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Help Keira have a better life

By Dilip Kuner THE mother of cerebral palsy sufferer Keira Alvarez Turner is doing a sponsored head shave to raise funds for desperatelyneeded specialist treatment for her daughter.

Keira, from Finestrat, who is six-and-a-half years old, needs €15,000 to travel to the US for the specialist care which makes a huge difference to the quality of her life.

Last year, Euro Weekly News reported on her need for funds, and generous readers along with local fundraisers rallied round to raise the thousands of euros needed for treatment within just a few days. That money was spent on treatments in Spain in 2013.

Now she has booked a third trip to Orlando for August 2015, and is launching her fundraising effort with a sponsored head shave at Benidorm’s Levis Showboat bar on Wednesday, November 12.

Debbie, pictured above with husband Ramon and Keira, explained that she has had to put off fundraising for Keira as she needed to devote time to her son, Rylee, four, who has autism. “Fundraising

takes up so much time, and I just had to give my attention to Rylee as he was having schooling problems. So, unfortunately, 2014 was the first year since 2010 that Keira did not have intensive therasuit therapy.

“But now it’s Keira’s turn again. She is doing amazingly well. We have changed her epilepsy medications and she is way more active. She still has seizures but this is a forever thing unfortunately.

“We have been keeping up with her weekly therapy. Keira is now able

to creep up to stand against the sofa, which is a huge step, and has more hand function.”

Debbie added: “Doing Hyperbaric/intensive therapy combined is a huge opportunity; we did both in 2012 and the outcome was amazing. There are no intensive therapy places in Spain that have Hyperbaric chambers nearby and all the Hyperbaric chambers in Europe are shared tanks unlike in Orlando when Keira is in the tank on her own. The price of the intensive therasuit is $7,000 and another

treatment, hbot, is $6,600 for a threeweek session. We hope to raise €15,000 to pay for treatments, flights and accommodation,” Debbie explained.

To make a donation or sponsor Debbie call 637 314 850 or email espanglish@hotmail.com (which is also her PayPal account address).

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INDEX News 1 - 38 Finance 39 - 44 Letters 45 Leapy Lee 46 Success Supp. 47 - 66 Daily TV 68, 70, 72, 74, 76, 78, 80 Time Out 81 - 84 Health & Beauty 85 - 88 Food 89 - 92 Homes & Gardens 94 - 95 Services 100 - 104 Classifieds 105 - 107 Motoring 108 - 109 Sport 110 - 112

RAID: Police arrest eight, as numerous weapons and stolen items are recovered in Operation Canaveral.

Night time attacker arrested in Almoradi

OPERATION Canaveral has seen the arrest of eight people in the Vega Baja.

Included was a man, arrested in Almoradi, suspected of at least 15 counts of robbery with violence and intimidation. The other seven are accused of receiving stolen goods.

Police launched an investigation in the summer after there were reports of several robberies from youngsters in the

towns of Almoradi, Benejuzar, Rojales and San Bartolome causing public concern amongst residents.

The accused targeted young people at night, hiding behind vehicles and armed with a knife ready to surprise and attack them, stealing personal effects such as jewellery, mobile phones and hand bags.

Due to the violence in the attacks, three victims also recorded slight injuries.

Foreigners boost tourist status of Murcia FOREIGN tourists in Murcia spent over €112 million in September, 45 per cent more than during the same month last year. According to the Ministry of Industry, Energy and Tourism, half of the

total spent was by British tourists.

Murcia’s revenue accounts for 1.6 per cent of the national total, a rise from last year’s 1.3 per cent. The figures mean the Murcia region is now eighth in the list of

international tourist regions for generating revenue, behind the communities of Cataluña, Baleares, Canaries, Andalucia, Valencia, Madrid and the Basque Country.

In Murcia, the average stay by inter-

national visitors is 12.7 days, above the national average of 8.9 days, largely attributed to residential tourism and the number of foreigners with property and holiday homes in the region.

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Park activities NOVEMBER will see a total of 15 scheduled activities taking place at the Natural Park of La Mata and Torrevieja with the objective of raising awareness of the rich and natural heritage of the area.

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Businesses vital to recovery KING Felipe VI has been in Alicante at the opening of the 17th edition of the National Congress of Family Business.

The event is one of the country’s major economic forums and was this year held in the Auditorium of Alicante Council with the title ‘The role of the entrepreneur in the

economic recovery.’

The king highlighted the role of family businesses saying their development was a “fundamental asset to a healthy and dynamic economy” and “special care” had to be given to small and medium sized enterprises which create more jobs in the country.

On his first visit to the Valencia region since becoming king, he commented that the business forum “fits” in the Alicante culture and the region “has a land of entrepreneurs who often finds themselves working in a traditional family business.”

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Cemetery visits AROUND 20,000 people visited cemeteries across Alicante City at the weekend to mark All Saints day, also known as the day of the dead fiesta.

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False calls NOVELDA home owners should ignore phone calls asking to analyse their tapwater, warned domestic supplier Aqualia who said it never makes calls like these to check water.

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Remembrance Sunday in Spain REMEMBRANCE Sunday takes place on November 9 in honour of British soldiers and civilians who fought and died in the First World War. Services are taking place all across Spain to mark the occasion. To find your nearest Remembrance Sunday service or event, please visit www.britishlegion.co.uk and check their ‘overseas branches’ section.

CINDERELLA tickets are now on sale for the Studio 32 production at the Cardenal Belluga theatre, San Fulgencio November 14-16. Call Ann on 966 318 019 to book.

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Lost residents ALICANTE Province lost 90,000 foreign residents in the last year. According to the INE statistics officer, the majority leaving were Europeans discouraged by higher taxes and the cost of living.

Unemployment rise ALICANTE Province recorded 1,372 more unemployed people in October, however the Valencia region showed a fall of 0.89 per cent bringing the total number of people out of work to 528,866.

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Mortality rate THE Valencian Community has a 8.49 per cent mortality rate following a heart attack compared with the national average of 7.31 per cent.

Marching orders ALICANTE mayor Sonia Castedo had to back a motion effectively ruling her out of next year’s elections after signing the proposal excluding anyone involved in corruption scandals from the candidate lists.

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The natural beauty of Cueva del Gato

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NDALUCIA’S famous Cueva del Gato could soon be open to the public - or at least part of it could be. More than 15kilometres in length, the cave complex has long been the exclusive domain of potholers and cave explorers; daredevils who have witnessed the splendorous beauty of a spectacular underground world.

Plans are afoot to open the first 400 metres of the cave to the public in an effort to promote tourism to the region of Ronda and Benaojan, home of Cueva del Gato, one of two entrances to the cave.

Breathtaking tunnels and caverns of the vast cave complex have been carved from water erosion over

Quote of the Week We brought it back; we built it even higher than it was before,’ said Dave Checketts, CEO of Legends, the company operating the observatory on floors 100 to 102 of the new World Trade Center in New York, that opened for business this week, 13 years after the 9/11 attacks.

the years, and the cave also boasts numerous crystal clear underground lakes and impressive stalagmite formations.

The cave’s entrance is said to look like a cat’s face (hence the name ‘Cueva del Gato) and the entrance is as far as most people have ventured, apart from the caving experts who come from all over the world to explore its caverns and tunnels. Several people have died due to flash-flooding and rising waters, and a notice at the entrance warns visitors not to go any further.

However, experts are now assessing the possibility of opening up a section of Cueva del Gato to visitors with safety measures being put in place.

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billion is the amount of money that Spain’s richest man is worth. Forbes magazine Spain announced this week that Zara founder Armancio Ortega continues to be the richest man in the country.

This figure is only Ortega’s business wealth and does not include personal assets, so in reality he is richer.

WORK on the AVE in Orihuela means that diversions are now in place along the CV-930 that connects to the CV-91. New routes will be in place until November 26.

Energy saving TORREVIEJA’S Consumer Information Office (OMIC) is hosting a talk on November 13 at 6pm at the CIAJ centre on how to save on energy consumption from metre problems, gaining social discounts and energy efficiency.

Student art FOUR students from Torrevieja’s Municipal School of Painting open an exhibition of their work tomorrow (Friday) at 7pm in the Vista Alegra exhibition hall. The paintings will be on display until November 30.

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Mobile phone users in Spain are among the most likely to have an accident when using their device, according to a survey in 18 European countries. Bumps to the forehead from hitting posts and walls, and grazed knees from tripping over kerbs are the most common injuries among people glued to their screens while walking.

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Editor Put down the razor ‘Movember’ is here A note from the

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T’S November already and in just a few short weeks our thoughts will begin turning to the Christmas season; a season that seems to enjoy a longer build-up as each year goes by.

But before we start humming Christmas tunes and getting the decorations down from the attic, we have November to contend with, a time when the days and nights get that little bit colder, darkness descends that bit earlier, and facial hair on the upper lips of men seems to sprout from nowhere.

So why the proliferation of moustaches of all shapes and sizes on men that otherwise spend the rest of the year clean-shaven? Why it’s ‘Movember’ of course. Growing in popularity each year, Movember is the month when men of all ages and from different walks of life

grow a moustache in order to raise money and awareness for men’s health, in particular prostate and testicular cancer.

From humble beginnings back in 2004 when a group of 30 friends in Australia decided to grow moustaches during November, the Movember Foundation now boasts around four million ‘mo bros’ worldwide and has raised hundreds of millions of dollars for men’s health.

The trend has caught on in Spain, with the country being one of 21 countries across the world that participates in Movember.

So don’t be too surprised if you notice a lot of dodgy-looking moustaches doing the rounds during Movember.

It’s all for a good cause and we here at EWN will always support a good cause.

Good luck boys!

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Fire evacuates Torrevieja block A THREE-STOREY building in Torrevieja had to be evacuated due to a fire in one of its apartments.

Residents in the building, in Calle Finlandia, by Los Locos beach, were asked to leave as firefighters tackled the blaze which had started in an apartment on the third floor.

The home has been completely destroyed but was not occupied at

the time of the fire.

Residents raised the alarm after seeing smoke billowing out of the apartment windows and balcony, followed by an explosion.

Fire investigators believe the blaze was caused by a short circuit in the kitchen.

No one was injured in the incident.

Teen girl arrested for stealing from elderly A TEENAGER has been arrested in Orihuela for stealing from elderly residents.

The 19-year-old Romanian is believed to have approached her victims by claiming to be

collecting for a deaf association. With a donation made she would then hug and kiss the donor as she stole jewellery and more money from them during the embrace.

When questioned if the association existed, she used violence to rob the victims.

She was eventually caught by an off-duty police officer who had observed her in action.

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OAP dies in brothel AN ELCHE man has died, reportedly during sexual activity at a brothel.

A sex worker, in her 20s, called the emergency services after the man lost consciousness.

Ambulance crews arrived to find the man in cardiac arrest. They were unable to resuscitate him and could do nothing but certify his death. The 65-year-old is reported to have died from natural causes.

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Lottery robbers are not so lucky A PENSIONER from Sax who won €60,000 on the

National Lottery was attacked in his home.

‘No negligence’ insists doctor AN Alicante gynaecologist whose patient died of septicaemia insists that correct procedures were followed.

Two weeks after giving birth last March via caesarean in an Alicante city clinic the mother, a Nacional Police officer, returned to the clinic with a high temperature. The doctor diagnosed a throat infection and the 32-year-old was admitted to a ward but later had to undergo a hysterectomy.

By then the infection was so far advanced that the new mother died in the clinic’s intensive care unit.

The gynaecologist now faces professional misconduct charges as lawyers representing the woman’s family presented an independent report which concluded that although the medical attention she received was ‘intense, prolific and attentive, it was not gynaecologically correct.’

The 68-year-old, who lives alone, opened the door at 8am one morning just after his win to find a man on the doorstep wearing a balaclava.

He went on to kick and punch the man as another hooded youth ran off inside the house, returning with his wallet.

The lottery winner believes they were after his winning ticket but his sister had taken it to the bank the day before.

Police investigating the incident believe the youths would probably have known the man and heard about his recent good fortune in winning the lottery.

The victim, who had a heart attack 18 months ago, said he is now afraid to stay home alone at night.

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Return to Valencia for abducted girl THE Alicante University graduate who was abducted is now back home in Valencia.

Mayuba, aged 24, first came to Spain in

1999 as part of a programme offering holidays for Sahrawu children from the Tindouf refugee camp. With her family’s blessing she stayed with a Spanish family and is now a Spanish citizen.

As previously reported in the Euro Weekly News, she returned to see family in Tindouf in August who then hid her JUDGES in Elche are urging people to stop litigation passport, took her action which is causing the collapse of the courts. mobile phone and They are calling on the administration of justice to refused to allow her to create new courts to respond to the growing public leave. demand and curb the collapse of the courtrooms in the Her foster parents in area. Dean Maria Jose Boix said: “We serve a population Spain contacted the of 292,000 inhabitants, with an extensive business Algerian authorities, but network and with an economic situation that has led to the ordeal only ended increased demand, lay-offs, separations and neighbour when Mayuba managed complaints and therefore, it is necessary to request the to escape and retrieve required resources to respond to citizens with quality her passport and head justice and quick.” for a police station.

The Dean stressed the priority of creating new courts She is now back in Spain and whilst saying and a form of Administrative Litigation courtroom to deal she had not abandoned with certain cases and complaints such as dismissal her birth family, her life matters or child custody, when action is required quickly. is now here.

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Costa Blanca tourism should ‘focus on Poland, not Russia’ POLAND should be the focus of tourism promotion.

That’s according to the president of the hoteliers association Hosbec.

Speaking in Alicante, Antonio Mayor called for the regional government to shift the emphasis of promoting the Costa Blanca next year.

He said there was a lull in the Russian market due to the fall in value of the ruble and social instability

with the Ukrainian crisis and so “we must do a little less promotion in Russia and in Poland a little more.”

Mayor also stressed that the province should work to recover tourists in traditional markets like Germany, France and Italy whilst continuing efforts in Spain, the UK, Belgium and Holland.

The president said hotel occupancy across the Costa Blanca was

expected to end the year close to that of last year with an average of 84 per cent, praising tourism this

year and saying the figures were “good but not exceptional.”

Meanwhile, Luisa Pastor

from the Provincial Tourism Board, pledged to maintain spending on tourism next year.

Get registered to vote MORE than 85 per cent of European residents on the ‘padron’ (municipal roll) in Orihuela are not registered to vote.

Despite a new information desk at Playa Flamenca Town Hall, part of an initiative by Councillor for the Coast Martina Scheurer and CLARO Councillor Bob Houliston, the head of Alicante Electoral Registration Office said only 15 EU residents had been added to the electoral register in Orihuela in the last five months, although the

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Fair choir TORREVIEJA Male Voice choir has performed at the ‘Fira de Tots Sants’ in Concentaina. Established in 1346, it is one of the oldest fairs in Spain.

Rate frozen TORREVIEJA has frozen the IBI tax rate for 2015 for the second year running. There will also be subsidies for families with three or more children.

Recycled art GET ADVICE: Volunteers man the information desk. number who had registered on the padron in Orihuela in the same period and therefore eligible to register to vote, was in the hundreds if not thousands.

One explanation is that

officials at Playa Flamenca Town Hall do not routinely ask those registering on the padron if they wish to register to vote, which by law they are supposed to do.

A PIECE of artwork using 1,200 recycled bottles and plastic containers created by the Oriol Occupational Centre in Orihuela has won a prize for best originality in the Expocreativa event.

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Man arrested in Ecuador six years after drugs were found in Alicante A SPANIARD has been arrested in Ecuador for a stash of almost 7,700 kilograms of hashish, which was intercepted on his yacht off the coast of Alicante in 2008.

The man was arrested at the time when National Police and Customs Enforcement officers boarded his boat but he fled the country to avoid trial for the drugs stash.

The 54-year-old man was captured in south-west Ecuador by Interpol in collaboration with the Unit for Combating Organised Crime (ULCO). The extradition process is now under way.

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Fears for future of protected area AFTER years of battling to save the last part of undeveloped land on the Orihuela Costa, there is disappointment amongst protesters over the future of Cala Mosca.

The Valencian Government declared part of Cala Mosca a protected area to conserve the two endangered species present on Orihuela Costa’s last kilometre of natural coast, but the resolution does not prevent building completely.

It prohibits building along a narrow strip of land following the coast, where no construction would have been allowed under the Costas law.

Campaigner to preserve the site, Bob Houliston from the CLARO party said: “What the Popular Party-controlled Valencia

CALA MOSCA: CLARO members have launched previous campaigns to protect the natural area of coast.

Government has approved is protection of the interests of the developer and not protection of the endangered plant.

“This is shameful and shows that the regional government is up to the usual trick of protecting the interests of the developer and not protecting the environment or the interests of residents and tourists who greatly value

this last piece of green land, which should not be covered by 1,500 new houses or apartments.”

This summer CLARO collected 2,000 objections to the developer’s latest building plans which would allow public spaces, parks, gardens and car parking to be situated where the protected plant, the Cabeza de Gato, and the Tudorella Mauritanica snail are found.

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Blackmail policeman sentenced A NATIONAL police officer has been convicted of extorting money from a drug dealer in San Vicente, Alicante.

The agent used his position to threaten to arrest a drug dealer if he did not hand over €10,000.

The officer entered the property along with two accomplices who were posing as police.

Having found 50 grams of cocaine and €2,000 in cash, the officer demanded payment to avoid being arrested, saying he faced 12 years in prison.

The agent was sentenced to nine years in prison and immediately expelled from the force.

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Home upgrade plan for Elche MORE than 28,000 buildings in Elche are now eligible for improvement grants.

The initiative is based on the Rehabilitation Act working for regeneration and urban renewal driven

by the central government. The act means that those eligible could receive grants and tax credits of up to 45 per cent of the cost of work.

Elche’s Councillor for Town Planning, Vicente Granero said the plan’s aim is to make homes more accessible: “The Spanish Government has provided the plan of direct aid to communities. From the City of Elche we are proposing an improvement plan for all districts to assist neighbouring communities, but especially in the installation of ramps to The Autonomous Agency make buildings more for European Educational accessible and installing to homes in Programmes should have lifts transferred the down apartment blocks.”

In 2011 only 27.4 per payment to the university but they are still awaiting cent of properties in the city were considered any funds.

The delay in the transfer ‘accessible’ and just over from Europe has affected half of apartment blocks had a lift.

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Students still waiting for Erasmus aid THE University of Alicante (UA) has been forced to bring forward €200,000 to cover the first payment of aid to students on the Erasmus programme .

This is because money from European funds has not yet reached the institution’s coffers.

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La gente AS part of our series La Gente, Euro Weekly News reporter Gemma Quinn has been out and about to see what skills, talent and inspirational people can be found on the Costa Blanca. This week she returned to Finca Bon Any in Mutxamel to meet more teachers from the Pineapple Performing Arts School based in London...

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AST week we met Principal of the Pineapple Performing Arts School (PPAS) Maggie Paterson as she offered a musical theatre workshop to students at the European School in Alicante.

She also brought a team of teachers along with her: Amanda Posener, West End star and vocal coach, and actor of stage and screen, Mike Southern, were on hand to offer students their experiences and skills along with street dance coach Jade Ferreira.

Jade is a true example of the success of the school having been a student there himself.

Now an accomplished street dancer he trains daily at Pineapple Dance Studios and still attends classes as well as introducing the world of dance to youngsters at PPAS. His achievements are even more

impressive considering he started dancing relatively late in life, originally qualifying as a hairdresser. “I went to Pineapple for classes just for fun but at the age of 23/24 I realised I wanted to take it more seriously so I signed to Maggie’s school,” he explained.

With the teacher making or breaking a dance class, Jade found himself wanting to teach also and qualified as a fitness trainer to fund his dancing passion and equip him with more knowledge about how the body works and how to prevent potential injury. “I wanted to get as much knowledge as I could and expose myself to as many styles of dance as I could,” he said.

He is particularly passionate about ‘Waacking’, which he introduced to the students in Mutxamel. Originating from the

Jade, top right, is an example of what dedication and determination can achieve, and, right, he introduces students to ‘Waacking’, one of his dance style passions. disco era of the 1970s it is believed to have been big in the gay community before becoming more widely recognised. “It is very theatrical with footwork coming from jazz roots and it’s all very posed but completely different to the vogue style,” Jade remarked.

Now big in Europe, Jade has competed in numerous Waacking competitions and is determined to pick up the top prize one day as well as becoming a pioneer in bringing Electrodance to the British

dance scene and, if his determination and passion is anything to go by, it will only be a matter of when not if.

In the meantime, he will continue working as a dancer.

He has worked with Geri Halliwell and Emma Bunton at G.A.Y. Nightclub, and for Nike and Adidas, and has been

involved in Ant and Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway show in a sketch setting up rugby star Jonny Wilkinson. When not dancing he will teach others to with his infectious energy. “Teaching is so rewarding to see people grow and develop and really enjoy it,” Jade concluded.

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DONATION: HELP hand over €1,410 to Councillor for Education Susana Ortuño Ramirez to cover cost of children’s school books.

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HELP Vega Baja has been supporting the local community of San Fulgencio and La Marina.

The team were at the Office for Urbanisations in La Marina where they presented the AAN charity with two fridge freezers. Through their charity shop and donations, AAN is able to make food parcels for Social Services to distribute.

Now with the freezers, the charity will be able to purchase and freeze bread and meat items which AAN President Pauline Prior said will make a big difference. “We are very thankful and grateful for this donation,” she commented.

Following AAN, HELP Vega Baja presented Councillor for Education, Susana Ortuño Ramirez, with a cheque for €1,410.

The money has been used to purchase school books for children whose parents are struggling to meet the costs. HELP then went to the local health centre and made a contribution there of two blood pressure monitors which will be of benefit to the whole community, and a shredder, all purchased at the request of the centre.

HELP Vega Baja have a drop-in centre in the Office for the Urbanisations in La Marina, Calle Madrid, every Friday, call 966 443 002.

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Christmas fair AGE CONCERN host their Christmas Fair at the centre in La Siesta on November 29 from 11am.

For more information call 966 786 887.

Help quiz A QUIZ with a difference is being held on November 21 at 7pm at Lui’s Lounge, Caravan Club, San Javier. The event is in aid of HELP Murcia Mar Menor, tickets, including a fish and chip supper, cost €10. To book call 868 185 685.

Friendship tea OVER 100 people from associations and clubs across Torrevieja joined together for a ‘Friendship Tea’ to unite and share ideas and talk about projects.

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Two shows raise money for charity TWO ‘Horse and Flamenco’ shows are being performed in December in aid of two different

charities. On December 13, the show is to raise money for Dogs at Large and on

December 14 it is in support of Casa Espona horse rescue charity in Sax. Both charities will have small teams with stalls and raffles giving audiences a chance to win some great prizes and more importantly help raise awareness and much needed funds.

The spectacular horse and flamenco show, which has already received rave reviews, is at the Ganaderia J.Cortes, Spanish Horse Stud Farm in Dolores.

The show starts at RAZZLE DAZZLE: Rascals prepare for their Christmas Extravaganza.

1pm followed by a paella party. Tickets cost €8 for adults and €4 for children, with a family TICKETS are now on sale for the Rascals’ Christmas Extravaganza. Performances ticket €20. are at the School of Culture & Music, Los Montesinos on December 4 at 7pm and For more information at the Virgen del Carmen in Torrevieja on December 14. Tickets €5 with proceeds call Emma on 674 844 going to charity. Call Sue on 966 784 874 or visit www.therascals.org.

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Alzheimer’s group for Mar Menor AMMA (Alzheimer Mar Menor Association) is a newly formed group covering the Mar Menor area offering help and support for Alzheimer’s patients and their families.

