Euro Weekly News - Costa del Sol 2 - 8 April 2015 Issue 1553

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By Steve Walsh MALAGA-BORN Antonio Banderas has made his annual pilgrimage back home to Malaga to spend Easter with his family.

He has been spotted taking part in Malaga’s Easter events; he is pictured here taking part as a penitent with the Lagrimas and Favores Brotherhood in a Palm Sunday procession.

His new girlfriend Nicole Kimple is accompanying him on the visit.

Antonio, who split from his wife of 18 years Melanie Griffith last June, has been gradually introducing Nicole into his life over the last six months, and Saturday saw another step forward when they both Turn to Page 4

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INDEX News 1 - 58 Finance 59 - 64 Leapy Lee 73 Daily TV 74, 76, 78, 80, 82, 84, 86 Time Out 89 - 92 Letters 93 Gibraltar 96 - 97 Health & Beauty 99 - 102 Food 105 - 111 Homes & Gardens 116 Services 117 - 122 Classifieds 123 - 130 Motoring 131 - 133 Sport 134 - 136

TOP-CLASS: 95 per cent of visitors praised the beaches.

Costa scores high for satisfaction

VISITORS last year gave the Costa del Sol 8.4 out of 10 for quality, a new report has revealed.

Equalled only by Almeria, the coast was given top marks by visitors asked to rate their stays, with specific reference to food, trips and outings, and a great welcome.

Visitors from the UK and Germany, where the majority of Costa tourists come from, rated the area as top-class.

Costa del Sol tourist board president

Elias Bendodo stressed the importance of customer satisfaction, explaining that the more visitors enjoy their stay the more likely they are to return.

Overall, 95 per cent of visitors said their experience had been positive or very positive and praised the climate, the beaches and the hospitality.

When asked to describe something they were not satisfied with about their trip, half of them were unable to think of anything at all.

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NEWS More flights FINNISH airline Finnair will be increasing its flights between Helsinki and the Costa del Sol to 11 per week this summer, thus providing a weekly total of 2,200 seats on the route.

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

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Walkway is open at last EL CHORRO’S Caminito del Rey has finally reopened to the public after a 25 year wait.

Once considered one of the world’s most dangerous mountain trails, the ‘King’s Walkway’ has been converted into a spectacular but safe tourist attraction where the first visitors were awed at the unique experience of walking the pathway through gorges at a

height of 105 metres.

The Caminito was officially opened on Saturday, March 28 by Elias Bendodo, head of Malaga Provincial Council which has spent €5.5 million on work on the walkway, and the mayors of nearby Alora, Ardales and Antequera.

The almost eight kilometre route, which is expected to generate €20 million in yearly income for

the area and create 180 jobs, takes between four and five hours to complete depending on the starting point.

Bookings must be made online at www.reservas.caminitodel rey.info two months in advance and although places ran out as soon as the booking option became available, new dates are expected to be released this Easter.

Flavours of Easter THE sixth edition of El Sabor de la Semana Santa, The Flavour of Holy Week, continues in Alhaurin el Grande with 20 bakeries and restaurants offering typical Easter wares until this Sunday, April 5.

Record temperature MALAGA Province registered the highest minimum temperatures in Spain last 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 in 1987.

Health day OJEN will be celebrating World Health Day on Tuesday, April 7 and acknowledging the work of four local doctors and nurses at a ceremony at the town hall which begins at 7pm with two lectures.

Race for charity AN URBAN race held in Estepona last month by the town’s athletics club and Carrefour supermarket chain raised €5,565 for local charity Aprona.

Mountain rescue A PARAGLIDER had to be rescued by the Guardia Civil mountain rescue team after getting stuck on the Mijas mountain last Monday, March 30.

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A NEW ITV vehicle inspection centre opened in the Guadalhorce industrial estate in Malaga has created 34 new jobs and is expected to provide service to more than 570,000 car owners, reducing long waits for appointments.

Time waster A MALAGA woman has been arrested for wasting police time after allegedly reporting someone had snatched her handbag and mobile phone when in fact she had lost them.

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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.

WORKS have been completed to renew and improve a viewpoint on Calle Calderon de la Barca in Nueva Andalucia, with 650 metres of pavement allowing visitors to take in the impressive views safely.

Memorial honour A ROUNDABOUT at the entrance to the Cerralba neighbourhood in Pizarra has been named in honour of a local father and son who died in a car crash in 2010 on their way home from a chess tournament.

Spring routes GUIDED walking routes to celebrate the arrival of spring are planned near Guaro for April 12. For more information visit www.guaro.es.

Lucky win A BONOLOTO player in Guadiaro won €59,763 in the draw held on Monday, March 30 by choosing five correct numbers.

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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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Banderas back home From Front Page attended the lighting of the candles ceremony in the Parish of San Juan. Banderas later joined his brother Francisco Javier to take part in the processions.

Kimple, a 34-year-old Dutch investment banker and Public Relations expert, also joined her boyfriend for their first public engagement at the Tears and Favours Foundation Gala last Friday.

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Leading the way to recovery MARBELLA appears to be leading the way for the Costa del Sol with financial recovery in the town a reality, according to its Mayor Angeles Muñoz.

Muñoz based her declaration on data from the local economical re-

port for the second half of 2014, which revealed that new businesses and property sales were on the up while unemployment rates had fallen The mayor’s declaration came just days after American publication The Wall Street Journal compared the town to a European version of Southern California.

It stated that with the property market recovering and international buyers beginning to show an increased interest in the area, things certainly seemed to be looking good for what it described as a ‘ritzy, sun-soaked Spanish city’.

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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.

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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Children take a solemn lead ONE of the most emotional and unique events at Easter in Benalmadena, the Children’s Procession, was held on Monday, March 30.

Young throne-bearers carried a figure of Christ through the streets for more than two hours and were accompanied by miniature penitents and Nazarenes as hundreds of locals and

Pompidou mobbed MORE than 6,000 visitors flocked to the new Pompidou Centre museum in Malaga City last weekend after its official opening.

The museum, the first branch of the prestigious Paris centre to be opened outside France, was officially launched by Spanish PM Mariano Rajoy and French Minister of Culture Fleur Pellerin on Saturday, March 28.

Housing pieces by artists including Pablo Picasso, Alberto Giacometti, Frida Kahlo, Rene Magritte and Marc Chagall, the Pompidou aims to surprise with unexpected touches.

visitors looked on.

“We’re really proud of our youngsters, they are the stars of the Monday of Holy Week and many will be seen carrying full sized thrones in a few years’ time,” Mayor Paloma Garcia Galvez remarked after the event.

CHILDREN’S PROCESSION: Young throne-bearers carry the statue of Christ.

Briton and family are found dead in Gibraltar

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

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

Detectives and forensic officers have been working in the family’s apartment and the surrounding area remains cordonedoff.

ON DUTY: Police officers guard the area.

Police officers discovered the tragic scene after responding to a neighbour’s screams in Boschetti’s Steps, just after 11am.

A police spokesperson said: “Presently, we are

not looking for anyone else in connection with this tragic incident, 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 before their lives came to an end.

At the present moment, a full investigation is being conducted by officers of the Serious Crime Unit.

The Royal Gibraltar Police are encouraging anyone who may have information or be able to support the investigation to contact the Duty Officer of the Royal Gibraltar Police.

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British boy dies CORTES de la Frontera has been mourning the loss of a local expatriate boy, Joshua Oker, whose body was found by rescue teams after going missing on the Rio Guadiaro.

The 16-year-old, whom friends said knew the river well, had been kayaking and is thought to have crashed into a rock and hit his head.

Joshua was described by villagers as a very lively and friendly lad.

Busier airport MALAGA-Costa del Sol Airport is gearing up for a busier year than ever.

As visitors started to arrive for their Easter holidays, Aena, the airport authority, announced that a total of 69,300 flights offering almost 12 million seats have been planned by airlines to connect the Costa del Sol to 127 different airports.

Compared to last year, which broke records for visiting tourists, 1.5 per cent more flights will be offering 2.1 per cent more seats from now until October, as the tourism industry hopes that this year will be even better than last.

Police heroes to the rescue TWO National Police officers saved the day by rescuing an 85-year-old woman who was trapped

inside a blazing apartment in Malaga City.

The policemen were sent to the scene on Calle

Guatemala in the early hours of the morning and didn’t hesitate to grab torches and head inside

upon learning an elderly lady lived on the first floor.

After finding her in a confused and distressed state, one officer led her onto a balcony while the other fought his way back through the smoke and flames to radio for help.

After firefighters arrived and put the fire out, all three, who were having trouble breathing due to the amount of smoke they had inhaled, were given oxygen by ambulance teams.

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Enthusiastic welcome 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.

IN MOURNING: Townspeople pay their respects to the dead woman.

Man kills partner then himself

CITIZENS and local politicians gathered on Monday, March 30, to honour a woman who died at the hands of her partner in Alhaurin de la Torre.

The 28-year-old and her partner were found dead at their home by a relative, who went to visit them after a worrying telephone conversation with the man earlier in the day.

The home of the couple, parents of a

six-year-old girl who was staying with her grandparents, was locked from the inside leading police to believe no third party was involved in the deaths.

A post-mortem report concluded that the 49-year-old man strangled his partner before committing suicide.

The deceased woman had not previously reported any incidents of domestic violence.

Life gets harder for illegal taxis ILLEGAL taxi drivers face tougher penalties this year thanks to changes to regulations which allow police officers to immobilise vehicles detected to be providing unauthorised services. In the province of Malaga, 48 drivers were fined in 2014, with amounts ranging from €1,380 to €2,760.

While in the past drivers could simply unload passengers, pay the fine and carry on to pick up more once the police were out of sight, as of December 31 last year, officers may insist the vehicle is immobilised.

The change came following pressure from authorised cabbies, who complained that not only do illegal taxis leave them out of work but they also endanger passengers as they do not undergo the strict tests vehicles and drivers have to pass, or carry correct insurance.

Block blaze AN APARTMENT building in Arroyo de la Miel had to be evacuated in the early hours of Saturday, March 28, when a fire broke out in the garage, destroying one car and damaging another.

Quick work MALAGA City firefighters were called out on Sunday evening, March 29, to put out a blaze by the Alcazaba. Although the flames were impressive, the fire brigade later reported that only about 10 square metres of plants had been affected. by the blaze.

Power-cut PART of line one of Malaga City’s underground was closed on Sunday, March 29, due to a power cut.

Fatal crash A MAN has died and another was injured in a motorbike accident near the Palacio de Ferias y Congresos in Malaga City.

Over-booking causes chaos INVESTIGATIONS are under way to ascertain whether an alleged cyber-attack which caused over-booking for the Caminito del Rey yesterday, April 1, also affected other days.

Although the online website where visits are booked was programmed to allow 600 visits per day, an extra 300 people turned

up at 10am with tickets ready to walk the route. Initial chaos due to lack of sufficient helmets and worry at the effects the mass visit could cause was eventually overcome and nobody was left disappointed.

Malaga Provincial Council has said checks are being run to see if extra tickets have been produced for any other dates.

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€1m cocaine haul on cruise ship A TOTAL of 16 kilos of cocaine, worth approximately €1 million, were found by police carrying out checks on passengers aboard a cruise ship visiting Malaga.

The first batch, weighing four kilos, was found in a hidden compartment of a

car National Police officers stopped after leaving the area of the docks where passengers had just disembarked.

Meanwhile, Guardia Civil officers discovered another 12 kilos hidden amongst the possessions of two Ar-

Police chase ends in drug arrests TWO men were arrested in Fuengirola for alleged drug-trafficking after trying to avoid a police checkpoint.

Officers gave chase when the pair fled from the checkpoint on Paseo de Poniente, near the Myramar complex, and caught up with them on Avenida Miramar.

A total of four kilos of hashish, 75 grams of cocaine found hidden in the men’s underwear, six mobile phones, a laptop, €3,000 in cash and a car, were confiscated.

gentinian men who had been travelling on the ship.

Cruises are becoming a popular way for organised trafficking gangs to transport drugs, the police report, with large amounts paid to holidaymakers to carry packages and a gang member travelling on board to supervise the carriers.

A costly squabble TWO women who injured each other in a fight at a Guaro restaurant have been fined €270 each by a Malaga Provincial Court.

The one believed to have started the fight was fined another €60 and ordered to pay €790 in damages to her victim.

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Processions and property searches – Easter with EASTER is upon us – as is the latest issue of VIVA’s HOT Properties Magazine – and it’s traditionally a busy time in Spain, particularly on the Costa del Sol. With schools on holiday and magnificent Easter

processions taking place in every city, town and village, thousands of families make their way to the Coast to enjoy the Easter festivities and the mild, sunny weather. And Easter is traditionally a busy

Why buy now?

Well, because now is a great time to buy! There are still lots of bargains to be had on the Costa del Sol but, alas, these won’t be around forever.

The drop in property prices has been steadily slowing in Spain over the last 12 months and in the most popular areas – such as the Costa del Sol – prices in some areas have actually begun to start rising again. But Easter is a great time to get that dream Costa del Sol property.

The sun is shining, there are still a few months to go before the summer season, and there’s plenty of entertainment to go around when not house-hunting.

The latest edition of VIVA’s HOT Properties Magazine is now out, listing hundreds of fantastic apartments, penthouses, townhouses and villas in all areas of the Costa del Sol. Flipping through a copy is the ideal way to get that search for a property kick-started.

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time for real estate agencies on the Costa del Sol too. Many people like to combine their holiday with a search for a property, and Easter is one of the best times to do so. It’s not as busy as the summer

months, the weather is great but not too hot, and it’s the ideal time to invest in a property and get it ready for the summer rental market or indeed, for personal summer holiday use.

A dream time for sellers At Easter, the Costa del Sol is awash with property huntersfrom home and abroad keen to find that dream home in the sun. Many prospective buyers turn to the Costa del Sol’s ‘property bible’ VIVA’s HOT Properties Magazine to get a taste of what is available on the Coast.

The latest edition of the magazine is out now, in time for the Easter rush of buyers, so a vendor who doesn’t have their property listed with VIVA would be wise to ensure that they do so in the next edition.

VIVA is proud to announce that new branches will be opening very soon in both Estepona and Nerja. With these new additions to the family, VIVA can now happily boast a network of offices on the Costa del Sol and inland, stretching from – funnily enough – Estepona to Nerja! Be you a buyer or seller, drop into any VIVA branch and talk to the experts who are passionate about property.

Marcos Loriente VIVA Sales Manager VIVA Centro Tel: 951 27 27 43

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Will expats vote?

EXPATRIATES numbering 40,671 in Malaga Province are eligible to vote in the May 24 local elections, according to a report.

The report did not explain, however, whether the figures were taken from expat-riates and foreign residents registered on the padron residents’ registries or they were for those who had actually registered their wish to vote before December 31, 2014, as was required. It remains to be seen how many will actually be able to vote.

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Authorities get ready for forest-fire season ALTHOUGH the current low-risk season for forest fires is expected to last until April 30, teams are starting to prepare for a long, hard season.

The Junta de Andalucia regional government’s forest fire prevention and fighting team, Infoca, has started to prepare the 39 aircraft, which will be stationed in the region this year.

FIRE-READY: Preparing for the high-risk summer season.

Two Bell 412 helicopters with capacity for 1,000 litres of water and 14 firemen have already been stationed, one in Cartama and the other in Madroñalejo, Sevilla. They are backed up by the Ministry of Agriculture and Environment’s Kamov helicopter stationed at Palma del Rio, Cordoba, which can carry 4,500 litres of water.

Another Bell 412 was due to be stationed at a Granada base today, April 2, with the rest of the team not far behind as preparations gear up for a long, hard season of heroic work.

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Costa has to ‘adapt or perish’ THE Costa del Sol has launched a new campaign aimed to beat last year’s record figure by giving tourists what they want.

The campaign includes a newly-styled interactive website accessible from various different types of electronic devices, and surveys carried out for the first time in 11 countries to find out what people really want from the destination.

“The Costa is going to take on a leading role on the international scene.

This is adapt or perish.

It’s a strategy that will benefit the entire province,” stressed Elias Bendodo, Head of Malaga Provincial Council, and the Costa del Sol tourism board at an event to launch the campaign.

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Exclusive London restaurant opens in Puente Romano Puente Romano Beach Resort Marbella expands its gastronomical offer with the addition of UNI, one of the reference restaurants in London, which will open its doors this Easter.

UNI takes its name from the Japanese word for sea urchin, a Japanese delicacy. It is a restaurant of Peruvian and Japanese fusion cuisine, Nikkei.

UNI has been recently selected as one of the top 10 new 2014 restaurants in London by The Daily Telegraph . Distinguished guests from British society, royal families and famous actors have already had the opportunity of enjoying its unique cuisine, including Prime Minister David Cameron, who frequently dines at UNI. Located in the gastronomical area of the resort known as Plaza Village, and designed by the famous Marbella-based French interior designer, Jean Pierre Martel, the opening of UNI will offer

a new gastronomic journey. Butterfish, tuna and salmon Tiraditos will prevail in the new menu, along with the naked lobster ceviche, the Wagyu beef Tataki with caviar and the black cod miso with anticucho sauce.

The extensive Sake menu which complements Japanese cuisine to perfection is accompanied by the careful selection of Pisco Sours, a Peruvian brandy which best enhances the Peruvian cuisine. After dinner, you can always enjoy one of the magnificent cocktails from our new menu.

The opening of UNI at Puente Romano Beach Resort Marbella offers a new and delicious gastronomical adventure that will not cease to amaze.

Reservations: 952 820 900 events@puenteromano.com

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Banderas turns on more than lights POPULAR Malaga-born Hollywood star Antonio Banderas flicked the switch on the largest LED screen in Andalucia to the sound of cheers from almost 300 fans.

The 140-square-metre

screen on the outside of El Corte Ingles on Malaga City’s Avenida de Andalucia went almost unnoticed by the actor’s fans, who called him by name and pleaded for him to pose for photos with them, to which he

Lifeguards get ready for work MARBELLA beaches will have lifeguards on duty over Easter. A combination of good weather and positive tourism forecasts have led the authorities to prepare for busy beaches and organise lifeguards to be on hand.

The council has decided that after April 5, the guards will also be on duty at weekends until June, when the official summer campaign begins.

For the summer, a total of 75 lifeguards will be working at 15 posts on Marbella’s beaches, with defibrillators, four ambulances, four support vehicles and six boats to back them up. Safety and prevention campaigns are also planned with leaflets being distributed at schools.

replied by blowing kisses and chatting.

The screen will display El Corte Ingles advertisements along with city information and the store management hopes it will become Malaga’s version of Times Square or Piccadilly Circus.

Roundabout approved MIJAS Council has approved a budget of €450,000 to build a roundabout at the entrance to Campomijas urbanisation and improve the surrounding area.

The work will include creating pavements to improve safety for pedestrians and remove obstructions which reduce visibility for drivers.

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Caught out A MAN who reported his car stolen in Mijas but had actually let a friend borrow it has been fined €2,400 by a Malaga Provincial Court for making it up.

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.

Helpful film THE driver of a vehicle which dragged a woman down a Torremolinos street after a passenger grabbed her handbag was arrested just hours later thanks to a witness who recorded it on his mobile.

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Costa killer suspect faces 63 year prison sentence A MAN who allegedly killed three women in the summer of 2011 is facing 63 years in jail.

The Public Prosecutor’s Office

has accused 46-year-old German man Abdelkader S. of brutally killing three women in Mijas and San Pedro.

The prosecution believes the man killed the three, two in Mijas and one in San Pedro de Alcantara, after contacting them by tele-

phone to arrange appointments for massages and other services and later stole belongings and tried to use their credit cards for cash.

The prosecutor requested a total of 63 years in jail for various crimes including one of murder and two of manslaughter and a total of €240,000 in damages for the families of the three deceased.

Meanwhile the defence, led by lawyer Lucinia Llanos, has requested the man be cleared.

Although at first he admitted to two of the three crimes, he later denied them before a judge and claimed the police had forced him to make a false confession.

The accused admitted to using the credit cards, but said a person called Libio gave them to him.

Look out owners, Fuengirolo’s about A COSTA council has come up with a new idea to try to encourage pet owners to clear up after their dogs in public.

Fuengirola Council has created Fuengirolo, a giant dog mascot that will wander the streets handing out bones and bags to help dog owners pick up their pets’ poops.

Although Mayor Ana Mula said most dog owners do pick up after their pets, a small portion still leave the mess behind causing hygiene problems and giv-

ing the town a bad image.

“We need to raise awareness because at almost every meeting I go to, somebody complains about dog mess. I want to stress it is not the animals’ fault, it’s up to their owners to clear up after them,” the mayor explained.

Fuengirolo will also be visiting local schools over the next few weeks to educate youngsters on being a responsible pet owner.

FUENGIROLO: To encourage dog owners to clear up.

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Riding event TOLOX is organising a traditional horse-riding route to the Sierra de las Nieves for April 18.

For more information contact the Visitors’ Center on 951 774 239 or see www.tolox.es.

PAD dinner PAD animal charity is holding its Easter Charity Dinner at Tamisa Golf Hotel in Mijas Costa tomorrow, April 3.

Live entertainment, a two course dinner and a raffle are included.

Call 952 585 988.

Please climb AN AGREEMENT has been reached between Mijas Sports Department and local climbing groups to encourage climbing in the La Raja area.

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Police bust major Costa drugs gang A COSTA del Sol marihuana farming group has been broken up by the Guardia Civil and 12 people arrested.

The group, which police had been investigating since Novem-

Who has the golden touch?

MYSTERIOUS golden urban fittings which appeared in Rincon de la Victoria have reached Malaga City as authorities search for the King Midas of graffiti.

Waste bins on Calle Alemania, a recycling container in El Ejido and another on Calle Refino have appeared covered with gold paint, yet nobody knows who or why. The

ber last year, grew massive amounts of cannabis at homes spread across the Costa which worked independently to avoid all being busted at the same time.

Each home was constantly guarded by a group member and regularly checked by the group leader, the police explained.

All the homes had been connected to public or residential area electrical supply to avoid detection of the high consumption required by the greenhouses, and in some cases tunnels had been created under streets to reach cables.

Due to the complex nature of the electrical arrangements, Endesa technicians were called in to disconnect the supplies.

More than 3,500 cannabis plants, 25 kilos of marihuana ready for sale and other items were confiscated during searches on eight properties in Mijas, Benalmadena and Alhaurin de la Torre, and police also discovered anothGOLD PAINT: Livens up bin. er home in Benalmadena which the group was preparcouncil has announced that the ing to use as a new greenculprit may face fines for damage. house.

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Speaker system goes live on beaches A NEW announcement system has been launched on Fuengirola’s beaches to provide information and warnings in a quick, efficient manner.

A total of 22 speakers have been installed on the town’s beaches, which are controlled from a Local Police force module on San Francisco beach.

Messages can be recorded in advance or broadcast live to specific areas or to all speakers, enabling notices on lost children and warnings to be quickly spread.

Sea conditions, temperatures, activities and announcements will be made over the system in Spanish, English and French, Mayor Ana Mula announced after broadcasting the first message on the system to welcome visitors.

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Council services MARBELLA urbanisations are one step closer to receiving municipal services thanks to a measure approved by the council to add streets to the Public Assets Inventory.

The measure will enable the council to provide services including cleaning, maintenance and street-lighting which are to be gradually taken over between now and 2017.

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Local footballer plays for Spain COIN became a virtual ghost town on Tuesday, March 31, as almost everyone was glued to the television to watch local footballer Juanmi play his first match for Spain.

