Euro Weekly News - Axarquia 2 - 8 April 2015 Issue 1552

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Protecting party-goers YOUNG volunteers in Nerja have received a training course on first aid, drugs and alcohol to help them in their work tending to worse-for-wear partygoers in the town.

Getting ready EIGHT towns on the coast have received authorisation from the Agriculture, Fishing and Environment Department to place sunbeds, showers and other fittings on their beaches in preparation for the summer season.

Popular crops LOCAL nurseries have announced that demand is so high for mango and avocado seedlings that there is a one-year waiting list to buy them.

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DON’T MISS OUR EASTER SPECIAL INSIDE, PAGES 27-30

A sunny outlook for Easter

By Maria Jose Fernandez

THE Axarquia and Costa Tropical areas are having a great Easter so far, with hotel occupation at an estimated 85 per cent.

In Almuñecar, bookings for tonight, April 2, and Good Friday have reportedly reached 95 per cent of hotel capacity.

Taking into account the fact that Easter is traditionally a time when people leave it until the last minute to book, this

could well mean many establishments will be declaring there is no

room at the inn!

With exceptionally good weather forecast and tem-

peratures expected to reach up to 25ºC, local beaches are likely to be al-

Velez-Malaga’s passion for spring showcased in promotional video COUNCILLOR for Tourism Rocio Ruiz announced the launch of the official promotional video entitled ‘Spring Passion in Velez-Malaga’, to coincide with Semana Santa (Holy Week).

It aims to show how the townsfolk live in Velez as well as the Semana Santa parades. The initiative is part of a plan to promote

the city and highlight its importance as a tourist destination. It is also part of a national campaign ‘MUPIS’, launched last week with the slogan ‘Velez Malaga Costa del Sol week, this Easter you’ve got everything’.

Ruiz said the video shows the processions, gastronomy, beaches and leisure of Velez-Malaga in a

way to attract as well as inform people. She added: “We understand the importance of tourism to the commercial and business sectors... this is why the council is happy to push through and support promotions like this.”

‘Spring Passion in Velez Malaga’ can be viewed at www.youtube. com/watch?v=5762KVuyGrM.

most as popular as the Holy Week processions and El Paso Passion of Christ re-enactment on Good Friday.

Andalucia in general and the coastal areas in particular are proving to be extremely attractive to visitors this Easter.

The number of bookings, length of visits and average spending provision are leading those in the tourism industry to start feeling hopeful for a better year.

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INDEX News 1 - 20 Finance 21 - 26 Leapy Lee 31 flickr by Silvia Orduna

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Daily TV 34 Time Out 36 - 37 Letters 38 Pets 40 Health & Beauty 44 - 45 Services 50 - 52 Classifieds 53 - 54 Motoring 55 Sport 56

MARO: One of Andalucia’s not-to-be-missed beaches.

Maro Beach in Top 10 for Easter

MARO Beach has been declared one of the 10 beaches in Andalucia to visit at Easter in Spanish newspaper El Pais’s travel supplement El Viajero.

Maro was placed fourth on the list before Baños de Claudio in Tarifa. The supplement considered the beach to be one of those

that shouldn’t be missed in spring, stating: “The excellent beach is 200 metres long, sheltered by wild rockfaces and is completed by a surveillance tower. These are the best months to visit to avoid the summer crowds of the Costa del Sol.” Tourism Councillor Bernardo Pozuelo said it

was another sign of Nerja’s popularity with tourism guides and supplements, noting that it also appeared recently in the Repsol Guide as one of the 10 most charming villages in Spain.

ABC national newspaper also recently referred to the cliffs of Maro as some of the most beautiful in Spain.

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NEWS Course success UNEMPLOYED residents of Almuñecar and La Herradura were given diplomas for their participation on 400-hour training courses launched by the town council to boost their chances of finding a job.

Say cheese MALAGA police have used security camera recordings to identify and arrest two men in their 20s who had stolen clothing from the same shop four times in six months.

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Rincon races against cancer MORE than 500 people are expected to participate in the second Women’s Race against Cancer, which will take place in Rincon de la Victoria on April 12.

Women, men and children are welcome to join the sporting event, which will also involve entertainment and zumba sessions.

Councillor for Sports, Lydia Montes, who announced the event, explained that the sixkilometre race can be completed by running or walking.

The finishing point will be located in Huerta Julian this year, so that members of the Association of People with Disabilities AMIRAX can also take part in the race.

The race starts at noon at Rincon de la Victoria’s tourist office.

It costs €6 to sign up, which can be done at www.traitlongmalaga.es or at the Sports Centre Ruben Rufaza in Torre de Benagalbon, with all proceeds going to the Association of Childhood Cancer Volunteers of Malaga (AVOI). Registration is open until April 8 at 2pm.

Winning number FIRST prize tickets for a National Lottery draw were sold at the Carretera de Coin in Malaga City, meaning lucky winning ticketholders will be pocketing €300,000.

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New decoration LOCAL artist and municipal worker of Almuñecar, Jose Cabrera has designed and carried out the decoration of public benches near Puerta del Mar in the Trencadis or Gaudistyle. “This is the best thing to ever happen to me,” said Mr Cabrera.

A TOTAL of 2,400 people visited the new Russian State Art Museum in Malaga City on Thursday March 26, the first full day it was open to the public.

Air festival FIFTEEN aircraft will fly above Motril on June 21 as part of the 10th International Air Festival, announced the mayor Luisa Garcia Chamorro.

New facilities BENAMOCARRA Council inaugurated last Saturday (March 28) a new €1.5 million indoor sports centre as well as a medical clinic which cost €700,000.

Fatal accident A MAN died and another was injured in a motorbike accident near the Palacio de Ferias y Congresos in Malaga City, 112 Emergency Services reported.

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Traffic resumed NERJA’S Calle Diputacion has been reopened to traffic after improvement works carried out over two and a half months. After the Easter holidays, the street will be repaved.

Street closed THE stretch of road between Paseo del Altillo and Calle Helga Söhnel in Almuñecar, which was to be open for the Easter holidays, will not be as a fault in a wall makes it dangerous for passersby.

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Tasting room SEVILLA FERIA: One of the most internationally recognised Andalucian spring celebrations.

Sevilla in April, a citysized party not to miss PROBABLY one of the most internationally recognised Andalucian spring celebrations, the Feria de Abril in Sevilla is held every year during the third week after Easter.

But if you want to go you had better hurry to book a hotel as accommodation will be almost impossible to get at the time.

Running from April 21-26 this year, the fair officially starts at midnight on the Monday and runs until the following Sunday, although eager party-goers have in recent years begun to start celebrating as early as the Saturday beforehand.

The name almost caused a problem in 1973 as the fair was actually held on May 1-6. To stop arguments, the authorities brought the inauguration forward to 9pm on the Monday, April 30.

Traditionally known as the Noche del Pescaito

Quote of the Week I want to sweep away trouble-makers,” said Xavier Garcia Albiol, mayor of Badalona (Barcelona) following arrests of suspected jihadists, explaining that his so-called town cleaning was not a campaign against immigrants, but one against conflictive people of any race or background.

(Night of the Fish) due to the fact that people traditionally ate fish for dinner on the night, Monday 20 will see thousands head for the Real de la Feria fairground between Los Remedios and Tablada districts to see the lights turned on at midnight.

Dating back to the 1840s, the fair was originally organised as a livestock fair by the city council and held in Prado de San Sebastian on the outskirts of Sevilla.

An air of festivity appeared after a year or two when three casetas (temporary marquees) were set up by the Duke and Duchess of Montpensier, the town hall and Sevilla’s Casino. These casetas were the first examples of the more than 1,000 mostly private tents which families, clubs and groups set up on the fairground streets each year within which to drink, dance and be merry.

Number of the week

2,600,000

is the number of women who recently admitted to being afraid of their partners during a survey on gender violence in Spain.

THE first wine tasting room of the Costa Tropical was inaugurated on Tuesday (March 31) at the Catering School of Salobreña, designed to teach students about wine tasting methods.

Obsessive art AN EXHIBITION by painter Lucio Muñoz titled ‘Repetitions and Obsessions’ will be held until April 14 at the Casa Fuerte Bezmiliana of Rincon de la Victoria.

Quick work MALAGA City firemen were called out on Sunday evening (March 29) to put out a blaze by the Alcazaba castle. Although the flames were impressive, the fire brigade later reported only about 10sqm of plants were affected.

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MADRID’S emergency services will be speeding to the rescue with a new Porsche Cayenne which has been donated to Samur ambulance team. The car, worth more than €77,000, will carry vital equipment to help keep patients who have suffered a heart attack alive until they reach hospital.

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€1.7 million boost for employment MOTRIL COUNCIL will receive €1.7 million, allocated by the Junta de Andalucia regional government, for the creation of employment in the town.

Mayor Luisa Garcia Chamorro explained that the money would be distributed in two main projects, one for young people under 25 years old, which would benefit from more than €1 million of the financial aid, while the rest would go to a plan earmarked for residents above that age.

“They will be able to benefit from six-month contracts, full-time and with the base salary for each professional category,” she remarked.

Residents who are recipients of social aid and are long-term unemployed with or without income, will have priority access to the programme.

Painter with a golden touch THE hunt is on for an unknown person who has been painting a town’s rubbish bins gold.

Up to 10 different pieces of urban furniture were painted last week in gold by the ‘artist’.

But when the culprit is tracked down, Rincon de la Victoria’s mayor Francisco Salado doesn’t want to prosecute, but instead seek ways to work with

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ITH Spring springing and clocks jumping, the overwhelming urge to clear out the old and bring in the new may never have been so significant.

The economic crisis of the last few years appears to have subsided and people are feeling a new era beginning. The UK Coalition Government has run its five-year course and died a graceful death, now allowing the UK to choose a new way forward.

The Spanish regional elections are due to take place in May - apart from Andalucia where they were held early - followed by a general election later in the year.

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New transparency laws and procedures seem to be the height of fashion throughout Europe at the moment, which, while holding large corporations and government officials openly accountable for their actions, should have the larger, longterm benefit of making them work for the public good instead of themselves. The EU reformation issue is high on all member states’ agendas, and it is up to the people to decide how to change it.

Maybe now is the time! This year, this Spring. We should take a moment, sit down and think about the important voting matters and decisions that could affect the next five years of our lives.

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New fire station THE first stone for Nerja’s new fire department headquarters was laid last Monday, March 30,

by Maria Francisca Caracual, Vice-president of Malaga Provincial Council.

Power cut the painter.

This is beacuse there has been a significant and positive response amongst local people on social media, with many people commenting that the furniture looked better after the ‘makeover’.

“This is not the right way to do things, but if the author has a project to improve the furniture of Rincon de la Victoria, he or she should present it at the town hall and we will discuss it,” said Mayor Salado.

“The urban furniture is owned by the whole town and we at the council are the ones to decide its colour. The author should have contacted us first, as many other street artists have done before, and we

PART of Line One of Malaga City’s underground was closed on Sunday, March 29, due to a power cut. Only a few stations were affected and Line Two continued to operate as normal.

Art show Street furniture turns gold. have made agreements to decorate areas such as El Cantal and the surroundings of the Totalan River,” he said.

The mysterious golden pieces of furniture have also appeared in Malaga City, in the areas of El Ejido and near the Contemporary Arts Centre.

ENGLISH painter Brendon Taylor and Frigiliana-born artist Maribel Martin inaugurated an exhibition in El Apero (Frigiliana). It can be visited until April 30, from Monday to Friday between 10am and 5.30pm and on Saturday and Sunday from 10am to 2pm and from 4pm to 8pm.

More turn to Social Services SO far this year, Motril Social Services Department has helped more than 2,500 people.

The data for the first three months of 2015 was announced by head of the department, Angeles Lopez Cano, who explained that the number of people in need has multiplied if compared with those registered at the beginning of 2014.

