Euro Weekly News - Costa del Sol 25 - 31 December 2014 Issue 1538

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INDEX News 1 - 46 Finance 49 - 54 Letters 55 Leapy Lee 56 Daily TV 58, 60, 62, 64, 66, 68, 70 Time Out 71 - 74 Health & Beauty 75 - 78 Food 79 - 84 Gibraltar 86 Homes & Gardens 87 Services 93 - 97 Classifieds 98 - 105 Motoring 106 - 108 Sport 109 - 112

EL GORDO DRAW: A schoolgirl reveals the top prize ball.

Hitting the jackpot CHRISTMAS came early to Malaga Province on Monday with more than €40 million in prizes scooped up by ticket holders in the El Gordo Christmas lottery.

Parts of the first, second, fourth and fifth prize massive payouts were sold across the province, in San Pedro de Alcantara, Torremolinos, Benalmadena Arroyo de la Miel, Alhaurin de la Torre, Ronda, Mijas, Fuengirola, Antequera, Casares, Villaneuva de Tapia and Malaga City.

Tickets with the second prize number -

92845 - will net the winners €125,000 each. They were the biggest winners in Southern Spain following a number of first prize tickets - 13437 - which were sold in Cadiz.

The El Gordo draw is the world’s largest lottery in terms of payouts, and more than €3.5 billion was shared among thousands of winners. When the top prize ball - €4 million - emerged from the spinning golden globe, Champagne corks popped as the winners realised that the Christmas lottery had smiled on them.

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Busy roads THE traffic authorities are expecting 3.4 million longdistance journeys over the Christmas period in Andalucia, 690,000 of them in the province of Malaga.

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A star’s walk on the wild side HOLLYWOOD star and Malagaborn heartthrob Antonio Banderas has been spotted around Marbella this Christmas, jogging on the beach near his home with new flame Nicole Kimpel.

The 54-year-old Desperado star also visited the Caminito del Rey (King’s Walkway) in El Chorro - a popular day trip for those living on the Costa del Sol - to see how work

is progressing at the famous site.

Accompanied by the mayor of Malaga, Francisco de la Torre, and the head of Malaga Provincial Council, Elias Bendodo, Banderas and company walked along finished parts of the pathway which cling to the face of the Desfiladero de los Gaitanes gorge, 100 metres above the Guadalhorce river.

Work is currently under way to reopen the walkway which has been closed for a number of years due to a series of fatal accidents.

The exact date of the reopening depends on the Royal agenda and Elias Bendodo has personally invited King Felipe VI to inaugurate the path, named after the king’s great-grandfather, Alfonso XIII. Reuters/Cordon Press

Encouraging conventions MALAGA plans to boost congresses and conventions using the city in 2015 with a €276,000 budget for promotion. A total of 254 establishments offer their services for these events via the Malaga Convention Bureau.

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Water bill issues MALAGA College of Community Administrators has applied to Emasa Malaga water company for a delay in the application of new fees in buildings with communal water meters to give communities time to adapt systems to individual ones.

Student grants THE Spanish Ministry of Education has announced that students at the University of Malaga will receive just over €8 million in grants this academic year.

Women’s hospital MARBELLA mayor Angeles Muñoz attended the opening of Ceram Hospital, a centre dedicated to women and families, offering fertility treatments and labour facilities, including a birth pool.

Popular Metro WITH more than 1.9 million passengers so far this year and taking into account the busy festive period, Malaga Metro is well on its way to reaching the two-million goal set for 2014.

Busy year FUENGIROLA Commerce Councillor Pilar Narváez has announced that more than 400 new businesses opened between January 1 and December 15 this year in the town.

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Happy New Year OUR readers will be able to get their news fix a day early again next week as the Euro Weekly News is hitting the streets on Wednesday, December 31.

Horse-drawn LA CALA DE MIJAS will have four horse-drawn carriages next year, the council has announced. There are plans to line carriage wheels and horseshoes with rubber to reduce noise and road damage.

Increasing costs ACCORDING to a report drawn up by Andalucia’s Audit Office, the construction and operating costs - until 2042 - of the Malaga Metro will increase to €2.6 billion, 113 per cent more than originally expected.

Tornado report VIKING MARAUDERS: Catoira festival re-enacts Spain’s Viking past.

Quest for answers to Viking past

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PAIN is hardly renowned for its links to fearsome Viking warriors, but a chance discovery has put a Spanish archaeologist on the trail of ancient Scandinavian raiders in her home country.

Dr Irene Garcia Losquiño of the University of Aberdeen is preparing a dig next spring in the Galicia Region, where a storm uncovered a set of anchors from Viking longships. Although there are written accounts of Viking raids in Northern Spain, archaeologically speaking, the Iberian pensinsula has been a barren hunting ground for Viking experts. Each year, however, locals in the Galician area of Catoira hold a Viking festival where they stage a re-enactment of the Viking raids that occurred 1,000 years ago.

Dr Garcia Losquiño thinks that she may be able to

Quote of the Week We can’t send a police squad to watch over a nativity scene, we appeal to people’s social conscience,’

said Santiago mayor Agustin Hernandez after a statue of the baby Jesus was stolen from the city’s nativity scene for the second time in three years.

uncover rare archaeological evidence of a Viking presence in Spain. “On the beach where the anchors were found was a big mound which locals thought might have been a motte-and-bailey construction, which was used by the later Vikings in France,” Dr Garcia Losquiño told The Herald Scotland. “But with the help of a geographer using tomography we now think this was a ‘longphort’, a Viking construction only found in Ireland during the early Viking age, and very similar to English Viking camps, where they would winter, after taking over the harbour.”

The Spanish archaeologist is planning a spring dig in Galicia and also in Sevilla, where a Norse warband was said to be active in the area for three years. Some of the Spanish sites are marshlands, with perfect conditions for preserving ancient treasures.

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Number of the week

80,000

is the number of UK students who cannot find places on nursing courses because the NHS is hiring qualified nurses from countries like Spain and Portugal for a fraction of the cost of training a nurse in England.

THE tornado that hit the Costa del Sol in late November covered approximately seven kilometres in 15 minutes, said the State Meteorology Agency.

It formed at sea and caused serious damage in Torremolinos, Churriana and near Malaga airport.

Drivers tested SIX drivers tested positive for drugs and one was caught driving without a licence in just 90 minutes at a police check-point on the road to Campanillas.

Flights increase LOW-COST airline passenger numbers at Malaga airport rose by 10 per cent up to November this year, making it second in Spain for volume of budget carrier users. Only Barcelona had more.

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A FUGITIVE wanted in Spain for murder has been sending postcards from the Caribbean to his trial judges. The Frenchman has been on the run for six years for a murder in Huesca in 2006, but despite admitting to the crime, prosecutors could not prove motive or premeditation, resulting in the fugitive’s temporary release and subsequent abscondment.

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Malaga named a ‘must-visit’ in 2015 JUST a week after being named the second most exciting destination on the planet for 2015 by travel experts Rough Guide, Malaga has been featured in another prestigious travel guide as one of the must-visit destinations in the coming year.

Frommer’s, the worldrenowned travel experts, has listed Malaga as one of their 15 Best Places to Go 2015, citing its weather and culture as highlights.

Handpicked by the guide’s editors, Malaga features alongside places such as Shanghai, Argentina and London.

“With miles of shoreline, a rich culture, and an average January temperature of 63 degrees, Malaga, on Spain’s southern coast, has a lot going for it except relatively few tourists are, which qualifies it as a find,” says Frommer’s.

“Paris’ Centre Pompidou selected Malaga as the site of the first ‘Pop-Up Pompidou.’

“The art museum opens in the spring and will be the capstone of the resurgence of Andalucia’s second-largest city.

“The transformation began in 2011 with the opening of both the Palmeral de Las Sorpresas, an elegant seaside promenade that replaced the gritty working waterfront, and the Museo Carmen Thyssen, a showcase of 19th and early 20th century Spanish paintings.

“The city has become a great option for travellers who want to enjoy the cultural offerings of a vibrant city, but still be close to the Costa del Sol beaches.”

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It’s time for a New Year resolution

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T’S that time of year again when a lot (but not all) of us cherish those last few days of over-indulgence before embarking on our well intended, but often fruitless journeys to better ourselves. Be it giving up smoking, joining a gym or promising to be a better person, come January 1 life will get that little bit harder for those full of good intentions. Yes, it’s time to decide on a dreaded New Year’s resolution.

Every year we know that whatever we decide to give up, take up, do more of or do less of will take determination, willpower, effort and strength. For those that stick with it, the rewards are plentiful. Giving up smoking will improve your health, be less of a strain on your finances, and make your teeth whiter! Joining a gym will make you fitter, feel better and more often than not, look better

too. Learning a new language is unbelievably rewarding. But boy, are they all hard to stick with! It’s so much easier to give up when something is hard, which is why so many of us soon fall back into old habits despite resolving to rid ourselves of them.

Setting small attainable goals throughout the year instead of making huge, sweeping changes on January 1 can often be the best way to approach a New Year’s resolution.

And by sticking with our resolutions through the difficult times (usually at the very start), we will soon find rewards that we may never have expected: a happier outlook, pride, the fulfilment felt from overcoming something difficult.

Whatever resolution you make in the next few days - assuming you make one at all - perseverance is the key.

The best of luck to all of you!

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Marbella street artists can register for 2015 STREET artists who wish to perform in Marbella in 2015 can register now.

The period to submit applications opened on December 22, through the 2015 Plan for Use of Public Spaces with Artistic Activities.

Head of the Commerce, Industry and Public Spaces department, Jose Eduardo Diaz, announced there would be 32 locations for street artists.

“The locations are distributed throughout the places most requested by artists, controlling noise and inconvenience and revitalising the local economy,” said Mr Diaz.

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LA LINEA post office left five distribution areas unattended last week when postmen were ordered to help out in Santa Margarita district, which has just one postman for 5,000 residents, trade union CSIF complained.

New flights PUERTO BANUS: Ready to welcome registered artists.

Street artists can perform in areas including the San Pedro Alcantara promenade, Puerto Banus and the newly inaugurated

Boulevard of San Pedro.

Local Police officers will ensure that all street performers have been authorised by the council.

Escaped robber arrested A FRENCHMAN who escaped from jail and is suspected of being behind seven bankrobberies in Spain this autumn has been arrested in Marbella.

The accused, sentenced for 19 bank robberies in Spain in 2008 and with 10 years of a sentence left to serve in France, escaped during a temporary release.

DELTA Airlines has announced that it will begin providing daily flights from Malaga to New York next summer.

Live nativity MORE than 125 people took part in a live nativity in Marbella’s Alameda Park, organised by Hermanas Maldonado dance school, to raise funds for local cancer groups.

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EWN works hard but plays hard too!

Steven and Amalia.

Dancing begins.

THE newspaper business is a highpressure, deadline-filled occupation, and continues to be so over the Christmas period. At the Euro Weekly News, we work 52 weeks a year and are currently burning the midnight oil at the weekends to continue delivering our high standard publications during the festive season.

But all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, so we recently held an impromptu staff party at the beautiful Da Bruno’s restaurant in Mijas Costa, where we let our hair down and enjoyed some delicious food, drink and a bit of dancing in true festive style! The EWN family has worked extremely hard to ensure that our newspapers keep growing in every area, so we took some time to put down the pens and telephones and enjoy a little down-time before returning to work hard during the holidays. Our long-suffering

and tolerant partners know that long hours are part of the job, so we are planning an EWN family party during 2015 as a thank you to them for putting up with us! We’d like to extend a huge thanks to Da Bruno’s for putting on a delicious and memorable spread. As always, the food, service and entertainment were second-to-none.

EWN would also like to thank our valued clients at this time of year, clients who reach out to the entire community. We are all part of the expat community in Spain, a community that is strong and keeps growing as a family. At this time of year it is important to remember our neighbours and to reach out to the elderly, infirm and weak. Let’s make it a special Christmas; a Christmas of building bridges. We cannot look forward if we keep looking backwards.

FESTIVE: Da Bruno’s.

Dilip, Beth and Angus.

Kim and Mo.

Eugenia, Marcos and Na talia.

CHEERS! Merry Christmas from all at EWN.

The impromptu staff party.

Esteban and Georgia.

Silvia and Violeta.

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‘Expats can help to make the Costa a better place’ MARBELLA’S Councillor for Tourism and Foreign Residents has echoed the mayor’s call for expats to register on the ‘padron’ and help make the city a better place for all.

Councillor Jose Luis Hernandez reiterated Mayor Angeles Muñoz’s comments in last week’s Euro Weekly News – that expats should have their say in local elections – and has stressed his personal belief that the expat community on the Costa del Sol is extremely important to the future of the region.

“The big problem we have at the moment is that so many expats have integrated perfectly into the community and Spanish society as a whole, but some don’t realise that they also have the right to vote and have a say in the future of their communities,” said Hernandez.

“Expats have contributed greatly towards life in Marbella and the Costa del Sol in general, and are part of what makes the region so special. It is important that they know they play a vital role in the community and are

CALLING ALL EXPATS: Councillor Jose Luis Hernandez. entitled to have their say in political matters.”

He has urged that as many expats

as possible register to vote before the deadline of December 30, and has also stressed the importance to the region of registering on the ‘padron’ (town hall register).

“The more people that are registered with the town hall means the more money that Marbella receives from the government,” he said. “There would be much more available for investment in health services, schools, public works, numbers of taxis, police, and many other important social and economic issues. Expats in our community have the right to make things better, but I believe they have a duty also. The quality of life would be improved for everyone and we will all be contributing to building a better Marbella.”

Hernandez said his comments were applicable to all municipalities on the Costa del Sol, not just Marbella. “The message we want to get across is to register and to have your say,” he said. “Together we can improve all our communities.”

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ANIMAL centre workers were called out to remove an extremely large wasp nest from the patio of an empty property in Malaga City’s Suarez neighbourhood.

Fly to Russia VUELING Airlines has announced a new route to an as yet unconfirmed Russian city from Malaga next summer.

Offended teen makes man clean church A MALAGA teenager took moral matters into his own hands by pretending to be a policeman and convincing a man who pasted erotic posters to do community work.

The strange crime was discovered when a 29year-old man presented a document at the Local Police headquarters in Malaga City to prove that he had carried out two days of community work at Purisima Concepcion parish church. Although the report bore official police logos and had been

stamped and signed by the parish priest, who even noted that the man had worked excellently, officers on duty soon realised that the report was a fake.

Investigations began and police officers were told by the priest that a youth claiming to be a policeman had visited him to explain that a man would be going to do community work to purge his sins.

DISTRACTED: Victims didn’t realise their watches were missing until later.

Seductive thief A WOMAN suspected of distracting seven elderly men in Marbella by kissing and fondling them while stealing their expensive watches has been arrested.

The victims, aged between 60 and 85, reported that they were approached by a young woman who kissed and fondled them and offered them sex, while making the most of their confusion to remove their watches, some valued at up to €12,000.

A 21-year-old has been arrested.

The victim explained that while placing advertisements with erotic content in public, two policemen on motorbikes had stopped and told him off for placing the posters, but had not charged him.

Although he thought that was the end of it, a few days later he started getting calls from a hidden number.

He answered the sixth call and was told by a person claiming to be a policeman that he must go to the church and carry out maintenance and cleaning work to avoid a €1,500 fine.

Police eventually tracked down the caller and arrested a 15-yearold boy – whom they suspect was offended at seeing erotic posters close to a church – for pretending to be a policeman and falsifying official documents.

Fly-tipper faces fine A MIJAS man faces a €250 fine after dumping rubble, furniture and other items into the Pajares stream. Police tracked the culprit down from documents found with the rubbish.

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Manhole falls FAMILIES of the two children who fell into a manhole when the cover gave way recently in Malaga City have demanded damages from Endesa electrical company.

Although neither boy was seriously injured, one needed to be rescued by firefighters from the eightmetre-deep manhole, and both suffered nasty scares.

Lawyer Francisco Damián Vázquez declared that the accidents were caused by a lack of maintenance to the manhole cover on a busy city street.

Quick work by police POLICE in Mijas managed to recover a stolen motorbike before the owner had even reported it missing.

A resident called the police station one evening to report that he had spotted a suspicious motorbike in the area and a patrol was sent to have a look.

The vehicle had not been reported missing but police tracked down the owner who said he was going to report the theft the next day.

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Another star for Starlite Festival ANDREA BOCELLI will be taking part in the Starlite Festival in 2015 on August 22.

Bocelli joins Lenny Kravitz, Alejandro Sanz and Roger Hodgson on the list of great artists taking part in the everpopular Starlite 2015 in Marbella next summer.

BRILLIANT ADDITION: Andrea Bocelli.

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Climbing tragedy A SEVILLA woman died and a man was slightly injured in El Chorro when the pair of climbers fell more than 10 metres down a cliff.

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Not much help for Santa UNDELIVERED post is piling up in Marbella’s sorting office.

It has been reported that 14,000 letters and 550 parcels – 250 of them from abroad – are still waiting to be sorted.

A Comisiones Obreras trades union spokesman complained that the one sorting office in the town,

which deals with post for 140,000 citizens, was overloaded due to lack of staff as 10 people have been laid off over recent months.

Meanwhile, a Correos postal service representative insisted that the situation was simply due to the massive amount of extra post in the run-up to Christmas.

WORK has started in Estepona to add an extra two kilometres to the town’s bike paths and join the seafront with the new fair and sports grounds.

Worker dies A WORKER who was crushed by machinery at the site of the future Russian Museum in Malaga City a week ago has died in Carlos Haya Hospital.

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Man held after police give chase A MAN has been arrested in Malaga City for shoplifting and resisting arrest.

The 39-year-old man was caught by a shop assistant trying to hide pairs of trousers under his clothes, according to Malaga Local Police.

The alleged shoplifter, who has a prior criminal record, reportedly gave two pairs back but kept one and pushed the shop assistant out of his way after a struggle.

Policemen were quickly called and spotted the man leaving the shop, taking chase on foot as he ran away.

They eventually caught up with him as he entered a doorway on Calle Zamorano but the suspect put up a fight, reportedly punching and kicking the officers before they finally managed to arrest him.

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Officers watch citizens’ backs over Christmas MALAGA Local and National Police officers are aiming to take extra care of everyone this Christmas, with special campaigns running

School funds cut back MALAGA schools are up in arms over new cutbacks by the Junta de Andalucia Regional Government.

The Andalucian Primary School Headmasters’ Association, Asadipre, has complained that the Education Board reduced the funds schools received by at least 20 per cent over the last three years.

until January 8.

City policemen will be working to control traffic, prevent crime, regulate noise and opening hours

of establishments, stop the sale of illegal fireworks and prevent alcohol consumption on the streets, among other things.

Music mural A NEW mural in Estepona celebrates the 75th anniversary of the Municipal Band.

Titled ‘Airs of Music,’ the mural by Blanca Larrauri in Plaza San Fernando is the 23rd such artwork to cheer up neighbourhoods around town.

AIRS OF MUSIC: Celebrates the Municipal Band.

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Pile-up TWO adults and two teenagers were injured in a crash between at least three vehicles on Sunday evening in Cartama and were taken to the Clinico Hospital in Malaga.

New paths ALHAURIN de la Torre Council started work to create 500 metres of new pavements and bike paths. The route will connect the main roundabout entering Pinos urbanisation with the Alhaurin el Grande road.

Drugs bust LA LINEA Police have arrested five people suspected of selling cocaine and heroin in Las Palomeras district.

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Generous musicians THE Malaga Musical Foundation has given a cheque for €2,870 to the Ronald McDonald House in the city. The funds were raised at a charity concert.

Fatal accident A WOMAN, 38, was killed by a four wheel drive vehicle on a zebra-crossing on La Linea seafront while walking her dog. The driver tested positive for alcohol.

Flat fire INITIAL reports suggest a spark or electrical fault caused a fire in a flat opposite Sotogrande Marina.

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Police beef up season security NATIONAL POLICE are beefing up security around Malaga Province stores and businesses during the Christmas

period. More than 1,200 police officers will be on patrol in Torremolinos, Fuengirola, Marbella, Estepona, Ronda, Antequera and VelezMalaga to deter criminals and guarantee business owners and their potential clients a safer environment.

The special security plan was launched on December 18 and will conclude on January 8.

As part of the security initiative, police officers advise business owners to always lock their stores at night and to keep an PLAYMOBIL: Toys are used to recreate scenes. exterior light on.

Other measures they recommend are to install a doorbell and a remote door opening system, place antiA HIGHLY popular Playmobil display in Fuengirola’s theft devices on their Museo de la Ciudad featuring past and present products, as well as scenes and made with almost 3,000 toys, has surveillance cameras if received more than 21,500 visitors. possible, and to keep their Due to its popularity, the display will be open to most expensive products in the public from 10am to 2pm and 4.30pm to locked display cases.

8.30pm until January 5.

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Fair is Made in Mijas LA CALA DE MIJAS Boulevard will be filled with Christmas cheer until January 5 thanks to the first Made in Mijas Christmas Fair.

Manuel Navarro, Commercial and Industrial Councillor, explained that the best selection of local crafts and cookery will be available at the fair.

In addition, local dance groups and choirs will provide festive entertainment.

The fair pays special attention to children, who are the “stars of Christmas” according to Navarro, with plenty of activities available to keep them happy.

On January 5 the Three Kings will visit the fair and collect letters from local children.

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Generous school PARENTS and teachers from Los Peques infant school in Benalmadena have donated clothes, food and toys to the council’s Welfare Department for local children in need.

Road open WORK on the bridge connecting San Julian to MalagaCosta del Sol airport is complete and the road has been reopened to traffic.

Lucky winner A BENALMADENA lottery office sold one of four winning tickets for the Primitiva lottery.

The lucky winner, with six correct numbers, won €454,592.82.

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Senior police officer in alleged football brawl THE deputy inspector of the Local Police of Malaga, Rafael Rubio, allegedly attacked a 16-year-old boy during a football match.

The incident took place in the

Jose Gamez Villalba football field, located in Malaga.

An argument was sparked amongst the players, which ended up with visitors engaging in verbal

and physical violence.

The victim claims that the accused hit him in the face and then kicked him several times in his back when he was on the ground.

A council representative explained that the deputy inspector was off-duty that day and that he was present because one of the players was his son.

The accused confirmed that he grabbed the minor from the back, but only to prevent him from jumping on the field. He also claimed that it was the minor who was trying to pick a fight.

The victim had to receive treatment for several lesions, bruising around the eye, as well as damage to his neck. He filed a complaint at the GREEN STREETS: Cllr Dolores Buzon National Police who are currently investigating by the new artificial grass at Calle the case.

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Making our streets safer FUENGIROLA Council is implementing a new system to help avoid accidents on pavements and improve the image of busy streets.

Trees on pavements are being surrounded by artificial grass which has been removed from the Elola sports grounds.

Green Areas councillor Dolores Buzon explained that the system - that recycles artificial grass from the sports grounds - is being tested on streets around the Plaza de la Constitucion and if successful will spread to other areas.

The artificial grass will prevent weeds from growing and level pavement surfaces to improve safety.

NEWS Fines for putting up posters PEOPLE putting up posters in public spaces in Ronda will face fines.

Ronda Council will slap fines ranging between €50 and €500 on people putting up posters on lampposts, bus shelters, rubbish bins, traffic signs, shop windows or any other public space in town.

The measure is included in a local ordinance and aims at improving the overall appearance of the city.

“We wish we did not have to levy fines and we do not want people to think we are doing it for the money. Ronda is a tourist city and its appearance is fundamental. We want no posters,” said Environmental councillor Rafael Flores.

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Oxfam has moved THE Intermon Oxfam shop in Malaga city centre has moved to new premises on Calle Granada.

Sea and wheels A NEW 450-metre stretch of cycle path has been opened on Poniente seafront in La Linea, enabling local cyclists to take in the sea views as they pedal along.

Photo show CASA DE CULTURA in Mijas is staging a photo exhibition of works by the Image Group until January 8. Contributors include Nina Reistad, Joanna Butler and Mike Naylor.

Appeal denied A MARBELLA businessman involved in the court case which saw ex-Marbella mayor Julian Muñoz and singer Isabel Pantoja jailed has been sentenced to one year in prison.

Jose Miguel Villarroya was given the sentence for obtaining building licences from Muñoz in exchange for property.

Although he lodged an appeal, Malaga Provincial Court has rejected it and ruled that the businessman must go to jail and pay a €122,899 fine.

IN HARMONY: The choir at the traditional Christmas night at St George’s.

A night of song

SPANISH and English locals enjoyed a night of carol singing at St George’s Anglican Church in Malaga in the runup to Christmas.

The Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols saw everyone – young and old – singing traditional carols, led ably by

the choir directed by David Harrison.

Mulled wine and mince pies afterwards made it a truly festive occasion, and one winner of the Christmas raffle went home with a packed hamper. The money raised at the service will go towards charity.

Santa gets ‘on board’ A STRANGER sight would have been hard to find than Santa surfing along the coast.

Twenty paddle surfers travelled along the coast from El Faro to the Plaza del Mar shopping centre area on their boards dressed in Christmas gear, including Santa and Mrs Claus, reindeer and elves, catching the attention of people

walking on or near Marbella beaches.

Those who took part in the event, organised

by Marbella Paddle Surf Club, donated toys to a local charity to be given to children in need.

The event, which began last year as a casual activity between friends, involved surfers of various ages and nationalities.

Snack bags arrive late SNACK bags for impoverished Malaga Province schoolchildren have arrived 12 weeks too late.

Three months after the start of the school year and only two days before the beginning of the Christmas holidays, some schools in Malaga Province started getting the first snack bags, which were

supposed to help fight malnutrition among schoolchildren.

The snack bags are part of a plan launched by the Junta de Andalucia regional government, known as SIGA. The Education Department has so far been unable to explain why it has taken so long for them to arrive.

No Xmas for nurses NURSING union CCOO representatives say that Malaga nurses are unable to take time off over Christmas.

Carlos Haya Hospital nurses have been complaining about the lack of staff for months, yet the situation has worsened over the last few days.

Juan Antonio Torres, Carlos Haya CCOO trade union spokesman, declared that many nurses will not be able to take holidays over Christmas due to staff shortages even though they have worked double shifts all year and are owed up to 30 days off.

However, management sources said that members of staff are being given the time off they are owed within established time limits.

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A sleuth lawyer brings good cheer A MALAGA lawyer turned detective to reunite a woman with a lost ring in a story that brings cheer in the season of goodwill.

While passing Barclays Bank on Calle Larios on her way to work one morning, Pilar Lopez spotted a shiny object on the pavement and leaned down to discover it was a ring.

As she couldn’t see anyone in the area she pocketed the ring and later examined it at her office. But instead of just handing it over to the police as

friends advised her, she decided to turn detective to track down the owner, with a little help from Facebook.

She deduced it was obviously a wellworn ring presumably with great sentimental value and decided to post a photo on the social networking site asking her friends to help her find the owner.

The photo spread like wildfire and was seen by the owner’s daughter Vanessa.

“She saw it on a friend’s Facebook wall and wrote to me saying that the ring had been given to her mother by her father, who died nine years ago,” Lopez explained.

The two women met and the ring was returned to its rightful owner.

MIJAS is giving its coastal and inland urbanisations Lopez explained that facelifts to meet citizens’ demands. although her friends told Lew Hoads, El Coto, Buenavista, Calahonda, La her to turn it over to the Sierrezuela, Riviera del Sol and El Faro are just some police, she believed in of the areas 50 council workers are cleaning. magic and was sure that The object of the exercise is to improve safety as she could find the owner well as image. herself.

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MALAGA Picasso Museum will be closed on Christmas Day, New Year’s Day and January 6, while entry after 6pm will be free on Sunday, December 28 and Sunday, January 4.

Cleaner town ESTEPONA has bought 90 small waste bins which will be placed in the old town at 7pm and removed at 6am, to improve the area’s image.

A MAN has been given a two-year suspended jail sentence for encouraging a 13-year-old girl to

undress on webcam.

The accused pleaded guilty and admitted before a Malaga City

judge to opening fake accounts on social media using photos of a male model to attract young girls.

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After gaining his victim’s trust, the man persuaded her to take her top off in front of a webcam.

He later threatened to share the video unless she showed him more, at which point she became scared and told her SIXTY-SEVEN per cent of Malaga parents fear they lack the family, who informed the necessary information and knowledge to warn their police.

After using his IP children about the risks lurking online.

This is one of the conclusions drawn by a report called address to locate him, ‘Family: Use and Safety in New Technologies’, police found photos and commissioned by Malaga Provincial Council and written by recordings of 67 young girls stripping.

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The judge sentenced The study shows that 25 per cent of parents offer no him to two years’ guidance to their children probation, €6,000 in on the use of new tech- damages for the victim, a laundering. The blocked assets have nologies and 54 per cent of restraining order, and now been reduced to €1 million. them only do so for less ordered that the accused As the singer had paid part of the than an hour, said attend sexual education €1,147,148 fine included in her Education and Youth classes. Although the sentence and promised to pay the Representative, Jacobo two-year jail sentence Florido. Moreover, 71 per was suspended, he will be remaining €1 million in instalments, the cent admitted to not having sent to jail if he commits court agreed to release part of her any sort of parental control another crime within five blocked assets. software on computers. years.

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NEWS EXTRA BENAHAVIS Council has approved a proposal to ban circuses which use animals. All political groups voted in favour of not allowing the circuses to operate in the municipality.

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Singer’s assets unblocked A MALAGA provincial court has agreed to reduce the amount of assets belonging to jailed singer Isabel Pantoja, which are currently embargoed.

Although a judge initially blocked assets worth €3.68 million, Pantoja’s lawyers applied for a reduction after she went to prison for money

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Malaga leads Spain’s goat milk production GOAT milk production is a booming business for Malaga.

Not only is Malaga the leading province in Spain as far as producing goat milk is concerned, but demand has also increased on a national level, with sales widely

surpassing last year’s figures.

The last four years have been very positive for the province in terms of sales, said Benjamin Fauli, Secretary of the Young Farmers Agricultural Association of Malaga (ASAJA).

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Graffiti to improve THREE new graffiti pieces have been painted on the verge of the Guadalmedina River in Malaga.

The art pieces were chosen by a panel of experts from among 16 projects submitted to a contest, and a prize of €800 was awarded to the winner.

Artists were requested to use the water theme for their compositions, as well as having blue and white as the dominant colours.

The project was conceived to improve the landscape around the area and contribute to creating a more positive attitude about graffiti.

have rocketed upwards to approximately €52 million - which stands in stark contrast to the €37 million from 2013 and sets a new record, said Fauli These good results could have been even better if production costs had not been so high, he commented.

No mortgage AT current prices, young adults in Malaga would need to spend 62 per cent of their salaries to buy a house.

A new report by the Emancipation Observatory explained young people in the province would need to earn €2,040 per month to manage to pay a mortgage.

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New radar TRAFFIC authorities have announced the permanent radar at the Carlos Haya tunnel in Malaga City for Torremolinos-bound traffic will start in February or March.

Xmas cheer CARLOS HAYA hospital has been sharing Christmas spirit with patients and relatives with special menus and activities, including a visit by Santa.

Bioparc stand THREE Kings’ Messengers are accepting letters from children at the Bioparc stand on Fuengirola’s Plaza de la Constitucion. Children will get a free annual ticket to the zoo.

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Lucrecia to sing in Malaga CUBAN singing sensation Lucrecia will be bringing her Eternamente Cuba (Eternally Cuba) Tour to Malaga’s Teatro Cervantes on Boxing Day. Accompanied on the piano by Felix Ramos, Lucrecia will sing songs from Cuba and Latin America along with popular compositions of her own from the last 15 years.

Lucrecia said she wanted to return to tour the clubs and theatres that helped her at the

LUCRECIA: Returning to where she started. start of her career, including the Cervantes.

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Free WiFi for Marbella MARBELLA Council and Free Technologies Excom have signed an agreement that will provide free WiFi in the town. The first

access will be available at San Pedro de Alcantara’s new boulevard, with other areas connected at the beginning of 2015.

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Security issue at the hospital THE trade union CSIF has condemned an aggressive incident suffered by workers at the Poniente hospital in Los Junquillos (La Linea).

The incident took place when a patient, who was in a nervous state, started screaming and threatening a doctor, a nurse and the security guard.

Officers of the National Police arrived on the scene, but the patient had

already been treated and had calmed down.

The officers left but after a few minutes the man started screaming and threatening staff members once again.