With the participation of the San Pedro del Pinatar Town Hall, AMMA will offer a day care centre, support groups, workshops for patients, carers and family members and have assistance from a range of professionals for those with Alzheimer’s or dementia.

The group has already received generous donations from the Show Group Torrevieja, the Campoverde Theatre Group and ADAPT. For more information send an email to AMMA1414@outlook.com.

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GOLF TOURNAMENT: The Toldos Guardamar team hold their first ever golf day.

A successful golf day for Toldos Guardamar team TOLDOS GUARDAMAR has hosted their first ever golf tournament.

Taking place at La Marquesa Golf in Quesada, 99 people took part, which, according to the club, was one of the best turn outs ever for a first golf tournament.

With prizes for the first three in each category for ladies and gents, there was also a scratch prize, prizes on the par three, a raffle and small gift for all participants.

Luz Martinez, from Toldos Guardamar said the event was all part of their newly

launched ‘Experience by Toldos Guardamar.’ She said: “We have been preparing for this for the last year and now, all of our events and open days will come under the ‘Experience’ umbrella and it is a very exciting thing for us to launch.”

Toldos Guardamar is becoming renowned for their open day and fiestas and with ‘Experience by Toldos Guardamar’ there promises to be lots more.

It is all part of the company’s ethos to support the community they work in.

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A business boost for Casa Grande AN agreement has been signed to promote the revitalisation and the economy of the businesses in Torrevieja’s Casa Grande Industrial State.

President of the Association of Industry and Commerce of Casa

Grande, Jose Antonio Manresa, has signed a cooperation agreement with Mayor Eduardo Dolon, through the Local Development Agency (ADL), which will see the association receive business advice, information and management

Fitness regime helps raise €900 for AECC GAVIN LEER lost more than five stone with the help of personal trainer Steve Greenwood and to prove his fitness level ran the Rojales 10K, his first ever race, in the time of 57 minutes.

As Gavin has lost family and friends to cancer he decided to raise money through sponsorship for the run for AECC, raising over €900 for the cancer charity.

Along with Steve, he presented a cheque for €902.50 to Debbie Weedon from the Quesada Pink Ladies, on behalf of Maria Wilson’s Pink Ladies.

about grants and subsidies available. In addition, workshops and seminars will be offered to help enhance business productivity and entrepreneurship. There are 106 companies registered in the Casa Grande association.

Kickboxing SATURDAY sees the first ever Kickboxing Tournament take place in Rojales.

The event is organised by Quesada Fitness Gym Boxing and Mixed Martial Arts Club and the town hall and takes place at the Polideportivo from 7pm. It comes following the success of Team Boxing Quesada who achieved success at the Spanish National FEAM Kickboxing championships.

Tickets €15 on the door.

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Valencia scientists design newborn monitor suits A NEW project has created a bodysuit for babies which will automatically detect problems in newborns including sepsis and heart problems.

The new suit - made of hypoallergenic cotton with minute almost transparent

sensors incorporated - has been designed

by Peditec, a new paediatric technology investigation team with members from Valencia General Hospital and Polytechnic University (UPV) and trials have been carried out on 100 volunteer babies between one day and two weeks old.

UPV Electronics professor Javier Saiz explained the wireless sensors send data to computer software which analyses TWO people have been arrested by Madrid National Police algorithms to detect for renting fictitious holiday properties via the internet. heartbeat variations and signs of sepsis.

Victims paid in advance by postal order for holidays in Empar Lurbe, head of rental properties in the south of Spain and discovered the Paediatrics at the scam upon arrival at their supposed destinations. hospital, said the idea is The accused used false identities to post rental adverts to keep ahead of these on the internet and open bank accounts to receive problems as although payments. Along with rental payments in advance they infrequent can have also demanded deposits from their victims, obtaining more serious consequences. than â‚Ź1,500 in some cases.

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Dry eyes in the winter months Claus Weger, Store Director, Specsavers Opticas Calpe As the days get colder and the nights draw in, cold winds, wet weather and central heating can all play havoc with your eyes, leaving them feeling dry, gritty and bloodshot. Symptoms can lead to longer-term problems if left unchecked. Therefore, this month the team from Specsavers wanted to offer a few hints to help prevent eye soreness over the coldest months of the year.

What is dry eye?

The term “dry eye” is used when we don’t produce enough tears or our tears evaporate too quickly. People with dry eyes often have plenty of water in their tears but not enough oil. Dry eyes can be caused by heating and air conditioning, windy and cold conditions and certain medications.

How can it be avoided or reduced?

Don’t get dehydrated.

Cut back on the coffee and drink more water, use eye drops and sprays to add extra lubrication.

Wash your hands before touching your eyes to prevent cross infection from the viruses in coughs and sneezes which can inflame your conjunctiva the clear membrane covering the whites of your eyes - leaving them feeling irritated.

Reduce the setting on your central heating, avoid car heaters, especially at face level, and sit away from direct heat such as gas or electric heaters.

Keep the sunglasses handy. As the sun is low in the sky at this time of year it can be uncomfortably

bright for drivers and sunglasses reduce this and protect against UV radiation.

Winter is a great time to get your eyes tested as poor light conditions can make you susceptible to eyestrain.

Specsavers Opticas are offering free eye tests until the end of November. There are Specsavers Opticas stores in Calpe, Javea, Benidorm, Guardamar del Segura and Torrevieja on the Costa Blanca.

Visit www.specsavers.es to find your nearest store and book an appointment.

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50,000 sign petition seeking justice for Teresa Romero’s dog, Excalibur AN ONLINE petition is seeking justice for Excalibur the dog.

A whopping 50,000 people have signed a change.org petition posted by Javier Limon, the husband of Teresa Romero, the nursing assistant who survived Ebola. It asks the people who had the couple’s dog put down to tender their resignations.

The pet dog was put down at Romero’s home in early October over fears it could transmit Ebola.

EXCALIBUR: Unprecedented anger has followed the pet’s death.

Spain’s billionaires get richer THE three richest people in Spain have more money than nine million poor Spaniards put together.

Amancio Ortega, his daughter Sandra Ortega and Mango owner Isak Andic are twice as rich as 20 per cent of the Spanish population, according to a report

by Oxfam.

Last year, the wealth of the 20 richest Spanish people increased by €12.3 billion, accumulating an outstanding €92 billion.

The report emphasised that the growth of inequality could cause a setback in the fight against poverty.

“The growing inequality is not accidental, but caused by political

measures designed to benefit a small part of the population, increasing their privileges day after day, while others see their rights violated and miss every chance to prosper,” head of Spanish Oxfam, Jose Maria Vera, said.

Spain holds the title of second most unequal country in Europe.

“We feel what happened to our dog was an act of injustice,” said Limon. There were other less damaging possibilities, he added, which could have helped the scientific community learn more about Ebola, its evolution and possible treatments.

“Excalibur was the victim of improvisation and the authorities’ ignorance.

“We want the people responsible for Excalibur’s futile sacrifice to be dismissed and we hope that no other animal ever has to go through what Excalibur went through,” he remarked.

Limon’s petition refers to Health Councillor of Madrid Francisco Javier Rodriguez, said 20minutos.es.

In his online petition, Limon said Excalibur meant a lot to him and Teresa and he thanked all those who had signed it.

Francisco Polo, director of change.org, said it was unheard of in Spain to collect signatures in protest at a dog being put down.

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Valen ‘onl A SPANISH cemetery has launched a revolutionary new funeral service which will allow people to ‘attend’ funerals that they are unable to get to in person.

Valencia’s general cemetery will broadcast online funerals through its free ‘Online Farewell’ service,

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ncia to pioneer line funerals’ which will allow viewers to stream a signal and view the funeral in real time.

Mourners who cannot attend the funeral in person will be provided with a code by the deceased’s family, allowing them access to footage of the funeral,

cremation or burial as it takes place. “Valencia is the first in Spain, and as far as I know, in the world, to offer this service,” said local councillor Lourdes Bernal.

The law in Spain states that the deceased must be buried or cremated within 48

hours of their death. This can result in many family members and friends missing funerals they wished to attend because of time constraints.

The Valencia Online Farewell service is to be launched on November 17.

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Not the normal visitors to Madrid THE famous streets and plazas of Madrid resembled more a countryside pasture than a bustling metropolis at the weekend, when more than 2,000 sheep were paraded through the city.

Spanish shepherds took to the streets of the capital in defence of ancient grazing, droving and migration rights, and brought with them a massive flock of sheep.

Accompanied by dancers and musicians dressed in traditional costume, the unusual procession made its way past some of Madrid’s most well-known landmarks before the chief herdsman stopped at city hall to hand over 10 ‘maravedies’ - copper coins - as payment for the crossing.

MADRID: 2,000 sheep paraded through the streets.

The bleating, bellclanging herd had tourists and locals staring in wonder at how one of the world’s most famous cities had suddenly become a rural-like haven for 2,000 woolly visitors.

The buildings and streets of Madrid spread across a traditional herding route dating back

to 1372.

Due to urbanisation and the introduction of modern agricultural practices, sheep herding has become a scene of days past, particularly in Madrid. But over the weekend the city experienced a little piece of history, thanks to our ovine friends.

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Big Brother at airport THE clampdown on unlicensed taxis at Alicante-Elche airport has stepped up a gear as the new numberplate reader will be ready in three weeks.

Work has already begun on the system, which has cost €4,300, paid for by the City of Elche, who admitted it had not been easy to convince the airport authority AENA to allow its installation.

The number-plate reader aims to crack down on unlicensed taxis serving the airport and comes following months of taxi strikes and conflicts with taxi drivers from other municipalities.

The system will record and store numbers and action will be taken against vehicles making more than six trips a month to the airport.

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Torrevieja for new sp TORREVIEJA is to be the focus of a new international movie, currently in production in the city.

The Cucaracha Club is a spy thriller by Siesta Productions, which with the support of the town hall is set to take film festivals by storm when completed next year.

The self-funded independent film is drawing on the skills of local people who are all giving their time for free to be part of the community project.

Writer and actor Billie Anthony Gaddess is the man behind The Cucaracha Club who was inspired by actor Al Matthews, best known for his appearance in Aliens, to push forward with his script and start filming.

“He encouraged the project and said we have already put together about

CUCARACHA CLUB: Cast and c €16 million worth of film from nothing. We have blagged jet skis, yachts, submarines, planes... and done things that people can only dream of.”

Former EastEnders actor Tom Watts has also been in

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Spooky sales MALEFICENT outfits from the movie starring Angelina Jolie, were one of the most popular Halloween costumes this year.

Alicante shops reported a 20 per cent rise in the sale of spooky accessories.

Vehicle fire POLICE are investigating a fire in a car in Los Dolses. The Renault Scenic was reported stolen from Santa Pola just days earlier.

crew launch the film at Torrevieja Tourist Office. the city filming with director Rai Woods, reporting that just under half of the scenes have been shot.

The rest should be completed early in 2015 when the film will then go into post-production.

A number of fundraising events are being hosted to help raise money and local businesses can be involved with product placement.

For more information visit www.siesta-productions

Musical youth SIX HUNDRED students from schools in Almoradi took part in a Didactic Concert to help children learn to identify the sounds of different instruments and understand music.

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The dangers of online gambling for younger people THE striking success of online gambling services concern experts and rehabilitated ex-gamblers alike.

Patients arrive to rehabilitation clinics at younger ages every year, which shows the addictive power of these services as reported by representatives at Barcelona Hospital Bellvitge Psychiatric Department.

The widely extended use of mobile devices has spread the problem to teenagers and young adults, attracted by the constant advertising in social media websites, as informed by a representative of Spanish Federation of Rehabilitated Gamblers (FEJAR).

The appearance of celebrities such as Rafa Nadal in said adverts helps the viewer create a sense of familiarity and trust towards the service.

Online gamblers often use fake identities, usually to hide the fact that they are minors.

Doctor Angela IbaĂąez, head of the

Psychiatric unit of Ramon y Cajal hospital unit said: “the legalisation of online gambling and its advertising makes it look risk free and attractive.

Online players do not usually acknowledge that they have a problem, which makes it harder to treat them because they do not seek professional help.�

Other experts from the Advisory Committee for Responsible Gambling of the Ministry of Finance pointed out that an improved political legislation could help minimise the risk for young players to develop addictions, and said that their motivations and behaviours online are focused on entertainment rather than the gambling activity.

Meanwhile, players from 12 to 15years-old are spending large amounts of money on these sites and their addiction often goes unnoticed by parents and friends.

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Avalon grows as business expands across Europe

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VALON, the leading provider of pre-paid funeral plans, saw its business grow substantially in the year to September 2014, with the help of a sustained campaign in the Euro Weekly News.

Driving the growth is a huge increase in the number of enquiries the company is receiving from people concerned about increasing funeral costs.

Website and head office enquiries were up by 300 per cent, as were sales leads generated by stands at exhibitions and other events.

These have led to an expanded geographical spread of customers and a 99.2 per cent increase in the number of

funeral plans written since July 2013.

Between July 2013 and July 2014, Avalon gained its first customers in Portugal, Malta and the Spanish regions of Seville, Jaen and Cordoba.

The company has opened an office in the Costa del Sol and has plans to open a branch in Almeria.

Avalon is now offering even more employment opportunities to UK expatriates living in Spain and across Europe.

Numbers in Europe now match the UK, having grown by 42 per cent, from 41 in July 2013 to 58 in September 2014.

Jason Gardner, Head of Europe at Avalon, said: “People realise that funerals costs will keep rising.”

He added: “Unsurprisingly,

they are taking steps to protect their loved ones from the substantial implications of these rises by contemplating prepaid funeral plans with serious intent.

“As a consequence, we have nearly doubled our number of written plans in the year to September 2013.”

Avalon protects customers from rising funeral costs and the worry of arranging a funeral when the time comes, which can be complex outside the UK. Avalon’s three comprehensive packages, Balmoral, Windsor Way and Britannia, are available in Spain, Portugal and Tenerife. Alternative plans are available for customers residing in Cyprus, Malta and Turkey.

For further information, visit www.avalonfuneralplans.com.

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Intellectual Property Law passed in Spain THE Intellectual Property Law - passed by Congress on Thursday October 30 will enter into force in January 2015.

The Government, however, said that it is only a partial reform and it would be amended a year from now, after the European Union approves a new related directive.

The law foresees fines of up to €600,000 for websites offering pirated content, and was only supported by the People’s Party (PP) and would not have been green-lit had it not been for the absolute majority of Spain’s ruling party.

With the approval of the new regulations, the Government seeks to fight piracy and beef up the control and transparency of

organisations dealing with copyrights.

Before levying a fine on any given website, the law will look at the amount of illegal content being offered and at the volume of its Internet traffic.

Websites committing reiterated infractions against copyright could face a minimum fine of €15,000 and a maximum fine of €60,000.

The law also creates a so-called Google tax (tasa Google), which will make it mandatory for news aggregators - otherwise known as feed or news readers - to pay an ‘equitable compensation’ to editors for reproducing ‘non-significative fragments of content from periodically updated websites or periodic

publications, whose goal is to provide information or content that seeks to entertain or create opinion.’

The law sparked a heated debate and aroused criticism from the opposition, the Association of Internet Users and the National Commission of Markets and Competition.

According to them, the text is ambiguous.

“What exactly are ‘nonsignificative contents’?” they asked.

The law does not make it clear either who will have to pay the levied fines, they complained, according to elpais.com.

It appears social media, including Facebook and Twitter, would fall outside the scope of the new law.

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Fast food? It’s a ‘no thanks’ from Spain IT would seem that the famous Mediterranean diet of olive oil, vegetables, fruit and fish has not disappeared in Spain, as new data reveals that Spaniards are among the most frugal when it comes to

forking out on fast food.

Big Macs, Whoppers and chicken dippers are not big on most Spaniards’ dietary requirements it would seem, and only fellow Mediterraneans, the Italians - renowned lovers of delicious, healthy food -

spend less on fast food than the Spanish.

A study conducted by EAE Business School reveals that during 2013, Spaniards spent a total of €1.8 billion on fast food, which is a slight increase on the year before.

More naughty sailors TWO members of the crew of the Spanish Navy school ship Juan Sebastian Elcano have been arrested in relation to a cocaine stash found on the ship.

A note from the Ministry of Defence explained that including the two most recent arrests, five people are now accused of transporting 127 kilos of cocaine hidden inside the ship.

The first three arrests occurred in June when the cocaine stash was found during an examination of the

ship in Cadiz after a six month and 18,000 nautical mile trip.

According to investigations by the Spanish Navy and the Guardia Civil, a number of sailors were talked into transporting the drug by dealers during a five day stopover in Cartagena de Indias, Columbia.

The sailors, who supposedly hid the cocaine under their uniforms while boarding the ship, were allegedly paid $5,000 (approximately €3,800) per kilo.

But data from El Economista shows that Spain is second only to Italy in terms of countries that spend the least on fast food. The healthconscious Italians spent just €1.6 billion in 2013 on fast food.

Not surprisingly, the USA tops the list of big (fast food) spenders, forking out a belt-popping €63.8 billion alone in 2013 on cheeseburgers, fries, pizzas and other firm artery-clogging favourites.

Differences in terms of population numbers and economic circumstances are key factors in the discrepancies between the amounts spent, but the latest data would suggest that Spain won’t have to fear a major obesity problem among its young, at least for the present.

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Leonor: the future Queen of Spain at nine years old HER Royal Highness the Princess of Asturias turned nine on Friday October 31.

Leonor has a vague idea of what it means to be heir to the throne; just like her grandfather transferred his responsibilities as King to his son King Felipe VI, she will one day inherit from her father something called the Spanish crown.

She has heard her father say the crown must be won with effort, hard work and dedication, and the King leads by example and does his best to instil those very same values in her.

Leonor will be the fourth Spanish Queen since Isabella I of Castille – otherwise known as Isabella the Catholic – who sat on the Spanish DISCIPLINED: Princess Leonor is very formal in public.

throne for 30 years, from 1474 until 1504.

For the time being, though, she is 36th Princess of Asturias and the education she is receiving is consistent with her current and future role in the Casa Real. For instance, she speaks perfect English at such an early age, according to abc.es.

“She knows who she is, but she attaches no importance to it,” said those who know her best. This can be attributed to the fact that her parents – King Felipe VI and Queen Letizia – have always wanted her to lead a life that resembles as much as possible that of any other child.

The Princess – who also holds the titles Princess of Girona and Princess of Viana, Duchess of Montblanc, Countess of Cervera and Lady of Balaguer – stands out at public ceremonies because she is very disciplined and formal.

However, when there are no cameras around, she behaves like a lively and fun child, who likes to play with her sister – Her Royal Highness the Infanta Sofia – and be mischievous.

Fully aware of the risk they run of being spoiled by other people, Queen Letizia does her utmost to raise her daughters with discipline. One day, while the Royal Family was holidaying in Mallorca, Leonor and Sofia could not take their eyes off some beautiful purses, and when the shopkeeper offered them as a gift, the Queen thanked him, but kindly refused the offer. The girls did not complain.

Just like any other mother out there, Her Majesty the Queen supervises her daughters’ diet and limits the amount of sweets they eat at parties and special events, and she will not let them have a dog, contrary to their and the King’s wishes.

Sometimes the Queen appears as a controlling mother, but the truth is she tries to respect her daughters’ spontaneity. At a parade staged on October 12, Princess Leonor – who loves music – started to follow the rhythm with her head when the band began to play. The Queen looked at her, smiled and said nothing.

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Dangerous candles EMERGENCY services put out a fire caused by a candle in a Malaga City home on Saturday November 1. A 34year-old man was taken to the Hospital Clinico suffering intoxication from smoke.

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A YOUNG man from Ecuador was arrested on Monday November 3 in Fuengirola after his sister was found dead in his home with her throat cut .

MIJAS Council has donated 2,700 books which are no longer needed in the four local public libraries to Alhaurin de la Torre prison.

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Never forgotten THERE will be an act of remembrance held by the Royal British Legion (RBL) this Sunday (November 9) at 11.40am in Nerja Caves Lower Salon. All are welcome to remember the war dead.

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Improvement project SPANISH WONDER: The desert was declared a nature reserve in 1989.

Tabernas Desert a wonder of Spain TABERNAS DESERT has been voted the second wonder of rural Spain in a survey by the Toprural portal.

The desert received 2,208 votes out of 7,000, to gain second place in the survey behind Las Hurdes in Caceres. The Tabernas Desert is enjoying a revival in the movies currently, with film epics including Exodus and Clavius being shot there, and Arnold Schwarzenegger looking to reprise his former role as Conan the Barbarian. From 1950 to 1970, it was the setting for many Westerns.

With more than 11,600 acres, the desert was declared a nature reserve in 1989. It takes its place in the list of seven rural wonders of Spain along with La Playa de las Catedrales, the Benasque Valley, Aiguestortes National Park in Lleida, Nacedero del Rio Urederra in Navarra and the Cañon del Rio Lobos. between 4pm and 9pm and Saturdays from 9am to 2pm.

Ecological restoration

COSTA ANIMAL SOCIETY (CAS) Nerja is holding a Scruffs type dog show on Saturday (November 8) in the market place. All kinds of dogs from pedigree to non-pedigree are welcome. Inscription, held at noon, costs €5 per animal. The show events start at 1pm.

THE Regional Government of Andalucia will spend €349,888 in restoration works in Pinar de Competa y Sierra and Pinar de Canillas de Albaida after the area was damaged by a fire.

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ALMUÑECAR table tennis athletes, Adrian Antequera and Maria Marin were classified for state competition in February that will take place in Valladolid. More than 350 players participated in the competition.

Centre reopens THE youth centre of Colmenar was reopened on November 3. The centre can be visited from Monday to Friday

Torrential rains

PALMA Council could finance the rent and mortgage payments of impoverished families at risk of losing their homes for economic reasons for a whole year.

CASINO MARBELLA is to host an exhibition of work by Milu Petersen open daily from 8pm starting on November 13. For more information contact Montse San Francisco 686 702 616.

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LOCAL POLICE officers in La Linea confiscated 400 kilos of melons and 100 kilos of potatoes which were being sold in the street without permission by two people from Utrera in Sevilla.

throughout Benidorm. No new channels will have to be dug as Vodafone will be using existing Telefonica infrastructure.

BOTH the torrential rains that fell on the Balearic Islands on Tuesday (November 4) and the strong winds blowing brought down trees, sent branches crashing down and affected traffic lights.

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2,500-year-old Iberian fort in Campello.

Court sources declined to confirm if the landowner was involved.

Looking up FOR the first time since the economic crisis, new businesses in San Vicente outnumbered those that closed this year. Start-ups ranged from a photographic studio to gin-and-tonic infusions.

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NEW Maritime Fishing laws will open the door to ‘pesca-tourism.’ Villajoyosa, Calpe and Santa Pola all plan to allow tourists to go to sea with professional fishing boats.

MORE than 5,600 light bulbs in Altea’s streetlamps and traffic lights are to be replaced with LED lighting. Eight firms are bidding for the maintenance contract that commences in January.

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TWO people were charged with using heavy machinery to destroy the site of a

VODAFONE is preparing to install 16 kilometres of fibre optic cable

MANACOR Council is to improve the city’s drinking water supply network. The €600,000 project will focus on maintenance work in several areas of town to repair the leaks that have been detected and on repairing the water deposits in Serralt.

Winning streak RCD MALLORCA managed to extend its winning streak to four games after defeating Llugo (2-1) at Son Moix on Saturday November 1. The two winning goals were scored by Scepovic (46’ and 53’).

