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CALPE Town Hall must introduce cuts totalling €875,000 over the next two years. Budgets for the municipal kindergarten and Social Services will not be affected, the mayor has pledged.

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Course success SINCE anti-gender violence courses were introduced in 2004, only 65 of the 2,650 males ordered to attend have reoffended.

Cave reopens COVA DEL PARPALLO, a cave inhabited 25,000 years ago, reopened to the public after a €20,000 restoration by Gandia Town Hall. It was closed 35 years ago to thwart vandals.

Sweeter smell ORGANIC refuse will be diverted from the Les Canyades landfill site in Campello, the regional government has said in response to complaints about the smell.

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Faster ambulance response pledge THE regional government has admitted that delays have sometimes occurred with responding to calls to the 112 emergency services.

The admission was made during a recent visit to Elche by Luis Santamaria Ruiz, who heads the regional government’s Interior department. He promised to take action following talks with the town’s Social Action Councillor, Antonio Luis Martinez-Pujalte.

Most of the calls for ambulances now go through the 112 centre in

Valencia City, Martinez-Pujalte complained. As with many other departments, spending cuts have been made and response is not as smooth as it could be, particularly in Alicante and Castellon. Operators unfamiliar with locations in both provinces ask endless questions, panicked callers have complained, and ambulances are frequently misdirected.

In recent months there has been an increase in protests not only from the families of patients but also

doctors and nurses. The situation came to a head recently in Elche when the life of a 79-year-old woman was endangered after an ambulance was sent to the wrong address.

The dispatcher in Valencia insisted that the caller had given the wrong address, although errors “are now routine,” according to medical sources. Procedures will be reviewed and speeded up “so that precious time is not wasted,” the regional government’s Interior department has now pledged.

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Leapy Lee 43 CONTRABANDISTAS: Smugglers, Javea-style.

Javea on parade to mark fiestas JAVEA is now in the midst of its annual fiestas in honour of San Jaime.

The start of the celebrations was marked by the first rocket of the fiestas and the illuminations were

switched on in Calle Sevilla.

This was followed by a parade through the Duanes area, joined by representatives of the different Moors and Christians associations as

the procession passed their clubhouses.

Then came the formal proclamation in Paseo Jaime I, which was attended by local officials, and followed by a disco.

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A grisly twist in foiled kidnap plot VICENTE SORIANO, former president of Valencia football club, recently explained how he learnt of his imminent kidnap.

His predecessor Juan Soler allegedly ordered the abduction months ago, Soriano told a Valencia judge. He had never paid Soler for the shares in the club whose acquisition enabled him to take over the presidency, he admitted.

A private detective engaged to help carry out the kidnapping and who is DENIA’S Agenda 21 branch has invited residents known only as Richi, to give details of their energy consumption. contacted both Soriano and The information received will be used to the police to reveal the compile an inventory of greenhouse gas supposed plot. emissions by members of the UN’s Covenant of Soriano was to have Mayors and Local Governments. been hidden in France and All those interested in collaborating can fill in unless he paid up, his ears the short survey on the Denia Town Hall website and fingers were to be cut www.denia.es as well as the local Agenda 21 site off and sent one by one to www.agenda21denia.org. his family, said the detective, who is now a The information received will help Denia in its protected witness. commitment to improving the town’s energy After Richi’s visit, Soriano efficiency, the town hall explained. informed the police, who Agenda 21 is a non-binding, voluntarilyalready knew about the implemented action plan founded by the UN in plot. The case is now 1992 with special emphasis on sustainable under investigation by an development. examining judge.

Denia asks for energy details

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NEWS Fire storm THE Generalitat refused to clarify the evolution of a 2012 fire that destroyed 545 hectares of Sierra Mariola woodland. The authorities delayed the use of fire-fighting aircraft, ecology groups said.

Repair mission ‘SANTISSIMA SANG,’ Denia’s 16th century wooden statue of Christ, needs repairs. It will be transported in a speciallymade crate to Alicante for expert restoration at the Archaeological Museum.

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Experts called over death fall BENIDORM police investigating the death of an 18-year-old on a Terra Mitica ride requested specialised input.

National Police officers have handed over their initial findings to the Villajoyosa court, following the accident which occurred as the young tourist from Iceland fell from the Inferno attraction.

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was insufficient to determine whether there was a harness malfunction, police explained.

As witnesses were unable to add further details there is no clear picture of what happened, they said.

A police request for a specialist in the technology used in these rides has now been granted by the Villajoyosa court.

“The National Police’s remit is not to determine the cause of the accident. They have taken the investigation as far as they can,” police sources said.

Meanwhile, it has been pointed out that the young man was ‘heavily-built’ and it is already known that only people under a certain weight should be able to fit into the Inferno ride’s seats.

Top up VALENCIA city’s Canymelar, El Cabanyal and Malvarrosa beaches now have solarpowered points for charging smartphones and tablets. The 30-minute service comes free with the hire of deckchairs or beach umbrellas.

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TEN local charities joined forces to create Federacion Marina Alta Solidaria, Javea Town Hall announced. Initiatives include collecting plastic bottle tops to help the disabled, and children.

THREE Generalitat departments, Denia Town Hall and the Denia marina concessionary will share surveillance of the Sant Antoni marine reserve. This should cut regional government’s costs by 75 per cent.

Phony claims FIFTEEN people were arrested for obtaining €30,000 from insurance companies by faking Alicante traffic accidents. The ringleader, who claimed to be a lawyer, forged a doctor’s signature on medical papers.

Right track THE Pro-Ave association demanded immediate government funding for the Alicante-Valencia high speed train. The region needs straight-through communication with already interconnected Cataluña, Madrid, CastillaLa Mancha and Andalucia, the association claimed.

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Clean sweep OLIVA’S streets will be sluiced down two nights a week until September to eliminate dust and dirt after months without rain, the town hall said.

Safe journeys CARS, motorcycles, lorries and tractors were blessed in Sax, in honour of St Christopher, patron saint of travellers. The event, first celebrated in 1995, attracts more people each year.

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Later closing TEULADA’S bars, restaurants and cafes may remain open for an extra hour until 2.30am at weekends and days before public holidays. This will continue until September 30.

LAST YEAR: A huge crowd on the beach.

International Festival of Benicassim returns ON July 24 it will be Festival Internacional de Benicassim (FIB) time again.

This is one of Spain’s biggest music festivals, almost comparable with Glastonbury, which started back in 1995 and has been celebrated every year since.

The concept is similar to other festival concepts: contemporary art, pop, rock, indie, electronic and many other styles of music as well as theatre, fashion and cinema, which all come together every third weekend of July in Valencia to celebrate art in all its forms.

The FIB is characterised by its eclecticism and its acceptance of all the latest innovative tendencies as opposed to most other music festivals which just stick to what is popular. The festival initially came under fire for not having enough national artistes in

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the line up but, as the promoters pointed out, it is the international festival and not just the Spanish festival of Benicassim.

The origins of the festival are in Madrid where two brothers, Miguel and Jose Moran, wanted their own music festival here in Spain instead of having to go abroad to enjoy them, so they set up in Valencia (traditional playground for Madrileños) and have been going very well ever since.

At the first ever FIB there were only 8,000 people but now has the capacity to take around 42,000 people every day.

This year, as is usual, there are a lot of famous names in the line up including Tinie Tempah, Kasabian, The Libertines, Manic Street Preachers, Lily Allen and many more will delight the 42,000 pairs of ears that will be present there.

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is the total number of people gored by the bulls in the San Fermin festivities in Pamplona. There were a total of 47 people injured during the running of the bulls, but most of them just suffered scrapes and bruises. Of the eight people gored two are already out of hospital and recovering.

Heavy work IT took more than three days to remove 1,000 tons of seaweed from Denia’s beaches.

Seventy tons are normally removed each day but more was recently washed up by exceptionally heavy seas.

Good to go WORK is finishing on a new pavement along the muchused road between Moraira’s l’Ampolla and Platgetes beaches. Pedestrians can now walk in safety as far as Cala l’Andrago.

Planning ahead THE Las Terrazas site on Benidorm’s Levante beach can be developed following demolition of the last remaining block. It was finally knocked down last week

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FIVE Spanish made fighter planes, licensed by Hitler during WWII, were rescued from a dirty warehouse in Texas, USA, where they will go to auction and are expected to reach a price of at least €600,000. The Hispano Aviacion HA-1112 or ‘Buchon’ as they were known were never used by either Spanish or German forces, but instead ended up as Hollywood props.

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Preparing for the high season LA CALA DE FINESTRAT received the finishing touches in preparation for the summer season.

These included new street lights along what used to be the old N332, following repeated requests for better illumination from the La Cala Residents’ Association.

Finestrat and Villajoyosa town halls collaborated on the project, with Finestrat installing the street lights and cables while La Vila provided the pavements.

This was the first time that the neighbouring councils have cooperated on the same project. “I hope this will be the first step towards lasting collaboration in improvements to La Cala,” said Finestrat’s Public Works councillor, Juan Francisco Perez.

Modifications were made at the wastewater pumping station situated on the Finestrat side of La Cala to prevent overload during the influx of summer residents, Perez said.

As well as installing the street lights, the council has tidied up and pruned the palm trees in streets, parks and municipal gardens throughout Finestrat and at La Cala.

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Home-grown ORBA ecological market with handmade, home-grown products opens from 9am to 2pm, Saturday July 19 and the third Saturday of each month thereafter.

Film festival DEMAND: Extensions will provide more moorings ONCE extensions to the marina at Denia port are completed, the concessionary will have

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Neighbourhood police posts CALPE has new information points in the town centre and at its beaches.

There are also two Local Police posts where officers can attend to residents and visitors alike.

These neighbourhood police units are closer to the public and will be able to provide better services, explained Calpe’s mayor Cesar Sanchez.

The new offices are committed to answering the public’s needs, he said. It is essential to be able to deal with queries in the busiest parts of town, Sanchez added during a visit to the new installations. He was accompanied by Tourism and Public Safety councillor Jan van Parijs and Citizens’ Participation councillor Carole Saunders.

spent €23 million.

The Marina El Portet de Denia company, whose contract continues until 2034, is building shops, a leisure centre and a semiunderground car park as well as extra moorings.

The company is confident that the marina will become a point of reference for tourism and the sailing community throughout the Mediterranean, a recent statement declared.

The Denia port marina is one of the biggest undertakings of its kind in the Valencian Community and the planned extensions will cover a total area of 53,456 square metres.

This includes 15,000 square metres of inner harbour water where boats will be able to tie up at docks of differing lengths with a range of moorings for boats of up to 40 metres.

A further dock reserved for jet-skis will also be built, the concessionary has revealed.

Dutch consulate in La Nucia to close THE Dutch consulate in La Nucia has fallen victim to spending cuts.

The Dutch Foreign ministry, aiming to reduce costs by 20 per cent, is closing several embassies and consulates.

La Nucia, which attends to 120,000 Dutch nationals in the Valencian Community, is amongst them. It will close on September 1.

“Roughly half live in Alicante

province, in or around Benidorm, Denia and Torrevieja,” said consul Erick Duriex.

More than 1,400 are registered on La Nucia’s municipal padron, although the true number is closer to 2,500, the consul added.

La Nucia Town Hall wrote to the Dutch minister for Foreign Affairs, emphasising the consulate’s importance, revealed

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Bart Gommans, councillor responsible for Foreign Residents.

“It handles more procedures than the Barcelona office and has the largest workload in Spain, owing to Alicante Province’s large Dutch community,” Gommans said.

Neither does the consulate incur much expense for the Dutch government. “We ceded the installations in 2007 and

outgoings are minimal. Erick is honorary consul and receives no salary,” Gommans argued.

“There are only two paid employees and income from passports alone makes a profit,” he said.

Dutch residents will now have to contact or visit their Madrid embassy. Marina Baja residents are fighting the closure with a petition that already has 5,000 signatures.

ALFAZ DEL PI inaugurated its annual Film Festival with a Faro de Plata award for the Alicante Diputacion in recognition of its continued support.

The festival ends July 20.

Swim party CAMPELLO held its first Sea Fiesta for the disabled. Participants arrived from all over Spain for the event held at the resort’s accessible beach, Playa Carrer la Mar.

Testing time MORE than 1,000 state school teachers who never took exams for established status went to the back of the jobs queue with no possibility of being assigned posts next year.

Beach bars MODIFIED Coastal laws have brought business back to Costa Blanca beaches. Some now-authorised ‘chiringuito’ beach bars have already taken around €80,000 over the last two months, catering sources revealed.

On the scent POLICE found 13,000 bottles of fake perfume in an Agost warehouse after investigating an Alicante City client’s complaints.

Perfume she had purchased bore no resemblance to the original, she claimed.

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Prize beards in La Vila VILLAJOYOSA is getting ready for its annual Moors and Christians fiestas between July 24 and 29.

La Vila’s celebrations are the longest-established after Alcoy’s and have been celebrated for more than 250 years.

The organisers live in the present, however, and are organising an Instagram competition for the best fiestas’ beard.

Beards are an important part of the male costumes, particularly those in the Moors’ groups, and there will be prizes for the threemost voted Instagram photos.

Contestants should take photographs during the five days of the fiestas and send photos to #barbafesta and #igersa after signing up to the @zercafood account.

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Young chess LA NUCIA chess players, Nieves Sanleon Pravisano and Jouke Duller Llopis, both nine, qualified for European Championships in the Under 10 class. They will compete in Georgia next October.

Long fall GRANADELLA: Clearing the undergrowth.

Preparing for fire and flood

AS it did last year, Javea Town Hall is providing employment and protecting the environment.

Fifteen workers are weeding and clearing undergrowth throughout the outskirts of town. They will also clear streambeds.

While clearing vegetation is a vital fireprevention measure with the countryside

tinder-dry from drought, clearing streams is equally important. Late summer or early autumn could bring torrential rain and watercourses must be able to cope with the flash floods that are common in the area.

These first 15 workers will be employed until September 30, when they will be substituted by 15 more employees.

A SEVEN-METRE tall palm tree, not believed to be affected by red weevils, fell onto the terrace of an Elche bar.

No-one was hurt.

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Tacky locks RESIDENTS, employees and clients in Elda waited impatiently as locksmiths unblocked doors to apartment buildings and businesses. Twenty buildings were isolated after keyholes were filled with glue overnight.

Beach find AN unidentified male in his 60s was found floating off the Tossal de la Cala in Benidorm.

He was spotted by an early-morning jogger.

New loos TEULADA Town Hall has built permanent public wcs, designed to be easily accessed by the disabled, for the Ampolla and Portet beaches in Moraira.

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‘Lorraine’ programme is filmed in Benidorm THE weekday ITV programme Lorraine has been in Benidorm.

Part of Lorraine Kelly’s lifestyle and entertainment show went out live to the millions who watch each day in the UK. Some of the Benidorm sequences featured viewer Carly Chadwick who was in Benidorm with her twin sister Hayley, their mother and friends. Hayley is marrying her fiancé Danny on August 29 and the show’s makeover expert Mark Heyes gave tips on how to look good and stay cool in their maxi-dresses.

The programme’s doctor Hilary Jones was there to advise tourists how to enjoy their holidays in the Mediterranean climate without taking health risks.

Mark Heyes was full of enthusiasm for Benidorm

ON LOCATION: Benidorm tourists on Lorraine progamme. and its beaches, both of which lived up to everything he had been told. “I walked through the Old Town, swam in Benidorm’s marvellous waters and enjoyed the tapas,” he said.

The Lorraine team also visited the Playa de

Levante’s accessible beach, where they interviewed a lifeguard

and connected live to the programme’s London studios.

ACTIVITIES: More fun at summer school.

XIBC Holiday fun XABIA INTERNATIONAL COLLEGE PRIMARY recently started its summer school.

The accent is firmly on summer, rather than school and activities carried out with many new friends include swimming, cooking, dance, arts and crafts, sports and computers.

This year the fun will continue until August 8, the Javea school announced.

Zumba and keepfit on the beach BENISSA Town Hall is organising zumba and keep-fit sessions on the Fustera beach.

The sessions run by personal trainer Pere Ferrer Ivars are free of charge and continue until August 14. They are suitable for all and do not require any kind of experience.

They will be held on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 9.30 until 10.30am.

“We hope to encourage everyone in Benissa to be able to practise sporting activities while taking advantage of our surroundings,” said Arturo Poquet, councillor for Sport on the local council.

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Extensions delayed to ‘Villa Romana’ museum ALFAZ Town Hall countered claims that the regional government had halted extensions to the Villa Romana open-air museum.

Work has been authorised by the Generalitat’s Culture department, a statement to the local and provincial press confirmed.

It had to be halted after the Opposition party on the local council officially queried modifications to the budget that were proposed during the plenary meeting at the end of last month.

The modifications were possible, the town hall explained, thanks to more than €4 million left over from the 2012 and 2013 budgets.

Of this, €453,154 was to be used for extensions to the open-air museum in Albir, building changing rooms at the sports complex and asphalting roads.

The Opposition’s decision to oppose the allocation obliged meant that the allocations could not be approved until the next plenary meeting at the end of this month.

Once the allocation has been authorised it will then have to be published in the Official State Bulletin.

“Thanks to the Opposition party’s intervention it will be mid-August before the three projects can be resumed,” said the town hall spokesman Toni Such.

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London calling THIRTY nurses who trained at Elche’s Cardenal Herrera University have been contracted to work at King’s College Hospital, under an agreement with the university.

Quiz date A QUIZ night and raffle in aid of PEPA animal association takes place on Saturday at Bar Boix, La Font d’En Carros (Valencia) at 7.30pm. Teams of two to four players.

Cash point SAN VICENTE Town Hall will install an ATM at the Local Police station to pay fines on towed vehicles. The current machine is beyond repair.

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Tomato fight tickets are sold out already TICKETS for Buñol’s ‘tomatina’, the fiesta that consists of people throwing tomatoes at each other, have sold out.

The event had been going on

for decades before becoming famous and attracting tourists from all over the world. Until last year there was no charge for taking part, but Buñol’s mayor

decided the time had come to capitalise on the traditional celebrations.

Tickets costing €10 for the August 27 event went on sale in April. Apart from 5,000 allocated free to Buñol residents, all of the remaining 17,000 individual tickets have been snapped up.

Group tickets for tour operators and camping packages are still available, the organisers said.

The biggest single contingent will be from Australia, which accounts for 12.40 per cent of the tickets sold, followed by the UK (11.79 per cent), Japan (10.17 per cent) and the US (7.64 per cent). Only NEW EQUIPMENT: For volunteer fire brigade.

6.5 per cent of ticket town safe and wish them Charity Shop spokes- holders are Spanish, the town hall revealed. a quiet summer,” a person said.

Donation for volunteer firemen JAVEA’S volunteer fire brigade received €2,000 from the Original Charity Shop and Library.

This will help to replace equipment damaged last year in the course of their many call-outs to extinguish fires.

Everyone who donated to the cost of the new hoses and other essential items were recently invited to see them on display.

“We’d like to thank the firemen for all the hard work put in throughout the year in keeping the

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Flagship airline bows out IBERIA’S return to Alicante airport following its 1991 exit lasted 28 months.

The Madrid flights covered by budget airline Iberia Express have been taken over by Valenciabased Air Nostrum, which already works with IAG, the result of the BA-Iberia merger.

Alicante-Madrid air links have lost out to the AVE high-speed train, which has been operating for just over a year.

Unlike Barajas airport, far out in the Madrid suburbs, the AVE terminal at Atocha is in the centre of the city.

The train is cheaper and faster and thanks to its user-friendly timetable it has poached the businesspeople who once flew regularly between Alicante and Madrid.

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Summer market is off after one week THE summer open-air market at Campello’s Carrer La Mar beach closed just a week after its inauguration.

Money paid for pitches was returned to the 18 stallholders selling craftwork and clothes. They were taken aback by the

sudden decision to cancel their permits and were only informed by phone, they said.

The market was called off because the stallholders had not respected the timetable, claimed Campello’s Commerce councillor Noelia Garcia.

Instead of setting up between 7 and 8pm when this caused least bother to passers-by, many left it until 10pm, she said. They parked wherever they wanted and there had been near-fights over pitches.

THE regional Health department detected five new Stallholders agreed there cases of Legionnaires’ disease in Alcoy. were disagreements but The inland mountain town has been the focus of blamed the council for not epidemics of the respiratory disease since the first marking out the spaces cases were reported in 1999. For years it has been adequately. subject to stringent health measures that have “Since they did not included turning off all fountains and regular respect the few rules we inspections of industrial air-conditioning made, we decided to return installations. Preventive measures were imposed their money and cancel the during recent asphalting of roads, using specially market,” the councillor adapted machinery with strict controls over the added. chlorination and temperature of the water used.

Stallholders were bitterly These are isolated cases and unrelated cases, the disappointed, they said, Health department said, requiring no additional and some claimed to be safety measures. €1,000 out of pocket.

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Pool fall A BOY of four had to be taken to the paediatric Intensive Care Unit in Murcia after falling into a swimming pool at a school in Elche. He is reported to be in a critical condition.

Home attack NATIONAL Police have detained a man for sexually molesting a woman in broad daylight. He allegedly surprised her outside her house. A neighbour called the police.

Tomato treat ELCHE’S Miguel Hernandez University hosted a tomato tasting event in which the public were invited to try to distinguish between different varieties of cherry tomatoes.

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Virtual violence EIGHT out of 10 insults and threats on people are made over the internet.

“Not a day goes past without another complaint about harassment over the social networks,” commented the district attorney’s office in Valencia.

The way that the new technologies, and in particular the social networking sites, have influenced human relationships was examined and analysed in

INTERNET INSULTS: Complaints are received on a daily basis.

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Copper thieves caught THE Guardia Civil in Valencia have dismantled an organised gang, which was dedicated to the theft of copper on industrial estates in Valencia, Toledo and Zaragoza.

The operation nicknamed ‘Tecmeca’ has ended with the detention of six people, between the ages of 21 and 40, all of whom stand accused of breaking and entering and belonging to an organised crime gang.

