Euro Weekly News - Costa Blanca South 15 - 21 May 2014 Issue 1506

ISSUE NO. 1506

15 - 21 MAY 2014

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TORREVIEJA has exceeded its own records for population this month, by hitting the total of 108,000 registered residents.

According to figures released by the Department of Census and Statistics, there were 660 more registered people at the beginning of 2014.

The most striking increase was the number of registered Russian nationals, whose figure has now exceeded 5,000.

This makes it the largest in the country with permanent residence and includes the 110 new Russian residents registered in the last five months.

Of the 108,060 Torrevieja registered residents, the main groups are Spanish 50,721 (46 per cent), British 12,747, German

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3,906 (a drop in both nationalities). Sweden accounts for 3,239, and Morocco 3,077.

In the census results, 116 nationalities are registered as residents.

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Finance 39 - 44 AIRPORT: More than €180million of debt.

Protest against Corvera airport CANDIDATES for the European parliamentary elections from the IUVerdes (IU-Greens) party, Jose Maria Ortega and Maria Marin, have participated in a rally to protest against ‘megalomaniac unsustainable and unnecessary’ policies, and in particular Murcia’s Corvera airport.

Marina and Ortega were accompanied by more than 50 people, including the coordinator of IU-Verdes in the region, Jose Antonio Pujante.

According to Ortega, the target was to denounce the “nonsense” and “injustice”

which is, in his opinion, the “undemocratic planning works and megalomaniac projects” not in the public interest, but solely in the “interest of companies often related to the Partido Popular (PP).”

He described Corvera as “more than €180 million of debt” and called Ramon Luis Valcarcel a “nonsense of a president” who “instead of giving explanation, flees to Brussels and refused to participate in a debate.”

Meanwhile the new President of the Region, Alberto Garres said that Corvera is a viable and sustainable project.

Cruz Roja increases aid by 28.7% MORE than 81,200 people affected by the credit crisis were helped by Cruz Roja in Alicante Province during the past two years.

In 2013, 47,469 people received aid of

some sort, compared to 33,828 in 2012; up 28.7 per cent. According to Cruz Roja these figures are likely to continue growing until at least 2015.

Cruz Roja would particularly like to

highlight the work carried out on Day’ earlier in the month where volunteers gave up their time to This marked 150 years of Cruz presence in the province.

Letters 45

Leapy Lee 55

Daily TV Thu 46 Fri 48 Sat 50

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Health & Beauty 66 - 67

Time out 69 - 72

‘World 7,383 assist.

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Sport 94 - 96

NEWS Change of direction EIGHT newsagents in Alicante have been granted licences to sell sweets and become a cafe.

Crime increase TORREVIEJA crime statistics revealed there were 225 burglaries in the first three months of the year, an increase of 21 per cent compared to 2013.

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More than 300 fraud arrests MORE than 300 people, accused of public administration fraud worth €8 million have been arrested.

Police investigations began in Barcelona, Girona, Lleida, Valencia, Madrid, Caceres and Alicante after companies were identified committing Social Security fraud.

Unfinished business BAD bank Sareb which absorbed nationalised banks’ poisoned assets, will finish 281 partially-built Costa Blanca properties. They were abandoned when developers were overtaken by the crisis.

The Central Unit Against Immigration Networks and Falsified Documents (UCRIF) in Girona detected 12 fictitious companies in Barcelona providing fake work details to foreigners so they could claim benefits or residence permits.

Other investigations identified

three Pakistani men who created fictitious companies, which made fake contracts before ‘laying-off,’ so the ‘workers’ could claim benefits.

Police also identified a chain of ‘companies’ again simulating fake contracts and lay-offs.

COLLABORATION: An important aspect of family life.

Donations needed BLOOD donations dropped in December but rose over Easter and the May Day holiday, according to the Valencian Community Transfusions Centre. Current reserves are sufficient for four days, the Centre said..

Drunk driver A SCHOOL bus driver has been arrested for drink driving in Murcia. He was tested during a routine check on the A-30 near the city and had 13 children on board at the time.

Minute’s silence ALICANTE Town Hall has observed a minute’s silence for the condemnation of the murder of Isabel Carrasco, President of the Provincial Council of Leon.

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Utilities increase ALICANTE City Council is expected to approve a new rate hike of 3 per cent on 11 public services including rubbish collection, sports school, nurseries and services provided at the municipal cemetery.

Dani Martin SINGER Dani Martin kicked off his national tour in Elche to around 4,000 fans who chose the songs he performed.

Cruisers in Alicante THIRTY-FIVE cruise ships with 75,281 passengers will visit Alicante in 2015, the cruise terminal concessionary announced.

Charity day A CHARITY fun day takes place on May 31 at Commercial Centre La Rioja to help raise funds for Reach Out Torrevieja which supports and helps the homeless in the area.

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Dirty beach RESIDENTS of El Pinet have denounced the neglect of municipal cleaning services to the beach which they say is full of bottles, cans, papers, bags and all kinds of garbage.

Two acquitted

Happy families...

TODAY (Thursday) is the International Day of Families, set up by the United Nations in 1992.

The day provides an opportunity to promote awareness of issues relating to families and increase knowledge of the social, economic and demographic processes affecting families.

An important part of family life is collaborating together towards a common goal and in Spain children could be legally obliged to do housework under a new draft law.

Outside the home and school, children and adolescents should ‘respect themselves, the people they interact with and the surroundings in which they live’ and more specifically, ‘respect the environment and help towards its conservation.’

The law also refers to children and adolescents respecting the ‘dignity, integrity and intimacy of everyone they relate to, independently of their age, nationality, race, ethnicity, religion, gender, sexual orientation or identity, disability, physical

Quote of the Week I prefer not to comment, but if you sow winds you reap storms,’ PSdeG-PSOE Councillor of Vilagarcia de Arousa, Pontevedra, Susana Camiño, on her Facebook wall, regarding the death of PP President of Leon, Isabel Carrasco. She was ordered to resign immediately.

or social characteristics, appurtenance to certain social groups or any other personal or social circumstance.’ It also refers to them conserving and making good use of public and private resources, facilities and equipment, urban furnishings and any other infrastructures they might use.

If the Child Protection law is passed, children under 18 will be legally obliged to do household chores ‘in accordance with their age and regardless of their gender,’ as well as participate in family life and respect their parents, siblings and other relatives.

The draft law doesn’t set out penalties for children who fail to fulfil these requirements, but it also specifies that children would have to ‘respect school rules’, ‘study as required’ and ‘maintain a positive attitude about learning.’ Also at school, the law would oblige them to ‘respect their teachers and other staff, as well as their fellow students.’

Number of the week

1,611

pregnant women gathered in Plaza de Callao in Madrid to break the world record of the largest group of pregnant women in one city, a title which was previously held by Barcelona, where 1,189 people gathered last year.

TWO men accused of raiding a CAM branch in Orcheta at gunpoint have been acquitted by an Alicante court. They wore balaclavas making it impossible for witnesses to identify them later, their defence claimed.

Past reconstruction A ROMAN style circus was constructed on Elche’s archaeological site of La Alcudia for a Greco-Roman Theatre Festival which runs until Sunday.

Candle culprit A CANDLE is believed to have been the cause of a fire in an abandoned warehouse in Calle Juan Hernandez, next to Elch’s football stadium.

And finally...

THE Taliban have announced that they will target Afghan interpreters and translators who have worked with the international troops, including the Spanish, in attacks as part of what they say will be a ‘key year’ to get rid of the ‘infidel invaders’ from their country.

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Recycling plant goes up in flames FIFTEEN firefighters and 11 fire engines were called to battle a blaze at a recycling and waste treatment plant between Abanilla and La Murada.

Fires crews came from across Murcia to fight the fire in the Proambiente

plant for nine hours with their efforts hampered due to the content of the plant which was feeding the flames.

Firefighters remained on the scene overnight to continue dampening down and cooling the plant.

Kennels investigated KENNELS in Mazarron are being investigated for an alleged crime of animal cruelty.

The company which is responsible for the collection of animals in the town, is accused of mistreatment of the pets. Seprona agents are carrying out an investigation after complaints were made by witnesses who said the kennels abused and mistreated the animals and locked them in cages all day without any water.

Emergency landing in Pilar A SMALL plane was forced to make an emergency landing in Pilar de la Horadada.

The plane was travelling from Murcia to Vineros and, for reasons as yet unknown, was losing altitude. The pilot crash-landed in a flat area in CaĂąada de Praes.

The pilot and his passenger escaped with minor injuries.

SEIZED: Missiles and explosives stored in home.

ARSENAL: An array of handguns and rifles.

A SECURITY guard has been accused of legally buying an arsenal of weapons to sell on the black market to criminal gangs.

The 52-year-old attended a Guardia Civil

In addition they found several types of explosives and missiles.

The prosecution is calling for a 10-year prison sentence for an alleged crime of illegal possession of arms, ammunition and

More than 100 guns found at home of security guard arms’ action where he purchased several firearms. National Police officers later discovered 140 handguns and rifles at his home in the Los Angeles neighbourhood of Alicante City.

other illegal weapons.

Two other men are also accused of being involved in the crimes, allegedly acting as middlemen between the buyer of the weapons and the criminal gangs.

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Van in collision with six vehicles A VAN left a trail of destruction after it crashed into six parked vehicles in Torrevieja.

The accident happened in the city centre when the truck was travelling down Calle Azorin and collided with a row of parked cars at the crossroads with Calle Paz.

The force of the impact meant that the parked vehicles were shunted along to the point where the last car moved on to the crossroads, hitting an oncoming vehicle.

The 48-year-old driver of the van, a resident of Elche, was assisted by firefighters in leaving the vehicle and taken to Torrevieja Hospital with a slight head injury.

The accident happened early in the evening and the road reopened the following morning after rescued the man, who later the damaged vehicles died in hospital. were removed.

Alicante climber dies in cliff fall A MAN from Alicante has died after falling off a cliff in the Sierra Nevada.

The 41-year-old was climbing several hundred feet high in an area known as the Corral del Veleta in the Granada town of Monachill when he fell.

Troops from the Special Branch of Mountain Rescue and Intervention (Sereim) and a Civil Guard helicopter attended the scene and

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Lorca remembers LORCA has marked the third anniversary of the earthquake with people gathering at San Francisco Church to remember the nine people who died in the natural disaster.

Fire death A MAN has died and another four people were injured in a house fire in Puri, Lorca. The 76-yearold man died from smoke inhalation.

Town tribute ORIHUELA Town Hall held a minute’s silence to mark the death of Isabel Carrasco, President of Leon Provincial Government, who was murdered on Monday.

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Torrevieja unites to mark European Day TORREVIEJA is a “living example of tolerance, peace, integration, unity and harmony among citizens of each of the 27 member states of the European Union and the rest of the world.”

These were the words of Mayor Eduardo Dolon as hundreds gathered in the Plaza de la Constitucion to mark European Day. The proceedings began with Scottish Piper Willie Hume providing the musical introduction to the formal ceremony headed by the mayor, joined by Councillor for Foreigners, Rosario Martinez, Head of the Office of International Residents (OARI) Jean Paul Molero and the former head of the OARI, Graham Knight. They

EUROPEAN DAY: EU flag flies in Torrevieja.

were accompanied by four local children of English, Swedish, German and Italian origin who each read a speech in Spanish and their native language.

Mayor Dolon addressed the audience, thanking them for their presence and highlighting how cosmopolitan Torrevieja is with everyone living together in unity and harmony.

Following the speeches, the flag of the EU was raised while the European Anthem - Ode to Joy was played.

Europe Day is celebrated throughout the EU every year on May 9, marking the anniversary of the historical Schuman Declaration in 1950, which was the first step to an integrated Europe

Ikea controversy THE EU has described as ‘shameful’ the report by the General Director for Trade which validates Ikea as a strategic action, generating a direct investment of €367 million, 4,400 direct employment opportunities and an additional 2,000 jobs during construction.

EU representative Esther Lopez Barcelo and municipal representative Miguel Angel Pavon criticised the report, saying it “makes no reference to the impact of trade on macro surface activity, small businesses and employment.”

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First hearing for violent robbers TWO Russians have made their first appearance in court, accused of robbery, violence, injury and the false imprisonment of a Torrevieja couple.

The prosecution is seeking 57 years in total for the pair who allegedly entered the couple’s home and attacked them in order to steal jewellery, cash and weapons.

The first defendant has denied that the photos of jewellery on his hard drive were his and said during the trial that the shoes found with the victims’ blood, although his, could not have been involved. He also denied that a CCTV image was him. He claimed the duct tape, crowbars and other tools found at his home were owned by workmen.

The second defendant denied any part in the assault as well as ownership of any photos on the hard drive. He said they had been passed to him from Moscow to sell on in Spain.

The case is continuing.

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Valencia patients have longer wait ACCORDING to a complaint by union UGT, only 24 per cent of patients in the Valencian Community get an appointment within 24 hours, while in Castilla y Leon that figure is a healthier 66 per cent.

The complaint was in response to a

report compiled by the Ministry of Health. It also notes that only 13.7 per cent of patients get an appointment with a specialist within 15 days, unlike the 25.4 per cent in Navarra.

The report also claims that for specialist care (diagnostic tests), patients in the Valencia Region wait about 97 days, compared to Murcia’s 54.

‘Historic’ drought for Alicante Tap test ALICANTE’S dry spell has been described by the Laboratory of Climatology as ‘historic’ and ‘Sahara-like’.

Just seven litres of water per square metre was recorded between January and April.

This is the lowest figure since records began and is just half of the previous record period, 1893, when 13 litres were recorded between January and April.

The head of the Laboratory of Climatology at the University of Alicante and Professor of Geographical Analysis, Jorge Olcina, described the situation as “becoming worrisome” because “we have never had a start to the year with so little rain.”

AIGUES d’Elx, the company which monitors water quality in Elche, has launched a new programme for duplicate testing.

Water quality was already being tested inside the water network, but a new plan has introduced water testing at the end user’s property from the taps as well.

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Feed the children THE platform against poverty is warning that social exclusion is occurring amongst one in three children in Alicante.

Their latest report was made public at a conference at Alicante University. It said one in four people are in poverty and one in three children have difficulty in getting a good daily meal and being able to afford school supplies. The platform and parents’ federation are calling on schools to open canteens even during the holidays to ensure children are fed.

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Septic shock study SEVEN Valencian hospitals are to undertake a clinical trial to demonstrate the effectiveness of a technique in reducing mortality from infection among patients admitted to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU).

“The trial will look at patients with septic shock due to an infection that

usually begins at a particular point and that spreads through the blood to cause multiple organ failure,” said Rafael Carrasco, Head of ICU at Hospital Vinalopo. He said currently there is no effective drug that succeeds in reducing the mortality rate to below 50 per cent.

The intention is to recruit professionals and 190 patients for the study and apply technical testing for two years demonstrating a procedure called Coupled Plasma Filtration Absorption (CPFA). It works in a similar way to dialysis to filter harmful substances from the blood.

New containers for oil collection and recycling TWENTY specialist containers have been installed in Torrevieja and the surrounding urbanisations to deal with the collection of domestic oil.

It is part of a campaign by the city, in collaboration with the SEGOLEO foundation and solid waste collection ACCIONA to install bins for the collection of cooking oils for recycling and to reduce the pollution caused by the oils as well as damage to pipelines.

The collected oil will be turned in to a valuable biodiesel fuel.

An information campaign will be conducted at tomorrow’s (Friday) market in Torrevieja to explain how to deposit waste oil correctly.

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Top tram THE TRAM moved 815,434 passengers in April across Alicante.

Line Two, which connects Luceros and San Vicente del Raspeig, was the most used with 299,291 travellers.

Not a drop AROUND 8,000 people around the villages and municipalities of Elche were left without water after a leak occurred in the irrigation system in Crevillente.

Wage rise

OIL COLLECTION: 20 new containers are installed around Torrevieja.

SAN MIGUEL’S Tax Councillor has had his €593 monthly salary increased to €1,200 net in line with his ‘degree of responsibility’.

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Ministry will spy on bank accounts

Leon PP leader shot dead

THE Spanish Government has revealed plans to collect data on all of the country’s 34 million bank accounts.

The move, said to be a bid to crack down on money laundering and the funding of terrorist activity, has drawn widespread criticism.

The government will be setting up an archive of data on the financial activity of all Spaniards and residents in Spain, according to national daily El País.

Banks in Spain will have to supply details of all personal and business current accounts, savings accounts and fixed-term accounts they hold to the Secretary of State for the Economy. Allegedly, the Tax Office, the Military, the General Council of the Judiciary and the Secret Service will then be able to access this stored information.

Spain’s politicians and highranking officials will also see their finances come under closer scrutiny.

It is hoped that this will aid the country in tackling corruption.

Supposedly, the account information will only be able to be accessed with a court order.

Once this information has been requested, a number of officials including judges, prosecutors, police officers and intelligence agents will have access to the accounts, assets and deposit accounts included in this database.

France and Germany have already adopted similar systems to combat corruption. The new rules are in line with the anti-money laundering recommen-dations of the 35-country Financial Action Task Force. Legal experts and consumer groups have voiced damning criticisms, questioning confidentiality laws and pointing out that tax-dodgers will just move all their financial assets abroad, to tax havens.

An account into which a significant number of people make deposits will be regarded as ‘suspicious.’

Transactions over €1,000 will be flagged if deemed suspicious, while all transactions over €30,000 can be checked. According to the rules, transfers of over €3,000 a month will also be checked.

Spain’s Economy Ministry has two years to implement the project.

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THE president of Leon Provincial Government, Isabel Carrasco, 59, died on Monday, after being shot several times by a woman near her home.

According to witnesses, Carrasco, who was also President of the Conservative Partido Popular (PP) in the province since 2004, was on a walkway over the Bernesga River when she was shot at least three times.

National Police have arrested two women, a mother and daughter, aged 55 and 35, for their alleged involvement in the killing.

Both women are members of the PP and police believe that they may have acted out of revenge since the younger woman lost her position in the provincial government. The women are the wife and daughter of the Police Chief in Astorga.

The younger woman had recently learned that she had lost a lawsuit against the provincial government and had been sentenced to pay back amounts which she had been paid as a temporary worker. It is believed the shots were fired by her mother.

Mayor of Leon Emilio Gutierrez expressed the city’s ‘pain and consternation’ over the death.