“On the whole, the increase in the number of people requesting our help has been generated by the precarious financial situation of many families, who have seen their income and quality of life drop with the financial crisis,” said Lopez.

She went to comment that these families turn to the town’s Social Services as a last resort.

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Special needs girl to change schools THE parents of the girl with special needs whose classmates stopped attending lessons due to alleged problems resulting from a lack of specialised support for her, have decided she will change schools.

As reported in last week’s edition of Euro Weekly News, her classmates’ parents claimed their children were being attacked and insulted by the girl, who has an autism-related disorder, and stopped taking their children to classes for three days as a protest against the disruption.

However, the girl’s parents said no one had tried to contact them, as others had claimed, and that their child was not receiving the special education needed in a case like hers.

“The most important thing in this case is her health and wellbeing. This is why her parents, following the recommendation of psychiatrists and psychologists, have decided that their daughter will not continue her education at the Gregorio Marañon

school in La Cala del Moral, after coming to the conclusion that the centre is a hostile environment for her special needs,” said the spokesperson for the girl’s family, Francisco Arjona.

“The school and Regional Education Department have already been informed of their decision. She will not come back to this centre and we are already searching for another one,” explained Arjona.

Not only did the parents decide to change schools, but they stated that they would be pursuing legal action, saying: “She has been discriminated against, excluded and segregated.

Several of her fundamental rights have been violated.”

Carmen Morales, Head of VIAndalucia, an association for people with disabilities, stated: “If the same situation happened to any other child, we would be talking about ‘bullying’, but due to her disability, she is the one accused of attacking the whole class.”

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Bilingual nursery opens its doors THE first bilingual public nursery school in Rincon de la Victoria was officially opened on Tuesday (March 31).

Mayor Francisco Salado, together with Education councillor, Lydia Montes, presided over the inauguration event at the school, which will offer 82 places for children, from babies to three-years-old.

The facilities have been built on a single floor, 500sqm in area, at a cost of €1.2 million, paid for by the Junta de Andalucia regional government and the town council.

“This was one of the most requested services and represents a new step towards education which will allow children to learn English from a young age,” said the mayor.

Cliff fall rescue Sharpening A YOUNG man was rescued on Sunday (March 29) in Nerja, after falling down a small cliff in the area of Cala del Pino beach.

Civil Protection staff were alerted at 7.11pm by his friends, who explained that the man had fallen and they could not pull him up.

A rescue operation was started and the Guardia Civil, Local Police, and Fire Brigade alerted.

The area was difficult to access and the man had to be rescued by boat.

He was finally taken to the Axarquia regional hospital with minor injuries.

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MORE than 200 farmers from the Costa Tropical municipalities took part in the Subtropical Agriculture Conference organised by Almuñecar Council.

“The goal is that avocado and mango farmers have the chance to obtain further knowledge and improve their skills. These plantations represent the majority of the 16,000 cultivation hectares the Costa Tropical and Axarquia area have,” said the organisers.

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New heliport THE heliport of Archidona, which will allow for the fast transfer of patients in critical health conditions, was inaugurated last Friday (March 27) by the town mayor, Francisco Jimenez.

More art THE Museo Picasso Malaga has extended its opening hours this Easter and will be open from 10am till 8pm every day until Sunday, April 5.

Safe beaches THE Beach Department of Nerja’s Council has launched a special lifeguard service to be operational during the Easter holidays. The service will run until April 6.

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URBAN INITIATIVE: Archidona councillers present the new pamphlet.

Keeping the streets clean

ARCHIDONA COUNCIL has launched a pamphlet entitled ‘Manual of a Good Neighbour’ to improve the urban environment of the town.

Mayor Francisco Jimenez, Environment Councillor Juan Antonio Lara and other council representatives presented the brochure, which was pro-

A clearer passage THE passageway Horno Nuevo in Motril will undergo renovation work paid for by the town council.

Mayor Luisa Garcia Chamorro said in a press conference that the project would cost €5,000. The plan is to improve its walls and roof, as well as to remove obstacles in order to facilitate access for people with disabilities.

duced following requests from local people.

The pamphlet focuses on important aspects suggested by citizens including the optimisation of cleaning work and the issue of owners who do not clean up after their pets.

“Now there are no excuses not to have an even cleaner town,” said the mayor.

The brochure reminds everyone to close rubbish bags and put them in the appropriate bins and has a list of dates for discarded furniture collection.

THE new rugby field in Rincon de la Victoria was inaugurated last Saturday, March 28.

With a budget of €1.39 million, the facilities are also home to two seven-a-side football pitches and have been designed with latest-generation artificial turf.

In addition, there are changing rooms, a gym and a social club.

The pitch was named after Manuel Becerra, a Malaga sports journalist, who passed away in 2011.

Representatives of the council and provincial government paid tribute to Manual Becerra in an emotional remembrance speech.

The facilities have been fully paid for by Malaga Provincial Council and were built on a municipal plot of land of 12,500 square metres, in the area of the Parque Victoria residential complex.

A total of 400 square metres were used to build the changing rooms and 2,376 square metres for the car park.

School sports day ENRIQUE Lopez Cuenca Stadium in Nerja was filled with young athletes for the final stage of Nerja’s 17th School Athletics Games.

Nearly 800 schoolchildren qualified for the team finals during rounds held across local schools in January, which saw approximately 2,500 take part.

The event was organised by the council’s sports department and Nerja Athletics Club.

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Drug haul confiscated in Motril GUARDIA CIVIL officers have confiscated a total of 306 kilograms of hashish in the port of Motril.

The drug haul was found inside a hidden compartment of a van driven by a 35-year-old

Moroccan man who was travelling from Melilla, according to the information released by Guardia Civil.

Authorities found the drugs during a routine search performed on vehicles disembark-

ing from the Volcan de Tinamar ship.

Two sniffer dogs alerted the officers to the possible existence of drugs inside the ceiling of the vehicle.

They found hashish, distrib-

uted in 259 packets and 13 blocks, which weighed 206 kilos.

The drugs were confiscated and the driver has been taken into custody and is awaiting trial.

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Fire damage A FIRE in a building in Calle Panaderos, Torre del Mar (Velez-Malaga) forced the fire brigade to evacuate seven residents on March 28.

Eleven vehicles were damaged.

Meet young TWO out of the four catsharks born in the Almuñecar Aquarium back in November can now be seen by visitors. The rest are still in quarantine, as keepers need to control their development.

CALLE TATO: The abandoned home belongs to the town council.

House ruins to be demolished A PROPERTY in ruins on Calle Tato in Motril will be demolished. The abandoned home is located next to the Casa Garach and belongs to the town council.

Once the work is completed, the Casa Garach’s façade will be expanded.

Another 11 properties in the town will also be demolished. The council explained that procedures to demolish a property usually begin with requests from neighbours, as abandoned buildings can cause damp problems and other damage.

Dance show THE Casa de la Cultura of Almuñecar will host a flamenco show on Saturday (April 4) at 9.30pm which features flamenco artists Jara and Marina Heredia.

Emergency police contact app without speaking A NEW app for your iPhone or android that allows you to report a crime instantly without having to speak

Spanish is now available.

For some, and in some instances, the thought of having to speak to the Guardia Civil when they have been the victim of a crime, is almost as bad as the crime itself.

As of this week, that should be a thing of the past with the release of a Mobile app called ‘AlertCops.’

SPAIN was one of 172 countries to The Ministry of the Interior switch off lights around the planet as had supported development of part of the World Wide Fund for Nathe new app which is already ture’s (WWF) Earth Hour project. set up in Madrid, Alicante, and Earth Hour is a yearly event to highMalaga, and have released a light climate change and how we can video guide to help explain its positively contribute to reducing globfunctionality. al emissions.

The new app will ask you to Lights were switched off in homes download and install from and at major national monuments Google Play or Apple, then to register and confirm by return across the planet, with national sites SMS. such as the Eiffel Tower and the SydOnce this is done and you are ney Harbour Bridge going dark for an accepted, you will be free to rehour last Saturday. port any crime directly to the In Spain, Madrid’s royal palace and authorities without speaking the iconic bridge in Ronda switched Spanish. The app speaks both! off the electricity, highlighting Spain’s commitment to the global environIn addition, with the GPS funcment. tion linked your location is known as well.

Spain switches off the lights for Earth Hour

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Robbery suspect found in shop A 33-YEAR-OLD man has been arrested in Motril on suspicion of breaking and entering.

Local Police were alerted by a witness who reported seeing a man forcing open the door of a

bar, finally breaking into it. The man was also seen going in and out of the bar several times.

Police immediately headed to the scene, confirming that the

front door had been forced and that someone had been inside the facilities. Officers also found several tools outside the bar, which were believed to have been used to enter the

building. In addition, they noticed that the till had been put on the floor.

Officers entered the bar and, once inside, they went into a supermarket which is connect-

ed from the inside.

There, they encountered the suspect, who tried to escape upon seeing the police.

After taking him into custody, police saw that the man had piled up several boxes of products with the alleged purpose of stealing them.

Police believe that the man could be responsible for at least other seven robberies that have occurred in Motril.

Campaign launched for pet neutering SALOBREÑA Council’s Environment Department has launched a campaign to raise awareness of the importance of sterilising domestic pets.

The campaign, which has the support of the newly-created Animal Rights Protection Association of Salobreña (CIRAS) and other institutions, is also aimed at preventing the abandonment of dogs, cats and other animals, which has increased in recent years.

The initiative explains the advantages of having all pets neutered to avoid having to deal with unwanted litters.

The campaign involves local vets taking to the air-waves to explain all the processes involved, as well as producing informative posters, according to head of the department, Martin Valenzuela.

In addition, all owners who wish to sterilise their pets will be able to get a discount of almost 70 per cent on the original cost.

Pet owners who are registered on the town’s padron (census) will only have to visit a local veterinary clinic and fill in a form to become eligible for the discount.

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Velez-Malaga gives vegetable patch to charity association A CHARITY association has been granted a municipal allotment in Velez-Malaga to grow vegetables.

Councillor for General Services Francisco Natera presided over the event to hand over the plot to local association ADUSMAX (Association for Mental Health Users of the Axarquia), represented by Head, Soledad Rodriguez.

The plot has a sur-

face of 50 square metres which will serve to launch a social project for members of the association.

“The main goals of the project are to train users on agricultural techniques, provide specific training, activate citizens’ participation and contribute to social interaction and integration of the group members,” said Councillor Natera.

Book-swap service A NEW book-swapping service has been launched at the Villa de Nerja cultural centre.

Books in a variety of languages have already been donated, and although it has only been running for a few days, the scheme is already proving to be popular.

All readers need to do is take a book they no longer wish to keep and swap it for another free-of-charge.

Extra books can also be donated.

NEWS Students show off new skills MUNICIPAL dance and music school pupils have been holding dance festivals and concerts at the Villa de Nerja cultural centre to show off their newfound skills.

Dance pupils displayed the techniques they have been picking up at classes in various styles including classical, modern and regional dances.

Meanwhile, singers and musicians playing piano, keyboard, accordion, guitar, violin, saxophone, clarinet, flute and percussion joined forces to offer classical pieces by Bach, Schumann and Beethoven interspersed with chamber music and choral pieces.

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British couple murdered

By Jan Gamm FORMER British Olympic diver and retired engineer Peter David Tarsey and his wife Jean, both 77, were found shot dead, lying in each other’s arms in their Jalon, Costa Blanca villa on Sunday. The couple had not been seen for days.

A British friend of the couple, a local estate agent who prefers not to be named, had gone to the house when she was unable to contact them by telephone. She said she was still in a state of shock after finding their bodies.

“The Tarseys were my closest friends,” she said, “I still can’t believe it.”