Representatives of the trade union have complained that the measures taken against the attackers are not strict enough, and do not protect the workers, who often feel powerless.

Improving flats TEN apartment blocks in Malaga City neighbourhoods will be improved next year by a council project with a budget of more than €1 million.

Work on communal areas of the blocks, containing a total of 200 flats, will include renewal of plumbing and electrical installations, new paint and floors in halls and on staircases and landings, post-boxes, electronic doorbells and repairs to roofs.

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More Malaga, less noise, will benefit MALAGA City Council’s environmental department has launched a campaign to try and raise citizens’ awareness of the problems noise creates in the city at night.

‘More Malaga, less noise, your awareness benefits everyone’ is the slogan for the initiative, which will begin

in central and Teatinos-University districts; the areas that suffer the most from night-time noise. A noise reduction scheme last summer proved that the best way to reduce levels is get members of the public involved.

The current campaign aims to make people realise that they can keep the noise down and still have fun on the street while at the same time respecting those who wish to sleep.

Informative leaflets, stickers, drinks mats and posters will be distributed and the campaign will run A MAN has been arrested in Ronda for stealing six on radio stations and social media sites. bottles of olive oil from a restaurant.

Although people tend to Police officers found the five-litre olive oil bottles in blame bars and nightthe 44-year-old man’s car during a routine check.

The man claimed that he had found the bottles in a clubs for the noise, most rubbish container on the street, but the officers meet volume control confirmed there were no waste containers in said regulations. A council spokesman explained that location, after which they contacted the oil producers.

They informed police that only two restaurants in the people sitting on terraces, outside or town use this oil and one of them had recently reported smoking a theft of olive oil worth €250. The man has been walking between bars make the most noise. charged with robbery.

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SPAIN is to get its second Smurf-themed town.

The Andalucian village of Juzcar is already known around the world for its bright blue houses, painted as a publicity stunt for The Smurfs in 3D movie in 2011.

Villagers decided to keep the blue paint instead of reverting back to being a typical ‘pueblo blanco’, and as a result the village has attracted more than

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200,000 tourists with its unique colour scheme.

Now, Lleida is set to become home to the world’s first Smurf theme park. Lleida Town Hall has announced that the establishment of the €47million park is expected to attract revenues of around €14 million in its first year.

The Smurfs – known as ‘pitufos’ in Spain – are a favourite with Spanish children and the theme park is aimed at families with children aged between two and 12, according to Spanish daily 20 minutos.

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FAMOUS SMURF TOWN: Juzcar in Andalucia.

A Belgian creation, the Smurfs have spawned

cartoon series, toys, films and video games.

A COLLECTION of paintings by artist Richard Wood is on display at Hotel TRH Mijas and runs until December 31.

Punk legend THE work of former tour manager and photographer of legendary punk band The Sex Pistols – John Tiberi – is on show at La Termica, Malaga, until January 8.

Swan Lake CLASSIC ballet Swan Lake will be performed by the Ukrainian National Ballet of Odessa from December 30 until January 2 at Teatro Cervantes in Malaga. Tickets are between €18 and €54.

Local paintings LOCAL artist Lunes Olivares will be displaying some of his work at Sala Finca El Porton in Alhaurin de la Torre until January 2.

Danish art AN exhibition by Danish artists entitled Lorca in New York is now on show at Frigiliana’s Galeria Krabbe.

WINNERS: Aspera and Mrs Tous won first and second place in Friday’s Lucky Stack.

Poker gods are smiling POKER players at Casino Marbella got a windfall at the weekend, with Aspera taking home €1,000 for first place in the Lucky Stack league, and Mrs Tous winning €600 for second place. JM Rodriguez and Maria Isabel Lopez were also among the prize winners.

City road closures THOSE intending to go to Malaga City centre this weekend are advised to use public transport as some streets will be closed to traffic.

The council has announced that only buses and taxis will be allowed to use the southern part of Alameda Principal from December 26-28 and January 2-4 between 5pm and 10pm.

Access to the Plaza de la Marina car-park will be via the entrance opposite the port.

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A GROUP of patients with Hepatitis C are staging a protest at a Madrid hospital and have refused to leave until the government provides them with the medication they require.

Thirty people occupied Hospital 12 de Octubre in the Spanish capital, demanding the government earmark a budget assignment so that they can afford treatment for their illness.

“We will not leave until they give us our medication,” said spokesman for the Platform of Hepatitis C Patients, Mario Cortes.

“We cannot say there is universal healthcare in Spain while there is a large number of people that are not getting medication available on the market that can save lives,” said Ruben Bejarano, Spanish leftwing political coalition Izquierda Unida spokesman, before the Madrid Assembly.

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According to the platform, 4,000 people lost their battle with Hepatitis C last year, which represents approximately 12

deaths every day.

“These deaths are homicides, because the medicine exists and they will not give it to us. That is

DANIEL PEREZ BERLANGA is perhaps the most famous person living in tiny Bronchales in Teruel, but for all the wrong reasons, after apparently attempting to mount an attack with a homemade bomb on the Partido Popular (PP) headquarters.

Bronchales, population 460, is a small municipality in the Albarracin mountain range. Its residents woke up on Friday December 19 to the shocking news that a neighbour had crashed his car, containing two butane gas bottles, into the PP offices in Madrid.

“I wanted to carry out an attack against politicians because they are all the same. I could have just as well attacked any other party,” he reportedly told police after being detained.

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Homemade explosive device was unlikely to go off, say police

PP HQ: Police stand guard while the car is towed.

Berlanga, who is undergoing treatment for schizophrenia and drug addiction and has a criminal record for robbery, drove a Citroën Xantia at high speed into the building located on Calle Genova in Madrid – and nearly ran over a cleaning lady in the process – in an apparent

attempt to blow it up.

Inside his car the police found two butane gas bottles, several kilos of ammonium nitrate, a timer and a homemade ignition device. However, the explosive device he built was not likely to explode because of how it was made, said police.

unacceptable and this is precisely the reason why we are indefinitely occupying the hospital until a solution is found,” warned Cortez.

He stated that, in Spain, there were 30,000 patients with cirrhosis with a life expectancy of three to four months. “They need their medication right now, tomorrow. And there are 175,000 others who have been diagnosed and 40 per cent of them are in the third or fourth stage of the disease,” he complained.

Izquierda Unida issued a statement expressing its solidarity with the demonstrators.

The party urged the government to give patients the treatment they needed and called for a regional plan which would determine how many patients there were and for enough money to guarantee Madrid residents their right to healthcare.

Ebola nurse urges change of protocols for animals THE Spanish nurse who beat Ebola, Teresa Romero, and her husband, Javier Limon, have submitted a petition with 270,620 signatures in a bid to change Ebola protocols regarding animals.

Romero visited the Ministry of Health to submit the signatures, which were collected on the online platform change.org.

Romero’s dog, Excalibur, was put down in October by health chiefs who believed the animal could be a carrier of Ebola.

“I am very touched by the Excalibur issue but I feel better physically. I still remember Excalibur. I will never forget him,” said the nurse, who could not contain her tears.

The submitted documents also included information about the Nina Pham case.

Pham is a nurse from the United States who also survived the illness and was reunited with her pet dog after the animal was put into quarantine for 21 days.

Limon and Romero said they were surprised and deeply thankful for all the support they were receiving from the Spanish community.

NEWS Chamber of Commerce message THE British Chamber of Commerce (BCC) in Spain has said that although the business climate in both Spain and UK has got better, there is still room for improvement regarding the labour market, debt and deficit.

In the annual Christmas letter from BCC Spain president Roger Cooke, he outlined that the BCC’s main objective was its sustained economic viability through the growth of the number of members and to continue being a key link in commercial relations between Spain and the UK. “One of the Chamber’s strategic priorities for the year has been the development of a communications and institutional relations plan, with the aim of improving our positioning and visibility amongst similar organisations,” said Cooke.

“One of prominent initiatives has been the creation of the Committee of British Investment in Spain, with the purpose of driving British investment in Spain and defending the interests of investing companies in front of decisionmaking authorities, to which we have attracted high profile member companies.”

Cooke added that the BCC secured 65 new members during 2014, bringing the total number to 264.

“The current economic data shows improvement in the business climate both for Spain and the United Kingdom,” he said. “However, the labour market, deficit and debt are still far from the desired levels,” he remarked.

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ROYAL CARD: Features a family photo inside with their signatures.

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ROYAL princesses Leonor and Sofia have signed their first official Christmas card as Leonor, Princess of Asturias and Sofia, Infanta of Spain.

King Felipe and Queen Letizia chose two pictures taken on the day of their coronation for this year’s official Christmas card from the Royal Household.

While the front of the card sports a picture of the royal couple waving from a balcony of the Royal Palace, a family photo with their daughters is placed inside opposite a handwritten message and signatures from the king and queen and both princesses.

In the message, King Felipe and Queen Letizia express their desire for Christmas hope and goodwill to outlast the festive days.

Novelties this year include the red colour of the card and the addition of the letter R after the king and queen’s signatures.

Meanwhile the king’s parents King Juan Carlos and Queen Sofia chose a work of art for their Christmas card. The Adoration of the Magicians by Lucas Jordan is depicted on a card from which the letter R after the signatures has disappeared as they no longer reign.

Jihadist girl in custody AN underage jihadist girl arrested in Melilla has been taken into a youth centre in Madrid.

The 17-year-old was

taken into custody by the Juvenile Prosecution Division and was put in a centre to move her away from her closest circle, as

Warm, wet winter THIS winter is expected to be warmer and wetter than usual according to the Aemet Spanish Weather Agency.

Following the hottest year since 1961, Aemet spokeswoman Ana Casals reported that the coming winter season is expected to be mild, but wet.

Casals said that autumn temperatures were 2.3 degrees higher than usual, although it was also a wetter than average season.

The highest temperature registered in Spain in 2014 was 41.8 degrees at Cordoba airport on September 1, while the lowest so far was -3.7 degrees in Navacerrada, Madrid on November 10.

was done with a 14-yearold from Ceuta who attempted to cross the border with Morocco to join the Islamic State in Iraq or Syria.

Another four young women above 18-yearsold have been arrested in an operation against jihadist recruitment networks.

Four women were in charge of the recruitment process, from Ceuta, Melilla and Chile.

They used social platforms such as Facebook and WhatsApp to lure up to 12 young women from Ceuta and Melilla.

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By Luis Salazar FOR many the Tom Hanks character in The Terminal is as far from real life as you get. The story of a man who ends up living in an airport terminal, while a good yarn, was far-fetched. No one does that in real life.

Think again. Approximately 30 homeless people live at Barajas Airport in Madrid.

One of them is Edu. He decided to go out for a walk. But not for just any walk. He planned to walk the 332 kilometres that separate Madrid from Zaragoza. He was not exactly busy at the time.

If it is difficult for the average man to find a job, it is even harder for a man who has just been released from prison after 10 years behind bars.

He did the maths and calculated it would take him roughly 20 days to reach his goal.

On the first day, dusk found him looking for the Barcelona motorway and he decided to spend the night at Terminal 4 in Barajas Airport. And that was the end of the road for him.

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Barajas Airport, and, right, Tom Hanks.

Fast forward a year and a half and Edu still lives at the airport, surrounded by flight crews, passengers and suitcases. And he is not alone.

Close to 30 homeless people call Madrid airport home, most of

them invisible to the average traveller.

But just how do they manage to blend in and go unnoticed? The trick lies in looking just like them.

They are well-dressed, look clean, carry their luggage around like

normal tourists, and some spend all day long walking around the airport window shopping as if they were waiting for a plane that

will never take off.

The homeless living at Barajas airport have found a roof, clean bathrooms, heating, 15 minutes of free Internet a day, security, anonymity and 24-hour cafés.

Technically speaking, airports are public places, so ENAIRE - the Spanish public body that operates most airports in Spain - lets them live there as long as they do not cause any problems.

Some have come up with a clever way to earn a few euros: they use small hooks to pull the luggage trolley tokens out of the vending machines and sell them to the passengers. “We do what we can to survive,” said Andre (fictitious name).

When it gets dark and the temperature drops, even more homeless move in for the night and sleep on newspapers scattered on the floor of the terminal’s hidden corners.

But while Tom Hanks’ character had a happy ending, there is no such finish in sight for his Spanish equivalents. For them a lonely Christmas is in store.

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Dangerous toys seized in Madrid HUNDREDS of thousands of dangerous toys have been seized by police in Madrid.

In a massive operation launched in the Spanish capital, called ‘Black Toys’, law enforcement officials seized 224,341 toys included in the alert network of the Health, Social Policy and Equality Ministry and deemed dangerous because they pose a serious health risk to children.

Police conducted searches in 16 stores and also seized 16,870 articles for violating industrial property legislation, as well as 104,340 fireworks.

Six people have been brought up on charges.

The operation was launched after police

detected a large number of suspicious items being sold by street vendors and stores on Plaza Mayor and Plaza del Celenque.

The government had reportedly banned the sale and import of some of them.

According to Economy and Taxes Councillor in Madrid, Enrique Ossorio, Madrid is the Spanish autonomous community with the largest number of reported cases of dangerous products.

“Toys that do not bear

the CE marking cannot be sold in the European Union. So we advise people against buying them because they could be dangerous,” said Ossorio.

If consumers decide to make their purchases online, they should make sure the information regarding the store’s tax identification number and registered office is also

available, as well as its email, to make contacting them easier, he recommended.

Chief of Police Ignacio Cosido said operations like these were crucial because they allowed law enforcement officials to remove from the market products that jeopardise consumers’ health or safety, especially with regard to children.

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Three children are found home alone ASTURIAS police are hunting for a 42-year-old Spanish woman whose three children were found unattended in a flat in Oviedo.

The three children - aged three, one-and-a-half and 20 days - were found home alone by policemen after neighbours alerted them to the sound of endless crying coming from the flat. Officers climbed in through a balcony and found the newborn baby girl naked on a bed in a cold and weak state, her 18-month-old brother throwing himself against a wall and the threeyear-old girl sitting on a sofa staring into space.

The children were taken to the Central de Asturias University Hospital for treatment for malnutrition and dehydration. Investigators believe the mother - who lived alone with the three children following the recent death of her partner - may have been abducted or had an accident as she was last seen on the morning of Friday December 19.

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Lucky escape FIREMEN rescued a 24-year-old British climber who fell 20 metres from the Penya Roja cliffs near Gandia. No bones were broken but he was admitted to Francesc de Borja hospital for a thorough check-up.

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Food donation USAR-13 presented 1,000 kilos of supplies to Alfaz’s Social Volunteers.

They were donated by the 300 people who ran or walked with their dogs up to the Albir lighthouse in the ‘Marcha Canicross.’

Mining plots 2ND EDITION WINNERS: Manuel Molina, who came first, holds his prize piglet aloft.

Piglet racing, but not as you know it THE third edition of the Carrera Ciclista del Cochinillo (piglet cycling race) was rescheduled in Huercal Overa.

The race was moved from December 18 to December 21 and participated in by professional cyclists including Juan Antonio Sanchez Navarro, Javier Chacon Quesada and Manuel Martinez Costa who all compete in Spain.

The race gets a huge amount of media coverage due to its uniqueness, with previous journalists coming from Britain, China, Denmark, Greece and South Africa. The race directed cyclists

through a Huercal Overa street circuit in 16 laps, starting and ending at Avenida Guillermo Reyna.

Councillor for Sports, Alonso Mena, highlighted the good reception, adding: “Carrera Ciclista del Cochinillo is already a landmark in the holiday sports programme both for our province and those nearby.” He went on to encourage everyone to get involved in future races. The overall winner gets a trophy and a live piglet.

There are also prizes including hams and wine for the first three in each category.

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TV magnet MORE than 40 audiovisual productions have taken place in Nerja during 2014.

One of the most important ones was the shooting of the international action movie, ‘Pursuit.’

Bank aid LA CAIXA bank has aided Frigiliana’s Caritas foundation with €1,250 to help the town’s poorer families during the Christmas season.

department, it was aimed at encouraging people with disabilities to practice light physical activities.

lodged with the police for domestic violence, followed by Canarias, Valencia and Murcia.

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Runaway horse

NERJA’S Municipal Music Band marked its 25th anniversary with a Christmas concert held last Saturday (December 20). More than 500 musicians have been members of this band during its trajectory.

A RUNAWAY horse that escaped from the Son Pardo racetrack was caught by police. For reasons unknown, the horse got scared during a trotting exercise and galloped out of the racetrack and onto the motorway.

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THE Spanish Red Cross has awarded volunteers, associations and institutions of Axarquia with medals for their performance in social issues.

DATA shows that no Spanish autonomous community has seen a sharper increase in tax revenues from tobacco sales in 2014 than the Balearic Islands (+1.48 per cent).

Sport for everyone THE Council of Velez-Malaga celebrated the second Day for Integration through Sports. Launched by the Social Services

Documents recovered

TABERNAS has opened the eighth helipad in the province. The helipads are for medical use in order to transport patients direct to the capital’s hospital, saving a lengthy journey by road.

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VALENCIAN community residents launch 45 lawsuits for every 1,000 inhabitants compared with the national average of 43.7. Spain’s most litigious region is Baleares with 58 cases per 1,000 people.

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CAMPELLO’S Fisherman’s Monument, formerly covered in graffiti, has now been cleaned. The town hall’s Maintenance department used a special gel but had to wait until rain stopped before it could be used.

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over the road and the driver sustained minor injuries

MOORISH documents detailing surrender to the Christian armies during the 15th century have been found and restored. They are currently on display at the Museo Arqueologico Provincia.

All clear

FAMILY doctors’ Christmas holidays will not be covered, the regional Health department confirmed. The CCOO union warned that appointments would be scarce in 11 health centres administered

by Alicante General hospital.

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Domestic violence THE Balearic Islands rank first in Spain for the largest number of complaints

THE Junta has put 118 mining plots out to tender in Almeria. Almeria is the Andalucian province with the highest number of available mineral plots, occupying 88,175 hectares.

Bumper turnover COSENTINO, one of Almeria’s largest companies has announced that it will close 2014 having billed a total turnover of €560 million, an increase of 14.7 per cent over 2013.

Family aid MORE than €173,000 has been earmarked for 26 families in Alhama, Illar, Terque and Santa Cruz de Marchena. The money comes from the Junta and is for home improvements.

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Dog shot A MAN has been arrested in Aguilas for allegedly shooting a dog. The animal may lose the sight in one eye as a result of his injuries.

Meter fraud ELECTRICITY companies pursued 23,000 Valencian Community residents for meter manipulation and illegal hookups this year, almost 30 per cent more than in 2013.

Citizen’s party

THE number of foreigners registered in the Spanish social security on the islands dropped by 23.52 per cent compared to October and now totals 55,316 people, said the Labour Ministry.

A NEW political party has been formed in Torrevieja ahead of next May’s elections.

Ciudadanos (C’s) aims to unite foreign and Spanish voters.

Bin lorry

Run over

A BIN lorry carrying 22 tons of compacted rubbish brought from Ireland overturned at the Palmanyola roundabout. The rubbish scattered all

A WOMAN and her daughter were injured after being hit by a car in the parking area next to the Martinez Valero stadium in Elche.

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BRITISH PRESS Begging problem SWEDEN – Romania’s Social Affairs and Labour Minister Rovana Plumb will visit Stockholm in January to discuss the problem of the increasing number of Roma people begging on Swedish streets.

Search stats DENMARK – Google has revealed that the most searched for subjects by Danes during 2014 were the iPhone 6, the football World Cup, and Robin Williams. Also in the top 10 were the Eurovision Song Contest and the Ebola virus.

Hottest year DENMARK – 2014 was the hottest year on record in Denmark, with an annual average temperature of 10 degrees Celsius. Meteorologists have put it down to climate change.

Comfort food SWEDEN – A new study has revealed that more than one in 10 people living in Stockholm regularly indulge in comfort eating. Reasons include stress, worry and loneliness.

Ban KO’d NORWAY – Norway has ended its ban on boxing after three decades of being outlawed. Norwegian world champ Cecilia Braekhus can now defend her title on home turf.

Oil permits NORWAY – Energy company Statoil has been awarded four new offshore exploration permits in New Zealand, building on its existing position in the country.

No kissing

Hitchhiking Romeo

BRITONS travelling to Dubai for some winter sun have been advised by the British Embassy not to hold hands, avoid Christmas kisses and not to be drunk on the street. Foreigners often fall foul of the UAE’s strict rules.

A BRITISH traveller has hitchhiked across the USA solely by using a dating app to woo women into giving him lifts. He would buy his ‘dates’ a gift as way of thanks.

Nativity clueless

A BRITISH soldier’s letter has revealed that German and British soldiers bonded during the unofficial Christmas truce of 1914 by telling jokes about the French.

NO KISSING: Be careful in Dubai.

RUSSIAN PRESS Online favourites

BRITISH and German soldiers met recently to participate in a game of football – Game of Truce – to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the famous series of impromptu games between opposing soldiers during an unofficial ceasefire on the Western Front during World War I.

Poisonous trees

THE Sochi Olympics was the number one subject Googled by Russians in 2014. Other popular searches included the Ukraine crisis, Eurovision 2014, pop star Zhanna Friske and television show Fizruk.

MORE than half of all German Christmas trees tested have been found to contain poisonous chemicals. Friends of the Earth Germany had trees tested for 150 different types of pesticides.

Kim Jong Un invite RUSSIA has invited North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to attend the Victory Day ceremony in May which marks the end of World War II. It is currently unclear whether Kim will accept the invitation.

Politician of the Year

‘PUTIN’S TIGER’ has reportedly returned to Russia after going on a killing spree in China. Ustin the tiger was released into the wild under an animal protection programme and crossed into China where he has been accused of slaughtering chickens and goats.

DAVID HASSELHOFF will be singing in the New Year at Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate. He will be the star performer at a five-hour concert set to attract hundreds of thousands of revellers.

Truce remembered

Mobile drunks

Tiger returns

PRESS New Year with Knight Rider

A SUSPECTED former Auschwitz guard will go on trial for murder in spring 2015. The 93-year-old is charged with 300,000 counts of accessory to murder. He worked at the concentration camp in 1944.

Having a laugh

RUSSIANS have voted President Vladimir Putin as ‘Politician of the Year’ 2014 for the 15th consecutive year. A survey showed that 68 per cent of Russians voted for President Putin.

GERMAN

Auschwitz trial

NINETY-NINE per cent of Britons don’t know what the Bible says about the nativity story and five per cent think that Mary and Joseph travelled to Bethlehem because they were moving house, a survey found.

THE NHS has launched a series of mobile ‘drunk tanks’ to take care of boozed-up Brits this Christmas, instead of them being sent to A&E or police stations.

The 65-foot vehicles feature state-of-the-art medical facilities.

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Road tolls TOXIC: Half contain pesticides.

Train birthday THE fastest train in Russia, the Sapsan, celebrated its fifth birthday in mid-December. The high-speed train covers the 650 kilometre journey from Moscow to St Petersburg in just three hours and forty-five minutes and can reach speeds of up to 300 kilometres per hour. There are plans to upgrade the track to allow 400 kilometres per hour.

FOREIGNERS will be required to pay a road toll to use autobahns from 2016. German drivers will have to buy a sticker to display in their car windows but will be entitled to claim the amount back. Cars without stickers will have to pay a toll.

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STAT OF WEEK SIXTY PER CENT of Spain’s fruit and vegetable production is destined for export. Of this, 95 per cent goes to EU countries with the remainder going to notoriously demanding Japan, China and the US.

IAG reaps the benefits of restructuring IAG has increased its lead over Ryanair thanks to Iberia and budget airline Vueling.

“We were in intensive care, now we’re on the ward and soon we’ll be leaving hospital,” said Iberia president Luis Gallego.

BA and Iberia merged in 2011 to create IAG, acquiring Vueling in 2013. Restructuring

RECOVERY: IAG sees increase.

BT not won over

by Telefonica BT will not be buying O2, the UK mobile group owned by Telefonica.

Instead it has chosen EE, Britain’s largest mobile provider, for £12.5 billion (€15.7 billion) and is now in talks with O2’s German and French owners, Deutsche Telekom and Orange.

If the deal goes through Deutsche Telekom and Orange will take respective 12 per cent and 4 per cent stakes in BT. Negotiations are expected to last several weeks and the outcome will then need the approval of BT shareholders. Should it not succeed in pulling off the EE deal, BT

“remains confident” that it will still be able to deliver on its plans, sources revealed.

Ironically, BT sold its own mobile network BT Cellnet – now O2 – in 2002. It was acquired by Telefonica in 2005 for almost €23 billion and is now valued at £9 billion (€11.3 billion).

BT returns to the mobile market in order to offer packages with mobile, landline, internet and television connections.

Telefonica declined to comment on BT’s decision, although sources revealed that the Spanish company could now seek a UK agreement with Hutchison, Sky, Virgin Media or Talk Talk.

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Dinner date EXACTLY 32.7 per cent of Spanish shoppers will shop in Mercadona for their traditional Christmas Eve dinner. A further 26 per cent use Carrefour.

Jobs safe THE new PeugeotCitroen van will be built in Vigo and not Trnava (Slovenia), guaranteeing jobs for 7,000 workers and indirect employment for another 12,000.

Big spender MEXICAN telecoms magnate Carlos Slim is now principal shareholder in Spanish construction company FCC.

Talisman to accept Repsol offer REPSOL is buying Talisman Energy for $8.3 billion (€6,640 billion) and assuming its $4.7 billion (€3,760 billion) debt.

The Talisman board unanimously approved the offer, which it has advised shareholders to accept. The transaction will be financed principally by the $6.3 billion compensation for the expropriation of Repsol’s Argentinean subsidiary, YPF.

Losing YPF prompted Repsol to seek alternative markets and the Spanish multinational will now be investing approximately half of its exploration capital in North America, compared with 22 per cent in Latin America. Output will increase by 76 per cent, boosting reserves by 55 per cent and situating Repsol amongst the world’s 15 biggest privatelyowned oil companies.

which began in 2012 was plagued with labour disputes, redundancies and cutting out routes but now IAG is reaping the benefits with this year’s 32,637,741 passengers.

This is 9.5 per cent more than in 2013 and the distance separating IAG from Ryanair, the second-biggest player in Spain has doubled.

Although Ryanair remains the biggest individual airline with 25.8 million passengers, this shows a 1.1 per cent drop on 2013’s figures.

The Irish company is followed by Vueling whose 17.3 million passengers represent a 16.8 per cent increase on last year and Iberia, with 10,148,710 passengers.

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Modern book business pushes forward MANY businessmen and women, especially those in retirement, have acquired much knowledge and expertise over the years. This reservoir of experience is invaluable to newcomers whose business experience leaves much to be desired. Why not publish your advice so others can benefit from it?

Most of us recall periodicals like the Exchange and Mart. In its Business Section, one would find books and booklets promising riches by purchasing advisory books. Much of it was ‘How to be a Millionaire in 12 Months’ pie in the sky promises. In fairness, there were many booklet gems from which I, and I

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am sure many others, benefited.

By buying such help books and booklets I found my business ventures were less hassle and more profitable.

Each time I forked out £4.95 or whatever, I received returns with bells

on, thank you very much.

Self-publishing business tutors back then had little choice but to invest in the considerable upfront costs of printing and distributing their booklets. A minimum book order might be 1,000 for which one had to wait months for delivery. If the books failed to sell then that was their problem.

Self-publishing is so much easier now.

After the book has been written, assisted by an editor cum ghost-writer if necessary, the laptop completes the preparation. When my books are ready I sell them through Amazon and Amazon Kindle.

I complete the online process, which takes an hour or so. Within 24-hours I quickly check the proof and my book is immediately on sale throughout the world. I receive royalties each month.

It sounds easy enough and for those who can, like everything else, it is easy.

Self-publishing has shown remarkable progress. It makes it easier than ever for those retired to pass their experiences on to newcomers. The books ordered online are printed to order and posted direct to buyer. No stock to carry and costly mailing is ducked. Amazon does it all all. Times have indeed changed.

Mahou turns to US craft beer THE Maho-San Miguel group acquired a 30 per cent stake in US company Founders Brewing.

Founders is a family enterprise, based in Michigan, established 17 years ago. It produces craft beers, some aged in bourbon barrels and others with flavours that range

On the ball at Iberdrola VICENTE DEL BOSQUE, manager of the Spanish side that won the 2010 World Cup and crashed out of this year’s competition, is now on the board of the team’s sponsor, energy group Iberdrola.

Del Bosque has collaborated with Iberdrola since 2010 when he joined its Advisory Council in Castilla y Leon

production, focusing on innovation and intensifying its presence in its existing markets.

On its website Founders’ stressed that Mahou is also family-owned. “It is a 125-yearold, seventh-generation, familyowned brewery based in Madrid,” Founders said.

“Mahou will bring its unique experience and strong networks to build our brand in Spain and beyond,” the statement continued. The Mahou deal would also bring liquidity to longstanding shareholders, Founders said.

Mahou-San Miguel sells its

brands in more than 50 countries although its 10 key markets are located in the UK, Germany, Italy, Portugal, Scandinavia, the US, Chile, Equatorial Guinea, China and India. International sales now represent 13 per cent of the group’s global turnover.

More traffic on toll roads THIS year toll roads will chalk up increased traffic for the first time since 2006.

According to ministry of Public Works figures, they have been used by an average 16,400 vehicles a day, approximately 3 per cent more than 2013’s daily 15,932 average.

Despite this increase, the volume of traffic on Spain’s toll roads is roughly the same as it was in the late 90s when there were 1,700 kilometres of paid motorways compared with the present 2,560 kilometres.

This is the outcome of an accumulated 33 per cent reduction since 2006’s daily average of 23,909 vehicles.

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from blackberry to chocolate.

Neither company revealed how much buying into Founders had cost Mahou but the acquisition will help the Spanish firm to tap into the growing international market for craft beers. Both companies will boost Founders’ growth in the US by increasing

INCREASE IN USE: Three per cent more vehicles travelled on toll roads this year.

The predicted increase by the end of 2014 confirms the tendency that was detectible since the beginning of the year, with – apart from last March - toll road traffic slowly increasing each month.

Sources in the sector attributed the rise to a “more stable macroeconomic environment,”

boosted by increased tourism and “favourable meteorological conditions.”

Toll charges will be frozen in 2015 for the first time in five years, while the ministry of Public Works also plans to reduce charges during offpeak hours on some motorways, following agreements with concessionary companies.

Second term as CEOE president for incumbent Rosell JUAN ROSELL was relected as president of the CEOE, Spain’s federation of employers.

It will be the second four-year term at the head of the CEOE for Rosell, who negotiated Spain’s labour market reforms with Mariano Rajoy’s government in 2012. This was a closerrun contest than that of September 2010

when Rosell obtained 444 votes compared to his competitor’s 247.

This time round Rosell obtained 345 votes against the 312 that went to his only rival, Antonio Garamendi, who is president of the small and medium business-owners’ association, Cepyme.

Much of Rosell’s support came from Spain’s car and machinery

manufacturers, retailers, building contractors, the chemicals industry, technology, finance, services and catering.

A former journalist who has been president of several companies, Rosell, who is 57 and married with three children, has degrees in civil engineering and political science.

On learning the results of the ballot, Rosell declared that he would continue to be guided by ethical principles during his second and last term as CEOE president. Employers must continue the process of improving governance and transparency, he insisted: “We have to regain and demand good practices within the CEOE.”

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How to survive the party season, while still holding it together at work DON’T CRASH: Drink water, exercise and eat!

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‘TIS the season for many late nights out - as our calendars fill up with work parties, holiday gettogethers, happy hours and New Year and Three Kings festivities.

It’s all go in December and January and oh so much fun at the time, but the chances are that at least one morning you’ll wake up with a throbbing headache, an aching stomach and a deep desire to hide in bed all day and sleep off that horrible hangover.

But unfortunately for you and festive mid-week drinking - it’s a workday. So what can you do?

SWEAT IT OUT It is so tempting to pass on

exercise when the world is still spinning once you wake up, but a 30-minute run or an active yoga class is the best thing you can do for your aching body.

Sweating out all those beers and cocktails is what will actually help you to feel human again.

Ramping up your heart rate will

help jump-start your metabolism, making you feel better faster.

WATER IS LIFE Remember this. Drink a glass of water between alcoholic drinks while out celebrating, as this will keep you hydrated and will also slow you down on consuming too much booze.

Start drinking water the moment you get up too, and then don't stop - fluids are the key to counteracting your alcohol-induced dehydration.

