the clinic, at Studio 3 in Portals, at Nice

Price in Costa d’en Blanes and by the Salvation Army in Son Caliu. In Palma, a bar called La Espiga, in Avenida San Fernando is also collecting donations via Sandra Gonzalez, and in Alcudia, there is a collection at Gesa Endesa building, asking for Joana Maria Ferragut.

Also, if anyone can offer this puppy a permanent home, contact Luisa on 696 429 499.

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s the grass greener on the other side?

It would appear not with recent reports saying 90,000 British expatriates have moved back to the UK in recent years.

Another survey, admittedly of a very low sample group, suggests people moving to Spain and other Mediterranean countries are more miserable abroad then they were at ‘home.’

There is no doubt that many people who move to Spain fail to settle in.

Difficulties with the language and culture of what is after all a foreign country, can lead to loneliness, and even depression.

For those who have to earn a living difficulties can multiply, with generally lower wages and high rates of unemployment.

But for most of the estimated 1.2 million Britons who have set up home in this country Spain is all it is cracked up to be.

Yes there are downsides - stifling bureaucracy being chief amongst them - but most expatriates find the benefits far outweigh the problems.

Not just the weather (though that is certainly a huge advantage) but the general lifestyle. Just a little effort in learning a few words of Spanish can take people a long way to making the most of their life in Spain.

Expatriates have to realise it is not Bournemouth in the sun (no insult intended to that wonderful city), and an attempt, no matter how small, to integrate into the Spanish way of life can reap huge dividends.

Yes, some fail to settle, but for the vast majority the grass is greener in Spain.

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An award of €8,000 given by Palma College for second year running PALMA COLLEGE, the first wholly dedicated sixth form college in Mallorca, provides outstanding opportunities for post age 16 students.

It bridged the gap between school and university with excellence in education as well as teaching life skills and preparation for the world of work.

It is delighted to be able to give another award worth €8,000 to a student who wishes to study Performing Arts A Level.

This award covers all teaching and examination fees, master classes and workshops for a two year period and is awarded after open auditions to be held in the new drama studio in the College.

Palma College Head Teacher, Ali Lawrence,

Supporting their education!

HOW many weeks in advance do you get notice of parent teacher meetings from your child’s school? Is it enough time to ensure you are free to attend? Or do you get the limp message from a bored teen that ‘None of the teachers want to see you ‘cos I am doing ok.’ This kind of message is totally wrong and should never be taken as truth. If that is the message the school is sending out then you should approach the Head Teacher and ask why.

To support your child, it is almost mandatory to attend parent teacher meetings. They are held for a number of reasons: to highlight progress; to establish how you can best support your child and also to flag up any difficulties with learning or behaviour that might not be obvious to you at home. Cast your mind back if you are a parent of an older teenager. How eager were you to sit on the baby sized chairs in the primary classrooms and look at the first wobbly endeavours of your little ones? How many posters and art works were stuck to your fridge at home? It always amazes me when parents send excuses not to attend the senior school parents’ meetings. Not told Euro Weekly News: “We are delighted to be

able to offer this level of support and aim to

only is it incredible that they take so little notice of how their child is progressing in the most important period of their lives, but I couldn’t accurately count the number of times I have had to reassure a youngster that if their parents had come along they would have been proud of the achievements and progress their child was making. Just because a child has reached examination years doesn’t mean they lose the need for reassurance and support.

If you can’t make a meeting for a valid reason don’t expect the teacher to immediately have time to see you. The working days at schools and colleges are hectic and these people have a professional job to do. Try a telephone or email contact rather than asking for additional appointments.

maintain and build upon this ethos of supporting those who might not otherwise be able to afford such an opportunity.

“We are providing top quality teaching of the traditional A Levels such as science and languages, but one focus is on encouraging those who wish to study the arts. Last year’s recipient of the award, Olivia May Green, came from Bendinat School and she is flourishing both academically and in her Performing Arts course.

Auditions are held at the end of June and those wishing to apply should contact Palma College as soon as possible.

There are already students from other schools on the island attending classes purely in A Level Performing Arts and this has worked well.

All the A levels can be done either full time or as

PERFORMING ARTS: Auditions will be held at the end of June. single subjects. The College is also holding auditions for a production of ‘A Streetcar Named

Desire’ which are open to 16 - 18 year olds with the performance being held in October.

Please email office@palmacollege.com for more information and an application form. You can also find more information and details of all subjects offered on www.palmacollege.com or on their Facebook page.

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STAT OF WEEK ORANGE ESPAÑA’S turnover fell by 1.2 per cent in the first quarter of this year. Mobile earnings were reduced by 16.2 per cent to €621 million but income from landlines improved by 9.9 per cent.

Fish firm could still be afloat THE Pescanova board has submitted a new restructuring plan to the Spanish courts.

Banks owed money by the company would replace brewers Damm and financial holding company Luxempart as owners of the company.

The proposal is the outcome of an agreement between Pescanova - whose frozen fish

Jobless queues shrank in winter THE number of people out of work in Spain fell by 2,300 people in the first three months of this year.

The improvement was a minimal 0.04 per cent but this was the first time that the number of jobless fell in the first quarter of the year since 2005.

That was the apparently good news, but the unemployment level rose to 25.93 per cent of the working population.

Unemployment figures might have fallen during four consecutive quarters but the number of people newly in work once more has also fallen.

regulator CNMV. Creditor banks would take over ownership of Pescanova while board members Jose Carceller of Damm and Francois Tesch of Luxempart would resign.

The banks will retain €1 billion of debt, while injecting €115 million of capital, according to sources quoted by Bloomberg.

The banks will also retain €300

products are still a household name - Damm, Luxempart and the banks.

The agreement would not modify the write-off conditions, said Pescanova’s bankruptcy administrator Deloitte. Instead, it would involve replacing the stakeholders financially supporting the company’s bailout, Deloitte assured financial

In the second quarter of 2013, unemployment diminished by 230,900; the third quarter saw a reduction of 103,900 and the fourth a fall of 7,800.

By the first quarter of this year, unemployment fell by just 2,300.

Worse still, the reduction owes less to creating employment than despondent jobseekers no longer actively and officially registering as looking for work, analysts said.

In the meantime, the unemployment rate rose by 0.2 per cent between January and the end of March because the working population decreased by 187,000.

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Taxman’s IT probe SPAIN’s tax office plans to examine small shopkeepers’ cash registers to determine whether they use software aimed at tax avoidance.

Farmacias (chemists) will also be targeted, Hacienda announced.

Payback time GERARDO DIAZ FERRAN will stand trial for plundering the Viajes Marsans travel agencies.

He and seven collaborators must meet a civil responsibility bond of €1.67 billion to cover a possible guilty verdict.

Deoleo loses its Spanish flavour BANCO MARE NOSTRUM (BMN) has sold its 4.85 per cent stake in the Deoleo cooking oil company for €21.2 million.

The BMN stake was bought by private equity firm CVC, which also purchased Bankia’s 16.5 per cent. Both previously needed cash from the Spanish government and were obliged to sell their Deoleo holdings under the bailout terms.

The Dcoop olive co-operative, which initially tried to block the CVC deal, is

also selling an 8.64 per cent holding.

The private equity firm intends to back a refinancing deal for Deoleo, which still has a €500-million debt despite recapitalising and a slimming down operation since 2010.

Sources said CVC expects to acquire more than 50 per cent of Deoleo despite the Spanish government’s misgivings that a foreign firm could eventually control a ‘nationally strategic’ company.

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HOPE: Pescanova’s Galicia plant in Cha pela, Redondela.

million of super-senior debt, €400 million of senior borrowing

and €300 million of junior facilities.