Most of the town had been talking about Juanmi since he was called to play for his country by national coach Vicente del Bosque and waiting for his debut.

Although Holland won 2-0, the friendly match gave the footballer’s hometown fans reason to declare they thought he was in fine form.

“It was a shame the rest of

Gerald is honoured ALHAURIN EL GRANDE Council and the Gerald Brenan Foundation have launched two new publications to celebrate the 45th anniversary of the author’s arrival in the town.

No excuse for a mess BUSY streets and processions can cause extra mess at this time of year, yet Marbella aims to keep itself in top condition over Easter with a special cleanliness campaign.

Streets will be hosed down at night, extra rubbish collection services laid on, special waste bags for sunflower seed munchers distributed, scented plants dotted about town and wax-removal services provided by approximately 350 municipal workers, councillor Eloy Ortega has announced.

On March 26, 1970, Brenan arrived in the town which he described as a ‘placid place to live’ and spent 17 years there. Culture councillor Maria Rosa Morales presented the publications, explaining: “there are two products, one is a leaflet with information on his biography and work in the area, and the other an illustrated book for children with magnificent illustrations

by Alejandro Villen.”

MARIA ROSA MORALES: Presented the publications.

the team wasn’t helping, otherwise Juanmi could have scored,” said Miguel Cortes, who is president of Peña Malaguistas del Guadalhorce ‘Juanmi.’

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New app to report crime in English 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 the thought of having to speak to the Guardia Civil when they have been the victim of a crime is daunting. That should now be a thing of the past with the release of the mobile app called ‘AlertCops’.

The app will ask you to download and install from Google Play or Apple, then to register and confirm by return SMS. Once this is done and you are accepted, you will be free to report any crime directly to the authorities without speaking Spanish. The app speaks both!

In addition, with the GPS function linked your location is known as well.

Cycling days in the Mijas countryside MIJAS COUNCIL has announced that local residents will be able to take part in three cycling days in May with six different routes to take in the local countryside.

May 9, 16 and 23 are the chosen dates for the routes, with two levels of difficulty on offer to allow all the family to take part.

Each route will cover between 18 and 35

kilometres and take approximately fourand-a-half hours to complete (from 10am to 2.30pm) and set off from Sierra Mijas secondary school in Las Lagunas.

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Russian connection VUELING airline has announced a new route from Malaga-Costa del Sol airport to St Petersburg in Russia. Two weekly flights will be connecting the two from May 2 until September.

Local arrested THE largest amount of red coral confiscated in Cataluña in 20 years was found in the car of a 49year-old Fuengirola man who was allegedly trying to smuggle it to Italy.

Better roads A TOTAL of €2.32 million was spent in 2014 on three black spots on roads in the area of La Linea to improve surfacing and signs to improve road safety.

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Lost owners where are you?

NOT lost dogs, but lost owners!

Residents of Estepona port area are appealing for somebody to come forward with information about the owners of these two beautiful dogs.

“Somebody must know where their owners are, they must be worried about losing these two wonderfully behaved animals.”

Carol from Estepona said, “They appear to be full breed Dandie Dinmont Terriers. Someone must be looking for them!”

The Dandie Dinmont is a small Scottish breed of dog in the terrier family. The breed has a very long body, short legs, and a distinctive ‘top-knot’ of hair on the head.

They are being temporarily cared for at the moment by Michel at the Limoneros Bar/Restaurant in Estepona Port. If you know these dogs or have any information as to

DANDIE DINMONTS: Two beautifully behaved dogs. who owns them, please call.

The offer of a free turkey Easter dinner from Michel awaits who can offer information leading to these dogs being returned to their home.

Ph: 622 665 835/652 735 555 Or Facebook; www.facebook.com/ pages/Limonero/ 256094464590547

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Drugs are suspected in death THE death of a 36-year-old American man in Torremolinos and four cases of intoxication could have been caused by the same drug, police suspect.

Although a post mortem examination and tests on a friend of the deceased, who remains in intensive care, revealed the presence of cocaine, officers are trying to determine whether the American men had also taken ecstasy.

Police investigators suspect a new form of ecstasy could be a common factor in the cases, as three youngsters who were all taken ill in Malaga City admitted to having taken ecstasy pills and alcohol.

One of the three, a teenage girl, began to vomit and fainted soon after taking pills and later became extremely violent, attacking ambulance staff.

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Quality breeding FIVE purebred Spanish stallions and one Andalucian ass from the Military Stables in Jerez will be on hand in the Miravalle area of Coin to cover broodmares until June 6.

Spring fair ASOCIACION Horizonte charity is holding a fundraising spring fair and market this Sunday, April 5, from 10am till sunset at the Alameda park in Marbella.

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

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If at first you fail… try again!

A MAN has been remanded in custody after trying to rob the same bank twice in three days.

Although on the first attempt,

the man (who entered a bank in Alhaurin de la Torre wearing a balaclava and brandishing a 40cm knife) was unable to get his hands

on any loot as there was no cash to hand and the safe had a delayed opening system, he returned three days later at a different time of day carrying a smaller knife and this time managed to escape with €2,300 in cash.

After viewing security camera recordings, taking witness statements and checking the streets the man was reported to have used to flee the scene, police investigators decided he knew the area well and drew up a list of known delinquents from the area.

ESTEPONA: The new botanical gardens.

The suspect was identified from the list and arrested a few days later on the outMORE than 5,000 visitors rushed to see the new Orchid skirts of the town, and a and Botanical gardens in Estepona on the first day it was subsequent search of his open to the public. home found the clothes worn Due to the spectacular look of the building and unique species it and the knives used during the holds, the new attraction is expected to receive more than 100,000 visitors robbery. per year and generate more than €2 million in extra annual income.

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Malaga launches its new brains A NEW control centre has been launched in Malaga City, aiming to use smart-city technology to coordinate all municipal services from one place.

Housed in the reconverted tobacco factory buildings, the centre has access to 72 traffic cameras and will house the command posts for services including municipal tow-trucks, buses, works, street lighting, car parks and a call centre.

The council explained that the centre is intended to become the ‘brains’ of the city, providing better services to the public by coordinating them all in an efficient way.

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New nursery for rural village for 41 children PARENTS of under three-year-olds will have less travelling to do thanks to a new public nursery school which has been opened in Alozaina.

Whereas in the past those wishing to

send their young ones to a public nursery had to take them to Yunquera, the nearest village with a nursery, the new centre will mean 41 village children can stay closer to home while mum and dad go to work.

Obituary Free trip to El Chorro JOANNA (Joan) Smith a popular well known British resident of Los Boliches in Fuengirola for many years passed away peacefully at home on Tuesday March 31 aged 88.

Joan’s service will be held at 1.00pm at the Fuengirola crematorium on Wednesday April 8.

There is a request for no flowers please, but perhaps a donation to a charity of your choice in her name.

A TRIP to the Caminito del Rey in El Chorro is being planned for Mijas pensioners on May 6.

One hundred free places are available for the trip, which Tourism councillor Santiago Martin explained involves a two hour walk and requires a

certain level of fitness.

Those wishing to sign up can do so at the Pensioner’s Centres (Hogar del Jubilado) in Mijas Pueblo on April 8, La Cala on April 9 and Las Lagunas on April 10. Places will be allocated on a first-come, firstserved basis.

Better smell and views WORK to create 20 new underground rubbish and recycling containers on Fuengirola sea-front is nearing completion, the council announced.

These new additions mean 95 per cent of the town’s bins are now underground, improving the image and smell of local streets no end.

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Empty purse A NEW system is being introduced at the University of Malaga which will allow services to be paid for using mobile phones, eliminating the need to carry cash.

April training MORE than 300 athletes from 16 teams from Belgium, Norway, Sweden, France, Ireland and the UK will train at the Ciudad de Torremolinos sports facilities in April.

Metro users ORANGE mobile phone provider has followed in the footsteps of Movistar and Vodafone and signed agreements with Malaga metro to provide reception for users underground.

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Training scheme fraud case continues OPERACION Barrado, a fraud case concerning training schemes for the unemployed in Andalucia continues to dig up new suspects.

Judge Mercedes Alaya, who is leading the case, doubts the criteria and control used to dispatch millions of

euros meant for training courses between 2005 and 2011 and places the Junta de Andalucia regional government’s Education Board at the centre of the hurricane.

One of the centres under the spotlight, the CIOMijas hostelry training

centre in La Cala, may be ordered to pay back €8.9 million in grants which were received by the centre and not justified in accounts.

Three people in Malaga who were arrested this week, ex-Employment Delegate Juan Carlos Lomeña, the head of CIOMijas centre’s managing company Mariola Ustaran and the director of the centre between 2003 and 2014, Jose Gutierrez, have been released temporarily after refusing to declare.

Marbella hosts a ‘heart-friendly’ Easter for second year running EASTER in Marbella has been certified for the second year running as a ‘heart-friendly’ event by the Spanish Medicine and Safety in the Workplace Society.

The Civil Protection volunteers posted about town during Holy Week processions are equipped with 11 semi-automatic defibrillators, and have received training on how

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Pantoja sells home LAWYERS have confirmed that jailed singer Isabel Pantoja has sold her 650square-metre house, Mi Gitana, in La Pera urbanisation, Marbella.

Although information on the identity of the buyer and the purchase price has not been released, the singer is expected to use the money from the sale to pay off the €3.3 million mortgage she took out to buy the house in 2004.

La Cala Lions lunch LIFE SAVING: Volunteers trained for emergencies. to correctly use the lifesaving equipment in case

of emergencies involving heart failure.

MIJAS-La Cala Lions will be holding an Easter Monday Lunch at The Ole Restaurant on Monday, April 6 with proceeds going to local children’s charities.

Tickets priced at €17.50 per person include a glass of cava upon arrival (1.30pm-2pm), a three-course lunch, half a bottle of wine and entertainment, and are available from Lions Charity Shop in La Cala (677 059 061) and Ole Restaurant in Los Claveles.

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A vicar in trouble?

It’s another Chappell triumph THE International Theatre Studio’s latest offering is another hilarious comedy by the acclaimed creator of ‘Rising Damp,’ Eric Chappell.

‘Side Effects’ is set in a convalescent home where two combatants a cantankerous sceptic and a woeful vicar - lock horns in a ribald round of accusation and counter-accusation.

The Reverend gentleman seems his own worst enemy by showing all the signs of having fallen from grace, a condition the sceptical Frank is only too keen to capitalise on. But are the Rev Paul’s untoward actions rooted in his transplant surgery or even the personality of

his organ donor, the late Melvin?

The men’s respective wives try to hold speculation in check, but in this they are not helped by the clandestine goings-on of the vicar and the young and attractive Tracey, Melvin’s erstwhile lover.

It all adds up to a fine melee of muddle and misunderstanding, a triumph of humour over disgrace.

Directed by Diana King, this notto-be-missed comedy is being staged at the Atalaya Park Hotel on April 17, 18 and 19. Tickets from the usual outlets or by phone 952 880 630 (evenings and weekends 952 896 739).

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Chess for giants!

TWO new giant chessboards have been installed on the sea-front in Estepona.

Presented by Mayor Jose Maria Garcia Urbano and President of the Spanish Chess Association Francisco Javier Ochoa de Echaguen, they are the third and fourth 20-square-metre chess boards created in the town.

Riverside park officially open THE second stage of Fuengirola’s riverside park and leisure area has been declared officially open.

It covers 75,000 square metres and includes cycling paths, play areas, exercise equipment, an aromatic park with scented plants and herbs, and other attractions.

Mayor Ana Mula said it was a dream come true.

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A NEW Fantasy Park (Parque de la Fantasia) has opened in Fuengirola, incorporating popular stories into a brand-new play area for children.

The 7,500-square-metre park, which has replaced the Parque Doña Sofia, was constructed with funding from Malaga Provincial Council and includes more than 20 attractions based on stories including Little Red Riding Hood, The Three Little Pigs, The Pied Piper of Hamelin and Puss in Boots.

The park was officially opened by Mayor Ana Mula and Elias Bendodo, Head of Malaga Provincial Council, which spent €360,000 on the project. Bendodo said the park would be a great attraction for local families and also provide a new meeting point for residents and visitors.

The mayor said the town had been encouraging local children to take up chess for the last three years and lessons were given at 14 schools with 1,800 students taking part each year.

A competition is planned for April 18 at Federico Garcia Lorca school, with all 14 schools taking part.

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Beach business APPLICATIONS to install food and drink stands on Puerto de Sotogrande and Torreguadiaro beaches are being accepted by San Roque Council until April 9.

Job security A NEW study has revealed that 13,765 employees in Malaga Province had their temporary work contracts changed to indefinite ones in 2014.

Centre opens MORE than 2,000 people attended the launch of a new day centre for Alzheimer’s sufferers in Alhaurin el Grande.

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Fighting caterpillars using nature’s way BIRD-BOXES are being placed in trees in El Chaparral and Calahonda in an attempt to reduce the number of pine processionary caterpillars which appear each year.

The aim, Environmental Councillor for Mjias Jose Francisco Ruiz Fontalba explained, is to attract small birds which include the caterpillars in their diet.

Altogether 300 bird-boxes, with small entrances to avoid larger species taking them over, will be placed at an approximate cost of €3,000, which the council hopes will allow the pesky and dangerous caterpillars to be reduced in a natural way.

NATURAL DETERRENT: Bird-boxes in pine trees.

AID fashion show goes on despite strong winds ANIMALS IN DISTRESS (AID) held its first clothes show at Tamisa Golf Hotel on Friday, March 27.

Although last-minute panics were unavoidable as the event had been planned by the pool and strong winds sent it indoors in search of shelter, the show was still a reported success with 57 people

turning out and raising a total of €1,450 for animals.

AID thanks everyone who got involved in the show, the first event the charity has organised on the Costa, and invites those interested in discovering how the charity works to visit www.animals-indistress.eu for more information.

Coastal path A TOTAL of 13 kilometres of coast in the Estepona area can now be travelled on foot or bicycle.

Head of Malaga Provincial Council Elias Bendodo joined the local mayor to officially open the latest stretch of the coastal path between the La Chimenea and Playa Bella areas.

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Airline recruiting on Costa del Sol RYANAIR low-cost airline’s training and human resources partner Crewlink will be selecting cabin crew in Malaga.

The recruitment drive is part of the airline’s largest ever campaign in Europe, during which it intends to take on hundreds of new cabin crew members.

Crewlink has said that candidates will have the opportunity to work from a number of European airports including some in Spain and that no previous experience is necessary.

Candidates, who must be at least 18 years of age, will be selected in Malaga on April 16 and sent to Madrid for training in May.

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Helping tourists abroad A NEW service has been launched in Benalmadena to tend to the needs of foreign tourists.

The SATE (Attention to Foreign Tourists Service) on Avenida Antonio Machado 10 will be open to the public Monday to Friday from 9am to 3pm and provide services in English and German.

The service can be used by tourists to place official complaints, ask for humanitarian or psychological support, cancel credit cards, contact embassies and consulates, contact relatives abroad, help find lost objects and receive safety and tourist information.

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What’s on in April at Lux Mundi?

LUX MUNDI Fuengirola has announced two new events for this month.

On Thursday 16 at 7pm, TIMS (The International Music Society) will be offering a potpourri concert at the centre in Fuengirola. The choir, founded in 1988, is well known for its charity per-

formances and gives regular Spring and Christmas concerts at Lux Mundi’s centre, where it also holds rehearsals.

Tickets for the concert are priced at €5, which includes drinks and tapas, and can be obtained at the centre.

The following day, Friday 17, a coach trip to the white village of Benalauria in the Ronda mountains is being arranged, with a guided tour of beautiful buildings.

Tickets for the trip are priced at €17 and available from the centre for this trip, which will depart from Fuengirola fairground and bullring at 9am.

SERVICE: Rev. Cage with members of the choir.

For further information and bookings please contact the centre on 952 474 ST GEORGE’S Anglican Church in Malaga held a Palm 840, email luxmundif@ Sunday Service, with palm crosses presented to the gmail.com or website congregation before they entered the church and the www.lux-mundi.org. altar decorated with palm fronds. Members of the conPlease note bookings cangregation read the Passion of our Lord and were adnot be made through the dressed by Reverend Doreen Cage. website.

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Busy week for clear-up teams A SPECIAL cleaning campaign is in place this week to ensure the flood of visitors over Easter does not leave Malaga City looking worse for wear.

A total of 287 people are working on cleaning teams making sure

everything is returned to its normal clean and tidy state after processions and events, and 11 workers are distributing 100,000 rubbish bags over the week in the special Easter seating areas.

Certain streets are

closed briefly before processions as anti-wax products are applied to facilitate removal of candle-wax drips after the events, a traditionally difficult chore unless precautions are taken in advance.

Ask the Optician SPECIAL CLEANING: In order to prepare the streets of Malaga for Easter.

What do all the numbers on my prescription mean?

Amrik Sappal, Store Director, Specsavers Opticas Fuengirola REGULAR check-ups with your optician can help you to maintain clear and comfortable vision. Most people should have a full eye test every two years and if you wear contact lenses, you will also need to attend regular contact lens check-ups.

At Specsavers our opticians carry out thorough eye tests that provide professional, comprehensive checks of your eyes and vision. The test lasts about 20 minutes and includes the use of specialist equipment to examine eye health and to determine the correct lens strength and type for you. Your optician will also answer any questions and address any specific problems you may be having with your vision. If necessary the optician will refer you directly for further medical examination to an Ophthalmologist. After your eye test, if your vision needs to be corrected with glasses or contact lenses you will be given a prescription which explains the issues with your eye sight. However some people find it confusing, so here’s an explanation of what the numbers and codes on your prescription mean.

SPH (sphere) - the amount of long (+) or short (-) sight - the higher the num-

ber, the stronger the prescription lenses required. This can affect your choice of glasses if you have a higher prescription.

Lenses for short sight are thicker at the edges than in the middle and for long sight, they are thicker in the middle.

The higher the prescription, the greater the curve of the lens.

CYL (cylinder) - the amount of astigmatism, or visual distortion, caused by an irregularly shaped cornea - the surface of the front of the eye.

AXIS - the direction of the astigmatism, measured in degrees.

PRISM - correction needed to balance the eyes.

BASE - the direction of any correction needed to balance the eyes (prism).

ADD - the amount of additional correction needed to focus at close distances.

If you have a measurement shown in this section of your prescription, it means that you have different prescription requirements for distance and reading.

Ask your optician in store if you have any doubts, we are here to help and are currently offering free eye tests, visit www.specsavers.es

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Costa BMX fans make new tracks A NEW BMX biking area named after local sportsman and national champion, Alberto Garcia, has been officially opened in Estepona.

The area has two levels, one for experienced riders with difficult obstacles, and another for children and learners.

Local Mayor Jose Maria Garcia Urbano said the new area would provide citizens

with another sports option and complement the recently-opened facilities in the town including a karting track and sports grounds.

Meanwhile, Sports Councillor Adrian Trujillo explained that the track, which includes safety measures, is aimed at BMW Free Style, which consists of jumps and airborne acrobatics.

UK culture fair draws a crowd MORE than 2,000 people visited Benalmadena Marina’s first Culture Fair, dedicated to English, Irish, Welsh and Scottish residents.

Part of a current project to bring a number of activities to the marina, the event - which will be repeated in April and May - aimed to introduce local expatriates’ culture and traditions to visitors, with British artists and music groups providing entertainment.

Foreign Residents’ Councillor Adolfo Fernandez said later that the event was a great success and thanked all the expatriates who got involved.

Networking for charity SUNSET Beach Hotel in Benalmadena Costa will be hosting a networking event on Friday, April 10, in aid of the Spanish Association Against Cancer (AECC).

The charity event organised by Digital Costa del Sol TV in collaboration with the council aims to raise funds to maintain residences by the Materno Infantil children’s hospital.

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The day of the soup in Monda WITH the arrival of spring, the Day of the Sopa Mondeña (typical Monda soup) is one of the most important events in the village’s annual calendar, attracting ever-increasing visits each year.

The soup is prepared in the village square and everyone, both young and old, takes part in this delicious feast.

A giant-size wooden bowl is filled with bread which, later, is moistened with a typical broth made from fried vegetable mixture of peppers, ‘hanging’ tomatoes, garlic, oil) and eggs.

The famous soup is enjoyed, accompanied by a glass of wine, against a backdrop of live music. The gaily decorated streets and the stalls offering a range

DAY OF THE SOUP: An important village event.

of typical products from Monda all add to the festive atmosphere.

This year the celebration will take place on Sunday April 12 at noon.

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NEW WHEELS: Marbella mayor Angeles Muñoz presented the new vehicles.

New wheels for local Costa cops THE Local Police force in Marbella has received 19 new vehicles from the council, completing the renewal of the force’s fleet which began last year.

Mayor Angeles Muñoz presented the new cars, stating: “They are safer and more modern vehicles that will allow us to save 20 per cent on petrol,” the mayor said.

Muñoz also announced that Marbella will be taking part in a European project to improve road safety by carrying out spot-checks on drivers to detect drugs.

“The final goal is to improve safety on our roads by controlling issues that affect driving such as certain medicines and drugs along with alcohol,” Muñoz stressed.

A COACH trip organised

by Friends in Focus camera club will be visiting life-sized replicas of Columbus’s ships in Huelva on April 28.

The visit will take in the replicas of the three ships Christopher Columbus used to sail across the Atlantic when he discovered the New World in 1492 at El Muelle de las Carabelas near Huelva and also visit El Rocio for an amazing photographic opportunity.

Tickets for the trip are priced at €155 per person and include overnight stays, breakfast and evening meal with wine at a local hotel.

For more information see www.friendsinfocus cameraclub.com or contact Lyn Carter on 678 139 707.

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Increasing numbers NUMBERS of Russian tourists visiting Malaga are still on the up and have increased by 15 per cent so far this year compared to 2014.

Climber falls A FRENCH climber had to be rescued and taken to hospital after falling from a height of five metres in El Chorro, near Alora. The 27year-old’s condition was not serious.

Park plans A NEW riverside park and leisure area is being planned in Estepona to complement the recently built fair and sportsgrounds and auditorium.

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Dog-friendly measures set for Malaga City CITY dog-owners will be pleased to hear of a number of new measures which will affect their pets.

In two weeks’ time, the Campanillas district of Malaga will have a new 3,000-square-metre dogpark at the Parque Lineal on Calle

Fausto. The facility will be divided into two separate areas for larger and smaller dogs and will be completely fenced in.

During a visit to the facility, the mayor announced that in April Malaga Council will be launching a

Another star for Starlite JULIETA VENEGAS has announced she will be joining the star-studded list of artists giving concerts at Marbella’s Starlite Festival this summer.

“I’m very happy to sing at Starlite. I’m really looking forward to trying out the exceptional acoustics and magical surroundings,” the singer said.

Venegas will be offering audiences the essence of Mexico in a concert on Tuesday, August 4.

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new mobile app for dog-owners which will provide information of interest including pet-related activities and establishments that welcome dogs.

In addition, EMASA municipal water company announced that 62 new dog-friendly drinking fountains are to be placed across the city, channelling excess water to a lower level bowl for dogs to drink from.

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Citizen safety ESTEPONA Council has launched a special police operation for Holy Week with a total of 522 shifts between last Sunday, March 29, and April 5.

More than 120 Local Police force officers were put to work about town to ensure everybody stays as safe as possible during the holiday period.

Busy time for port

MEXICAN ESSENCE: Singer Julieta Venegas.

Venegas has an armful of top awards including a Grammy, five Latin Gram-

mys, two South-American MTV awards and a platinum record in Mexico.

MORE than 18,000 cruise passengers are visiting Malaga city during Holy Week on seven different ships.