A Guardia Civil spokesman said the Tarseys appeared to have been shot with a small calibre weapon and were lying on the sofa in their lounge, shell casings scattered on the floor. The deaths are being treated as homicide subject to post-mortem examinations yet to be carried out at the time of going to press. It is possible the couple had been dead since Friday March 27.

No gunshots had been heard. A television was missing from the house and the safe had been unsuccessfully tampered with; inside there was no money, only documents.

A computer was found in the swimming pool. The Tarseys’ pet dog, Domino, was found wandering about the house.

Jean Tarsey did a lot of work for local charities, including a dog shelter.

David Tarsey (he preferred to use his middle name) was a familiar face in Jalon’s popular Alleluya Bar. His absence since the end of last week was put down to having some dental work carried out.

Their villa, on the market for €260,000, had been a target of burglars in the past. The couple were hoping to move to Mallorca to

be closer to one of their grown-up sons.

The Foreign and Com-

monwealth Office said: “We stand ready to provide consular assistance.”

POLICE: Stand guard outside the couple’s Jalon villa.

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Town app IOS-ready THE Velez-Malaga municipal app has been made available for IOS (iPhone operating system) users to download on mobile devices.

Councillor for New Technologies, Concepcion Labao, announced the news last Friday, March 27, and explained that those residents using IOS on iPhone, iPod touch or iPad devices could use the app to find news on cultural and sports activities, other events, municipal social platforms, pictures of the town, as well as allowing residents to make proposals to the council.

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Chess competition THE Cooperativa La Palma in Motril will hold a chess tournament on Saturday April 4 at 10am and 4pm.

Registration is free and open to all.

Russian connection VUELING airlines has announced a new route from Malaga-Costa del Sol Airport to St Petersburg in Russia.

Two weekly flights will be in operation from May 2 until September.

Day centre inaugurated A NEW day-care centre for people with disabilities of the association AMIRAX has been inaugurated in Rincon de la Victoria by Mayor Francisco Salado. It will provide a service to almost 30 residents.

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Spain considers renewing citizenship after 500 years THE Spanish Government is considering issuing citizenship to descendants of Jews expelled from Spain in 1492.

If the law passes through the Upper Chamber of the Spanish Parliament, the application process would start at the end of the year.

Around 300,000 Jewish people lived in Spain at the time, but they were ordered to either convert to the Catholic religion or leave the country by Catholic King

DRIVEN OUT: Jews were expelled from Spain in 1492. and Queen Ferdinand and Isabella.

Thousands of Muslims faced the same harsh

High-speed, no return NONE of Spain’s high-speed AVE train lines is making a profit, says a report released by the Spanish Foundation for the Studies of Applied Economics (Fedea), The report claims that the huge investment made by the government, which runs into billions of euros, is “neither beneficial to businesses nor society,” and does not compensate for savings made in flight or driving time.

Spain currently has more than 2,515 kilometres of AVE rail lines, with another 1,200 kilometres being built at the moment; this is one of the most extensive rail systems on the planet, but Spain currently has a relatively low demand for high-speed rail travel.

The report determines that in Spain there were only 11,800 passengers for

OFF TRACK: Profits for the AVE. every kilometre of AVE line in Spain, compared to 158,121 passengers per kilometre in Japan, reflecting the much higher train usage in the Asian economic superpower.

The report adds that although numbers of train passengers are projected to increase rapidly in the next five years, only an increase in ticket prices will recover the cost of investment.

Artwalk tour launched with a chance to meet artists THE Competa Artwalk, which started on April 1, will offer an opportunity to meet international artists until Sunday, April 5.

According to the organisers, Competa is well-known for its artistic and creative environment; it has an open, tolerant, friendly and welcoming culture and a wide range of artists, sculptors, writers and musicians.

Painting, photography, graphic art, drawings, stoneware pottery, ceramic art, bronze sculptures, turned wood and textiles pieces will be displayed

around the town’s centre, created by artists from places including Germany, The Netherlands and Spain.

This year the event will feature live music for the first time, at various venues.

There will be guided tours offered daily from the blue kiosk in the main car park at 11am and 2pm.

For more information visit http://www.artcompeta.com, www.facebook.com/artcompeta or the town’s Tourist Information Centre.

decision at the time.

If the law is passed,

the Spanish Government does not expect most eligible citizens to return to Spain, but thinks that around 90,000 people will apply for dual citizenship.

Descendants of the expelled families are thought to live in the USA, Israel, France, Argentina, Chile, Turkey and Mexico.

If the law goes ahead, applicants for Spanish citizenship will need to prove both their Jewish heritage and their connection to Spain.

One in eight suffer abuse ONE in eight women in Spain have suffered gender-based violence at some point in their lives, a new study has revealed.

The new Macro-survey on Violence Against Women 2015 revealed that 12.5 per cent of women aged 16 and over living in Spain have suffered some form of physical or sexual aggression at the hands of their partners or former partners.

The results of the study, presented by Health, Social Services and Equality Minister Alfonso Alonso, also revealed that 77.6 per cent of victims manage to overcome the effects of abuse and create new lives for themselves.

Alonso stressed that the number of women who manage to overcome the effects of abuse has increased since the last study, carried out in 2011, and launched an appeal for society to continue supporting women to leave abuse behind.

The investigation, in collaboration with the CIS Sociology Investigation Centre, was based on interviews with 10,171 women in Spain aged 16 and over.

The survey revealed that 25.4 per cent of women have suffered psychological abuse, 21.9 per cent emotional abuse and 10.8 per cent financial abuse.

Mass for royal princesses PRINCESS Leonor of Asturias and her sister, Infanta Sofia, will be appearing in public this Easter after a long spell behind the scenes.

The young princesses, who have not been seen in public since October 12

when they accompanied their parents to a traditional military parade, will be attending Mass at Palma de Mallorca cathedral on Sunday, April 5, with King Felipe and Queen Letizia and their grandmother Doña Sofia.

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Black beaches HEAVY rain in Valencia has helped clean up after the Fallas but beaches near the city are streaked with black from Styrofoam ash washed up by the waves.

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AN exhibition of photographs and paintings of Altea collected over the last 60 years is on display at the Fundación Schlotter until April 26.

MANAGEMENT at Villajoyosa Hospital are investigating claims that a cancer patient had to wait three hours for an ambulance to transport them home after treatment.

On a high A DUTCH national was arrested in Altea for growing hundreds of marihuana plants and defrauding the electricity company by bypassing the official meter supply.

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POLICE have confirmed that a family of four have been found dead in Gibraltar.

The Royal Gibraltar Police said a 31year-old British man, a 37-year-old woman, a four-year-old girl and a sixweek-old baby were found dead on Monday March 30.

Detectives and forensic officers have been working in the flat and the area remains cordoned-off.

Police found the tragic scene after responding to a neighbour’s screams in

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A NEW system is being put in place at the University of Malaga that will allow services to be paid for using mobile phones, eliminating the need to carry cash for coffee, photocopies, etc.

A NEW riverside park and leisure area is being planned by Estepona Council to complement the recently built fair and sports grounds and auditorium in the Arroyo Monterroso area.

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THE mobile phone provider Orange has followed in the footsteps of Movistar and Vodafone and signed agreements with Malaga Metro to provide

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reception for users on the city’s underground.

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A POLL of 200 citizens by San Miguel Town Hall shows 13.7 per cent of those participating never read a newspaper.

FAMILY OF FOUR: Found dead in a Gibraltar house.

MALAGA Province registered the highest minimum temperatures in Spain on Sunday, March 29. A minimum of 20.1 degrees centigrade was recorded at Malaga airport, beating the previous highest minimum for March of 19.4 degrees, registered in 1987.

MORE than 300 athletes from 16 teams from Belgium, Norway, Sweden, France, Ireland and the UK will be training at the Ciudad de Torremolinos sports facilities in April, making the most of the kind climate.

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David Muñoz, Mario Sandoval and Kiko Moya, plus the jury from the ‘Master Chef’ programme.

AFTER a three-year delay, work has restarted on the four-storey Easter Museum located on the Avd de las Habaneras in Torrevieja.

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THE Police Union held a conference in Benidorm to train officers in the province on detecting the warning signs of Jihadism and Islamic radicalisation.

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Boschetti’s Steps, just after 11am. Police said: “Presently, we are not looking for anyone involved in this very unfortunate event, but the investigation will be thorough and detailed drawing on the expertise of other professionals.”

Reportedly the family had been in Spain for some time and had only been in Gibraltar for a few days.

At the present moment, a full investigation is being conducted by officers of the Serious Crime Unit. ‘water motorway’ would distribute water more fairly to different production areas, FERAL said.

IVF figures AROUND 8,500 couples seek help for fertility problems each year in Andalucia, the public health system revealed.

Approximately 700 live in Almeria, where 400 in vitro procedures were carried out in 2014.

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A DRUNK who fired a gun in La Mojonera shot a pedestrian in the buttocks when a bullet ricocheted off a car. He received a 12-month sentence for illegal possession of firearms.

THE Red Cross helped 62,941 people in Almeria Province last year. This was 5 per cent more than in 2013 and 300 per cent above the 2009 figure, the organisation revealed.

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PROVINCIAL irrigation syndicate FERAL called for a link between Beninar and Almanzora reservoirs. The creation of a

FESTIVAL DEGUSTHO ALMERIA will be held from April 11-13 in Huercal-Overa.

Participants include celebrity chefs

RAINFALL in the Segura basin is at nearly 185 litres per square metre, compared to 74.5 litres per square metres last year; more than double the 2014 figure.

Spiderman jailed A THIEF, nicknamed ‘Spiderman,’ has been sentenced to two and a half years in jail for stealing from a house in Cartagena after climbing up to the first floor balcony to take advantage of an open patio door.

Top temperature TORREVIEJA recorded temperature highs of 29.9 degrees at the weekend, the second highest in March since data began. Forecasters predict good weather throughout Easter.

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Permanent work THE number of temporary contracts that turn into permanent contracts in the Balearic Islands has increased by 10.5 per cent in 2014 - from 12,536 in 2013 to 13,800 this year.

Lorry falls A LORRY fell into the water at Palma’s Port on Monday (March 30) at around 12.30pm. Fortunately, there were no casualties as the vehicle was empty at the time of the accident.

Sincere condolences PRESIDENT of the Balearic Islands, Jose Ramon Bauza, and main representatives of the government and other authorities, held a minute’s silence on March 26 to express their condolences for the victims of Germanwings plane crash.

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Cost of war DENMARK: Since the country entered the war against IS in October last year, it has spent nearly a quarter of a billion Krone (€35 million), according to the Defence Ministry.

Disease fight NORWAY: So far, Norway has spent some €58 million on the fight against Ebola in Africa. Due to the risk now being greatly reduced, the government has started to ‘scale down operations’. Health workers were due home this week.

Midnight run NORWAY: The annual Midnight Sun Marathon in Norway is now taking entrants for the day-lit night run. Between May and July the sun never sets in Tromso, meaning this is the only night-time race that doesn’t require head lamps or equipment.

Passport pain DENMARK: 11,000 Danes have received passports with errors, meaning they could be refused entry at control points abroad. A software error caused a failure to imprint the legally required fingerprint on the chip.

from Northamptonshire Police,’ a statement said.

ARMY medic Corporal Anna Cross, aged 25, from Cambridge, who caught Ebola while working as a volunteer in Sierra Leone has been declared free of the disease. She was the first person in the world to be given the experimental Ebola drug MIL 77.

Biggest ever jail BRITAIN’S first titan-sized prison has been given the government go-ahead. The £212 million (€290 million) prison will hold 2,100 inmates. The contract to build Britain’s biggest ever prison was signed just days before Parliament was dissolved for the General Election.

Murder arrest OTIS GOLDSMITH, 49, of the Northamptonshire Police force has been arrested on suspicion of murdering his wife Jill in Wootton.