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C O M PA N Y PRICE(P) Centrica PLC 325.80 Coca-Cola HBC AG 1475.00 Compass Group PLC 949.50 CRH PLC 1743.00 Diageo PLC 1833.25 easyJet PLC 1653.50 Experian PLC 1121.00 Fresnillo PLC 825.50 G4S PLC 239.00 GKN PLC 384.10 GlaxoSmithKline PLC 1636.50 Glencore Xstrata PLC 318.72 Hammerson PLC 577.00 Hargreaves Lansdown 1188.00 HSBC Holdings PLC 604.70 IMI PLC 1533.00 Imperial Tobacco Group 2531.00 InterContinental Hotels 2182.00 International Consldtd 408.70 Intertek Group PLC 2943.00 ITV PLC 185.60 Johnson Matthey PLC 3338.00 Kingfisher PLC 423.85 Land Securities Group 1063.00 Legal & General Group 214.90 Lloyds Banking Group 79.56 London Stock Exchange 1830.50 Marks & Spencer Group 442.50 Meggitt PLC 478.25 Melrose Industries PLC 289.35 Mondi PLC 975.00 National Grid PLC 838.50 Next PLC 6562.50 Old Mutual PLC 203.90 Pearson PLC 1107.00 Persimmon PLC 1368.50 Petrofac Ltd 1473.50 Prudential PLC 1373.75 Randgold Resources Ltd 4760.00 Reckitt Benckiser Grp 4840.00 Reed Elsevier PLC 874.25 Resolution Ltd 302.65 REXAM PLC 504.25 Rio Tinto PLC 3220.50 Rolls-Royce Holdings 1027.50 Royal Bank of Scotland 334.55 Royal Dutch Shell PLC 2519.50 Royal Mail PLC 541.50 RSA Insurance Group PLC 97.67 SABMiller PLC 3221.50 Sage Group (The) PLC 422.90 Sainsbury (J) PLC 321.80 Schroders PLC 2615.00 Severn Trent PLC 1843.50 Shire PLC 3446.00 Smith & Nephew PLC 917.25 Smiths Group PLC 1327.00 Sports Direct Intrntnl...

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VOLUME 909.18 16.57 158.49 36.11 215.67 52.59 72.13 40.77 191.94 200.37 331.58 1,174.19 44.76 87.07 2,226.50 28.43 125.93 73.01 204.01 27.65 509.50 24.54 202.21 39.00 264.76 7,616.14 3.49 158.63 24.19 58.78 35.38 207.95 17.85 330.78 181.87 726.78 90.28 104.04 26.46 46.50 273.72 197.17 50.68 239.09 170.70 1,667.83 291.40 78.79 444.96 87.45 40.86 953.79 2.56 18.74 101.19 389.36 15.26 10.52 165.15 201.82 292.25 79.68 1,340.57 13.40 33.48 142.24 92.02 69.59 3,805.83 22.45 15.37 231.53 969.49 36.09 146.48

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European Central Bank easing in the spotlight ANOTHER European Central Bank (ECB) meeting has come and gone with no action taken.

The ECB has left the door open for more easing should the need arise; the ammunition is loaded and ready to be fired. The ECB could look to cut the deposit rate into negative territory or possibly introduce Quantitative Easing for the Euro area or another LTRO programme.

The fact that inflation is falling and well below the 2 per cent target is the main reason why expectations are increasing for more action to come from the ECB. The Euro has so far managed to shrug off the expectations of a move by the ECB and has kept hold of most of its recent gains.

If we do see further policy action from the ECB, it is expected that the single currency will weaken against the USD and the Pound. This Euro weakness could be

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magnified if the market continues to perceive that both the UK and the US are on the path to raising interest rates in early 2015.

Recently we have seen mixed economic data from the US but regardless the FOMC has continued at a pace of $10 billion per month. US growth came in at a very disappointing 0.1 per cent for the first quarter against a forecast of 1.1 per cent but this still does not look likely to detract from the current plan of tapering.

As we stand, the Euro is trading strongly against the USD but more certainty on the US recovery and the timings of rate hikes would quickly erode these gains. For the short-

The Pound is nicely positioned for further gains against the Euro. term it looks likely that the Euro will not come under pressure against the USD. In the UK the Pound is trading firmly on the heels of the UK’s strong recovery witnessed in the last six months.

UK Industrial Production data released in April came in well above expectations, giving the Pound a boost across the currency markets and first quarter GDP was only marginally below expectations but still at a

healthy 0.8 per cent. This bodes well for the manufacturing sector and growth moving through 2014.

There is still a concern that UK data after a very good run could start to disappoint and subsequently weigh on the Pound; however, this latest release moves some way to dispel this fear.

UK data will need to come in at or above expectations to maintain the rally into the Pound. If the strong data run

does play out, we will move towards an environment where the Bank of England will need to hike interest rates earlier than expectations of a rise in spring 2015.

The Pound is nicely positioned for further gains against the Euro if the expected scenario of ECB easing and strong UK growth plays out. Ongoing economic data from the UK will be key and inflation data from the Eurozone will be closely watched.

Recent data for Euro area inflation was still weak for March and this leaves the yearly total for inflation at just one third of the ECB’s target.

The activity of the ECB is going to be the main driver to GBP/EUR; as it stands they are trying to avoid policy action but the tipping point looks to be approaching whereby they will have to act further and this should reinforce a marked decline in the Euro’s fortunes.

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A profit-sharing scheme is always a good Encourage staff to work with your idea but not always practical. This doesn’t business instead of for it. Remind mean you can’t set targets and offer employees that they are a vital part of the rewards for meeting targets. team necessary to make it successful.

The entire sales industry thrives on If you give them tasks explain why they commission and rewards based on sales’ need doing. turnover. Think, does the salaried If you have a business strategy why not salesman work as conscientiously as does let them know about it. Thank staff, the commission only salesman? This recognise their contribution. There are few answers your own question. better incentives than appreciation shown.

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SELL-OFF: Iberdrola is divesting itself of 25 per cent of its Spanish distribution network for €3 million.

Power company’s ‘Spanishness’ in decline IBERDROLA is set to divest itself of 25 per cent of its Spanish distribution network for around €3 billion.

Investment bank Morgan Stanley will handle the deal which according to Iberdrola is the result of the Spanish government’s reforms to the sector.

The decision underlines comments from the group’s president, Ignacio Sanchez Galan, last February when he emphasised the need for “predictable and stable” regulation.

“We are now more British, Mexican and Brazilian than

Spanish,” Sanchez Galan declared in a moment of rash honesty. He afterwards hastened to defend the reforms introduced by Spain’s President Mariano Rajoy and was careful to emphasise Iberdrola’s ‘Spanishness’.

This is now brought into doubt following the news of the sale, although in the past Iberdrola also examined the possibility of selling part of its UK distribution network before shelving the plan.

Iberdrola wants to balance the books, observers say, and cash in on its Spanish network following the adverse effects of government reforms.

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Does your wardrobe hide a gold-mine?

IT has suddenly got hot so I’ve changed the bed covers to the summer duvet, and the gas burner has been packed away.

Next on the list: a wardrobe change! Out with the woolly jumpers and in with shorts and flip-flops.

It’s at this time of the year with the usual wardrobe changeover that it’s often revealed just how much money is wasted on clothing and accessories that have barely or never been worn. Stuff that once screamed out as essential ‘must-haves’ in a shop or

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magazine is now gathering dust.

My wardrobe isn’t exactly the French Riviera of highfashion, but if we imagine all the closets of all the women in Spain or Europe or America combined, there must be trillions of euros

CASH GENERATOR: Sell your old handbags and clothes. worth of goods just sitting around unused.

So what’s a girl to do?

Either get rid of some clothes or get a bigger wardrobe.

In the States an app called ‘poshmark’ is available whereby women can upload photos of their unwanted gear and sell it on. It works a lot like Facebook and with Instagram quality pictures

Can he alter façade without consent?