All PP electoral activities which were planned on Monday were cancelled, as well as a meeting on Tuesday in Valladolid, which Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy was due to attend. Instead he travelled to Leon to take part in a minute’s silence in honour of Carrasco.

The opposition Socialist party PSOE sent their condolences and also suspended electoral activities, while their campaign coordinator, Oscar Lopez, travelled to Leon.

ON THE LOOKOUT: Guardia Civil will enforce the new laws.

Spain’s new traffic laws now in effect

ALL drivers in Spain are being advised to familiarise themselves with the new traffic laws which have now come into force.

Some of the new laws include: If the Guardia Civil observe a motoring offence and note the vehicle registration number, this provides sufficient evidence to prosecute. There is no need to stop the vehicle.

There will be a fine of €600 and a loss of six points for a ‘very serious’ speeding offence.

There is a loss of six points and a fine of €500 for lesser speeding offences.

Speeding fines can apply for exceeding the limit by just one kilometre per hour.

On some motorways the speed limit is being increased from 120kph to 130kph.

However, in some towns the speed limit is being reduced from 30kph to 20kph.

If a radar inhibitor/speed camera detector of any sort is installed in the car, the fine is anything up to €6,000 and the loss of six points.

A fine of €1,800 will be levied if the car has been involved in a serious or very serious offence and the national police authority (DGP) is not notified of who was driving the car.

There will be no loss of points for this.

If the vehicle weighs less than 3,500 kilos and has no valid insurance the

fine will be €1,500; no loss of points, but the vehicle will be immobilised for one month. If the vehicle is parked and has no insurance then the fine is €800.

If the driver doubles the legal alcohol limit, is a frequent offender or refuses to take a breath test then there is a loss of six points and a fine of €1,000. There will also be a loss of four points for a driver who is over the alcohol limit but without doubling it. The same applies for driving under the influence of drugs.

Strict rules are being implemented for the Spanish registration of foreign registered vehicles in Spain.

Assistant Producer Bob Gillies visited the area to research venues for the show, and was spotted in Benidorm.

Gillies explained that Michelinmagnet Ramsay is on the lookout for different types of eateries, from restaurants to hotels and take-away kiosks.

The only requirements are that the venues

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UK CELEBRITY chef Gordon Ramsay and his team are heading to the Costa Blanca to search for contestants for the sixth series of hit TV show ‘Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares.’

Producer Nicola Lloyd said: “This series will see Gordon travel to Europe’s holiday hotspots to help Britowned establishments.”

Recently, the show’s

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Gordon Ramsay coming to Costa Blanca

NIGHTMARE: Ramsay on the way for new show. serve food, and are Brit-owned.

The new series of the

show is due to start filming towards the end of May.

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Winegrowers in Valencia at war WINEGROWERS in Valencia are incensed after a new designation of origin (DO) was passed, allowing

neighbouring areas to claim their wine as being Valencian.

Winemakers have been angered by the decision and have shown their displeasure to the High Court in Valencia.

The wine industry is very proud of its grapes and feels that its reputation could be affected.

MORE than 240,000 Valencia residents will benefit this On the one hand, year from €40.7 million in regional deductions from some believe there is their tax bills. a logical reason for the The announcement was made this week by the classification, to minister and chief of the tax office in Valencia, Manuel improve prices and Javier Cabrera, who added that the discounts will most profitability. Producers benefit those in the middle and lower earning Utiel-Requena warned thresholds. The main points in the deductions include that Valencia had lost an increase from 30 per cent to 50 per cent deduction vineyards and producfor large families and the deduction for the purchases tion in recent decades, of school supplies where families have one so large exporters have unemployed parent. to source where they “The Government is on the side of the taxpayers”, can. Conversely, some said Cabrera: “the reconciliation of family life, the feel this waters down disabled and to boost economic activity. It is necessary the brand of Valencian to combine budget strategy with active fiscal policies wines and that it is that address growth and certain personal situations.” misleading customers.

Tax bill savings for for many families

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Clampdown on child truancy AFTER a groundbreaking agreement between an Alicante judge, the Consell and the Department of Education of Alicante, the parents of an illiterate 14year-old have avoided jail following an urgent agreed programme of education

Earthquake link to gas THE report by the National Geographical Institute (IGN) on seismic activity in the vicinity of the Castor project off the Valencia coastline has concluded there is a ‘direct relationship’ between the 400 earthquakes that occurred in September 2013 and injecting gas.

The study also reveals the existence of a fault line in the Gulf of Valencia area was not taken into account in determining the danger of the Castor offshore rig.

for the teenager.

More teachers will also be at the child’s school offering motivational workshops combined with special needs education to help prevent the youngster from feeling discriminated against.

German jobs for Alicante’s workers FEMPA, the Federation of Metal Industry of the Province of Alicante, has begun a selection process to offer workers jobs and training in Germany in the areas of electrical, electronic, air conditioning and plumbing.

Fempa run their own programmes offering training and work experience and today (Thursday) will see the first group of 20 young people, aged between 18 and 32, fly from Alicante-Elche airport to Germany to continue study in the city of Nürtingenen. The multinational Heinrich Schmid has fully subsidised the students to take a German course of four teaching units and following completion may be offered a job with the company on a salary of €26,000 per year.

The family have been ordered to monitor their child’s progress or face a six month prison sentence.

The irregular situation of the child, who has four siblings, was detected in 2009 as one of the other children failed to enrol at

school and the case of the 14-year-old was then discovered and said to be even more serious. In court the parents argued “severe economic hardship” and “deception” of the child, but the judge blamed them for “abandonment of the child.”

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Exciting colours LEADING companies in Europe are turning their gaze towards the University of Alicante and specifically the ‘Vision and Colour Science Faculty.’

Market leaders such as Audi, BASF, Saint-Gobain and Merck are working with the research group on more exciting ways to use colour and textures to create dramatic results on cars, in cosmetics and currently increased security on banknotes.

Glitter and three dimensional colour effects can increase consumer appeal.

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Vote for a political change RESIDENTS in Camposol, Mazarron, have launched a new political party.

In a bid to tackle the longstanding problems of the urbanisation, which residents say the political administrations have

shown little interest in, they have formed their own party in a proactive approach to finding a solution.

The Partido Independiente de Camposol y Distrito (CDiP) will run in the Mazarron elections in

May 2015 and hope to get at least four CDiP councillors within the town hall.

Their main manifesto includes plans to ensure Camposol receives adequate funding to meet the needs of the urban-

isation and a fair distribution of resources.

CDiP say residents must now make sure they are enrolled on the Mazarron padron and register their intention to vote at the next local election and vote next May.

Murcia go to Italy

Barcelona helps Elche pay debts ELCHE Football Club expected to take €1 million thanks to the team’s match against Barcelona at the weekend.

The match saw a full stadium for the first time this season, allowing the club to be able to settle it’s most pressing debts such as paying staff and wages of the youth teams.

Unlike the Elche-Real Madrid match earlier this season where nonmembers paid from €110 to €180 and season-ticket holders were charged between €30 and €60, prices were set deliberately low for the Barcelona

ELCHE CROWDS: Full house means club could settle some debt. game bring with from ticket

in a in the tickets €15 for holders.

bid to crowds, starting season-

Their nil-nil draw against Barcelona was enough to ensure Elche remains in the First Division.

MURCIA’S tourism board is in Milan, Italy, to promote the region’s tourism at the ‘La Spagna a Milano’ event.

Last year Italian visitors were the fourth highest to the region, providing over 12,000 guests, 22 per cent more than in 2012.

The Milan event is on until Sunday and will see Aguilas promote their annual carnival and hand out free samples of their local drink ‘cuerva’ and San Javier will present their ‘pastel de cierva,’ a pie typical of the Mar Menor.

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Air challenge for the AVE AIRLINES Air Europa and Iberia have decided to compete with the offers of the high-speed AVE train from Alicante to Madrid by announcing some cheap fares of their own in a bit to boost dwindling passenger numbers.

Air Europa will fly daily from Alicante to Madrid at 12.30pm and 8.25pm and from Barajas Madrid at 6.50am and 2.45pm with prices from â‚Ź70 return.

Iberia has introduced a special rate of â‚Ź35 per journey, for three flights each way per day ELCHE COUNCIL has between Alicante and put forward a plan to Madrid. connect the city with the Mediterranean railway corridor.

It is part of the layout plans already submitted by Alicante City Council and the port and will take the infrastructure through Elche including a partial underground project.

Elche link plans

Farmers recycle more MURCIAN farmers recycled 219,430 kilos of agricultural packaging in 2013, 41,902 kilos more than in 2012.

In Murcia there are 86 collection points at which farmers must deliver their containers; either plastic, cardboard boxes or paper bags, as well as products including pesticides and fertilisers. Farmers are then given a receipt attesting to their proper management, showing they are complying with the law.

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May Fair now on in Torrevieja TORREVIEJA’S May Fair is now underway in the port area of the city.

The festivities are on until Sunday and are a posthumous tribute to Lolita

Sevilla. The singer and actress who died in December 2013 was the ‘adoptive’ daughter of Torrevieja.

Numerous events are

taking place over the weekend. Today (Thursday) sees the semi-final of the second Sevillanas Dance Contest take place in aid of the NGO Nueva Fraterni-

‘Nurses a force for change, a vital health resource’ TO mark International Day of Nursing and Hypertension, the Chiron hospital chain is this week offering free blood pressure checks.

In Murcia they will have an information table with nurses offering free blood pressure checks all this week from 11am-1pm, until Saturday under the campaign theme titled ‘Nurses a force for change; a vital health resource.’

The Director of Nursing at Chiron Hospital Murcia, Oscar Bolluosa, said: “Nursing is increasingly better educated and offers specialised health service and

excellence. Nurses also represent the largest group of health professionals with a large responsibility for the improvement and the achievement of the prevention and advancement of our health.”

Hypertension is a major risk factor for cardiovascular disease and nurses develop a fundamental role in the field of prevention, detection, treatment and monitoring of the hypertension.

dad. At 9.30pm there is a Flamenco Dancing Show by Academy Lola Morales and at 10.30pm, music and dance by ‘Los Duendes.’

Tomorrow (Friday) sees

the second semi-final of the Sevillanas Dance Contest take place. At 9.30pm there is a dance show by pupils of the Municipal Dance School and at 11pm a performance in homage to Lolita Sevilla.

Saturday is the popular horse parade from the church square to the fair area until 4pm.

From 9pm, dance

shows take place until midnight.

On Sunday, the horse parade runs 11am-4pm with an equestrian show at the harbour from midday (free). The final of the Sevillanas Dance Contest is at 7pm with more entertainment from 9pm.

The fair will close at midnight.

MAY FAIR: Traditional horse parades take place on Saturday and Sunday.

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Residents should be cautious A GROUP of residents on the Orihuela Costa have formed an organisation with the aim of preventing crime.

This partnership brings together more than 131 homes on both Orihuela Costa and the Urbanisation Laguna Green development.

It comes after the warning of a high number of thefts occurring in homes because the residents themselves are keeping their windows open or partially open, making it easier for opportunist thieves.

The international residents said they want to warn residents and visitors to ensure safety in the area. They said it has been years since any sort of crime spate, but from May to October a total of 70 thefts were reported.

EUROPEAN CLUB: Received Scandinavian award for quality and service.

European Club receives award

A CHARITY gala, organised by the newly created ‘European Club Costa Blanca South’ took place in the setting of the Real Club de Golf, Campoamor.

The event had the honour of the presidency and participation of Ambassador to Sweden, Cecilia Julin, the Mayor of Torrevieja, Eduardo Dolon and the Mayor of Orihuela, Monserrate Guillen.

The ceremony was also

attended by the Swedish Consul in Torrevieja.

The president of the European Club, Victor del Campo Yllera, presented the new club which was born with the aim of promoting nationally and internationally, the excellence of companies and professionals on the southern Costa Blanca.

They also want to promote the quality of life of the area and particularly residential and

health tourism.

Mayor of Torrevieja, Eduardo Dolon, addressed all attendees and congratulated the creators of the club as they received a Kvalitet Award; a Scandinavian Service and Quality Award.

Air base free tours SAN JAVIER air base has launched a new series of guided tours.

The visits are free and follow on from the success of last year’s tours around the base and military academy.

This year, they mark the 75th anniversary of the founding of the Spanish Air Force.

The tours begin at 7.30am and run tomorrow (Friday) and the following two Fridays; May 23 and May 30.

Interest must be registered at the town hall, call 968 571 704.

Widows gather TORREVIEJA is hosting the National Assembly of CONFAV (Federation and Confederation of Associations of Widows Hispania) this weekend.

Around 800-900 people are expected to attend the 42nd conference which is taking place at the International Music Auditorium and opens on Saturday at 10am.

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Tapas route ESTABLISHMENTS interested in taking part in the fifth Tapas Route of Santa Pola, proposed to take place in June should register by end of today (Thursday) at the Tourist Information offices.

Culture week SANTA POLA has hosted the 18th edition of Cultural Week of the Third Age at the town’s Casa de Cultura.

Bollywood in Quesada THE Spice Hut, Quesada is hosting a cooking and banghra dancing demonstration on May 23 at midday. A raffle will raise funds for the children's home in Elche. Tickets €8.90.

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Second honeymoon for winners MARION and John Boniface were the lucky winners of a Mediterranean Cruise; a raffle prize donated

by Andres, owner of El Alto La Dolores Restaurante in Guardamar.

Marion’s face was one of utter disbelief when her raffle number

was called out and she and John now plan a second honeymoon for their wedding anniversary.

The cruise was first prize in a raffle held by Smile Charity Group at another successful fundraiser.

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SECOND HONEYMOON: Marion and John Boniface,win a cruise from El Alto owner, Andres and restaurant manager, Cornel. and a new, young talent Benny.

From the night €450 is set aside for Reach Out Charity which supports the homeless in Torrevieja. Their next fundraising evening is May 29 when entertainment will be by, the

ever popular, Woody & The Peckers including a Buddy Holly Tribute.

Tickets: El Alto La Dolores; The Post Room, Benijofar and The Card Place in Benimar, €10 with a meal.

A cruise will be the raffle prize.

A sweet charity show not to be missed TICKETS are now on sale for Studio 32’s production of Sweet Charity.

Set in a dance hall in New York, it is a bittersweet and often humorous story of Charity Hope Valentine (played by Stefanie Lohse), a dance hall hostess who falls in love too easily.

The story centres on Charity’s love relationship with a neurotic man, Oscar (played by John Lockwood), whom she meets when they get trapped in an elevator.

There are many colourful characters in the musical including Vittorio Vidal, an ageing screen heart-throb, his long suffering girlfriend Ursula, dance hall hostesses Nickie and Helene and Herman the owner of a sleazy nightclub.

Daddy Brubeck and his hippy friends complete the line-up. The show is filled with energetic songs and dances, including ‘Big Spender’ and ‘Rhythm of Life.’

This production is brought to Cardinal Belluga

Theatre, San Fulgencio by arrangement with Tams-Witmark Music Library, Inc. New York, and can be seen June 5-7 at 7.30pm. Doors open 7pm.

Tickets are €6 available from selected outlets or by calling Ann on 966 318 019, email liz@alph9.co.uk or call Merf on 966 711 137, email merfdi@hotmail.com.

The beneficiary from the show will be the Alzheimer’s Association of San Fulgencio.

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The crazy ladies dancing IF you have never seen The Crazy Ladies tap dance then you will be in for a treat when you do.

This group of ladies put on a highly trained, professional and entertaining show and

are available to perform for you whether it be a charity event or a social party.

On May 28 they are at the Asturias Restaurant in Punta Prima as part of a fashion show in aid of Alzheimer’s Association.

The show starts at 7pm, tickets cost €5 available from the AFA shop in Torrevieja, the Asturias Restaurant, or by calling Susan on 966 189 513.

For more information on The Crazy Ladies call Georgie on 968 171 356.

Alan Davies 7’s weekend ON Saturday the Alan Davies memorial 7’s rugby tournament takes place in Elche.

The event has been run every year to remember what Alan Davies did for local rugby here in Spain.

He was Shane Williams’ junior coach and two teams from Wales are playing.

Ten men’s teams are taking part as well as four women’s teams. Kick off is 9.30am at Elche rugby ground. Call Garry on 692 767 242.

DONATION: Pink Ladies Carole Weaver and Karen Williams receive the donation from the Dolores Peacocks Patanca group.

Donation boost for the AECC COSTA BLANCA residents have been busy raising money for the AECC cancer charity and president of the Torrevieja branch, Maria Wilson, and her Pink Ladies have collected various amounts of money: The Dolores Peacocks Patanca club raised €405 and Bar Kenz in La Siesta raised €570. Maria and the Pink Ladies then collected €2,000 from JP’s bar/restaurant in Mil Palmeras from the annual Bike For Life event which saw

over 100 cycle 10km in aid of cancer and the AECC. Cycles were provided by David at The Bike Shop.

Registrations are now being taken for the annual Pink Ladies Walk For Life that takes place on June 1 at the Playa Flamenca promenade in front of Surfers Bar for the fifth consecutive year.

For details of registration email info@pinkladies.es or call 633 673 723, 633 487 595 or 634 352 807.

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She did it again THERE was a standing ovation for Stefanie Lohse at her Power of Music concert at the Music School Auditorium in Los Montesinos.

After a two-hour performance, the teenager sang a German song ‘Atemlos’ and Roy Orbison’s ‘Penny’. Stefanie sang ‘Arcade’ as an encore which brought the audience to their feet.

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Specsavers style event SPECSAVERS in Guardamar del Segura is celebrating its second anniversary and offering advice on looking great in glasses with a birthday and styling event.

It takes place in store on Wednesday from 11am-3pm and aims to be a fun event for all the community including live music from Valentino Duo from 12-1pm. A prize draw will also take place to win a pair of designer glasses, and refreshments and snacks are available throughout the day.

ENCORE: Stefanie performs with Touch-of-Class. and Italian ballads and West End musical hits. She

Go grease lightning MEMBERS of Stagestruck are in final rehearsals for their production ‘Ancient Grease’.

Danny Zucco, Sandy, Frenchy and all the characters from the original show ‘Grease’ meet up in a Benidorm care home where they are all older but certainly no wiser. The show is on at the Cardinal Beluga Theatre May 29-31.

