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Taxi-driver protest A VAN which was illegally taking tourists to Palma Airport was stopped by Calvia Local Police.

A taxi driver had alerted them and the vehicle was located on the exit from Costa d’en Blanes urbanisation to the MA-1. It was being driven by a German woman whose passengers said she offered her services online.

Taxi drivers recently prevented buses and taxis from leaving Son Sant Joan Airport for around two hours while they staged a protest against such activity. Local and National Police had to attend to allow traffic to leave the airport.

The town hall has said it is aware of the concern amongst licensed taxi drivers regarding the problem of ‘pirate’ taxis.

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Letters WINE SECTOR: Harvesting celebrations attract visitors.

Sales up for Mallorca wines

THE ‘Vins de Mallorca’ Protected Geographic Indication (IGP) has the highest levels of production and sales in the Balearic Islands. More than 16,153 hectolitres were sold in 2013.

Seeing that wines under the IGP experienced benefits, several producers have preferred to join the group, led by the Balearic Islands’ oldest winery, Hereus de Ribas, which founded the Binissalem Designation of Origin (DO). More recently, the heir of the Mesquida winery from

Porreres, which was under the Pla i Llevant Designation of Origin, has also launched a new project under the IGP. Sales of wines under the Pla i Llevant Designation of Origin regulation have fallen by 5.3 per cent since 2013, while Binissalem wines saw sales rise by more than 17 per cent in the same year.

The Binissalem region is totally dedicated to the wine sector and has made a big deal of harvesting celebrations to attract visitors.

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NEWS Drug trafficking NINE people are on trial in Palma this week for allegedly trafficking with drugs in Calvia between 2012 and 2013. They are facing prison sentences of up to six years.

Climber rescued A CLIMBER, 20, had to be rescued by firemen in Valldemossa after falling from a height of five metres and hurting his leg.

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Missing Briton found safe AN Englishman, 78, suffering from Alzheimer’s, was found in good health after spending a night lost in La Trapa area of Andratx.

He had several cuts and bruises, as he had apparently fallen several times, and was taken to a medical centre for a check-up. However, he was released shortly afterwards

with no serious problems or injuries.

His wife reported he had gone missing after going out on his own.

The couple has lived in the area for many years and is fond of taking photos of the local scenery.

A search was immediately launched, but night fell and he wasn’t found. However, at dawn the

following morning, 40 members of the Local Police, Guardia Civil, Mallorca firemen and Civil Protection began searching on land while a Guardia Civil helicopter flew over the mountains. Around midday, the man was found in the Coll de sa Gramola area where a taxi driver had left him the previous night.

Drugs sentence A MAN and a woman have been sentenced to three years and six months respectively in prison for selling cocaine and other drugs from their home in Palma in 2011.

Cyclist injured A CYCLIST, 50, was injured in a fall down a two-metre embankment on the road between Soller and Deia when he lost control of his bicycle.

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A WOMAN, 30, was found floating in a private pool in Son Ferriol and was rescued by paramedics and taken to Son Llatzer Hospital by ambulance.

PALMA City Hall’s Urban Development Department has approved the demolition of the Lluis Sitjar Stadium with a budget of almost €1.12 million.

Rescue drill A RESCUE drill was carried out in the Serra de Tramuntana involving the emergency services and the Air Force and simulating a crash between two planes.

Dead man A SWEDISH man, 68, was found dead in his home in Palma. His body was in an advanced state of decomposition and showed no signs of violence.

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Popular name MOHAMED is amongst the 50 most frequently used names in the Balearic Islands, where 2,167 people have that name. The most popular overall are Antonio and Maria.

Safer beaches ALBERCUTX beach in Pollensa will have a reserved area for the disabled this year so that they can enjoy the sea and sand in total safety.

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Open again PAEDIATRIC consultations have started again at Inca Hospital after being suspended temporarily due to lack of staff.

Lucky escape TEAM OF SURGEONS: Performing a transplant.

National Organ and Tissue Donors’ Day IN Spain, National Organ and Tissue Donors’ Day is held on the first Wednesday in June.

For more than 20 years, Spain has been a world leader for organ donation and transplants. In 2013, Spain carried out 4,279 transplants thanks to 1,655 donors. Earlier this year, a record was broken when 45 transplants were carried out in just 24 hours.

Most of the transplants in 2013 were kidneys (2,552), followed by 1,093 liver transplants, 285 lung, 249 heart, 92 pancreas and eight intestinal.

Tissue such as bone, corneas and heart valves can also be donated.

Spain has 35.12 donors per million inhabitants, well above the European average of 19 per million.

More than 50 per cent of donors are over the age of 60.

Quote of the Week WE said from the start that we would win and we have come through former minister of Agriculture, Food and Environment and conservative Partido Popular candidate in the EU elections, Miguel Arias Cañete.

Becoming an organ donor in Spain is quite easy, all that is required is a donor card, which is not legally binding, but does show the holder’s wish to donate their organs when they die.

According to Spanish law, anyone deceased is a potential donor, unless they have expressed in life their wish for their organs not to be donated.

Despite this, the usual procedure is to ask for written authorisation from the person’s relatives. It is not enough to present a donor card, which is why those wishing to donate are told to inform their relatives of their will so that they do not oppose.

If there are any organs they do not wish to donate, they should also make this known.

For more information, visit the site of the National Transplant Organization, www.ont.es.

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million foreign tourists visited Spain between January and April this year, according to the Frontur survey Publisher by the Ministry of Industry, Energy and Tourism. That is 9.2 per cent more than over the same period in 2013.

A MAN, 38, was uninjured despite a tree falling on his car in Plaza Porta de Sant Antoni, Palma. The car was seriously damaged.

Two crashes LONG tailbacks were registered in both directions following two accidents within minutes of each other on the Via de Cintura in Palma. Five people were injured.

Sick leave THE Balearic Islands are the Spanish region where people take the fewest days off work due to work-related accident, with 29.21 on average in 2013.

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A MAN, 42, was arrested in Granollers, Barcelona, for knocking down and killing a cyclist , 34, and fleeing the scene. He was located thanks to statements from witnesses and pieces of his vehicle which were found at the accident.

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Thief driver GUARDIA CIVIL arrested a taxi driver, 43, in Palmanova, for stealing valuables from passengers, mainly British tourists and selling anabolic steroids.

Security cameras THE Mayor of Inca, Rafel Torres, said security cameras in the Crist Rei underpass will be connected again when the Campet des Tren car park opens.

Rescue dogs THE Consell has invested €1,300 collars with GPS tracking devices for the Mallorca firemen’s canine unit to assist during rescue operations.

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Balearic homes in financial difficulties EIGHTEEN per cent of homes in the Balearic Islands have great financial difficulty making it to the end of the month.

According to a survey on life conditions carried out by the National Institute of Statistics for 2013, 42.5 per cent of homes in the Balearic Islands are unable to pay for unforeseen expenses, and 17.2 per cent are behind on payments for their habitual residence. More than 44 per cent can’t afford to go on holiday away from home for at least one week a year.

The survey shows that the average income per person per year in the Balearic Islands is €10,386, while the average for Spain is €10,531.

Meanwhile, on average in Spain, 16.9 per cent of households have serious financial difficulties to reach the end of the month, which is the highest figure since the financial crisis began. Forty-one per cent of households reportedly cannot afford unexpected expenses, which is a little

FINANCES: Hard lasting to month end. lower than in 2012. Almost 46 per cent were unable to go on holiday, also the highest result since the onset of the financial crisis.

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Bogus gas inspectors stole up to €500k TWENTY-SIX people were arrested in Malaga, Alicante, Madrid and Mallorca, for their alleged involvement with a gang carrying out bogus gas inspections.

They are thought to have tricked as many as 5,000 people and made up to €500,000.

Another two have been charged in Malaga, where the organisation’s leaders were based. In Mallorca, 15 people were arrested.

They offered periodic gas inspections initially telling the victims it would cost them €50.

However, once the ‘repairs’ began, they told them that they had found other problems which would put the price up, and on occasions charged up to €1,200.

In some cases they also stole valuable items, such as cash and jewellery, from the homes they entered.

The victims were normally elderly foreign residents in Spain.

One woman was visited every month by a group of bogus gas inspectors and paid more than €1,000 in total.

The organisation had been operating for several years and periodically changed its name.

The Guardia Civil recommends not letting anyone unknown into the home and checking the identity of alleged gas inspectors by calling the official number of the company they claim to work for.

Free Wi-Fi on Playa de Palma FREE Wi-Fi is available on Palma Beach and can allow for more than 100,000 daily connections.

In the 50 days the connection has been available, the provider, Mallorcawifi.com, has detected almost one million devices in the area, mainly smartphones, of which more than 44,000 have connected, and 64 per cent have done daily.

The local councillor and president of the tourism board, Alvaro Gijon, said the free WiFi connection is a pioneering system for its extension, the population it reaches, the way it is managed, and how easy it is to connect.

The connection covers six kilometres of the beach from the sailing club in Can Pastilla to the one in s’Arenal, which is the largest beach connection in Europe.

The city hall has paid nothing for the connection as the provider is financed by advertising.

Kidnapped children A 49-YEAR-OLD man decided to take justice into his own hands and ignore the court orders against him when he kidnapped his children.

He went to their kindergarten, in Palma, and was waiting for them to come out, as were his ex-wife’s family. After a heated argument with the children’s grandparents he put them in his car, and proceeded to take them away. One of the women from his ex’s family got in the way and he crashed into her, grazing her knee and running over her foot.

The police arrested him for attempted manslaughter.

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Court requests further investigation A COURT in Palma de Mallorca has requested more information regarding the illegal recording of the Infanta Cristina’s appearance in court in February in the Noos case.

A Malaga lawyer is suspected of leaking the video of the Infanta’s statement in court.

The request has been made to the police forensics team in Madrid and aims to discover how the recording was taken.

The lawyer denies having filmed the images and says he called the National

Police to collaborate with them.

The aim now is to contrast existent data with his arguments statements.

He also says there are numerous errors and contradictions in a previous report from the police.

Experts from Malaga University have said that the images have been tampered with.

The Duke of Palma could face between 10 and 19 years in prison for embezzlement, corruption, document falsification, fraud against the

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On trial A MAN is facing 16 years in prison for killing his wife in March 2013 in Palma by stabbing her in the stomach.

Sexual exchange A LOCAL POLICE officer from Marratxi was sentenced to a year in prison for asking a woman to have sex in exchange for not reporting her in 2012.

Man stabbed PRINCESS CRISTINA: Claims she knows nothing. administration and tax evasion.

In court, his wife, Princess Cristina, claimed she did not know of the activities of Aizoon, the

company created allegedly to hide the €6 million of public funds illegally obtained through the Noos Institute, despite owning half of the company.

A MAN has been remanded in prison without bail for stabbing another, 23, in Palma following a row due to jealousy.

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Rape suspect arrested POLICE in Palma have arrested a 25-year-old man suspected of raping a woman he met in a kebab shop.

The events took place in April when the man met the victim, 38, in a kebab shop in Palma. The victim has testified that although she had taken substances and alcohol that night, she never lost consciousness.