Q. I am the president of a community of 16 houses, eight pairs of semi-detached houses.

You and the One owner wishes to build an extension to his facade. All but one member has voted against Law in Spain the project, as based on my understanding of

By David Searl Article Seven of the Law of Horizontal Property.

This one member sent an email to all 16 owners saying: “According to my lawyer, ‘Communidad’ only has an effective vote about ‘alterations’ until the 10th year of the houses being built. Since the houses were officially built in 2005, after 2015 any negative decisions to alterations of any type can be overruled by the town hall.” Can you confirm that this is not correct?

M G (email) A. Yes, I can. For any alterations which affect the exterior of a building or complex of attached houses, two conditions are necessary. One of these is a favourable vote by the Community of Property Owners and the other is a building permit from the local town hall.

There are two possible exceptions to the need for approval by the community vote.

If the town hall itself or other building authority has ordered repairs or work carried out, this work does not need community approval. This does not include extensions. The other possibility exists only in Catalonia, where such a provision can be written into the original Statutes of the Community. Catalonia has its own set of community rules.

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

that are attractive and fun to navigate. You create a page where you post pictures of everything from tops and dresses, to shoes and handbags. Shoppers can follow you, ‘like’ your items and make a purchase.

It’s not available in Europe yet, but a pioneering young techie could create a similar one, as the app is a massive

success in the US. Meanwhile, for women in Europe with lots of clothes and accessories clogging up the wardrobe there is always eBay or sites like Asos Marketplace, where fashion-hungry women can snap up bargain-priced designer handbags, while finance conscious girls can get rid of unwanted items and make a little profit for themselves along the way.

AIR EUROPA has backtracked on plans to lay off staff. The high court upheld a clause in the collective agreement that vetoes redundancies while outsourcing to other firms.

Share offer SANTANDER BANK is offering €4.686bn in shares for the remaining 25 per cent of Santander Brasil. It will issue around 665 million shares - 5.8 per cent of its total - in an offer representing a 20 per cent premium over the subsidiary’s last closing market price, Santander said.

Financial crisis causing more identity theft CRIMES arising from identity theft have evolved during the financial crisis.

“We’ve gone from house purchase to internet fraud,” said a spokesman for the National Police’s Economic and Fiscal Unit (UDEF).

“We also see everything from using a stolen ID for a mobile phone contract to buying a top-ofthe range car on instalments,” said a spokesman for the police’s Economic and Fiscal Delinquency Unit (UDEF).

Victims of ID theft often find they are burdened by debt, he added, and it is vital to officially report the loss of an ID card or passport as soon as it has been stolen. Victims also need to consult the RAI, Spain’s official list of debtors, to check whether their ID has been used to

incur hire-purchase or other debts.

Not only are loans now harder to come by but banks require extensive documentation precisely to avoid being stung by professional identity thieves.

They work in small groups, the police said, and tend to be young and Spanish. “A mugger who snatches Crimes range from your bag or house purchase to wallet containing an internet fraud.

ID is unlikely to use it but knows there is a market for stolen IDs. The price varies, but it’s rarely more than €50 per document.”

Often it is used over a period of time to create a false identity and win the confidence of the person or entity to be targeted.

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The idea that it will be just too hot to get any exercise, or at least enjoy it, leads people to want to put their feet up and relax in the summer months.

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Cool exercising From Page 29 Spanish coastal waters are ideal for this sport.

And at its most basic level of splashing about just off resort beaches, it is cheap too. It is worth getting a proper mask and snorkel rather than the cheaper toy versions, but once bought that is the extent of the expenditure.

You don’t even need flippers, though they can be a great help.

Underwater, the world looks completely different.

Swimmers can explore new species of life that just cannot be viewed from above. Even off the holiday beaches it is surprising how much wildlife you can get to see. Of course, once the snorkelling bug has bitten there are a number of diving clubs you can join up with to explore the underwater world more.

And many schools offer scuba training and excursions for the more

adventurous.

As well as being good exercise, it is also one of the least harmful ways of exercising. There is less of a risk of injury with swimming, but it still provides a cardio-vascular work-out.

Other water-based sports for the more active include kitesurfing, which is becoming ever more popular. In this participants stand on a board and are quite literally strapped to a large kite. When the wind blows, off you go, skimming along the waves.

And many businesses offer the chance to hire jet skis or to go water ski-ing.

There is no shortage of golf courses either. And in the summer prices are usually at a considerable discount from winter fees as golfers keep away because of the heat.

But for early birds it is a great chance to get a few rounds in at a good price.

Players who can drag themselves out of bed for an early start get the best of all worlds. Except for the hottest days of the year an early tee-off means they miss the worst of the heat and get, more often than not, the course to themselves.

Search around for the best deals, many including a buggy thrown in. Those who don’t like early starts can often get sundowner deals where they play evening golf for as long as the light lasts, again avoiding the peak afternoon heat.

Again there is no shortage of tennis courts in Spain, but the same rules apply. Avoid the heat.

Take to the courts in the early evening to play the game you love without ending up in hospital through heat exhaustion!

Whatever it is just remember, it is summer, enjoy yourself!

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Dogged resolve needed to go to tourist beach THE new dog beach in Fuengirola (Malaga) - who on earth came up with that one?

Has Fuengirola recruited a Tourist Prevention Officer?

Let me say straight away that I am a dog lover.

However, come on, this dog beach hasn’t been thought through at all.

Let’s start with the location.

It is only about 100 metres along the beach from the fourstar IPV Palace Hotel.

Then we have the many hundreds of tourists staying at Club La Costa and taking advantage of their direct access to the beach. Which beach? The dog beach!

So this new dog beach is sandwiched directly between two of the biggest-volume holiday destinations in town.

You can see it on TripAdvisor in a few weeks’ time, can’t you? “Don’t go to Fuengirola, there’s a dog beach where dogs fight and go to the toilet. It is not only unpleasant, but also very dangerous.”

I couldn’t believe it when I went down there a couple of days ago. There was a pit bull terrier, a Staffordshire bull terrier, an Alsatian and even a Rottweiler, and none of them was either on a lead or wearing a muzzle.

The greatest worry of all is that there are young children on this very same beach.

It seems to be a disaster waiting to happen. Someone is likely to get badly mauled here!

To make things worse, this dog beach is around 10 metres from the main coastal dual carriageway, which already has an atrocious reputation for accidents. Is there a fence or barrier to stop dogs running off the beach directly onto the road? Er, no!

If Fuengirola truly has employed a Tourist Prevention Officer, he or she is doing a fine job with the new dog beach. You really couldn’t make it up.

Stuart Wright (by email)

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F Ashman (by email)

copy of the Euro Weekly News and was quite disgusted by the letter from Tom Hawksworth, ‘Supply and demand is nature’s way’.

I expect you will have received many letters from readers equally outraged by this man’s attitude to people in developing countries.

He is fortunate enough to have received an education and good healthcare, but appears to begrudge people in less well-off countries even the right to exist.

I was so furious that I kept the page and brought it back to the UK with me so I could write to you.

On a more positive note, I have just looked at the Euro Weekly News online and was impressed enough to save it in ‘My Favourites’.

Jane Everitt (by email)

Grim futures

Wrong song A WADE from Benahavis (Malaga) wrote about the ‘nuisance’ of the birdsong from sparrows (Letters, Issue 1503).

He should just be grateful he can hear some birds and is not plagued by constant road noise or aircraft flying low as some people are. Or he could try living on the South Coast of England where we are, and being plagued with constant screeching from seagulls almost 24 hours a day!

He should be grateful he has his hearing, not like many who would love to hear birdsong from whatever species.

J Rogers, Fuengirola (Malaga)

Rough justice A LANDLORD asking for the rent of his apartment was attacked by the tenant with a crowbar, leaving him with head injuries and hospitalised.