Today, Thursday 2, the Costa Fortuna, Prinsendam and Boudicca are in port, with an estimated 5,300 passengers between the three of them.

Another two ships are due into port tomorrow, Friday 3: Mein Schiff 3 and the Norwegian Spirit, which between them can carry another 5,000 passengers.

The MSC Preziosa, with space for 2,959 passengers, visited the port on Tuesday and yesterday saw a visit from the Costa Pacifica with 3,780 passengers.

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Supermarket chain pledges to help MERCADONA supermarket chain, under an agreement reached with Malaga Food Bank, has handed over 5,340 kilos of goods for the needy.

The chain has announced it will once again be taking part

Parking location system A NEW pay and display parking location system aims to reduce pollution and traffic by helping drivers find the nearest empty parking space.

A total of 2,229 sensors have been installed in Malaga City blue zone parking spaces, which will check to see where the nearest empty space is and inform drivers via mobile phones and electronic display panels.

The system, which should be fully functional after Easter, is expected to reduce the amount of carbon dioxide released into the air in the city by 5,400 tonnes per year by avoiding cars driving about looking for somewhere to park.

Continuing to give life THIRTY four organ transplants were carried out in the first two months of this year at Malaga’s Regional Hospital, nine more than during the same period in 2014.

Speaking yesterday, March 25, in a ceremony to honour Spanish National Transplant Day, Andalucia Health and Equality delegate Daniel Perez said that once again Malaga Province had shown its innate generosity by helping save lives.

Of the 34 operations, 21 were kidney transplants (four from living donors), 12 were liver transplants and one a pancreas transplant.

in projects this year to collect supplies for the food bank, which distributes to a number of charities in Malaga Province, and 75 supermarkets will be taking part in this year’s Gran Recogida (Great

Collection) event.

Malaga Food Bank president Javier PeĂąa said the organisation was extremely grateful that companies including Mercadona collaborate, while the supermarket chain representa-

tive Francisco J Rodriguez thanked the charity for its work with those in need and offered the Mercadona stores as collection points for its campaigns.

The Malaga Food Bank

Foundation (www.bancosol.info) is a non-profit organisation based on volunteer work which has been managing and distributing food to charities and people in need in the province since 1998.

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Swans ambassadors set a great example FIVE members of the Swans’ Model United Nations (MUN) group attended their first ever international conference recently.

Cesar Gonzalez, Edvards Celmins, Miranda Tessore, Sara Lindblom and Sara Benkirane joined more than 600 students from around the world at the biggest conference of its kind in the UK, the Haileybury MUN15.

The occasion gave the students the opportunity to meet other MUN members from Greece, Turkey, Saudi Arabia and the USA along with representatives from top UK schools.

Each delegation presented the views of an individual country as diplomats would in the real United Nations, with the aim of creating resolutions and agreeing future action.

The students were separated into different committees where they debated many topics including

SWANS’ PUPILS: Acted as ambassadors for the school. issues as diverse as clean water treaties or the use of drone warfare.

The conference provided a truly enriching experience that allowed the IB students to further develop important issues including international-mindedness, being investiga-

tors and working effectively as part of a team.

Swans school stressed how proud everyone was of the group’s achievements as ambassadors for the school, and announced that plans were already under way for the next trip to Barcelona in November.

Charity auction for the animals

ANIMALS in Distress (AID) charity holds fundraising auctions at La Cuchara restaurant between Alhaurin el Grande and Coin on the second Friday of each month.

The next auction will be on Friday April 10, starting at 7pm.

Items are accepted as donations (100 per cent proceeds to the charity) or for sale (15 per cent goes to the charity) and sellers are asked to inform Chris on 628 239 174 or Joe on 626 942 427 at least 24 hours before the event.

Bric-a-brac, furniture, pick up a bargain and help animals by attending the auction at La Cuchara at the entrance to Poligono Rosa on the A404 from Alhaurin el Grande to Coin.

Allo! Allo! in town A COMEDY based on the famous BBC sitcom Allo!

Allo! is coming to Salon Varietes in Fuengirola from April 10-15.

With the unmistakable, irreplaceable figure of longtime Salon favourite Francis Butler playing the key role of Rene, and special guest star Hannah Murray from Talk Radio Europe as Helga, plus all the other Allo Allo favourites, the show

directed by Peter Brooks is expected to be a rib-tickler magnifique.

Shows are at 8pm nightly and 7pm on Sunday, tickets available from the box office on 952 474 542 from 11am to 2.30pm Monday to Saturday and one hour before each show.

Booking can also be done online at www.salon varietestheatre.com.

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Gluten-free FUENGIROLA is to set up a network of restaurants offering gluten-free meals for those who suffer from coeliac disease.

Zumba day A FUNDRAISING Zumba Masterclass will be held on April 12 at the La Linea sports centre for the Campo de Gibraltar Multiple Sclerosis Association.

School trip STUDENTS and teachers from the Official Language School in San Roque will be travelling to Antalya, Turkey, on April 7-14 to complete their European Grundtvig Uniting Europe through Lifelong Learning Project.

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Loss of street artists means fewer tourists, says local MARBELLA Town Hall has announced that it is to set up the first tourist council for the town in order to attract more tourism.

However, one view from the street is that they appear to be determined to shoot themselves in the foot.

Tatiana Lobanova believes that new laws have driven away many

of the street artists, who, in her opinion, were a big tourist draw.

What she has noticed this year is that far fewer people are taking in the sights of the town because quite simply, those experiences aren’t there any more. The street artists have all but gone, and with them, seem to have gone the tourists.

Tatiana decided to get to the bottom of the problem and spoke to a few of the remaining artists for their view. She said: “All the artists have left because of the new laws. A street artist now has to declare themself as a self-employed artist and pay around €300 in Social Security charges per

Young chefs raise funds for Comic Relief A BAKE-Off at the British School of Marbella has raised €694 for Comic Relief.

The fundraising event saw budding chefs from different year groups go head to head to see who could sell the most cakes, with Year Three winning by sell-

ing €160 worth of goodies.

A Dance-a-thon by the school’s Foundation Stage also helped raise cash for the UK-based charity, with children dancing for 22 minutes.

Head Teacher Miss Kirkham thanked everyone for their support.

CAKE FEST: Year Three sold the most.

month (even if they already pay Social Security in their main job), plus 40 per cent in taxes for each sale, along with tax reports every three months, and two more additional tax reports a year.

“These are simple street artists trying to earn a few euros while giving free entertainment to the passing visitors. They’re not accountants, so they would need to pay a professional to do the books for them also. I spent three months as a street artist and didn’t sell a thing,” she said.

Tatiana added: “They are the life and soul of the city. And now Marbella has scared them away, they are losing their tourist trade, for what gain? They now have no attraction, and no income from artist taxes.” Her opinion is that it looks like they have shot themselves in the foot.

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LAST APPEARANCE: Princesses Leonor and Sofia at a military parade in October.

Royal princesses to make public appearance for Easter Mass PRINCESS Leonor of Asturias and her sister, Infanta Sofia, will be appearing in public this Easter after a long spell away from the spotlight.

The young princesses, who have not been seen in public since October 12 when they accompanied their parents to watch a traditional military parade, will be attending Mass at Palma de Mallorca

Cathedral this Sunday, April 5, with their parents King Felipe and Queen Letizia and their grandmother Doña Sofia.

The Spanish Royal Family have traditionally attended Mass on Easter Sunday at Palma Cathedral ever since they started spending Easter holidays at the Marivent Palace, the traditional royal summer residence.

All change for UK pensions on April 6

By Paul Clarke AES Finance SINCE George Osborne announced in last year’s Budget speech that he was going to abolish the compulsion to buy an annuity there has been a frantic process of getting all the legislative bricks in place.

Just before the new pension options become available, the final pieces of the jigsaw are falling into place. (How so?

What does this mean?)

These changes affect everyone who has a pension and does not have an annuity. They are revolutionary and were wholly unexpected.

The changes include: 1. So long as you are aged 55 or more, you will be able to take as much

out of a defined contribution pension as you like.

All of it, if you wish, so long as you pay any tax that is due thereafter.

2. You will not be able to transfer out of unfunded public sector pension schemes. This applies to NHS and teachers pensions, for example.

3. Transferring out of certain pension schemes will only be allowed if you receive advice from someone who is authorised to give that advice as a pension transfer specialist and is on the UK FCA register.

4. The 55 per cent ‘death tax’ has been partly abolished, replaced with a potential 45 per cent charge depending on how the pension is taken.

The coming changes al-

so affect those who already have transferred or are thinking of transferring to a QROPS. Some QROPS have adopted the new flexible benefits regime, but not all.

For those who live in Spain, the difference in the taxation of pension benefits can vary enormously depending on where your pension fund is situated. Tax may apply at a rate of just 3 per cent from some schemes, but from others the same pension may be taxed at well over 40 per cent.

All of this requires expert advice more than ever before. To find out how these changes affect you contact AES on 952 768 451/691 219 354, or email paul.clarke@aes international.com

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GENDER VIOLENCE: 77.6 per cent of victims manage to create new lives for themselves.

One in eight women in Spain suffered domestic violence 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 ex-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 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 or 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.

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Earth Hour switch-off SPAIN was one of 172 countries to switch off the lights as part of the World Wide Fund for Nature’s (WWF) Earth Hour project.

Earth Hour is a yearly event to highlight climate change and how people

Citizenship renewed 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 and Queen Ferdinand and Isabella.

Thousands of Muslims faced the same harsh decision at the time.

If the law is passed, the government does not expect most eligible citizens to return to Spain, but thinks 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.

Beaches fit ANDALUCIAN beaches have been declared fit for bathing this Easter by the Public Health Department.

Special tests were carried out on water samples before the holiday period began to check for transparency, colour, oils, minerals, solid particles and microbiological matter.

can positively contribute to reducing global emissions. Lights were switched off in homes and at major national monuments across the planet, with national sites including the Eiffel Tower and the Sydney Harbour Bridge going

dark for an hour last Saturday.

In Spain, Madrid’s royal palace and the iconic bridge in Ronda switched off the electricity, highlighting Spain’s commitment to the global environment.

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Fire evacuation A FIRE in a building in Calle Panaderos, Torre del Mar (Velez-Malaga) forced the fire brigade to evacuate seven residents. The fire began at 3.46am on March 28 and 11 vehicles were damaged.

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

STANDING GUARD: Outside the couple’s home.

Going for gold

A NEW day-care centre for people with disabilities, run by the association AMIRAX, was inaugurated in Rincon de la Victoria by Mayor Francisco Salado. It will provide services to almost 30 residents.

Foundation laid THE first stone for Nerja’s new fire brigade headquarters was placed on Monday (March 30) by Maria Francisca Caracual, vice-president of the Malaga Provincial Council.

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

All go in Torry

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 the lighting and water temperature to ensure their development.

Centre inauguration

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Meet catsharks

AN UNKNOWN ‘artist’ has been painting several pieces of urban furniture in gold around Rincon de la Victoria. The town mayor, Francisco Salado, has announced that he is open to discussing a project if the painter comes forward.

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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.

They had not been seen for several 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 where 400 in vitro procedures were carried out in 2014.

of shock after finding their bodies. “The Tarseys were my closest friends,” she said, “I still can’t really 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. near the city are streaked with black from Styrofoam ash washed up by the waves.

Don’t read the newspapers A POLL of 200 citizens by San Miguel Town Hall shows 13.7 per cent of those participating never read a newspaper.

More rain 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.

Buttocks shot

Help needed

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.

Pictorial Altea

Permanent work

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

Fair shares

Good taste

Forewarned

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.

PROVINCIAL irrigation syndicate FERAL called for a link between Beninar and Almanzora reservoirs. The creation of a ‘water motorway’ would distribute water more fairly to different production areas, FERAL said.

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

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

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

IVF figures

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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.

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

Approximately 700 live in Almeria,

Black beaches HEAVY rain in Valencia has helped clean up after the Fallas but beaches

Unacceptable delay

MALLORCA

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.

Better streets MORE than €1.5 million will be spent by the Calvia Council to improve the town’s pavements and streetlights over the course of this year.

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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

Loose change A look at finance for females

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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 was 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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History, religion and tradition combine ISTAN, a small village behind Marbella, is expecting more than 1,500 spectators this year for its traditional Easter representations.

The El Paso, a re-enactment of the Passion of Christ, is carried out by 200 local citizens over three days in and around the village.

“Istan’s El Paso is one of the not-to-be-missed events of Easter in the province, which the entire village gets involved in to offer a great show for lo-

cals and visitors,” said Jacobo Florida, head of local tourism and promotion for Malaga Provincial Council.

Declared an Event of National and Andalucian

Tourist Interest and a Provincial Tourist Event, El Paso is one of the main cultural and tourist events of the year and villagers are the stars of the traditional days and begin to prepare costumes and scenery and rehearse texts months before the event.

Istan Mayor Jose Miguel Marin explained: “The actors change every year, meaning El Paso is constantly being renewed.

This is very important as it assures continuity of the event in the future.”

El Paso begins on the afternoon of Maundy Thursday with the sacrifice of Abraham and the appearance of the angel, the repentance of Mary Magdalene and all the main events of the life of Christ until his capture.

The following day re-enactments of the entire Passion of Christ and the cruci-

The narrow streets of the village are an impressive backdrop for processions and the re-enactments fixion are carried out in the countryside, and finally on Saturday the resurrection is represented.

Re-enactments are mainly at the municipal sports centre and on the mountainside. This is a unique opportunity to see Holy Week processions through the narrow winding streets and the traditional El Paso, of the 17th century, all in one place.

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Getting out of 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.

EASTER PARDON: Inmate will be released in a symbolic ceremony.

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,

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they are often invited by the brotherhood 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!

Keep the faith Love Leapy Leapylee2002@gmail.com www leapylee.co.uk

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CH5 8:50am Noddy in Toyland 9:00am Ben and Holly's Little Kingdom 9:15am Peppa Pig 9:25am Peppa Pig 9:35am Toby's Travelling Circus 9:45am Bananas in Pajamas 10:00am Tickety Toc 10:15am The Wright Stuff 12:10pm The Hotel Inspector 1:10pm 5 News Lunchtime 1:15pm The Gadget Show 2:15pm Home and Away 2:45pm Neighbours

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TCM

7:00am Next Goal Wins 8:45am Grace of Monaco 10:30am Treehouse 12:15pm Next Goal Wins 1:55pm The Longest Week 3:25pm Northern Soul 5:10pm Guardians of the Galaxy 7:15pm Grace of Monaco 9:00pm Guardians of the Galaxy 11:05pm Northern Soul 12:50am Treehouse 2:35am Kill the Irishman

7:00am Conspiracy Theory with Jesse Ventura 7:50am Gunsmoke 8:50am Gunsmoke 9:50am Behold a Pale Horse 12:10pm All the Young Men 1:50pm Gunsmoke 2:55pm Gunsmoke 4:00pm The Texican 5:40pm The Wrecking Crew 7:40pm Darby's Rangers 10:00pm True Romance 12:15am Hell on Wheels 1:15am Queen of the Damned 3:05am Conan 3:55am Conan

Biopic of Danny Greene, the Irish-American dockworker who engineers a corrupt rise to power.

4:30am Chappie Special

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BBC ONE 7:00am Breakfast 10:00am David Suchet: In the Footsteps of St Peter 11:00am Homes Under the Hammer 12:00pm The Sheriffs are Coming 12:45pm Fake Britain 1:15pm Bargain Hunt 2:00pm BBC News at One 2:25pm BBC London News 2:30pm The Edge

BBC TWO 7:00am Flog it! Trade Secrets 7:30am City Beneath the Sea 9:00am The Gospel of John 10:00am Wanted Down Under 11:00am Easter Parade 12:40pm Deadly on a Mission: Pole to Pole 1:10pm Deadly on a Mission: Pole to Pole 1:40pm The Game Plan

FRIDAY TV

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ITV 7:00am Dino Dan 7:10am Dino Dan 7:25am Nerds and Monsters 7:45am Sooty 8:00am Good Morning Britain 9:30am Lorraine 10:25am Murder, She Wrote 11:25am Columbo 1:30pm O'Brien 2:25pm ITV News and Weather 2:40pm All Star Family Fortunes

CH4 8:35am 3rd Rock from the Sun 9:00am Everybody Loves Raymond 9:30am Everybody Loves Raymond 10:00am Frasier 10:30am Frasier 11:00am The Big Bang Theory 11:30am The Big Bang Theory 12:00pm The Simpsons 12:30pm The Simpsons 1:00pm The Simpsons 1:30pm The Simpsons 2:00pm The Simpsons 2:30pm Channel 4 Racing

CH5 9:00am Ben and Holly's Little Kingdom 9:15am Peppa Pig 9:25am Peppa Pig 9:30am Peppa Pig 9:35am Toby's Travelling Circus 9:45am Bananas in Pajamas 10:00am Tickety Toc 10:15am The Wright Stuff - Easter Special 12:45pm The Hotel Inspector 1:40pm 5 News Lunchtime 1:45pm Home and Away 2:15pm Neighbours 2:50pm The Alamo

SKY 1 7:00am The Real A&E 7:30am The Real A&E 8:00am Ashley Banjo Secret Street Crew 9:00am Football's Funniest Moments 10:00am NCIS: Los Angeles 11:00am NCIS: Los Angeles 12:00pm NCIS: Los Angeles 1:00pm NCIS: Los Angeles 2:00pm The Simpsons 2:30pm The Simpsons

3pm 3:25pm Wogan: The Best of 4:10pm Are You Being Served?

4:40pm 'Allo, 'Allo!

5:10pm Hi-De-Hi!

3:25pm Judge Rinder 4:30pm Dickinson's Real Deal 5:30pm Tipping Point

5:00pm Come Dine with Me

6:00pm Antiques Roadshow 7:00pm Portillo's State Secrets 7:30pm Eggheads 8:00pm Alex Polizzi: The Fixer Revisits

6:30pm The Chase 7:30pm ITV News London 7:40pm ITV News and Weather 8:00pm Emmerdale 8:30pm Coronation Street

6:00pm Four in a Bed 6:30pm Coach Trip 7:00pm The Simpsons 7:30pm Hollyoaks 8:00pm Channel 4 News 8:30pm Unreported World 8:55pm Party Election Broadcast

6:00pm 5 News at 5 6:30pm Neighbours 7:00pm Home and Away 7:30pm Party Election Broadcast by the Scottish National Party 7:35pm D-Day's Sunken Secrets

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

9:00pm An Island Parish 9:30pm Gardeners' World 10:00pm Springwatch 11:00pm The Clare Balding Show 11:30pm Goodness Gracious Me: Reunion Special

9:00pm Barging Round Britain with John Sergeant 9:30pm Coronation Street 10:00pm Bear Grylls: Mission Survive 11:00pm ITV News at Ten and Weather 11:15pm A Fish Called Wanda

9:00pm Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. 10:00pm Gogglebox 11:00pm Alan Carr: Chatty Man

9:00pm Secrets of Great British Castles 10:00pm NCIS: New Orleans 11:00pm NCIS 11:55pm Valkyrie

9:00pm Relatively Clever 10:00pm Stella 11:00pm Greatest Disney Songs

12:00am Harry and Paul's Story of the Twos 1:00am Anita and Me 2:30am Question Time 3:30am Nelson: In His Own Words 4:30am This is BBC Two Highlights of programmes on BBC Two.

1:15am Jackpot247 4:00am The Jeremy Kyle Show USA Jeremy Kyle presents the explosive US version of his popular talk show. 4:45am ITV Nightscreen Text-based information service.

12:05am Troy 1:10am Brooklyn Nine-Nine 1:35am Jackie Brown 4:05am Fargo 5:00am Phil Spencer: Secret Agent 5:50am Superscrimpers: Waste Not, Want Not 5:55am Secret Location

2:10am Super Casino 4:10am War Hero in My Family 5:00am The Nightmare Neighbour Next Door 5:45am House Doctor

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

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ITV4

E4

9:00pm Don't Tell the Bride 10:00pm Bad Education 10:30pm Bad Education 11:00pm Russell Howard's Good News 11:30pm EastEnders 12:00am Family Guy 12:25am Family Guy 12:45am American Dad! 1:10am Family Guy 1:30am Bluestone 42 2:00am Killer Magic 2:30am Bad Education 3:00am Bad Education 3:30am I Survived a Zombie Apocalypse 4:30am Russell Howard's Good News

8:00pm Messiah at the Foundling Hospital 9:00pm Darcey's Ballerina Heroines 10:00pm Freddie Mercury: The Great Pretender - Director's Cut 11:25pm Queen: The Legendary 1975 Concert 12:15am Mr Blue Sky 1:15am Jeff Lynne's ELO at Hyde Park 2:35am Freddie Mercury: The Great Pretender - Director's Cut 4:05am Queen: The Legendary 1975 Concert 4:50am This is BBC Four

9:25am People Do the Funniest Things 10:25am The Jeremy Kyle Show 11:30am The Jeremy Kyle Show 12:35pm The Jeremy Kyle Show 1:40pm Emmerdale 2:45pm Mr. Bean 3:20pm Mr. Bean 3:55pm Cats and Dogs 5:40pm Nanny McPhee 7:35pm The Mummy 10:00pm The Shawshank Redemption 12:50am Two and a Half Men 1:15am Two and a Half Men 1:45am Crazy Beaches

10:45am That's Carry on 12:40pm Carry on Screaming 2:35pm Carry on Again, Doctor 4:25pm Carry on Matron 6:15pm Carry on Henry

1:35pm Pawn Stars 2:00pm Pawn Stars 2:25pm Pawn Stars 2:55pm Storage Wars 3:25pm Storage Wars 3:50pm Storage Wars 4:25pm Storage Wars 4:50pm Storage Wars 5:20pm Nevada Smith 8:00pm Pawn Stars 8:30pm Pawn Stars 9:00pm Counting Cars 9:30pm Counting Cars 10:00pm Air America 12:15am John Barnes: Sports Life Stories

4:00pm The Big Bang Theory 4:30pm The Big Bang Theory 5:00pm The Big Bang Theory 5:30pm The Big Bang Theory 6:00pm The Big Bang Theory 6:30pm The Big Bang Theory 7:00pm The Big Bang Theory 7:30pm The Big Bang Theory 8:00pm Hollyoaks 8:30pm How I Met Your Mother 9:00pm The Big Bang Theory 9:30pm The Big Bang Theory 10:00pm Easy A 11:55pm The Big Bang Theory 12:25am The Big Bang Theory

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3:15pm Escape to the Country 4:00pm Holiday of My Lifetime with Len Goodman 4:45pm Flog It! 5:45pm Spring's Supermarket Secrets

In South Oxfordshire, the first host is exholiday rep and social worker Karina Stratford, who makes all her dishes look like sweet treats in honour of her hero Willy Wonka.

3:00pm The Alamo Star-studded saga of the 1836 defence of the Alamo, when a 187-strong garrison including William Travis and Jim Bowie fought to save Texas from Santa Anna's Mexican army for 13 days.

3:00pm The Simpsons 3:30pm The Simpsons 4:00pm Greatest Disney Songs 5:00pm Futurama 5:30pm Futurama

6pm 6:45pm Pointless 7:30pm BBC News 7:45pm BBC London News 8:00pm The One Show 8:30pm A Question of Sport

9pm 9:00pm EastEnders 9:30pm MasterChef 10:00pm Eurovision's Greatest Hits 11:30pm BBC News 11:50pm BBC London News

A countdown of the top ten songs in Disney history.

