Euro Weekly News - Mallorca 4 - 10 September 2014 Issue 1522

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Teachers meeting MALLORCA’S Ministry of Education, Culture and Universities has called for a meeting today (Thursday) to discuss social and labour improvements for teachers to improve the quality of teaching.

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Back together at last PEOPLE power has led to cancer-stricken Ashya King, aged five, being reunited with his parents.

English prosecutors decided to drop the case against Brett and Naghemeh King after more than 160,000 people signed an online petition demanding the release of the couple, who were being held for an extradition hearing.

Prosecutors were left scrambling to get in touch with the Spanish authorities to secure the couple’s release after the public outcry.

On Tuesday evening, the

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couple were finally released and travelled to Malaga for a reunion with Ashya yesterday (Wednesday).

In their first press meeting after they were released from prison on the orders of a judge in Madrid, the Kings spoke

about their ordeal. Brett said he would happily spend years in jail to stop the NHS treating his son, because in his words, ‘its doctors are going to kill him or turn him into a vegetable’.

Brett said he and his wife

Naghemeh were being hunted across Europe by police as if they were terrorists, and that staff at the Southampton hospital knew he would take his son abroad.

Almost breaking down in tears, he told the press that they were desperate to see Ashya because ‘he hasn’t got too many months to live’.

He added: “When we were in prison there wasn’t a minute that went by without our hearts hurting to see Ashya. My wife spent most of the time crying in the cell.

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UNEMPLOYMENT DATA: The highest percentage is in the service sector.

Unemployment in the Balearics falls UNEMPLOYMENT has fallen in the Balearics in August. The number of people without work fell by 0.24 per cent compared to the same month last year with 7,118 people leaving the unemployment register. The current figure now stands at 62,382.

According to data released by the Ministry of Employment and Social Security, by sector, 67.47 per cent of the unemployed are in services, followed by construction (19.44 per cent). However, the biggest monthly drop in unemployment also occurred in the service industry with 133 fewer people

unemployed, and the largest increase in occurred in construction with 542 more people finding themselves without work.

As for ages, 8.9 per cent of the unemployed are under 25, while 51 per cent of unemployed are men. There are 11,116 foreigners without work, representing a decrease of 16.24 per cent (2,156 people) from a year ago with the majority of unemployed foreigners in the Balearics coming from outside the EU. Over 37,000 people receive some kind of benefit, representing an expenditure of â‚Ź32.8 million.

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Second reporter is beheaded

Motorbike crash AN elderly woman has died in a motorcycle accident on the Ma-3400 close to Santa Margalida. The 81-year-old woman was a passenger of the motorcycle and the driver, aged 82 was also injured after being hit by a car.

ANOTHER American journalist has been beheaded by Islamic terrorists, according to a monitoring group.

Islamic State (ISIS) has released a video which it claims shows the beheading of Steven Sotloff.

It would appear to be the work of the same man who murdered James Foley last month, according to the Site Intel Group,

the US had dedicated significant time and resources in an effort to rescue him, especially since his life was threatened several weeks ago.

Called A Second Message to America, the video was released on Tuesday, showing Mr Sotloff in an orange jumpsuit, as Mr Foley had been. The Washington Post also said it had seen the video.

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Motorway fire DRIVERS were stuck in long delays as a car fire on the motorway from Palma to Inca caused tailbacks. The fire started in the engine of a car, no one was injured.

which says it has seen the video.

In the video, Mr Sotloff is executed, and then his killer threatens the life of a British hostage next.

White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest said: “Our thoughts and prayers, first and foremost, are with Mr Sotloff and Mr Sotloff’s family and those who worked with him.” He added that

Work resumes THE Palau de Congresos in Palma is due to be fully operational at the end of the month after work resumed in July, a year after it was halted.

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Electric cars road show

OZONE DRIVE in cooperation with BMW and Iberostar, has organised the Electric Drive Road Show in Mallorca until September 14 allowing visitors to test the electric cars and the BMW i3.

Rural breaks

Drugs raid

Romans are back in town…

Shark scare SEVERAL swimmers reported they had spotted a shark not far from the coast at Playa Llenaire in Puerto Pollensa.

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Pine problems RESIDENTS of Son Serra de Marina (Santa Margalida) have reported the poor state of the main road at the entry of the town from pine roots which have formed lumps in the asphalt.

HE Romans and Carthaginians will be marching once again in the historic city of Cartagena.

It is nearly time for the annual display that attracts tens of thousands for 10 days of festivities to celebrate the city’s more than 2,000-year history.

And this time round it is more special as the ‘Legionaries’ buckle on their armour for the 25th anniversary of the event that has grown bigger and bigger.

A series of re-enactions over the course of the festival - billed as the biggest on the Mediter-

Quote of the Week I would like to publicly condemn all forms of violence, especially violence against those most vulnerable and in particular violence against women and minors.’

Valladolid Mayor Javier Leon de la Riva publicly apologised on Tuesday at an official council meeting to people who may have taken offence at comments he made over false cries of rape.

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ranean celebrate landmark moments from the Second Punic War. The festival will open with the lighting of the ‘sacred fire’ on Friday, September 19. The fire will start at the city’s port at 6.45pm before the official sacred flame is lit at the Molinete Archeological Park.

Throughout the festival there is a packed programme of events from music and craft workshops to costumed re-enactments.

Cartagena was re-founded in 227 BC by the Carthaginian Hasdrubal the Fair and later became a major Roman city due to its strategic position and port.

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POLICE have discovered an industrial plantation of marihuana in Son Ferriol.

Four people have been arrested and 2,100 cannabis plants seized.

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Fiesta time THE traditional procession of the Blessed, in Santa Margalida, once held the most visited fiestas in Mallorca, takes place on Sunday.

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RURAL accommodation received a boost this summer in the Balearics.

Occupation in rural cottages and villages was at around 51 per cent in August.

General plan OBJECTIONS to the revision of Pollensa’s General Plan have until October to be lodged with the town hall in writing.

Shared police MALLORCAN towns Montuiri, Vilafranca and Porrerres have until September15 for the signing of an agreement to create a partnership that will share the human and material resources of the Local Police.

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is the number of extras HBO is looking for in Spain for the upcoming fifth season of Game of Thrones scheduled to be shot in several natural locations in Sevilla. More than 500 hopefuls showed up at the auditions held in Osuna this week.

THICK fog across Mallorca led to flight delays at Son Sant Joan. Six international flights were diverted, as well as two to Menorca and four to Ibiza.

Fishing season HUNDREDS of fishermen took to the sea as the fishing ban was lifted and fishing of the Raor Razorfish was permitted.

Power off FOUR HUNDRED tourists staying at the Vita Delta Resort in Puig de Ros area of Llucmajor were without electricity from 9am-5pm as the hotel’s power was cut off for non-payment of electricity bills.

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According to recent studies conducted in Spain, the Mediterranean diet reduces the risk of breast cancer by 30 per cent. It is estimated that as many as 26,000 women in Spain are diagnosed with breast cancer every year.

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Returning to school costs €870 a child IT’S back to school time and whilst parents may breathe a sigh of relief at returning their little ones into the hands of teachers, their bank balances may not be quite so happy.

The average cost to families on the Balearic Islands of sending their children back to school is an average €870 per child. This represents 3.14 per cent of the average €27,664 that a family spends each year, according to price comparison site Kelisto .

The cost is higher than the national average, which stands at €838, 3.09 per cent of annual household spending.

BACK TO SCHOOL: Pricey business for parents forking out for new uniform, books and materials.

Former president resigns from position in PP party EX-PRESIDENT of the Government, Cristofol Soler, has resigned from his position in the PP party.

In a letter to the local board of the PP, which was also made public on social networks, Soler said he wanted to step aside from the party as he didn’t feel comfortable, adding he

didn’t agree with many of the issues and the current regional leadership of the PP in the Balearic Islands.

The letter said: “The performance of the Government in recent years is a confrontation with our culture, our language and general contempt of the identity

elements of our country.

Elements are important for our people in my opinion and, if not respected, supersede our self-government sense.”

He said he didn’t see that things would change so asked to be unsubscribed as a member of the party, ‘the sooner, the better’.

King family reunited From front page “I was going to ask to move cells because I was worried and I couldn’t listen to my wife crying. When you are locked up you can’t do anything.”

An international hunt was launched when the boy, who suffers from a brain tumour, was taken from a UK hospital.

This thrust the Malaga region into the world’s spotlight after Ashya’s parents were arrested at a Benjarafe hostel on Saturday.

They were separated from Ashya, who was taken to hospital.

His parents had posted a YouTube video asking for the hunt to be called off and explaining their actions.

In it, Brett said that they were not withdrawing treatment from their son, but rather wanted to seek an alternative therapy not available in the UK.

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Calvia police arrested CALVIA’S Chief of Police, Jose Antonio Navarro Munoz has been arrested and remanded in custody, along with two other officers, on charges of extortion.

They are alleged to have

17 years for arsonist THE arsonist responsible for the wave of forest fires in the mountains of Mallorca and Menorca in the summer of 2012 has been sentenced to 17 years and six months in jail.

Francisco Javier Martinez Mendoza was found guilty of three counts of fire risk to persons and another that included the rest.

Mendoza’s defence reached an agreement with the prosecution.

Pure water plan for Manacor MANACOR is activating a plan to purify tap water.

The Department of Environment is working to make the water safe to drink and cook with without excess nitrates.

It will incorporate the new well at sa Gravera.

Work will start this month.

blackmailed Magaluf business owners into giving them money.

Their arrests follow reports that a series of Magaluf businesses had been questioned by a Palma judge.

The Socialist opposition group at

Calvia Council are now calling for Mayor Manu Onieva to give a full account of the case.

Jose Luis Rubiales is now assuming temporary leadership of the police in Calvia.

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Guided tours to places of interest VISITORS and residents will be able to enjoy guided tours of the island’s places of cultural interest.