DON’T SKIP BREAKIE Even though your stomach may be in knots getting a good breakfast in is vital. As appetising

as greasy bacon and sausages may be to some, a fatty breakfast is not always the best option, as it can irritate your stomach and lead to nausea.

Cook up some eggs instead, which are a good source of protein. Served with some toast, this should get you through a difficult morning at the office.

DISTRACT WITH STYLE Try to take the attention away from your puffy red eyes and killer alcohol breath by scrubbing up nice for work.

Have an extra long shower to get rid of the booze and cigarette stench.

Although you may be tempted to get into all black and throw your hair in a ponytail - to draw attention away from you, brighten up your appearance with a nice skirt or colourful jumper. Cheery clothes will help downplay the lack of sleep and dehydration that's likely showing in your face.

Wheelchair access obligatory?

Q. I am president of a large community where we need your advice as to the correct law You and the regarding wheelchair access. Part of our community does not have wheelchair access Law in Spain for owners. One owner has requested that we

By David Searl install access. The cost is estimated at €6000.

The owner’s annual fees are €1200. This owner is over 70. Our urbanisation was built in 2005. The owner in fact does not need it himself at the moment but he has a friend in a wheelchair who regularly visits. What is the picture?

T.A. (Costa Blanca) A. The short answer is that an owner over 70 years of age, whether or not he requires a wheelchair at this time, can request the installation of ramps, a lift, or other facilities to ensure wheelchair access to his flat. This does not require a majority vote of the Community AGM and the Community as a whole is required to pay the costs, as long as the share of each owner does not exceed his present regular payments for a year.

These measures are set out in Paragraphs 1 and 2 of the new Article 10 of the Law of Horizontal Property, revised in 2013. Read the Horizontal Law in English in the 2015 edition of my book, You and the Law in Spain. In your case

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‘Grey ratio’

you estimate the total cost at €6,000. If we suppose 100 flats, then each owner will face an extra assessment of €60.

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SPANIARDS aged 65 or over exceed the working population by 26 per cent, a recent study found. Despite an ageing population and relatively few births this is lower than the EU’s 27 per cent or Japan’s 40 per cent but well above India, Mexico, Turkey or Brazil’s 10 per cent difference.

OPINION & COMMENT

Gib Open Skies exclusion is non-starter KINDLY note that contrary to Spanish media reports, Gibraltar’s inclusion remains in place as per the Cordoba agreement of 2006.

It can only be rescinded with the full agreement of the UK government, which will not be forthcoming. The UK government has called it a non-starter to exclude Gibraltar from any Open Skies format.

It is the Spanish government that has to convince all that it wishes to renege on the 2006 Agreement signed by them.

Thank you for a very good and useful newspaper.

Eric Sciacaluga (by email)

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Whose fault?

I HAVE rarely come across such a paranoiac writer as Mike Walsh.

He compulsively interprets each and every world political development as the result of the devilish machinations of the US or the EU. Any sensible person would agree that it is not wise to provoke Russia, or anyone else for that matter. It is also clear that politics in the Ukraine is a very dodgy marshland.

However, the fact remains that it is Russia, not the EU, which has already stolen part of that country and is making a pretty good impression of wanting to steal more of it.

Mike flings in mentions of Budapest and Gdansk, etc; is he saying that the West was wrong to want those movements to succeed? Does he think that Hungarians and Poles want to return to Russian domination?

It may be that the loss of the South Stream pipeline will hurt many in Eastern Europe, but who is doing the hurting? Russia.

If it stays cancelled the pipeline will be replaced by another, routed through Turkey and the same Balkan countries.

To call Kiev “a baseball bat regime” is to insult the brave people who sat out in the cold to protest against their arbitrary government, something few would dare to do in Putin’s Russia.

An “international journalist”

LOOK closely at the reeds in the background and you’ll see a Grey Heron with its back turned. As I put my camera away, it took flight - the ornithological version of the one that got away!

Andrew Fields, Altea (Alicante)

should not be governed by paranoia or throw out loose statements like this.

Bill Campbell, Mojacar (Almeria)

Real records?

ONCE AGAIN we are faced with headlines claiming that record numbers of tourists are coming to the Costa del Sol. But there is no indication as to how these figures are arrived at.

They may possibly be too low: we all know that many flat rentals are never declared to the authorities.

Those driving from outside Spain and occupying undeclared accommodation won’t show up in tourist numbers.

Conversely, they may well be exaggerated, as taking figures of airport arrivals is highly dubious.

Most expat residents fly back to their country of origin several times a year and many, like those receiving medical treatment at ‘home’ go much more often.

We all know people who commute to work weekly in the UK. Are all these coming and goings recorded as tourists?

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It seems that Spain is clutching at any straw, whether to show rises in property sales or the number of tourists. We are reminded of the saying that “there are lies, damned lies, and statistics.”

David Chown (by email)

Pat on the back I FEEL I ought to say a few kind words in support of Exclusive Shuttles.

Recently a friend came to visit me from England and booked a flight from Gatwick to Alicante with a shuttle seat to Los Gallardos. The flight left at

8.30am and was due to arrive at 10.30pm.

The plane developed a fault so the passengers had to wait and transfer to another plane, which arrived at 10pm and flew out at 10.30pm, arriving in Alicante two hours later.

Exclusive Shuttles waited two hours for her. What a fantastic story! If they had not waited she would have been in terrible trouble having to get from Alicante to Los Gallardos, so very well done!

Mr Barnett, Los Gallardos (Almeria)

Bandwagon WITH regard to Bill Cosby, this is all being blown up and made into another bandwagon.

Back in 1968 I worked as a plugger for a record company and each week I was at Top of the Pops. All the girls in the audience should have been 18 years old or more but a lot were 15 or 16.

They came with one thing in mind: to s--g a band, DJ or road crew and a lot kept a record of who they had been with. This lust

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was not driven by the males. If you were a DJ at that time with young totty lusting after you, this messed up your mind.

Plus, why did Savile’s case only come out when his will was published?

Stuart Campbell (by email)

Heartless cheat WE found a recent article about homeowners dealing with unpaid taxes interesting.

We believe many more homeowners are involved, including owners of holiday homes that do not as yet know.

In my street here in Camposol there are at least two in the same situation and the last update from Facebook gave a number in excess of 180. A lot of people involved are, as we were, a little embarrassed to let the truth out.

We were recommended the person referred to in the Euro Weekly News article when purchasing our retirement home.

After signing at the Notary we were informed that our deeds had to go to Madrid to be registered.

A few months passed and upon inquiring we were informed that they were held up in Madrid.

Every time we asked for our Escritura we were given excuses that sounded plausible and this continued for two years.

Checking with the tax office we found that monies paid to deal with the purchase had indeed not been paid into the tax office, so the commission and tax money disappeared with the person herself.

Our problem including taxes amounted to more than €18,000 and ours is not the highest debt.

Now we have to sell our home to pay off the debt and move back to UK to rent. My wife is suffering a severe, stress-related illness which, as she is already disabled, causes us a lot of new problems.

A T Barber, Camposol (Murcia)

Bright idea A READER recently complained that a calendar she had purchased went through the till, appeared on her supermarket bill and promptly disappeared. She asked for suggestions as to its fate, so here’s mine: it slipped through the gap between the conveyor belt and the counter-top.

Sonia Johnson (by email)

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OPINION & COMMENT

A letter from the past LEAPY LEE SAYS IT OTHERS THINK IT 11TH DEC 1944.

'C' SQDN. Q. BAYS B.N.A.F.

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Y dearest girl, Received today a beautiful letter from you dated the 1st Dec. Very quick, eh!

So happy you are both well, as it leaves me, but of course still longing to be with my dear ones again, whom I love so much. So happy you got the lemons OK. Were they ripe? As they were green when sent. Should love to be home when our son starts school but can promise nothing, only live in hope. Was sorry to hear of Joan’s husband being wounded I trust it’s not too serious. Nothing more has been heard of my cousin who was also wounded.

The weather here has been lovely this last week, just like the weather we used to like to go for walks, especially Sundays

ALL SMILES: Second World War soldiers display their Christmas goodies. when I used to take our son out while my girl prepared dinner and after dinner getting ready to go out, perhaps to the park, sneaking little kisses when we thought no one was looking.

You have made me so happy especially with such a dear son to crown all the other happy things. So pleased to hear the boy is in the pink, for the end could be in sight and it could soon be over.

It’s been a long time, dearest, but worth it to rid the world of such an evil race. Am having a few days’ rest now but not for long. It’s going to be hot while this little lot’s on but when finished will be the end of Hitler.

We are now looking forward to Christmas which under the conditions we try and make happy. There’s a Christmas tree for the local children. They have

never had Christmas, not knowing what the word means. Of course they are very poor. People in England do not realise the real meaning of poverty.

Sorry I could not send you or our son a Christmas present they are much too expensive for me. I went into town last week and they wanted three pounds for two postcard sized photographs.

The old feet haven’t been too bad this year. Expect they are shrivelling up with old age or perhaps it’s the ‘tootsie’ powder you sent. Incidentally all the Regi knows about my tootsie powder, as I left an empty tin around with your handwriting on it.

Well, dearest, must close now. A very happy Christmas to you and our lovely boy. Remember me to all. Cheerio.

Yours for always my sweetheart Your loving Bill This letter sent by my Dad from the front line in Egypt during the Second World War. Dedicated to the millions who gave their lives so we could all be here to celebrate this Christmas. Happy Christmas, everyone.

Love Leapy leapylee2002@gmail.com

The true spirit of the season...

Colin Bird Each week, Colin brings his slightly off-the-wall view of the world to the pages of EWN in his own irreverent style.

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S Christmas nears, I find myself being pulled irresistibly back in time by the invisible silver cord that binds us all to our childhood days, and in particular to one Christmas Eve decades ago.

Like all small boys, Christmas Eve was the one night of the year when no encouragement was needed to hit the wooden hill. I would snuggle down into cool sheets, safe and secure beneath layers of coarse, heavy blankets topped off with my mother’s winter coat for good measure. No electric blankets or duvets then, but with a rubber hot water bottle at my back and a stone one at my feet - being ever so careful not to stub my toe - I was soon toasty warm.

TOASTY WARM: A magical night from childhood.

The muffled voices of my parents in the tiny living room drifted up to me from below.

The distinct smell of hot cocoa wafted tantalisingly through the open door of my bedroom, blending in strange harmony with the faint odour that emanated from the black Valor heater strategically placed on the landing between our two small bedrooms. That and the

coal fire below were the full extent of our winter heating.

Nine o-clock on the big round-faced alarm clock beside my bed. Was I the only child in the whole world still awake?

Everyone knew that Father Christmas only called when children were fast asleep.

But with visions of a long, woollen sock full of traditional goodies and a pillow case

bulging with exciting shapes that would magically appear on my bed in the morning, how was sleep possible?

The glass in the metal framed window was blurred with a filigree pattern of frost both inside and out despite the efforts of the paraffin stove. But in one pane, an unfrozen aperture perfectly formed as if the Christmas Angel had

breathed gently on the glass until the thin layer of ice had retreated to reveal the full Christmas moon.

It was shining brilliantly down on the world from a clear, starfilled sky as surely it should on this special night and as I imagined it had over that Bethlehem hillside. I was transfixed.

Before finally drifting into a dreamless slumber to await the imagined sound of tinkling reindeer bells somewhere above the eaves and the soft tread of fur boots on floorboards, I gazed in childish wonder, and promised myself that I would remember always this perfect moment - through every Christmas and every year of my life yet to come.

And so it has been.

May your Christmas be as full of magic and may you always remember your own special night with joy and hope and love, holding dear the true spirit of Christmas.

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ULIAN from English Steps in San Pedro de Alcantara says that his favourite Christmas memory is from when he was very young and having Christmas dinner at his granny’s house, eating sherry trifle. His granny would wrap a 20p coin in silver foil and hide it inside the trifle and Julian would keep eating and eating until he found the coin.

His granny was heavy-handed with the sherry in the trifle, so Julian became very drunk!

Mark from The Sky Doctor in San Pedro de Alcantara says there should be good drunken memories: “You always know when you’ve had a good Christmas when you’re hungover on Boxing Day!” Conor at Charlie’s Property Angels in Marbella and Torrequebrada said that six years ago he volunteered to help at The Crisis Shelter for the homeless, which that year was in the old BBC building in Isleworth, London. He found it a very fulfilling and rewarding time helping others over Christmas, when they feel the most alone. In his eyes it’s what Christmas should really be about.

Alicia and Cati, of Eat Away, a brand

new, outside catering and events company in the Calvia region of Mallorca, are hoping that this Christmas will be the most memorable one.

Alicia said: “We have opened the new business, with great hopes for the New Year, but I have many memories of the fiestas of recent years. I have always run bars and cafes, so the holiday time is a busy time for me. But the best thing is seeing happy customers, which in turn makes me happy.”

Cati said: “We are very excited about the new venture, but my favourite memory of Christmas was when I played my first solo concert, with acoustic guitar, here in Mallorca. That was a night I will always remember.”

Paula Read Kenny, from Sophia Wellness Centre, Arboleas, said: “My favourite Christmas memory has to be as a child. At seven years old I got my

first bike, a yellow Tomahawk, and was the proudest girl in the world.

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Santa because I must have been such a good girl all year.”

HACO MUEBLE’S Mark Strien, in Altea, said family Christmas dinners are always his favourite memories of Christmas back home in Holland: “It has been about eight years since I was back in Holland for Christmas so those memories are always special, the usual traditions and drinks around the tree. I think for most people when they move away from their home country, those family memories are always Alicia and Cati the best.”

Samantha Biddles, from Algorfa Town Hall, said her favourite Christmas memory was just last year: “We raised money locally for food hampers and stood there on Christmas Eve all day giving them to needy families. The look on the Samantha Biddles faces of all the people was just lovely.”

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7:00am Breakfast 10:00am The Gruffalo 10:30am On Angel Wings 11:00am Come and Join the Celebration 12:00pm Only Fools and Horses 1:00pm Wallace and Gromit: A Grand Day Out 1:25pm Gnomeo and Juliet 2:40pm Shaun the Sheep 2:50pm BBC News

7:00am Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas 8:15am Short Circuit 9:50am Pollyanna 12:00pm Carols from King's 1:15pm To the Manor Born 1:45pm The Choir: New Military Wives 2:45pm 60 Years of Carols From King's

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ITV 7:20am Pat and Stan 7:30am Dino Dan: Trek's Adventures 7:40am Dino Dan 7:55am Sooty 8:05am Almost Naked Animals 8:20am Almost Naked Animals 8:40am Horrid Henry 8:55am Horrid Henry 9:10am Horrid Henry 9:25am Weekend at Christmas 10:25am Valiant 11:55am Back to the Future 2:10pm Nanny McPhee

CH4 8:55am Prep and Landing 9:20am Father Christmas 9:55am Animals United 11:45am The Simpsons 12:15pm The Simpsons 12:45pm The Simpsons 1:15pm Ice Age: A Mammoth Christmas 1:45pm The Snowman 2:20pm The Snowman and the Snowdog 2:50pm The Alternative Christmas Message 2:55pm Channel 4 News

CH5 9:10am Peppa Pig 9:20am Peppa Pig 9:30am Toby's Travelling Circus 9:45am Milkshake!

Bop Box 9:50am Peppa Pig 10:00am Peppa Pig 10:05am Bert and Ernie's Great Adventures 10:15am Access 10:20am Andre Rieu: Christmas Around the World 11:20am Scrooge 1:35pm The Sound of Music Live!

THURSDAY TV SKY 1 6:00am Stargate Atlantis 7:00am The Real A&E 7:30am The Real A&E 8:00am Moone Boy 8:30am Yonderland 9:00am The Flash 10:00am Football's Funniest Moments 11:00am Soccer AM - Christmas Special 1:00pm Football's Funniest Moments 2:00pm Football's Funniest Moments

3pm 3:00pm Top of the Pops 4:00pm The Queen's Broadcast 2014 4:10pm Puss in Boots 5:40pm BBC News

4:00pm HM the Queen 4:10pm The Queen's Garden 5:10pm ITV News and Weather 5:20pm Elf: Buddy's Musical Christmas

3:05pm Scrooged 5:00pm Big

6:00pm The Queen's Christmas Broadcast 2014 6:10pm James May's Toy Stories 7:15pm Morecambe and Wise in Pieces 8:15pm University Challenge 8:45pm Dad's Army

6:20pm You've Been Framed!

6:50pm Paul O'Grady: For The Love of Dogs 7:50pm ITV News and Weather 8:00pm Emmerdale

7:00pm Arthur Christmas Animated festive family fun. James McAvoy, Hugh Laurie, Bill Nighy and Jim Broadbent are among the stars providing the voices for Aardman Animations' second CGI feature.

7:10pm Michael Buble's Christmas Songbook 8:05pm Chas and Dave's Xmas Knees Up

9:15pm Blackadder's Christmas Carol 10:00pm Tim Rice - A Life in Song 11:30pm QI

9:00pm Coronation Street

9:00pm Frozen at Christmas Frozen at Christmas takes an entertaining and in-depth look at the incredible story of Disney's Frozen, the most successful animated film of all time.

10:00pm Alan Carr: Chatty Man

9:00pm Britain's Favourite Christmas Songs

12:00am 8 Out of 10 Cats 1:00am Father Ted 2:05am Father Ted 2:35am Father Ted 3:00am Father Ted 3:30am Crazy Heart 5:25am Secret Eaters

12:05am Muriel's Wedding 2:20am Super Casino 5:00am House Doctor 5:25am House Doctor 5:50am Wildlife SOS

3:45pm Kiss Me, Kate at the Proms Christmas

With Ben Davis, Alexandra Silber, Tony Yazbeck, Louise Dearman, James Doherty, Michael Jibson.

Tom Hanks received a best actor Oscar nomination for his role in Penny Marshall's comedy drama.

4:25pm Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Classic musical fantasy based on the story by Ian Fleming about an eccentric inventor who rescues a derelict racing car and takes his two children on a memorable outing.

3:00pm Modern Family 4:00pm H.M. The Queen's Christmas Message 4:10pm Modern Family 5:30pm Modern Family

6pm 6:00pm Strictly Come Christmas 7:15pm Doctor Who 8:15pm Miranda 8:50pm Call the Midwife

Dancing

The Cockney singers are joined by Eric Clapton and Jim Davidson for this special.

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

9pm 10:00pm EastEnders 11:05pm Mrs. Brown's Boys 11:40pm Michael McIntyre's Very Christmassy Christmas Show

Quiz show in which the aim is to be interesting.

Does Kylie stand to lose everything? Steve pulls out all the festive stops.

10:00pm Downton Abbey Feature-length special of the widely-acclaimed period drama.

A countdown of the nation's favourite Christmas songs. Artists, producers and pundits unwrap the greatest gifts that musicians have given to us for Christmases past and present.

9:00pm Best Christmas Movies Ever 11:00pm Predator Arnold Schwarzenegger leads a platoon of mercenaries into jungle carnage against an unseen alien beast. 80s classic from the director of Die Hard. Contains violence.

12am 12:40am BBC News 12:55am On Christmas Night 1:00am Not Going Out 1:45am Would I Lie to You? 2:15am George Michael at the Palais Garnier, Paris 3:15am The Heartbreak Kid 5:05am Skiing Weatherview 5:10am BBC News

12:00am Marvellous 1:30am The Producers 3:35am This is BBC Two Highlights of programmes on BBC Two.

12:00am ITV News and Weather 12:15am You've Got to Love Christmas 1:15am Christmas Carols on ITV 2:15am Murder, She Wrote: The Celtic Riddle 3:45am ITV Nightscreen

1:05am Trollied 2:05am The Flash 3:00am Hawaii Five-0 4:00am A League of Their Own 5:00am Hawaii Five-0

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8:00pm The Winter's Tale From the Royal Ballet 10:00pm The Lady Vanishes 11:30pm Top of the Pops 12:30am Top of the Pops

7:25am Emmerdale 7:50am Coronation Street 8:20am Horrid Henry: The Movie 10:10am You've Been Framed!

10:35am You've Been Framed!

11:40am Scooby-Doo 1:25pm Emmerdale 1:55pm Coronation Street 2:25pm All Star Family Fortunes 3:30pm Catchphrase 4:35pm Jurassic Park 7:00pm You've Been Framed!

7:30pm The Mummy Returns 10:00pm GoldenEye 12:35am Celebrity Juice 1:20am Celebrity Juice

7:00am Judge Judy 7:20am Judge Judy 7:40am Judge Judy 8:05am A Christmas Carol 9:35am Santa Claus 11:50am Carry on Screaming 1:50pm Carry on Camping 3:35pm On the Buses 5:25pm Mutiny on the Buses 7:15pm Holiday on the Buses 9:00pm Carry on Cleo 11:00pm Steptoe and Son Ride Again 1:05am Up Pompeii 3:00am The Best of Royal Variety 3:55am The Best of Royal Variety 4:45am Santa Claus

7:00am World of Sport 7:20am Black Gold 8:00am Minder 8:55am The Professionals 10:00am Hornblower 12:00pm Pawn Stars 12:30pm Pawn Stars 12:55pm The Far Country 2:55pm The Horse Soldiers 5:20pm The Green Berets 8:10pm Police Academy 3: Back in Training 10:00pm National Lampoon's Vacation 12:05am Sneakers 2:30am Carlito's Way 5:10am Movies Now

4:30pm The Big Bang Theory 5:00pm The Big Bang Theory 5:30pm Ice Age: A Mammoth Christmas 6:00pm The Snowman 6:25pm The Snowman and the Snowdog 7:00pm The Big Bang Theory 7:30pm The Big Bang Theory 8:00pm The Big Bang Theory 8:30pm The Big Bang Theory 9:00pm The Big Bang Theory 9:30pm The Big Bang Theory 10:00pm The Big Bang Theory 10:30pm The Big Bang Theory 11:00pm The Inbetweeners 11:35pm The Inbetweeners 12:10am The Inbetweeners

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David Jensen and Peter Powell present the Christmas special focusing on 1979's best chart hits.

1:35am Only Yesterday: The Carpenters' Story 2:30am The Fir Tree 2:55am The Winter's Tale From the Royal Ballet 4:55am This is BBC Four BBC Four is the BBC channel for people who want more.

SKY MOVIES Action 6:30am Exodus: Gods and Kings Special 7:00am The Top Ten Show 2014 7:20am Romancing the Stone 9:10am Man of Steel 11:45am White House Down 2:05pm 47 Ronin 4:10pm Star Trek Into Darkness 6:30pm Man of Steel 9:00pm White House Down 11:15pm Con Air 1:15am 47 Ronin An outcast joins a band of masterless samurai to wreak revenge against an evil feudal ruler.

3:20am Star Trek Into Darkness 5:45am The Top Ten Show 2014 Which movies are doing the best business at home and across the pond?

Comedy 7:00am Mean Girls 8:50am Ernest Saves Christmas 10:35am National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation 12:15pm The Mask 2:00pm The Nutty Professor 3:40pm Mean Girls After 15 years in Africa, home schooled Cady knows all about herd instincts.

5:20pm The Internship 7:20pm National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation 9:00pm We're the Millers 11:00pm Last Vegas 12:55am Bruce Almighty 2:45am American Pie: The Wedding 4:35am The Mask

5:25am Malpractice 7:05am 25th Hour Drug-dealer Monty Brogan is going down for seven years.

9:25am The Fast and the Furious 11:25am 2 Fast 2 Furious 1:25pm The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift 3:20pm American Hustle 5:45pm Pride and Glory 8:00pm The Bone Collector 10:00pm American Hustle 12:20am Pride and Glory 2:40am 25th Hour 5:10am Zero Dark Thirty Special 5:30am Point Last Seen

9:35am Home Alone 11:25am Best Christmas Movies Ever 1:00pm Elf 2:40pm Die Hard 2 4:50pm Love Actually Romcom following the interconnected lives of a group of loved-up, and lovelorn, Londoners.

7:10pm Home Alone 9:00pm Elf 10:45pm Die Hard 2 1:00am Elf 2:40am Pete's Christmas 4:15am A Very Harold and Kumar Christmas 5:50am While You Were Sleeping A woman pretends to be the girlfriend of a man she is attracted to when he falls into a coma.

Premiere

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7:00am The Muppets Sky Movies Special 7:30am Muppets Most Wanted 9:30am Escape From Planet Earth 11:00am Penguins of Madagascar Special 11:30am The Lego Movie 1:30pm Frozen 3:30pm Noah

7:40am What's Up, Doc? 9:30am Fiddler on the Roof 1:05pm Ben-Hur

In the face of apocalyptic floods, one man is chosen to be the world's saviour.

6:00pm The Lego Movie 8:00pm Frozen 9:45pm Jack the Giant Slayer Special 10:00pm Noah In the face of apocalyptic floods, one man is chosen to be the world's saviour.

12:30am Endless Love The life of a shy teen changes overnight when a charming but aimless mechanic asks her out.

The spectacular 20-minute chariot race is just one of the highlights of this magnificent epic.

5:10pm Superman 7:50pm Tootsie Michael Dorsey is a desperate unemployed actor until he gets a female role in a soap opera.

10:00pm The Fugitive 12:35am National Lampoon's Vacation 2:25am The Fugitive 4:45am Snowfire Heart-warming drama about a small girl who lives out in the countryside on a remote ranch who strikes a strange friendship with a wild stallion, but is the horse all that it seems?

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BBC ONE 7:00am Breakfast 10:00am Pinocchio 11:25am Cbeebies Peter Pan 12:05pm Room on the Broom 12:30pm Cool Runnings 2:05pm BBC News at One 2:15pm BBC London News 2:25pm The Incredible Adventures of Professor Branestawm

BBC TWO 7:10am The Road to El Dorado 8:30am College Road Trip 9:50am Natural World 10:50am Ten Pieces 11:40am 60 Years of Carols From King's 12:40pm On the Town 2:15pm Talking Pictures 2:50pm Singin' in the Rain

FRIDAY TV

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ITV 8:20am Almost Naked Animals 8:35am Mr. Bean 8:50am Super 4 9:10am Super 4 9:25am Weekend at Christmas 10:25am Dinner Date Australia 11:25am Celebrity Squares 12:25pm Paul O'Grady: For The Love of Dogs 1:30pm ITV News and Weather 1:45pm The Chase: Christmas Special 2:45pm Back to the Future Part II

CH4 6:20am Small Animal Hospital 6:50am Flicka 8:25am The Bear 8:55am The Morning Line 10:00am The Big Bang Theory 10:25am The Big Bang Theory 10:55am Inspector Gadget 12:30pm Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who 2:15pm Channel 4 Racing

CH5 9:20am Toby's Travelling Circus 9:30am Bananas in Pajamas 9:45am Tickety Toc 10:05am Peppa Pig 10:10am Wanda and the Alien 10:25am Bert and Ernie's Great Adventures 10:35am The Mr Men Show 10:55am Access 11:05am Carry on Constable 12:45pm Carry on Teacher 2:30pm Carry on Nurse

SKY 1 7:00am The Real A&E 7:30am The Real A&E 8:00am Moone Boy 8:30am Yonderland 9:00am The Flash 10:00am Football's Funniest Moments 11:00am Modern Family 11:30am Modern Family 12:00pm Modern Family 12:30pm Modern Family 1:00pm Modern Family 1:30pm Modern Family 2:00pm Modern Family 2:30pm Modern Family

3pm 3:20pm My Family 4:15pm Monsters, Inc. 5:40pm The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists

4:30pm Victoria Wood: That Musical We Made 5:30pm Final Score

4:45pm Off Their Rockers 5:15pm Downton Abbey

4:50pm Turner and Hooch

6:25pm War Horse at the Proms 7:45pm University Challenge 8:15pm The Two Ronnies Christmas Show

7:15pm ITV News and Weather 7:30pm Emmerdale 8:00pm Coronation Street

6:50pm Channel 4 News

Roger Spottiswoode's comedy-thriller stars Tom Hanks as Detective Scott Turner, who's about to move to a better job.

4:15pm The Ladykillers Black comedy about a hapless gang of robbers whose plans are upset by a little old lady who runs a boarding house. This was the last of the great Ealing comedies.

3:00pm Harrow: A Very British School 4:00pm The Flash 5:00pm The Simpsons 5:30pm Treasure Island

6pm 7:05pm BBC News at Six 7:20pm BBC London News 7:25pm Still Open All Hours 7:55pm The Boy in the Dress

Includes sport and weather.

6:00pm A Shot in the Dark Second in the series of Inspector Clouseau comedies.

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

7:00pm The Simpsons 7:30pm Hollyoaks 8:00pm Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

8:05pm Rob Brydon Live

9:00pm A Christmas Cracker 10:00pm Birds of a Feather 10:30pm Through the Keyhole 11:30pm ITV News and Weather 11:45pm Out of Sight

9:00pm Bear's Wild Weekend with Ben Stiller 10:00pm The Big Fat Quiz of the Year 2014

9:00pm Morecambe and Wise Live! 1973 10:25pm Tommy Cooper's Christmas 11:25pm Carry on Christmas

Join Jimmy Carr as he tests a panel of A-list celebrities to see who knows the most about 2014.

Comic adaptation of the Charles Dickens tale 'A Christmas Carol' by the Carry On team, whose menbers include Sid James, Charles Hawtrey, Barbara Windsor and more.

1:15am The Winslow Boy 2:55am This is BBC Two Highlights of programmes on BBC Two.

1:50am 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.

12:00am Alan Carr: Chatty Man 2:05am Legend 3:45am Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid 5:35am Small Animal Hospital

12:25am The Greatest Ever Carry on Films 1:35am Carry on Spying 3:25am Super Casino 5:00am Great Scientists 5:25am House Doctor 5:45am House Doctor

12:30am Football's Funniest Moments 1:00am Britcam: Emergency on Our Streets 2:00am The Flash 3:00am Road Wars 4:00am Hawaii Five-0 5:00am Hawaii Five0

BBC THREE

BBC FOUR

ITV2

ITV3

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E4

8:00pm Great Movie Mistakes 9:00pm Doctor Who 10:00pm Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy 11:30pm EastEnders 12:00am Family Guy 12:25am Family Guy 12:45am Family Guy 1:10am Family Guy 1:30am Cuckoo 2:05am Some Girls 2:35am Don't Tell the Bride 3:30am Bluestone 42 4:00am Cuckoo 4:35am Vodka Diaries

8:00pm Sacred Music 8:30pm Carlos Acosta's Cuban Night 10:00pm Wallander 10:55pm Wallander 11:50pm Britain's Most Dangerous Songs: Listen to the Banned 12:50am More Dangerous Songs: And the Banned Played on 1:50am Frank Sinatra 3:25am Proms on Four: Battle of the Bands 4:50am This is BBC Four

6:55am ITV2 Nightscreen 7:00am The Hot Desk 7:10am Arthur and the Great Adventure 9:05am Emmerdale 10:05am Coronation Street 11:05am The Xtra Factor: The Winner's Story 12:10pm Casper 2:05pm Elf: Buddy's Musical Christmas 3:05pm Emmerdale 4:05pm Coronation Street 5:10pm Nanny McPhee 7:10pm Despicable Me 9:00pm Tomorrow Never Dies 11:30pm Celebrity Juice 12:30am Celebrity Juice

7:00am Movies Now 7:10am Rising Damp 7:35am Housewife 49 9:25am Clash of the Santas 11:15am Carry on Again, Doctor 1:05pm Carry on Cleo 3:05pm Carry on Girls 4:50pm Carry on Cowboy 6:55pm A Touch of Frost 9:00pm Lewis 11:00pm Come Rain Come Shine 1:00am The Portrait of a Lady 3:50am Judge Judy 4:10am ITV3 Nightscreen 4:40am Emmerdale Omnibus

8:05am Minder 9:00am The Professionals 10:00am Hornblower 12:05pm Kojak 1:10pm Kojak 2:15pm The 'Burbs 4:20pm Smokey and the Bandit 6:10pm Smokey and the Bandit II 8:15pm Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol 10:00pm National Lampoon's European Vacation 11:55pm Bowfinger 1:50am Cannonball Run II 4:00am Movies Now

3:00pm Tooth Fairy 5:05pm Ice Age: A Mammoth Christmas 5:30pm Father Christmas 6:05pm Rude(Ish) Tube 6:35pm Rude(Ish) Tube 7:00pm The Big Bang Theory 7:30pm The Big Bang Theory 8:00pm Hollyoaks 8:30pm The Big Bang Theory 9:00pm The Big Bang Theory 9:30pm The Big Bang Theory 10:00pm The Big Bang Theory 10:30pm The Big Bang Theory 11:00pm Kick-Ass 1:20am The Big Bang Theory

Crime

Christmas

Will Gary resort to desperate measures? Roy struggles to control his nerves.