12am 12:00am Would I Lie to You? 12:30am The Football League Show 1:50am EastEnders Omnibus 3:45am Weather for the Week Ahead Detailed weather forecast. 3:50am BBC News

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

Historical hamming from the Carry On regulars.

8:05pm Carry on Jack 10:00pm Carry On Forever 11:00pm Carry on Cruising 12:50am Till Death Us Do Part 2:55am Judge Judy 3:20am Judge Judy 3:40am On the Buses 4:05am ITV3 Nightscreen

SKY MOVIES Action 9:40am After Earth 11:25am Bad Boys 1:25pm Bad Boys II 3:55pm Top Gun 5:50pm World War Z A United Nations worker battles to halt a zombie pandemic.

8:00pm Bad Boys 10:00pm Bad Boys II 12:30am Fast and Furious 7 Special 1:00am Top Gun At the US Navy's elite training centre, pilots compete to become the best.

2:55am World War Z A United Nations worker battles to halt a zombie pandemic.

Comedy 7:10am Despicable Me 2 Special 7:40am Doctor Dolittle 9:25am Doctor Dolittle 2 11:10am Saving Mr. Banks Special 11:40am The Nutty Professor 1:30pm The Golden Child 3:15pm The World's End Special 3:45pm Doctor Dolittle 5:25pm Doctor Dolittle 2 7:10pm The Nutty Professor 9:00pm The Golden Child 10:45pm Trading Places 12:45am Life 2:45am Eddie Murphy: Raw 4:25am Trading Places

7:00am The Fast and the Furious 9:00am Proof of Life 11:25am 25th Hour 1:45pm Fast and Furious 6 4:05pm The Fast and the Furious 6:05pm 2 Fast 2 Furious 8:05pm The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift 10:00pm Fast and Furious 6 12:10am A Man Apart 2:10am The Last Boy Scout 4:05am Blow

8:30am Walking with Dinosaurs 10:10am Rio 2 Special 10:40am Mr. Peabody and Sherman 12:30pm Dumbo 1:50pm Despicable Me 2 3:40pm Shaun the Sheep Special A look at the making of the latest animated adventure from Aardman.

3:55pm Khumba 5:35pm Walking with Dinosaurs 7:15pm Mr. Peabody and Sherman 9:00pm Despicable Me 2 10:50pm Khumba 12:30am Dumbo 1:50am The Reef 2: High Tide

Premiere

TCM

7:00am The Entitled 8:35am The Adventurer: The Curse of the Midas Box 10:20am Jersey Boys

9:50am The Texican 11:30am The Wrecking Crew

The story of 1960s pop group The Four Seasons.

12:35pm Guardians of the Galaxy 2:40pm How to Train Your Dragon 2 4:25pm The Adventurer: The Curse of the Midas Box 6:10pm Guardians of the Galaxy 8:15pm How to Train Your Dragon 2 10:00pm Jersey Boys The story of 1960s pop group The Four Seasons.

12:30am The Entitled

Secret agent Matt Helm must prevent a villain from stealing a billion-dollar gold shipment.

1:30pm Khartoum 3:55pm Ben-Hur 7:50pm Tootsie 10:00pm Out for a Kill 11:45pm The Foreigner 1:35am Hell on Wheels 2:30am The Foreigner 4:05am Conan 4:45am Conan 5:25am Container Wars

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BBC ONE 7:00am Breakfast 11:00am Saturday Kitchen Live 12:30pm Mary Berry Cooks 1:00pm BBC News 1:05pm Weather 1:10pm Football Focus 1:50pm Saturday Sportsday 2:00pm Bargain Hunt

BBC TWO 8:05am The Football League Show 9:25am The Sword in the Stone 10:40am Deadly on a Mission: Pole to Pole 11:10am Deadly on a Mission: Pole to Pole 11:40am Fred Dibnah's Magnificent Monuments 12:10pm Nature of Britain 1:00pm A Taste of Britain 1:30pm Michel Roux's Service 2:30pm A to z of TV Cooking 2:35pm Talking Pictures

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ITV 7:00am CITV 10:25am The Jeremy Kyle Show 11:25am The Jeremy Kyle Show 12:25pm The Jeremy Kyle Show 1:30pm ITV News and Weather 1:35pm The Jeremy Kyle Show 2:40pm The Great St Trinian's Train Robbery

CH4 8:05am King of Queens 8:30am King of Queens 9:00am The Morning Line 10:00am Everybody Loves Raymond 10:30am Everybody Loves Raymond 11:00am Everybody Loves Raymond 11:35am Frasier 12:05pm Frasier 12:35pm The Big Bang Theory 1:05pm The Big Bang Theory 1:30pm Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. 2:30pm Channel 4 Racing

CH5

SATURDAY TV

SKY 1

7:00am Milkshake! Programming aimed at children aged two to seven years old. 11:30am Sponge Bob Square Pants 12:05pm Access 12:10pm Ice Road Truckers 1:05pm Ice Road Truckers 2:00pm Ice Road Truckers

6:00am Stargate Atlantis 7:00am Are You Smarter Than a 10 Year Old? 8:00am Cinderella Special 8:30am Furious Special 9:00am The Fantasy Football Club 10:00am Wild Things 11:00am Soccer A.M. 1:00pm The F1 Show 2:00pm Driving School of Mum and Dad 2:30pm Modern Family

3:05pm The Devil's Brigade 5:30pm The Nightmare Neighbour Next Door

3:00pm Modern Family 5:00pm Modern Family 5:30pm Terry Pratchett's The Colour of Magic

3pm 3:00pm Homes Under the Hammer 4:00pm Escape to the Country 5:00pm Final Score

3:20pm Wuthering Heights 5:00pm Kew on a Plate

4:30pm Off Their Rockers 5:00pm Big Star's Little Star

5:10pm Come Dine with Me

6:00pm Gardeners World 6:30pm Easter From Kings 7:45pm The Young Victoria

6:00pm Thunderbirds Are GO 7:00pm Local News and Weather

6:15pm The Simpsons 6:45pm The Simpsons 7:10pm The Simpsons 7:40pm Channel 4 News 8:00pm The Lakes: Walking Through History

6:30pm Can't Pay? We'll Take it Away!

7:20pm Can't Pay? We'll Take it Away - Final Demand 8:15pm Police Interceptors

7:30pm Disney's Easter Egg Hunt 8:00pm The Simpsons 8:30pm The Simpsons

In Royal Tunbridge Wells, yummy mummy Sharon Pickles starts the week by going back in time with a 1970s-inspired menu.

6pm 6:15pm The Rise of the Guardians 7:40pm BBC News 7:50pm Regional News 7:55pm Weather 8:00pm The Voice UK

All the very latest local news and weather.

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

8:00pm Saturday Night Takeaway

9pm 9:25pm Dad's Army 10:00pm Monteverdi in Mantua 11:00pm QI XL 11:45pm Rik Mayall Lord of Misrule

9:30pm You're Back in the Room 10:35pm The Jonathan Ross Show 11:30pm ITV News and Weather 11:50pm Forgetting Sarah Marshall

9:00pm The World's Weirdest Weather 10:00pm End of the World Night 11:35pm Knowing

9:00pm 5 News 9:05pm NCIS 10:00pm NCIS 11:00pm CSI: Crime Scene Investigation 11:55pm Educating Rita

9:00pm The Simpsons 9:30pm The Goonies 11:45pm Hawaii Five-0

12:45am A Beautiful Mind 2:55am Revenge of the Bridesmaids 4:15am This is BBC Two Highlights of programmes on BBC Two.

1:45am Jackpot 247 4:00am The Jeremy Kyle Show USA Jeremy Kyle presents the American version of his popular talk show.

4:40am Nightscreen

1:55am Alan Carr: Chatty Man 2:50am French Connection II

2:05am Super Casino Feeling lucky? Get the authentic, heart-thumping casino experience every night. 4:10am Grand Theft Auto: UK 5:00am Nanna Love: 50 Shades of Granny

12:45am NCIS: Los Angeles 1:45am NCIS: Los Angeles 2:45am Hawaii Five-0 3:40am Road Wars 4:10am Danny Dyer's Deadliest Men 5:00am Inside Gatwick

BBC THREE

BBC FOUR

ITV2

ITV3

ITV4

E4

8:00pm Great Movie Mistakes 9:00pm Top Gear 10:10pm Pretty Woman 12:05am Family Guy 12:27am Family Guy 12:49am Family Guy 1:11am Family Guy 1:35am Killer Magic 2:05am Him and Her 2:35am Him and Her 3:00am Him and Her 3:30am Him and Her 4:00am Him and Her 4:30am Great TV Mistakes

8:00pm Chemistry: A Volatile History 9:00pm Wild China

4:25pm FYI Daily 4:30pm Beethoven's 2nd 5:15pm Totally Bonkers Guinness World Records 5:30pm Mr. Bean 6:05pm Mr. Bean 6:40pm Evan Almighty 7:40pm FYI Daily 7:45pm Evan Almighty 8:30pm The Mummy Returns 9:30pm FYI Daily 9:35pm The Mummy Returns 11:00pm Celebrity Juice 11:50pm Ibiza Weekender 12:50am Death Race

2:10pm Carry on Cowboy 3:10pm FYI Daily 3:15pm Carry on Cowboy 4:10pm Carry on Screaming 5:10pm FYI Daily 5:15pm Carry on Screaming 6:05pm Carry on Follow That Camel 7:05pm FYI Daily 7:10pm Carry on Follow That Camel 8:05pm Carry on Cleo 9:05pm FYI Daily 9:10pm Carry on Cleo 10:00pm Carry On Forever 11:00pm Carry on Camping 12:00am FYI Daily

2:50pm Death of a Gunfighter 3:50pm FYI Daily 3:55pm Death of a Gunfighter 4:45pm The Hanging Tree 5:45pm FYI Daily 5:50pm The Hanging Tree 7:00pm Storage Wars Texas 7:30pm Storage Wars Texas 7:55pm Shed and Buried 8:55pm River Monsters 10:00pm Hard to Kill 11:00pm FYI Daily 11:05pm Hard to Kill 12:00am FIA Formula e Championship Highlights

10:00am Melissa and Joey 10:30am Taking New York 11:35am Troy 12:25pm Rude(Ish) Tube Shorts 12:30pm Melissa and Joey 1:00pm Melissa and Joey 1:30pm Baby Daddy 2:00pm Baby Daddy 2:30pm How I Met Your Mother 4:30pm How I Met Your Mother 5:00pm The Big Bang Theory 9:30pm The Big Bang Theory 10:00pm Rush Hour 3 11:50pm Rude Tube 12:50am Troy

Crime

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10:10pm Casualty 11:00pm The National Lottery Live 11:10pm BBC News 11:25pm Weather 11:30pm Match of the Day

12am 12:55am Surrogates 2:20am Weather for the Week Ahead Detailed weather report.

2:25am BBC News The latest national and international news stories, followed by Weather.

Wild China explores the natural history of one of the world's most mysterious and diverse countries by looking at some its remotest reaches and most visually stunning scenery.

10:00pm Inspector Montalbano 11:40pm Definitely Dusty 12:40am Dusty Springfield at the BBC 1:40am Top of the Pops 2:15am Disco at the BBC 3:15am Lost Kingdoms of Central America 4:15am Sounds of the 70s

SKY MOVIES Action 9:25am Lone Survivor 11:35am Oblivion 1:50pm The Top Ten Show 2015 2:05pm Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl 4:35pm Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest 7:10pm Fast and Furious 7 Special 7:40pm Pacific Rim 10:00pm Lone Survivor 12:10am Oblivion 2:25am Con Air 4:30am Fast and Furious 7 Special 5:00am The Next Karate Kid

Comedy 7:00am Bedtime Stories 8:45am Bruce Almighty 10:35am Mr Woodcock 12:10pm Bad Neighbours 1:55pm The Hangover Part III When Doug is kidnapped, pals Alan, Phil and Stu become embroiled in a battle to save him.

3:40pm Idiocracy 5:20pm About a Boy 7:10pm Bruce Almighty 9:00pm Bad Neighbours 10:40pm The Hangover Part III When Doug is kidnapped, pals Alan, Phil and Stu become embroiled in a battle to save him.

12:25am Idiocracy

8:00am Speed 10:00am Speed 2: Cruise Control 12:10pm After the Sunset 2:00pm RocknRolla 3:55pm Speed 5:55pm American Hustle 8:15pm After the Sunset 10:00pm Misery 11:50pm RocknRolla 1:55am Kill Bill: Vol. 2 4:20am Outlaw Paratrooper Bryant returns from Iraq to find a London ruled by thugs and gangsters.

7:00am Delhi Safari 8:45am Garfield 10:15am Garfield 2: A Tail of Two Kitties 12:00pm The Croods 1:45pm Planes: Sky Movies Special 2:15pm Escape From Planet Earth 3:50pm Tinker Bell and the Pirate Fairy 5:20pm The Croods 7:10pm Delhi Safari 9:00pm Escape From Planet Earth 10:35pm Monster House 12:15am Garfield 1:45am Garfield 2: A Tail of Two Kitties 3:20am Tinker Bell and the Pirate Fairy 4:45am Monster House

Premiere

TCM

7:00am Treehouse 8:45am The Adventurer: The Curse of the Midas Box 10:30am The Entitled

7:00am Conspiracy Theory with Jesse Ventura 7:55am Khartoum 10:20am Night Raiders 11:20am Ben-Hur 3:25pm What's Up, Doc? 5:15pm High Society 7:15pm Superman 10:00pm The English Patient 1:05am Bugsy 3:25am Conan 4:05am Conan 4:45am Conan 5:30am Container Wars

A disillusioned graduate kidnaps three socialites in a plot to extort cash from their fathers.

12:15pm Grace of Monaco 2:15pm Jersey Boys 4:45pm How to Train Your Dragon 2 6:30pm The Adventurer: The Curse of the Midas Box 8:15pm How to Train Your Dragon 2 10:00pm Jersey Boys 12:20am The Entitled

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BBC ONE 7:00am Breakfast 8:30am Match of the Day 10:00am David Suchet: In the Footsteps of St Peter 11:00am Live Easter Sunday - From Manchester Cathedral 12:00pm Urbi et Orbi 12:25pm Bargain Hunt 1:15pm MOTD2 Extra 2:00pm BBC News 2:10pm Weather for the Week Ahead 2:15pm The Muppets

BBC TWO 7:05am Gardeners World 7:35am Countryfile 8:35am Beechgrove Gardens 9:05am The Gospel of John 10:00am Saturday Kitchen Best Bites 11:30am Back in Time for Dinner 12:30pm Michel Roux's Service 1:30pm Michel Roux's Service 2:30pm King of Kings

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ITV 7:00am CITV 10:25am The Jeremy Kyle Show 11:25am The Jeremy Kyle Show 12:30pm The Jeremy Kyle Show 1:35pm ITV News and Weather 1:45pm Murder, She Wrote 2:40pm River Monsters

CH4 7:30am How I Met Your Mother 7:55am How I Met Your Mother 8:15am How I Met Your Mother 8:35am Everybody Loves Raymond 9:00am Everybody Loves Raymond 9:30am Frasier 10:00am Frasier 10:30am Sunday Brunch 1:30pm George Clarke's Amazing Spaces 2:30pm The Big Bang Theory 2:55pm The Big Bang Theory

CH5 7:00am Milkshake! 10:45am Thomas and Friends Special: Tale of the Brave 11:55am Nickelodeon's Kids' Choice Awards 2015 1:05pm Patch Adams

SUNDAY TV

SKY 1 7:00am The Hour of Power 8:00am Ashley Banjo Secret Street Crew 9:00am Moone Boy 9:30am Football's Funniest Moments 10:00am Football's Funniest Moments 11:00am Football's Funniest Moments 12:00pm WWE Raw 1:00pm David Attenborough's Natural History History Museum Alive 2:30pm Modern Family

3pm 3:55pm Escape to the Country 4:55pm The Truth About Fat 5:55pm Songs of Praise

5:05pm Flog It! Antiques show which helps amateur auctioneers, collectors and bargain-hunters make a saving.

5:50pm Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time

3:10pm Agent Cody Banks 5:05pm Reggie and Thunderbirds: No Strings Attached

3:25pm The Simpsons 3:55pm Honey, I Blew Up the Kid 5:40pm Hop

3:20pm Baby Boom 5:25pm Fairy Tale... A True Story

3:00pm Modern Family 3:30pm Modern Family 4:00pm Modern Family 4:30pm Greatest Disney Songs 5:30pm Terry Pratchett's Colour of Magic

7:30pm Channel 4 News

7:15pm 5 News

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

Documentary celebrating the relaunch of Thunderbirds Are Go, one of Britain's bestloved TV series.

6pm 6:30pm BBC News 6:50pm Regional News 6:55pm Weather 7:00pm Countryfile 8:00pm Antiques Roadshow

7:35pm Pompidou 8:00pm Springwatch

6:05pm Catchphrase 7:00pm Local News and Weather 7:10pm ITV News and Weather 7:30pm The Chase: Celebrity Special 8:30pm Off Their Rockers

Includes sport and weather.

The latest news coverage.

8:00pm Three in a Bed

7:20pm Kelly's Heroes

9:00pm Great Canal Journeys 10:00pm Indian Summers 11:05pm Gogglebox

10:00pm Hummingbird

9pm 9:00pm Caribbean with Simon Reeve 10:00pm Louis Theroux 11:00pm Bluestone 42 11:30pm Jack Dee: So What

9:00pm Vera 11:00pm ITV News and Weather 11:20pm Bear Grylls: Mission Survive

12:30am Invincible 2:10am Hooper 3:45am Countryfile 4:40am Holby City 5:40am This is BBC Two

12:20am Nation's Favourite 70s Song 1:40am The Store 3:30am The Jeremy Kyle Show USA Jeremy Kyle presents the American version of his popular talk show.

4:15am Nightscreen

12:10am The Angels' Share 2:00am Qissa 3:50am Come Dine with Me 4:20am Come Dine with Me 4:45am Come Dine with Me 5:15am Come Dine with Me 5:40am Come Dine with Me

12:10am Blitz 2:10am Super Casino 4:10am The Gadget Show Technology show that examines at some of the most popular everyday gadgets. 5:00am House Doctor

12:00am Karl Pilkington: The Moaning of Life 1:00am NCIS: Los Angeles 2:00am Hawaii Five-0 3:00am Road Wars 4:00am Danny Dyer's Deadliest Men 5:00am Inside Gatwick

BBC THREE

BBC FOUR

ITV2

ITV3

ITV4

E4

10:15pm Transsiberian 12:00am Family Guy 12:22am Family Guy 12:45am Killer Magic 1:15am American Dad! 1:35am Family Guy 1:55am Bluestone 42

8:00pm Arena

2:35pm You've Been Framed!

3:05pm Mr. Bean 3:40pm Mr. Bean 4:15pm E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial 5:15pm FYI Daily 5:20pm E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial 6:35pm Ant and Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway 8:10pm Despicable Me 9:10pm FYI Daily 9:15pm Despicable Me 10:00pm Skyfall 11:00pm FYI Daily 11:05pm Skyfall

2:35pm Carry on at Your Convenience 3:35pm FYI Daily 3:40pm Carry on at Your Convenience 4:25pm Carry on Loving 5:25pm FYI Daily 5:30pm Carry on Loving 6:15pm Carry on Matron 7:15pm FYI Daily 7:20pm Carry on Matron 8:05pm Carry on Up the Jungle 9:05pm FYI Daily 9:10pm Carry on Up the Jungle 10:00pm Carry On Forever 11:00pm Carry on Girls 12:00am FYI Daily

7:05am Highway Patrol 7:30am Ax Men 8:25am Shed and Buried 9:25am MotoGP 10:25am FIA Formula e Championship Highlights 11:30am MSA British Touring Car Championship 7:30pm Goodwood Members Meeting 2015 8:30pm Counting Cars 9:00pm River Monsters 10:00pm The Deer Hunter 11:00pm FYI Daily 11:05pm The Deer Hunter 1:45am Boogeyman

2:00pm The NeverEnding Story II: The Next Chapter 3:45pm Rude(Ish) Tube Shorts 4:00pm The Frozen Phenomenon 5:00pm Come Dine with Me 6:00pm The Big Bang Theory 6:30pm The Big Bang Theory 7:00pm The Big Bang Theory 7:30pm The Big Bang Theory 8:00pm The Big Bang Theory 8:30pm The Big Bang Theory 9:00pm My Sister's Keeper 11:10pm The Inbetweeners 11:40pm The Inbetweeners 12:15am The Inbetweeners

Crime

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9:00pm Michael Mcintyre's Easter Night at the Coliseum 10:00pm Poldark 11:00pm BBC News 11:20pm Regional News 11:25pm Weather 11:30pm Match of the Day 2

Directed by Steven Knight

9:00pm The Flash 10:00pm Hawaii Five11:00pm NCIS: Los Angeles The team search for the culprit behind an explosion that killed three FBI agents.

12am 12:30am Son of Rambow 2:00am Weather for the Week Ahead Detailed weather report. 2:05am BBC News The latest national and international news stories, followed by Weather.

Comedy drama following the lives of a bomb disposal detachment serving in Afghanistan.

2:25am I Survived a Zombie Apocalypse 3:20am Beaten by My Boyfriend 4:20am Great Movie Mistakes 2: The Sequel 4:30am Killer Magic

A daily magazine programme which looks at the world of arts and entertainment.

9:00pm Shakespeare's Mother: The Secret Life of a Tudor Woman 10:00pm Lost Cities of the Ancients, the Dark Lords of Hattusha 11:00pm The Truth About Meteors 11:55pm Queen: The Legendary 1975 Concert 12:45am Freddie Mercury The Great Pretender Director's Cut. 2:10am Mr. Blue Sky: The Story of Jeff Lynne and Elo 3:10am Jeff Lynne's ELO at Hyde Park

SKY MOVIES Action 7:00am The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring 10:00am The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers 1:00pm The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King 4:30pm The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring 7:30pm The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers 10:30pm The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King 1:50am Captain Phillips 4:10am The Fast and the Furious

Comedy 7:20am The Monster Squad 8:45am Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit 10:35am 13 Going on 30 12:15pm Last Vegas 2:05pm Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me 3:45pm Austin Powers in Goldmember 5:25pm Three Amigos!

7:10pm Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit 9:00pm Last Vegas 11:00pm American Pie 12:45am American Pie 2 2:45am American Pie: The Wedding 4:35am Three Amigos!

8:20am Bird on a Wire 10:15am The Bone Collector 12:15pm Veronica Mars 2:05pm Spy Game 4:15pm Bird on a Wire 6:10pm The Bone Collector A paralysed forensics expert teams up with a fresh-faced cop to hunt down a serial killer.

8:10pm Veronica Mars 10:00pm Spy Game 12:10am The Counsellor 2:30am Internal Affairs 4:30am All Things to All Men A corrupt copper plots to stage a bank robbery in order to catch an elusive London crime boss.

7:00am Moshi Monsters: The Movie 8:30am Despicable Me 2 Special 9:00am Stuart Little 10:35am Stuart Little 2 12:00pm Rio 2 1:50pm Epic 3:45pm Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 5:30pm Moshi Monsters: The Movie 7:05pm Rio 2 9:00pm Epic 10:50pm Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 12:30am Stuart Little 2:05am Stuart Little 2

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7:00am Treehouse 8:45am The Entitled 10:30am Grace of Monaco 12:30pm The Adventurer: The Curse of the Midas Box 2:15pm Jersey Boys 4:45pm How to Train Your Dragon 2 6:30pm The Adventurer: The Curse of the Midas Box 8:15pm How to Train Your Dragon 2 10:00pm Jersey Boys

7:00am Conspiracy Theory with Jesse Ventura 7:50am Night Raiders 8:50am What's Up, Doc? 10:35am High Society 12:35pm Superman 3:20pm Rio Lobo 5:30pm Rio Bravo 8:15pm The Train Robbers 10:00pm Hell on Wheels 11:00pm Dirty Harry 12:55am Magnum Force 3:10am Dirty Harry 4:50am Conan 5:35am Container Wars

The story of 1960s pop group The Four Seasons.