The Department of Agriculture, Environment and Territory, through the Balearic Institute of Nature (IBANAT) is participating in a new edition of the

European Heritage Days which this year has the theme ‘living with our cultural landscapes.’

Coinciding with the 60th anniversary of the beginning of the European Cultural Convention, there will be a number of itineraries for visits around places of cultural, natural and scenic interest.

Every Saturday in September there will be free guided tours in Mallorca as well as in Menorca, Ibiza and Formentera. On Saturday years and now want it there will be visits to the fully recognised and caves of Lluc, sa Comet included in the rural road dels Morts and Pixarells.

Other Mallorca trips project and be correctly include on September 20 signed.

There was also a Alqueria Vella in the Supreme Court order in Llevant de Mallorca is October 2001 which visited and at the end of guaranteed the public use the month Son Real and of the trail respecting the S’Albufera has tours.

For more information agreement set forth by the City Council in the visit your local tourist office.

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Demands to open public pathway A GROUP of protesters are calling on the government team that manages the municipality of Pollensa, to create a ‘clear’ path between the port of Pollensa and Cala Carbo and Cala San Vicent.

The group says they have gathered documents which shows the pathway has existed for many

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Hero police officer now saves two lives SIMON PETERS: Is stepping aside.

Help for Heroes charity funding SIMON PETERS, who has been raising money for Help for Heroes charity is to step aside.

In a statement he said he would continue to collect money until midNovember. He added: “Myself and Wendy have been helping raise money for Help for Heroes for the past six years and have managed to raise a lot of money. I wish to thank all for their kind help and support with this over the past years.

“For those of you who wish to continue to support this cause and to make things a little easier the charity boxes will now be in the following three locations: The Winning Post in Magaluf, The Rising Sun in Santa Ponsa and The British Bakery in Magaluf which also has second hand books for a Euro, which goes straight in to the charity box. Any unwanted books are also welcome, take them to the British Bakery.”

A PALMA Local Police officer saved the life of two people in less than 48 hours.

Pedro Adrover was covering a concert being held in the Maria de la Salut municipality during the festivals when the singer on stage spotted a man with a knife in his

hands and alerted police. Quickly Adrover and officers swooped on the alleged aggressor and arrested him before he attacked a fellow concert goer.

Just 48 hours earlier Adrover had jumped into the water to save a Chinese masseuse who was

drowning after running into the ocean without knowing how to swim to escape police checks at Playa de Palma.

The officer, having studied two years of Chinese at the Official School of Languages was able to talk to the woman and calm her down.

Dolphin increase worries fishermen THE increase in the number of dolphins in the waters of Mallorca has a

double meaning.

What for environmentalists is presented as

an environmental triumph, for fishermen it becomes a nightmare as they report

Mallorca hotels have make over THIS winter will see more work than ever on Mallorca’s hotels.

President of Iberostar’s hotel association, Aurelio Vazquez, believes investment is the way forward for the future of the island’s establishments with hoteliers who have chosen to invest in

modernising their facilities in recent years seeing profits up 25-30 per cent.

Vazquez, who said Iberostar will be remodelling more of their hotels this winter, said investment is the only way: “When you put on the table as much money as called for, you will win the risk.”

damage caused by dolphins to their nets.

As a result, the fishing industry has asked the Balearic Government to authorise the use of deterrent devices to prevent damage and the loss of fish.

They are wanting solutions to keep all parties happy or compensation for them going out and returning with little fish.

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Port tax CRUISE ships calling at Port d’Alcudia, will now pay 40 per cent less in boat and passenger tax following an agreement with the Balearic Port Authority and State Ports. The same will apply in Mahon port.

Hotel fall A HOTEL employee has hurt her ankle after falling from a balcony of a Calvia hotel. The French woman, 21, left her keys in the hotel and had tried to enter via the balcony to prevent wakening her room mate.

Less demand ELECTRICITY demand fell in the Balearics in August by 1.1 per cent compared to the same month last year.

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Balearics visitors on the increase VISITORS to the Balearics have shown an increase on figures from 2013.

In the first seven months of 2014, 7.5 million tourists were registered, 1.45 per cent more than 2013.

Germans still make up the largest group with 2.25 million, although this is 3.8 per cent less than 2013. Brits are the next largest group with 1.9 million (up 2.2 per cent on 2013).

Spanish tourists from the mainland

were the next largest group of visitors with 1.2 million (up five per cent on 2013).

The largest visitor increase was from Belgium whose numbers increased by 31.9 per cent to 108,766. Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland and Austria were also showing increases.

Apart from Germany, the only other countries showing a decrease were Finland, Ireland, Norway and Russia.

Pedestrian is in a Poisoned critical condition by smoke THE ring road of Palma was the scene of an accident where a pedestrian was run over.

The pedestrian was in the area of Son Pardo when he attempted to cross the motorway.

A car travelling from the direction of Andratx had no option but to hit him,

striking him while in the left hand lane. The pedestrian broke the windscreen on the passenger side with the impact.

The man was transferred by ambulance to the hospital where he remains in a critical condition.

A WOMAN was poisoned by smoke at Club de Mar when a boat caught fire. The woman, suffering from smoke inhalation, was transferred by ambulance to Clinica Juaneda. The boat was dragged to an area near the cathedral to stop the fire spreading, before being put out.

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Mallorca Rocks Hotels to reopen GRUPO CURSACH, a company with more than 40 years experience has announced its intention to reopen the Mallorca Rocks Hotels in April 2015.

The group, known for BCM Planet

Dance Club as well as numerous bars, restaurants and cafes, has decided to dip its toe into the hotel industry and has also appointed its first female board member, Katy Sayburn, who will be the director general of the new Grupo Cursach Hotels.

The new project will be aimed at the younger end of the tourist market, partnering hotel SCIENTISTS have travelled to Mallorca as part of a accommodation with a club, music study into the impact of sunscreen on the marine beach concerts, big name DJs environment.

The study by Environmental Science and Technology and a large water park, has shown that sunscreen chemicals accumulate in the which is claiming to sea and have toxic effects on marine organisms. They become the first over 18s said that these chemicals “under solar radiation water park in the world.

The former Mallorca produce significant amounts of hydrogen peroxide, a strong oxidising agent,” which has been shown to be Rocks caused a big stir “directly affecting the growth of phytoplankton,” the earlier in the year when they announced their food source of many sea creatures.

The results from the study, together with data intention to leave the provided by records in the Mediterranean pointed to resort of Magaluf in order focus on their sunscreen “as the major oxidising agent entering to coastal waters, with direct ecological consequences on businesses in other areas such as Ibiza. the ecosystem.”

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Erasure’s Andy says house is sanctuary IN an interview with the Telegraph recently, Erasure’s Andy Bell described his house in Mallorca as his biggest drain.

Bell said it was his biggest drain because “it’s big with a huge garden and needs people to take care of it.”

It’s not all bad though because Bell, one half of the popular 80’s pop duo Erasure, known for hits such as Chains of Love, Run to the Sun and Ship of Fools also described his property as his best investment. Andy said his long-term partner, Paul, built the property from scratch 20 years ago.

Andy said: “I want to spend more time there because it’s such a sanctuary.”

Best year ever for cruise passengers ACCORDING to reports released by the Balearic Port Authority, Mallorca is looking forward to what looks to be ‘best season in history’ in terms of the number of cruise passengers arriving at local ports in 2015.

The port of Palma is predicted to see more than 1.8 million cruise passengers with the figure likely to reach two million passengers when the figures are added to those from other ports in the area.

The 1.8 million passengers expected to arrive in Palma during 2015, is nearly half a million passengers more than predicted for this year, reinforcing the area as one of the most visited cruise destinations in Europe.

Traders targeted LOCAL POLICE in Palma swooped on illegal street vendors in Plaza Mayor confiscating hundreds of items. PIMEM, the small to medium business association, had raised numerous complaints to the city council.

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Joint operation ends with €10.5 million seized goods GUARDIA CIVIL officers in the Balearic Islands have seized around 86,000 fake articles, five kilos of cocaine and over a ton of out-of-date food.

Eleven people have been detained under suspicion of crimes against intellectual property and public health as well as drug trafficking.

Officers of the Guardia Civil and agents from the

FIVE KILOS OF COCAINE: seized in bust.

Inland Revenue Service have taken part in a joint operation, codenamed Muralla (wall), which has ended with the confiscation of goods worth over €10.5 million and a lot of drugs.

The operation began by watching the port in Palma de Mallorca where the officers knew the illicit items were being brought in for their subsequent sale on the beaches and streets of the island. From there they just simply followed the trail left by the traffickers and importers.

Six whole containers full of goods have been seized. They contained fake goods like clothes,

sunglasses and headphones, as well as high end fakes of handbags and shoes.

All of the seized items were manufactured in China, Greece and Indonesia and all were destined for the European markets. Nine people have been detained in connection with these items.

As well as the fake goods, police also found five kilos of cocaine and another two people are currently detained in connection with this find.

All of the detained are currently being held on remand while investigations progress.

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Clever Sofia at just 13 SOFIA BREEZE, of Melton in Leicestershire has just attained an A* in GCSE Castilian Spanish at the age of just 13.

Sofia, who was educated from a young age in Mallorca, said that she and her school friends in Mallorca would speak to each other in Castilian Spanish although their school lessons were in Catalan.

“In Mallorca we only had one Spanish lesson a week,” she said.

Sofia and her family moved to Melton in Leicestershire last year.

Mum Carolyn said the decision was made to move to Leicestershire because they were impressed by John Fernley College.

“The school was very supportive and we are delighted,” said Carolyn.

Firemen spend night with injured tourist Trouble for salt makers FIREMEN made the decision to spend the night with an injured German tourist at the weekend in a hard to access area.