Tickets cost €6, call 965 076 700 or 693 231 472.

was accompanied by the dancers of Touch-of-Class.

The evening was in aid of needy people in the Los Montesinos area and Stefanie donated a hospital bed and a mattress as well as €350 in food vouchers to the Social Services Department in Los Montesinos.

Stefanie’s next Power of Music concert will be on May 25 at 7.30pm at the Cardenal Beluga Theatre in San Fulgencio. For tickets call 633 019 041.

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Spain launches Miss Gypsy competition A MISTER and Miss Gypsy competition has been launched in Spain.

The competition, which claims to be beneficial to young gypsies because it judges contestants on intelligence as well as looks, is being organised by the Northern Flamenco Association in Madrid.

The pageant, which is currently holding auditions in the capital, includes typical beauty contest elements but also judges

on other factors such as education, interests, personality and ambitions.

According to its organisers, the competition is a response to the reduced opportunities which gypsies in Spain receive.

The competition aims to persuade gypsy girls that there is more to life than marrying young and having children.

Maria Jimenez, of the Northern Flamenco Association, is involved in

organising the contest, which she hopes will encourage young gypsy women to be more independent.

Ms Jimenez said: “For a gypsy woman, the aim is always just to get married very young, at 14 or 15, and have children.

“I want the gypsy woman to study and become independent so she doesn't depend on her husband to give her €10 so she can eat.”

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La gente As part of our series La Gente, Euro Weekly News reporter Gemma Quinn has been out and about to see what skills, talent and inspirational people can be found on the Costa Blanca.

This week she met a ‘groundbreaking’ author...

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ORMER lecturer Dr Ian C Hale has written a new book on autism and Asperger syndrome, which has been described as ‘groundbreaking’ for its interest in and connection with the subject and being an easy to read, informative book without any medical jargon.

For Ian, the book’s subject was one which was very personal to him, having been diagnosed with autism and Asperger syndrome, meaning AUTHOR: Dr Ian C Hale. he could include his own experiences and anecdotes.

“There achievements, was a lot of this fascinating Ian has now academic literature and highly turned his att ention to helping cre around but I intelligent man ate a new an d exclusive - he is a social media wanted to make it network. Voxs n.com was more accessible to created to an member of swer the nee d s people with Mensa (someo f cl ients aged over 18 who want an autism and one with uncluttered, friendly and p Asperger’s and Asperger’s rivate environment to discuss an their families, so I typically has an d share interest wrote something that IQ 10 points s and to conduct busin is scientifically accurate higher than their ess. but also personal,” he said, peers) - needed some adding: “I’ve had that much persuasion to put pen to feedback, I know it is being well paper. received and that it has made a “It was actually a bet,” he explained. “A difference.” friend bet me to write it in 365 days. I Ian, originally from Bristol and now took 366 days, but I knew once I started living on the Costa Blanca, was it, I would finish.” It was released as an diagnosed with autism at a relatively e-book to keep costs minimal and was an young age, but Asperger’s came much immediate hit in the USA and Britain, and later. He achieved his teaching licence at Indonesia also picked it up. the former Bath College of Higher “An autism specialist in America read it Education and subsequently a Master’s and said I had hit my target audience, degree from Bath Spa University and which made me laugh as I did not have Doctorate from UNESCO. a target audience. I just wanted to reach Between these he worked at Bath people, uncover the history of these College for some years, gaining conditions with examples of famous experience across the curriculum, autistic and Asperger’s achievers such as including in the Special Education Isaac Newton, Van Gogh and Bill Gates, Department. He then went on to study and show both sides of living with the medicine and genetics, before penning conditions in a humorous, hopeful way.”

Ian’s book can be purchased via The Insider’s Guide to Autism and Asperger’s. But despite his professional Amazon or www.ianchalephd.com.

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HOTEL ALGARROBICO: Blot on the landscape.

Hotel painted black GREENPEACE environmentalists have painted part of the facade of the Hotel Algarrobico in Cabo de Gata black to symbolise that the building is a black mark on the coastline.

Activists have demanded the immediate demolition of the building, which stands half finished due to what Greenpeace describes as a deliberately-created “judicial mess” that has served to shield the Junta de Andalucia regional government.

The Carboneras hotel in Almeria Province is highly controversial as it sits in Almeria’s Cabo de Gata nature reserve, on what was previously an unspoilt area of coastline.

Around 100 activists were on the site of the Azata-built hotel, which has been the

focus of a decade-long legal battle.

Greenpeace has indicated that the Algarrobico “is an internationally recognised example of the impunity with which building work has been taken on the coast of the country in recent years” and laments its construction, which it says is illegal and goes against environmental planning regulations.

According to the organisation this is the sixth action that has taken place over the hotel and the site where most activists have participated in the history of Greenpeace in Spain.

The protesters are arguing for the Junta de Andalucia and the Environment Ministry to demolish the hotel and restore the area to its natural state.

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16 on trial for Briton’s death

THE trial of 16 people for the death of Briton Stephen Mallon, 49, in Competa, in June 2009, is due to be held in Malaga Provincial Court at the end of May. The public prosecutor is asking for 12 years in prison for one of the accused.

Stephen Mallon, a Bournemouth roofer originally from Glasgow had travelled to his holiday home in the village with twin sons Carl and Peter to celebrate their 17th birthday. The two boys and two of their friends were also injured, as well as a man who came to their assistance.

On June 5, 2009, a fight involving at least 30 people, mostly aged between 18 and 25, broke out at bar La Estrella after a young man set upon one of the twins, who had allegedly been flirting with his ex-girlfriend.

Bottles and flowerpots

were thrown and the fight turned into a riot. The bar’s owner attempted to throw out the offenders, but without success.

During the scuffle, which Stephen reportedly attempted to break up, he fell from a five-metre wall.

His family says he was lifted by three men and thrown over the edge, but others say he lost his balance during the brawl and fell. Despite being seriously injured, the accused continued to beat and kick him. He died in hospital on June 17, 2009.

Although 10 people were identified as having taken part in the brawl, police were unable to convince anyone in the village to come forward.

Thirteen of the accused are facing a year in prison, two of them face four years, and one, charged with manslaughter, is facing 12 years.

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Lost painting by Van Gogh found in Spain A PAINTING by Dutch PostImpressionist artist Van Gogh that has been missing for 40 years has reportedly been recovered in Spain.

Reports are indicating that tax collectors who were going through the contents of a safe-deposit box discovered the long-lost work.

The artwork, titled ‘Cypress, Sky and Country,’ disappeared from the

Kunsthistorisches Art Museum in Vienna.

Spanish newspaper El Mundo has reported that the painting, which they say was found in December, measures just over 1ft by 1ft.

According to the authorities the landscape painting, which is dated 1889, bears three seals on its

back, indicating that the work resided in different museums throughout the 20th century.

The most recent mark appears to be from the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna.

The safe-deposit box was one of hundreds targeted by Spanish officials in an in-depth tax-evasion investigation.

Cocaine sandwich arrest in Benidorm NATIONAL POLICE have arrested a Colombian man after he was found to be carrying a drug-stuffed ham and cheese sandwich.

The snack had a somewhat unhealthy filling - 100 grammes of cocaine. Police arrested the 29-year-old man at a Benidorm bus station after they suspected him of

UNHEALTHY SNACK: Cocaine, ham and cheese. drug trafficking.

Spain’s National Police

released a photo showing the sandwich with nine

small cylindrical plastic capsules spread over cured ham and cheese.

Police found over a kilo of cocaine in the man’s Benidorm home as well as marihuana. They also detained his room-mate, a 20-year-old Colombian national. Spain’s close ties to Latin America have made it a key entry point for Europe bound cocaine.

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Five dead in minibus crash FOUR children and an adult from a youth football team have been killed in a road accident in Extremadura in

southern Spain.

Their minibus crashed into a mechanical digger on a country road near Castuera in the southwestern Extremadura region.

A Guardia Civil spokesperson said: “A minibus carrying a youth football team had a collision with a digger.

“There are four minors and one adult dead.”

Emergency services in Extremadura said on Twitter that 13 people were injured in the collision, with 11 taken to hospital.

It is believed that at least six of those people are seriously hurt.

President of the Extremadura regional government, Jose Antonio Monago, said the children, believed to be between 10 and 13 years of age, were on their way home after taking part in a competition.

Speaking to COPE radio station he said: “A death is always a tragedy, but I think it resonates a bit more in everyone’s mind when it is children of such a young age.”

GADGET NEEDED: To erase the kilometres.

Odometer fraud easy business A MINIMUM of 82,000 second hand cars are sold in Spain each year with their odometer readings having been changed.

The tool needed to change the odometer is available on the internet and very easy to use.

With each use between 70,000 and 100,000 kilometres can be taken away.

According to a report issued by the RACC motorists organisation between five and 12 per cent of second hand cars in Spain have had their odometer tricked.

To prove how easy it is to do this the RACC bought their own, illegal, machine from the internet and in four easy

steps they had erased 100,000 kilometres from a car.

The RACC has commented that this puts the consumer at great risk as they pay more for their car but they don’t really know very much about its state of repair and this could put them at greater risk of having an accident.

The RACC has proposed that the ITV (MOT) stations should be equipped with specialised tools to detect this type of fraud or, alternatively, every time a car has an ITV the real amount of kilometres it has done should be recorded in the car’s paperwork thus eliminating the possibility of fraud.

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Prankster fined A BOY, 15, was fined €6,000 by Torremolinos Town Hall for emptying a fire extinguisher at the San Miguel Sports Stadium as a prank.

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Fugitive caught NATIONAL POLICE arrested a 36-year-old Romanian woman in Nijar, wanted by the Romanian Authorities since June 2005 for allegedly defrauding €560,000 from 11 companies over a year.

Loo complaint

DESPITE being one of the most expensive locations in Spain, business premises in Puerto Banus remain amongst the most sought after by firms.

BEACH users in Cabo de Gata have complained about the bad condition of the disabled toilet; the shed has been vandalised and the toilet is out of service.

New model

Record Easter

AUTOMOBILI LAMBORGHINI presented its latest model, the Huracan, at the Ascari racetrack in Ronda before a crowd of 500 people.

THE Alcazaba (Arab fortress) monument in Almeria City received a record 7,700 visitors during Easter week this year.

Fewer babies

Cheers El Ejido

THIS year there are reportedly more places in kindergartens throughout Malaga Province than required due to the fall in the birth rate, migration and unemployment.

Eastern flights A DELEGATION from Andalucia and the Costa del Sol travelled to the Arabian Travel Market in Dubai to meet with airlines and negotiate more flights from the Middle East.

MALLORCA

Unpaid fare A MAN, 30, was arrested in Palma for failing to pay the €74.12 fare after taking a taxi from Santanyi to Palma.

Fire controlled A FIRE broke out in a pine forest in Camp de Mar, Andratx, just 200 metres from a villa owned by Claudia Schiffer, and was brought under control within two hours.

New flight AIRLINE Air Nostrum will connect Asturias and Mallorca three times a week with flights on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays.

Hiker rescued FIREMEN from Inca and Soller had to rescue a German hiker who sustained a foot injury and got trapped on the Valldemossa-Deia route.

More bikes BICYCLE circulation on the streets of Palma has increased by more than 26 per cent in the first four months of this year compared to the same period last year.

PEDREGUER: The gardens at Finca Albarda.

Making the past attractive

INLAND Marina Alta towns are aware that their past is another tourist attraction.

This is the case with the Valle del Pop and the Ses Valls de Retrobament association, whose members include local institutions, town halls and businesses, in promoting its history.

First to feature will be Finca Albarda in Pedreguer, the Museo del Vino in Jalon and Denia’s Ruta de la Pansa centering on the raisin industry.

All are linked to early 17th century immigration when Mallorcan settlers repopulated the area following the final expulsion of the Moors. Their influence remains alive in the Valle del Pop where Mallorcan words are still used and the island’s customs and traditions endure.

Pedreguer, Jalon and Denia are highlighted in three tourism routes announced recently by Angel Vives, the association’s president.

The project was presented at Finca Albarda, whose gardens recreate those of the Valencian renaissance with native Mediterranean plants and trees.

There is still much to do, said Josep Vicent Mascarell, a director of the Balearia shipping line linking Denia and Balearics. Nevertheless the project is off to a good start and would benefit tourism and businesses in the area, he added.

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Bonsai victory THE AXARQUIA Bonsai Club classified second in the international competition held in Lake Garda, Italy; 27 international clubs took part in this high level competition.

Air show MOTRIL is to host the ninth edition of the Andalucia Orion Air Show which will take place on June 22 and can be seen from the Poniente beach to the Granada beach.

Pit bull attack TWO girls, both aged seven, and

EL EJIDO will hold its first ever Beer Festival in the Carpa Municipal. The ‘Bier Fest’ will be held during the weekend of June 5 to 8.

Called up UD ALMERIA midfielder Ramon Azeez has been selected for the preliminary World Cup squad for Nigeria.

COSTA BLANCA NORTH

Parking scam GANDIA Town Hall will introduce permits allowing public administration and town hall employees to park in ‘loading and unloading’ bays. The current document is too easily forged, sources said.

Switched on CALPE Town Hall will install street lights in Calle Corbeta. Residents have complained about lack of light after developers remodelling the street failed to install cables.

Picked over

a man have been injured by a Pit Bull dog in Benalgabon; the dog was not wearing a lead or a muzzle when it attacked them in the street.

SAN VICENTE vandals are looting abandoned industrial units that closed during the economic crisis. They are also held responsible for a recent fire at an empty Ronda Oeste depot.

Tapas route

Neat and tidy

NERJA will hold a Tapas Route around the town for the rest of the month; there are around 12 restaurants and over 20 bars offering a tapa and a beer for €1.80.

MORE than 15 environmental volunteers cleared the El Pantano area in the Elda countryside of rubbish. All the refuse collected was later separated and classified for recycling.

Handball championship

Factory death

THE SPANISH Federation of Handball has chosen Almuñecar to host the finals of the women’s championship which will take place from May 23 to 25.

A LORRY-DRIVER was killed and two people injured at an Alcoy factory while loading a 2.5-ton piece of machinery. It fell from a crane, instantly crushing the 54year-old driver.

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Space cakes on sale at the fair A NINE-year-old girl has been taken to hospital after eating cup cakes laced with marihuana which were bought from a street stall at the Fira per la Terra fair in Barcelona.

Her father bought the cakes without knowing they were adulterated and around two hours later the girl began to feel ill and fell over due to dizziness. She was

immediately taken to the hospital where doctors found she had eaten marihuana.

The girl stayed overnight in hospital for observation.

The police were alerted and found two women who were selling biscuits which had a very strong odour of marihuana.

They were remanded in custody.

CUP CAKES: Looking good, but what is in them?

Architect Frank Gehry wins arts award US architect Frank Gehry has won Spain’s top annual arts award. The worldrenowned architect was awarded the Prince of Asturias Award for the Arts yesterday (Wednesday May 7).

Gehry was given the prize in recognition of decades spent creating eye-catching buildings such as the Guggenheim

Museum in Bilbao. The jury opted for Canadian-born Gehry, 85, as winner of the €50,000 prize for his work that has “defined and driven architecture in the past half-century.” Gehry’s best-known creations include the Bilbao Guggenheim, a silver mass of curved titanium and the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles.

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High ranking policemen deny receiving money THE ‘Emperor’ case continues in Madrid with high ranking members of the National Police force denying ever receiving gifts or cash from alleged Chinese Mafia boss Gao Ping or his associates.

The Gao Ping/Emperor case involved the ‘Chinese Mafia’ and their activities on Spanish soil including money laundering, tax fraud, smuggling, blackmail and threatening public employees.

Angel Luis Olmedo, chief of the National Police’s foreign department in Madrid, has explained that his relationship with Gao Ping and his associates was exclusively to obtain valuable information which was vital to

several police investigations and his contact with members of the Chinese group was strictly professional.

Olmedo underscored the fact that Yongping Wu Liu, from whom they frequently received information, could not be considered a police confidant as he was working as a businessman and occasionally collaborated with the police giving them information on the gang’s activities.

He did admit to being Liu’s guest in a box at the Barcelona football stadium but claimed he was “on duty” at the time.

According to the internal affairs department of the police the relationship with Liu was “fluid” and based on mutual interest; for Liu it was keeping the police happy and for Olmedo it was receiving a Serrano ham or a new handbag for his wife.

The head of security at Madrid airport, Carlos Salamanca, has also denied receiving gifts from the alleged Mafioso.

BENIDORM: The place to go for British holidaymakers.

Brits still love it IT fell out of favour for a while, but now Spain’s Benidorm is the place to go for British holidaymakers.

And when they come, they’re looking to stay. At the moment Benidorm is the Spanish resort most popular for Brits when it comes to buying second homes.

In the 1970’s Benidorm was the holiday destination of choice for sun-seeking Brits - and now they’re coming back in droves.

New land registry data shows that the region is the most popular on Spain’s mainland for foreign buyers.

The figures show the proportion of villas and apartments bought by overseas buyers has tripled in the past four years to 11.15 per cent.

It seems that moneysavvy Brit buyers are taking advantage of Sterling’s strength against the Euro.

Typically, a threebedroom, two-bathroom villa, complete with pool, is £158,000.

It’s been an added boost to the area’s popularity that budget airlines like Ryanair fly to Alicante from many UK airports.

Over the years Benidorm has tried to shed its image as a retreat for British lager louts, but it’s still often portrayed as downmarket like in ITV comedy Benidorm.

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Prison time for La Pantoja SPANISH singing icon Isabel Pantoja, involved in a Marbella land scandal, might be sentenced to another one year, three months and one day in prison for money laundering.

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She was originally sentenced to two years for the illegal trading of land in the ‘Malaya’ case; the prosecution is asking for the extra time as they consider that the singer committed two

ISABEL PANTOJA: May be going to prison. crimes and, as such, the sentence should reflect this.

Spanish and Italian police break up illegal fish trading AN illegal ring of fish trading has been broken by the Guardia Civil and Carabinieri.

The fish was frozen in Italy, defrosted in Barcelona and then sold back to Italy as fresh fish.

During the fish’s stay in Barcelona NOT FRESH: Fish sold had been adulterated.