The police were called and the landlord denounced the tenant, but when the case went to court the tenant was fined €200.

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Is this all the protection the police can give? The tenant is still in the same apartment and the rent has not been paid.

Jack Threlfall (by email)

Lights out EARTH HOUR has recently passed with more countries joining every year.

The idea is that we all switch off our lights and electrical appliances for one hour in a bid to save Mother Earth and to heighten people’s awareness that we need to take care of our planet.

Spain was part of this with town halls, cathedrals and monuments right across the

country switching off but, sadly, not Rojales Council who continue to burn lights unnecessarily.

Just one example of this – and I doubt that it is the only one – is the sports centre next to the Norwegian school in Ciudad Quesada, Rojales (Alicante). This sports centre is open from 8am to 8pm, Monday to Saturday. You would think that lights only need to be on during the hours of darkness or twilight when the centre is open.

Rojales Council prefers to burn the 14 streetlamps all night every night. Why? If it is a question of security there is already a security camera, linked directly to the police station, covering this area.

Apart from the environmental aspect there is also the financial one. With so many people having their homes repossessed and being fed by Caritas and other charities this council needs to rethink its priorities.

J Billet, Rojales (Alicante)

Harsh verdict WHILE in Spain last week with my husband, I picked up a

IT was very heartening to read the letter from Tom Hawksworth about the constant need to feed children in Africa that really should never have been born into a life of misery.

In the big scheme of life, Mother Nature - or God, depending on your beliefs allows them to be born to people who have little hope of ever sustaining them.

People, especially those who have never been to such places merely dig into their pockets for a small amount to send off.

The kinder thing is either not to send anything or to encourage new colonisers to go and live there to govern and guide the people to a better life.

Tom is to be admired for not being scared in these silly times of being called ‘racist’ for speaking the truth.

Well done, Mr Hawksworth, for stating the obvious about those being wrongly born to parents who have no hopes of bringing them up on their own.

Thank you, Euro Weekly News, for having the courage to print his letter and hopefully this one.

Brian Deller, Manilva (Malaga)

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Is the grass greener in Spain or UK? A RECENT survey of expatriates has revealed that those who migrate to Spain and Mediterranean countries are actually less happy than those who stayed at home. Are you happier here than in your home country or do you miss it? Or is it simply a case of the grass is always greener on the other side?

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HARITY volunteer Jean McNeil, aged 73 from La Marina, Costa Blanca, has been living in Spain for 12 years and loves it. She is happier than when she was in the UK. “I’m definitely happier here.

It is cheaper to live here and the sun shines, that makes it all so much better,” she said.

Fifteenyear-old PAUL BRIGGS has the best of both worlds.

STREET TALK Gary Wilkinson, also from La Marina, has lived in Spain since he was five, but in August he will return to the UK to continue his studies.

“There are more opportunities there and I want to do accountancy. I will stay in the UK for a few years,” he explained. His father agrees with his choice, saying: “It can be cheaper to live here but if you have to work and earn money it is difficult and I know a lot of people are going back for various reasons.

“They come on holiday, think it’s great but daily living and holidays are very different.”

Plasterer Paul Briggs, aged 40, has the best of both worlds. With a second home in Formentera he is able to see both sides and treat his two young sons to holidays on the Costa Blanca, but doesn’t believe the

grass is greener in Spain and wouldn’t want to make a permanent move realising the difficulty of the work situation. He said: “I’m glad to be going home this week. We all hate work but you’d miss it really and all people seem to do here is drink.”

Chef Jason Owens, 32, from Marbella, Malaga, is happy to live in Spain. “In the catering trade hours are long and unsocial wherever you are. At least in Spain I am almost guaranteed sunshine when I am off and can enjoy it. In England I always seemed to be stuck indoors because of the rain.

“I don’t miss England at all. The grass is definitely greener in Spain!”

JEAN MCNEIL loves her Spanish life.

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HE UK Social Services’ recent decision to bar a white couple from fostering a black baby didn’t surprise me in the least.

These departments are awash with staff, who are themselves of ethnic origin and often emerge as the worst racists of all - people who treat the rules of political correctness as a blueprint for their very existence. I wonder what sort of outcry there would have been had they denied a white child to a black family on similar grounds?

Before you accuse me of racism (yawn), I’ll cite you a couple of personal experiences.

The first concerns two, quite comfortably off, married friends of mine. This couple, who had already adopted and fostered a number of children, approached their local authorities, with regard to adopting an eight-year-old young man of Mid-East origin.

To cut an extremely long and frustrating story short, they reluctantly had to finally give up on the idea.

They simply could not comply with all the rules and stipulations the authorities confronted them with. The main issues were schooling and almost unbelievably, diet.

The department insisted that instead of my colleagues enrolling (and paying substantial fees) for the lad to attend a local, highly respected private school, they wanted him driven over an hour away to a public school, which was predominantly attended by Muslim children (sound familiar!).

Among many other stymies and stipulations, the final nail came when they declared he must have a Halal diet, insisting the couple’s kitchen must be ‘cleansed’ and completely changed to accommodate this directive.

The last they heard, this young lad was still in the

children’s home awaiting someone more ‘acceptable’ to come along.

The other case I experienced was when my dear, then 90-year-old mum, was placed in a care home in the South of England.

It soon became clear she was obviously not happy.

Although racism was not even in her vocabulary, the fact that there were no Caucasian people employed, made her feel confused and somewhat out of place.

One day I purposely turned up unexpectedly and was disgusted with what I discovered. The residents were unkempt and the whole place was mucky and simply reeked of urine.

I decided to move her as soon as possible. Over the next couple of weeks every home I visited was run by people of ethnic origin. It was for some (and probably still is) a very lucrative racket, with the residents simply regarded

LEAPY LEE SAYS IT OTHERS THINK IT

NO SENSE: Fostering rules no surprise.

as a means to an

end.

We simply have to stop listening to these pathetic

cries of racism as an excuse for any form of common sense.

You know it makes sense.

Keep the Faith. Love Leapy.

Leapylee2002@gmail.com

Welcome to the 2050 vintage 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.

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“ONE minute you’re wearing woolly jumpers and overcoats and the next it’s tee-shirt weather,” someone told me when I first arrived in Mallorca.

I didn’t believe him until, indeed, someone flicked the summer switch and overnight winter became but a blustery memory. Now, according to locals, this switch scenario happens earlier each year, with each of the two seasons more extreme.

In the past few weeks, an iceberg-sized mountain of studies on the subject have been published and I will do my best to summarise them for you here.

Oxford University’s Rowlands

WARMING UP: In 2050, Spain will be hotter than ever. study predicted a rise of up to three degrees Celsius by 2050, which would wipe out 30 per cent of animal and plant species.

It would also render many African and Asian territories uninhabitable, with low-lying countries like Bangladesh under water. The displacement of population would in turn create political unrest.

The study echoes releases

from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change as well as the Red Cross. It seems that the next generation will live in a world of food shortages on a global scale, lack of drinking water and, in many cases, in unlivable climates.

The message is that we have to reduce emissions. Yet there is little political interest to take a long-term approach.

“We have a planetary emergency. We have to… create, in the generation of those alive today, a sense of generational mission,” Al Gore commented.

But amid economic woes across the world and a race for economic supremacy in China and India, the climate remains at the bottom of the pecking order.

On a local level, Spain in 2050 will be hotter than ever, losing

some of its touristic appeal. It will also face a tide of environmental refugees from Africa. Agricultural production conditions will be poor, especially impacting the wine industry. Ever wondered why the alcohol level in your bottle of tinto has crept up to 14 or 15 per cent? The answer is climate change, which is also why England is now able to produce some excellent wines.

By 2050, the best vintages may well come from Sweden.