Fashion weekend MORE than 1,000 people visited the second edition of the Prêt-à-Portals Fashion Weekend held in Puerto Portals.

Some of Spain’s most famous fashion designers participated in the event, including Jose Miro, Juan Vidal and Lydia Delgado.

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Author award LOCAL author Jane Finch has received a five star award from Readers’ Favourites for her children’s book ‘Pip the Penguin saves Christmas.’ Copies are available from Amazon.

Death investigated NATIONAL POLICE officers are investigating the discovery of a man’s body in Calle Pisces in Almeria. He was found in a home that had been taken over by squatters.

Winning pumpkin LAUJAR’S top pumpkin prize in a recent competition was won by a real giant.

The winning pumpkin was 60 kilograms in weight and was grown by Jose Rodriguez Martinez.

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No time to sleep for the skipper of Volvo Ocean race leaders IT has been nearly four weeks since the crews set off from Alicante for their epic round the world adventure as part of the Volvo Ocean Race and now they are due to complete the first leg arriving in Cape Town, South Africa.

The British skipper of Abu Dhabi Ocean Racing, Ian Walker and his crew have led for the majority of the 6,847 nautical mile (nm) first leg since the fleet raced through the Cape Verde Islands before the halfway stage.

But there’s been no time to relax ever since, and even with the leading pack just over 24 hours from completing the opening leg, Walker had two boats breathing down his neck.

Abu Dhabi Ocean Racing’s onboard reporter Matt Knighton (USA) describes Walker’s current mood:

“Wearing his stress and nervousness onboard, Ian hasn’t been able to sleep. His eyes are bloodshot, he’s jumpy for each perceived decrease in boat speed, and his familiar humour is subdued under a quieter exterior. Exhausted and with the saltwater continuing to flood the cockpit, the bearded faces up on deck continue to steadily take the race one mile at a time. The war of attrition wages on.”

At the time of going to print, the race standings are currently Abu Dhabi Ocean Racing, Dongfeng Race Team, Team Brunel, Team Vestas Wind, Team Alvimedica, MAPFRE and SCA. BATTLING ELEMENTS: Abu Dhabi skipper Ian Walker braves harsh conditions.

Retired British policeman drowns in Murcia A RETIRED British policeman drowned in Murcia after rushing into the sea to try and help swimmers in difficulty.

It is believed that David Walter, aged 67, spotted people having difficulty in the sea at La Manga, Murcia, and dashed in to help.

It is thought that Mr Walter himself got into trouble in the water and drowned. Nobody else was injured or killed in the tragedy.

The former Norfolk police officer had been travelling around Europe with his wife for the last two years in their caravan.

A close friend of Mr

Walter’s, Terry Hughes, told the Daily Mail : “Dave died doing what he did best - helping people.

“I wouldn’t expect anything different of him. He would go out of his way to help other people whether it was people he knew or didn’t know.”

Upon his retirement, after spending more than 30 years on the force, Mr Walter and his wife decided to take to the roads of Europe around two years ago.

The former CID detective has been described as ‘extremely popular.’

“The fact that Dave

put his life on the line to help save someone else reflects the type of officer and person I knew he was,” said Chief Constable of Norfolk police station Simon Bailey. “I knew him personally when he was a member of the constabulary and he had a very successful career as a detective within the CID until he retired in 2000.”

Mr Walter was described as a watersports enthusiast and had been a kayak instructor with the local scout group. Mr Walter’s body will be returned to the UK for funeral and burial.

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SWEDEN - Developers of an industrial site in Malmo will lose out on 6 million kronor (€647,000) a year rent after being forced to set aside 153,000 square metres of land to be used as a nature reserve for a rare European Green Toad.

NINE men have been jailed in France for trafficking up to 2,500 migrants into Britain over eight months last year. The men - eight Egyptians and a Tunisian - received sentences of between 10 months and six years in prison for arranging the illegal entries into the UK.

Text abuse SWEDEN - Police have been called in after bus drivers were sent racist and sexist text messages over Stockholm Bus Network’s internal network.

Oil loss NORWAY - State oil giant Statoil had an unexpected third-quarter loss of 4.7 billion kroner (€631 million). Weak oil prices and a charge for depreciated assets are being blamed.

THE world’s first independent national sperm bank has been launched in Birmingham to combat a shortage of donors in Britain.

Women will be able to choose a donor based on looks, profession, hobbies and race. The project hopes to have 1,000 regular donors within three years.

Brit Awards change TELEVISION duo Ant & Dec will host next year’s

DENMARK - Fast-food giant Burger King plans to expand its number of restaurants in Denmark by 50 per cent over the next five years. Norwegian company King Food has taken over seven Burger Kings in Denmark and will use these as a ‘solid foundation on which to grow.’

Postal lay-offs DENMARK - In a bid to save around 500m Swedish kroner (€54 million), the Scandinavian company PostNord will lay off 700800 employees this year.

THE English rugby team has a tough November ahead as they face games against New Zealand, South Africa and Samoa in this year’s Autumn Internationals series. The players face what will probably be their toughest test in the first game, against the mighty All Blacks on November 8.

ILLEGAL KILLING: Golden eagle.

Hunters hunted

PEREGRINES, golden eagles and red kites were among hundreds of birds of prey shot or poisoned in the UK last year.

The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds has called on the shooting industry to help stamp out the problem of the illegal killing of birds of prey.

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decided to keep the two teams apart in the group stages due to the ongoing political tensions between the two.

Russia will host the World Cup in 2018.

THE logo for the 2018 World Cup being held in Russia was revealed by cosmonauts on the International Space Station. The logo depicts the famous trophy in red and blue, the colours of the Russian flag, with a gold trim.

Repression possible

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NEARLY 50 per cent of all Russians believe that a return to Soviet-era repression is possible within their lifetime, a poll has revealed.

The results were published just ahead of the Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Political Repression.

HEALTH officials have urged Russians not to travel abroad during the upcoming fall and winter holidays to limit the risk of contracting Ebola.

They stressed there is no risk of contracting the disease at home, and that the holidays would be ‘better spent in Russia.’

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Rodent delay NORWAY - A plane due to travel from Norway to the US was delayed five hours because of a mouse.

The rodent was spotted soon before the new Dreamliner was due to take off, causing a delay while it was caught.

Brit Awards after a 14-year absence. They will replace last year’s host, comedian James Corden, who has presented the awards for four years in a row. Viewing figures slumped to an eight-year low last year, with just 4.6 million watching on ITV.

Photo by Steve Foulks.

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Football split

RUSSIA and Ukraine will play in different groups in the next World Cup in 2018. FIFA has

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RUSSIA has jumped 30 places in the world business ranking, according to the World Bank. Despite tough economic sanctions imposed on the country, Russia has climbed to 62nd place out of 189 ranked countries.

A TRUCK driver who fired hundreds of bullets at vehicles on Germany’s motorways has been jailed for 10-and-a-half years. The Autobahn shooter Michael Harry K - hid weapons in the airbag pocket of the steering wheel and would take pot shots at other vehicles while driving his truck.

Nigeria kidnap A KIDNAPPED German national has been released by gunmen in Nigeria. The man and a German co-worker, working for construction firm Julius Berger, were attacked by four gunmen near the town of Sagamu. One German was killed in the attack and the other abducted.

Bird-brained CUSTOMS officials at Munich airport found 200 dead songbirds in the suitcase of a 65-year-old Italian man.

The main claimed he was bringing them home to Italy for his family to eat, where they are considered a delicacy. German officials confiscated the birds and the man may now face a €1,000 fine.

Cologne clash AROUND 4,000 football fans and neo-Nazis clashed with police in Cologne when a demonstration against Islamic extremism turned nasty.

Drunken protestors are said to have thrown bottles, fireworks and rocks at riot police, injuring at least 44. Six people were arrested during the riot.

Fighting ISIS A GERMAN advance mission has been sent to Iraq to assess the possibility of Germany providing military training to Kurdish forces in the fight against ISIS. Germany has already sent weapons, along with 13 Bundeswehr soldiers to give instructions on how to operate the equipment.

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STAT OF WEEK MADRID’S 1,346 agrifood companies represent 7 per cent of the region’s GDP and provides 17,000 people with jobs. With a turnover of €3.8 billion, it exported products worth €1.150 billion in 2013.

SPANISH banks encountered no problems meeting the latest European Central Bank’s stress tests.

The banks of 22 European countries were put to the test and Spain was ranked in 10th position.

This was a far cry from 2012 when Bankia, one of the country’s biggest banks,

TESTS: ECB passed Spain’s banks.

No super-money for super-chefs THE 82 Michelin stars awarded to 25 Spanish restaurants have not conferred immediate riches.

Eneko Atxa, whose restaurant Azurmendi near Bilbao boasts the maximum three stars, has a profit-tosales ratio of around 4 per cent a year.

So does his fellow superchef Nacho Manzano who runs the two-star Casa Marcial in Arriondas (Asturias).

For Martin Berasategui and Juan Mari Arzak, both based in San Sebastian, the ratio rises to 9 and 15 per cent respectively, but this is as good as it gets.

David Muñoz, another respected chef, has revolutionised Spanish

gastronomy at his Madrid restaurant DiverXo, but lost €80,000 in 2012 according to his last registered accounts.

“The great restaurants are not very profitable, not at those prices,” said Josep Francesc Galls, professor of Marketing Management at the Esade Business School.

If the chefs make money it is through agreements with major food groups, products bearing their names and sponsorships, not through meals costing up to €200 a head.

Ferran Adria, whose restaurant El Bulli was named the world’s best and could afford to say so, put it another way: “A groundbreaking restaurant does not focus on profits.”

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Payback time SPAIN’S banks returned 7.7 per cent of public money received from the FROB restructuring fund.

Including the recent €124 million from Liberbank, €4.427 billion of the €57.265 billion cash injection has been repaid.

Quick work FAST food sales in Spain increased by 1.2 per cent to €1.862 billion last year.

Average spending rose to €40.48 per head, according to a study by the EAE Business School.

Deepwater find for Repsol REPSOL has struck high grade oil in the Gulf of Mexico off Louisiana.

The find is located in the Leon well, 352 kilometres from the US coast. It was drilled in water 1,865 metres deep, reaching a depth of 9,684 metres which places it amongst the company’s deepest wells.

The Gulf of Mexico is one of the

world’s most profitable deepwater drilling areas and the latest discovery comes five years after another important Repsol find, the Buckskin well 50 kilometres from Leon.

Repsol has a 60 per cent participation in the Leon well licence, with the remaining 40 per cent controlled by the Colombian company Ecopetrol.

JURJEN VAN ENTER FLICKR

No sweat, no stress for Spain’s banks needed a €22 billion cash injection and the government requested a €100 billion bailout from the European Union.

None of the 15 banks examined will need to raise new capital and although Liberbank had a €32 million shortfall at the end of 2013, it has raised €616 million since

then and has met the ECB’s requirements.

The reform and restructuring of Spain’s banking system has borne fruit, said a satisfied Luis Maria Linde, governor of the Bank of Spain.

“Spanish banks face the future with healthy balance sheets from a position of solvency,” Linde added.

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Cash flow essential to running a business SUCCESSFUL management of cash flow is essential to running a business.

Try to work on accurately calculating projected income and balancing outgoings with income. A community far beyond your business doors will be harmed if you get it wrong.

Best not to have all your business eggs in one basket. A British government minister once pointed out that most business bankruptcies are caused, not by failure of the business owner, but by the failure of a prime customer.

When a major company goes down the pan it takes scores, sometimes hundreds of small suppliers with it.

A major company’s collapse can

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plunge hundreds of smaller businesses, many of them one-manbands, into bankruptcy. I do remember one British household name builder that actually had less than 20 members of the staff on the payroll.

Their huge labour force was entirely

sub-contracted. When the banks pulled the plug, hundreds of them were left high, dry and penniless.

You should be in a position to survive if a customer or two ceases to do business with you. The cause may not be a client’s insolvency.

Your customer could relocate, find an alternative supplier, downsize, or decide that your service can be more cost effectively done in-house.

Businesses also get into financial difficulties when expectations of income are exaggerated and outgoings airily dismissed. I recall an employee who thought all was well because the till was stuffed with banknotes. What he should have been looking at were

the cheque book stubs.

There is a saying in business: “Turnover is vanity, profit is sanity, but cash is king.”

Getting it right is a fine balancing act. Constantly monitor expenditure. If you can get by without it then ditch it.

If you sensibly predict income, realistically assess outgoings, learn the dark arts of minimising outgoings whilst maximising income, whilst keeping customers happy, your business will prosper.

A crumb of comfort for those facing difficulties. It has been calculated that self-made millionaires on average suffered seven bankruptcies before they hit success.

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Markets refocus on economic data

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TERLING / Euro movements were heavily affected by the run up and then the aftermath of the Scottish referendum vote.

As we approached polling day the pound tumbled sharply as polls identified that the outcome was neck and neck. The unprecedented uncertainty that a Yes vote would have delivered sent shock waves through the financial markets and the pound suffered heavy losses as the possibility of a Yes vote became very real. On the day of the vote itself the markets were more confident of a No vote and this led to a recovery in the pound.

On official confirmation of the No vote the pound rallied further still hitting a two year high against the euro.

Attention is now shifting back towards economic data from both the UK and the Eurozone which will determine the future

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PRESENT DATA: Mainly positive with the pound hitting two year highs against the euro. direction of monetary policy for both. As it stands, the UK is on a trajectory towards raising interest rates whilst the European Central Bank is entrenched in monetary easing.

Recently they undertook aggressive action in the bond market purchasing €1.7bn in a move to kick start the ailing European economy.

This latest move exceeded expectations despite Mario

Draghi’s public ambition to expand the balance sheet up to €1 trillion.

Attention has now shifted back to economic data to feedback a picture on the health of the UK and the Eurozone economies. The UK is as we stand looking likely to raise interest rates next year and this is certainly boosting appetite for the pound.

Continued positive feedback

is required from UK data to support this view and there is a risk that data could start to slow, potentially pushing back the timeline for an interest rate hike. Ironically the strength of the pound in recent months could weigh on future UK data releases and also soften inflation numbers which will slow the urgency of the BoE. However at present the data has been mainly

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positive and hence why the pound is hitting two year highs against the euro.

The euro is under pressure across the currency markets and in particular against the USD. The European Central Bank have cut their main interest rate to 0.05 per cent and cut the deposit rate into negative territory. However there is concern that current measures may not be enough as data continues to disappoint and inflation is still softening. The next step for the ECB would be full blown quantitative easing, which is weighing on the euro overall and if announced could see further weakness for the single currency with GBP/EUR pushing towards 1.35.

However, it is probably unlikely that we will see QE this year and it will probably come, if at all, after December’s release of the second tranche of the TLTRO programme uptake.

Is your professional behaviour helping to drag you down?

BECOMING successful isn’t all about chance; it’s about consciously making good things happen for you.

Of course a little bit of luck sprinkled into the equation is more than helpful, but the grand majority of success is down to hard work and keeping certain behaviour in check.

Sometimes we can be our own worst enemy.

What we do and how we do it can be the life or death of a business or for the opportunity of promotion. All too often we fall into a way of doing things that actually harms rather than advances our chance of success. Therefore, it’s essential to recognise such toxic behaviours and get rid of them quick!

Busy or productive? Just because you might spend the entire day running around like a headless chicken doesn’t necessarily mean that you are getting

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things done. Learn to prioritise. Take a step back, breathe and figure out what exactly needs to be done and concentrate your efforts on those things that will make an impact and encourage progress.

Forget about perfection.

The pursuit of perfection is a great big waste of time.

Imagine it in terms of learning Spanish. Those that refuse to speak for fear of making mistakes never get to practice and their language learning stops in its tracks. It’s the same in the workplace. The best thing to do is just make an effort - try as hard as you

can and you’ll be amazed at how productive you can become.

Planning is progress.

Planning is the most important thing you can do to encourage success.

Rolling out of bed each day with no notion in your head of what you plan to do is a waste of time and a recipe for disaster. Successful people have a plan. They set goals and navigate their working life around conquering those goals.

Get strong. Everyone has a weakness or two within their professional life - a bad habit or something that drags them down. Spot these weaknesses and make an effort to improve.

If you are a nervous public speaker but fancy your chances of becoming a manager, then make sure to work on this weakness.

Attend a class; do whatever it takes to turn your weakness into a strength.

BUSINESS EXTRA

Two suitors A CONSORTIUM headed

by Spanish company Cepsa wants to buy British energy company Salamander. The oil and gas exploration company which operates in Indonesia and Thailand, confirmed the Cepsa proposal plus another from Londonbased Ophir Energy.

The approach by firms would be subject to a “number of conditions,” Salamander said.

Hard times MILK prices fell by almost 20 per cent in October from 39 and 40 cents a litre to around 33 cents, coinciding with the renewal of three and six-monthly contracts between dairy farmers and milk companies.

The government will introduce obligatory 12month contracts next year to forestall destabilised markets.

OPINION & COMMENT

Check it out WE have just returned from the worst holiday ever, so a word of warning on booking a holiday.

If the advert says “We pick you up from your house,” ask for the route. We were collected at 5.45am and after running around on a coach for three and a quarter hours were only 30 minutes from home!

Also ask what type of transport they use: we were on a small runaround for 12 hours. It was like sitting on a spin-dryer for the whole journey.

Do your homework on the location and accommodation. We booked a cruise and required an outside cabin for fresh air and a quiet time. We were not told that the only outside cabins were directly below the activities deck!

We were lucky: some people had cabins directly below the disco.

So the moral of our story is check, check and then check again.

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Dressing up POOR Mike Walsh!

Having become a solid member of the style police he is missing a few very important points about dress and performance.

He is clearly unaware that Mr Steve Jobs built the Apple computer empire by allowing his employees to dress in whatever mode made them feel good: look at the result.

The hoary old uniform and suit argument just doesn’t gel with the facts. As a retired business advisor I have continued researching the psychological impact of Mr Walsh’s attitude versus Steve Jobs’.

Sorry Mr. Walsh, but for business performance the facts are against you. Howard Hughes, a billionaire, dressed like a poor man for a great many years before his demise. Many great artists and entrepreneurs of all types have shared that mode of dress by desire or circumstances.

To judge a person by their clothes is about as narrowminded as it is possible to get.

John Gardner, Almeria

Thief foiled I HAD my handbag stolen by a very crafty gang this morning. A

THIS is a cactus I grew from a cutting a few years ago. It blooms every year, but only lasts one day.

Sebastian Bomford (by email)

man walked between my car and the car parked next to me as I was reversing. Because it was so hot I had the windows down and he indicated that I watch a car that suddenly came behind me.

Then he put his hand through the window and picked up my handbag from the passenger seat. I screamed and swore at him and he threw it back into my car and jumped into the car that had been behind me.

I was parked at the back of Consum in Albir and people were sitting outside a cafe not 50 yards away. The people that do this are so brazen, but I think shouting must have startled him: I am 67 and can be a bit scary! But I thought I should warn people as this is so easily done.

Kathleen Bailey (by email)

Naming names I HAVE become increasingly frustrated by radio presenters’ failure to inform the listening public who actually sings the songs played.

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I listen to a variety of local English-speaking radio stations and it has now become the norm for radio presenters to chatter on about everything other than the artist singing.

During a long drive that lasted over two hours only one artist’s name was given! What is wrong with presenters? Surely the role of DJs is to actually present music? That means informing the listening public of the title of the song and the artist.

Can we have less of the inane chatter and incessant promotions of everything other than the music played?

Come on local radio DJs, start behaving like professional radio presenters.

Jan Holden (by email)

Long way I HAVE just read a Euro Weekly News article about the increased number of people using Alicante airport.

A lot of this is due to the fact Jet2 are not using Murcia airport during the winter months, to the inconvenience of thousands of people living in the area.

Sadly my husband died a few years ago, but I still spend the winter months in La Manga. A few months ago when trying to book my flights for this winter I found none landed at Murcia and I was left with the only option of Alicante airport.

There are no Jet2 flights to Murcia until the end of March next year and none of the other airlines offer flights. Alicante is a good airport but there is no public transport down to La Manga and a taxi costs €120, so we are left

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with no choice but to hire a car which does not come cheap.

I hope you can print this letter as the loss of these flights affects a lot of people.

Phyllis Tyson, Cartagena (Murcia)

Christmas cheer ONCE again San Miguel de Salinas Social Services are asking for help with their Christmas campaign for the less fortunate of our local community.

There are over 70 families, all with at least three children up to the age of 17, registered with Social Services in the village.

They are asking for nonperishable foods along with some festive fare and toys so they can make up food parcels and gifts for Christmas and the Three Kings.

The main collection point is in the old town hall in San Miguel, but a number of local restaurants, bars and businesses have kindly agreed to be collection points.

These are Dolphin Properties, Captain Morgan’s Bar, Mirador Restaurant and The Nook. Social Services are asking for all items to be in to them by December 5 so they can be individually wrapped for each family and child.

With your kind help and donations we can make this appeal as successful as last year’s.

Trish Herbert, San Miguel de Salinas (Alicante).

How to vote REGISTERING to vote has changed in the UK. Whereas before each household had one form for everybody who lived in the property, each individual who is eligible now has to complete a form, giving address, full name, date of birth and NI number.

Those wanting to register for next year’s General Election (if still eligible) can do it online at www.gov.uk/register-to-vote.

You need your last address in the UK, full name, date of birth and NI number. You can apply for a proxy if you want, which is recommended as there may not be enough time to receive your ballot paper and return it.

They will respond by email with a reference number and the information they have sent the to your Local Authority.

Philip Bradley, Benijofar (Alicante)

The views expressed and opinions given in Letters are not necessarily those of the EWN publishers. They accept no responsibility for accuracy of information, errors, omissions or statements, and reject claims arising out of any action that a company or individual may take on the basis of information contained therein.

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Forgive and forget? Not likely!

LEAPY LEE SAYS IT OTHERS THINK IT

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UST had to happen, didn’t it? It was as predictable as the flowers in May or the X Factor judges using the word ‘amazing’ about a million times a show.

We are now being asked to feel sorry for some of these young toerags who left UK shores to side with the odious ISIS. “It’s not their fault,” cry the ‘uman rights brigade. It’s the media allowing the evil radicalizers to publicise their views that should be taking the blame for their terrorist temptations. What a load of pure unadulterated claptrap!

I don’t care how ‘fresh faced’, ‘well liked’ and ‘innocent’ these young men and women were.

They are evil psychopaths who have committed treason against the country that nurtured them

and partaken in unforgivable acts of satanic terrorism. If they return to British shores, all of them must be locked away for life. “Oh, but some of them are too frightened to come back,” wail the parents, who should, to my mind, be locked up as well.

The poor diddums have become fed up with sawing off people’s heads and shooting unarmed victims in the back.

“We wanna come home now, Mum.” Get back to how it all was before we decided to run off and kill people.

Well I’ve got news for them.

They have all forfeited their right to ever live among decent human beings again. They are the scum of the earth and so is anyone who supports them including the lawyers who are no doubt gathering like the vultures they are to once more bleed the British taxpayer out of millions, fighting cases that will no doubt drag on for years. If I had my way I’d lock them up as well. To me they are not much better than the non-human rubbish

they will be earning millions to defend.

Shouldn’t really be angry this week. Things are actually quite good. For the next two weeks I am appearing back in the old Motherland with shows as far apart as Norfolk and Blackpool. Channel 5’s OAPs Behaving Badly is coming over to film my Flying Curry Circus Christmas party on December 13. Venue to be announced. Plug plug! (Yes, I am doing it again, despite the fact that I’m still trying to live down the first one!) My double pneumonia is finally over and hopefully I don’t have prostate cancer. So it’s onward and upward.