She claims the suspected attacker took advantage of the fact she was drunk and proceeded to rape her.

The 25-year-old initially denied this version of events but eventually admitted he had consensual sex with the woman.

The police took some time to find the suspected rapist as the description given was rather vague and the victim could not remember very clearly due to her state of inebriation.

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Police continue to investigate attack on man outside brothel NATIONAL POLICE arrested a man, 41, for grievous bodily harm, after he hit another over the head with an iron bar in Palma.

The victim, who needed several

stitches to close the wound, was hit when he tried to help his brotherin-law, who was being beaten by the detainee.

The events took place on the

seafront and when police arrived they found several people waiting around and one on the floor with a gaping head wound. Witnesses gave the police the metre-long iron bar and explained what had happened.

The victim, a Romanian man, was taken to hospital where he explained that he had been in a local brothel when one of the girls told him that his brother-inlaw was involved in a fight outside. He said when he went to help, he received several blows to the head.

The version of the detainee, who owns a local brothel, is that he was in his car when a group of Romanians made him stop and demanded that he pay off a debt, and when he got out of his car they started hitting him. The police continue to investigate DAVID GRAHAM: A brown belt. the events.

Look out Leapy!

DAVID GRAHAM, the 13-year-old son of Euro Weekly News columnist Leapy Lee and wife Pauline, won medals for Spain in the recent European Karate championships.

David, a brown belt, trains at the Shinkai club in Santa Ponsa, and took a bronze and silver in the team events and a gold medal in the individual, of which he is very proud.

He is looking forward to gaining his black belt and hopes to be selected for the team which will represent Spain in the world championships next year.

Leapy is said to be ‘over the moon’ and very proud of his son’s achievements, despite the fact that he says David can now ‘beat him up’ whenever the mood takes him!

Guardia Civil dismantle marihuana growing operation in sa Rapita THE GUARDIA CIVIL and the Local Police in sa Rapita have dismantled a high tech, hydroponic, marihuana growing operation.

Investigators found 121 plants in two homes which were being grown by the hydroponic, using no soil - only nutrients in the water, method.

The named resident of the two properties, a man of 43, has been arrested for crimes against public health.

Hydroponics have become more and more popular with illegal marihuana growers in Spain in the last eight months as the system occupies less space, and requires no soil, just water, lights and chemicals which are

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Company appeals A COMPANY in Calvia has appealed a fine from the town hall for failing to clear a plot of land because it does not belong to them.

Fined and suspended A CIVIL servant at Pollensa Town Hall has been sentenced to pay a fine and been suspended for six months for stealing €15,000 from the municipal coffers.

Illegal betting AN ILLEGAL gaming premises which was being run by several German nationals in Inca has been shut down by the National Police.

Festival artists KLAXONS and Anna Calvi are the first names confirmed for the Solar Fest Mallorca which will be held in September 12 and 13 in Son Fusteret.

New judges NINE judges who will be destined to the Balearic Islands have sworn their position at the regional High Court of Justice.

Beach problem MARIHUANA: 121 plants were found in 2 homes. easy to find in garden shops.

The combined police

forces have confiscated all of the plants and growing equipment.

LOCAL POLICE on Palma Beach have their work cut out with Nigerian prostitutes who target drunk tourists to steal their belongings.

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Drill protest THE Greenpeace ship ‘Rainbow Warrior’ will travel around Valencia, Ibiza and Mallorca in June to protest against exploratory drilling for petrol off the coast.

Island water MALLORCA has 117 locations all over the island from which fire engines, planes and helicopters can obtain water to fight wildfires.

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21 month sentence for abusing wife A 45-YEAR-OLD man has been sentenced to 21 months in prison and community service for abusing his wife for four years.

Between 2006 and 2010 the man humiliated and hit his wife in the family home in Son Serra de Marina.

The majority of the episodes of physical and mental violence took

place in front of their young son.

The attacker, who was facing four years in prison, confessed in Palma Provincial Court and accepted his sentence.

In 2006, he dislocated her shoulder. In 2009, after a heated argument, he hit his wife and threw her onto the marital bed, pulled her hair, punched her all over her body

and hit her with a slipper. That night the victim, battered and bruised, tried to commit suicide by swallowing sleeping pills.

The victim was taken to Muro hospital and while there received a phone call from her husband accusing her of being a bad mother and abandoning their child, he also threatened her with more violence

if she went to the authorities.

After another period in hospital she was diagnosed with severe depression, due to being mistreated by her partner for the past three years.

They had been married since 1995.

In 2010, a court in Inca issued a restraining order against the man.

Pirates Premiere a success PIRATES are pleased to announce that the total from this year’s Charity Premiere was over €25,000.

The five charities that will benefit to the tune of €5,055.03 each are: Great Ormond Street Children’s Hospital, The Son Espases Children’s Ward, ‘Milk On Mondays’ with Mediterranea, Cancer Support Group Mallorca and StopFA. Catherine Sasson the CEO of Pirates said “We are delighted with this year’s total and to be able to donate to not only GOSH but also four Island based charities

AMAZING ACROBATICS: Were on show from the Pirates.

that will benefit greatly from your support of our

event.

“As a company Pirates

would like to thank all of their sponsors, donators, collaborators and guests who supported our 11th year of the Pirates Mutiny Charity Premiere.”

For details of their charity raffle prize winners please visit: http://www.piratesa dventure.com/raffle_ prizes.html

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Alpha Pam case could be reopened THE Balearic Courts will allow the case surrounding the death of Senegalese immigrant Alpha Pam to be reopened.

A judge ruled that each of the four associations which presented the case, Mallorca Human Rights, the Senegalese Association and unions CGT and UGT, should pay €3,000 bail.

This was appealed before the higher court, and now a judge has said that the situation of each organisation should be taken into account so that they can carry out legal action.

Their case was against the senior officials of the

Beaten in a bar fight A MOROCCAN man, 38, was left unconscious after being hit over the head with a bottle in a bar in Andratx.

He was badly injured after being hit several times with a bottle and lost consciousness. The Guardia Civil and the Local Police searched for the two attackers all night but were unable to locate them.

The incident took place in Plaza de España and when the emergency services arrived they found the man bleeding profusely from a head wound and tried to resuscitate and stabilise him. He didn’t react to medical attention and was taken by ambulance, to hospital.

Witnesses all claimed to have seen nothing or said that it happened so quickly that they had no chance to notice the identity of the attackers, believed to also be Moroccans.

ALPHA PAM: Wrongly diagnosed with bronchitis.

Balearic Government, who they accused of negligence in the death of Alpha Pam in April 2013 from undiagnosed tuberculosis.

His case became famous after claims that he was denied medical care.

However, according to his relatives, Alpha Pam was

not turned away and was in fact treated, but for the wrong thing.

His family says that he was initially seen at Inca Hospital and later referred to the health centre in Can Picafort, where he was wrongly diagnosed with bronchitis.

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Arranged marriages SIX people were arrested in the Palma Beach area for allegedly arranging marriages of convenience for illegal immigrants.

Stolen goods LOCAL and National Police in Palma reported three ‘cash for gold’ stores which were allegedly purchasing stolen goods knowingly.

Smoke inhalation EIGHT people, including three National Police officers, had to be treated for smoke inhalation after a fire broke out in a house in Palma.

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This year’s Mallorca Rocks starts with a bang next week THIS year’s edition of Mallorca Rocks starts on Tuesday.

Following in the footsteps of previous season openers Biffy Clyro, Plan B, Ed Sheeran and Jake Bugg, THE hottest new band in the world right now HAIM will be headlining this year’s Mallorca Rocks Opening Party at 7.30pm. Winners of BBC’s Sound of 2013, these Californian sisters have stolen the show at some of the biggest festivals around the world this year including an epic set on the Pyramid Stage at Glastonbury.

With their debut album ‘Days Are Gone’ generating monster sales, a UK No.1 further propelled the sisters to global superstardom. Tickets from 35 euros.

Meanwhile, kicking off the first W.A.R! of Summer 2014 next Thursday (June 5) with a massive headline set, is master of new music and long-term friend and

HAIM: The hottest new band in the world at present. champion of Rocks, Zane Lowe.

Doors open at 8pm.

Joining Zane for an Opening Party to remember are rising stars Gorgon City. Releasing on Black Butter Records, their polished, powerful and partyminded sound is stamping its mark all over 2014! Smash hit single ‘Ready For Your Love’ is already set to be one of the soundtracks of the summer.

Completing the opening party line up is another of the UK’s premier rising talents Javeon.

Fusing R&B, dance and pop styles in his own tracks including debut single ‘Give it Up’ and collaborating with the likes of MNEK and Julio Bashmore.

Tickets from €30.

Events will continue through the summer until September 18.

Info on www.mallorcarocks.com.

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Tyre fire at Palmanyola FOUR fire trucks were called out to control a fire at the tyre depot in Palmanyol, Bunyola.

The fire affected the great number of tyres accumulated at the location which is right next to the water treatment plant in Son Reus.

Due to the nature of the burning material it took four trucks to get the blaze under control; the trucks came from Calvia, Soller, Inca and Palma.

The cause of the fire is, as yet, unknown but police are continuing their investigations.

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Unsolved crime of death in Andratx THERE is an unsolved crime in Andratx.

The death of Maria Coll, a 75-year-old woman who was run over near her house on the evening of April 9, 2013, has not been resolved.

Courts in Palma have acquitted the driver of a van, a middle-aged Italian man, who was accused of running her over in the old part of the town. There is not enough evidence against him and neither are

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Building damage A FAMILY in Calle Verge de Lluc in Lloseta has complained that work being carried out in a neighbouring house is causing cracks in their property.

Fake imports ANDRATX: The woman was run over near her house in April 2013. there any witnesses or tyre skid marks on the street.

Guardia Civil reports are

not conclusive and even the exact location of the accident is unknown.

The judge’s conclusion raises the possibility that another vehicle may have hit the woman in Calle Antoni Mulet. One of the tyres ran over her ankle.

It was the suspect who called the police and informed them that he had found a lady in the street who looked like she had been run over. The victim was taken to Son Espases Hospital with serious injuries but died hours later.

SEVENTEEN people were arrested at Palma, Madrid, Barcelona and Valencia airports for illegally importing fake medicines.

Violent attack THE confessed murderer of an 84year-old man in Pollensa in January confirmed in court that he hit him four times on the head with an axe during a robbery.

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Restaurant owner THE former leader of the German National Democratic Party, Holger Apfel, is reportedly running a restaurant on Palma Beach.

Obesity up SON ESPASES University Hospital has reportedly registered 250 new cases of severe obesity amongst adults and 100 children with nutritional problems.

Prison term THE Supreme Court has confirmed a fourand-a-half-year prison sentence for a Manacor bank manager who stole €528,000 between 2005 and 2007.

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GiveWatts charity fundraiser success THE fundraising event held at Santa Ponsa Country Club was a great success for charity GiveWatts.

The mission of GiveWatts is to provide clean energy to schools and clinics in developing nations. They don’t give to individuals or households, but work with institutions in communities, helping to build the necessary infrastructure for the community to become better equipped to care for its members.