What we do matters; environmentalists urge us to reduce the use of the car, or switch to a hybrid or electric version. Avoid flying (video conference and holiday near home) and choose renewable power if possible. We should pull the plugs on electrical equipment when not in use, recycle and avoid both dairy and meat, whose production causes 18 per cent of greenhouse gas emissions.

It’s a tall order, but if we can avoid an apocalyptic future, it is surely worth the effort…

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collected many treasured books, one in particular being a signed copy of Queen Victoria’s own book given to the Vicar of Balmoral in 1869 by the Prince Consort, worth hundreds of euros. Another was a history book of Mallorca that dated back to 1716 written in English by a doctor who lived here in the 17th Century the list is endless. Think of it and they have it.

It is a unique bookshop and possibly as it’s quite hidden away, a lot of

people may not be aware of this gem in Mallorca.

Visitors and holiday-makers alike, exploring and walking around Palma often treat it like a museum and go in to take photos.

It is a quirky place, a traditional looking Olde English book shop with Dickensian bow windows in the heart of Palma.

Rodney has also had a lot of famous people walking through his doors including Tim Rice, Maureen Lipman, Jeffrey Archer, to name a few.

Rodney has a great passion and love of books and is ALWAYS looking to buy new books, the older, rarer, more interesting, the better. He is also on the lookout for any full collections of an author, though not so much the modern chick lit or Catherine Cookson type books.

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The Lego Movie THE Lego movie is an AmericanAustralian computer animated adventure comedy co-written and directed by Phil Lord and Chris Miller.

It stars Chris Pratt and Will Ferrel and is based mainly on the Lego line of construction toys. The wizard Vitruvius attempts to protect a super weapon called the Kragle but fails... what will happen?

TODAY

ALCUDIA

POLLENÇA

CALA MILLOR

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PALMA ANDRATX

LLUCMAJOR MAGALLUF

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The running time is 100 minutes and it is rated for all audiences.

TOMORROW CALA MILLOR

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LEO (July 24 - August 23) Be a social animal this week and you will strengthen both people and business contacts.

After being busy last week, you may be

hand with finances and take control if you want to organise things for the better.

life. A recent change in your attitude to your future is already showing. Luck is just waiting for you to invite her in.

SCORPIO (October 24 - November 22) Be cautious this week with your money. You have been aware for some time now that a change in your finances is likely. You have this in common with many others in your situation. Seeking professional help can be free and can make a big difference.

CAPRICORN (December 22 - January 20) Your home life gives you the most satisfaction at the moment even though someone seems to be challenging you. Some things are best ignored until they go away of their own accord and that also often applies to people.

AQUARIUS (January 21 - February 19) Involvement in a situation connected with someone close may not be the best option this week.

Giving advice is all well and good so long as you are sure of your facts.

Sudoku

PISCES (February 20 - March 20) Some disruption to your plans annoys you but there’s no point getting in a huff. Outside influences cannot be stopped but you are able to keep calm yourself. Rising to the bait will play into someone else’s hands.

Although a situation must be dealt with, do it in your own time and in your own way.

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.

LAST WEEK’S SOLUTION

ARIES (March 21 - April 20) It seems that you are putting a lot of effort into whatever you do without getting as much out as you would like.

However, as the week goes by, you will realise that it is only a temporary situation. Sometimes, it takes others a period of adjustment before they are ready to accept changes of a personal nature.

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Nonagram How many English words of four letters or more can you make from the nine letters in our Nonagram puzzle? Each letter may be used only once (unless the letter appears twice). Each word MUST CONTAIN THE CENTRE LETTER (in this case B) and there must be AT LEAST ONE NINE LETTER WORD. Plurals, vulgarities or proper nouns are not allowed.

TARGET:

Average: 7

Very good: 14

Good: 9

Excellent: 17

cede, clod, code, cold, cord, cred, deco, deer, dele, doer, dole, dolt, dote, lode, lord, redo, reed, retd, rode, teed, toed, told, trod, cered, coder, cored, credo, creed, décor, deter, dolce, doter, elder, erode, older, treed, colder, decree, delete, leered, recede, reeled, retold, teredo, elected, erected, ELECTRODE

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SAGITTARIUS (November 23 - December 21) A special chance to try something new should not be passed over.

No one expects wonders from you, they are happy just to see you enjoying

LIBRA (September 24 - October 23) What a lovely surprise to find that something you have always wanted is coming your way at last. Keep a firm

6-Star Quiz

1. By what stage name is the Israeli singer Sharon Cohen (born Yaron Cohen), whose song Diva, won the Eurovision Song Contest (ESC) in 1998, better known?

2.

Cliff Richard has represented the UK in the ESC on two occasions (1968 and 1973); name the two songs he sang?

3. In which country was the first ever ESC held, in May 1956?

4. What was the title of Abba’s 1974 ESC winning song?

5. What was unusual about the result of the 1969 ESC? 6. Which actress, best known for playing the role of Ronnie Mitchell in EastEnders, represented the UK at the 1991 ESC?

VIRGO (August 24 - September 23) Someone well and truly treads on your toes this week and it really puts your teeth on edge.

There are some bridges that may not be mended at the present time and are best left alone.

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

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CANCER (June 22 - July 23) You really do need to come to an understanding with friends over a social matter, although this may take a little effort this week. It is clear that there are those who are less helpful than others, but this could be because of a misunderstanding.

inclined to take it easy. If it is the case that you really are low on energy, then use the telephone or email to full advantage to keep in touch.

May 8, Marta Sanchez.

Singer.

This Spanish singer has often been called the Queen of Spanish pop after being the lead singer of Ole Ole and one of Spain’s biggest sex symbols of the 1980’s. Her father was an opera singer and she began her career with Cristal Oskuro before being discovered by Ole, Ole.

WITH or PART PARS PATS

GEMINI (May 22 - June 21) Everything seems an effort at the beginning of this week but as energy levels pick up you will gain momentum. Tackle one thing at a time and realise that Rome was not, indeed, built in a day.

EUROVISION SONG CONTEST

Your Stars

IF IT’S YOUR BIRTHDAY THIS WEEK: Many things have changed in recent months and you will need to bend with the wind in the months to come. You do not have to give up all that you hold dear; however, you may have to realise that an era has passed. See what beckons.

PART PARS PATS PATH PITH

TAURUS (April 21 - May 21) The brick wall that you start banging your head against this week is not an illusion. It is, indeed, true that others are not responding to you in an expected way.

MAGALLUF

1. DANA INTERNATIONAL, 2.

CONGRATULATIONS (1968) and POWER TO ALL OUR FRIENDS (1973), 3.

SWITZERLAND (Lugano), 4. WATERLOO, 5. FOUR COUNTRIES (Spain, UK, Netherlands and France) WON THE CONTEST, 6. SAMANTHA WOMACK (JANUS)

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Cryptic

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Across 1 Bishop puts a stop to diver’s danger (5) 4 Set off, and without a meal (6) 9 Drove back at speed to let you know (7) 10 Reduce Mayflower stores (5) 11 God of war espied (4) 12 King surrounded by menservants or knaves (7) 13 Poem for odd oldies (3) 14 Look! A fish bone one discarded (4) 16 Some insane Roman (4) 18 Worry about a tap (3) 20 Press or key source of metal (4,3) 21 Where one may eat food providing calcium and iron (4) 24 Delete from Opera search engine (5) 25 Nice tax break is incorrect (7) 26 Pushes steamship around East Sussex resort (6) 27 Stuff being vandalised (5) Down 1 Prohibit any form of fig tree (6) 2 Scandinavian boatmen or sea-faring characters (5) 3 Cork discovered in Japanese allspice (4) 5 Appealing for gull I ran around (8) 6 Were any revised at the end of December (3,4) 7 Badger one animal almost and another (6)

8 Go on holiday and cook oriental veal (5) 13 Old fashioned oboe? Let’s go beserk (8) 15 Advocate replacing alien with nothing will bear fruit (7) 17 Remove centre of timbers to make

clocks (6) 18 Country’s kind dropping head of government (5) 19 Fellow the French say is kind (6) 22 A profit once more (5) 23 Rosemary, perhaps, in a feather bed (4)

Code Breaker Each number in the Code Breaker grid represents a different letter of the alphabet. In this week’s puzzle, 1 represents H and 11 represents F, so fill in H every time the figure 1 appears and F every time the figure 11 appears. Now, using your knowledge of the English language, work out which letters should go in the missing squares. As you discover the letters, fill in other squares with the same number in the main grid and the control grid.