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BBC TWO 7:00am Homes Under the Hammer 8:00am Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron 9:15am The Gospel of John 10:00am Deadly on a Mission: Pole to Pole 10:30am Deadly on a Mission: Pole to Pole 11:00am Splash 12:40pm Gypsy

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CH5 7:00am Milkshake! Programming aimed at children aged two to seven years old. 10:15am The Wright Stuff 12:45pm The Hotel Inspector Returns 1:35pm 5 News The latest news coverage. 1:45pm Home and Away 2:15pm Neighbours 2:45pm Neighbours 30th: The Stars Reunite

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3pm 3:10pm Countdown 4:00pm Deal or No Deal 5:00pm Come Dine with Me

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6:00pm Four in a Bed 6:30pm Coach Trip 7:00pm The Simpsons 7:30pm Hollyoaks 8:00pm Channel 4 News 8:25pm Party Election Broadcast 8:30pm The Secret Life of 4 Year Olds

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9:30pm Travel Man: 48 Hours in Istanbul 10:00pm My Big Fat Gypsy Grand National 11:00pm Raised by Wolves 11:30pm How to be a Young Billionaire

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12:50am Goodwood Members Meeting 1:45am Jackpot 247 4:00am Champions League Weekly 4:25am Nightscreen

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2:15pm Coronation Street 2:50pm Cats and Dogs 3:50pm FYI Daily 3:55pm Cats and Dogs 4:35pm The Mummy Returns 5:35pm FYI Daily 5:40pm The Mummy Returns 7:00pm Nanny McPhee 8:00pm FYI Daily 8:05pm Nanny McPhee 9:00pm Britain's Got More Talent 10:00pm Fast and Furious 11:00pm FYI Daily 11:05pm Fast and Furious 12:10am Celebrity Juice

1:25pm Carry on Camping 2:05pm Carry on Follow That Camel 3:05pm FYI Daily 3:10pm Carry on Follow That Camel 4:05pm Carry on Up the Jungle 5:05pm FYI Daily 5:10pm Carry on Up the Jungle 6:00pm Carry on Cleo 7:00pm FYI Daily 7:05pm Carry on Cleo 7:50pm Murder, She Wrote 8:55pm Wycliffe 10:00pm Long Lost Family 11:00pm Law and Order: UK 12:00am Wire in the Blood

3:55pm FYI Daily 4:00pm Nevada Smith 5:35pm Storage Wars 6:00pm Storage Wars 6:30pm Storage Wars 7:00pm Storage Wars 7:30pm Storage Wars 8:00pm Pawn Stars 8:30pm Pawn Stars 9:00pm Storage Wars New York 9:30pm Storage Wars New York 10:00pm Storage Wars Texas 10:30pm Storage Wars Texas 11:00pm Ax Men 12:00am Bundesliga

10:30am Melissa and Joey 11:00am Charmed 12:00pm Charmed 1:00pm Hollyoaks 1:30pm The Frozen Phenomenon 2:30pm The Big Bang Theory 7:30pm The Big Bang Theory 8:00pm Hollyoaks 8:30pm How I Met Your Mother 9:00pm The Big Bang Theory 9:30pm The Big Bang Theory 10:00pm Revenge 11:00pm Made in Chelsea Does Come Dine with Me 12:00am The Big Bang Theory

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3:00pm Spring Kitchen with Tom Kerridge 3:45pm A Taste of Britain 4:45pm Are You Being Served?

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3:25pm Judge Rinder 4:25pm Dickinson's Real Deal 5:30pm Tipping Point

6:30pm Vintage Antiques Road Show 7:30pm Eggheads 8:00pm Antiques Roadshow 8:30pm Food and Drink

6:30pm The Chase 7:30pm Local News and Weather 7:45pm ITV News and Weather 8:00pm Emmerdale 8:30pm Coronation Street

9:00pm University Challenge 9:30pm Morecambe and Wise 10:30pm Kew on a Plate 11:30pm The Wedding Video

9:00pm More Tales From Northumberland with Robson Green 9:30pm Coronation Street 10:00pm Code of a Killer 11:30pm ITV News at Ten and Weather 11:45pm The Jonathan Ross Show

1:00am Louis Theroux 2:00am Back in Time for Dinner 3:00am The Big Painting Challenge 4:00am This is BBC Two Highlights of programmes on BBC Two.

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3:15pm Escape to the Country 4:15pm Home Away From Home 5:00pm Flog It! 5:45pm Super Cute Animals

TV movie inspired by the royal wedding.

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

6pm 6:45pm Pointless 7:30pm BBC News 7:50pm Regional News 7:55pm Weather 8:00pm The One Show 8:30pm Wallace and Gromit

9pm 9:00pm EastEnders 9:30pm MasterChef 10:30pm Mrs. Brown's Boys 11:00pm BBC News 11:20pm Regional News 11:25pm Weather 11:30pm A Question of Sport

12am 12:00am Live at the Apollo 12:45am The Football League Show 2:05am Far From Home 3:30am Weather for the Week Ahead 3:35am BBC News

Timeshift revisits Britain's railways during the era of nationalisation.

1:20am Bombay Railway 2:25am Bombay Railway 3:25am Time Shift Timeshift revisits Britain's railways during the era of nationalisation.

SKY MOVIES Action 7:45am The Top Ten Show 2015 8:00am Rocky IV 9:45am Jumanji 11:40am Charlie's Angels 1:30pm Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle 3:30pm Fast and Furious 7 Special 4:00pm Rocky 6:10pm Rocky II 8:15pm Rocky III 10:00pm Rocky IV 11:40pm Rocky V 1:35am Aliens: Special Edition 4:20am The Top Ten Show 2015 4:35am Charlie's Angels

Comedy 7:00am Crocodile Dundee 8:40am Crocodile Dundee II 10:35am We're the Millers 12:30pm The Internship 2:30pm Who Framed Roger Rabbit?

4:20pm Hot Shots!

5:50pm Hot Shots! Part Deux 7:20pm Crocodile Dundee 9:00pm Crocodile Dundee II 11:00pm We're the Millers 12:55am The Internship 3:00am Hot Shots!

4:30am Hot Shots! Part Deux Topper Harley takes on a rescue mission for American hostages trapped in the Middle East.

7:35am Mad Dog and Glory 9:15am Runner Runner 10:50am Mean Creek 12:30pm White House Down 2:45pm Breakdown 4:30pm Runner Runner 6:05pm Mean Creek 7:45pm White House Down 10:00pm Oldboy 11:50pm Kiss the Girls 1:55am Falling Down 4:00am The Canyons 5:55am Loss of Faith Drama about an author drawn into a web of intrigue, murder and deception.

6:30am Planes: Sky Movies Special 7:00am Primates of the Caribbean 8:25am The Aristocats 9:50am The Smurfs 2 11:40am Turbo 1:25pm The Lego Movie 3:15pm Turbo: Sky Movies Special 3:45pm Ice Age: The Meltdown 5:25pm The Smurfs 2 7:15pm Turbo 9:00pm The Lego Movie 10:50pm Ice Age: The Meltdown 12:30am The Aristocats 1:55am Primates of the Caribbean 3:20am Barnyard

Premiere

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7:00am The Adventurer: The Curse of the Midas Box 8:45am Treehouse 10:30am The Entitled 12:15pm Grace of Monaco 2:15pm Jersey Boys 4:45pm How to Train Your Dragon 2 6:30pm The Adventurer: The Curse of the Midas Box 8:15pm How to Train Your Dragon 2 10:00pm Jersey Boys 12:20am The Entitled 2:00am Mark Millar's Superhero Playlist 2:20am Treehouse 4:05am Fast and Furious 7 Special 4:35am Grace of Monaco

7:35am Conspiracy Theory with Jesse Ventura 8:25am Rio Bravo 11:05am Rio Lobo 1:15pm McLintock!

3:40pm The Searchers 5:55pm Chisum 8:00pm Longmire 9:00pm Longmire 10:00pm Miss Congeniality 12:05am Longmire 1:00am Longmire 1:50am Desperado 3:45am Conan 4:35am Conan

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CH4 9:00am Everybody Loves Raymond 9:30am Frasier 10:00am Frasier 10:25am Four in a Bed 11:30am Come Dine with Me 12:00pm Come Dine with Me 12:30pm Come Dine with Me 1:00pm Channel 4 News Summary 1:05pm Come Dine with Me 1:35pm Come Dine with Me 2:05pm A Place in the Sun: Home or Away

CH5 9:20am Peppa Pig 9:25am Peppa Pig 9:35am Toby's Travelling Circus 9:45am Bananas in Pajamas 9:55am Milkshake! Show Songs 10:00am Tickety Toc 10:15am The Wright Stuff 12:10pm The Hotel Inspector Returns 1:10pm 5 News Lunchtime 1:15pm The Nightmare Neighbour Next Door 2:15pm Home and Away 2:45pm Neighbours

TUESDAY TV SKY 1 7:00am The Real A&E 7:30am The Real A&E 8:00am Terry Pratchett's The Colour of Magic 10:00am NCIS: Los Angeles 11:00am NCIS: Los Angeles 12:00pm Hawaii Five-0 1:00pm Hawaii Five-0 2:00pm NCIS: Los Angeles

3pm 3:45pm James Martin's Food Map of Britain 3:55pm Spring Kitchen with Tom Kerridge 4:40pm Are You Being Served?

5:10pm 'Allo, 'Allo!

5:45pm Hi-De-Hi!

3:00pm Judge Rinder 4:00pm Dickinson's Real Deal 5:00pm Tipping Point

3:10pm Countdown 4:00pm Deal or No Deal 5:00pm Come Dine with Me

3:20pm NCIS 4:15pm Fatal Trust

3:00pm NCIS: Los Angeles 4:00pm The Holidaymakers 5:00pm Futurama 5:30pm Futurama

6:15pm Antiques Roadshow 6:55pm Party Election Broadcast by the Conservative Party 7:00pm Eggheads 7:30pm Antiques Roadshow 8:00pm Collectaholics

6:00pm The Chase 7:00pm Regional News and Weather 7:25pm Party Election Broadcast.

7:30pm ITV News and Weather 8:00pm Emmerdale 8:30pm Tonight

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

9:00pm Back in Time for Dinner 10:00pm Dara and Ed's Great Big Adventure 11:00pm Bluestone 42 11:30pm Newsnight

9:00pm Midsomer Murders 11:00pm ITV News at Ten and Weather 11:40pm Benidorm

9:00pm Burger Bar to Gourmet Star 10:00pm One Born Every Minute 11:00pm The Billion Pound Hotel

9:00pm Britain's Horror Homes 10:00pm Benefits and Bypasses: Billion Pound Patients 11:00pm My Sister Had My Boyfriend's Baby...And Other Betrayals

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11:25am Psych 12:20pm Royal Pains 1:15pm Emmerdale 1:45pm Coronation Street 2:15pm Coronation Street 2:45pm Dinner Date 3:40pm The Jeremy Kyle Show 4:50pm The Jeremy Kyle Show 5:55pm The Jeremy Kyle Show 7:00pm You've Been Framed!

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9:00pm Britain's Got More Talent 10:00pm Hell's Kitchen 11:00pm Death Race 1:10am Two and a Half Men 1:35am Two and a Half Men

11:40am Judge Judy 12:05pm Judge Judy 12:35pm Judge Judy 1:00pm Murder, She Wrote 2:00pm Heartbeat 3:05pm Where the Heart is 4:10pm The Royal 5:15pm French Fields 5:50pm Rising Damp 6:20pm On the Buses 6:55pm Heartbeat 7:55pm Murder, She Wrote 9:00pm Love Your Garden 10:00pm Harry at 30 11:00pm Law and Order: UK 12:00am Wire in the Blood

2:20pm Ax Men 3:15pm Pawn Stars 3:40pm Pawn Stars 4:05pm Duck Dynasty 4:35pm Duck Dynasty 5:00pm Magnum, P.I. 6:00pm The Professionals 7:00pm Pawn Stars 7:30pm Pawn Stars 8:00pm Pawn Stars 8:30pm Pawn Stars 9:00pm Shed and Buried 10:00pm Benidorm 10:30pm Benidorm 11:00pm Sports Life Stories 12:00am The Deer Hunter

3:30pm The Big Bang Theory 4:00pm Baby Daddy 4:30pm Melissa and Joey 5:00pm The Big Bang Theory 5:30pm The Big Bang Theory 6:00pm How I Met Your Mother 6:30pm How I Met Your Mother 7:00pm The Big Bang Theory 7:30pm The Big Bang Theory 8:00pm Hollyoaks 8:30pm How I Met Your Mother 9:00pm Brooklyn Nine-Nine 9:30pm The Big Bang Theory 10:00pm The 100 11:00pm Supernatural 12:00am The Big Bang Theory

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

9pm 9:00pm Holby City 10:00pm Ordinary Lies 11:00pm BBC News 11:25pm Regional News 11:40pm Weather 11:45pm Hole in the Road Inspectors

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Animated comedy series about the everyday trials and tribulations of family life.

1:30am Stacey Dooley Investigates 2:30am Killer Magic 3:00am Beaten by My Boyfriend 3:55am Stacey Dooley Investigates

A look behind the scenes of British Airways, one of the UK's most visible brands.

4:00am The Normans

SKY MOVIES Action 6:30am The Lone Ranger Unmasked 7:00am The Karate Kid 9:15am The Karate Kid, Part II 11:20am Mission: Impossible III 1:35pm Oblivion 3:50pm Anaconda 5:30pm xXx 7:45pm Mission: Impossible III 10:00pm Oblivion 12:15am xXx 2:30am The Transporter 4:15am The Top Ten Show 2015 4:35am The Karate Kid New kid Daniel stands up to his bullies with the help of karate master Mr Miyagi in this family favourite.

Comedy 7:45am Ghostbusters 9:35am The Rocky Horror Picture Show 11:20am About Time 1:30pm Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby 3:35pm Ghostbusters 5:25pm Ghostbusters II 7:20pm Little Shop of Horrors 9:00pm The Rocky Horror Picture Show 10:45pm Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby Redneck racer Ricky Bobby is a NASCAR king thanks to a sweet deal with his pal Cal.

12:50am About Time 2:55am The Best Man Holiday 5:05am Ghostbusters II

7:45am The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift 9:40am 2 Fast 2 Furious 11:40am The Fast and the Furious 1:40pm Dead Again 3:40pm Flesh and Bone 6:00pm 2 Fast 2 Furious 8:00pm The Fast and the Furious 10:00pm The Silence of the Lambs 12:05am The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift Teenage car-racing addict Sean is sent to live with his dad in Tokyo.

2:00am Death Warrant 3:45am Midnight Express The true story of Billy Hayes, an American caught with hash in Istanbul Airport and sentenced to life in a harsh Turkish prison.

7:00am Baby's Day Out 8:45am Doctor Dolittle 11:10am Return to Nim's Island 12:45pm Bean 2:20pm The Mask 4:10pm Son of the Mask 5:50pm Return to Nim's Island 7:25pm Bean 9:00pm The Mask 10:50pm Son of the Mask 12:35am Doctor Dolittle 3:05am Dennis The Menace When Dennis' parents go out of town, he stays with his neighbours, Mr and Mrs Wilson.

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8:45am Grace of Monaco 10:45am Planes: Fire and Rescue 12:30pm Jersey Boys 3:00pm How to Train Your Dragon 2 4:45pm The Adventurer: The Curse of the Midas Box 6:30pm Planes: Fire and Rescue 8:15pm How to Train Your Dragon 2 10:00pm Jersey Boys

9:10am McLintock!

11:40am Chisum 1:50pm Gunsmoke 2:55pm Gunsmoke 4:00pm The Moonlighter 5:30pm The Marksman 6:40pm Cattle Town 8:00pm Longmire 9:00pm Longmire 10:00pm Derailed 11:45pm Longmire 12:40am Longmire 1:35am National Lampoon's Vacation 3:25am Conan 4:10am Conan 4:50am Conan 5:35am Container Wars

The story of 1960s pop group The Four Seasons.

12:20am The Entitled A disillusioned graduate kidnaps three socialites in a plot to extort cash from their fathers.

2:00am Treehouse 3:45am Mark Millar's Superhero Playlist 4:05am Fast and Furious 7 Special

OPINION & COMMENT

H

AS the phenomenon of male emasculation produced generations 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 woman’s natural protec-

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

tiveness 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 teamwork 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. Selfsufficiency 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, philanthropists, 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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WEDNESDAY TV

CH5 9:20am Peppa Pig 9:25am Peppa Pig 9:35am Toby's Travelling Circus 9:45am Bananas in Pajamas 9:55am Milkshake! Show Songs 10:00am Tickety Toc 10:15am The Wright Stuff 12:10pm The Hotel Inspector Returns 1:10pm 5 News Lunchtime 1:15pm The Nightmare Neighbour Next Door 2:15pm Home and Away 2:45pm Neighbours

SKY 1 7:00am The Real A&E 7:30am The Real A&E 8:00am Terry Pratchett's The Colour of Magic 10:00am NCIS: Los Angeles 11:00am NCIS: Los Angeles 12:00pm Hawaii Five-0 1:00pm Hawaii Five-0 2:00pm NCIS: Los Angeles

3pm 3:30pm Escape to the Country 4:30pm Home Away From Home 5:15pm Flog It!

3:20pm Spring Kitchen with Tom Kerridge 4:05pm Floyd on France 4:45pm Are You Being Served?

5:15pm 'Allo, 'Allo!

5:45pm Hi-De-Hi!

3:00pm Judge Rinder 4:00pm Dickinson's Real Deal 5:00pm Tipping Point

3:10pm Countdown 4:00pm Deal or No Deal 5:00pm Come Dine with Me

3:15pm NCIS: New Orleans 4:15pm Wandering Eye

3:00pm NCIS: Los Angeles 4:00pm The Holidaymakers 5:00pm Futurama 5:30pm Futurama

6:15pm Antiques Roadshow 6:55pm Party Election Broadcast by the Conservative Party 7:00pm Eggheads 7:30pm Antiques Roadshow 8:00pm Collectaholics

6:00pm The Chase 7:00pm Regional News and Weather 7:25pm Party Election Broadcast 7:30pm ITV News and Weather 8:00pm Emmerdale 8:30pm Coronation Street

6:00pm Four in a Bed 6:30pm Coach Trip 7:00pm The Simpsons 7:30pm Hollyoaks 8:00pm Channel 4 News 8:55pm Party Election Broadcast

6:00pm 5 News at 5 6:30pm Neighbours 7:00pm Home and Away 7:30pm 5 News Tonight 7:55pm Party Election Broadcast 8:00pm GPs: Behind Closed Doors

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

9:00pm The Ladykillers: Pest Detectives 10:00pm This World 11:00pm QI 11:30pm Newsnight

9:00pm Big Star's Little Star 10:00pm DCI Banks 11:00pm ITV News at Ten and Weather 11:40pm Pop Gold

9:00pm Supercars 10:00pm The Island with Bear Grylls 11:00pm First Dates

9:00pm The Nightmare Neighbour Next Door 10:00pm OAPs Behaving Badly 11:00pm Dangerous Dog Owners and Proud

9:00pm Wild Things 10:00pm The Goonies

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

9pm 9:00pm MasterChef 10:00pm Secret Britain 11:00pm BBC News 11:25pm Regional News 11:40pm Weather 11:45pm Match of the Day

Comprehensive coverage of the day's important national and international news stories.

Entertainment series showcasing amazing performances from famous musicians from the ITV archive.

MaĂŽtre-d' Fred and his team play Cupid to another new batch of singletons from across the country.

Documentary about people who keep banned and dangerous dogs.

12am 12:30am 50 Dead Men Walking A young man infiltrates the IRA for the British police until he is exposed and tortured.

2:20am Weather for the Week Ahead Detailed weather report. 2:25am BBC News

12:15am Weather 12:20am Golf 12:50am Dara and Ed's Great Big Adventure 1:50am The Billion Dollar Chicken Shop 2:50am The Big Painting Challenge 3:50am Modern Times 4:50am This is BBC Two

12:40am Corfu: A Tale of Two Islands 1:10am Jackpot247 4:00am The Jeremy Kyle Show USA Jeremy Kyle presents the American version of his popular talk show.

4:40am ITV Nightscreen

12:00am One Born Every Minute 1:05am 16 Kids and Counting 2:00am Mary Portas: Secret Shopper 2:55am Reindeer Games 4:40am Secret Location 5:35am Phil Spencer: Secret Agent

12:00am Benefits and Bypasses: Billion Pound Patients 1:00am My Sister Had My Boyfriend's Baby...And Other Betrayals 2:00am Super Casino 4:10am Caught on Camera 5:00am Wildlife SOS 5:25am Divine Designs 5:45am House Doctor

12:15am Stella 1:15am Hawaii Five-0 2:15am Hawaii Five-0 3:15am NCIS: Los Angeles 4:10am NCIS: Los Angeles 5:00am NCIS: Los Angeles

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8:30pm Railways of the Great War with Michael Portillo 9:00pm Great Irish Journeys with Martha Kearney 9:30pm The Quizeum 10:00pm Treasures of Ancient Greece 11:00pm The Body Beautiful: Ancient Greeks, Good Looks and Glamour 11:30pm Bombay Railway 12:30am Full Throttle: The Glory Days of British Motorbikes 1:30am Shakespeare's Mother: The Secret Life of a Tudor Woman 2:30am The Quizeum 3:00am The Body Beautiful: Ancient Greeks, Good Looks and Glamour

11:25am Psych 12:20pm Royal Pains 1:15pm Emmerdale 1:45pm The Cube 2:45pm Dinner Date 3:40pm The Jeremy Kyle Show 4:50pm The Jeremy Kyle Show 5:55pm The Jeremy Kyle Show 7:00pm You've Been Framed!

7:30pm You've Been Framed!

8:00pm You've Been Framed!

8:30pm You've Been Framed!

9:00pm Skyfall 11:50pm Harold and Kumar Get the Munchies 1:40am Two and a Half Men

11:40am Judge Judy 12:05pm Judge Judy 12:35pm Judge Judy 1:00pm Murder, She Wrote 2:00pm Heartbeat 3:05pm Where the Heart is 4:05pm The Royal 5:10pm Never the Twain 5:45pm Rising Damp 6:20pm On the Buses 6:55pm Heartbeat 7:55pm Murder, She Wrote 9:00pm Rosemary and Thyme 10:00pm The Zoo 11:00pm Law and Order: UK 12:00am Wycliffe

12:15pm Minder 1:15pm The Professionals 2:20pm Pawn Stars 2:45pm Pawn Stars 3:10pm Pawn Stars 3:40pm Pawn Stars 4:05pm Duck Dynasty 4:35pm Duck Dynasty 5:00pm Magnum, P.I. 6:00pm The Professionals 7:00pm Pawn Stars 7:30pm Pawn Stars 8:00pm Pawn Stars 8:30pm FA Youth Cup 11:00pm Crank 12:00am FYI Daily

3:00pm The Big Bang Theory 3:30pm The Big Bang Theory 4:00pm Baby Daddy 4:30pm Melissa and Joey 5:00pm The Big Bang Theory 5:30pm The Big Bang Theory 6:00pm How I Met Your Mother 6:30pm How I Met Your Mother 7:00pm The Big Bang Theory 7:30pm The Big Bang Theory 8:00pm Hollyoaks 8:30pm Big 10:35pm The Big Bang Theory 11:05pm The Big Bang Theory 11:35pm Rude Tube 12:40am How I Met Your Mother

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Motoring magazine programme that tests and reviews the latest models of cars on the market, as well as covering older 'classic' models and news in the motoring world.