The gang would make a hole in the wall of warehouses or drive their van through the door, breaking it down, and then steal the copper cabling.

The theft of copper cabling has become more prevalent in recent years due to a rise in the market price of the copper and the ease of sale for the thieves. The value of the items stolen, added to the damages caused during the break-ins, totalled more than €500,000.

which brought together experts on the subject who held workshops and talks about the new realities which arrive through phone and computer screens.

Susana Gisbert, Valencia spokesperson for gender violence, commented that more than 80 per cent of crimes of expression, threats and insults take place in the virtual world and the law now accepts this concept and is battling to stem its flow.

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Payout for hole fall A FIVE-YEAR-OLD girl who fell down a hole, and got trapped in it, in La Ereta park has been offered a compensatory package, of an unknown amount, by Alicante Council.

Her physical injuries were limited to a bad scratch on her left leg but, according to her grandmother, her mental injuries were much worse. “She doesn’t even want to go out of the house because she is scared of falling down a hole,” commented her grandmother.

The family of the girl applied to the council as they consider it the council’s responsibility to maintain the park in a condition suitable for children to play safely in.

UK holidaymaker ‘nearly dies’ on Benidorm slide JAMIE Norman, 27, was in Aqualandia water park in Benidorm when he suffered a horrific accident on the VertiGo slide.

The VertiGo slide is one of the biggest and fastest water slides in the world.

Adventure-junkies get to the top of the 33 metre slide before shooting down at 60mph.

When sliders reach the top, a trapdoor opens below and they plummet down the steep slide.

However, the problem for Jamie was that his trapdoor only opened halfway and he smacked his leg, face and arms on his way through, suffering

horrific injuries.

Jamie, an electrician, told the Manchester Evening News: “I could have been killed. If I’d been knocked unconscious I could have lost control and fallen and drowned in the pool. I took an almighty crack on my face.”

The father-of-two is now recovering at home in Radcliffe. He added: “I’m still in a lot of pain.

I’ve got two children aged 10 and seven. I should be at home resting with my feet up but I have a family and a mortgage to pay so I’m having to go back to work.”

Explaining the incident,

Jamie said: “I was obviously quite distressed but they just said: ‘We’ll sew you up’. I was treated by an on-site doctor they didn’t bother calling an ambulance or anything.”

Jamie will now be launching legal action against the park.

Aqualandia stated: “We make exhaustive checks on all our equipment daily. We would never open - or reopen - a ride that wasn’t safe.”

However, Jamie goes against this version of events, stating that people were back on the slide just 10 minutes after his injuries.

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False identity AS many as four different courts had sent out arrest warrants on a man from Terrasa who has now been detained by the Guardia Civil in Benicarlo when they found 186 marihuana plants in his house.

The man had managed to elude police capture for a long time as he had taken on the identity of his brother who died in 2007.

He rented property in his name in Castellon where he had been living since 2013.

In the course of their investigations into drug dealing in the Castellon area the Guardia Civil officers noticed the man was selling drugs and raided his house to find the plants as well as a fertilisation processer and all the paraphernalia associated with stripping the plants and drying them ready for the market.

It was during these investigations that the

FAKE IDENTITY: Man used brother’s name. officers became aware that the man was not who he said he was but actually the man that was being searched for in several different places by several different police forces.

During the raid on his house the police also found a 22 calibre rifle

and, as such, the man stands accused of drug trafficking and illegal possession of arms as well as falsifying official documentation.

He has been sent to prison on remand until his case can be heard by the courts in Valencia.

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PSOE makes donations to help the Red Cross MEMBERS of Spain’s Socialist Workers’ Party (PSOE) in Benidorm have made a donation to the Red Cross.

“I am very proud because we have shown the solidarity of the members of the socialist party in Benidorm,” said General Secretary of the PSPV-PSOE Benidorm Ruben Martinez.

The socialists donated a total of 250 kilos of food and personal hygiene products, including sugar, olive oil, spaghetti, baby food, nappies, cologne, liquid soap and tissues.

In addition, members of PSOE in Benidorm gave Red Cross representatives €200 raised by selling lottery tickets for the

upcoming ‘Golden Raffle’ organised by the local Red Cross.

Martinez said PSOE would always be there

to help the Red Cross and announced two charity campaigns to be launched in September and December.

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INTENSE DROUGHT: Threatens almond crop.

Almond trees in grave danger

THE drought has killed off more than 182,000 almond trees in the province of Alicante.

This is the most intense drought since records began in the area 150 years ago and it has already affected around 142,000 hectares and taken approximately 6,000 farmers to the verge of bankruptcy.

Harvests are down by 60 per cent on all crops and this has generated losses of more than €70 million for local farmers.

The drought has affected around 42 per cent of all the land in the area and the local farmers cannot afford, and do not have, the necessary equipment to irrigate their lands; they are 100 per cent

dependant on the weather and it has now not rained since November of 2013.

According to ASAJA (local farmers association) the drought does not just affect this year’s crop as the trees which do survive will be left damaged and may not produce marketable almonds next year either.

Ramon Espinosa, secretary of ASAJA, commented that the problem was not just the harvests as the drought had killed off large amounts of almond trees and they would take around seven years to grow to maturity and produce good fruit, and by then, the market would be exploited elsewhere leaving the local farmers without a livelihood.

Illegal businesses closed down THE Generalitat Police (Regional Police) have identified 284 illegal garages and 60 sweat shops.

Between the two operations, ‘Clau Anglesa’ which involved the garages and was started in 2012 and ‘Ecosub’ which involved the textile sweat shops and started in 2013, the police have arrested eight people thought to be responsible for crimes against the environment (garages) and crimes against worker’s rights (textile sweat shops).

Luis Santamaria, councillor for Justice, explained that the importance of locating and identifying these illegal businesses could not be underestimated as they also contributed to the ‘black’ economy and, as Spain is in a recession, they must be stamped out or be made legal.

He went on to comment that the investigations were ongoing and were unlikely to stop as the illegal businesses opened and shut with great speed.

Ecopark arrests LOCAL POLICE in Castellon have arrested two men, 29 and 31, both residents of La Plana, under suspicion of crimes on a heritage site.

The police surprised them while they were stealing gardening items from the municipal ecopark.

The police were called by a neighbour who saw the men break in through a hole in the fence of the Carabona de Burriana industrial park.

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Online predator caught in Ontiyent A YOUNG man of 20 has been detained series of messages, between her by the National Police on suspicion of daughter and the stranger, also of a highly sexual content as well as being a sexual predator.

He was caught after allegedly several pictures and videos in the tricking underage children, in an online same vein.

The predator would allegedly groom chat room, into sending him pictures his victims with praise and promises of of themselves of a sexual nature. money and when he gained From his home in Ontiyent their confidence he would the man persuaded two ask them first for pictures minors, one from Cordoba The man would in bikinis or underwear and the other from before asking them for Vizcaya, to send him allegedly groom naked shots and sexual images of his victims with eventually for more themselves after praise and provocative poses. grooming them for promises of money Once he had these several weeks both in the chat room and via pictures, he would then phone conversations. Case threaten them with investigators are still going exposure if they didn’t send through his computer to try to him more and, in this way, he identify photographs of other possible trapped the innocent minors into a victims. cycle of coercion.

The case came to light after a During their investigations, police mother from Cordoba lodged a discovered that the man had a criminal complaint with the National Police record for similar offences. after catching her daughter having a In the raid on his house they highly sexual conversation with a confiscated his computer and all his stranger on her mobile phone. After phones; these form part of the looking into her phone she found a ongoing investigation.

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55 cuts IBERDROLA (electricity company) has cut off 55 houses in the Nou Alcolecha area for being illegally connected to the electricity supply.

Gastro village THE area in front of the Husa Golf Hotel has been transformed into an area of leisure, culture and gastronomy and been renamed Laseda Gastro Village.

Bin lorries RUBBISH collection lorries in Alicante have been denounced for their lack of upkeep with the maintenance.

The unions are warning of constant breakdowns which occur in the 13-year-old lorries.

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Items of incalculable value are recovered IN the last three months the Valencia Local Police have detained two people, identified another 11 and confiscated many works of art and old coins - all of heritage value and thought to be worth more than €110,000.

Alvaro Rodriguez, chief of police, commented that his officers had received special training from the cultural council, in order to better identify what they were looking for, and attended special technical courses to help them in the online

forums where stolen art is sold; all in aid of preserving the heritage of the region.

He went on to explain that, in the course of their investigations, they had managed to recover the mural and some ceramic tiles from a robbery at the palace of the Marques de Vallvert which took place in 2005 and are of enormous historical value.

Among the items recovered are 13 handwritten parchments of incalculable value, five Roman coins from the fourth century, a wooden sculpture from the 17th century and a painting entitled ‘Abraham and the Three Angels’ which is worth approximately €45,000.

Police investigations into the matter are ongoing.

Man gored in bull festivity A MAN, 30, was gored by one of the bulls in the festivities of Los Bous a la Mar, a festivity in which the bulls are run from the highest part of the town, near La Glorieta, right down to the beach.

The man was gored in his left leg from the knee down to the ankle.

The Red Cross attended him and took him to the Denia hospital where he is said to be doing well.

DANGEROUS PLAY: On the beach.

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Thieves caught in flagrante NATIONAL POLICE caught three youths who had broken into a house, in Vilafañe de Castellon, in flagrante.

A neighbour called the emergency line to explain that someone had broken into the house next door and when the police arrived the three youths tried to flee, but were quickly caught on the terrace of the house and immediately arrested under suspicion of breaking and entering.

The thieves had brought assorted tools with them to facilitate their entry into the house and police officers have not discarded the idea that they may be responsible for other burglaries in the area.

Police investigations are ongoing.

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Protecting historic underwater sites THE Guardia Civil has stepped up its vigilance of the underwater areas where there are important archaeological objects to be found.

Under the government’s ‘Spanish Heritage Defence Plan’ the Guardia Civil are now protecting all underwater sites and inspecting diving clubs, as well as local fishing boats to make sure that nothing is being removed from these sites.

They are also sending out regular underwater patrols to make sure nothing goes missing from the official digs as well as unknown ‘accidental’ sites.

In the last few months

they have inspected 597 clubs and fishing boats along the eastern coast and found 39 cases where infractions were committed and people had removed items of historical value from the shipwrecks found just off the coasts.

The majority of these sorts of crimes are what the police are describing as ‘small scale’ and they are not normally an organised robbery but more a case of divers who go out and find things like ceramic pieces, old coins, parts of amphorae, old navigational equipment like sextants and even anchors or cannons and, possibly unaware of the law, are keeping them as souvenirs.

The same can be said of what the fishermen are bringing up in their nets by accident and keeping as little mementoes.

One police spokesperson explained that a lot of their campaign involved the education of divers and fishermen as to what was acceptable to keep and what should be handed in to the authorities as part of Spain’s cultural heritage.

Anything recognisable as being more than a hundred years old should be handed in if it is found close to the coast however, there are different laws in place regulating what is found further away from the coastline.

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Bumper year VALENCIA’S students have achieved the best results in the university entrance exams since the new educational system was brought into play in 2009.

Faraway health A 92-YEAR-OLD woman has been denied access to her local health centre and told she must go to Lo Moran, over a kilometre away.

Hiker found A HIKER has been rescued in Cullera after he fell into a 20 metre crevice; the Guardia Civil and mountain rescue had to be called out.

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Why is the sun damaging to your eyes? - The ultraviolet (UV) light radiation from the sun can cause long term damage to your eyes and contribute to the following ocular diseases: • Cataracts • Macular degeneration • Eyelid skin cancer • Pinguecula - small, yellowish, slightly raised lesions that form on the surface of the white part of the eye and cause irritation.

• Pterygium - scar tissue that can grow over the surface of the eye and

impair the vision.

• Photokeratitis - an inflammation of the cornea due to UV exposure, comparable to sunburn of the very sensitive skin of the eye lids and tissues of the cornea.

When are your eyes most at risk?

Strangely, eyes are most at risk when the light hits at an angle, typically between 08.00-10.00 and 14.00-16.00, not during the hottest part of the day. In places with highly reflective surfaces such as the beach or on the ski slopes the risk is even higher.

How should I protect my eyes? - My advice would be to use photochromic lenses, polarized lenses, sunglasses and tinted lenses

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Emergency call arrest A WOMAN from Vall d’Uixo who called the emergency services because she was feeling unwell has been arrested.

When help arrived it came in the form of the Guardia Civil instead of an ambulance and, once they had helped her with her medical problem, they noticed that in one of the rooms of her home there were around 44 marihuana plants, 17 ready prepared ‘baggies’ of the same drug as well as another four baggies of cocaine.

The woman handed over all the drugs to the two officers and told

MARIHUANA PLANTS: Belonged to her husband. them that they belonged to her husband and she advised police that he had more plants at

another address.

The woman was arrested for crimes against public health.

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Time to get the children to show off their artistic talents in competition…

SERVIGROUP HOTELS has launched the fourth edition of its children’s drawing competition.

The Delfi Plays Sports competition is promoted by the companys’ children’s club.

The aim of the competition is to show the artistic talents and creativity of children.

The star of the creations will undoubtedly be the company’s mascot, a loveable dolphin who likes playing sports.

Any child aged between two and 12years-old can enter by submitting a maximum of two drawings under the title of the competition.

The pieces can be drawn on paper or card in DINA4 format. They can also be submitted by email to clubdelfi@servigroup.e s in jpeg format, but not exceeding 1MB in size. Any pictographic technique can be used: water colour, painting, crayon, pencil crayon, marker, pen, etc.

The drawing should be original and unedited and not have been used or awarded a prize in any other competition.

The Servigroup’s children’s club entertainment team will also provide all necessary materials for children to paint and colour Delfi.

The closing date for the competition is September 15, 2014.

The contact details of the participants must be written on the reverse side of the drawing (or in the content of the email if applicable) indicating the following: Drawing competition ‘Delfi plays sports,’ with the name of the child, surname,

Passport or ID nº, telephone and email address of the parent or tutor who authorises

the participation of the child.

The outright winner will be awarded with a

MAXI set of Delfi products and the second and third place winners will each

receive a set of Delfi products. The judge’s decision will be made during October 2014 and

the winners and their drawings will be published on the website www.clubdelfi.com.

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Nudist town accidently bans nudity on streets and beaches VERA, in Almeria, is well-known for and openly sells itself as ‘the

best naturist beach resort in the world.’ However, the local

A turning point in Benidorm’s history A THOUSAND people gathered on Mal Pas beach for the screening of a short film about a turning point in Benidorm’s history.

‘Bikini’ tells the story of former Mayor Pedro Zaragoza (1922 2008) who met with Spanish dictator Franco at the Royal Palace of El Pardo in 1953 to ask him to authorise Benidorm women to wear bikinis. Zaragoza made his journey all the way from Benidorm to Madrid riding on a Vespa.

The 19-minute short film was produced by Nakamura Films, directed by Oscar Bernacer and stars Sergio Caballero (Pedro Zaragoza) and Carlos Areces (Franco).

“Pedro Zaragoza put the interests of Benidorm above his own and wrote one of the most important pages in Benidorm’s history,” said Mayor Agustin Navarro.

The event was also attended by Pedro Zaragoza’s widow Maria Ivars and his son Kiko Zaragoza. The film has won several Spanish awards.

government have banned the practice completely, by accident.

The new law imposes fines of €100 to €300 for those who are naked or topless. This is despite the fact that nudity has been legal in Vera since 1979.

The deputy mayor Juan de la Cruz Belmonte, has explained that the error came about when they sourced their legislation ‘on ordinances from other municipalities.’

“I have issued orders to include an exception for the whole part of Vera beach that is nudist, including its streets and residential estates, where people go naked,” he stated.

A spokesperson for Partido Popular told El Pais in English, “If we’ve made a mistake we’ll rectify it, that’s that.”

“It’s obvious we’re not going to shoot ourselves in the foot,” he added.

Last July, Vera set a Guinness World Record for the largest collective skinny dip. Seven hundred and twenty nine people took the plunge in a joint project by the local government and the Spanish Federation of Nudism.

Ironically, this controversy has come just days before this event’s anniversary.

The town also has Spain’s only naturist hotel and two kilometres of beach allocated for nudists.

Spanish handball in skimpy kit controversy A DEBATE has sparked up in women’s beach handball in Spain.

Why does the International Handball Federation force female players to play in revealing uniforms? The Spanish Handball Federation had a meeting to pose the question, ‘How sexist are the uniform regulations?’

Under international regulations, female players must make sure

that their stomachs are exposed and that their bikini bottoms are not longer than 10 centimetres.

This is in complete contrast with the male regulations in which players are allowed to wear baggy shorts and a normal shirt. The Spanish federation is obliged to comply with this. “(It) infringes on principles of equality, it’s sexist and it puts the

appearance of the players before their technical capabilities,” Izaskun Bilbao, of the Basque Nationalist Party stated.

Sanctions are enforceable for those who don’t follow the rules.

Spain’s main sports council has branded the regulations as sexist and allowed female handball players to choose their uniforms when playing national matches.

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Run over for taking down Spanish flag SPANISH FLAG: Removed from council balcony.

A COUNCILLOR who saw red and ran over two men who had torn

down a Spanish flag faces 26 years in jail.

Forca Masquefa

councillor, Juan Jose Garcia Mora ran over two residents of a

Catalan municipality for taking down the Spanish flag from the council’s balcony, a court heard.

The Public Prosecutor’s Office charged him with attempted murder and is asking for the jail term.

According to the official court file, Mora hung the Spanish flag from the Masquefa Council’s balcony on October 12, 2011 at 8.30am.

At 9.15am he saw two men throwing the flag in a rubbish bin in the local square.

With the intent to kill them for contravening his national feelings he tried to run them over with his van, the prosecution told a Barcelona court.

One of the men heard the oncoming vehicle and jumped to the side to avoid the impending collision. However, the car brushed against him and he fell down.

The second one was not so lucky. He fell and was run over.

Not happy with that, Mora got out of the vehicle wielding a club to beat them up.

He was stopped by neighbours who managed to keep him under control until police arrived.

The victim broke his left fibula and shinbone and had to undergo surgery. He was later discharged from the hospital.

After testifying before a judge, Mora was given a restraining order banning him from approaching the victims and was released on probation.

However, a Catalonia court ruled he was still a threat to the victims and he was once again detained.

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BORED YOUTH: The ‘neither/nor’ generation.

700,000 youths are ‘neither nors’

ONE in six youths under the age of 25 in Spain belong to the ‘ni/ni’ (neither/nor) generation; before the economic crisis, the rate was one in 10.

The term ‘ni/ni’ refers to the generation in which the young people neither work nor study.

More than half of this generation are male and 95 per cent of them are Spanish.

The Balearic Islands, Andalucia and the Canary Islands are the areas worst hit by this phenomenon, and the Basque Country, Cantabria and Castilla y

Shuttle buses to link with AVE THE soap opera seems to be finally over.

Between July 15 and September 15, four shuttle bus routes will provide daily services between the Villena AVE station and Torrevieja and Benidorm.

It may be a temporary solution and not exactly what hoteliers were expecting. However, it will connect tourists arriving at the Villena AVE station with some of the most important tourist destinations in the region.

Alicante Mayor Sonia Castedo was against the buses picking up passengers from the AVE station because they could create traffic problems. Alicante Council thinks AVE passengers should take a cab or carry their luggage themselves all the way to the bus station.

Yet the Benidorm authorities, as well as hoteliers, think that would be bothersome to tourists, most of whom are senior citizens.

The shuttle buses’ schedule will depend on the arrival and departure times of the high-speed train.

Leon are the communities with the least ‘ni/nis’.

According to a report released by the AFI (International Financial Analysts) there are 697,073 youths in Spain under the age of 25 who belong to the ‘ni/ni’ category; of these 79 per cent aren’t working or studying but are actively looking for work.

The other 21 per cent don’t work, aren’t looking for work and don’t study.

The report states that a great number of these ‘ni/ni’ youths are looking after their households and, as such, their situation cannot be attributed to any incapacity or that they are busy doing volunteer work.

Rather they are suffering from a general lack of interest due to the difficulty in finding a job and the endless rejection that this entails.

Seventy per cent of the ‘ni/ni’ group have a low educational standard, 20 per cent have finished high school and only 9 per cent have been to college.

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MORE than 12,000 residents were left without power in the Madrid northern suburb of El Pilar after a short circuit in an outside transformer was caused by a rat.

According to the Spanish electronic company, Iberdrola, the rat got into the transformer through a tiny hole and began chewing the wires which triggered a fire.

The incident took place at about 2.15pm as locals would have been preparing lunch.

The blaze cut the power and took firefighters only an hour to put out, due to the fire’s low intensity. Iberdrola then got to work and replaced the damaged wires.

Within several minutes, seven out of 10 homes had power restored, with the rest getting access after an hour.

It isn’t the first reported case of a rodent causing this sort of damage. Similar incidents have occurred in Sweden, due to beavers, and in Japan’s infamous Fukushima nuclear plant.

ANECPLA, a pest control association based in the Spanish capital, explained that there had been a sharp increase in the rat population due to the mass closure of buildings and businesses, especially in industrial centres, due to the crisis.

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Childhood obesity rates increasing worldwide CHILD obesity is an alarming worldwide epidemic and Spain is near the top of the list.

The World Health Organisation (WHO) warned on Thursday against the increasing childhood obesity rates in countries around the world.

“Our children are getting fatter,” said Director General of WHO, Margaret Chan, at the United Nations.

The problem of obesity has increased in the last 30 years, she said.

“Certain practices in the food industry especially regarding unhealthy food and soft drinks for children play a crucial role,” Chan added.

The director general complained about healthy food being “unaffordable in

ALARMING: The rise in child obesity. many areas of the developing world.”

Unfortunately, unhealthy food is usually cheaper than healthy options,” she explained.

Director of the Obesity Institute (IOB) Adelardo Caballero said: “Spain is the country with the

highest obesity rates in Europe.” Child obesity rates in Spain have risen from 30 per cent to 65 per cent, he said.

Researchers claim that 95 per cent of cases of child obesity are the result of predisposition, genes and the environment. Lack

of physical activity and food also play a crucial role.