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GERMAN PRESS Train crash

BRITISH PRESS Not disappointed NORWAY - The Dalai Lama has said he holds no grudges against the Norwegian government after they decided not to meet him on his trip to Oslo in order to avoid further damaging their fragile relations with China.

Text message NORWAY - The Norwegian Air Shuttle staff announced a strike after the airline’s management brought weeks of negotiations to an angry conclusion with a text message threatening to close three of their four bases in Norway if the workers went on strike.

Firefighter’s baby

the Mediterranean.

LONDON firefighter Ross McClaren, 33, delivered a baby at the scene of a large fire using only the midwifery skills he learnt from watching television series ‘One Born Every Minute.’

Nando’s tattoo

GIANT jellyfish are likely to be drawn to the West Country as a heat wave draws them into British waters. Marine experts are warning bathers that the stingers may float over from

CONSTRUCTION giant BAM will renovate the Feyenoord football stadium in Rotterdam for €200 million if the City Council agrees. The plan is to turn it into a stadium for 70,000 spectators for football as well as concerts.

SMART DRUGS: Help students to stay awake.

RUSSIAN PRESS OLYMPIC skier Maria Komissarova has picked Spain over Russia to treat her after being left paralysed from the waist down at the Sochi Winter Olympics. Komissarova is set to continue her treatment at a clinic in Marbella.

Feyenoord stadium

ONE in five British students has admitted to taking ‘smart drugs’ to help them improve their academic performance.

These drugs help them to stay awake and study longer according to a survey.

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DENMARK - Over a third of Danes (38 per cent) call in sick when in actual fact they are perfectly fine. Danish companies lose over 814 million kroner due to staff ‘duvet days.’

DENMARK - A man was badly injured when a propane gas cylinder at a hotdog stand exploded near the entrance to the Eurovision venue on the island of Refshaleoen in Copenhagen. The explosion caused beer cans to shoot in every direction.

THE latest and hottest new games console is for dogs. The CleverPet consists of three touch pads and a feeding pod. This educates, entertains and feeds the pet all at the same time.

Drugged students

Spanish rehabilitation

Gas explosion

Doggy games

A SURREY teenager has had the Nando’s logo tattooed on his backside. Bradley Holman, 19, is so obsessed with the chain restaurant and their Peri Peri sauce that he had their cockerel inked into his skin while on holiday in Crete.

Sick days

duty-free import of certain goods known as the Generalised System of Preferences.

Putin celebrates VLADIMIR PUTIN celebrated a decade as President amid high tension with the West over the Ukraine and slowing economic growth. Russians describe him as intelligent, competent, experienced, decisive and attractive.

Moon colony RUSSIAN newspaper Izvestia has reported that Russia has plans to put a manned colony on the moon as soon as 2030 and is racing to dispatch the first robotic rovers to explore the lunar surface two years from now.

$196 million

Plug pulled OBAMA has announced that the US plans to pull Russia from a programme that allows the

THE RUSSIAN government is to give Crimea $196 million to subsidise transport links and infrastructure between the two countries in an attempt to save a tourist season that is likely to be decimated by the ongoing crisis in the region.

DUTCH PRESS Fast exoplanet DUTCH astronomers from the observatory in Leiden discovered for the first time the rotating speed of an exoplanet. Bèta Pictoris b, circling a star in constellation Pictor and discovered in 2008,

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rotates so fast that a day lasts only eight hours.

Internet speed THREE quarters of internet consumers by telephone or television cable do not get the speed their providers promised. Clients

with ADSL get 39 per cent and clients with cable get 54 per cent of the promised speed.

Clean cars EMISSIONS from new cars in 2013 were 8 per cent lower than in 2012, EEA reports. This makes

FIVE people were injured in a crash when a train smashed into a digger on the tracks near Munich. The train driver was seriously injured while the four construction workers suffered only minor injuries.

800 letters A POSTWOMAN, who had seven previous convictions for fraud and six for theft, has been sentenced to two- anda-half-years in prison after she was found guilty of throwing away over 800 letters instead of delivering them.

Jeweller raids A JEWELLER in western Germany has turned to robbery in a desperate attempt to save his failing business. The 48-year-old carried out a series of raids on other jewellery shops and a bank.

Ring busted ELEVEN people have been arrested in Saxony-Anhalt for running an international paedophile ring. The group is accused of distributing child porn as well as using a five-year-old girl to entice other victims.

Angel’s rules ACCORDING to a former member of the Berlin Hell’s Angels the group has strict laws banning its members from drinking alcohol and travelling by train or bus.

The only exception to the alcohol rule is the gang’s annual party.

the vehicle fleet of new cars in The Netherlands the cleanest in Europe.

No difference COSMETIC dermatologist Jetske Ultee has found that according to ingredients listed on packaging, there is no difference between day creams, night creams, eye creams or serums.

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Spanish police officer stabbed A POLICE officer was stabbed in Vigo while attending the scene of a bank robbery at an NCG branch.

The thieves, who have now been arrested, had just robbed a bank in Coia, Vigo,

at gunpoint. They were fleeing the scene with sports bags filled with cash when they were apprehended by police.

A clash between the officers and the criminals ensued, and

one policeman was stabbed.

Two other officers were hurt in the struggle.

Following a tip off, police had been guarding the branch and were nearby when the alarms were tripped.

Several patrol cars made their way to the area immediately.

Two men were arrested for the robbery and another, who tried to make a getaway in a vehicle parked outside the

Broadcast of bullfights defended THE GOVERNMENT is defending its posture of broadcasting bullfights arguing that it doesn’t affect the young; they added it is not illegal and that current legislation on this matter respects the rights of children.

Laia Ortiz, deputy of the Izquierda Unida political party, had submitted a formal request in writing for the government to revise the measures it is taking to protect the young who participate in, or are spectators of, the bloody fights.

The government com-

BULL FIGHTING: Part of Spain’s cultural heritage. mented that the 1982 decree which regulates any potentially harmful activities for the young does not mention bullfights; they

further stated the reformed law of 1991 “does not establish any prohibition to the assistance of minors to bullfights.”

To this argument the government added the 1993 law that protects bull fighting as part of the Spanish cultural heritage.

Ortiz stated that she would continue to pursue the case until the bloody spectacle was no longer televised as, in her opinion, it was harmful for children under the age of 14 to witness the torture of animals.

The government replied that there was no scientific evidence that it was in any way harmful to children.

The argument will continue.

bank, was detained for his involvement.

Witnesses described how they heard gunshots - fired by the police - and saw money strewn across the street during the tussle.

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Here we go again…

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ET more intrusive legislation is planned by the Spanish Government. Now it wants sweeping new powers to examine bank accounts.

It wants to collect data from all of Spain’s estimated 34 million accounts and allow a wide range of government bodies access to the information, including the Tax Office, Police, Military, Secret Services and the Judiciary.

And as usual the excuse of it being part of the war against terror, corruption and tax avoiders is being trotted out.

Well, that may be the case, but it is nothing more than a snooper’s charter. The old line ‘if you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear’ just does not wash.

History is filled with regimes which collated as much information about its citizens as possible in order to

keep them under the thumb.

The next step is to use such information gleaned to demand that law-abiding citizens justify the contents of their bank balances; in other words, guilty until proven innocent.

Some public authorities in Spain already have the power to simply dip in and take money from private accounts with little or no explanation.

Combine that with the power to examine the accounts first, and it becomes seriously worrying.

What then is to stop the taxman seeing you had, say, €30,000 deposited in your account and simply deciding that 40 per cent of it belonged to the government, and just helping himself?

Far-fetched maybe. But who trusts the politicians and civil servants? Not many in Spain. Particularly when it comes to money.

SEIZED PACKAGES: The reptiles were found in plastic boxes.

Live reptiles sent by post

GUARDIA CIVIL in Algeciras have discovered live reptiles in boxes, which were being sent through the post.

The animals were in plastic boxes, which allowed for no ventilation, and did not meet the standards required for the transport of live animals. The boxes were being sent to an address in Barcelona from the Canary Islands and were spotted by postal workers whose job it is to scan the packages.

They alerted police to the fact that they suspected live animals were inside some of the boxes.

As the animals might have died due to

the way they were packaged, the boxes were opened and the police found reptiles including two Tokay geckos, four Rhamaholeon Brevicaudatus chameleons and one Agama agama.

The packages were listed as containing ornaments and had false senders’ addresses. The Spanish postal service prohibits the sending of live animals through its system.

For the moment the animals are all being looked after by Castellar de la Frontera Zoo and they have all recovered from their ordeal.

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MOTORWAY group Abertis announced first quarter net profits of €125 million. Although this was 11.6 per cent less than in 2013, traffic on Spanish roads grew by 2.7 per cent, its first increase since 2007.

Luxury on the cheap in Spain NON-EU tourists spend 90 per cent less in Madrid than in London or Paris.

For every euro spent in Spain’s capital they spend €2.2 in Munich and €3.5 in Milan, found international consultants Global Blue. In London or Paris this rises to €9.5.

The difference is unfair, Spanish analysts say, not least because it is often possible to find the same products at lower prices in Madrid.

The Spanish daily ABC decided to do its own research and found that a trophy watch of the type sought by Asian tourists costs €70,162 in

Madrid without IVA value-added tax, compared with €78,057 in Italy or €74,270 in France. The cheapest capital outside Spain was the UK, where it costs €71,266.

It was the same story with bags, again without IVA, with a designer handbag that cost €24,367 in Spain selling for €24,981 in London and €25,149 in France.

The luxury goods market for tax-free tourism is not sufficiently exploited, the ABC study concluded, especially now when it could contribute to the country’s economic recovery.

saw a 16.2 per cent increase compared with last year and sales of 282,301 units gave the best result since 2010.

It is hoped that by the end of the year total sales will reach 820,000 cars - well above last year’s 722,703, however, still short of the industry’s 1.2 to 1.3 million objectives.

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usiness extra

Sharp-eyed inspectors THE government is creating a National Office to fight clandestine employment.

Over the last two years, work inspections uncovered 161,381 irregular jobs and saved the government €7.6 billion.

Tax backtrack AIRPORTS authority AENA confirmed that it will freeze airport taxes in 2015. Thanks to increased domestic and international air traffic it decided to forego a planned 4.5 per cent increase.

Insurance chief loses pension THE ex-president of the Mutua Madrileña Automovisitica insurance company has lost his €13.9 million pension pot.

Ramirez Pomatta, who was president of the mutual insurance company between 2002 and 2008, resigned two days before the board was due to change the rules regarding “excessive and disproportionate” pensions.

He did so to be sure of receiving his

previously-agreed pension, the Supreme Court heard.

Ramirez Pomatta was entitled to resign as a director, said judge Ignacio Sanchez Gargallo, but the circumstances in which he exercised that right and his purpose in doing so, knowing that the board would vote to change the pension regulations, was “an unreasonable exercise of his rights.”

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PIVE allowance for taking old vehicles off the road.

There was also increased demand for more vehicles from car-hire companies preparing for the Easter rush, said manufacturers’ association Anfac and concessionary associations Faconauto and Ganvam.

The first quarter of 2014

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Car sales increasing

MONTH-ON-MONTH vehicle sales rose by 28.7 per cent in April to 80,174 units.

Car sales are always regarded as the economic climate’s barometer and the Spanish sector has now enjoyed eight consecutive months of increases.

These were stimulated by government subsidies like the

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THE Bank of Ireland must pay €103.5 million compensation for a failed Spanish deal.

Spain’s Supreme Court ruled that the Irish bank reneged on its May 2007 agreement to acquire the Plaza Imperial Shopping centre in Zaragoza. It had agreed to pay €360 million for 100 per cent of 1.7 million shares in Procom Desarrollo Comercial, jointly owned by Procom Desarollos Urbanos and Cecosa Hipermercados (Eroski).

The Supreme Court recognised that Procom had received other offers from entities ‘of recognised prestige’ including ING Real Estate, Commerz Grundbesitz and Quinlan Private.

Instead Procom chose the Bank of Ireland offer.

The transaction was negotiated through the bank’s privatebanking division, which intended to provide €140 million. The remainder was to be financed by the German bank Hypo Real Estate although

Output continues to rise SPANISH manufacturing continued to rise in March, the fifth straight month of increases.

According to the National Statistics Institute (INE) output was rising at an annual rate of 0.6 per cent.

While the consumer sector continued to decline - consumer durables production fell 4.8 per cent output of business equipment rose 3 per cent while materials like textiles and chemicals used during the manufacturing process rose by 2.5 per cent.

The modest but now sustained growth in output followed five years of falls that started with the implosion of the property market in 2008.

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PAY UP: €103.5 million bill for Bank of Ireland. the conditions of the agreements between the banks were never communicated to the vendors, the Supreme Court pointed out.

Hypo Real Estate withdrew its offer in September 2008 and Procom and Cecosa were advised that the finance operation had fallen through

owing to ‘persistent adverse market conditions and the specific circumstances of the project.’

Unable to meet the terms of the contract, Bank of Ireland then took back the €40 million it had already advanced, prompting legal proceedings from Procom and Cecosa.

In December 2011, the Madrid Provincial High Court decided in their favour and ordered Bank of Ireland to pay €103.5 million plus €12.65 million in interest.

“Bank of Ireland acted in bad faith,” the Supreme Court ruled, confirming the high court sentence.

Who wears the pants in business?

MOST will be familiar with the wisecrack: “I am the boss in this house and I have my wife’s permission to say so.”

You have got to believe it. Had I not caught on to the fact that it is the woman who makes the buying decision I would have starved.

Time after time I have seen sales fall through because the salesman ignored the client’s wife or secretary. Fail.

Our culture portrays man’s role as a decision maker. It is theatre.

Selling is a balancing act in which it is necessary to empathise equally with the lady partner. When selling properties abroad I focused equally, often a little more so, on the client’s wife. However, if successful, it was the man who gave it the nod.

My after sales practice was to ask which of them had actually made the decision to buy. In only one instance had the man made that decision. The others ruefully conceded that the wife had given it the final nod. Had she not done so the sale would have fallen through.

Clients were often single women and either travelled alone or with a female relative. I can’t remember my sales partner in Spain not closing. Occasionally a single man would go on his own.

DECISION: Make sure the real boss agrees.

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

www.michaelwalsh.es • 966 786 932

It was a waste of time. Only once did I make a sale.

Modern man, I am sorry to say, finds making a decision harder to do than does a woman. Far less sure of himself he will pro-

crastinate. It got so bad that I would not send a man on a viewing trip unless he was accompanied by a woman.

Property is one thing close to a woman’s heart but over the years I have sold payphones to businesses, building services, a retailer, and trade association accreditation.

Other salesmen covering a wide diversity of products and services agree with me.

A tip from a former Rolls-Royce Sales Manager: “The worst mistake you can make in business is to procrastinate.”

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April showers work on the jobless DESPITE discouraging unemployment figures for 2014’s first quarter, April’s were buoyant.

The increase in employment was the best ever for this month, with a 2.3 per cent fall in the number of people registered as unemployed.

There were 111,565 more people in work than in March, the Ministry of Labour announced.

Although unemployment fell by only 50,202 after seasonal adjustments, the reduction is still a record for April.

“Seasonally adjusted employment fell for the ninth consecutive month,” said the junior minister of Labour Engracia Hidalgo. “Such a prolonged reduction has not been seen since 1999,” she added.

Although 4,684,301 people are without jobs in Spain, there was further good news with another 133,765 people paying into the Social Security system as bars, restaurants and hotels took on more staff over Easter.

The ministry of Labour figures followed the National Statistics Office (INE) report on the first quarter of 2014.

If, as some analysts claim, INE figures are more reliable than the Labour ministry’s, then employment in Spain is still being destroyed.

Approximately 5.9 million people - 25.9 per cent of the work force were out of work between January and the end of March, according to INE. The government is confident that the unemployment rate will drop to 23.3 per cent in 2015 although it will not fall below 20 per cent until 2017.

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Well-heeled advice for a prosperous future A NEW book by a Canadian writer, an author specialising in finance for females, says young women may be intimidated by a lack of financial knowledge but are eager to learn and better at money management then young men.

One of the main issues her book addresses is that there is no point saving money unless there is also a plan for spending it. She has a good point.

If we have no particular goals in mind in regards to our savings, it is so easy to just spend money carelessly on stuff that we probably don’t even want, but that just might tickle our fancy in the moment.

That’s because money is only good for one thing spending it - so the trick is to decide what’s important

Miami express road works CONSTRUCTION company OHL won a €180.5 million contract to design and construct express lanes on two 20.9-kilometre main roads in Miami’s metropolitan area.

It must complete the work within 1,175 days.

Loose change A look at finance for females

SAVING: Start early.

Jane Plunkett jane.plunkett@euroweeklynews.com

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to you and make sure you don’t waste a limited resource on impulses or poorly thought out sprees.

If you want a holiday, to buy a new computer or put a down payment on a property, the trick is to make this particular goal a priority in your life.

Discuss it; write it down to make it appear more tangible and then focus your energy on saving to make this goal become a reality. This way, every time you are tempted to spend frivolously, you will have

A TOTAL of 1.752 billion tons of olive oil was produced in the last six months, 188 per cent more than during the same period in 2012-2013.

Exports increased 72 per cent to 514,800 tons.

Going digital more self-control to say ‘no’ because saving for your goal will be more important. It’s all about creating the correct mindset to save.

Other top tips in the book include:

Liable for taxes if you live in Spain…

Q. My husband and I became Spanish residents last year. We both receive our state You and the pensions in the UK and I have a small NHS pension. Do we have a choice as to whether Law in Spain we pay any necessary tax on our pensions in

By David Searl Spain or in the UK? We are now about to sell our property in the UK. Will we be liable for Capital Gains tax on this sale, as we own an apartment in Spain?

If we are liable for capital gains tax, will we receive any tax relief because we are now Spanish residents?

L.C. (by email) A. If you are official residents of Spain, holding the EU citizen certificate of registration, you are liable for Spanish taxes on your worldwide income and assets. You should ask your nearest UK Consulate about the individual form on which you declare you now pay income tax in Spain and request you go off the UK tax books and onto the Spanish tax registry.

You do not have a choice. If you own property outside Spain worth more than €50,000, you must file Spanish Form 720 declaring these assets. If you sell your UK property, you will be liable for UK Capital Gains Tax and also for Spanish Capital Gains Tax because you are a tax resident of Spain. You can claim relief from one of these taxes. Consult a Spanish tax advisor.