The murder investigation team ‘will not include anyone

Crippen letters at auction LETTERS written by one of the 20th century’s most notorious murderers, Doctor Crippen, will go on sale in Devizes, Wiltshire, this week. Crippen was executed in November 1910 after poisoning his wife and hiding her dismembered remains under the cellar floor.

Gay prison wedding THE UK’s first gay prison wedding took place when convicted killers tied the knot behind bars.

Mikhail Gallatinov, 40, and fellow inmate Marc Goodwin, 31, were married in the children’s play alcove at the prison’s visitor centre. Both are serving life sentences at Full Sutton Prison, East Yorkshire.

Amanda Knox free THE conviction of Amanda Knox for the murder of UK student Meredith Kercher has been quashed

by Italy’s top appeals court. It is the final ruling in the case following three previous court decisions over the 2007 murder, when Meredith Kercher was stabbed to death in a Perugia apartment.

RUSSIAN PRESS Antarctic reserve UK athlete and swimmer Lewis Pugh has flown to Moscow to discuss the creation of a new marine reserve in the Antarctic’s Ross Sea. He has made long-distance swims in all of the world’s oceans.

A REPRESENTATIVE of the German Labour Ministry was called to a special UN committee to discuss the government’s plan to improve disabled people’s rights. This is hoped to put Germany in line with UN standards.

More needed A RECENT study has found that Germany will need nearly half a million new immigrants per year until 2050, according to a report issued by the Bertelsmann Institute.

Model bank FIDOR BANK has been declared Model Bank of the Year in awards sponsored by research agency Celent at New York’s Carnegie Hall.

Morale high CONSUMER morale has hit its highest level for 13 years, according to a survey. This is expected to increase spending and reduce already low unemployment in the coming year.

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SWEDEN: Poet Tomas Tranströmer, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2011, has died in Stockholm this week at the age of 83. After a stroke in 1990, he lost the power of speech but continued to write and play piano with one hand.

Ebola nurse cured

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BRITISH PRESS Death of Nobel poet

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Witness dead

Guatemalan cosmonaut

A KEY witness who testified against a neoNazi terror cell (the NSU) thought to be behind 10 killings between 2000 and 2007, has been found dead in Kaischtal.

Murder is not initially suspected.

RUSSIA is considering a request from Guatemala to train its first cosmonaut, according to a statement from Russian Foreign Minister, Sergei Lavrov.

Putin requests peace VLADIMIR PUTIN has asked for an ‘immediate cessation of military activities’ in Yemen in a conversation with Iran’s al Alam news network. Iran is suspected of giving supplies and training to Houthi rebels, but denies these claims.

REQUEST: Russia to train Guatemalan cosmonaut.

Jordan reactor

No discussion

RUSSIA has signed a $10 billion (€9.22 billion) deal to build Jordan’s first nuclear reactor. The power plant will be made up of two 1,000 megawatt reactors. Jordan currently imports 96 per cent of its power.

RUSSIA said it was not prepared to discuss restructuring its $3 billion (€2.76 billion) holding of Ukrainian debt. Russian Finance Minister Siluanov then went on to say he considered Russia to be an official, not a private, creditor.

Thai sorrow THAI Prime Minister General Prayuth Chan-Ocha offered his condolences for the Germanwings crash that killed 150 people to German Chancellor Angela Merkel in a telephone message.

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Cheap and cheerful wine SPAIN is now the world’s principal wine-exporter.

Aided by an abundant grape harvest and expanding markets for Spanish bodegas, it exported 2.256 billion litres of wine last year. This topped Italy and France’s figures by a respective 200 million and 800 million litres.

Spain’s bottled wine exports rose 3.4 per cent to 762 million litres, compared with 0.7 per cent for France and 0.2 per cent for Italy.

Despite such good export results, turnover from Spain’s sales abroad fell by 4.6 per cent to €2.522 billion. The tendency to concentrate on cheaper wine,

Euro down, but hopes are up THE 2008 days when €1 was worth $1.60 are unlikely to return.

Parity between both currencies is approaching but the outlook is not all bad, argued Miguel Angel Bernal, lecturer at the International School of Stock Exchange Studies (IEB).

“Parity is a psychological barrier. But it also reflects a devaluated euro,” Bernal said.

The downward tendency would continue, he predicted: “The European Central Bank (ECB) has purchased barely 3 per cent of the assets that it said it would acquire before September 2016.”

Foreign tourists saved the day during the crisis even when the euro was

at its strongest and the more favourable exchange rates will boost business from outside the eurozone.

This will have a specific effect on Britain, one of Spain’s most important tourist sources.

Southern Europe’s eurozone countries have repeatedly stressed the need for devaluation, said Jose Luis Martinez, strategist at Citibank. The exterior sector will be the principal beneficiary as Spain’s exports gain in attraction outside the EU. Bernal agreed that this is particularly true of dollarised countries, Latin America countries and others like Chile whose economy benefits from a strong dollar.

much of it exported in bulk, was allied to a general fall in market prices, sector experts explained.

Spanish wine now sells at an average €1.16 a litre, compared with €1.43 per litre in 2014, putting it at the bottom of a list that is headed by France with an average price per litre of €5.3.

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Taking a toll THE Supreme court turned down cashstrapped toll road operator AMSA’s request to renegotiate its government contracts. Sparse traffic was not an “unforeseen risk” judges told the Abertis, Sacyr and ACS alliance.

Dressing up CLOTHING chain H & M’s first quarter turnover in Spain grew by 12 per cent to 1.816 billion Swedish crowns (€195 million). The retailer now has 163 stores in this country.

O2 goes to Hong Kong TELEFONICA has sold its UK operation O2 to Hutchison Whampoa.

The Spanish multinational and Hong Kong-based Hutchison agreed a purchase price of $10.25 billion (approximately €14 billion).

Hutchison will merge 02 with its existing British mobile company, Three, to create Britain’s largest mobile network. Approval from the regulatory authorities must arrive

before the deal can go through, as this will reduce UK mobile networks to three and could herald higher prices and less competition.

The sale was expected after Hutchison’s billionaire owner Li Kashing announced plans to acquire O2 last January.

Li is the richest man in Asia, with a fortune that Forbes estimates at around €35 billion.

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STAT OF WEEK THE Social Security Reserve Fund’s balance of €66.816 billion in 2011 has shrunk to €41.634 billion. Most of the cash went on pension rises and pensioners’ June and December bonuses.

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Sterling-euro rollercoaster gains pace WE can be excused for thinking that the foreign exchange market is like a rollercoaster at the moment, because this is the way it feels when we look at the recent sharp moves in the Sterling/euro exchange rate.

After the pound recently posted seven-year highs (over 1.4250) in early March, the euro seems to have clawed back some of the heavy losses it suffered in recent months and was trading around 1.3550 at the end of March. This 5 per cent move really feels like a loop-the-loop given how quickly Sterling rose and fell in such a short period of time.

The quantitative easing (QE) programme launched by the European Central Bank (ECB) early in March is yielding its first results, and bodes well for a wider recovery in Europe.

The Eurozone’s businesses are likely to enjoy further improvements over the coming months by encouraging business investment and hiring.

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This should finally put the Eurozone’s recovery on a more sustainable path.

Despite the improvement in the Eurozone, the single currency’s outlook remains negative over the long term.

The QE programme should keep the euro weak, because the ECB will keep interest rates low for an extended period as Mario Draghi floods the market with waves of liquidity until at least September 2016.

Further downside risks might also be exacerbated if uncertainty in Greece and Russia flare up again in the

STERLING/EURO: Has seen recent sharp moves in exchange rate. coming months and undermine both the recovery and investors’ sentiment.

The great British pound has underperformed of late as investors’ confidence is put to the test by the UK’s uncertain political and economic outlooks, which are clouded by the upcoming election in May. Data

released this month showed that Britain is on the cusp of a period of deflation. For the first time since records began in the UK, inflation measured by the consumer prices index has hit zero in the month of March.

This has several implications, but not all of them are necessarily as worrying as the

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word ‘deflation’ might suggest.

As a result of zero inflation, living standards in the UK will rise as people see their wages and salaries stretching further.

The trend of inflation growth will also likely discourage the Bank of England from raising interest rates for longer than investors anticipated.

In a speech to a business club in Rutland, the Bank of England’s chief economist, Andrew Haldane, expressed his view that the inflation risks are more skewed to the downside, and that interest rates may be slashed even further before being raised. The market cheered the news but Sterling suffered. The pound will find it very difficult to rally until data improves or the MCP (Monetary Policy Committee) takes a stronger stance on raising rates. To add to this uncertainty, the electoral race is in a very fine balance so far and we are in for an intriguing journey to the polls.

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Need to shift your home - now’s the time YOUR house in Andalucia is hot property at the moment. According to British press reports the Sterling’s recent rise to a seven-year high against the euro, means that purchasing a place in Spain is becoming more of a reality for many British people thinking of buying abroad.

In fact, reports show that a fifth of foreign buyers in Spain this year are expected to come from Britain, many in search of a bit more sun, but more importantly enticed by the fact that trading £500 at today’s rates means nearly €100 extra to spend, compared with a year ago.

So if you’re a property owner in Spain thinking to upgrade, downgrade

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or just outright sell - now may be your moment. And to get potential buyers interested, remember, it’s vital to do your research and don’t forget about the importance of seemingly trivial details, says a new survey. Selling a property is no easy feat, but a few impor-

tant little changes can make all the difference.

Of course tidiness is important, but just flushing the loo won’t cut it. A person’s first impression is impactful, so you need to make sure it’s a good one.

Clean the house thoroughly and remove junk and clutter. Make it look more like a show house than a very ‘lived-in’ house. This way potential buyers can identify it more with themselves than the family already living there. As buyers want to see a property that they can imagine themselves living in!

Also, if you’re selling the property for a sad personal reason, keep that information to yourself. Nearly a quarter of

buyers questioned in the survey admitted that unburdening personal information, such as, the reasons for a marriage break-up was considered extremely off-putting behaviour. Potential buyers admit that they are not in the market of sympathy buying.

Positivity is essential. You may be bored of your house, but that is no need to point out faults or blurt out little asides, like how the drains tend to smell in the heat. Remember this could be a potential future property for some buyers so don’t dampen their dream.

Finally something so easy but so effective is to have fresh coffee on the brew. The smell will delight any buyer, as might some freshly baked bread!

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What came first, Easter or the egg?

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ITH all the hype about Easter, the parades, chocolate eggs and Easter bunnies, you may wonder, what has the ‘egg’ got to do with religion?

Well! Easter eggs, also known as Paschal eggs, were, and in some parts of the world still are, decorated eggs that are often given to celebrate

Easter or springtime. As such, Easter eggs have become synonymous with the season of Eastertide or ‘Easter season’.

The oldest traditions were to use dyed and painted chicken eggs, but the pastime is ancient. Evidence shows that the idea predated Christian traditions, and ostrich eggs have been found in Africa with engraved decorations that are 60,000 years old.

Eggs, in general, were a traditional sym-

bol of fertility and rebirth. In Christianity, they were used for the celebration of Eastertide.

The belief is that the Easter egg symbolises the empty tomb of Jesus. And although the egg appears to be like the stone of a tomb, a bird hatches from it bursting into life. Therefore, for Christians, the Easter egg is a reminder that Jesus rose from the grave.

Many Central European coun-

SYMBOLIC: Eggs represent fertility and rebirth.

tries take the decorating of Easter eggs very seriously.

For the Bulgarians, Czechs, Polish, and Russians to name but a few, Easter eggs are a popular symbol of new life.

Typically they are dyed red to represent the blood of Christ shed on the Cross, and breaking the hard shell represents breaking the tomb and releasing new life.

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EASTER SPECIAL

Getting out of prison for Easter ONE of the most unique traditions of the Spanish Easter festivities is the ‘indulto,’ when inmates who meet a certain criteria are absolved and released from prison.