Caballero said that children in southern European countries, especially in Portugal and Spain, are more prone to obesity, despite the famous Mediterranean diet.

Andalucia, Murcia and the Canary Islands seem to have the largest rates of child obesity in Spain.

Studies conducted by CIBEROobn - Spanish Biomedical Research Centre in Physiopathology of Obesity and Nutrition indicate that obesity is a “social disease” since “obesity is more common among impoverished families,” because highcalorie foods are much cheaper than healthy foods like fruit, vegetables and fish.

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A 70-YEAR-OLD mortar grenade from the Spanish Civil War has been defused by the Guardia Civil in Aragon.

The explosive device was stuck in a pine tree and its deadly load was still intact.

Police sources indicate the grenade was high up in the tree and had gone unnoticed for the last seven decades. It is assumed that the grenade missed its target and became stuck in the tree.

The Guardia Civil bomb squad – Tedax – has defused 111 explosive devices in Aragon so far this year.

Most of them were artillery shells weighing between four and 45 kilograms.

However, Tedax has also disarmed hand grenades and four aerial bombs. The last aerial bomb was found in June 2013 in a pond in Salcedillo (Teruel). It weighed 50 kilograms and had to be removed with the help of expert divers.

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Guardia Civil defuse 70-year-old mortar grenade ABORTION REFORMS: Film-makers joined the thousands of protestors in Madrid.

Film-makers join abortion demo

MORE than 80 film-makers have worked together to film a massive demonstration against the reform of the abortion laws in Spain.

The protestors were denouncing what they see as a step backwards to the times before democracy.

Alberto Ruiz Gallardon’s law reform would make abortion legal in only two circumstances: pregnancy by rape or in the

case that the pregnancy would have a damaging effect on the mother’s mental health.

More than 30 years after the initial demonstrations in the 1970s, the streets of Spain are hearing the same protests against prohibitive abortion laws; this time the slogan to be shouted was ‘I decide. The freedom train’.

Esther Garcia, one of the producers of the film, commented that she first took to the streets to protest about abortion in the 70s and she could not believe that she was forced to do so again. She said: “It’s amazing to think that a government can arrive at and in one fell swoop take suspects and their away the rights so many businesses, which were fought for and which took mainly restaurants. years to achieve.”

The searches produced The film, which will be €1.13 million in cash, two shown in cinemas and firearms and the cultural centres across the machinery and country for free, was made technology necessary to by 19 camera crews at the cut the drugs; police have massive demonstration on also embargoed 40 the streets of the capital as properties thought to be well as many other teams worth more than €8 which recorded sections on million. all the trains that took the Those detained in this thousands of demonoperation, nicknamed strators from their more Operation Tarantela, than 85 home cities to stand accused of drug Madrid. trafficking, crimes against The title of the film refers public health, money to what may happen if the laundering, extortion, law goes through; women threatening behaviour, who can afford it will have crimes against property, to get on a train or plane industrial copyright and go abroad in order to infringement and exercise their rights over falsifying documents. their own bodies.

The investigations, The government is due to which have already been make its decision this going on for three years, month. continue.

Raids on mafia clans continue A SPANISH judge is to interview the 32 detainees caught in a major raid against the Neapolitan Camorra (mafia) in Madrid.

The raid dismantled several Camorra clans in Spain, which were dealing in large amounts of cocaine from Colombia as well as laundering drug money.

Some of those detained may be set free after they have spoken to the judge, and the Guardia Civil and National Police interrogators, but it is expected that the majority will be formally charged and go on to face individual court cases.

The majority of the arrests took place in Madrid as did the 14 searches carried out on the residences of the

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BULL RUNNING: The annual festival in Pamplona.

Author of Bull Run survival guide gored

BILL HILLMAN, co-author of a book on how to best survive the annual San Fermin festival in Northern Spain, was gored by a bull on Wednesday morning.

The Chicago-born writer, 32, was gored twice in his right thigh.

‘Fiesta: How to Survive the Bulls of Pamplona’ was written by as many as 10 authors, including John Hemingway, grandson of

American novelist Ernest Hemingway, and published last month. It may not now sell as many copies as Hillman was hoping for.

“One would hope that authors of a how-to book would not be injured following whatever advice is in the book,” said one reviewer on amazon.com.

“Looking forward, however, to his new book coming out… Guide to the best

Orange fined €500,000 PHONE giant Orange has been fined €500,000 by the CNMC (Trading Standards Commission) for not following the rules and allowing its clients to change companies with more ease.

The delay in following the rules has infringed the rights of its clients but CNMC considered this was a mere oversight and that Orange did not do it to make more profits, either directly or indirectly.

The new rules were published by the regulator last year, on October 13, but Orange has not been allowing its clients either to change companies with ease or, if they did change, not allowing them to keep their original number.

Jose Maria Marin Quemada, President of CNMC, explained that the fine was levied because Orange’s behaviour was found to have been negligent but not malicious, as it gained no commercial advantage from the delay.

urgent care facilities in Pamplona,” he added.

TV footage shows one of the bulls lagging behind the rest and then tossing Hillman and a 35-year-old Spaniard. The bull pierced the Spaniard’s thorax in three places and man was rushed to hospital for emergency treatment.

The Red Cross said his injuries were serious.

Hillman, on the other hand, underwent surgery and seems to be doing OK. Even though it can be found in many countries, including Portugal, Mexico, Peru and France, the most famous running of the bulls is the one in Pamplona, where it is a nine-day street festival held in honour of Saint Fermin.

It takes place from July 7 to July 14 and involves running in front of a dozen bulls on a 825-metre course. The streets are walled off to keep the bulls from escaping.

Participants must be 18 or older, run in the same direction as the bulls and are advised not to incite the bulls in any way.

As many as 15 people have lost their lives at the festival since it started in 1922 and many are injured every year.

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Healthy lifestyles BETWEEN July and August, Almuñecar Council has organised a summer programme for its youth aimed at combating drug use and promoting a healthy lifestyle.

Hip Hop THE hip hop band Indigenous Invaders will perform on Tuesday, July 22 at 10pm at the Castillo de la Herradura.

Transfer window VELEZ C.F. announced on its website that Antonio Caballero Jimenez will play for the club during the 2014-2015 season. Jimenez is on loan from Marbella FC.

Football match GRANADA FC will play Almuñecar 77 tomorrow at 9pm at the Francisco Bonet municipal stadium. Tickets are €5.

Aquarium reopening THE Almuñecar aquarium will reopen its doors tomorrow. The council has invested more than €400,000 in its remodelling.

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New name THE road which connects Palma to Portixol is to be renamed Avenida Adolfo Suarez in honour of the expresident who died recently.

Bad sales BUSINESSES on the island are complaining that tourists are not spending as much as other years - the sales did worse than in 2013 despite having started sooner.

Opposition complains ARMENGOL, leader of the opposition, has complained that the current government of the islands has run into too much debt (€2.5 billion) and wants to make a special request to Madrid to have the terms revised.

Masters cup FOR the 10th year in a row Rafa Nadal has qualified for the ATP Barclays World Tour which will take place at the O2 in London in November.

Solar park A PLANNED solar park has yet to be approved by the Govern (regional

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News from our editions Naked debate With six editions and read by more than half a million people, EWN is Spain’s largest free local English-language newspaper

THE naturist debate continues in Vera, after last week’s announcement that a new clause could ban nudity from the town.

President of Vera Natura, a naturist complex in the town, Jose Antonio Alcarez, disagrees with the clause.

However, this week, while addressing a group called Osos Naturistas (Naturist Bears) a group of gay men that visits the resort every year, Alcarez said: “This community is private and family-oriented with 208 owners and they have asked the management company that handle rentals not to allow any kind of larger groups.”

The Bears have also been asked to remove photographs of the complex from their promotional material.

One of the owners, Marisol Mingorance, condemned the president’s remarks, describing him as ‘homophobic’ and a ‘dictator,’ and denied that there was any issue. She added: “If they were women, Mr Alcarez would have no problem. It is because they are gay men.”

Alcarez refuted the allegations and reiterated that his statements reflected the views of the majority of owners, adding that “here are families and children who cannot even go down to the pool for fear of scenes government); they are still considering the impact of the 249,392 panels which could be installed in the Manacor area if it goes ahead.

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JESUS DOMINGUEZ, from Malaga, needs €100,000 for an operation on his spine due to Marfan (a rare bone and lung disease); his family are hoping to raise it through charitable donations and crowdfunding, the campaigns will start shortly.

Fishing boat victory IN a fishing boat regatta celebrated in the waters off El Palo the winning boat was the ‘La Fogonera’; in the veteran’s category the victory again went to La Chora.

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CONTROVERSIAL: Naturist groups in Vera. unsuitable for them. We stand for peace and do not discriminate whether gay, Brazilian, political groups or any other group.”

Osos Naturistas have organised a week of activities in Vera Playa for several years, using Vera Natura as their base.

Russian Aikido THE ‘Lenkai’ Aikido Sports Club from Russia is visiting Torrevieja. With more than 350 members, the club will train in town for 11 days.

AROUND a thousand people participated in a demonstration in Alicante for the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people.

TORREVIEJA Council organised a blood drive on Friday July 11. Youth Councillor Rosario Martinez Chazarra said they were expecting at least 40 donors.

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TORREVIEJA’S 60th International Contest of Habanera and Polyphony was featured on six million Loteria Nacional tickets.

€100,000 needed

THE two careers requiring the highest pass marks on the university entrance examinations for the University of Malaga this year are, again, medicine and biochemistry - both require a mark of over 10.

Blood donors

Torrevieja’s lottery

site Facebook; cinema goers can choose from eight films on the page and the one with the most votes is shown at the Los Boliches venue.

High marks

Gay pride

THE PSOE socialist party claims that 2013 closed with nearly 500 fewer teachers in Alicante Province, despite an increase of 2,500 students.

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Immigrant graduates A GROUP of immigrants in Malaga are taking advantage of the council’s offer and studying to get their school leavers certificates in the hope that it will help them to find better jobs in the future.

Facebook decisions FUENGIROLA open air cinema films are decided through the social networking

Poachers caught POLICE have caught poachers in Tabernas, along with guns, nightlights and a number of rabbits. Hunting is currently illegal between one hour before sunset and an hour after sunrise.

Music in the park PIEDRA AMARILLA amphitheatre hosts a music event at 7pm on July 20. €10 tickets are available from Total Entertainment or 1 Stop Pool Shop in Albox. All proceeds to Poppy appeal.

Almeria ashtrays ALMERIA City Council has started this week distributing 12,000 ashtrays on the beaches of the capital under the slogan ‘Clean beach - it’s in your hands.’

Towns payout THE remaining grants of €10,000 to towns in the province with less than 1,000 inhabitants have now been awarded. Bacares, Las Tres Villas, Partaloa and Somontin have benefited.

Family events ALMERIMAR has launched a series of events for families to enjoy during the summer. Already this week people have enjoyed a foam party, plays and an eastern themed night.

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GERMAN PRESS Disney trial

BRITISH PRESS Snowden Nobel NORWAY - A proposal by law professor Terje Einarsen to award Edward Snowden the Nobel Peace Prize is backed by some of Norway’s most eminent lawyers; they have praised its “solid reasoning.”

8,000 years old NORWAY - Archaeologists at a dig in Stokke, Vestfold, have found an 8,000-year-old human skull; the find could help to explain how we lived in the Stone Age.

Crystal fire A CRYSTAL doorknob caused a fire in a £1.5 million (€1.88 million) home when it refracted the sunlight and concentrated it onto a dressing gown which then caught fire. Nobody was hurt in the incident.

Old Harry JK ROWLING has published a short story on her website about what a Hogwarts School reunion might be like for the famous wizard. Apparently he has ‘threads of silver’ in his hair..

Killing spree SWEDEN - A blood thirsty wolf has created havoc in central Sweden after killing seven animals and leaving another 13 in such a bad state that they had to be put down.

Lego oil DENMARK - In a bid to get Lego to end its partnership with Shell, Greenpeace has brought out a video on YouTube showing a Lego figure slowly drowning in oil.

Stolen exotica MEERKATS and tarantulas, among other exotica, went missing when Paul Beech parked his van in Dudley and it was stolen. Of the more than 30 animals, all have been recovered except for two snakes.

Cooking savings OXFORD University engineering professor, Dr Thomas Povey, has invented a new pan that uses up to 40 per cent less energy than conventional models; it will be on sale soon.

STUDENTS at a Nottingham school have tunnelled their way out of the playground, using cutlery from the canteen, to get under a fence in a Great Escape style

MEERKATS: Went missing when a van was stolen.

RUSSIAN PRESS Space launch

WOLF: Killing animals.

exodus. The school confirmed that they had been “spoken to” about the incident.

Great escape

RUSSIA successfully launched its first postSoviet rocket into orbit confirming that it is still a power to be reckoned with in the space race; the Angara rocket lifted off from the Cosmodrome at Plesetsk.

€4,763 win A WOMAN who bet just €2 has won €4,763 for correctly guessing that Germany would beat Brazil 7-1; the odds were 2,230 to one.

Arrest order THE arrest of Arsen Avakov, the Ukrainian minister of the interior, has been ordered by a Moscow court under suspicion of using banned warfare methods and killing civilians during a Ukrainian government campaign in the east.

Five-year low

Fan child left behind A WOMAN who tried to shoplift from the Feyenoord fan shop was caught, fled and left her eight-month-old child behind. Having been traced, she was sentenced to two weeks in jail for shoplifting, not for leaving her child behind.

LENDING by foreign banks to Russian

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commodities producers has been cut to the lowest levels in five years. This is thought to be due to international sanctions imposed over the Ukrainian crisis.

Snowden stays ANATOLY KUCHERENA, Edward Snowden’s lawyer, has confirmed that the NSA leaker would like to remain in Russia; the exUS intelligence operative has asked Moscow to extend his asylum.

LIFT OFF: Russia still in the space race.

DUTCH PRESS Fewer STDs

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THE percentage of people seeking treatment for sexually transmitted diseases diminished slightly last year.

It was the first decrease since 2007.

STATE Secretary of Safety and Justice Fred Teeven said that he is having to look at using hotels, boats and tents to house a huge influx of asylum seekers while their cases are dealt with.

THE Dutch Royal Mint has issued the ‘WK Oranjepenning 2014,’ a commemorative coin for the World Cup 2014, which depicts Robin van Persie’s diving header against Spain.

TWO members of staff at Germany’s most famous castle, the Schloss Neuschwanstein, in southern Bavaria are on trial for fraud; apparently they did not declare tour earnings from out-of-hours tours.

Medicinal cannabis A LANDMARK ruling on whether sufferers of chronic pain could grow their own cannabis for medicinal purposes is about to be made by a Cologne court.

The use of medical cannabis is allowed but personal plantations are banned by law.

Tower refugees MORE than 40 refugees have occupied the cafe at Berlin’s tallest structure, the TV tower, as part of a protest to remain in the country. The asylum seekers say they are “refused everywhere they turn.”

Crystal meth MICHAEL HARTMANN, interior policy expert for the SPD party, claims that he only took crystal meth to improve his performance at work; the politician has previously spoken out against cannabis usage.

Naughty general AFTER a suspension in 2012 for undesirable behaviour and new complaints about sexually harassing his female colleagues a 56-year-old army general has been fired.

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Cheaper holidays SPANIARDS have settled for cheaper holidays.

The economic crisis continues to affect Spanish holidaymakers, according to a study recently carried out by the Spanish website fotocasa.com.

Half of respondents said they now try to spend less money than in previous years and 17 per cent of them said their holidays are now shorter.

Conducted between June 16 and June 24, the survey concluded most respondents invest between €1,000

BEACH: Sixty one per cent prefer to holiday here. and €2,000 a month in their holidays and that 37 per cent of them spend between €300 and €600 a week (around €2000 a month). On the other hand,

Summer in Benidorm MAYOR Agustin Navarro and Youth councillor Maria Carmen Martinez welcomed a group of smiling Saharan children that will spend the summer in Benidorm.

Sponsored by the ‘Expedicion Juita. Amigos del Pueblo Saharaui de la Marina Baixa’ Association, the programme ‘Holidays in Peace’ invited around 19 children from refugee camps located in Tinduf, Argelia.

The children will stay with Spanish host families who will make sure they receive appropriate health care.

‘Holidays in Peace’ also includes a myriad of activities.

36 per cent of respondents only spend around €100 and €300 a week (around €1,000 a month).

Only 44 per cent plan their holidays three or six months in advance, while 54 per cent only four weeks before they leave for the summer.

A large percentage of them - 79 per cent - stay in Spain and only 21 per cent go abroad - with Italy and France being the preferred destinations. Out of those that do not leave, 61 per cent go to the beach, 21 per cent to a city, 12 per cent to the mountain and 6 per cent to a Spanish town.

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HE international Handball Federation has sparked a controversy by insisting that female players wear skimpy bikinis to play the sport. In this they are taking a lead from Beach Volleyball, which has long since had a similar dress, or rather undress, code.

Spanish clubs, backed by their federation, are right to oppose the move.

In a lowest common denominator move, the international authorities are seeking to popularise their sport by using the bodies of the women as the main attraction rather than the sport itself.

That is an insult to the women concerned. No one has the right to tell the players to dress immodestly if they want to compete. What next - a ban on players deemed too ugly?

No surprise Only 2.8 per cent of Spanish drivers would pass their theory test if made to take it now. Somehow I do not find that surprising as the Spanish do have an unfortunate reputation for their road manners. But on reflection there is little room for smugness. How many of us would pass their test if made to with no refresher course? I would suggest the majority of us from all nationalities would fail.

Oh the irony The author of a book on how to best survive the Pamplona Bull Run was gored during the San Fermin festivities. Perhaps he needs to update the book.

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Most motorists would fail test ONLY 2.8 per cent of Spanish drivers would pass the driving theory test if they were to take it now; 20.7 per cent of drivers would get fewer than 22 questions right.

The highest percentage of correct answers would be related to road safety and the lowest to road rules.

Murcia is the community with the worst scores.

A report released by the CNAE (National Confederation of Driving Schools) shows that only three out of every 100 drivers would pass the test, which requires only three, or less, mistakes to pass.

One thousand, one hundred people took part in the survey which asked seasoned drivers,

DRIVING TEST: Few would pass after 21 years on the roads. with at least 21 years’ experience, to take the theory test.

CNAE directors, Lucila Finkel and Angel Gordo, explained that the survey was divided into three separate areas: road safety, signage and road rules.

The highest pass rate was achieved in the

road safety section of the test and the lowest in the section of road rules.

Although there was no difference between the knowledge of men and women, the survey revealed that separated and divorced people scored higher than married people.

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STAT OF WEEK THERE was a daily increase of 517 self-employed workers last June, the national statistics office INE revealed. The 73,471 year-on-year increase heralds a new cycle, said the National Federation of the SelfEmployed.

Spain pays up early THE European Stability Mechanism (ESM) approved Spain’s early return of €1.3 billion in cash.

Between December 2012 and February 2013, the ESM advanced €41.3 billion to recapitalise Spain’s banking sector. It successfully exited the bailout programme at the

Manchester City CEO in the dock THE trial has begun of Spanair’s board members, accused of putting off bankruptcy proceedings.

According to the Public Prosecutor, the executives knew that the airline was in trouble but its demise was hastened because they concealed the company’s insolvency.

Spanair ceased operations in January 2012 with debts of €474 million, leaving 23,000 passengers stranded, as well as 2,075 employees without jobs.

If found guilty, the board members and former CEO Ferran Soriano - now CEO of Manchester City football club - will have to pay

restructuring the country’s banking sector, backed by ESM finance, has been a success,” Klaus Regling, the ESM’s managing director, declared.

“Spanish banks have been put on a strong and sound footing, growth is returning and investors have regained confidence in Spain,” he said.

end of 2013 without a followup programme and is due to make its last repayment in late 2027.

This is the first time that a Eurozone country benefiting from this type of financial assistance has made early payment: “The Spanish initiative confirms that

the €72.1 million that was added to Spanair’s debt during the fivemonth delay.

They would also be barred from being a member of any board, managing the property of others or acting as a personal representative.

Soriano blamed a deal with the Catalan government for the insolvency application, that led the air company to bankruptcy, going wrong.

He also told the Barcelona court that the board did the utmost to save the airline, but when an eleventh hour deal with Qatar Airways fell through there was no turning back from bankruptcy.

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THE maximum legal charge for a gas canister remains unchanged at €17.5.

This will be reviewed in September, but can neither rise nor fall by more than 5 per cent.

Hot topic for six MARKETS and Monopolies regulator, the CNMC, fined six companies for fixing the prices of fireextinguishers between 2010 and 2012. Three companies pressured the others into complying, the CNMC found.

Cash comes dear in Spain USING an ATM in Spain costs more than in any other European Union country.

A client taking out money from a cash machine, other than their own bank’s, pay an average €2.50 in commission. This is 78.6 per cent more than the average €1.40 charge made by banks in seven EU countries, found a survey by the Kelisto.es

comparison website.

Germany is the next most expensive country when using an ATM at another bank, charging an average €2.20 in commission, followed by Italy (€1.95) and France (€1). The UK, the Netherlands and Sweden make no charge at all, regardless of where clients take out money within their own borders.

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UNTIL the end of June, the Spanish company Gowex was assumed to be worth €1.4 billion.

Days later its shares plummeted by 60 per cent and trading was halted. The company, which provides public Wi-Fi throughout the world, went into liquidation.

Approximately 5,000 small investors lost between €10,000 and €15,000 while the company’s 172 employees’ described themselves as “in a state of absolute shock.”

“Society needs more businessmen like you,” the president of the Spanish government Mariano Rajoy recently said to Gowex CEO, Jenaro Garcia Martin.

But a week after Garcia Martin explained the secret of his success to an RTVE interviewer he was up before an examining judge, admitting that the problems spelled out by investigators Gotham City

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MARIANO RAJOY: Praised Gowex CEO days before the company went into liquidation.

Research were correct.