The total amount raised was €3,000 by means of running, rowing, cycling or cross training in the gym at Santa Ponsa Country Club.

There was a raffle with prizes including Go-

CHARITY MISSION: To provide clean energy to schools and clinics.

Karting for six at Magaluf Karting; a water-jet pack ride donated by Nauti Parts; dinner for two at El Patio; a 10-hour intensive language course by 3phase Language school; a couple of tickets to Pirates Adventure and many others.

The day was rounded off with a BBQ and live music with the Mcooleys and Soulettes.

The organisers would like to thank everyone who donated prizes.

Special thanks to Santa Ponsa Country Club, S’hort Restaurant, Radio one Mallorca, the Daily Bulletin, the Euro Weekly News for all their support, Rhys ar Alchemedia group, Snooker café, Santa Ponsa Dental Practice, Brad Robertson at

Ondine, Dunn’s butchers, Nice Price, La Terraza, Annett in Santa Ponsa, BAb’s at Eden.

If you want to know more about GiveWatts please visit www.givewatts.org or e-mail tom.worthington@sp ectrum-ifa.com to see how you can make a difference.

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Fire in the Plaza Major of Palma A LARGE fire provoked widespread concern in the Plaza Major of Palma last week.

The fire originated in the store room of a supermarket in which there were a lot of trolleys full of cardboard and this made a lot of smoke. The Local Police and the fire brigade were able to get the blaze under control and extinguish it quickly.

There were no casualties and it was not necessary to evacuate the area.

A security guard noticed the smoke in the warehouse next to the supermarket and alerted the emergency services.

The Local Police arrived promptly and separated the trolleys full of cardboard from anything else that was in danger of catching fire. They used several fire extinguishers and when the fire brigade arrived the fire was brought under control. Police are investigating the cause.

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Mayor refuses immigrants registration THE Mayor of Sestao, Vizcaya, Josu Bergara, has been reported for refusing to register foreign immigrants on the municipal census.

He has been reported by five families and two other people for corruption by omission and racism.

Representatives from NGO SOS Racismo report that the problem has

Police to stop minors smoking POLICE in the Balearic Islands of Ibiza and Formentera will, from tomorrow (Friday) confiscate cigarettes found on children under 18.

Smoking in the street or simply carrying tobacco will be considered a clandestine activity for under 18s and their cigarettes, lighters, papers and any other items for smoking will be confiscated.

Parents and local councils support the plan to adhere to article 60 of the Balearic Minors’ Law, which says that the police can intervene in situations which put children’s physical health at risk.

Disciplinary proceedings will be opened against children who are caught, the same as if they were found with other drugs, but once their parents are informed, they will have 15 days to collect the seized items.

Parents who don’t take measures to prevent their children from smoking will be sent before the social services.

An investigation will be opened to determine how the youngsters got their hands on the cigarettes.

been ongoing since 2012.

Those affected first attempted to solve the problem with the mayor, without success, then went to the Ararteko (Basque Ombudsman)

who told the mayor he had to allow them to register, also to no avail.

They have tried going through the National Institute of Statistics.

The mayor admitted

that he had used a data base of people with police records in order to prevent “conflictive” immigrants from renting homes in the town. He was also recorded saying

that he no longer wanted “sh*t” coming to Sestao, and that “if they come, I’ll get rid of them, with a couple of slaps, because no-one wants sh*t.”

The mayor has since

apologised for his comments, saying that he means he doesn’t want delinquents to come to the town and make people feel uncomfortable.

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Historian finds Dali’s ‘birth’ They also analysed the paint to A PAINTING bought for €150 from an antique shop in Girona some 26 years conclude that it could not have been ago has been confirmed as the earliest created before 1909 and the Surrealist work by Catalan artist inscription lettering, studied by a handwriting expert, was said to have Salvador Dali.

Art experts confirmed at Madrid’s matched the artist’s other works.

The painting has been titled ‘The Institute of Fine Arts that the Intrauterine Birth of Salvador colourful oil painting, which Dali.’ Art historians have said features angels flying above Experts that it explores a recurring an erupting volcano, was have dated theme in the works and created by Dali when he writings of the artist, who was about 17-years-old. the work died aged 84 in Cataluña in The work caught the eye to 1921 1989. of young Mallorca art There has been much historian Tomeu Payeras when confusion as the canvas bore the he was in a Girona antique shop in 1988. It was considered by many to date 1896, which was some eight be a fake, but the buyer trusted his years before Dali’s birth. eye and maintained that it was However, experts have dated the authentic. work to 1921 and are convinced that Experts used a series of methods to Dali, known for his stunts and tricks, test the painting’s authenticity. They used a numerology code to come up used infrared photography on the with the date.

Payeras sold the work to an canvas to reveal lines made by the artists that were consistent with Dali’s anonymous private collector last month for an undisclosed amount. style.

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Spain’s PP beats Socialists in EU elections OVER recent days some 400 million citizens across the European Union’s 28 member states had the chance to elect a new European Parliament.

Sunday saw Spain’s ruling Popular Party government defeat the main opposition Socialist Party in a close competition for EU Parliament seats.

Both main parties lost ground to smaller parties who took the opportunity to capitalize in the elections after years of civil discontent due to high unemployment, corruption and harsh austerity policies championed by EU leaders.

Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy’s PP, which swept to power in late 2011 with an absolute majority, took 26 per cent of the votes, down from 44 per cent in the general election.

The conservative PP took 16 of Spain’s 54 seats, with 14 seats going to the PSOE. In 2009 the Socialist Party took 29 per cent of the votes, but this year this had dropped to 23 per cent.

Both mainstream parties suffered in these recent elections. In 2009, the parties took a combined figure of 47 seats. This year their shared total fell from 80 per cent to 49 per cent.

The parties lost a combined 17 European Parliament seats, leaving them with 30 out of Spain’s 54. They had been expected to lose about 10.

Voter disenchantment following a deep economic crisis resulted in fragmentation, with eight smaller parties sharing the remaining 24 seats. This was a far bigger total than preelection polling had predicted.

EUROPEAN ELECTIONS: 28 member states elect a new European Parliament.

Unlike voters in many EU countries, Spaniards rejected parties that favour cutting ties with the European Union.

However, they gave strong support to antiausterity, leftist parties as well as separatists in Catalonia who are calling for a referendum on splitting the region from the rest of Spain.

The Plural Left, a coalition that includes Communists, added four

seats for a total of six.

New party ‘Podemos’ (We can), which adopted the rhetoric of the ‘indignant’ movement that took over Spanish plazas three years ago to protest economic inequality, secured five seats.

The centrist Union, Progress and Democracy party won four seats, up from one.

Catalan voters turned out in strong numbers.

They made the oldest

pro-independence party, Republican Left of Catalonia, the region’s top vote-getter for the first time since the 1930s.

The Republican Left got 23.7 per cent of the vote, up from 9.2 per cent in 2009.

Voter turnout in Catalonia was 47.6 per cent. This was 10 per cent higher than in 2009 and slightly higher than Sunday’s nationwide turnout of 45.8 per cent.

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Cool water ZURGENA residents are being promised that their water will come through at a better temperature now work has begun this week to repair and replace underground pipework.

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REEF band performed at the Lo Monte Hotel in Pilar de la Hordada to help support the Campoverde branch of the AECC, helping to raise €370 for the cancer charity.

Pulpi boost

CYCLISTS will soon have a 12kilometre cycle path running along the A-1050 from the A-7 / A-1050 towards Los Marin farms at Roquetas.

Light repairs VERA Council has received funding from the province of €100,000 for the repair and replacement of street lighting. In total, 76 areas will benefit.

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War of words TWO Benitachell families will not send their three-year-olds to school, as they say the regional government breached their rights by not offering state education in Valenciano.

Work experience DENIA Town Hall launched its second employment scheme for 30 people.

They will receive €430 a month while training in forestry and gardening or building and decorating.

Retail therapy SOME 40 new businesses opened in San Juan this year. They include dress and shoe shops, beauty salons, bars and dental surgeries, Employment and Development councillor Charo Lopez, announced.

Modest growth PARCENT’S new Urban Development Plan (PGOU) has plans for 170 new homes in the next 20 years. The population is expected to increase by 357 to a total 1,461 inhabitants.

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Reef support

BUSINESSES in Cuevas donated a new mantle for the coronation of the Virgin on May 31. It displays in the Virgin’s Chapel until that date and took six months to complete.

Cycle path

premises of the Asturian Centre of Torrevieja, to celebrate the ‘Day of Sidra.’

THE Red Cross in Santa Pola offered free assistance to those who wanted to vote in the European Elections, in helping them get to the polling stations.

New mantle

CRUZ ROJA have been awarded a cooperation agreement in Pulpi this week during a meeting with the local mayor, representatives of Cruz Roja and the council.

NEWS DESK

Summer fair CRUISERS: Alicante port will see up to 85,000 cruise passengers arrive next year.

Cruising into Alicante in 2015 THE number of cruise ships arriving at Alicante port next year has been increased to 47.

The concessionaire managing cruises in the city, Costa Blanca Port, has expanded the number of arrivals from 35 to 47, potentially bringing up to 85,000 visitors throughout the year. This volume of cruise tourists far exceeds the 48,700 expected this year and 41,861 last year.

The Britannia, owned by P&O is one of the new ships to visit and will make three stops in Alicante next year with P&O’s Ventura scheduled to make five visits with up to 3,000 passengers on board each time.

Biker accident A 62-YEAR-OLD man died in a motorcycle accident in Villena.

Emergency services attended the scene but were unable to save the man.

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World record ON June 14, Estepona will attempt to set a Guinness World Record for the highest number of couples dancing ‘sevillana’ (traditional Andalucian dance) at the same time.

Goat farms THE local goat farming sector will establish commercial relationships with Mexican experts visiting an agricultural fair in Antequera from tomorrow (Friday) until Sunday.

Indian visit THE mayor of Marbella, Angeles Muñoz, received the Indian Ambassador in Spain, Sunil Lal, to establish ties with India, for potential tourism.

Family evacuated THREE members of a family had to be evacuated after a fire broke out in the kitchen of their bar in Teba, located under their home, due to a faulty fryer.

Horse market THE traditional horse market was held again in Ronda this year. It is one of the oldest in Spain and has been held for 500 years.

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Cider Day MORE than 100 members from a total of 16 local associations gathered at the

AGE CONCERN Costa Blanca South host their summer fair on Saturday from 11am at their centre in La Siesta. Prize draw tickets from the centre and Age Concern charity shops.

Fundraising auction THE auction held at La Zona in Los Narejos on behalf of HAH Help at Home Mar Menor, raised just under €600 for the charity. For more information call Lesley on 968 134 978.

AXARQUIA

Fire damage A WOMAN, 18, was arrested in VelezMalaga for allegedly causing more than €10,000 worth of damages by setting fire to rubbish containers.

Hashish find A MAN was arrested at Motril Port when he was found to be transporting 60 slabs of hashish resin in a carafe of olives.

Stolen birds A COURT in Motril has sentenced a man to two years in prison for stealing two cages and two birds from a house in August 2012. He also has to pay a fine and compensation.