9:00pm Don't Tell the Bride 10:00pm Enemy of the State 12:05am Family Guy 12:27am Family Guy 12:50am American Dad! 1:10am Family Guy Animated comedy series about family life.

1:35am Killer Magic 2:05am Stacey Dooley Investigates 3:00am I Survived a Zombie Apocalypse 4:00am Tom Felton Meets the Superfans

SKY MOVIES Action 9:35am King Arthur 11:45am Air Force One 1:55pm After Earth 3:40pm Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest 6:15pm xXx2: The Next Level 8:00pm Elysium 10:00pm Air Force One 12:15am xXx2: The Next Level 2:00am Transporter 2 Frank takes a job driving the young son of Miami's anti-drugs tsar.

3:35am Drive Hard 5:20am Born to Race: Fast Track Two small town drag racers look to hit the big time when they're accepted onto a prestigious scholarship reserved for the best.

7:45am The Golden Child 9:25am Bedtime Stories Tall tale teller Adam Sandler becomes the star of his own bedtime stories.

11:15am Ride Along 1:10pm Me, Myself and Irene 3:15pm You, Me and Dupree Carl is in seventh heaven when he marries his gorgeous girlfriend Molly in Hawaii.

5:15pm The Golden Child 7:05pm About a Boy 9:00pm Ride Along 10:45pm Me, Myself and Irene 12:45am Stand Up Guys 2:25am American Pie: The Wedding 4:05am Cavemen When an LA bachelor decides to settle down, he hits the dating scene in search of true love.

7:50am Jennifer Eight 10:05am Murder by Numbers 12:10pm Bird on a Wire 2:05pm The Call 3:45pm RocknRolla 5:40pm Black Hawk Down Brutally authentic war action detailing the covert US mission in Somalia that became a bloodbath.

8:05pm Bird on a Wire 10:00pm The Call 11:40pm RocknRolla 1:45am Black Hawk Down Brutally authentic war action detailing the covert US mission in Somalia that became a bloodbath.

4:20am Single White Female A young Manhattan businesswoman becomes the victim of the ultimate flatshare horror.

7:00am Ella Enchanted 8:50am Walking with Dinosaurs 10:25am Maleficent 12:10pm Mr. Peabody and Sherman 1:50pm Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit Deloris Van Cartier is back in front of the big band, but not for long.

3:45pm Peter Pan 5:45pm Walking with Dinosaurs 7:15pm Maleficent 9:00pm Mr. Peabody and Sherman 10:40pm Ever After 12:50am Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit 2:45am Ella Enchanted Ella is put under a spell as a child: she must do everything she is told.

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7:00am The Adventurer: The Curse of the Midas Box 8:45am Grace of Monaco 10:45am Planes: Fire and Rescue 12:30pm Jersey Boys 3:00pm How to Train Your Dragon 2 4:45pm Planes: Fire and Rescue 6:30pm The Adventurer: The Curse of the Midas Box 8:15pm How to Train Your Dragon 2 10:00pm Jersey Boys

8:50am Gunsmoke 9:50am The Moonlighter 11:20am The Marksman 12:30pm Cattle Town 1:50pm Gunsmoke 2:55pm Gunsmoke 4:00pm Gun Battle at Monterey 5:25pm Man From Sonora 6:30pm The Naked Hills 8:00pm Longmire 9:00pm Longmire 10:00pm The Shepherd: Border Patrol 11:55pm Longmire 12:50am Longmire 1:45am Blade of Fury 3:25am Conan 4:10am Conan

The story of 1960s pop group The Four Seasons.

12:20am The Entitled 2:00am Treehouse 3:45am Mark Millar's Superhero Playlist 4:05am Fast and Furious 7 Special

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1513: Explorer Ponce de Leon lands on the coast of Florida and claims what he believes to be an island for the Spanish crown.

1895: Oscar Wilde is arrested after losing his libel case to the Marquess of Queensbury.

1896: The modern Olympics begin in Athens, with eight nations taking part.

1904: Britain and France sign the Entente Cordiale, settling colonial disputes and establishing an alliance.

1917: The United States enters the First World War. 1955: Winston Churchill resigns from his second term as British Prime Minister after a stroke.

1968: Civil rights hero Martin Luther King Jr is assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee.

1977: Red Rum makes horse racing history, winning the Grand National for the third time.

1982: Argentinian forces land on the Falkland Islands, and the resulting conflict with Britain over territorial rights costs 1,006 lives.

1984: The women of Greenham Common are evicted from their anti-nuclear weapons protest camp.

1986: A bomb explodes in a Berlin night club, packed with US servicemen, killing two people. The US bombs Libya in retaliation.

1994: Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain commits suicide.

2005: Pope John Paul II dies following a long struggle with Parkinson’s disease.

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We have a choice about how we take what happens to us in our life and whether or not we allow it to turn us. We can become consumed by hate and darkness, or we’re able to regain our humanity somehow, or come to terms with things and learn something about ourselves.’

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An interesting Easter movie, Ridley Scott’s epic take on the exodus of the Jews from Eygpt attracted some very desperate reviews and opinions. What you think of the movie could well be affected by you religious beliefs, but Moses and many of the central characters are interestingly portrayed and Christian Bale gives a dynamic performance in the lead role.

Directed by: Ridley Scott and starring Christian Bale, John Turturro, Ben Mendelsohn and Joel Edgerton. Run time 2 hr 45 minutes. Rated PG-13.

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. Potent planetary influences urge you to look, listen, learn and refuse to allow petty stumbling blocks to undermine your confidence on Tuesday and Thursday.

GEMINI (May 22 - June 21) Punchy Mars and the heady Sun are set for a scramble with touchy Pluto. You’ve been there before, so despite any administrative bumps, gossipy whirls or curious rejections, don’t be too sensitive. Add up what you’ve achieved, subtract your fears and keep your emotions under control.

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, or perhaps your equally wicked sense of humour will do the trick.

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April 3, Nigel Farage, Politician, 51 The UKIP chief has been an MEP since 1999, and a Westminster candidate in this year’s election. He was a Conservative Party member before leaving to found UKIP.

April 6, Myleene Klass, TV Presenter, 37 The singer, pianist and model made a hugely popular appearance on jungle reality show I’m a Celebrity… and now presents the American version of the franchise.

April 4, Jill Scott, Singer/Actress, 43 The Philadelphia-born soul singer released acclaimed, platinum-selling albums before playing the lead role in BBC/HBO series The No 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency.

April 7, Francis Ford Coppola, Film Director, 76 The Godfather director has taken home multiple Oscars, and is one of just eight film makers to win the prestigious Palm D’Or at Cannes twice.

April 5, Colin Powell, Politician, 78 The retired, four-star army general, born in Harlem, New York, was the US Secretary of State under George W Bush, the first African American to hold the position.

your personal or occupational activities, stay focused, decide what your goals are and, just as importantly, find the easiest way to move forward without losing your healing sense of humour.

LEO (July 24 - August 23) This is an intense week, and if you get stuck with a particular issue, jumble your words, or just can’t seem to do anything right, it might be worth finding out if the grass is greener on the other side.

LIBRA (September 24 - October 23) Even the best-made plans can suddenly sink without a trace. Your dreams for a fresh start in one particular direction still need tender, cautious care, and you may equally need to be wary of overstepping the mark where money’s concerned.

VIRGO (August 24 - September 23) Quirky planetary niggles will surface without warning. A variety of talks, news and last-minute changes surround your family members, friends or colleagues. No matter what affects

SCORPIO (October 24 - November 22) You will need bucketloads of humour and understanding as impatient Mars and the sprightly Sun engage with touchy Pluto. Stay well clear if you want to escape potential power struggles.

April 8, Patricia Arquette, Actress, 47 She lifted the Best Actress Oscar this year for her role in Boyhood and used her speech to challenge sexism.

SAGITTARIUS (November 23 - December 21) If you suspect that some things are not what they seem, you could be right. Repel doubts, ban anxieties and stick to facts and tact. If certain individuals or situations continue to conspire against you, change course and do something entirely different.

What goes around will come around quicker than you think.

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. If you can’t take a break, at least chill out with whatever or whoever brings you the greatest pleasure.

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Your Stars

All the answers begin with either CAN or DO 1. In surgery, what name is given to a thin tube inserted into a vein or body cavity to administer medication, drain off fluid, or insert a surgical instrument?

2. What is the name given to the practice of seeking water or other substances (usually liquid) with the aid of a forked stick or similar pointing device, as believed by some practitioners to derive from supernatural power?

3. What name is given to a ravine formed by a river in an area with little rainfall?

4. What name is often given to a widow holding property received from her deceased husband?

5. What was the name of the king of Denmark and Norway, who forced Edmund II to divide England with him and, on the death of Edmund II, became king of all England?

6. Which city is the state capital of Delaware?

7. Which resort on the Mediterranean coast of France holds a famous annual international film festival?

8. Which is the largest and lowest member of the violin family?

9. Which small constellation is just south of the celestial equator and contains the brightest star, Sirius?

10. Which short, close-fitting padded jackets were commonly worn by men from the 14th to the 17th century?

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CANUTE the Great, 6. DOVER, 7. CANNES, 8. DOUBLE BASS, 9.

CANIS MAJOR, 10. DOUBLETS

TAURUS (April 21 - May 21) Astrologically, it’s not unreasonable to assume that when sparky Mars and the zesty Sun conflict with restless Pluto, life could become a tad frustrating. You might find it hard to tolerate hypocrisy and setbacks, but fortunately, it’s all just a passing cloud. Regardless of any lack of continuity, concentrate on keeping going and prepare for next week’s brighter outlook.

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Nonagram How many English words of four letters or more can you make from the nine letters in our Nonagram puzzle? Each letter may be used only once (unless the letter appears twice). Each word MUST CONTAIN THE CENTRE LETTER (in this case D) and there must be AT LEAST ONE NINE LETTER WORD. Plurals, vulgarities or proper nouns are not allowed.

TARGET: Average: 18 Good: 23 Very good: 33 Excellent: 40

April 2, David Ferrer, Tennis Player.

The Valencian-born, threetimes winner of the Davis Cup with Spain reached his highest world ranking in 2013, at number three. That year he reached the French Open final without losing a set.

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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. No matter how awkward things seem on Monday or Wednesday, trust your ability to wait for the right moment, rather than risk spoiling your plans.

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. However confusing the planets may seem, even out the odds as best you can by ensuring your worries take second place.

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Unscramble the name of a famous former England rugby union international: REJECTS TOY MUG Unscramble the title of a popular American sitcom (four words): EATEN

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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.

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) 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) 8 To the opposite side (6) 20 Meetings arranged in advance (5) 21 In front of or before all others (5) 22 Animal group (4)

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

0MOUTH Answers: My Funny Valentine, Nil by mouth

Down 1 Agree about Earnest (5) 2 Many keen to see a Biblical hero (5) 3 Point to the lock showing strain (6)

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FUNAGRAM SOLUTION: JEREMY GUSCOTT, THE BIG BANG THEORY

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 makeup (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)

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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.

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)

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.

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

Down: 1 Cross, 2 Slave, 3 Saco, 4 Primavera, 5 Aun, 6 Ave, 11 Trapo, 12 Ridge, 13 Race, 14 Tip, 15 Tea.

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1. Burj Khalifa, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, 828m Currently the tallest man-made structure on the planet, construction began on this sky touching building in 2004, but it wasn’t completed for another five years. The Burj Khalifa was finally officially opened on January 4, 2010.

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3. Shanghai Tower, Shanghai, China, 632m Consisting of 128 stories and completed in 2013, it is China’s tallest structure. It was designed with a remarkable twisting, tiered construction for high energy efficiency.

4. Abraj Al-Bait Clock Tower, Mecca, Saudi Arabia, 601m This government-owned building has the world’s largest clock tower and is built only metres away from the world’s largest mosque and Islam’s most important pilgrimage site, the Masjid alHaram.

5. One World Trade Centre, New York City, USA, 541m The replacement for the original buildings that were destroyed in the 2001 terrorist attacks, the new building known as the ‘Freedom Tower’ is the tallest building in the western hemisphere with 94 usable floors and an additional spire added on top of this.

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2. Tokyo Skytree, Japan, 634m Completed in 2012 the Skytree is mainly a TV and Radio Broadcast tower.

It was built to replace the older Tokyo tower which is now too short to give complete digital TV coverage across the city, due to the rapid upward growth of the Tokyo skyline.

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CTF Finance Centre, Guangzhou, China, 530m Reaching its maximum height in 2014, this is the fastest assembled ‘supertall’ skyscraper in modern history. The tower, part of a twin tower complex, is expected to be completed in 2016.

7. Taipei 101, Taipei, Taiwan, 509m This building became the world’s tallest in 2004, and officially remained the planet’s tallest inhabited building until the completion of the Burj Khalifa in 2010.

It’s also considered one of best designs in terms of energy and environmental efficiency.

8. Shanghai World Financial Centre, Shanghai, China, 492m When completed in 2007 this was the tallest building in mainland China and 2nd tallest in the world. The building was famed for its remarkable design. A mixed use building, the structure includes Park Hyatt hotel and shopping mall in its 101 storeys. The building is often referred to informally as the ‘bottle opener’ due to its huge trapezoid space at its summit.

9. International Commerce Centre, Hong Kong, China 484m This building has the fourth highest floor count with 118 floors above ground level.

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10. Petronas Towers, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 452m The tallest building on the planet from 1998 to 2004, Kuala Lumpur’s rocket like towers are still the world’s tallest twin towers, connected by a remarkable bridge in its middle levels.

Boggled How many English words can you find in the Boggled grid, according to the following rules?

The letters must be adjoining in a ‘chain’. They can be adjacent horizontally, vertically or diagonally.

Words must contain at least four letters and may include singular and plural or other derived forms.

No letter may be used more than once within a single word, unless it appears twice.

No vulgarities or proper nouns are permitted.

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Average: 28 Good: 36 Very good: 52 Excellent: 64

SCORING: 4 letters: 1 point • 5 letters: 2 points 6 letters: 3 points • 7 letters: 4 points 8 or more letters: 11 points

LAST WEEK’S SOLUTION eddy, lush, yule, suds, suns, sundry, suit, shirt, shirts, sled, slush, slur, slurs, snit, duly, unit, urns, sics, hiss, nude, nudes, nits, rule, rush, rude, rudely, ruddy, ribs, rinse, rinsed, rind, rinds, rims, iris, bird, truly, truss, trim, trims, tiny, writ, writs, wrist, wind, windy, wiry, wits, wist, mind, minus, mist, sinus, sirs, stir, stirs

OPINION & COMMENT

One man’s weed...

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.

The message said there had been a technical error and I did not get the money. I needed to have said money so

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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 then 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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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

Nora Johnson

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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.

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Armed robber extradited A SPANISH national has been extradited to Spain after being arrested by officers of the Royal Gibraltar Police on a European Arrest Warrant. Fugitive Polvillo Martin, 31, was sentenced by the Spanish courts in 2005 to nine years in prison for five robberies and one armed robbery. But in 2008 he absconded while on weekend release.

Bay gas concerns DESPITE fresh concerns from the Environmental Safety Group (ESG) the Gibraltar Government has insisted that the ship-to-ship transfer of liquefied natural gas in the bay is well regulated and safe.

Gibraltar makes UEFA history EVEN though the final score line is something that will soon be forgotten, the fact that Lee Casciaro scored Gibraltar’s first ever UEFA goal will go down in history. Albeit the game would finish 6-1 with Fletcher netting a hat-trick for the Scots, Gibraltar manager Dave Wilson was pleased with his players’ performances.

Condolences THE Minister for Economic Development in the 1960s, and former Israeli Ambassador to the Philippines, Soloman Seruya has died at the age of 88. Chief Minister Fabian Picardo said: “The Government wishes to express its heartfelt condolences to his family on behalf of the people of Gibraltar. There is no doubt that Gibraltar has lost one of its great personalities.”

Foundation laid for Rock to become a university city THIS week saw the passing of a Bill in Parliament for an Act to establish the University of Gibraltar, laying the foundation for The Rock to become a

‘university city’.

Gilbert Licudi, the Education Minister, said: “The new university represents a massive advancement of what Gibraltar is, what Gibraltar represents and how Gibraltar can develop. As from September this year, Gibraltar will step up to become a university city. It is a coming of age. It is a transformational moment.

“It is a milestone in our history which comes only once and which we, and I hope many generations of

UNIVERSITY OF GIBRALTAR: Artist’s impression of the new facility.

Gibraltarians, will cherish.”

The university - consisting of four faculties - is to

be constructed on the site of the former St Christopher’s school.

Work is continuing at ‘full pace’ to convert the old buildings.

Licudi added: “The university will be an economic driver not just for itself

but for the entire community. In a nutshell, the university is an institution for the whole of Gibraltar and I look forward to welcoming everyone to the university when it opens for public viewing in September.”

Parliament adjourned after murder news ON hearing the news of the unexplained violent deaths of a family of four, HM Government of Gibraltar (HMGOG) was immediately adjourned

by Chief Minister Fabian Picardo and a minute’s silence was observed.

A statement said: “HMGOG has received the sad news of the unexplained violent deaths of a family

that appears to have recently become resident on the Rock with profound shock. The untimely death of a couple and their two children defies description and is impossible to comprehend.”

The Chief Minister described the violent deaths as an “aberration” for a peaceful place like Gibraltar.

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Strategy set for a low carbon economy GIBRALTAR’S efforts to combat climate change and reduce carbon emissions are starting to show good results.

In the week following the global celebration of Earth Hour, HM Government of Gibraltar announced the development of a City-Level Greenhouse Gas Inventory for Gibraltar.

Effective monitoring, reporting and verification of greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs) form a critical element in developing a strategy towards a low carbon economy and Gibraltar’s inventory is amongst some of the most comprehensive city-level inventories produced to date.

Figures released by the Gibraltar Electricity Authority show considerable reduction in energy use for street lighting, floodlighting and traffic lights. This is in spite of the increase in such lighting around Gibraltar. The reductions represent 19 per cent in street lighting from 2012/13 to 2014/15, 50 per cent in

TAKING SHAPE: Carbon emissions policies are showing results. floodlighting from 2011/12 to 2014/15, and 22 per cent in traffic light consumption 2012/13 to 2014/15. These represent a reduction both in carbon emissions and in cost to the government.

Minister for Environment, Energy and Climate Change, Dr John Cortes, commented: “Clearly our energy and environment policies are not only taking shape, but showing results.”

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Protest over incursion THE British Embassy in Madrid has protested directly to the Spanish Ministry for Foreign Affairs over an incursion into Gibraltarian waters by a variety of craft.

Eyewitness reports on Friday, March 27, said that amongst the commotion were two Spanish fishing boats, the Junta de Andalucia’s vessel Comoran Granada, the Guardia Civil boat Rio Tormes, and craft from The Royal Gibraltar Police (RGP) and the Gibraltar Squadron.

It would appear that two Spanish fishing boats had illegally laid pots inside British Gibraltar Territorial Waters and were being confronted by the Andalucian fisheries ship Comoran

Granada, and the Guardia Civil in a “provocative and dangerous manner.”

The RGP and the Gibraltar Squadron soon attended the scene, and read warnings for 30 minutes before the Guardia Civil and the fisheries patrol finally took notice, whereupon there were some highspeed manoeuvres before the Spanish vessels left the area.

The Foreign Office said: “Both of the Spanish vessels acted in a provocative and dangerous manner,” and has issued a formal protest to the Spanish Government about the incident, making clear that such incursions were unacceptable.

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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

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

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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Smokers’ children more likely to be at risk 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 ex-

posure to second hand smoke.

The findings confirm previous research that

linked tobacco smoke and toxins with a lasting effect on children’s cardiovascular health.

Are you embarassed to work out?

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 investi-

IN PRIVATE: Women worry about body image. gating 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.

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 the participants childhood blood cotinine levels from samples collected and frozen in 1980.

Cotinine is a bio-marker of passive smoke expo-

sure and the researchers found that 84 per cent of children from households where neither parent smoked had non-detectable 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 just as abusive as leaving children unattended in a hot car, or drink driving.

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A thank you to my parents for the way they have brought me up Erica Russell Watson: My journey – and I’m driving

26th March EACH week seems to come around quicker which is a g o o d t h i n g . I h ave h a d a m i xe d w e e k a g a i n b u t I w o n ’ t t i r e yo u w i t h 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 wa s b r o u g h t u p t o g e t on with things and not to complain about the hand life has dealt you. If you can’t c h a n g e i t , g e t yo u r h e a d 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 t h e y b r o u g h t m e u p.

They were and are loving, kind, constant and always i n t e r e s t e d i n m e a n d 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 t h i n k I c o m e c l o s e t o my parents. I owe them so much. The values and the strength that they instilled in me have enabled me to fa c e l i fe a n d my c a n c e r without fear.

“As far as I am concerned, I do not have cancer” People are constantly trying to reassure me that it is more than likely that I won’t die as a result of cancer and i f I d o, I h ave a g o o d fe w years yet. I know their in-

tention 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 h a p p i n e s s . A s fa r a s I a m c o n c e r n e d , I d o n o t h ave cancer. The treatments are merely to ensure there are no rogue cells bouncing around my body. Soon I will m ove o n t o ra d i o t h e ra p y, 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

t o h av i n g h a i r, e ye b r o w s and eyelashes again. Hopefully they will have grown back by then.

“I would like to do something charitable” I will feel stronger and will be able to start to set realistic goals for myself in terms of my career and personal l i fe . I w o u l d l i ke t o d o something charitable in the name of cancer. What that might be I don’t know yet. I have time to contemplate it.

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Fertility hopes for women 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 USA as the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) hasn’t approved the method but it is available in some in vitro fertilisation clinics in Canada, the UK, the UAE and Turkey.

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Encryption – 70 years on New ways based on heat and noise!

By Barrie Nathan With the current surge in interest in code-breaking, fuelled by the Hollywood story of Alan Turing’s heroic breaking of Hitler’s Enigma code, together with security services worldwide attempting to chase down terrorists and thwart attacks, perhaps it is time to review the progress of those empowered to protect our future.

In computer language PGP stands for Pretty Good Privacy, which is the leading technology in encryption software since its creation in 1991 by Phil Zimmerman.

Ever since its birth, PGP has been the one the hackers want to beat and the biggest and best brains in IT have been working for the most important government security agencies in order to find a way to decypher PGP protected communications in the interests of law enforcement and public safety.

Recent developments have come up with surprising techniques to decrypt encoded communications over internet... based on heat and noise!

Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) researchers have discovered a new method to breach air-gapped computer systems called ‘BitWhisper’, which enables two-way communications between adjacent, unconnected PC computers using heat.

The research, conducted by Mordechai Guri, PhD, is part of an ongoing focus on air-gap security at the BGU Cyber Security Research Center. Computers and networks are air-gapped when they need to be kept highly secure and isolated from unsecured networks, such as the public internet or an unsecured local area network. Typically, air-gapped computers are used in financial transactions, mission critical tasks or military applications and the BGU’s BitWhisper can “listen in” by stealing parcels of data and collect passwords.

