Euro Weekly News - Axarquia 19 - 25 November 2015 Issue 1585

ISSUE NO. 1585

19 - 25 November 2015

AXARQUĂ?A - COSTA TROPICAL YOUR PAPER, YOUR VOICE, YOUR OPINION

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NOT WANTED BUT THE MOST SOUGHT AFTER MAN IN EUROPE Europe is listening now to the deafening silence of the Muslim community. We at the Euro Weekly News (EWN) do not take any political stance; however, we pride ourselves as being a voice of the people.

Of course, our readers understand this is the work of extremists - Muslim extremists.

So we invite all Muslims to walk with us hand in hand to pay your respects to those who were coldbloodedly murdered in vain - lay wreaths and flowers in remembrance of their last fearful minutes.

Cry with pain alongside your neighbours who have lost their loved ones torn apart with bullets sprayed at them by the sadistic

hand of a gleeful terrorist.

Shout from your mosques that this is not in the name of religion and terrorists’ hatred of the western world, which they have infiltrated and which they want to destroy, is now your home and they are not welcome in your place of worship.

Monitor your children and their friends on social media.

Work with us, the majority, if you really want to be European.

Foreigners living in Spain cannot and must not be racist as it would be a contradiction beyond belief but the deafening silence of many of those in the Muslim community, particularly in Europe, is instilling

KEY SUSPECT: Massive manhunt under way.

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UNITY WITH PARIS

Trojans undone

by Greek forces THE Trojans were undone by the Greek forces who left the horse full of troops behind when they appeared to give up after their siege

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The net is tightening HEAVY gunfire was reported from the scene for several hours

of the city.

L e t u s h o p e th at the granting of refugee status to so many people will not be Europe’s Achilles heel.

Terrorists named AS the days pass following the attack on Paris, French authorities are identifying more and more of those responsible for the atrocities.

There are now six named terrorists including Salah Abdeslam, who is on the run and still being hunted by the authorities, and his brother Brahim, who blew himself up.

Jihadi tweets ALTHOUGH agents of ISIS have been well known for manipulating social media, various groups of anti-terrorist hackers have taken to the internet and are rapidly clos-

ing down terrorist twitter and social media accounts.

According to the founder of Kronos Advisory, “a tweeting jihadi is a targetable jihadi.”

PLANNED OPERATION: Police raided Paris apartment in the early morning of November 18.

By John Smith AS part of a planned operation, police raided an apartment in the Paris suburb of StDenis in the early morning of November 18 in the search for Abdelhamid Abaaoud, a Belgian jihadist who is suspected of being a main participant in Friday’s assaults.

Seven people including at least one woman whose identities are not yet known

were arrested during the operation. Another woman who it is believed was a cousin of Abdelhamid Abaaoud, detonated a suicide vest, and a second person, said to be a terrorist was shot and killed by police whilst a bystander was wounded.

At the time of going to press, there were unconfirmed reports that Abdelhamid Abaaoud is the person who was shot.

Heavy gunfire was reported from the

scene for several hours before the arrests were made and at least five police officers were wounded following the explosion whilst a police dog was killed.

It is now believed there was another suspect involved in last week’s massacres in Paris which would bring the total to nine people of which seven are dead and the other two, including Salah Abdeslam are ‘on the run.’

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Offering condolences

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The world unites

William and Kate

COLOURS of the French Tricolor light up iconic landmarks across globe

Match off Picture from Reddit by Mr Finnegan

THE Duke and Duchess of Cambridge signed a book of condolence at the French Embassy in London on November 17, for the people of Paris.

Security threat BELGIUM’s friendly match with Spain on November 17 was cancelled due to security fears in the wake of the Paris attacks.

Mutual defence French statement THE French Government advised the EU on November 17 that in accordance with Article 42.7 of the Lisbon Treaty it wished to invoke the Union’s Mutual Defence Clause in response to the ISIS terror attacks on Paris.

Manhunts France determined

Whilst the Eiffel Tower (centre) remained dark, the world’s iconic buildings showed their true colours.

By John Smith IN the same way that so many people stated ‘Je Suis Charlie’ after the Charlie Hebdo tragedy, city councils and governments around the world decided to show their solidarity with the people of Paris by decorating iconic buildings with the colours of the French Tricolor, blue, white and red.

Whilst the Eiffel Tower may have been plunged into darkness, buildings in every part of the world from Australia to Gibraltar, America to Brazil, Israel to Mexico, Spain to Albania, China to UK, all registered their support.

One of most poignant tributes was the One World Trade Center in

132 innocent people were barbarically murdered

by ISIS on November 13, 2015, in a series of cowardly attacks.

Their deaths have changed the world as we know it forever.

New York City where people still have vivid memories of the 9/11 atrocities.

Perhaps unsurprisingly the demonstrations of support in the Middle East were somewhat less obvious . H ow e ve r, the w orld’s tallest building, Burj Khalifa in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), toge the r w ith the 828-me tre -ta ll building in Dubai, Burj Al Arab the world’s only seven-star hotel and Capital Gate building in the UAE capital Abu Dhabi, were all lit up in the colours of the French flag.

The government of the UAE condemned the attacks on Paris as did official government spokesmen in Iran, Kuwait, Qatar and Saudi Arabia with other Muslim states following suit.

Pianist’s tribute A musical mission

Putin speaks

The pianist, who played a version of Imagine on the street outside the Bataclan, has been identified as 34year-old Davide Martello. He was watching the France v Germany match in Germany when the bombing began at the Stade de France and set off on a 400-mile journey to Paris together with his grand piano.

Denounces terrorists

Quote of the Week Terrorism will not destroy the French Republic because the Republic will destroy it” President Francois Hollande in his speech to both Houses of Parliament following the Paris attacks

Valiant footballers play on for France DESPITE the terrible events on Friday November 13, the French national football team decided that it would not cancel its friendly match with England, due to be held at Wemb-

ley Stadium on the evening of November 17.

Considering that at least one of the suicide bombers actually tried to gain entry to the Stade de France on Friday and then

blew himself up, it is a very brave move of the players and officials to come to England after such a traumatic time.

The cousin of France midfielder Lassana Diarra was one

THE French Prime Minister Manuel Valls in an interview on radio station RTL said that more than 150 searches have taken place across the country in the wake of the terror attacks.

of the 132 people killed in the attacks, while the sister of his team-mate Antoine Griezmann escaped unhurt from the assault on the Bataclan concert hall. So this was to be a very special op-

portunity for the French and English fans to show their support for the people of Paris.

Armed police were present with instructions to shoot to kill in the event of any attack.

A SPOKESMAN for the Kremlin said that in a telegram sent to Francois Hollande on November 14, Russian President Vladimir Putin stated: “This tragedy has become another testimony of terrorism’s barbarity, which poses a challenge to human civilisation.”

Brave guards Heroism praised AS part of an article in the Daily Mail, journalist Piers Morgan reminded readers of the heroism of Muslim security guards at the Stade de France, who stopped suicide bombers from entering and a waiter who saved the lives of two women. Like Piers, we at EWN also hope to see people of all religions work together hand in hand to make a better world not a less tolerant one.

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INFORMATIVE TALK: Senior Citizens’ Councillor and Local Police advised on how to stay safe on the roads.

Back to the classroom for road safety lessons SESSIONS were aimed specifically at senior citizens

By Eleanor Hawkins MORE than 350 senior citizens attended talks on road safety in Velez Malaga last week, aimed at teaching them how to stay safe on the roads.

Senior Citizens’ Councillor Sergio Hijano and Local Police road safety officer Eva Gonzalez attended the final session at the Capuchinos seniors’ centre on Friday

(November 13) and reported on the campaign.

“We’re aware of the need to inform senior citizens and train them up in road safety, teach them what to do in the case of an accident and encourage habits to avoid them happening,” Hijano said.

The activities, held at Velez-Malaga, Torre del Mar, Lagos, Triana and Benajarafe day centres, are part of a multidisci-

plinary project run by the council department, Local Police and health centres.

“The talks teach people of the need for drivers, passengers and pedestrians to stay safe and even include a coach evacuation drill,” the councillor explained.

Eva Gonzalez said: “It’s very important to get this information out to the public in general and especially groups at particular risk including children and seniors.”

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The Nerja tsunami that never arrived BEACH-GOERS heading for El Playazo in Nerja found their path blocked on Tuesday (November 17) by a Local Police officer ordering them to leave the beach due

to a tsunami alert. The alert, for waves of up to 1.5 metres, was put out based on information from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration following an

earthquake registering 6.1 on the Richter Scale in Greece earlier in the morning.

The forecast was later reduced to waves of just 20 centimetres.

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Alleged bag thieves arrested

Five treated after flat fire WOMAN has admitted responsibility

By Eleanor Hawkins

FOUR youths aged betw een 1 6 a n d 1 9 h av e been arrested by the National Police in Motril over a bag-snatching incident.

An 80-year-old woman and her husband phoned the police to report that w hile t h e y we r e o u t w alkin g , a y o u t h h ad grabb e d t h e wo m a n ’s handb a g a n d a l m o s t knocked her over before leaping into a car where anoth e r t h r e e y o u th s were waiting and speeding off.

After searching the area police officers arrested the four suspects and t h e c a se h a s b e e n handed over to be dealt with by the courts.

FIVE people were injured in Velez-Malaga on Sunday (November 15) when a woman tried to commit suicide by setting fire to her flat.

Emergency services were alerted at 4.10pm and Local and National Police officers, firefighters and ambulance teams were sent to the block of 16 flats, all of which had to

be evacuated.

The woman, who later admitted that she had lit the fire on purpose, had to be taken to Axarquia hospital for her burns to be treated, as did a National Police officer. Another three Local Police officers required medical attention after inhaling large amounts of smoke.

Residents from the other flats were allowed home after the fire was put out.

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POLICE CAR: Ended up in a ditch after swerving to avoid being rammed by the car.

Police in car chase MAN was charged with a number of offences

By Eleanor Hawkins A LOCAL youth has been arrested following a dangerous police chase through the streets of La Herradura, Almuñecar police have reported.

Local Police officers and a Guardia Civil patrol were sent to a local pub after receiving calls stating two people were causing damage, but by the time they arrived the suspects had driven away.

Armed with descriptions of the men and the car provided by witnesses, officers began to search the area. While the Local Police officers found one of the two outside his nearby home, the Guardia Civil informed them they had found the

other, 22-year-old suspect, but he had sped away.

A long car chase ensued, first through local streets and then along the N340 road. During the chase, the Local Police car ended up in a ditch after having to swerve to avoid being rammed by the car, which was speeding, driving on the wrong side of the road and ignoring stop signs, the police later reported.

Eventually the man, found by a breathalyser test to have been drinking, was caught and taken to the Guardia Civil barracks in Almuñecar, where he was charged with a number of offences including resisting arrest, threats and dangerous driving.

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Two are arrested for violence in one week WOMAN was taken to a medical centre for professional evaluation

By Eleanor Hawkins A WOMAN from La Herradura was arrested last week for suspected attempted homicide and taken for psychiatric evaluation.

A Local Police patrol was sent to a house where sounds of a fight had been reported and found a 41-year-old man with stab wounds to the back, w h o e x p l a i n e d t o t h e o ff i c e r s t h a t while he was having lunch his 30year-old sister had attacked him with a knife for no apparent reason and then left.

While an ambulance was called to take the man for treatment, the officers found the woman on the street and arrested her before taking her to a medical centre for professional evaluation.

Meanwhile another police patrol had to be sent to another La Herradura home where officers arrested a 37year-old for suspected domestic violence.

LOCAL POLICE: Patrol was sent to a house where a fight had been reported.

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Get signs right council asks ALMUÑECAR Council has approved a motion at its latest plenary session to urge the road authorities to sort out confusing signs and help visitors find their way to La Herradura and Almuñecar without ending up lost and fed up.

While on the Sierra Nevada-Costa Tropical motorway there are no signs at all pointing to Almuñecar, the A7 motorway signs direct visitors to east and west parts of Almuñecar, completely baffling first time visitors who believe

they are coming to a small place and cannot understand why it has so many districts.

Although the area is currently enjoying increased popularity, the number of complaints from tired, annoyed tourists has encouraged the council to try and have the matter resolved before it gains itself a permanent bad name as somewhere hard to get to.

It has therefore, asked west signs to be replaced by La Herradura-Almuñecar and east signs with Almuñecar.

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CAZADORA: Navy ship found the migrants 67 miles south of Motril.

Migrants rescued from Motril seas DINGHY they were crossing in started to sink

By Eleanor Hawkins COASTGUARDS rescued 33 African migrants, four of them female, from 67 miles south of Motril on Friday (November 13) after the dinghy they were trying to cross the Mediterranean in began to sink.

The dinghy was found by the Cazadora

Navy ship, which was called in to join Hamal lifeboat and sea rescue aircraft on the search when the dinghy was reported missing.

The group arrived at Motril port at about 9pm and received first aid and food from the Red Cross on the docks before being taken to a National Police centre, from where the authorities reported they would be sent home again.

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Coach sacked following junior football incident A COACH has been sacked from Union Deportiva Torre del Mar juniors’ football team following violent incidents at a match on Saturday (November 14).

The team was playing Club Deportivo Sierra de Yeguas in Velez Malaga when a goal led to disagreements and a player was given a red card for insulting and threatening the referee. A minute later, a second player was also thrown off the pitch and, the referee complained, tried to attack him and had to be held back by fellow players.