New lighting MOCLINEJO Council has announced that public lighting in the town, including lights at the town hall building, has been changed with 309 LED lamps.

Eco-farming EL ALGARROBO garden centre, located in La Viñuela, held a conference on Ecological Farming for self-consumption and small-scale sales.

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Political success and failure W

ITH Spanish political parties having come through a little the worse for wear after the EU elections it was no great surprise that Rubalcaba should have resigned after the extremely poor performance of the PSOE at the urns.

It was the smaller, more recently emerged, parties which took the lead and capitalised on years of civil discontent, corruption, shockingly high unemployment figures and harsh austerity measures to take seats away from the ‘Big Two’.

Sunday’s biggest success story came from Spain’s new left-wing, antiausterity party ‘Podemos’, which celebrated its wins only three months after its formation.

Podemos (We Can) stunned national and international analysts and pollsters by winning 8 per cent of the vote and capturing a total of five seats.

They accrued such an unexpected

amount of votes in large part thanks to the younger voters who turned out in stunningly large numbers to support them. But this is really no great surprise as Podemos has risen on a wave of anti-establishment feeling in the country which has been expressed mainly by the young, who are getting the roughest deal out of the recession.

In some regions, including the capital, Podemos has emerged as the third largest political force after the ruling PP and the PSOE. All the polls taken before the vote suggested that the new party would struggle to earn more than one seat.

This new shooting star of the political scene, headed up by the charismatic 35-year-old Pablo Iglesias, could even harness the disenfranchised ‘Indignados’ (Outraged), who are clearly looking for a leader and some political weight behind them.

We can only hope.

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NORWAY - Norway’s fishing minister has pledged to work harder to restart exports of whale meat to Japan after a warning from the whaling industry that it could die out within 10 years if more orders didn’t come in.

Viking film NORWAY - Director Hans Petter Moland has pledged to make the first “truly successful” Viking film based on classic novel The Long Ships by Frans G Bengtsson.

Bacon problems ED MILIBAND, Labour leader, tried to be a ‘man of the people’ last week by eating a bacon sandwich in a cafe in New Covent Garden flower market but he seemed to be having problems choking it down and was making all sorts of faces to the delight of passersby.

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Sexy pics CAUGHT: An eight foot shark off Devon’s coast.

A CAT that went missing from its family home in Plymouth for four days was found under the bonnet of the family camper van, even though it had been to the garage for an MOT and full service.

Clean poster A GIANT poster, currently hanging in Sheffield, is helping to remove air pollution by absorbing fumes released by passing cars. It works by using tiny particles of titanium dioxide which then provoke a reaction which cleans the air.

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AN ARTIST has been carving sculptures of England football legends out of Brazil nuts for a World Cup project. He uses a scalpel and a magnifying glass.

THE Higher Regional Court of Koblenz has ruled that exlovers should delete revealing photos and videos taken of their former partners - if one of them asks for it to be done.

Devon shark

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ANGLER Graeme Pullen hooked an eight foot shark weighing 204 kilos; the shark was reeled in by the stunned fisherman less than a mile off Devon’s coast.

TWO German satellites have been orbiting Earth for the last four years mapping the planet’s surface to a level 30 times more accurate than anything seen before.

Brazil nuts

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SWEDEN - One in 10 Stockholm teenagers seeks help for mental health problems. A new survey has revealed figures are almost twice as high as those in southern Sweden.

Gazprom supply

Putin - Hitler

CHINA and Russia have signed a longawaited, $400 billion gas supply agreement thus securing the world’s top energy user a major new source of cleaner fuel and opening a new market for Moscow.

A FORMER Polish war refugee has said that Prince Charles, heir to the British throne, likened President Putin to Nazi leader Adolf Hitler during a royal visit to Canada.

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Wrong people SWEDEN - Five extreme-left militants have been sentenced to prison for politically motivated and ‘unfathomable’ crimes.

They mistook two Slovak workers for Swedish neoNazis and attacked them.

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Japanese whales

Car bomb A POWERFUL explosion ripped through a car in the Crimean city of Simferopol, badly injuring the driver and shattering the windows of a nearby apartment building.

Beer festival

Harmful sanctions

DENMARK - The 14th Copenhagen Beer Festival will give guests the opportunity to sample several novelty beers.

THE chief executive officer of metals giant Severstal has commented that sanctions imposed by the West on Moscow, over its involvement with the Ukraine, are harmful for businesses in countries that imposed them.

Theo van Gogh PRODUCER Gijs van de Westelaken and scenic designer Theodor Holman are working on a film about the murder of Theo van Gogh. It will be a journalistic movie that will show the political and administrative reactions in the government city of The Hague.

GAS SUPPLY: A new source.

THE CONTROVERSIAL former leader of Germany’s far-right National Democratic Party, Holger Apfel, has started a new life and opened a bar on the Spanish island of Mallorca with his wife.

DUTCH PRESS Black money

Giant jellyfish

Thieves arrested

TAX authorities expect to receive an extra €450 million; since September 6,000 people have declared €3 billion of illegal savings abroad, State Secretary of Finance Eric Wiebes reported.

BECAUSE of the mild winter giant jellyfish, one and a half metres in length and 11 kilos in weight, the so-called ‘barrel jellyfish,’ have been spotted along the Dutch coast, Ecomare reported.

FOUR Moroccans, who allegedly stole €38 million worth of diamonds from Brussels airport and €75 million worth of diamonds and jewellery from Amsterdam airport, have been arrested in Morocco.

Technology chiefs SOCIAL DEMOCRATIC panel member Christian Flisek has revealed that the parliamentary panel looking into US internet and telecoms surveillance plans to invite the heads of Google, Facebook and Apple to testify in the hearing.

Fewer youths THE number of German youths starting apprenticeships has sunk to a record low with demographic changes being blamed for the decline.

Young people are opting for university instead.

Unpopular fitness test A HIGH proportion of police officers in The Netherlands do not show up for the compulsory fitness test. This concerns 15,000 of the 40,000 officers carrying a weapon.

Another 3,500 did not pass this test.

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€125 million they paid for the Ritz in 2003. Marriott would spend up to €50 million refurbishing the hotel to enable it to reclaim its position as one of Madrid’s best hotels and compete with the Four Seasons, due to open in 2017 in the Canalejas complex. The number of rooms would be reduced

Colomer boosts Revlon profits professional LAST summer Revlon paid Colomer’s €482.9 million for beauty sector and its geographic diversity, as Cataluña’s Colomer Group.

It has spent almost €10 approximately half its sales million more during the first come from Europe, the Middle East and Africa. quarter of this year, The US plus €2.7 million cosmetics on integrating giant expect Colomer.

2014 profits There was between an additional €7.2 million €1.9 million and €10.9 for inventory million adjustments. following Colomer’s restructuring Cornella headquarters now REVLON MAKE-UP: that should belong to Revlon, Bought Colomer. save Revlon together with its €25.4 million. factory in Tarragona as well This will involve staff as the Natural Honey, redundancies and other American Crew and changes, said the company, Llongueras brands. which announced last The US company was January it was withdrawing particularly interested in from the Chinese market.

from its present 137 rooms and 30 suites.

The operation includes the rights to use of the Ritz brand in Spain although Marriott intends to change the name to RitzCarlton. The sale is a done deal, it is believed inside the finance sector, although it must first be approved by the Marriott board.

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Tile exports up GLOBAL sales of Spanish ceramic tiles rose by 2.3 per cent in 2012 to €2.657 billion, of which €2,082 billion corresponded to exports. By last year sales had risen to €2.797 billion.

Safe jobs ACCORDING to the latest official statistics, there are now 13,925,500 wageearners in Spain, 3.2 million fewer than before the crisis. Of these, 10.4 million are on open-ended contracts.

Hard time for soft fruit SPAIN has always been the EU’s main producer and exporter of strawberries, producing an annual 300,000 tons.

Ninety-six per cent of the 7,000 hectares given to strawberry growing are located in Huelva, but the last two years have been negative for producers.

Not only did the fruit fetch low prices but the UK, France, Germany and Italy are beginning to grow their own in more modern installations.

Germany now grows 150,000 tons of strawberries a year, while Poland is currently producing an annual 170,000 tons. Holland and France are also growing more, over 50,000 tons each.

Spanish strawberry growers are now exploring other avenues and are beginning to grow soft fruit like raspberries, blackberries and blueberries. These produce smaller crops but sell at a better price.

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STAT OF WEEK THREE out of every five Spanish employees believe they are not paid enough, and 84 per cent told researchers that they spend too long working. Sixty-two per cent are dissatisfied with their purchasing power.

Putting on the Ritz THE Marriott chain has offered €130 million for Madrid’s Hotel Ritz.

The hotel belongs to Alicia Koplowitz, one of Spain’s richest businesswomen, and the Orient-Express group. Each possesses a 50 per cent stake.

If the deal goes through, they will make a tidy profit on the

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Desert AVE must keep within budget IN 2011 a Spanish consortium won a €6.736 billion contract for the Medina-Mecca AVE high speed train.

The contract, which requires the line to be finished in December 2016 and functioning

by January 2017, includes penalties for late delivery.

There is also a 10 per cent margin on the stipulated price but no more. “The Saudis want the best at the cheapest price,” consortium sources told Spanish daily El Pais.

One of the 10 people arrested for the Spanish AVE scandal in Spain was in Saudi Arabia working on the desert AVE when the story broke, the same sources revealed. He has since been suspended from duty.

There have been no Saudi comments on the scandal, the sources said. “Neither were they worried when Sacyr had problems in Panama.

But they were worried when Spain was on the brink of a bailout and the bond yield had soared.”

So far the Spanish have completed 185 of the planned 450 kms.

“We are not alone,” the consortium’s president told an El Pais interviewer. This was an oblique reference to China which has the task of building the infrastructure and delivers “late and badly” according to the consortium.

The first AVE will be making test journeys by early 2015, it promised confidently, aware prompt delivery will ensure more contracts from Saudi Arabia’s €100 billion infrastructure budget.

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

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GOOD salesmen are worth their weight in gold. My first lesson was when our new sales manager paused at the factory’s workshop where we could see employees hard at work. He smiled: “When you stop selling they’re out of a job.”

Many businesses function through their sales team. I recall a services supplier that, by mailed inducements, converted only 1 / 100 leads. Changing strategy they gave the leads to a newly recruited sales team.

The cost of the sales force did not add to its overheads. It simply upped the prices and converted the difference into commission and administration costs. The conversion rate shot up to 1 / 3.

SALESPEOPLE: The backbone of any company.

Chatting with a loft conversion specialist he told me he personally followed up customer enquiries.

He would visit clients after work or during weekends. This approach comes with the territory for homebased tradesmen.

My client was a craftsman but his people skills were not strong. He disliked selling when all he wanted was to be with his wife and kids.

My suggestion he engage a salesman was dismissed out of hand.

He wasn’t making enough profit to

feed another’s man’s family.

I explained that employing a representative would not cost him a penny. He should increase his prices by 20 per cent and offer a salesperson 15 per cent commission. His prices would still be competitive. He could then have his weekends and evenings free.