Guri, a student researcher in BGU’s Department of Informa-

Decrypted evidence from Blackberries will be used to thwart crime.

tion Systems Engineering, working under Professor Yuval Elovici, Director of the Cyber Security Research Center, recently received the prestigious 2015-2016 IBM PhD Fellowship Award.

From another angle researchers have successfully broken one of the most secure encryption algorithms, 4096-bit RSA, by listening - yes, with a microphone - to a computer while it decrypts ciphered data.

This is achieved with rudimentary hardware and although the basic computer user needn’t worry about this, if you’re a secret agent, government official or some other kind of encryption-using miscreant, this acoustic decrypting technique could cause serious worry.

Without going into too much detail, the researchers focused

on a very specific encryption implementation: the GnuPG (a version of PGP) implementation of the RSA cryptosystem. The researchers successfully extracted decryption keys with a highquality parabolic microphone. Perhaps more intriguingly, though, they also managed to pull off this attack using a smartphone.

Developments give hope in the fight against crime Recent reports from the French police have given cause for increased hope in the fight against crime.

The widely favoured encryption tool known as PGP has been unravelled and there are several cases pending where decrypted evidence from Blackberry communications will be used to the dismay of drug traffickers, paedophile rings, and terrorist groups. Although many law enforcement agencies have

repeatedly denied having access to this level of decryption software, the importance of its use in open court to achieve convictions outweighs by far the advantages of denial. In any case, PGP has been in use and with little or no changes since the early 90s and after having been subjected to study and investigation by some of the most brilliant computing minds in the industry, headhunted by the forces of Law and Order, it comes as no surprise that it has reached its demise.

The decrypting system is now available to such a degree that even lesser crimes that depend on circulation of confidential information, such as art theft and resetting, will also feel the force of this decrypted evidence breaking down their barriers of secrecy.

Not too long ago Interpol statistics claimed that approximately 10 per cent of drugs were being seized in transit but the French authorities are already boasting that the percentage of illegal drugs seized in more recent months has increased tremendously. This has

seriously damaged the usual transportation channels of drugs from the Continent to the UK. The number of transports seized before boarding ferries and chunnel trains has soared.

One French official has been overheard stating that these successful drug seizures have grown exponentially with the increased availability of PGP decrypting tools and equipment.

Blackberry readily admits that it collaborates with law enforcement agencies and surrenders whatever keys are necessary in the mission to thwart crime: under no circumstances do they wish to be labelled as ‘crimeenhancers’ and they insist that there are lawful reasons to justify encrypting communications.

The West Yorkshire Police are equipped with Blackberries practically on a par with truncheons but in several countries where top officials are in the habit of communicating via Blackberry, memos have been issued exhorting them to take care as the security of the PGP encryption has been compromised.

Whatever will MI6, CIA and the Mossad have to change to?

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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.

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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Le Papillon: Once found, always remembered JOAQUIN Garcia Infantes is passionate about the type of ambience he creates for his clients at Le Papillon Restaurant, and once discovered, it is easy to see why he and his staff feel that way.

Le Papillon Restaurant is like stepping into paradise but without the hefty price tag, it is described by many as ‘A hidden gem.’

Situated right on the beach, the view is amazing the location is ideal, attracting a wide spectrum of clientele. The chemistry here is just right which is why Le Papillon is perfect for all ages, by day you can eat on the beach and

ON THE BEACH: Enjoy the stunning views.

JOAQUIN: Passionate about his work.

by night you can dine under the stars. Joquin has attracted a following with his famous cocktails and special gin and tonic creations, he is also knowledgeable of the massive choice of wines which are

being a speciality signature dish and lots of light snacks including eats for the kids. For Easter and after there is a lively calendar of music.

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quality but not expensive.

The cocktails are attractively presented as Joquin believes that you ‘Eat and drink with your eyes.’

There is a relaxed all day menu which is perfect for beach lovers, rack of lamb

Tony Watson on Sunday afternoon April 5. Look out for more Friday nights and Sunday afternoon entertainment. Big names on the coast will be performing such as Soul Note, Elvis Tribute, The Four

Tops Tribute Band, Legends Of Motown, The Beatles Tribute Band, Southern Impact, and much more. In fact Joquin has worked hard over the years to make sure that he gives the public what they want and he never stops improving from service to entertainment to make sure that everything is just right.

It comes as no surprise that Le Papillon is now a gem being discovered for weddings and special occasions. With fantastic value for money Le Papillon is a must visit venue. Urb Marbesa, Crta de Cadiz, KM 193. Tel: 952 834 113.

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Korma Indian Restaurant WHEREVER we are in the world we curry lovers still get the craving for a curry, some more often than others and at Korma Indian Restaurant, the cravings are deliciously satisfied until the next time at least! With 28 years experience, these guys know how to create the perfect curry!

Tony and Azil offer a wide range of starters, Tandoori dishes, Biryani dishes, main dishes, and Chef’s specialities cooked to personal preference on strength. These exquisite dishes which originate from north and southern India are prepared in a clay oven in the true traditional way and all ingredients used true to the authentic recipes.

Many chicken dishes are popular as well as Tandoori King Prawn, Lamb Tikka, Fish Pakora, and Seekh Kebab to name just a few. There is an abundance of side dishes and various preparations of bread and rice that complement the hot dishes very well.

If not sure, just ask the staff who are always happy to guide you.

KORMA: With amazing views across the Mediterranean.

LEFT: Tony and Azil.

Korma is perfect for the grown-ups and if you have children that have not been introduced to curry yet, the children’s menu is simple and tasty, so there is something to keep them happy too. The one thing about eat-

ing out with a curry is that it is so economical, so your meal is not going to cost the earth.

At Korma you can eat as little or as much as you desire, daytime or evening and is open seven days a week. The staff at Korma are also proud of their location which offers an amazing view across the Mediterranean. Inside the restaurant is charming and authentic. Tel 952 906 628 for takeaway service.

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By Steve Walsh

VIBE magazine once said that; Aswad, one of Britain’s best loved reggae bands, “seems set to shine for years to come.”

That was in 1995. The fact that t o d ay some 20 years

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Aswad ‘set to shine for year on, they are still touring and e n t e r t a i n i n g c r o w d s e ve r yw h e r e t h e y g o, p r ove s t h e y were right. But more incredibly, that statement was made 2 0 ye a r s a f t e r t h e band had hit the music

world in 1975, and they had already become household names.

Tony (Gad) Robinson and Angus ‘Drummie Zeb’ Gaye are the founder members of the chart topping reggae band Aswad. And for nearly 40 years they have been travelling the w o r l d a n d p e r fo r m i n g a n d recording with names such as B o b M a r l e y, S t i n g , t h e Wailers, Burning Spear, Maxi Priest, and Shabba Ranks to name but a few.

But now they are coming to play Marbella, at Joys L i ve o n A p r i l 1 1 , a n d they’re really looking forward to it. Tony said: “We love Spain, that’s where all the good football teams are!”

I asked Tony, “Who would be the artist yo u m o s t enjoyed working with in

ASWAD: Tony (Gad) Robinson and Angus ‘Drummie Zeb’ Gaye, the founder members.

your career?” He replied, “I’ve been so lucky to play with so many great talents, it’s hard to choose. But I guess performing with Sting live in New York in ‘98 has to be one of the biggies, He was great, one of my idols!”

I then asked, “Well if Sting

was the most memorable gig you have done, what was the biggest?” He answered quickly, “Wembley of course! The Nelson Mandela Concert in Wembley Football stadium. I have never seen so many people, so

m a ny g r e a t b a n d s , i t wa s huge.” Tony was chuckling as all the memories started flooding back. “But that wasn’t my favourite gig… Hammersmith Odeon was, when we hit the number one spot

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He thought for a moment and said: “Turning down Bob Marley I guess! Pull up a chair and I’ll tell you about it.”

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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

COMFY CATS: Will find the best places to spend quality time. 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-polestyle toys give a great overall workout by promoting jumping and leaping, while 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.

Mealtimes are a highlight of a cat’s day 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 influenced 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.

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Try living the ‘White Town’ dream IT has long been a dream of expats wanting to move to Southern Spain and set up in one of the region’s iconic white villages, even more so since Chris Stewart, former drummer with Genesis, wrote Driving Over Lemons and made the enterprise fashionable.

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.

We also decided to look at a range of charismatic white villages which could provide new homes for househunters.

Tolox, Malaga On a little-visited route up into the beautiful foothills of the Sierra de La Nieves is the small white village of Tolox.

Dense, verdant, 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.

Fincas in this area have yet

ICONIC WHITE VILLAGES: Could provide new homes for house-hunters. to attract the attention of buyers on the Costa del Sol but we found a finca, with a large plot of private land and good road access for €85,000.

Turon, Costa Tropical The remote villages of the Alpujarras present a drier altogether more rugged land-

scape, but that’s not to say that the white villages, small country houses and properties here are any less attractive and enigmatic.

The Costa Tropical 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. The property has six hectares of land and electricity from solar cells.

The price is currently €65,000.

Jimena de la Frontera It may not be entirely white but we found a nicely-located three bedroomed finca close to Jimena de la Frontera and only 20 minutes’ drive from the coast.

It’s a lovely piece of productive land, covering more than 3,000 square metres, with 900 orange trees and 400 avocado trees.

A fenced property with a porch, this house is more expensive at €1.5 million.

Jimenez de la Frontera is a town which can trace its history back to Moorish times, with an ancient castle built during the 14th-15th centuries and dominating the town visually and as a tourisim site.

For nature lovers the Los Alcornocales natural park is close by. The natural park offers adventures in one of largest areas of cork forest in Spain and a wide range of wildlife survives in this wellwatered range of hills.

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

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New mortgage stats show year on year improvements PROPERTY sales in Spain are once again on the up if the latest sta-

tistics for mortgages are anything to go by.

A new report on mort-

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HISTORIC CITY: Cadiz is also a windsurfing hotspot.

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.

To find your perfect beachside getaway call one of the agencies which advertises in this publication.

of 20,913 new mortgages taken out on homes in January this year, a 20 per cent increase on figures from January 2014.

The average amount borrowed was given by the institute as €118,397 and the average time the money was borrowed for was 21 years.

The areas of the country that led for new

NEW REPORT: A 20 per cent rise from January 2014. mortgages taken out were Andalucia with 3,793, Cataluña with 3,665 and Madrid with 3,148.

The average initial interest rate was given at 3.29 per cent, 20.6 per

cent lower than for January 2014, and 94 per cent of all new mortgages used variable interest rates with Euribor being the reference value in 89.4 per cent of these cases.

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. 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 relative 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.

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By Spain’s best known expatriate gardening author living in Spain for 25 years.

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 or charged exchange of non-officially registered flower fruit and vegetable seeds has been withdrawn after negative responses by gardening and organic gardening organisations. One of the things it would have done is to make it difficult to obtain heritage seeds that had never been seriously commercialised by the agricultural and horticultur-

al industries. But we now need to wait to see what modified legislation is proposed.

2. Ensure that you have sheltered places for enjoying the winter sun as it has been recently determined that many persons are seriously undernourished in Vitamin D, in fact by up to 90 per cent if following currently the widely recommended daily amounts, RDA. The 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 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. Nothing has really changed since we were stimulated to write the two best selling books ‘Grow-

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

HOME GROWN: Continues to be the best way to enjoy fresh vegetables. ing healthy fruit in Spain’ and ‘Growing healthy vegetables in Spain’ some 15 years ago.

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 con-

tains a greater percentage of beneficial antioxidants and lower levels of undesirable 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 grown, processed, transported, stored and

displayed for sale consider growing some of your own alone or in cooperation with neighbours or other members of the family, as used to happen widely in Spain. Due to the absence of organic produce in local wholesale markets our local green grocer has started to grow organic vegetables for sale in his store and for his brother’s Michelin Star restaurants.

Interestingly Raymond Blanc who grows several acres of vegetables and herbs for the kitchen of his renowned and extremely expensive Belmond Le Manoir aux Quatre Saisons Restaurant in Oxfordshire is a vice president of the Garden Organic organisation (originally the HDRA organisation).

I hope that some of this up-to-date information is of interest and 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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MOBILITY MOBILITY scooters, electric wheelchairs, wheelchairs, walking frames, etc, for sale and rent. Large selection of quality used scooters at competitive prices. In stock we have around forty scooters to choose from including Pride XL8, Rascal 388, Shoprider Sovereign, Pride Go Go, Rascal Veo X, Neo 4 and 8, Sterling Pearl, Rascal Taxi, Sterling Diamond, Shoprider electric wheelchair breaks up for boot, Rascal 330 electric wheelchair as new condition at considerable saving, Rascal turnabout electric wheelchair, Pride Go Go uprated 20 amp batteries, also goes in boot of car, plus many more all with guarantee.

New and used wheelchairs for sale at competitive prices. Large scooters from 1,000 euros. Medium scooters from 600 euros and small boot scooters from 400 euros. Rentals from 55 euros weekly. New mobility scooter batteries supplied and fitted. Mobility scooters bought for cash. Email info@mobilityscootersdi rectspain.com Tel 609 581 139 (230368)

MOSQUITO SCREENS THE Mosquito Screen Specialist. NEW selection of roller binds, all patterns and colours. www.mosquiton ick.ws / nick@mosquiton ick.ws / call Mosquito Nick 647 072 861 (228782) T1 ACE OF SHADES - Don’t let the bugs get you! Available in enrollable, slider and pleated. Large choice of colours including wood effect. Tel: 951 273 254 / 671 732 204 / info@aceof shades.es (101730) MOSQUITO Screens for windows, doors and a high quality sliding patio door screen. All finishes available. Quick service.

All areas covered. Call Julian 655 825 931 (228778)

MOTORING

WANTED SPANISH PLATED CARS

INSTANT CASH SAMANTHA – GORDON

952 83 21 73 608 658 785 www.robertsoncars-spain.com

CAR SERVICES MECHANIC workshop & mobile. All work undertaken. ITVs done. Reasonable rates.

Prompt, reliable services 24/7.

620 020 232, 951 165 090 (228797) AUTOMATIC gearbox specialist. Transmatic. All models including classic cars, serviced, repaired and reconditioned. Also 4x4 transfer boxes and power steering Call/fax 952 796 166 / 952 805 804 email: trans matic2005@yahoo.com. www.transmatic.es (231435) BRITISH MECHANIC WORKSHOP. Repair, service & ITV to all makes of cars, vans and 4 x 4s. Call Steve 951 914 025 or 605 407 369.

Poligono Las Perales, Mijas Costa. britmechanicspain@ gmail.com (234614)

FOR SALE SELLING YOUR SPANISH CAR? PHONE Bill Brady for the best cash price. 952 838 842 / 608 950 221 billbradycars.com (228675) CLEARANCE… AUTOMATIC BMW MINI COOPER ‘S’…

2008, only 41,000kms (approx 25,000mls), FSH. Black with white roof/mirrors, cream leather interior, one careful English gentleman owner leaving Spain, immaculate condition, sat nav, telephone, cruise and climate control, alloys, CD player, cost new 28,500 euros, bargain was 12,995 euros, now reduced 11,995 euros. Samantha or Gordon Robertson (The Car Couple) Tel. 952 832 173 / 608 658 785 see photo at www.robertsoncars-spain.com FORD KA 2007 ‘COLLECTION’… 3 door hatchback, only 44,000kms (approx 27,000 mls). Lady owner leaving Spain, air condition, grey, CD player, super city car only 3,995 euros.

Samantha or Gordon Robertson (The Car Couple) Tel. 952 832 173 / 608 658 785 see photo at www.robertsoncars-spain.com CLEARANCE… DIESEL BMW 116D… 2 litre 2011 with M. Pack, 6 speed, electric sunroof, only 38,000kms (approx 24,000mls), full BMW service history, one expat owner leaving Spain. Pearlescent blue with black leather, alloy wheels, climate and cruise control, Parktronic, CD player, ABS, cost new 26,350 euros. Our BMW bargain buy was 15,995 euros, now reduced 14,995 euros. Samantha or Gordon Robertson (The Car Couple) tel. 952 832 173/ 608 658 785 see photo www.robert soncars-spain.com (234732)

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DIESEL (NEW SHAPE) CITROEN C3… 1.4 ‘Tonic’ 2013, stunning colour claret with black interior, climate control, CD player, electric windows, locking etc, 5 door, hatchback great load carrier, super style and economy 10,995 euros. Samantha or Gordon Robertson Tel. 952 832 173 / 608 658 785. See it at www.robertsoncarsspain.com (234732) FABULOUS FIAT 500… 2012.

‘Lounge’ only 45,000kms (approx 27,000mls), FSH. A real looker, pearl white with black glass roof and white interior, air con, all usual refinements, 8,995 euros. Samantha or Gordon Robertson, (The Car Couple) Tel. 952 832 173 or 608 658 785 see photo more details www.robertsoncars-spain.com (226426) CABRIO/AUTOMATIC MERCEDES CLK240… Elegance, 2004, only 53,000kms (approx 33,000 miles), gold with beige leather, black electric hood, alloy wheels, 4 seater, climate/cruise control, one careful Irish owner, only used as holiday car. Coming this week.

Samantha or Gordon Robertson (The Car Couple) Tel. 952 832 173/608 658 785 see photo on www.robertsoncars-spain.com (234732) 4x4 DIESEL TOYOTA LAND CRUISER D4D… 2007 only 55,000kms (approx 34,000mls), one private owner, 3 door SWB, lovely shade of grey with side steps, manual, CD player, air condition, great workhorse. Samantha or Gordon Robertson, (The Car Couple) Tel. 952 832 173 or 608 658 785 see photo more details www.robertsoncars-spain.com (226426) CABRIO/AUTOMATIC VOLKSWAGEN EOS DSG… 2007, 3.2 litre, V6. FSI. Glass roof folds into boot, black pear with beige nappa leather, only 16,000kms (approx 10,000mls), many extras, sat nav, 4 seater, one lady owner, kept garaged, immaculate, must be seen, fabulous Cabrio 13,995 euros.

Samantha or Gordon Robertson, (The Car Couple) Tel. 952 832 173 or 608 658 785 see photo more details www.robertson cars-spain.com (226426) CABRIO MITSUBISHI COLT CZC… 2009 Coupe Cabrio, electric roof folds into boot, only 14,000kms (approx 8,000mls), silver/black trim, alloy wheels, condition as new, coming this week. Samantha or Gordon Robertson, (The Car Couple) Tel. 952 832 173 or 608 658 785 see photo more details www.robertsoncars-spain.com (226426) BUYING a new car??? Do not trade in your car!! If you are an expat with a good quality, genuine mileage car, we will pay you more for it in cash than you will be offered at dealerships against any new car. Find out the real deal, ring Gordon or Samantha Robertson 952 832 173 or 608 658 785 or email us therobertsonclan@gmail.com (234732)

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2014 NISSAN DUKE 1.6 petrol, automatic, 5 door, fully loaded inc sat nav, reverse cameras etc, only 3,000km, cost 23,000€, only 14,995€ 672 550 037 www.costacarsspain.com (222389) 2003 MERCEDES A170 diesel, automatic, rhd on Spanish plates, only 65,000 miles, new ITV, with all extras, 3,750€ 672 550 337 www.costacarsspain.com (222389) ENGLISH RHD, 2010 new model, VW Polo, 5 door, 1.2 Sports, 22,000 miles, 5,750€ 672 550 037 www.costacarsspain.com (222389) ENGLISH RHD 2003 Audit TT, 225bhp, 6 speed, all usual extras, good condition throughout, only 2,450€ 672 550 037 www.costacarsspain.com (222389) RIGHT Hand Drive on Spanish plates, Facelift model, Mercedes E280, elegance, diesel, in silver, in excellent condition throughout, fully loaded, auto, 7,995€ 672 550 037 www.costacarss pain.com (222389) ENGLISH RHD 2007 Mini Cooper S, JWS, convertible, in black, stunning car, 7,995€. 672 550 037 (222389) 2003 LHD on English plates, Citroen C5 estate, in excellent condition throughout, 2ltr diesel, 6 speed, only 2,450€. 672 550 037 www.costacarsspain.com (222389) CITROEN Berlingo van, white, 2008, 124,000kms, very clean, perfect mechanics, unmarked body work, 3,995€ 672 550 037 www.costacarsspain.com (222389)

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AUTOMATIC 2007 Ford Focus 1.6, 5 door, ice blue metallic, 1 lady owner, only 100,000kms, with service history, in excellent condition throughout, very hard to find, 7,995€ 672 550 037 www.costacarsspain.com (222389) TWO Mustang Convertibles, 1. red, 22,000 miles, 1994 and 2. silver, 2000, 37,000 miles, both lhd on English plates, 7,500€ for both. 672 550 037 www.costacarss pain.com (222389) 2005 VOLVO. 260 BHP, turbo V70. 4 seater cabriolet, RHD, MOT & Taxed, FSH. €2,775 or Spanish plated €3,775. 655 095 147 (231348) BILL BRADY CARS has been established on the Costa del Sol since 1986, in which time he has helped thousands of expatriates to buy or sell their quality used Spanish cars and also keeping all the documentation simple so you understand all that is going on (which is important). You can contact Bill direct on 952 838 842 / 608 950 221 or billbradycars.com (228675) AUTOMATIC diesel 4x4 Hyundai Santa-Fe 2009 LHD. UK reg, MOT January 2016 and taxed. 7 seaters.

104,000klm (65,000mls), CD/DVD. Sunroof, metallic blue, tan leather, great value at only 12,995€. 952 838 842 / 608 950 221 billbrady cars.com (228675)

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INSURANCE ABBEYGATE INSURANCE. No automatic annual increase on our Motor Insurance, renewal policies. Call 952 893 380 (68259) WE ARE currently the market leader in our country in the sale of direct car, motorbike, home and company fleet insurance.

Since we started out in 1995, our philosophy has always been to offer an excellent service with the best prices in the market. For the most competitive quotes in English, call Linea Directa on 902 123 309. (200726)

MECHANICS MECHANIC workshop & mobile. All work undertaken. ITVs done. Reasonable rates.

Prompt, reliable services 24/7.

620 020 232, 951 165 090 (228797)

PORSCHE 911 Carrera 2. 3.6 facelift model, 2002, metallic blue, manual, CD, etc €28,500.

629 826 931 (233724)

BRITISH MECHANIC WORKSHOP. Repair, service & ITV to all makes of cars, vans and 4 x 4s. Call Steve 951 914 025 or 605 407 369. Poligono Las Perales, Mijas Costa. britme chanicspain@gmail.com (217674)

WANTED

DAVID C CLARKE, guitarist, vocalist, pianist, ex-Cunard.

Specialising in popular Spanish guitar. Available solo or combo. Parties/weddings/class restaurants, dinner dances. Huge repertoire. Details 687 627 434 (234401)

PAINTERS/DECORATOR

COCKROACHES, Wasps, Ants, Rats, Termites, Fleas, Bedbugs, Palm weevil, All Pest Problems.

Call LOCAL PEST-PLAGUICOSTA, the British Company you can trust. Registered with Malaga Sanitary Department. Tel 952 449 591 or 684 217 181.

Best price Guarantee, open 24/7 (228787) T1 COCKROACHES, ANTS, insects, fleas, mice, rats, wasps, termite specialists. Fumigations, bars, restaurants, houses, etc. Sanitary department officially registered certificates. Guarantee. 23 years serving the coast. Only legal English owned pest control company on the coast. If you want the best then phone N.P.S. Nigel 606 008 940 (223163)

PETS SAM, Simply the Best on the Coast, 35 years experience, 18 years Mijas. Forget the rest, have the best, you’re worth it!