“More than 90 per cent of its reported revenues do not exist,” the investigators claimed and Garcia Martin finally confessed

that he had cooked the books “for at least four years.”

Gotham City had drawn attention to Gowex’s absence of commercial relations with leading

national operators Telefonica, Jazztel, Orange or Colt. The company’s main clients were companies created by Gowex and the 2013 accounts were

Are trade associations the answer? Don’t be too shy to pry THE term ‘cowboy’ is generally associated with casual workers who, claiming to be tradesmen, leave a trail of disaster behind them.

The building trade comes to mind but the chances of coming across unscrupulous rogues is far higher in the professions. If you think a poorly repaired roof is a disaster how do you rate a child betrayed by inept teachers, a home-owner scammed by a bent lawyer or electorate cheated by corrupt politicians?

Guilds that recognised trades, their integrity and qualifications were widespread throughout Europe since the Middle Ages.

Today in Britain several hundred trade associations represent as many professions.

Many exist to protect the interests of members rather than their clients. The public appear to have little faith in those that represent the professions; medicine, law, financial, police, public life.

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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Ironically, the best associations may be those that represent tradesmen.

If you can’t guarantee your doctor or airline pilot isn’t an imposter how can you presume your builder or electrician is genuinely qualified?

You cannot? As far as I am aware there is nothing along the Englishspeaking communities of Mediterranean Spain that could be reasonably classed as a trade association.

There are scores of business associations fronting networking opportunities. However, as far as

protecting the public is concerned they’re as useless as a walking stick with a wheel on it.

Businesses and their clients would benefit from a trade association that thoroughly vetted applicants, monitored ongoing performance backed by a system of customer mediation in the event of disputes.

In the absence of such, no genuine service provider will be offended if you ask for customer references that can be checked if you are unsure.

Don’t be shy about politely questioning their background.

Professionals will be pleased that you show an interest. The difficulty could be in shutting them up. If they are evasive or unconvincing walk away.

A genuine business has no qualms about your approaching another for a comparable quotation.

Do so. Never pay upfront but by progress with a 20 per cent on satisfactory completion payment.

signed off by the CEO’s wife, also head of investor relations.

The company used an unknown auditor whose €50,000 fee was a fraction of other companies’ auditing costs, Gotham City discovered. The whole operation smelled, and it was not fragrant.

Gowex’s total debts of €36.2 million include €23.6 million owed to five Spanish banks.

There are also loans from Spain’s Instituto Oficial de Credito (ICO) that do not affect public funds as this line of official credit is channelled through banks which assume the financial burden.

The government has now immobilised pending grants amounting to €2.1 million for investigation and research, the Economy ministry revealed.

The apparent fraud “is an exception,” insisted Elvira Rodriguez, president of Spain’s stock market regulator, the CNMV after the scandal broke.

Barcelona clamps down on letting sites LOCAL and regional authorities throughout Spain are clamping down on unregistered, illegal accommodation.

Internet websites are a favoured target and Barcelona has fired the latest shots in this ongoing war with a €30,000 fine for Airbnb Online Services Spain.

The San Francisco-based venture lists more than 500,000 private properties in 192 countries.

Cataluña, and particularly Barcelona, is a popular market, but some of the lets offered on the site are in private homes and infringe Catalan regulations. Some apartments are similarly unauthorised .

It is only one of eight letting sites to be fined by the Catalan government but Airbnb’s success

aroused the ire of registered landlords and letting agencies.

Cataluña was the first Spanish region to clamp down on private lets calculating that at least one million of the beds on offer were illegal.

Around 200,000 tourist beds there have since been registered with local authorities as guaranteeing minimum standards.

Airbnb hosts demonstrated recently in Barcelona, defending their right to rent out property.

Only a quarter of them earned more than the minimum salary, an Airbnb study found, and renting enabled many to hold on to their homes during the economic crisis.

The same report also estimated that the rentals’ site brought an extra €128 million to Barcelona.

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Latest model NISSAN started production on the Pulsar at its Zona Franca plant in Barcelona and expects to produce 2,000 models in July alone.

The car will reach showrooms this autumn.

Signup MANDATORY membership of ‘colegios’ or official professional associations has been reduced from 80 to 38 professions. It will still be obligatory for most legal, health and engineering occupations, the government announced.

No inflation THE inflation rate in Spain fell to 0 per cent in June according to the National Statistic Institute.

Consumer prices were unchanged from June 2013 with lower food, electricity and soft drink prices keeping the rate down.

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Are we slaves to the modern day wage?

Loose change A look at finance for females

Jane Plunkett jane.plunkett@euroweeklynews.com

DO you love your smartphone? Do you constantly check your email or jump to look at a new message arriving with a beep to your mobile?

Modern technology may be a very useful and handy way to keep in contact with friends and family and keep up to speed with what’s going on in the world, but it is also guilty

of making us work many extra hours that ultimately go unpaid.

A new study looking into the work hours of managers in the UK uncovered that about half of UK managers work an extra day or two of unpaid overtime per week.

Tot that up and that’s 52 or 104 extra days of unpaid work a year! The managers in the survey say they feel under pressure to work extra hours from their employers due to a general pressure to get things done and easy access to email through smartphone technology.

Thanks to smartphone

No first occupation licence Q. Your recent article on Postal/Proxy votes at the AGM for the installation of a new lift caused You and the us some concern.

Law in Spain We are a community of 80 properties, about

By David Searl 40 per cent Spanish and 60 per cent British, with many holiday homes.

Over the past 40 years we have relied on our Proxy voters to establish a quorum for our meetings and to pass motions necessary to the workings of the community. I have been president for more than 20 years and I thought we were conducting our affairs correctly. Now I am not sure. Are we wrong and what can we do to rectify the situation?

Our AGM minute book has always been accepted without comment when we had to go to court. All those attending and proxy voters are shown separately and by name.

K.P. (Costa Blanca) A. Perhaps you misunderstood my reply to that previous question. Spain’s Horizontal Law, that regulates communities, makes no provision for voting by post at the AGM. A proxy vote, however, with written authorisation and signed by the owner is perfectly acceptable. Furthermore, the law provides that decisions taken by the members actually present can be valid,.

You also do well to make sure that all those in attendance are properly listed. Your situation is, in fact, most typical of coastal communities.

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

MANAGERS: Under pressure due to modern technology.

technology some employees can’t help but obsessively check email outside office hours.

It can be stressful to receive an urgent late night email and many employees feel compelled to respond immediately.

The study concentrated on managers, many of whom are probably on decent wages being in a management position, but there are so many different types of employees working over and above their contracted hours these days, like teachers, scientists and hospitality staff to mention but a few.

And it’s not just

technology that is to blame for these employees working extra hours. Staff knuckle down and do extra work for fear of losing their job too. We all know people who work unpaid hours simply because they have a mortgage to pay and bills to settle and they don’t want to rock the boat and find themselves unemployed.

Others know that they need to get the job done but they are just too

scared to ask their boss for the extra money.

Every employee goes through a busy period when they feel motivated to work above and beyond their contractual hours, but excessive unpaid hours are not sustainable, nor fair on the employee.

In the long-term it’s important to focus on how to tackle a workload within your contracted hours, keep your boss happy and enjoy your life!

A long, short-selling story by Gotham City WITHOUT Gotham City Research’s investigation, the Spanish company Gowex would probably still be trading.

It would probably still be carrying on the false accounting that brought it to the attention of Gotham City.

So is the company, which carried out a similar operation with the British insurance group Quindell, a financial altruist?

On the contrary, Gotham City, named after Batman’s home town, is accused of being a “bear raider.”

This means shortselling: buying securities, agreeing to pay at a later date by which time the price falls sufficiently to make a killing.

Presumably Gotham

did exactly this before trading in Gowex shares was halted.

The shadowy company makes no bones about being a short-seller but only short-sellers can expose the misdeeds of fraudsters, “as the Gowex case clearly demonstrates,” it piously stated. “Auditors, regulators, lawyers, investment bankers and others rarely detect fraud.

Insiders and short-sellers do.”

Market participants, the media and regulators should instead focus on the validity of a shortseller’s message instead of shooting the messenger, Gotham City said.

“We are confident that for every 1,000 or 10,000 corporations, CEOs or stock promoters that

have profited from wrong-doing, maybe one short-seller has.”

The same statement commended Jenaro Garcia Martin’s subsequent confession as “very rare, courageous and honourable.”

Nor did Gotham City believe that Gowex was a reflection on Spain or the Spanish people, the statement continued. “If anything, the Spanish people have demonstrated that there exists a sound culture of honesty, morality and honour.”

Kind words but small comfort to Gowex shareholders and employees. And still less comfort to those responsible for Spain’s business reputation.

OPINION & COMMENT

Taxman casts a long shadow over us all…

PAYING tax in the UK now he has retired to Spain seems unfair to Allan David Duhig, although he says, “I suppose someone has to pay for the immigrants and asylum seekers flooding in and sponging off the UK.” But he’s the immigrant in Spain if he spends more than 183 days in the tax year here. If he hasn’t filed a Spanish tax return and declared all his pensions, he’s the one who’s sponging off the country where he’s living.

It’s not possible to choose which country you pay tax in.

Once he’s filed his Spanish tax return he can apply for tax exemption in the UK. Should Mr Duhig own a property in Spain but spend less than 183 days in the tax year here, then he should file a tax return as a non-resident.

Also, since last year, all Spanish residents must declare assets abroad of more than €50,000 in total in any one asset-class.

Spaniards have the obligation to present the form too, not just foreigners.

Ask for information at the local Spanish tax office. I’ve found the staff generally very helpful, provided you speak Spanish.

I hope Mr Duhig does speak Spanish, because, based on his attitude to immigrants in the UK, no doubt he’d expect them to speak English. Why should he be treated any differently in Spain?

Don’t hesitate, Mr Duhig, because if Revenue caught you then Hacienda will too one day.

Maybe someone there reads letters like these, searching for tax dodgers.

David Frost, Malaga.

No change I READ about the new daily train from Alicante to Zaragoza which says that it takes about 4.5 hours and there is no need to change at Madrid.

I have just been on the RENFE site and, yes, there is a train at 4.20pm that takes 4.5 hours but you still have to change trains in Madrid.

It shows two different train

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numbers and even when I follow the booking through it’s still the same. I was about to book but was afraid of getting dumped in Madrid and hanging around for a connection.

I guess the sensible thing would be to go to the station and enquire but my Spanish isn’t too good and so gave up on the whole idea.

Michael (by email) Editor’s note: According to our information, Alicante passengers alight in Madrid while the train is cleaned before returning to the same seat in the same coach.

Policy-makers MAYBE I can help Conway Owen Jones decide if I’m a genius or an idiot.

My main point was that, as Leapy Lee had said, UKIP have no policies except to make us leave the EU. Conway asks how many policies we need. My answer is

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that we surely need a few more than just one. The Ancient Greeks had a saying: “The fox knows a lot of things and the hedgehog only one big one.”

A lot more hedgehogs get run over than foxes, who will certainly survive long after hedgehogs (and probably people) are extinct.

Also, Conway has got my parting shot the wrong way round. I think people voted for UKIP because they were told constantly everyone was voting that way, not because everyone was telling them not to!

Bill Campbell, Mojacar (Almeria)

Snail’s pace TWO years ago I attempted to make my UK tax return via the internet and needed an identity code.

This was sent by mail and when it arrived there was a message to the effect that the code must be used within 28 days of issue. That was six weeks earlier!

A replacement also took six weeks to arrive and made me late in submitting my return although my appeal against the potential penalty was granted.

Allen Everington, Benidorm (Alicante)

Safe fracking IN response to Keith Hallam’s somewhat vitriolic assessment of hydraulic fracturing, and as someone who has worked for an American company in the oil industry, I would like to offer the following facts.

Fracturing has been used to increase production on millions of oil and natural gas wells since

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1949. According to the International Journal of Human and Ecological Risk Assessment, waste water and chemical fluid from fracturing operations can contain potentially toxic chemicals as well as natural contaminants from deep underground.

Several studies on this subject have concluded that fracturing did not pose a risk to drinking water, helping lead to its exemption from the Safe Drinking Water Act. As with all water management operations in Europe and America, underground water reserves are required to undergo stringent forms of treatment by centralised treatment facilities prior to being classified as of drinkable quality. To the best of my knowledge, since fracturing operations have been used, no person or company has been successfully prosecuted for any environmental violation involving this activity.

Today, approximately 30 per cent of recoverable oil and natural gas reserves in the US are accessible through hydraulic fracturing; this is about seven billion barrels of oil and 600 trillion cubic feet of natural gas.

It would be a great shame to prohibit the potential economic growth in this area until such time as we have conclusive proof that hydraulic fracturing does in fact threaten our very fragile planet.

Peter Dunn, Velez Rubio (Almeria)

Short-changed MANY houses have been on the market for over 12 months and a house valued at €160,000 in June 2013 would have given the seller £138,000 with the pound sterling at €1.16.

However, in June 2014 the pound was worth €1.25 and the seller would only get £128,000 give or take a couple of pounds.

What a difference!

Should the estate agent not increase the value of their client’s property? Adding €10,000 to a €160,000 property would give an increase of £8,000.

I am sure many sellers are not aware of the price difference since the pound sterling has increased. It might be better to sell in pounds, showing the figure you want or the equivalent in euros on the day.

David Jarratt, Arboleas (Almeria)

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Plenty of stick for this OAP…

LENTY of ‘stick’ coming the ol’ boy’s way this week. My appearance in Channel 5’s OAPs Behaving Badly has released a torrent of comments and observations.

I’ve heard opinions as far apart as ‘sleazy rubbish’ to ‘hysterically funny’ in the last few days. However, I am delighted to report that at least 90 per cent of them have been positive. The ‘agins’ have been mostly from those a little nearer to home. Some of whom were, probably quite rightly, not too happy with a close relative being depicted as a sex-mad, 75-year-old, rampaging around Tenerife, pockets bulging with Viagra. I must confess that this was the picture that emerged, but in my somewhat weak defence I would like to make clear that the hour-long programme was recorded over some six weeks. With cutting and editing, producers can create almost any scenario they choose. My observations concerning Viagra were, however, although not meant to dominate the presentation, completely intentional.

There is no shame in enjoying a healthy sex life in the so-called twilight years.

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OZIL: Proper haircuts from serious footballers.

LEAPY LEE SAYS IT OTHERS THINK IT functioning quite as well as they did in our youth, why not avail ourselves of any medical assistance available? If our joints

are stiff with arthritis we take medication for it. If other parts of the body are behaving alternatively, what’s wrong with a little medical assistance to counteract that condition? None at all.

Sorry if I offended anyone, but with two

million viewers, a heavy name check on The Wright Stuff, radio interviews and two new jobs in the UK already, I feel it was well worth it! After all, business is business and as long as you’re not Rolf Harris, as far as I’m concerned, there’s no such thing as bad publicity. Oh, and by the way, look out for a follow-up programme later in the year.

Can’t say I was exactly delighted with the German victory in the World Cup, even though it won me money. What I did find satisfying was that the trophy was won by a team which meant business.

Not a funny haircut in sight. Hardly a monstrous tattoo in evidence and a grim resolve to play the game instead of poncing around the field like a bunch of Hello! magazine posing pillocks. You listening, England?

As a final word, I would like to wish a dear friend all the best as he takes on the burden of chemo this week. Hang in there, Simon, our thoughts go with you.

As a final final. It’s been a delight having no less than nine members of my family visiting this week. Once again it has all gone too quickly. Love you all.

Keep the Faith Love Leapy Leapylee2002@gmail.com

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BBC ONE 7:00am Breakfast 10:15am Heir Hunters 11:00am Homes Under the Hammer 12:00pm Animal S.O.S. Documentary series following the work of the RSPCA. 12:30pm Street Patrol UK 1:15pm Bargain Hunt 1:38pm Bargain Hunt 2:00pm BBC News at One 2:30pm BBC London News 2:45pm Doctors

BBC TWO 7:00am Homes Under the Hammer 8:00am Animal S.O.S. 8:30am The Great British Sewing Bee 9:30am First Time on the Front Line 10:00am Golf Live coverage of day two of the 2014 Open Championship from Hoylake, presented by Hazel Irvine. US Open winner Martin Kaymer is at Royal Liverpool looking for his second Major triumph of the season.

ITV 7:00am Good Morning Britain 9:30am Lorraine 10:25am The Jeremy Kyle Show 11:30am This Morning 12:25pm ITV News 12:30pm This Morning 1:30pm Let's Do Lunch... With Gino and Mel 2:30pm ITV News and Weather Steve Scott with the latest headlines from around the world.

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CH4 9:00am Everybody Loves Raymond 9:30am Everybody Loves Raymond 10:00am Frasier 10:30am Frasier 11:00am Undercover Boss USA 12:00pm Come Dine with Me 12:30pm Come Dine with Me 1:00pm Channel 4 News Summary 1:05pm Come Dine with Me 1:35pm Come Dine with Me 2:05pm Come Dine with Me 2:40pm Four in a Bed

CH5 9:00am Little Princess 9:15am Peppa Pig 9:25am Peppa Pig 9:30am Milkshake Monkey 9:35am Toby's Travelling Circus 9:45am Bananas in Pyjamas 10:00am Tickety Toc 10:15am The Wright Stuff 12:10pm Beware!

Cowboy Builders 1:10pm 5 News Lunchtime 1:15pm Big Brother 2:15pm Home and Away 2:45pm Neighbours

SKY 1 7:00am Glee 8:00am Futurama 8:30am Futurama 9:00am Futurama 9:30am Futurama 10:00am NCIS: Los Angeles 11:00am NCIS: Los Angeles 12:00pm Hawaii Five-0 1:00pm Hawaii Five-0 2:00pm NCIS: Los Angeles

3pm 3:15pm Perfection 4:00pm Escape to the Country 4:45pm Wanted Down Under 5:30pm Flog It!

3:00pm Golf In 2013, eventual winner Phil Mickelson's titlebid stuttered with a second-round 74 while Miguel Angel Jimenez took the overnight lead.

3:00pm The Speakmans 4:00pm Dickinson's Real Deal 5:00pm Tipping Point

3:40pm Countdown 4:30pm Deal or No Deal 5:30pm Ultimate Dealer

3:15pm NCIS US crime drama series.

4:15pm Burden of Evil Thriller.

3:00pm NCIS: Los Angeles 4:00pm Glee 5:00pm Futurama 5:30pm Futurama

6pm 6:15pm Pointless 7:00pm BBC News at Six 7:30pm BBC London News 8:00pm The One Show 8:30pm The Village That's Falling Into the Sea

6:00pm Golf Rory McIlroy and Luke Donald missed the cut on day two in the 2013 Open and the big names will want to avoid a similar fate here.

6:00pm The Chase 7:00pm ITV News London 7:30pm ITV News and Weather 8:00pm Emmerdale 8:30pm Coronation Street

6:00pm Couples Come Dine with Me 7:00pm The Simpsons 7:30pm Hollyoaks 8:00pm Channel 4 News

6:00pm 5 News at 5 6:30pm Neighbours 7:00pm Home and Away 7:30pm 5 News Tonight 8:00pm Cricket on 5

6:00pm The Simpsons 6:30pm Futurama 7:00pm Futurama 7:30pm The Simpsons 8:30pm The Simpsons

9:00pm The Million Pound Drop

9:00pm On the Yorkshire Buses

9:00pm Modern Family 9:30pm Modern Family 10:00pm An Idiot Abroad

In Kent three rival couples battle it out.

9pm 9:00pm EastEnders Patrick helps Ian out and stumbles across a secret.

9:30pm Celebrity MasterChef 11:00pm BBC News at Ten 11:25pm BBC London News 11:35pm New Tricks

9:00pm First Night of the Proms With Erin Wall, Catherine Wyn-Rogers, Andrew Staples, Christopher Purves.

10:45pm QI XL 11:30pm Newsnight

9:00pm The Cruise Ship 9:30pm Coronation Street 10:00pm Doc Martin 11:00pm ITV News at Ten and Weather 11:40pm The Kingdom

The Million Pound Drop is back for a brand new series.

10:00pm 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown 11:00pm Friday Night Dinner 11:30pm The Inbetweeners The last episode of series one.

Documentary series following East Yorkshire Motor Services, Britain's biggest family run bus company, as they deliver 63,000 passenger trips daily.

10:00pm Big Brother: Live Eviction 11:35pm Big Brother's Bit on the Side

Karl heads off for a dip with some dolphins what's not to like?

11:00pm A League of Their Own

12am 12:35am EastEnders Omnibus A chance to catch up on the week's drama in Albert Square. 2:35am Weather for the Week Ahead Detailed weather forecast. 2:40am BBC News

12:05am T in the Park 2014 2:05am Shopgirls: The True Story of Life Behind the Counter 3:05am This is BBC Two Highlights of programmes on BBC Two.

1:40am Jackpot247 4:00am The Jeremy Kyle Show USA Jeremy Kyle presents the explosive US version of his popular talk show. 4:40am ITV Nightscreen

12:05am Rude Tube 1:05am What Happens in Vegas 2:40am The Angelos Epithemiou Show 3:10am Derek 3:35am Desperate Housewives 4:20am Revenge 5:00am Kirstie's Vintage Gems

12:35am Stand by Your Man 1:15am Super Casino 4:10am The Trial of Gillian Taylforth 5:00am Wildlife SOS 5:20am HouseBusters 5:45am House Doctor Home-improvement series.

12:00am NCIS: Los Angeles 1:00am NCIS: Los Angeles 2:00am Hawaii Five0 3:00am Hawaii Five-0 4:00am Road Wars 5:00am Stargate Atlantis

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8:00pm Athletics 10:00pm Glasgow Girls 11:00pm Russell Howard's Good News 11:30pm EastEnders 12:00am Family Guy 12:25am Family Guy 12:45am Family Guy 1:10am Family Guy 1:30am Russell Howard's Good News 2:00am Impractical Jokers 2:30am Sun, Sex and Suspicious Parents 3:30am Badults 4:00am Badults 4:30am Badults

8:00pm World News Today 8:30pm Symphony 9:30pm Sounds of The Eighties 10:00pm The Joy of the Guitar Riff 11:00pm Great Guitar Riffs at the BBC 12:00am Sound City 1:50am The Joy of the Guitar Riff 2:50am Great Guitar Riffs at the BBC 3:50am Guitar Heroes at the BBC

12:10pm Big Rich Texas 1:10pm Emmerdale 1:45pm Emmerdale 2:15pm You've Been Framed!