9pm 9:00pm EastEnders 9:30pm Marvel Avengers Assemble 11:40pm BBC News 11:50pm BBC London News The latest news, sport and weather from London.

9:00pm Victoria Wood's Mid-Life Christmas 10:00pm That Day We Sang 11:30pm Hunky Dory In the heat of the summer of 1976, a drama teacher tries to put on an end-of-year music version of Shakespeare's The Tempest.

9:00pm The Simpsons 9:30pm Agatha Raisin: The Quiche...

11:30pm A League of Their Own Christmas Party and Exclusive.

12am 12:00am Match of the Day 1:35am EastEnders Omnibus 4:30am Weather for the Week Ahead 4:35am BBC News

BBC Four is the BBC channel for people who want more.

SKY MOVIES Action 7:00am The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring 10:00am The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers 1:00pm The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King 4:30pm The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring Evil forces threaten the peace of Middle-earth.

7:30pm The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers 10:30pm The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King 1:50am Fast and Furious 6 4:05am I, Frankenstein 5:40am Stop! or My Mom Will Shoot

Comedy 6:30am Turbo: Sky Movies Special 7:00am Monsters University Special 7:30am The Hangover Part III 9:25am The Heat 11:30am Grown Ups 2 1:20pm Home Alone 3:15pm Crocodile Dundee 5:00pm Crocodile Dundee II 7:00pm The World's End 9:00pm The Heat 11:00pm Grown Ups 2 12:45am The Hangover Part III When Doug is kidnapped, pals Alan, Phil and Stu become embroiled in a battle to save him.

2:30am Dumb and Dumber to Special

7:15am Dangerous Mind of a Hooligan 8:45am The Temp 10:30am Compulsion 12:05pm The Call 1:55pm Getaway 3:30pm Cellular 5:10pm Compulsion 6:45pm Cold Comes the Night 8:20pm The Call 10:00pm Getaway 11:35pm Basic Instinct 1:55am The Canyons Drama following the twisted relationships of a group of Hollywood hopefuls.

3:45am Death Wish 5:30am Sam Churchill

7:40am Let it Snow 9:15am Home Alone 4 10:45am Black Nativity 12:25pm Jingle All the Way 2:10pm The Santa Clause 3:55pm Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb Special 4:25pm Black Nativity 6:05pm Gremlins 8:00pm New Year's Eve 10:00pm Bad Santa 11:45pm Gremlins 1:40am Snow Day 3:15am Let it Snow 4:50am Home Alone 4

Premiere

TCM

7:10am The Lego Movie 9:00am Frozen 10:55am Best Christmas Movies Ever 12:25pm Captain America: The Winter Soldier 2:45pm The Lego Movie 4:45pm Frozen 6:45pm Captain America: The Winter Soldier 9:00pm Toy Story That Time Forgot 9:30pm Ride Along 11:10pm Captain America: The Winter Soldier 1:25am Ironclad: Battle for Blood

7:25am Ben-Hur 11:40am Superman 2:20pm The Black Stallion 4:35pm The Littlest Hobo 6:10pm Son of Paleface 8:00pm Dial M for Murder 10:00pm The Long Kiss Goodnight 12:20am St Elmo's Fire

Medieval mercenary Guy battles to protect his family's estate from a brutal band of Celts.

3:15am Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa .5

The ultimate 'Brat Pack' movie.

2:30am The Long Kiss Goodnight 4:35am Sherlock Holmes Faces Death Basil Rathbone (Holmes) and Nigel Bruce (Watson) return for a sixth adventure.

5:45am TCM Shorts A special look behind the scenes with comedian, director and actor Ben Miller.

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BBC ONE 7:00am Breakfast 9:25am Match of the Day 11:00am Saturday Kitchen 12:30pm Nigel Slater's New Year Suppers 1:00pm BBC News 1:10pm Football Focus 1:50pm Saturday Sportsday 2:00pm Lewis Hamilton: Duel of the Silver Arrows 2014

BBC TWO 7:10am Natural World 8:10am Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo 9:50am Ensign Pulver 11:30am Top of the Pops 2 1:00pm The Hairy Bikers' Asian Adventure 2:00pm The Cheyenne Social Club

www.euroweeklynews.com

ITV 7:50am Dino Dan: Trek's Adventures 8:05am Canimals 8:10am Canimals 8:20am Share a Story 8:25am Sooty 8:35am Mr. Bean 8:50am Hulk and the Agents of S.M.A.S.H 9:10am Horrid Henry 9:25am Weekend at Christmas 10:25am Columbo 12:25pm ITV News and Weather 12:30pm Dickinson's Real Deal 1:25pm The Cube 2:25pm Tipping Point

CH4 8:05am Lost and Found 8:30am Famous Fred 9:00am The Morning Line 10:00am Frasier 10:30am The Simpsons 11:00am The Simpsons 11:30am The Simpsons 12:00pm Alaska 2:10pm Channel 4 Racing

CH5 8:30am Make Way for Noddy 8:45am Paw Patrol 9:00am The Adventures of Bottle Top Bill and His Best Friend Corky 9:20am Wanda and the Alien 9:35am Zack and Quack 9:50am Ben and Holly's Little Kingdom 10:05am Jelly Jamm 10:20am Access 10:30am World's Strongest Man 2014 11:30am Pal Joey 1:45pm The Secret Garden

SATURDAY TV

SKY 1 6:00am Stargate Atlantis 7:00am The Real A&E 7:30am The Real A&E 8:00am The Flash 9:00am The Fantasy Football Club 10:00am Modern Family 10:30am Modern Family 11:00am Soccer A.M. 1:00pm A League of Their Own 1:30pm A League of Their Own 2:00pm Modern Family 2:30pm Modern Family

3pm 3:10pm Sport Relief 2014 - The Final Score 4:10pm How to Train Your Dragon 5:40pm Kung Fu Panda 2

3:40pm Yes, Minister Sitcom about a British government minister and the advisers who surround him.

4:45pm The Eagle Has Landed

3:30pm Back to the Future Part III 5:40pm Elf: Buddy's Musical Christmas Stop-motion animation Christmas special based on the film Elf.

4:35pm Zulu Based on an actual historic event, this is the story of a small group of British soldiers stationed at Rorke's Drift in Africa who are forced to defend their tiny outpost against an attack by powerful Zulu warriors.

3:45pm Watership Down 5:35pm Seven Brides for Seven Brothers

3:00pm Modern Family The Dunphys try to reconnect by enjoying some time apart from their various electronic devices.

3:30pm Modern Family

6pm 7:00pm BBC News 7:10pm BBC London News 7:20pm Celebrity Mastermind 7:50pm Pointless 8:40pm The National Lottery

6:55pm Dad's Army Feature-length version of the classic sitcom about the Home Guard unit of a small seaside town.

8:30pm Operation Grand Canyon with Dan Snow

4:00pm Modern Family 4:30pm Modern Family 5:00pm The Flash

6:40pm ITV News London 6:50pm ITV News and Weather 7:05pm You Saw Them Here First 8:00pm Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1

7:20pm Channel 4 News

10:50pm Darcy Oake: Edge of Reality 11:45pm ITV News and Weather

8:10pm Mission: Impossible II A secret agent must undertake a difficult assignment to capture a rogue erstwhile colleague who has stolen a deadly genetically engineered virus.

10:30pm 50 Funniest Moments 2014

9:30pm The Dog Rescuers with Alan Davies 10:30pm 5 News Weekend National and international news.

10:35pm The Haunting of Radcliffe House

6:00pm Portrait Artist of the Year 2014 7:30pm Futurama 8:00pm The Simpsons 8:30pm The Simpsons

Includes sport and weather.

7:40pm Guy Martin's Passion for Life Guy Martin has passion: passion for engines, mechanics and, most of all, speed.

7:35pm World's Strongest Man 2014 8:35pm Chas and Dave's Xmas Knees Up The Cockney singers are joined by Eric Clapton and Jim Davidson for this special.

9pm 9:30pm Bruce's Hall of Fame 10:40pm Mrs. Brown's Boys 11:15pm BBC News 11:35pm Live at the Apollo

9:30pm Top Gear 10:30pm James May's Toy Stories 11:30pm QI XL Quiz show in which the aim is to be interesting.

Julie Etchingham with the latest headlines from around the world.

12am 12:15am Harry and Paul's Story of the Twos 1:15am I Confess 2:45am Canterbury Cathedral 3:45am Wonders of the Monsoon 4:45am This is BBC Two Highlights of programmes on BBC Two.

12:05am An Audience with Joan Rivers 1:00am Clockwise 2:40am Jackpot247 4:00am The Jeremy Kyle Show USA 4:40am ITV Nightscreen Text-based information service.

12:35am X-Men: The Last Stand 2:35am The Raven John Cusack stars in James McTeigue's period thriller. 4:30am Hollyoaks Omnibus

12:25am True Crimes: The First 72 Hours 12:55am Access 1:00am Super Casino 4:10am Kids' Hospital at Christmas 5:00am House Doctor 5:25am Make it Big 5:50am Make it Big

9:00pm Moonfleet 10:00pm Moonfleet 11:00pm Predator 2 1:05am Stella 2:35am Trollied 3:05am Trollied 3:30am The Flash 4:20am Hawaii Five-0 5:10am NCIS: Los Angeles

BBC THREE

BBC FOUR

ITV2

ITV3

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E4

8:00pm Shrek 9:25pm Donkey's Caroling ChristmasTacular 9:30pm Don't Tell the Bride 10:30pm Russell Howard's Good News 11:00pm Russell Howard's Good News 11:30pm Bad Education 12:00am Family Guy 12:25am Family Guy 12:45am Family Guy 1:10am Family Guy 1:30am Family Guy 2:00am Family Guy 2:20am Russell Howard's Good News 2:50am Bad Education

8:00pm Happy Holidays with Bing and Frank 8:30pm Whisky Galore!

9:50pm Top of the Pops

7:00am You've Been Framed!

7:20am Emmerdale Omnibus 10:05am Coronation Street Omnibus 1:35pm I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here!

2:35pm You've Been Framed!

3:40pm Horrid Henry: The Movie

7:00am The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes 7:55am A Touch of Frost 10:00am Carry on Loving 12:05pm Carry on Girls 1:55pm Carry on Camping

10:30am River Monsters 11:25am River Monsters 12:25pm River Monsters 1:30pm The Green Berets

2:00pm The Spy Next Door 4:00pm The Big Bang Theory 4:30pm The Big Bang Theory 5:00pm The Big Bang Theory 5:30pm The Big Bang Theory 6:00pm The Big Bang Theory 6:30pm The Big Bang Theory 7:00pm The Big Bang Theory 7:30pm The Big Bang Theory 8:00pm The Big Bang Theory 8:30pm The Big Bang Theory 9:00pm The Big Bang Theory 9:30pm The Big Bang Theory 10:00pm Transporter 3 12:05am The Big Bang Theory

12:05am Not Going Out 12:35am Not Going Out 1:20am The Hot Chick 3:00am Weather for the Week Ahead Detailed weather forecast. 3:05am BBC News

A selection of hit Christmas songs from yesteryear.

10:00pm Inspector Montalbano 11:50pm Country Queens at the BBC 12:50am Country Kings at the BBC 1:50am Dolly Parton: Platinum Blonde 2:55am Sounds of the Eighties 3:20am The Heart of Country: How Nashville Became Music City USA 4:50am This is BBC Four

Grant. Comedy based on the animated series about the fictional anti-hero.

5:35pm The Lost World 8:10pm Johnny English 10:00pm Fast and Furious 12:05am Hostage 2:25am Release the Hounds The horror game show hosted by Reggie Yates returns for a full series.

Farcical comedy set in the great outdoors.

3:40pm Carry on Screaming 5:45pm Inspector Morse 8:00pm Rosemary and Thyme Light-hearted drama series about a pair of sleuthing gardeners.

9:00pm Doc Martin 10:00pm Midsomer Murders 12:05am A Touch of Frost 2:10am Bomb Girls

A guts-and-glory salute to US troops in the Vietnam War.

4:20pm Spartacus 8:10pm Police Academy 5: Assignment Miami Beach Comedy sequel.

10:00pm Renegades 12:10am Mcvicar Crime drama based on the true story of convicted armed robber John McVicar.

2:25am Sneakers

SKY MOVIES Action 7:10am 47 Ronin 9:20am X-Men 11:10am X2 1:30pm Batman Begins 3:55pm Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl 6:25pm Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest 9:00pm 47 Ronin An outcast joins a band of masterless samurai to wreak revenge against an evil feudal ruler.

11:00pm X-Men Adaptation of the long-running Marvel comic book series.

12:50am X2 3:05am Pain and Gain

Comedy 6:30am The Lone Ranger Unmasked 7:00am Elf 8:40am Liar Liar 10:10am Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me 11:50am Austin Powers in Goldmember 1:30pm Elf 3:10pm Uncle Buck 4:55pm Two Weeks Notice 6:40pm Love Actually 9:00pm About a Boy 10:50pm Four Weddings and a Funeral 12:55am About Time 3:05am Jackass: The Movie 4:50am A Very Harold and Kumar Christmas

Crime 7:15am The Transporter 9:00am Transporter 2 10:40am Captain Phillips 1:00pm The Mean Machine 3:15pm Reasonable Doubt 5:00pm The Da Vinci Code 7:40pm Captain Phillips 10:00pm Lucky Number Slevin Two New York crime lords think luckless Slevin owes them money.

12:00am The Transporter 1:45am Transporter 2 3:25am The Mean Machine 5:35am Deep Family Secrets

Christmas 6:20am Snow Day 8:00am Almost Christmas 9:50am Disney's A Christmas Carol 11:30am The Heat: Sky Movies Special 11:45am National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation 1:30pm The Santa Clause 2 3:20pm The Best Man Holiday 5:30pm Disney's A Christmas Carol An elderly grump is shown the error of his ways by three mysterious spirits.

7:10pm Grumpy Old Men 9:00pm National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation 10:45pm The Best Man Holiday 12:55am Grumpy Old Men

Premiere

TCM

6:30am The Amazing Spider-Man 2 Special 7:00am Frozen 9:00am The Lego Movie 10:45am Ride Along 12:30pm Noah

7:30am Tarzan and the Great River 9:10am Tarzan and The Huntress 10:40am Tarzan and the Mermaids

In the face of apocalyptic floods, one man is chosen to be the world's saviour.

3:00pm Captain America: The Winter Soldier 5:30pm The Lego Movie 7:15pm Frozen 9:00pm Captain America: The Winter Soldier 11:20pm Noah 1:45am Ride Along

Tarzan and Jane attempt to protect a woman from being forced to marry a con artist.

12:05pm Tarzan and The Slave Girl 1:40pm Tarzan and The Valley of Gold 3:20pm Tarzan Finds a Son Tarzan adopts the infant survivor of a plane crash.

4:55pm Tarzan Goes to India 6:40pm Tarzan the Magnificent 8:15pm Tarzan's Fight for Life 10:00pm No Way Out 12:10am The File of the Golden Goose

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BBC ONE 7:00am Breakfast 10:00am G-Force 11:20am 3 Men and a Little Lady 1:00pm Christmas of My Lifetime with Len Goodman 2:00pm BBC News 2:15pm Bargain Hunt 2:55pm Call the Midwife

BBC TWO 7:50am Antiques Roadshow 8:50am Herbie Goes Bananas 10:20am Coast Australia 11:10am Saturday Kitchen Best Bites 12:40pm The Hairy Bikers' Asian Adventure 1:40pm Talking Pictures 2:25pm Great Continental Railway Journeys

www.euroweeklynews.com

ITV 8:05am Canimals 8:10am Canimals 8:20am Share a Story 8:25am Sooty 8:35am Mr. Bean 8:50am Ultimate Spider-Man 9:10am Horrid Henry 9:25am Weekend at Christmas 10:25am Columbo 12:00pm ITV News and Weather 12:15pm The Cube 1:15pm Michael Flatley: A Night to Remember 2:15pm Tipping Point

CH4 6:45am Small Animal Hospital 7:10am NFL 8:10am Little Wolf's Book of Badness 8:35am Ivor the Invisible 9:05am Everybody Loves Raymond 9:35am Frasier 10:00am Frasier 10:30am Sunday Brunch 1:25pm Imagine That

CH5 9:00am The Adventures of Bottle Top Bill and His Best Friend Corky 9:15am Wanda and the Alien 9:25am Zack and Quack 9:40am Ben and Holly's Little Kingdom 9:55am Jelly Jamm 10:10am Access 10:20am World's Strongest Man 2014 11:20am Carry on Christmas 12:25pm The Greatest Ever Carry on Films 1:25pm Carry on Spying

SUNDAY TV

SKY 1 6:00am Glee 7:00am The Hour of Power 8:00am The Flash 9:00am Modern Family 9:30am Modern Family 10:00am Modern Family 10:30am Futurama 11:00am A League of Their Own 11:30am A League of Their Own 12:00pm WWE Experience 1:00pm Modern Family 1:30pm Modern Family 2:00pm Modern Family 2:30pm Modern Family

3pm 4:10pm Songs of Praise 4:45pm Raiders of the Lost Ark

3:25pm The Heroes of Telemark 5:30pm Final Score

3:20pm Catchphrase 4:20pm E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial

3:35pm The Simpsons 4:00pm The Simpsons 4:30pm The Simpsons 4:55pm The Simpsons 5:25pm The Simpsons 5:55pm Channel 4 News

3:10pm Black Beauty 4:55pm Out of Africa

6:35pm ITV News London 6:45pm ITV News and Weather 7:00pm The Queen's Garden 8:00pm Unbelievable Moments Caught on Camera

6:00pm Celebrity Fifteen to One 7:00pm The Golden Compass

8:00pm World's Strongest Man 2014 8:55pm 5 News Weekend

9:00pm Top Gear 10:00pm Racing Legends 11:00pm House of Fools 11:30pm Never Mind the Buzzcocks

9:00pm All Star Family Fortunes 10:00pm All New It'll be Alright on the Night 11:00pm ITV News and Weather 11:15pm Through the Keyhole

9:00pm The Hotel 10:00pm Homeland 11:15pm Gogglebox

10:00pm Most Shocking Celebrity Moments 2014

12:00am The Wrong Mans 1:00am Hidden Treasure: The Comedy Vault 2:00am Suspicion 3:40am Countryfile 4:35am Holby City 5:35am This is BBC Two

12:15am Rugby Highlights 1:10am The Store 3:10am The Jeremy Kyle Show USA 4:00am The Jeremy Kyle Show USA 4:45am ITV Nightscreen Text-based information service.

12:50am Rude Tube Christmas Cracker 2014 1:45am Father Ted 2:10am NFL 5:55am NFL

12:55am Autopsy: Michael Jackson's Last Hours 1:55am Super Casino 4:10am World's Strongest Man 2014 5:00am House Doctor 5:25am Make it Big 5:50am Make it Big

12:00am A League of Their Own 12:30am 50 Ways to Kill Your Mammy 1:30am Trollied 2:00am Trollied 2:30am The Flash 3:30am Micky Flanagan's Detour De France 4:30am NCIS: Los Angeles 5:20am Hawaii Five-0

BBC THREE

BBC FOUR

ITV2

ITV3

ITV4

E4

8:00pm The Gruffalo 8:30pm The Gruffalo's Child 9:00pm Shrek 2 10:25pm Live at the Apollo 10:55pm Bad Education 11:25pm Family Guy 11:50pm Family Guy 12:10am American Dad! 12:35am American Dad! 12:55am Cuckoo 1:25am Live at the Apollo 1:55am Bad Education 2:25am Some Girls 2:55am Some Girls 3:25am Some Girls

8:00pm The Bermuda Triangle: Beneath the Waves 9:00pm Return to Betjemanland 10:00pm The Good Shepherd 12:35am The Kate Bush Story: Running Up That Hill 1:35am Kate Bush at the BBC 2:40am Dolly Parton @ Glastonbury 2014 3:50am John Denver: Country Boy 4:50am This is BBC Four

7:00am The Hot Desk 7:10am Emmerdale Omnibus 9:55am Coronation Street Omnibus 1:25pm Jurassic Park 3:50pm The Mummy Returns 6:20pm Elf: Buddy's Musical Christmas 7:20pm Die Another Day 10:00pm The Bourne Identity 12:15am Saw II 2:10am Release the Hounds 3:10am Viral Tap 3:45am Crazy Beaches 4:10am Crazy Beaches 4:35am Educating Joey Essex 5:25am Life's Funniest Moments

7:00am Movies Now 7:10am Judge Judy 7:30am The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes 8:25am The Best of Royal Variety 9:25am The Best of Royal Variety 10:25am Sherlock Holmes - The Last Vampyre 12:40pm Inspector Morse 2:55pm Goodbye, Mr. Chips 4:55pm A Touch of Frost 6:00pm Lewis 8:00pm Inspector Morse 10:00pm Lewis 12:00am Bird on a Wire 2:15am Lewis

8:35am Ax Men 9:30am British Superbike Championship Show 2014 11:30am Pawn Stars 12:00pm Pawn Stars 12:25pm Pawn Stars 12:55pm Pawn Stars 1:20pm Pawn Stars 1:50pm Pawn Stars 2:20pm Destry Rides Again 4:15pm Shalako 6:30pm The Horse Soldiers 9:00pm Rugby Highlights 10:00pm Born on the Fourth of July 12:55am L.A. Confidential

4:30pm The Big Bang Theory 5:00pm The Big Bang Theory 5:30pm The Big Bang Theory 6:00pm The Big Bang Theory 6:30pm The Big Bang Theory 7:00pm The Big Bang Theory 7:30pm The Big Bang Theory 8:00pm The Big Bang Theory 8:30pm The Big Bang Theory 9:00pm The Big Bang Theory 9:30pm The Big Bang Theory 10:00pm The Big Bang Theory 10:30pm The Big Bang Theory 11:00pm End of Days 1:25am The IT Crowd

Crime

Christmas

Action-packed adventure epic in which an intrepid archaeologist tries to beat a band of Nazis to a unique religious relic which is central to their plans for world domination.

Jason Mohammad presents all the day's football results along with reports and reaction from the big games on another busy day of football.

Heartwarming sci-fi fantasy.

Oscar-winning drama based on the remarkable story of Karen Blixen, who left her native Denmark in 1913 to marry a Swedish baron and run a coffee farm in Kenya.

3:00pm Treasure Island 5:00pm The Flash A muscly metahuman who can transform into metal wreaks havoc in Central City.

6pm 6:35pm BBC News 6:50pm BBC London News 7:00pm Celebrity Mastermind 7:30pm Countryfile 8:30pm Still Open All Hours

6:30pm Flog It! 7:00pm John Carter Action adventure film. Arizona, 1868.

Nicole Kidman, Daniel Craig and Dakota Blue Richards star in Chris Weitz's family fantasyadventure, based on the first book in Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy.

National and international news.

9:00pm Can't Pay? We'll Take it Away!

Documentary series revealing the work of bailiffs and repossession agents.

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

9pm 9:00pm Antiques Roadshow 10:00pm Last Tango in Halifax 11:00pm BBC News 11:15pm Regional News and Weather 11:20pm BBC London News 11:30pm Match of the Day

This programme takes a light-hearted look at the most outlandish and outrageous behaviour by the rich and famous this year, featuring meltdowns, break-ups, booze-ups and punch-up.

9:00pm Got to Dance 10:00pm Modern Family 10:30pm Trollied 11:00pm Football's Funniest Moments

12am 12:55am The Football League Show 2:15am Goal II: Living the Dream 4:05am Weather for the Week Ahead Detailed weather forecast. 4:10am BBC News

BBC Four is the BBC channel for people who want more.

SKY MOVIES Action 7:00am Mission: Impossible III 9:20am R.I.P.D. 11:10am Thor: The Dark World 1:15pm The Wolverine 3:30pm Mission: Impossible III 5:45pm R.I.P.D. 7:35pm Elysium 10:00pm Thor: The Dark World 12:00am The Wolverine An old acquaintance brings the clawed mutant to Japan, where he finds himself in grave danger.

2:15am Fire with Fire 4:05am The Bridge on the River Kwai

Comedy 6:30am Monsters University Special 7:00am Bean 8:35am 13 Going on 30 10:15am Bad Santa 12:00pm Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues 2:00pm The Incredible Burt Wonderstone 3:45pm Bruce Almighty 5:30pm When Harry Met Sally 7:15pm Bad Santa 9:00pm Anchorman 2 11:00pm Grudge Match 1:05am A Very Harold and Kumar Christmas 2:50am Jackass: Number Two More gross-out gags and painful pranks.

7:15am John Q 9:20am Courage Under Fire 11:30am The Manchurian Candidate Gulf War hero Raymond is running for vice president, backed by his ruthless mother.

1:50pm Inside Man 4:10pm The Pelican Brief 6:50pm Déjà Vu 9:00pm The Bone Collector A paralysed forensics expert teams up with a fresh-faced cop to hunt down a serial killer.

11:05pm Training Day 1:15am Inside Man 3:30am The Manchurian Candidate Gulf War hero Raymond is running for vice president, backed by his ruthless mother.

6:20am Holy Night!

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Trying not to fall into an age old trap economy.

As so depressingly often, the Bundesbank is right, but Podemos’s dislike of banks and hints of defaulting on Spain’s debt are likely to win more voters than they repel.

Podemos wants to substitute Alice in Wonderland’s “jam yesterday and jam tomorrow but never today” with lots of jam today although this invariably augurs hunger tomorrow.

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HE PSOE can’t afford to fall into its old trap of imposing party preferences on the public.

Susana Diaz, the PSOE’s Number Two and president of the Andalucia region, was Alfredo Rubalcaba’s choice to follow him as party secretary general. Many - and possibly Diaz herself - were disappointed when this internal decision was challenged. The leadership race was thrown open and Pedro Sanchez took over.

Now Andalucia has said support for Sanchez will be conditioned by the results of May’s municipal and regional elections. If he does well, then Sanchez will have 100 per cent backing, and that backing is important because Andalucia is where so many PSOE votes

Ancient history SUSANA DIAZ: overtaken in the leadership race. come from.

But a Sanchez success will have little to do with ideology and more to do with image. If his showing is poor because the appeal of Pablo Iglesias and Podemos is stronger, then Sanchez won’t be the PSOE’s presidential candidate for the November general elections.

Diaz could be jockeying for position but despite her

popularity within the party she has less national appeal than Sanchez. If the party does not stick with him, the PSOE could be in for another beating on the road to nowhere.

Jammy dodgers GERMANY’S Bundesbank believes fledgling party Podemos will threaten the EU

SPAIN’S Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy behaves like Eeyore but makes pronouncements like Tigger.

He sounded very Tigger when he declared in a speech to Spanish businessmen that the economic crisis was “ancient history” and this is “the Christmas of the recovery.”

On paper the country is out of recession and the economy is slowly recuperating but as yet few are feeling the benefits.

They did not hesitate to say

so and Rajoy later qualified his exultant claims. “Recovery has not reached everyone or reached everyone to the same degree,” he admitted a few days later.

Rajoy was wise to tone down the triumphalism. The speech was reminiscent of George W Bush’s elated “Mission accomplished!” exclaimed in May 2003. He said that two months after the invasion and occupation of Iraq and 11 years before its invasion and partoccupation by ISIS. There are times when it is preferable to emulate Eeyore.

Only answer THE government’s reform of the Penal Code contains a ‘life means life’ clause. This is new to Spain and causes concern in some legal circles although there are fewer misgivings outside them. But it is the only answer to some crimes and saves the state from contaminating its hands with capital punishment.

An African Queen to crown all Mike Walsh Mike, based in Mediterranean Spain, is an international journalist, author and professional writer.

WHEN on December 12, MV Mutambala, a ferry operating on Lake Tanganyika sank in a storm there was little news coverage.

The disaster claimed the lives of up to 150 passengers, mostly women and children. Strong winds and overloading are said to be the cause of the tragedy.

It is not uncommon for ships operating on Lake Tanganyika to sink, usually for the same reasons.

Still operating on the lake today is a ship that really does appear to be unsinkable. What a remarkable history this ferry has. The 1,600 ton MV Graf von Goetzen was built in Germany in 1913 but not in a conventional way. The shipbuilders, Meyer Werft, built the Goetzen in thousands of parts.

After assembling it to make

TROUBLED WATER: Lake Tanganyika is second largest in the World. sure all was as it should be the MV Graf von Goetzen was disassembled and its parts packed in 5,000 crates. These boxes were shipped to East Africa, which was then a German Protectorate.

Germany’s economy in 1913 was on a high as were German spirits. That year, the Kaiser’s daughter Viktoria Luise, was to marry a commoner. In common with millions of fellow Europeans, thousands of Germans emigrated, many to

Germany’s overseas colonies and protectorates.

On reaching the East African port of Dar es Salaam these thousands of crates, each containing bits and pieces of the 234 feet ferry-liner, were unloaded. These were then shipped across the jungle savannah to Kigoma, a small lakeside town 1,300km distant.

Teams of master fitters and shipbuilders arrived soon afterward and set about rebuilding the liner. Lake

Tanganyika, the second largest lake in the world, borders four countries; it is the length of England and is an average 50km in width.

In 1917, three years after the outbreak of the Great War, British troops advanced on Lake Tanganyika. Scuttled to prevent the ship from falling into British hands this fine vessel appeared to have met its Waterloo at the bottom of this fantastic lake.

The surrendering Germans were taken into captivity and were to

remain in concentration camps until 1920.

Later raised to the surface, the Graf Goetzen, now named Liemba, was returned to service.

In 1951, it became internationally famous. The Liemba is the gunboat, Luisa, in the movie, African Queen. The stars were Katherine Hepburn and Humphrey Bogart.

Today, this proud liner still carries passengers from township to township, delivering produce to markets, and offering a vital supply linkage to the four Central African republics.

Yes, it was disheartening to learn of the recent sinking of the MV Mutambala with such terrible loss of life. Somehow, I am relieved to know that the ship involved was not the MV Graf von Goetzen, sorry, MV Liemba.

If this wonderful maritime adventurer ever reaches its climax may it go up in a ball of flames without loss of life as anything less would be too unbearable to think about.

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Morton’s Fork CARDINAL Morton was Chancellor to Henry II. Morton claimed that a man who lived ostentatiously could obviously afford to pay the King’s taxes, while a man who lived frugally must be saving his wealth and could still afford to pay the taxes.

The Morton’s Fork principle in bridge occurs when a player is faced with two unpleasant losing alternatives: West, fearing that declarer held ♥AQ, decides to lead the ‘safe’ ♠Q instead. This knocks out dummy’s ♠K entry, but gives declarer a problem on how to establish and run the ♦ suit. He realises that he needs to catch a defender, almost certainly West on the bidding, with ♦A singleton or doubleton. If he leads a low ♦ to the Q, West simply withholds his Ace. Leading the ♦K is no better. The ♦A wins and East’s ♦T will still stop the suit.

Is the contract now hopeless? No – cross to the ♣A, then lead the ♦Q and West is caught in the Fork. If he takes the Ace, the ♦ are established. If he ducks, the ♦K overtakes and a low ♦ is returned to the now singleton Ace, setting up the suit.

WE DO!

West ♠QJT8 ♥KJT94 ♦A9 ♣Q4

North ♠K ♥63 ♦KJ65432 ♣K93

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South ♠A432 ♥A875 ♦Q ♣A765

East ♠9765 ♥Q2 ♦T87 ♣JT82

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12:20am Pride and Glory 2:35am Sharky's Machine 4:40am The Canyons Drama following the twisted relationships of a group of Hollywood hopefuls.

7:00am Christmas in Wonderland 8:45am Snow Day 10:25am Let it Snow 12:05pm Home Alone 2:00pm Millions 3:45pm Look Who's Talking Now! 5:25pm Home Alone 7:15pm Millions When a bag of cash lands in young Damian's lap, he takes it as a sign from God to help the poor.

9:00pm Love Actually 11:20pm The Best Man Holiday 1:30am Snow Day A school in upstate New York is closed by an unexpected snowfall.