The tradition originated in Spain during the 18th century and has survived to this day as a way to commemorate the Passion of Christ. Even though there are no laws that make it compulsory, the tradition has been kept by all governments, regardless of their political ideology.

Traditionally, religious brotherhoods are in charge of choosing the inmates from amongst local prisons. They have to meet the same criteria requested for a regular reprieve which are related to justice, equity and public utility.

Not all inmates proposed are set free.

The last decision is made by the Church and a Judge.

Inmates who have reached the open prison regime and did not commit murder or homicide crimes are common recipients of this pardon.

After they are released from prison, they are often invited by the brother-

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EASTER PARDON: Inmate will be released in a symbolic ceremony. hood who requested their reprieve to dress in penitent attire and participate with the rest of the brothers in a local procession.

The Minister Committee has chosen 11 inmates this year who are to be set free, from Malaga, Granada, Alicante, Valencia, Zaragoza, Sevilla, Valladolid, Teruel and Salamanca.

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Where to visit on Easter weekend WITH the weather looking lovely for Semana Santa and the Easter weekend here’s some exciting suggestions for activities in Andulucia.

Cabo de Gata Take a walk in Almeria’s 700 square kilometre Cabo de Gata national park. Beautifully untouched, Almeria’s Cabo de Gata has some lovely remote spots and when the weather is good, Cabo de Gata has some great opportunities for a walking and snorkelling combination over the holiday.

Visit Spain’s Wild West Get that Clint Eastwood feeling and visit Mini Hollywood in Almeria’s desert.

Not only are some original film sets of Sergio Leone’s Westerns still here, but there’s also western ‘movie performances’ and gunfights performed here on a daily basis. A great day out for parents with children!

Experience Andalucia’s capital Visit Sevilla over the sacred week, visiting the historic city of Don Juan, Oranges and Woman. Sevilla is well known for its spectacular processions, street theatre and tapas, all of which you can sample before it gets too hot in the summer months. There’s plenty to explore in the terms of city monuments, with Sevilla’s Cathedral usually coming first on people’s list.

Visit Gibraltar and say hello to the apes Gibraltar’s Upper Rock Nature Reserve really is quite impressive, and depending on how energetic you’re feeling you can either take a walk or the cable car up this remarkable limestone mountain.

You’ll get a brief taste of North Africa when you meet the apes, although they’re sometimes far from ‘friendly.’

SEVILLA CATHEDRAL: First on people’s list to visit.

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OTHERS THINK IT

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ELL, that was the week of pure arrogance that was.

Four jumped-up pillocks. Three who should know better, and one who thought we all came over on the last banana boat.

First on the big A List is that total berk, Jeremy Paxman. I, like many others, was truly looking forward to the party leaders’ TV ‘debate’. An opportunity to hear their ideas and visions of the future and also open themselves to unedited examination by an audience of a cross-section of the public.

Instead we got a man, generally used to bullying young university students, so pumped up with his own ego, he thought it perfectly acceptable to sandbag

both party leaders. Snidely delivering a couple of aggressive questions, that he no doubt thought were very clever, merely resulted in both leaders spending most of their limited time defending what was basically the indefensible.

I’m sure it all made this idiot feel really important, but frankly it robbed the public of a whole range of questions we’d have been far more interested in hearing the answers to. If we had wanted the ‘Paxo The Prat’ show we could have waited for University Challenge.

Second A List contender of the week is another Jeremy.

Personally I’ve never been able to stand Clarkson, another arrogant oaf. I don’t normally have good words for the BBC, but full marks for sacking this bully for chinning a (much smaller in stature) producer for nothing more than the fact that his [Clarkson’s] already oversized gut wasn’t being supplied with a

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DROPPED: Full marks to the BBC for getting rid of Jeremy Clarkson. hot meal the following day.

Third is that awful pontificating Keith Vaz, who, for some inexplicable reason, seems to keep being picked to head up some leftie influenced committee or another. This latest act of

his continuing arrogance is connected with his handling of the accusations of number four on my A List, the father of one of the girls who absconded to join the IS in Syria. He was arrogant enough to think he could get

away with blaming the police and authorities for his daughter’s radicalisation, swearing in front of the inquiry, chaired by Vaz, that he knew nothing about IS and their dealings.

It was subsequently revealed that he was in fact an active Islamic radical himself, having been pictured burning the American flag in front of the American Embassy in a mob which also included hate preacher Anjem Choudary and one of the killers of soldier Lee Rigby. Vaz made him and his whole family seem like victims of some appalling crime, and actually got the Met Police commissioner to offer a grovelling apology.

Will any of my A Listers issue any type of apology for their actions? Don’t hold yer breath, they’re far too arrogant!

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April brings signs for change

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

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PPROACH April with a fresh vision, light heart and open mind. Spring is here and it is time to embrace the new.

This month begins with the full, eclipsed moon ruled by the sign of peace loving Libra.

This sign is reminding you to create balance, to notice where you are perhaps sacrificing your own needs or demanding too much from yourself and others. On this full moon day write a list of what you really need in all areas of your life, from health to wealth, in your work and relationships.

This will help you to prioritise so that you spend time and energy focused only on what you really need. This is different to what you want.

For example, you need to eat a healthy diet, but you want

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AS the phenomenon of male emasculation produced gene-rations of young people unlikely to cope in an environment that the older generation thrived in?

I wonder, do I reflect the views of those who, like me, were born in the 1940s and 1950s.

Whilst men and women are equal, we are wired differently.

Men are programmed to teach younger men to survive by example, accept challenge even when it hurts, to defend by aggression if need be, to survive through self-sufficiency.

The woman’s role is complementary.

The harmony created by the piano’s black and white keys works well, but chaos reigns when the difference becomes blurred.

Women, to some extent, replaced men when change in society led to easy divorce and the impotence of the father figure.

As a consequence

NEW MONTH: Sends a message to think about what needs are the most important to you. to eat chocolate. Once you start looking at the difference between your wants and needs, you will become instantly clear about what is important to you.

Until April 20, the sun is ruled by the fiery sign of Aries.

Under the influence of this sign you will feel more coura-

geous, confident and energised. Make bold steps forward and your willingness to try new avenues will be rewarded.

The new moon in Aries on April 18 will help you to forge a new pathway. As Aries is the first sign of the zodiac, your leadership skills may be needed so trust in your ability

to guide others.

April is the fourth month of the year, and in Numerology the message of this number is to consider the foundations of your life. In order for new beginnings to take root, your foundations need to be firm.

So release from your daily routine now anything which may be taking up unneces-

sary energy. This is a great time to begin a new exercise regime to become more flexible, perhaps taking up swimming or Yoga. The more flexible your body the more easily you will be able to navigate your way through the twists and turns of life.

The fourth card in the Major Arcana Tarot deck is the Emperor.Depicted as an authoritative figure, with the head of the ram either side of the throne, this card is encouraging you to be your own authority. Once you are clear about your own needs, and communicate this respectfully to others, you will feel more at peace.

As the sun moves into Taurus on April 20, your plans will find the ground they need to grow, flourish and bloom.

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The betrayed generations Mike Walsh Mike, based in Mediterranean Spain, is an international journalist, author and professional writer.

woman’s natural protectiveness and the absence of alpha male guidance has left generations vulnerable.

The young may find it difficult to cope if a collapsed economy or civil unrest leads to a situation in which the old skills and disciplines are essential to survival.

It does happen; we could all go the way of Greece or Ukraine.

Millions did live reasonably contentedly in the USSR. When change brought about economic collapse, unimaginable hardship became their lot almost overnight.

Many, according to recent polls,

prefer the old certainties of Soviet life. Doesn’t say much for the EU, does it?

Immigrants come for handouts, not hand-ups.

Those born after the war were expected to team- work with families.

We lit fires, helped to cook, grew and caught food, fixed our own bikes, made our own fun, got into scrapes. We delivered

groceries and newspapers. I was 10 years old when my brother and I helped Welsh foresters drop trees. It was a rite of passage.

Self-sufficiency was the mainstay of independence.

We lived meagrely and experienced real hardship.

The food we ate had its feet or roots on. Boys

were inspired by truly great men: warriors, philan-thropists, great civil engineers, adventurers, writers. We too had sports icons but they were rare because they truly were exceptional.

We started work, which was often tough, within days of leaving school at the age of 15. Many of my classmates went on the

DIFFERENT TIMES: We started work at age 15.

building sites or into the armed forces.

At 16, young sailors like me, when the situation demanded it, hauled baulks of heavy timber from 4am to midnight in frozen seas. Conditions set the clocks, sleep and rest came secondary.

Within days of slipping the bowline, we had no idea where our destination was to be: Japan, Australia, East Africa. If you are young, don’t shudder. Our lives were rich by comparison to young people’s lives today.

I am glad for the comforts taken for granted by those filling dead men’s boots. I do hope that the lives of the following generations continue without there ever being the necessity for their acquiring lost skills or paying the price for their not doing so.

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CAPRICORN (December 22 - January 20) Storms in tea-cups need loads of sweet-talking. Of course, if you can’t be bothered with it all, fair enough; keeping quiet could be the best way to deal with problems, glitches or sudden backfires.

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

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AQUARIUS (January 21 - February 19) You are about to tackle some tough tests. Work and personal hurdles could preoccupy you, but after the weekend you’ll be able to sort out the ice from the cream.

PISCES (February 20 - March 20) Feisty Mars and the fiery Sun are warring with changeable Pluto, so avoid any tearaway temptations on Thursday or Friday. You could be emotionally vulnerable, or even lulled into a false sense of security.

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CANCER (June 22 - July 23) Upfront Mars and the upbeat Sun will be at loggerheads with powerful Pluto. You might not appreciate some of Friday or Saturday’s antics, so be ready to use your charm.

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ARIES (March 21 - April 20) Hassles and battles are on the cards. If things don’t happen as fast as you’d expected, or domestic and workaday blips assail your patience, transform them into an opportunity to show your special qualities.

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Across 3 Beat a runner (7) 7 A fraction that is separate (5) 8 Beats up some supporters (5) 9 Example of epic men’s make-up (8) 10 Europeans wandering the Andes (5) 13 Almost grasped the snake (3) 15 Seaman after an Arts degree gets igneous rock instead (6) 16 Alters odd warnings (6) 17 Agenda contains the result (3) 19 Savage beast thumps it’s way to victory (5) 23 Drank demon ale in confusion and found out it was non alcoholic (8) 24 Boxed disc about a period (5) 25 Leg that is broken, Sire (5) 26 Write about air on a planet (7) Down 1 Agree about Earnest (5) 2 Many keen to see a Biblical hero (5) 3 Point to the lock showing strain (6) 4 Dapper monarch is changed and

Across 3 Replies to (7) 7 Turns around (5) 8 Tender and brittle (5) 9 Elegant and easy (8) 10 Christian holy book (5) 13 Writing implement (3) 15 Yellow fruit (6) 16 Harmonised (6) 17 Tie-on label (3) 19 Cooked in an oven (5) 23 Arrange (8) 24 Prepared to fire (5) 25 Paces (5) 26 Causes (7)

ready (8) 5 Plea for North-East to back an agreement (8) 6 Job makes request after first sign of trouble (4) 11 Buckingham Palace ratepayer takes in hack (8) 12 Try out wine with most flavour (8)

13 Had tea out (3) 14 Fill out a notebook (3) 18 Provoke with sharp point (6) 20 Fawn or cattle next to Her Majesty (5) 21 Skip gym in car (5) 22 Put up with large animal (4)

Code Breaker Each number in the Code Breaker grid represents a different letter of the alphabet. In this week’s puzzle, 6 represents X and 10 represents B, so fill in X every time the figure 6 appears and B every time the figure 10 appears. Now, using your knowledge of the English language, work out which letters should go in the missing squares. As you discover the letters, fill in other squares with the same number in the main grid and the control grid.