2:45pm The Jeremy Kyle Show 3:50pm The Jeremy Kyle Show 4:55pm The Jeremy Kyle Show 6:00pm The Real Housewives of Atlanta 7:00pm Dinner Date 8:00pm You've Been Framed!

8:30pm You've Been Framed!

9:00pm The Very Best of You've Been Framed!

10:00pm GoldenEye 12:40am Celebrity Juice

10:55am Judge Judy 11:20am Judge Judy 11:45am Inspector Morse 2:00pm Heartbeat 3:05pm The Royal 4:05pm The Darling Buds of May 5:15pm Second Thoughts 5:50pm Home to Roost 6:20pm Man About the House 6:55pm Heartbeat 8:00pm Murder, She Wrote 9:00pm Wycliffe 10:00pm Secrets From the Workhouse 11:05pm Wire in the Blood 12:35am The Vice

9:50am Kojak 10:55am Kojak 11:55am Police, Camera, Action!

12:25pm Highway Patrol 12:55pm Alias Smith and Jones 2:00pm Tour De France 2014 Highlights 3:00pm Tour De France 2014 Live 5:30pm Police, Camera, Action!

5:55pm Highway Patrol 6:20pm Alias Smith and Jones 8:00pm Tour De France 2014 Highlights 9:00pm Storage Wars 9:30pm Storage Wars 10:00pm Dirty Harry 12:10am First Blood

3:30pm The Big Bang Theory 4:00pm Rules of Engagement 4:30pm Rules of Engagement 5:00pm Suburgatory 5:30pm Suburgatory 6:00pm How I Met Your Mother 6:30pm How I Met Your Mother 7:00pm The Big Bang Theory 7:30pm The Big Bang Theory 8:00pm Hollyoaks 8:30pm How I Met Your Mother 9:00pm How I Met Your Mother 9:30pm How I Met Your Mother 10:00pm Coming to America 12:20am 8 Out of 10 Cats

Crime

Drama

A celebration of Seventies-era axe-men, acoustic virtuosos and thumping riff merchants, in a compilation of guitar-heavy performances from BBC shows such as The Old Grey Whistle Test, Top of the Pops and Rock Goes to College.

SKY MOVIES Action 5:50am The Lone Ranger Unmasked 6:20am The Next Karate Kid 8:20am Hugh Jackman: Becoming Wolverine 8:50am Last Action Hero 11:05am Cinderella Man Romantic biographical drama.

1:35pm xXx 3:45pm The Fast and the Furious 5:35pm Fast and Furious 6 7:50pm xXx 10:00pm The Fast and the Furious 11:50pm Fast and Furious 6 2:05am Kill Bill: Vol. 2 4:25am End of Days

Comedy 6:30am Monsters University Special Sky Movies takes a look behind the scenes of the colourful Pixar animation.

7:00am Wild Hogs 8:45am Look Who's Talking Now! 10:25am The Man 12:00pm Life 1:55pm Starsky and Hutch 3:45pm The Internship 5:50pm The Campaign 7:25pm The Man 9:00pm Starsky and Hutch 10:50pm The Internship 12:55am Life 2:50am The Campaign 4:20am Caddyshack

5:35am Deep Family Secrets 7:20am John Q 9:20am Hick 11:05am Compulsion 12:45pm Twisted 2:30pm Swordfish 4:15pm The East 6:15pm John Q 8:15pm Twisted 10:00pm Swordfish 11:45pm The East 1:50am Falling Down 3:50am I Against I 5:25am In the Line of Duty: Smoke Jumpers

5:05am The Inn of the Sixth Happiness 7:50am The Cup 9:45am Having You 11:30am The First Time 1:15pm Dead Poets Society 3:35pm Any Day Now 5:25pm Austenland 7:10pm Birth 9:00pm The Great Gatsby 11:30pm Cruel Intentions 1:15am Cherry 3:05am Birth Ten years after the death of her husband Sean, Anna is about to remarry.

4:55am Anastasia

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6:15am The Heat: Sky Movies Special 6:30am After Earth Special 7:00am Romeo and Juliet 9:00am Battle of the Year 11:00am Blue Jasmine 12:45pm Romeo and Juliet 2:45pm About Time 5:00pm Battle of the Year 7:00pm Promised Land 9:00pm About Time 11:15pm Blue Jasmine 1:00am Promised Land 3:00am The Lookalike 5:00am Hugh Jackman: Becoming Wolverine 5:30am After Earth Special

9:40am On the Waterfront 11:40am Rio Lobo 1:50pm Gunsmoke 2:55pm Gunsmoke 4:00pm Shoot-Out at Medicine Bend 5:45pm Abandon Ship 7:40pm From Here to Eternity 10:00pm Hang 'Em High 12:10am The Big Gundown 1:55am Hang 'Em High A mysterious drifter survives a lynching and returns as a lawman, determined to get revenge.

3:50am Love is a Many Splendored Thing 5:30am Off Set 5:50am Off Set

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BBC ONE 7:00am Breakfast 11:00am Golf All the action from the latest Golfing events. 1:00pm BBC News The latest national and international news stories, followed by Weather. 1:05pm Weather The latest weather information.

1:10pm Golf

BBC TWO 7:10am The Falcon Takes Over 8:15am The Falcon's Brother 9:15am Living Planet 10:10am Fred Dibnah's Industrial Age 10:40am Great British Railway Journeys 11:10am Saturday Kitchen Best Bites 12:40pm Food and Drink 1:10pm Rick Stein's Spain 2:10pm Talking Pictures 3:00pm Becket Powerful historical drama.

ITV 7:00am CITV 9:25am ITV News 9:30am Weekend 10:25am The Hungry Sailors Dick and James Strawbridge sail around Britain to discover fantastic food. 11:25am Murder, She Wrote 12:20pm ITV News and Weather 12:30pm Storage Hoarders 1:30pm All Star Mr and Mrs A classic gameshow that is a test of love and marriage. 2:30pm Dinner Date

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CH4 7:05am The Hoobs 7:30am Transworld Sport 8:30am Mobil 1 9:00am The Morning Line 10:00am Frasier 10:30am Frasier 11:05am Deal or No Deal 12:00pm The Big Bang Theory 12:30pm The Big Bang Theory 1:00pm The Simpsons 1:30pm The Tomorrow People

CH5 7:00am Milkshake! 11:00am Access 11:10am The Dog Rescuers with Alan Davies 12:10pm Big Brother 1:40pm Criminals: Caught on Camera Shocking footage reveals real criminals caught red-handed on camera in the UK. 2:05pm NCIS

SATURDAY TV

SKY 1 7:00am Glee 8:00am Glee 9:00am Harrow: A Very British School 10:00am Ashley Banjo's Secret Street Crew 11:00am Twin Towns 12:00pm John Bishop's Only Joking 12:30pm What's Up 1:00pm World Wrestling Entertainment Superstars 2:00pm Isle of Wight Festival 2014 Highlights from the 2014 festival at Seaclose Park.

3pm 3:00pm Golf All the action from the latest Golfing events.

5:25pm Hive Alive Chris Packham and Martha Kearney are joined

by Professor Adam Hart as they explore the remarkable secrets of Britain's honeybees.

3:30pm All Star Family Fortunes 4:15pm Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure 6:00pm Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed Live action sequel with Scooby-Doo and the gang.

5:10pm Come Dine with Me The competition takes place in and around Crewe and Nantwich.

5:40pm Come Dine with Me

3:05pm NCIS 4:05pm Hell Boats 5:55pm Operation Pacific World War II drama set in the Pacific.

4:00pm Futurama 4:30pm Futurama 5:00pm Modern Family 5:30pm Modern Family

6pm 6:25pm F1: Grand Prix Qualifying 7:40pm BBC News 7:50pm Regional News 7:55pm Weather 8:00pm A Question of Sport 8:40pm The National Lottery

6:25pm Golf All the action from the latest Golfing events.

8:45pm Flog It!

7:35pm Local News and Weather All the very latest local news and weather.

7:45pm ITV News and Weather 8:00pm You've Been Framed!

8:30pm Tipping Point

6:10pm Come Dine with Me 6:40pm Come Dine with Me 7:15pm Come Dine with Me 7:40pm Channel 4 News 8:05pm The Restoration Man

8:00pm Cricket on 5

8:55pm 5 News

6:00pm Modern Family 6:30pm Modern Family 7:00pm The Simpsons 7:30pm The Simpsons 8:00pm Futurama 8:30pm The Simpsons

9:00pm Holiday Love Rats Exposed 10:00pm Big Brother 11:00pm Benefits Britain: Life on the Dole

9:00pm A League of Their Own 9:30pm A League of Their Own 11:00pm Transporter 2

Highlights coverage of England's summer season begins on 20th May 2014 on Channel 5.

9pm 9:30pm BBC Live at Edinburgh Castle 11:30pm BBC News 11:45pm Weather The latest weather information.

9:30pm Dad's Army 10:00pm The Men Who Made Us Spend 11:00pm Zodiac Crime drama.

11:50pm Shanghai Knightst

9:30pm Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace When the evil Trade Federation plots to take over the peaceful planet of Naboo, Jedi Knight QuiGon Jinn and his apprentice Obi-Wan Kenobi embark on a mission to warn Naboo's Queen Amidala and save the planet.

9:00pm Grand Designs Mimi d'Costa and her husband Andre have moved to the Kent countryside to bring up their two boys.

10:00pm Rise of the Planet of the Apes

Documentary series lifting the lid on the reality of life on benefits in Britain.

12am 1:35am Weather for the Week Ahead Detailed weather report. 1:45am BBC News The latest national and international news stories, followed by Weather.

1:35am Keeping Up with the Steins 3:00am This is BBC Two Highlights of programmes on BBC Two.

12:00pm ITV News and Weather A roundup of the latest news headlines and a national weather forecast. 12:10am Ocean's Eleven 2:00am Jackpot 247 4:00am JK USA 4:30am Nightscreen

12:00am Predator 2 2:05am Utopia 3:05am Utopia The acclaimed conspiracy thriller continues. 4:05am Hollyoaks Omnibus Can Grace convince Trevor to give their love another shot?

12:00am Big Brother's Bit on the Psych 1:00am Super Casino 4:10am Webcam Girls: At Your Service 5:00am Great Scientists

1:00am Hawaii Five-0 2:00am Cop Squad 3:00am Road Wars 4:00am Road Wars 5:00am Brainiac: Science Abuse

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8:00pm Great Movie Mistakes Not in 3D. 8:15pm Don't Tell the Bride 9:15pm The Proposal 11:00pm Family Guy 1:20am American Dad! 2:02am American Dad! 2:23am American Dad! 2:45am Russell Howard's Good News 3:15am Badults 3:45am Badults 4:15am Badults 4:45am Great Movie Mistakes Not in 3D. 5:00am Programmes Start Again at 7pm

8:00pm Lost Land of the Tiger 9:00pm Treasures of Ancient Egypt 10:00pm Inspector Montalbano

1:50pm I Wanna Marry Harry 2:50pm The Only Way is Essex 4:20pm Beethoven's 2nd 5:20pm FYI Daily 6:20pm Beethoven's 2nd 6:45pm You've Been Framed!

7:45pm Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous 8:45pm FYI Daily 8:50pm Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous 10:00pm American Pie 11:00pm FYI Daily 11:05pm American Pie 11:55pm The Matrix Revolutions

7:10am Carry on Follow That Camel 8:10am FYI Daily 8:15am Carry on Follow That Camel 9:00am The Royal 10:00am The Royal 11:05am Emma 1:20pm The Sign of Four 3:35pm Inspector Morse 5:50pm A Touch of Frost 8:00pm Lewis 10:00pm Foyle's War 12:00am Bomb Girls 1:00am A Touch of Frost 3:00am ITV3 Nightscreen 3:30am Teleshopping

8:10am Kojak 9:00am Magnum, P.I. 9:55am Motorsport UK 10:55am The Cycle Show 12:00pm Tour De France 2014 Highlights 1:00pm Tour De France 2014 Live 5:30pm Highway Patrol 5:55pm Alias Smith and Jones 7:00pm Storage Wars 8:00pm Tour De France 2014 Highlights 9:00pm Dr. No 10:00pm FYI Daily 10:05pm Dr. No 11:20pm Total Recall 12:20am FYI Daily

7:00am Desperate Housewives 7:50am Glee 8:35am The Mindy Project 9:00am The Mindy Project 9:35am Rules of Engagement 12:00pm Rude(Ish) Tube 12:35pm Rude(Ish) Tube 1:00pm The Big Bang Theory 3:00pm How I Met Your Mother 9:00pm The 100 10:00pm Beverly Hills Cop III 12:10am The Big Bang Theory 12:40am The Big Bang Theory 1:10am Rude Tube 2:15am 2 Broke Girls

Crime

Drama

Drama based on the books featuring the Sicilian detective. A criminal turned state witness informs Montalbano of an arms stash in a cave just outside Vigata.

11:45pm Nat King Cole: Afraid of the Dark 1:15am The Sky at Night A look at the world of astronomy.

1:45am The Final Frontier? A Horizon Guide to the Universe 2:45am Lost Land of the Tiger 3:45am Treasures of Ancient Egypt

SKY MOVIES Action 4:25am End of Days 7:00am Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle 9:00am Jack the Giant Slayer 11:00am Iron Man 3 1:15pm White House Down 3:30pm Pain and Gain Three Florida bodybuilders devise a criminal get-rich- quick scheme that goes horribly wrong.

5:45pm Jack the Giant Slayer 7:45pm Iron Man 3 10:00pm White House Down 12:15am Pain and Gain 2:30am 2 Fast 2 Furious 4:20am Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter

Comedy 6:00am Stop! or My Mom Will Shoot 7:30am Struck by Lightning 9:00am Head of State 10:40am So Undercover 12:20pm The World's End 2:15pm This is the End 4:05pm Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me 5:45pm Austin Powers in Goldmember 7:25pm Fun with Dick and Jane 9:00pm The World's End 11:00pm This is the End 12:55am Admission 2:50am Fun with Dick and Jane 4:30am The Top Ten Show 2014 4:45am Boat Trip

5:25am In the Line of Duty: Smoke Jumpers 7:05am The Liability 8:35am The Double 10:20am Bad Company 12:20pm Conspiracy Theory 2:40pm Inside Man 4:55pm Brake 6:35pm Premium Rush 8:15pm The Double 10:00pm Inside Man 12:15am Brake 1:55am Money Train 3:55am The Liability 5:30am Point Last Seen

6:45am Begin Again Special 7:00am Private Peaceful 8:50am Sparkle 10:50am Adore 12:50pm 50 First Dates 2:40pm Life of a King After 20 years in prison, an ex-con takes a job as a janitor in an inner-city school.

4:30pm Gorillas in the Mist 6:45pm The Notebook 9:00pm 50 First Dates 10:45pm Adore 12:45am She Wants Me 2:25am Gorillas in the Mist 4:40am Boyhood Special 5:10am The Barbarian and the Geisha

Premiere

TCM

6:00am The World's End Special 6:30am The Lone Ranger Unmasked 7:00am Romeo and Juliet 9:00am Battle of the Year 11:00am About Time 1:15pm Romeo and Juliet 3:15pm Blue Jasmine 5:00pm Battle of the Year 7:00pm Promised Land 9:00pm About Time 11:15pm Blue Jasmine 1:00am Promised Land 3:00am The Lookalike 5:00am The Wolf of Wall Street Special 5:30am Hugh Jackman: Becoming Wolverine

6:00am Shoot-Out at Medicine Bend 7:45am Gunsmoke 8:50am Gunsmoke 10:15am Abandon Ship 12:05pm From Here to Eternity Enlisted men in Hawaii fight for love and honour on the eve of World War II.

2:20pm Operation C.I.A. 4:00pm Dial M for Murder 6:00pm The Green Berets 8:45pm Tarzan and the Mermaids 10:00pm Fire Down Below 12:00am Tango and Cash 1:55am Fire Down Below 3:40am The Horsemen 5:30am Off Set

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BBC ONE 7:00am Breakfast 10:00am The Andrew Marr Show 11:00am Sunday Morning Live 12:00pm Fast Tales 12:30pm Golf 1:00pm BBC News The latest national and international news stories, followed by Weather. 1:05pm Weather for the Week Ahead Detailed weather report. 1:10pm Golf

BBC TWO 7:00am Preview 7:40am A Walk in the Sunday 9:30am Monty Don's French Gardens Monty Don visits some of the most famous and interesting gardens in France. 10:30am Countryfile 11:30am Golf 12:30pm Saturday Kitchen Best Bites 2:00pm Rick Stein's Spain Cookery series presented by Rick Stein as he searches for the best classic Spanish dishes.

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ITV 7:00am CITV 9:25am ITV News 9:30am Weekend 10:25am May the Best House Win 11:25am Murder, She Wrote 12:20pm ITV News and Weather 12:30pm Love Your Garden 1:30pm Long Lost Family 2:35pm Columbo Peter Falk dons the shabby mac and lights up a cheap cigar for more top drawer US detective drama.

CH4 7:10am The Hoobs 7:35am The Hoobs 8:00am FIM Superbike World Championship 8:30am British GT 8:55am Everybody Loves Raymond 9:25am Everybody Loves Raymond 9:55am Frasier 10:30am Frasier 11:00am Sunday Brunch 2:30pm Sainsbury's Anniversary Games

CH5 7:00am Milkshake! 11:00am Power Rangers Megaforce Five teenagers with attitude unite to combat the invading forces. 11:35am Power Rangers Megaforce 12:05pm Meerkat Manor 12:30pm Access 12:35pm Big Brother 1:35pm Click

SUNDAY TV

SKY 1 7:00am The Hour of Power 8:00am Glee 9:00am Glee 10:00am Dawn of the Planet of the Apes Special 10:30am Believe Special 11:00am World Wrestling Entertainment Superstars 12:00pm WWE Experience 1:00pm Isle of Wight Festival 2014 Highlights from the 2014 festival at Seaclose Park.

3pm 3:00pm Golf All the action from the latest Golfing events.

3:00pm Flog It! 3:30pm Escape to the Country 4:30pm Lifeline 4:40pm Songs of Praise 5:15pm Grand Prix

4:35pm Midsomer Murders Detective drama which focuses around the life of Detective Chief Inspector Tom Barnaby and his efforts to solve the various crimes that take place in the fictional English county of Midsomer.

5:05pm Couples Come Dine with Me In an exciting twist, this series sees three couples compete daily for the chance to win ÂŁ1000.

3:40pm Lost in Space A family who went into space to fight for a chance against humanity now must fight to live long enough to find a way home.

3:00pm Futurama 3:30pm Futurama 4:00pm Modern Family 4:30pm Modern Family 5:30pm Modern Family

6pm 6:00pm Golf 8:00pm BBC News 8:10pm Regional News 8:15pm Weather 8:20pm Countryfile

8:00pm F1: Grand Prix Coverage of the latest race in this season's F1 calendar.

6:30pm Tipping Point 7:30pm Local News and Weather 8:00pm Catchphrase 9:00pm ITV News and Weather

6:10pm Channel 4 News Includes sport and weather.

6:40pm Hugo

6:10pm Big Momma's House 8:00pm Cricket on 5 8:55pm 5 News The latest news coverage.

6:00pm Modern Family 6:30pm Modern Family 7:00pm The Simpsons 7:30pm The Simpsons 8:30pm The Simpsons

9pm 9:10pm Antiques Roadshow 10:10pm Seven Wonders of the Commonwealth 11:10pm BBC News 11:25pm Regional News & Weather 11:35pm Murdered by My Boyfriend

9:30pm Dragons' Den 10:30pm Britain's Flying Past The Lancaster. Episode 3.

11:30pm Mock the Week

9:00pm Foyle's War 11:00pm ITV News and Weather 11:15pm Testing Britain's Worst Drivers: Crash Course

9:00pm The Mill 10:00pm Child Genius 11:00pm Love and Other Drugs

9:00pm My Child is a Monkey This documentary follows families who have adopted monkeys and other primates as their own child.

10:00pm Big Brother 11:00pm The Book of Eli

9:00pm The Simpsons 9:30pm Futurama 10:00pm Hawaii Five-0 11:00pm NCIS: Los Angeles

12am 12:35am The Greatest Game Ever Played 2:30am Weather for the Week Ahead Detailed weather report. 2:35am BBC News

12:00am The Quiet American 1:35am Countryfile News and stories concerning the heart of the British countryside. 2:30am Holby City 3:30am This is BBC Two Highlights of programmes on BBC Two.

12:15am The Cube 1:10am The Store 3:25am The Jeremy Kyle Show USA Jeremy Kyle presents the American version of his popular talk show. 4:10am Motorsport UK 5:00am Nightscreen

1:10am The Million Pound Drop 2:05am Lady Chatterley 4:55am River Cottage Veg 5:50am Kirstie's Handmade Treasures

1:15am Caught on Camera 2:15am Super Casino 4:10am Superskyscrapers: Shanghai Tower 5:00am Great Scientists Series presented by Allan Chapman profiling famous and influential scientists.

12:00am Cop Squad 1:00am Road Wars 2:00am Brit Cops: Frontline Crime 3:00am Road Wars 4:00am Road Wars 5:00am Brainiac: Science Abuse

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8:00pm Great Movie Mistakes 8:15pm Shanghai Noon 10:00pm Family Guy 11:00pm Family Guy 11:20pm Family Guy 11:45pm People Just Do Nothing 12:15am Family Guy 12:37am Family Guy 12:59am Family Guy 1:21am Family Guy 1:43am Family Guy 2:05am People Just Do Nothing 2:35am Stacey Dooley in the USA 3:30am Slum Survivors 4:30am People Just Do Nothing

8:00pm Narnia's Lost Poet: The Secret Lives and Loves of CS Lewis 9:00pm Scotland's Art Revolution: The Maverick Generation 10:00pm Rich Hall's California Stars 11:30pm Born Lippy: Mark Lawson Talks to Jo Brand 12:30am Joy of the Guitar Riff 1:30am Great Guitar Riffs at the BBC 2:30am Rich Hall's California Stars 4:00am Scotland's Art Revolution: The Maverick Generation

4:20pm You've Been Framed!