The 70-year-old man had been walking in the Torrent de Pareis area of north-west Mallorca with friends when he fractured his arm. The Bomberos decided the area was too difficult to access in the dark, so made the decision to stay with him until daylight. At 8am a helicopter was able to rescue the man and transfer him to the central hospital for treatment.

Peppers are ready AUGUST’S end is the start of Mallorca’s island-wide harvest of red peppers, specifically the ‘pebre bord de tap de corti’ which can be seen hanging to dry on walls across the island, ready to grind.

According to the farmers’ association, this year should yield approximately 30,000 kilograms of chilli powder. The powder is then used for a variety of recipes including the spicy sausage sobrassada, a sausage native to the island. The harvest is expected to last from now until October.

MALLORCAN sea salt from Ses Salines has become a bestseller among Mallorcan products.

Now some producers could face trouble, because the Balearic Ministry of Agriculture has announced proceedings against three manufacturers in Ses Salines and Muro for false designation of origin.

According to a report from the ministry of agriculture, the salt is not one hundred per cent Mallorcan, but has contents from other regions. The only brand to pass 100 per cent in the report was Flor de Sal d’Es Trenc. Fines of €15,000 are applicable for false designation of origin. The Ministry of Agriculture suggests the penalties in this case may be much higher in value.

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What should I do in What about poor case of car accident? little Ashya?

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HE treatment of the King family, who took their sick child out of a UK hospital and travelled to Spain, raises serious concerns about the rights of parents.

Initially there were worries for the health of five-year-old Ashya, who is seriously ill with cancer.

In that case the authorities were probably right to launch a hunt to track down the family. But once found and it became clear the parents were acting, in their opinion, with the best interests of Ashya at heart, was it really necessary to arrest them and whisk them hundreds of kilometres away to Madrid for an extradition hearing?

Was it necessary to admit the little boy into hospital and then refuse him the comfort of visits from his obviously loving parents and siblings?

A five-year-old-boy, seriously ill in

hospital in a strange land would be a frightened little boy, confused and wondering where his parents were.

Who knows what thoughts were going through his head? And what a terrible ordeal for his parents to go through, not allowed to visit their beloved child in hospital, and forced to leave their other children in the care of their eldest son.

Yes, initially the authorities acted in the best interests of Ashya, but once the wheels of bureaucracy ground into action, seemingly the last person to be considered was that same little boy. Yes, a European arrest warrant was issued, but once the circumstances came to light surely it could just as easily have been withdrawn?

It was an appalling way to treat the whole family, and verging on barbaric the way Ashya was kept from his parents at a traumatic time in his life.

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FOUR members of feminist group Femen pelted the Interior Ministry building with eggs to demand justice for rape victims.

The activists from the feminist group showed up at the ministry in Madrid with Violacion = Marca España (Rape = Made in Spain), Stop Violación (Stop rape), No es No (No means no) and Violación no es tradición (Rape is not a tradition) written in black ink on their bare chests.

They threw eggs at the building, chanting ‘A violador castrado, huevos estrellados’ (Smash the eggs of the castrated rapist - a play on words in Spanish between a man’s genitalia and actual eggs ‘huevos’). The protestors were identified by police but not arrested.

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Interior Ministry pelted with eggs

PELTED WITH EGGS: Femen protest against release of five Malaga men accused of rape. staged the protest to condemn the recent decision by a Malaga judge to shelve a rape case involving five young men accused of raping a 20-year-old woman at Malaga Fair.

After questioning witnesses and the accused, the judged deemed it appropriate to file away the

case as no evidence was found that the men had indeed raped the victim.

Following the protest, Femen asked the Interior Ministry and the Ministry of Justice to amend the law and give exemplary punishment to rapists.

Eight women are raped in Spain every hour, they said.

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Adra beer FENICIA is the name of Adra’s beer, the first to be brewed in the town officially.

With a monthly commitment to 1,000 litres, it launches in a month.

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Ham approved

A COMPLAINT has been made about Murcia’s four public hospitals ceding patient information to private data centres without the consent of patients.

Pilgrimage inspiration

BENINAR marsh in Almeria contains almost 70 per cent less water than was measured in the same time in 2013, reflecting approximately 16.8 per cent of its capacity

Recycling classes CHILDREN in Albox have enjoyed puppet shows during a campaign to raise recycling awareness. The lessons are provided by Almanzora-Levante-Velez y Ecoembes consortium.

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Nut rustlers THE rising price of almonds has triggered large-scale robberies in the area around Elda. Even on the clandestine market they will be fetching up to €1.50 a kilo, growers said.

Parlem valencia DENIA Town Hall offers free Valenciano lessons at all levels for parents of pupils at local schools, municipal employees and the unemployed. More information at Denia’s Oficina de Promocio del Valencia.

Jellyfish alert SEVEN HUNDRED Benidorm beachgoers were stung by jellyfish within the same three-day period. Medics were surprised, as until then they had been treating a maximum of 10 stings per day.

Angry birds COLLARED doves colonising Playa de San Juan and other Alicante City suburbs are increasingly unpopular, together with birds some residents say are magpies. They are noisy and dirty, they complained.

LA HERRADURA is to host a Blues Festival on Friday and Saturday next week (September 12 and 13) at Jardines Del Castillo featuring national and international bands and guitarists.

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Marsh worry

ENVIRONMENT groups are applying this week for the reversal of judgement on the Algarrobico hotel, built in a natural park, which dictated that the licences granted in 2003 were lawful.

Blues Festival

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SERON ham has been approved by the European Commission for inclusion in the register of protected designations of origin (PDO) and protected geographical indication (PGI).

Hotel plea

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IFACH: Digging out the past.

Community that settled Marina Alta

THE Pobla de Ifach excavations at the foot of the Calpe landmark are over for this year.

The dig, overseen by the Alicante Archaeology Museum (MARQ) brought to light what must have been a guardroom, said dig director and archaeologist Jose Luis Menendez.

Located at the approach to the mediaeval settlement it was around six metres wide and 16 metres long.

The 40 student volunteers from 17 Spanish and European universities who spent July and August at the site have now uncovered approximately half of the building.

They also located plaster walls with graffiti scrawled by the inhabitants and users of the building which was constructed between 1305 and 1325.

Pobla d’Ifach was destroyed and abandoned in 1400, Menendez said, but it was the nucleus of Marina Alta towns like Calpe, Benissa and Teulada that were peopled by the descendants of the hundred or so families who once lived there.

Juan Bautista Rosello, who heads the Alicante Diputacion’s Culture department, applauded this year’s findings.

The natural and archaeological importance of the enclave was fundamental, he said, not only for Calpe but for the entire province.

Cliff drama A 33-YEAR-OLD British tourist was trapped after attempting to climb the cliff below San Jaime church in Benidorm. She was provided with a safety harness and eventually winched to safety by firemen.

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Poetry ready ASOCIACION ARTEX has organised a poetry reading for next Tuesday at 9pm at Explanada Peñon Del Santo in Almuñecar called Poemas de la Luna (Moon Poems).

Flamenco show PALACETE La Najarra is to host a flamenco show next Thursday at 9.30pm featuring

singer Rafael Muñoz, guitarist Ricardo de la Juana and violinist El Harrak Ahmed.

FIVE Spina Bifida sufferers from Alicante have taken on the Camino de Santiago pilgrimage in their wheelchairs, covering 67km with their family members and volunteers of the Spina Bifida Association.

Council fight MEETING at Torrevieja Town Hall ended in a near bust up with Mayor Eduardo Dolon pushing away Greens Councillor Jose Manuel Dolon when he approached the bench bringing a copy of a document.

Ozone fire A FIRE broke out in a restaurant in the Ozone commercial and leisure area in Torrevieja. Fire fighters distinguished the flames without having to evacuate.

Outdoors indoors MAZARRON’S outdoor municipal pool is being covered to allow indoor swimming in the winter months. The pool is expected to be open in October.

Hot and dry THE average temperature in Murcia this August was 26.2 degrees Celsius, 0.5 degrees higher than usual. It was the also the fifth driest August since 1941

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Book presentation

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JOSE LUIS ENTRALA is to present his book Granada: Un Siglo De Anecdotas on Tuesday August 23 at 8pm at Sala Conferencias Casa Cultura in Almuñecar.

FOLLOWING their painful 3-0 defeat against Valencia at Mestalla, Malaga is looking to secure all three points this weekend when they play Levante on Saturday at 10pm in La Rosaleda.

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NERJA Council reminds all local residents that the last day to pay the IBI (Spanish property tax) is Friday next week (September 12). Those who do not have an invoice are advised to go to the Patronato de Recaudacion.

THE application period for one of the language scholarships offered by Universidad de Malaga is to remain open until September 15. The scholarships are for the high school students with the best results on the national university entrance exams.

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ARENA CASE: Four of the five girls who died during the stampede.

Madrid chief of police charged MADRID Police’s Chief Inspector, Emilio Monteagudo, has resigned after being charged with 15 others in connection with the Madrid Arena stampede.

Monteagudo is accused of being responsible for the deaths of five girls during the stampede which occurred at the Arena during a Halloween concert held on November 1, 2012. The event’s organiser

is also being prosecuted.

Fourteen of the accused, including Inspector Monteagudo, are charged with five counts of manslaughter and 10 counts of causing injury. Two doctors working at the event, Simón and Carlos Viñals, have been charged on three counts of manslaughter due to serious professional negligence in connection to the deaths.

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BRITISH PRESS Norwegian Mohammed NORWAY - For the first time in the capital’s history, Mohammed is the most common name for boys and men in Oslo. There are 4,801 Mohammeds, 4,667 Jans and 4,155 Pers living in the capital.

ISIS terror NORWAY - A gang of four suspected ISIS terrorists are thought to be responsible for the recent terror alert in Norway according to the Dagbladet newspaper. It is not known if they were supposed to perpetrate a terror attack or just spark an alert by their presence.