LAST WEEK’S SOLUTIONS CRYPTIC Across: 1 Shaman, 4 Batter, 9 Trade, 10 Abreast, 11 Slap, 12 Repartee, 13 Dated, 15 Geese, 18 Respects, 21 Mail, 24 Agitate, 25 Alike, 26 Seller, 27 Tennis.

Down: 1 Sites, 2 Alabama, 3 Abel, 5 Air base, 6 Toast, 7 Rotten, 8 Kale, 12 Red, 14 Elevate, 15 Gas, 16 Station, 17 Dreads, 19 Still, 20 Tees, 22 Leeds, 23 Rage.

QUICK Across: 1 Sharp, 5 Head, 8 Rests, 9 Soldier, 10 Portion, 11 Beds, 12 Tap, 14 Ball, 15 Rage, 18 Yes, 21 Adds, 23 Cottage, 25 Examine, 26 Cruel, 27 Care, 28 Solid.

Down: 1 Scrape, 2 Austria, 3 Possibly, 4 Absent, 5 Half, 6 Arise, 7 Brass, 13 Protects, 16 Gradual, 17 Camel, 19 Scream, 20 Healed, 22 Drama, 24 Life.

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

Across 1 Handball (9) 8 Warning (advance notice) (5) 9 Más nuevo (5) 11 Route (4) 12 Weight (4) 14 Broken (4) 16 Mentiras (4) 19 Carreteras (5) 21 Onza (5) 22 Forward (in position) (9) Down 2 Goodbye (5) 3 Smell (odour) (4) 4 Menta (4) 5 Ahora (en este momento) (3) 6 Lamp (7) 7 Ranuras (7) 10 Oreja (3) 13 Viejo (de mucha edad) (3) 15 Dueño (de casa, coche, perro) (5) 17 Island (4) 18 Blando (madera, droga, agua) (4) 20 Edad (de persona, animal, árbol) (3)

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

ENGLISH-SPANISH Across: 1 Casas, 4 Plata, 7 Oca, 8 Cliente, 9 Seed, 10 Faster, 14 Tatuaje, 16 And, 17 Peace, 18 Above.

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Funagram Unscramble the title of a popular American sitcom (four words): EATEN BY BRIGHT HOG FUNAGRAM SOLUTION: JEREMY GUSCOTT, THE BIG BANG THEORY

Unscramble the name of a famous former England rugby union international: REJECTS TOY MUG

Down 1 Occurring in ordinary use (5) 2 Seizes with the teeth (5) 3 Suppose to be the case (6) 4 Experienced soldiers (8) 5 Determined (8) 6 Canines (4) 11 Periodical publication (8) 12 Headless, unconcerned (8) 13 Touch or squeeze fondly (3) 14 Bother persistently with trivial complaints (3)

1 Fourth, 2 Silver, 3 Borrow, 4 Welled, 5 Unsure, 6 Mother, 7 Linger, 8 Muster, 9 Insert, 10 Gutter, 11 Secure, 12 Enters, 13 Cleats, 14 Finely, 15 Seared, 16 Billed, 17 Steeds, 18 Barely, 19 Seated

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IN reply to a reader’s question about the yellow clover-like flower, it is from the oxalis family. Although some class it as a weed over here in Spain, in the UK it is very rare.

Ann White, Pueblo Mijitas (Malaga)

First thoughts DELUSIONAL! That’s the nicest word I can come up with to describe Teejay, the self confessed Cliff Richard fan.

Anything else is unprintable in a family newspaper.

He appears to think that because Cliff appeared to be honourable and decent when he met him, then he must be honourable and decent at all times.

I’m not making any remarks or accusations for or against Cliff Richard. I will say, though, that I once met Jimmy Savile. Well ‘met’ might be a bit much: he was on one of his charity runs and he passed me and my five daughters and waved generously in our direction.

He appeared most honourable and decent at the time.

Keith Hallam, Lake Viñuela (Malaga)

Finger-pointing I TOTALLY agree with Nora Johnson’s spot-on article about Cliff Richard. Whatever the final outcome of this case, his name should not be disclosed unless he is found guilty. And if found innocent then the accusers should be named. The way it’s being conducted is all wrong.

Susan Green (via the Euro Weekly News website)

The bank job ON Thursday March 19 I went to an ATM to withdraw cash.

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went to another ATM and to my horror I was told to contact my branch.

I duly returned home and was informed that the money had been taken from my account. When I explained that I had not received the money, my branch (which is in the UK) told me that it should be returned to me overnight.

By the next morning no money had been paid back so I went to the bank. Now if you would like to be treated like a complete idiot, spoken down to as though you were a child, insulted and generally sneered-at, this is the place to visit.

I have never in all my life been treated as badly. Then in the rudest way possible I was told that it would take 10 working days for the money to be refunded.

After a few phone calls, which of course cost a fortune, I have got nowhere.

I am sure that the ATM is faulty. This was not the first time that the bank behaved in this way as two weeks previously the ATM ate my card and it cost me the same kind of treatment from the staff to retrieve it.

William Bull, Vera Playa (Almeria)

Land grab HOW come, I used to think, that an intelligent and clever

IT’S time for a break from chocolate-box photographs and there’s nothing pretty about this nasturtium’s struggle to survive!

Tom Lepage (by email) man like Mike Walsh can be so blind to the obviously neoimperialist machinations of Vladimir Putin?

After his article last week we know it is not his fault: it seems he had been brought up by his family to admire Russia and the Soviet Union.

There is no doubt these days that in the Thirties, Stalin deliberately starved many millions of Ukrainians.

Had he not done so perhaps there would not be so many Russian-speakers in Eastern Ukraine (once home of the Ukrainian Cossacks of Don), who now want to secede and join Russia and which appears reasonable to Mr Walsh.

In 1938 Germany invaded and annexed Czechoslovakian Sudetenland because Germanspeakers there wanted to join the Third Reich. So was Hitler justified, Mr Walsh?

One wonders who will be next. The Baltic states? After all, Latvia’s population now has 40 per cent of Russian speakers (peeved at having to learn Latvian) due to 40 years of Russian occupation and settlement.

Estonia is not too different,

while Lithuania wilfully resists granting Russia’s demands for a corridor across its territory to link up with the annexed Kaliningrad region on the Baltic.

All ‘valid reasons’ for future annexations. Not very likely?

Ask the Crimean Tartars.

R Dworakowski, Torremolinos (Malaga)

Answers to property queries I’M a property owner from the UK and fly to Benalmadena quite regularly for holidays in my apartment.

The first thing I do on arrival is seek a copy of the Euro Weekly News , where I can pick up some hints, tips and news about the Costa del Sol. I would like to see more sections in your newspaper dedicated to UK owners who have property here, as the different rules and laws can be quite complicated in Spain.

I compliment you on a great

I HAVE just taken the advice of June Baker-Howard printed in an earlier edition on how to renew my EHIC card.

I called the number she gave and was passed around to three different departments and was finally connected with the correct office. They told me I would have to fill in a form which would be sent to me to fill in and return to them before I could receive my new card.

Ms Baker-Howard said you would not have to fill in a form but this is not correct.

You can call the number she gave but be sure you press option three if they give you options. I did not get these when I called, so I advise you try another number which I think is on correspondence from Newcastle.

Len Atkinson, Benichembla (Valencia)

Don’t be fooled THE Microsoft impostors are up to their tricks again.

I have written to Your Say in the past about them and a recent spate of calls from them prompts me to warn readers once more.

It’s easy to be taken in when a succession of engaging young men speaking heavilyaccented English address you by your name and proclaim that they hope you are well.

Each time I tell them in a stern voice that they aren’ t from Microsoft, that they are after my money and I’m not going to give them any. They hang up straight away.

Times are hard, so I suppose that accounts for these ingenious ways of parting us from our money.

T Freeman (by email)

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CATS are born pleasure seekers, and they will inevitably locate the most comfortable places around your home to spend their quality time.

Of course, a comfortable cat is a happy cat, and a happy cat is one who doesn’t mark, shred, or otherwise engage in destructive behaviour around the house. So it’s not a bad idea to expand your pet’s comfort zone by selecting the right supplies and equipment.

Cats are playful, and providing a variety of toys will satisfy this natural need to play. Fishing-pole-style toys give a great overall workout by promoting jumping and leaping, while

COMFY CATS: Will find the best places to spend quality time. wind-up or mechanical toys provide mental and physical stimulation (although some find these scary).

Plain old fashioned balls encourage running and chasing, and never forget the ol’ reliable milk jug plastic twistie! And don’t forget, like kids, cats get bored with the same old thing, so rotate toys when they lose interest in old ones.

Of course, mealtimes are a highlight of the cat’s day, so providing nutritional food they like will keep them active, healthy and

delighted with dinner.

While many successfully feed their cats only one type of food, variety prevents boredom and helps convert to a special diet if a health condition (such as diabetes or kidney problems) develops. If your cat has dental disease, they’ll appreciate canned food, which is easier to chew than dry. Always feed a high-quality diet (such as Iams or Science Diet) appropriate for your cat’s life stage and health.

You may not know it, but your cat may be influ-

enced by their dish as well as dinner. Bowls should be big enough for them to eat without squashing whiskers. If your cat has feline acne (black crusty patches on the chin) stay away from plastic bowls, as they tend to retain oils and can make the condition worse. Research has also shown that cats often prefer to drink water away from their food, so choose separate food and water bowls and place the water dish in a different location adjacent to the food to encourage drinking.

Elsa loves her sunny spot on the balcony

By Lamia Walker of HouseSitMatch NESTLED away in Competa, a village high up in the hills, a cat called Elsa has been feeling rather delicate of late, and not really able to oversee the young’uns. Her owner has 10 cats and one dog.

Some of the cats are on medication and need careful feeding. They live in a sunny house with a garden, balcony and stunning views.

After retirement in England Sonny, Elsa’s owner, decided to live somewhere quite different to her former home in Surrey, England. She settled in Competa, a place she had enjoyed on many holidays. Within weeks they were living like locals in relaxed and beautiful surroundings.

Sonny began to rescue abandoned kittens she found starving in the streets. She and Elsa would nurse them back

to health, and find new homes for them when they were ready. Before they knew it there were 10 cats to feed, water and keep in good health until a kind home could be found.

This summer Sonny returns to England to greet her first grandchild.

She’ll be gone for eight weeks.

Who’ll care for her fur family? A cattery is not viable, certainly not in Competa!

Her solution to this pet challenge was online, to find experienced cat sitters who care for your pets at no cost in exchange for free accommodation. It’s a collaboration.

Download your Free Easy Guide to Housesitting from here www.bit.ly/eurown001 To find a petsitter visit www.HousesitMatch.com or call Lamia on +44 (0)1865 521508.

Danger to sperm whales TURSIOPS Association investigators have warned of the presence of wounded sperm whales and their offspring in waters near the Balearic Islands which they suspect have been hit by boats.

The whales were spotted during a recent Estemar I scientific campaign aimed at estimating the whale population near the islands.

Scientists located a number of Physeter Macrocephalus sperm whales, a species the International Union for the Conservation of Nature classifies as in danger of extinction in the Mediterranean, in the Mallorca Channel by following the sounds they emit to feed and communicate.

SPERM WHALES: May have been hit by boats.

One of the whales photographed, a female with a baby beside her, bore a number of scars and wounds to the head and back.

Campaign director Txema Brotons explained that the fact that fe-

males appear to be more in danger of being hit by boats as there are more present in boating channels endangers the breeding capacity of the species, which could seriously affect the eco-system.

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EAL characters are an endangered species.

A close neighbour in the Suffolk village where we once lived, was Bob. He was eighty-ish (no one seemed to know his exact vintage), and was just one of a number of great characters, many of whom carried strange nicknames like Squibby Murkin, Waters Allcock and Shacker Wright.