5:30pm Mr Bean's Holiday 6:30pm FYI Daily 6:35pm Mr Bean's Holiday 7:15pm Cats and Dogs 8:15pm FYI Daily 8:20pm Cats and Dogs 9:00pm Evan Almighty 10:00pm FYI Daily 10:05pm Evan Almighty 11:00pm The Only Way is Essex 11:50pm American Pie 12:50am FYI Daily 12:55am American Pie

10:10am Heartbeat 11:10am Heartbeat 12:15pm A Touch of Frost 2:30pm Inspector Morse 4:45pm Housesitter 5:45pm FYI Daily 5:50pm Housesitter 6:45pm Inspector Morse 9:00pm Paul O'Grady: For The Love of Dogs 9:30pm Paul O'Grady: For The Love of Dogs 10:00pm The Security Men 11:00pm The Portrait of a Lady 12:00am FYI Daily

12:05pm Ax Men 1:00pm The Car Chasers 1:25pm The Car Chasers 2:00pm Tour De France 2014 Highlights 3:00pm Tour De France 2014 Live 5:30pm Police, Camera, Action!

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Are true gents a dying breed?

Does your man pass the perfect gent test? He'll take your car for an MOT, notice your new hairstyle and only watch football on his laptop... according to a recent study. Is your man a true gent? Do they exist or are they a dying breed?

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AWYER Annemarie Bakker of Dianium & Lex in Denia, Costa Blanca, said as a woman aged over 50 she still experiences a lot of politeness and gentlemanly behaviour but thinks it is something more prevalent in the older generation as her daughter oftens complains about it in the men she meets.

But Annemarie also thinks it is not too important: “I think just being polite and respecting each other is the most important thing. I have taught my children to be respectful and to treat each other as you would want to be treated yourself.”

In Almeria, Elaine Brown of the MACS Cancer Support Group, said: “Good manners make a gentleman always! My father would always say please and thank you to my mother, even if they’d had an argument. I believe that true gentlemen still exist today as I am married to one, and his brothers are the same, too.”

“I think the age of the true gentleman

STREET TALK is dying out; unfortunately, it is more from the older generation,” believed physiotherapist Trinidad Sanchez Fuentes, owner of Clinica Mejorate on the Costa Blanca. “But I think women are partly to blame for that by wanting everything to be equal.” Trini works with all nationalities and believes elderly British men are very polite: “They are the most polite and gentlemanly,

including my British father-in-law. My husband not so much, but I wouldn’t want him to be doing everything for me.”

The girls from El Gaucho de Banús, Marbella, Costa del Sol, Mari, Alexandra, Frances, Barbie, Miriam and Marianela said: “We are not sure if the perfect gent exists, or what he even looks like. However, if

there are any perfect gents out there PLEASE COME here, we would love to meet them!”

ANNEMARIE (below left) believes respect is more important.

TRINI (below right) believes British men are the most gentlemanly.

EL GAUCHO GIRLS: ‘Please come here. We want to meet some gents!’

It pains me to have to say this Mike Walsh Mike, based in Mediterranean Spain, is an international journalist, author and professional writer.

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OME bear pain with stoicism whilst others face pain with great fear.

Perception can also change from the person causing the pain to the unfortunate who bears it. The latter likes it less.

My son, a front-line hospital doctor, tells me that a routine question is to ask an incoming patient to describe their pain on a one to 10 scale. In fairness, he was citing experience with younger females.

He said they tend to over-dramatise. A mild burn morphs into a pyrrhic incineration on a par with the combustion of Joan of Arc at the stake.

Men, perhaps because they are meant to be of sterner stuff, are inclined to understate pain. “Sure, there’s a knife in my back but it’s no big deal.”

Women, bless them, riposte that mankind would die out if men were to bear children. Italian dictator Benito Mussolini speculated that war is to men what childbirth is to women. Each are drawn to

WORTH IT: The pain of childbirth. birth and war as a moth to the flame.

When women give birth they gain a child. When men go to war they lose limbs, sanity and their lives. I recall footage of the Falklands War: a young soldier was stretchered aboard a hospital ship. One of the poor lad’s legs was shattered and hanging on by a few membranes. Smoking a cigarette, he cheerfully chatted with the stretcher bearers. I wished him well.

Following a ‘man flu’ infection the ladies recognise as cystitis, I was obliged to have my bladder’s inside checked by the hospital urologist. Having got the tee-shirt, my unsympathetic offspring suggested I ‘man up.’ There would be bearable discomfort.

How did I stand up? To put it bluntly, and it was put bluntly, a probe is inserted you know where. This looks similar to a high pressure nozzle and hose that tyre repair

workshops apply to tractor tyres. However, the zoom used by urologists is pre-heated to incendiary temperatures. Rather like having scalding water poured through one’s bowels.

Once the probe’s on-board camera arrives in one’s sac, it illuminates the inside surfaces which are then examined on a TV monitor.

Had my urologist been a dentist I could have done a runner. This is difficult when prostrate with one’s shorts around one’s ankles. I had little choice but to bite the bullet and tough it out.

As the probe rocketed through my urethra, my eyes spun. The attendant nurse blushed at my command of the Saxon language. I felt as my 10-year-old mother did when in 1920 her class was shepherded into Liverpool’s John Bagot Hospital. Built for the Crimea War’s wounded, she and her classmates were strapped to chairs and without anaesthetic had their tonsils snipped.

Yes, there have been remarkable improvements in all fields of medicine, compassion being one of them. There will be another improvement when bladders are thoroughly checked without penetration. Pain tolerance? - 2/10!

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5:35am Deep Family Secrets 7:20am Signs 9:20am The Bourne Legacy: Premiere Special 9:40am Bad Company 11:50am The Chamber 1:55pm Taken 2 3:40pm Boyz 'n' the Hood 5:45pm Get Rich or Die Tryin' 7:55pm The Chamber 10:00pm Taken 2 11:40pm Traffic 2:15am The Good Doctor A doctor develops a dangerous obsession with his patient.

4:05am Fear 5:55am In the Line of Duty: Smoke Jumpers

4:20am All Good Things 6:10am Romeo and Juliet 8:35am Sparkle 10:35am Against the Ropes 12:35pm Austenland 2:20pm Tootsie 4:20pm The Bodyguard 6:40pm Lorenzo's Oil 9:00pm Austenland 10:45pm The Break-Up Gary and Brooke are blissfully happy together in their Chicago condo.

12:40am Before Midnight 2:40am Vamps 4:20am Begin Again Special 4:35am Desk Set

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6:00am The World's End Special 6:30am Elysium: Sky Movies Special 7:00am Romeo and Juliet 9:00am Battle of the Year 11:00am Blue Jasmine 12:45pm Romeo and Juliet 2:45pm About Time 5:00pm Battle of the Year 7:00pm Promised Land 9:00pm About Time 11:15pm Blue Jasmine

6:00am Bad Men of Tombstone 7:20am Gunsmoke 8:20am Gunsmoke 9:20am Fort Osage 10:40am Hell Bent for Glory 12:30pm Savage Mutiny

A New York socialite is forced to move in with her sister after her marriage falls apart.

1:00am Promised Land 3:00am The Lookalike 5:00am Hugh Jackman: Becoming Wolverine 5:30am The Great Gatsby Special

Jungle Jim fights to move African natives from a nuclear testing site but enemy agents interfere.

1:50pm Gunsmoke 2:55pm Gunsmoke 4:00pm Jungle Manhunt 5:15pm South Sea Woman 7:05pm The First Texan 8:40pm The Fighting Lawman 10:00pm The Pledge 12:20am McQ 2:20am The Pledge 4:20am Alexander's Ragtime Band

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BBC TWO 7:00am Homes Under the Hammer 8:00am Animal S.O.S. 8:30am Street Patrol UK 9:15am Call the Council 10:00am Lorraine Pascal: The Truth About Fostering 11:00am Tiger About the House 12:00pm BBC News 12:30pm World News 1:00pm Animal Park 2:00pm Lifeline 2:10pm Breakaway 2:55pm Dean Spanley

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ITV 6:05am The Jeremy Kyle Show 7:00am Good Morning Britain 9:30am Lorraine 10:25am The Jeremy Kyle Show 11:30am This Morning 12:25pm ITV News 12:30pm This Morning 1:30pm Let's Do Lunch... With Gino and Mel 2:30pm ITV News and Weather

CH4 9:00am Everybody Loves Raymond 9:30am Everybody Loves Raymond 10:00am Frasier 10:30am Frasier 11:00am Undercover Boss USA 12:00pm Come Dine with Me 12:30pm Come Dine with Me 1:00pm Channel 4 News Summary 1:05pm Come Dine with Me 1:35pm Come Dine with Me 2:10pm Come Dine with Me 2:40pm Four in a Bed

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CH5 6:10am House Doctor 6:35am The Great Artists 7:00am Milkshake! 10:15am The Wright Stuff 12:10pm Black Market Britain 1:10pm 5 News 1:15pm Big Brother 2:15pm Home and Away 2:45pm Neighbours Australian soap which follows the daily lives, romances and problems, of several families who live in the fictional Ramsay Street.

SKY 1 7:00am Glee 8:00am Dog the Bounty Hunter 8:30am Dog the Bounty Hunter 9:00am Futurama 9:30am Futurama 10:00am Futurama 10:30am Futurama 11:00am NCIS: Los Angeles 12:00pm NCIS: Los Angeles 1:00pm NCIS: Los Angeles 2:00pm NCIS: Los Angeles

3pm 3:15pm Perfection 4:00pm Escape to the Country 4:45pm Wanted Down Under 5:30pm Flog It!

3:00pm The Speakmans 4:00pm Dickinson's Real Deal 5:00pm Tipping Point

3:40pm Countdown 4:30pm Deal or No Deal 5:30pm Ultimate Dealer

3:15pm NCIS 4:15pm Access 4:20pm Jane Doe: Eye of the Beholder

3:00pm The Simpsons 4:00pm Glee 5:00pm Futurama 5:30pm Futurama

6:15pm Antiques Roadshow 7:00pm Eggheads 7:30pm Flog It! 8:00pm Antiques Road Trip

6:00pm The Chase 7:00pm Local News and Weather 7:30pm ITV News and Weather 8:00pm Emmerdale 8:30pm Coronation Street

6:00pm Couples Come Dine with Me 7:00pm The Simpsons 7:30pm Hollyoaks 8:00pm Channel 4 News

6:00pm 5 News 6:30pm Neighbours 7:00pm Home and Away 7:30pm 5 News 8:00pm Revealed

6:00pm The Simpsons 6:30pm Futurama 7:00pm Futurama 7:30pm The Simpsons 8:30pm The Simpsons

9:00pm Operation Cloud Lab: Secrets of the Skies 10:00pm The Fifteen Billion Pound Railway 11:00pm Backchat with Jack Whitehall and His Dad 11:30pm Newsnight 12:20am Horizon 1:20am Burning Desire:

9:00pm All Star Mr and Mrs 10:00pm Inside Death Row with Trevor McDonald 11:00pm ITV News at Ten and Weather 11:40pm Weight Loss Ward

9:00pm This Old Thing: The Vintage Clothes Show 10:00pm One Born Every Minute 11:00pm The Mimic 11:30pm 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown

9:00pm Emergency Bikers

9:00pm Modern Family 9:30pm Modern Family 10:00pm A League of Their Own 10:30pm A League of Their Own 11:00pm Football's Funniest Moments

12:40am Off the Beaten Track 1:10am

12:35am The IT Crowd 1:05am Superstar

The Seduction of Smoking 2:20am This is BBC Two Highlights of programmes on BBC Two.

Jackpot 247 4:00am The Jeremy Kyle Show USA Jeremy Kyle presents the American version of his popular talk show. 4:40am Nightscreen 5:15am Britain's Best Bakery

DJs 1:30am The Simpsons 1:55am Heston's Great British Food 2:50am The Outrage 4:35am Revenge 5:15am Secret Eaters

4:30pm The Hairy Bikers' Food Tour of Britain 5:15pm Natural World Wildlife documentary.

6pm 6:15pm Pointless 7:00pm BBC News 7:30pm Regional News 8:00pm The One Show

9pm 9:00pm Commonwealth Games Opening Ceremony The opening ceremony of the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games, hosted live from Celtic Park.

Action-packed documentary series following the work of emergency bike crews.

10:00pm Caught on Camera 11:00pm Big Brother

12am 12:00am BBC News 12:25am Regional News 12:35am Weather 12:40am A Question of Sport 1:20am Weather for the Week Ahead Detailed weather report.

1:25am BBC News

12:00am Big Brother's Bit on the Side 1:00am Super Casino 4:10am On the Yorkshire Buses 5:00am Wildlife SOS 5:20am House Busters 5:45am House Doctor

12:00am NCIS: Los Angeles 1:00am NCIS: Los Angeles 2:00am Brit Cops: Frontline Crime 3:00am Brit Cops: Frontline Crime 4:00am Road Wars 5:00am Stargate Atlantis

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9:00pm Don't Tell the Bride 10:00pm Sun, Sex and Suspicious Parents 11:00pm Stacey Dooley Investigates 12:00am Family Guy 12:22am Family Guy 12:45am American Dad! 1:05am American Dad! 1:25am Russell Howard's Good News 1:55am Glasgow Girls 2:55am Stacey Dooley in the USA 3:55am Stacey Dooley in the USA 4:55am Programmes Start Again at 9am

8:30pm Pagans and Pilgrims: Britain's Holiest Places 9:00pm Indian Hill Railways 10:00pm Our Planet From the Air 11:30pm Rich Hall's California Stars 1:00am Wild Weather 2:00am Indian Hill Railways 3:00am Parks and Recreation

3:45am Scotland's Art Revolution: The Maverick Generation

12:10pm Big Rich Texas 1:10pm Emmerdale 2:15pm You've Been Framed!

2:45pm The Jeremy Kyle Show 3:50pm The Jeremy Kyle Show 4:55pm The Jeremy Kyle Show 6:00pm The Real Housewives of Atlanta 7:00pm Dinner Date 8:00pm You've Been Framed!

8:30pm You've Been Framed!

9:00pm You've Been Framed!

10:00pm Through the Keyhole 11:00pm The Only Way is Essex 11:50pm Celebrity Juice 12:35am Two and a Half Men

10:25am Judge Judy 10:55am Judge Judy 11:20am Judge Judy 11:45am Inspector Morse 1:55pm Heartbeat 2:55pm The Royal 4:00pm The Darling Buds of May 5:10pm Faith in the Future 5:50pm Home to Roost 6:20pm Man About the House 6:55pm Heartbeat 7:55pm Murder, She Wrote 9:00pm Lewis 11:00pm Bouquet of Barbed Wire 12:00am The Vice

12:00pm Police, Camera, Action!

12:30pm Motorway Patrol 1:00pm Tour De France 2014 Highlights 2:00pm Tour De France 2014 Live 5:30pm Police, Camera, Action!

5:55pm Police, Camera, Action!

6:30pm Motorway Patrol 6:55pm Alias Smith and Jones 8:00pm Tour De France 2014 Highlights 9:00pm British Superbike Championship Highlights 10:00pm Dirty Harry 11:00pm FYI Daily 11:05pm Dirty Harry 12:10am Jaws 3

3:00pm The Big Bang Theory 3:30pm The Big Bang Theory 4:00pm Rules of Engagement 4:30pm Rules of Engagement 5:00pm Suburgatory 5:30pm Suburgatory 6:00pm How I Met Your Mother 6:30pm How I Met Your Mother 7:00pm The Big Bang Theory 7:30pm The Big Bang Theory 8:00pm Hollyoaks 8:30pm How I Met Your Mother 9:00pm X-Men 11:05pm Rude Tube 12:10am Jennifer's Body

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Comedy series set in the parks department of a fictional Indiana town.

3:20am Parks and Recreation Comedy series set in the parks department of a fictional Indiana town.

SKY MOVIES Action 4:45am Death Warrant 6:20am The Top Ten Show 2014 6:40am After Earth Special 7:00am Excalibur 9:30am Tom Cruise: Face 2 Face 9:50am Stone of Destiny 11:35am The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King 3:00pm Iron Man 3 5:15pm Tombstone 7:30pm The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King 11:00pm Iron Man 3 1:15am Lethal Weapon 3 3:20am Cinderella Man 5:50am Stone of Destiny

6:30am The Lone Ranger Unmasked 7:00am Despicable Me 2 Special 7:20am The Mask 9:15am This is 40 11:40am This is the End 1:35pm American Pie: The Wedding 3:20pm Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo 4:50pm The Mask 6:40pm This is 40 9:00pm This is the End 11:00pm American Pie: The Wedding 12:45am Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo 2:15am Best in Show 3:50am Conception 5:25am Stop! or My Mom Will Shoot

5:55am In the Line of Duty 7:40am Jackpot 9:20am Twilight 11:10am Argo: Sky Movies Special 11:30am Hours 1:20pm Gangster Squad 3:20pm A Few Good Men 5:40pm Murder by Numbers 7:45pm Miami Vice 10:00pm Gangster Squad 12:00am A Few Good Men 2:25am Night Falls on Manhattan 4:30am Single White Female A young Manhattan businesswoman becomes the victim of the ultimate flatshare horror.

4:35am Desk Set 6:30am Boyhood Special 7:00am Knife Fight 8:50am Gandhi 12:00pm Sunshine on Leith 1:55pm Boyhood Special 2:25pm The Truman Show 4:15pm Begin Again Special 4:35pm Empire of the Sun 7:10pm Sunshine on Leith 9:00pm The Truman Show 10:45pm Perfume: The Story of a Murderer 1:20am Hyde Park on Hudson 3:05am Empire of the Sun 5:45am East of Eden

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6:00am Fast and Furious 6 Special 6:30am The Lone Ranger Unmasked 7:00am Romeo and Juliet 9:00am Battle of the Year 11:00am Blue Jasmine 12:45pm About Time 3:00pm Romeo and Juliet 5:00pm Battle of the Year 7:00pm Promised Land 9:00pm About Time 11:15pm Blue Jasmine 1:00am Promised Land 3:00am The Lookalike 5:00am Fast and Furious 6 Special 5:30am Elysium: Sky Movies Special

7:15am Gunsmoke 8:15am Gunsmoke 9:15am The First Texan 10:45am South Sea Woman 12:35pm Jungle Manhunt 1:50pm Gunsmoke 2:55pm Gunsmoke 4:00pm Fury of the Congo 5:20pm Rocky Mountain 6:55pm The Boy From Oklahoma 8:35pm Man From God's Country 10:00pm Out for Justice 11:45pm 8MM 2:05am Out for Justice 3:40am The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie 5:35am Michael Caine Off Set

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64: A great fire breaks out in Nero’s Rome. Fuelled by high winds, the flames spread quickly and rage out of control for three days destroying much of the city. Hundreds die and thousands are left homeless.

1925: Hitler publishes Mein Kampf. Following his release from Landsberg prison, Hitler publishes the first volume of his personal and political manifesto.

1942: Deportations from Warsaw ghetto to Treblinka begin. Thousands are transported on a daily basis to the concentration and extermination camp in Poland.

1944: An assassination attempt on Hitler fails. German Führer Adolf Hitler escapes death after a bomb goes off at his Rastenberg headquarters in East Prussia.

1945: Potsdam Conference starts. Joseph Stalin, Winston Churchill and Harry Truman meet in Germany to begin negotiating the terms for the end of World War II. 1969: First man on the moon.

US-born astronaut Neil Armstrong becomes the first man in history to walk on the surface of the moon.

1974: A bomb goes off at the Tower of London. The explosion leaves one person dead and 41 injured. Though no organisation claimed responsibility, the IRA was widely suspected.

1981: Hunger strike protest in Dublin turns violent. Thousands take to the streets to support hunger strikers in Maze Prison and 500 of them confront police officers in front of the British Embassy.

1982: IRA bombs kill eight in London. The first explosion in Hyde Park kills two soldiers and injures 23, while the second one in Regents Park kills six soldiers and injures 24 people.

When a man gives his opinion, he's a man. When a woman gives her opinion, she’s a bitch.’

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CANCER (June 22 - July 23) All may not be what it seems this week and you need to be a little more realistic. This is particularly true when it comes to romance and close ties.

Having the wool pulled over your eyes is not desirable and could even see you trip up. A different kind of trip, possibly over a long distance, may bring you face to face with an old friend or relative LEO (July 24 - August 23) Being at odds with someone close has given you pause for thought. This would be a good time to change the situation for the better.

Offering the olive branch is your best approach, but be sure that you are sincere. Sometimes, you are a book easily read.

VIRGO (August 24 - September 23) Such a time of expansion comes rarely, but now you are being handed opportunities. Be sure to make the most of them by being organised enough to take full advantage. With your energy high, you are in a position to steam ahead with plans. Should others feel left out you can find a place for them.

LIBRA (September 24 - October 23) Having had such a busy time recently you may be craving a quiet period. I am afraid this will have to wait at the moment. Small snatches at tranquillity are possible but the pressure is still on.

SCORPIO (October 24 - November 22) Have you been too busy to spend time on yourself? Get your looks and health back on track by using this week to good effect. Revamp your diet and exercise as required. Spend time with people who are supportive and share the same interests.

SAGITTARIUS (November 23 - December 21) Some difficulty in your love life will need to be handled carefully. Unforeseen developments could take you by surprise (especially if you haven't read this in time).

Your need is to avoid telling white lies to get out of a situation. Given time, most situations in this category will ease.