Next week’s scribble will issue from the cold and windy shores of the old country, provided I don’t get stopped at the border!

Course I won’t, they let anyone in, don’t they!?

Keep the faith Love Leapy leapylee2002@gmail.com.

GATHERING: Lawyers, like vultures, to bleed the British taxpayer.

Picture credit - Botond Horvath / Shutterstock.com

A taxing tale of drugs, prostitutes and tobacco-smuggling in the EU Nora Johnson

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

To comment on any of the issues raised in her column, go to www.euroweeklynews.com/columnists/nora-johnson

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NSURPRISINGLY, a huge leap in UKIP support was reported following the £1.7 billion EU surcharge imposed on the UK to reflect the ‘black economy’ of illegal drugs, prostitution and tobaccosmuggling within its GDP. Now, this isn’t a molehill, it’s a mountain! The EU’s penalising the UK for having the most successful economy in the EU, whilst rewarding countries like France for being economic basket cases!

And as for the EU’s attempts to dismiss the problem by claiming these are the rules, no way! The

EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT: The EU needs deep reform. real issue is: how have the rules been interpreted and applied? It seems blindingly obvious different countries have different ways of operating. And that the UK has taken a more meticulous

approach to reporting income from such intangible sources as drugs, prostitution and tobaccosmuggling than Germany, France or Austria - all lined up for rebates. Or maybe failed to smell

a rat where others, more savvy, did?

Unfortunately, Britain is a land of rule-makers and administrators. Show it a rule, and it’ll be applied unquestioningly. Other countries decide on different criteria.

The real tragedy of the EU is that the shedloads of taxpayers’ money which have been and are still being wasted - on moving between Strasbourg and Brussels, bloated bureaucracy, pay and allowances, and duplicated diplomatic representation - would, spent sensibly under individual nations’ control, have resulted in greater prosperity and better defence against terrorists.

The EU is like a rudderless ship driven by ideology and holed below the waterline. Rather than make crucial structural repairs, it settles for quick-fixes and takes on more payload (regulation,

centralisation and bureaucracy) so guaranteeing it slinks further behind and deeper in the water.

And unless it endorses immediate reform - including reduction of bureaucracy and regulation, liberalisation of labour markets, overhaul of immigration controls - the UK runs the risk of going down with it.

Finally, let’s return to that £1.7 billion surcharge that, we’re told, now takes account of drugs, prostitution and tobaccosmuggling. Doesn’t this number somehow indicate the UK spends more on those items than basic foodstuffs? Given my own food bill, it seems some of my fellow citizens are having a lot more fun than me! What about you?

Nora Johnson’s thrillers Landscape of Lies, Retribution, Soul Stealer, The De Clerambault Code are available from Amazon and iBookstore. Profits to Cudeca. (www.nora-johnson.com)

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Through hard times to a sunny future… enjoy the Costa Blanca T

IMES have been hard. It has been tough to run a business, not just in Spain and the Costa Blanca, but all across Europe as the deepest recession for decades bit hard.

But people forget that even though many businesses have had a tough time, there are many, many more that have prospered, despite the economic climate being painted as all too gloomy over the last few years since 2007.

It is time to cast off the gloom of depression and instead look to the Costa Blanca for what it has always been good at success.

All along the coast, and inland too, there are many people who have put their money where their mouth is, worked hard and

By Nicole King POSITION, position, position is the secret of success and the Costa Blanca has that position.

Bathed by the Mediterranean Sea, the Costa Blanca covers over 200 kilometres of coastline either side of Alicante, enjoying on average 325 days of sunshine a year.

There are beaches to suit all tastes, mountains to climb, rivers to explore, marinas and yacht clubs, golf courses, sporting options and an infinite selection of culinary delights and entertainment options.

There’s truly a place for everyone, from hippie to yuppie, pauper to prince.

The weather brings

If you don’t make things happen then things will happen to you.’

Robert Collier SUCCESS: Look to the future with optimism. made a success of their lives and their businesses, This special Euro Weekly News supplement is to celebrate these men and women.

These businesspeople, men and women, young and old are a true inspiration. Through hard work, dedication and the courage in many cases to risk everything they had, they have not just pulled through, but gone on to prosper.

Not only have they built up thriving businesses, with the economic outlook finally looking up, they are in pole position to

move on to even better times for their businesses.

And we have a lot to thank

them for, every last one of those people who were willing to risk their hard earned money in the most difficult of times.

Countless people rely on them for their jobs.

The taxes they pay support the health services, the fire brigade, the police, schools and universities.

For those forward looking businessmen and women who have refused to be put off by recession, and instead looked at it as the right time to invest, now is the time for them to reap the rewards. And everyone else - their employees and their customers - will share in those rewards too.

So let us hear it for the successes, and let us look to the future with optimism.

Do you live to work or work to live?

The choice is yours… them all, the ocean enchants them and the magic of the Costa Blanca does the rest.

You can also get here by air, motorway, train, bus, boat, ocean liner - it couldn’t be easier. And it’s thanks to this everincreasing influx of foreigners from all over the world and accumulative

demand of services to cater to them that anyone with two entrepreneurial grey cells to rub together can find a way to make a living here.

The Costa Blanca is self propelled, adapting to the ever changing needs, providing the latest technological requirements and infrastructure, the

hospitals and schools to accommodate the swelling demand; generating better prospects for everyone.

No matter your status or financial situation, the attraction to live and work here is infectious.

Whether you’re a butcher, a baker or candlestick maker it’s better in the sun, by the sea or with

a mountain view. Without adopting the ‘mañana’ attitude, life is still more laid back, the days are longer and it’s harder to be stressed when you live in paradise; and we know it.

So much so that success is measured in a different way here on the Coast.

The objective of many businesses is not

necessarily to build up billions in the bank, expand or grow, rather to earn enough money to make a decent living whilst living permanently on holiday.

Even doing the same job or putting in the same hours, if not more, is more fun in the sun. Having a choice of earning big money in bad weather or getting by in a tropical paradise seems to be no contest for so very many.

Hotelier, tarot card reader, interpreter or designer, you choose there’s a market for everyone and if your motto is ‘work to live, rather than live to work,’ the Costa Blanca will be successful for you too.

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DFS Spain is more than just sofas DFS Spain

DFS SPAIN has been established in San Javier in the Murcia region since 2003 with the owners having been in the retail and furniture business since the mid 80’s.

DFS in the UK is best known for sofas and DFS Spain also has an extensive range, many of which are made locally.

Paul the owner said: “At DFS Spain we pride ourselves on our sofas and the quality of the products used.

“Our sofa beds have fantastic high quality mechanisms, our leathers are up to three times thicker than many of the imported leathers sold nowadays, and the fact that a lot are made in Spain means that lead times are shorter and sizes on certain models can be adjusted.”

The DFS Spain sofa collection comes in a wide range of styles, finishes and colours. Paul added: “The sofa is usually the largest piece of furniture in the lounge and therefore it can be an eyesore or a major feature within the property. The

DFS SPAIN: Hundreds of furniture and home ideas in their large showroom.

designer collection will add the ‘wow’ factor to any property and at prices that won’t break the bank.”

DFS also has a wide range of beds including storage and viscolastic (memory foam) beds: “The DFS Spain bed range has been created with the English person in mind, offering beds with English comfort and quality, whilst maintaining the features required for a bed to survive without problems in the Spanish climate.

“English made beds aren’t geared up to cope with excessive temperatures or humidity, but at DFS we combine the two

specifications to make comfortable, but also suitable beds for Spain.”

DFS Spain not only sell sofas but also a full range of furniture. The showroom has a selection of the vast ranges that are available, the majority being made in Spain, so whether you are looking for teak and oak furniture, a modern high gloss look or a more rustic, traditional feel, DFS Spain has it all and everything else you could want to complete and complement your home in Spain. An extensive range of garden furniture is also available.

If anyone wants any more information call in and see Paul and his highly experienced and knowledgeable team at DFS Spain in San Javier, just 400m from the centre of San Javier or visit their website to view a selection of the furniture packages available.

Great oaks from little acorns grow...

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HAT we know today as the beautiful Costa Blanca (White Coast) would have simply been referred to as ‘la costa’ (the coast) by locals and visitors prior to 1957.

In a moment of inspired creativity, some enterprising marketing ‘ideas’ man at the now defunct British European Airways devised the name ‘Costa Blanca’ as a promotional moniker for the launch of the airline’s new route between London and Valencia (the flight back then cost £38.16s in old money, and nowadays - thanks to the proliferation of budget airlines - flights at roughly the same price, but in today’s money, can sometimes be found).

The name - as we know - stuck, and it grabbed the imagination of tourists who began their invasion of the Costa Blanca in the late 50’s and early 60’s, forever changing the face of the 200-kilometre stretch of Spanish

N-332 San Javier Tel: 968 334 194 www.dfsspain.com mail@dfsspain.com

TOURISM GROWTH: Altea on the Costa Blanca. coastline.

The spark that ignited the tourism boom on the Costa Blanca was

Benidorm. A sleepy fishing village prior to the mid-50’s, the decline of the fishing industry

encouraged the town council to approve development plans to turn it into a major

tourist town. Hotels and high-rises went up, and Benidorm’s success as a tourist resort soon

spread to the surrounding areas. Thus was born the Costa Blanca that we know and love today.

British and German tourists in particular took to the charms of Costa Blanca, keen to escape the dreary weather of their own countries and flee - if only for a few days - to sunnier climes.

The same rings true today, and the nationality of tourists that visit each year is as wide-ranging as the attractions and destinations that the Costa Blanca has to offer.

The Costa Blanca is now one of the most popular tourist destinations in the world.

From Almeria to Alicante, Murcia to Denia, and Torrevieja to Javea, the Costa Blanca generates billions of euros each year for the Spanish economy thanks to generous tourist spending.

Spain’s Costa Blanca is most definitely a byword for the phrase: ‘Great oaks from little acorns grow.’

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Make Gold Rush your first choice when buying or selling jewellery EXPERT EYE: Cesar examines a diamond ring.

GOLD RUSH: home to unique pieces in Zenia Boulevard Guardia Civil is perfect,” said Cesar.

The secret to their success is no secret at all, they operate an honest and professional service and will value the whole item and not just the gold, as Cesar explains other companies will ignore antique and unique pieces of jewellery and their precious stones and simply go on the

weight of the gold. “This is criminal in my opinion and we will keep unique pieces for our own shop.” He added: “We also work as closely to trading prices as possible so there is not a large mark up, meaning buyers are getting great pieces at great value. It means we get more people wanting to sell to us as they get the best price and more

people wanting to buy from us as it is a sensible price.”

Jewellery repairs are also on hand through Paul’s expertise and knowledge as a jeweller. He can also create bespoke one-off pieces to a customer’s own design. Gold Rush is also proud to announce this month they

have joined forces with Metalgem in Alicante after Paul visited their factory and was so impressed with their professional use of the latest technology and 3D manufacturing of jewellery.

Meanwhile Cesar has just returned from New York and has purchased the best microscope for jewellery analysis on the market. It is so popular, Tiffany’s bought 300 in an instant, the moment it was launched. This unique piece of equipment allows customers to view on a small screen what Cesar sees. “We share information and I explain to them the process and value and answer any questions.”

Call 966 793 952, Torrevieja on 965 712 029, or call Quesada on 966 716 620.

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HONESTY and professionalism are behind the success of Gold Rush.

The store at Zenia Boulevard shopping centre has been serving clients wanting to buy and sell jewellery and gold pieces for over two years. Run and owned by businessman Cesar Ripanu and expert jeweller Paul Mentessi, the pair also have Gold Rush in the centre of Torrevieja and a store in Quesada.

The company works very closely with the Guardia Civil and Gold Rush strictly adheres to all laws and guidelines in place when running such a business.

When purchasing any items, the seller must provide identification and items are photographed and immediately sent to a police database to ensure they are not stolen. “I believe this helps make the neighbourhood safer and the communication we have with the

SPAIN: 2014 may turn out to be its best-ever year for tourism.

Costa Blanca ready for the boom as tourism breaks all the records TOURISM, powerhouse of the Costa Blanca’s economy, has started to boom again, meaning all those businesses that have worked hard through the recession are in a great position to benefit.

Spain attracted more than nine million foreign tourists during August. Not only is this the highest figure for a single month so far this year, but it also

sets the country up for what may turn out to be its best-ever year for tourism and give the economy a much-needed boost.

Estimates are that the country will have had more than 64 million tourist visits by the end of the year, many to the Costa Blanca, compared to 60.6 million in 2013.

Data released by the Ministry of Tourism show

that the number of foreign visitors registered an 8.8 per cent increase in August compared to 2013, totalling an unheard-of 9.07 million.

The welcome trend continued during September with more than seven million international holidaymakers choosing Spain over other tourist destinations around the world.

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Lumsden Auctions, often copied, never equalled LUMSDEN AUCTIONS are pleased to announce their collaboration with the leading online web portal for Professional Auctioneers, ATG Media.

ATG is a global pioneer of webcast and timed online auction platforms that operate the-saleroom.com, i-bidder. com, BidSpotter.co.uk and BidSpotter.eu as well as publishing the antiques industry bible and Antiques Trade Gazette since 1971.

This collaboration will allow Lumsden’s to sell larger commercial items, machinery, vehicles and entire stocks without moving them from the client’s premises, saving time and money on labour and transport to the Auction Centre in Formentera del Segura.

This, coupled with global advertising through the ATG Media network to a database of over 350,000 active buyers, will ensure the best market price for the client’s items.

LUMSDEN AUCTIONS: Leading auction house in Formentera del Segura.

Lumsden Auctions also now have www.flogit.es offering live webcast, online timed auctions and classified adverts free to list. Live webcasts allows buyers not able to get to the auction to watch and bid in real time.

These are traditional sales conducted by an auctioneer that take place at an

auction venue. Lots appear on your screen as they are offered in the sale and your bids are instantly relayed to the auctioneer.

Timed auctions are online only auctions. Bids are placed over a defined time period and the highest bidder at the end of the bidding period is successful.

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Lumsden Auctions aim to be the first commercial auctioneers in southern Spain to have live webcast weekly auctions, thanks to professional software developer www.marcdonaldson.com.

Lumsden’s also have a free weekly online catalogue for viewing every lot in the auction that week with a photo and description, including a search facility, available from 3pm every Thursday (registration required) Lumsden Auctions services include: weekly catalogued general auctions with over 800 lots; collections and deliveries by experienced professional and fully insured staff; comprehensive clearance services for whole contents or a single item; business clearance; free inspections and valuations for sale by auction; fast pay-out with full documentation and inventory of goods sold; onsite service where we operate the auction on client’s premises.

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SaludDent offer the best in dental care A GREAT smile brings success and SaludDent’s success is achieving that perfect smile for their hundreds of clients.

There is no smile more friendly and welcoming than that of dentist Dr. Nadia Ferro. A fully qualified dentist since 2008, she can transform your smile at her clinic SaludDent in Torrevieja near Playa Lomas.

Realising that a trip to the dentist is not everyone’s preferred choice, Dr. Nadia is friendly and calming and, joined by dental nurse Monica Lindberg, the pair instantly put patients at ease with relaxing music and candles in the clinic.

She said: “Dentistry is relatively painless now, with anaesthetics used, the only slight discomfort is the prick of

PROFESSIONAL TEAM: Dr. Nadia and Monica.

the needle from the anaesthetic.” With a team of three, the clinic covers all aspects of dentistry and oral care.

They have specialists in dentures and surgery and Dr. Nadia herself specialises in root fillings and also attends a clinic in Alicante twice a week, especially for these procedures.

For the young professional, there was never any other vocation of choice except for dentistry, following in her father’s footsteps: “I wanted to be a dentist since I was little, I remember playing with my father’s equipment

and pretending to be a dentist when I was young.”

It is the sort of passion and pride that had led to the success of the practice and hundreds of happy clients.

SaludDent prides itself on the quality of products and materials it uses, making it stand out from the rest.

This makes sense, especially for things like fillings, why would you choose anything but the best to be a permanent fixture in your mouth, something you use every day? They have quickly built up a strong reputation in the area for offering quality dental care. Working a lot with patients who are on holiday or here for a short time, they ensure there is a quick turnaround with any

treatments required being booked in and carried out quickly and efficiently so there is no waiting.

SaludDent offer free initial consultations with quality time being spent with patients and same day emergency appointments are always available with the clinic open Monday to Friday from 9.30am-7pm without closing for siesta.

The team are multilingual and have many British and Scandinavian clients.

SaludDent Ctr. Del Torrejon/Avda Alfredo Nobel Urb Lomas Playa 111 Plt Baja 112 La Mata-Torrevieja Tel: 966 704 277

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Go solar with Solar Directa FOR 10 years, Solar Directa has been successfully solving the solar power needs of customers across the Valencia and Murcia regions.

Owner Keith Owen set up the company after buying a finca in the middle of nowhere. With no electricity supply, he needed to look at other options and sourced solar energy. With a strong technical background having worked for the gas board in the UK when he was younger, he researched and installed the best products and methods to meet his needs. This served very much as a trial run and with his fellow remote neighbours asking about his success with solar power, he installed solar in their homes and Solar Directa was born.

Offering solar hot water systems for domestic use and thermal heating of water and solar electrical systems, Keith is fully professional, legal and proficient in the industry. Having been around for a decade he believes the secret of his success is his commitment to being open and honest, especially when it comes to being realistic about what customers can expect from a solar system and what sort

of system will work for them: “I tend to undersell rather than oversell. The average house uses 300-400 watts of energy, so why put in a system five times bigger than what is really needed?”

Solar power can be a complementary method to work alongside existing forms of electricity and hot water to reduce bills or users can be completely self-sufficient and go off grid but again, Keith is honest with clients: “A lot of people want to go off grid and produce enough to sell back into the grid, but the truth is to do this it costs around €2,000 and can take up to two years to legalise it. People also still believe there is a grants system in place for installing solar and there is, but the pot is empty, so again, it can take years to get any form of grant or money back.” He added: “Recently we had a client who was quoted €30,000 by Iberdrola to get electricity to their property, but we were able to do an installation for €17,000 and they will never get an electricity bill again, so solar really

is the affordable way forward.”

Solar Directa use only the best European products with full factory warranties and are happy to make a free on site visit to discuss and explain

the various solar systems and what would best suit your needs. Solar systems start from €1,500 and, operating from Torrevieja to Mojacar and inland, they will also beat any like for like written quotation so call now.

Solar Directa Tel: 659 315 130 www.solar directa.com

SOLAR DIRECTA: Keith offers the best products at the best price.

Rivingtons Restaurant Rivingtons has been recognised as a top performing restaurant as reviewed by travellers on the world’s largest travel site, TripAdvisor®.

Rivingtons is a developing family run business on the boundary of Guardamar Del Segura, next to Camping International La Marina, leading to the beautiful beach of Playa del Rebollo.

Steven and Anita Jones, a dynamic brother and sister partnership, established the restaurant in October 2012.

Steven brings extensive experience having managed a number of bars and restaurants in England and in the French Alps, giving him an excellent grounding in European cuisine, reflected in his menus.

Anita brings a public service background providing a friendly, welcoming service.

Fresh food is prepared to order from the extensive Tapas and Lunch menu, A la carte options or Menu del Dia. The regular clientele is

RIVINGTONS: A family run business. multi-national, which mirrors the cosmopolitan

approach adopted by the restaurant.

Tel: 966 727 748

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Dr. W.H.O? ALGORFA CHIROPRACTIC: Dr Dutey-Harispe D.C and members of his team.

increased, as the whole body is performing at its maximum potential.

All nationalities are treated and at the Algorfa Chiropractic Clinic, they use a specific chiropractic principle called W.H.O (with hands only).

In addition to chiropractic, the clinic also treats patients for smoking addiction with acupuncture. So if you have decided that you would like to give up smoking, but need some help,

then the clinic can offer a treatment programme which will not only stop you smoking, it will also help manage the possible anxieties, weight gain and other side effects at the same time.

Algorfa Chiropractic Clinic, Carretera Almoradi, No.18, Bajo, Algorfa Tel: 965 071 898 / 618 337 616 www.chiropractorspain.com

Made in Costa Blanca THE Costa Blanca has come up with its fair share of famous people over the years. Well known personalities born locally include: Arturo Perez Reverte best-selling author in Spain and best-selling Spanish author in the world - was born in Cartagena, Murcia in 1951. He began his career as a reporter and worked for Spanish broadcasters RTVE as a war correspondent before turning to writing.

Daniel Martin - born in 1935 in Cartagena, Murcia and christened Jose Martinez Martinez - was an actor known for his roles in a number of spaghetti westerns including A Fistful of Dollars (1964). He died in Zaragoza, Spain in 2009.

Jose Crespo Ferez nicknamed The Spanish Valentino - was born in Murcia in 1900. In 1928 he moved to Hollywood and worked on Spanish films for Twentieth Century Fox, becoming a close friend of

Charlie Chaplin during this time.

Jose Antonio Camacho - born in Cieza, Murcia, in 1955 this Spanish football lover played with Real Madrid Football Club for 15 years before becoming a manager, working with a number of teams including the national Spain and China teams.

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analysis is free of charge.

Dr Dutey-Harispe D.C carries out a full examination to determine where the source of pain is coming from and then treats the ‘root cause,’ not the symptoms. All of the body’s organs are regulated by the nervous system.

That is why it is vital to correct any misalignments to prevent diseases which can occur during our lifetime.

Correction of any misalignments in the spine will result in optimal health for the patient.

The clinic also treats numerous patients who participate in sport, particularly, golf, tennis and football.

Generally, they have sustained injuries as a result of the repetitive nature of the sport and following treatment, not only have the injuries healed, but the patient’s energy levels have also

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CHIROPRACTIC is a gentle and natural way to good health. Years or months of poor posture can create serious spinal problems. Falls, poor posture and even childbirth can cause problems that can be accentuated in adulthood but chiropractic care can help. The British Medical Journal has quoted that 93 per cent of patients with spinal problems are satisfied with chiropractic treatment.

The main goal of Chiropractic treatment is to help people reach their fullest potential (mentally, emotionally, intellectually, physically, socially and spiritually) by having a nervous system free of interference.

A chiropractor is able to keep your spine free of interference so your body can begin and continue to heal itself naturally as it was designed to do.

Dr Dutey-Harispe D.C from Algorfa Chiropractic Clinic graduated from the Palmer College of Chiropractic in the USA. He can ascertain a lot from a person’s posture and the clinic’s posture screening programme is very informative for the patient and the

ABOVE: Jose Antonio Camacho played with Real Madrid FC. LEFT: Arturo Perez Reverte is a bestselling author.

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Quesada Fitness Gym and Dance Studio celebrate their 1st anniversary IN 2011, when the owner of Quesada Fitness Gym and Dance Studio: Boxing and MMA Club, Vivienne Shepherd, lay in intensive care for five weeks with heart failure, she believed her active life was over.

She sold her Investment Research Company of 30 years and made the decision to come to her house in Spain a couple of times a year.

The back story of how her health was restored whilst being trained by Santiago Lopez is now well documented, but how the first 12 months has developed is incredible and against all the odds.

Vivienne said “With no previous leisure, marketing or advertising experience, this journey has been a huge learning curve for Michael Harris and I. Somehow, my past business expertise and Michael’s IT and engineering experience

MEMBERS: Have strongly supported the gym in its first year.

just clicked into turning the gym around, although it has taken a lot of investment in both time and money.