Sami tears SWEDEN - A Sami museum in northern Sweden had to be evacuated after a man and a woman sprayed an unknown substance into the air. Around 20 people were affected by the spray and several vomited at the scene but nobody required hospital treatment.

Green light DENMARK - The Danish parliament has given the go ahead for the use of a Hercules aircraft and 55 military personnel to transport weaponry and other military supplies to Iraq. They are to contribute to the campaign against the jihadist fighters in the north of the country.

Racism prize SWEDEN - Emir Selimi, a Roma advocate, has been hailed as an inspirational figure after he scooped the Wallenberg prize for setting up an association to help eradicate racism in the community.

No snacks

NO TEA: On the church altar.

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GERMAN PRESS Poverty migration

WORSHIPPERS at the St Michael and All Angels Church in Uffington, Lincolnshire, have been told by local church authorities that they cannot serve cups of tea and biscuits on their church altar - it should only be used for worship and not snacks.

GERMAN politicians have announced new measures to stop EU citizens from taking advantage of the German social welfare system.

Immigrants will be expected to find work within six months of arriving or be sent home.

Countdown’s orgasm

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AFTERNOON television viewing reached an awkward climax when a cheeky contestant on Countdown spelt out ‘orgasmed’ for eight points.

This left host, Rachel Riley, grinning.

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Wasp nest

KATE MIDDLETON, Duchess of Cambridge, has been Simpsonised: Italian artist, Alexsandro Palombo, has drawn more than 50 cartoons of Kate posing around Buckingham Palace in various outfits.

A WOMAN in Hampshire got the shock of her life when she opened the door to her rarely used spare room and found a massive wasp’s nest covering most of the bed. Pest control experts reckon there were around 5,000 of the stinging insects in the enormous nest.

Gravy wrestling

Dictator fan

THE World Gravy Wrestling Championships, held in a pub car park in Lancashire, had gravy loving participants in fancy dress wrestling with each other in around 1,500 litres of the sticky, meaty sauce.

KIM JONG-UN is, apparently, a huge Manchester United fan - the North Korean dictator has ordered state television to broadcast all of the team’s matches.

Observers have said they are being illegally streamed, but this is not against Korean law.

RUSSIAN PRESS €3.1 million loan IN the face of the threat of Western sanctions that could cut off Russian airlines from Boeing and Airbus fleets, the Russian government is to guarantee loans of up to €3.1 million to help finance Russia’s new passenger airliner, the MC21.

World Cup 2018 THE Otkrytie Arena in the north west of Moscow has been officially opened by President Putin - it is the latest World Cup stadium to be completed and will be home to the city’s famous Spartak club.

McDonald’s closures IN the middle of the Russian stand-off with the West about the Ukraine, the Moscow courts have closed three of the city’s McDonalds restaurants

Six soldiers THE German military, Bundeswehr, has sent six soldiers to northern Iraq to take charge of aid and military equipment deliveries to the Kurds who are fighting ISIS, the Islamist terror group.

Suspect fire POLICE investigators in Berlin now suspect that the fire which damaged the Mevlana mosque, in the central neighbourhood of Kreuzberg, was started deliberately.

Fighting food AS well as military equipment the German government has sent burgers and sausages to the Kurds to keep them fed in their fight against the Islamist forces in the north of Iraq.

Journalists attacked TWO Russian journalists have been attacked, threatened and told to leave town while on a fact-seeking mission asking questions about the deaths of Russian paratroopers allegedly killed in the Ukraine.

THE most expensive flat in Berlin has sold for €5.7 million. The centrally located penthouse has a wine cellar, a private gym and a sauna from which to view the city’s skyline.

SPARTAK CLUB: Now have a new stadium. for breaches of sanitary rules. Russian businessmen believe the closures are linked to the crisis in the Ukraine.

Border mistake A GROUP of nine Russian paratroopers which was captured by Ukrainian forces claimed innocence at a press conference. Kiev has accused them of being on a special mission in support of separatist pro-Russian insurgents - they say they crossed the border by mistake.

Alexanderplatz BERLIN police have arrested a man under suspicion of being responsible for the killing of a 30-year-old clubber who was fatally stabbed in front of several eye witnesses in the busy Alexanderplatz area of the city.

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STAT OF WEEK EUROPE loses €136 billion in lowered productivity caused by employees’ stress. Only 29 per cent of Spanish companies protect staff against stress, compared with the EU’s 56 per cent average.

Not much difference SIXTY PER CENT of parents worry about the return to school, revealed comparison website Rastreator.com.

Last year families paid an average €670 in registration fees, textbooks, and materials.

This rose to €1,080 and €1,530 for state-aided and private schools respectively, found

consumers’ association CECU. Despite their worries only 13 per cent of parents have changed their children’s schools since the crisis. Of those who did, 30 per cent sent them to a cheaper option within the same category. Thirty per cent downscaled from private to state education, just over 25 per cent

Overflowing wine vats predicted CASTILLA-LA MANCHA is yet again on course to produce too much wine.

Once this year’s grape harvest has been processed there will be insufficient room in some districts to store the wine following 2013’s record 53million hectolitre production.

Castilla-La Mancha’s wine-makers have historically prized volume over quality and shunned the lower yields preferred by many other regions. As a result, some bodegas cannot find buyers for their entire production.

There has been less demand from Spain’s catering industry although family consumption has risen slightly. Prompted by

low bulk prices averaging €0.41 a litre, exports increased to 22 million hectolitres last year with most of the wine destined for Italy, France, Portugal and the UK. A further seven million cubic hectometres was used for grape juice but neither the domestic nor foreign markets have been able to absorb Castilla-La Mancha’s 2013 production.

The situation can still be remedied, believes Rafael del Rey who heads Spanish Wine Markets Observatory.

If the grapes grown in Castilla-La Manca were paid according to calibre, this would discourage overproduction and encourage quality, not quantity, Del Rey said.

changed from state-aided to state and 14 per cent went from private to state-aided.

Three-quarters of parents will compare prices this year and 55 per cent are applying for grants.

Some will acquire secondhand textbooks and uniforms while others will cut down on meals, transport and extra activities.

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Dodgy business AN extra €46 billion from drugs, contraband and prostitution will now be included in Spain’s GDP. Since there are no official figures, estimates may not be 100 per cent reliable, economists warned.

Fewer lay offs ERE redundancy plans affected 91,169 employees between January and July this year.

This was 58 per cent lower than in 2013 when 126,864 were laid off during the same period.

Hasty words equal share rise MODEST pharmaceutical laboratory Bionaturis recently set Spain’s secondary stock market (MAB) abuzz.

Its shares shot up by 15 per cent after their website announced it could produce 1 million doses of anti-Ebola vaccine within a month.

Next day Bionaturis was obliged to explain it was not developing an Ebola vaccine. It had intended to

say that with sufficient financial backing, the laboratory was capable of producing that amount.

“The statement was an error that got out of hand and was taken out of context,” said Bionaturis CEO Victor Manuel Infante.

In response to Infante’s admisstion, the stock market immediately responded with a 14 per cent fall in the share price.

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Further afield EIGHTY-FOUR per cent of Spanish civil engineering projects are outside the country and include the Desert AVE to Mecca, the Panama Canal and the Lima (Peru) metro. Last year Sacyr, Ferrovial, ACS, FCC, Acciona and OHL signed contracts worth a record €35 billion compared with €23.4 billion in 2012.

Cheap tweets TWITTER Spain is the latest internet multinational to launch a Spanish subsidiary and has emulated predecessors like Google, Apple, Facebook and Linkedin by routing Spanish income through Ireland. Last year it declared earnings of less than €1 million and paid corporation tax of just €26,067 according to Madrid’s Business Register.

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Time to make a financial plan Loose change A look at finance for females

Jane Plunkett jane.plunkett@euroweeklynews.com

THE financial world is forever harping on about how women need to be smarter when it comes to money.

Financial advisors and research papers tell us that we need to learn how to manage our money better and they say that in comparison to men we lack financial confidence to make the smartest decisions possible when saving or investing.

Of course understanding money helps women, families or business people work towards their goals and secure their financial well-being, but by being told you are bad at

BELIEVE YOURSELF: Confront money management with a smile. something isn’t necessarily the best way to encourage a woman to sharpen up on her financial literacy.

A lot of financial dialogue can be pretentious and overwhelming, thus causing some women to become even more scared to approach the subject of money. It doesn’t have to be this way, however!

For starters, just keep in mind these small positive steps and you’ll be on your

What if their lawyer is a lemon?

Q. A year after we completed on our home purchase in Spain, we still have no You and the Statement of Account, invoice or surplus Law in Spain funds returned to us by our solicitor.

By David Searl I have emailed him several times a week for six months but he responds to about every 10th one. When he does reply, he promises that it will all be dealt with by ‘next Monday,’ but the Mondays keep coming and going, with no resolution. On one occasion, he got us to drive all the way to his office.

All he had was an envelope with some scribbled figures. He had no idea what was going on and I had to list out the transfers for him. Basically, I need to find a way to get this guy to conclude our dealings in a satisfactory manner and to return surplus monies.

So, how can I do this?

P.B. (e-mail) If your Spanish lawyer really turns out to be a ‘lemon,’ you have two options available. You can go directly to the ‘Colegio de Abogados,’ which is the Spanish version of the Law Society, with your complaint.

Or you can instruct another solicitor. I recommend this second option. Do not be concerned that one lawyer will not go against another. First you need a new lawyer in any case. Second, you are far more likely to retrieve your papers and any money owed to you quickly.

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

way to a more confident financial you.

Get started - Don’t let financial jargon frighten you. Set a plan in action to address your money management. Budgets, saving, investing - sit down and put some ideas on papers. Getting started is the first step.

Avoid unsolicited advice - The advice of family and friends is invaluable in certain instances, but that

doesn’t mean they are the best people to approach for financial advice. Find a financial advisor that you feel comfortable with or a knowledgeable friend or family member who can give you unbiased advice.