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

- Talk to your children, especially your girls, about money. The more they know, the better they’ll be able to make good choices.

- Start savings as soon as possible. The sooner you

start, the greater the benefit and set of security.

- Avoid ‘bad’ debt, borrowing for consumption rather than to buy an asset that will gain in value.

- Invest in yourself.

TELEFONICA’S €725 million offer for 56 per cent of Digital Plus has been accepted by media group Prisa. That raises Telefonica’s stake to 28 per cent of the pay TV company.

No cutbacks on First Communion expenses MAY means First Communions in Spain.

Despite the economic crisis families are not cutting back in this area, although spending will vary depending on where they live.

Parents in Madrid spend most - an average of €3,245 - found a survey by the FUCI consumers’ association.

Next comes Valencia (€3,150), Barcelona (€3,118) and San Sebastian (€3,045) but families can expect to spend least in Tenerife (€1,665) or Caceres (€1,780).

Half of any First Communion budget is eaten up - literally - by a formal meal costing from €40 to €60 a head for 30 or so guests.

A girl’s dress costs approximately €225 while the sailor suit generally worn by boys comes in at between €40 and €60.

Photographs, videos and mementoes of the occasion for the guests add a further €238 to €630 to the bill, plus €200 for a children’s entertainer.

Nineteen per cent of parents told the FUCI survey that they were later dissatisfied with some aspect of the services they contracted. A third blamed

COMMUNION: No expense spared. the meal, 26 per cent were unhappy with photographs and 12 per cent with the clothes.

Parents should plan carefully and always request written estimates for the meal and photographer, FUCI advised.

OPINION & COMMENT

Caring charity made life a pleasure again MY name is Patti Lee, I am 83 years old and live alone. Last October I had to have a hip operation, after which I spent a little time recovering in a nursing home.

When they said I could go home I was so worried about how I was going to cope. A friend advised me to get in touch with HAH (Help at Home) who immediately came to my aid.

How could I have coped without their wonderful care team? I couldn’t get dressed or do essential tasks, but they took this on, and for many days helped me, taking me to appointments and out for coffee and walks.

They made life a pleasure again.

Janet and Chris in particular have become firm friends and still visit me regularly, helping with difficulties and appointments, etc.

My little dog and I look forward so much to their visits.

Janet wrote down some very important facts on what to do in an emergency, and following a fall where I cut my leg quite badly, I followed her instructions. I was able to get help and I am convinced that this saved my life!

Their volunteers are all so helpful and they work extremely hard, and their service is free.

I could not have managed without them, and would like to thank them all for their time, care and friendship. They all deserve a medal!

Patti Lee, Mar Menor (Murcia)

Surprise packet I WROTE to ‘Your Say’ not long ago about successfully seeing off someone posing as a Microsoft engineer. Now I must warn about another scam.

My anti-virus recently warned me that I’d received a threat in an email, which I saw in the preview pane was supposedly from FedEx. They had tried to deliver a parcel while I was out and to please open the following link and print out their receipt, it said.

Much as I’d like to receive a parcel, I was expecting nothing and zapped the offending email.

Do the same!

T Freeman (by email)

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WE love the ever-changing views of Montgo from our viewpoint on Gata Residencial. The helicopters water-bombing the recent woodland fires were amazing.

Tom Miller, Gata de Gorgos (Alicante)

I SEE emigrants returning to Spain are making a lot of noise because they are being taxed on pensions which they obtained whilst working abroad and did not declare on their tax returns.

My late wife and I declared taxes on all our incoming monies.

In my wife’s case, four pensions from England, in my case, two.

We, as foreigners knew we had to do so. I believe those emigrants returning also knew.

Why were they allowed to escape those taxes for so long?

M J Barnett, Los Gallardos (Almeria)

Three rules IN response to Tom Harksworth, there are at least three things we in the West can do to help those in the Third World.

Work to ameliorate the effects of climate change. This will benefit all mankind eventually, but especially those living in regions of the world where survival is marginal at best.

Work to stop agribusiness, mining corporations and businesses which use (abuse?) the cheap labour available in poor

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countries while abusing natural resources and exporting the profits. For example, the use of precious land water in India to produce a drink, Coca Cola, which is of no benefit to anyone but the shareholders.

Also the aggressive marketing of GM seeds (see http://www.nation.lk/edition/lens /item/24886-geneticallymodified-seeds-in-india.html for a brief overview).

Sadly, corruption of local politicians is part of the problem which is used by corporations to attain their goals.

Education, especially of women. This simple resource has been shown to lead to reduced birth rates especially when girls are educated as well as boys.

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This in turn leads to a more sustainable population.

Helena McGinty, Alhaurin El Grande (Malaga)

Identity crisis I CAN’T understand how anyone would shut out the sound of sparrows, even when they make a racket.

Unlike the correspondent who complained about them, I like having them around. Instead of complaining, he could try enjoying the shenanigans when they have an avian version of a punch-up, usually over a female.

My problem is a pigeon. Not all pigeons, just one pigeon. There are many where we live, as the locals raise them for the pot and racing although there’s a worrying margin for error over confusing the edible with the speedy.

One spends all of its time on a telephone cable beside our house. I had thought it was cooing until my neighbour said it seemed to be saying “Quien eres tu?” (who are you) over and over again. She’s right and dammit, that’s what I hear the ruddy bird repeating all day long. Who am I? I’m beginning to wonder.

Alec Morris (by email)

REGARDING non-Spanish numberplates, who’s supposed to monitor them and issue the fines?

I have lived on my urbanisation for eight years and there are cars on UK and other countries’ numberplates that I see, and have seen, all the time I have been here.

These cars have no road tax and no MOT, so any insurance they do have will be null and void if they are involved in an accident.

Maybe insurance companies should stop insuring cars not reregistered in Spain.

Tony Barker, Orihuela Costa (Alicante)

Coffee raiders I WAS saddened to see in the Euro Weekly News that Starbucks are about to invade El Corte Ingles.

Many years ago I lived in the centre of Madrid, in the barrio of Malasaña close to the Gran Via. Then the city was still very Spanish with families and friends promenading late into the evening, bars and pavement cafés buzzing, no drunks and little violence and the wonderful siesta during the hot summer afternoons.

It was this Spanishness that led me to move there from London.

One day I noticed that a recently-empty shop on Calle Fuencarral had been leased by yes you’ve guessed it - Starbucks.

I realised then that the area was doomed!

Within a year the whole character of the area had changed. What had been a ‘village’ with the streets full of ‘proper’ shops (the hardware shop, the bakers, several butchers and little family-run corner shops) was transformed into a ‘High Street Anywhere.’

The local traders had been made offers they couldn’t refuse, and their old shops were replaced by bland big business as Levi, Muji, Pepe and the rest moved in.

All for the sake of an overpriced liquid tasting nothing remotely like coffee.

A Wade, Benahavis (Malaga)

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Don’t Underestimate Succession Tax Succession tax hits most families in Spain, even when one spouse inherits from the other. Yet many people do not take steps to protect their families from this tax.

The Valenciana succession tax regime is more beneficial than the State one, but only applies if you are ‘habitually resident’ in the region, i.e. living here for the five years up to your death. The 75% deduction for immediate family only applies if the beneficiary is also a habitual resident.

Here are some examples of the impact of this tax.

Mr and Mrs Smith have lived in Valencia for three years when he dies.

He leaves property worth €300,000 and €500,000 in local bank accounts to his wife, who remains in Spain.

Mr Smith’s objective was for his wife to have access to the funds as needed, and help their grandchildren with university fees.

Mrs Smith finds herself faced with a succession tax bill of €158,000 when she inherits the assets from her husband, and the grandchildren have to pay tax on the money they receive.

By Robert Croizat, Senior Partner, Blevins Franks When Mrs Smith dies, her children will also pay tax when they inherit her assets.

Mr and Mrs Jones have property worth €300,000 and €500,000 invested in stocks and shares offshore. They have lived in Valencia for six years, and Mrs Jones remains resident here after her husband dies. Since they are habitually resident, her succession tax bill is lower at €40,000.

Mr and Mrs Davis have

property worth €500,000 and €1,500,000 in the bank. They have only lived here three years when Mr Davis dies, and his wife has to pay €602,683 in succession tax.

Mr and Mrs Hughes also have property worth €500,000 and €1,500,000 invested offshore.

Having lived in Valencia for over five years when Mr Hughes dies, his wife pays much less succession tax bill than Mrs Davis - at €143,500.

Note that in all four cases, succession tax will be paid a second time when their UK resident children inherit the assets when the wife dies. Also, tax is always payable on death, whether the funds are required or not.

None of these couples took advice on their succession planning. If they had done, the situation could have been very different.

If they had placed their assets in a trust, no succession tax would have been due on death. Tax is

only paid when funds are distributed from the trust, and then only if paid to a Spanish resident beneficiary.

So, for example, if the widow needs €50,000 which is paid from the trust, she will pay tax at €4,949. If she needs €50,000 to be paid to the trust while resident in Valencia, she will pay Valencia succession tax at €1,243.

When €30,000 is distributed to the children in the UK to pay university fees, no succession tax is due.

Trusts can be a useful wealth management tool for various reasons: • Retain assets outside Spain so potentially avoid Spanish succession tax • Manage wealth for different residents • Individual family reasons such as spendthrift children • Unsuitable marriage/divorce • Avoid forced heirship • Avoid probate on trust assets

• Manage assets for different beneficiaries e.g. minors • Keep assets outside estate of beneficiaries until required • UK domiciles and nondomiciles can avoid or reduce UK inheritance tax Succession tax is a complex tax, and trusts are a specialist area.

Professional advice is essential if you wish to avoid or mitigate this tax for your family, and make sure you use arrangements which suit your objectives.

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

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

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Take to the open seas HEARING the purr of the engine, the thrust of the throttle and the wind sweeping through your hair; power boating is fast, fun and frivolous.

It doesn’t take weeks to become qualified to drive a powerboat as Euro Weekly News reporter Gemma Quinn found out...

WHO wouldn't want to play Bond girl for a day and hit the open seas ripping through the waves on board a speedy little power boat? Not me! Which is why I jumped at the chance to join Serenity Sailing at Torrevieja’s International Marina on a weekend RYA (Royal Yacht Association) Level 2 Power Boat course.

It can takes months to learn to drive a car so with no experience at the helm of a boat, I was sceptical as to whether a) I would actually pass the assessment and b) whether I would feel confident enough to take a boat out myself afterwards but the answer was a resounding ‘yes’ to both. Under the expert guidance of Serenity Sailing founder and school principle Richard Plaster, within minutes his ‘students’ are put at ease and given the all important practical experience required.

WANT TO KNOW MORE? • What is an RYA Level 2 Power Boat licence?

ALL ABOARD: Gemma Quinn takes on a new challenge as she learns to power boat.

All the theory in the PASSED: Gemma Quinn world will not prepare (centre) passed after the you for the actual feel of being in the driving power boating course with seat and that is the joy Andy Merrett (left) and of this course; it is 90 Warwick Baber. per cent practical with just some basic theory involved such as learning about navigation and interpreting weather forecasts, but this all aids to your boating experience.

Everything is done on board the Layla Maria which is a Jeanneau Merry Fisher sports boat with a Suzuki 75 engine. It is the perfect size for practising manoeuvres such as parking and is fully equipped to train anyone from novice to advanced students.

The first important thing to learn is that there are no brakes... time to pay attention. The next, how to call a mayday... I am feeling a little worried now. Slowly but surely is the way forward, particularly around the harbour, learning the laws and sea courtesy as you go along.

Richard, who has worked around the globe and been an adventurer training instructor for the British Army in the

It is an internationally recognised power boating ‘driver’s licence’ and is accepted by boat charter companies, the water police and customs. It entitles the holder to skipper watercraft such as power/motor boats, jet skis and rigid inflatable boats (RIBs) up to 12m (or 10m if chartering a boat back in the UK).

prestigious British Kiel Yacht Club in Germany, uses his calm and amiable persona to break down each and every part, quickly picking up a student’s ability. Despite there being three of us on board during our course each at a different level, Richard is able to personally adapt and tailor make the course to suit everyone, making it a fun filled and rewarding experience.

With the basics planted and achieved he is happy to let you take Layla Maria out to see what she can really do and experience a true bit of power boating.

With multi-million euro yachts sitting in the harbour, boating and yachting is often seen as an elitist sport, but Richard explains Serenity Sailing aims to break down those barriers and show what a fun and affordable hobby it can be for all the family with some overnight moorings costing no more than the average cost of pitching your tent or caravan at a campsite.

So, if you want to learn a new skill, achieve a lifelong ambition or simply indulge in a bit of water sport fun, gaining your power boating licence could be for you, whether you have your own boat or want to simply have the freedom of chartering one. I know I’m hooked.

Watch out water...

• Are other courses available?

Yes, Serenity Sailing offer everything from power boating courses to sailing courses with lots of options to cater for novices to highly advanced students. Courses are on board either the power boat or Jeanneau Sun Odyssey 35 yacht, or on your own vessel.

LAYLA MARIA: Speed through the open waters on a power boating course with Serenity Sailing.

• What about for youngsters?

From August 1-15 they are running boating camps for the over 16s including two-day Start Yachting, five-day Competent Crew and two-day Power Boat Level 2 courses. In addition to the courses, guardians will be on board teaching the teens about blogging, photography and cooking (for those on board the yacht, Serenity). There is already a waiting list for some dates.

EXPERT GUIDANCE: School principle Richard Plaster makes courses fun and fast paced.

For more information visit www.serenitysailing.com / email enquiries@serenitysailing.com, follow them on Facebook or call 865 774 295. The school is open all day every day. Meetings by appointment only.

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Schools’ celebrity obsession is beyond belief LEAPY LEE SAYS IT

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ITH just a few weeks before local schools close for the summer (break out the Valium!) I thought it appropriate to include UK schools in a few moans this week.

Once again the British educational system is in disarray. This week’s disclosure that one of Britain’s biggest exam boards is introducing socalled ‘popular culture’ questions into its A level exams is almost beyond belief.

Example: Q. Analyse the transcript of Claudia Winkleman and the film critic Danny Leigh discussing the film ‘Spiderhole’ on the TV show Film 2010.

You couldn’t make it up, could you? Where are these idiots coming from? Don’t ask me. No, to my mind the only real answer to all this nonsense is a reversion to the highly successful post-Second World War era.

At between the ages of four

OTHERS THINK IT and five you went to mixed infants school. At seven or eight you transferred to junior school, also mixed. There you were groomed for the 11 plus, three Rs exam. (No questions on ‘Dick Barton Special Agent!’)

Those who passed went on to grammar school, which ultimately offered the opportunity for pupils to enter university. Those who failed the exam were given the chance of attending technical college for whatever skills they wished to pursue, or alternatively moved to senior school where they left at 15 or 16 and went into normal jobs; many accepting the offer of an apprenticeship in various occupations.

Also, if you wished, at senior school, you could often stay on for a further year and take your GCEs, a higher educational

WRONG QUESTIONS: Claudia Winkleman transcript not fit subject for A levels. certificate presenting a much wider selection of job opportunities. And that was that. It worked perfectly, until left-wingers decided to ‘improve’ it. Now it’s complete chaos and they’re all stumped!

And of course the PCs are still walking tall among us.

I recall the headteacher reprimanding both pupils and parents for their offsprings playing ‘gun games’.

Apparently, he objected to the children pointing their fingers and saying bang!

Personally, I can’t remember a time in my childhood when

hours of leisure weren’t filled with Cowboys and Indians.

‘Gotcha, you’re dead’ and the sound of your pistol or rifle, imitated faithfully through clenched jaws and tightly pursed lips, was a part of growing up. We saw no evil in it. All our ‘victims’, took part in the next game. And that’s all they were, innocent games of childhood. I can’t remember one of my particular ‘posse’ ever turning into a mass murderer.

It is a society of violent computer games and a ‘dumbed-down’ education system that has created these young psychopaths. These human rights and PC do-good bunglers are the true reason our young are running riot.

Gawd. Will no one rid us of this troublesome bunch of selfsatisfied, incompetent morons?

Somehow the signs are not good.

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Boomerang kids - nowhere to go Nora Johnson

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

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CCORDING to a recent Eurofound report, almost half of Europe’s young adults 36.7 million people - live with their parents.

And it’s not just those finishing their education who can’t afford to live independently, but those in their 30s too.

The data underlines the predicament of ‘Generation Y’ - better educated than its predecessors, but doomed nevertheless to a gloomier future than its parents’ generation: the anomaly of more and more adults stuck living in their childhood bedrooms or, worse, sofa surfing.

The pollster, Ipsos Mori, reveals similar results in the UK: “Our generational analysis of attitudes in the UK has shown how much pressure the youngest generation feel under… This echoes the Eurofound research - it’s not just those straight out of school or university who

YOUNG ADULTS: A recent report found that almost half live with their parents. are finding it more difficult to get going with independent lives, it’s people well into their 20s and 30s.”

We often read in the UK press about young people who can’t afford to move out of the parental home - so-called ‘Boomerang Kids’ - because there simply aren’t the jobs to pay for rents or mortgages. Reasons given range from

immigration to the economy, to the loss of Britain’s manufacturing base to the lack of vocational qualifications. And yes, each plays a part, but probably the last one’s most overlooked by the red-tops in favour of the latest immigration/benefits /expenses scandal.

Too many young people get educated in subjects not related to the job market.

Britain needs a workforce with workrelated qualifications. School-leavers lose out, too, because they lack the basics: they don’t know how to dress neatly, turn up on time or adopt an appropriate form of speech at job interviews (“Yeah, like dunno!”).

Why do eastern Europeans, among others, so often have the necessary skills and discipline? Resilience is crucial: many give up before they even start.

The British education system and government agencies are geared around knowledge, with skills in second place and attitude not even on the map.

So, not only are more young people unable to get jobs but to move out of the family home. More and more ageing parents are running themselves ragged bringing up kids who’ll, in turn, inflict their inability to look after themselves on their own partners. Boomerang Kids indeed.

OK, had enough of this, next immigration/benefits/expenses scandal please!

Nora Johnson’s thrillers ‘Retribution’ and ‘The De Clerambault Code’ (www.nora-johnson.com) available from Amazon in paperback/ eBook (€0.89; £0.77) and iBookstore. Profits to Cudeca

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Was there life before classical music?