3:15am Look Who's Talking Now! 5:00am Christmas in Wonderland

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7:50am Darby's Rangers 10:05am Romance of a Horse Thief 12:20pm Hotel Paradiso 2:20pm Canyon River 4:00pm The Stranger Wore a Gun 5:40pm Battle Zone 7:20pm King Rat 10:00pm The Silence of the Lambs

In the face of apocalyptic floods, one man is chosen to be the world's saviour.

11:20pm Captain America: The Winter Soldier 1:40am Ironclad: Battle for Blood Medieval mercenary Guy battles to protect his family's estate from a brutal band of Celts.

3:35am Ride Along 5:30am Oz the Great and Powerful: Premiere Special

Enthralling psychological thriller with Jodie Foster and Anthony Hopkins.

12:15am Spawn 2:05am The Silence of the Lambs Enthralling psychological thriller with Jodie Foster and Anthony Hopkins.

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AC/DC concert sold out AUSTRALIAN supergroup AC/DC will hold a second concert in Madrid as tickets for the first one sold out within an hour and a half.

Live Nation promoters announced that as the 55,000 tickets available for the concert at Vicente Calderon Stadium in Madrid on May 31, 2015, had sold out so quickly, another concert would be held at the stadium on June 2.

The band will be touring with music from their new album Rock or Bust, the first they have released for six years, which went straight to the top of sales lists in Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Switzerland, Finland, France, Norway, Sweden and Germany.

Rock or Bust is the first album the group has made without Malcolm Young, who has been replaced on guitar by his nephew, Stevie Young.

The success of the new record and concert ticket sales is more good news for the band after drummer Phil Rudd had charges

ON TOUR: AC/DC at the Lluis Companys Olympic Stadium in 2009. of attempting to procure a murder dropped. He had been charged in New Zealand, but was cleared when the case was

closed by prosecutors.

Tickets are available from Ticketmaster, El Corte Ingles, Entradas.com and LiveNation.es

websites from €75 for the new Madrid date and for Barcelona’s Lluis Companys Olympic Stadium on May 29, 2015.

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Shoe helps lame Frodo FRODO the Penguin suffered a fall shortly after he was born which left him lame. Since then, his parents and fellow penguins at Faunia Zoo in Madrid have rejected him due to his problems getting about.

After hearing about a penguin in the US which was greatly helped in 2003 by a special shoe, Frodo’s keepers asked orthopaedic shoemakers for help for the lonely creature.

Now Frodo sports a special green shoe that reduces tension round his injured foot. Although he stumbles, the shoe has allowed him to be accepted by the group within the zoo’s Antarctic ecosystem.

Faunia Zoo’s nativity scene includes more than 40 figures of zoo inhabitants including Frodo, fellow penguins Inca and Rayas, and new babies born in 2014.

Better to look poor and be safe than look rich and be a burglar’s victim 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

WHEN I was last in the UK, I caught up with an old friend who’d just been burgled.

She was livid as she’s most particular about security. Not half as particular, though, as the burglar himself. Here are a few of the things he won’t be telling you as you’re about to leave your house for your Christmas/New Year holiday...

Of course I look familiar. I was here just last week cleaning your carpets, painting your windows or delivering your

new freezer. And hey, when I was working in your garden thanks for letting me use the bathroom, where I unlatched the back window to make my return a bit easier.

I just love your flowers. They tell me you have taste. And taste means there are nice things within. In fact, those toys your children leave outside always make me wonder what type of electronic games are inside!

It’s raining, you’re fumbling with your umbrella, and you forget to lock your door understandable.

But understand this: I don’t take a day off because of bad weather.

Another point: I always knock first. If you answer, I’ll ask for directions somewhere or offer

JACKPOT: Occasionally a burglar can walk right in. to clean your gutters (just don’t take me up on it!). And, remember, a loud TV or radio can be a better deterrent than

the best alarm system.

Sometimes, I carry a clipboard. Sometimes, I dress like a gardener and carry a

strimmer. You see, I do my best never to look like an old lag.

And two things I hate most?

Loud dogs and nosy neighbours. I’ll break a window to get in, even if it makes a little noise. If your neighbour hears one loud sound, he’ll stop what he’s doing and wait to hear it again. If he doesn’t, he’ll just return to what he was doing.

It’s human nature.

To you, leaving that window open just a crack during the day is a great way to let in a little fresh air. To me, it’s an invitation. And, if you don’t answer when I knock, I try the door. Occasionally, I hit the jackpot and walk right in the house. Sorry if it happens to be yours… But no hard feelings, eh? Just doing my job.

Happy Christmas!

Nora Johnson’s thrillers Landscape of Lies, Retribution, Soul Stealer, The De Clerambault Code (www.nora-johnson.com) available from Amazon in paperback/eBook (€0.89;£0.79) and iBookstore. Profits to Cudeca.

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BBC ONE 7:00am Breakfast 10:00am The Cat in the Hat 11:15am Eight Below 1:05pm Bargain Hunt 1:50pm BBC News at One 2:00pm BBC London News 2:10pm Ratatouille Children's animation. Remy is a young rat in the French countryside who has a nose for fine food.

BBC TWO 7:10am Secrets of the Castle with Ruth, Peter and Tom 8:10am Natural World 9:10am Saboteur 10:55am Talking Pictures 11:35am Shadow of a Doubt 1:20pm The Hairy Bikers' Asian Adventure 2:20pm Becoming Jane

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ITV 7:00am Dinner Date 8:00am Good Morning Britain 9:30am Lorraine 10:25am The Jeremy Kyle Show 11:30am Judge Rinder 12:30pm Who's Doing the Dishes? 1:25pm All Star Family Fortunes 2:10pm ITV News and Weather 2:20pm Secret Dealers

CH4 7:20am How I Met Your Mother 7:40am How I Met Your Mother 8:05am Everybody Loves Raymond 8:30am The Valley of Gwangi 10:20am The Brady Bunch Movie 12:00pm The Big Bang Theory 12:25pm The Simpsons 12:55pm The Simpsons 1:25pm Five Children and It

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CH5 9:45am Bananas in Pajamas 10:00am Tickety Toc 10:10am Milkshake! Bop Box 10:15am Peppa Pig 10:25am Peppa Pig 10:30am Wanda and the Alien 10:45am Bert and Ernie's Great Adventures 10:55am The Mr. Men Show 11:10am World's Strongest Man 2014 12:10pm Carry on Regardless 2:00pm The Vikings

SKY 1 7:30am The Real A&E 8:00am Moone Boy 8:30am Yonderland 9:00am The Flash 10:00am Exodus: Gods and Kings Special 10:30am Night at the Museum Special 11:00am Got to Dance 12:00pm Modern Family 12:30pm Modern Family 1:00pm Modern Family 1:30pm Modern Family 2:00pm Greggs: More Than Meats the Pie

3pm 3:50pm Monsters vs Aliens 5:15pm Top of the Pops

4:10pm Coast Australia Series exploring Australia's coastline.

5:00pm Big Dreams Small Spaces

3:20pm The Queen's Garden 4:25pm Goldfinger

3:15pm Home Alone 3 5:20pm Fantastic Mr. Fox

4:10pm The Dirty Dozen

7:05pm Tommy Cooper's Christmas

Classic spy thriller.

Blockbusting adventure featuring a motley crew of death-row criminals who get the chance to redeem themselves in action in World War II.

3:00pm Greggs: More Than Meats the Pie 4:00pm Football's Funniest Moments 5:00pm Modern Family 5:30pm Modern Family

6pm 6:00pm Wild Brazil 7:00pm Flog It! 8:00pm Tigers About the House: What Happened Next

6:35pm The Chase 7:30pm ITV News London 7:45pm ITV News and Weather 8:00pm Emmerdale 8:30pm Coronation Street

7:00pm The Simpsons 7:30pm Hollyoaks 8:30pm Channel 4 News

9:00pm University Challenge 9:30pm The Help 11:50pm Mock the Week

9:00pm Rita and Me 10:00pm A Funny Old Year 2014 11:00pm Tommy Cooper: Not Like That, Like This

9:00pm Frozen at Christmas 10:00pm Alan Carr's New Year Specstacular

12:20am Jools's Annual Hootenanny 2014 2:35am Glastonbury 2014 Highlights 4:40am This is BBC Two Highlights of programmes on BBC Two.

12:55am ITV News and Weather 1:10am Carry on Camping Farcical comedy set in the great outdoors. 2:40am The Jeremy Kyle Show USA 3:25am ITV Nightscreen Textbased information service.

12:05am 50 Funniest Moments 2014 2:05am C4's 30 Greatest Comedy Shows 3:55am The IT Crowd 4:20am The IT Crowd 4:50am Phil Spencer: Secret Agent 5:45am Kirstie's Handmade Treasures 5:55am Secret Eaters

1:00am The ABBA Years 2:00am Super Casino 4:10am World's Strongest Man 2014 5:00am Great Scientists 5:25am Chinese Food in Minutes 5:30am Chinese Food in Minutes 5:45am House Doctor

12:55am New Year Fireworks Live 1:15am A League of Their Own 2:15am A League of Their Own 3:05am A League of Their Own 4:00am Hawaii Five-0 5:00am Airline USA 5:30am Airline USA

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8:00pm Danny Boy - The Ballad that Bewitched the World 9:00pm RI Lectures: Sparks Will Fly - How to Hack Your Home 10:00pm The Joy of ABBA 11:00pm ABBA at the BBC

7:45am Emmerdale 8:10am I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here!

9:00am The Xtra Factor: The Winner's Story 10:00am The X Factor Class of 2014 11:05am Back to the Future 1:20pm Emmerdale 1:55pm The Jeremy Kyle Show 3:00pm The Jeremy Kyle Show 4:05pm The Jeremy Kyle Show 5:10pm You've Been Framed!

5:45pm Nanny McPhee 7:40pm Back to the Future Part III 10:00pm GoldenEye 12:40am Celebrity Juice

7:00am Movies Now 7:10am Sparkling Cyanide 9:00am Inspector Morse 11:10am A Touch of Frost 1:25pm On the Buses 3:15pm Mutiny on the Buses 5:05pm Holiday on the Buses 6:55pm Rosemary and Thyme 7:55pm Agatha Christie's Marple 10:00pm Gosford Park 12:50am The Portrait of a Lady 3:30am Inspector Morse 5:15am A Touch of Frost

9:20am Kojak 10:25am Pawn Stars 10:50am Pawn Stars 11:20am TT 2014 12:20pm TT 2014 1:25pm Magnum, P.I. 2:25pm Minder 3:30pm Pawn Stars 4:00pm Pawn Stars 4:25pm Smokey and the Bandit II 6:30pm Police Academy 3: Back in Training 8:15pm Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol 10:00pm Payback 12:05am L.A. Confidential

5:30pm The Big Bang Theory 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 The Big Bang Theory 8:30pm Hollyoaks 9:00pm The Big Bang Theory 9:30pm The Big Bang Theory 10:00pm The Big Bang Theory 10:30pm The Inbetweeners 11:00pm The Inbetweeners 11:35pm The Inbetweeners 12:05am The Inbetweeners 12:40am The Inbetweeners Top Ten Moments

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Festive comedy and magic from Tommy Cooper.

8:00pm Can't Pay? We'll Take it Away!

Documentary series revealing the work of bailiffs and repossession agents.

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

9pm 10:00pm Mapp and Lucia 11:00pm BBC News at Ten 11:15pm The Graham Norton Show

After the success of last year's show, Alan again celebrates New Year's Eve and welcomes in 2015.

9:00pm World's Strongest Man 2014 10:00pm Britain's Favourite Sitcoms In the final heat of the competition, Englishman Graham Hicks has his work cut out as he competes in a field that includes the reigning champion Brian Shaw, who is looking to impress on home soil.

9:00pm Football's Funniest Moments 10:00pm An Idiot Abroad 11:00pm Karl Pilkington: The Moaning of Life 11:55pm A League of Their Own

12am 12:15am Queen and Adam Lambert Rock Big Ben Live 12:55am New Year's Eve Fireworks 1:10am Queen and Adam Lambert Rock Big Ben Live 1:30am Mrs. Brown's Boys 2:10am John Bishop Live: Elvis Has Left the Building

Compilation of ABBA's greatest performances at the BBC.

12:00am Kind Hearts and Coronets 1:45am Rich Hall's California Stars 3:15am The Joy of ABBA 4:15am The Carpenters at the BBC The Carpenters' debut BBC concert, recorded on their first British tour in September 1971.

4:50am This is BBC Four

A man who has Down's syndrome is accused of the murder of a young girl.

SKY MOVIES Action 7:00am Sahara 9:10am Man of Steel 11:35am 47 Ronin 1:35pm Fantastic Four 3:25pm Thor: The Dark World 5:20pm Pacific Rim 7:35pm Man of Steel 10:00pm 47 Ronin An outcast joins a band of masterless samurai to wreak revenge against an evil feudal ruler.

12:00am Thor: The Dark World 1:55am Lethal Weapon 3:50am Lethal Weapon 2 5:45am Fantastic Four Astronaut Reed Richards and his team barely survive in deep space after they're exposed to radiation. Back on earth, they find they've developed strange new powers.

Comedy 7:00am The Lone Ranger Unmasked 7:30am You've Got Mail 9:35am Alien Autopsy 11:20am Last Vegas 1:15pm When Harry Met Sally 3:00pm Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues 5:05pm Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby Redneck racer Ricky Bobby is a NASCAR king thanks to a sweet deal with his pal Cal.

7:10pm The Hangover Part III 9:00pm Last Vegas 11:00pm When Harry Met Sally 12:40am Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues 2:40am The Hangover Part III 4:25am Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby

8:00am The Italian Job 10:05am Black Hawk Down Brutally authentic war action detailing the covert US mission in Somalia that became a bloodbath.

12:40pm Captain Phillips 3:05pm The Italian Job After an elaborate gold heist in Venice, masterthief Charlie and his crew are double-crossed.

5:10pm American Hustle 7:40pm Captain Phillips 10:00pm The Green Mile 1:10am American Hustle 3:40am Black Hawk Down Brutally authentic war action detailing the covert US mission in Somalia that became a bloodbath.

7:00am Coming Home for Christmas 8:40am Snow Buddies 10:15am Jingle All the Way 11:50am Grumpy Old Men 1:40pm Jack Frost 3:25pm New Year's Eve Comedy following the adventures of a group of New Yorkers on New Year's Eve. Comedy/romance.

5:30pm Grumpy Old Men 7:20pm National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation 9:00pm Jack Frost 10:45pm New Year's Eve 1:00am National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation 2:40am Home Alone: The Holiday Heist 4:15am Snow Buddies 5:45am Holiday Inn

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6:00am Trouble Along the Way 8:05am Legend of the Lost 10:05am Cahill U.S. Marshal 12:00pm The Green Berets 2:40pm The Train Robbers 4:30pm The Alamo 7:30pm Rio Lobo 10:00pm On Deadly Ground 11:55pm Money Train 2:15am On Deadly Ground 4:00am Trouble Along the Way

In the face of apocalyptic floods, one man is chosen to be the world's saviour.

9:00pm Captain America: The Winter Soldier 11:20pm Ride Along 1:05am Ironclad: Battle for Blood 3:05am The Lego Movie 5:00am Exodus: Gods and Kings Special 5:30am Gravity: Sky Movies Special

John Wayne stars in this comedy as a cynical football coach who takes a job in a religious-run college to persuade probation officer Donna Reed that he, rather than his ex-wife, should have custody of their daughter.

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1695: A window tax is introduced in England, causing many home owners to brick up their windows to avoid the tax. The act is not repealed until 156 years later.

1759: Arthur Guinness signs a 9,000 year lease at £45 per annum at St James’ Gate in Dublin and starts brewing Guinness. The stout goes on to become one of the most successful beer brands in the world and is now available in 120 countries.

1865: The Ku Klux Klan is formed in Pulaski, Tennessee, by six former Confederate soldiers. The group becomes infamous for terrorising African Americans, particularly in the southern US states, through lynching and crossburning.

1952: Queen Elizabeth II makes her first Christmas speech since beginning her reign. The address is made from the study at Sandringham House and broadcast on BBC radio.

1977: Silent movie comedy actor Charlie Chaplin dies at the age of 88 at his Swiss manor on Christmas Day. The London-born actor suffers a stroke in his sleep and is buried two days later in Switzerland.

1977: Star Wars hits movie theatres in the UK, with thousands of people queuing to get nonreserved tickets that are otherwise booked up until March. The movie had earlier set the US box office alight and goes on to spawn a movie franchise.

1991: Mikhail Gorbachev resigns as General Secretary of the Soviet Union and the union itself is dissolved the next day. Ukraine’s referendum is finalised and Ukraine officially leaves the Soviet Union.

2004: A tsunami devastates parts of Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, India, the Maldives and Sri Lanka, leaving more than 230,000 dead.

An earthquake in the Indian Ocean triggered massive waves that wreaked havoc on coastal communities.

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H ex a g r a m IF IT’S YOUR BIRTHDAY THIS WEEK: This will be a super year for romance in all its guises. Physical relationships can be important to you and this year is all about getting a balance.

AQUARIUS (January 21 - February 19) This being a family oriented week, much of it may be spent getting together with relatives and going over old times. Perhaps you are compiling a photo album for older members of the family or vice versa.

December 25, Annie Lennox, 60, singer Scottish singer-songwriter Lennox was lead singer of 80s band Eurythmics and penned the hit single ‘Sweet Dreams’.

She went on to enjoy a solo career later, and has sold more than 80 million albums worldwide.

PISCES (February 20 - March 20) An exciting invitation may set tongues wagging and make a loved one jealous. You, meanwhile, are quite bemused by the whole thing.

What comes out of this week is that you are of considerable value to others.

The mere thought of you not being around sends ripples through your social circle.

ARIES (March 21 - April 20) Being asked to take on a new and demanding task this week may see you wishing that you had been less visible.

However, don't think of the hard work involved but rather the brilliant outcome. You will be popular.

TAURUS (April 21 - May 21) An interest in technology is not something new to you. What is great, though, is that the penny has suddenly dropped. This week sees you understanding more and wanting to know more.

GEMINI (May 22 - June 21) An urge to get moving must mean that spring is round the corner. Certainly, you are questioning where you want to be in the months ahead. A house move or work placement may be on your mind.

CANCER (June 22 - July 23) Be aware that not everyone is willing to work as hard as you.

When approached by someone wanting you to trust them, be sure of their

December 25, Helena Christensen, 46, model One of the original supermodels of the 1990s, Danish model Christensen has enjoyed a 30-year career in the modelling/fashion world. She was crowned Miss Denmark in 1986 and in recent years has become passionate about photography.

December 26, Phil Spector, 75, music producer Spector is famous for creating the ‘wall of sound’ method of production that was prevalent in 1960s music. He was jailed in 2009 for the 2003 shooting of nightclub hostess Lana Clarkson at his home. He has worked with Tina Turner, The Beatles and Connie Francis. motives. Do what you feel is right but remain firmly in control, especially financially. It may not be the time to make a particular move, although others think that it is. There's no problem with discussing things and talking them through. Keep up your healthy habits because you need lots of energy, especially at the weekend.

LEO (July 24 - August 23) Social demands are made, but try to shuffle them to the weekend. Be diplomatic or someone close could become irritated. Keep an eye on the small print because something fundamental may have changed in a long-standing arrangement. Suddenly, at the weekend, you are thrust into the limelight.

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CAPRICORN (December 22 - January 20) Contact with a less than ideal situation makes you realise just how lucky you are. It has been clear that the weeks are changeable and your situation at the moment far from settled. Pity those whose day-to-day life is completely predictable.

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December 26, Pablo Puyol, dancer and singer. Malaga-born Puyol began studying biology before switching to drama and started his professional acting career in Madrid with the musical Grease. He has appeared in numerous television shows and short films, and thanks to his dancing and singing abilities landed a role in the hit TV series Un paso adelante.

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VIRGO (August 24 - September 23) Be aware that leopards do not change their spots, they merely hide them. Those who demand your trust need a cool checking out and don't be afraid to say 'no' as and when necessary. Finances are well aspected this week with a new idea proving both worthwhile in terms of your time and profitable.

LIBRA (September 24 - October 23) Career and home are in disharmony but a bit of compromise soon sorts things out.

You don't like playing the 'bad guy', but honesty is also important to you. Speaking your mind can be liberating although, initially, you may see it as a nuisance and embarrassing. A meeting at the weekend is both confusing and disarming.

December 28, Denzel Washington, 60, actor A-list movie star Washington won a Best Actor Oscar for his role in the 2001 film Training Day. He worked as a summer camp counsellor before discovering his passion for acting. In 2012, he donated $1 million to the Children’s Fund of South Africa.

December 29, Ted Danson, 67, actor Danson shot to fame as the lothario barman Sam in television series Cheers.

He has appeared in a number of big screen productions and is married to fellow actor Mary Steenburgen. He has been a vegan since 2007.

SCORPIO (October 24 - November 22) Someone with a larger-than-life imagination makes you smile but that was not their intention. Try to be diplomatic and steer them in a different direction. Some feelings of loneliness will not be assuaged by working more.

Perhaps it is time to consider taking on a pet or giving a current pet more attention.

SAGITTARIUS (November 23 - December 21) Sometimes, you find it hard to do things just for the pure enjoyment of it. Realise that not everything has to have a purpose or a profit. Look round this week and seek out something that will please your senses and bring a smile to your lips.

Make this a week when you live for the moment and give full rein to your imagination.

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The initial letters of the answers to these seasonal posers spell out the name of your favourite English language newspaper.

1. Band Aid’s single Do They Know It’s Christmas? was originally released to raise money for relief of the 1983–1985 famine in which African country?

2. What is the surname of the Scottish musician who cowrote Do They Know It’s Christmas? with Bob Geldof?

3. In which country is ‘sochivo’, a porridge made from wheat, barley, rye or rice, often the first dish in the traditional 12-dish Christmas Eve supper (Svyatah Vecherya)?

4. Adeste Fideles is a Christmas carol that has been attributed to various authors, including the 18th century hymnist John Francis Wade. What title did the English Catholic priest Frederick Oakeley give it when he translated it into English in 1841?

5. Which part of the festive turkey is also known as the merrythought or furcula?

6. First broadcast on Christmas Day, 1986, an episode of which programme was the most watched UK television programme of all time, with 30.1 million viewers?

7. Which mechanical drawing toy invented by Frenchman André Cassagnes was the best-selling Christmas toy in 1960?

8 In the 1994 remake of the Christmas fantasy film Miracle on 34th Street, what was the name of the Santa Claus character played by Richard Attenborough?

9. ‘Christmas won’t be Christmas without any presents, grumbled Jo, lying on the rug’ is the opening line of which famous novel, first published in 1868?

10. In France, this traditional Christmas dessert is known as bûche de Noël, by what name is it known in English?

11. In which ‘fantasy land’ is it ‘always winter but never Christmas’?

12. According to the song The Twelve Days of Christmas, on which day did my true love bring me pipers piping?

13. ‘Nadolig Llawen’ is ‘merry Christmas’ in which language?

14. What was the title of the 1988 American comedy film that was a modernisation of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol?

It was produced and directed by Richard Donner and starred Bill Murray, Karen Allen, Bobcat Goldthwait, John Forsythe, Carol Kane, John Houseman and Robert Mitchum.

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

TARGET: Average: 18 Good: 23 Very good: 33 Excellent: 40

LAST WEEK’S SOLUTION agin, gain, gale, gave, gean, gear, gene, girl, girn, give, glee, glen, gran, grin, ling, rage, rang, ring, agile, agree, align, align, angel, anger, angle, eager, eagle, eager, gavel, genie, genre, given, giver, glare, glean, gnarl, grail, grain, grave, green, ingle, lager, large, leger, liege, liger, range, regal, reign, vegan, verge, angler, avenge, earing, enrage, gainer, genera, Geneva, genial, glaive, gravel, graven, greave, grieve, laving, linage, linger, raving, regain, regale, regnal, avenger, engrave, enlarge, evangel, general, gleaner, leaving, leering, lineage, realign, reeling, reeving, veering, vinegar, levering, ravelling, reveling, REVEALING

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This comedy-drama based on the book of the same name

by Jonathan Tropper tells the story of four siblings returning to the family home upon the death of their father. Requested to stay a week, they and their free-speaking mother – along with a collection of exes, spouses and might-have-beens – must come to terms with emotional and tattered relationships and re-evaluate their shared history. You can choose your friends but you certainly can’t choose your family.

Directed by Shawn Levy and starring Jason Bateman, Tina Fey and Jane Fonda.

Run time 103 minutes. Rated R.

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1. ETHIOPIA, 2. URE (Midge Ure), 3. RUSSIA, 4. O COME ALL YE FAITHFUL, 5.

WISHBONE, 6. EASTENDERS (when Den Watts handed over divorce papers to his wife Angie), 7. ETCH-A-SKETCH, 8 KRIS KRINGLE, 9. LITTLE WOMEN, 10.

YULE LOG, 11. NARNIA, 12. ELEVENTH DAY, 13. WELSH, 14. SCROOGED

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

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Unscramble the title of a UK Christmas number one hit single from the 1990s (two words): YOUR SAD VISA

Across 1 Speechless like the crossword solver sometimes (4,3,5) 7 Girl with an article for the fete (4) 8 Change of diet not a remedy (8) 9 Upset baby's plaything (6) 10 It is why one has intelligence (6) 11 Catch some wine tasters (3) 12 Hilaire Belloc uncovered protestor (5) 14 Like the female bird, anaemic looking (5) 16 Insincerity conceals an evil act! (3) 18 Understand a luxury car is kept in the attic (6) 20 Shrewd sort of statue (6) 22 On watch when living at sea (8) 23 It's a method, but not here (4) 24 This stranger is disturbed by such personal emotion susceptibilities (12)

Unscramble the title of a UK Christmas number one hit single from the 1950s (two words): CHARMS A BATTLESHIP FUNAGRAM SOLUTION: SAVIOUR’S DAY, CHRISTMAS ALPHABET

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previously (7) 15 Sets up careless parents (7) 16 Purloins duck between beginning and end of shifts (6) 17 Chew the fat about ‘Net art (6) 19 Put up with a sailor, one of the French (5) 21 Coach for bride’s retinue (5)

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Each number in the Code Breaker grid represents a different letter of the alphabet. In this week’s puzzle, 2 represents G and 5 represents D, so fill in G every time the figure 2 appears and D every time the figure 5 appears. Now, using your knowledge of the English language, work out which letters should go in the missing squares. As you discover the letters, fill in other squares with the same number in the main grid and the control grid.

Across 1 Bottle material (5) 4 Father or mother (6) 9 Put in order (7) 10 Prickly shrub (5) 11 Large water pitcher (4) 12 Exterior (7) 13 Play on words (3) 14 Appeal (4) 16 Cooker (4) 18 Be victorious (3) 20 Check closely (7) 21 Counterfeit (4) 24 Fact of being elsewhere (5) 25 Put back (7) 26 Large wild cats (6) 27 Live in (5

Down 1 Small beard (6) 2 Concur with (5) 3 Dispatched (4) 5 Cherished desire (8) 6 Building (7) 7 Large domesticated bird (6) 8 Juicy fruit of the gourd family (5) 13 US name for dummy (8) 15 Ahead (7) 17 Go away (6) 18 Physically and mentally fatigued (5) 19 Disclose (6) 22 Fill with wonder (5) 23 Potato (4)

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O KNIGHT Answers: Frankincense, O Holy Night

Down 1 Escape from can? (7) 2 It’s clever to start some more art

(5) 3 Marshland shelters careless blonde (6) 4 About to right a counter (6) 5 Tests or distributes (7) 6 Letter of credit to me contains more of the same (5) 13 Nobleman that is king

LAST WEEK’S SOLUTIONS CRYPTIC Across: 1 Rococo, 4 Canals, 9 Cargo, 10 Plato, 11 Arena, 12 Sterile, 13 Tacked, 15 Crisis, 19 Amnesia, 21 Cured, 23 Serve, 24 Elope, 25 Tidies, 26 Angers.

Down: 1 Radiant, 2 Cycle, 3 Carcase, 5 Apple, 6 Adagios, 7 Score, 8 Moose, 14 Centred, 16 Raccoon, 17 Saddles, 18 Cases, 19 Asset, 20 Scene, 22 Reeve.

QUICK Across: 1 Cockerel, 4/6 Long jump, 7 Spoof, 9 Round, 11 Stain, 12 Plain, 13 Elapse, 15 Assess, 19 Jeans, 21 Llama, 23 Tense, 24 Large, 25 Damp, 26 Fearless.

Across 3 Muñeca (4) 4 Diversión (entretenimiento) (3) 6 Ponche de huevo (6) 7 Platos (para comer) (6) 11 To roast (4) 12 Duende (3) 13 Juguete (3) 15 Cometa (5) 16 Camels (8) 18 Abierto (6) 19 Campanas (de iglesias, puertas) (5) 21 Beard (5)

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

Down 1 Plum pudding (5,2,5) 2 Acebo (5) 4 Chimenea (9) 5 Comida (4) 8 Trineo (4) 9 Regalo (4) 10 Cocina (aparato) (5) 14 Gold (3) 17 Cornamenta (de ciervo) (7) 19 Bebé (4) 20 Estrella (4)

Down: 1 Costume, 2 Cross, 3 Errand, 5 Groan, 8 Flats, 10 Drake, 14 Apart, 16 Shawl, 17 Success, 18 Fleece, 19 Jaded, 20 Sane, 22 Agree.

ENGLISH-SPANISH Across: 1 Dieciseis, 8 Acera, 9 Grain, 11 Lana, 12 Kiss, 14 Tall, 16 Arma, 19 Ayuda, 21 Chico, 22 Camareros.

Down: 2 Items, 3 Cual, 4 Sign, 5 Ida, 6 Hacksaw, 7 Anillos, 10 Rat, 13 Sad, 15 Aviso, 17 Rama, 18 Ache, 20 Uva.

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TOP 10 NEW YEAR’S RESOLUTION FAILS With the best of intentions most of us vow to give up, take up, do more or do less of something come January 1 each year. Most of the time we fall back into old habits pretty quickly, but here is a list of the top 10 New Year’s resolutions made by people – and failed by people – around the world at this time of year.

1. Quit smoking The perennial list-topper when it comes to New Year’s resolutions. We vow to stop, telling ourselves it’s bad for our health and we’ll save a fortune and our breath will smell better and food will taste nicer, but two days later most of us are back puffing away, feeling guilty and ashamed.

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2. Join a gym Gyms love the New Year. During January they are packed with enthusiastic, slightly pudgy rookies who don’t know how to operate the fitness machines. In February they are generally pretty empty again, the domain once more of the gym junkies and fitness freaks.

3. Drink less One of the less difficult ones to stick with but also one that goes out the window come birthdays, family gatherings or every Saturday night. Once December comes around again we wonder what happened and vow to cut down again after the Christmas festivities.

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5. Get out of debt Again, easier said than done, particularly when you check your bank balance after the wallet-crippling

7. Spend more time with family In theory it sounds lovely, but again, everyday life and commitments get in the way. Finding the time is usually a big factor in failed New Year’s resolutions.

8. Eat healthier Not so hard to get started with after the general over-indulgence at Christmas.

Salads and juices are a welcome relief from weeks of stuffing our bellies with turkey and treats, but most soon find themselves craving a nice pizza or burger by Easter.

9. Help others A beautiful sentiment and one that many people adopt and stick with. You can volunteer or be more generous with charity donations without infringing too much on your time or wallet, but again, it’s a resolution that is often stated but practiced little.

10. Be happier A new year, a new me. I won’t let the boss grind me down. I’ll take brisk walks in the open air. I’ll be more romantic. I’ll learn to love life. I won’t be so stressed.

Ah, the naivety of New Year’s resolutions!

Boggled How many English words can you find in the Boggled grid, according to the following rules?

The letters must be adjoining in a ‘chain’. They can be adjacent horizontally, vertically or diagonally.

Words must contain at least four letters and may include singular and plural or other derived forms.

No letter may be used more than once within a single word, unless it appears twice.

No vulgarities or proper nouns are permitted.

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Just Joking Q: What do you get when you cross a tiger with a snowstorm?

A: Frostbite Q: What do you get when you cross a lemon and a cat?

A: A sourpuss Q: What do you get when you cross a hamburger with a computer?