Do it your way - Budgets and financial plans are not set in stone. Each person has different needs and therefore designing a budget or method of money management that

you are comfortable with is the most important part of building your financial know-how.

If you don’t ask you don’t get - Never shy away from asking your boss for more money. If you are a hard worker and truly believe you deserve a raise then there is no harm in asking.

Breathe - Managing your money, properly, for the first time can be tricky so don’t panic if you make some mistakes. Giving up is not going to help, so just ask for some help to see how to face the issues you are facing.

Believe in yourself - If you enter any challenge lacking confidence in yourself it is going to take twice as long to overcome any obstacles you may face. Confront money management with a broad smile on your face and believe you have the capability to get money smart.

Importance of customer care in your business 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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BUSINESS owners pay much attention to the running of their business. The poor relation on the ‘Must Do’ tick box is often customer care. I was reminded of this when my wife and I were met by ice cold officiousness from a booking clerk as we explained our needs.

She had her inner demons. We were, I suppose, in her cross-hairs that day. The staff member’s offhand attitude spoiled for us, and no doubt others, what is known as the customer experience.

Of the many business maxims collected one of my favourites is: “If we get it right tell the world. If we get it wrong tell us.”

Good business advice but it can be a tough call. It is often easier to avoid unpleasantness and take your business elsewhere. However, it costs seven times as much to attract a new client as to keep an existing one.

As a business owner it pays to strike up a good relationship with customers. It pays extra dividends if you encourage them to help your business by remarking candidly on their customer experience and then putting flaws right.

Here are a few facts that focus on the importance of treating the boss (the customer) with friendliness and civility.

According to 1st Financial Training Services 96 per cent of customers don’t complain when disappointed by poor service; 91 per cent simply never return.

A dissatisfied customer will tell nine to 20 people of their bad experience. Happy clients, according to the White House Office of Consumer Affairs, will express their satisfaction to just four to six people.

Marketing sources agree that 70 per cent of buying experiences are based on the customer’s perception of how they were treated. Believe it or not price is secondary.

Customers who rate your business five on a nought to five scale are six times more likely to return than a customer who marks you four to five. If your business is quiet whilst rivals are busier, then lack of customer care could be the reason.

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Keep guns off the streets of Britain…

I HAD seen this coming, as we can always count on Leapy Lee to rant on about dramatic events without ever offering any solution that could work.

This time he has excelled himself. Hasn’t he seen the footage of the armed police presence in Ferguson, Missouri?

Is that what he wants Britain to be like? A country with armed police or soldiers on every corner is not a free country, and I thought naively that a free country is what Leapy wants.

Nobody should ignore the threat from Islamic extremists but dealing with them is the job of our intelligence services, and preventing radicalisation is everyone’s job.

Stop demonising Muslims, get them involved in all levels of society. Leapy’s recipe would certainly increase the number of Muslims who despair of being truly accepted in Britain.

It’s fortunate that his recipe has absolutely no chance of being adopted by the government, but his loose talk has quite enough bad effects.

Please Leapy, we love you really, but don’t rant, don’t generalise, just think!

Bill Campbell, Mojacar Playa (Almeria) Editor's note: Leapy called for a special armed force of 100,000 to be formed to patrol UK streets to combat Islamic extremists.

Work provider I WAS glad to see that the Euro Weekly News has the insight to be able to solve the recession.

Your article on “Dreambeach” made me laugh. Just one look at the picture on the front cover of your last edition makes me want to vomit. Do you really think that organising events such as these help the local community and economy?

You mentioned jobs for local people. What type of jobs? What type of contracts?

These young party animals abound in the Mojacar area. But the sad truth is that I don't see

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Language hurdle I BOUGHT a washing machine in September 2011 for €229 and paid on the advice of the saleslady a further €40 to extend the warranty to 2014.

The machine failed totally in July 2014 and I requested a full refund but was told to contact the store’s insurance company.

The assistance I received was totally unhelpful and a telephone number I was given has been useless as I am always informed that no English-speaking person was available.

At least six emails have been to no avail and the store itself is completely unhelpful. I would be very grateful, if through your paper you could make your readers aware that customer service often falls very short of what most customers would expect.

Roy Phillips, Torrevieja (Alicante)

Refuse problem THIS is what we see right along the coastline whilst out on our boat just off the marker buoys. Do bathers realise what they are swimming in?

Sarah, Benalmadena (Malaga)

them contribute to the local economy. Yes, they do create jobs as someone needs to clean up after them. Someone needs to repair the trail of damage they leave in their wake.

Extra police are called in to keep order when they are at play.

These are jobs, yes, but they are paid for from our pockets in the form of tax.

Personally, I would prefer to pay that tax just to keep them away.

Sean O’Connell (by email)

Share the dream REGARDING your headline article in the Costa de Almeria edition, “Dreambeach brings in €7 million,” it would be very good if some of this was given back to the village.

It was not easy for us residents to have more than 80,000 people in our village and a thank you would be great. Perhaps a garden where we could sit in the shade?

Keep fit equipment, a petanca court, or even just the clean-up

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the village could do with?

I love living here in Villaricos but it could be made so much better. Come on: spend some of this money on our village.

JJ, Villaricos (Almeria)

Vicious circle THE Endesa website will not let me register for their Online Office.

I emailed them for assistance as indicated on the website. They replied that I need to register on the website for Online Office before they can answer my

question. I email them back to repeat my question. I get a response that they do not answer emails and I need to register on the website for Online Office!

Is there any way of getting some human intervention and assistance from Endesa?

Nick Horne (by email)

Flour remedy A FEW days ago I reached out for my hot iron without looking, missed the handle and grabbed the base. The pain was immense.

I rushed to the pantry and thrust my hand into a bag of flour, squeezing my burnt fingers as advised in your newspaper.

After a few moments all was tenderness and, as your correspondent stated, no blisters, no red marks, no pain!

As to the subsequent letter on the same subject warning of the dangers of this action, maybe it depends on the seriousness of the burn.

Olivia Qualtrough, Nova Sta Ponsa (Mallorca)

YOUR photo of rubbish at Cabo Roig is only the tip of the iceberg.

To cross from one side of the strip to the other necessitates either wading through rubbish in the underpass or trying to avoid bottles, litter and worse on the foot bridge.

Add to this overflowing bins and dangerous footpaths and one can only assume people visit here for the cheap booze. Roll on winter!

M.Turner (by email)

The real thing I MUST respond to Flora Simmons’ letter No Bargain which appeared in response to my letter in the previous edition.

My comments regarding people buying fake polo shirts from the Looky-Looky men was written from their point of view i.e. the shirts are perfect to them at around €15 rather than an extortionate €85.

As for my not knowing the difference between the fakes and the real thing, quite right: I don’t own either. And is Ms Simmons seriously saying that the 'real' shirts aren't made in sweatshops on the other side of the world?

Richard Franklyn, Benalmadena (Malaga)

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UK Plans To Restrict Personal Tax Allowance Following on from its plan to charge non-UK residents capital gains tax on the sale of UK residential property, the UK government is considering whether to withdraw the personal tax allowance from most non-residents.

UK nationals are currently entitled to the UK personal allowances whether they are resident in the UK or abroad. It is also granted to many foreign non-residents, especially where their country has a tax treaty with the UK. Many countries, particularly most of the EU, the US, Australia and Canada, restrict entitlement to their own personal allowances.

The government announced its intention to consult on restricting this allowance in the March budget, and the Treasury has now published its consultation document.

HM Revenue & Customs estimate that 400,000 individuals who are nonresident for tax purposes claim personal allowances, and it costs the exchequer approximately £400 million a year. The Treasury now

By Peter Worthington, Senior Partner, Blevins Franks proposes to restrict its availability to non-residents, so that entitlement will be based on the economic connection the individual has with the UK. Economic connection is likely to be measured by looking at what percentage of the individual’s worldwide income arises in the UK. Many other countries use this test, and if an individual’s income arising in the country is above a set amount (usually between 75% and

90%), they are eligible for the allowance. The UK government has expressed that this is the preferred option.

The Treasury consultation document explains that although the loss of the UK personal allowance would mean nonresidents face increased UK tax liabilities, most of them would be able to claim relief overseas in the form of a credit for tax paid in the UK or exemption from tax in their home state.

Most people would therefore not generally pay more tax overall, though this will depend on the relative level of tax rates and allowances between the UK and their country of residence - those living in low tax jurisdictions are likely to pay more tax.

Retirees - Most retired British expatriates would not be affected.

Tax treaty provisions generally mean that UK state pensions, personal or private sector occupational pensions are only

taxable in recipient’s states of residence. Government service pensions, however, are generally only taxable in Britain. Many retired expatriates do not have any other income which is taxable in the UK, so would not be affected by losing their allowance.

Non-resident landlords are generally taxed on their UK rental income in their country of residence and the UK. They can claim double taxation relief, so should not face an overall cash loss.

High income individuals are unlikely to be affected since their personal allowances are already tapered away by their high income.

Middle income individuals (including professionals or managers seconded to the UK for a few months) are already likely to claim double tax relief in their country of residence against UK tax, so probably only those in low tax jurisdictions would face a loss.

Low income individuals - To avoid administrative burden and tax

losses to these individuals, the government intends to put a de minimis limit in place.

This is still only a consultation, so there are no changes to the personal allowance yet. The earliest something can happen is Budget 2015, although Budget 2016 is more likely. There is no need to worry yet, but should keep informed if the consultation is likely to affect you.

As an expatriate living in Spain, you need to be aware of how UK tax, and changes there, could continue to affect you.

Importantly, you need to understand the interaction of UK and Spanish taxation and ensure you are not missing out on opportunities to save tax.

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

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We’re all the same on the inside A

LL this PC and racist rubbish really has to stop.