I

CAN only imagine what introduced me to good music.

Certainly there was little to be cheery about in post-war Britain.

A ration book austerity that today’s youngsters cannot imagine was the cross we all had to bear.

In our 1950s humble home with its four-station radio, we kids were told to hush when John McCormack, the love duet from Madame Butterfly or prelude from La Traviata was playing.

I could see merit in good classical but was tonally seduced

by Country Music and the 60s Mersey Sound when I reached my teens.

Afterwards I lost my appetite for music. Instead I focused on other interests but had some inclination towards military and brass bands.

BBC 3 Radio was pretentious, discordant and heavy. It treated we plebs with contempt. BBC 2 did condescend to provide a few hours of light classical mostly on a Sunday evening such as Your 100 Best Tunes.

Mike Walsh

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

How do I define good music?

By what we know to be popular, not what we are told is popular.

Pulling into a garage my car was to be MOT tested. A summer’s day, the windows were down and I seem to recall a CD track from La Boheme was playing.

What a conversation stopper. It was like one of those classical music flash mobs now so popular.

Staff and customers were enchanted and their reaction was a sheer joy.

How I jumped for joy when I heard a programme, dedicated to popular classical, was to go on the air from September 1992.

Classic FM was going to return to the people their music. After all, classical music composed by mostly lower-class musicians is the art of the working classes.

I looked forward to recovering our soul music from the

CLASSIC FM: The popular radio show returned people to their music. snobbish bien-pensant set.

That morning I was like a kid at Christmas when at 6am the first track was played by the station’s Nick Bailey. I am no great fan of Handel’s Zadok the Priest, but it was certainly music to my ears that golden dawn.

Classic FM hoped that 2.8 million listeners would be attracted to its revolutionary departure from tedious non-pop

discordance. By Christmas 4.3 million were tuning in every week and Classic FM was Britain’s fourth most popular radio station.

I felt vindicated. The popular station collected more silverware (almost) than did Liverpool FC. It is now listened to by 5.6 million people every week and in 2013, Classic FM was named UK Radio Brand of the Year at the Sony Awards.

Having retired to Spain I can still tune in by using my laptop as long as I guilefully enter my old UK postal code. Mediterranean Spain’s broadcasters ignore demand for good music. Is this an own goal? The Costas attract people of all nationalities who have a distinctly sophisticated middle-brow taste in music.

Karaoke just doesn’t do Beethoven, Mahler or Mozart.

Top-ups and envelopes N

OT long ago the PSOE’s parliamentary spokeswoman Soraya Rodriguez listed her PP colleagues’ past salary topups. These were possible thanks to the party’s alleged double accounting and its fabled “black money” cash box, Rodriguez said.

All immediately rose to the bait without listening carefully.

“En mi puta vida he cobrado un sobre” - something like “I’ve never had an envelope in my bloody life” - the government’s vice president Soraya Saenz de Santamaria exclaimed afterwards.

She was referring to the notorious envelopes of undeclared money allegedly slipped to leading party lights.

But Rodriguez wasn’t talking about the bribes or kickbacks of political-financial scandals. She was talking about declared expenses and top-ups while the PP was in opposition, claiming that the party could afford them thanks to dubious donors and dodgy donations.

Cassandra Nash

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

Family fortunes IF there were municipal elections tomorrow the PP would lose Madrid City Hall.

Incumbent Ana Botella says she wants to repeat as mayoral candidate, but no longer seems a good bet.

It will be interesting to see how Mariano Rajoy handles this, as Botella is the wife of ex-president Jose Maria Aznar who is no longer a Rajoy fan.

If Botella is chosen, this shows that he still defers to his one-time mentor. If Botella is discarded it will indicate that he doesn’t care about upsetting him.

Watch this space.

Unlike others there has never been the remotest whiff of scandal attached to Saenz de Santamaria.

But it never looks good when someone denies something they’re not accused of.

Evil trade PEPPER gas has replaced rubber bullets to repel illegal immigrants storming their way into Melilla, Spain’s enclave in North Africa.

Something has to be used, according to Abdelmalik El Barkani, the central government delegate there, as immigrants are “aggressive.”

These are people only seeking better lives, he conceded, but added that this was no excuse for aggression.

People traffickers are the true culprits, El Barkani said, sidestepping the one huge question that no-one ever

ANA BOTELLA: No longer seems a good bet. answers. Why is so little done to prevent them playing on the immigrants’ misery and preying on their money?

It’s not cricket SPANISH town halls throughout the country must fly the Spanish flag in a ‘permanent and preferential’ position.

Eighty town halls in Cataluña refused to comply while a hundred or so local councils are sending local taxes straight

to the regional government instead of Madrid.

As though that weren’t enough, a spectator at a recent match between FC Barcelona and Getafe who was wearing a Real Madrid shirt was “asked to leave” by security when he took his jacket off. It was for his own safety, he was advised.

Despite the implications of the flags and the taxes, the football incident could nevertheless have occurred years ago. After all, football has never been cricket.

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heating. They have easy to operate systems with accurate temperature control and market leading technology. The energy efficient units offer lower running costs and are easy to install and come with a fast delivery and setup.

Kool Klimate cover the whole Costa Blanca and the Mar Menor area and will be offering discounts to new and old customers on installations and servicing on all types of air conditioning and refrigeration.

Call David now for free, friendly advice and a quotation.

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Take advantage of a fabulous six day trip to the Costa del Sol in June JUNE is a fabulous month for a relaxing holiday.

Normally warm sunny weather can be expected, but without the excessive heat that July and August can bring to the south of Spain. The Costa del Sol offers a great range of well known holiday destinations. It is suitable for a sand, sea and sun type holiday, a sightseeing holiday, or a combination of the two.

The town of Benalmadena makes a superb base for such a holiday.

Sitting, as it does, on the coast of the Costa del Sol and immediately beside Torremolinos, you immediately have two resorts for the price of one within walking distance.

Regular bus services run along the coast to other well known destinations such as Marbella, Puerto Banus, Nerja and Estepona. David’s Coachtrips is offering a pretty good deal this June which bases you in a large and comfortable three star Benalmadena holiday hotel within its own grounds.

It has a beautifully kept garden full of tropical plants which leads you to a large sun terrace with a large swimming pool.

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All rooms have balconies and the hotel has sea views. Bus services to all other parts of the Costa are available immediately in front of the hotel.

Why not try the Benalmadena cable car ride? This is again easily accessible by local bus and is found in the quaint old village area of Benalmadena which sits above the coastal part of the town.

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Hive collapse worries THE bee population is going down again and if it continues to descend it could provoke a decrease in many fruit and vegetable crops.

The crops at greatest risk are, among others, apples, kiwis, almonds, melons and peaches.

Greenpeace has calculated the billing dependent on these insects is worth over €2,400 million annually in Spain.

In the last 20 years the rate of descent has gone from eight per cent per year to between 30 and 40 per cent per year.

Incorrect pollination

decreases the quantity and quality of crops and would influence over a third of the world’s food.

Spanish bees are in trouble and this puts crops in trouble.

According to a report from Greenpeace up to 70 per cent could disappear in the next 10 years if immediate measures are not taken; ecologists and bee keepers are calling for the elimination of certain insecticides which are the main cause of their disappearance as they attack the bee’s nervous systems.

I HAD a call from a gentleman that informed me he had put his Dobermann to sleep due to illness, the dog was 12 years. Of course he was devastated. They have another four dogs.

A few nights later they heard terrible fighting going on downstairs. The Cocker Spaniel had nearly bitten one dog’s nose off and they were all injured. Reluctantly he took the Spaniel to the vet and put the dog to sleep.

He explained that the Spaniel looked at him as if to say Dad why are you doing this? The man was in a terrible state and called me to ask if he had done the right thing.

I immediately said no.

The pack hierarchy had now changed and sometimes this causes fights. If dogs start fighting dogs it has to be established which dog is the new leader (in many cases it needs an expert to help you).

The new top dog is to be loved 10 times more and fed first. We keep using his

Marks & Spencer etc, travel to the top of the rock to see the monkeys, go through the fabulous caves of St Michael, and explore the ancient fortifications which have served to keep the rock in British hands.

Or you can have a lazy day in the sun at local beaches and bars. Whatever you do, Gibraltar is a day out with a difference. This six day excursion leaves on June 16.

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At around €50 per day of Malaga where you can choose to do this is certainly excellent value.

And it is so easy to reserve your the beach, visit the Roman amphitheatre, the Old Moorish castle (Alcazar), places. the cathedral, shops, bars, restaurants park areas and much more.

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A FINCA lies just minutes outside of the Spanish village of Algorfa and is home to the prestigious La Finca Golf Resort.

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customers with their extensive and exciting range of quality meats and variety of products.

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There is weekly entertainment and a live act every other week.

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AROUND 40,000 people in Spain suffer from lupus, an auto-immune, chronic and potentially fatal disorder.

Now, to mark World Lupus Day, patients and organisations are calling for the ‘invisible’ disease to be recognised as a disabling condition as sufferers are on

the verge of exclusion.

A report prepared by the Spanish Federation of Lupus (FELUPUS) also calls for the inclusion of sunscreens in public funding on the National Health System for lupus patients.

President of FELUPUS, Pilar Pazos, said for sufferers sunscreens are like ‘drugs’ with patients having to use them throughout the year as the sun is one of the inducers of the disease.

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By Jonathan Gilchrist Costa Blanca’s top hypnotherapist ARE you a smoker?

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‘Baby brain’ does exist and there’s a reason too MANY new mothers joke about their ‘baby-brain’ and becoming a bit forgetful and emotional during and after pregnancy. But now, scientists say not only does it exist, but there is a reason for it.

Activity in the brain related to emotional skills increases

A study found that pregnant women show increased activity in the area of the brain related to emotional skills and the changes are designed to help them prepare for bonding, helping them become more attuned to their baby’s needs.

The research team from the University of London, examined he neuropsychological activity of 19 pregnant women and 20 mothers whose babies were nine weeks old on average.

BABY BRAIN: Can be a good thing.

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OPINION & COMMENT

Should the minimum wage be kept?

ECONOMIC powerhouse Germany is prospering despite having no minimum wage. Cases of people being paid €1.54 an hour have been uncovered. Meanwhile, Spain remains in the economic doldrums, but does have a minimum wage of €645 a month. Should Spain abolish its minimum wage to make the market more flexible, or should low-paid workers be protected from potential exploitation?

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OHN COOPER, from Albir, Costa Blanca, was shocked to hear that Germany doesn’t have a minimum wage in place and believed it was important for Spain to keep theirs.

“They definitely need to keep the minimum wage, the poor will just get poorer and it is not fair on the workers.”

John, who, after six years of living in Albir, is going back to the UK this week with his wife, does think the minimum wage of €645 a month is OK. “At the moment with the economy the way it is I think this is average and fair as everyone is struggling,” he said.

STREET TALK Clifford Salter, aged 54 and now retired, from Alfaz del Pi, Costa Blanca, could see both sides of the argument having been an employer and an employee over the years.

He said: “Hiring people and keeping a company going is hard enough so sometimes even paying people the minimum wage is difficult. I think if a lot of companies now who are

ADRIAN CARMICHAEL: Good social conscience.

JOHN COOPER: Minimum wage needs to stay.

struggling were able to take on casual staff even if they can’t pay them the minimum wage, it gives someone work experience and keeps the economy going. But also, as an employee, we always want more money and

don’t want to feel exploited or taken advantage of.”

Adrian Carmichael, 35, on holiday in Benalmadena, Malaga, from his Bristol home, agreed with having a minimum wage. “As long as it is not at a stupidly high level. Low-paid workers do need protection from exploitation.

People should be given the chance of earning a reasonable living. If a boss cannot pay a low minimum wage then he should not be in business. Of course, that might make some goods and services more expensive, but the public just has to accept that.”

Adrian added: “I am surprised that Germany does not have a minimum wage, but generally it is a country with a good social conscience. The people do seem to be well looked after, so maybe a minimum wage is not needed.”

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The event will run outside their showroom from 12-5pm, helping to raise money for the AECC cancer charity and include a raffle, prize draw, hog roast, children’s tombola, face painting and a bouncy castle.

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If you knew what was going to happen, if you knew everything that was going to happen next if you knew in advance the consequences of your own actions - you’d be doomed. You’d never eat or drink or laugh or get out of bed in the morning. You’d never love anyone, ever again. You’d never dare to.’

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1929: First Academy Awards ceremony. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences hands out its first awards in the Roosevelt Hotel in Hollywood, California.

1943: Daring RAF raid smashes German dams. An audacious raid into the industrial heartland of Germany uses revolutionary bouncing bombs to flood the Ruhr valley.

1943: The Memphis Belle flies its 25th bombing mission. One of a group of American bombers based in Britain it is the first B-17 to complete 25 missions over Europe.

1957: As the arms race begins to escalate, and after only two years of testing, Britain drops its first Hbomb over Christmas Island.

1958: Lotus makes its Formula One debut. Over the next four decades Team Lotus will become one of the most successful teams in Formula One history.

1964: Mods and Rockers jailed after seaside riots. Scores of youths are given prison sentences following violent clashes between gangs of Mods and Rockers in Brighton.

1965: Pete Townshend writes “My Generation” on his 20th birthday.

This timeless song would go on to become an anthem for all disenfranchised youth.

1980: Nine people die following the massive eruption of Mount St Helens volcano in Washington State, USA. 1989: One million protesters take to the streets in Beijing. Crowds of protesters march through the streets and take up residence in Tiananmen Square where they will confront the army.

1997: Labour stubs out tobacco.

The sponsorship of sporting events by tobacco firms is to be outlawed, says Health Secretary Frank Dobson.

2001: UK supermarkets slash the price of drugs. After a court ruling puts an end to the drug industry’s price-fixing policy British consumers reap the benefits of cheaper medicines.

Patricia Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin Briggs, Silver Borne

World of English In a Russian hotel lobby, across from an Orthodox monastery: You are welcome to visit the cemetery where famous Russian and Soviet composers, artists and writers are buried daily except Thursday.

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TAURUS (April 21 - May 21) Astrologically, it’s not unreasonable to assume that when sparky Mars and the zesty Sun conflict with restless Pluto, life could become a tad frustrating. You might find it hard to tolerate hypocrisy and setbacks, but fortunately, it’s all just a passing cloud. Regardless of any lack of continuity, concentrate on keeping going and prepare for next week’s brighter outlook.

GEMINI (May 22 - June 21) Punchy Mars and the heady Sun are set for a scramble with touchy Pluto. You’ve been there before, so despite any administrative bumps, gossipy whirls or curious rejections, don’t be too sensitive. Add up what you’ve achieved, subtract your fears and keep your emotions under control.

CANCER (June 22 - July 23) Upfront Mars and the upbeat Sun will be at loggerheads with powerful Pluto. You might not appreciate some of Friday or Saturday’s antics, so be ready to use your charm, or perhaps your equally wicked sense of humour will do the trick.

Whatever comes up for review, a cool rethink could inspire you with some useful tactics.

LEO (July 24 - August 23) This is an intense week, and if you get stuck with a particular issue, jumble your words, or just can’t seem to do anything right, it might be worth finding out if the grass is greener on the other side.

VIRGO (August 24 - September 23) Quirky planetary niggles will surface without warning. A variety of talks, news and last-minute changes surround your family members, friends or colleagues. No matter what affects your personal or occupational activities, stay focused, decide what your goals are and, just as importantly, find the easiest way to move forward without losing your healing sense of humour.

LIBRA (September 24 - October 23) Even the best-made plans can suddenly sink without a trace. Your dreams for a fresh start in one particular direction still need tender, cautious care, and you

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THIS comedy was written and directed by Wes Anderson and was inspired by the writings of Stefan Zweig. The film stars F. Murray Abraham, Edward Norton and Ralph Fiennes as a concierge who teams up with one of his employees to prove his innocence when he is accused of a murder.

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IF IT’S YOUR BIRTHDAY THIS WEEK: Pay heed to your intuition. Nothing will be gained from rushing along a path that is peppered with financial risks, but your overall luck will hold. This means that studies, creative activities and domestic changes are progressively starred, especially this month.

May 15: Andy Murray, 27. Tennis player.

This professional tennis player won the Gold Medal in the 2012 Men’s Tennis Olympics, he was the first British man to win Wimbledon, in 77 years, in 2013.

Your Stars achieved huge success for her role in 30 Rock.

May 16: Pierce Brosnan, 61. Film actor.

Most famous for playing the role of James Bond, he also starred in Mamma Mia which won a National Movie Award in 2008.

May 17: Bill Paxton, 59. Film actor.

Star of many blockbusters including Apollo 13, Twister and Titanic; he was present at the shooting of JFK and his picture can be found at the Sixth Floor Museum.

May 18: Tina Fey, 44. TV actress.

Fey became the first female head writer of Saturday Night Live and may equally need to be wary of overstepping the mark where money’s concerned.

SCORPIO (October 24 - November 22) You will need bucketloads of humour and understanding as impatient Mars and the sprightly Sun engage with touchy Pluto. Stay well clear if you want to escape potential power struggles. .

SAGITTARIUS (November 23 - December 21) If you suspect that some things are not what they seem, you could be right. Repel doubts, ban anxieties and stick to facts and tact. If certain individuals or situations continue to conspire against you, change course and do something entirely different. What goes around will come around quicker than you think.

May 19: Christian Galvez. Actor.

This Spanish actor and presenter was born in Madrid and debuted on the small screen in 1996, at the age of 15, in a small role in the, then very popular, Medico de Familia series. He currently presents Pasapalabra on Telecinco.

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CAPRICORN (December 22 - January 20) Storms in tea-cups need loads of sweet-talking. Of course, if you can’t be bothered with it all, fair enough; keeping quiet could be the best way to deal with problems, glitches or sudden backfires. If you can’t take a break, at least chill out with whatever or whoever brings you the greatest pleasure.

AQUARIUS (January 21 - February 19) You are about to tackle some tough tests. Work and personal hurdles could preoccupy you, but after the weekend you’ll be able to sort out the ice from the cream. No matter how awkward things seem on Monday or Wednesday, trust your ability to wait for the right moment, rather than risk spoiling your plans.

May 20: Cher, 68.