Following a third red card, UD Torre del Mar president Antonio Verdu later reported, nerves got the better of the coach, who also began to insult the referee and chased him off the pitch.

The referee explained that he had called the match off and called the Local Police from the changing room as people continued to threaten and insult

him through the door and he feared for his safety.

The team has decided to replace the coach, stressing it cannot and will not allow that

sort of behaviour from coaches.

“If we do, tomorrow it will be the players chasing referees.

They have to give a good example,” Verdu said.

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Getting rid of traffic unit sparks complaints from police officers LOCAL Police officers are up in arms in Nerja over a decision by the council to get rid of the town’s traffic police unit.

Rosa Arrabal, Mayor and Councillor for the Local Police force, UGT trades union has complained, has announced a measure to get rid of the unit, which had been in place since 2006 and she announced she would be ditching during her electoral campaign.

As soon as they heard the news, UGT reported, officers asked for a meeting with the

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mayor and presented her with reports proving there had been fewer traffic offences in the town since the unit’s creation, yet it didn’t seem to be enough to change her mind.

The council has reported that the change responds to a need to make the most of available resources without reducing the quality of service provided to local citizens.

The unit was created in 2006 and consisted of eight of the 45 officers the local force had at the time.

WOODS OF LIFE: The campaign aims to plant a tree for every baby born at Santa Ana Hospital.

By Eleanor Hawkins MOTRIL’S Woods of Life will be gaining 55 new trees this weekend, the council has announced.

On Sunday 22, parents of 55 babies born at Santa Ana Hospital over the last three months will be gathering at Charca Suarez. There, they will plant trees accompanied by plaques bearing their

babies’ names as part of the One Tree, One Life environment campaign launched by Motril Council in September 2006.

Following the event, which will be concentrating on planting trees by Las Algaidas industrial estate, the Woods of Life will have a total of 831 trees. These are slowly but surely forming a protective screen against acoustic contamination, Environmental Councillor Antonio

Escamez has reported.

Parents, both from Motril and other areas of the Costa Tropical and La Alpujarra, are informed by hospital staff of the campaign and those who want to join in are provided with a form to complete and post in a box at the hospital during their stay. They can also send it straight to the council department by post or email after they go home, Escamez explained.

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Mayor visits new fire station in Almuñecar PROJECT finally finished, fulfilling a promise made in June 2014

TRINIDAD HERRERA: Mayor missed the official inauguration for personal reasons.

By Eleanor Hawkins ALMUÑECAR Mayor Trinidad Herrera went on a visit to the town’s new fire station yesterday (Wednesday 18) to make up for having missed the official inauguration at the end of October for

personal reasons.

The mayor, accompanied by Citizens Safety Councillor Juan Jose Ruiz Joya and fire chief Antonio Ortuño, was given a tour of the new premises and said: “The council has fulfilled the promise it made in June 2014.”

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Shopping spree for free IN March, one lucky Rincon de la Victoria shopper will be able to go on a free shopping spree thanks to the town’s Golden Client (Cliente de Oro) campaign, running from December 4 to February 29.

Launched by the council’s Local Busi-

ness Development department and ACERV business association, the campaign aims to boost business for local shops over the Christmas, January sales and Valentine’s Day periods by giving shoppers tickets to enter a draw for €6,000 shopping spree.

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The connection that exists between terrorism and immigration AFTER the Paris attacks we have to face the fact that the world is becoming more precarious with Islamic groups seeking to vent their anger at the West Peter Fieldman London-born journalist and author, Peter spends his time between Paris and Madrid. His novel ‘1066 The Conquest’ available on Amazon or www.1066TheConquest.com

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THE massacre in Paris perpetrated by what seems to be a highly professional and ruthless group of terrorists, prepared to die for their cause, whatever it is, has possibly signalled the end of Europe’s open-border policy.

The tragedy overshadowed the conference in Malta which was intended to deal with the growing problem of massive illegal immigration from Africa, the Middle East and Asia.

It is still unclear whether the terrorists joined the thousands of migrants from Turkey or Libya to infiltrate Western Europe, or are what has become described as ‘home-grown’ terrorists. But we have to face the fact that the world is becoming more precarious with Islamic groups seeking to vent their anger at the West with increasingly violent actions.

France has Europe’s largest Muslim population with five million people mainly of North African origin. Yet the majority, now second or third generation, still live in the poorest suburbs in segregated communities, unwilling or unable to join mainstream French society. Successive governments have to bear some responsibility for a lack of integration programmes and discrimination but it is also due to restrictive Islamic laws and culture, which make the western lifestyle so hard to accept for Muslims who follow their faith. Many disillusioned young people are an easy target for radical Islamic groups.

With a global population reaching eight billion people, of whom the vast majority live in poverty or in countries racked by conflict in an ever more interconnected planet, Europe’s immigration policies need rethinking. Demographics may suggest that the western democracies need immigrants, but it is becoming increasingly apparent that Western Europe cannot cope with an influx of millions of refugees or illegal immigrants from Africa, the Middle East and Asia with totally different cultures, laws and traditions. Angela Merkel, who with David Cameron admitted that the multicultural society does not work, has opened up a Pandora’s box with her invitation to welcome millions of migrants and the deep divisions she has caused within the European Union, have threatened its very survival. Britain must now consider the introduction of ID cards not on-

LAYING TRIBUTES: Flowers and candles left at one of the targeted restaurants in Paris.

ly to facilitate identifying illegal immigrants and potential terrorists but to protect the population.

Providing humanitarian assistance is a longstanding European tradition. It is natural to offer temporary right of abode to genuine refugees until it is safe for them to return to their own countries.

But today’s illegal economic migrants, including refugees, are not seeking charity but expecting to remain forever with passports, nationality, homes and jobs. And if the migrants and their families

cannot go where they want to go, instead of being grateful, they revolt. In addition most of the current wave of immigrants tends to be of Muslim origin, which poses the problem of integration as well as the threat of more terrorist attacks.

The world is now facing a major conflict with ISIS and to try to prevent this scenario we need more involvement from the United Nations and co-operation among the rich countries. There has to be a consensus to work together to help the

poor nations eradicate corruption, armed conflicts, the exploitation of resources and, where possible, remove despotic regimes in order to encourage education and economic development, and improve the standard of living of the population. This may be difficult to achieve in an ever more volatile and precarious world, but there can be no peace, stability or prosperity without a redistribution of the world’s resources and the elimination of gross inequality and poverty.

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Two new leaders for town band RINCON de la Victoria’s municipal band has been taken over by two new leaders, the council’s culture department has announced.

Adrian Ruiz Sanchez and Jose Luis Perez Zambrana, both local musicians who spent time as band members in their early years, will be taking the band back to its origins and once again providing lessons to members and people wishing to join, Culture Councillor Alina Caravaca has reported.

Rehearsals will still be at the public library from 89.30pm on Tuesdays and 910.30pm on Fridays, and lessons will be earlier on Friday evenings and on Saturday mornings.

Due to the changes the members of the band have decided to suspend a concert they were due to give this Saturday, November 21.

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Councillor returns to Almuñecar role EVA GAITAN left the Partido Andalucista party in September

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Cleaning up PEST control and disinfection tasks are being carried out at dog parks at Serrezuela in Torre de Benagalbon, Las Viñas and Huerta Julian in Rincon de la Victoria and Calle Bergantin in La Cala del Moral.

Cabbies vote MARCOS Corral Ruiz is the new president of Almuñecar’s taxi-drivers’ association. He will be replacing Antonio Joya Valero in the post and attempting to improve services for customers and conditions for drivers.

NO POLITICAL ATTACHMENTS: Eva Gaitan will run the Citizens’ Participation Department.

By Eleanor Hawkins EVA GAITAN, who had been a councillor in Almuñecar since June 2007 but left the Partido Andalucista party in September, has rejoined the council team with no attachments to any particular political group.

Gaitan, the council has announced, will be running the Citizens’ Participation Department and dealing with New Technologies and Administrative Organisation matters, which include relations with local residents and groups, and implementing new computer systems.

Local Mayor Trinidad Herrara remarked: “The important thing about this news is that it completes a good council team which represents just about every view. We have put aside our differences as our town deserves a stable governing team, so all forces are going to work together.”

Temp work MORE than 300 people from Motril will get two weeks’ work in February after a rural employment scheme was approved by the council. It will be running until March.

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Beach funds approved THE government has approved emergency aid to repair beaches damaged by recent storms.

Malaga Province will receive €1,027,000 for emergency reinforcement and improvement work. The Environment State Secretary and the Director of Sustainability of the Coasts and the Sea have also authorised the amount.

The funds are to be used for beach reinforcement and repairs, and are not for the councils. The stormy weather subjected the beaches to excessive flooding, damaging promenades, restaurants and other infrastructure.

Individuals will not have access to these funds. Instead, they must go through their insurance companies, and will be paid by the Compensation Consortium.

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Lobby the House of Lords for vote to get your feelings know

THERE is still time to make sure your voice is heard and readers are also urg

By John Smith IN our last article about the right to vote in the EU Referendum, we concentrated on Downing Street and the House of Commons, but there are other ways of getting your feelings known in Parliament and this is via the House of Lords.

Thirteen former ambassadors have warned that billions of pounds in trade deals and millions of jobs are at risk if Britain leaves the EU. In a letter to The Sunday Times on November 1, they said those who want to leave have ‘no credibility’ and are ‘naive’ if they think Britain will be able to quickly strike a better free trade deal with the EU, or new ones with countries such as America and China.

The letter was arranged by Lord Hannay of Chiswick, former ambassador to the UN, and Lord Kerr of Kinlochard, former ambassador to America and the EU. In fact, Lord Hannay and Baroness Sue Miller were due to propose amendments to the Referendum Bill to ensure all British citizens would have a vote in the EU Referendum, regardless of how long they have lived abroad.

It is still possible for readers to do something; the options are: 1. Please complete the questionnaire by the New Europeans. The aim is to gather feedback from both overseas and UK voters concerning the franchise for the EU Referendum. The information gathered will be collated and pro-

vided to back up lobbying efforts by New Europeans, the Votes for Expat Brits campaign, and other organisations https://www.surveymonkey.co m/ r/93ZG6N9.

2. Lobby a Lord. The EU

Referendum Bill is in committee stage, first and second readings having taken place.

Peers have introduced amendments and these have to be accepted for further debate at report stage. Only if an accepted

amendment passes at report stage will it be debated in the House of Commons.

The committee is continuing to scrutinise the process of negotiation and reform leading up to the

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ged to sign the Downing Street petition referendum in the context of its new inquiry into ‘Visions of EU reform’, and invites responses to its call for evidence by November 30, 2015.

Go to: www.parliament.uk/mpslords-and-offices/lords/.

In the first search option box select ‘Policy Interest’.In the second select ‘Parliament, Government and Politics’.Choose a likely peer. It is important that many mails reach Baroness Anelay, as Government spokesperson for the Bill. Equally, the spokespeople for Labour and the Lib Dems: Baroness Morgan of Ely and Lord Wallace of Saltaire.

Please send to several members (especially Conservatives).

You can simply copy and paste the following. Remember mailings must go one by one.

Dear Baroness Anelay (or your chosen peer) Subject: The EU Referendum Bill The current EU Referendum Bill excludes UK citizens who have lived overseas for more than 15 years from the franchise. The EU Referendum will directly and seriously affect the personal and professional status of these UK citizens in an immediate way and they should have a say. Please support any amendment to that effect and ensure that it is debated at the Report Stage, and urge the Government to accept a positive outcome.

The referendum seemed a long way away not so long ago, but currently there is a great deal of speculation that if David Cameron can persuade the other EU members to agree to the bulk of his required changes, he may well bring the vote forward to the summer of 2016, so action needs to be taken sooner rather than later.

Also, the Downing Street petition has not attracted enough signatures as yet and all who believe that the Government should debate the removal of voting rights after 15 years residence outside of the UK are urged to sign the petition at https://petition.parliament. uk/petitions/111271.

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Eye candy MISTER World Andalucia East, Pablo Doña from Nerja, has been on an official visit to Nerja Town Hall and later posed for photos on Balcon de Europa with runners-up Lorenzo Humanez and Alberto Garcia.

Police merits THREE Guardia Civil officers from Almuñecar were among a group of officers from Granada who were rewarded with medals for civil and civil protection merits at a ceremony in Sevilla.

Sprucing up

HUGE RISK: Former ambassadors have warned trade deals and millions of jobs are at risk if Britain leaves EU.

SALOBREÑA’S environmental department has announced a new municipal cleaning campaign. Work will be done on a particular sector of town each week to create a cleaner, more attractive town.

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Early spring cleaning A CAMPAIGN has started in Almuñecar and La Herradura to clean the almost 8,000 palm trees across their streets, promenades and beaches, the council has reported.

“This year, we are using municipal staff to do the maintenance work. We’re starting off in the busiest areas and will gradually be covering the whole town,” the Enviromental

councillor reported.

Apart from looks, safety is also a factor as mature trees shed seeds which make a mess and can cause falls, the council explained.

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Local parks get some improvement works ANOTHER €9,000 has been spent putting up fencing

By Eleanor Hawkins RINCON de la Victoria’s Environmental department has been concentrating on sorting out local parks over recent weeks and has also officially opened a new park on Calle Arroyo de Totalan in La Cala del Moral.

Altogether €43,000 has been spent to complete the new 500sqm park which had been left unfinished by the previous council and includes a children’s playground and exercise apparatus for adults, department head Jose Maria Gomez said.