A: A Big Mac

Very good: 41 Excellent: 50

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4 letters: 1 point • 5 letters: 2 points 6 letters: 3 points • 7 letters: 4 points 8 or more letters: 11 points

LAST WEEK’S SOLUTION dines, idler, inbred, oiled, linen, nilled, nones, newts, wilder, willed, wonder, wonts, liner, linens, riled, reefs, refer, blind, brine, bents, beefs, beets, twill, twine, twines, tender, tenon, teens, senile, steer, sneer, direr, diner, drill

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When chemo gets serious, a seasonal choir lightens the load Erica Russell Watson: My journey – and I’m driving

17th December TODAY was an early start. I had to shake the sparrows out of the trees!

As with every chemotherapy session you need to have a series of blood tests to check you are in a good state to take the treatment. If your immune system is compromised you might not be able to have the chemo on the scheduled day.

I arrived in Malaga at 7am and staked my claim to third in the queue outside the hospital for my blood test or ‘extraction’ as it is known here!

Finally the doors swung open and in I went to get my number and wait to be called.

It was over very quickly; these people are pros as they must do a staggering number of ‘extractions’ on a daily basis!

Armed with my ticket, up I went to the oncology section on the eighth floor and handed it in and collected my appointment slip to see the oncologist later. It seemed unusually quiet, which was a good sign. I would hopefully collect my bone scan results and be given the all clear to proceed with chemo. In the meantime I went for breakfast.

I walked out into the cold morning air and with the sun rising and my stomach grumbling I made a beeline for a café. Always a good sign when you see lots of Guardia Civil and firemen having their breakfast, so I stopped there

to take on fuel or bunkers as my father would call it. A lifetime of sailing the high seas as Commodore in the Merchant Navy and my father’s terminology still rings in my ears!

I ordered my usual breakfast and people-watched, one of life’s most fascinating pasttimes, I have to say. I finished my breakfast and headed back to the hospital. I went and sat in the waiting room and saw some familiar faces. It was a very pleasant atmosphere and I sat and read my book. At 10am I was called to see the oncologist. I couldn’t believe it, normally I had to wait much longer but today was my lucky day.

In I went. My oncologist is a charming woman. She asked how I felt after my first session. I told that aside from a little cold I had tolerated the treatment very well. I also told her that I had had my coil or IUD removed. She was pleased. She told me my blood test results were perfect and that my immune system was in good shape so there would be no problem in receiving my second dose of chemo. I asked her for the results of the bone scan. She looked at my file online and said: “Good news, totally clear.” I have to say I wasn’t expecting anything negative but it is always good to have positive news. It seemed that the cancer was localised and hadn’t spread.

Whilst having my breakfast, I had bought an ice pop which the nurses kept in the fridge for me. It is important for the last dose of chemo in the session that my mouth is cold to reduce blood flow and possible ulceration of the mouth. Let’s not go into that! I just enjoyed eating my ice pop!

SANTA SALUD: The surprise choir cheered everyone up.

So I went and sat in my giant reclining seat and waited for the nurse to take my blood pressure and then put the line in. There was a young nurse, just graduated, who tried to put the line in my hand and didn’t manage it. So trusty Jesús came and got the line in a vein further up my arm. I haven’t got the best veins so it took about 20 minutes but they managed it in the end by stimulating the veins with a bag of boiling hot water. Once the drip was in, I relaxed. The first bag provides me with a stomach protector. Then your vein is cleaned out and the next bag is hooked up; then the same flushing out process until the last bag, which is toxic orange, and then one final flushing of the veins. All in all it took about three hours.

I wasn’t bored; suddenly a group of ladies arrived to accompany the lady in the chair next to me who was very nervous. They had musical instruments, Santa hats and flashing glasses, chocolates and even a bottle of aniseed! I declined the alcohol preferring to enjoy

their spirit! Jorge took photos of us all and the time flew by as we laughed. What a great way to take your mind off things!

I was disconnected from the machine as it made its final beep and it was time to go.

Fantastic, two down and six to go! I went with Jorge to visit his uncle, who also has cancer - seems to be quite an epidemic these days - and to have lunch with his family whom I regard as my family too. I can’t express the love and gratitude I feel toward them all. They have looked after me and cared for me in the most wonderful way.

After lunch it was back to my house as the children had arrived back from school and they had activities in the afternoon. Business as usual and my children, although they love me and care a great deal about how I am, it doesn’t get me off the hook when it comes to jobs around the house.

Oliver chirps: “Mum, where are my football socks? You have to collect my report from school on Friday.” Isabella

informs me: “You have to buy me a red tutu today for the end of term dance. I have a sore throat and you need to sign this form for school.” And so it goes on but I like the routine.

Later it was time to drop Oliver at football and collect Izzie from her dance class.

Then they were hungry!

It had been a long day. I took off my wig and put on a scarf. The wig gets itchy after a while. Jorge joked saying I was like a Kinder egg but full of surprises. I was starting to get used to the strange reflection that greeted me in the mirror although I still had quite a lot of hair. I tried hard not to rub my eyebrows too much as I hoped they would hang on for a bit longer. I wasn’t quite ready to see a frameless face with two blue orbs staring back at me!

That was it until 7th January, so time to concentrate on Christmas.

My tree twinkled at me every morning and I had the joy of the imminent arrival of my family to look forward to.

Life wasn’t bad at all.

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Running groups end sport RUNNING groups have been instrumental in the growth of the sport in Spain.

In the last decade, the number of running fans has been increasing due to the sport’s simplicity and the low cost involved in taking it up, with just some trainers, comfortable shoes and willpower needed to begin.

With its origins going back to the 1970s in the USA, where it was largely seen as a sport exclusively for men, now it is open and enjoyed by everyone and is ever more popular in Spain.

It is estimated that around 10 per cent of the population are regular runners and the Madrid and Barcelona marathons are amongst the largest in the world.

The latest ‘alternative’ runners’ groups are known as ‘Beer Runners’,

ending their running sessions with a beer at a bar. Its origin is found across

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the pond in Philadelphia, where the first group was

created in 2007 following a study led by Dr Manuel J Castillo at the University of Granada, concluding that beer can help the recovery of water after exercise.

The practice has spread over the last two years to more than 40 cities with upwards of 15,000 participants, meaning that what was once a lonely sport, is now a very social activity.

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75% of mothers gain weight after birth STRUGGLING to lose your baby weight? You’re not alone, with many women not only struggling to lose the extra pounds gained during pregnancy, but also actually putting on weight.

Researchers from the University of Chicago and Houston Methodist Hospital found that 75 per cent of new mothers were heavier a year after giving birth than they were before they became pregnant.

Analysing data from nearly 774 low-income women, researchers found that one-third of those who were normal weight before pregnancy became overweight or medically obese one year after childbirth. It is believed that as well as diet and exercise, the pressures of being a new mum could be the culprit.

The researchers said the low-income status of the women may also have affected the results, with a lack of time or money for gym membership and the possibility they might not even have a safe area to walk.

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OLDER people are becoming healthier each year.

A study by the University of Oxford, England, said that older people should not be seen as an extreme burden on the National Health Service (NHS).

The study found people born in each year from

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Older people are getting healthier 1912 were increasingly less likely to need emergency treatment and

a 70-year-old now was spending less time in hospital than a 70-year-

old five or 10 years ago.

Healthier diets, reductions in smoking, more vaccinations and preventative drugs have all helped to keep people healthier in later life.

The news comes after a charity warned that the NHS was having to fork out millions of pounds every year because of delays in getting elderly patients back into their own homes following a hospital stay.

Charity Age UK said the average patient needing adaptations to their home, such as handrails, was forced to wait in hospital for an extra 27 days while improvements were made allowing them to go home.

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SKIVERS REST, ‘The Bingo Bar,’ is located opposite Minerva Apartments, Benalmadena, and will be holding a ‘Hogmanay Night Celebration’ on New Year’s Eve starting at 9.30pm and finishing in the wee, small hours.

There will be lots of fun to be had with Karaoke and games such as Mr & Mrs and they will, of course, be serving a traditional Scottish Buffet on the night including: Neeps and Tatties, Haggis, Clootie Dumplings and Scotch Broth, and for the less adventurous there will be some sausage rolls and sandwiches.

At midnight, Cava and grapes will be served to see in the New Year with the chimes of the clock and then ‘Auld Lang Syne’ will be sung in celebration.

For those of you wanting to join Skivers Rest for their bingo on New Year’s Day, this will be starting at 3pm.

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New Year’s Eve at Da Bruno, Mijas Costa DA BRUNO RESTAURANT MIJAS COSTA has become an absolute classic on the Costa del Sol, and this fabulous restaurant provides a lavish New Year’s Eve extravaganza which has proved to be a mustattend event for regular customers over the years.

If you have ever been swept away by the restaurant’s elegant decor, its magical atmosphere and the highend food and service, then you will ENTERTAINMENT surely not want to miss ELEGANT out on their incredible New Year’s Eve event.

New Year’s Eve is a very special affair for everyone and Da Bruno knows that the menu has to live up to the highest of expectations.

You will be warmly WARM WELCOME welcomed on arrival with a glass of perfectly chilled, extra dry Shah Mat Rosé, Fresh fish is a speciality of Da Bruno and accompanied by amuseso, naturally, the second course is a SPECIAL: Don’t miss it! bouches guaranteed to whet delightful mushroom-crusted sea bass the appetite and offer you a salad of supreme with artichoke puree and tantalising glimpse into the scallops with chive-flavoured potatoes and balsamic caramel. To cleanse your palate, restaurant’s approach to the art of cuisine. truffle vinaigrette, followed by a first a small serving of lemon sorbet will then The festivities will begin with a warm course of pumpkin soup with scampi. be provided, followed by a third course

which will present medallions of tenderloin with sweet wine sauce, oyster mushrooms, truffle potato mousseline and parmigiano chips. This special New Year’s menu is topped by a dessert with the sweetest touch.

To make your dreams come true and to encourage a full and prosperous 2015, the traditional lucky grapes will be taken at midnight, followed by a toast with Piollot Champagne to welcome in the start of the New Year of 2015.

There is a special performance by Ricardo and Sofia to entertain, and a party bag to take away as a memento of an unforgettable evening at Da Bruno Mijas Costa.

Da Bruno is the perfect place to spend New Year’s Eve and, for only €125 per person, you will have an unforgettable experience with your loved one, family or friends.

For further information and bookings: Tel.: (+ 34) 952 46 07 24 mktmijas@dabruno.com comercialmijas@dabruno.com Da Bruno Mijas Costa Ctra de Mijas Km 3.6 (next to SEAT) Nearby parking available www.dabruno.com

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Irish hospitality on Bar Boru’s terrace with view BAR BORU Roof Terrace Restaurant is located in El Zoco commercial centre, you just need to look up and see their green signs and the palms on their beautiful terrace.

On Christmas Day they are serving a traditional Christmas dinner, followed by live music from an Abba tribute group to dance the night away with, and on Boxing Day, ‘It’s Party Time’ with Alexander Avery from 8pm.

Bar Boru is the place that has Irish hospitality with a view and you can have breakfast 365 days of the year from 10am.

On New Year’s Eve they are open from 10am for breakfast and will be closing at 4pm. Why not join the friendly staff at Bar Boru on New Year’s Day for brunch with live music from Steve Summers and then later in the day

‘Rolling Steves’ will be entertaining whilst you enjoy your meal.

Bar Boru have just been awarded, for the second

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Join Crispy Cod’s fresh fish fans!

CRISPY Cod is a longestablished traditional English Fish and Chip restaurant and takeaway, situated on the seafront at Paseo Maritimo Rey de Espana, Fuengirola.

There is no better place to enjoy fresh fish, battered in their secret recipe, with a portion of chips that were freshly cut that morning and home-made mushy peas, all served by their friendly staff.

You can eat on their outside terraced area or inside in the restaurant, or just takeaway.

All the food served at Crispy Cod is of the finest quality with sustainable, line-caught fish prepared in the traditional way and filleted on the premises, the potatoes are peeled and freshly chipped daily, and their homemade mushy peas and home-made tartar sauce have an ever-growing fan club.

Crispy Cod like to concentrate on producing top quality fish and chips and combine that with large portions and value for money.

So if you fancy something other than turkey curry after Christmas, then pop down and see Sean and his staff at Crispy Cod. Crispy Cod will be closed on Christmas Day and New Year’s Day. For further information you can contact them on 952 587 351 or visit their website at www.crispycod.com

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Donkey dies after 150-kilo man takes ride

PLATERO, a five-month-old donkey taking part in a nativity scene in Lucena, Cordoba, died after a 150kilo man climbed onto its back.

No policemen or guards were about to stop the man climbing over the fence to the scene outside the town hall, pushing the delicate animal about then clambering on top of it.

Two days later locals notified the council that little Platero was obviously ill and could hardly stand up and a vet was called.

After examining the donkey the vet decided to take Platero to an animal hospital to try and treat extensive internal injuries but the young animal died the following morning.

Photos of a man apparently on the back of Platero are doing the rounds of the town by WhatsApp while the council awaits an official vet’s report before searching for the suspect. If the report proves that Platero was killed by the man’s impromptu ride, police will identify him and start legal action.

The Donkey Defence Association and Circulo Podemos Animalista Lucena group representatives declared: “We will move heaven and earth to ensure that the council pays for its negligence and the culprit pays for his repulsive crime.”

How to clean up cat urine

IF you have a cat that has urinated or made a mess where it shouldn’t it is important to clean up properly.

If not it is likely to return to relieve itself in the same spot. Here are a few tips: • One should clean up when the cat is not in the room, otherwise the cat thinks its mark gets attention.

• Consider redecorating after cleaning up if the spraying has been going on for a long time.

• Never use bleaches or disinfectants. They smell like urine to a cat, as does anything pine, rose or lemon scented.

• Disinfectants that go cloudy are poisonous to cats.

• Use warm water with 10 per cent solution of biological washing liquid or powder.

• Alternatively use one tablespoon of Napisan and

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one tablespoon of biological washing powder to one pint of water. Then rinse the area thoroughly in cold water and let it dry or dry it with a hair dryer if time presses.

• Next spray surgical spirit. Use a nail brush to get this into fabric and crevices. This gets rid of the fatty residues that prompt a cat to top up his own marks. Dry this off completely.

• Any curtains that have been sprayed with urine should be sent to the dry cleaners and linen machine washed.

• With moveable mats

REPEAT OFFENDER: Cats return to the spot. and small carpets get these cleaned somehow if you can or throw away.

• Do not try to save money on cleaning because in the long run the more thorough one is the

cheaper it all will be. A spraying/middening cat can cause a lot of grief and nothing is too much to stop it early on.

• The edge where the skirting board meets laminated flooring will have a pool of spray urine if the site has been used repeatedly. Use a silicon sealant between the two. Then cover with heavy varnish of the sort used to varnish boats to make a barrier between the sprayed urine pool area and the outside world.

• The intersection between tiles collects a pool. Clean the tiles - scrub in the intersection - then put the heavy boat varnish in the intersection or even over all the tile surface as well.

For professional petsitters, ask this mum and son who are a couple of explorers

By Lamia Walker of HousesitMatch AN AUSTRALIAN mother and her son have been travelling around the world for three years.

In that time Ruth and Louis have been house and petsitting in over 30 countries. Ruth is a travel writer, and reviews hotels for a living. They are digital nomads. Because of the vast distances between

cities in some parts of Oz, Australians are used to home schooling, connecting with teachers by phone or radio. Now the internet enables home-schooling from anywhere!

As a travel writer Ruth has been fortunate in that she can take her work and her son with her. They write a blog about their experiences.

On their travels they’ve cared for a wide variety

of pets and farm animals. There were cats and dogs in Australia, geese and hens in France, dogs and horses in Spain, turkeys in Turkey, parrots and goats in Fiji!

In Australia Ruth was a professional gardener.

She can care for fruit orchards and vegetable gardens in domestic plots.

Louis has been brought up to respect

whichever host home they are caring for, and is equally happy helping his mum with the domestic duties, and he especially loves caring for the animals.

They are currently touring Europe, and are a great example of the professional housesitters and petsitters available on HouseSitMatch.com.

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THE 2015 edition of the Careers Fair will be held on February 24 at the Tercentenary Hall. The fair provides students with an opportunity to explore career paths as well as opportunities to meet potential employers.

Organisers are inviting interested businesses to submit their details on www.careersfair.gi before January 16.

THE traditional Polar Bear Swim will be held on Boxing Day, featuring brave and hardy individuals taking the plunge into the icy waters to raise money for various charities. The swim is held at Catalan Bay and those who participate in the fun event are treated to mince pies and brandy as well as the annual Polar Bear certificate.

Major exhibition A MAJOR retrospective art exhibition celebrating Gibraltarian artist Mario Finlayson is to be held at the Gustavo Bacarisas Galleries at Casemates Square from January 14 to 31. Among the exhibits will be heritage works in the Government of Gibraltar’s art collection.

Other works and memorabilia from private collections will also be on show, as well as a short film by Gibmedia.

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GBC OPEN DAY: The ‘money trail’ banner.

Follow the money!

A RECENT Ocean Village fundraiser raised just over £400 (€500) with a unique ‘money trail’ banner.

The GBC Open Day also featured Santa and his trusty elf and special guest Cinderella meeting children inside the grotto.

A six-metre banner was laid out at the entrance to Ocean Village promenade and visitors were invited to leave any spare change on the words that spelled out ‘GBD Open Day Money Trail’. By the end of the day, organisers were delighted with how much was collected through small change.

Mulled wine, hot chocolate and Christmas treats were also a feature of the day.

CUSTOMS officials made two separate seizures of illegal fireworks in the run-up to the Christmas period.

Her Majesty’s Customs increased the number of checks aimed at the detection of fireworks purchased in Spain before Christmas and the New Year as it is an offence to import them without a licence under the Imports and Exports Act. An awareness campaign was launched by HM Customs, Royal Gibraltar Police and the Gibraltar Fire & Rescue Service in order to inform the public of the dangers of sub-standard fireworks. The public has been advised to purchase fireworks locally.

The Gibraltar Defence police have been assisting customs officers at the border with the use of specially trained dogs.

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A NEW feature available at Gibraltar’s National Archives will allow users to access the birth, marriage and death records of British military personnel who have served on the Rock.

The records have been hailed by the government as a reminder of the importance of the way in which Gibraltar’s history has been shaped by the British presence since 1704. The data was gathered around 20 years ago, originally to investigate health attributes of both civilian and military residents of Gibraltar. So far, the information has only been used in academic publications.

The online records go up to 1914, following the 100year rule to ensure personal information of living individuals is protected.

Health report highlights prevention A NEED for health screening and earlier intervention has been highlighted as an important strategy that the Health Service is emphasising.

The annual Gibraltar Health Authority (GHA) report covering the years 2012-2013 outlines the successes and challenges faced during that period

and concluded that improvements are expected to be implemented soon.

At the launch of the GHA report, Minister for Health Dr John Cortes said: “Healthcare is a challenge for every community.

Everyone wants to be well, and the health service has a duty to meet the needs and

the expectations of everyone. But modern ‘western’ life in itself threatens our well-being.

Our high calorie and high fat diets, our lack of exercise, and our indulgence in smoking or drinking, if not controlled and moderated, result in illness for us as individuals, in anxiety for families, and in pressure

on the ability of our health service to deliver.”

Dr Cortes said that the report could not contain all the GHA had been doing and that while there have been improvements, there are areas that still need improving.

“But I am proud of our health service, and so should all of Gibraltar

be,” he said. “And I am excited that we have built the foundations of what can only get better.

And if it’s better for the health service, it’s better for the whole of our community.”

He said that the GHA is putting increased emphasis on screening, preventative medicine and health education.

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Marbella Town Hall offered the assistance of members of staff from the Department of Culture, and former coach of the Spanish national basketball team, Sergio Scariolo, was also in attendance.

“I want my kids to understand the importance of being generous to those who need it most,” he said. Scariolo is president of the Foundation Cesare Scariolo, set up following the death of his father from leukaemia.

Gifts for victims of abuse WHEN the group ‘Coffee Break for Women Inland’ decided to collect Christmas presents for children from families who are victims of domestic abuse, they had no idea how much support they were about to receive.

On Thursday, December 18, they met at Finca la Mota in AEG to a record number of attendees and a large pile of Christmas presents for children and their mums. After posting a list of 59 girls and boys, each member chose an age group and boy or girl and bought a present for that child. The list filled up so rapidly that it was suggested the women (mostly

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SEVENTY schoolchildren from Malaga took to the stage to perform a play on the National Day of Children with Cancer, just before Christmas.

The play, ‘Together for a Dream’, features famous pieces of music from West End hit shows such as Cats, Rock of Ages and West Side Story.

The musical was held at Marbella City Theatre and the youngsters, supported by their scools, El Limonar of Malaga and Laude San Pedro International College, put on the event in order to raise much needed funds for other children in the province who are suffering from oncological diseases.

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from Alhaurin el Grande and Coin) might like to buy small presents for the 34 mums. This list filled in record time and even those women who were not able to come to the coffee break meeting arranged to meet up with volunteers to hand over presents in the days before.

“I believe that domestic abuse is something that pulls at our heart strings,” said Carol Engelmann, founder of the Coffee Break for Women Inland.

“Through this type of project women can show their solidarity and support for those mothers and their children who have suffered such injustice.”

Handing over hampers THE Patience Lodge of the RAOB Quesada handed over Christmas hampers to the Beneficiaries of Age Concern just in time for Christmas. Ron McGreevy and Jim Rogers were on hand to donate the hampers and they were thanked for their generosity.

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Happy Christmas to gardeners everywhere FESTIVE FLOWERS: Brighten up window sills with poinsettias.

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By Spain’s best known expatriate gardening author living in Spain for 25 years.

HOW fast the gardening and social years go round and earlier writing deadlines creep up on one.

Am writing this early morning with a fusty head as only came out of hospital last evening after a rough week and health scare. Somehow half the words get typed looking like Latin plant botanical names, but let’s persevere.

First, Christmas Wishes to our friendly EWN team, who have been keeping the compiling of the EWN running smoothly this week, plus all readers whether seasoned or newcomer gardeners.

Fortunately, temperatures are keeping warm and little rain is forecast at the time of writing, so Christmas Day can start with a leisurely beach or country walk followed by tostadas coated with tomato, garlic and olive oil, and a festive coffee and brandy.

Over lunch let’s raise a glass to those readers in hospital over Christmas.

Having just survived five days of a modern prisonlike environment with no thought for the mental and motivational sides of survival and recovery, I would like to raise a Christmas challenge.

I experienced kilometres of bare white walls and ceilings with black speckled floors. Many windows were difficult to look through, but

where you could see out, there were large areas of lower stone chipping covered flat roofs and bare patio areas just waiting to be brightened up to cheer staff, patients and visitors.

How wonderful it would be if the many expat gardening, sculpture, painting, photography or tapestry clubs, often coordinated within the umbrella of local U3A groups, organised to offer to install and maintain such things as the following, as a united Mediterranean Christmas present.

Low maintenance patio and rooftop gardens I am reminded of the cacti and succulent gardens on the flat roofs of the Hotel Reina Isabel in La Palma Gran Canaria.

Temporary or permanent exhibitions of colourful sculptures on the patios, rooftops or in waiting rooms. Exhibitions of paintings and photographs in public areas and corridors.

I thought that most readers would not be ready to think about gardenrelated New Year resolutions so will hold them back until next week. © Dick Handscombe www.gardeninginspain.com December 2014

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HOME sales in Spain have posted a third consecutive quarter of rises as 13.5 per cent more homes were sold in quarter three than the same period in 2013.

According to the Ministry of Development the number of sales completed before a notary between July and September was 80,136. Between January and March there was a 48.5 per cent rise in sales, with a further 12 per cent rise in the second quarter.

These are encouraging figures, particularly when taken with latest data from the Institute of National Statistics (INE) which showed a 16 per cent gain in October compared with the same month in 2013.

But there is still a long way to go before pre-housing crash figures are reached. The quarterly record stands at 251,649 homes sold, set in quarter two of 2006.

While 95 per cent of transactions were for private housing, the lion’s share was in the resale market, with

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TORREMOLINOS: Andalucia leads the way in home sales. just 15.1 per cent of sales being of new homes. While signs are good for a

recovery of the new homes market, the vast stock of unsold new builds will

have to reduce further. But it is slightly surprising that new homes sales are not rising faster as a recent report stated that new houses are being sold for less than they cost to construct, giving home buyers a unique opportunity that may not be seen again for decades.

Topping the sales list in quarter three was Andalucia (16,360 transactions); followed by Valencia (12,116); then Catalonia (11,983) and Madrid (10,272).

Boosting the figures were foreign residents of Spain. In quarter three purchases by them accounted for 12,764 transactions, an increase of 17.2 per cent, the 13th quarterly rise.

The total number of sales to foreigners including non-residents reached 13,789, or 17.2 per cent of all home purchases in the quarter.

Most popular spots were Alicante (3,323) Malaga (1,918), Barcelona (1,103), Madrid (839) and Tenerife (721).

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BARCELONA: A popular rental destination.

Lets rise for Christmas HOLIDAY apartment owners in Spain look to be getting a Christmas present with rental enquiries for the festive season up 19 per cent.

According to holiday rental website HomeAway, 41 per cent of enquiries from Spain were for destinations within the country, giving a winter boost to property owners. The report was looking at data for enquiries to rent on dates between December 20 and January 7.

Much of that growth has come from Spaniards looking for an extra break, perhaps an indication of an improving economy. The numbers of enquiries from people in Spain grew by 35 per cent, with Catalonia, Valencia, the Canaries and

Andalucia being the most popular destinations. The Canaries saw a 75 per cent rise in enquiries compared to the same period in 2013, and Catalonia had an 88 per cent rise.

When heading abroad the Spanish preferred destination is France, followed by the USA and Costa Rica.

For British people Christmas is the time to head for the Canaries with 75 per cent of the site’s UK enquiries for the Christmas period being for the islands.

Germans head to the Balearics, which have shown a 40 per cent rise in Christmas period enquiries. Most foreign tourists were looking to spend an average of six days on their festive holidays.

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Is your home part of a mancomunidad?

A MANCOMUNIDAD is a group of residential communities or urbanisations run by a committee, usually comprised of community presidents. The committee

takes responsibility for the management of the communally shared facilities and services used by the communities within a mancomunidad.

This could include, the

upkeep of communal roads and footpaths, maintenance of sewage and water pipes, cleaning, street lighting or insurances. Unless you live in town there is a good chance your property will be part of a community which in turn belongs to a mancomunidad.

As with an urbanisation the owners of the properties form a committee and elect a president who is one of the property owners from within the community.

These elected presidents, or their legal representative, form the committee of the mancomunidad.

The mancomunidad elects their committee president from the urbanisation presidents.

If someone else is appointed to represent a community at the mancomunidad, instead of a president, they must at

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least be an owner of a property from the same community as the president.

The mancomunidad committee votes and makes the decisions on the issues affecting the communities within the mancomunidad, they do not usually rule on issues that only affect individual communities.

Similar to urbanisations, where the cost of the communally owned elements are paid for by the owners, the communal elements of a mancomunidad are divided up and paid for by the communities.

Each community contributes according to

their percentage share or quota.

The Law of Horizontal Property, the law that governs all the communities throughout Spain, also regulates the mancomunidads.

Although the laws for mancomunidads are similar, they are slightly different to those for the communities of owners.

A mancomunidad for example does not need to comply with the legal obligation of holding a reserve monetary fund.

However, if a mancomunidad committee wants to approve something that, according to the law, would require a special majority at a

community level, then each representative would need the consent from their own community, with the same special majority, prior to approving it at the mancomunidad meeting.

Only a president of a community or the person representing a president, can vote at a mancomunidad meeting.

Individual property owners are not allowed to participate or vote and would only be allowed to be present at a mancomunidad meeting by invitation.

The presidents on the committee can vote as they see fit and provided there is no special majority requirement, then prior consent from their own community is not needed.

Whereas a community can sue individual owners for unpaid community fees the mancomunidad, unless there has been some form of special internal agreement, cannot.

Regardless of whether some owners have individual debts to their community or not, the fees or unpaid fees, payable to the mancomunidad, are the responsibility of each community as a whole, not the individual owners.

To conclude, before buying a property within a community it is a good idea to find out firstly, if the community is part of a greater mancomunidad.

Secondly, if so, what are the legal responsibilities of the community to the mancomunidad and thirdly, what future plans and therefore costs the mancomunidad may have in store for its member communities.

As 2014 draws to an end, we the solicitors for Intercala Administration wish the readers of our monthly article on community law a merry Christmas and happy New Year.

As usual we advise you to seek competent advice on all matters regarding the law.

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Jake LaMotta

By Tony Matthews

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Born in the Bronx, New York City, in 1921, he boxed at both middleweight and light heavyweight and had 106 senior fights, winning 83 - 30 by a knock-out - losing 19 and drawing four.

Jake was forced by his father into fighting other children to entertain neighborhood adults, who threw change into the ring. This was used to help pay the rent.

In 1941, aged 19, Jake turned professional but during the Second World War he was rejected for military service because of an operation on one of his ears. He carried on boxing and went from strength to strength.

He won 14 of his first 15 bouts as a middleweight before losing a highly contentious split decision to Cleveland-based Jimmy Reeves; chaos erupted after the decision was announced.

Later, Jake met Reeves again and this time Reeves won, before a third match between the two took place in March 1943 in Detroit, Michigan. After an even contest, Jake struck with a vicious left hook, sending Reeves crashing to the canvas.

Now one of the best at this level, Jake’s next fight was against the former welterweight champion Sugar Ray Robinson - Robinson’s first bout at middleweight. Spectators at Madison Square Garden saw Jake knock Robinson down in the first round but he took control of the fight, winning comfortably on points.

Jake was forced by his The re-match took place a few months father into fighting later in Detroit when other children to those present witnessed entertain adults an historic eighth round.

Jake landed a right to Robinson’s head and a left to his body, sending him straight through the ropes. The bell saved dazzling Robinson at the count of nine. Jake left jabs and was already well in front with the jarring uppercuts. judges. Robinson never recovered and A fourth fight, staged nearly two suffered the first defeat of his career, years later, resulted in another win for beaten on points.

Robinson, who also won the fifth in The two met again three weeks later Chicago in September 1945, on a split when Robinson, although floored, won decision which was booed by the a close fight after producing some 14,755-strong audience.

The ‘Bronx Bull’ of the boxing ring Jake returned to boxing in November 1947, but was knocked out in the fourth round by Billy Fox. Suspecting the fight was fixed, the New York State Athletic Commission withheld purses for the fight and suspended Jake. This fight with Fox would come back to haunt him later in life, during a case with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).

In his testimony Jake admitted to throwing the fight in order to gain favour with the Mafia. All involved agreed the fix was obvious and its staging inept.

In Jake’s words: “The first round, a couple of belts to his head, and I see a glassy look coming over his eyes.

Jesus Christ, a couple of jabs and he’s going to fall down. I began to panic a little. I was supposed to be throwing a fight to this guy, and it looked like I was going to end up holding him on his feet... By the fourth round, if there was anybody in the Garden who didn’t know what was happening, he must have been dead drunk.”

The thrown fight and a payment of $20,000 to the Mafia got Jake his title bout against the world middleweight champion from France, Marcel Cerdan.

Jake won his fight against Cerdan in June 1949 in Detroit; the Frenchman retired with a damaged shoulder before the start of the 10th round. A re-match was arranged, but as he was flying back to the United States, Cerdan’s plane crashed in the Azores, killing everyone on board.

In February 1951, Jake fought Sugar Ray Robinson for the final time in their legendary six-bout rivalry. In a tough contest, Jake took a terrible beating over the last few rounds but refused to go down. In the end Robinson won by a technical knockout in the 13th.

Jake moved up to the light heavyweight class after losing to Robinson, but had a run of poor results at first, including a debut defeat against Bob Murphy.

Thankfully, he recovered well and won three fights in a row, beating Norman Hayes, Eugene Hairston and Murphy in re-matches.

On New Year’s Eve 1952, Jake had his fight with Danny Nardico stopped in the eighth round after being knocked down for the first time in his career. When he returned to the ring, he knocked out his first two opponents, Johnny Pretzie and Al McCoy, but lost on a split decision to Billy Kilgore, which convinced him to retire.

After taking off his gloves, Jake managed and also owned a number of bars. He also became a stage actor and stand-up comedian but in 1958 was arrested and charged with introducing men to an underage girl at a club he owned in Miami. He was convicted and served time on a chain gang, although he has maintained his innocence.