His face lit up and by the time I was leaving he was making plans to advertise for a salesman.

Many companies employ commission-based salesmen yet despite higher prices they are more successful than the self-employed sector.

Good salesmen first sell themselves; instilling confidence they are their company’s ambassadors.

They listen and understand the client’s needs. Explaining their service without jargon, they sell benefits, professionally close and scratch the pad.

If you are personable and have genuine concern for client’s needs you will spend your working life making people happy, looking after your family and keep others employed. Mission accomplished.

More evictions than ever

VODAFONE ESPAÑA: Profits were reduced by 58.9 per cent.

Vodafone España profit down but they are still confident VODAFONE’S Spanish turnover dropped by 11 per cent during the 20132014 tax year.

This made it the British group’s worst-performing subsidiary, with a 25.7 per cent fall in earnings before tax, depreciation and amortisation. Once all these factors were taken into account, Vodafone España’s profits

were reduced by 58.9 per cent.

Spain’s economic situation, the slow recovery in consumer spending, competition from rivals and lower connection charges have all eaten into the group’s profits.

Despite this discouraging result, Vodafone’s confidence in Spain remains intact.

Last year it invested €608 million, 32.3 per cent more than in 2012, destined for its new fibre optic network which by last March had been installed in 276,000 homes. The 4G mobile network was rolled out in all Spanish provinces and the company also spent €7.2 billion on acquiring the Ono cable operator.

BANKS granted 28,583 mortgages in the first three months of this year.

The 48.3 per cent quarter-on-quarter increase is the ‘up’ side of the see-saw. Down at the other end are the 49,600 families who lost their homes last year, an 11 per cent increase on 2012.

Despite a new law alleviating the situation of householders unable to meet mortgage payments, 38,961 families lost their principal residence to the banks in 2013.

Nor did the law increase the number of negotiated surrenders although this was one of the new law’s specific aims. Agreements between the banks and defaulters fell by 9.1 per cent to 17,907 according to the Bank of Spain. These represented 46 per cent of repossessions compared with 50 per cent in 2012.

The remaining 21,054 properties reclaimed through the courts were empty when repossessed except in 1,688 cases of principal homes and 392 relating to other properties. The police intervened during 147 evictions, more than 50 per cent fewer than in 2012.

The AEB bank association emphasised its willingness to negotiate despite the 5.67 per cent increase in mortgage default. As evictions represented only 0.77 per cent of all mortgages, the AEB said, this indicates that a solution was found for defaulters in approximately 5 per cent of cases.

There is no motive for optimism, the PAH antieviction platform argued. “These are alarming figures without comparison anywhere in the EU,” said spokeswoman Lucia Martin.

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Cleaning up at our expense LOOK around. Everywhere the eye can see there are people glued to their mobile phones probably sending irrelevant messages or harping on about nonsense.

All this mobile addiction is making communications companies a fortune, while on the other hand consumers are falling further and further into debt.

Twenty years ago hardly anyone had a mobile phone and now all of a sudden we can’t take our eyes off the things.

And they are not cheap too. A decent Smartphone costs about €500 and if you buy it bound to a contract, then you pay a hell of a lot more over the two years or so the phone company has you as their prisoner.

Yes, it is great to call friends, check emails and log into social networking sites, but apart from

Phone-in UNDER an agreement signed between Telefonica and insurers Muta Madrileña, the Spanish multinational group will provide the company’s telecommunications for the next four years.

Loose change A look at finance for females

Jane Plunkett jane.plunkett@euroweeklynews.com

Lighting up

SMART PHONES: Cut off direct communication. perhaps a small minority of mobile phone owners, most of our livelihoods do not depend on being constantly online, rather we waste a lot of time staring at a screen when we could be putting that time to better use.

With this obsessive mobile phone use we are creating and encouraging a culture of distraction where we are increasingly disconnected from the people and events around us. More and more people inhibit real human connection by prioritising

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silly games or message beeps from our phones over the people right in front of us.

Perhaps it’s too late for us adults, but one way we can save some money and perhaps the creativity of our children is to not buy young kids mobile phones.

Currently an investigation has begun in the UK looking into whether

mobile phones and other wireless technologies affect children’s mental development.

The study plans to follow 2,500 11 and 12year-olds and take a look at their cognitive ability thinking skills, memory and attention - and then repeat the tests in 2017.

The researchers say “very little” is known about what impact these

technologies have on children.

Health experts in general advise that children under the age of 16 should not be given mobile phones. So any parents out there might be better off holding back on buying young children fancy mobile phones, and putting that money away towards their collage fund!

LAST year the Spanish spent an average of €206.37 per head on cigarettes, an increase of 1.32 per cent. Spain is in the world’s ‘top five’ for smokers along with Greece, Slovenia, Bulgaria and Japan.

Spain launch AMAZON.ES has launched its fashion department in Spain with more than 700,000 garments of 2,000 brands, bringing the total number of products in their Spanish warehouses up to more than 41 million.

Property With Community Problems Q. I purchased a townhouse on a development near Estepona. My solicitor did the usual You and the searches. I was told there were no problems.

Now it has come to light our swimming pool Law in Spain has no licence. Further, the water supply for

By David Searl the Community irrigation and swimming pool has no contract with the water company. There is a court case against the developer. The Estepona court has ruled against us so the Community has appealed and awaits the results. Costs so far include a fine of €18,000 from the water company, a requirement to install separate metered supplies at a cost of €8,000, an estimate of nearly €20,000 for works to obtain the swimming pool licence and an obligation to pay nearly €30,000 in costs should our court appeal fail.

The President has requested funds which have been paid. The Administrator and the President were aware of these problems but did not tell my solicitor. Comments?

R.L. (Costa del Sol) A. What a mess. Your lawyer did not check the Community’s finances, which is poor practice but does not constitute an actionable fault. Perhaps no one asked your President so he did not volunteer the information. In my book, You and the Law in Spain, I urge buyers to obtain a copy of the most recent minutes of the AGM, where these problems will appear. This will save you a charge of €29.50 by your bank, which is equipped to do it on the Internet.

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

CATALUÑA: Received 3.9 million visitors in total.

Tourism up in April by 13.2% ALMOST 5.3 million foreign tourists visited Spain in April, 13.2 per cent more than the same month last year, according to the Ministry of Industry, Energy and Tourism.

This was mainly thanks to the boost at Easter, as well as the fact that tourists are avoiding going to certain traditional destinations such as Greece, Egypt, Israel, Jordan and others.

Over the first four months of the year, the number of tourists from Germany has increased by 11.3 per cent (2.51 million), there have been 10.9 per cent more French tourists (2.52 million), 6.5 per

cent more from the UK (3.1 million) and 13 per cent more from Italy (0.87 million).

However, the number of tourists from Portugal fell by 3 per cent and US tourists by 9.5 per cent.

The region with the highest number of visitors, with more than four million, was the Canary Islands, 13.1 per cent more; followed by Cataluña, with 3.9 million in total (10.4 per cent more).

In Andalucia, there were 10 per cent more visitors (2.02 million), while numbers fell in the Balearic Islands by 6.8 per cent to 1.1 million.

OPINION & COMMENT

When the chips are down I RECENTLY lost my cat.

I went to the vet and asked if he would amend the information on the cat’s chip to say he had been lost.

I then asked if a vet would check to see if a chip and the person’s particulars were one and the same when an animal was taken in for treatment. He said: “No, probably not.”

So why should I go to the trouble and expense of having a chip put into my animal in the first place? Is it only on the off-chance and the very unlikely event of a dog or cat being picked up and taken to an animal rescue centre?

Veterinary care isn’t cheap so why can’t they do this little thing?

It would take minutes to run a machine over the animal and could reunite a person with their much-loved pet.

For the life of me I cannot understand why they don’t do this. I suppose it’s because they are not trained to do so. People don’t seem able to think for themselves. The nanny state the world over.

Or is it the same old story that we constantly seem to be hearing in Spain: when the euro comes in through the door, then honesty goes out the window?

Sheila, Estepona (Malaga)

Fine situation ALMOST a year ago, Marbella set up the ‘foto-grua’ service, an initiative consisting of private towtruck operators taking photos of vehicles that in their opinion break parking laws.

Images are sent electronically to the Local Police, following which immediate removal of the vehicle takes place.

After months of operations, officers from the Local Police have voiced concerns over how the project seems to have turned into a money-making scheme, particularly in certain areas of Marbella and Puerto Banus.

M Perez, Marbella (Malaga)

Flour power ONCE I was cooking some corn and stuck my fork in the boiling water to see if the corn was

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ready. I missed and my hand went into the boiling water.

A friend of mine, a Vietnam veteran, came into the house just as I was screaming, and asked me if I had some plain old flour.

I pulled out a bag and he stuck my hand in it. He said to keep my hand in the flour for 10 minutes which I did. He said that in Vietnam, this guy was on fire and in their panic, they threw a bag of flour all over him to put the fire out.

Well, it not only put the fire out but he never even had a blister!

So, I put my hand in the bag of flour for 10 minutes and then pulled it out. There was no red mark or a blister and absolutely no pain.

Now I keep a bag of flour in the fridge, as cold flour feels even better than room-temperature flour.

Don’t run your burn area under cold water first, just put it right into the flour for 10 minutes and experience a miracle!

The Mallorca Crew (Bert, Marie, Pepi, Miss Aube and Fran)

Nightmare move WE changed our phone provider to Movistar six months ago, not

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knowing the problems that lay ahead.

Movistar said we had to do nothing as they would handle the transfer.

However, I did call the previous provider as a courtesy to thank them for their service over the last few years.

We are now receiving demands for €132 from them and they have put us on a national debtors’ list, apparently for not notifying them in writing about our cancellation!

I was not asked to do this and Movistar insist it is illegal to have two lines running for the same number. Ideas on a postcard, please.

Mary Goosey, Mijas Costa (Malaga)

Snail mail I HAD a letter delivered by Correos on April 3 dated March 13 in England. The corresponding letter for my wife was delivered on April 17.

Two weeks’ difference for the letters of the same date to be delivered! What is the matter with Correos?

I am now waiting for my tax codes to arrive from England.

At this rate I may be unable to file my tax returns. If so, will Hacienda take it up with Correos?

I think not.

Come on, Correos, sort yourself out as well as the post.

I doubt I am the only one with this problem.

Brian Widdicombe, Formentera del Segura (Alicante)

Callous crooks AS the victim of a recent £800 scam, I write in the hope that I can prevent other disabled people from financial loss.

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never arrived despite over 25 emails.

I was informed by Barclays Bank Fraud department that the account to which I transferred the money has been frozen on suspicion of fraudulent usage.

Their website illegally uses the address of a firm of lawyers without their permission and the use of the UKAS and SGS logos is also totally illegal.

I trust that you may wish to protect your readers and assist in discrediting these people.

Neil Duncan (expatriate who lived in Almeria for seven years)

Take it easy WITH reference to the article on speeding, in the UK it has always been the case that anyone exceeding the speed limit even by 1mph was liable to be prosecuted.