Improvement work has also been done in El Rosario park, La Cala del Moral, where €14,000 has been spent on safety fences, replacing an old wooden staircase with a concrete one and cutting trees back. Another €9,000 has been spent putting up fencing, finishing pathways and removing rubbish at Parque de Los Almendros in Rincon.

NEW PARK: In Calle Arroyo de Totalan, La Cala del Moral.

Encouraging a healthy lifestyle LOCAL secondary students are taking part in a healthy lifestyle circuit with activities to teach them how to improve their physical and emotional health. More than 680 students from Almenara, Juan de la Cierva and Reyes Catolicos schools in

Velez-Malaga and Joaquin Lobato, Maria Zambrano and Miraya del Mar schools in Torre del Mar will be visiting the circuits at the indoor stadiums in Velez-Malaga on Thursday (November 19) and Friday (November 20).

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Stolen property found by police A NUMBER of stolen motorbikes have been recovered by the Almuñecar Local Police force.

The first was found in an area near Paseo San Cristobal. A patrol noticed a motorbike parked between Rio Seco and Almuñecar Playa hotel and upon checking its registration found it had been reported stolen.

Then another two motorbikes were spotted half-concealed near the river and officers saw signs they could have been stolen. After checking databases they found that the motorbikes had indeed been reported missing and returned all three to their owners.

Investigations continue in an attempt to track down the thieves.

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Velez association helps fix benches BENCHES all over VelezMalaga are going to be repaired thanks to an agreement between the council and a local association for the disabled.

Asprovelez association contacted the council’s parks and gardens department recently, department head Marcelino Mendez-Trelles reported, and offered to help out, explaining that its nine members that work in the woodwork shop at the centre could make the boards needed to fix the benches.

The council has drawn up a list of benches that require attention, and the association has also offered to help with other carpentry tasks.

Asprovelez is an association for the mentally disabled which has 60 members, 33 of whom carry out tasks at the centre’s carpentry, sewing and upholstery workshops.

Nine members, under the supervision of a monitor, will be contributing to work on the benches.

Buying back a piece of cultural heritage VELEZ-MALAGA has signed an agreement to buy Las Claras Monastery back from Conclave Nostrum society and intends to renovate it for cultural use under the EDUSI urban development plan.

Urban plan councillor Maria Jose Roberto said: “We’re recovering an emblematic building which was always considered to belong to Velez and will put it to use for cultural activities for local residents.”

REPRESENTATIVES: Met more than 300 travel agents to discuss what Almuñecar has to offer.

Almuñecar sells itself extremely well up north TRIP was part of 2015’s promotional campaign

By Eleanor Hawkins LAST week’s promotional trip to Valencia, Alicante and Murcia with the Andalucian Tourism Board went very well for Almuñecar, reported local tourism department director Felipe Puertas.

The three-day trip was part of the local department’s 2015 promotion campaign and allowed representatives to meet more than 300 travel agents from the area, who were given detailed information on what Almuñecar has to offer.

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Motril photography competition launched THE best shot will win €500

By John Smith TOURISM Councillor for Motril Alicia Crespo has announced a tourist photography competition entitled Motril es la sensacion (Motril causes a sensation) with a prize of €500.

She said the aim of the competition was to “promote tourism through photographs representing the uniqueness of our city and its resources. The work will be used to promote the destination online and in leaflets and advertising material.”

She added: “The winning photo chosen to promote Motril will have to seduce us and awaken an interest in everyone who looks at it and make us stand out from other destinations in an attractive way while showing the essence of our tourism resources.”

SEDUCE US! Councillor Alicia Crespo urges.

The competition is open to everyone aged 18 and over and photographs need to be delivered to the Tourism Office, ei-

In the swim for Nerja seniors ACTIVITIES for senior c itiz e ns ha ve c omme nc e d a t the indoor pool in Nerja.

So fa r, 198 pe ople have signed up to take part, the council has reported.

Se niors C ounc illor Patricia Gutierrez Roman and Sports Councillor aCristina Fernandez Pinto w e lc ome the s e niors to their first lesson on Monday (November 16).

The y a pologis e d to the group for the delays e xpe rie nc e d this ye a r due to ongoing repairs to the municipal pool building.

ther in person or by post, no later than December 15.

Further information from: www.motrilturismo.com.

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Gender violence lessons PREVENTING gender violence is the aim of a series of talks launched at Salobreña schools for children aged 11 to 16.

The first activity, Violence Through Music, for sixth year primary pupils, began at San Juan de Avila school in La Caleta and is joined by others including The Myths of Romantic Love for fourth year secondary students and Whatsapping Against Violence for third year students, the council’s Equality department announced.

The evemts are being run by the Asociacion Mujeres Politologas, which has been providing training in gender and equal opportunity matters since 2000.

Fighting fruit theft through vigilance FOLLOWING yet another fruit theft, this time of 500 kilos of custard apples from a farm in Motril, Granada’s Professional Agricultural Organisation (COAG) has pledged to step up the fight against fruit thieves.

The organisation has warned farmers of an increased risk during the custard apple campaign as prices have risen, meaning the fruit is more tempting to thieves, and urged them to keep an eye out and contact the authorities if they

see anything suspicious or have anything stolen.

Companies that buy the fruit have also been urged to demand proof of where the produce came from and to check it or risk being charged for receiving stolen goods.

Although fewer thefts have been reported since Roca unit police patrols were put into place in the countryside, there are currently just 14 officers in Granada Province assigned to these tasks and COAG insists more are needed.

Volunteering for the civil protection unit NERJA’S Civil Protection group has announced that it will be accepting applications for volunteers to join the group until December 11.

People aged over 18 who wish to join up are invited to collect application forms from the Civil Protection headquarters at Calle Carabeo 80 in the mornings or to email proteccioncivil@nerja.es.

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Compensation must come first for Marbella homeowners

By Linda Hall

SENATE VOTE: Maura Hillen, Phil Smalley, Antonio Vilela and Gerardo Vazquez.

MALLORCA

HOMEOWNERS in Marbella whose planning permission is in doubt could be thrown a lifeline.

Maura Hillen is president of Almeria-based AUAN which has fought the corner of owners who purchased homes that turned out to be illegal.

“Thanks to various associations and a PSOE initiative in the Senate the citizens of Marbella have been given a lifeline that they may not know about,” she said.

“This is article 108.3 of the law regulating administrative court proceedings that came into force on October 1.”

This states that when a judge or tribunal orders the demolition of a property that has been declared illegal “sufficient guarantees” of compensation must be provided first.

“Given this,” Maura Hillen said, “we suggest that those affected consult their lawyers.”

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Mud fines

Mallorca support

Roof tile souvenirs

Almeria grieves

FINES could be issued to those responsible for the Mar de Cristal and Los Nietos mud floods that have occurred five times in the last two months. Owners of agricultural land near the Mar Menor, if responsible, will have to paythe costs.

THE main institutions of the Balearic Islands, led by the regional government, held a minute’s silence to condemn terrorist attacks in Paris. They expressed their solidarity towards the victims, their relatives and the whole of France.

THE eighteenth century dome of the Church of Magdalena in Benitatxell has been deteriorating and now the municipality is proposing to restore the roof, at a cost of €102,000, and to sell off the old unique tiles as souvenirs.

HUNDREDS filled the Plaza de las Velas in Almeria City, demonstrating their solidarity with France after the terrorist attacks.

Cleaning map

Men acquitted

ALICANTE residents are asking the town hall to develop a map of hotspots where cleaning needs to be strengthened, such as parks, squares and traffic areas, to improve the image of all the city.

TWO men accused of raping a girl, 15, in the toilets of a bar in Cala d’Or in August 2008 have been acquitted, as there were doubts regarding her statement. The men said one of them had sex with her, but it was consensual.

Water leak AN unexpected water leak sprung up in Calle Vicente Aleixandre in Elche with water pouring on to the street. The pipeline was immediately repaired.

Dynamite found A STASH of dynamite was found at a finca in Ricote, Murcia. The explosives, around 60 years old, were found by an elderly woman in one of the rooms: She said they belonged to her husband who used to carry out explosions in the fields.

Social housing ALICANTE’S Housing Board has put bids in to purchase homes in different districts of the city to use as a social rents. The maximum price for buying a house has been set at €30,000.

New uniforms PALMA firemen have got new ergonomic uniforms which give them more mobility, pioneering security measures and reflective elements to make them more visible.

Cycle lanes THE network of cycle lanes in Palma will be extended before the end of the year with almost a kilometre more between Son Olive and Camp Redo in the Eixample area.

Birthday party A WOMAN from the Forti district of Palma, Antonia Campins, celebrated her 106th birthday with her relatives and a visit from the Mayor, Jose Hila.

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Remembrance Day On November 11, Teulada-Moraira celebrated its first Remembrance Day held at the Iglesia de Nuestra Señora de los Desamparados, the church in Moraira town.

Innovation in the classroom A group of students at the IES García Berlanga have been given tablets as part of a new pilot scheme which has been introduced in an effort to change the method of teaching, increase student motivation and improve the academic results, which have seen high levels of failure in the classroom in recent years.

Getting bigger A BOUTIQUE hotel in Almeria City’s Plaza Vieja where the original town hall is under renovation was granted permission for an extension. The €100,000 project will restore an adjoining 19th century building.

Fish tips ADRA Town Hall will host courses and seminars for the benefit of the fishing industry. The knowledge acquired will enable the local sector to acquire new knowledge and be more competitive

Lucky escape A 52-YEAR-OLD woman was taken to hospital suffering from smoke inhalation after her Villaricos apartment caught fire.

The entire building was evacuated but residents returned within hours.

New access to N-332 Enraged patient The town hall in Calpe, Alicante has acquired land in order to facilitate the building of new roundabouts to access the N-332. The move is in an effort to eliminate one of the most dangerous entrances to the national road.

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A 22-YEAR-OLD A & E patient with toothache attacked a Torrecardenas doctor because he was kept waiting for 20 minutes. He was ‘aggressive and defiant’ as he entered the consulting room, the emergency doctor said afterwards.

Busy month TORREMOLINOS’ tourist information offices registered 18,049 visits in October, 5 per cent more than during the same month last year, the council has reported, and the majority of the visitors were British or Spanish.

Lucky numbers ONE lucky Bonoloto ticket holder in Malaga City won €1,169,826 last week by being the only person in Spain with all six correct numbers.

Rail link request MALAGA, Sevilla, Cordoba and Granada intend to join forces to urge the government to consider linking MalagaCosta del Sol airport to the AVE high-speed train service as it is the most important airport in Andalucia.

Fugitive arrested THE National Police arrested a 46-year-old Portuguese fugitive in Malaga last week.

The man was wanted to serve a two-year jail sentence he was given in November 2009 for armed robbery of a chemists shop in Portugal.

Bikers injured TWO men aged 18 and 20 were injured on Thursday afternoon (November 12) when the motorbike they were riding crashed at kilometre 4 on the road to Istan, Emergency Services reported. No other vehicles were involved.

IBM calling INSA, a Spanish subsidiary of IBM Group, will be moving into space at the PTA technological park in Malaga in December. To start with the company will employ 105 people there but this is expected to increase to 300 by the end of 2016.

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Toddler’s web surfing SWEDEN: It seems Swedish toddlers are big fans of the internet with a survey showing 67 per cent of two-year-olds using the internet; 32 per cent of them on a daily basis. The report also found that 93 per cent of Swedes now have access to the internet.

Gender quiz SWEDEN has come out on top in a new world ranking of attitudes towards gender equality. People from 24 countries were questioned and Finland and Denmark finished in second and third place respectively, with Britain and the US ranked seventh and ninth.

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Donkey beneficiaries LESS money is given to our heroes HEROES are bequeathed less money than donkeys in people’s wills in the UK. The British Legion received £16 million (€22.5 million) last year compared to a donkey sanctuary charity that got £21 million (€29.5 million).

Car choice A HOMELESS woman in north London said she has been sleeping in her Mini with her mother for the past 13 months as she said all council properties offered to them have been “uninhabitable.”

Church rebuild A VANDALISED medieval church in Middlesbrough has been taken apart brick by brick and rebuilt 40 miles away at the Beamish Museum in County Durham.

JACKIE COLLINS: House for sale.

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THE former London home of novelist Jackie Collins, who passed away in September, has gone on sale.

The six-bed mansion has gone on sale for £11.5 million (€16.1 million).

ONLINE retailer Amazon is now offering same day delivery in 14 cities of Germany to its Prime subscribers. Goods will arrive at customers’ homes between 6pm and 9pm if ordered in the morning.

Roof fall chaos CONSTRUCTION of a hotel has forced underground trains to run slow through Berlin’s busy Alexanderplatz station after construction above ground caused a tunnel roof to subside.

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NORWAY: Four of the country’s glaciers have shrunk so much that they can no longer be meaningfully or safely measured. Researchers said they would have to go back to the Viking times, or 2,000 years back to find a climate as warm or glaciers as small.

LUFTHANSA saw 3,700 services cancelled as cabin crew carried out a series of strikes leaving 443,000 passengers unable to get their flights.

Schmidt dies

Angel tour

NORWAY: A strange, purple slime-like substance has emerged off the coast of northern Norway, coating millions of cubic metres of fjord with the substance.

Oceanographers have not identified what it is but say it could be a large group of partially dead jellyfish.

THE French President is calling for answers after reports Germany’s foreign intelligence service spied on France’s Foreign Minister.