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ACCOUNTANTS BILINGUAL Spanish/English Accountant/Bookkeeping for small companies tax and/or personal acounts. Tax Returns (IRPF, IVA) and IBI submissions and self-employed tax returns. Call 616 182 467 or idpg2011@hot mail.com (234634)

EL TALLER DE MENIA SC: we restore furniture, antiques, works of art. Free quotes, www.meniarestauracion.com 610 830 740 (229955)

SOLAR BLINDS

SOLAR BLINDS ES Ideal for large glazed areas to reflect heat / glare and stop furniture fading and still keep the view. SAVE HEAT IN THE WINTER TOO improve your living environment.

Solarblinds.es@gmail.com Tel Ian 958 496 571 / 644 546 176 (229867)

BOATS

ARCHITECTS PROJECTS, constructions, new buildings, extensions, reforms, licences, legalisations, interior design. 680 700 430 (225681)

AUTHORS

FAIR PRICE air conditioning, installations and regassing. Tel James 652 023 012 (224846) AIRFLOW Air conditioning for cooling and heating units. Professional, fully guaranteed installations. Tel: 952 443 222 (201660)

AIR CONDITIONING INSURANCE. Including maintenance, materials and labour.

For details and cover visit www.acprotect.es. Tel 958 146 229 / 647 160 607 (226394)

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PH BUILDERS. Full or Part Reforms. Bathrooms, kitchens, plumbing, tiling, electrics. Tel 600 204 433 / 952 565 168 (234565)

CONCRETE - OZBUILD, Specialist imprinted concrete. Reseals, repairs, brickwork, tiling, plastering, screeding. 11 years in Spain. Competitive prices, quality finish. 952 426 074 / 606 745 920 / www.ozbuild spain.com (226398)

AIR CONDITIONING

AIR CONDITIONING by Cool and Cosy. The family company that cares. Installation and repairs. Quality machines. EsoSense movement sensor supplied and fitted for 80 euros.

Coin meters supplied and fitted from 240 euros. For other energy-saving products, visit www.coolandcosy.es. Tel 952 935 513 (229079)

BUILDING SERVICES

JIM’S HOME IMPROVEMENTS. bathrooms / kitchen reforms, repairs, plumbing, carpentry, painting, tiling, maintenance.

Give us a call no job too small. 692 207 799 / 645 559 423 (226431)

ACTING

AIR CONDITIONING repairs and servicing. Airflow. 952 443 222 (225701)

www.costabouncingcastles.com 3m x 3m to 21m x 3m wide.

Prices from 80€ + 20% discount quote EWN. Look at web for more info. 620 005 360 (228720)

SWINGLES CASAS SL. For all your building needs. Visit www.swinglescasas. com for more details or call 952 428 067 / 666 960 262 (224893)

ACTORS WANTED for a production at a theatre in Marbella.

Rehearsals start in January.

Send your details to sherrymi das@yahoo.co.uk (230579)

AIR CONDITIONING heating installation, servicing, repairs and regassing, 24/7. Prompt reliable service 620 020 232, 951 165 090 (201660)

BOUNCY CASTLES

PUERTO BANUS - Moorings for rent. 8, 12 & 15 metres.

662 379 483 (226296) PUERTO BANUS - Moorings wanted to buy. 00324 7381 5789 (226296)

BOOKS AWNINGS

SWIFT MULTISERVICES. All aspects of building works undertaken with over 30 years’ experience. Professional, trustworthy & reliable. Call 674 845 852 (229932)

DAMP PROOFING

ACE OF SHADES - All colours available. Urbanisations catered for, electric and manual operation, also recover service available, largest selection of colours and designs on the coast.

Tel: 951 273 254 / 671 732 204 / info@aceofshades.es

DR DAMP leaking roofs, damp walls, all mould cured. All work guaranteed. Call 689 515 558 (215594)

HANDYMAN ALL building works estimated, all trades undertaken. Retired professional. 676 143 789 / 602 669 240 (234281)

BATH REPAIRS BATHOLOGIST. Specialist in repairing chipped baths or refurbishing old/worn baths. No mess or disruption. 678 808 837

PLASTERING PLASTERING, rendering, dry lining, coving, suspended ceilings.

Fitted kitchens, bathrooms and bedrooms. All work guaranteed.

689 515 558 (215594)

BLINDS ACE OF SHADES - Vertical, Venetian, Roman, Roller, Wooden blinds, various colours available, also blackout blinds. Tel: 951 273 254 / 671 732 204 / info@aceof shades.es (101730)

GENERAL BUILDER. Tiling, plastering, painting, electrician, plumber, carpentry. Reasonable prices. 952 662 745 / 635 913 885 (References available)

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PLASTERING, all aspects covered, skimming, rendering, screeding, covering, tiling, Dean 691 044 287 (229992)

BUSINESS OPP. BUSINESS FOR SALE. Own domestic production of popular liquid. Webshop and 3 physical shops. Good earnings potential.

Easy to run. Very large & loyal customer base. 619 717 310 (230530) INVESTMENT OPPORTUNITY. Restaurant/bar. Trading for 10 years in La Mairena, Elviria with a current tenant. Offers for 435,000€. 666 737 701 (228732)

CARAVANS PARKING, STORAGE & SALES. Caravans - Motorhomes - Boats - Cars and Vans etc. Short / long term - Safe & secure, drop off & collections. Excellent rates, discount for long term, 5 mins from Fuengirola. Established 25 years. www.eurodog.es / info@eu rodog.es 679 786 669 / 606 101 807 (218617)

CARS FOR SALE

BUYING or Selling a Business?

Contact Spain’s leading Business Broker, ‘Business Broker Spain.’ Free consultation and Assessment. Tel: 617 062 421 (229626) LOOK! “21 Years, 24 Countries & Still Growing” Expanding in your area of Spain & UK Are you Self Motivated? Would you like to be part of it? Get paid every time people pay their bills! Interested?…Call 952 493 486. (225600)

BUY & SELL CD and DVD collections large or small. TC will buy them all.

Telephone 652 072 600 (230538) SUPERPOOL EST. 1985. Pool tables on profit share. Now in for Xmas, domestic pool tables, 2 & 3 piece pool and snooker cues with cases. Tel 629 530 233 - www.superpoolspain.com (225746) SECOND hand shop buy & sell.

Tim’s established 1992. Atalaya (San Pedro). New opening hours. Monday-Friday 10.30am7.00pm. Saturday 10.30am2.00pm. 666 903 499 (228642) DECLUTTER, cash paid for small/medium furniture, antiques, furs, brass, copper and other ornaments. Tel: Howard 608 121 817 (225749) ROLEX, OMEGA, JAEGER, BLANCPAIN, BREITLING, PANERAI, HEUER, ETC WANTED. WILL TRAVEL. 606 168 382 WWW.PLRWATCHES.COM (228646) TOP quality laminate flooring 50 m2 available never used, original cost 20€ per m2. Must go ASAP 7.50€ m2 Torrenueva, Mijas Costa 952 493 384 / 672 364 455 (228709) HOUSE CLEARANCE, anything considered. Top rates paid. Mick 611 205 750 (225535)

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CAR HIRE CAR HIRE long & short term, no extras www.acecarhire.co. Tel 634 029 878 (225722) LONG term car hire from 249 euros per month - 952 564 912 - info@bluebearcarhire.com (230362)

CARPENTRY CARPENTER cabinet maker, Irish. Available for all types of property maintenance, plumbing, painting, electrical, kitchens and bathrooms renovated etc, 30 years experience, very reliable. Tel: 952 441 955 / 677 087 575 (224853) IRISH CARPENTER, doors, decking, floors, kitchens, bathrooms, bedrooms. General property maintenance. Established 2002. Tel 952 196 457 or 696 064 019 www.completecarpentry.com (221146)

CHIMNEY SERVICES CHIMNEY SWEEP. Clean reliable professional. All types, special price for more than 1. Chris 608 337 497 (226437) T1 APEX CHIMNEY SERVICES, professional chimney sweeping and smoke testing. NACS Qualified. Clean and efficient Tel: Bob 696 320 202 (230701)

CHURCH SERVICES BENALMADENA Elim Family Fellowship. Sundays 11am. Elim familyfellowship.com or call 951 912 525 or 952 446 627 (0)

Price per word: 0,42€ + IVA minimum 15 words - Discount: Book 10 weeks, get 2 weeks free - Deadline: 4pm Mondays Contact: Phone (0034) 952 561 245 • Fax (0034) 952 440 887 • email classifieds@euroweeklynews.com • www.euroweeklynews.com

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CLASSIFIEDS CLASSES

MUSIC VIOLIN and piano lessons.

ABRSM exam preparation. Marbella 649 989 692 (228519)

CLEANING SERVICES

DATING WANT A SERIOUS RELATIONSHIP? Unicis Dating Agency’s European network offers you a personalised matching service. With over 40 years of experience, we can find your perfect match. 951 334 730 www.unicis.es (228590)

DENTAL LABORATORY

ELECTRICIANS

UPHOLSTERY and steam cleaning sofas, carpets etc… JA Cleaning Services 626 357 955 (200771) CARPET & UPHOLSTERY PROFESSIONALLY CLEANED 20 YEARS EXPERIENCE WET OR DRY CLEAN, HONEST,RELIABLE SERVICE. PLEASE CALL 678 808 837 / 952 669 701 (220839)

COMMERCIAL PROP WAREHOUSE 500 square metres for sale or rent, El Pinillo, Torremolinos. 10 minutes from airport. 649 804 167 (230494)

COMPUTERS LAPTOP HELP LINE. Notebooks, netbooks and tablets repaired, software updates, Internet and email problems solved. Refurbished laptops for sale. Web page designed and maintained.

952 564 274 / 677 702 501 (220138) COMPUTER PROBLEMS SOLVED. Error messages fixed, viruses removed. Repairs and upgrades available.

Laptops in English. Kindle, iPad & Android help. One-toone training. Also, low cost, reliable internet TV solutions, even for slow connections. Experienced, reliable service.

Paul 630 652 338 / 952 493 859 (225715) COMPUTER help. Patient teacher. PC sales, set up, repairs, problem solving, internet TV boxes. Kindle, ipads, internet, email. 30 years experience.

19 years on the coast. Friendly and reliable. Dave 952 664 713 (234446) PC DOCTOR. PCs and Laptops in your language. We come to you, wherever you are. For home and office support. Call 952 591 071 (230349)

CURTAINS CURTAINS, BLINDS, UPHOLSTERY, a complete service. www.marbellacurtainde sign.com. Mary 675 813 348 (225720)

PRIVATE Detective, free preliminary meeting, full confidentiality. English spoken 632 515 570 (229200)

DOG TRAINING METS dog training club, Fuengirola. Glyn 605 121 831 / Jeff 692 832 250 (234450)

DOMESTIC APP REPAIRS DOMESTIC Appliance repairs washing machines, fridges, cookers, ovens, water heaters, gas / electric, professionally repaired. Christian 608 337 497 (228695)

DRAINAGE DRAINS: Our fully equipped vehicles are ready to deal with any problem, water jetting, water leak detection, CCTV, roots removal, relining and more. Discounts for urbanisations.

Now incorporating solar hot water, salt pool systems, central heating & general plumbing. Pipetek. 674 632 344 / 617 198 888 / 952 897 516 (223198) T1 CLEARFLOW DRAIN SERVICES. All drain problems solved. More than 25 years on the coast. Leak detection, leak and repair.

Clearflow Group. Telephone 952 885 661 or 630 200 600 (229558) BLOCKED DRAINS? Leak detection, CCTV survey, root removal, Tel 952 568 414 / 661 910 772 / drainspain.com (224404)

DRIVING LESSONS DRIVER’S LICENCE in English.

Discount with this advert. Autoescuela Urbano, Calle Maestro, Angeles Aspiazu, Fuengirola. Also in Mijas Pueblo. 687 070 256 (228503)

ELECT INSTALLATION ALL electrical installation work and repairs. On the coast 12 years. All work guaranteed. Call Jim 652 023 012 (224846)

ENERGY CERTIFICATES MY ENERGY CERTIFICATE. Now legally required for ALL properties for sale or rent. Call +34 627 805 581 / info@myen ergycertificate.com (234262)

FINANCIAL CLUB INCREASE YOUR INCOME. We can show you how to get over 50% profit on your money by joining our Financial Group or starting your own Investment Club. For FREE help and more information email: ferrari.fnl@hotmail.com or tel: 696 322 056 (230738)

FLOOR POLISHING MARBLE FLOOR (2.50€/m2) WHY PAY MORE .WE CLEAN, CRYSTALLISE, SEAL THEN POLISH YOUR MARBLE TO HIGH GLOSS, NON SLIP. PROFESSIONAL GUARANTEED, FAST SERVICE. 25 YEARS EXPERIENCE. ALSO REPAIRS DAMAGES TO MARBLE, CLEAN AND SEAL TERRACOTTA TERRACES, COVERS ALL COSTA DEL SOL. TEL: 671 244 683 (215511) T1 MARBLE FLOORS polished.

Fast service. Reliable, family run. TERRACOTTA CLEANED and sealed. Wooden floors treated. No job too small.

Family run. Cleansol 10am 10pm 7 days all areas. 952 930 861 / 607 610 578 Discount Code: EWN 1 CLEAN (206437)

ALMOST ANYTHING, Tiling plumbing & painting. Based in Elviria. Speak to Gareth. 690 841 188 (224338)

FURNITURE FURNITURE OF THE WORLD. Shop specialising in unique furniture & antiques.

Coin (opposite Mercadona). 952 450 156 / 690 882 898 (222071) GOOD quality furniture wanted, best prices paid, also rubbish clearance service. Tony 633 921 239 tony.bell1@tesco.net (226264)

FLOORING JUST FLOORS. Ceramics, wood/laminate, decking, patios & more. Supply & fit or fitting only service. 663 131 593 (224342)

SERVICES ABROAD: Buying/selling cars, apartments, boats, furniture including renovations. 634 362 043 (234726)

GLASS CURTAINS GLASS CURTAIN repairs, specialist in replacement of discoloured plastic strips that act as a seal between the glass panels. Call Julian 655 825 931 (229072)

HAIRDRESSING

GARDENING PROFESSIONAL garden services from Fuengirola to Estepona. All aspects of gardening and full maintenance and landscaping, free quotes, competitive prices. Contact Andrew 600 259 981 Andrew@gar den-professionals.com (228697) GARDENER for private homes, communities, tree pruning, pool maintenance, garden design.

Specialist in water systems. Tel: 666 953 892 www.jardin-gar den.es (220302)

GARDEN and pool maintenance.

9 euros per hour, monthly maintenance from 120 euros.

References available. RICARDO 637 160 129 (225669) TREE SURGEONS. No tree too tall, removal of dead palm trees and limbs, eco gardening, mulch and manure, fertilizer, palm pruning. 686 948 552 / 631 181 971. Facebook: Andres Jardinero Malaga (230359)

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CHIROPODISTS www.chiropodistcostadelsol. com (223110)

DENTISTS NHS registered dentist in Fuengirola. Specialising in Zircon crowns, bridges etc. Free check up! www.nhclinicas.com 689 887 019 (225656)

MASSAGE MALE TO MALE PROFESSIONAL MASSAGE. Therapeutic and relaxing. Private studio. Cabopino.

620 986 080 (228610) NUEVA ANDALUCIA Therapeutic specific massages, or full professional body massage, for ladies or gentlemen in private apartment. Out calls also available.

Tel. 656 350 401 (234601) PROFESSIONAL SPORTS MASSAGE, 14 years experience. 1 hour €40, 1.5 hours €55, Elviria.

Wendy 952 852 330 or 634 310 821. Mobile service +€10 (229641)

HOLIDAY LETS FREE LISTINGS for Holiday Rental Villas www.holidayfoot prints.com (221428)

HOME CLEARANCES HEALTH & BEAUTY

WANTED FURNITURE & household items houses gardens garages cleared top prices paid fast reliable service 639 229 607 / 649 977 723 (224841) FURNITURE wanted, same day collection, cash waiting, reliable service. 678 808 837 (220839)

ARBOLISTA Tree surgery, No. 1 for trees and palms, on the Costa since 1998. 600 260 534 952 117 486 Kit Hogg C.G.Arb www.spaintree.com (229875)

WANTED all furniture and quality household items. Cash paid, same day collection. Best prices, please call 693 028 325 (220839) SAYAN MASSAGE. Your best traditional & tantric massage for ladies and gentlemen. 952 586 339 608 977 260 www.masajessayan.es (220286) SKIN Specialist. NHS registered. Treats all kinds of skin problems. Consultation 70 euros. Dr Eva, Fuengirola/Marbella. 664 747 267 / www.der madelsol.com (228514)

HOT TUBS / SPAS HOT TUBS, new, used, bought, sold, hired. Also move & repairs. 691 973 131 / 952 793 398 (229841)

INSURANCE

ZAKS Hair, Nail & Beauty Studio, Urb. Playamarina / www.zaks.com.es. Tel 952 666 436 / 609 508 809 (234512)

TONY’S MARBLE RESTORATION SERVICE. Marble and terrazo floors, professionally refurbished, quotations without obligation. +34 620 726 875 (224849) MARBLE FLOOR polishing, stone repairs, terracotta terraces, chemically cleaned and sealed.

High quality, fast and efficient service, free quotations and appraisals. Call 672 531 662 (230341)

GENERAL SERVICES MAN with small van for all your needs, English/Spanish speaking translations, waiting in offices for you etc, based in Marbella (all the coast) 678 817 145 (224391)

BS ELECTRICAL, Boletins, Rewires, Fault Finding, Endesa helpline, 33 years experience. Sean 952 961 108 / 669 070 011 / www.bse lectrical.eu (222640)

JIB Graded Electrician. Homeintelligence, network-engineering etc. Loves a challenge! 602 494 347 (229025)

DETECTIVES

FOR SALE

ELECTRICIAN on coast for 11 years, repairs and installation, including boiler repairs. Call James 652 023 012 (224846)

ELECTRICIAN 16th Edition BS7671 qualified, 25 years experience. Rewires, extra sockets, lights, fault finding etc. Contact electrician.in. spain@gmail.com. Call Ian 650 151 569 (215809)

OVEN CLEANING, domestic, commercial, complete fittings, let professional do hard, dirty work, from 35€. 632 569 282 ovencleaningcostadelsol.com (223165)

25 - 31 December 2014 / Costa del Sol

SHIATSU Treatments. All types of pain relief. 605 364 496 (223715)

BEAUTY TREATMENTS

ELECTRIC GATE/GARAGE DOOR automation repaired.

Free, no obligation quotation.

Call Colin - 636 394 641 (229069) EXPRESS Metalwork Services.

Gates, grilles, rails and scissor gates. 952 590 748, 617 065 636. www.express-steel.com Facebook Express Metalwork (234423)

BOTOX AND FILLERS - From €95. Covers the Costa del Sol and inland. 609 347 086. www.beautifymemarbella.com (229705)

CHIROPRACTORS FUENGIROLA, Myofascial Release. J. Shaegen, Specialised in treating neck, back & extremity disorders, 30 years in Practice.

652 291 224 www.bodywork.es (229729)

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E W N 25 - 31 December 2014 / Costa del Sol ABBEYGATE INSURANCE If you are renewing your policy or looking for new cover. Call us, as we are the only Insurance Company in Spain to offer protection on your no claims bonus.

Call 952 893 380 (68259) ABBEYGATE INSURANCE Make the right choice and join the thousands of expatriates who have.

We provide a friendly personal service, for all your home, motor, health, travel or marine insurance.

Call 952 893 380 (68259) HEALTH INSURANCE Competitive prices, English worded policies. Pay monthly or annually. All levels of cover. Premiums from €25 a month. Tel: 956 795 453 Abbeygate Insurance (68259) ABBEYGATE INSURANCE Car insurance exclusive for expatriates, save up to 50%.

Find out about our price pledge on UK plated cars. Home insurance from €50. Tel: 952 893 380 (68259) EU INSURANCE DIRECT Extra Special Offers. Up to €50 cash back for car and home insurance (conditions apply) for new customers. For all your Insurance Needs and the Best Price and Best Cover in English, call Wendy on 952 830 843 / 676 098 464 email info@euinsurancedirect .com www.euinsurancedirect .com (225727)

INTERNET GET YOUR business noticed online! Make sure that expats in Spain can find your product, service, restaurant, bar or shop.

Contact Spain’s newest and brightest online directory TODAY. Call 952 561 245 or email serena@euroweeklynews.com for more details.

INTERPRETER INTERPRETER & TRANSLATOR. French, Spanish & English. 632 515 570 (229194)

LOANS HOLA CREDITO. Instant short term loans against your valuables. Quick, easy and always discreet. Tel 900 123 457 www.holacredito.com (224321) LOANS AVAILABLE on all types of paintings, jewellery, watches, silver etc. Any condition. Immediate cash settlement. For more information call into Anthony’s Antiques & Jewellers shops extensive premises at C/Ramon y Cajal 40, Fuengirola. Mobile 609 529 633. Tel: 952 588 795 (SE) (201522)

INSURANCE

24/7 LOCKSMITH LOCKSMITH emergency / appointment. Doors opened without damage, locks changed, patio doors and windows secured, 24 hour honest, fast and reliable service. Call Paul 657 466 803 (216650) T1 COSTALOCKS 24/7, LOCKSMITH/ HOME SECURITY, NEW KEYS, KEYED ALIKE, WINDOWS SECURED, SAFES OPENED / INSTALLED, FREE HOME SECURITY CHECK, CALL Debby or Bob 952 660 233 / 667 668 673 CREDIT CARDS ACCEPTED WWW.COSTALOCKS.COM (224882) T2

MISCELLANEOUS WOODY´S LOS BOLICHES. Greeting Cards, mail to and from the UK. Worldwide courier and Passport renewals. All adverts taken forthe Euro Weekly News- display or classified.

Open 9.00-2.00PM (Monday to Friday). Special hours apply August and Xmas. One street behind the Confortel, just off Plaza San Rafael, Los Boliches, on C/Poeta Salvador Rueda 93.

Tel: 952 471 877

MOBILE HOMES WE BUY, Sell, Store, Remove all types of mobile homes. We pay CASH and cover all of Spain.

More details call Suzi Caley 616 250 727 / 951 063 059 or email suzicaley@gmail.com (228718) WANT TO RELOCATE? We can transport your home and install on to a 12 month park from £4,995. Annual site fees from €3,000 Freephone: 0044 1782 90 80 70 (85143) BRAND NEW WILLERBY Siena 32m² home sited within a stylish gated community, 45 minutes from Malaga airport £19,995 Freephone: 0044 1782 90 80 70 (85143) WILLERBY COTTAGE 28x10 sited in ‘La Serrana Hills’ of Pizarra, site open all year round, swimming pool, only £13,495. Want to view? Freephone: 0044 1782 90 80 70 (85143)

www.euroweeklynews.com 24/7 MOBILITY MOBILITY scooters, electric wheelchairs, wheelchairs, walking frames, etc, for sale and rent. Large selection of quality used scooters at competitive prices. In stock we have around forty scooters to choose from including Pride XL8, Rascal 388, Shoprider Sovereign, Pride go go, Rascal veo X, Neo 4 and 8, Sterling pearl, Rascal Taxi, Sterling Diamond, Shoprider electric wheelchair breaks up for boot, Rascal 330 electric wheelchair as new condition at considerable saving, Rascal turnabout electric wheelchair plus many more all with guarantee. New and used wheelchairs for sale at competitive prices. Large scooters from 1,000 euros.

Medium scooters from 600 euros and small boot scooters from 400 euros. Rentals from 55 euros weekly. New mobility scooter batteries supplied and fitted. Mobility scooters bought for cash.

This month’s special offer Rio 4 new batteries 595 euros. Email info@mobili tyscootersdirectspain.com/ www.mobilityscootersdi rectspain.com. Tel 609 581 139 (201565)

MOBILITY

MOBILITY SCOOTERS THE MOBILITY WIZARD. The only company in southern Spain that specialises in repairing and maintaining mobility scooters, power chairs and mobility products. Authorised repair agents for most European manufacturers. Most repairs carried out at your place of residence, batteries analysed and replaced if needed, tyres supplied and fitted. Has your mobility scooter been serviced lately? Full service and inspection at your home for just €60. Large selection of mobility scooters available for sale and rent, no deposit required and free delivery.

We also offer roadside assistance, we will come to your rescue if you’re unfortunate enough to have a breakdown or puncture, keep this number handy! Tel 633 127 901 / www.mobility-spain.com / info@mobility-spain.com (225510)

MOSQUITO SCREENS ACE OF SHADES - Don’t let the bugs get you! Available in enrollable, slider and pleated. Large choice of colours including wood effect. Tel: 951 273 254 / 671 732 204 / info@aceof shades.es (101730) MOSQUITO Screens for windows, doors and a high quality sliding patio door screen. All finishes available. Quick service.

All areas covered. Call Julian 655 825 931 (229090)

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MOTORING

WANTED SPANISH PLATED CARS

INSTANT CASH SAMANTHA – GORDON

952 83 21 73 608 658 785 www.robertsoncars-spain.com

CLASSIFIEDS 2002 LANDROVER Freelander 2.5, petrol, auto, new ITV, new tyres, 5 door, top of range, with leather, alloys etc, 4,995€ 672 550 037 (222389) 2008 VW Caddy 4 Life, metallic blue, lots of extras, high mileage, 1 owner with full service history, 6,995€ 672 550 037 (222389) RIGHT Hand Drive on Spanish plates, Facelift model, Mercedes E280, elegance, diesel, in silver, in excellent condition throughout, fully loaded, auto, 8,995€ 672 550 037 (222389) 2003 LANDROVER Discovery TDS, 7 seater, auto, lots of extras, diesel, in excellent condition throughout, only 46,000kms from new, in silver, 8,995€. 672 550 037 (222389)

CAR SERVICES MECHANIC workshop & mobile. All work undertaken. ITVs done. Reasonable rates.

Prompt, reliable services 24/7.

620 020 232, 951 165 090 (230370) AUTOMATIC gearbox specialist. Transmatic. All models including classic cars, serviced, repaired and reconditioned. Also 4x4 transfer boxes and power steering Call/fax 952 796 166 / 952 805 804 email: trans matic2005@yahoo.com. www.transmatic.es (226346) BRITISH MECHANIC WORKSHOP. Repair, service & ITV to all makes of cars, vans and 4 x 4s. Call Steve 951 914 025 or 605 407 369.

Poligono Las Perales, Mijas Costa. britmechanicspain @gmail.com (234614)

FOR SALE ROBERTSON CARS WOULD LIKE TO WISH ALL OF OUR MANY FRIENDLY CLIENTS PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE A MERRY CAR-ISMAS AND A HEALTHY NEW YEAR. WE WILL BE BACK FOR BUSINESS ON DECEMBER 29TH. THANK YOU ALL FOR YOUR CONTINUED SUPPORT OVER THE LAST 29 YEARS HERE IN MARBELLA, CHEERS FROM SAMANTHA AND GORDON ROBERTSON (234732) ATTENTION all expats with a Spanish car to sell. We pay the top price for genuine low kilometre Spanish cars. Samantha or Gordon Robertson (The Car Couple) 952 832 173 or 608 658 785 email therobertson clan@gmail.com (234732) 2007 RANGE ROVER Vogue 3 ltr, diesel, Facelift model, with every extra inc 2 tone leather, Spanish lhd 17,995€ 672 550 037 (222389) 2007 RENAULT Traffic, 9 seater minibus, top of range with every extra, metallic black, alloys, side steps, must be seen 9,995€ 672 550 337 cdscars@mail.com (222389)

LEXUS LS400, 2000, Spanish plates, LHD, total luxury, in excellent condition throughout, with every extra, 2,995€. 672 550 037 (222389) CITROEN Berlingo van, white, 2008, 124,000kms, very clean, perfect mechanics, unmarked body work, 4750€ 672 550 037 (222389) NISSAN 350 ZX, 6 speed, silver with black leather, only 18.000klms from with doc. history, one owner from new, pristine condition. 12,995€ 672 550 037 cdscars@mail.com (222389) AUDI A4 Cabrio 2006, 4 speed, climate control, red with black, only 120,000kms, very nice car, 7,995€. 672 550 037 (222389) PEUGEOT 306 Boulevard (petrol), 1 owner from new with only 56,000km. Comes with new ITV, air/con, e/windows. Good all round condition, ideal first car. 1,995 euros.

Call now 604 215 844 (234280) BILL BRADY CARS has been established on the Costa del Sol since 1986, in which time he has helped thousands of expatriates to buy or sell their quality used Spanish cars and also keeping all the documentation simple so you understand all that is going on (which is important). You can contact Bill direct on 952 838 842 / 608 950 221 or billbradycars.com (222367) PRICE SLASHED CONVERTIBLE MG FT 1.6 Inj 2005 sunburst red black soft top black, special wheels, have great fun, WAS 4,995€, NOW 4,795€. 952 838 842 / 608 950 221 billbrady cars.com (224391) SEAT Ibiza 1.4 Inj, 5 door, 2010, bought from Seat Fuengirola, low klm. Great Costa car with air conditioning and easy to park. Look at this low price, 6,995€. 952 838 842 / 608 950 221 billbradycars.com (222367)

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CLASSIFIEDS RANGE ROVER Sport (diesel) 3.6 TDV8 HSE, 2007 two owners from new and service history, metallic midnight blue/cream leather, be quick its only 19,995€. 952 838 842 / 608 950 221 billbradycars.com AUTOMATIC/Diesel (Face lift model) 320D. 2008 from private owner, full print out service history by BMW. Bluetooth, parking sensors and lots more.

Metallic black/tan trim, only 12,995€. 952 838 842 / 608 950 221 billbradycars.com PRICE SLASHED AUTOMATIC / diesel Opel Signum 2.2 Dti 5 door 2004. One private owner, full service history, metallic silver/tan leather, this car is immaculate. Elec/seats, parking sensors, front and back, fridge, climate control, and loads more, WAS 4,995€, NOW 4,795€. 952 838 842 / 608 950 221 billbradycars.com (224391) DIESEL Seat Leon 1.9 TDI. Ecomotive 2009, one private owner, low klm. Service history, used only as holiday car, not the usual rent a car, great offer at only 8,995€. 952 838 842 / 608 950 221 billbradycars.com (224391) GREAT Value Fiat Punto Evo. 1.4 Emotion 2010, one private owner, only 33,000klm (20,000mls), service history, lots of extras (too many to list), nearly half the new price at only 7,995€. 952 838 842 / 608 950 221 billbradycars.com (224391) AUTOMATIC Mini Cooper (special edition), 2007/8 full panoramic roof, only 34,000klm (22,000mls), British racing green/tan half leather trim, new ITV (MOT) and service, very scarce car for only 9,995€. 952 838 842 / 608 950 221 billbradycars.com (224391) PORSCHE 911 (996) 3.6 Carrera 2. Showroom condition, second owner from new. 6 speed, air con, CD… etc. 29,500 629 826 931 (230531) DRIVE back to UK in my automatic Opel Omega Estate 1997.

UK reg, lhd, great load carrier, 2 litre, MOT till November and tax, only want €400 or nearest offer. Phone 952 599 391 or 634 325 084 (228678) MEGANE sedan, 2008 diesel, 1.9 silver, 95,000kms, CV130 Conford 6,800 euros. Tel. 629 436 571 (226261)

INSURANCE ABBEYGATE INSURANCE. No automatic annual increase on our Motor Insurance, renewal policies. Call 952 893 380 (68259)

MOTORING

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)

NAUTICAL

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PUERTO BANUS, 8m mooring for rental. 630 614 252 (228645)

PAINTERS/DECORATOR

MECHANICS MECHANIC workshop & mobile. All work undertaken. ITVs done. Reasonable rates. Prompt, reliable services 24/7. 620 020 232, 951 165 090 (230370 MOBILE MECHANIC will come to your home or work. Servicing, repairs, ITVs & diagnostics. Call Mick on 617 553 072 (230677) BRITISH MECHANIC WORKSHOP. Repair, service & ITV to all makes of cars, vans and 4 x 4s. Call Steve 951 914 025 or 605 407 369. Poligono Las Perales, Mijas Costa. britme chanicspain@gmail.com (217674)

WANTED I BUY ANY CAR. 602 533 508 mikewallsp@gmail.com (230329) CARS AND VANS, ANY REGISTRATION, INSTANT CASH, FINANCE/EMBARGO UK OR SPANISH 693 028 325 (220839) WANTED. CARS & JEEPS & camper vans for cash. All makes, LHD, any condition. 693 357 000 (224394) CARS, VANS UK OR SPANISH BOUGHT FOR CASH. FREE COLLECTION IN SPAIN AND UK. PLEASE CALL 678 808 837 OR 952 669 701 (220839)

SAM, Simply the Best on the Coast, 35 years experience, 18 years Mijas. Forget the rest, have the best, you’re worth it!