I believe it has always been the same in Spain too. I suspect that the practice of not reporting drivers for small infringements will probably continue as before. But note: breaking the law even by a little is still breaking the law.

However, as speedometers which are not accurate - will in almost all cases read higher than the actual speed you are doing, responsible drivers have nothing to fear.

Julian Ward, former UK police officer (by email)

Hot topic I AM constantly plagued by cold callers who invariably ask me in English if I am “Mrs Mortimer.”

No, I reply shortly, my surname is Mortimer but I am not Mrs Mortimer. The callers, some with plummy voices and others with a chav whine, are usually taken aback.

My husband is Spanish and I have never lost my surname.

Perhaps I’m being prickly but why must people assume that I am a surname-less ‘little woman’, the other half of an initial and name in the phone book or wherever they get their cold-call list from?

S Mortimer (by email)

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Guests demanding more and more freebies - whatever next?

RESTAURANTS: Getting unusual reviews.

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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HEY! It’s holiday time again and hotels and restaurants everywhere will naturally be looking to tourists to help fill their premises - and their bank accounts.

They’ll also be looking to TripAdvisor to gauge how well - or badly - they’re

perceived by Joe Public.

All the more so with the recent phenomenon of blackmailers or ‘food blaggers.’

Those who pitch up, drink the wine and eat the food in your restaurant or stay the night in your hotel and then, at the end of the meal/check-out, say: “We’d like our food/hotel bill comped or we’ll put a **** review on TripAdvisor.”

Now, the odd reader may recall I’ve written about TripAdvisor before.

And that just mentioning it

gets my blood pressure up.

Now, I’ve warned you: don't get me started again!

Oh, OK then ...

The problem with all these customer review guides or ‘selfies’ like TripAdvisor is that the grading isn’t consistent.

Three star hotels may be great in their own category, but in TripAdvisor etc they appear as good as the outstanding five star ones.

With restaurants, it’s the same story.

At the time of writing, a ‘tiny fish and chip shop’ in

London, for instance, finds itself placed in the top 10 of the capital’s 16,000 restaurants alongside ‘three star’ Michelin ones!

Reviewers generally give high marks if they’re happy even if the place is less than excellent. Often they rave about simple stuff that should be a given. Or the reverse.

You can easily work this out for yourself by checking out lots of reviews and looking for repeated complaints. Do they have a consistent

theme (‘Surly, unhelpful staff,’ ‘restaurant terrible,’ ‘Room dirty’) or are they just plain daft? (‘Didn’t like the carpet colour,’ ‘The restaurant decor looked tired,’ ‘The waiter didn’t speak a word of English” this in a restaurant here in Spain.)

Then note if any of this is reflected in the middleof-the-road comments. As for malicious reviews, they just stick out like a sore thumb. But why read so many?

A holiday or business trip

costs time and money so it pays to make the effort for a successful outcome.

And if they’ve enjoyed their restaurant meals or hotel stay, the last thing on most people’s minds is blagging, let alone blackmail.

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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No Hurry To Raise UK Interest Rates As the UK economy improves and house prices rise, there has been much discussion about how soon the Bank of England will raise its base interest rate. The Bank has however now pretty much quashed speculation that we could see an increase this year.

Bank of England Governor, Mark Carney, previously said that the Bank would “absolutely” be prepared to raise rates before next May’s general election. Analysts have since observed that the recent strength in the UK economy could lead to an earlier rise. In the lead up to the Bank’s quarterly Inflation Report on 14th May, there were reports that the Bank would endorse market expectations of a hike in the first quarter of next year.

However the Bank of England instead reiterated that it is in no rush to raise rates. At the press conference Mr Carney said that the Bank Rate will remain low for a while.

He cautioned: “Amidst the

By Peter Worthington, Senior Partner, Blevins Franks excitement that output is close to regaining its pre-crisis level, we should not forget that the economy has only just begun to head back to normal”.

Although the economy has been growing, there is still plenty of “spare capacity” for rates to stay low. In other words, there is enough room for the economy to expand without increasing consumer prices.

Mr Carney did acknowledge that the economy has “edged closer” to the point where the Bank Rate will need to rise, but when this does happen, increases will be gradual and limited, so rates “may stay at historically low levels for some time”.

There had been discussion among analysts that the Bank of England could use interest rate hikes to cool the housing market.

Mr Carney however said this would be the last line of defence, and that the Bank’s Financial Policy Committee has a wide range of tools it can use to reduce risks emanating from the housing market.

The Governor concluded his press conference speech with a sporting analogy: “Securing the recovery is like making it through the qualifying rounds of the World Cup. That is an achievement, but not the ultimate goal. The real tournament is just beginning and its prize is a

strong, sustained and balanced expansion.”

High street and offshore banks set their own interest rates on their savings and deposit accounts. A report in The Telegraph on 12th May disclosed that UK banks and building societies have reduced interest paid to savers by almost £1 billion over the last year. In March 2013 easy-access savings accounts were paying an average interest of 1.04%. By March 2014 this had fallen to 0.75%.

Simon Rose of the campaign group Save Our Savers commented: “These calculations are truly shocking, and show there is nowhere for savers to turn. The Government might have had a 'Budget for savers' but the elephant in the room is interest rates, which have been left so low that many people who rely on the returns from savings are struggling to maintain living standards.”

As to when the Bank Rate will finally start to rise, we can expect much more discussion over the coming months. Mr Carney himself commented that the exact timing will be the subject of considerable speculation, but that the ultimate answer will depend on the evolution of the economy.

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UKIP puts main parties on the run I SN’T it interesting to note that a couple of years ago, the only column where you saw the initials UKIP mentioned was this ole boy’s scribble and these days it’s difficult to find a column that excludes them!?

Don’t forget you read it here first, folks! Remember all the sneers and derogatory flack I took for it as well? Ha! I also recall the lady some years ago who, after my warnings about conflict with Islam extremists, wrote: “Oh come on, Leapy, what war!?” Haven’t heard much from that particular source for some time, either.

Lovely to see the hierarchy of the major parties wriggling liked hooked minnows in the light of UKIP’s recent successes.

Most of those interviewed have been asked the same question: “How are you going to deal with this threat from Farage’s party?” With slight variations they have all given exactly the same answer:

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“Well, we’re going to have to listen to the public and take the appropriate action to comply with their wishes.”

Er, but I thought that’s what politicians were always supposed to do! Well of course they are, but they don’t, do they? It’s not until something really rattles these arrogant out-of-touch con artists’ cocoons that they start taking any notice of Joe Public at all.

Well, the Farage team has certainly done that. The frightening thing is it’s all so simple.

With UKIP’s almost nonexistent policies on most other issues (despite the irate gentleman who reeled off a whole rather unconvincing list to me!) the party has gained all its ground on two fronts only: Immigration and the EU.

RATTLING CAGES: Nigel Farage’s UKIP. The British public is simply fed up. Fed up with the amount of foreigners flooding the country, fed up with Brussels and its nonsensical ’uman rights’, PC and ludicrous rules and regulations, fed up with

being taken for mugs and fed up with losing their proud British identity.

UKIP will never gain enough power to bring about the kind of changes needed (not for the moment, anyway) but are a

wonderful sounding-board for the British voters to bounce off and reverberate along the musty, self-satisfied, arrogant and complacent corridors of those who can.

Meanwhile, I’ve got the answer to all the problems involving the biased BBC – sack ‘em all and start over. This latest gem really takes the whole tin.

They edited the word ‘girl’ from a remark made by a sports commentator because they considered it ‘sexist’. You simply couldn’t make it up.

What description of Homo sapiens would they consider acceptable? All of us wearing grey ‘onesies’ and being referred to as ‘its’? British Broadcasting Corporation?

More like Bumbling Biased Cretins. Sometimes I really do despair of it all.

Chins up, summer’s here.

Now all we need are some holidaymakers!

Keep the faith Love Leapy Leapylee2002@gmail.com

Planning for ‘Escuelas de Verano’ AS the calendar shifts into June so my mind turns to the most difficult quarter of the year: the school summer holidays. I’ve been known to complain in these pages about the length of the holidays, mainly because of the detrimental effect it has on getting anything done over what is for many of us the busiest part of the year.

I hadn’t really considered how it affected my daughter La Gidg as I have always assumed she was having a fabulous time and that a three month long holiday was okay for her.

Apparently not. Julie from the Kip McGrath centre in Son Quint in Palma told me last week that if your child is out of school for more than a month then they start to forget what they have learnt and going back to school for them is like starting back at the bottom of a very steep hill.

SUMMER SCHOOL: Important to keep hard earned skills going, but in the guise of having fun.

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Family Matters This is more or less okay if your kids are just (“Just”!) having a six week summer break, but when it is double that then they are really going back in September at a disadvantage.

Well, I suppose that is okay if all of the kids are going back with a disadvantage but La Gidg doesn’t speak Spanish or Catalan outside of her school and after school activities, we don’t attempt to speak to her in Spanish, although I do make her talk on behalf of me sometimes when I get stuck in a tricky meeting.

So if your kids are speaking other languages from their mother tongue and then stop completely for a three month period they will start to lose the ability to speak in that language.

“Use it or lose it” doesn’t just apply to me and my burgeoning fitness, turns out it also applies to my little girl’s hard earned

language skills. So it’s important to find summer schools which will keep reminding Gidg about her non-native languages and even her maths which she seems to have found an aptitude for, but in the guise of having fun.

Even though she speaks Spanish and Catalan really well I don’t think she feels comfortable in it. I want her

to be able to feel comfortable in groups of Spanish speaking kids where she won’t feel like she is the “guiri” and stick out. So this year I’m putting her into a language specific summer school (Kip does English only and Spanish only summer schools depending on what you are trying to achieve) where she will do fun activities and speak Spanish without any pressure.

In addition to Kip we’re also packing her off back to the UK to spend three weeks with Grandma, and then another three weeks in France with the other Grandma, so the time spent in Mallorca over the summer is going to be crucial to her retaining her spoken language skills, and even improving them, that will shock her form teacher in September! www.familymatters mallorca.com

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OPINION & COMMENT

SOS-AnimalMallorca for protection THE SOS-ANIMALMALLORCA organisation was founded by a mixed group of Spanish and European nationals in 1995 on the island of Mallorca. The founders had been affected by the cruelty, neglect and the lack of understanding with regards to domestic animals that existed and felt there was a need for such a charity. Today, SOS-Animal-Mallorca has come a long way since it began 16 years ago, and has established itself as a recognised ambassador for the rights and protection of animals.

In 2004 the foundation SOS-Animal was established in order to support the SOS-Animal-Mallorca organisation. Through this foundation, in the year

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2008, the municipality of Calvia handed over a piece of land, on which SOSAnimal-Mallorca is sheltering their animals.

In 2010, thanks to a sponsor, SOS-AnimalMallorca was able to rent the land next to the animal pens of the municipality of Calvia for a period of 30 years.

At the moment SOSAnimal-Mallorca is about to finish their project to be able to achieve needed building permissions.

Are school summer holidays too long?

As the school summer holidays approach in both Spain and the UK, the Euro Weekly News asks if the number of weeks children are on holiday over the summer is too long or is it not long enough?