LAST WEEK’S SOLUTIONS CRYPTIC Across: 1 Regain, 5 Pretty, 8 Hero, 9 Carbines, 10 Generate, 11 Ibex, 12 Atlas, 14 Yearn, 18 Nabs, 20 Chairman, 22 Likeness, 23 Ahoy, 24 Bereft, 25 Roses.

Down: 2 Element, 3 Alone, 4 Nectar, 5 Parley, 6 Edifice, 7 Theme, 13 Austere, 15 Reasons, 16 Accent, 17 Caesar, 19 Aside, 21 Roams.

QUICK Across: 1 Christmas Eve, 7 Aura, 8 Portions, 9 Battle, 10 Images, 11/16 Run dry, 12 Fever, 14 Usual, 18 Triple, 20 Excess, 22 Biennial, 23 Pale, 24 Once in a while.

Down: 1 Courage, 2 React, 3 Supper, 4 Margin, 5 Spirals, 6 Venue, 13 Expunge, 15 Absolve, 16 Design, 17 Yellow, 19 Reign, 21 Capri.

LAST WEEK’S SOLUTION

ENGLISH-SPANISH Across: 1 Empleador, 5 Taste, 7 Sacar, 9 Seiscientos, 10 Motos, 11 Tired, 13 Reservoir.

Down: 1 Eat, 2 Exercises, 3 Despertar, 4 Caras, 6 Skirt, 8 Citar, 9 Sumar, 12 Dar.

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

Across 1 Química (9) 7 Cuerdas (gruesas) (5) 9 Rio (corriente de agua) (5) 10 Equipo (deporte) (4) 11 Strawberries (fruit) (6) 13 Pala (para cavar) (5) 14 Smooth (skin) (5) 15 To answer (reply) (9) Down 2 Table (4) 3 Sorpresas (9) 4 Magazine (journal) (7) 5 Británico (7) 6 Cepillos (para ropa, dientes, pelo) (7) 8 Banana (7) 12 Izquierdo (4)

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

ACORNS

LEERED

ARENAS

REELED

CELLAR

RESORT

CLEVER (10)

SEATED

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SEEING

DEVICE

SPEARS

DRAWER

STEEDS

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WEALTH

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LAST WEEK’S SOLUTION

Funagram Unscramble the name of a famous 1946 American comedydrama film (four words): NULLIFIED SOFTWARE FUNAGRAM SOLUTION: NOTTINGHAM FOREST, IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE

Unscramble the name of a famous Football League Championship team (two words): SIGN FOR TOTTENHAM

Across 1 Hold dear (7) 5 Wharf (4) 8 Method (5) 9 Make more coarse (7) 11 Memo (4) 12 Military post (8) 15 Exasperated (3,2) 16 Fundamental (5) 19 Rural (8) 21 Large brass instrument (4) 23 Person’s natural height (7) 25 Avoid capture (5) 26 Pull, as against a resistance (4) 27 Factory, school or business restaurant (7) Down 2 Lacking in feeling, pity or warmth (9) 3 Pause for relaxation (4) 4 Brook (6) 5/24 Military identification (3,3) 6 Set of beliefs (5) 7 Correct (5) 10 Loud confused noise from many sources (6) 13 Cause to be alert and energetic (9) 14 Number puzzle (6) 17 Equipment for taking photographs (6) 18 Engraving or carving in low relief on a stone (5) 20 Make different (5) 22 Something owed (4) 24 See 5

1 Invert, 2 Waters, 3 Recede, 4 5 Closer, 6 Assure, 7 Cheers, 8 9 Cackle, 10 Cobble, 11 Spears, 12 13 Barely, 14 Saying, 15 Lonely, 16 17 Bairns, 18 Shrill, 19 Soiled

Elders, Usable, Cheery, Seared,

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40%of Spaniards suffer from anxiety and depression

ANXIETY and depression affect 40 per cent of the Spanish population.

Dr Jose Antonio LopezRodriguez, Vice-president of the Spanish Association of Private Psychiatry (ASEPP) said these are the two most common mental disorders and warns that in recent years psychiatric disorders including schizophrenia and bipolar disorder have also increased due to current lifestyles.

It is estimated that one in five adults may suffer some psychiatric disorders throughout their lifetime.

Lopez-Rodriguez said the fundamental cause of the increase in cases has

ON THE RISE: The incidence of Spaniards who suffer from anxiety and depression.

been the lifestyle that we currently have: “This does not mean we are weaker than previous generations but we live faster, sleep less so we're more tired and suffer more stress.”

He said the charac-

teristic of a depressed person has also changed whereas a few years ago the most at risk group were women aged 45-55 from a disadvantaged social class: “Now there has

Natural holiday health remedies

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NOT got a medicine cabinet or a pharmacy to hand?

Try these simple natural remedies to deal with everyday holiday health complaints: Honey: Honey has been used for centuries to treat minor wounds or burns. It helps to kill the bacteria that may cause infection and triggers the production of antibacterial hydrogen peroxide. Dab a little honey on the infected area and cover with a clean dressing.

Teabags: Cooled teabags applied to an insect bite helps to relieve the inflammation, stinging and swelling, acting as an astringent. Oatmeal also has a cooling effect on a bite.

Cucumber: This is already used as a common ingredient in many beauty products as it is known for its soothing properties. As well as helping

tired and sore eyes it can also bring relief to sunburnt skin because it contains vitamin C and an antioxidant - also found in coffee - which both have antiinflammatory effects.

Bananas: Overdone it the night before? Try eating a banana. Whilst drinking water will help hydrate you, bananas will gradually help to raise depleted sugar levels giving a more sustained recovery. Bananas are also gentle on the stomach, which may be irritated by the alcohol.

HONEY: An age-old remedy used to treat minor wounds or burns.

emerged a new risk group of couples aged 45-45 with two children who are working.”

The ASEPP has launched a new campaign to raise awareness about mental disorders.

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Vicki Mcleod

Family Matters BEFORE I moved to Mallorca I used to dream of growing my own veggies, keeping chickens and learning how to milk a goat.

Little did I know when I moved to the island that I was about to embark on a decade long slog which would not have anything at all to do with farming, self-sufficiency or being green.

I’m not complaining, not at all, as I have enjoyed every single minute (well, more or less every one) so far, but I still harboured the desire to do it.

Once I have an ambition I find it difficult to let it go until I have achieved it, but this one is taking much longer than I anticipated to complete.

Back in April my husband, daughter and I spent a Sunday digging up and tidying a section of our garden in preparation for the grand sowing of the seeds (which I’d bought with a hopeful heart in Lidl the week previous).

OPINION & COMMENT

Back to the basic land

BEFORE: We dug up and tidied our garden.

We were all very excited about this and spent the day tilling the soil and removing rocks and pebbles. My eightyear-old, La Gidg, didn’t need too much redirection from the television to keep her on track

AFTER: La Gidg sowing the seeds.

and soon we had the makings of a vegetable garden.

Of course, in the best Neilson McLeod home DIY fashion we didn’t have exactly the right tools for the job so we used a large kitchen spoon instead of

a trowel, but it worked.