Call Sam 952 666 025 / 629 546 128 (215594) HUSBAND & WIFE TEAM. Painting/Interior design. Free estimates. Graham - 607 923 486 (229042) SUPERIOR decoration services.

Interiors & exteriors, paper hanging, detailed work & paint finishes. Discounted wall coverings. Quality workmanship at highly competitive prices. Free quotations, check us out on www.timhammond.webs.com 952 455 551 / 695 875 118.

Email: hammondluc1@yahoo .co.uk (229836)

PERGOLAS & DECKING PERGOLAS, Decking and Thatched Gazebos. Best quality and prices. Installations. For free quotation call 686 322 328 (224383)

PEST CONTROL

CAR, VANS BOUGHT WITH OR WITHOUT PAPERS. CASH WAITING 678 808 837 (220839) WANTED CARS AND VANS, FREE COLLECTION, SAME DAY 693 028 325 (220839) CDS CARS established 12 years on the coast, we will buy your car stress free, with an instant cash decision, all paperwork taken care of with our on site gestoria, 30 cars in stock 672 550 037 / cdscars @mail.com (222389)

MUSIC DAVE C CLARKE, guitarist, vocalist, pianist, ex-Cunard.

Specialising in popular Spanish guitar. Available solo or combo. Parties / weddings / class restaurants, dinner dances. Huge repertoire. Details 687 627 434 (225501)

YOUNG DOMESTICATED cats rescued from the killing station need kind homes. Fully vaccinated and neutered, free of charge. We will also deliver to England for a donation to the charity. Please give one of these beautiful cats a home so we can save more from death.

Can be seen without obligation at Cat and Dog World Kennels.

Tel. 630 197 435 (93398)

CHARITIES ADANA THE ANIMAL SHELTER IN ESTEPONA. We always need volunteers to walk and socialise with our dogs and help with cleaning. We also need good homes for our animals that you can see on www.adana.es. Kennels open every day 10-1.30, Camino de Casares, near Parque de los Pedregales, Estepona. (5 minutes from the Poligono) For more information call Marjorie 952 79 74 05 or 636 934 146 (93319) ACE CHARITY at El Refugio Kennels always needs volunteers to help with dog walking.

It’s good exercise, a couple of hours any morning of the week.

Foster and permanent homes also needed for our many inmates! Vivien 639 991 079 (93320)

COCKROACHES, Wasps, Ants, Rats, Termites, Fleas, Bedbugs, Palm weevil, All Pest Problems.

Call LOCAL PEST-PLAGUICOSTA, the British Company you can trust. Registered with Malaga Sanitary Department. Tel 952 449 591 or 684 217 181.

Best price Guarantee, open 24/7 (230363) T1 COCKROACHES, ANTS, insects, fleas, mice, rats, wasps, termite specialists. Fumigations, bars, restaurants, houses, etc. Sanitary department officially registered certificates. Guarantee. 23 years serving the coast. Only legal English owned pest control company on the coast. If you want the best then phone N.P.S. Nigel 606 008 940 (223163)

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SEPE the horse and donkey charity is open to the public week-ends from 10.00 to 5.00.

Volunteers are much needed in all departments and are welcome at anytime. For our riding for the disabled classes, we are also in need of extra helpers.

We are nationally registered by the Spanish Ministry of the Interior (164640) but only with your support can we give the equine a voice. If you can just commit to 2 or 3 euros a month it will really help make a difference.

You can find us at Lauro Golf Equestrian Centre, Alqueria, Alhaurin de la Torre. Tel. 608 258 950 info@sepeonline.net www.sepeonline.net (93321) At SOS Animal Refuge we have dogs, young and old looking for homes. Some of our dogs have been with us for some time and would love to find a cosy spot to curl up in and a knee on which to rest their heads. If you

have room in your heart and home we would love to hear from you. We do not put our dogs to sleep - no matter how old, they are safe with us. For day to day needs and to pay for veterinary care, we much appreciate the support we receive.

We desperately need items to sell on our market stall to help raise funds and are happy to come and collect. So if you are having a clear-out, please contact us on 605 227 155. If you would like to know more about re-homing, please call 653 257 875. Visit our website www.sosanimals.org or please phone Sandy on 952 385 923 or 666 814 056 if you would like to make a donation or help in any way. (93317) ARCH - THE ANDALUCIAN RESCUE CENTRE FOR HORSES WELCOMES VISITORS AND VOLUNTEERS TO THEIR STABLES ON SATURDAYS FROM 10 - 12 OR BY APPOINTMENT. COME AND HELP OUT, OR SPONSOR OR ADOPT ONE OF OUR HORSES, DONKEYS OR MULES. WE ALWAYS NEED HELP WITH FUND RAISING TO LOOK AFTER THE ABANDONED AND ABUSED ANIMALS. OUR AIM IS TO RESCUE, REHABILITATE AND REHOME. WE ARE A SMALL FRIENDLY TEAM - WHY NOT JOIN US. FIND US IN ALHAURIN EL GRANDE, BEHIND THE VENTA MIRALMONTE ON THE ROAD FROM ALHAURIN TO COIN, (A404), URB.VIÑA BORREGO, FOLLOW THE YELLOW SIGNS. CHARITY REGISTERED WITH THE JUNTA DE ANDALUCIA NO 8448.

WWW. HORSERESCUESPAIN.ORG INFO@HORSERESCUESPAIN. ORG ARCHRESCUE@YAHOO. CO.UK TEL:- 635798219 OR 656935613 OR 620175828.

NEW: ARCH CHARITY SHOP NOW OPEN IN ALHAURIN, NEXT TO MONEY CHANGE SHOP, AVENIDA GERALD BRENAN (93322)

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STEFANIE’S KENNELS AND CATTERY, Estepona. Fully licensed, Junta approved, est.

1986. Viewing welcomed 952 790 943 www.stefaniesken nels.com (219547) CAT AND DOG WORLD KENNELS AND CATTERY, superb licensed facilities, viewing welcome. Tel: 952 112 978 / 630 197 435. www.cat-and-dogworld.com (223161) PETCARE PET HOTEL. Alhaurin el Grande. Holiday accommodation for dogs and cats.

Heated/Air conditioned kennels available. Tel: 952 112 284 / 685 400 216 www.petcares pain.com. Find us on Facebook at Petcare Spain (220208) STEFANIE’S KENNELS AND CATTERY, Estepona. Fully licensed, Junta approved, est.

1986. Viewing welcomed 952 790 943 www.stefaniesken nels.com (231446) EURODOG BOARDING KENNELS & CATTERY. Under new ownership by animal loving family.

Large kennels and exercise yards, fully licensed and sanitary approved. Safe, secure and caring environment. Inspections welcome anyt ime. 5 minutes from Fuengirola 679 786 669 / 952 464 947 / www.eurodog.es (224322)

PET TRANSPORT

FOR SALE BICHON FRISE. Purebred, lovely small white family dogs. Tel (0034) 615 213 090 / ohavelin@gmail.com (230354)

KENNELS

www.poshpetsspain.com - Boutique Dog & Cat Hotel and much more … Facebook page: POSH PETS SPAIN. Tel: 952 597 035 (224385) LAGUNA KENNELS AND CATTERY. Your pets lovingly cared for by English mother and daughter. Near Coin. lagu nakennels@hotmail.com. Tel 952 112 021 / 606 838 983 (224847)

PET-COURIERS.COM – If you love your pet try us first – we are the best. Door to door service throughout Europe. Specialised vehicles – bespoke service. Full legal service including documentation if required. For further information call or email us: Tel: (0034) 651 033 670 or (0034) 637 066 227.

Email: info@pet-couriers.com or www.pet-couriers.com (206497) ACCOMPANY your pets to their new home. Fully licensed pet transport service. Denise www.petchauffeur.eu 952 197 187 / 696 233 848 info@petchauffeur.eu (230658) PET TRANSPORTATION by road. Fully DEFRA/OCA/TRACES compliant. Complete service by professional licensed kennels.

630 197 435 www.cat-and-dogworld.com (226428)

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THE DOG MOVER. Licensed transporters. Two handlers, so never alone. 680 781 699 / 0044 (0) 7875 947230. www.thedogmover.com (220443)

PLUMBING PLUMBER: Water heaters repaired, replaced same day. Full bathroom and kitchen reforms, previous work can be seen. References available. Mark Allan - 608 454 778 / 952 937 244 (215702) PLUMBER for all your plumbing.

Water heaters, bathrooms, tiling.

Benalmadena based, travel no problem. Construction work.

Glen 669 073 773 (226387)

POOLS www.advasolsolutions.com see our main ad under “swimming pools” 951 965 309 (224947)

PROFESSIONAL SERVICES PRO VENT. Kitchens, Bedrooms, Bathrooms, Windows, Glass Curtains creatively designed and expertly fitted. Visit our showroom in La Cala or call 639 727 188 for a free quotation.

From inspiration to installation www.joebayley.com (226432)

PROPERTY FOR SALE

CITY AND GUILDS, QUALIFIED PLUMBER. All areas covered. Adrian 677 063 272 (230261) 30 YEARS ON THE COAST. I cover all aspects of plumbing & general maintenance. Graham 607 923 486 (229042)

PLOT FOR SALE - Los Flamingos, magnificent sea views 1414 m2. 629 907 476 (220346)

PLUMBING. Leak detection & blocked drains. Tel 952 568 414 / 661 910 772 / drainspain.com (224404)

WWW.INMOANDALUZ.COM is always looking for realistically priced inland properties to sell to our interested buyers. Tel 952 491 609 / 685 514 835 (220102)

REPLACE your broken swimming pool tiles without draining your pool by utilising the very latest in underwater grouting and adhesives, quickly and efficiently. Call Lee at AquaTile Tel. 69 7529 677 www.aquatile.net (229713)

REMOVALS / STORAGE

STUNNING Four Bedroom Villa with Pool. La Cerquilla. Only 1,495,000 Euros! 951 106 908 (229943) REDUCED! 2 Bedroom Modern Townhouse. Nueva Andalucia.

ONLY 185,000 Euros! 951 106 908 (229943) BENATALAYA! Two Bedroom.

Middle floor, West Facing. Only 249,000 Euros! 951 106 908 (229943)

PLUMBER: All aspects, gas/electric boilers. Kitchens, bathrooms, repairs & installations.

Gary 669 615 334 / 952 576 296 (215706)

POOL TILING

EL SOTO DE MARBELLA luxury 3 bedroom duplex penthouse for sale on this superb development with it’s own golf course, gym, sauna, spa and tennis courts plus a very popular on site restaurant. Fantastic views and quality finish.

Price only 260,000 Euros.

Contact Paul 627 134 866 (229179)

WWW.INMOANDALUZ.COM. Bargain inland properties for all budgets, fincas, village homes, apartments and villas. Legal building plots.

952 491 609 / 685 514 835 (220102) MARINA de CASARES: Direct first line beach access, panoramic sea views, 3 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms including furniture. Must see property!

Bargain at 275,000 euros. Tel 649 990 181 (230497)

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EL ROSARIO (MARBELLA).

Beautiful detached villa, 2 double bedrooms, 120m2 build, air con, garden, parking. €950/month. Long & short lets 661 626 281 (229021)

EUROPA SPECIALIST. Combitrans Movers. 952 775 300 www.combitrans.es (230336) USA SPECIALIST Combitrans Movers.

952 775 300 www.combitrans.es (230336)

BENALMADENA - Large studio near marina/Lidl. Fully furnished, pool & gardens. 677 817 867 (226256)

STORAGE SPECIALIST. Combitrans Movers. 952 775 300 www.combitrans.es (230336)

STORAGE available in Coin (La Trocha). From €0.70 per cubic metre per week + IVA. New secure/watertight shipping containers, drive right up to your unit. Contact tel 603 243 654 / www.hoskinstorage.co.uk (230500)

PROPERTY WANTED

LOCAL and INTERNATIONAL SPECIALIST. Combitrans Movers.

952 775 300 www.combitrans.es (230336)

PUMPS / WELLS WATERWELLS. Waterwell drilling, well pumps, irrigation, pump tests, pressure pumps.

Waterwells.org/Sondein SL. Established on the coast since 1995. Web page www.wellsin spain.com. Enquiries info@ wellsinspain.com 629 978 801 / fax 952 793 250 (229080)

REMOVALS/STORAGE

PROFESSIONAL LOCAL REMOVALS AT AFFORDABLE RATES. 1/2 DAY FROM €90.

FULL DAY FROM €175. WE ALSO PROVIDE A FORTNIGHTLY DOOR TO DOOR SERVICE TO UK AND EUROPE (INCL SCOTLAND).

WORLDWIDE SHIPPING TO USA, AUSTRALIA, ETC AND FULL STORAGE FACILITIES. TEL (0034) 952 578 507 OR (0034) 637 892 278 / EMAIL garymoveit@yahoo .co.uk (226396) CAR TRANSPORTER, call for excellent rates. Fully insured, professional service. 951 319 320 / email move@freinterna tional.com / www.car-transportspain.com (215605) JDS EURO TRANSPORT. Email: jdstransport@outlook.com / 0034 637 066 114 / 0044 7884 908929 (224382)

GORGEOUS 6 bed, 6 bath, secluded villa retreat, 5,000m2 plot, €375,000, 80% finance.

Cartama. 699 199 805 (230503)

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NATIONAL / INTERNATIONAL

PROPERTY TO LET

PUERTO BANUS October to April - no deposit- rent day/week/month, fully furnished 3 bedroom apartments including complimentary internet-satellite TV-movie channelsgym-housekeeping from €1,200 per month, additional hotel services available. Call Alexandra 666 234 122 www.sisuboutique.com (234550)

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HIGH top van going from Spain to UK and return. Good rates. Reliable service. Call Graham 620 353 594 for details. vgcasacolor@gmail.com (228531) MOVING BACK TO UK? Removal vehicle departing weekly throughout the year. Excellent, professional service & great rates. Ring (0034) 665 089 244 or (0044) 01922 682 667 & see www.elite-european.com (93139) INTERNATIONAL and European Removals. Expert removals worldwide. www.universalremovals.co m Tel: 951 247 834 (229718) UK - SPAIN - Anywhere Europe! Masses of experience. New clean vehicles.

Insured with Royal Sun Alliance. Genuinely CARING service. FULL and / Part moves. ONLINE QUOTES!! www.bmceuro pean.com Tel: UK 08456 443 784 / ES 634 344 787 FIND US ON FACEBOOK! (207584)

REMOVALS / STORAGE

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CLASSIFIEDS MOVING MATTERS SL – removals and storage. Local or to and from the UK/Ireland/Portugal and across Europe. Over 16 years experience. For free quotation Tel 951 311 118. www.movingmatters.eu (234590)

MAN AND VAN VAN AND MAN. Removals, clearances. Experienced and 100% reliable. €20 per hr. Paul 622 793 989 (220139)

THE VAN MAN. Cheap and cheerful. €20 per hour. 677 251 025 (230382) MAN & VAN. 100% reliable. 637 066 114 / 695 060 154 (224382) MAN & VAN 25€ ph. All areas 620 005 360 (228720)

STORAGE STORAGE in the Marbella area, long and short term, excellent rates 952 816 582 move@frein ternational.com (201301)

MANVAN REMOVALS €20 / hour, 3 vans available. House clearances. Storage from €10 / week. Tel David 696 810 618 (208088)

REMOVAL BOXES Large, med, wardrobe, bubble wrap, tape, collect or delivered. Local and international removals also undertaken. 952 239 110 / 632 702 306

2 MEN, Van €30 hour. Always on time 651 081 610 (225616)

FIRST MONTH €1. Packing materials. Self storage Marbella.

952 811 311 (229188)

LARGE Luton Van and Man. 20€ per hour. Kevin 628 993 995 (234439)

EXCELLENT storage rates available short and long term, call 952 816 582 or email move@freinter national.com (224878)

SITUATIONS VACANT

ROLLER SHUTTERS

25 - 31 December 2014 / Costa del Sol SITUATIONS VACANT

CURTAINS, blinds, cushions and much more. Free estimates and home visits. Tel 657 369 343 or rosannacarmella@hot mail.com (201533)

ACE OF SHADES - PERSIANA (security shutter) electric and manual, various colours available including wood effect, we also offer a repair service. Make your home more secure! Tel: 951 273 254 / 671 732 204 / info@aceofshades.es (101730)

SOLAR LOWEST PRICES IN SPAIN. www.solarmegastore.es (226345)

SECURITY

STORAGE

WIRELESS, Neat, Photo, Video, 24hr security links. klloyd7@gmail.com / 661 219 469 (229954)

STORAGE - Large warehouses containers. Dry and secure €50 per month. Professional packing and removal service. www.dfeu ropeanremovals.co.uk. Tel David 696 810 618 (229074)

SERVICES

CARPENTRY CARPENTER cabinet maker, Irish. Property maintenance, plumbing, painting, electrical, kitchens. Bathrooms renovated etc. 30 years experience. Very reliable. 677 087 575 (224853)

FURNITURE FRENCH POLISHING REPAIRS, restoration etc. restore your valuable furniture to its former glory. Tel 647 579 519 / 952 119 190 (200802)

SWIMMING POOLS

DO YOU CARE? If so, why not join our team of carers who work in the UK. Earn from £910 - £1372 for 2 weeks. Good written/spoken English/ British or EU Passport required. Contact Sandra on 658 965 204 or email s.field@consultuscare .com. (221355)

PROPERTY MANAGEMENT

TELESALES staff wanted for UK pensions, Letter of Authority experience necessary (L.O.As) 663 320 695 (234265)

PROPERTY MANAGEMENT: PROPERTIES wanted, Marbella to Estepona for Long Term and Holiday Lets. Honest, reliable service with over 10 years experience.

Let us manage your property! FIRST TWO MONTHS FREE!! Tel: 607 681 232 Website : www.jhspain.net (223748)

HOME CARE COMPANY RECRUITING: Qualified nurses, physiotherapists and experienced carers for a new care agency operating in Mijas/Fuengirola area. Part-time and flexible hours available. Must be fluent in written and spoken English and have own transport.

CVs to homecaremijas2015 @gmail.com (234277)

WINDOW COIN WINDOWS Aluminium windows, Doors, PVC Blinds, Mosquito screens, Canopies, Glass Factory, shower screens etc. All at village prices. Spanish owned business. English 646 066 351 (224847) THE WINDOW CLEANERS. 691 140 427 (229138)

SEWING ALL STYLES Curtains, upholstery, soft furnishings and bean bags made to measure. Sensible prices. Also repairs / alterations. All areas. Call 672 800 887 or email judeinspain@hot mail.com (229231)

SIGNS & DESIGNS SIGNS, ALL TYPES. Vehicles, Pavement Signs, Illuminated, LED, Neon, Banners, Printed Shirts. 21 years on the coast! www.signstudiospain.com 952 796 299 / 639 133 135 (218606) SHOP signs, vehicle signs, banners, window signs, 952 930 547, 603 464 582, www.signd sign1.com (229351)

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SOFT FURNISHINGS

WANTED. Qualified Nail Technician for Lush Hair & Beauty Salon in La Cala de Mijas. Please call 952 493 242 / 611 217 652 LIVE-IN Driver/Cook. Please call 602 515 031 (234448) TELEMARKETERS wanted for arranging presentations. Working from home. Commission plus bonuses. Tel. 649 620 239 FOR IMMEDIATE start.

Wanted English speaking girl 18-30, for Fuengirola’s most popular Adult Relax apartment. For hours and information, see Fuengirola Port main advert in Adult Relax Section. Phone 663 645 432 (230380)

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POOL MAINTENANCE, repairs, friendly, reliable service.

Estepona, Malaga, inland regrouts, heaters. 678 791 495 / 951 295 699 www.sparklenrip ple.net (222393) T3 www.perfectpools.es. Maintenance, repairs, professional and reliable service, all areas from €70 per month. info@per fectpools.es. 650 348 785 (226338) POOL safety fencing, covers, heating, reforms, regrouts, construction, accessories www.advasol solutions.com 951 965 309 / 664 871 133 (224947)

CONSTRUCTION / MAINTENANCE AFFORDABLE POOL MAINTENANCE - Professional maintenance from only €80 per month (exc. chemicals) Call Splash Pools on 952 591 053 open 8am to 4pm (226353)

THERAPISTS LIFE COACHING, stress, depression, other problems.

24 years experience. Contact 634 369 414 (206835) PSYCHOTHERAPIST Philip Jameson, LICSW. Depression help and relationship counselling. Marbella area. 635 276 140 (225738) ANXIETY - Depression - Panic Attacks, Frank Stahl - psychologist. More than 30 years of experience. Proven methods with Therapy and hypnosis. Call for appointment. 609 503 021 www.thedreamwalk.com DEAR THERAPISTS, www.cabopinoholisticcentre. com is offering therapy room ON DONATIONS, also room available for classes/workshops.

650 460 664 (226260)

TILING TILING AND REFORMATION of kitchens/bathrooms. Free estimates. Graham - 607 923 486 THE TILE WIZARD. Professional tiling service. Bathrooms, kitchens, terraces, design and install. We do it all. Call 637 382 599 (229932)

TRANSLATIONS OFFICIAL TRANSLATIONS. ALL LANGUAGES. TEL. 654 613 094 sanpedrotranslations@gmail. com (224336)

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DON’T UNDERSTAND? I can help you communicate with lawyers, courts, doctors, paperwork, builders, etc. Professional translator/interpreter, 15 years experience. Christina 607 501 408 email christina.heger@ gmail.com (220322)

TROPHIES LASER ENGRAVED Trophies, Prizes, quality glass engraving service, competitive prices, with 40 years experience. Trophies, medal, badges from 1€. THE SPORTS SHOP, Fuengirola. Tel: 952 473 530 (229043)

TUITION MATHS TUITION. Maths graduate, 6 years international school experience. €35/hour + €10 to travel. sjrobert@tcd.ie (221428)

CALAHONDA Language Centre. Established 1987. Beginners Spanish and level 2 courses start on 12th January. Sixty hours in six weeks; make learning the language your New Year’s Resolution. Maximum 5 students for guaranteed results. Also higher levels, private classes and translations. Enrol now by email or come in from 6th January.

(234276) calang@spansurf.com www.calahondalanguagecen tre.com

TV & VIDEO SKY PROBLEMS / Installers don’t turn up when they promise to? Can’t or won’t sort out your satellite problems? Then call Steve @ Scansat. We supply and install full Sky Systems, Digiboxes, Dishes, Sky cards UK/Irish. Dish relocations and TV extensions. For a fast reliable service call Steve 676 533 209 problem solved! (234742) DIGI BOXES, SKY+HD, unbeatable prices. Tel 653 061 472 (230648)

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www.euroweeklynews.com UKIPTV – 40 + UK Channels. 20 + Radio Stations. Free 14 day Catch-up. Contact Europe’s Leading IPTV Provider to obtain our limited timem offer. Special Offer: STB €129.95. Monthly Cost €14.95. Prices exclude IVA. www.UKEXPATTV.com / Tel. 951 063 888 Quote SP101 (229075) REPAIRS – TV’s, Plasmas, LCD’s, Digi – Boxes, Video, Hi-Fi and microwaves. Free estimates, can collect. 35 Years experience. John 952 491 723 or 600 706 201 (230697) INTERNET TV systems. UK, Irish & Scandinavian channels.

All your favourite channels plus Movies & Sports. Catch-up TV. Easy to use. Free trial in your own home. Paul’s Computer & IPTV Services. Est 12 years on the coast. 630 652 338 / 952 493 859 (223627)

UPHOLSTERY CARPET & UPHOLSTERY PROFESSIONALLY CLEANED 20 YEARS EXPERIENCE WET OR DRY CLEAN, HONEST,RELIABLE SERVICE. PLEASE CALL 678 808 837 / 952 669 701 (220839) CARPETS AND SOFAS cleaned.

Reliable, fast service. Family run. Cleansol 952 930 861 / 607 610 578. 10am - 10pm 7 days, all areas Discount Code: EWN 1 CLEAN (206437)

TV & SATELLITE

WASHING MACHINE

REPAIRS WASHING machine repairs.

No fix No fee. Call Joe: 686 271 836 (224846)

WEBSITES WEBSITE Design. Great quality, low rates. Call: Steve 603 388 570 benalmedia.com (226254)

WINDOWS GENEVA WINDOWS. Aluminium & PVC Windows. We measure, we make and we fit. 952 665 856 (225545)

WINDOW TINTING MOBILE SERVICE. ITV Legal.

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King meets an old friend HE visited most of the SEAT facilities in Martorell, he got close up to the assembly lines and was given an insight into some of the car company’s best-kept secrets – its future models.

But the biggest smile on the face of Felipe VI during his entire visit came from a surprise.

The King once more came face-toface with his first-ever car – a 1.5 litre, metallic gold Ibiza which his father, King Juan Carlos, gave him for his 18th birthday in 1986.

The King let out an emotional laugh on seeing the car.

“I imagine he recalled his first car, his student days, his 18 years,” said Isidre Lopez, head of Classic Cars at SEAT, and whose team carried out the painstaking work of restoring it, with 152,000 kilometres on the clock and not having been started up for more than 16 years.

When it was built, the car was very much ahead of its time, being equipped with an injection engine and

REUNITED: The King is presented with his first car.

air conditioning, two full years before these items were introduced on series production cars. For the technical team in charge of the process of restoration, the most difficult part was

getting the fuel feed and injection system up and running, since the car had not been on the road for many years. Other work was also done on the integrated paintwork, upholstery, tyres and wheels. In fact, “it is a unique, special, custom-built Ibiza,” added Lopez. One example of this is that the seats are tailored to the height of Felipe VI. “The effort put in was well worth it,” said Lopez and his team.

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There’s a hectic festive season of top sport coming up Tony Matthews

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

Preview AS always there is a full programme of football matches on Boxing Day, as well as on December 28/29, while there are also 10 Premiership games scheduled for New Year’s Day before 64 teams compete in the third round of the FA Cup between January 3-6.

This is why clubs have

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CELEBRATING: Lewis Hamilton hopes for a third championship. such big squads!

On Boxing Day, there are two London derbies in the Premiership - Arsenal against QPR at The

Emirates and Chelsea v West Ham United at Stamford Bridge.

Manchester United play Newcastle United and

West Bromwich Albion entertain the reigning champions Manchester City.

In the Championship,

it’s much-improved Birming-ham City v Derby County, high-flying AFC Bournemouth v Fulham, in-form Brentford v

Ipswich Town, Middlesbrough v Nottingham Forest and Watford v Wolves.

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Here’s hoping for a glorious New Year for GB sport...

From Page 109 The big games in FL1 are Bristol City against Yeovil Town, Notts County v MK Dons and Walsall v Swindon Town, while Burton Albion meet Tranmere Rovers, Newport County play Plymouth Argyle, Oxford United welcome Shrews-bury Town and Wycombe Wanderers entertain Luton Town in FL2.

Then, a few days after Christmas everything kicks off again in the PL with Manchester City against Burnley, Newcastle United v Everton, QPR versus Crystal Palace, Southampton v Chelsea, Spurs against Manchester United and West Ham United v Arsenal.

Elsewhere the top games in the other three domestic Divisions are

Blackburn Rovers v Middlesbrough, Derby County v Leeds United, Ipswich Town v Charlton Athletic, Millwall v AFC Bournemouth and Wolves v Brentford, Gillingham v Bristol City, and Swindon Town v Port Vale, Luton Town v Ports-mouth and Shrewsbury Town v Wycombe Wanderers, plus Celtic v Ross County and Inverness Caley Thistle v Aberdeen in the SPL. On to the FA Cup, and here are my pick of the ties: AFC Wimbledon v Liverpool (a repeat of the 1988 final), Arsenal v Hull City (who met in last year’s final), Aston Villa v Blackpool, Blyth Spartans v Birmingham City, Burnley v Tottenham Hotspur (remember their 1962 showdown at

Wembley?), Chelsea v Watford, Dover Athletic v Crystal Palace, Everton v West Ham United, Fulham v Wolves, Leicester City v New-castle United, Manchester City v Sheffield Wednesday, Sunderland v Leeds United (you must recall Ian Porterfield’s winner for the Wear-siders in the 1973 final), West Bromwich Albion v Gateshead and Yeovil Town v Manchester United.

At least six of these matches will be live on TV (various channels).

Away from football, and right now, running through until early January, we have the William Hill World Darts Championship from London which will be followed by the BDO World Championship from Lakeside.

CHRISTMAS FOOTY FACTS • The first-ever League game played on Christmas Day ended Preston North End 3 Aston Villa 2 in 1889.

• Derek Dooley was the first manager to be sacked on Christmas Day - dismissed by Sheffield Wednesday in 1977.

• West Bromwich Albion, bottom of the Premiership at Christmas 2004, avoided relegation - the first team to achieve this.

• In 1936, Wrexham’s Ambrose Brown was the first player to get sent-off in a League game on Christmas Day, taking an early bath against Hull City.

And a very Happy Christmas to you all.

For horse racing fans, there is the King George VI Chase meeting from Kempton Park (starting on Boxing Day) and on December 27 it’s the Coral-sponsored Welsh Grand National from Chepstow. And we have the Women’s European Handball championships from Croatia and Hungary.

Looking into my 2015 ‘Golden Globe,’ wouldn’t it be great to see the following: England’s cricketers win every Test Match they play in 2015;

Rory McIlroy triumph in every golf competition he takes part in; Lewis Hamilton repeat his Formula 1 Grand Prix exploits by winning the driver’s championship for a third time; Amir Khan continue beating his opponents in the ring; GB’s athletes collect medals galore in track and field events; England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales all register record breaking victories in Six Nations matches; and Andy Murray win three major tennis tournaments (at least).

While in football let’s see an outsider win the FA Cup, perhaps the Champions League, even the Europa League and that both Lionel Messi (Barcelona) and Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid) continue to score goals, especially in La Liga but not against British clubs in European competitions.

And finally that my forthcoming books (all due for publication next summer) on (a) Steven Gerrard, (b) Ryan Giggs and (c) West Bromwich Albion (Baggies Abroad) sell like wildfire!

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Adios Santa Cruz MALAGA striker Roque Santa Cruz played his last game for Malaga on December 21 in a 2-1 win against bottom La Liga side Elche.

The 33-year-old started the match and was substituted in the 51st minute for Nordin Amrabat.

At the end of the game, Malaga president Abdullah bin Nasser Al Thani posted a thank you message on Twitter, stating: “Thank you very much Roque Santa Cruz. You will always be in our hearts. I wish you every success.”

Santa Cruz will be playing for Mexican side Cruz Azul in 2015. The Paraguay international will reportedly be the highest paid player in the Mexican league, earning a reputed $2 million (€1.6 million) a year.

Santa Cruz won the German Bundesliga several times during his time with Bayern Munich before leaving to join Premiership side Blackburn Rovers in 2007.

In 2009, he went to Manchester City where he played until 2011. Santa Cruz moved to Spain to join Real Betis in that year and has been a Malaga player since the 2012 season.

He made his debut for the Paraguay national side in 1999 at the age of 17 in a friendly match against Mexico.

He is a naturalised Spaniard.

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GOLF INTERNATIONAL NERJA SOCIETY (GINS) has enjoyed a hugely successful run-up to Christmas with a number of events at different courses providing members with a variety of ups and downs and varying weather conditions.

An individual Stableford/Turkey Trot at Los Mariscos saw John Ridley finish first, followed by Alan Worthington and Peter Oram. The beautiful sunshine led the golfers to think they were in the springtime rather than

GOLFING CHRISTMAS: GINS at Anoreta.

winter, a feeling that quickly changed when they tucked into festive mince pies while awaiting the results.

A Christmas Cracker Stableford

game at Anoreta ended up with Brian Lynch, Malcolm Jones and Peter Garner finishing in that order on a course still wet from recent rains. Changing conditions

throughout the day made it a testing time for the players.

At Baveria, the cold wind sweeping the course was more like the Antarctic than Andalucia, but players persevered and Brian Wiggins and George Reed were rewarded for their troubles, finishing on a creditable 38 points. Pepe Gil scooped the â‚Ź70 rollover by scoring the only two of the day.