If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck and looks like a duck, it’s highly likely it could actually be a duck. If you’ve got frizzy hair a broad nose and thick lips you are probably of African descent. If you have slanted eyes and a round face, you could well have connections with China, Japan or certain other Asian origins. If you are white with a narrow nose and round eyes you are likely to be from Europe or some western civilization.

These dammed PC and racist ranters have actually managed to get millions of us denying our very existence. All of us are exactly the same on the inside; we have just evolved differently on the out, generally because of the wide assortment of environments that exist on this planet of ours. All these interfering PC

J

LEAPY LEE SAYS IT OTHERS THINK IT pillocks are using the insecurity and immaturity of vast numbers of people to create racial hatred where it never existed before.

‘Paki’ was not considered a derogatory expression, until they decided it was. It was merely a more convenient shortening of the word Pakistani. The description of Jap is the same, as is Brit.

What we all need to do is grow up. There was no racism intended when the Black and White Minstrels made themselves up for a bit of fun.

Many Japanese and Chinese carnival participants paint their faces white. The Golly on the jar of marmalade was merely a black doll, nothing more, nothing less; rather flattering really. The people

ANE POOLE, from SPC International Real Estate, has been in Spain for 25 years and has seen a lot of changes for the good in terms of equality for women.

“Things like working as a notary were mainly done just by men but now there are a lot of female notaries and lawyers so in that respect women have become freer,” she said, adding: “I think a lot of it is down to the woman herself, and attitudes have changed as many women have to work. The only thing I do think Spain is at fault with now is the new law on abortion, which is a backward step for the country and women.”

Gabrielle Discher, owner of Country Life health food store in Benissa, does not believe that Spain as a whole can be classed as backward in women’s rights.

“As always, it is just the view of a few.

Spain is now much more open-minded. I personally have never felt mistreated or been in a situation where I have felt inequality against women,” she remarked.

But Matt Shatford of Weekend Sport, Vera Playa, said: “Yes, I think Spain is behind the times sometimes with regards to equality but that tends to be the older men who are stuck in their ways. The younger groups are completely the other way and much more respectful of women and equality so I think things are definitely improving.”

And Lynda ‘Loulou’ Barnes, of

BLACK OR WHITE: There is no difference on the inside. who make these decisions are in fact the biggest bigoted racists of all.

The whole lot of these sponging trouble makers should be fired and their interfering, public money

financed organisations, closed down for good. If they are allowed to continue unabated, I dread to think where it will all end. Probably with the banning of the words black and white altogether. Just a

Spain not so in the Dark Ages THE question of equality of the sexes has raised its head with several Spanish politicians being accused of a Dark Ages mentality towards women. Do you think Spain is backward when it comes to women’s rights or is it no worse than anywhere else? What can be done to improve equality?

minute, hasn’t that already begun? Is it not, in some circles, already frowned upon to ask for a black or white coffee? With or without milk is I understand now the more acceptable term. Give us a break.

The recent vomit inducing events in Rotherham are a prime example of the alarming events that can occur as a result of these interfering and highly dangerous PC committees.

Bunches of busybodies, which fester in our societies like uncontrollable tumours.

Well it’s high time they were all stopped in their tracks. If they are not, we’ll all be at each other’s throats for simply existing at all. What do ya mean, we already are? Never mind. Chins up everyone. It’ll be a brighter day tomorrow!

Keep the faith.

Love Leapy leapylee2002@gmail.com.

Loulou’s Hair Design in Velez Rubio, said: “I’ve had no experience of being treated as less of an equal here in Spain. If anything it was worse in the UK. Certainly no examples come to mind. I feel more respected here than the UK and am treated more like a lady.”

Paula Read-Kenny of Sophia’s Wellness Centre in Arboleas agreed. “I have not found it to be a problem. But then I think that if you give a good account of yourself and prove your own worth, it is never an issue,” she said.

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JANE POOLE: Abortion laws are a step backwards

PAULA: No problems

GABRIELLE: Spain is more open-minded now

MATT SHATFORD: Spain is behind the times

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RE you ready for change?

As autumn approaches it is time to release the old and outworn. Take inventory of your life, clear out the clutter, and know that this will make space for all the good things you want and deserve over the coming months. For most of September the sun is influenced by the sign of Virgo.

This is a particularly industrious and productive sign. It could be a busy month, but it’s worth putting the time in now to create strong foundations.

The new moon in Virgo at the end of August may have brought your focus to your health. This earthy sign reminds you that health is wealth and when you feel good, you attract great things. So make feeling healthy and energised your priority.

On September 8 the full, harvest moon, is influenced by the sensitive sign of Pisces.

This sign, depicted by two

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Ready for a change?

Release the old you fish, is helping you to blend your intuition with your mind so that you can make the best choices for you. This is a great time to move forward with creative pursuits such as writing, music and art.

If you don’t feel creatively inspired simply look at what you would like to create more of in your life. Pisces is the last sign of the zodiac so its influence is helping you to finally release all thoughts, beliefs and actions that no longer serve you. Around this time you may receive flashes of inspiration and insight, so take note and act on them!

As we head towards the end of the month, the new moon, ruled by the sign of Libra on

Sally Trotman Based in Mallorca, Sally Trotman is a qualified Counsellor who works with Astrology, Numerology and the Tarot. Each month she will deliver the forecast as an intuitive tool to aid increased self awareness.

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September 24, will help you to bring your relationships into balance.

The most important relationship you have is with yourself, so listen to your needs, put yourself first and communicate with yourself in a gentle, loving way. If you treat yourself with respect others will follow. This month is at a time of inner change. In October there will be more focus on changing externals once this important inner shift has taken place.

As September is the ninth month of the year, and Numerology works within nine year cycles, this indicates a time of ending and new beginnings. As the trees shed their leaves, nature is reminding you that this is a time of change, and that in fact life never stands still.

So let go gracefully and acknowledge what needs to end in your life. In the traditional tarot deck the major arcana cards relating to the number nine are the Hermit and the Moon. Both of these cards are asking you to honour your own truth.

Take time for yourself this month to get clear about what is important to you and what you need in your life. Free your

TAKE TIME: Be clear what you want in your life. mind and let the whispers of your soul lead you to exactly where you need to be.

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HERE David gives some more advice on agility training for dogs.

THE first contact obstacle will be the Scale or ‘A’ Frame and is best for the beginner dog, although many handlers will not believe this when they see the height is two metres. It is wide and a lot more formidable than a dog walk plank, which is also excellent for training beginner dogs.

There will also be low jumps and a tunnel which dogs seem to love.

Control training is needed to get from one obstacle to another and as the young dogs progress we start to teach different commands to turn the

AGILITY TRAINING: Obstacles are excellent for beginner dogs. dog to the left and right.

A very important exercise for any dog is the ‘down’ and the wait.

Another important exercise is the ‘send away’ to send the dog ahead of the handler. An easy way to teach the dog the send away is to hold your dog and get someone to put his food on one side of the room, then send the dog to his food from increasing distances away.

You and your dog can have fun with agility if it is timed correctly and provided you and your dog are ready to progress. In my opinion it is important to remember that a dog that is happy and enjoying himself, is much more likely to try hard to please his owner, than one who is afraid he is going to get told off for a mistake.

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Fiesta replaces bulls with balls ANIMAL lovers will be applauding the Spanish town of Mataelpino after it decided to replace its bull running fiesta with a ball dodging event instead.

The central Spanish town decided that animal rights activists were right and decided to leave the bulls alone, swapping them for large polystyrene balls instead.

Now festival goers try to outrun the balls as they career down the streets. It has to be said that whilst possibly a lot of fun, it

surely does not get the adrenaline flowing quite like trying to avoid a herd of stampeding bulls.

But the advantage is that it is now safe enough for children to take part, injuries are nothing worse than a sprain, and no animals are harmed.

One local said: “It was the tradition, but it was a dying one.

People don’t want to see frightened animals running for their lives any more. Many of the animals were hurt or traumatised and it wasn’t fair on them.”

BULL RUNNING: Now attendees will try to outrun balls.

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you still see the image. Why do you deny what you need when it is so easily possible for you to attain it? Reach out this week in the right direction and keep moving forward. .

TAURUS (April 21 - May 21) It is always difficult for you to stand by and see others make glaring mistakes, especially a family member. However, there are times when it is important that people work things out for themselves.

PISCES (February 20 - March 20) As you know what you want, it should be a simple thing to devise a

GEMINI (May 22 - June 21) Doing what is 'right' comes easily to you, but this week throws up a strange situation, and this time doing what is 'right' could have the wrong result. I do hope that doesn't sound confusing, because it is not meant to be.

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

CANCER (June 22 - July 23) It is hard to fit into a situation this week - you thought nothing of putting yourself in a certain position, but now that you are there you see the problem. You are not so much out of place, as feeling rather awkward. Why?

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LEO (July 24 - August 23) A recently-accepted project seems to be running away with itself - did you volunteer to do something small and find out that it is a big task?

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6. Native to South America, which is the world's largest living rodent?

7. The Flemish Giant is the largest breed of which domesticated animal?

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Across 1 A man of good taste eat these in a stew (8) 4 Injured bear on Scottish hillside (4) 7 Stylish, second trading place (5) 9 Calls of nature devastated ringleader Rosa (5) 11 Lends cash to build salon (5) 12 Remove from Candid Camera secrets (5) 13 Help in class is trainee (6) 15 Light touch in car essential (6) 19 Charade is noted, more’s the pity (5) 21 Build up for a religious service (5) 23 Attempts to score points in rugby (5) 24 The first lady to eat a dead duck!