Singer.

Known as the Godess of Pop she has sold more than100 million records all over the world, she originally came to fame as part of the duo Sonny and Cher.

May 21: Tom Daley, 20. Olympian.

This diver won two gold medals at the 2010 Commonwealth Games and took home the Olympic Bronze medal in 2012.

PISCES (February 20 - March 20) Feisty Mars and the fiery Sun are warring with changeable Pluto, so avoid any tearaway temptations on Thursday or Friday. You could be emotionally vulnerable, or even lulled into a false sense of security. However confusing the planets may seem, even out the odds as best you can by ensuring your worries take second place.

ARIES (March 21 - April 20) Hassles and battles are on the cards. If things don’t happen as fast as you’d expected, or domestic and workaday blips assail your patience, transform them into an opportunity to show your special qualities. Potent planetary influences urge you to look, listen, learn and refuse to allow petty stumbling blocks to undermine your confidence on Tuesday and Thursday.

10-Star Quiz

THE WORLD’S OLDEST FOOTBALL CUP COMPETITION This Saturday, May 17, Arsenal will play Hull City in the 133rd final of the FA Cup 1. In which decade was the FA Cup final first played at Wembley Stadium?

2. Tottenham Hotspur have won the F A Cup final eight times; which team, in 1987, is the only team to have beaten them in the final?

3. What was the name of the Manchester City goalkeeper who played on, and earned a winner’s medal, with a broken neck in the 1956 FA Cup final?

4. Which Manchester United defender was the first player to be sent off in an FA Cup final?

5. Which Second Division side beat Leeds United 10 to win the 1973 FA Cup final?

6. Which team has appeared in four FA Cup finals (1949, 1961, 1963 and 1969), losing them all?

7. Which team has won the FA Cup on most occasions (11)?

8. Which two teams contested the famous 1953 ‘Matthews Final’?

9. Who broke his leg in the 1960 FA Cup final, playing for Blackburn Rovers, but triumphantly returned 53 years later as owner of the 2013 winners, Wigan Athletic?

10. Wimbledon’s Dave Beasant, in 1988, was the first goalkeeper to do what in an FA Cup final?

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

TARGET: Average: 7 Good: 9 Very good: 14 Excellent: 17

LAST WEEK’S SOLUTION bait, barn, bint, boar, boat, born, bort, bran, brat, brio, brit, obit, abort, bairn, baron, baton, biont, biota, brain, brant, bravo, orbit, robin, tabor, tibia, barton, biotin, obtain, vibrio, vibrant, vibrato, VIBRATION

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Move from the start word (PINK) to the end word (LADY) in the same number of steps as there are rungs on the Word Ladder.

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PINK PINS PANS PADS LADS LADY

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

1. 1920s (1923), 2. COVENTRY CITY, 3. BERT TRAUTMANN, 4. KEVIN MORAN, 5. SUNDERLAND, 6. LEICESTER CITY, 7.

MANCHESTER UNITED, 8. BLACKPOOL and BOLTON WANDERERS, 9. DAVE WHELAN, 10. SAVE A PENALTY

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Unscramble the name of a famous American soul singer, composer and musician: ARMY GAVE IN Unscramble the name of a type of home appliance (two words): TERRIBLE MUD

Play on Words ASK ASK ASK ASK the ocean (6) 5 Metal lamp unit needing assembly (8) 6 Severely criticise cook (5) 7 Lion’s leader publicises dens (5) 12 Marmite I made is salty (8) 15 Smart attempt to encircle a city (7)

16 A girl broke the chalice (5) 17 Girl from a strange land (6) 18 Bitter made from wheat, edible nuts etc (6) 20 Daughter is company for the nightclub (5) 22 Country leaders of Los Angeles or Seattle (4)

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LAST WEEK’S SOLUTION

Each number in the Code Breaker grid represents a different letter of the alphabet. In this week’s puzzle, 23 represents T and 9 represents Z, so fill in T every time the figure 23 appears and Z every time the figure 9 appears. Now, using your knowledge of the English language, work out which letters should go in the missing squares. As you discover the letters, fill in other squares with the same number in the main grid and the control grid.

Across 7 American wild cat (6) 8 Benevolent (6) 10 Admit, as defeat (7) 11 Defraud (5) 12 Secret look (4) 13 Stunned (5) 17 Fatigued (5) 18 Nothing at all (4) 22 Make different (5) 23 Occurring at the beginning (7) 24 Undertake a journey (6) 25 Pressure (6) Down 1 Basic idea (7)

2 Move about idly (7) 3 Pugilist (5) 4 Triumph (7) 5 Enthusiastic (5) 6 Small and of little importance (5) 9 Collection of live animals (9) 14 Obstruction (7) 15 Reached a judicial conclusion (7) 16 Devoid of good sense or judgment (7) 19 Religious belief (5) 20 Wander off (5) 21 Not clean (5)

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

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Down 1 Boxes with energy, being thin (6) 2 Anne meeting Queen, originally born less well off (7) 3 Neat arrangement for a stake (4) 4 See bad moves at the bottom of

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FUNAGRAM SOLUTION: MARVIN GAYE, TUMBLE DRIER

Across 1 Some slippers and also shoes (7) 5 Scrap in the departure lounge (4) 8 On the lookout for real model tenant (5) 9 State gets scientific institute to take on a graduate (7) 10 Film in animals’ kingdom (4) 11 Sign on in Bognor Regis?

Terrific (8) 13 An endless pact to foot the bill (5) 14 Artist is champ (5) 19 Star treading carelessly (3,5) 21 Coin circulating in the Midwest (4) 23 Influence in part of church (7) 24 Set a trap separately (5) 25 Fish with eel’s head, Da Vinci’s? (4) 26 Bad cons make a break and run away (7)

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LAST WEEK’S SOLUTIONS CRYPTIC Across: 1 Bends, 4 Launch, 9 Narrate, 10 Lower, 11 Ares, 12 Varlets, 13 Ode, 14 Garb, 16 Nero, 18 Bug, 20 Iron ore, 21 Cafe, 24 Erase, 25 Inexact, 26 Shoves, 27 Binge.

Down: 1 Banyan, 2 Norse, 3 Seal, 5 Alluring, 6 New Year, 7 Harass, 8 Leave, 13 Obsolete, 15 Avocado, 17 Timers, 18 Benin, 19 Gentle, 22 Again, 23 Herb.

QUICK Across: 1 Cherish, 5 Dock, 8 Means, 9 Roughen, 11 Note, 12 Garrison, 15 Fed up, 16 Basic, 19 Pastoral, 21 Tuba, 23 Stature, 25 Evade, 26 Drag, 27 Canteen.

Down: 2 Heartless, 3 Rest, 4 Stream, 5/24 Dog tag, 6 Credo, 7 Amend, 10 Uproar, 13 Stimulate, 14 Sudoku, 17 Camera, 18 Cameo, 20 Alter, 22 Debt.

Across 1 Hablar (4) 3 Guante (5) 8 To dare (9) 9 Cocineros (5) 10 Nidos (5) 12 Sleet (9) 14 Goat (5) 15 Pinzas (de ropa) (4)

Down 1 To carve (meat) (8) 2 Key (door) (5) 4 Espliego (8) 5 To see (3) 6 Prisionero (8) 7 Campesinos (8) 11 Seven (5) 13 Nail (on finger, toe) (3)

ENGLISH-SPANISH Across: 1 Chemistry, 7 Ropes, 9 River, 10 Team, 11 Fresas, 13 Spade, 14 Suave, 15 Contestar.

Down: 2 Mesa, 3 Surprises, 4 Revista, 5 British, 6 Brushes, 8 Platano, 12 Left.

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Conspiracy theories have floated around for generations with new ones popping up all the time. Here is a list of the world’s 10 biggest conspiracy theories of all time.

1. Life on Mars Ever since photos of Mars were taken from the Viking orbiter in 1976 there have been conspiracy theories. Photos depicting an enormous face staring up from the surface proved to be eerie; the pictures also include a sphinx and a five sided pyramid which opened up 1the idea that the great pyramids were built by aliens using humans as slave workers.

2. Who really wrote the plays attributed to Shakespeare?

Since there is very little historical information about Shakespeare, conspiracy theorists believe that the actor could not have possibly written the plays but rather was used as the author to cover up the real identity of the brilliant poet.

The most plausible ‘authors’ could be Christopher Marlowe, Ben Johnson, Francis Bacon or Sir Walter Raleigh.

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Against this background we meet the artisan Qasim - he and his family have moved to Madinat al Zahra to make their fortune as potters.

Qasim is a good husband and father. He works hard, says his prayers and keeps out of trouble. But Qasim has a secret; his past is not what it seems.

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3. AIDS Conspiracy theorists believe that the AIDS virus was created in a laboratory and injected into homosexuals and AfricanAmericans by ruse of a hepatitis-B experiment back in 1978. Many theorists believe the CIA was behind this plan.

4. Princess Diana’s death As soon as the news hit the world there were conspiracy theories surrounding the accident. Many claimed that the Royal Family were behind a plot to kill her to stop her from embarrassing Charles.

Others believe the SAS was ordered to kill her to silence her.

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Just Joking I haven’t spoken to my wife for 18 months. I don’t like to interrupt her.

Why'd they call it PMT? Cos mad cow disease was already taken!

Why is Christmas just like a day at the office? You do all the work and the fat guy with the suit gets all the credit.

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MARS: An eerie surface.

ILLUMINATI: A secret society.

5. The New World Order The Illuminati and the Freemasons are two of the many secret societies out there. Theorists believe that there is a New World Order which is going to take over and run the whole world, many believe the eye on the American dollar

bill is their work and a message to each other

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

6. The moon landing Although NASA has rejected claims that the landing was a fake, theorists believe it was staged because NASA

needed the glory of such an event. Many believe that the technology needed was not available back in the 60’s.

7. Roswell In 1947 a press release from the Roswell Army Air Field claimed that a “flying disc” had been recovered from the New Mexico desert; there were rumours of bodies found at the crash site and this caused many theorists to believe that the government was keeping the truth about aliens a secret.

For many the amount of security in Area 51 is enough proof that the government is lying.

8. 9/11 Though Al-Qaeda claimed responsibility for the attacks on the two towers many believe that the US government knew beforehand about the attack and did nothing. Others believe that the way in which the towers went down proves that the government aided in their destruction.

9. The JFK assassination On November 22, 1963 President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas.

Theorists claim there was more than one shooter and that Lee Harvey Oswald was not solely responsible. Some believe that Oswald was either a patsy or working for the FBI, KGB or the mafia.

To this day the debate continues.

10. Jesus and Mary Magdalene The idea that they were married has been a hot topic for centuries and, though glorified in the Da Vinci Code the theory originates in the Gospel of Philip which called Mary Jesus’s companion and this is still being disputed today.

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

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

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

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

No vulgarities or proper nouns are permitted.

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Average: 21 Good: 27 Very good: 39 Excellent: 48

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

LAST WEEK’S SOLUTION star, straw, stray, strayed, soar, sour, sadly, saran, sawn, tsar, toad, toady, tour, task, tardy, tarn, trade, tray, delta, deltas, dart, darts, darn, dawn, drat, draw, drawn, dray, yard, yarn, yawn, oats, astray, arts, aura, awry, away, award, rats, iota, iotas, wast, wade, wart, warts, ward, wary, warn, nary

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Celiac sufferers’ technology GIVEN that we eat three times a day life can be a little like an obstacle course for anyone suffering from celiac disease, but now modern technology is coming to their rescue in the form of apps and websites.

Celiac disease is an autoimmune illness characterised by an inflammation of the lower intestine after the ingestion of any sort of gluten, usually present in cereals.

Spain has over 450,000 registered cases of people who suffer from the celiac disease.

The Spanish federation of celiac sufferers, FACE, have brought out a list of webs and apps to help

CEREALS: Can be difficult to avoid. navigate the difficult path around cereals.

Viajarsingluten.com is

a web page that will inform sufferers of the disease where they can

eat a gluten-free meal out, they include pizzerias and hamburger joints.

Allergychef.es will inform those afflicted of slightly ‘higher class’ restaurants.

If an app seems more useful then sufferers can check out the facemovil app which has a list of over 1,600 restaurants which serve gluten-free food; Celicity and Mobiceliac also provide lists of restaurants and bars which would be suitable.

If out shopping and in doubt about a food product then iGLU can be consulted as it has a list of information about most popular products.

Colour can influence orange juice flavour COLOUR has an effect on perceived flavour, and the expected and actual liking of orange juice, according to a new study.

The findings, published in the Flavour journal, seem to confirm the widely accepted fact that food can be more or less appealing because of its appearance.

When testing the influence of orange juice colour on flavour intensity, the sourness perceived by tasters significantly increased with a juice slightly dyed in green food colouring.

Results also revealed that consumers expected a better flavour from a red-dyed orange juice, and actually liked the green-dyed one more after tasting it.

A group of researchers from the universities of Sevilla and Nottingham performed tests with 30 people to determine the influence of orange juice colour on flavour.

ORANGE JUICE: One of the most consumed juices in the world.

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Study promotes beer to DRINKING beer in moderation can have benefits on women’s health at different stages of their lives, according to a study carried out in Spain.

The study suggests that the natural ingredients in beer can have benefits for women during pregnancy, breastfeeding, menopause and in

Natural ingredients in beer can have benefits for women in pregnancy, menopause or old age

their old age.

The book, ‘Women, Gynaecology and Beer’ was presented at the Official Pharmacists’ Association in the Balearic Islands, and was coordinated by Doctor Tirso Perez Medina, a Professor of Gynaecology and Obstetrics at Madrid’s Autonomous University and Head of

Couscous is a staple food throughout North Africa COUSCOUS is a traditional Berber dish consisting of durum wheat granules, known more commonly as semolina granules, which have been cooked by steam. Traditionally it is served with a meat or vegetable stew spooned over it. This dish is a staple food throughout the North African cuisines, in particular Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia.

Couscous served with fish is also a staple food in Western Sicily and is recognised as a traditional food product by the Italian Ministry of Agriculture.

The grain can form part of just about any meal as, due to its neutral flavour, it is a good substitute for bread, potatoes or rice. In Northern Europe and the US it is often incorporated into salads as its dry

nature goes well with the juicier salad stuffs including tomatoes and cucumbers.

Preparation is easy: add 1.5 measures of boiling water to every measure of the grain, add a little stock, oil or butter to the water if desired, cover tightly for five minutes then let it air for a few minutes more while it is fluffed with a fork before serving.

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benefit women’s health the Gynaecology Department at the Puerta de Hierro University Hospital in Madrid.

It is the first of its kind to revise the effects of beer on women’s health.

It shows that beer is a natural drink, low in calories and alcohol and with no fat or sugar, which on the other hand contains carbohydrates,

vitamins, proteins and folic acid, making moderate consumption within a balanced diet beneficial for health.

Pregnant women can drink nonalcoholic beer, as folic acid is essential for pregnant women and those trying to conceive, as it aids the nervous system and cell regeneration and regulates levels of homocysteine,

Couscous: Traditional to serve with a stew.

which is a risk factor in heart diseases. It also reduces the risk of malformations of the spine and prevents defects of the neural tube at birth.

During breastfeeding, it also provides natural antioxidants which fight against heart disease and wear on the system.

The polyphenols in it protect against heart disease and oxidation of the body’s systems during menopause, helps to increase good cholesterol in the blood, reducing ischemic heart disease and also provides vitamins, fibre and natural phytoestrogens which help to reduce the risk of diseases linked to the drop of estrogens.

It can also benefit the immune system, and has nutrients which can help to conserve bone mass and prevent osteoporosis. It also has flavons which help the bones to absorb essential components, silicium, which promote the creation of collagen, as well as calcium, vitamin D and magnesium.

Silicium also diminishes the risk factors of Alzheimer’s, as it interacts with aluminium, which is related to dementia.

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The most popular desserts by region

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HE number one dessert in Spain, but particularly in Madrid capital, is the immensely traditional ‘Chocolate con Churros,’ this consists of fried batter which saltiness mixes gloriously with the bitterness of the chocolate served thick and hot.

In Cantabria they go for the ‘Sobaos Pasiegos’ which is a sort of sponge cake soaked in butter and sugar, sometimes with the addition of lemon rind and rum.

In the region of Madrid, not to be confused with the capital, they

favour ‘Torrijas’; this is bread, usually stale, which has been soaked in milk or wine then coated in egg and fried in oil, normally served with honey or sugar.

In Cataluña the ‘Crema Catalana’ rules supreme.

This is very much like a crème brulee.

The Balearic Islands have given the cuisine of Spain the ‘Ensaimada’ which is a sweet pastry, of the Danish style, covered in caster sugar this has been served in Mallorca since before records began.

NATIONWIDE FAVOURITE: Chocolate con churros.

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We have compiled the following list of potential sources to help: • Nurseries where they propagate most of the plants they sell.

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• Garden centres where they tend to buy most plants in.

• Weekly markets, especially when supplied by small growers.

• Rastros but not always at a plant stall.

• Agricultural cooperatives, good for trees and vegetable seedlings.

• Horticultural and animal feed shops especially for seeds, bulbs and vegetable seedlings.

• Flower shops often sell a few unusual plants for the garden or containers as well as house plants that can be grown on a terrace.

• Supermarkets especially, for house plants.

• Swap with friends as spare plants raised from seed or cuttings.

• Plant sales at local gardening clubs. Often a

good place to look for something a little different.

• Raffle prizes at gardening clubs. If you’re lucky they are just what you want.

• Verges of roads or pavements. Our two largest mimosa trees came from this source.

• Local garden rubbish bins or informal tips. Look out for healthy irises, succulents and cacti.

• Waste grounds and disused quarries, especially close to the sea, where migrating birds can drop seeds from north African plants.

• Neighbours about to build an extension or pool.

If you don’t ask they will be bulldozed into a skip.

• From mail order catalogues especially for roses, bulbs, special shrubs and vegetables.

• Restaurants and Casa Rurales. You may be able to negotiate a cutting or seeds from something different that you spy.

• Jobbing gardeners who propagate to obtain inexpensive plants to fit into the gardens they care for or landscape and to sell the spares to passers-by.

• Smallholdings who produce vegetable and herb plants for sale.

• Visitors who bring gifts that they think will look lovely in your garden • The reject corner of garden centres. You might be lucky enough to see an inexpensive or even free plant.