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“On being invited to feature in EWN’s Costa Blanca Success, we thought WOW! Scanning through the photographs over

the last 12 months it became apparent that we had achieved milestones at least weekly during our first year of trading.

“The pictures on our advertisement capture some of these and are memorable for us all. Our success has been achieved by being professional and having all the legal requirements, licences and

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“We train hard, we train seriously, but with fun and encouragement and in consideration of all fitness capabilities.”

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Serving customers around the Orihuela Costa, they offer a full range of hot and cold air conditioning systems, with a range of languages being spoken by staff. Largely serving the English and Scandinavian community, Viking Aircon promises the best products with a first-rate

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Dedicated to providing you with the perfect comfort solution for your home, with outstanding quality, Viking Aircon are happy to do a free on-site survey and visit to access your needs and

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As well as being specialists in airconditioning, the company also offers a comprehensive range of services including under floor heating, a system becoming more widely available and popular for heating a home, as well as solar power and radiator systems.

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Life will be easier, they said Mike Walsh Mike, based in Mediterranean Spain, is an international journalist, author and professional writer.

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am of the generation that looks back with fond memories at the simplicity of life in the 50’s and 60’s. If you received a bill you wrote out a cheque, shoved it in the reply paid envelope and popped it in the letterbox. What has since happened?

I will tell you: They said computers would make our lives easier. We receive a €20 subscription renewal payable online.

Logging on, the complexity of navigation make progress virtually impossible. We finally reach ‘pay’ but our troubles are only just beginning.

Our bank, in its lack of wisdom, now require online payments to be authorised by using codes printed on the back of a plastic card: Fail. Although assured our cards were kosher we now find ours had been wrongly registered. Before a replacement card solution is arrived at, a series of computer hurdles that would try the patience of a NASA scientist.

Our internet service provider messes up their accounts. As a consequence an

incorrect payment anomaly shows up. No, they don’t sort out their problem. They need bank approved proof of our payments to satisfy them that we have indeed paid.

This necessitates several time-consuming trips between the bank and the service supplier’s offices.

Henry Ford was wasting his time when he said, ‘if it aint broke don’t fix it.’ A basic can-opener was in the kitchen drawer throughout my young life. A simple device of a type used since before the Zulu Wars.

This simple functional implement today is an all singing and dancing model, but as useless as a walking stick with a wheel on it.

When Phileas Fogg went on his 80 Days Around the World odyssey a traveller could catch a train at Liverpool Lime Street and be in Manchester quicker than he can today. Purchasing a ticket was far easier.

You simply bought it from the teller. You now have a formidable series of computerised and highly confusing procedures to negotiate.

The number of illegal non-European immigrants in the UK is estimated in the millions. Although I am born and bred British I cannot take my Spanish resident Central European wife to see our family in

Britain. The costs and complexities of a visa to visit this offshore European island are far too onerous.

In simpler times, the RAF brought rebellious Iraq and Afghanistan to their knees by dropping £5 bombs on their £1 peasants huts. Today, the RAF fails to defeat these ‘tribesmen’ with the FGR4 Typhoon fighter that cost £17.6 billion to develop, priced at £110 million each and cost £3,875 an hour to demolish the same peasant’s hut. This week, hapless Britain wash their hands of their débâcle.

Talking of washing one’s hands, whilst browsing in my medical centre I check out a 10 illustration diagram instructing me how to wash my hands. Yes, life will be easier they lied.

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4:00pm The Catalina Caper 5:40pm Operation Secret 7:40pm Behold a Pale Horse 10:00pm Queen of the Damned 11:55pm F/X 2:05am Queen of the Damned

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BBC ONE 7:00am Breakfast The latest news, sport, business and weather from the BBC's Breakfast team. 10:15am Saturday Kitchen Live 11:45am The Lord Mayor's Show 1:10pm BBC News 1:20pm Football Focus 2:10pm Rugby League Tanya Arnold presents highlights of England's Four Nations fixture with New Zealand.

BBC TWO 7:00am Animal Park 7:30am Rugby League 10:20am World War One - Beyond the Trenches 10:25am The Private Life of Plants 11:15am Map Man 11:45am James Martin: Home Comforts 12:15pm Exploring China: A Culinary Adventure 1:15pm Astaire and Rogers Sing George and Ira Gershwin 1:30pm That's Entertainment! 3

ITV 8:20am Signed Stories: Share a Story 8:25am Sooty 8:35am Mr. Bean 8:50am The Matt Hatter Chronicles 9:15am Horrid Henry 9:30am The Munch Box 10:25am ITV News 10:30am The Hungry Sailors 11:25am Murder, She Wrote 12:20pm ITV News and Weather 12:25pm Storage Hoarders 1:30pm Surprise Surprise 2:30pm All Star Family Fortunes

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CH4 7:05am NFL 7:30am Mobil 1 The Grid 8:00am Asics Outrun the Sun 9:00am The Morning Line 10:00am Weekend Kitchen with Waitrose 11:00am Frasier 11:30am Everybody Loves Raymond 12:00pm The Big Bang Theory 12:30pm The Big Bang Theory 1:00pm The Simpsons 1:30pm Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. 2:30pm Channel 4 Racing

CH5 9:15am Wanda and the Alien 9:30am Zack and Quack 9:40am Ben and Holly's Little Kingdom 10:00am Jelly Jamm 10:15am LazyTown 10:45am Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 11:20am Gibraltar: Britain in the Sun 12:15pm Can't Pay? We'll Take it Away!

1:15pm Alex Polizzi's Secret Italy 2:20pm The Santa Suit

SATURDAY TV

SKY 1 7:00am Are You Smarter Than a 10 Year Old? 8:00am Glee 9:00am The Fantasy Football Club 10:00am The F1 Show 11:00am Soccer A.M. 1:00pm World Wrestling Entertainment Superstars 2:00pm The Judge Special 2:30pm The Maze Runner Movie Special Alex Zane chats to the cast of teen sci-fi hit The Maze Runner.

3pm 3:00pm Rugby Union 5:30pm Final Score Jason Mohammad introduces all the day's football results along with reports and reaction from the big games

3:20pm Easter Parade Charming Irving Berlin musical about a despondent dancer who, ditched by his partner, sets about making a star of a chorus girl.

3:15pm Doc Martin Louisa has some new and very annoying neighbours.

5:00pm Flog It!

4:20pm Keep it in the Family 5:20pm Evan Almighty

6:00pm Rugby Union

7:05pm ITV News London

5:00pm Come Dine with Me 5:30pm Come Dine with Me

4:00pm An Old Fashioned Christmas 5:45pm Gifts for Christmas Yuletide drama updating the classic O Henry short story.

3:00pm The Middle 3:30pm The Middle 4:00pm All Aboard: East Coast Trains 5:00pm All Aboard: East Coast Trains

6pm 6:20pm BBC News The latest national and international news from the BBC.

6:30pm BBC London News 6:40pm Pointless 7:30pm Strictly Come Dancing

Gabby Logan presents live coverage from Murrayfield as Scotland's autumn internationals campaign gets under way against Argentina.

Regional news update for the capital and the South East, plus local weather.

8:30pm Dad's Army

7:15pm ITV News and Weather 7:30pm You've Been Framed!

8:00pm The Chase: Celebrity Special

9:00pm A Culture Show Special 10:00pm F1: Grand Prix Qualifying 11:30pm QI XL

9:00pm The X Factor 10:45pm The Jonathan Ross Show 11:45pm ITV News and Weather

6:00pm Come Dine with Me 6:35pm Come Dine with Me 7:05pm Come Dine with Me 7:35pm Channel 4 News 8:05pm Speed with Guy Martin

7:25pm The Christmas Heart

9:00pm Walking Through History

9:05pm The Case for Christmas

Festive family drama about a tight-knit community of neighbours who put their 40year tradition of lighting Christmas lanterns on hold when a local boy urgently needs a heart transplant.

6:00pm Portrait Artist of the Year 2014 Frank Skinner and Joan Bakewell begin their hunt for the Portrait Artist of the Year.

7:00pm The Simpsons 7:30pm The Simpsons 8:00pm NCIS: Los Angeles

9pm 9:00pm Doctor Who 10:00pm The National Lottery Live 10:10pm The Royal British Legion Festival of Remembrance 11:45pm BBC News

Quiz show in which the aim is to be interesting.

Stephen Fry looks at a list of L-themed larks - a 'liblabble', as he calls it. With the Reverend Richard Coles, Sara Pascoe, Bill Bailey and Alan Davies.

Steve Scott with the latest headlines from around the world.

12:15am TOTP 2 1:15am Walkabout 2:50am Harlequin 4:25am This is BBC Two Highlights of programmes on BBC Two.

12:05am The Kingdom 2:10am Jackpot247 4:00am The Jeremy Kyle Show USA 4:40am ITV Nightscreen

BBC THREE

BBC FOUR

8:00pm World's Craziest Fools 8:30pm Rugby Union 9:30pm Great Movie Mistakes IV: May the Fourth be with You 10:00pm Sherlock 11:30pm Bad Education 12:00am Family Guy 12:25am Family Guy 2:15am Life is Toff 2:45am Sweat the Small Stuff 3:15am The Revolution Will be Televised 3:45am Snow, Sex and Suspicious Parents 4:45am In Deep 5:00am This is BBC Three

The latest national and international news from the BBC.

Judi Dench, Bill Nighy and Maggie Smith are among the impressive ensemble cast of this gentle comedy-drama from Captain Corelli's Mandolin director John Madden.

Festive courtroom drama.

10:55pm 5 News Weekend 11:00pm Live Boxing

9:00pm Hawaii Five-0 The Five-0 track down three female thieves behind a robbery gone wrong.

10:00pm X-Men

Coverage of the final of Britain's newest boxing competition, the MaxiNutrition Knockout.

Adaptation of the long-running Marvel comic book series.

12:25am On the Road 3:00am Hollyoaks Omnibus 5:05am Location, Location, Location

1:00am Gotham 1:55am Super Casino 4:10am Benidorm ER 5:00am House Doctor 5:25am Make it Big 5:50am Make it Big

12:00am Night Cops 1:00am Costa Del Street Crime 1:30am Costa Del Street Crime 2:00am Hawaii Five-0 3:00am Starlings 4:00am Starlings 5:00am Nothing to Declare 5:30am Nothing to Declare

ITV2

ITV3

ITV4

E4

8:00pm Swarm: Nature's Incredible Invasions 9:00pm Maps: Power, Plunder and Possession 10:00pm Inspector Montalbano 11:40pm Top of the Pops 12:10am Time Shift 1:10am Top of the Pops 2:00am Country at the BBC 3:00am Lionel Richie: Dancing on the Ceiling 4:00am Maps: Power, Plunder and Possession 5:00am This is BBC Four

7:00am Emmerdale Omnibus 9:35am Coronation Street Omnibus 12:00pm I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here Now! Crown Jewels 1:00pm Honey 3:00pm The Little Vampire 4:50pm You've Been Framed!

5:20pm You've Been Framed!

6:50pm Valiant 8:25pm Twister 10:45pm The Xtra Factor 11:45pm Celebrity Juice 12:35am Tricked 1:35am The X Factor 3:10am Dads

7:10am World Kitchen 7:35am Agatha Christie's Marple 9:40am The Royal 10:40am The Royal 11:45am The Darling Buds of May 2:10pm Goodnight Mister Tom 4:20pm 1914 All Out 6:00pm Housewife 49 7:55pm Rosemary and Thyme 9:00pm Doc Martin 10:00pm Midsomer Murders 12:00am A Touch of Frost 1:40am Bomb Girls 2:35am World Kitchen 3:00am ITV3 Nightscreen

7:00am Cheers 8:00am The Professionals 9:00am Motorsport UK 10:00am Bundesliga 11:05am UEFA Champions League Weekly 11:35am Magnum, P.I. 12:40pm Kojak 1:45pm Snooker 6:15pm Highway Patrol 6:40pm Ronnie O'sullivan: Sports Life Stories 7:45pm Snooker 12:15am Horsemen of the Apocalypse 2:10am The Professionals 3:10am Cheers

7:00am Smallville 7:45am The 100 8:30am Happy Endings 11:00am Rules of Engagement 1:30pm Brooklyn Nine-Nine 2:00pm Melissa and Joey 3:00pm Made in Chelsea 4:00pm Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who 5:45pm Rude(Ish) Tube Shorts 6:00pm How I Met Your Mother 7:00pm The Big Bang Theory 10:00pm The Hole 12:00am The Inbetweeners 1:05am How I Met Your Mother 2:05am Rules of Engagement

Comedy

Crime

Drama

10:00pm The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

12am 12:00am Match of the Day 1:20am The Football League Show 2:00am Steal 3:20am Weather for the Week Ahead 3:25am BBC News

SKY MOVIES Action 5:15am In the Line of Duty: Smoke Jumpers 7:00am The Lone Ranger Unmasked 7:30am The Lone Ranger 10:05am White House Down 12:30pm Deep Blue Sea 2:30pm The Top Ten Show 2014 2:50pm Last Action Hero 5:10pm The Karate Kid 7:25pm The Lone Ranger A lawman and his Comanche Indian sidekick embark upon a quest for justice across the American West.

10:00pm White House Down 12:15am Deep Blue Sea 2:15am Miami Vice 4:40am The Karate Kid

5:10am Heaven Can Wait 7:00am The World's End Special 7:30am The Dukes of Hazzard 9:20am Weird Science 11:05am The Heat 1:10pm Wedding Crashers 3:20pm The Top Ten Show 2014 3:35pm Bean 5:20pm 13 Going on 30 7:05pm The Dukes of Hazzard 9:00pm The Heat 11:10pm Wedding Crashers 1:20am Boat Trip 3:05am A Very Harold and Kumar Christmas 4:50am Saving Mr. Banks Special 5:20am Bean

5:15am Deep Family Secrets 7:00am Pain and Gain: Sky Movies Special 7:20am Derailed 9:20am Trance 11:15am The Call 1:05pm The Bone Collector 3:15pm The Sum of All Fears 5:30pm Zero Dark Thirty 8:20pm The Call 10:00pm The Bone Collector 12:05am Trance 1:55am The Canyons 3:45am Derailed 5:40am Malpractice

5:55am The Secret Life of Walter Mitty: Special 6:15am The Elf That Rescued Christmas 7:35am Look Who's Talking Now! 9:20am Ernest Saves Christmas 11:00am The Santa Clause 2 12:50pm Miracle on 34th Street 2:50pm Die Hard 5:05pm The Top Ten Show 2014 5:20pm The Santa Clause 2 7:10pm Sleepless in Seattle 9:00pm Miracle on 34th Street 11:00pm Die Hard 1:15am Jack Frost 3:00am Look Who's Talking Now! 4:45am Holiday Inn

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5:20am The Good Witch's Wonder 7:00am Pete's Christmas 8:35am The Good Witch's Wonder 10:15am Getaway 12:00pm Aftermath 1:40pm Pete's Christmas 3:15pm The Good Witch's Wonder 4:55pm Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom 7:25pm Pete's Christmas 9:00pm Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom 11:30pm Getaway 1:15am Aftermath 3:05am American Mary 5:05am The Internship Special 5:20am The Good Witch's Wonder

6:00am The Catalina Caper 7:30am Gunsmoke 8:30am Gunsmoke 9:45am Operation Secret 11:45am Behold a Pale Horse 2:00pm April in Paris 4:00pm The Golden Idol 5:25pm Killer Leopard 6:50pm Bomba in Sabu and the Magic Ring 8:05pm The Command 10:00pm The Perfect Storm 12:30am No Good Deed 2:35am The Perfect Storm 4:50am Fangs of the Arctic

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BBC ONE 7:00am Breakfast The latest news, sport, business and weather from the BBC's Breakfast team. 8:35am Match of the Day Gary Lineker presents highlights from all of Saturday's Premier League fixtures. 10:00am The Andrew Marr Show 11:25am Remembrance Sunday: The Cenotaph 1:25pm Sunday Politics 2:40pm BBC News 2:55pm FA Cup Final Score

BBC TWO 7:00am Life in a Cottage Garden with Carol Klein 7:30am Great British Garden Revival 8:30am Countryfile 9:30am World War One Beyond the Trenches 10:00am The Football League Show 10:40am Saturday Kitchen Best Bites 12:10pm Exploring China: A Culinary Adventure 1:10pm The A to Z of TV Cooking 1:15pm MOTD2 Extra 2:00pm Rugby Union

ITV 8:20am Signed Stories: Share a Story 8:25am Sooty 8:35am Mr. Bean 8:50am Ultimate Spider-Man 9:15am Horrid Henry 9:30am Big Time Rush 10:00am The Aquabats! Super Show! 10:25am Dickinson's Real Deal 11:25am Murder, She Wrote 12:25pm ITV News and Weather 12:35pm Carry on Screaming 2:25pm All Star Family Fortunes

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CH4 7:45am How I Met Your Mother 8:10am How I Met Your Mother 8:35am FIM Superbike World Championship 9:00am Everybody Loves Raymond 9:30am Frasier Niles decides to stand up to Maris. So she decides to divorce him.

10:00am Jamie's Comfort Food 10:30am Sunday Brunch 1:35pm George Clarke's Amazing Spaces 2:35pm The Big Bang Theory

CH5 9:45am Ben and Holly's Little Kingdom 10:00am Jelly Jamm 10:20am LazyTown 10:45am Pip Ahoy! 11:00am Milkshake Monkey 11:05am The Mr. Men Show 11:20am Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 11:55am 5 News Special 12:05pm Access 12:15pm Criminals: Caught on Camera 12:40pm Police Interceptors 1:40pm Getting Even with Dad

SUNDAY TV

SKY 1 7:00am The Hour of Power 8:00am Are You Smarter Than a 10 Year Old? 9:00am Glee 10:00am Inside Gatwick 11:00am World Wrestling Entertainment Superstars 12:00pm WWE Experience 1:00pm Ashley Banjo's Secret Street Crew 2:00pm The Middle 2:30pm The Middle

3pm 5:20pm Songs of Praise Live from Aldershot, the home of the British Army, with traditional hymns and guest soloist Michael Ball. Introduced by Bill Turnbull.

3:00pm Tennis Sue Barker hosts live coverage from the opening day of the ATP World Tour Finals from the O2 Arena in London.

6:00pm Flog it! Trade Secrets Tips on antiques and collectibles.

3:15pm The Unforgettable...

3:45pm The X Factor 5:30pm Downton Abbey Period drama following the lives of the aristocratic Crawley family and their servants.

3:05pm The Big Bang Theory 3:30pm The Simpsons 4:00pm The Addams Family Values Black comedy sequel.

3:50pm Cats and Dogs 5:30pm The Polar Express Computer-animated family adventure. A young boy who does not believe in Santa Claus is shocked to see a train stop outside his window on Christmas Eve destined for the North Pole.

3:00pm All Aboard: East Coast Trains 4:00pm All Aboard: East Coast Trains 5:00pm The Simpsons 5:30pm Modern Family

6pm 6:00pm Life Story 6:35pm BBC London News 6:45pm Life Story โ ข 7:00pm BBC News 7:20pm Regional News and Weather 7:30pm Countryfile 8:45pm Strictly Come Dancing

6:30pm Remembrance Sunday: The Cenotaph 7:30pm Match of the Day - FA Cup Highlights Manish Bhasin introduces highlights from the first round of the FA Cup.

6:35pm Tipping Point 7:30pm ITV News London 7:45pm ITV News and Weather 8:00pm Keep it in the Family

6:00pm Channel 4 News

9:00pm The X Factor Results Show 10:00pm Downton Abbey 11:30pm ITV News and Weather 11:45pm Broadmoor

9:00pm Speed with Guy Martin 10:00pm Homeland 11:05pm Contraband

Includes sport and weather.

6:30pm American Football Live at Wembley The third and final match of 2014's recordbreaking run of sell-out NFL games in London.

7:20pm 5 News Weekend 7:25pm Superman Oscar-winning fantasy based on the classic comic strip, portraying the early years of the man of steel, from his birth on the planet Krypton to his arrival on Earth and the first of his epic battles with the arch-criminal Lex Luthor.

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

9pm 9:30pm F1: Grand Prix 11:00pm BBC News The latest national and international news, with reports from BBC correspondents worldwide.

11:20pm BBC London News 11:30pm Match of the Day 2

9:00pm The Mekong River with Sue Perkins 10:00pm Police Under Pressure 11:00pm Rugby League

Two-part documentary about Broadmoor Hospital.

Baltasar Kormรกkur's heist caper stars Mark Wahlberg, Kate Beckinsale and Giovanni Ribisi.

10:00pm The MTV Ema 2014 From Glasgow Star-studded awards ceremony celebrating some of the hottest stars in the music industry, live from the Hydro in Glasgow. Hosted by Nicki Minaj and featuring performances from big names including Ariana Grande, Calvin Harris and Ed Sheeran.

9:00pm Modern Family 9:30pm Trollied 10:00pm Hawaii Five-0 Chin puts his entire career on the line to help Danno save his brother's life.

11:00pm NCIS: Los Angeles

12am 12:00am Russell Howard's Good News 12:30am Alpha Dog 2:20am Countryfile 3:20am Holby City 4:15am This is BBC Two

12:45am Rugby Highlights 1:40am The Store 3:30am Motorsport UK 4:20am The Jeremy Kyle Show USA 5:05am ITV Nightscreen

1:15am Alan Carr: Chatty Man 2:10am NFL 5:45am Mobil 1 The Grid

12:00am Most Shocking Moments in Pop 2:50am Super Casino 4:10am The Gadget Show 5:00am House Doctor 5:25am Make it Big 5:50am Make it Big

12:00am Trollied 12:30am Road Wars 1:00am Big Trouble in Thailand 2:00am Costa Del Street Crime 2:30am Costa Del Street Crime 3:30am Spy 4:00am The Kumars 5:00am Nothing to Declare 5:30am Nothing to Declare

BBC THREE

BBC FOUR

ITV2

ITV3

ITV4

E4

8:00pm Doctor Who 8:15pm Doctor Who 9:15pm Shanghai Knights 11:00pm Family Guy 11:25pm Family Guy 11:45pm Life is Toff 12:15am American Dad! 12:40am American Dad! 1:00am Sweat the Small Stuff 1:30am The Revolution Will be Televised 2:00am Snow, Sex and Suspicious Parents 3:00am Life is Toff 3:30am People Like Us 4:30am Life is Toff 5:00am This is BBC Three

8:00pm The Great War 8:40pm The Great War 9:20pm Britain's Wild Places 9:30pm Sounds of the 70s 10:00pm Brian Cox: Space, Time and Videotape 11:00pm Cosmos: A Personal Voyage 11:50pm The Day After Tomorrow: Into Infinity 12:40am The Day the Universe Changed 1:30am The Heart of Country: How Nashville Became Music City USA 3:00am Country Queens at the BBC 4:00am John Denver: Country Boy 5:00am This is BBC Four

7:00am You've Been Framed!

7:25am Emmerdale Omnibus 10:05am Coronation Street Omnibus 12:30pm The X Factor 2:15pm The Xtra Factor 3:15pm 100% You've Been Framed!

4:15pm You've Been Framed!