(5) 25 Not much of a fall? (4) 26 Barmy fireworks (8) Down 1 Sound of Music setting changed its aura (7) 2 Hold up a kiosk (5) 3 Songbird’s medical condition (6) 5 Follow headless queens around (5) 6 Agamemnon hides wild animals (4) 8 Rates wrong eye-drops (5)

Across 7 Yellow fruit (6) 8 Get temporarily (6) 9 Disappear gradually (4) 10 Bureaus (8) 11 Account of anything in words (11) 14 Uncalled-for (11) 18 Gifted (8) 19 Male offsprings (4) 20 Missive (6) 21 Vocalist (6)

10 Trap a small drum (5) 14 You will find a point of view in everybody’s lantern (5) 16 A byword for a commercial age (5) 17 Seen in dress rehearsal version

for Platters (7) 18 Was incoherent in her cable (6) 19 Rate drug (5) 20 Correct some submitted items (4) 22 A quiet street to cut off (5)

Code Breaker Each number in the Code Breaker grid represents a different letter of the alphabet. In this week’s puzzle, 8 represents Y and 16 represents C, so fill in Y every time the figure 8 appears and C every time the figure 16 appears. Now, using your knowledge of the English language, work out which letters should go in the missing squares. As you discover the letters, fill in other squares with the same number in the main grid and the control grid.

LAST WEEK’S SOLUTIONS CRYPTIC Across: 7 Astral, 8 Tomato, 10 Thinner, 11 Suede, 12 Snap, 13 Salem, 17 Regal, 18 Sale, 22 Orate, 23 Evasive, 24 Steven, 25 Severs.

Down: 1 Lactose, 2 Ethical, 3 Faint, 4 Dossier, 5 Bagel, 6 Boxes, 9 Break a leg, 14 Revered, 15 Cabinet, 16 Release, 19 Noisy, 20 Dated, 21 Valet.

QUICK Across: 1 Research, 5 Spot, 9 Again, 10 Deepest, 11 Old, 12 Happy, 13 Trade, 14 Sheds, 17 Slim, 19 Kept, 21 Steep, 24 Swift, 25 Reign, 27 Pea, 28 Imitate, 29 Ideal, 30 Full, 31 Stressed.

Down: 1 Reaches, 2 Sharp, 3 Annoys, 4 Cuddle, 6 Prepare, 7 Title, 8 Debts, 15 Hat, 16 Due, 18 Initial, 20 Tangled, 21 Steam, 22 Expect, 23 Praise, 24 Stiff, 26 Ideas.

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

Across 1 To hunt (5) 3 Health (5) 5 Tronco (leño) (3) 7 Atrasos (financiero) (7) 9 Royal (4) 10 Parte (4) 14 Faint (medical) (7) 15 Brazo (de persona) (3) 16 Anchor (5) 17 To walk (5) Down 1 Heat (warmth) (5) 2 Leer (4) 3 Seguro (convencido) (4) 4 Two (3) 6 Hierba (5) 8 Spider (5) 11 To take (5) 12 Berry (4) 13 Mouth (of person, animal, bottle) (4) 14 Day (3)

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

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Funagram Unscramble the name of a current England cricketer: RANSOMED JEANS FUNAGRAM SOLUTION: LADY WINDERMERE’S FAN, JAMES ANDERSON

Unscramble the title of a play by Oscar Wilde (three words): MADLY FEARED WINNERS

Down 1 Harmed, injured or spoiled (7) 2 Salary (4) 3 Aloha State (6) 4 Not being in a specified place (6) 5 Of high worth or cost (8) 6 Example (5) 12 Joins (8) 13 Conceded (7) 15 Goes in (6) 16 First in order of birth (6) 17 After some time (5) 19 Dispatch (4)

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Spain on a plate: Almeria Kitchen hacks is a mixture of influences for easier life THE gastronomy in the province of Almeria, Andalucia, is, as well as their own original dishes, a mixture of influences from the Granada Alpujarra region and the Murcia kitchen.

One of the most popular dishes which is also served as a tapa in the bars is Jibia en salsa (cuttlefish in sauce). The cuttlefish is usually either boiled or grilled lightly and the sauce is made with a strong saffron influence and the juices from the fish – simple but very tasty. It is usually garnished with vegetables which have been boiled in the sauce to make them tastier.

Caballa con pimientos (mackerel with peppers) is another typical dish of the area and, as the name suggests, it consists of lightly grilled mackerel, just seasoned with salt, and roasted peppers with a very light yet full flavoured wine reduction sauce.

Cazon en adobo (marinated dogfish) is one of the region’s favourite tapas and is just simply dogfish which has been marinated in a mix of vinegar, saffron, oregano,

SAUSAGES IN WINE: One of the best tapas in Almeria. paprika, salt and water. Just leave for a few hours then coat it with flour and deep fry. Serve with a lemon wedge or a little of the left over marinade.

Salchichas al vino (sausages in wine) is another tapas bar favourite.

This is sausages fried in olive oil and

when they are nearly done onions and other vegetables are thrown in to absorb the flavour of the meat juices coming off the sausages and topped off with a healthy dash of wine reduce and serve. Just remember to start off with good quality sausages.

THERE are several short cuts that can make life in the kitchen so much easier to deal with and they don’t even require very much effort.

Here are some of the most useful.

Peel a few large pieces of fresh ginger and break them into one inch square cubes then just place them in the freezer and take out as required.

They can be grated from frozen to cut down on the amount of juice that they usually lose.

Keep onions and garlic fresh by placing them in opaque paper bags with plenty of air holes punched in. If kept in plastic bags they will go mouldy within weeks the punched holes in the paper bags allow air to circulate and keep them fresh for months.

FRESH ONIONS: Keep in a paper bag.

To prevent an open avocado from going brown either keep the stone in it or pour a capful of wine vinegar over the cut surface of the avocado - this reduces oxidation which is what makes it go brown.

Get perfectly shredded chicken without a fuss or scorched fingers by putting it in the food mixer - just remember to use the paddle attachment and not the cutting knives.

After making mayonnaise, save leftover egg whites by pouring them into ice cube trays to be used at a later date.

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Eczema and Psoriasis It is best not to spend too long in swimming pools as the chlorine in the water can act as a skin irritant and aggravate the eczema.

For psoriasis sufferers, head to the beach as the salt water of the sea can actually help ease symptoms.

move away from the sea level.” To avoid sudden drops or rises in blood pressure levels, Capdevila advises: “No physical exercise during the hottest hours of the day and the monitoring of exposure to the sun.”

HEALTH AILMENTS: Choose your holiday wisely.

Hypertension If suffering from hypertension, a beach location is advisable

according to Joaquin Capdevila who helped create the site: “Blood pressure increases as you

Allergies and asthmatics If you suffer from a lot of allergies or asthma more mountainous locations are best as the presence of mites and pollutants in the atmosphere are lower and the pollination period is shorter.

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Rain, mud and empty beaches - welcome to the end of the British summer Nora Johnson

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

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YOU haven’t been able to move recently for press ads urging us to visit this or that hot city, this or that hot beach resort. Yes, we’ve been bombarded on all sides by images of scantily dressed women and unrealistically smiling family groups trying to turn current concerns - the recession, the UK’s late-summer blustery weather, mother-in-law’s annual visit - into sun-drenched bliss.

But hey, now there’s an alternative if you’re looking for a late summer break and a bit of travel one-upmanship! And just think of all those ‘triffic’ photos you’ll be able to upload on your return on Facebook!

While Foreign Office advice puts Crimean War battleground tours off-limits to ordinary travellers, optimistic firms are already offering tourists in Ukraine the chance to visit the modern-day war zones. Adverts for trips have appeared in areas frequented by tourists, containing phrases like “Impress your friends with the ultimate selfies” and “see where the fighting’s actually taking place.” Unbelievable!

Or how about a trip to Afghanistan, Iraq or Algeria? All available to visit by intrepid tourists courtesy of gung-ho tour companies, though finding adequate travel insurance might be a problem and bullet-proof vests definitely recommended.

Alternatively, you could check out charming Chernobyl (tours offered inside the 30-mile exclusion zone around the site, avoiding still-dangerous areas).

But hang on! Visiting Iraq, Siberia and so on is so last year; it’s like the Michael Kors

SUMMER BREAK: All things considered, I’d rather stay in Spain. statement handbag of tourism.

Why think only of war zones or the developing world for that buzz of holiday excitement? There’s a country much closer that may seem a very safe destination but statistics show otherwise unfortunately. The USA. The United States has the highest gun ownership rate in the world and the highest per capita rate of firearm-related murders of

all developed countries. The number of guns has increased by more than 60 per cent since 1994: 310 million guns in a country of 307 million people more than one gun per person.

And where, recently, a nineyear-old girl accidentally killed a gun instructor as he showed her how to use an Uzi at a shooting range in Arizona. Sub-machine gun? Nine-year-old? What was

she even doing there?

So where will you be spending a late summer break? All things considered, I’d rather stay here in Spain…

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Construction led bankruptcy TWENTY-FIVE per cent of the companies that went into bankruptcy in the second quarter of 2014 were construction companies.

According to recent data from the National Statistics Institute (INE), even though the number of companies that filed for bankruptcy between April and July dropped by 30 per cent, 25 per cent of them were construction companies and the sector has led bankruptcies in Spain for the last six years.

Out of the 9,143 companies that went bankrupt in Spain in 2013, 2,430 were engaged in the construction sector. However, the number has declined when compared to 2012, when the number of companies closing was 2,487.

Since the outbreak of the crisis, 11,227 real-estate related businesses have closed their doors, which represents an annual average 10 WHILE it is true that the Euro crisis sent shockwaves throughout many countries in the old continent, there is no denying that few if any were hit as hard as Spain.

Not only did the value of its property market take a significant nosedive, but also the level of interest from investors began plummeting after the outbreak of the crisis in early 2009.

However, this may well be the right time to start investing again in properties in Spain thanks to some positive market trends witnessed so far this year.

It was not that long ago that Spain’s property market was in a boom, with real estate and construction accounting for 18 per cent of the country’s gross domestic product.

In 2007 there was a €30 billion market cap, but now this has dropped to merely 10 per cent of that.