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AM MYLER is from London, currently on holiday in Fuengirola (Malaga). Back home, she is a secondary schoolteacher who says that regardless of what students and parents prefer, she appreciates and needs the long break. “I don’t think most people understand that teaching is not a job where you just clock in and clock out at the end of the day,” Sam said. “Not only do you arrive very early in the morning, but you also take your homework home with you. There are also difficult parents and misbehaving children to manage, on top of the

STREET TALK actual teaching and administrative duties.

Teaching today is a very tough vocation.

I don’t think holidays are too long; I think good teachers earn every break they can get.”

There was another vote given for the length of holidays not being too long, but for another reason. Anne Pringle, currently on holiday outside Malaga capital, disagreed that holidays were too long. She has two children aged seven and nine, and loves having them at home all summer.

“Having long summers allows us to have plenty of time to reconnect ANDY COX: Long holidays are fine.

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as a family. The school year is so hectic.

Summers allow us to not only go somewhere for a holiday away, but also to normalise our lives once we’re back.

We need a long enough chance to disconnect from the norm and also to enjoy being home together before going back into the frantic pace of the school year with all the kids’ activities.”

There were mixed views on the Costa Blanca regarding the length of the summer holidays. Rosalie Robinson, who is retired and has ived in La Marina for 12 years, said: “It is a long time.

When my grandchildren went to school here I would look after them and my granddaughter actually missed school and her friends, but my grandson never particularly liked school so he enjoyed the long break.” Another of Rosalie’s grandchildren, Lauren, a health club manager on holiday from the UK, said: “It’s nearly 12 weeks and that is too long, but I think the UK’s six weeks is too short, eight weeks would be about right.”

Her friend Danny, a window cleaner,

added: “I wish I had that much of a long summer holiday when I was a kid. I hated school and did everything I could to get out of it.”

Bar supervisor from La Marina, Andy Cox, who is a father of two, with a third due any day, is happy with the summer break: “I quite like it, it’s too hot for them to be at school. It can be hard for working parents but we are lucky, our child care is fine as I mainly work evenings and my wife works days.”

SAM MYLER

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USD The dollar did not have much to say for itself. It added two thirds of a cent against the euro and lost three quarters of a cent to sterling. The figures from the US housing sector were better than some other recent data and jobseeker numbers continued to fall. The main damage was done by the Federal Reserve, which reminded investors that they would have to wait quite a while for higher US interest rates.

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AUD Once again it was the Reserve Bank of Australia that did for the Aussie. This time it was an assistant governor, who commented that an outflow of capital would be likely to weaken the currency.

The Australian ecostats were of no help whatsoever, especially the one which showed a weakening of consumer confidence. It all cost the Aussie a cent against the euro and three cents against sterling.

NZD A continuing fall in the price of powdered milk, one of New Zealand’s major exports, and a generally risk-averse attitude among investors contributed to the weakness of the Kiwi last week. It fell by three quarters of a cent against the US dollar and by nearly three cents against sterling. The NZ dollar could not compete with the stronger UK figures for inflation and retail sales.

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VIRGO (August 24 - September 23) The hard work you have been putting in recently has left you tired and, at times, quite tetchy. This week you

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what you are aiming for. If you want to impress someone new to your circle, however, try a bit of cunning as opposed to brow-beating.

SAGITTARIUS (November 23 - December 21) Communication and selfexpression are what it's all about this week. Although you may feel that indulging yourself is in some ways selfish, you should realise that you are entitled to some fun.

SCORPIO (October 24 - November 22) You dominate the scene this week and no one is in any doubt about

CAPRICORN (December 22 - January 20) The call of romance is strong but so is that of your business life. The two

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.

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ARIES (March 21 - April 20) A friend of long standing comes up with some bright ideas to get you out of a tricky situation. Don't be surprised. You have for a long time now underestimated their worth. Your friend will be surprised when you show your gratitude in an immediate and physical way.

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

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Average: 9

Very good: 18

Good: 12

Excellent: 22

arco, arid, card, coir, cord, corn, cran, croc, darn, door, iron, narc, nard, noir, odor, orca, raid, rain, rand, rani, rind, road, roan, rood, acorn, acrid, adorn, cairn, circa, croci, croon, dinar, donor, doric, drain, nadir, narco, noria, radio, radon, rondo, accord, candor, condor, cordon, corona, indoor, inroad, ordain, racoon, rancid, cardoon, concord, raccoon, draconic, ACCORDION

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AQUARIUS (January 21 - February 19) Such is your popularity this week that you can be assured of success in many things. Remember that first impressions can be the most accurate and don't be tempted to make too many allowances for others.

TAURUS (April 21 - May 21) The urge to get ahead at as fast a pace as possible is apparent this week. Some would say not before time. However, you know the art of choosing the moment and it has not been until now that you have felt the time was right.

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Do not be at the beck and call of others when you need all your time and energy for yourself.

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LIBRA (September 24 - October 23) This is a highly sociable week, and you could meet some new faces that not only attract but inspire you. You are a social butterfly, and this brings out your Libran flutteriness.

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CANCER (June 22 - July 23) Someone close gets a real stroke of luck this week and no doubt the benefits will rub off on you.

It seems that some fortune will come your way by the end of the month and lead you to see a situation in quite a different light.

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GEMINI (May 22 - June 21) The company is so interesting that you can hardly tear yourself away and new experiences are arriving every day. You could be forgiven for getting a little overexcited.

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Across 7 A swine taking daughter is ready for flight, possibly (6) 8 Herb, for example, coming back after wild boar (6) 10 Turn dear Mel to stone (7) 11 Sounds like a sensible way in Paris (5) 12 Film in animals’ kingdom (4) 13 Freed eccentric put off (5) 17 Pole coming from Pakistan or Thailand (5) 18 Alternative in church’s centre (4) 22 King John’s last to find out (5) 23 Ruin the star turn (7) 24 Drunken horse that’s swallowed whisky (6) 25 Watch out for second-rate merchandise (6) Down 1 Ms Redgrave appearing disguised as Evans (7) 2 Crew on lake’s bed (7) 3 Boy not beginning to wrap a range of items (5) 4 Help poorly lobster (7) 5 Language making a comeback in modern Italy (5)

6 Uniform showing rank (5) 9 Bill from vet is dear (9) 14 He’s no gentleman, perhaps, unrobed (7) 15 Show appeal, nothing right in it (7)

16 Remove underwear to find out how the operation went! (7) 19 Kind about Scottish girl (5) 20 Thirsty? Energy drink left out (5) 21 Europeans spotted in Sundanese restaurant (5)

Code Breaker Each number in the Code Breaker grid represents a different letter of the alphabet. In this week’s puzzle, 26 represents B and 24 represents Z, so fill in B every time the figure 26 appears and Z every time the figure 24 appears.

Now, using your knowledge of the English language, work out which letters should go in the missing squares. As you discover the letters, fill in other squares with the same number in the main grid and the control grid.

LAST WEEK’S SOLUTIONS CRYPTIC Across: 1 Co-star, 5 Second, 8 Fate, 9 Airstrip, 10 Literate, 11 Area, 12 Intro, 14 Psalm, 18 Moos, 20 American, 22 Baseline, 23 Sees, 24 Filter, 25 Lotus.

Down: 2 Oration, 3 Theme, 4 Reagan, 5 Screen, 6 Cutlass, 7 Noise, 13 Respect, 15 Leaders, 16 Caviar, 17 Cereal, 19 Okapi, 21 Inset.

QUICK Across: 1 Saturate, 4 Cold, 7 Adapt, 9 Boots, 11 Purse, 12 Glass, 13 Adjust, 15 Cheers, 19 Share, 21 Amass, 23 Serve, 24 Tease, 25 Bait, 26 Progress.

Down: 1 Spatula, 2 Tramp, 3 Tablet, 5 Dregs, 6 Long, 8 Terms, 10 Stale, 14 Jeans, 16 Heart, 17 Success, 18 Career, 19 Scrub, 20 Earn, 22 Shame.

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

Across 1 Mirlo (9) 8 Now (at this time, immediately) (5) 9 Melodías (música) (5) 10 To read (book, poem, story, music, sign) (4) 11 Eight (4) 15 Nickname (5) 17 Spider (5) 18 Raspberry (9) Down 2 Flojo (nudo, tuerca) (5) 3 Carbón (4) 4 Mordedura (4) 5 Rum (3) 6 Hoja de laurel (3,4) 7 Brooms (brushes) (7) 12 Abrigos (prendas) (5) 13 Espuma (de jabón, champú) (4) 14 Taboo (4) 16 To hear (3)

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

ENGLISH-SPANISH Across: 1 Obras, 3 Pages, 5 Dos, 7 Dustbin, 9 Neat, 10 Flat, 13 Desmayo, 14 Who, 15 Racha, 16 Apple.

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Unscramble the name of a famous 1970s British television drama series (two words): STUPID ARSONIST’S WAR

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Ages for gaining weight IT seems the middle-age spread isn’t just a myth after all.

A new study says women are more likely to pile on the pounds from the age of 35-40, with men being more susceptible from the age of 38.

In a survey of 1,000 people for a diet company, many women blamed their weight gain on having children and settling down with a longterm partner, with men saying their weight gain is

MIDDLE-AGE SPREAD: Isn’t just a myth. caused by divorce and spending so much time at work they do not exercise.

Experts say that many people don’t realise that as we age we need fewer

calories, so to even maintain the same weight.

Bearing this in mind, we need to eat 200 calories less per day so as not to put on weight.

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Andalucía, Extremadura, Murcia, Balearic Islands and Canary Islands are regions with the highest number of people at risk of developing cardiovascular disease, reaching double the prevalence of other regions such as Basque Country, Navarra, La Rioja, Cantabria, Madrid or Valencia.

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SLEEP: Is the best way to detox.

Detox found to be ‘waste of time and money’ A GROUP of scientists claim that detox diets are a waste of money and time.

They have produced a book called Making Sense Of Chemical Stories, which claims that instead of subsisting on raw fruit and vegetables and shunning sugar and caffeine to cleanse the body of chemicals, all we need is a glass of water and a good night’s sleep.

The guide says: “The process does not occur any more effectively as a result of taking ‘detox’ tablets, wearing ‘detox’ socks, having a ‘detox’ body wrap,

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Save your money: have a glass of tap water and a good night’s sleep.”

Alan Boobis, a toxicologist at Imperial College London, contributed to the guide and said: “The body’s own detoxification systems are remarkably sophisticated and versatile. They have to be, as the natural environment that we evolved in is hostile.”

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e. Evaporating water off the surface of a pool.

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6. Construct Dutch style reinforced glass windbreaks at strategic points.

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WHY does metal catch fire in the microwave? Sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn’t.

Wired.com has a pretty detailed explanation of how microwaves react with metal and why we’ve managed to get away

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and if it has no sharp edges, it isn’t likely to create sparks and fire.” This is why some microwaves have a metal rack; it is so that we can place it inside them without any risk of it blowing up.