5:20pm Despicable Me 7:10pm Jurassic Park III 9:00pm Scorpion 10:00pm The Xtra Factor 11:00pm Little Man 12:55am I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry 3:10am The Vampire Diaries

7:00am World Kitchen 7:25am A Touch of Frost 9:15am Columbo 10:50am Heartbeat 12:55pm Inspector Morse 2:55pm Rosemary and Thyme 4:00pm A Touch of Frost 6:00pm Columbo 8:00pm Lewis 10:00pm The One and Only Cilla 11:30pm An Audience with Barry Manilow 12:30am The Life of David Gale 3:00am William and Mary 3:50am Judge Judy 4:30am ITV3 Nightscreen

8:00am Cheers 8:30am Border Security USA 9:30am Minder 10:35am Magnum, P.I. 12:40pm Kojak 1:45pm Snooker 6:15pm Cheers 6:40pm Sports Life Stories 7:45pm Snooker 12:15am Born to Raise Hell 2:20am Jean Claude Van Damme: Behind Closed Doors 3:20am Tommy Cooper 3:50am ITV4 Nightscreen 4:00am Teleshopping

8:35am The Mindy Project 9:00am How I Met Your Mother 10:00am Melissa and Joey 10:55am Hollyoaks Omnibus 1:30pm Made in Chelsea 2:35pm The Mindy Project 3:00pm Space Chimps 4:40pm Rude(Ish) Tube Shorts 4:55pm New Girl 6:00pm The Big Bang Theory 9:00pm St. Trinian's 2: The Legend of Fritton's Gold 11:05pm The Inbetweeners 12:15am Drifters 12:50am Rude Tube

Comedy

Crime

Drama

12:50am The Apprentice 1:50am LYMELIFE Darkly comic drama about unhappy families.

3:20am Weather for the Week Ahead Detailed weather forecast. 3:25am BBC News

SKY MOVIES Action 4:40am The Karate Kid 7:00am Sahara 9:15am Fury Special 9:45am Hulk 12:10pm 47 Ronin An outcast joins a band of masterless samurai to wreak revenge against an evil feudal ruler.

2:20pm Sahara 4:30pm The Karate Kid, Part II 6:35pm Hulk 9:00pm 47 Ronin 11:00pm Kick-Ass 2 12:55am Resident Evil: Apocalypse 2:35am Hammer of the Gods 4:20am Kick-Ass 2

5:20am Bean 7:00am Ali G Indahouse 8:40am Uncle Buck 10:30am Click 12:25pm Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby 2:35pm The Pink Panther 4:35pm Nacho Libre 6:15pm Uncle Buck 8:00pm Click 10:00pm Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby 12:10am Ali G Indahouse 1:45am National Lampoon's Animal House 3:40am Notting Hill 5:45am The Pink Panther

7:25am Pride and Glory 9:40am Hustle and Flow 11:40am Thelma and Louise 1:55pm The Fast and the Furious 3:50pm 2 Fast 2 Furious 5:50pm The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift Teenage car-racing addict Sean is sent to live with his dad in Tokyo.

7:45pm Pride and Glory 10:00pm Oldboy An ad man is inexplicably imprisoned in a sparse cell.

12:00am Blow 2:15am Thelma and Louise 4:35am Single White Female

4:45am Holiday Inn 6:30am Life of Pi 7:00am Christmas in Wonderland 8:45am Miracle on 34th Street 10:30am Elf 12:10pm The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause 1:50pm Disney's A Christmas Carol 3:30pm Die Hard 2 5:40pm The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause 7:20pm Elf 9:00pm Disney's A Christmas Carol 10:45pm Die Hard 2 1:00am Black Christmas 2:30am Naughty or Nice

Premiere

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5:20am The Good Witch's Wonder 7:00am Pete's Christmas 8:35am The Good Witch's Wonder 10:15am Getaway 12:00pm Pete's Christmas 1:35pm The Good Witch's Wonder 3:15pm Aftermath 4:55pm Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom 7:25pm Pete's Christmas 9:00pm Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom 11:30pm Getaway 1:15am Aftermath 3:05am American Mary 5:05am The Internship Special 5:20am The Good Witch's Wonder

7:40am Off Set 8:00am FilmThe Golden Idol 9:25am FilmKiller Leopard 10:50am FilmBomba in Sabu and the Magic Ring 12:15pm FilmThe Command 2:05pm FilmAssignment to Kill 4:00pm FilmSam Whiskey 5:55pm FilmThe Oklahoman 7:30pm FilmBand of Angels 10:00pm Click to read more about RomeRome 11:10pm FilmEl Mariachi 12:55am FilmRollerball 3:15am FilmEl Mariachi 4:45am Off Set

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BBC TWO 7:05am Homes Under the Hammer 8:05am Call the Council 8:50am Close Calls: On Camera 9:20am A Taste of Britain 10:05am Celebrity Antiques Road Trip 11:05am Lorraine Pascale: How to be a Better Cook 11:35am Click 12:00pm BBC News 12:30pm BBC World News 1:00pm The Daily Politics 2:00pm Coast 2:10pm The Life of Birds

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What did you experience in your youth that kids today never will?

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N the Costa Blanca, the general view is that the main thing kids today will never experience is simply being kids.

Neil Couzens from Zenia Services said one thing he enjoyed as a child that youngsters today probably don’t was ‘building camps, and bows and arrows.’

He added: “Society has changed and everything is based around technology now and I think that is a shame.

Children aren’t

NEIL: Technology has taken over.

STREET TALK learning skills from their parents any more although I do believe the introduction of technology has made youngsters more intelligent; they know how to find answers thanks to the likes of Google.”

Keith Owen from Solar Directa believed children now miss out on the freedom to play outdoors. “I grew up in Somerset by the seaside and we would be out playing all day, getting up to all sorts before we had to come home.

There were no mobile phones and parents didn’t worry, but the world is a lot uglier now and you can’t do that, parents need to be stricter,” he said.

Karen from Mijas TV commented: “Kids are lucky nowadays in that they do not have to experience smoke-filled bars, restaurants, aeroplanes and offices.

When I was younger everywhere we went there were smokers and as a non-

smoker all my life, I didn’t like it but had to put up with it.”

Mark Scott from Aroma restaurant in Mallorca recalled ‘drinking from a hosepipe.’ Children nowadays are told not to drink from hosepipes because of the chances of catching some awful disease and Mark thinks it’s a shame as it was a fond childhood memory of his.

Nicole King from Mi Marbella said ‘dialling a telephone’. She added: “Today’s youngsters will never experience the actual term ‘to dial a number’ because we have push-button phones and not the old-fashioned ‘get your finger twisted’ style like in the old days!”

Ann Baxter from Mojacar Windows and Doors commented: “When we were young, we could go off into the woods to explore on our own. We had a lot more freedom than children today.”

KEITH: World is an uglier place now and not as safe.

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Fun, puns and mystery millions Cassandra Nash MARIANO RAJOY: President faces yet more trouble from PP corruption allegations.

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

T

HE latest political scandal’s codename Punica was suggested by punica granatum and a play on the surname of Francisco Granados.

Accused with an associate of stashing an illegal €5.8 million in Switzerland, he is an exsenator and was second in charge after Esperanza Aguirre when she was Regional President of the Madrid Community.

Aguirre, who is now Secretary General of the regional PP, insisted that she didn’t have “the slightest idea” of what Granados was up to.

In the same breath she called for the courts to speed up the ongoing Gurtel case - another pun,

this time on the surname of its principal player Francisco Correa, incidentally.

After six years it still hasn’t come to court, Aguirre complained.

Not that she was trying to deflect attention away from Granados, of course.

More trouble MARIANO RAJOY must feel

like William Collingbourne as he was being hanged, drawn and quartered in 1484: “Oh Lord Jesus, yet more trouble!” he groaned.

The president, the governing PP and to a lesser extent the PSOE socialists, all face yet more trouble in the shape of another huge politiccorruption scandal. Over the last two years 51 local and regional politicians

including six mayors and high-ranking officials in Madrid, Valencia, Murcia and Leon raked in illegal commissions of between €6 and €7 million on government contracts worth €250 million.

While 300 people a day were evicted from their homes, small businesses went under and employees accepted wage cuts to retain their jobs, these

public servants creamed off money during the worst economic crisis Spain has ever endured.

Nor did they do it for the greater good of party funds because that cash wasn’t destined for a spot of illicit double-accounting and salary top-ups. Every cent of it went into their own pockets and every cent of it came from the taxpayer.

And every cent of those €250 million will cost the two national parties dear when those taxpayers vote in next year’s elections.

Rich pickings JOSE ANGEL FERNANDEZ VILLA, former leader of the SOMA-UGT miners’ union, explained that the €1.4 million he declared during the government’s fiscal amnesty was a legacy from his mother.

Ludivina Villa died aged 91 after running a bar in

Tuilla (Asturias) which has a population of 1,200.

She must have done a roaring trade and saved very, very hard.

Power hungry ENRIQUE CALVET of the UPyD party takes over the seat in the European Parliament given up by Francisco Sosa Wagner.

He left following serious discrepancies with the party’s leader Rosa Diez who, Sosa claimed, “is leading the party to catastrophe.”

Exit Sosa and enter Calvet who, after 48 hours of reflection, decided to take the seat despite the longstanding friendship between both men. He has a responsibility towards UPyD voters, he said.

And, friendship notwithstanding, a hunger for power and generous Brussels expenses?

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CH4 9:00am Everybody Loves Raymond 9:30am Everybody Loves Raymond 10:00am Frasier 10:30am Frasier 11:00am Daily Brunch 12:00pm Come Dine with Me 12:30pm Come Dine with Me 1:00pm Channel 4 News Summary 1:05pm Come Dine with Me 1:35pm Come Dine with Me 2:05pm Come Dine with Me 2:40pm Small Animal Hospital

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CH5 9:00am Ben and Holly's Little Kingdom 9:15am Peppa Pig 9:25am Peppa Pig 9:35am Toby's Travelling Circus 9:50am Bananas in Pyjamas 10:00am Tickety Toc 10:15am The Wright Stuff 12:10pm Cowboy Builders 1:10pm 5 News Lunchtime 1:15pm Alex Polizzi's Secret Italy 2:15pm Home and Away 2:45pm Neighbours

SKY 1 6:00am Airline USA 6:30am Airline USA 7:00am The Real A&E 7:30am The Real A&E 8:00am Inside Gatwick 9:00am Futurama 9:30am Futurama 10:00am NCIS: Los Angeles 11:00am NCIS: Los Angeles 12:00pm Hawaii Five-0 1:00pm Hawaii Five0 2:00pm NCIS: Los Angeles

3pm 3:00pm Peter Andre's 60 Minute Makeover 4:00pm The Alan Titchmarsh Show 5:00pm Tipping Point

3:10pm Countdown 4:00pm Fifteen to One 5:00pm Deal or No Deal

3:15pm NCIS 4:15pm Carnal Innocence

6:00pm Flog It! 7:00pm Eggheads 7:30pm Strictly Come Dancing: It Takes Two 8:00pm The Great Interior Design Challenge

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

6:00pm Come Dine with Me 6:30pm Coach Trip 7:00pm The Simpsons 7:30pm Hollyoaks 8:00pm Channel 4 News 8:55pm Rory Peck Awards

6:00pm 5 News at 5 6:30pm Neighbours 7:00pm Home and Away 7:30pm 5 News Tonight 8:00pm Police Interceptors

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

9:00pm MasterChef: The Professionals 10:00pm Great Continental Railway Journeys 11:00pm The Apprentice: You're Fired!

11:30pm Newsnight

9:00pm Surprise Surprise 10:00pm Broadmoor 11:00pm ITV News at Ten and Weather 11:40pm The Nation's Favourite Queen Song

9:00pm Posh Pawn 10:00pm Liberty of London 11:00pm The Million Pound Necklace: Inside Boodles

9:00pm Gibraltar: Britain in the Sun 10:00pm Can't Pay? We'll Take it Away!

11:00pm Wentworth

9:00pm X-Men 11:00pm Legends

12:15am Teenage Tommies 1:15am Intruders 2:00am See Hear 2:30am The Kitchen 3:30am Doctor Who 4:30am This is BBC Two 4:55am Cold War Britain 5:25am D-Day: The Last Heroes

1:10am Jackpot247 Join the presenters live and play roulette on your telly. 4:00am The Jeremy Kyle Show USA 4:45am ITV Nightscreen Text-based information service.

12:05am 24 Hours in A and E 1:05am Music Nation 1:35am Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares USA 2:25am Lootera 4:40am The Siege at Red River

12:00am 200 Nips and Tucks and I Want More! 1:00am Dallas 1:50am True Crimes: The First 72 Hours 2:15am Super Casino 4:10am Underground Britain 5:00am Wildlife SOS 5:25am The Great Artists 5:45am House Doctor

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

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8:00pm Top Gear 9:00pm Gavin and Stacey 9:30pm Gavin and Stacey 10:00pm People Like Us 11:00pm Sweat the Small Stuff 11:30pm Russell Howard's Good News 12:00am Family Guy 12:25am Family Guy 12:45am American Dad! 1:10am American Dad! 1:30am Sweat the Small Stuff 2:00am People Like Us 3:00am The Revolution Will be Televised 3:30am Life is Toff 4:00am People Like Us 5:00am This is BBC Three

8:00pm World News Today 8:30pm Great British Railway Journeys 9:00pm Natural World 10:00pm Miss Potter 11:30pm Treasures of the Anglo Saxons

12:15pm All Star Family Fortunes 1:15pm Emmerdale 1:45pm I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here Now! Crown Jewels 2:50pm The Jeremy Kyle Show 3:55pm The Jeremy Kyle Show 5:00pm The Jeremy Kyle Show 6:05pm You've Been Framed!

6:30pm You've Been Framed!

7:00pm Royal Pains 8:00pm 100% You've Been Framed!

9:00pm I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here Now! Trials and Tribulations 10:00pm Freshers 11:00pm Happy Gilmore 12:55am Two and a Half Men

9:20am Wycliffe 10:30am Judge Judy 10:55am Judge Judy 11:20am Judge Judy 11:50am Inspector Morse 2:00pm Heartbeat 3:00pm Wild at Heart 4:00pm Wycliffe 5:10pm Second Thoughts 5:45pm Fresh Fields 6:15pm George and Mildred 6:50pm Heartbeat 7:50pm Wycliffe 9:00pm A Touch of Frost 11:00pm Unforgiven 12:00am The Vice

12:30pm Pawn Stars 12:55pm Alias Smith and Jones 1:55pm Minder 3:00pm The Professionals 4:00pm Pawn Stars 4:30pm Pawn Stars 4:55pm Magnum, P.I. 5:55pm Kojak 7:00pm Alias Smith and Jones 8:00pm Pawn Stars 8:30pm Pawn Stars 9:00pm GT Academy 9:30pm Storage Wars 10:00pm River Monsters 11:00pm Age of Heroes 1:05am Guest House Paradiso

2:00pm How I Met Your Mother 2:30pm How I Met Your Mother 3:00pm The Big Bang Theory 3:30pm The Big Bang Theory 4:00pm Rules of Engagement 4:30pm Rules of Engagement 5:00pm Melissa and Joey 5:30pm Suburgatory 6:00pm How I Met Your Mother 6:30pm How I Met Your Mother 7:00pm The Big Bang Theory 7:30pm The Big Bang Theory 8:00pm Hollyoaks 8:30pm Melissa and Joey 9:00pm Avatar 12:15am The Inbetweeners

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3:15pm Moving On 4:00pm Escape to the Country 4:45pm Glorious Gardens From Above 5:30pm Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is

3:00pm Tennis Sue Barker introduces further live coverage of the ATP World Tour Finals from the O2 Arena in London.

Drama. A famous musician retreats from the world and returns to her home town.

3:00pm NCIS: Los Angeles 4:00pm Obese: A Year to Save My Life USA 5:00pm Inside Gatwick

6pm 6:15pm Pointless 7:00pm BBC News at Six 7:30pm BBC London News 8:00pm The One Show

9pm 9:00pm Waterloo Road 10:00pm The Apprentice 11:00pm BBC News at Ten 11:25pm BBC London News 11:35pm Looking After Mum - A Children in Need Special

Martin escapes an interrogation, only to learn that Sonya and Aiden have been kidnapped.

12am 12:35am Film 2014 1:05am The Notorious Bettie Page 2:35am Weather for the Week Ahead Detailed weather forecast. 2:40am BBC News

Art historian Dr Nina Ramirez reveals the codes and messages hidden in Anglo-Saxon art.

12:30am The Joy of Easy Listening 2:00am Easy Listening Hits at the BBC 3:00am Elvis Costello: Mystery Dance 4:00am Treasures of the Anglo Saxons Art historian Dr Nina Ramirez reveals the codes and messages hidden in Anglo-Saxon art.

5:00am This is BBC Four

SKY MOVIES Action 7:30am Hudson Hawk 9:15am Executive Decision 11:30am Predator 1:20pm Predator 2 3:10pm Flags of Our Fathers 5:30pm King Arthur 7:40pm Executive Decision 10:00pm Predator 11:50pm Predator 2 1:45am Hammer of the Gods 3:30am Jaws 4: The Revenge

Comedy 7:00am Saving Mr. Banks Special 7:30am The Incredible Burt Wonderstone 9:25am Notting Hill 11:40am Employee of the Month 1:40pm Identity Thief 3:40pm Bean 5:25pm The Guilt Trip 7:10pm The Incredible Burt Wonderstone 9:00pm Employee of the Month 11:00pm Identity Thief 1:00am Our Idiot Brother

7:20am Captain Phillips: Sky Movies Special 7:40am My Brother the Devil 9:40am Flatliners 11:45am Murder at 1600 1:45pm After the Sunset 3:35pm John Q 5:35pm Plush 7:30pm Black Hawk Down 10:00pm After the Sunset 11:45pm Four Brothers

7:40am Holiday Inn 9:25am Home Alone: The Holiday Heist 11:05am Christmas in Wonderland 12:50pm Interstellar Special 1:20pm Die Hard 3:35pm The Santa Clause 5:20pm Millions 7:05pm Sleepless in Seattle 9:00pm The Santa Clause 10:45pm Die Hard 1:00am Sleepless in Seattle

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7:45am Gunsmoke 8:45am Gunsmoke 9:50am The Wrong Man 11:45am King Richard and the Crusaders 1:50pm Gunsmoke 2:55pm Gunsmoke 4:00pm La Guerra Continua 5:35pm The Mackintosh Man 7:35pm The Arrangement 10:00pm Point of No Return 12:05am Dangerous Ground

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1869: The Victorian Aboriginal Protection Act is enacted in Australia, giving the government control of Aboriginal people’s wages, terms of employment, where they can live and of their children.

1871: Dr David Livingstone, the missing British explorer, is found

by Henry Morton Stanley near Lake Tanganyika in Tanzania. Mr Stanley greets Dr Livingstone with the now-famous words: “Dr Livingstone, I presume?”

1918: Representatives of the Allied Forces meet German leaders in northern France and sign an armistice, thus bringing an end to World War I. 1960: John F Kennedy beats Richard Nixon by a narrow margin to become the youngest ever President of the United States at age 43.

1974: Police begin their hunt for aristocrat Lord Lucan following the murder of his children’s nanny.

Sandra Rivett, aged 28, had been bludgeoned to death in the basement of the Lucan family home on Belgrave Street, London.

Lord Lucan was never found and is presumed dead.

1989: After weeks of civil unrest, the East German government announces its citizens can visit West Germany and West Berlin.

Thousands of people converge on the Berlin Wall to celebrate and climb into West Berlin.

1996: Bill Clinton wins a second term in the Oval Office after defeating Bob Dole in the US presidential elections. He is the first Democratic President to be reelected since Franklin D Roosevelt.

Two years later he was at the centre of a sex scandal involving a White House intern, Monica Lewinsky.

2004: Yasser Arafat dies in hospital in Paris, France, at the age of 75, from multiple organ failure. His death brings to an end more than 40 years rule of the people of Palestine. He had been in a coma for eight days.

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You can't start worrying about what's going to happen. You get spastic enough worrying about what's happening now.’

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When General Motors introduced the Chevy Nova in South America, they couldn’t figure out why they weren’t selling any cars... until they realised that in Spanish ‘no va’ means ‘it won’t go.’

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Gretta and her boyfriend Dave are college sweethearts and song writing partners who move to New York when Dave gets a deal with a major record label.

But fame goes to Dave’s head and temptation leads him astray. Heartbroken Gretta goes out to make it on her own, and is soon discovered by a disgraced record executive. The promising collaboration between the two blossoms as Gretta realises her priorities in life have changed and she must follow her own path.

Stars Keira Knightly, Mark Ruffalo and Adam Levine. Run time 104 mins, Rated R. SCORPIO (October 24 - November 22) Having put in extra effort to bring a zing into your life, it is important that you keep the impetus going. This is not only good for your health and wealth, but also your mind. Although trying something new brings a few odd remarks your way, try not to be sidetracked.

SAGITTARIUS (November 23 - December 21) There is still a strong accent on family matters and getting things sorted out. The way ahead is clear. If you are able to persuade someone that an idea was theirs and not yours, so much the better. Being in a practical mood serves you well because it is possible to get a lot done in the next few days. The weekend, however, is another matter.

CAPRICORN (December 22 - January 20) Your mind is still sharp this week and there are many questions that you would like answered. Doing a bit of research proves fruitful and also quite amusing. A recent contact may not come up with the proposition hoped for, but realise that it is still early days.

AQUARIUS (January 21 - February 19) A meeting midweek could mean a change to your finances for the better. In the short term, it may be necessary for you to rearrange money and appointments but try not to be too put out. Change is perhaps something that we become less tolerant of after a situation has gone on for a time.

PISCES (February 20 - March 20) There is so much that has come to light in the past few weeks. It is no wonder that your mind is reeling. All will become clear in the weeks ahead and this cannot be rushed. However, there is a need to look after your health and get out in the fresh air. Any thought of joining a walking club or health group should be pursued.

ARIES (March 21 - April 20) A pleasant surprise makes you a little more optimistic midweek. It is possible for you to take on negativity too quickly. The next time something does not go according to plan, hold fire. It is amazing what a little time and distance will solve.

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November 6, Ethan Hawke, 44, actor Hawke rose to prominence for his role in the 1989 film ‘Dead Poets Society’ and won a Screen Actors Guild award nomination for playing a rookie police officer in ‘Training Day.’ He is married to actress Uma Thurman.

November 7, Joni Mitchell, 71, singer and songwriter Folk singer Mitchell released her album ‘Blue’ in 1971 - featuring her best known song ‘River’ - and is considered one of the best albums of all time by Rolling Stone magazine.

November 8, Gordon Ramsay, 48, chef and television presenter Television chef Ramsay’s various restaurants have received 15 Michelin stars in total. He is best known today for presenting television

TAURUS (April 21 - May 21) Although last week was not run at the pace anticipated, now the pace certainly picks up. Finances are still firmly on the agenda, but this time you will be able to deal on a more relaxed basis. A contact made recently gives you the opportunity not only to make some money but also to enlarge your circle of friends.

GEMINI (May 22 - June 21) Make a point of putting on a happy face and your mood will stay high. There is still some more to be done to improve your social life and a recent offer of charity work may be just the thing.

Avoid restricting the sort of folk who you are willing to mix with. Cultural differences apart, it is quite an eye-opener to find out how others live and think.

THE ONLY WAY IS ESSEX 1. The Rutshire Chronicles, including Riders (1985), Rivals (1988) and The Man Who Made Husbands Jealous (1993), were all written by which ‘romantic novelist’, who was born in Hornchurch in February 1937?

2. Which actress, born in Ilford in December 1934, starred as Professor Minerva McGonagall in the Harry Potter film series (2001–2011)?

3. Which actress, born in Laindon in May 1930, is best remembered for her roles in the Carry On films, and latterly for playing Madge Hardcastle in As Time Goes By, and Mrs Wembley, the cook with a liking for sherry, in On the Up? 4. Which actress, singer, dancer and television personality, born in Basildon in May 1974, presented Channel 4’s The Big Breakfast from 1997 to 1998 and from 2000 to 2001?