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LAST WEEK’S SOLUTION 1 Treaty, 2 Treats, 3 Guests, 4 Ladies, 5 Starry, 6 Reduce, 7 Mender, 8 Rested, 9 Prints, 10 Massed, 11 Feared, 12 Pitted, 13 Seared, 14 Starve, 15 Gasped, 16 Regard, 17 Raised, 18 Forged, 19 Nearby

IF IT’S YOUR BIRTHDAY THIS WEEK: Romantic interests are great but should not be allowed to take centre stage because there are other things that need your attention. Should loved ones feel neglected, try to involve them. Be a little selfish for the rest of this year and it will benefit all later.

July 18: Vin Diesel, 47. Film actor.

Actor, screenwriter, producer and director Diesel won the 2011 CinemaCon Award for Action Star of the Year for his role in Fast and Furious.

July 19: Benedict Cumberbatch, 38. Film actor.

This British actor won the Broadcasting Press Guild Award for Best Actor for his performance in Sherlock and Parade’s End. July 20: Sandra Oh, 43. TV actress.

Most famous for her role as Dr. Christina Yang in Grey’s Anatomy she also had a major role in the popular film Sideways.

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AMERICAN action film Need for Speed (2014) tells the story of street racer Tobey Marshall (Aaron Paul) who owns a New York garage where he tunes performance cars with the help of his friends. To make ends meet, Tobey participates in dangerous streets races. After the untimely death of a dear friend at the hands of a rival racer and an unfair two-year prison sentence, Tobey vows revenge.

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July 17: Santiago Segura. Film actor.

This actor, screenwriter, producer and director first shot to fame with his Torrente films in the late 90’s. He has won a Goya award for the Best New Actor, another for Best New Director and his 1993 film Perturbado won a Goya for Best Fictional Short Film.

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July 21: Robin Williams, 63. Film actor.

Comedian, voice actor and actor Williams won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in the 1997 film Good Will Hunting.

July 22: Selena Gomez, 22. Singer.

This American singer released a fourtime Platinum selling record ‘When the Sun Goes Down’ in 2011; she is also famous for going out with Justin Bieber.

July 23: Daniel Radcliffe, 25. Film actor.

Most famous for his eponymous role as Harry Potter in the film series he also has a budding stage career; he is reputed to be worth more than £878 million.

CAPRICORN (December 22 - January 20) Meetings and travel dominate this week. Being with those who stimulate and inform will be even more worthwhile than usual. A trip that you are not looking forward to can bring added bonuses. Looking to further education at this time, could see you starting a course.

PISCES (February 20 - March 20) A recent journey has revealed possibilities. It is in this week that you will realise their potential. Nowhere is this truer than your romantic life, which is on the up. Someone who would not normally attract you comes into your sphere or may have done so last week.

AQUARIUS (January 21 - February 19) A meeting involving business with a senior person brings great benefits. You are wrong to be afraid of asking for what you want because it is necessary. Do not bottle things up.

Consider that you have little to lose. When dealing with legal matters, you are well advised to read the small print and look at the timescales involved.

TAURUS (April 21 - May 21) This really is a week to get to grips with any healthy eating or exercise regimes. Owing to the influence of Mars, you are in a vigorous and determined mood. You find that your added confidence and healthy glow are attractive to the opposite sex.

ARIES (March 21 - April 20) A strong romantic flow to your week could be interrupted. This is because there are some business matters that really do need your attention.

Although it is not a particularly good time to make firm financial commitments, there are areas to work on. These are mainly associated with saving money and reorganising.

GEMINI (May 22 - June 21) This is a spiritual week and you will be likely to want comfort. Give yourself time alone to look at the world around you and enjoy what it has to offer. As the weekend approaches, you will be able to get more into the mainstream and enjoy the company of others.

2014 COMMONWEALTH GAMES, GLASGOW t1. In 1998, which was the first Asian country to host the Commonwealth Games?

2. In which country are the 2018 Games due to be held?

3. In which decade did the ‘British Commonwealth Games’ become simply the ‘Commonwealth Games’?

4. In which track event did Welsh athlete Colin Jackson win Commonwealth Games gold medals in both 1990 and 1994?

5. Swimmers Ian Thorpe and Susie O'Neill share the record for the most gold medals at a single Commonwealth Games, how many did they each win?

6. What is the name of the cartoon thistle that is the official mascot of the 2014 Commonwealth Games?

7. Which Canadian city hosted the first ever Commonwealth Games (then called the British Empire Games) in 1930?

8. Which country topped the Commonwealth Games’ medal table in 2010, winning 177 in total (74 gold, 55 silver and 48 bronze)?

9. Which was the last English city to host the Games?

10. Which word completes the official motto of the Commonwealth Games: Humanity - Equality - (a) Ability, (b) Bravery, (c) Courage or (d) Destiny?

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

TARGET: Average: 13 Good: 16 Very good: 23 Excellent: 29

LAST WEEK’S SOLUTION cent, fine, nice, niff, teen, tine, feint, fence, niece, entice, finite, incite, infect, tiffin, fifteen, EFFICIENT

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SIX, 6. CLYDE, 7. HAMILTON, Ontario, 8. AUSTRALIA, 9.

MANCHESTER (2002), 10. D – DESTINY

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 (GUIDED) and one letter in four other cells are given as clues.

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Funagram Unscramble the name of a famous English radio DJ and television presenter: AN IDLE TOWN

Across 1 Made up site map as a hobby (7) 5 Started back in the drainage basin (5) 8 Museum worker, unionist informer with nothing, is in credit (7) 9 Grand Elgar medley (5) 10 Back in Western Samoa (5) 11 People, without exception, in a London highway (3,4) 12 One who adds to the season (6) 14 Evaluate fools beginning to skive (6) 17 Shorten a spanner? (7) 19 Corrupt males in Oregon (5) 22 Brave group from Mount Ribense (5) 23 Labour leader got wise (7) 24 Some flowers produce odd sores (5) 25 Sunday in church and about Frank (7)

Unscramble the name of a US state and its capital: OH MAN! LANE NEAT

FUNAGRAM SOLUTION: DALE WINTON, MONTANA, HELENA

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6 Refuse to leave bottle opener in service department (7) 7 Send Lee free pins (7) 12 First course for race official (7) 13 God accepting drink in Borders (7) 15 Bear with a blemish following us around (7)

16 Broke slates for induction units (6) 18 Fights led us astray (5) 20 Weapon sometimes placed in front of corporal (5) 21 An insect, say, not very bright, ascending (5)

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Each number in the Code Breaker grid represents a different letter of the alphabet. In this week’s puzzle, 12 represents G and 4 represents M, so fill in G every time the figure 12 appears and M every time the figure 4 appears. Now, using your knowledge of the English language, work out which letters should go in the missing squares. As you discover the letters, fill in other squares with the same number in the main grid and the control grid.

Across 1 Italian corn meal dish (7) 4 Apparel (5) 7 Cuban dance (5) 9 Self-consciously timid (7) 10 Easily agitated (7) 11 Frighten (5) 12 Existing in fact (6) 14 Brimmed felt hat (6) 18 Collides with force (5) 20 Person who makes and serves coffee in a coffee bar (7) 22 Alligator pear (7) 23 Burn caused by hot liquid (5) 24 Rub out (5) 25 Strong underground prison cell (7)

Down 1 Carnivorous fish (7) 2 Arboreal beast of Madagascar (5) 3 Wait in hiding to attack (6) 4 Pauses for relaxation (5) 5 American bison (7) 6 Work out (5) 8 Distinctive fragrance (5) 13 Kind of lottery (7) 15 Gains by toil (5) 16 Desert (7) 17 In a foreign country (6) 18 Flat cutting edge of a knife (5) 19 Have in common (5) 21 Relative magnitude (5)

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

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Answers: In between jobs, To err on the right side

Down 1 Free space for Steps (5) 2 Wait to begin play (5) 3 Batting maybe perfect, with concentration (7) 4 Greets assembled wading birds (6) 5 French beauty from port in Elbe (5)

LAST WEEK’S SOLUTIONS CRYPTIC Across: 2 Dear, 4 Dabs, 9 Russell, 10 Chide, 11 Smelt, 12 Chimera, 13 Bather, 15 Sensor, 18 Shatter, 20 Amiss, 22 Aroma, 23 Amended, 24 Note, 25 Cape.

Down: 1 Bards, 2 Descent, 3 Agent, 5 Archive, 6 Seine, 7 Open air, 8 Block, 13 Basmati, 14 Extract, 16 Swindle, 17 Organ, 19 Acorn, 20 Arena, 21 Sedan.

QUICK Across: 1 Stumble, 4 Miami, 7 Again, 9 Certain, 10 Banshee, 11 Hyena, 12 Lying, 14 Sleek, 19 Lutes, 21 Tornado, 23 Natural, 24 Swell, 25 Canal, 26 Sayings.

Across 1 Otoño (6) 4 Bueno (4) 8 Muñecas (juguetes) (5) 9 Habitaciones (cuartos) (5) 10 Grandson (5) 11 Lights (5) 14 Llama (de fuego) (5) 16 In the same way (5) 17 Vela (náutico) (4) 18 To cut (meat, bread, cards) (6)

Down 1 Platform (rail) (5) 2 Waist (of a dress/skirt) (5) 3 Younger (person, animal, wine, country) (3,5) 5 Gold (metal, commodity, currency) (3) 6 Two (3) 7 Triplet (8) 12 Corteza (de pan) (5) 13 To leave (5) 14 Faiths (3) 15 There (near you) (3)

Down: 1 Shabby, 2 Bench, 3 Exceed, 4 Marshal, 5 Abate, 6 Ionian, 8 Annoy, 13 Nostril, 15 Evade, 16 Clinic, 17 Stalls, 18 Moults, 20 Titan, 22 Risky.

ENGLISH-SPANISH Across: 1 Twins, 3 Salud, 5/14 Big toe, 7 Prayers, 9 Real, 10 Beso, 13 Tostada, 15 Smoke, 16 Angry.

Down: 1 Taburetes, 2 Sopa, 3 Soap, 4 Discovery, 6 Glass, 8 Event, 11 Race, 12 Nada.

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TOP TEN CRACKPOT DICTATORS

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DESPITE what European countries think of their leaders there are some really weird dictators with really weird ideas out there; here is a round up of the best known.

1. Ferdinand Marcos, Philippines President from 1965 to 1986 this incredibly corrupt dictator lived life to excess and amassed a small fortune while his people almost starved to death - his wife, Imelda, was famous for accumulating more than 1,000 pairs of shoes.

2. Moammar Qadaffi, Libya This cartoon-like character had delusions of being the leader of Africa and holding world power; eventually his people got fed up and deposed him. Among the many mad things he has done is claim that he conquered the US and hating Switzerland: he wrote a UN resolution on why the country should be dissolved.

3. Vladimir Putin, Russia This former KGB officer rules Russia under the guise of being its elected president and prime minister. He has all the usual hallmarks of a despot such as a massive ego and cult of personality.

4. Benito Mussolini, Italy This man nearly made Napoleon look like an introvert. He is almost the prototype of the posturing, bombastic, out of touch, powerdeluded, uniform wearing crackpot dictator and, some say, he even served as a role model for Hitler.

5. Chairman Mao, China His policies like the ‘Great Leap Forward’ cost China millions of deaths and the Cultural Revolution which followed almost brought about the eradication of its entire culture. His Marxist-Leninist theories, military strategies and political policies are known collectively as Maoism.

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Just Joking Q: Did you hear about the man with a broken left arm and broken left leg?

A: Don’t worry he’s ALRIGHT now!

An old teacher asked her student, “If I say, ‘I am beautiful,’ which tense is that?” The student replied, “It is obviously past.”

Why did the chicken cross the playground? To get to the other slide!!

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AMERICAN lawyer and author John Grisham, 59, brings fans of legal thrillers the direct sequel to his first novel A Time to Kill, first published in 1989.

Set in Mississippi roughly three years after the trial of Carl Lee Hailey, Sycamore Row takes readers back to the famous courthouse in fictional Clanton as attorney Jake Brigance finds himself entangled in yet another controversial trial that will once

again stir up racial tensions and force Ford County residents to confront the tortured history of their town.

Cancer-stricken Seth Hubbard commits suicide by hanging himself from a sycamore tree and leaves a handwritten will, dragging his adult children, Jake and his black maid into a compelling and powerful conflict over the wealth of a dead old man.

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6. Emperor Bokasssa, Central African Empire This apparent madman declared himself emperor of his own country and modelled his ‘coronation’ after that of Napoleon; he cost his already poor country more than $20 million.

7. Joseph Stalin, USSR This man was one of the worst mass murderers of all time. He starved six million Ukrainians by taking all their wheat and then culled his own forces in ‘purges’ which killed millions more; he also annexed a great number of states into the USSR. 8. Kim Il-Sung/Kim Jong-Il/Kim JongUn, North Korea This family has made life miserable for millions of North Koreans and several thousand South Koreans. They have presided over the impoverished and insulated country since 1948 and made such wild claims as inventing the hamburger or never having to urinate. Among their many

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ad. ore and more m Hitler became m Sycamore Row is no doubt staggeringly addictive and a thrilling page-turner, testament to the masterful storytelling of one of the America’s best novelists.

insane claims are being the creators of the universe and that North Korea is a democratic paradise in which there is no poverty.

9. Adolf Hitler, Germany Kim Jong Un m Although democratically elected, he ade Koreans m iserable. consolidated himself into a dictator based on the superiority of the Aryan race.

As time went on he grew more and more power mad and delusional and was responsible for the deaths of millions of Jews.

10. Idi Amin Dada, Uganda Accused of murdering thousands this apparent madman called himself the King of Scotland and is reputed to have eaten some of his enemies. He made his already poor country poorer. He banned all Asians from Uganda because the daughter of an important Asian family refused to marry him; he also, apparently, wrote several love letters to Queen Elizabeth II.

Idi Amin Dada reputedly ate enemies.

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

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

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

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

No vulgarities or proper nouns are permitted.

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Average: 23 Good: 29 Very good: 42 Excellent: 52

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

LAST WEEK’S SOLUTION feet, fete, feta, fern, feat, fear, beat, beaten, beater, beef, been, beet, beer, beery, beta, berate, bean, bear, bent, eaten, eater, eatery, eery, aeon, atone, nett, neat, near, nary, enact, earn, entry, teen, tenant, tenantry, tern, tear, teary, teat, tent, tone, toner, tarn, tare, tart, tact, oaten, otter, react, rent, ranee, rate, rant, anent, aery, arty, ante, acne, note, notary, tote, yarn, tree, treat, tray, tract, tater, tyre, tyrant, cane, caner, cater, care, caret, cart, cant, canteen, canter, canto, canoe

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Only four out of 10 Spaniards do sport regularly

ONLY four out of 10 Spaniards (38.6 per cent) regularly practise one or more sports, mainly as a source of health and to release tension.

According to a survey by the

Centre for Sociological Research, cycling, running and swimming are the favoured activities amongst the Spanish, often in a group practice (40 per cent) sports, whereas 27.3 per cent

preferred to do exercise alone.

Those who do not practise any form of regular sport argue that it's because they simply do not like it (27.3 per cent) or lack of time (15.9 per cent).

Half of the respondents claim to have less than four hours a day free, outside of work and family and household obligations.

In this free time, sport is listed in seventh place exfoliate and that’s good, these micro after being with family, beads get into the water systems and watching TV, hanging out are practically impossible to eliminate. with friends, reading, Anything containing surfing the Internet and parabens. Parabens doing crafts. are preservatives and can be found in shampoos and soaps; research suggests they may be linked to cancer.

Three beauty products you need to get rid of now ANTIBACTERIAL soaps and body washes. These usually contain an ingredient called triclosan which has been linked to a resistance to antibiotics and can cause hormone disruption.

Research has never shown anti-bacterial products are good for health; many doctors claim a little dirt and a few germs are actually good for the system.

Exfoliant scrubs with micro beads. Although not bad for your skin, they actually do

EXFOLIANT SCRUBS: Bad for the environment.

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Google beats the GP for younger women A STUDY of 18-24 yearold females has found that more than a third would rather Google their health symptoms than see a doctor about intimate issues.

The survey of 1,000 people found that young women are three times more likely to be embarrassed talking to their GP than the over55s. As a result, young women (92 per cent) are turning more to the internet to self-diagnose

online, according to the research by women’s healthcare experts Balance Activ.

More than half of young women (56 per cent) admit searching their condition online within 12 hours of any symptoms arising, compared to just 7 per cent who said they would book an appointment with their doctor in that time and just 28 per cent of young women said they would most trust a GP’s advice.

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Say goodbye to varicose veins SUFFERERS of varicose veins and haemorrhoids need suffer no more. A ground breaking treatment is now available in Altea for varicose veins and haemorrhoids.

The treatment is from Qupa centre of research and study in the prevention of vascular diseases among others. It has been brought to the Clinica La Mar in Altea by Trinidad Sánchez Fuentes from Clinics Mejorate Physiotherapy and Ostheopathy Centre which also has clinics in Los Montesinos and Torrevieja.

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Now is the time to lose weight the fast track way

By Jonathan Gilchrist Costa Blanca’s top hypnotherapist AS a hypnotherapist specialising in weight control, Jonathan Gilchrist has heard all of the excuses as to why a client is overweight, but has the easy and simple answer: “Fast Track Weight Control is a unique system created by my father that helps your subconscious target at diets and exercise and reinforces the necessity of eating healthily.” He added: “Fast Track Weight Control boosts your willpower and trains you into maintaining a diet until it becomes part and parcel of your daily routine, it also encourages you to be more active. This unique system calms and

soothes and enables you to attune yourself to your body.

If you are overweight, then in the majority of cases, I’ve found that you’ve simply ceased listening to your appetite control centre. Fast Track Hypnosis helps you start listening again and allows you to actually hear what your body wants and not what you think it wants.”

Jonathan says the Fast Track Weight Control is about giving you the strength to say no to that bag of crisps or the bar of chocolate and to say yes to a new, slimmer you.

Already he has seen the results and differences it has made to so many people with testimonies such as this flooding in

from clients: “I’ve been absolutely thrilled with the results of the weight loss Fast Track Hypnosis as I’ve lost over two-and-a-half stone (18 kilos) in the past two months and its utterly painless.

I would recommend this method to anyone and have done so to friends and family. It’s easy to comply with and seeing such good results has made me more confident in every area of my life and very happy.”

Jonathan now practises out of the Beauty and Wellness Centre in Pueblo Bravo, Quesada as well as holding clinics in Cabo Roig and Benidorm.

For an appointment, brochure, or free of charge initial consultation, contact Jonathan now.

Jonathan Gilchrist • Tel: 691 784 954 Email: jonathangilchristbh@gmail.com • Visit: www.jonathangilchristinspain.com

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Getting rid of any earwax build-up may need help NEW SOLUTION: For counting the calories.

Calorie counting microwaves TIRED of counting calories in a bid to stay slim? Then a new microwave creation could be the solution.

A protype ‘microwave’ has been developed by a US company that uses micro waves which travel through food to measure its fat and water content and therefore its calorie content. General Electric has made the unnamed calorie counter saying it can accurately reveal the number of calories within a meal at the push of a button.

The development team have not revealed when it may be launched to the public or how much it could cost.

MORE often than not, earwax does not need to be removed since it falls out on its own.

However, if it is causing hearing loss and blocking the ear canal, it may indeed need to be removed.

Eardrops are useful to soften and loosen the pesky earwax, allowing it to naturally work its way out. Pouring a few drops into the ear and lying for a couple of minutes with the affected ear facing upwards should be

EARWAX: Ear drops can be useful to soften and loosen the pesky blockage. enough. Repeat this between two or three times a day for a couple

of days and the build-up will soften.

If the blockage persists,

then ear irrigation should be considered.

Ear irrigation uses a pressurised flow of water to get rid of the earwax blocking the ear canal.

While it is a painless procedure, the ear could feel strange when the water is squirted into the ear canal.

Cerumenolytic solutions can also be effective as they dissolve wax.

These include baby oil, glycerine, mineral oil and peroxide-based ear drops.

World’s largest tumour removed DOCTORS have removed what is believed to be the world’s largest tumour from a man in China.

The growth was on the 37-year-old man’s leg and grew to more than 17 stone. It began

as a birth mark which was removed when he was 12 but it soon began growing back again.

The 1.2 metre tumour made up two-thirds of his total body weight and took nine doctors 16 hours to remove it.

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Never wash raw chicken RAW chicken should never be rinsed, it is a dangerous practice.

By rinsing it infectious droplets of water are being distributed around the kitchen and can fall as far as three feet before landing on a surface.

According to the UK’s Food Standards Agency

RAW CHICKEN: It can lead to serious infections if washed.

(FSA) this is a very dangerous habit and they are urging people to stop this practice which, essentially, spreads plague. The FSA has released a public service announcement

PERFECT PATTY: The definitive guide. (which can be found on their website) and have warned the general public of the practice.

“The call comes as new figures show that 44 per cent of people always wash chicken before cooking it - a practice that can spread campylobacter bacteria

onto hands, work surfaces, clothing and cooking equipment through the splashing of water droplets,” says the FSA. When the chicken has been cooked all the infectious germs have been destroyed by heat so there really is no need to rinse.

Tips to create a truly great burger THERE is hardly any food as international as the burger - it can be found from China to Canada and it has many different incarnations. Here are a few tips to make a perfect burger patty.

The number one thing to bear in mind is that good meat is needed for a good burger.

The best burgers are made from the cheaper cuts of meat as these have more flavour and, because the meat will be minced, there are no worries about the toughness of the cut; the shoulder or brisket make a perfect burger.

All the patties should be of a uniform shape and size - the best way to do this without scales is to take the lid of a jar and use that as a measure.

It is very important to remember to make an indentation in the centre of the patty before cooking it.

Making an indentation in the patty helps the burger to hold its shape while cooking.

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A quick tip to defrost your steak

AL FRESCO: The spacious terrace at Spice of Life.

SPICE OF LIFE: One of the oldest established Indian restaurants.

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This Indian restaurant originally opened in Denia in 1995 before opening in Benidorm in 1999 and is one of the longest established Indian restaurants on the Costa Blanca.