The metal lining of many microwave-ready food packets is usually smooth enough to prevent sparking, instead heating up and generating infrared radiation that crisps up the outside of the food.

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The highest rent is in Ibiza (€11.79 per square metre), followed by San Sebastian (€10.73).

Meanwhile, the cheapest is Baeza, in Jaen, where a property can be rented for €3.21 per square metre per month.

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The project replaces a previous one by French architect Jean Nouvel for Vizcaina de Edificaciones, as the company had to hand over the plot to BBVA to cover debts.

All the apartments are to have glass-surrounded terraces.

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Canadian investors buy Castellana 200 THE Castellana 200 complex in Madrid has been sold for €140 million.

The buyers are PSP Investments, one of Canada’s largest pension investment managers, and Drago Capital a property investment and management company which currently manages €2.8 billion in assets on the Iberian Peninsula.

PSP invest funds for the pension plans of the Public Service, the Canadian Forces, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and the Reserve Force, and manages $79.8 billion in assets.

Together they have already purchased three buildings in 2011, two in Madrid and another in Barcelona.

The agreement they signed that year will see a total investment of €400 million in Spain in total.

The Castellana 200 complex, built in 2011, has two office buildings, one with total surfaces of 5,155 square metres and the other 15,137 square metres.

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THE Spanish Real Estate and Tourism Fair in Paris will be held from September 19 to 21.

It has been organised by the Spanish Chamber of Commerce in France (Cocef), CIC Iberbanco (a branch of the Credit Mutuel group) and Expo 21, an expert in such events.

Real estate promoters, tourist offices, advisors, travel agencies and airlines, amongst others, have shown interest in taking part in the fair which is hoped to boost both property sales and tourism in Spain.

Seventy companies are expected to take part.

Spanish businesses will be able to present their products to the French market, which is currently one of the most important in Spain, and there will be a variety of quality offers and guarantees which buyers wouldn’t normally find.

According to Cocef, Spain is a popular destination for second homes amongst the French, who are the second market in Spain for properties purchased.

Businesses at the fair can be seen by more than 12 million people and visitors will receive expert advice to help them select the best destination for their needs.

Buyers can also organise loans at the fair, which is aimed at people who already know Spain, as well as investors looking to put their money in a country with excellent safety levels and legal guarantees.

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Jaguar lightweight E-Type production to be completed JAGUAR has announced that it plans to complete the 18-car production run of the Jaguar Lightweight E-Type, which was suspended in 1964.

Only 12 of the highperformance sports car were built, but now the remaining six cars are being handmade at its Browns Lane factory, in Coventry.

Jaguar expects high demand for the cars predicted to cost about £1m each - and will prioritise sales to collectors with historic race car interests.

The Lightweight E-type was a stripped down

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E-TYPE: Only 18 of the sports cars will be made. version with 114 kg shaved off for more speed and better performance. It differed from the standard E-Type in having an allaluminium monocoque and aluminium body panels over a steel chassis, as well as a 3.8-litre, straight six XK

engine with an aluminium engine block and head.

To further keep the weight down, the interior trim and chrome work were left off, and even the windows were designed to save the odd ounce.

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Fully autonomous cars will be possible by 2030 THE expected rapid growth in self-driving cars will be a blessing for software companies like Google and IBM. Other companies to benefit include sensor makers and mapping and connectivity experts such as Nokia and Cisco Systems.

According to Lux Research, software will be the biggest chunk of the autonomous car techno-

logy market, which is expected to rise to $63 billion in sales within 10 years.

According to the report, most of the technology on the market in 2030 will be for relatively modest features, such as Level 2 adaptive cruise control, lane departure warning and collision avoidance braking will be main-stays.

Level 1 technology includes electronic stability

control and anti brakelocking systems.

More advanced Level 3 features, such as highresolution special maps, sensor arrays and limited robotic driving, as demonstrated by Google and Mercedes-Benz, will only be available in 8 per cent of vehicles.

No fully autonomous Level 4 self-driving cars are expected to be seen on the market until 2030.

of Graham Hill, Jackie Stewart, Roy Salvadori and Briggs Cunningham.

Jaguar’s global PR manager, Dan Connell, said the revival of the car had been prompted by the launch of the Jaguar F-type in 2013.

“The E-type was in the minds of a lot of people when we made that car,” he said.

He said the first car was already being built and would be unveiled in the summer. Production is likely to last throughout 2014 and into 2015.

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HE OSTAR (Observer Singlehanded Trans-Atlantic Race) was created in 1960 by a handful of pioneering sailors. The race was organised every four years by the Royal Western Yacht Club (RWYC) from 1960 through to the 2000 event, albeit with a lot of involvement from the French event organiser Pen Duick in the 90’s, in order to cater for the demands of the professional campaigns that dominated the event.

After the 2000 edition, OC Sport stepped in to develop the event and acquired the rights to the professional part for boats of 50 feet and upwards.

The RWYC continues to organise a solo transatlantic race for Corinthian and nonprofessional sailors that is still known as the (O)STAR, and that is restricted to boats of up to 50 feet only. This race usually falls a year after the professional

big boat race i.e. 2005, 2009, and started on May 27 this year with 21 entries.

Both the amateur Yacht Club event and the Transat have the right to link to the history of the original race created in 1960, and to the rich history it has produced.

The first race was competed by just a handful of pioneering sailors including Francis Chichester and Blondie Hasler who coined the phrase: “One man, one boat, the ocean.”

There has been tragedy, dramatic rescues and exceptional drama since the race began in 1960.

Over time the Transat, as it is known today, has evolved and now serves the professional end of offshore sailing. But there are few modern day races that can reflect on such a long and outstanding history.

ENTRANT IN: The OSTAR 2013 race.

Victory for the Palma Royal Nautical Club in trophy race THE AIRLAN AERMEC, belonging to boat owner Juan Cabrer of the Palma Royal Nautical Club (RCNP), won third place in the ORC 2 category of the Conde de Godo Merchbanc Trophy organised by the Barcelona Royal Nautical Club (RCNB).

Cabrer was very pleased with his placement bearing in mind the high standards of the fleet that took part in the event.

The low wind intensity was an impediment to the finals of the 41 edition of the trophy.

Despite the efforts of the regatta committee, directed by Vincenc Cespedes, and the willingness of the more than 60 participating craft the regatta had an ill-omened closing day.

Despite this the classification closed with few differences between the leading groups of the four categories which

SUPERYACHTS: At rest in the port at sunset.

Preparations for Superyacht Cup

BRONZE MEDAL: For the RCNP team. were ORC 1, 2, 3 and J 80.

The boats which will have their names inscribed on the Conde de Godo Merchbanc Trophy will be Marc Antonio and Sofia Bertrand’s ‘Bribon

Movistar’ in the J 80 class, Rafael Carbonell’s ‘Rats on Fire’ in the ORC 1 class, Milan Hajek’s ‘Three Sisters’ in the ORC 2 class and Joaquin Barenys’ ‘Tritant Lo Blanc’ in the ORC 3 class.

Representatives of six countries took part in the three divisions of the ORC class and they already have their sights set on the world ORC championship which will be organised by the RCNB in 2015.

THIS year’s Superyacht Cup will take place from June 18, with the final race taking place on June 21.

The event is open to the public on June 21 at the old pier (La Lonja) area in Palma.

The event, which includes an exhibition race and two Superyacht classes, will close with a prize-giving ceremony at Palma’s Es Baluard Museum of Contemporary Art. The Superyacht Cup, which has been running since 1996, is the longest running superyacht regatta in Europe.

Racing for the luxury event will be managed by internationally renowned

yacht club Palma Royal Nautical Club (RCNP).

All yachts taking part will be fitted with Trac Trac GPS units, meaning that racing can be viewed live on the internet.

The prestigious event always attracts superb yachts from all over the world - and this year is no exception.

Spectacular schooner Borkumriff IV will take part, along with Rainbow, Heartbeat and Nautor Swan 100 Munzuni, to name a few.

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Biel Llado wins Mama Optimist BIEL LLADO, a sailor with the Royal Palma Nautical Club (RCNP), has won the Mama Optimist Trophy celebrated last weekend and organised by the Es Portitxol Nautical Club.

More than a hundred boats took part in the regatta.

The podium was completed by Marcos Plomer, of the Port d’Andratx Sailing Club, in second place and Manel Barber, of the Mahon Maritime Club. Giulietta Lang and Jordi Llado, both from the RCNP, completed the podium in fourth and fifth places, respectively.

The regatta was made up of five trials, all of which were disputed in good winds, and all the ‘new bloods’ of the Balearic Islands sailing

BIEL LLADO: Winner of the Mama Optimist Trophy. scene took part.

Jordi Llado, who came fifth overall, was proclaimed sub-champion of the under 13’s while the bronze medal of the same category was taken

by Miguel Angel Camara, also of the RCNP, who was among the top 10.

The Mama Optimist Trophy is in its 36 edition and is one of the traditional regattas for

young sailors to take part in the Balearic Islands.

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Nico & Hamilton Last Sunday, in the Monaco Grand Prix, it was another Mercedes one-two with Nico Rosberg finishing ahead of Lewis Hamilton with Daniel Ricciardo third. But Hamilton is not a happy chappy after some unscrupulous tactics by his team colleague.

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WE’LL start with forthcoming attractions in the sporting world: On Saturday, the Super Middleweight re-match between Carl Froch and

George Groves takes place before 80,000 fans at Wembley. This bit of ‘unfinished business’ will be a bruising battle for sure!

• The Giro d’Italia cycle race finishes on June 1 and also in Italy, Marc Marquez will be chasing his sixth successive MotoGP victory of the season in Mugello.

• The fourth and fifth ODI cricket matches between England and Sri Lanka take place on Saturday at Lords and next Tuesday, June 3, at Edgbaston • For Real, it was their first triumph in this competition since 2002 and 10th overall. They also netted a record 41 goals in a CL season; 4-1 was the biggest win in a final for 20 years.

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Thrilling CL final in Lisbon

Last Saturday in Lisbon, Real Madrid beat rivals Atletico Madrid 4-1 after extra-time in the Champions League final the first time two teams had competed for the top European prize from the same city. It was 1-1 at the end of normal time, Sergio Ramos heading a dramatic 91st minute equaliser for Real, before Carlo Ancelotti’s team took control.

Gareth Bale - only the fifth Welshman ever to play in a EC/CL final - headed Real’s second goal before Marcelo and a late Cristiano Ronaldo penalty - his 17th CL goal this season - sealed victory.

LEFT: Ramos scores crucial equaliser.

RIGHT: Bale gets second for Real.

• A record crowd for any play-off final saw Harry Redknapp’s QPR beat Derby County 1-0 to clinch a return to the Premiership.

Zamora’s 90th minute goal earned the Londoners a minimum of £62 million.

• Both Edinburgh clubs will be in the Scottish FL1 next season while Hamilton will be in the SPL... all this after Hibs were beaten by the Accies in the relegation/ promotion play-off. Hearts had already been demoted.

• After four years in charge, Neil Lennon quit as Celtic’s manager last week.

• The French Open tennis championship is under way at Roland Garros in Paris with Roger Federer making an impressive start.