5. Which comedian, actor, radio host, author and activist, born in Grays in June 1975, played the title character of the 2011 remake Arthur?

6. Which comedian, writer, actor and voice-over artist, born in Epping in March 1958, appeared in numerous cult classic sitcoms, including The Young Ones (1982–84), Filthy Rich and Catflap (1987), The New Statesman (1987–94) and Bottom (1991–95)?

7. Which footballer and manager, born in Dagenham in January 1920, was manager of the English national football team from 1963 to 1974?

8. Which former track and field athlete, born in Chigwell in July 1966, won the 1992 Olympic gold medal in the 400 metres hurdles? She is the only female British athlete to have won Olympic, World, European and Commonwealth titles.

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

programmes such as ‘Hell’s Kitchen,’ ‘MasterChef’ and ‘Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares.’

November 11, Leonardo DiCaprio, 40, actor A teen heartthrob throughout much of the 90’s, DiCaprio is one of Hollywood’s biggest stars and won a Golden Globe award for Best Actor for his role as Howard Hughes in ‘The Aviator.’ In the past he has dated supermodels Bar Rafaeli, Gisele Bundchen and Erin Heatherton.

November 11, Demi Moore, 52, actor Previously married to fellow actor Bruce Willis, Moore later married Ashton Kutcher but the couple split in 2013. She is well-known for her role in the 1990 film ‘Ghost’ and also for her role as a stripper in the 1996 film ‘Striptease.’

CANCER (June 22 - July 23) Being considerably more relaxed about those things which cannot be changed has taken a weight from your shoulders. It is also easier to understand why others have taken this approach in the past. There is, however, a balance to be found. Don't be put off by people who have become sloppy in their approach because this is not going to affect you.

LEO (July 24 - August 23) Are you still patting yourself on the back for that recent achievement? Socially, this is a lovely week when old friendships are strengthened and new acquaintances prove to be relaxing. It is another mellow week but one in which you seriously consider making a major change.

TARGET: Average: 6 Good: 8 November 7, David de Gea, footballer The Manchester United goalkeeper began his career with Atletico Madrid and was captain of the Spain under-21 national side that won the European Championship in 2011.

He moved to Manchester United in June 2011 for £17.8 million (€22.5 million), a British record for a goalkeeper.

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VIRGO (August 24 - September 23) Be your charming self this week without pushing too much. A natural approach when you are seeking a response is the best course of action. Simply being in the right place and under someone's gaze is all that is required. Are you getting itchy because an offer is not forthcoming? Well, if you absolutely must, then get a little bird to whisper in their ear.

LIBRA (September 24 - October 23) It is clear that you really love your hearth and home but, every now and again, there is a small voice calling. The good things in life appeal and, to have these, an effort is involved. Do not underestimate the amount of pleasure that you will enjoy when putting in that extra effort. It does, after all, involve other people. Some of those people prove to be quite fascinating.

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LAST WEEK’S SOLUTION cede, cedi, cred, deer, deft, dice, diet, dire, dirt, edit, feed, iced, reed, retd, ride, teed, tide, tied, cered, cider, cited, creed, cried, defer, deter, dicer, drift, edict, eider, feted, fetid, fired, freed, fried, riced, tired, treed, tried, credit, deceit, defect, defier, defter, deicer, deific, dicier, dieter, direct, retied, rifted, tidier, tiered, triced, trifid, deficit, edifice, edifier, eidetic, recited, reified, feticide, CERTIFIED, RECTIFIED

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Funagram Unscramble the name of a Rolling Stones’ UK hit single (two words): BUNG ARROWS

Across 1 Egyptian cross broken by Khan (4) 3 Wrong press sat around (8) 9 Mix-up as Spurs excel (7) 10 Some cats easily perplexed (2,3) 11 Second gallery in Washington, perhaps (5) 12 Oriental satisfies, back in respect (6) 14 Pass error by England (6) 16 Remove delegate and Latin sweetheart (6) 19 Came in anyway for the entertainment (6) 21 A level surface for an aircraft (5) 24 Fragrance from a Roman perfumery (5) 25 Hate rude kid’s lie (7) 26 Meet Len’s assorted constituents (8) 27 Refuse from the golden years (4)

Unscramble the name of a dessert food (two words): BUG-RIDDEN PAD

FUNAGRAM SOLUTION: BROWN SUGAR, BREAD PUDDING

Play on Words

THING THING attitude (7) 17 Some help, as outside Texan town (2,4) 18 Forbidden, we hear, it is crook (6) 20 Venezuela teacher demonstrates lift (5) 22 Kale I cooked the same (5) 23 Noblewoman returns in ‘Torquemada’ (4)

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LAST WEEK’S SOLUTION

Each number in the Code Breaker grid represents a different letter of the alphabet. In this week’s puzzle, 2 represents Q and 15 represents R, so fill in Q every time the figure 2 appears and R every time the figure 15 appears. Now, using your knowledge of the English language, work out which letters should go in the missing squares. As you discover the letters, fill in other squares with the same number in the main grid and the control grid.

Across 7 Monarch’s home (6) 8 Rubbed out (6) 9 Untidiness (4) 10 Slipshod (8) 11 Rubeola (7) 13 Snatches (5) 15 Cluster (5) 17 Longs for (7) 20 Well known or easily recognised (8) 21 Expressed (4) 23 Make a choice (6) 24 Confused jumble (6)

Down 1 Wired enclosure (4) 2 Reasons (6) 3 Arrived at (7) 4 Facial growth (5) 5 Seaman (6) 6 Showing reason or sound judgment (8) 12 Schooled (8) 14 Confidences (7) 16 Unstable situation of extreme difficulty (6) 18 Mad (6) 19 Unchanging and unmoving (5) 22 Not in action or at work (4)

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

TALK

Answers: One thing after another, Small talk

Down 1 Helped to show Neddy is another diminutive for Edward (8) 2 Are OK, kind of, in divided country (5) 4 Hurries to find the marsh plants (6)

5 Spare can found in the street (5) 6 Australia began before it became bleak and forbidding (7) 7 Take short rests back on the bridge (4) 8 Reacts badly but provides food (6) 13 Church measure unknown quantity results in boneyard (8) 15 Fat individual taken in by modern

LAST WEEK’S SOLUTIONS CRYPTIC Across: 1 Hera, 4 Tramp, 9 Alibi, 10 Netball, 11 Statute, 12 Clone, 13 Skeins, 15 Recess, 18 Lease, 20 Sustain, 23 Emotive, 24 Atlas, 25 Earls, 26 Data.

Down: 2 Emirate, 3 Adieu, 4 Tandem, 5 Article, 6 Plato, 7 Rags, 8 Pliers, 13 Seller, 14 Needier, 16 Epaulet, 17 Ushers, 19 Alone, 21 Staid, 22 Nose.

QUICK Across: 1/23 Save face, 3 Obstruct, 9 Parlour, 10 Recur, 11 Obese, 12 Tassel, 14 Excite, 16 Untrue, 19 Dancer, 21 React, 24 After, 25 Isolate, 26 Earnings, 27 Fees.

Down: 1 Supposed, 2 Verge, 4 Berate, 5 Terms, 6 Unclear, 7 Torn, 8 Covert, 13 Restless, 15 Chatter, 17 Narrow, 18 Crying, 20 Corgi, 22 Aware.

Across 1 Dejar entrar (5) 4 Toll (on road, bridge) (5) 7 Nephew (7) 8 Aunt (3) 10 River (3) 11 So much (3) 12 Paciente (7) 14 Semillas (5) 15 Escenario (teatro) (5)

Down 1 Olives (9) 2 More (3) 3 Stools (seats) (9) 4 Detenidos (en cárcel) (9) 5 Más o menos (5) 6 Caro (9) 9 Manzana (fruta) (5) 13 Té (3)

ENGLISH-SPANISH Across: 1 Locust, 4 Odio, 8 Stars, 9 Anger, 10 Esmeralda, 13 Glove, 15 Ancla, 16 Near, 17 Navaja.

Down: 1 Last, 2 Coats, 3 Sostener, 6 Oar, 7 Calabaza, 11 Ducha, 12 Vaca, 13/5 Gun dog, 14 Oca.

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Since its almost exponential growth and integration into everyday life from the early 90’s onwards, most people would agree that nowadays they would be lost without the internet. Here are 10 things you perhaps never knew about the World Wide Web. 1. Seven people in the world hold a ‘key to the internet.’ These seven key holders - from different parts of the world - will be able to ‘reboot’ an integral part of the internet system should catastrophe strike and the internet shuts down. All seven have long backgrounds in internet security and work for various international institutions.

2. The internet speed on the International Space Station - 330 kilometres above the surface of the Earth - is faster than the average internet speed in Australia.

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3. In 1995, Newsweek published an article that ridiculed the idea of people using the internet to get their news, learn, or buy airline tickets - much of what the majority of people do on the internet today. Newsweek still has the article archived on its own website.

5. There is a murkier, much bigger version of the internet out there known as the ‘deep web’ or ‘hidden web.’ Believed to be at least 500 times bigger than the internet we use, sites on the deep web are anonymous and are not indexed by search engines such as Google or Bing. The data on the dark web is not necessarily intentionally hidden, but it is hard for conventional search engine technology to find it and make sense of it.

PhotoMath Free PhotoMath is the world’s first camera calculator and will go down well with school kids. Point the camera towards the mathematical expression, take a photo, and PhotoMath will display the result. By using the steps button, you can see the full solution.

Just Joking Q: Why couldn’t the blonde add 10+5 on a calculator?

A: She couldn’t find the ‘10’ button.

Me: Should I get into trouble for something I didn’t do?

Teacher: No Me: Good, because I didn't do my homework.

Innocent boy to a girl at party: Would you like to dance?

Girl smiled and said: Yes... for sure!

Boy: So can I take this chair?

INTERNET: Reaching out to everyone. scavenging for copper. Georgia provides 90 per cent of neighbouring Armenia’s internet.

7. Swedes love the internet. Seventy-five per cent of Swede’s use the internet, making Sweden the country with the largest percentage of internet users.

8. The first ever website was published on August 6, 1991, at CERN, the European nuclear research and particle physics laboratory where Tim Berners-Lee - creator of the internet worked. The website describes what the web actually is, and it links to further pages about the history and technology behind it.

4. It took radio 38 years to reach an audience of 50 million. Television took 13 years to reach the same amount of people. The internet only took four years to reach that number.

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9. The website for cartoon character Garfield owned the domain ‘gmail.com’ as part of their free email service. Google late acquired the name for its own email service.

INTERNET CREATOR: Tim Berners-Lee. 6. The entire country of Armenia was left without internet for five hours in 2011 when a 75-year-old Georgian woman accidently cut a fibre-optic cable while

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.

10. The first ever email was sent in 1971 by Ray Tomlinson, the US programmer who created email. The ‘@’ symbol was used to signify that the message was sent to a person and not to a machine.

Boggled How many English words can you find in the Boggled grid, according to the following rules?

The letters must be adjoining in a ‘chain’. They can be adjacent horizontally, vertically or diagonally.

Words must contain at least four letters and may include singular and plural or other derived forms.

No letter may be used more than once within a single word, unless it appears twice.

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LAST WEEK’S SOLUTION spell, spree, spreed, spare, spared, scale, scalp, scare, icier, write, writer, lapel, larva, larvae, palls, pared, parer, purer, puree, pureed, crisp, cruet, crier, carps, career, carer, caret, carve, carved, curio, curie, curve, rural, racier, reaps, reared, rearm, revere, aerie, wirer, wired, weave, weaver, weaved, eared, eerie, raver, raved, tired, tiered, dearer, merit, merer, feral

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By Jonathan Gilchrist Costa Blanca’s top hypnotherapist WINTER is fast approaching. It is this time of year when people seem to have problems with their weight as they indulge themselves at Christmas and get into the habit of snacking at home when the nights draw in, their weight rising before it’s time to crash diet again before the summer.

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part of your mind that drives certain unwanted behaviours and urges.

The 30 minute weight control session sets your appetite and hunger controls straight.

The ideas are put in that any high calorie foods will no longer have the same appeal, you’ll love low calorie foods and if you do feel hungry, you’ll take a large glass of water to give that feeling of fullness.

So you eat when your body needs fuel and you won’t eat out of boredom, emotion or stress.

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HERE is still time to lose inches before Christmas with Aqualyx fat dissolver, now available here on the Costa Blanca thanks to Medcare clinics in Benijofar and Alfaz del Pi. Aqualyx is not a magic solution for obesity, but it is the perfect solution for people with stubborn areas of fat that no amount of diet or exercise will shift such as bingo wings, wobbly bottoms, under chin fat or even man boobs.

Medcare’s Dr Najma Hussain told the Euro Weekly News how Aqualyx works: “Aqualyx is an injectable gelbased solution. When injected into the problem area it liquefies the fat cells, releasing the lipids which are eliminated naturally through the lymphatic system. Or to put it more simply, Aqualyx breaks down the wall of the fat cell, releasing liquid fat, which the body then treats as waste and dispels.”

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Sound waves destroy tumour A BONE tumour has been destroyed by sound waves for the first time.

Researchers from the University of Toronto, Canada, used highintensity focused ultrasound waves to

treat a benign tumour called osteoid osteoma, which generally occurs in bones in the leg.

Standard treatment involves surgery to scrape away the tumour which can be painful and

take weeks for the patient to recover from.

Lasers and radiotherapy can carry risks of radiation exposure, infection and burning of the surrounding tissue but

the new sound wave treatment is noninvasive, reduces the risk of complications, has a faster recovery time.

It could be a new way forward in tumour treatment.

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Don’t get down about the small stuff - draw on your inner strength Erica Russell Watson: My journey – and I’m driving

ERICA: Finding ways to adapt when the simplest tasks become impossible.

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SEPTEMBER: Back at home a bit bruised and sore but happy to be in familiar surroundings. The next few days would be all about rest, getting my drain taken out when the levels had dropped sufficiently and above all taking things easy with my right arm.

I was under strict instructions not to lift anything or to exert myself in any way. I had been unaware initially what the long term implications of having all my lymph nodes removed would be. As I no longer had a lymphatic drainage system I could be left with a serious side effect called Lymphedema.

Lymphedema is a condition of localised fluid retention and tissue swelling caused by a compromised lymphatic system which returns liquid to the thoracic duct and then the bloodstream. So tissues with lymphedema are at risk of infection and swelling. There are

exercises and physiotherapy you can do to help your system but I will go into this in future blogs.

Prevention is better than cure!

Hence no lifting, no lying on the affected side, no tight clothing and, in the longer term, avoidance of rigorous sports.

For me this was going to be the most challenging aspect!

The cancer and operations I could deal with but the prospect of possibly not being able to play racket sports for the long term or even indefinitely was going to be tough to take. You just have to find alternatives or learn to play left handed!

Also the realisation hit home that the simplest tasks, in the short term, would be impossible - no chopping food, washing up, changing the beds, opening things, lifting and definitely no driving for a few weeks.

So what do you do? Adapt.

Necessity is the mother of all invention. I started to use my left arm for most tasks.

The sight of me sitting on my kitchen work surface on top of a grater and using my left hand to muster a sprinkling of lemon zest must have been something else! Incidentally, freeze lemons and grate the rinds into your

food. Not only does it intensify the flavour but it is supposed to be an enemy to cancer so a friend to us!

Don’t get too down over these smaller issues and find another way of doing things. We are all stronger than we imagine it’s just that we don’t realise it until we are tested. Draw on your inner strength and you will be amazed how you overcome every obstacle put in your way.

For me every day got better, I ate well thanks to the army of Spanish neighbours and friends bringing food to my door like ants! My son became my nurse and changed my bandages, much to his credit, as many adults would have balked at the sight of my scars.

For those of you who have cancer and have children my tip is to be as honest as possible but carry on as normal.

Every cloud has a silver lining and my illness has given us all an opportunity to recalibrate. It was time the children took on more responsibility domestically and they have stepped up to the challenge.

Aside from cooking, cleaning, washing and general household chores, it has become a time for

them to show greater maturity and autonomy.

It has been tough for them but pulling together helps me along the road to recovery so I applaud their efforts and their spirit despite some grumbles at first!

My hope is that living through this experience will make them more resilient and better able to cope with the challenges that life will inevitably throw at them over the coming years.

Lead by example. If you are a bag of nerves just imagine how your children and people around you will feel! No shame in having a good cry, I hold my hand up! It is a good release but get over it and dust yourself off and get off the canvas.

A little dramatic? Not really you are in a battle for your life.

You have to go the full 10 rounds so come out your corner fighting with your gloves up.

You will beat cancer with a positive attitude. Your illness is a journey and one that will deal you curve balls.

My curve ball was just about to be launched… the phone call I had been waiting for with my operation results came. The news was not good.

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Festive spirit starts early

GET into the festive spirit a little early at La Siesta Ladies’ Friendship Group’s Christmas Fayre at La Siesta Church, Torrevieja, on Saturday November 22 starting at 10.30am.

There will be all sorts of seasonal goodies on offer including tasty home baked items; mulled wine; mince pies and hot dogs as well as Bric-a-Brac, jewellery, linen, books and a host of other Christmas fare.

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Wagyu beef is now on the menu WAGYU beef is a special, unique beef like no other and is now available at Restaurante Christopher in Torrevieja.

Wagyu, meaning ‘Japanese cow’ refers to several breeds of cattle and is renowned for its quality and the intense marbling effect. It is also known by its area name and is sometimes called Kobe or Mishima beef if farmed in that area of Japan.

The beef contains a higher percentage of omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids than typical beef. Its marbled effect also means it has a higher percentage of monounsaturated fats.

The Australian Wagyu Association is the largest breed association outside Japan with the meat being produced for both the domestic and

overseas market and it is this Australian rib eye that is now on for a limited time at Restaurante Christopher.

Christopher’s is situated in Mar Azul, just along from the Eliseos Playa.

This delightfully charming restaurant offers personal attention and exquisite food, of which the Wagyu ribeye dish is a welcome new addition, but if you fancy something a little more traditional, there is still the full a la carte menu available and on December 2 the Christmas Fayre menu launches for €15.95 per person.

For more information or to book your table call 600 012 824 or 965 710 007. The restaurant is open Tuesday to Saturday from 6pm and Sundays 1pm-4.30pm.

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We know that getting your news out there can be a struggle; well, we

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Perhaps you have an event coming up for charity?

Do you have a new member of staff you’d like to introduce?

Have you won an award, or changed your menu?

Perhaps you would like to take part in our ‘Restaurant’ experience?

You provide a meal for two which we will review and publish, with pictures, in your local edition.

Whatever is of interest to local readers, please let us know.

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Cats that are aggressive to humans

STREET DOG: Forlorn and neglected.

Share some furry love ABANDONED dogs and cats can be seen all over the world, huddled together in major cities or roaming alone looking for food and company.

The animals which are starving, thin and in need of love, prompted two college students from Chile, Violeta Caro Pinda and Felipe Carrasco Guzman, to raise awareness with a creative approach.

The two undergraduates tied pink balloons around street dogs and cats which have phrases written on them like, ‘hug me,’ ‘play with me,’ and the most poignant one, ‘don’t leave me.’

The pair are hoping the rest of the world will take on their example and spread a bit of kindness and happiness to these forlorn and neglected creatures.

IF a previously friendly cat starts biting or scratching you, it is essential you take it to the vet. A cat in pain from dental disease, cystitis, arthritis or injury may bite when handled.

It may bite if it is seriously ill or if it has a brain tumour. Pregnant cats or cats with litters are aggressive in defence of their litters. When the kittens have grown up, the mother’s behaviour usually alters.

NEVER punish or chase. This will intensify aggression. Ignore bad behaviour by walking away, keeping silent (no screams), withdrawing eye contact, no confrontations. Reward calm behaviour with cat treats.

Avoid situations which will result in cat aggression. The difficulty for owners is working out what kind of aggression they are dealing with. This is where help from a cat behaviour counsellor can be essential to help reduce and manage the aggression.

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Get to know the pet sitter

By Lamia Walker of HousesitMatch I THOUGHT it would be instructive to run over a few rules about finding the right pet sitter.

Of course, many pet owners are happy to find sitters through friends using word of mouth.

However, it can be quite difficult to find the right person for your animals.

More and more pet owners are now using online networks to find sitters. But again, how

can you be sure the sitter is really experienced and caring?

Vetting helps, you can use an agency or do it yourself. Experience in running a pet and house sitter network says that before you commit to any sitter it is best to take a few steps yourself to learn about their pet care experience. Here are my guidelines: 1. Meet and Greet Ideally you would introduce the sitter to your pets personally

before the sit, watch how each reacts.

2. Communicate Regularly - Before and after the sitter enters your home communicate regularly, learn about them, ask their history.

3. Previous Pet Ownership/Experience Ask about their personal pet ownership experience.

4. Understanding Pet Routines - Anyone who cares for a pet will understand that there are different feeding and

care routines, but pets are usually creatures of habit.

5. References/Police Checks - Ask for recent references. Police checks are very useful too.

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Aggression to humans often results from fear. The problem may arise from a dysfunctional kittenhood. The kitten is brought up without enough contact with humans, and therefore will never become domesticated. To be truly domesticated, kittens need to be handled before the age of eight weeks. Relatively socialised cats may still bond, but probably only to close family. It will be best to give this kind of cat plenty of space and independence. Allow the cat to initiate contact with you, as this freedom to choose will result in more, rather than less, affection.

Cats under stress may also become aggressive to owners. In general try to reduce the stress in this cat’s life, so it becomes less anxious. More next week.

Thanks to Celia Haddon for her input.

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THERE are few properties that would not be enhanced by one or two window boxes placed on a window sill or edge of a balcony, or the wall or balustrades of an apartment terrace.

Window boxes planted with traditional geraniums, or a wide range of other suitable plants, are an easy way to brighten up the facades of some otherwise drab houses and apartment blocks throughout the year.

So let’s look at the opportunity in more detail.

Why window boxes?

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several purposes.

1. To brighten up the outlook from windows and doors onto balconies and terraces.

2. To provide a screen from prying eyes.

3. To brighten up the appearance of the house from outside.

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To give the appearance that the house or apartment is lived in.

WINDOW BOXES: Can also be hung from railings.

5. To brighten up dull courtyards.

6. To brighten up the

semi shade under large trees by hanging window boxes directly from boughs

Overcoming problem of plastic coated aluminium windows Most traditionally built houses have convenient wide outside window sills that provide space for window boxes between the window frames and wrought iron security grills.

Some also have small balconies with metal railings. However most modern plastic/aluminium windows with integral double glazing and security blinds result in very narrow or even no sills. Fortunately many garden centres now stock window boxes with metal supports that can be hung below the window sill.

Similar supports can be attached to the railings of an apartment terrace.

What to plant?

All year round: Zonal and trailing geraniums/pelargoniums - except in the heavy frost/snow belt where they need to be put in a cold frame or a greenhouse for the winter.

Spring, summer and autumn: Trailing petunias, portulacas, zonal and trailing geraniums/pelargoniums, carnations, felicia /agathaea, succulents and in the shade fuchsias and busy lizzies.

Spring: Trailing sweet peas, verbena and freesias.

Autumn and winter: Heathers and pansies.

Winter: Cyclamens, poinsettias, pansies, stocks and bulbs such as hyacinths and daffodils.

Colour can also be provided by the fruit and foliage of plants. a. Fruits - the fruits on mock pepper and mini pomegranate plants can

look very attractive during the autumn. b. Foliage - begonias, spider plant, variegated ivies, herbs - on the widow sill outside the kitchen and dwarf conifers in semi shaded situations.