President Francois Hollande said it was not the kind of behaviour he expected between friendly countries.

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SWEDEN: Stockholm is one of the fastest growing regions in Europe, with the population expected to grow by 17 per cent in the next nine years.

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NORWAY: Princess Martha Louise has launched an angel tour with fellow spiritualist Elisabeth Nordeng. The princess, fifth in line to the throne, claims to speak with angels and opened her ‘angel school’ in 2007.

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MARK RUTTE: Will represent Britain at a meeting of the European Council.

UK representative steps in A DIARY clash means David Cameron cannot attend PRIME MINISTER Mark Rutte is to represent Britain at a meeting of the European Council to discuss the migration crisis. A ‘diary clash’ means David Cameron will not be able to attend.

DUTCH PRESS confidential information to the media.

Special committee

Laser appeal

THE Dutch Parliament is to set up a special committee to investigate claims that one or more MPs leaked highly

PILOTS have complained about lasers being shone into cockpits of planes taking off and landing at

Schiphol airport. A police appeal has led to around 70 tips offs for information.

Shining lasers at planes has been a criminal offence since 2012.

John Lewis BRITISH department store John Lewis plans to launch in the Netherlands, selling soft furnishings, linen and gifts within seven Dutch Bijenkorf department stores. They will be their first outlets in continental Europe.

FORMER German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt has died at home in Hamburg aged 96. He is known for working on closer cooperation on the international stage and economic prosperity and social reform at home.

Costly epidemic THE German army spent €39 million in west Africa to help fight the Ebola epidemic, however, documents have revealed that although they treated people with Ebolalike symptoms no patients had actually tested positive for the disease.

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Controversial artist arrested CHARGED with setting fire to the building

Federal Security Service building.

PETR PAVLENSKY Is being charged with setting fire to historic Federal Security Service building on Lubyanka square in Moscow. The artist, who made international headlines in 2013 when nailing his scrotum to the Red Square, could face up to three years.

Russian dope laboratory THE Moscow Centre for Sports Technology is thought to be connected to the ‘Russian Doping Scandal’. On Tuesday, Dmitry Peskov, Vladimir Putin’s press secretary, dismissed the claims as ‘unfounded.’

The World Anti-Doping Agency was previously unaware of the lab’s existence.

LGBT protection bill UKRAINE’S Parliament has passed a bill prohibiting discrimination based on sexuality in the workplace. Parliament speakers have stated the new law will not ‘threaten family values’ and Ukraine will ‘never support [same-sex marriage].’

ImNotCharlie tweets ON Wednesday, Russian politicians responded to cartoons depicting the recent Sinai plane crash in satirical French magazine: Charlie Hebdo. Images deemed ‘Russophobic,’ immoral, and shameless. #ЯНеШарл (#ImNotCharlie) were among top twitter trends in Russia revealing public outrage.

Giving back RUSSIA has returned an area of land to China after more than a century. The control of 4.7 square kilometres of land that is part of the territory ceded to Russia by the Qing Dynasty (16441911) has had five new boundary markers unveiled along the new border.

FRENCH MAGAZINE: Charlie Hebdo.

Putin associate dead MULTI-MILLIONAIRE, Mikhail Lesin, responsible for Putin’s powerful domestic propaganda campaign was found dead in a Washington hotel room. Family told the media the cause of death was a heart attack; police are investigating but say there was no indication of suspicious circumstances.

Glorious art A NEW exhibition at the Moscow Manege displaying over 80 paintings created within 1925-1945 asks its audience to revaluate the Socialist Realism style of the 1930s. Socialist Realism depicts achievements of Soviet state in glory. Exhibition will run until Nov. 22.

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was the number of televisions sold in Asda stores in the first hour of trading in 2014

CHRISTMAS SHOPPING: Calle Larios in Malaga.

More temporary Christmas jobs in Spain ACCORDING to recruitment agency Adecco, there will be as many as 850,000 temporary jobs created in the run u p t o C h r i st m a s and the Three Kings.

This wi l l se e e m p lo y ment for people, many of them students, from late November to January.

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players, Asda has announced that it will not be running the event this year.

Last year, police were called in to supermarkets as scuffles broke out among shoppers trying to get the best deals. While some other companies

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companies are likely to be recruiting during this period and it is reported that El Corte Inglés has 7,000 job vacancies alone.

Other companies such as Amazon are gearing up for their Black Friday promotions, which may well see their busiest weekend ever in Spain.

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Euro loses ground THE Euro is finding it difficult to maintain its strength against both the US Dollar and the Pound, and has been at a steady low for the past few weeks.

This is of course positive news for exporters and expats who receive sterling payments from abroad but not so good for imports and prices on the high street.

BBVA not optimistic IN their forecast for the fourth quarter, BBVA are assuming a further slowdown in the economy for the second consecutive quarter. According to their latest expectations, Spain will see overall growth of 3.2 per cent in 2015 and 2.7 per cent in 2016, with the downturn blamed in part to the uncertainty of the future of Catalunya.

Possible total security for chips SCIENTISTS from the universities of Lancaster and Manchester believe that they have created a process whereby they can produce what they refer to as an atomic-scale fingerprint, which could boost the security of connected devices.

The very clever process actually introduces deliberate ‘design flaws’ that are unique to the

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Talk Talk estimate that the total cost of the cyber-attack on their network records will be in the region of £35 million (€49 million)

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item and which when shrunk down to minute size, are said to be completely immune to cloning.

Anticipating a positive response from industry, the scientists have already set up a trading company to allow for sales to be made once the invention is perfected.

have embraced the concept, many have been quite opposed.

Asda say they will use the money that they would have spent on discounts to underwrite ongoing price reductions.

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Spaniard to pilot BA BRITISH AIRWAYS have announced that Spaniard Alex Cruz is to replace Keith Williams as Chairman and Chief Executive of British Airways in April, when Williams retires after 18 years at the airline.

Cruz is currently Chairman and Chief Executive of Vueling. In his new role, he will continue to report to IAG Chief Executive Willie

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British music is still alive and bringing in the money THE music trade body UK Music has released figures showing that the British music industry contributed £4.1 billion (€5.7 billion) to the UK economy in 2014.

The main increases are from royalties earned by musicians, composers and lyricists, which rose 11 per cent to £1.9 billion (€2.6 billion) and live music sales, which jumped 17 per cent to £924 million (€1.3 billion).

British artists were responsible for one in seven albums sold around the world in 2014, with Coldplay, One Direction, Pink Floyd, Ed Sheeran and Sam Smith all making the top 10 list of the year’s best-selling albums ably assisted by many other British performers.

It means that Britain is now the second-largest provider of recorded music in the world, accounting for 13.7 per cent of global sales.

Mango to wind down in the USA SPANISH fashion chain Mango has announced that it will close 450 sales outlets in the United States early next year, after ending a five-year deal to sell its clothing in J C Penney department stores around the country.

The chain, which is in the same market as similar stores such as Zara and H&M, has decided not to extend its current agreement and will close the outlets in February next year. However it will keep its seven standalone stores and intends to expand in this area within America.

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By John Smith

BRITISH SUCCESS: Coldplay were included in the top 10 list of the year’s best-selling albums.

US interest rates to rise in December APPEARING before a Congressional Committee in the United States, on other matters, Janet Ye l l e n , C h a i r o f t h e Federal Reserve, indicated that a rise in US interest rates in December is ‘a live possibility.’

“What the committee has been expecting is that the economy will continue to grow at a pace that is sufficient to generate further improvements in the labour market, and to return inflation to our 2

per cent target over the m e d i u m t e r m , ” Ye l l e n told the Financial Services Committee of the House of Representatives.

A meeting of the Fede r a l R e s e r v e ’s p o l i c y committee in December is the next and final opportunity for any increase to take place this year, after US interest rates have been near zero since December 2008.

Higher interest rates would make the dollar appear more attractive

to investors, so the heavily hinted possibility of a rise increases demand for the US currency and indeed the dollar strengthened on the news.

There is no absolute commitment at this stage and there is still a month in which to gather information about the s t a t e o f t h e e c o n o m y, but it does seem unlikely that she would have made this comment unless she was fairly certain that the increase was on the cards.

Revenues from recorded music fell by £3 million (€4.2 million) last year, to £615 million (€861 million). UK Music chairman Andy Heath put the blame on download stores and streaming music providers which, he claimed, put a stranglehold on revenues through an ‘unacceptable balance of negotiating power.’

If that could be ‘diluted,’ he added: “the current growth could improve exponentially.”

Commenting on the report, culture secretary John Whittingdale, who perhaps showed his age with his choices, said: “Our artists continue to dominate the global charts - and shows from the Royal Ballet and Rod Stewart to the LSO and Status Quo sell out concerts across the globe. In fact, many people around the world first learn about this country through one of our bands.”

The sun has finally set on the Empire ONCE a major contributor to the economy of the British Empire, since independence in 1947, India has steadily cut its financial ties with the United Kingdom and now, the visit of the Indian Prime Minister to the UK sees the ‘child considering helping the father.’

Once responsible for the development of the Indian infrastructure and economy, Britain is not even in the top 10 trading partners of India and it has taken Narendra Modi 18 months to make his first official visit to Britain.

Prime Minister David Cameron is laying out the red carpet as he hopes to sign trade deals with India, including one for supply of around 20 training aircraft to their air force, and no doubt he will touch upon the problems with Indian investments in steel companies in the UK. British attempts to run businesses in India have not generally been successful although Costa Coffee and Vodafone have bucked that trend.

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You should get what you pay for Talking shop Mike Walsh Mike Walsh was for 20 years Regional Assessment Manager for the Guild of Master Craftsmen, Britain’s biggest quality assurance body for businesses.

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THERE was a time when a premium was paid on a craftsman’s skill and time taken to make a quality product. The slogan used to be, ‘when you buy cheap you buy dear.’ Experience suggests that craftsmanship and exclusivity of high priced goods have since been hijacked and degraded.

The artful dodgers of marketing latched on to replacing the term craftsman with the designer mantra. Just what is such an ambiguous and ridiculous term to mean, unless to fool the gullible.

It says much when cheap counterfeit goods can’t be told apart from designer label goods selling at many times the price. I have little sympathy for defrauded designer label manufacturers. The swindlers are defrauded by cheats. They do prove the point: ‘A bad product sold well will outsell a good product sold badly.’

How can it be? Other than deception when a brand name shaving kit costs more than a durable electric shaver imported from China. The cutting

PRODUCT MARKETING: The artful dodgers of marketing latched on to replacing the term craftsman with the designer mantra. edge in both is steel; the replaceable blade in the wet-set lasts a day or so, the latter a year or more.

Invited to sit on a BBC TV panel, the Beeb booked my hotel room in a ‘name to die for’ hotel in London’s upmarket Kensington. What a disappointment.

Pretentiousness carries the highest price of all.

My affluent son conceded that food and service at an Asian restaurant was far superior to at a pretentious restaurant, the bill of which would make you shudder. I recall a friend gushing with pride at her newly acquired top marque saloon. Quite frankly,

its dashboard clocks and papier-mâché fittings were bettered by those in a humble Morris Minor.

Another friend glowed as she showed me the bill presented by a notoriously expensive interior designer. As the saying goes, ‘Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.’

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Have we left it too late to stop ISIS? INACTION by the West has allowed the terrorist group to multiply LEAPY LEE SAYS IT

OTHERS THINK IT NOW will you believe me? Some 15 years ago (far longer in other publications) I warned that one day Islam would be a threat to the peace of the world.

This was not some hare-brained idea, plucked from nowhere to create scary sensationalism. It was an observance deducted from living eight years in an Islamic country, listening to their views and ideals and concluding that, if their fanaticism and utter adherence to the words of the Koran were put into practice - coupled with their oil wealth the outcome was quite simply inevitable.

And did Leapy take some stick! I certainly came to realise a little of how the ultimately ostracised Enoch Powell must have felt. ‘Yet another Leapy rant’ headed so many derisory missives, that frankly it all became a bit of a bore. Well now it’s upon us. Pussyfooting politicians, peace and love pundits and the ever present ‘ostriches’ have now placed us

ISIS TERROR ATTACKS: Paris was the latest city to be targeted. all in deadly peril. Five years ago, the heady, headlong advance of ISIS must have been stretching their army and supply lines almost

to breaking point. That was the time they were vulnerable. It with then, with all the airpower the allies could muster, that we should

have blasted them to oblivion. But we didn’t, did we?

Instead the traitor Obama (who I maintain knows exactly what he’s doing!) and the almost unbelievably naive Western leaders did precisely nothing. Meanwhile, ISIS gleefully rubbed its hands, dug in, regrouped and increased its army by untold thousands of fanatics. It will now take an international army of millions to finally dislodge them.

Thousands will die. Attacks and fighting will prevail in our towns and cities. The infiltrators will take years to flush out and ultimately the blame will once again (thanks a bunch Blair!) lay firmly at the feet of our money-mad, pussyfooting, wind-bagging politicians.

And still we let these people in. I’d love to be a flea on the tent wall as Satan’s army scoff and laugh at the idiocy of the infidel enemy. They must by now believe they can actually win. And ya know something? They could well be right!

Keep the faith Love Leapy leapylee2002@gmail.com

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If Britons have no right to vote then they shouldn’t pay taxes Re: Why is Great Britain no longer great?

WHERE to start. Over 2,000 years ago, the Roman Empire, which ran most of the world, made a good ruling, ‘no representation –no taxation.’

No vote – no tax. That ruling is still written into many countries’ constitutions today.