Soon we were putting the seeds into the ground and watering them lovingly then we covered them up to keep the cats from utilising the newly turned earth as a new en suite

facility. The thing that I worried about was that we would forget to water and nurture the seeds but between us we have all managed to keep that going.

The weather has been pretty good as well so can you please answer this question for me?

Why out of six different types of vegetables have only the peas managed to grow?

It’s a bit of a disaster really as La Gidg hates peas, perhaps then she will at least try them when we’ve grown them and they’re on the plate.

I’m concerned that the other veg won’t take and we’re going to have a big patch of soil featuring only cat eggs and peas, so it’s off to the Andratx market for me. You can buy baby plants there which if I’m clever I can plant out without Gidg noticing.

“Oh look mummy, the lettuces ARE growing”... “Yes darling, isn’t that lucky, I told you we only had to be patient”… www.familymattersmallorca.com

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Costa de Almeria’s best guide to local sport

Mallorca’s best guide for local restaurants

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Great food at a great price at R2B La Iglesia QUALITY food at a great price at any time of the day or night .

That is the promise from R2B La Iglesia, a new bar/restaurant that opened its doors in March 2014.

Thanks to the effort, dedication and professionalism of its owners customers can be assured of a warm welcome as well as top quality food whether inside or out when they visit.

The restaurant is located at Bendinat, Roundabout 2, (beside Eroski), with its own parking of up to 100 places.

The personal service and cosy atmosphere makes the breakfast, snacks, lunch, dinner, coffees, teas, drinks and cocktails even more enjoyable.

Featuring on the menus are a host of special dishes - one of which is the delicious steak tartare, which is very difficult to find elsewhere. To ensure its quality it must be ordered in advance on 971 133 795.

R2B La Iglesia also specialises in other meats, fish and a great variety of delicious tapas that you can enjoy in the comfort of their own terrace all year long.

The restaurant is already gaining a superb reputation, and although based in Bendinat, R2B La Iglesia also gets clients from Palma, Illetas, Calvia, Poligono Santa Ponsa and other parts of the Island.

INSIDE OR OUT: A warm welcome awaits.

The owners of R2B La Iglesia have owned and ran restaurants for over 20 years.

Good food and superb service have always been their passion and they are determined to make this newest project a success.

You can enjoy a great variety of promotions at R2B La Iglesia like special menus for all kinds of groups, a great dish of the day and drink for only

€6.90, a special morningmidday offer of one beer/wine + tapa for only €1.50.

They also stock a great range of premium gin and tonics to sip while sampling the great after-work atmosphere with some smooth Jazz.

For more information call 971 133 795, all reservations are made by phone only.

The restaurant opens every day from 9am until

midnight, except on Mondays.

Reservations at 971 133 795.

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Find a room and make new friends

IF you are looking for a house or flat share a new website puts the search at the tip of your fingers.

Www.mallorcasparerooms.com is the ideal, easy to use, solution for both owners wanting to make some money from their spare room, and prospective tenants looking for somewhere to live anywhere on the island.

Www.mallorcasparerooms.com is a lot more than just a rentals website, it is a way for people who arrive on the island to find a home from home, not just in the area they wish to live but also with like-minded people who share the same interests.

It could be to look for a job, or arrive for a painting course or cycling tours, perhaps to study or to learn Spanish - the list is endless.

The business, based in Palma,

was set up by Louisa Foster, who said: “It is a way for people to come to Mallorca without signing up to an expensive long term contract.

“People come over for a few months to live in an environment they are comfortable in whether it be to do some painting or sailing or whatever.”

Based in Palma, the business was set up after Louisa, who has spent many years involved in the real estate business, realised how difficult it can be to get rented accommodation. She said: “Not everyone wants to rent an apartment on an annual contract.

Many want more flexibility, and do not want to pay hefty charges and fees to estate agents.”

She added that when she moved to Mallorca she wanted a flat share - for her the idea was to

LOUISA: It’s simple and easy. live with Spaniards and learn the language. The germ of an idea was planted, and in February 2014 that idea finally came to fruition when www.mallorcaspare rooms.com was born.

The idea is that people can search for exactly what they want and also find someone with similar interests to live with for

any period of time. It could be for a semi-permanent stay, the choice is up to the tenants and owners, and that flexibility is what the site is all about.

Forget dingy student flat shares, many of the homes to share are outstanding with every imaginable amenity.

Louisa said: “It is a quick and easy way of finding accommodation, without agency fees, and offers the tenant a choice of whom they would like to live with.

“This service also helps newcomers meet new people who perhaps share their hobbies and interests, and it is a great way of making new friends.

“Owners can list their rooms for rent, complete with up to five photos. An online questionnaire then helps them market their

property in a simple, easy way.

“It is a free service to tenants and also owners who wish to rent their spare room, although in the next few months there will be a small charge of €25 to place your room on the website.”

It will remain free until June 1.

The site already has hundreds of people looking and urgently needs more rooms.

If you have a spare room or extra accommodation please consider your local website mallorcasparerooms.com.

All landlords or owners are encouraged to read the landlord’s advice, but for any more information contact info@mallorcasparerooms.co m or contact their Palma office on: 34 686 359 268.

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Spain’s 10 most expensive streets to buy a property SPANISH property website Idealista.com has released a list of the 10 most expensive streets in Spain to buy property.

Spain has two versions of popular board game Monopoly, one for Madrid, on which the most expensive property is in the Paseo de Prado, and the other for Barcelona, where in the game, the Passeig de Gracia tops the list.

However, neither of these tops Idealista.com’s list of the top 10 most expensive streets in the country; in fact, surprisingly, neither city has the most expensive street.

Instead, it has been named as the Paseo de Miraconcha in the Basque city of San Sebastian, overlooking La Concha Beach, with prices of €9,453 per square metre.

The second and third most expensive streets are in Barcelona, in Passeig Garcia Faria, where property would set you back €7,303 per square metre, and at just €350

SAN SEBASTIAN: Most expensive street in Spain. less, the Passeig de Gracia.

The next three are on Madrid’s Golden Mile, and are Calle Velazquez, Calle Ortega y Gasset and Calle Serrano, with prices between €6,260 and €5,962, and the seventh most expensive is also in Madrid, Calle Almagro, where the

price is €5,934 per square metre.

The next is Bilbao’s Paseo Uribitarte, at €5,723, followed again

by Barcelona, where a property in the Carrer de Sentmenat costs €5,598 per square metre, and finally, another Madrid street, Paseo de Pintor Rosales, at €5,450.

BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY: Cave-houses are popular with tourists keen on the outdoor life.

Wish to be a cave-dweller?

AN earth-house is an architectural style characterised by the use of natural terrain.

In Spain, they are known as ‘casas-cueva,’ or cavehouses.

One of the main benefits of cave-houses is their natural insulation, which cools them down in summer and keeps them warm in winter. Most have huge log-burning fires.

One of the areas in Spain where there are most cave-

houses is in the province of Granada. Those in the regions of Guadix and El Marquesado and the BazaHuescar area are particularly famous and have become a huge tourist attraction since many have been refurbished and used as rural accommodation.

Cave-houses have been the traditional homes in this area, where the climate is hot and dry in the summer and extremely cold in the

winter, for centuries, although most were carved in the 19th century by farmworkers.

Nowadays, a good number of foreigners have headed inland to this littleknown area of Granada to purchase cave-houses for a fraction of the cost of a villa in coastal areas.

As well as living in them, they are a great business opportunity, as they are popular amongst tourists who are aware of the

importance of protecting the environment, keen on outdoor sports or simply want to experience something different.

One such opportunity is currently available at La Atalaya complex in Huescar (pictured). For more information, contact lachenni81@yahoo.es.

Prices can start from about €20,000, although the average for a small cave-house is about €50,000.

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White is the new black...