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cooked with traditional herbs and spices to your own personal taste, Spice of Life is a delight to dine in. Situated in the stunning Edificio Zeus in Calle Doctor Orts Llorca 11, there is an elegant and stylish interior, with a slight hint of a nautical theme with round port windows and wooden finishes, meaning that as well as

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FOR all those who have wanted to have steak for dinner but forgot to defrost it earlier, here is a great food hack to avoid using the microwave.

Take two metal pots large enough to cover the steak in question, turn one of them upside down and place the steak on top of it. Now take the other pot and fill it with room temperature water (this is to make it heavier) and place on top of the frozen steak.

In around five minutes a one centimetre wide steak will have defrosted; a five centimetre steak will take 10 minutes.

What causes this?

Heat-conducting metal; metals like aluminium are able to conduct ambient heat which will defrost steaks!

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Summer garden care

Dick Handscombe

Gardening Corner

By Spain’s best known expatriate gardening author living in Spain for 25 years.

SPANISH summers are hot and gardens need extra care to ensure that they are colourful and survive the scorching southerly winds.

This article indicates what needs to be done.

Keeping plants alive Keeping plants alive consists of four things. a. Keeping the roots of plants constantly damp both in the garden and containers. Whether you water with a drip irrigation

system, hose or watering can this can be difficult to judge unless you dig a hole to check what layers are dry and at what level the soil is still moist. The latter is time consuming, difficult to do in closely planted beds and judgemental as what one person regards as damp another person may regard as wet and it’s a hard lesson to learn when your favourite plants keel over and die. The solution is to purchase a soil moisture meter. Typically they have a probe to push into the earth in a garden bed or the compost in a pot down to 15 centimetres of depth and do not need a battery to operate them.

The best have a second

probe that measures the acidity of the soil or compost. Ours also has a light meter which is useful in checking the amount of light reaching to the back of a naya or the shade of a tree where you are considering placing pot plants. b. Placing tender plants that are easily shrivelled in full sun or by blazing hot winds in semi, dappled or full shade and watering twice a day if necessary.

This includes annual herbs such as parsley or basil. c. Keeping roots cool by shading them with slabs of rock or mulches of compost or bark chippings. d. Ensuring that you plant up your garden with

plants that are naturally drought resistant and capable of slowing down their growth and moisture requirements during the hottest weeks.

Keeping the garden colourful Stimulating prolonged or repeat flowerings consists of watering as above plus regular dead heading as soon as flowers start to dry up. This prevents plants from using energy to produce seeds rather than new flower buds.

Most plants will grow and flower well without regular feeding, but should you consider it necessary use a feed high in potash rather than nitrogen. Regular feeding with the latter may result in excessive greenery at the expense of flowers.

Fruit trees also need care It is essential that fruit trees with fruit are watered thoroughly so that their deepest roots are kept constantly damp so that fruit develops continuously.

Intermittent watering can result in splitting fruit,

WATERING: Difficult to judge just how much. major fruit falls or insect and fungal attacks. If you planted your fruit trees in previously enriched soil and gave the trees a spring feed a summer feed is not essential.

The vegetable plot can still be productive Provided they are frequently watered, fruit vegetables such as tomatoes, peppers, courgettes and melons swell and ripen well in sunny weather.

Root vegetables such as peanuts, carrots and beetroot will grow and keep well in the soil if kept damp but quick growing radishes will soon go to seed if not harvested when young. As the summer warms up

flowering artichokes will stop producing and July is a good time to sow seeds to produce broccoli plants for planting out in the autumn.

However leaf vegetables are best shaded for at least part of the day to keep them growing without going to seed. Weeds will be less of a problem than in the spring but will need keeping under control by hoeing and adding to the compost heap. It’s a good idea to dampen the compost heap each month to prevent it from drying out.

The above actions should help you enjoy a colourful and productive summer garden but do watch the garden for unexpected problems. For summer reading chapter 6.16 ‘Be a plant detective’ in our book ‘Your garden in Spain’ lists 50 ways of killing plants many of them related to summer conditions.

Reading for the hammock If it is too hot to work in the garden Dick’s travelogue and retirement odyssey is proving to be popular from the UK to Australia. The book is titled ‘Our 52 day retirement adventure along the Spanish Pyrenees’ and is available as a traditional book and a Kindle Book from Amazon books and other internet bookshops. © Dick Handscombe www.gardenspain.com July 2014

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ROYAL OWL: Took a ride on a paddle board.

Royal owl saved by a surfer

A PADDLE surfer who was in the waters off the breakwater of the Puente Romano hotel in Marbella saved a royal owl.

The royal owl, a protected species in Spain, was felled from the sky when it was set upon by a gang of seagulls which were attacking it en masse.

Luckily for the owl the paddle boarder was nearby and was able to pick it up out of the water and take it to land to recover. Far from being scared of the paddle boarder, the owl willingly got onto the proffered paddle and took the

ride back to the shore as though it happened every day.

CREAS (Recuperation Centre for Threatened Species) was called and arrived promptly taking the bird away with them in a cardboard box to be looked after at their centre for wounded animals.

Royal owls are night hunters and rarely seen in daylight; the bird was probably from the Sierra de Ojen where there is known to be a small colony of them after the reintroduction of breeding pairs into the area in the late 1970’s.

Keeping your dog groomed

David THE Dogman

Listen to David on TRE every Saturday 10am to 11am Costa del Sol (Gibraltar/Sotogrande) 98.7fm (San Roque to Calahonda) 91.9fm (Calahonda to Motril) 88.9, Costa Calida 92.7fm Costa Blanca (Torrevieja to Elche) 105.1fm (Elche to Calpe) 88.2fm, (Calpe to Gandia & Ibiza) 104.6fm, (Denia to Valencia) 95.3fm Mallorca 103.9fm

IF you have a dog with badly knotted fur, the easiest way to get him to hate being groomed is to introduce the brush and comb at this point. Badly knotted fur should only be dealt with by experts.

Consult your vet or a grooming specialist.

Some breeds such as Cocker Spaniels, Yorkshire Terriers, Scotties, Schnauzers and Poodles need to have their fur trimmed regularly. Inquire if you are in any doubt. Bathing regularly is not a good idea as a rule. Even dog shampoo removes natural oils from the coat. This can cause skin irritations and a dull coat.

Many times I heard someone remark: “When-

LONG HAIR: Some dogs need to have their fur trimmed regularly. ever I bath my dog it goes straight out and rolls in the garden and makes itself all dirty again.”

Take a dog for a walk after rain and it aims for a muddy puddle and rolls in it. Why? Washing a dog washes away his identity, his smell.

This can result in stress, the dog doesn’t feel good or natural. So it rolls to try

to get its identity back. A similar thing applies when it rolls in dung.

By nature dogs are hunters and instinct tells it that to get close to a herd to kill for food, it should smell like the herd.

Nail cutting. Never buy a nail cutter and never take advice from anyone except a vet. When nails are very long, cutting

should be carried out by a vet as it is easy to cut into a vein in the nail. A vet will be able to cauterise it at once should this happen. The best way to keep your dog’s nails in trim is to take lots of walks on hard surfaces.

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Pet, Sit, Match! You no longer need worry

By Lamia Walker of HousesitMatch IT is a worry when holiday plans gel faster than pet care plans. It can be stressful knowing the time left to organise care for your cat, dog or even horse is evaporating.

So what can you do to avoid such unnecessary worry? Jenni and Derek of Fuengirola (Malaga) recently organised a sitter to come and live in their home while they returned to the UK for a holiday.

While they normally rely on

neighbours to care for their much loved cat, on this occasion the arrangement didn’t work out. And they prefer not to use kennels.

So Derek went online and found a selection of sitters to choose from. They followed the guidelines

on how to do a background check, and how to get to know someone before inviting them to be your sitter. It worked, and now they have a new friend and pet sitter!

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House sales in Spain increase PROPERTY sales in Spain increased by 5.4 per cent in May, as stated by the Spanish National Statistics Institute (INE).

A total of 28,124 real-estate operations were registered in May, which represents a 12.6 per cent increase in comparison with April, when there were 24,968 house purchases.

According to the INE, the sales of new houses decreased by 8 per cent in May and account for 38.7 per cent of the total.

On the other hand, the sales of secondhand properties increased by 16 per cent compared to 2013 and account for 61.3 per cent of the total.

Moreover, the sales on non-subsidised houses rose by 5 per cent in May, while

sales of subsidised properties increased by 8.9 per cent.

Even if property sales increased in May on a year-on-year basis, they still decrease by 7.7 per cent in the first five months in 2014 if compared to the same period in 2013, said the INE. The Spanish real-estate market was hard hit by the financial crisis that broke out in 2008 following the bursting of the Spanish housing bubble.

Spain may have got out of the recession in the first four months of 2013, but the truth is that the high levels of unemployment and the lack of credit make it hard on the real-estate business to get back on its feet.

HOUSE SALES: Increased by 5.4 per cent in May.

Be vigilant to avoid falling victim to burglars THE Spanish Ministry of the Interior has launched a campaign advising holidaymakers to take certain precautions to avoid falling victim to burglars.

Consisting of easy tips provided by National Police and the Guardia Civil, ‘Mi Casa a Salvo’ seeks to combat burglary in Spain and to raise awareness among people about the dangers their properties face when homeowners are away for the summer.

Empty properties are easy prey for crooks if they know nobody is home.

The Government advises people to always lock doors and windows, even in basements

BURGLARS: Prey on empty properties. and courtyards.

It is probably a bad idea to pull down window blinds and to

leave valuables out in the open, they say. If possible, people should keep them locked in a

safe or put them in a less conspicuous place where they are more difficult for burglars to find.

Spanish law enforcement officials warn against bragging about holiday plans on social media as Internet-savvy burglars have been known to use social networking especially Facebook and Twitter - to find potential victims.

More info: http://micasa asalvo.com/2014/ It is also advisable to warn children not to talk to strangers about where they are going for the summer or for how long.

Spanish police also say it is probably a good idea to buy a dog as a dissuasive measure.

If there are suspicious-looking people on the prowl around empty properties, Spanish authorities recommend calling the police or writing down licence plate numbers and alerting authorities.

Should holidaymakers find burglars in their property upon returning home, Spanish authorities strongly warn against confronting them. It is best to ask for help and call the police.

They also say it is a good idea to ask a friendly neighbour to keep an eye on the house and pick up the mail. And do not forget to leave him or her a phone number in case of an emergency.

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House prices fall in the first quarter HOUSE prices fell in the changes of properties Eurozone in the first bought by households, regardless of their final quarter of 2014.

As stated by Eurostat, use or previous owners.

The largest annual falls which is the statistical office of the European in property prices in the first three months of Union, house prices 2014 were decreased by 0.3 witnessed in per cent in the Euro Area House prices Croatia (-9.7 in Spain fell, in per cent), between Slovenia (-6.6 January and contrast to a per cent) and March and rose rise in the UK Cyprus (-5.7 per by 1.0 per cent in cent), while the the European Union.

The prices are highest increases were measured following the recorded in Estonia House Price Index or HPI. (+17.5 per cent), Latvia HPI measures the price (+10.4 per cent) and the

UK (+8.0 per cent).

The annual variation in Spain in the same quarter of 2014 fell by 1.6 per cent.

The largest quarterly falls were witnessed in Luxembourg (-2.3 per cent), Croatia (-2.7 per cent) and Slovenia (-1.7 per cent).

On the other hand, the highest increases were recorded in Estonia (+4.8 per cent), Sweden (+2.4 per cent) and the UK (+2.2 per cent).

In Spain prices fell by 0.3 per cent.

HOUSE PRICES IN SPAIN: Fell by 0.3 per cent in the first quarter of 2014

DRAGONERA ISLAND: ‘Castle Mallorca’ has beautiful views of the island.

Mallorca’s most expensive villa for sale A GERMAN real-estate agency is selling the most expensive villa in Mallorca.

Known as ‘Castle Mallorca’, the 1,400square metre property is located on Andratx port on a 6,000-square metre plot and is 20 minutes away from Palma.

It has a price tag of €38 million and unequalled views of the sea and Dragonera island.

It also has a private cave from which guests can marvel at some of the world’s most beautiful sun sets. It also has a pool, gardens, terraces, a manor house, a sauna, a fitness room, a piano lounge, a huge kitchen, a spacious hall, three

suites, among many other amenities. The guest house has three bedrooms and an independent apartment.

‘Castle Mallorca’ is located in one of Spain’s most exclusive neighbourhoods.

In fact, in some properties the average square metre price is around €27,000, said Engel & Völkers representatives.

Some of its guests have included former German President Christian Wulff and even Lady Diana, before she became Princess of Wales.

The property has three private accesses from the beach and includes a quay for yachts of up to 30 metres in length.

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Opel’s bestseller aims to offer a new driving experience in the small-car market segment by raising the bar for chassis, engine and gearbox performance, says the German manufacturer.

The new 1.0-litre threecylinder turbo engines, smooth-shifting transmissions, the new suspension and optimised steering deliver class-

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And the new Corsa also comes with a totally new interior that enhances the perception of high quality and spaciousness, including best-connected IntelliLink infotainment technology and ultra-modern driver assistance systems.

Opel’s designers have also given the new Corsa ‘a dynamic shape in line with the brand’s design philosophy, introducing flowing, sculptural forms and precise detailing.’

It is equipped with everything required to ensure continuation of 32 years of success in a highly competitive market segment.

The fifth generation of Opel’s bestseller will make its world premiere at the Mondial de l’Automobile 2014 in Paris (October 4 to 19), rolling off the assembly lines in Zaragoza and Eisenach before the end of the year.

“The Opel Corsa has always been widely praised, particularly for its

BESTSELLER: Offers a new driving experience in the small car market. appealing looks and an efficient use of space within compact dimensions,” says Opel CEO Dr. Karl-Thomas Neumann. “This has been a decisive factor in the model’s enduring popularity, and we are, of course, carrying this core appeal forward in the new generation. Thanks to

many new technologies, we are also offering a fantastic driving experience, which raises the standard in this vehicle class. The fifth Corsa generation will be full of surprises.”

Across four generations spanning 32 years, almost 12 million Corsas have

been sold in Europe, including 2.8 million from the current fourth generation. With average yearly sales of 370,000 units, the Opel Corsa is one of the most enduringly popular models in its segment.

A key to its success is outstanding space efficiency.

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X-PERIENCE completes Leon range The new SEAT Leon X-PERIENCE, with permanent four-wheel drive and all-road equipment, offers driving fun wherever you may choose to go, says the VW owned manufacturer.

The new Leon X-PERIENCE completes SEAT’s Leon range, alongside the two-door Leon SC, the five-door Leon, the versatile Leon ST estate and the highperformance Leon Cupra, the Leon X-PERIENCE aimed at people with a varied and active lifestyle.

“The new Leon X-PERIENCE interprets our emotional design language in a whole new way.

This functional aesthetic, this elegant robustness and safety shows an openness to new ideas.

X-PERIENCE: With four wheel drive and all-road equipment.

We maintain the youthful spirit with a distinctive feel for the practical things in life,” says Jürgen Stackmann, President of

SEAT S.A. “The Leon XPERIENCE is the perfect fit for SEAT. As the next step in our brand strategy, it will expand and

consolidate the great success achieved by the Leon.”

Alongside the latest-generation TDI engines and permanent allwheel drive with intelligent, electronic control, the Leon ST XPERIENCE boasts all-road suspension with extra ground clearance. A distinctive off-road look and individual interior offer an added dimension of driving fun, together with a wide array of ultra-modern technologies.

These include a four-wheel EDS dynamic control system (electronic differential locks on both axles), an extended electronic differential lock for better traction while cornering (XDS), an electronic stability programme and a multi-collision

brake system delivering maximum safety.

Further optional hi-tech features include full-LED headlights, ACC Adaptive Cruise Control with City Emergency Brake function, drowsiness detection and lane assistance.

“On tarmac or gravel, in sun, rain or snow - with its all-wheel drive, the Leon X-PERIENCE takes it all in its stride, demonstrating its superb dynamics on all types of road with no negative impact on comfort or usability. Emotional driving fun and exceptional usability - this is where the customer finds both,” says Dr. Matthias Rabe, Vice-President for Research and Development at SEAT S.A.

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Take to the open road and live the Harley Davidson experience

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HERE is perhaps no one, or place, better equipped, passionate and knowledgeable about motorbikes and in particular, Harley Davidsons, than Frank Burguera and his company California Motorcycles.

Situated in Oliva in what Frank describes as the Mediterranean arc and the European California, ideally located between Valencia

and Alicante, California Motorcycles is the leading motorcyle sales and repairs centre and specialists in Harley Davidsons; a brand Frank has believed in since he was a teenager.

He spent time in Bosnia in the Special Forces when he was 18, gaining life experiences and, more importantly, earning the money to buy his first Harley Davidson.

Since then, he has trained as a mechanic and worked for the company whose values and ethos he believes in and which remain today: “The bike was developed as a method of getting to work so it had to be an easy ride, of good quality and easy to maintain and they have kept that ethos even now.”

Frank enthused: “When US soldiers returned from war they used Harleys as a way of integrating back in to life and as a form of escapism.

“People started to associate the bike with freedom - that is the experience that Harley Davidsons are about.”

That freedom has led Frank to privileged experiences also as he has

CALIFORNIA MOTORCYCLES: Repairs, services and sales as well as an extensive online store.

EXPERTS: Frank (left) with team members Raquel Cadenas and Fernando Gonzalez. travelled and lived around the world working with Harley Davidson Europe in Spain and Portugal as a mechanical trainer and he also spent time in the UK and USA. Every year he would go to Seattle, USA,

working with a friend on the Harley Davidson drag racing team. Frank stopped that three years ago to fully concentrate on developing California Motorcycles which opened in 2007.

Now, as well as repairs, servicing and sales, California Motorcycles has an extensive online store offering parts, accessories and clothing. It is an area that is quickly growing and expanding with customers world wide and is all part of Frank’s commitment and dedication to moving with the times and providing

what the market wants.

So for all your Harley Davidson and motorcycle needs, speak with the experts and deal in the best.

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Records for Jimmy, Marquez makes Marc and Germany wins

By Tony Matthews FOOTBALL - It’s over and Germany are World Champions for the fourth time after beating Argentina 1-0 after extratime in the final before

almost 75,000 fans in Rio’s Maracana Stadium. This is Germany’s first victory since unification and the first trophy in 21 years.

CRICKET - England (496) drew the first Test

with India (457 and 391-9) but not before Jimmy Anderson had set a few records!

GOLF - England’s Justin Rose won the Scottish Open at Aberdeen and a

cheque for €627,000.

Mo Martin (USA) took the women’s Open at Birkdale, collecting €294,000.

MOTOGP - Last Sunday, Marc Marquez (Repsol Honda) won his ninth successive race of 2014 at Germany’s wet and windy Sachsenring.

Dani Pedrosa was second and Jorge Lorenzo third in a Spanish 1-2-3. It’s off to Indianapolis next, on August 10.

TOUR DE FRANCE - Italian Vicenzo Nibali was the yellow jersey leader at the end of the first week of the 101st annual cycle race. Brits Mark Cavendish and 2013 winner Chris Froome both withdrew with injuries.

ORBA WARBLERS: Had a fantastic day’s play at Bonalba Golf.

Fantastic day for Warblers ORBA Warblers were treated to a fantastic day at Bonalba Golf, thanks to the combined sponsorship of Bonalba Golf and Plusmark Global who between them not only fed them but provided some excellent trophies and prizes.

Add to that the golf course showing real signs of returning to its former excellent condition, and members said it was a pleasure to play there.

The winner of the Bonalba Cup with 39 points off 9.6 was Chris Field. First place in division one went to Michael Taylor just pipping Steve Robinson on count-back with 34 points.

Division two scored better and the top spot was taken by Clive Kay with a score of 37, in second place was Barbara Pollitt with 36.

Nearest the pin prizes went to Roy Booth, Deryck Williams, Fred Cooley and Nick Berry, whilst the longest drives were won by

David Corcoran and Vicki Loeber. Steve Robinson and Roy Booth were both awarded Warbler balls for two’s and the best gross score was achieved by Chris Field.

The society’s next fixture is at El Bosque on July 23 for the Panama Hat competition, the first tee is at 10am, guests are always welcome and can book in by phone on 639 242 896.

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La Galiana return MONTGO Golf Society returned to La Galiana and were greeted with blue skies, a course presented in excellent condition and only a comparatively light breeze unlike their last visit when a gale was blowing.

The Society played a stableford competition sponsored by Alan Webster and returning to the winners circle for the first time in many months was Richard Morris who scored a creditable 37 points from

DAVID SLADER: Came ninth in the Spanish Cup. MONTGO GOLF: Played a stableford competition. what has been a steadily rising handicap now at 18 but at last a cut! The two top golfers again battled it out for second place and again Shaun O’Gorman (5.7) beat Ed Wallace (7.5) on handicap with both players scoring 36 points.

The nearest the pin on a par 3 was won by Roy Jones on the third hole with Tony Carroll taking home

the prize for the nearest second shot on the 9th and Colin Foster doing likewise on the 15th. There was only one two, scored by Denise Cooper.

The next game is at Oliva Nova on Friday, July 25, when the members will be playing a medal competition sponsored by Alan Skinner, first tee 9.20.am. www.montgogolfsociety.net

Slader on podium THE full CRT Racing Team were at the race track of Albacete taking part in their third race of the year.

The weekend did not start off well for the team as on Friday they had endless problems with the set up of their bikes.

After working overnight and analysing the data downloaded from the bikes, Saturday turned out to be a bit better and the leading rider of the team, David Slader qualified 10th on the grid out of 31 riders.

Sunday was a very hot race day and David got off to a bad start, losing four

positions in the first three laps. But then over the next eight laps he started to come back, overtaking the bikes in front of him up to seventh position. Then with only four laps to the end the effort to make up places began to tell, and David´s fitness level dropped with him losing two positions.

In the end David came ninth in the Spanish cup, but on the podium in second position in the Motodes/Manchego Cup. The next race will be at the MotoGP circuit, Aragon Motorland on July 27 The team would like to thank their sponsors.