Britain even helps some countries to achieve this democratic status. But British citizens who work and live inside the EU, which really runs Britain, after 12 years are disallowed the vote.

But then the EU also made a good ruling, any Brit cannot be discriminated against within the EU by another member country, so the UK commits an offence by denying us 12-year Brits the vote. Also, Iain ‘powerdrunken’ Smith steals our winter fuel allowance which the EU says we are fully entitled to; after all, most of us in Spain live in ‘Jerry-built’ homes.

How would the Suffragette movement have dealt with this? Another point comes to mind, what about the scum in our British nicks, should they also get the vote? After all, it does cost us £32,000 a year to keep them ‘cosy’ inside. The once Empress of Europe ‘Magee T’ was some time ago told that all governments throughout the world do not have any money, it all belongs to ‘the people’.

So what about what happened in Spain a short while ago? The Spanish Government, which we are not allowed to vote for, gave €60 billion of our money to the Spanish banks to stop them going bankrupt. Leapy, can you please point us in the right direction to the system of where we collect the Spanish bank shares that we are due?

Before you ask ‘why are you here in Spain?’, we left the southeast of England some 12 years ago, to get away from the 35,000 who die of the weather and another 24,000 who die of air pollution caused by stinking diesels each year. Also we were a bit peed-off with highly-educated schoolboys who have never worked for a living and who don’t know their rear-end from their elbow, and have at last run the once great country into the ground.

To my mind we should not have to pay the UK or Spain any taxation at all; again, no vote– no tax, it’s undemocratic.

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which has been paid for door to door. There is a tracking service involved to see where your parcel is and when to expect delivery. There is a comment space where many untrue comments are made, i.e. incorrect postcode, nobody at house, cannot find house, etc.

The arbitration service has asked via the OMIC office in Velez Rubio, for those who have been affected by this or want to know the company to which I’m referring, to please contact EWN’s editorial department with the problems you have encountered.

Carole S (via email)

Lazy leaders

Brexit ban undemocratic Re: Downing Street Brexit Petition I am one of those who has lived outside the UK for 15 years. I have no vote in the general elections in my country of residence (Spain). Yet, I have paid, over many years, taxes to both Spain and the UK, as I have a rental property in London. It is totally unjustifiable that I am precluded from the fundamental right to vote in what is supposed to be the heart of democracy!!!

James S (via website)

And whatever you do, keep up the good work you do.

Tony Dodd, Chairman of the Estepona Independent Expats Association, Costa del Sol

Peace talks?

I AM afraid that Father Carrasco has a lot to learn about Muslim beliefs. If he thinks for one minute that the Muslims will sit down and talk about peace between Christians and Muslims, he is sadly mistaken.

Their core belief is that there is no other god than Allah and no amount of kind words will change that.

They are duty-bound by their religion to do all they can to ‘promote the Muslim faith’, and that is putting it kindly!

Roy P (via website)

Good decision Re: What on earth are they thinking? (Leapy Lee Edition 1583) WHEN will ordinary citizens realise that their elected representatives are doing nothing to stop them losing all they love and cherish?

Last week you scoffed at the Royal British Legion for not allowing Scouts and Guides, etc, to march in the Remembrance parade. Today you write it will only take a couple of attacks perpetrated by these socalled refugees to ignite another war of the same ilk as the Crusades. Only this time it will be in our own back gardens.

Is Biggleswade not our own back garden and just maybe all these exmilitary personnel of the Royal

British Legion recognised this and took action accordingly?

Ian T (via website)

Delivery woes ARBITRATION is shortly to take place in Almeria concerning parcel delivery services and non-delivery of parcels to the given addresses on the parcels.

If you have been told that you cannot have your parcel delivered to your home address, but must go to where the driver dictates, then this message is for you.

When you have purchased goods and completed all the delivery details, the delivery company is breaking its contractual duties by not delivering to the address stated on the parcel,

Re: What on earth are they thinking?

AT long last somebody has the courage to come out and say exactly what most Europeans think and mean.

However, your article should also have been published in major European newspapers!

These lazy, stupid politicians lead a good life, they earn too much money and have plenty of fringe benefits.

Why should they bother, and think about future generations?

I am a Norwegian, and I give you one example from Norway. Some few weeks ago our Finance Minister announced that we shall pay 2 per cent less tax as from 2016. This week our Prime Minister announced that there would be no tax reduction, because the ‘refugees’ would cost NOK 9 billion (€96 million) more than anticipated!!!

I have taken the liberty of translating your article and mailed it to good friends in Norway. I hope you don’t mind.

S A Christiansen (via email)

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We will remember those who fought, but for how long?

REMEMBRANCE services remind us of the nature of real sacrifice and what it means Colin Bird A weekly look Each week, Colin brings his slightly off-thewall view of the world to the pages of EWN in his own irreverent style.

LAST week as always, I watched the television coverage of the Remembrance Sunday parade at the Cenotaph. Then at 11am GMT on the 11th of November, I retired to a quiet corner to offer my silent respects for the fallen.

I do these things because of a genuine desire to show in some small way, my esteem and appreciation.

It serves as a note to myself about the nature of real sacrifice and what it means, but most of all how much each of us owes to those who fought and died for the freedoms we now seem prepared to surrender.

DEEPLY MOVING: Parades show the comrades’ silent dignity and intense pride.

I watch the dwindling number of WW2 survivors make their laboured but proud way along Whitehall, on foot and in wheelchairs, some too infirm to take part but simply watching and remembering from the sidelines. And those who fought

in other 20th century conflicts and indeed continue to do so today.

I feel deeply moved by their silent dignity and sense their intense pride when I see the medals and regimental badges on display. And when I hear the

words from the fourth stanza of Binyon’s famous poem, ‘For the Fallen,’ then please, nobody attempt to speak to me.

As I watch the politicians step forward to lay their wreaths with sombre and, I suspect in many cases, false

expressions of introspection, I feel anger at the injustice of it all. The terrible consequences of these conflicts and the disgraceful lack of compassion that is often the reward for these magnificent people once they have served their purpose.

I reflect on the decline of the morals and standards of our once great country and the dire circumstances we currently find ourselves in.

I mourn the erosion of those freedoms paid for in blood by the very people being remembered today, and the gifting of our sovereign rights to European interests.

Year on year I have the same thought as I remember those millions of their comrades who never returned.

And it is this: They deserve so much more.

You mean you didn’t know?

EUROPEANS are not taking the refugee ‘invasion’ lying down Mike Walsh Mike, based in Mediterranean Spain, is an international journalist, author and professional writer.

FRIENDS from around the world tell me they are aghast at the docility of Europeans in response to millions of young men storming Europe.

Well, it isn’t quite like that although one can hardly be blamed for them thinking we are laid-back about it all. Europeans are not sitting back muttering, ‘what’s all the fuss about?’

Massive anti-refugee demonstrations are taking place throughout Europe. Germans, Italians, Czechs, Hungarians, Slovaks, and Swiss have taken to the streets over the past weeks to demonstrate their anger at the Third World invasion.

Berlin, Munich, Bologna, and the German-Czech border are tinderbox situations. Europeans defiantly protest at the invasion.

As White Europeans now consti-

STRIKING PROTEST: Russian punk group Pussy Riot hit the headlines. tute only 8 per cent of the world’s population they have a point. Are Europeans consigned to secondclass citizen status as the kefirs once were in apartheid South Africa?

A recent Dresden anti-refugee demonstration was attended by

40,000 protestors. On November 6 over 10,000 German marchers pointedly passed the offices of the Federal Press Association. As they did so they burst into the wellknown chorus of ‘lugendpresse’ (lying press). This song is routinely sung at German demonstrations.

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fear in us all. As the voice of the expat community, EWN is now begging to hear your voice loud and clear, denouncing those who undertook this terrible massacre.

Please do not let innocent people’s lives be ripped apart without making change happen.

We all want to live in a place that encourages all religions to have the freedom to practise their beliefs and we must show respect to each other so that Buddhists, Christians, Hindus, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Jew, Muslims and Sikhs can embrace each other, but never these extremists.

We will destroy ISIS but together we will do it sooner and without as much suffering if we all raise our voices against those who teach hatred.

Show and teach your children that the western world is a good, kind place to live.

God Bless France!

God Bless Europe!

United we stand. We are the world. We are the people.

Nerja and other Axarquia and Costa Tropical towns were quick to express their disgust at the attacks.

In Nerja there was a protest at noon on Sunday, which local residents and councillors attended.

The mayor read out a release from the Spanish Federation of Towns and Provinces and stated: “We’re horrified by the terrible attacks in Paris. We wish to express that as representatives of the people of Spain, we will never be beaten by those who wish to suppress freedom and life. Today, together, at the doors of all the town halls in Spain, we shout out: ‘We are all Paris!’.”

It may be that you don’t mind celebrity froth being offered up as news by media. However, remember that when three or four blasphemous punk rockers tore off their tops to protest in Moscow at Putin’s Russia, it became headline news throughout the western world.

The political elite were startled when three prominent parliamentarians supported a massive anti-immigrant rally in Bologna. Massive rallies are taking place against the invasion of Europe by refugees.

These refugees have no love for those they hold responsible for destroying their countries.

Italy, Slovakia, Spain, Finland, Greece, Poland and France and other EU states are all hotbeds of antirefugee protests. You might reflect, if MSM is not covering these protests what else are we not being told?

Now we “A nation can survive its fools, want to and even the ambitious. But it canhear your views. not survive treason from within.

An enemy at the gates is less YOUR PAPER - YOUR VOICE formidable, for he is known - YOUR OPINION and carries his banner openly.” www.euroweeklynews.com Cicero, 106-43 BC

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DO you remember when you were a child and your body was able to contort into almost any shape you decided to make?

Young bodies are so pliable and it can be hard to believe now as an adult some of the sporty fitness activities you were able to perform so easily as a child.

As we get older the body takes on more stress, both physical and mental, and unfortunately our muscles become tighter, shorter and less pliable.

People that do manual labour work such as construction workers tend to keep a stronger physical structure due to the heavy demands of their job. Others that work in offices and are constantly sat on

computers will find their muscles will shorten over time, creating physical imbalance and discomfort.

Unless this is managed with regular effective exercise and stretching you will most certainly be relying on medication to ease back or neck pain that could possibly be remedied from efficient progressive stretching.

I have successfully fixed many clients back problems over the years without the aid of one single pain killer tablet, simply by giving them the correct exercises to strengthen the weak area, and effective stretches to relieve the tightness. It is possible to relieve someone’s painful lower back by simply stretching out their shortened hamstrings.

Upper body can also be an issue.

Clients that have previously trained in gyms have, due to poor technique or lack of care from the trainer, over engaged the trapezius muscle in the upper back. This

is the muscle that you feel when you shrug your shoulders. Incorrect technique when performing many upper body exercises can cause the trapezius to take over.

A simple stretch to ease tightness in this area would be to stand up straight clasp your hands tightly behind your back, stick your chest out and drop your shoulders right down until you feel as though your shoulder blades are about to meet at the back. This is a very simple but effective stretch.

Another progression on this stretch would be to lie back over a stability ball and put your arms up over your head and relax, this again allows the muscles in the upper back to stretch effectively.

All of your stretches should be done post workout, or if for rehabilitation after at least five mins of mobility moves, you must never perform stretches on cold muscles. Muscles need to be warm and pliable otherwise you risk causing injury.

STRESS: Women are struggling to combine jobs and family

Struggling to have it all COULD women be cracking under the strain of wanting to have it all?

The number of women reported to be suffering from work-related stress in the UK is now 50 per cent higher than men of the same age.

Psychiatrists say that women are struggling to combine their working life with the pressures of raising chil-

dren and family life.

Figures from the Health and Safety Executive for 2014/15 show an estimated 68,000 women aged 35 to 44 in the UK are stressed at work, compared with only 46,000 men of the same age.

Overall there were 590 cases of stress per 100,000 for males and 920 cases for females.

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Flu or common cold?

Know the difference Menopause Ask The Doctor

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RECOGNISE the symptoms and stay well this winter

SPECIALIST: Doctor Luis Perez Belmonte.

This week, we asked the doctor about a subject many women of a certain age and their partners tend to have doubts about: menopause.

WHAT is the menopause and when does it happen?

The menopause is the moment when menstruation stops due to a drop in levels of female hormones.

It’s a natural stage which usually occurs between the ages of 45 and 50.

How does it start? What are the first symptoms?

In the beginning, periods start to become irregular and women may notice dizziness, hot flushes, palpitations, forgetfulness, slight incontinence problems, painful joints, insomnia and intercourse can become painful due to increase vaginal dryness.

Emotional changes are common such as irritability, depression or anxiety.

Osteoporosis can develop over time which weakens bones and can put women at risk of fractures.

Can hot flushes be avoided?

To try and reduce hot flushes women can start by changing their diet, avoiding caffeine, alcohol and spicy food, getting regular exercise and using relaxation techniques such as yoga. If this doesn’t work, medication such as anti-de-

pressants or hormone replacement therapy can be tried.

Is taking pills really necessary?

It’s true many women take pills during the menopause. As a general rule they are not prescribed as they have side effects, and are saved for certain cases.

My mother-in-law says drinking soya bean milk is good, is she right or is that an old wives’ tale?

Recent studies have proved it to be true. Soya beans appear to calm menopause symptoms as they contain oestrogen.

How can I help my wife?

The best thing you can do is realise it is normal and will pass. Partners need to be understanding and help with diet changes and daily exercise.