• Your own cuttings and seed sowings.

• Plants from seeds fortuitously dropped by birds in your garden.

• Airport gift shops where exotic plants or seeds may be on sale.

Happy plant hunting! © Dick Handscombe www.gardenspain.com May 2014.

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THE rise and fall of property prices causes birth rates to fluctuate.

According to a study published in the Journal of Public Economics by economists Lisa Dettling and Melissa Kearney, couples considering having children take into account financial factors such as work perspective, income, and whether property prices are rising or falling.

Rising prices cause birth rates to fall amongst those who don’t own their own homes and to rise amongst homeowners.

This is because when homeowners see the value of their property

HAVING A FAMILY: The rise and fall of property prices causes birth rates to fluctuate. increasing, it makes them feel more confident they will be able to face the expenses of forming a family.

Meanwhile, those who don’t have a house realise it has become more difficult for them to buy their own house, making them also think rent prices will rise and more of their income will be spent on housing, so less will be available to have children.

Their study is based on demographic data and property prices from 1997 to 2006 in the USA, and suggests property prices influence people’s decision to have children even more than whether or not they have a job, although it is unclear whether

property prices have had the same effects on other markets.

When it comes to those renting a home, a rise in prices seems to make people delay the decision to have a second child, but has no influence to have the first.

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A personal shopper to find you a home or working space WE all know what a personal shopper is by now, but what about bringing this figure into the world of property investment?

Well, that’s just what has been done in the USA, and in the past three years, the trend has been on the rise in Spain.

The services of Personal Property Shoppers were initially hired mainly by the rich and famous who didn’t have time to look for their own houses, but apparently, more and more private buyers and especially companies are hiring their services.

The Spanish Association of Personal Real Estate Shoppers says that companies mainly want to find offices and industrial or commercial establishments.

One of the first companies to provide the service in Spain in 2010 was Somrie Personal Shopper Services, who have exclusive agents for property investors in charge of finding, negotiating and closing rental or purchase deals on homes or offices based on clients’ needs.

PROPERTY SHOPPING: Rising trend in Spain.

They don’t report to real estate agencies and have no conflict of interests which means they can look for the best deals.

Forty per cent of clients are Spanish, executives with plenty of money to invest and little time for property hunting, while the rest are foreigners who appreciate having the paperwork done for them.

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Lining their own pockets....

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

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MPUNITY. Definition: exemption from punishment or freedom from the injurious consequences of an action.

No other word can so aptly describe how justice has been turned upside down to preserve and protect a privileged elite which has lost all sense of morality and ethics. Endemic corruption, which was thought to be confined to despotic regimes in the developing nations, is alive and thriving throughout Western democracies. According to a recent report from the European Commission, corruption is costing the European Union €120 billion a year.

But a much greater cost is the loss of trust and confidence in national, regional and local politicians as well as the financial and corporate sectors and justice systems. At the heart of the problem are money and greed.

The close relationship which exists between politics and business has become so blurred and incestuous, it risks destroying the fabric of our economies and societies; Tony Blair and Rupert Murdoch, Jose Maria Aznar and Francisco Correa, Emilio Botin and South American presidents, and Berlusconi and his media empire are prime examples.

Abraham Lincoln would be shocked if he could see how our present political leaders have forgotten his words at Gettysburg and that government of the people, for the people, by the people has been transformed into governments of, for and by financial and corporate interests, whose only objective is to increase their wealth and power.

Politicians are not listening to the people, whether it is about immigration, abortion, families, crime, education, health, or growing inequality. Political motives have little or nothing to do with the well-being of the people or the country but to protect the lifestyle of the privileged elite. While families were being evacuated from their flooded homes in Southern England, David Cameron was discussing a multi-million-pound salary and bonus package for the CEO of Lloyds bank, rescued by the taxpayer. This is where his priorities lie.

The financial crisis, caused by the rampant speculation of the banks, has led to a dramatic disparity in wealth, unseen since the Victorian Age. The

CAPITALIST PYRAMID: Cleveland, USA, 1911.

Corporate immorality IT is not just the greed of the elite which is causing resentment. Politicians, bankers, corporate bosses, soccer clubs and sports stars have been engaged in an orgy of criminal activities ranging from mis-selling, rate rigging, bribery, misappropriation of public funds, illegal political funding, fraud, money laundering, illegal foreclosures, excess charges and fees, phone hacking, cheating on expenses and especially tax evasion on an unprecedented scale.

Clever or dubious accounting schemes, connivance between political leaders, bankers, audit firms, powerful corporate figures and the proliferation of tax havens, have enabled trillions of dollars to escape the tax net, ending up in untraceable companies or accounts in offshore banks.

And when Herve Falciani, an ex-HSBC employee, provided a list of thousands of account holders in Switzerland, instead of the governments cracking down on the tax evaders, they escaped punishment while he was pursued like a criminal.

Nowhere has corruption been more damaging than in Spain. The Gurtel scandal, whose ramifications went to the heart of power, is now in its fifth year as investigators attempt to trace millions of euros of public money and unravel the tenuous links between national and local politicians, business interests and offshore companies. So far there have been hardly any arrests or convictions, only the removal of the investigative judge, Baltasar Garzon.

The rule and respect of law are the pillars of our nation states. Without justice and equality they cannot function. And so long as greed prevails and wrongdoers are granted impunity, our democracy hangs on a thread.

© Peter Fieldman NUJ writer

deregulation of the banking system, abolition of the Glass Steagall Act and the Global economy allowed bankers and multinational CEOs to plunder our savings to fill their pockets, speculate on a massive scale and shift billions into the world’s tax havens, depriving treasury departments of tax revenues, which are a country’s life blood. The result has been cutbacks in vital public services and investment in education, health and infrastructure.

Privatisation of utilities, energy, telecommunication, transport and in some cases, education and health simply transferred public monopolies into private monopolies or cartels. The control of strategic assets by a few oligarchs with political relations distorts competition and has resulted in a virtual takeover of sovereign states by big business.

There is a direct correlation between the laying off of thousands of workers and/or lowering of wages and exploitation of employees and the increase in corporate profits, boardroom earnings and shareholder dividends.

It is only now, as governments tell the people the worst is over, that we are seeing what has really been happening; like flood waters receding to expose the extent of the damage. Since the outset of the crisis only the top 1 per cent has benefited from any gains while the vast majority face lower standards of living with millions falling into poverty.

In the circumstances it is hardly surprising that people are disaffected with politics and are revolting against the capitalist system.

BERLUSCONI: Business and State too close.

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THE SPIRITUALIST CHURCH OF QUESADA, meets at new premises, Hamiltons Bakehouse, Calle Vicente 62, Blasco Ibañez, Benijofar. Sunday Service at 11.30am. A Tuesday evening of Mediumship at 7.30pm and every Thursday there is an opportunity to develop your skills at the Open Circle at 7.30pm.

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(95454) THE ROYAL NAVAL ASSOCIATION, Torrevieja Branch, meet at 17.00 on the first Wednesday of each month at the Restaurante El Paraiso, Urb. Jardin del Mar 3 (behind Carrefour), Torrevieja. Contact Mike Wright, Chairman 966 722 895 or Margaret Forshaw, Secretary 966 921 996.

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Anyone needing any help or advice on welfare, or any information regarding the branch can contact either Sheila on 965 791 270 or Roger on 965 790 123 (95472) TORREVIEJA STROKE SUPPORT GROUP meets each Friday 3pm to 5pm in The Annex, (behind Age Concern Centre), Calle Paganini, Urb. La Siesta. Our aim is to support stroke survivors and their carers by a range of facilities from speech therapy, rehabilitation exercise, group discussion etc. For info: Louie 96 671 8964 or Carol, Secretary: 966 765 488, e-mail: strokesupportgroup@hotmail. com Donations and further voluntary helpers are needed and guest speakers with relevant knowledge or experience are very welcome. (95473) THE ROYAL BRITISH LEGION Gran Alacant & La Marina Branch meets 1st Monday of every month (except July and August) at Bar Sioux , Avda Escandinavia GA at 7pm for 7.30pm prompt. For further info contact Brian, Branch Secretary on 639 917 971 / email secre tarybr3606@gmail.com (95474) CAMPELLO CONTRA CANCER in conjunction with AECC Association Español Contra Cancer has opened a charity shop at C/Virgen de los Desamparados No 13 (next door to Mas y mas) El Campello. The shop is open Mon-Fri 10 - 2pm and is run by unpaid volunteers and all monies raised goes to the AECC. We urgently need donations of clothes, books, large and small furniture etc, and we will arrange collection of large items. We need volunteers to help out in the shop and also clothes rails, shelves etc. for display. Please support your local Cancer charity and if you wish to obtain literature or simply talk to someone. Please stop by at the shop. Contact Mina or Trisha. Tel 650 071 278 or 610 921 413 e-mail aecc_campel lo@hotmail.com (95475)

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Poor match from Monte

PLAYING on a patchy, bumpy grass pitch, four key players missing was no excuse for a very poor final Montesinos performance.

San Miguel set out to good effect, and caused Monte problems early on, culminating in the 15th minute when the away defence let a cross over for a simple headed goal.

With only Omar upfront Monte offered very little in way of attack, but did draw level when Marcos was tripped in the area and he calmly slotted home to make it 1-1. The home side were far the better and they got their reward when a splendid move down the left saw San Miguel’s No 11 strike with ease, 2-1.

Juanpe made two changes at the interval with Jose Carlos and Christian replacing Parades and Lopez. This had no impact as Monte lost their shape to concede the third. San Miguel totally dominated the second period and limited Monte to only two chances. Diego and Tello came on for Omar and Ruben as a last throw of the dice but this made no difference and the match finished 3-1.

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Well done to all the girls!

TORREVIEJA girls showed outstanding performances in their races in the ‘XVII Trofeo Patronato Municipal de Deportes’ and the ‘XVI Trofeo Ciudad de San Vicente’ in the Municipal Pool San Vincente del Raspieg.

Paula Garcia won trophies in both of her races - gold in the 100m freestyle event and silver in the 100m backstroke event (1112yrs).

Other members of the team gained excellent new times which stand them in good positions for next year’s competitions. Elian Del Rio Castillo narrowly missed out on trophies winning fourth place in both his 100m freestyle and 100m butterfly events (13-14yrs).

In the afternoon’s competition team-mates and best friends, Piroska Rideg and Zoe Connolly, raced side by side in both the

BEST FRIENDS: Piroska and Zoe raced side by side.

TMGS at La Serena for 2 ball better ball TMGS paid a visit to La Serena to play a two ball better ball (medal) which caused some confusion on how to score the cards!

The scores on the day were surprisingly decent considering the difficulty of the course, with scores in the low mid 60’s, and it was an excellent 62 that took the Guest Prize for father and son team of Harry and Mark with

Harry shooting a net level par and Mark only two over net.

The members also needed a net 62 and this was achieved by the winning pair of Matthew Taylor and Bill Starkey. Three shots back on 65 were Dag Lovas and Roger Nilsen taking the runners-up slot and a further three shots back with a 68 were Joe Dean and Steve Higgins to claim third spot.

100m backstroke and 100m butterfly events. Piroska, a year older than Zoe controlled the race with an excellent swim in both races, winning first place in the 100m butterfly and silver in the 100m backstroke. Zoe followed her friend with a silver in the 100m butterfly and 5th in the backstroke race. The clubs team then narrowly missed out on medals being placed fourth in the 4x 50m medley relay. Other team-mates worked hard and gained new personal bests. The team will be back in action this weekend with a ‘time control’ in their home pool at the municipal pool in Torrevieja.

For more information regarding Torrevieja Swimming Club please contact Rosa - 665 454 126, President Felipe on 609 418 776 or Vicki 669 637 015 or by e-mail on info@clubnataciontorrevieja.com.

Mazarron easily 6-0 winners From Back Page Things went from bad to worse for Moratalla when they were harshly penalised for a back pass two yards from goal. Tico tapped the ball to Tolo who fired home to make it 4-0.

It was soon 5-0 when excellent work by Juanillo found Tolo on the edge of the penalty area. Although his shot was blocked, another of the Mazarron youngsters, substitute Gines, was on hand to score with the rebound.

Five minutes before time, Chema was brought down on the edge of the penalty area and, despite Moratalla protests, the referee awarded a penalty which Tolo coolly despatched to make him joint top scorer in the league this season.

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Congratulations City, Hamilton and Nadal - all are winners!

Tony Matthews

International Sports A former football player and the world’s most prolific author of football books (more than 100 published), Tony is also the sports reporter for Spectrum Radio and lives in the Cabrera mountains.

Costa de Almeria

MANCHESTER CITY did what they had to do to clinch the Premiership for the second time in three seasons. They needed a point against West Ham; they got three with a 2-0 victory to make it four trophies in four seasons and a first in England for Chilean manager Manuel Pellegrini.

Liverpool, 2-1 winners over nine-man Newcastle, came second with Chelsea, also 2-1 victors at Cardiff, third. This is the first time Jose Mourinho has finished out of the top two with any club he has managed.

Norwich City, beaten 2-0 by fourth-placed Arsenal, drop into the Championship along with Cardiff and Fulham.

Tottenham Hotspur (6th) defeated Aston Villa 3-0 to qualify for the Europa League, along with Everton (5th) and FA Cup finalists Hull City.

The Spanish Grand Prix, the first F1 race in Europe this year - ended in another one-two for Mercedes as Lewis Hamilton beat Nico Rosberg with Daniel Ricciardo third. This was Hamilton’s first win at Barcelona’s Catalunya circuit and he now leads

the driver’s championship by three points from Rosberg (100 to 97) with Fernando Alonso third (49).

Home favourite Rafael Nadal won his fourth Madrid Open tennis title, defeating Japan’s Kei Nishikori (retired) in the final.

Russian Maria Sharapova beat Simona Halep in the women’s final.

And Saracens, Northampton, Leicester and Harlequins all secured semi-final places in Rugby Union’s Aviv Premiership places DIARY OF EVENTS On Saturday, Arsenal will equal Manchester United’s record when they play in their 18th FA Cup final, while their opponents Hull City will be appearing in their first. The odds favour the Gunners to win the trophy for the 11th time, but there is no doubt the Tigers will do their fair share of roaring inside a packed Wembley.

The game is live on ITV and BT Sport with a 4pm kick-off Spanish time.

Some 400 miles north, the 1994 and 2010 winners Dundee United play St Johnstone, who have yet to lift the trophy, in the Scottish Cup final.

On Sunday, Cambridge United will meet Gateshead or Grimsby in the Conference play-off final, the winners of which will rejoin the Football League along with Luton Town.

The end-of-season

From left to right: Rooney.

Gerard, Lampard.

ENGLAND’S 2014 WORLD CUP TEAM On Monday, England manager Roy Hodgson named his 23-man squad for the World Cup in Brazil, and it is: Goalkeepers: Forster, Foster, Hart Full-backs: Baines, Johnson, Shaw Defenders: Cahill, Jagielka, Jones, Smalling Midfield: Barkley, Gerrard, Henderson, Lallana, Lampard, Milner, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Sterling, Wilshere Strikers: Lambert, Rooney, Sturridge, Welbeck ‘League’ play-off finals will feature Derby against QPR (Championship), PNE/ Rotherham v Leyton Orient/Peterborough (FL1) and Burton Albion/ Southend v York City/ Fleetwood (FL2), while Hibernian will be hoping to avoid demotion from the SPL; their Edinburgh neighbours Hearts are already down.

And Spain’s La Liga title will be decided this weekend when leaders Atletico Madrid who drew 1-1 with Malaga last weekend, visit Barcelona (2nd) who were held 0-0

by Elche. Real Madrid (3rd) are now out of the running. Granada, Real Valladolid and Osasuna are all in danger of being relegated with Real Betis.

The 2014 Italia International Tennis tournament in Rome; two Open Golf Championships, one here in Spain, the other in Texas, will come to a conclusion on Sunday and England’s cricketers play Sri Lanka in T20 and One Day Internationals, both at The Oval on Monday and Wednesday.

FACTS: * Controversial Cardiff

Good turn out for Quesada THERE was another very good turnout for the Quesada Golf Society’s game at Las Colinas.

The competition was an individual stableford with two divisions. In the gold division the winner was Rod Day (34 points). In second was David McSweeney (30). He pipped

third placed Norman Lewis on countback.

In the Silver Division the winner was Terry Smith (33), followed by Glenys Thomas (29), pipping Trevor Hobbs on countback.

Nearest the Pin winners were David McSweeney, Roy Westlake,

Pam Martin and Garry Haisman.

In the annual singles knock-out competition Tony White beat Roy Kavanagh and Rod Day beat Trevor Hobbs to advance to the next round.

More information: Les Pancott on 966 716 723.

City owner Vincent Tan will not quit and may consider a kit u-turn, going back to blue shirts and dismissing the red strip currently worn by the Welsh club. One fan said: “It was red for

danger - we were relegated.” * St Louis Rams star Michael Sam has become the first openly gay player in NFL history and third American gay sportsman ever.

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Easy win for Mazarron MAZARRON totally dominated the game and ran out easy 6-0 winners against a poor Moratalla team.

Coach Javi named four 16-yearolds in the squad, three of whom were in the starting line up, and they all contributed to this victory.

After 14 minutes Tico’s through ball found Fran who cleverly back heeled the ball into the path of Jose Ruben.

The striker ran on to fire his 20th goal of the season past the Moratalla keeper. Cecilio was influential up front and provided Ruben with a number of further opportunities which were not converted.

Mazarron did not increase their lead until six minutes before half time when another fine pass from Tico saw Ruben racing through on the left.

His shot was saved by the visiting keeper, but only into the path of

WELL DONE: Mazarron totally dominated the game.

Cecilio who unleashed a powerful drive into the net to make the score 2-0 to Mazarron at the interval.

Tolo replaced Ruben at half time and Mazarron continued their onslaught on the Moratalla goal playing some excellent football.

After 50 minutes, young central defender Ismai, who was making his debut, played a through ball to Dani whose fierce shot was well

saved. Shortly afterwards Moratalla were reduced to 10 men when one of their players was dismissed after an altercation with the referee.

Mazarron then went into a threegoal lead when Randry’s left wing cross was met with a looping header by Moha and the ball nestled in the top corner of the net.

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