But in this case, Bob had remained just Bob. We lived at the top of a hill, and every Thursday he would get into his Ford Fiesta - a car which through necessity, was replaced with a new model every year - and drive off to the nearby village of Clare to do his weekly shopping.

The banshee wail of the car’s gearbox could be heard around the village as he screamed down the hill in

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first gear, only slipping into a relieved second once he reached the bottom, often forgetting the clutch.

On two occasions, having heard an almighty crash, we rushed out to find that Bob had either misjudged the distance or engaged reverse by mistake and driven the car through the back of his garage. Luckily, this was a timber framed structure.

Bob, by all accounts, had been a bit of a lad in his day.

One old lady in the village once confided in me with distaste, that when Bob was the village postman, it was not only letters that he would put through her letter box. She did not elaborate on this thankfully.

JUST BOB: Keeping character alive and well in a Suffolk village.

He put in a few hours gardening every week at a large house that was owned by a young couple, and the attractive wife would often make soup for lunch and invite Bob to join her.

One day it seems, he put

down his spoon, leant across the table and fixing the lady with a leer announced, “It still works, y’know.”

Luckily she thought it was hilarious and the story circulated like wild fire.

We were owned by two

Siamese cats at that time and during the summer, Bob would eat his Sunday lunch from a little fold-up table outside his back door.

Doc, one of our felines (his full name was Livingston, but with three syllables it was too much for him to cope with and he only answered to plain Doc) turned up in our garden purring loudly through teeth that were clamped determinedly around half a cooked chicken.

Bob had apparently gone inside to get condiments, and Doc had seized the moment, along with the chicken.

When I approached Bob to grass up our moggy, he simply shrugged and said, “I alwuz give him haalf me dinner, soo now he’s had two wiks all in one, hain’t ‘e.”

We had wondered why Doc had been steadily gaining weight.

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VER received one of those emails promising you millions of dollars in commission if you help the widow of Nigeria’s former Finance Minister? Like me, you’ve doubtless laughed at the offer, amazed the author admits to coming from Nigeria (famous for this scam) and didn’t make his message more convincing and original.

What probably hasn’t struck you is that this incompetence is deliberate.

After all, it doesn’t cost much to send an email to thousands of people trying to entice us into cooperating. What does cost time and money is getting the cash out of those of us who reply. The fraudsters don’t want to waste their efforts on people

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who’ll cotton on part way through they’re falling into a trap. It’s better they realise this at the start and never reply.

So the ‘incompetent’ email acts as a filter to weed out the most gullible. Those the criminals lavish their attention upon are therefore those most likely to fall for the scam and end up relieved of their life savings.

And the moral? Maybe the best advice nowadays is, sadly: ‘Trust nobody.’

For instance, a burglar posing as someone need-

THRILLER: Lies undercut all aspects of human life.

ing help or asking to use your phone to trick their way into your home and walk out with your wallet.

If you really believe a caller’s genuine, crossexamine him to check his story stands up.

So, how do you sleuth out deception? Look for telling signals that point to dishonesty: repetition, changing the subject, telling a story in chronological order. Someone who’s lying may freeze their upper body, look you in the eyes a bit too much, fake a smile. One or two of these ‘tells’ doesn’t amount to lying unlike when you start to see a pattern emerge.

Now, telling a white lie in order not to offend and flattering someone with ‘compliments’ are both natural deceits adopted at

an early age. In public and private life, white lies are part of our survival mechanism.

But when deception becomes a previously trusted person’s modus operandi, when deception becomes their default position, we should all be on our guard. As the latest thriller in my Alice Myers crime series, Landscape of Lies, shows, lying - from everyday half-truths to outright deceit - undercuts all aspects of human life. And death ...

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.

Just whistle a happy tune A weekly look - and not entirely impartial reaction to the Spanish political scene

BEFORE the PP’s Andalucia election defeat, the president of the Spanish government Mariano Rajoy said the results could not be extrapolated to other Spanish regions.

In other words, Andalucia is different and always has been because it votes PSOE. The only time the PP came within a whisker of winning was in 2012 when it was the most-voted party but couldn’t form a government.

Podemos, which won 15 seats in the regional government, could do still better outside Andalucia where it is overshadowed by the PSOE. So could Ciudadanos which came out of nowhere to snaffle nine seats and IU which took a beating and now has five seats instead of 12.

Most of Spain’s political parties, even the now totally submerged

Some gentle persuasion DID the presence of Pedro Sanchez on the PSOE campaign trail add or subtract votes for Susana Diez? All the world loves a pregnant politician, anyway, but it didn’t hurt that Sanchez is young and easy on the eye.

The PP rolled out its big guns for Andalucia and as May approaches will resort to former president Jose Maria Aznar to herd the faithful into the conservative fold.

Neither young nor easy on the eye, a hectoring Aznar will either preach to the converted or cause waiverers to head quickly to the Left or Centre instead.

UPyD, could do better outside Andalucia.

Does that include the PP? May’s municipal elections will reveal whether Rajoy was

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court he is about to leave, believe it does. He did not swallow Hacienda’s argument that the PP was a non-profit making organisation whose black cash was used for ‘social ends’ and no different from the Red Cross or Caritas.

Non-profit making? Tell that to the beneficiaries of the PP’s slush fund and those who enjoyed kickbacks from the Gurtel and Punica shysters.

A creditable force

PEDRO SANCHEZ: Young and easy on the eye. whistling in the dark or not.

All in a good cause SPAIN’S tax department Hacien-

da does not believe that the PP’s failure to pay tax on irregular party donations is an offence.

Judge Pablo Ruz, tying up loose ends to the cases at the

PODEMOS, the party that evolved from protests before the May 2011 elections, has shown itself as a force to be reckoned with.

But in Andalucia its 15 seats, when compared to the PSOE’s 47 and the PP’s 33, show Podemos as an option and not an alternative.

In fact Podemos resembles the bad boy that all the girls used to want to go out with until he asked them.

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26th March EACH week seems to come around quicker which is a good thing. I have had a mixed week again but I won’t tire you with my parental struggles. I am putting it down to having a teenager and another child

who is extremely mature in some ways, but yet just a girl and far more complex.

I was brought up to get on with things and not to complain about the hand life has dealt you. If you can’t change it, get your head down and get on with things and if you don’t like it and can change it... well do something about it but don’t expect the rest of the world to sort your life out.

I thank my parents for the way they brought me up.

They were and are loving, kind, constant and always interested in me and my progress.

They tirelessly put all their

effort into bringing me and my sister up to be the best that we could be and to treat others as we would wish to be treated.

Well I consider myself a good mother but I don’t think I come close to my

“As far as I am concerned, I do not have cancer” parents. I owe them so much. The values and the strength that they instilled in me have enabled me to face

life and my cancer without fear.

People are constantly trying to reassure me that it is more than likely that I won’t die as a result of cancer and if I do, I have a good few years yet. I know their intention is to give me ‘hope’ but honestly I am positive I will not die as a result of cancer.

I have two more chemotherapy sessions to go and the overriding emotion that wells within me is one of happiness. As far as I am concerned, I do not have cancer. The treatments are merely to ensure there are no rogue cells bouncing around my body. Soon I will

move onto radiotherapy, which will be a localised zapping of the area from where the tumours were removed.

Once the summer is out I will then be able to start rehabilitation on my right arm and then move on to periodic checks. I can look forward to having hair, eyebrows and eyelashes again. Hopefully they will have grown back by then. I will feel stronger and will be able to start to set realistic goals for myself in terms of my career and personal life. I would like to do something charitable in the name of cancer. What that might be I don’t know yet. I have time to contemplate it.

Will wearing ankle weights make you stronger?

THE idea about wearing ankle weights is that they constantly strengthen your legs and muscles and can perhaps help you burn a few additional calories every day, without having to walk any further.

The extra weight can also have a benefit for your cardiovascular fitness.

The idea of placing weights around your body is ancient, with ANKLE WEIGHTS: Not recommended for everyone.

the Persians being first to use these techniques. Body weights like this can even increase bone density, so overall ankle weights can make you stronger and fitter.

Running or walking with ankle weights is not the only option, with side leg lifts and glute-toning ‘donkey kicks’ being other popular and practical exercises.

Ankle weights do have draw-

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Another potential problem is that they may negatively affect the way you walk over time, so using the weights throughout the day is not recommended.

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Smokers’ children are more likely to develop heart disease CHILDREN of smokers may be up to four times more likely to develop heart disease later in life.

According to Finnish experts, dangers still exist even if smokers try and limit their child’s exposure to secondhand smoke.

The findings confirm previous research that linked tobacco smoke and toxins with a lasting effect on children’s cardiovascular health.

Finnish children were measured for their exposure to passive smoking and whether their blood vessels that carry oxygen-rich blood to the head, brain and face, had become narrowed or blocked due to plaque build-up of fatty deposits in adulthood.

The studies started in 1980 and 1983, with blood samples taken from children. In 2001 and 2007, ultrasound readings of their arteries were taken.

Finally last year, the researchers measured

HOME WORKOUT: Exercising in private preferred.

Women prefer to exercise in private MISSED the gym today? Avoided jogging in the street?

What is your excuse? A report says that millions of women are simply avoiding exercise for fear of being judged and laughed at.

The report by British MPs on the Commons’ Health Select Committee also highlights how girls as young as 10 avoid PE classes at school because they worry about their body image. The committee, which is also investigating obesity, spoke to experts and women who also said that some have taken to running on treadmills in the shed or garden to avoid being seen.

Figures show that just over two thirds of women, 68 per cent, do not take the recommended level of exercise of two-and-a-half hours over the course of a week, higher than the 56 per cent of men who do not do the recommended weekly amount. Experts have warned that a lack of exercise is as harmful as tobacco and contributes to up to one in six deaths in the UK. DANGER: Link confirmed between smoking and its effects on the cardiovascular health of children. the participants’ childhood blood cotinine levels from samples collected and frozen in 1980.

Cotinine is a bio-marker of passive smoke exposure and the researchers found that 84 per cent of children from households where neither parent

smoked had nondetectable cotinine levels in their samples.

However, only 62 per cent of children from households where one parent smoked and 43 per cent of children from households where both parents smoked,

had blood samples with non-detectable cotinine levels.

Meanwhile, leading professor in family medicine, Adam Goldstein, said smoke exposure is as abusive as leaving children unattended in a hot car, or drink driving.

Fertility company brings hope to older women who want a baby AN American fertility company is claiming it can turn back the clock for women who want children.

The firm in Massachusetts uses a technique that involves rejuvenating an egg’s mitochondria, which are the tiny structures that create energy to run a cell.

By rejuvenating these energy cells, it can help turn back the biological clock for women and aid in fertilisation.

Studies suggest that

23-33 is the ideal time to conceive, as a healthy woman is still at her most fertile and may be more psychologically prepared to have a baby.

Fertility begins to diminish slowly from the age of 25 as a woman’s eggs decrease.

The treatment is not available in the United States as the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) there has not approved the method but it is however, avail-

able in some in vitro fertilisation clinics in Canada, the UK, the United Arab Emirates

and Turkey. So far, more than 150 patients have received the treatment.

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A WEEK of rain has provided the chance to clear accumulated cuttings and notes from the desk. So while the plants have been enjoying an end of March drunken orgy imbibing cool fresh rain, I have rediscovered the following snippets of information that could be of interest to readers.

1. The proposed EU seed regulation that was to restrict the free of charge exchange of non-officially registered flower, fruit and vegetable seeds has been withdrawn after negative responses by gardening organisations.

This would have made it difficult to obtain heritage seeds that had never been seriously commercialised by the agricultural and horticultural industries.

EU seed regulation withdrawn

VITAMIN D: Short periods of time sunbathing without lotion advised to boost reserves.