Do menopausal women need to take extra care?

Women should carry on as normal but bear in mind they need to take extra care of their bones. Along with diet changes, they should avoid cholesterol, sugar and salt. If they are heavy they should try to lose some weight.

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WITH the arrival of the colder months, the flu virus becomes more prevalent, but how do you know if you are suffering with the flu or the common cold?

Cold symptoms Colds start with sneezing, sore throats and runny noses and sometimes fever. When the virus is in remission the residual cough may last several weeks. The average duration of a cold is usually seven to 15 days.

Flu symptoms In the case of influenza, it manifests itself in the first two or three days with the same symptoms as colds but this is then also followed by a fever, dizziness, flushing of the face and lack of energy. In the following days there may be difficulty breathing, a runny nose, dry cough and a sore throat.

After the fifth day, most of the symptoms disappear, but coughing, exhaustion and even the fever can last longer.

The viruses are now ready to attack and are transmitted from person to person.

There is no antibiotic to treat viral diseases, but it is recommended to drink plenty of liquids to replace fluids lost

WINTER SEASON: The flu virus becomes more prevalent during the colder months. through sweating and fever.

Try to rest as much as possible and take analgesics to control pain and fever, if it is high.

To help prevent catching a cold or flu, eating a healthy diet will boost the immune system allowing it to fight off infections. Foods rich in vitamin C

can help fight infection. Wash your hands properly and frequently to prevent infections from being passed from person to person and avoid where possible, being around people and places where the virus is present.

The flu vaccine is now avail-

able in medical centres and recommended for those in high risk groups such as people over 65 years, workers in health centres, pregnant women, people with chronic heart or lung diseases and occupational groups exposed to greater risk, for example, teachers.

Study says that a warped sense of humour could be a sign of possible dementia A STUDY by the University College of London involving patients with frontotemporal dementia has been published in the Journal of Alzheimer's disease.

Questionnaires were sent to the friends and family of 48 patients and many reported that they had noted a change in humour years before the dementia had been diagnosed.

One particular area highlighted was that those being reported on were known to have laughed inappropriately at tragic events.

Although this was only a

small sample, the producers of the report believe that more studies are now needed to understand how and when changes in humour could act as a warning for dementia.

Frontotemporal dementia is one of the rarer forms. The area of the brain it affects is involved with personality and behaviour, so people who develop this form can lose their inhibition, become more impulsive and struggle with social situations.

The BBC reports that Dr Simon Ridley, of Alzheimer's Research UK, said anyone

concerned about changes in their behaviour should speak to their GP. “While memory loss is often the first thing that springs to mind when we hear the

word dementia, this study highlights the importance of looking at the myriad different symptoms that impact on daily life and relationships,” he said.

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AQUARIUS (January 21 - February 19) When you are at home this week I would like you to consider how you view your surroundings. This is a good week to make changes and have discussions about future directions.

ARIES (March 21 - April 20) Rarely has your mind been as sharp as it is at the moment.

There have been some awkward and downright bad periods in the recent past, but this week everything falls into place. Why, you wonder, have you worried so much about things which could not be changed?

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How many English words of four letters or more can you make from the nine letters in our Nonagram puzzle?

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LIBRA (September 24 - October 23) As a home-loving Libran, you are torn between making changes to your surroundings and getting some cash in on the business side.

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CANCER (June 22 - July 23) When we have long-standing friendships, these are often taken for granted and yet often we could make so much more of them.

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VIRGO (August 24 - September 23) As the saying goes, ‘no one ever said it would be easy’. In the past few months you have found this to be true. Hard work is not alien to you, but there is a point where you want to shout ‘enough’. It may be business or home life needs some rearranging, or that someone is moving job and the routine is severely disrupted.

GEMINI (May 22 - June 21) When it isn’t possible to change something, often it is just as effective to rearrange it. That is the solution which comes to you this week. Instead of being frustrated at a delay, try changing things.

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CAPRICORN (December 22 - January 20) The enthusiasm of your bright Capricorn mind is also capable of making you restless. There are mixed feelings about being at or near home this week, with thoughts of more progress possible elsewhere.

TAURUS (April 21 - May 21) For all of the things that you want to do, there are three others that you wish to do. Maybe they are waiting for their own time to come. During the course of this week you will be thinking of what the future could hold, even though dealing with practical issues.

PISCES (February 20 - March 20) Pat yourself on the back for all of your efforts of recent weeks.

Looking back just a few months, would you have thought so much progress could be made? Because of your efforts, home life is enhanced and you are more appreciated. Give yourself a break at the weekend and do something with a loved one that you have not done together for some time.

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SAGITTARIUS (November 23 - December 21) Is playing the waiting game really to your advantage? Your Sagittarian character naturally leads you to be optimistic, and why not? It won’t hurt to hurry someone along rather than having them go at their own pace.

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A PRECIPITATION OF FELINES AND CANINES 1. Named after a character in Yes Minister, what was the name of the cat that took up residence at 10 Downing Street during John Major’s tenure as prime minister and was retired to a new address shortly after Tony Blair came to power?

2. Named by his daughter Chelsea, what was the name of the stray cat that was adopted by the family of President Bill Clinton?

3. What is the name of the black and white Looney Tunes’ cat that commonly carries out predatory schemes on Tweety and Speedy Gonzales?

4. Which 70s television sitcom featured a black and white cat named Vienna, owned by the lead character, who often trod on and tripped over it?

5. Which fuzzy, orange tabby cat was born in the kitchen of an Italian restaurant and immediately ate all the pasta and lasagne in sight?

6. ‘It was 7 minutes after midnight. The dog was lying on the grass in the middle of the lawn in front of Mrs Shears’ house. Its eyes were closed.’ are the opening lines of which 2003 mystery novel by Mark Haddon?

7. What was the name of Dorothy Gale’s small pet terrier in L Frank Baum’s The Wonderful Wizard of Oz? 8. What was the name of stray dog from the streets of Moscow that was selected to be the occupant of the Soviet spacecraft Sputnik 2, which was launched into outer space on November 3, 1957?

9. Which character in Charles Dickens’ Oliver Twist owns a bull terrier called Bulls Eye? 10. Which comic strip character owns a pet dog named Gnasher?

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THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHT-TIME, 7. TOTO, 8. LAIKA, 9. BILL SIKES, 10. DENNIS THE MENACE

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LEO (July 24 - August 23) Consider what is the most important thing to you at the moment? Is it wealth or social position? Your work, or how it may be possible to afford that new conservatory are minor considerations compared with your greatest asset which is your health. This week, then, is all about boosting this valuable commodity and building its future.

There is so much in you that is determined and looking forward to a fresh start, but something that you are trying to get rid of, or give up, may be giving you more trouble than anticipated. Some things have to be done alone, or so you think, but others have gone through this before you so they are able to give support.

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Each number in the Code Breaker grid represents a different letter of the alphabet. In this week’s puzzle, 12 represents Z and 16 represents T, so fill in Z every time the figure 12 appears and T every time the figure 16 appears.

Now, using your knowledge of the English language, work out which letters should go in the missing squares. As you discover the letters, fill in other squares with the same number in the main grid and the control grid.

LAST WEEK’S SOLUTIONS CRYPTIC Across: 1 Nest, 3 Odysseus, 9 Gryphon, 10 Aware, 11 Tress, 12 Attain, 14 Nickel, 16 Revere, 19 Hawser, 21 Agree, 24 Alone, 25 Cremona, 26 Sprinter, 27 Cafe.

Down: 1 Negating, 2 Style, 4 Denial, 5 Slant, 6 Evasive, 7 Shed, 8 Chaste, 13 Relegate, 15 Clamour, 17 Eraser, 18 Oracle, 20 Stern, 22 Rhoda, 23 Bags.

QUICK Across:

development (7) 7 Uninhabited area left in its natural condition (10) 9 Unexpected (10) 12 Determines (7)

English - Spanish

14 Distributing cards to the players in a game (7) 15 Expresses in words (6) 17 Underground parts of plants (5) 19 Imagine (5)

Down: 1 Traps, 2 Aviator, 3 Pony, 5 Extreme, 6 Alike, 7 Lights, 8 Asia, 12/15 Big top, 14 Nurture, 16 Spoiled, 17 Spaces, 19 Penne, 20 Used, 22 Towel, 23 Data.

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

Across 1 Paraguas (pl) (9) 8 Acordar (5) 9 Adorar (5) 11 Doubt (4) 12 Átomo (4) 14 Carrera (4) 16 Island (4) 19 Stamp (postage stamp) (5) 21 Costa (5) 22 Escalera mecánica (9)

ENGLISH-SPANISH Across:

LAST WEEK’S SOLUTION

1 Rastrillo, 6 Con, 7 Soporte, 9 Sueca, 10 Racha, 12 Campeon, 14 Ace, 15 Mariposas.

Down: 1 Rucksacks, 2 Since, 3 Rescate, 4 Oar, 5 Teenagers, 8 Parsnip, 11 Claws, 13 Mum.

Down 2 Blackbird (5) 3 Junco (planta) (4) 4 Plomo (4) 5 Garlic (3) 6 Paradise (7) 7 Séptimo (7) 10 To give (3) 13 Thousand (3) 15 Down (physical movement) (5) 17 Soup (thick) (4) 18 Minutes (of a meeting) (4) 20 The (pl, f) (3)

Hexagram

1 Tramps, 4 Recall, 9 Avian, 10 Setting, 11 Site, 12 Basement, 13 Wrong, 15 Tease, 18 Pop group, 21 Boat, 24 Confuse, 25 Allow, 26 Sweden, 27 Sandal.

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

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Across 1 Retry a diversion to find major road (6) 4 Quadruped also has bicycles (6) 9 It’s said this perfume is not worth much in America (5) 10 Continent I discovered in camera effect (7) 11 Kept being shy (8) 12 Aces in confused state (4) 14 Agree it looks like what was despatched (6) 16 Welsh Greene perhaps (6) 19 Beginning, not ending, as celebrity (4) 20 Hack reveals palace rates of pay (8) 23 Sit and read awkwardly with legs apart (7) 24 Nimble soldier gets in drink (5) 25 Block out awful scene, right (6) 26 Change sides when there’s something wrong (6) Down 1 European country changed its aura (7) 2 Large plants right in the northeast river (5) 3 Shy when going to bed (8) 5 Employ sound sheep (4)

6 Inspire a Northern Ireland colleague (7) 7 Gallery next to Sierra Nevada, for example (5) 8 Trainee given many a wrong date (5) 13 About five, porter has time for a drink (8) 15 Wreck that’s rebuilt with some hesitation (7)

17 Basic building block forming part of kettle (7) 18 Right cards for sporting events?

(5) 19 Photos of fractures? (5) 21 Tolerate a bride with no resistance (5) 22 Musical instrument from part of Scotland (4)

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Youth orchestra launches new season of concerts ALMUÑECAR’S Casa de la Cultura will host the first performance

By Eleanor Hawkins SUR de España youth orchestra will be launching its new season on the coast with a concert in Almuñecar on November 27.

Performances will include pieces from William Tell, The Barber of Seville and Carmen The concert, directed by Michael Thomas, will be focused on opera and zarzuela and will be performed at the Casa de la Cultura starting at 2pm.

The programme includes pieces from William Tell, The Barber of Seville, Carmen and many others and mezzo-soprano Gloria Oya and tenor Miguel Pino will also be performing. Tickets for the concert are available from Viajes Ecuador (Paseo Altillo, 2) in Almuñecar or online at www.bravoentradas.com.

SUR DE ESPAÑA: Orchestra provides performance, recording and touring opportunities for 70 of the most promising young musicians.

Fundraiser for Ugandan orphans THERE is to be a charity event at the Mirador de la Axarquia in Comares which starts at 12 noon on Sunday December 13 to raise funds for orphans in a remote village in rural Uganda.

Cost of attendance is just €5 and includes mulled wine, curry, mince pies and sweets for the children.

Santa Claus is due at 1pm and there will be performances from a number of artists together with a raffle with a first prize of a five-night apartment holiday thanks to www. andalusianrentals.com.

David and Judy Batten from Comares left Spain in 2012 to set up a local school for AIDS orphans in a remote village in Uganda.

The school now offers a home from home for 100 primary age pupils who have been deprived of education due to extreme poverty.

To book tables please contact Jackee Rootham on 636 827 319 or Becky Bradford on 660 376 864

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Nerja 41 Club report MEMBERS of Ner j a 41 Club - which welcomes form er Round Tabl er s f r om around the world - and their ladies recently celebrated their 90th ‘Munch Bunch’ at t he Taj Mahal i n Tor r ox Costa.

The idea behind Munch Bunch is that members and their partners get to know each other better by enjoying a ‘menu del dia’ in one of t he m any l ocal r est aurants.

Nerja 41 Club continues its search for former Round Tablers from anywhere in t he wor l d who ar e l i vi ng East of Malaga full-time or for part of the year.

The club membership of more than 40 includes repr esent at i ves of sever al Northern European countries with the vast majority being non- resident Ner j a 41 Cl ub m eet s twice a month on the first and third Thursdays of the month.

On t he f i r st Thur sday t hey have t hei r Munch Bunch accompanied by the l adi es and on t he t hi r d Thursday the club members m eet at t he hot el Al Andal uz, Mar o, cl ose t o t he caves of Nerja, and on those evenings many of the ladies meet at the hotel followed by a meal at a local restaurant.