The good news is that the Spanish economy is showing hopeful signs of

CONSTRUCTION SECTOR: Led bankruptcies in Spain in last six years. times higher than the 148 companies that went bankrupt in the seven-year period between 2000 and 2007, according to idealista.com.

Around 42,011 Spanish companies have disappeared since the turn of

the century and 12,413 were real estate agencies, while 8,994 were industrial companies. In other words, more than 50 per cent of the total number of closures came from these two sectors.

Spain’s economy shows signs of recovery

SPANISH ECONOMY: Showing hopeful signs of recovery with stock market in an upward trend. recovery, with Spain’s stock market in an upward trend for the last 18 months and banks beginning to offload their assets.

Furthermore, 2014 has seen strong listings from investment trusts. For instance, Merlin Properties REIT raised €1.2 billion in June. Even though this was a little bit far from the company’s hopes to raise

€1.5 billion, it still goes to show that the market is gaining strength back.

In fact, the signs of recovery have been reason enough for a number of high-profile investors and fund managers to display interest in the Spanish realestate market.

Stuart Mitchell, the founder of SW Mitchell and SWMC European fund

manager, has expressed optimism about the future of investment in various Spanish companies, including Sacyr Vallehermoso.

Mitchell is also said to be interested in Banco Popular and Santander now that there seems to be light at the end of the tunnel.

The signs are promising but the country’s recovery is still at its early stages.

Rowe Price’s European Portfolio Manager Dean Tenerelli is aware of this and offers cautious albeit optimistic advice to investors looking to capitalise on Spain’s realestate sector.

“At this early stage it is important to identify highquality companies that can sustainably grown and deliver high return on capital as Spain’s rental market matures,” he said.

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Property prices in Spain’s luxury real-estate market remain stable

ROPERTY prices in Spain’s luxury real-estate market have remained stable in the last two quarters.

The number of transactions has seen a substantial increase throughout all regions and the gap between sales and asking prices is still narrowing, according to the latest figures from Spanish real-estate agency Lucas Fox. Foreign investors account for nearly 100 per cent of Lucas Fox sales and the interest from clients from the Middle East and the Far East continues to increase.

Moreover, investors from Northern European countries have been lured back to Spain’s real-estate market by bargain prices and good investment opportunities.

According to Lucas Fox, there was a steady sales upturn between January and June when compared to the same

LUXURY PROPERTIES: Stable prices in the last six months.

six-month period in 2013.

Though investors from Northern Europe and the UK are still at the forefront of the renewed interest in Spain’s realestate market, the truth is that the interest from non-European investors, especially from the

Middle and the Far East, has continued to gain momentum.

Lucas Fox reportedly generates 30 offers per month and two out of every three turn into sales.

On the other hand, the average price for prime

properties between April and June was €4,237 per square metre.

Now there is more confidence among buyers, especially international buyers and the market in Barcelona has kept improving since the beginning

of the year, said Alexander Vaughan from Lucas Fox. Prices seem to have stabilised and the number of transactions is growing at a slow pace.

The main difference now is that sellers are more realistic and the prices they are asking for are more in line with expectations from buyers, he added.

As stated by Lucas Fox, the residential market in Ibiza is still booming and the number of transactions has seen a sizable increase when compared to 2013.

Furthermore, demand exceeds supply thus increasing the prices of premium properties in some areas.

Most buyers interested on the island’s prime market properties come from Northern European countries and the UK, but the number of investors from the United States has doubled in the last 12 months.

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Magaluf headlines won’t impact on yacht industry WHILST Magaluf has become notorious this summer, a Port Andratx-based company said it will have zero impact on Mallorca’s luxury yacht industry.

Lorenzo Vila, Director of easyboats, founded in Mallorca in 1989, said: “Our clients are of course aware of the Magaluf situation, and feel sad as they know the ‘real’ Mallorca as well as we do, but the headlines are not putting people off. If anything, in spite of its location, Nikki Beach is enjoying far greater success than many predicted when it opened in 2012, with a constant stream of super- and megayachts from all over the Med paying the venue a visit for glamorous dining and partying.”

Easyboats have certainly seen the charter industry at its best and at its worst. “When we started, the charter business was very authentic, ethical, and supply versus demand was much more controlled,” said Lorenzo.

ZERO IMPACT: Mallorca still attracts many thousands of visitors.

“Much has changed in Mallorca over recent years,” concludes Lorenzo. “We have new marinas such as Philippe-Starck’s Port Adriano inaugurated in 2012, a much-improved Palma International Boat Show, with a

Superyacht Show added in 2013, attracting many thousands of international visitors, favourable news on the previously-restrictive matriculation tax, and many new source markets coming to the table such as Russia and the Far East.”

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Fastest yachts in the world WHAT are some of the world’s fastest yachts?

Built by Millenium Super Yachts, World is Not Enough is reportedly the only yacht in the world to have ever reached 70 knots. Propelled by two Paxman 18-Cylinder diesel engines, which offer 10,870hp, and by two TF80 Lycoming turbines (an extra 9,200hp), this luxury superyacht is the brainchild of John Staluppi and John Rosatti. Built in 2005, this 42-metre Millenium 140 can journey to approximately 3,800 nautical miles.

The list also includes the Foners, formerly known as Fortuna. She was built for King Juan Carlos of Spain.

Once described as a formula one prototype by the head of the stateowned shipyard where she was built, the Foners won the title of the fastest

yacht in the world in 2008 after reaching 68 knots.

The previous record (66.7 knots) had been set

by Moonraker in 1992.

The Foners has an overall length of 41.5 metres and is propelled by two MAN diesel engines and three Rolls Royce gas turbines.

Other worthy contenders for the title of fastest yachts in the world are Alamshar (65 knots), Gentry Eagle (64 knots), WallyPower (60 knots) and Brave Challenger (60 knots).

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NEW ERA: The XC90 paves the way for cars of the future. making and part of an €8.34 billion investment programme, the new XC90 marks the beginning of a new chapter in Volvo’s history, capturing its future design direction, incorporating its own range of new technologies and utilising its new Scalable Product Architecture (SPA) technology.

“This is one of the most important days in our history. We are not just launching a car, but relaunching our brand. This day marks a new era. The XC90 paves the way for a portfolio of exciting new cars to come in the future,” said Håkan Samuelsson, President and CEO of

Volvo Car Group.

The car will be the first from Volvo to carry the company’s new, more prominent, iron mark, which has the iconic arrow aligned with the diagonal slash across the grille.

Together with the T-shaped Thor’s Hammer DRL lights, the iron mark introduces a new, distinctive and confident face for Volvo’s forthcoming generation of cars.

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To add more visual muscle from the sides, the XC90 comes with a range of wheel sizes up to 22”.

“The overall impression, both exterior and interior, has a strong connection to the key elements of the Swedish lifestyle: the generous space, the celebration of light and the focus on wellbeing,” said Thomas Ingenlath, Senior Vice President Design.

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Sport Mallorca’s best guide to local sport

Marc Marquez Spain’s ‘MM’ - the ‘Motorcyle Machine’ Marc Marquez - got back to his winning ways last Sunday with his 11th victory of the year (in 12 races) in the British Grand Prix at Silverstone. Jorge Lorenzo was second and Valentino Rossi third. ‘MM’ leads fellow countryman Dani Pedrosa by 288 points to 199 in the rider’s championship.

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Chelsea bag six and Federer chasing six Tony Matthews

International Sports A former football player and the world’s most prolific author of football books (more than 100 published), Tony is also the sports reporter for Spectrum Radio and lives in the Cabrera mountains.

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GOALS GALORE - There were 32 goals scored in the Premiership last weekend, nine on Merseyside where

Chelsea whipped Everton 6-3 as Jose Mourinho’s men became the first team since Arsenal in August 2009 to score half-a-dozen goals at Goodison Park.

Neil Warnock, back in charge at Selhurst Park, saw his Crystal Palace side draw 3-3 at Newcastle...

Swansea went top of the table, albeit briefly after beating WBA 3-0... That scoreline was matched by Mario Balotelli’s Liverpool at Tottenham... Stoke City won 1-0 at champions Manchester City... and Aston Villa, QPR and Southampton all recorded victories while Leicester v Arsenal and Burnley v Manchester United drew United having been dumped out of the League

Cup 4-0 by MK Dons a few days earlier.

Championship leaders Nottingham Forest won 1-0 at Sheffield Wednesday, Wigan whipped hapless Birmingham 4-0 and Watford beat Huddersfield 4-2. In Leagues One and Two there were wins for leaders Peterborough (3-1 at Colchester) and Burton Albion (2-1 at Mansfield) respectively, while SPL leaders Inverness CT beat Kilmarnock 2-0.

INTERNATIONALS Last night, England (captained by Wayne Rooney) played Norway in a friendly at Wembley and Germany met Argentina;

tonight it’s France-Spain and Italy-Holland and on Saturday Brazil meet Colombia.

Hungary play Northern Ireland in a European qualifier on Sunday and this weekend there are several FA Cup qualifying ties.

CRICKET - England started this week two-nil down in the five ODI series with India, having lost both the second and third games quite comprehensively. The fourth game took place on Tuesday while the fifth and final encounter is on Friday.

DIARY OF EVENTS This weekend sees the finals of the men’s and women’s singles at the US Open tennis championship at Roger Federer eyes sixth Grand Slam title on American soil.

Flushing Meadows where Roger Federer is going for his sixth Grand Slam title on American soil.

We have the Italian F1 Grand Prix from Monza on Sunday where Lewis Hamilton will be aiming to close the gap on Mercedes team-mate Nico Rosberg (it was Vettel, Alonso, Webber, 1-2-3 last year).

The British Touring Car Championship continues at Rockingham, Northamptonshire.

The Great North Run takes place, also on Sunday.

TRANSFER NEWS The summer transfer window closed on Monday with a record £1 billion (€1.25 billion) exchanging hands.