SPAIN, Greece and Italy attract millions of visitors every year to their sun-drenched beaches, but a new Ford Motor Company study on buying trends in Europe shows that residents in some of the region’s hottest countries are among the least likely to buy a new car with a sunroof.

This is one of several findings from Ford Car Buying Trends 2014, a study of new car buying habits in 22 countries across Europe, highlighting regional trends and national differences that both conform to and confound expectations.

The study shows that white surpassed black last year as the most popular car colour across Europe, according to an analysis of more than 500,000 Ford vehicle purchases in Europe in the past year. The fast-growing car colours in recent years have been brown and orange.

“When it comes to car buyers’ tastes there are a few things that remain consistent over the years and many aspects that change and evolve,” said Roelant de Waard, Vice

TOP SELLER: Across Europe the most popular colour is white.

President, Marketing, Sales and Service, Ford of Europe. “We study these changes - and some can be surprising - in order to better serve customers across Europe.”

Among the counterintuitive findings were national preferences for sunroofs.

Buyers in Norway, more known

for snow than sunshine, were the most likely to choose a new Ford with a sunroof (15 per cent) just ahead of France (11 per cent) and Germany (10 per cent). Drivers in sunny countries meanwhile were among the least likely to specify sunroofs: Spain (5 per cent), Italy (3 per cent) and Greece

(2 per cent).

Buyers in chilly Norway were also the most likely to buy a new Ford with automatic air conditioning (80 per cent), ahead of Belgium (77 per cent) and Netherlands (71 per cent). Some of the most likely to buy cars with manual air conditioning were drivers in

sunny Turkey (96 per cent) and Spain (92 per cent).

Not surprisingly, drivers in Scandinavia also were the most likely to specify heated seats, with 99 per cent of Ford cars bought in Sweden, Norway and Finland featuring the technology. Heated seats were rare in Turkey (1 per cent), Greece (2 per cent), and Spain (3 per cent).

The countries whose buyers are most likely to specify a cigarette lighter as part of a smoking pack: Greece (73 per cent), Spain (53 per cent) and Romania (35 per cent).

Across Europe, the most popular colours are white (23 per cent), black (20 per cent) and grey (17 per cent) - with one of the three colours the top choice for every single country except Ireland, Poland and Romania, where silver the fourth most popular colour in Europe (14 per cent) - is the preferred option.

Turkish buyers are far and away the biggest fans of white, with 55 per cent of Ford vehicles purchased in that colour.

Vivaro & Movano debut

THE new Opel light commercial vehicle models have made their first public appearance.

The new Vivaro generation made its debut while the Opel Movano also

presented its powerful, allnew yet exceptionally frugal engines at The Commercial Vehicle Show in Birmingham, UK. The new Opel Vivaro is more practical, more efficient and more appealing than ever before, say the manufacturers.

The second generation combines the functionality of a light commercial vehicle and the benefits of an office on wheels with the comfort and design appeal of a passenger car.

It has everything it takes to succeed: its diverse variants are now longer,

enabling increased load capacity and more generous interior space. Its cabin features state-of-theart IntelliLink infotainment technology with userfriendly navigation, as well as equipment details which quickly transform it into a mobile office.

The new Vivaro is also extremely economical: under its hood are all-new turbo diesel engines which offer reduced fuel consumption as low as 5.7 litres per 100 kilometres, with CO2 emissions down to 149g/km; best-in-class values that also impact

favourably on owners’ wallets.

Because the Movano now also features state-of-theart BiTurbo diesel technology which significantly reduces fuel consumption and emissions values, and thus operating costs.

Like the Vivaro, the Movano is also improved in terms of safety. This includes, for example, ESC fitted as standard, together with a range of driving aids and the blind-spot mirror in the passenger sun visor for greater allround visibility.

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PALMA BOAT SHOW

ATTENDEES: Guy Norrish and Paco Rivas from Marina Estrella. INSET: Queen Sofia.

Curtain Down on a Record-Breaking Palma International Boat Show ON Sunday, after five busy sunny days, the curtain fell on the 31st

edition of the Palma International Boat Show.

Record-breaking in terms of land- and water-based exhibitors, the Show even had a surprise visit from Queen Sofia of Spain.

Marina Estrella has attended every edition of the Show since it started in 1984, Guy Norrish comments, “After hotels, yachting contributes a substantial amount to the Balearic economy and we

now have a Boat Show that reflects this.

The 2012 hiatus actually did the event a world of good and it came back in 2013 with a new format, more visitors and more serious boat buyers.

This trend continued for 2014 as we welcomed a number of clients, old and new, from as far afield as Germany, the UK, Russia and Latin America.

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EXHIBITOR: Beverley Pugh of Raw Food Diet for Life at the show.

31st Boat Show finishes From page 60 Many exhibitors who attended the event have been left happy with the success of the show and

the new business generated. One of those was Dave Allen of Mallorca Batteries, that supplies marine and automobile batteries. He was left very pleased with the trade he picked up.

Guy Morrish continued: “The decision to run the Palma Superyacht Show alongside the mainstream Palma International Boat Show has also proven to be an excellent one. As an exhibitor in the ‘normal’ Show, we are grateful for

the superyacht presence as it adds both profile and interest to the event. It also helps foster continued collaboration between brokers of smaller and larger yachts.

Official reports state that in the region of 32,000 people visited the Show across the five days.

Director of the Boat Show, Chema Sans, said: “Looking beyond the figures, the important thing is the greater amount of business for everyone involved.”

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Sport Mallorca’s best guide to local sport

Win for Marquez Marc Marquez, riding in his 100th MotoGP, won his fourth race of the season here in Spain. Valentino Rossi was second and fellow Spaniard Dani Pedrosa third.

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By Lynda Demangeat THE seventh Mallorca Beach Rugby tournament played on the beach in Magaluf over the weekend was once again a huge success.

Saturday alone saw 162 games of rugby played by 55 teams from nine European nations on seven pitches.

There were a further 79 matches played on Sunday with the knockout

matches in both the men’s and ladies categories for the Cup, Plate, Shield and Wooden Spoon awards. All played in brilliant sunshine and soaring temperatures.

On the down side there were three players taken to hospital; an arm and a leg in plaster and RC Ponent’s Sean Judkins kept in to recover from two cracked vertebrae.

Beach rugby games are fast and furious with five

players in a team on the pitch at one time and using a rolling substitute system. Each match has two halves of four minutes extended to five minutes each way for the finals.

Winners of the Men’s Cup were Charlton Bull Sharks with local team El Toro RC winning the Plate Trophy. The Men’s Shield went to Leicester Storm and the Wooden Spoon to Grove.

In the Women’s competition the Cup was won by Utrecht RC Heroes; the Plate by Las Gazellas and the Shield went to Cheltenham Tigers. Local ladies team El Toro RC were awarded the Wooden Spoon.

GASTON RODERA, FBR.

Mallorca Beach Rugby tournament

RUGBY DAY: For children on the beach.

Although the rugby is important for many of the participants, the weekend’s entertainment in and around the beach and bars in Magaluf is the high point of the tournament and this year did not disappoint.

The date has already been fixed for next year’s eighth Majorca Beach Rugby Tournament to be held on May 2 and 3, 2015 and registration will open during August.

The 13th Rugby Day for the U8, U10 and U12

teams, organised by the Islands Sports Council and co-ordinated by Agora Portals, took place on the beach in Magaluf.

The youngsters enjoyed being the centre of attention of not only their usual supporters, but the many spectators who had arrived to watch the Seniors rugby. They all thoroughly enjoyed the occasion and rounded off the Rugby Day with an ‘all comers’ match, where all ages joined together to play a fun match. Rugby at its sportsmanlike best!

Agora Portals were winners in the U14 competition whilst RC Ponent came out top in the U12, U10 and U8 groups.