So, i f you ar e an ‘ ExTabl er ’ j oi n t hem at a 41 Club meeting or for one of the lunches.

For more information have a look at their website www.41clubnerja.org, ring Alfie Fornear on 626 998 626 or send him an email to a.fornear@hotmail.com

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It doesn’t add up in Cataluña Cassandra Nash A weekly look

RIDING ROUGHSHOD: Artur Mas of Junts pel Si party.

- and not entirely impartial reaction to the Spanish political scene

NO-ONE expected Cataluña’s Independence faction to go back on its decision to debate, vote on and approve secession from Spain.

Neither did anyone expect the Spanish Government to take it lying down, hence Mariano Rajoy’s appeal to the Constitutional Court to halt the process.

But although 52 per cent of Catalans voted for neither the Junts pel Si ticket nor the CUP party in the September 27 regional elections, between them they have scraped up a slim parliamentary majority.

Artur Mas, his Junts pel Si fellow travellers and the CUP believe they are exercising their democratic rights when on the contrary they are riding roughshod over those 52 per cent of Cataluña.

Give it a go CATALUÑA tried to proclaim itself as an

independent republic in 1641, 1873, 1931 and 1934.

All attempts came to nothing, sometimes in the conference chamber and other times on the battlefield, although this resounding lack of success has done nothing to deter Mas, Junqueras, Romeva and Baños.

Perhaps they believe that hope really can triumph over experience if you insist often enough.

Generally speaking JULIO RODRIGUEZ, a four-star general and former Chief of the Defence Staff will stand as a Podemos candidate.

Already in the reserve, he has been forced into retirement after the vice-president Soraya Saenz de Santamaria an-

Copycat behaviour ALL the party hierarchy in Podemos in the Basque Region have resigned, complaining that the party’s national directors are imposing their candidates and centralist views.

In other words, Pablo Iglesias and Iñigo Errejon are behaving in exactly the same fashion as the political ‘caste’ that they affect to despise.

nounced t hat he had l ost t he gover nment’s confidence. He had violated the code of neutrality expected of him, she said.

In “So there!” mode Rodriguez replied that he had already requested retirement anyway.

Meanwhile, Podemos leader Pablo Iglesias has said he will make Rodriguez his Defence Minister if he wins the December 20 elections. That’s a curiously old-fashioned measure: doesn’t Iglesias know that civilians have occupied the post since 1979?

Bullfighting in Spain: Is it part of culture or barbaric murder?

MORE than 430,000 people have signed a petition against plans to introduce two-year bullfighting courses into schools Nora Johnson

Breaking Views Nora is the author of popular psychological suspense and crime thrillers and a freelance journalist.

To comment on any of the issues raised in her column, go to www.euroweeklynews.com/3.0.15/nora-johnson

THEY’RE at it again! Yes, I can only be referring to the for- and againstbullfighting lobbies here in Spain.

More than 430,000 people have signed a petition against plans by the pro-bullfighting conservative government to introduce two-year bullfighting courses in Spanish schools.

Well, I’m with the pro-bullfighting lobby on this one. I’m not going to repeat the arguments, just saying that the world would be a poorer, duller place without it.

Most people have no idea about the rules or background and see it as a ‘man vs beast’ charade with the odds

BULLFIGHTING: Without it the world would be a duller place.

heavily stacked against the animal, which misses the point entirely.

The more rational argument is that, as a society, we’re incredibly hypocritical. We eat meat without knowing where it comes from, or use animal products (do you own leather shoes?) without any idea how these animals were kept or slaughtered.

As long as the animal products are nicely packaged, we’re happy to believe they all had a beautiful life on a farm somewhere and died a ‘humane’ death. This, of course, couldn’t be further from the harsh reality.

The ‘toros bravos’ live as quasiwild animals for four to seven years, without much human interference.

Four to seven years roaming the countryside, or one to two in a battery farm and then ending up in an abattoir. I know which one I’d go for.

Granted, the last 20 minutes of their

lives are pretty cruel but their quality of life, overall, is so much better than those millions of industrially-raised and kept animals consumed and exploited every day.

As for ‘killing for food vs killing for fun’, after each ‘corrida’, their meat is given to the poor. That’s part of the tradition. Unless someone is a die-hard vegan and doesn’t use any animal products (which, in our society, is fairly impossible), it’s hard to mount a credible attack on bullfighting in the 21st century. To anyone who does, I say BULLOCKS! 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. All profits to Cudeca charity.

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Make the buyers feel at home John Graham The property expert

ON ‘dress your home to sell’, last week’s tip was about making sure that you dress the outside of your home to give it ‘kerb appeal’.

When you’re selling your home, bear in mind buyers need to be able to envisage what your home would look like if they were living there.

So let’s run through a few practical low cost dress your home tips, which will make the buyer want to sign a purchase agreement.

You should start by controlling the time of day when the buyer views your home.

At this time of the year it’s important to get this right, sunlight will dress your home naturally.

If your home is facing east insist on a morning appointment, if your home is facing west book an early af-

USEFUL TIPS: Dress your home to attract the buyers. ternoon appointment, if you live on a busy or noisy road book an appointment when traffic is normally low.

Make sure you fix any repairs, remember buyers want to move straight in and prefer to buy a home with minimum repair costs.

Give your ceilings, walls and doors a fresh coat of paint, use light, neutral colours which will help make rooms look bigger.

It’s a fact that having a beautiful kitchen can make all the difference, when buyers are undecided on

whether to buy your home.

Depending on your budget, buying new doors, draw fronts and work surfaces is less expensive than buying a new kitchen and can add extra value.

For the ultimate wow factor buying a brand new modern kitchen with all the latest appliances will definitely help.

The dining area can be made more attractive by setting out the table with your best dining set and placing a floral centre piece on the table.

Bathrooms should be light, bright

and clean, buying a new shower curtain or glass screen, new taps, a toilet seat and bathroom carpets will improve the look.

To make bedrooms look more attractive think about buying new headboards, neutral coloured bed covers and matching scatter cushions, rugs and curtains.

The illusion of extra space in your home is created by light, colours, furniture content and mirrors.

Keep your curtains open during the buyers viewing and maximise the natural light coming into your home.

Buy some extra wall mirrors and fit them strategically around your home, clever positioning of mirrors can add more light.

Buy a few lamps and place them around your home, for a cosy ambience. Regardless of what time of day the buyer views your home, make sure all the lights are on.

Having too much furniture can make big rooms look small, so if you have storage space available I recommend that you put some away.

De-cluttering makes your home look more inviting, tidy and bigger.

Let’s end by looking at a few important finishing touches you should take care of before the buyer arrives.

Get rid of any bad smells, throw out the rubbish, clear away dirty laundry, and put some air fresheners around your home.

If it’s a cold day, light your fire or turn the heating on and make your home feels warm and inviting.

Last but not least, brew some fresh coffee when the buyers arrive, it’s an old trick and it works.

If you follow my tips and your home will look bigger and better than other homes in the area.

If you would like to sell your home and have our professional services in dressing your home to sell, contact me for an appointment.

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Slight increase in prices reported RISE of 0.1 per cent compared to last year

By Eleanor Hawkins THE average price of second-hand property in Spain reached €1,640 per square metre in October, 0.1 per cent up from a year beforehand, Fotocasa property website has reported.

The national average price for used homes has dropped by 44.5 per cent since it reached its record high in April 2007 of €2,952 per square metre, with 10 regions registering drops of more than 40 per cent: La Rioja (54.2 per cent), Aragon (51.8 per cent), Navarra (51.5 per cent), Castilla-La Mancha (50.9 per cent), Murcia (48.2 per cent), Valencia (47.1 per cent), Cataluña (46.2 per cent), Asturias (44.6 per cent) and Madrid (43.8 per cent).

SECOND-HAND HOMES: Pais Vasco is still the most expensive region in Spain.

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Buy one get one free is discount nonsense Mike Senker

In my opinion Views of a Grumpy Old Man BOGOF. Everyone loves a BOGOF which is the great idea of buy one get one free. How simple is that? In theory sure, but in real life it gets so complicated because companies were not happy with just doing what it says on the tin. The whole discount thing is now nonsense.

I’m writing this from the USA. When I checked into my hotel (where, of course, I went straight to the third room first) they gave me a little book of vouchers to use. I have now checked out of hotel with my voucher book virginity intact.

That’s not because I didn’t want to use them, but the free drink was for a beer or glass of house wine and they wouldn’t let me have diet coke or coffee instead, even though I explained I am teetotal.

The $25 voucher for the slot machine didn’t apply to me as it was only for new

frequent player card sign ups, and silly me I have had mine for five years!! The free meal was for the person with you (cheapest one free). I was on my own so that was no good! Mind you I could have invited in one of the homeless people that were hanging about nearly everywhere I went outside. Definitely going to do that next time!

Then I went shopping and there the fun begins. If you buy two pairs of Levis you get the third pair for half price. I don’t want three I want two. Yes, I know what you’re saying ‘just buy two’. And I did but instead of feeling good about shopping there I felt a little bit cheated so it’s not a good experience.

It’s the same here in Spain. All day every day I hear an advert for an insurance company offering amazing discounts. How does the advert end? By them saying it’s only for new customers!!! I’ve been with the company for 11 years and mine goes UP every bloody year!! I’ve asked them about it and have been told it’s ‘company policy’.

So my message to all companies is either give me something or don’t ...but don’t keep doing all this smart a**e BS.

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New electronic ITV certificates AS part of a new series, we answer some common driving questions, kindly provided by members of the Guardia Civil based in Torrevieja, Costa Blanca, who set up the N332 website and Facebook page to help break down barriers.

PAPER VERSION: If you have this document, you must carry it in your vehicle.

FROM this week, new vehicles registered in Spain will have a new, electronic version of the technical characteristics ITV document, rather than the traditional paper or card version.

The new ‘tarjeta electrónica de características técnicas’ (eITV) will automatically be issued with the vehicle for all newly registered cars, vans and trucks from now on. All previously registered vehicles will continue to use the paper and card documentation.

The DGT has already implemented a system in which manufacturers, importers and vehicle sales companies can submit the registration information by electronic means, which can be accessed and checked by officials.

Once checked and validated, the DGT will store the information in an electronic register, the Registro de Vehículos Prematriculados, which in turn issues the vehicle

identification number, the Número de Identificación del Vehículo (NIVE), which then becomes the unique identifier for that vehicle.

The DGT will then assign the registration number of the vehicle and issue the Tarjeta de Inspección Técnica, or technical inspection card, in electronic form only, which can be accessed online.

The vast majority of vehicle manufacturers are already integrated into the project and in October, nearly 50 per cent of registered vehicles were already equipped with electronic tokens.

As of May 11, 2016, this type of electronic card will also be issued for mopeds, motorcycles, tricycles and quads.

Remember though, this is only for newly registered vehicles. If your vehicle has the paper version, you must carry this document with you in the vehicle.

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Are community members powerless?

In the president’s report and budget prior to our upcoming AGM there are several points I question. The president states that legal proceedings will commence for debt recovery from delinquent owners for which we are charged more than €1,500 per case. This is a lot of money.

Perhaps we should seek other bids. In all, our Community budget is almost 1.5 million In debt recovery, my sources suggest you can get a much better deal than €1,500 per case. Yes, it is most unusual to apportion expenses by catastral values. The law says that the coeffi-

euros for road, water and lighting projects.

We are told the owners’ contribution to the various projects must be calculated by catastral value and not by coefficient values.

For the water project I paid much more this way. Your comments will be appreciated as we seem to be powerless against the administrator or president.

P.D.F. (email)

David Searl You and the Law in Spain

cients of property must be the standard. Nevertheless,

if the AGM votes to use the ‘valor catastral,’ this is acceptable. Finally, if you wish to change anything in your community, you must assemble the votes at the AGM. You are not powerless.

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

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I AM just back from a talking tour, and what better than being able to report on a great new idea from my travels.

During travels to give talks to the Costa Blanca Gardening Circle in the Amanzora Valley, Gardening Club and the Axarquia Gardening Club it was very evident that many expats were living in properties with steeply sloping gardens. They were concerned about what to plant to reduce, or hopefully totally stop, soil erosion during heavy rain, especially gota frias.

At the first two talks we discussed the repairing or building of terrace walls, stabilising earth walls, planting deep rooted ground cover plants, heavy mulching, and developing a system of sloping paths with inner earth walls held back with one, two or three thick tree trunks or straight branches.

VETIVER PLANT: An attractive green, it is originally from India and is related to lemon grass.

But then by chance Anne and David Olson kindly picked me up from Malaga airport to drive to Competa for the third talk, and immediately told me about a wonder plant that they had used to solve severe access and corrosion problems on their steeply sloping plot of land.

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I was amazed and wished that someone had introduced the plant to Spain many years ago. They had only done some five years before.

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You can search www.vetiverspain.com and click ‘Team’ which contains many interesting photos of uses.

I came home with a few plants to use in my garden and gardens of friends with immediate needs. My plants

Simple tips to help you freshen up your home WHAT is the smell of home? As wideranging as the answers to that question may be, the quest to make your home smell pleasant and fresh can be achieved with these simple suggestions.

Transform your shower with a few sprigs of rosemary and thyme up in a top corner, away from the water, and luxuriate in the fine aromas when the steam from the water circulates with the herbs.

Take a standard spray bottle and mix water with a little oil and spritz your way to a fresher home. The choice of essential oils is as diverse as your tastes

and anything from eucalyptus to vanilla can usher in great new fragrances for your home.