If you are an absentee gardener we suggest that you restrict your window boxes to trailing geraniums/pelargoniums, and drought resistant succulents and cacti. If you only use the property infrequently, I suggest you replant your window boxes each time you visit.

What types of window boxes can be planted up?

Every year new and improved terracotta, ceramic and plastic window boxes appear. Some of the latter having a self watering reservoir that holds sufficient water for several weeks. Very useful when you expect to be away for holidays or short breaks. If you are planting trailing plants these will soon cover the front sides of the boxes. So save money and don’t invest unnecessarily in fancy designs.

Pruning and deadheading Flowering plants will flower more continuously and for longer if you deadhead regularly. Also remove all dead leaves and ends as soon as they appear to prevent the occurrence of fungal diseases. Naturally trim to shape to improve the overall appearance of your boxes.

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HOME sellers in Spain can take advantage of a new tax measure.

The central government has introduced a new tax reform act for 2015 that will mean a significant tax reduction for many citizens.

Owners who are in the process of selling their homes will be affected by the new measure, since the capital gain will in future be calculated without the correction coefficients that allowed the compensation of inflation and the reduction of increased value.

That means that someone who

bought a house in 2004 at €150,000 and sold it now for €200,000, would pay €10,880 in IRPF tax under current legislation.

But if they held on until January 1, the amount would be reduced to €7,207.

But for those who bought their houses more than 20 years ago it may be advisable to accelerate the selling process. A house bought in 1976 at two million pesetas (€12,020), sold now at €222,000 would pay €10,869 tax (IRPF) under the current legislation.

The modification of the act would see a dramatic increase in

the tax paid, to €43,995 after January 1.

For this reason, it may be advisable for those owners who have owned their homes for a long time to speed up the selling process before January 1, to avoid the tax increase.

On the whole, the modification is good news for owners who bought their homes after 1994, who will enjoy a tax reduction and it may well be worth waiting until the New Year before selling up.

People should seek professional advice on these points for the full ramifications of the changes.

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Mortgage cash is starting to flow THERE were a total of 15,040 new mortgages granted on homes in August at an average value of €102,430.

That was an increase of 5.3 per cent in the value of mortgages given on August 2013, and there was a 31 per cent rise in the total capital loaned year on year to €1.54 billion. Both figures are good news from the property market as they show liquidity is starting to flow from banks once more.

In the depths of the banking crisis many prospective home owners found it extremely difficult to finance the purchase of a property as the banks, many bailed

out by Spanish and European tax payers, refused to pass on the billions of euros received to consumers. Nervous of being more exposed to bad debts after the property bubble burst, they held on to the bailout payments instead to fill black holes in their balance sheets.

That meant a second hit to the property market after the crash as even those in steady jobs wanting to buy a house couldn’t raise the money to complete.

According to the National Institute of Statistics, the number of mortgages granted rose 23.8 per cent in August compared to the same month in 2013.

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The branch meets at Olympia restaurant, Mil Palmeras on 3rd Thursday of each month at 19.00 - 19.30pm. More info can be found on branch website www.orihuelacostarbl .co.uk. (95457) THE BAKER FOUNDATION for SPIRITUAL AWARENESS. 16 Nicolas De Bussi Ave, Playa Flamenca. Sunday Service every week 11am to 12 noon, everyone welcome. For further details please phone/fax 966 760 665 (95458) THE PHILIP SCOTT LODGE No 10671 of the RAOB meets every Friday in the Bar Catorce, Benijofar. Please call

the secretary, Colin Bird on 693 287 614 for further information. (95459) CHARITY BOOK STALL PEGO THURSDAY MARKET. Selection of over 500 books, all proceeds given to the elderly/disabled of Pego and local Animal Rescue. More stock always required please contact Chrissie 965 977 228/617 647 395 (95460) THE ANGLICAN CHURCH, La Fustera. For more info: contact Frank Bentley on 966 495 188 (95461) CANCER SUPPORT GROUP (MABS) MURCIA/MAR MENOR Help and support is just a phone call away, Avda Rio Nalón, Tel: 693 275 779 (95462) PILAR CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY CHURCH, Calle Canalejas, 3. Pilar de la Horadada. Sunday Service at 11am & Thursday at 5pm for Prayer and Praise and Worship. Home groups meet during the week.

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TORREVIEJA STROKE SUPPORT GROUP meets each Friday 3pm to 5pm in The Annex, (behind Age Concern Centre), Calle Paganini, Urb. La Siesta. Our aim is to support stroke survivors and their carers by a range of facilities from speech therapy, rehabilitation exercise, group discussion etc. For info: Louie 96 671 8964 or Carol, Secretary: 966 765 488, e-mail: stroke supportgroup@hotmail.com Donations and further voluntary helpers are needed and guest speakers with relevant knowledge or experience are very welcome. (95473) THE ROYAL BRITISH LEGION Gran Alacant & La Marina Branch meets 1st Monday of every month (except July and August) at Bar Sioux , Avda Escandinavia GA at 7pm for 7.30pm prompt. For further info contact Brian, Branch Secretary on 639 917 971 / email secretarybr3606@gmail .com (95474) CAMPELLO CONTRA CANCER in conjunction with AECC Association Español Contra Cancer has opened a charity shop at C/Virgen de los Desamparados No 13 (next door to Mas y mas) El Campello. The shop is open Mon-Fri 10 - 2pm and is run by unpaid volunteers and all monies raised goes to the AECC. We urgently need donations of clothes, books, large and small furniture etc, and we will arrange collection of large items. We need volunteers to help out in the shop and also clothes rails, shelves etc. for display. Please support your local Cancer charity and if you wish to obtain literature or simply talk to someone. Please stop by at the shop. Contact Mina or Trisha. Tel 650 071 278 or 610 921 413 e-mail aecc_campello@hotmail.com (95475) International Christian Assembly Calle Pilar de Horadada 5, Torrevieja Evangelical non-denominational Sunday services 11am Children’s church 11am House groups in Torrevieja, Los Balcones, San Javier Ladies meeting Thursdays 11am. Pastor, Rafael Restrepo All nationalities welcome 966 799 273 / 660 127 276.

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DAMP RISING DAMP! We can cure Rising Damp, Leaking Flat Roof or Terrace. We can make your Underbuild Dry. Villa Repainting Due? We can protect your villa and stop PENETRATING DAMP with a Protective Coating. You can also pay in Sterling. Phone/email us now for a FREE survey. Tel 965 050 065 or 634 322 672 www.dryzone-espana.com (229557)

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Buildings and contents cover from just 82 euros per year and cars from 120 euros. Tel 966 787 123 / 622 275 561 / 686 116 297 / email info@sosinsur anceinspain.com (229108)

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METAL WORKS, gates, rejas offer: from 50€, buy 3 get 1 free. NOT including installation. 638 449 944 (223566)

WE ARE currently the market leader in our country in the sale of direct car, motorbike, home and company fleet insurance. Since we started out in 1995, our philosophy has always been to offer an excellent service with the best prices in the market. For the most competitive quotes in English, call Linea Directa on 902 123 309. (200726)

WANTED WANTED Cars, vans, caravans, 4 X 4’s British Spanish 600 781 873 ibuyany car@hotmail.com (229245)

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SCRAP YOUR CAR LEGALLY. Cash paid for newer cars, but all cars taken and legally disposed of for free and Baja Final issued. Call 667 711 380 (220225)

SPAMA GANDIA SHELTER. Dog and cat rescue registered charity, La Safor area. 500 animals awaiting re-homing.

Shelter open 7 days a week 12noon - 2.00pm & 3.30pm 7.00pm. (Spanish speaking staff) or phone Gail 962 896 118. Visit our website for directions. www.spama.org and view our new blog at www.spama-safor.blog.com.es PLEASE HELP US TO HELP THEM (95707) P.E.P.A. VOLUNTEERS & FOSTER HOMES URGENTLY NEEDED. By fostering an abandoned dog, or spending a few hours each week on our telephone helpline, you could help save the lives of many animals. Please call: 650 304 746. For more information browse our website: www.pepaspain.com EURO WEEKLY NEWS CLASSIFAX AGENT (95708) GATAMI ORGANISATION, to help kittens and cats, looking for good homes, also spaying wild cats in the community.

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PET TRANSPORT THE DOG MOVER. Licensed transporters. Two handlers, so never alone. 680 781 699 / 0044 (0) 7875 947230. www.thedog mover.com (220443) PET TRAVEL UK Family pet transporters Spain/UK. Travel with your pets for free. All air conditioned vehicles (no vans) www.pettraveluk.co.uk. Removals also arranged in other vehicles. Tel UK 0800 612 4922 or Spain 960130537 (223645)

POOL SERVICES YES YOU CAN HAVE A POOL We design & install Wooden Above-Ground Pools. Pools installed from 1,185€. With above ground pools there is “No Planning Permission Required”. You can also pay in Sterling. Phone or email for a FREE BROCHURE NOW. info@piscinasmadera.com - Tel: 965 050 064 / 634 322 672 www.piscinasmadera.com

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Semi detached villa. Garden and private courtyard. Near shops and beach. €450 pcm + bills. Tel 659 615 240 (226824)

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Offers around €27,950. Phone 634 321 449 (226838)

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Spain/UK Budget prices. Last minute jobs undertaken. www.spanishmoves.net. Pet transport also arranged in our air conditioned pet/people carriers. Telephone UK 0800 612 4922 or Spain 960130537 (223645) VAN LEAVING UK TO SPAIN 30th November. Returning Spain to UK 7th December. Spaces available on both trips. 679 042 805 / 0044 (0) 7552 985343 keithmari on9@yahoo.co.uk (226827)

SEWING QUALIFIED SEAMSTRESS 40 years experience, turn-ups to tailoring patterns taken from your favourite cloths, reasonable prices. Torrevieja, Sandra: 966 799 188 / 680 486 336 (229238)

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Caterham F1 driver takes pole for PH Mallorca at first Palma Port Kart Cup A STREET circuit Karting race started in Monaco had its debut in Spain recently.

Moll Vell marina in Mallorca was transformed into an 880 metre street circuit for the inaugural Palma Port Kart Cup. Team PH Mallorca, with two karts entered, including one piloted by future F1 star Roberto Merhi, took pole

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position and a thirdplace finish in the threehour endurance race as well as an impressive first place in the onehour feature race.

Alec Dudfield from property developers, PH Mallorca, said: “Sponsored by Red Bull and conceived in Monaco, this foundational Palma Port Kart Cup had all the ingredients for success, so we pulled out the stops to field two great teams.

In Kart 17 we had 23year-old Roberto Merhi, an upcoming F1 star from Castellon who raced in FP1 for Caterham at Monza, Suzuki and Sochi this season, alongside Riccardo Homuth, a Balearic Karting

Champion from Santa Ponsa, Mark Owens, a World Series Superkart race winner from Northamptonshire, and Mike Richards, founder of PH Mallorca in Port Andratx and a former Porsche Carrera Cup driver.

“In Kart 16 we raced Miguel Julià, the 2006 World Karting Champion from Palma de Mallorca, Nil Monserrat, a professional racing driver from Barcelona, and Coach Pedro Ivar, owner of Pedro Ivars Racing Academy in Denia.

Needless to say our plan worked and it was great to see Merhi earn

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a deserved pole and Kart 16 take two podium finishes including the top step.

“With highly competitive wheel-towheel racing on the street circuit, we’re looking forward to defending our success when the Palma Port Kart Cup returns for its second outing.”

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took place on the same day, Sunday, following some organisational difficulties. That didn’t negatively impact on the day overall, though, and the Palma Port Kart Cup was well received by teams and spectators alike.

The circuit was constructed to F1 safety standards, using Tecpro barriers, and teams

travelled from all over Europe to take part in the race.

The Cathedral, Palma Old Town and the Mediterranean Sea provided an incredible backdrop.

At the same time, the Mallorcan weather was kind, providing plenty of sunshine and temperatures in the high 20ºCs.

Fiat 500X now in four-wheel drive THE Fiat 500X is the new compact crossover in the 500 family.

It retains the look of the Fiat 500 from 1957 with rounded lights and the classic logo with chromeplated bonnet trim giving it that classic feel.

Built at the SATA plant in Melfi (Potenza) and sold in more than 100 countries worldwide, the new Fiat 500X will be available in two different versions - one more ‘metropolitan’ and the other ideal for leisure, say Fiat.

With a big personality

and distinctively Italian design, the new car is characterised by flexibility, rationality and quality firmly embedded in its compact dimensions, in the ample interior space and the choice of premium materials and fabrics, as well as the most sophisticated technology in the service of safety, comfort and well-being on board.

It is available in both two-wheel and four-wheel drive configurations.

A particular feature of the new Fiat crossover’s four-wheel drive is the

adoption of a rear axle disconnection system that permits a reduction in energy wasted through drag when four-wheel drive operation is not required, thus ensuring greater efficiency in terms of consumption.

It is the only car in the segment to offer it, together with the Jeep Renegade; the rear-axle disconnect seamlessly switches between twoand four-wheel drive for full-time torque management without requiring input from the driver.

The solid, robust appearance of the car finds its perfect stylistic counterpart in the harmonious line, which emerges in dimensions ideal for customers looking for comfort space and the equipment typical of compact saloons.

At the same time, the 500X also gives a nod to those who need to tackle urban traffic every day, thanks to its modest dimensions: it’s 4.25 metres long (2cm more for the version suited for leisure), 1.8 metres wide and 1.6 metres in height.

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Sergio 1 United 0 as Marquez goes for MotoGP world record Tony Matthews

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ON Tuesday and last night (Wednesday) we had Champions League football once again with Arsenal, Barcelona, Chelsea, Liverpool (v Real Madrid in Spain) and Manchester City, all in action, while this evening Celtic, Everton and Tottenham play in the longrunning Europa League.

Also there was a full programme of Champion-ship matches, with BirminghamWatford, Brighton-Wigan, DerbyHuddersfield, Ipswich-Wolves and Middlesbrough-Norwich the stand-out matches.

And coming up over this weekend, the top PL encounters

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TROPHY WINNER: Novak Djokovic takes French Masters. are Liverpool-Chelsea, QPRManchester City and SwanseaArsenal; it’s Bolton-Wigan, Derby-Wolves and IpswichWatford in the Championship, while 48 clubs from Leagues One and Two play in the first round of the FA Cup, which includes nine previous winners of the trophy with Coventry and Portsmouth among them.

Meanwhile, Spain’s Marc Marquez will be chasing his record-breaking 13th MotoGP race victory of the year on his home track in Valencia. ‘MM’ equalled Michael Doohan’s 1997

tally of 12 wins in Malaysia last month.

And in Rugby Union, England start their winter programme with a home game against New Zealand.

Last week, Andy Murray going for his third ‘big’ tournament win in three weeks was knocked out of the French Masters by eventual winner of the tournament, Novak Djokovic.

Both players will now compete in the lucrative APT finals at London’s O2 Arena later this month.

There were also some hugely

important football matches last weekend. Premiership leaders Chelsea beat QPR 2-1, secondplaced Southampton won 1-0 at Hull, Newcastle United, after knocking holders Manchester City out of the League Cup, defeated Liverpool 1-0, West Ham drew 20 at Stoke, Swansea at Everton 0-0 and WBA triumphed 1-0 at Leicester. On Sunday the Manchester derby ended City 1 (Sergio Aguero) 10-man United 0 while Tottenham won 2-1 at Aston Villa. Crystal Palace lost 13 to Sunderland on Monday.

In the Championship, the Midlands derby between Wolves and Birmingham City finished 00, leaders Watford beat Millwall 3-1 and Bournemouth (second) defeated Brighton 3-2.

In League One, table-toppers Bristol City continued their good form by overcoming Oldham 1-0, Wycombe have gone top of League Two, Wycombe after beating Oxford 2-1, while in the SPL, Dundee United after a 3-0 win over St Mirren, moved above Hamilton Academical who were held 3-3 by Partick.

In the quarter finals of League Cup, Bournemouth (who beat WBA 2-1 in the last round) will face Liverpool (also 2-1 winners over Swansea); Sheffield United (who eliminated MK Dons, again by 2-1) will meet Southampton (3-2 victors at Stoke); Tottenham

(who ousted Brighton 2-0) take on Newcastle and Derby (5-2 winners at Fulham) will play Chelsea who edged out plucky Shrewsbury 2-1. These ties will be played in mid-December.

SHORTS Scotland’s women footballers lost their 2015 World Cup playoff semi-final second leg game against the Netherlands 2-0 (4-1 on aggregate).

Raul, top scorer in European Cup/Champions League history with 71 goals, has joined New York Cosmos.

Three managers with new jobs are Neil Redfearn at Leeds (on a year’s contract), Lee Clark at Blackpool and Gary Rowell at Birmingham.

Pakistan cricketer Younis Khan (213) became only the third batsmen to score three successive centuries against Australia, helping his country rack up 570-6 declared in the second and final Test in Abu Dhabi. In the same match Misbah-Ul-Haq hit the fastest ever Test 50 (in 21 balls) and the joint fastest century (56 balls), equalling Viv Richards’ record set against England in 1976.

England’s Rugby League team beat Samoa but then lost 16-12 against Australia in a Four Nations tournament down under.

Home banker not so easy WITH the recent form of both teams any betting person would have predicted this match as a home banker, but Monte are always unpredictable at home and this one was no different to their previous home games.

Injuries forced home manager Juanpe to make several changes in midfield and defence but his side’s lack of fire power and penetration in attack could see them miss out on any promotion challenge.

This was evident as, with only 90 seconds on the clock, Montes’ Vaz pulled up with a strain and he never seemed comfortable after that.

Monte began with assertiveness with Formenteras’ giant keeper

keeping the score level. It was a freak cross-come-shot that broke the deadlock on 17 minutes when to the amazement of the 240 crowd the ball beat Lopez and it was 0-1.

Monte then gained some urgency in their play with chances by Orouker, M+A and Macan, and it was Macan who levelled after he chased a hopeless ball to turn inside and fire Monte level on 23 minutes.

Monte then increased their lead four minutes later when M+A rose highest to make it 2-1. The ever improving Orouker then saw his free kick deflected over the bar.

Montes’ Vaz was subbed for Marcos soon after a crucial headed

challenge by Orouker pevented Formentera going into half-time level.

The second half saw the home side quite happy to sit back and protect their lead at all costs and hoping to hit their opponents on the break. Yonhi replaced Dario in an inspirational change as Monte minutes later extended their lead as his cross field ball to Dimitry was laid to Alberto to make it 3-1, which was how the match ended.

Next week Monte are away to Callosa Deportiva.

More info contact thefullmonte2011@hotmail. com or website www.cdmontesinos.com

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Numpties take on the Softies FIFTY-NINE members points, while the best and one guest of back was won by David Eurogolf assembled at Gregson with 21 points. home course La In the Bronze Division Marquesa to play a Geoff Evans was third monthly team game. with 35 points, Marilyn This was a team game Eckersall was second with a difference, with 36 points and however, as Francis Buckeridge although each had 38 points. individual was Eurogolf In the Silver playing a Division assembled Hadge normal Stableford Armstrong at La game, players had 36 points Marquesa for third, while were grouped in pairs representing Dave Nicholls came the North and South of second also with 36 and England. Loosely based Morag Turner triumphed on geography, the with 37 points. In the match secretary decided Gold Division, Bernie to call the teams the Osbourne was third with ‘Numpties’ and the 36 points and Bob ‘Softies’.

Some very Buckeridge was second good individual scores also with 36 points. ensured.

The NTP’s The overall winner on were: Hole 5 Ian Pegg, the day, however, was Hole 11, Debbie David Blanchette with Weedon, Hole 15, Alan 39 points.

Venables and Hole 17 In the match the David Blanchette.

Numpties triumphed The best front was over the Softies 16.5 to won by Ian Pegg with 19 15.5.

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Mazarron go 1-0 down to CD Esparragal MAZARRON lost for the second week running, this time 1-0 at CD Esparragal who leap-frogged above Mazarron in the league, leaving the visitors in eighth position but still only one point off a play-off place.

Without top scorer Tolo, Mazarron welcomed back crowd favourite Cristian after his brief spell in France and gained an early corner which came to nothing.

Esparragal had most of the play in the first 20 minutes with Carrasco in the Mazarron goal dealing competently with anything thrown at him.

Most of Mazarron’s attacks were constructed

by Cristian but they were unable to carve out any clear-cut opportunities.

On 25 minutes the Mazarron defence managed to scramble the ball off the goal line and the resultant corner was wasted by Esparragal. Most of the attacking for the remainer of the first half was by Esparragal but Mazarron’s first half

Swedish sports teams choose Torrevieja SWEDISH travel agency Tm Sportstravel has chosen the Torrevieja Sports City as the ideal location for training programmes for Swedish sports teams, according to Sports Councillor Luis Maria Pizana.

Torrevieja’s first experience as host for a similar experience took place back in July with the First Swedish Football School held at the Sports City. The event was a resounding success for both the participants and the travel agency.

This time around the Valvo women’s senior football team and the Alleskollan Elite Sports School – close to 45 athletes with their trainers and companions – spent five days in Torrevieja enjoying the incredible October weather and participating in sports activities as well as in activities unrelated to sports. They were all impressed with the quality of Torrevieja’s sports facilities.

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IN TRAINING: Young Swedes.

LINE-UP: Mazarron and Esparragal players shake hands before kick-off. performance had been much improved on recent weeks The second half began in similar vein with Esparragal on the attack with occasional breaks by Mazarron and especially by the young substitute

Esteban, who made some exciting forays down the right wing, one of which ended with a shot from a narrow angle which was saved by the Esparragal keeper.

The only goal of the game came after 60

minutes when a through ball dissected the Mazarron defence and Francisco ran on to steer the ball past Carrasco.

Man of the Match : Mateo Mazarron are at home to La Hoya Lorca CF next weekend.

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SportNew club for golfers USA Grand Prix

On Sunday, Lewis Hamilton won the USA F1 Grand Prix in Austin, Texas. With two races left, Hamilton leads his Mercedes colleague Nico Rosberg by 24 points - but remember it’s double points in the final race, with 50 going to the winner.

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A NEW club on the Costa Blanca opened its doors and had its first competition at La Marquesa Golf which also helped to sponsor the event.

El Paraiso is not a new society, it is a formal club that is a member of the Spanish Federation and its members will receive many discounts at local golf courses, especially a huge saving on green fees of 20 per cent (and more in one or two cases) when those members play courses on their own - or even with another society.

El Paraiso intends to run full Federation matches twice a month (which will be open only for those who are Spanish Federated) and also twice a month, El

EL PARAISO: The new club played at La Marquesa.

Paraiso Members only competitions, who must also belong to the Spanish Federation.

The course was in quite good condition, although the greens are receiving

some TLC and golfers could help the green keepers by repairing the pitch marks.

The fairways were nice and firm.

El Paraiso sponsored the NTPs and a sleeve of Srixon

golf balls went to Ryan Sullivan, Steve Higgins, Les Cox and Nick Spicer.

La Marquesa partially sponsored the main competition and gave a green fee voucher for the winner, Jonny Rutgersson, who also received a voucher for the Pro Shop for his excellent 41 points.

Nick Spicer took the runners-up slot with 36 points, only one point ahead of Lex Cox whose 35 points gave him third.

Next competition is on November 16 and will be at La Serena where the green fee is €32 for those that like to walk and for those that require a buggy, an extra €8. http://www.clubdegolf elparaiso.com or call the Caddymaster 661 524 101.