2 . Ensure that you have sheltered places for enjoying the winter sun as it has been recently determined that many people are seriously under-

nourished in Vitamin D. Magazine WDDTY suggests that regular short sunbathes without suntan lotion appear to be the best way of regularly topping up Vitamin D reserves.

3. A recent press statement suggested that since some sectors of the agricultural industry in Spain make a profit, EU grant aided support to Spain will be reduced.

This could lead to a

Grow your own for better nutrition further contraction in the availability of a diversity of healthy freshly harvested ecologically produced vegetables and herbs to the general public. So the message continues to be ‘grow your own.’

4. A recent report ‘Organic versus non-organic’ sponsored by the Soil

Association, one of the most important licensing organisations for organic agriculture, concludes that organically grown produce contains a greater percentage of beneficial antioxidants and lower levels of cadmium (an undesirable heavy metal) and pesticide residues and are therefore of a higher nutritional value.

So again, if you are concerned about the way your food is produced, consider growing some of your own.

I hope that some of this up to date information is of use to you.

Also that your garden is both colourful and productive for what I hope is a sunny Easter.

© Dick Handscombe www.gardenspain.com April 2015

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Happy days are here again…

FIGURES from the National Statistics Institute show there is an increase in tourism with a 1.4 per cent rise in hotel overnight stays in comparison to last year. Do you agree that we are at last in an economic recovery? Are you optimistic that 2015 will see the good times return?

EVERYONE we asked looked on the coming holiday season with a great deal of optimism as they have seen the signs of a positive future.

Heike of The House Specialist Real Estate in Torre del Mar commented: “I can see some movement this year within business in the area. People have come to visit early this year and many are staying over the Easter period; in other years I have noticed that they have come later in the year. Many of the Spanish

STREET TALK people have a second holiday home here though. At our office we are seeing a demand for houses, which is good, although people are still looking for a bargain. I believe things are on the upturn this year.”

Gemma Broad at Telitec Communications SL (Alicante) said: “We are definitely in recovery.

Telitec has a wide lens on the Costa Blanca community as a whole, with access to premises across a number of

ROSY: Telitec’s Gemma Broad’s outlook for 2015.

industries. Business is brisk and property is selling again, always a good indicator of economic trends. It has been a long time coming but, yes, 2015 is looking rosy.”

Joaquin Garcia Infantes manager of Le Papillon in Marbella (Malaga) was also upbeat. “Having many years behind me in the restaurant business I can definitely feel by the environment that people are very positive this year. I hear and pick up on what the general feeling is of the clients around me, and I believe it is very good. I am now well into my third year at Le Papillon and things are now evolving into how it was when the economy was good. Sterling will go further, which will enable people to enjoy more here. So,

UPBEAT: Joaquin Garcia Infantes from Le Papillon.

yes, I am optimistic about this year,” he commented.

In Almeria, Orinta and Richard, owners of Bar Trabalon, said: “We can always tell by our Easter trade if there is an upturn in business as it can be quite difficult to judge before that time in our area. I do think that people may visit Spain more this year, though, as the exchange rate Sterling to Euro is better, so let’s hope that it helps. As a family business we will be ready for the good times.”

HOUSING DEMAND GOOD: Heike of The House Specialist Real Estate has seen movement in the business sector and believes things are on the upturn this year.

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With property and the Spanish economy seemingly on the rise in 2015, Euro weekly News wondered whether this was still a good time to buy a property in the white villages and their countryside surrounds.

Tolox, Malaga On a little-visited route up into the foothills of the Sierra de la Nieves is the small white village of Tolox. Flower-filled valleys and crystal-clear streams give this area a remarkable quality, with wild ibex grazing on the higher meadows and vultures soaring around rugged peaks.

We found a finca, with a large

ICONIC: White villages could provide new homes for house-hunters. plot of private land and good road access for €85,000.

Turon, Costa Tropical The Alpujarras’ remote villages

present a drier altogether more rugged landscape, but that’s not to say that the white villages, small country houses and proper-

ties here are any less attractive.

The town of Turon has a friendly, undeveloped feel and a beautiful church and historic centre. About

five kilometres from Turon is a typical south-facing country house, newly-built with a kitchen, two bedrooms and a bathroom.

It has six hectares of land and electricity from solar cells. The price is €65,000.

Jimena de la Frontera We found a well-located, three bedroomed finca close to both Jimena de la Frontera and only 20 minutes’ drive from the coast.

It’s a lovely piece of productive land, covering over 3,000 square metres of land, 900 orange trees and 400 avocado trees. A fenced property with a porch, this house is more expensive at €1.5 million.

To find an idyllic country or village property, consult one of the agencies which advertise in this publication.

Castles in the sky PROPERTY comes in many different shapes and sizes.

People’s tastes vary from city apartments to barges on a canal. But whatever your taste, if you are looking for something different it can be found in Spain!

Tree houses have come a long way from when we were children. Long gone are the days when a cardboard box would be wedged between the branches to make your castle. Today’s tree houses are not only viable properties in their own right, they can also be castles in the sky.

If we look at some of the magnificent creations from the British design company, Blue Forest, for example, we start to change our perceptions. The Fibonacci Tree House was built in Spain, and follows the design geometry of nature’s Fibonacci Spiral. The tree house provides a natural hideaway within the rela-

HISTORIC CITY: Cadiz is also a windsurfing hotspot.

TREE HOUSES: Have come a long way. tive cool of the woodland.

Fitted with a modern kitchenette, complete with a drinks fridge and wine cooler, this is not so much a tree house, but art in the air.

The Tarifa eco-lodge, consists of a collection of three eco-lodges located in the hills of Andalucía.

Highly insulated to withstand the harsh environment, the buildings are equipped with the latest in solar energy and water heating solutions as well as composting toilets and a

water catchment and purification system.

Despite the traditional stereotype, tree houses are not just for children! Tree house construction has come a long way, and with ever-growing trends toward eco-friendly building, and quality affordable alternatives, tree houses, or rather, ‘elevated villas’ look to be taking the world by storm. The UK tree house industry is leading the way in this new luxury trend. To see more ideas, visit www.blueforest.com.

Remote beach escapes SPAIN may well be one of Europe and the world’s tourism hotspots, but it’s still possible to find a property on the coast in a lovely, little developed area. Here at Euro Weekly News we decided to investigate and see what we could find and for how much.

It might be a little beyond the budget of many buyers at €2.4 million but we found a beautifully located four bedroomed chalet on the beach near the historic city and windsurfing hotspot of Cadiz.

Located on the beach front with 1,600 square metres of land, an infinity pool, bright lounge overlooking the sea and spectacular sunset views, this would

appear to be lovely spot.

On Mallorca’s north west coast is the attractive little town of Puerto Pollensa, overlooking a rugged wooded peninsula and the crystal clear waters of the Bahia de Pollensa. A thee bedroomed ground floor flat with Mediterranean views is available here for €525,000. Located in a new development with a communal pool and air conditioning it faces a lovely white sand beach and is sheltered from strong winds from the north by the hills of Sierra de Tramuntana.

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Second-year award for the Seat Leon

BIG HELP: Guardia Civil Traffic Branch.

N332 to the rescue THE new British orientated website N332.es, launched by the Guardia Civil has become a big favourite with expatriates in Spain.

The English language website has been launched by the Ministry of the Interior and the Guardia Civil Traffic Branch and is proving to be a big help to motorists looking for help and advice while driving on Spanish roads. They have also opened a Facebook page in relation to the site, which at this point has nearly 10,000 likes.

They state that their basic concept is up and running; however, the idea is still in its early stages. They hope to include new features as they become available, but in the immediate future, ideas such as podcasts with audio and video, and links to mobile apps could be on the cards.

Their idea is to provide accurate information to foreign drivers on a number of different levels.

Whether that be: “Where can I buy the cheapest petrol?” or, “How do I get replacement documents?”

You can visit their website at: www.n332.es Or Facebook: https://www.facebook. com/TorreviejaTraffic Department

CAPACITY: A big boot and room for five.

FOR the second year in a row, the Seat Leon has claimed the ‘Best Family Car’ award from car review site, Carbuyer.

Commenting on the Leon’s latest trophy, Carbuyer’s Editor, Stuart Milne, said: “Behind those handsome looks lies a car with a big boot and room for five. Despite featuring plenty of cutting-edge equipment, the Leon still represents exceptional value for money.”

The Leon line-up has recently expanded with two extra derivatives for its ST (Sports Tourer) body style, the all-road XPerience as well as the hot Cupra 280. The X-Perience offers a premium feel and permanently available four-wheel-drive, coupled to a 2.0-litre TDI 150 and 184 PS engines. The Cupra 280 combines a scintillating 2.0-litre TSI 280 PS power-plant, launching it from 0-100kph in just six

seconds (with DSG), and boasts a load space of up to 1,470 litres. Prices start from around €33,500.

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Big cats, leaps and bounds

THE beauty of enthusiasm is that it’s infectious!

And the Jaguar Enthusiasts’ Club (JEC) Spain is spreading the bug, and coming on leaps and bounds.

With the recent growth in popularity of the legendary British marque, due mainly to great new models and big advertising, Jaguar lovers are looking to share their appreciation of the Big Cats in more ways than just buying the latest magazine.

That’s where the Jaguar Enthusiasts Club steps up to the mark.

They provide a wonderful

atmosphere of like-minded enthusiasts and their cars, for anybody with a hankering towards their love of owning, touring in, looking at, or just polishing Jaguars.

JEC Spain is expanding.

The main membership has typically been in the Costa Blanca region, but now a new branch has been announced for the Costa del Sol area.

Their inaugural meeting will be at the Hotel Rural AlmaZara in Frigliana, Nerja, on April 19.

Contact Philip Wray for more details on: 669 434 457 or email JEC.Costa DelSol@gmail.com

Sport Axarquía’s best guide to local sport

Petanca Group’s Founder’s Trophy

THIRTY-TWO players competed for the Buena Vista Petanca Group’s 2015 Founder’s Trophy.

The random pairs event was won by Brian Pearce and Eric Young, who won all three games with a points total of plus 28. Runners-up were Frank Mathys and Jean Rennie with two wins and plus 14 points. Third place went to Malcolm Buckenham and Rita Wright, with two wins and plus 10 points.

As usual this was the first competition of the year, held at the group’s venue, Verano Azul, Nerja.

Buena Vista’s founder Bob Miles and his wife Pauline presented the trophy and keeper’s cups to the winners just two days before his birthday!

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Rain didn’t stop play TO play or not to play was the main question for members of GINS. With a 60 per cent chance of rain, players were given the option.

But none of the hardy souls pulled out and the final game of the Pairs Texas Scramble Winter Competition went ahead. Playing at Añoreta a few rain drops started to fall at 3.10pm and only the last two groups got a little bit wet.

Winners on the day were Anne and Malcolm Jones (65.75 net), with Lyn and Dan McAllister (68.25) second and Sylvia and Bev Legg (68.75) third.

At Las Gabias in an Individual Stableford more than 40 people tee’d off.

Overall winner was Roy Boutel (35 points).

For the ladies the winner was Bridget Lloyd-Edwards (34) with second Linda McKane (32pts).

In the men’s competition first was

ECLECTIC WINNERS: Ian and Rita with Pat and Derek Lowe at the AGM. Neil Taylor (35) with Ray Craig (34) second and Alan Worthington (33) third.

At Baviera a Texas Scramble was played in honour of John Kessen, who sadly passed away recently.

Winning team was that of Steph Elsey, Miguel Frayne, Ian Fraser and Roger Willoughby (61.1) with Mar-

ney Dick, Gil Richardson, Hugh Renwick and Vinny Kearney (61.7) third.

At Los Moriscos the weekly competition was rained off, but in the Eclectic competition Ian Paterson with a net score of 57.00 was declared the men’s winner and Rita McCracken (61.50) was the ladies’ winner.