When it comes to natural perfumes citrus can be indispensable and this tip in particular can give the home nice scents for up to two weeks. Take one of Spain’s famous oranges and after you peel it put around five cloves into the skin of the orange and wrap it in a little fabric. Put it up in the kitchen or living room and discover the citrusy goodness.

As well as creating pleasant fragrances, indoor plants also clean the air

in your home. Consider gardenias, geraniums and eucalyptus the next time you are browsing for floral decorations.

Finally, as not everyone has time to keep the fridge in immaculate condition at all times, there is an easy way to absorb less than appetising smells emanating from the fridge.

Take some fresh and unflavoured oats, not the kind with added sugar, and put a bowlful inside the fridge. The oats will take in the scents and keep them there.

Make sure you throw out the oats when you’re finished!

are being used to hide the green painted back wall of my paella kitchen, as a decorative feature on my largest raised terrace and as a feature in a new water garden that I am developing.

Two friends are planting them to block out an unattractive view beyond the garden and stabilise an earth bank surrounding two sides of a horse paddock.

Incidentally the grass cut and dried is a good food for horse and rabbits.

Now a little more about the plant itself.

Vetiver is originally from India and is related to lemon grass. It is an attractive green and grows in clumps up to 1.5 metres high, with vertical roots going down up to two or three metres into the ground, hence its stabilising properties and need for little watering after the first three months.

Little fertilising is required but a dilute grass type liquid fertiliser and fire ashes are of benefit.

Its upper growth with a grass like tuft turns an attractive purple colour. Once you have two year plants, plantlets can be harvested from the outside of the clumps to expand your plantings.

Next week I will share more observations and ideas from my recent week away. © Dick Handscombe www.gardenspain.com November 2015

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DOGS are telepathic and able to sense your emotions and frame of mind instantly. This is one reason for a dog who has misbehaved while you have been away to know that you are reacting angrily and, therefore, come to you saying ‘sorry’ or cower away. It does not remember the past misdemeanour but it does know your present reaction.

Canine instincts vary between breeds and individuals of the same breed. They are either there or not. They can be strengthened, weakened, or diverted, but cannot be put there and cannot be taken away. They might lie dormant and, once developed, can never be weakened.

SELF-PRESERVATION: The instinct has been weakened by breeding.

A dog which loves chasing balls can be controlled by training. If a young dog is corrected the first time it chases a car it may give up the idea.

But if it is allowed to chase cars the instinct becomes stronger and will be very difficult to stop.

The dog has the instinct of the hunt, a chase and a kill. Sadly, often the dog is killed by the car.

The first instinct is maternal and others cover such areas as survival, hunting, guarding, the pack, and self-preservation.

The maternal instinct allows females to breed.

The female is able to bring her pups into the world and care for them especially in the first four weeks.

Self-preservation makes wild dogs furtive and afraid of the unfamiliar. This type of nervousness in the domestic dog is one of the common causes of problems in present-day dogs.

Nearly all cases where children have been attacked by dogs and owners have been bitten arise from nervousness. The dog is afraid it is going to be hurt and attacks first - fear, fright and bite.

Most instincts provide pleasure to the dog, and because it associates the action with pleasure, the instinct grows stronger.

An active hamster is a happy one THIS week in our Small Furries series, we take a look at hamsters, more specifically, Dwarf or Syrian hamsters.

Although this advice is valuable for all hamsters, these little fellows need lots of things to climb on and places to explore in their cage. They are very active and should not be bored.

The classic exercise wheel is ideal, but ensure it has no spaces between the rungs which could trap and break their legs.

Toilet roll tubes and boxes are ideal to hide in and chew and are inexpensive. But you can also find toys in pet shops.

A good addition would be some wood to chew on; It must be untreated fruit tree branches and not old furniture. Better still, give them a gnawing block to help wear their teeth down.

Feeding time should be fun: scatter food around the cage and hide some in tubes, so they

BE GENTLE: Always handle a hamster carefully. have an adventure. Ensure their water supply is always fresh.

Hamsters love to burrow! So ensure there is a deep layer of shavings, torn up tissue or sawdust in their cage. Hamsters are nocturnal, early evening is the best time to handle them.

If you keep waking them up in the day, they can become stressed and more likely to bite.

What’s the best way to handle a hamster?

Familiarity and routine are

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Remember, always be gentle.

Use both hands as a scoop when handling them. Hold them low down over a flat surface: even a small fall can cause serious injury. Try to imagine how you would feel being picked up by something the size of an apartment block.

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London taxis will be Chinese THE visit of Chinese President Xi Jinping to the UK coincided with the announcement of the new TX5 to be produced by Chinese owned London Taxi Company which has just had a £50 million (€70 million) cash injection.

The plug-in hybrid will hit the streets of London in 2018 when taxis are required to have zero emissions. but with clever use of aluminium frames, it can be used for up to seven different vehicle types.

Car recalled IN a letter issued by the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration on November 9, Rolls Royce, owned by BMW, announced it was recalling a single Ghost, made in 2014, because of an issue with the airbags.

According to the Financial Times, which first reported the story, the affected car had left its factory in Goodwood, East Sussex, in January 2014 but its North American owner had not yet taken delivery.

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The Radical: A car invented for the true ‘petrol head’ OWNERS believe they have built something which is more than just a sports car

By John Smith RADICAL MOTORS, founded

by Mick Hyde and Phil Abbott, have sold just 1,900 cars in 17 years but they are very proud of this number and believe they have built something more than just another sports car.

According to the company, their original idea was to design a lightweight sports car that utilised superbike technology.

In doing so they conceived a car that was faster than a supercar and totally driver focused.

Radical was the first company to create a bespoke powertrain system for a superbikepowered sports racer. The cars were built not just for the discerning club racer but track day enthusiasts too.

The founders looked at the various race series available in the UK but none provided the type of racing they knew their customers would crave.

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In 2011 Radical took the bold step of developing its first fully EC Type Approved, streetlegal roadster the SR3 SL. Powered by a turbocharged Ford EcoBoost four-cylinder

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New world record set for tightest reverse parallel park ALASTAIR MOFFATT of Stunt Drive UK has broken the Guinness World Record

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The stunt took place on

Thursday November 12, and the timing was perfect as it was Guinness World Records Day that day, and Moffatt achieved the feat at Brooklands Museum in Weybridge, Surrey, UK, which is an iconic location in British motorsport.

The stunt driver reversed a classic Mini Cooper, at a speed of 40 miles per hour, into a parking space with a combined distance of just 34 centimetres between his car and the vehicles parked

in front and behind.

Moffatt pulled an exciting J-turn followed by a handbrake turn before slotting i nt o an i m possi bl y sm al l parking space. He beat the previous record of 35 centimetres which was set in 2012.

Moff at t sai d he was ‘thrilled’ with the result. He added: “I’ve been practising this for quite a long time.

Getting the record is fantastic, it means you’re the best in the world at something.”

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GINS Ladies’ Champion given a standing ovation LOS MORISCOS was very busy, their first groups started just after 8am. We had so many players with a two that they all decided to donate the €50 to the RBL Poppy Appeal.

Our GINS 2015 Lady Champion, Erica Oxford, was presented with a bouquet of flowers and given a standing ovation. After playing at Baviera in those conditions she was very happy to have received the GINS Trophy which will be displayed in the new trophy cabinet at Los Moriscos.

Our thanks to Carl, Mark and Rachel (Costa Tropical Villas and Professions UK) for sponsoring the GINS Club Championship.

A reminder that the meal and prize giving for the El Puente sponsored game is Saturday November 21.

1st TEAM Steve Tow, Derek Lowe, Peter Oram and Jeff Barnes (guest) 127pts 2nd TEAM Sean Rooney, Ian Paterson, Terry Oxford and Malcolm Wright 126pts 3rd TEAM Mac Farman, Brian Wiggins, Pat Lowe and Erica Oxford 118pts TWO’S €50 donated to the Poppy Appeal.

AÑORETA Monday November 9 PUENTE MASTERS INDIVIDUAL STABLEFORD OVERALL WINNER Ana Maria Junquera - Hcp19 35pts LADIES 1st Marisa Elias Hcp18 - 32pts 2nd Lyn McAllister Hcp26 - 28pts 3rd Sylvia Legg Hcp30 - 27pts MEN 1st Stewart Green Hcp6 - 34pts 2nd Malcolm McLeod Hcp17 - 34pts 3rd Peter Verkleij Hcp28 - 33pts 4th Pete Thompson Hcp15 - 33pts BAVIERA Tuesday November 10 EL PUENTE MASTER INDIVIDUAL STABLEFORD OVERALL WINNER Clive Akid Hcp20 - 36pts LADIES 1st Gill Sibson Hcp19 - 31pts 2nd Marion Fraser Hcp20 - 30 pts 3rd Steff Elsey Hcp21 24pts MENS WINNERS 1st Mike Frayne Hcp10 - 34pts 2nd Ian Fraser Hcp15 - 33pts 3rd Jon Rose Hcp21 - 32pts 4th Derek Geelon Hcp13 - 32pts TWO’s Robert Durston 10, Derek Sibson 8

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Rosberg wins the ‘boring’ Brazilian GP HAMILTON was second and Vettel third Tony Matthews International Sports A former player and now the world’s most prolific author of football books with almost 150 published since 1975, Tony is also the sports correspondent for Spectrum Radio and lives on La Pilica in the Sierra Cabrera Mountains overlooking Turre.

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SOCCER ROUND-UP - Last week’s friendly internationals ended: Belgium 3 Italy 1, Czech Republic 4 Serbia 1, France 2 Germany 0, Northern Ireland 1 Latvia 0, Slovakia 3 Switzerland 2, Spain 2 England 0 (the latter’s first defeat in 16 games) and Wales 2 Netherlands 3. On Tuesday, England met France and Belgium played Spain.

Hopefully, in Dublin on Monday, the Republic of Ireland qualified for Euro 2016 by beating Bosnia in the return leg of their play-off game, having drawn the first game 1-1. In other first leg matches, Sweden beat Denmark 2-1 and Ukraine defeated Slovenia 2-0.

In the U21 Euro qualifiers, there were wins for Scotland and Wales, a draw for England and defeats for Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.

And it was all worth while for FL2 leaders Plymouth who last Saturday made a 670-mile round trip to play York and won 2-1.

The 10 Premiership games this weekend are: ChelseaNorwich, Crystal PalaceSunderland, Everton-Villa, Manchester CityLiverpool, NewcastleLeicester,

Southampton-Stoke, SpursWest Ham, SwanseaBournemouth, WatfordManchester United and WBAArsenal. The top Championship match is Burnley-Brighton; we have Bury-Burton, Coventry-Gillingham and WalsallSheffield United in FL1 and

DagenhamOxford and Plymouth-Exeter in FL2 while here in Spain, it’s El Clasico Real Madrid v Barcelona (Saturday).

With managers getting sacked ten a penny, ex-Villa boss Paul Lambert has taken charge at Blackburn, with Alan Irvine his assistant.

FORMULA ONE - Nico Rosberg won last Sunday’s ‘boring’ Brazilian Grand Prix at Interlagos.

World champion Lewis Hamilton was second with Sebastian Vettel third.

Hamilton has yet to win in Brazil after nine attempts. The final F1 race of 2015 is in Abu Dhabi on November 29.

Meanwhile, Red Bull and Toro Rosso have confirmed they’ll be competing next year.

CRICKET - England lost the first ODI against Pakistan by six wickets but won the second by 95 NICO ROSBERG: Celebrated F1 success in Brazilian Grand Prix.

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runs, thanks mainly to opener Alex Hales (109) and bowler Chris Woakes (4-33). The third match took place on Tuesday; the fourth and last is on Friday, and then we have the T20 series.

In the second Test against New Zealand at the WACA, Australia’s David Warner (253) reached 4,000 runs in his side’s first innings total of 559-9 declared. Warner has now hit a half-century in 18 of his last 23 Tests. In reply, batsman Ross Taylor (235 not out) became the first Kiwi to score a doubleLEO MESSI: Will century against Australia as the play against tourists reached 510-6.

Real Madrid in TENNIS - The Czech El Clasico on Republic beat Russia 3-2 in an epic women’s Federation Cup Saturday. final in Prague, and the ATP World Tour finals are underway

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WEMBLEY’S arch was lit up in the colours of the Tricolore as fans began to enter for Tuesday’s England v France football friendly with heavy security surrounding the stadium.

Prince William was joined

by England manager Roy Hodgson and French coach Di-

dier Deschamps on the field at Wembley to lay floral tributes before the national anthems.

English and French fans united for a rendition of the French National Anthem with Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger among those in the crowd as the French players stood arm in

arm for both anthems.

There followed a minute’s silence in tribute to those who lost their lives in Friday’s attacks in Paris and the crowd observed it in a show of solidarity.

An extra 10,000 tickets were made available for the match since Friday’s attacks and fans

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England 2-0 France as Wembley makes a stand

Roy Hodgson, Prince William and Didier Deschamps with floral tributes. quickly took the opportunity to make a stand, united and unafraid, at the sporting event.

On the field Alli scored first for England towards the end of the first half after some skilful linking with Rooney to put a 20 yard shot past Lloris.

Alli won the ball in the middle of the park and threaded it through to Sterling who put

Rooney in for a volley for England’s second.

France made two changes including Lassana Diarra for Cabaye, to a round of applause, and Giroud on for Gignac.

It was a good performance from England on a night which French keeper Hugo Lloris rightly said was “more about solidarity.”