Call Sam 952 666 025 / 629 546 128 (215594) HUSBAND & WIFE TEAM. Painting/Interior design. Free estimates. Graham - 607 923 486 (232110)

PERGOLAS & DECKING

CARS AND VANS, ANY REGISTRATION, INSTANT CASH, FINANCE/EMBARGO UK OR SPANISH 693 028 325 (229862) WANTED. CARS & JEEPS & camper vans for cash. All makes, LHD, any condition. 693 357 000 (231485) CARS, VANS UK OR SPANISH BOUGHT FOR CASH. FREE COLLECTION IN SPAIN AND UK. PLEASE CALL 678 808 837 OR 952 669 701 (229862) CAR, VANS BOUGHT WITH OR WITHOUT PAPERS. CASH WAITING 678 808 837 (229862) WANTED CARS AND VANS, FREE COLLECTION, SAME DAY 693 028 325 (229862)

PROPERTY WANTED

MUSIC

MOBILE MECHANIC will come to your home or work. Servicing, repairs, ITVs & diagnostics. Call Mick on 617 553 072 (230677)

AUTOMATIC VW Scirocco 2.0 TSI Sport 2009, 60,000klm (37,000mls), full service history, this car has too many extras to list and its immaculate in white with black and red leather, it’s a great bargain at only 16,995€.

952 838 842 / 608 950 221 bill bradycars.com (228675) VW POLO 1.4, 2003, 166k km, air con, CD, service history, new ITV, VGC, drives lovely, only 2,750€. Tlf 602 533 508 (236004)

CDS CARS established 12 years on the coast, we will buy your car stress free, with an instant cash decision, all paperwork taken care of with our on site gestoria, 30 cars in stock 672 550 037 / www.costacarsspain.com (222389)

PERGOLAS, Decking and Thatched Gazebos. Best quality and prices. Installations. For free quotation call 686 322 328 (224383)

PEST CONTROL

YOUNG DOMESTICATED cats rescued from the killing station need kind homes. Fully vaccinated and neutered. We will also deliver to England for a donation to the charity. Please give one of these beautiful cats a home so we can save more from death. Can be seen without obligation at Cat and Dog World Kennels. Tel. 630 197 435 (93398)

CHARITIES ADANA THE ANIMAL SHELTER IN ESTEPONA. We always need volunteers to walk and socialise with our dogs and help with cleaning. We also need good homes for our animals that you can see on www.adana.es. Kennels open every day 10-1.30, Camino de Casares, near Parque de los Pedregales, Estepona. (5 minutes from the Poligono) For more information call Marjorie 952 79 74 05 or 636 934 146 (93319)

CLASSIFIEDS ACE CHARITY “El Refugio” in La Cala de Mijas is a registered charity. We have on average 275 dogs in our care and we receive no help from the Town Hall or the Andalucian government. We desperately need foster homes and adoptants for our many dogs, especially the small ones and puppies who do not do well in a big shelter. We are grateful for any help offered, including donations of food and blankets. Visiting times are from 13.00 to 15.00 and you can always turn up or make an appointment by calling Denise on 669 018 736. Our website is www.ace-charity.org where you can view all the dogs in our care. (93320) SEPE the horse and donkey charity is open to the public week-ends from 10.00 to 5.00.

Volunteers are much needed in all departments and are welcome at anytime. For our riding for the disabled classes, we are also in need of extra helpers.

We are nationally registered by the Spanish Ministry of the Interior (164640) but only with your support can we give the equine a voice. If you can just commit to 2 or 3 euros a month it will really help make a difference.

You can find us at Lauro Golf Equestrian Centre, Alqueria, Alhaurin de la Torre. Tel. 608 258 950 info@sepeonline.net www.sepeonline.net (93321) At SOS Animal Refuge we have dogs, young and old looking for homes. Some of our dogs have been with us for some time and would love to find a cosy spot to curl up in and a knee on which to rest their heads. If you have room in your heart and home we would love to hear from you. We do not put our dogs to sleep - no matter how old, they are safe with us. For day to day needs and to pay for veterinary care, we much appreciate the support we receive.

We desperately need items to sell on our market stall to help raise funds and are happy to come and collect. So if you are having a clear-out, please contact us on 605 227 155. If you would like to know more about re-homing, please call 653 257 875. Visit our website www.sosanimals.org or please phone Sandy on 952 385 923 or 666 814 056 if you would like to make a donation or help in any way. (93317)

CLASSIFIEDS ARCH - THE ANDALUCIAN RESCUE CENTRE FOR HORSES WELCOMES VISITORS AND VOLUNTEERS TO THEIR STABLES ON SATURDAYS FROM 10 - 12 OR BY APPOINTMENT. COME AND HELP OUT, OR SPONSOR OR ADOPT ONE OF OUR HORSES, DONKEYS OR MULES. WE ALWAYS NEED HELP WITH FUND RAISING TO LOOK AFTER THE ABANDONED AND ABUSED ANIMALS. OUR AIM IS TO RESCUE, REHABILITATE AND REHOME. WE ARE A SMALL FRIENDLY TEAM - WHY NOT JOIN US. FIND US IN ALHAURIN EL GRANDE, BEHIND THE VENTA MIRALMONTE ON THE ROAD FROM ALHAURIN TO COIN, (A404), URB.VIÑA BORREGO, FOLLOW THE YELLOW SIGNS. CHARITY REGISTERED WITH THE JUNTA DE ANDALUCIA NO 8448. WWW.HORSE RESCUESPAIN.ORG INFO@HORSERESCUESPAIN.OR G ARCHRESCUE@YAHOO. CO.UK TEL:- 635798219 OR 656935613 OR 620175828.

NEW: ARCH CHARITY SHOP NOW OPEN IN ALHAURIN, NEXT TO MONEY CHANGE SHOP, AVENIDA GERALD BRENAN (93322)

KENNELS

www.euroweeklynews.com www.poshpetsspain.com Boutique Dog & Cat Hotel and much more … Facebook page: POSH PETS SPAIN. Tel: 952 597 035 (224385) LAGUNA KENNELS AND CATTERY. Your pets lovingly cared for by English mother and daughter. Near Coin. lagu nakennels@hotmail.com. Tel 952 112 021 / 606 838 983 (231451)

REMOVALS / STORAGE

THE DOG MOVER. Licensed transporters. Two handlers, so never alone. 680 781 699 / 0044 (0) 7875 947230. www.thedogmover.com (220443)

PETCARE PET HOTEL. Alhaurin el Grande. Holiday accommodation for dogs and cats.

Heated/Air conditioned kennels available. Tel: 952 112 284 / 685 400 216 www.petcares pain.com. Find us on Facebook at Petcare Spain (220208)

TORREMOLINOSPROPERTY SERVICES.COM, fancy reform to your property? We have reliable professional tradesmen. 12 year’s experience with testimonials.

Plastering, electrics, bathrooms, carpeting etc, call Gary at Playamar Properties Office 952 384 046 (233563)

PROPERTY FOR SALE

PLUMBER for all your plumbing.

Water heaters, bathrooms, tiling. Benalmadena based, travel no problem. Construction work. Glen 669 073 773 CITY AND GUILDS, QUALIFIED PLUMBER. All areas covered. Adrian 677 063 272 30 YEARS ON THE COAST. I cover all aspects of plumbing & general maintenance. Graham 607 923 486 (232110)

PET-COURIERS.COM – If you love your pet try us first – we are the best. Door to door service throughout Europe. Specialised vehicles – bespoke service. Full legal service including documentation if required. For further information call or email us: Tel: (0034) 651 033 670 or (0034) 637 066 227.

Email: info@pet-couriers.com or www.pet-couriers.com (231443)

PLUMBING. Leak detection & blocked drains. Tel 952 568 414 / 661 910 772 / drainspain.com (224404)

PROFESSIONAL SERVICES PRO VENT. Kitchens, Bedrooms, Bathrooms, Windows, Glass Curtains creatively designed and expertly fitted. Visit our showroom in La Cala or call 639 727 188 for a free quotation.

From inspiration to installation www.joebayley.com (228773)

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IF you are special likeminded people and not afraid of a 1km uphill track, read on! All legal, fenced 4,000m2 with large villa.

Swimming pool, detached guest room, double garage.

Interested? Campanillas. €99,000 negotiable. No time wasters 647 776 217 / 639 289 124. (233515) EL FARO, 1 bedroom apartment, private 45m2 garden.

VGC, bright/sunny. West facing.

100,000 euros ono. 603 201 156 (232247) LOS BOLICHES studio. 100 metres from beach. Fully fitted, new wall beds, pool/parking. €110,000. 655 774 112. English/Spanish. No agents (221500)

PLUMBING

STEFANIE’S KENNELS AND CATTERY, Estepona. Fully licensed, Junta approved, est.

1986. Viewing welcomed 952 790 943 www.stefaniesken nels.com (231446) EURODOG BOARDING KENNELS & CATTERY. Under new ownership by animal loving family.

Large kennels and exercise yards, fully licensed and sanitary approved. Safe, secure and caring environment. Inspections welcome anyt ime. 5 minutes from Fuengirola 679 786 669 / 952 464 947 / www.eurodog.es (224322)

ACCOMPANY your pets to their new home. Fully licensed pet transport service. Denise www.petchauffeur.eu 952 197 187 / 696 233 848 info@petchauffeur.eu (230658) PET TRANSPORTATION by road. Fully DEFRA/OCA/TRACES compliant. Complete service by professional licensed kennels.

630 197 435 www.cat-and-dogworld.com (226428)

CAT AND DOG WORLD KENNELS AND CATTERY, superb licensed facilities, viewing welcome. Tel: 952 112 978 / 630 197 435. www.cat-and-dogworld.com (223161)

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PET TRANSPORT

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WWW.INMOANDALUZ.COM is always looking for realistically priced inland properties to sell to our interested buyers. Tel 952 491 609 / 685 514 835 (220102) MARBELLA BANUS, 2 & 1 bedrooms, big, elegant, sunny, fully equipped, private garden or views, gardens & comm. pool & parking. Owner +34 637 439 222 (232204) WWW.INMOANDALUZ.COM. Bargain inland properties for all budgets, fincas, village homes, apartments and villas. Legal building plots.

952 491 609 / 685 514 835 (220102)

CALAHONDA, Mijas Costa. Studio in urbanisation Medina del Zoco, ground floor with private garden, pool, next to shopping centre. €55,000. 626 248 132 (233652)

PROP MANAGEMENT ARE you considering renting your property for Holiday rentals? Need to make your holiday home pay? Competitive property management, rental income guaranteed.

Tel Jason 607 681 232 (223748)

PROPERTY TO LET BENALMADENA. One bedroom granny apartment. Garden, parking space. Retired couple with secure pension only. Tel 605 978 203 (234472)

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MIJAS, three bedroom townhouse, pool, garage, 700€. 661 903 526 (236023) LONG TERM RENTALS. Super prices, no commission. Apartments, townhouses, villas, fincas, shops, offices, bars, restaurants, warehouses, industrial estates. Coast & inland. Tlf 679 111 522 (223676) ESTEPONA. A del Carmen, apartamento soleado con vistas al mar. Amueblado, 3 dormitorios, 2 baños, comedor, terraza, piscina, garaje. Alquileres de temporada media €550/semana.

618 999 231 / 951 161 000 (236227) FOUR bed townhouse, fully furnished. 15 mins from Fuengirola station. Pueblo La Campana, Mijas. 550 euros monthly + deposit. 0044 7949 589539 / lon donangels@hotmail.com (226977)

PROPERTY WANTED

RURAL house with land. 3 or 4 bedrooms, rental with option to buy. 603 188 134 (232144) ALL types of properties required for long term rentals in the areas of Torreblanca, La Cala de Mijas, Mijas Costa, Riviera del Sol, Calahonda & Elviria. Clients urgently waiting. www.atlantispmr.com / rental@atlantispmr.com / 952 933 870 / 677 114 989 (233666) WANTED 4/5 bed villa or rural house, pool, garden, parking, furn/unfurnished, for B&B organisation: alegranzabb@gmail.com (236069)

REMOVALS/STORAGE

NATIONAL / INTERNATIONAL EUROPA SPECIALIST. Combitrans Movers. 952 775 300 www.combitrans.es (232102) USA SPECIALIST Combitrans Movers.

952 775 300 www.combitrans.es (232102) STORAGE SPECIALIST. Combitrans Movers. 952 775 300 www.combitrans.es (232102) LOCAL and INTERNATIONAL SPECIALIST. Combitrans Movers.

952 775 300 www.combitrans.es (232102)

PROFESSIONAL LOCAL REMOVALS AT AFFORDABLE RATES. 1/2 DAY FROM €90.

FULL DAY FROM €175. WE ALSO PROVIDE A FORTNIGHTLY DOOR TO DOOR SERVICE TO UK AND EUROPE (INCL SCOTLAND).

WORLDWIDE SHIPPING TO USA, AUSTRALIA, ETC AND FULL STORAGE FACILITIES. TEL (0034) 952 578 507 OR (0034) 637 892 278 / EMAIL garymoveit@yahoo .co.uk (226396) JDS EURO TRANSPORT. Email: jdstransport@outlook.com / 0034 637 066 114 / 0044 7884 908929 (231495) 15 CUBIC metre van returning to the UK 10th April. Space available each way. Tel. 639 928 090 (231470) MOVING BACK TO UK? Removal vehicle departing weekly throughout the year. Excellent, professional service & great rates. Ring (0034) 665 089 244 or (0044) 01922 682 667 & see www.elite-european.com (93139) UK - SPAIN - Anywhere Europe! Masses of experience.

New clean vehicles. Insured with Royal Sun Alliance.

Genuinely CARING service.

FULL and / Part moves. ONLINE QUOTES!! www.bm ceuropean.com Tel: UK 08456 443 784 / ES 634 344 787 FIND US ON FACEBOOK! (207584) MOVING MATTERS SL – removals and storage. Local or to and from the UK/Ireland/Portugal and across Europe. Over 16 years experience. For free quotation Tel 951 311 118. www.movingmatters.eu (232076) INTERNATIONAL and European Removals.

Expert removals worldwide. www.universalremovals.com.

Tel: 951 247 834 / +44 (0)203 128 7007 (231488) HIGH top van going from Spain to UK and return. Good rates.

Reliable service. Call Graham 620 353 594 for details. vgcasa color@gmail.com (228789)

MAN AND VAN VAN AND MAN. Removals, clearances. Experienced and 100% reliable. €20 per hr. Paul 622 793 989 (220139) MANVAN REMOVALS €20 / hour, 3 vans available. House clearances. Storage from €10 / week. Tel David 696 810 618 (208088) 2 MEN, Van €30 hour. Always on time 651 081 610 (233572) THE VAN MAN. Cheap and cheerful. €20 per hour. 677 251 025 (230382) LARGE Luton van and man, 20€ ph. Kevin 628 993 995 (236067)

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STORAGE REMOVAL BOXES Large, med, wardrobe, bubble wrap, tape, collect or delivered. Local and international removals also undertaken. 952 239 110 / 632 702 306 (44093) FIRST MONTH €1. Packing materials. Self storage Marbella.

952 811 311 (229188) EXCELLENT storage rates available short and long term, call 952 816 582 or email move@freinternational.com (224878)

ROLLER SHUTTERS ROLLER shutter repairs, 7 days a week, conversion from manual to motorised, new installations. All areas covered. Coast and inland. 655 825 931 (231472) ACE OF SHADES - PERSIANA (security shutter) electric and manual, various colours available including wood effect, we also offer a repair service. Make your home more secure! Tel: 951 273 254 / 671 732 204 / info@aceofshades.es (101730)

SERVICES

CARPENTRY CARPENTER cabinet maker, Irish. Property maintenance, plumbing, painting, electrical, kitchens. Bathrooms renovated etc. 30 years experience. Very reliable. 677 087 575 (224853)

FURNITURE FRENCH POLISHING REPAIRS, restoration etc. restore your valuable furniture to its former glory. Tel 647 579 519 / 952 119 190 (224373)

WINDOW COIN WINDOWS Aluminium windows, Doors, PVC Blinds, Mosquito screens, Canopies, Glass Factory, shower screens etc. All at village prices. Spanish owned business. English 646 066 351 (231451)

SEWING ALL STYLES Curtains, upholstery, soft furnishings and bean bags made to measure. Sensible prices. Also repairs / alterations. All areas. Call 672 800 887 or email judeinspain@hot mail.com (231463)

SIGNS & DESIGNS GET YOUR BUSINESS NOTICED with new Signs. LED, Neon, Illuminated, Banners, Vehicles, A-Boards, Printed / Embroidered Workwear www.signstudiospain.com 952 796 299 / 639 133 135 (226429) SHOP signs, vehicle signs, banners, window signs, 952 930 547, 603 464 582, www.signdsign1.com (229351)

SITUATIONS VACANT FOR IMMEDIATE START, great earnings, sociable hours in Fuengirola’s busiest adult relax apartment. No weekends, excellent conditions, all enquiries answered in English. Please call 671 354 218 Monday to Friday.

Thank you!

(230263) THAI/ASIAN Live-in Carer required Marbella area. 604 173 385 (233686) Il nous reste 2 postes! Vous êtes commercial, faites preuve de ténaticté, d´énergie et avez envie de gagner de l´argent?

Une opportunité incroyable pour le bon candidat. Contacteznous : envoyez votre CV ou tout simplement un numéro de contact à info@online-m.com.

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STORAGE STORAGE - Large warehouses containers. Dry and secure €50 per month. Professional packing and removal service. www.dfeu ropeanremovals.co.uk. Tel David 696 810 618 (229074) STORAGE in Coin (La Trocha). New 6m containers, 35m3 @ €21.50pw + IVA. Secure, watertight and drive right up to your unit.

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Big cats, leaps and bounds - the beauty of the Jaguar 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 in recent years, Jaguar lovers of all ages are looking to share their appreciation of the Big Cats in more ways than just buying the latest magazine.

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EXPANDING: The Jaguar Enthusiasts’ Club Spain.

Enthusiasts Club steps up to the mark. They provide a wonderful atmosphere of

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

The Jaguar Enthusiasts’ Club Spain is expanding.

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

Eric Arnold, the president for JEC Spain has asked

Philip Wray, the proud owner of a Convertible XK8, to head up the division. Their inaugural meeting will be at the Hotel Rural AlmaZara in Frigliana, Nerja, on April 19.

So if you have a Jaguar, or would like to see some, or just become an enthusiast, contact Philip Wray for more details on: 669 434 457 or email him at: JEC.CostaDelSol@gmail.com

McLaren launches its Sports 570S coupé MCLAREN has announced that the first model to be launched in its Sports Series family will be called the 570S Coupé. This V8 powered, carbon fibre structured two-seated monster, will show its beautiful yet aerodynamically optimised form for the first time in less than a week when it debuts at the New York International Auto Show.

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A gala ceremony for golfers From back page During the tournament, players, guests and spectators were kept amused with a large variety of entertainment and daily excursions. The title sponsor HYLA welcomed all guests with an air purifier and humidifier as a gift, as well as a glass of cava in the VIP lounge of the member’s area.

A great closing gala and awards ceremony on Saturday evening finished the tournament.

Don Jose Antonio Mena Castilla, mayor of Benahavis, and Wayne Madden

Kane is very Vettel, Rossi Tony Matthews

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

WORLD TOURNAMENT: Players pose in front of Villa Padierna. from the United States, the Past President of the Lions Foundation, were some of the many VIP guests. The main sponsors were honoured with a trophy and named it.

At the prize-giving all players welcomed the designer trophies from David Marshall, and Ivo Giner from Barcelona became the hero of the night, by giving the Mercedes Smart for Two, back to the or-

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ganisation which was then promptly auctioned for a substantial amount by the sponsor Walter Fischer of Fimmo Car Gallery.

A special thanks goes to the title sponsor HYLA and the main sponsors Societe Generale Hambros, community Benahavis, Fimmo Car Gallery, First Class Travel, community Estepona, Costa del Sol Malaga Patriconado de Turismo, Junta de Andalucia

departamento de Turismo, Mara Collection, Alejandro Hermann, Yamaia fashion and other sponsors and helpers.

All participants are looking forward to the next Lions Golf World Championship 2016 in Taiwan.

Visit www.lionsgolf.info.

Winner: 1st prize from the three categories Sandor Ildiko HUN, Robert Simmeth GER, Gary Foertsch USA.

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Diary of Events • Football: PL action returns over Easter with Arsenal-Liverpool, Chelsea-Stoke, Crystal Palace-Manchester City, Manchester United-Aston Villa and the Tyne-Wear derby, Sunderland-Newcastle. The top Championship games are Derby-Watford, IpswichBournemouth and Nottingham Forest-Wolves on tomorrow, followed by Bournemouth-Birmingham, Huddersfield-Ipswich, Watford-Middlesbrough and

Wolves-Leeds on Monday. In FL1, we have BarnsleySheffield United, PrestonRochdale and Swindon-MK Dons first and then Bradford City-Preston and Bristol CitySwindon on Monday. Burton Albion play two big FL2 matches in 72 hours against Wycombe and Plymouth Argyle. The 6th round FA Cup replay between Blackburn

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‘able’, so too are and the Aussies!

SEBASTIAN VETTEL: Won the Malaysian Grand Prix.

Rovers and Liverpool will take place on April 8.

• Golf: The US Masters takes place at Augusta between April 9 - 12.

• Horse Racing: The 2016 Grand National at Aintree is on April 11.

• Boat race: The annual Cambridge-Oxford Varsity race is also scheduled for April 11.

• Cricket: The threematch Test series between the West Indies and England (with new bowling coach Ottis Gibson) starts on April 13.

• Motor Sport: The next F1 Grand Prix in China and the second MotoGP of 2016 in the USA, are both on April 12.

Round Up: • Spurs’ striker Harry Kane scored after just 79 seconds of his England debut in last Friday’s 4-0 Euro 2016 qualifying win over Lithuania in front of 82,536 fans at Wembley. England remain unbeaten in Group E. • Sebastian Vettel won the Malaysian Grand Prix, Ferrari’s first F1 victory since 2013.

DID YOU KNOW? Steven Gerrard’s red card, 38 seconds after half-time during the Liverpool-Manchester United game last month, was NOT the fastest in PL history.

That record goes to Arsenal’s Jason Crowe, who saw ‘red’ after only 13 seconds versus Birmingham City in 1997.

• The first MotoGP of the year in Qatar was won by Valentino Rossi (his 109th victory of his career).

• Australia (186-3) won cricket’s World Cup final for the fifth time.

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Lauro Bowls, first time as champions

LAURO Bowls Club have become Lions League Champions for the first time.

Having had a mediocre first half of the season, they came good in the second half by taking the title with one match to go.

The club selector’s decision to keep the teams (whenever possible) the same for the entire season, proved to be the secret which led to some very consistent bowling.

In his first year as club captain, Trevor Burgin said, “He was delighted with this year’s results, both in the leagues, and open competitions.”

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World championship DURING the gala ceremony at Villa Padierna Palace Hotel, 240 guests from all over the world were welcomed to the Lions Golf World Championship 2015.

The president of the Lions Foundation Barry Palmer from Australia, received a check for €70,000, from all sponsor’s income. In his speech, he thanked the

PRIZE: A Smart car for the winner.

organisers of the tournament: Dr. Volker Bern-

hardt, Luis Dominguez Calderon and Tobias Hey-

den. He announced that the Lions Foundation would double the amount, and thus a total of €140,000 would now be available to help eliminate the terrible measles disease worldwide.

With this amount, approximately 150,000 children can be vaccinated to prevent blindness or death.

One hundred and fifty golfers from 30 different nations played two practice rounds at Villa Padierna Golf Resort, followed by three tournament days on the three golf courses.

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