Euro Weekly News - Costa Blanca North 4 - 10 August 2016 Issue 1622

4 - 10 August 2016

COSTA BLANCA NORTH

YOUR PAPER, YOUR VOICE, YOUR OPINION

Children in need

By John Smith Whilst everyone enjoys the sun and tends to relax during August in particular, let us not forget that there are still children in different parts of Spain who need help, comfort and support.

In Costa Blanca, Make A Smile is a non-profit organisation that aims to feed children in need and continues to raise funds and provide sustenance no matter the weather or political climate.

Their philosophy is that for the past few years, local children’s homes have been seriously short of funds for even the most basic needs.

At Make A Smile, volunteers work with the community in

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raising funds and using these to supply a balanced diet and daily needs for 50 children in the

Emaus group and a home with 24 mentally handicapped youngsters.

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Old bangers LAST month’s nationwide check by the General Directorate of Traffic (DGT) to determine whether vehicles had passed their ITV roadworthiness test resulted in 1,138 fines

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in the Valencian Community.

This accounted for 10.7 per cent of the national total and the principal transgressors were private cars and motorcycles, the DGT said.

Still no solution PARENTS of children at Vasco Nuñez School in Benidorm complained that the promised removal of the damaged asbestos roof has not yet begun. Although they were promised a solution last April, the Parents’ Association predicted that with less than a month before the school term begins, the problem would still be unresolved.

DREAMLINER: A Boeing-787 at Gatwick airport.

All aboard THE registered disabled who have serious mobility problems and need to use electric wheelchairs or mobility scooters will be allowed to board Alicante City buses

with them. Following a protest some weeks again when two women parked in front of a city bus, the council has decided to issue special cards allowing access.

By Linda Hall

SOME outsized aircraft are occupying the runway at Alicante Airport this summer.

TUI, the German tour operator which includes Thomson Fly, and Norwegian Airlines

are chartering the giant Boeing-787 Dreamliners for their respective routes between Alicante, the UK and Oslo.

The aircraft, more often used for long-haul flight, carry 323 passengers and have a fuel range of 14,000 kilometres. They are gentle giants,

however, and are the least noisy aircraft now in use thanks to their high tech design and, doubtless, their €240 million cost.

TUI and Norwegian are using the giant planes as part of their modernisation strategies but also to cope with this

summer’s huge demand for flights to the Costa Blanca, said sources at Spain’s airports authority AENA. Brexit or no Brexit, tourism from the UK has risen by 20 per cent this year and the extra-capacity aircraft are necessary to cope with the increase.

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Seprona’s campaign against animal cruelty

Our readers have been expressing their views about Seprona and the fight against domestic animal cruelty which appeared on our web

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www.euroweeklynews.com Here are a few of your comments some of which have had to be cut due to size but we are always happy to hear from everyone.

Time heals LIKE drink driving or smoking on buses, a gradual cultural shift will soon make it publicly unacceptable to abuse or neglect animals, despite the ever dwindling ‘traditionalist’ brigade loudly complaining.

Spain is moving in the right direction.

Janice

Public warriors GOOD to see Seprona stepping up to the plate. Now if we the public can be courageous enough to contact the authorities whenever we witness animal cruelty then we can help put such practices to bed where they belong.

Harry

Planetary plague

ABUSE AND ABANDONMENT: Hopefully the campaign will raise awareness and reduce incidences like these deserted and distressed puppies.

By John Smith SPAIN is definitely moving towards a better position with regards to the mistreatment of domestic animals and although some expatriates continue to find fault in what the country does, we are of course visitors who are entitled to an opinion, but cannot expect everything to change overnight to suit us.

What should please all animal lovers however was an announcement made on the morning of July 29 by the Chief of Nature Protection Service of the Guardia Civil (Seprona), Vicente Pérez, that there is to be a national campaign against abuse and neglect of domestic animals under the title #YoSiPuedoContarlo.

The aim of this campaign is to raise public awareness to promote the necessary measures for the protection, management and welfare for pets, as well as to bring to the attention of Seprona any cases of abuse that become known to individuals.

The campaign will be promoted through all areas of social media and publicity open to the Guardia Civil and Sr Pérez has asked that newspapers such as Euro Weekly News should help in promoting this initiative by bringing it to the attention of our readers.

He advised that during 2015 the Guardia Civil became aware of 10,793 administrative offences and crimes against domestic animals and no less than 426 people were investigated with many of those arrested and charged with cruelty.

The chief confirmed that these figures show that there is a problem of abuse and pet abandonment, which must be taken notice of even by use of ‘denuncias’ if necessary to try to eradicate a climate of cruelty generally and to protect individual animals in danger immediately, especially as many activities are not only cruel but illegal.

The Guardia Civil is taking this action in part because it has detected an increase in public awareness, not only

through formal complaints, but also among users of social networks, as evidenced by the fact that one of the issues that obtains the most interaction and response from their Twitter and Facebook followers is any request for cooperation to solve crimes of abuse to animals and indeed many followers send them information and photographs of abuse cases to investigate.

In addition, the second objective of this campaign is to raise awareness that having a pet is a big responsibility, not something to undertake on a whim and then throw out onto the streets when holidays come around.

The campaign asks that if anyone knows of any case of animal abuse or neglect report it by phone on 062, email seprona@guardiacivil.org or through their social networking accounts.

There does however appear to be something of a dichotomy of opinion as this initiative concentrates mainly on dogs and ignores the activities of humans with regards to domesticated

animals such as bulls which appear to be placed in numerous areas of danger in order to satisfy human curiosity or satisfaction.

Bullfighting is unquestionably a form of torture as far as the animal is concerned and in the same way that we no longer feed Christians to the lions in the arena, there is a general swing against the ‘sport’ prompted perhaps initially by outsiders but now embraced by many parts of Spanish society with more than 100 towns banning bullfighting completely.

It is not so easy to find scientific studies which prove that bull-running is a form of abuse but after the furore caused by the events in Pamplona in the San Fermin festival, more than 30 organisations across Europe including Solace Women’s Aid, Standing Together, PETA and NAPAC have written to the mayor of Pamplona, Joseba Asirón, calling on him to end the violence in the city by banning the San Fermin festival which would benefit bulls and vulnerable women alike.

WHILE it’s great to see the Spanish moving forward on this front, we should remember that this isn’t a peculiarly Spanish problem and that animals worldwide, including in the UK, continue to be mistreated, exploited and abused.

James

All’s well...

SOMETIMES I feel like I’m banging on about this issue day in day out, but it’s great to see that persistence, collective effort and standing by principles can ultimately effect change, even if your companions might get a little bored!

Valerie

Capturing culprits PEOPLE who wilfully mistreat animals should be publicly shamed, and an example made of them. It’s all very well making gradual cultural changes but sometimes society needs a kick where the sun doesn’t shine to do what’s right.

Barry

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On the Silk Road journey, biker-style

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TWO bikers, Jaume Barrachina and Hans Schneegluth set out from La Nucia to retrace the old Silk Route to China.

They hope to emulate Marco Polo but in a 21st century manner on motorbikes they said as they set out on a 20,000-kilometre journey that will take them through 18 countries.

La Nucia residents Hans Schneegluth and Jaume Barrachina from Villajoyosa are both experienced in long distance motorcycle routes, not only in Spain but across Europe, Africa, America and Asia.

More than 300 friends and biking fans were there to see them off from La Nucia’s Camilo Cano sports stadium as well as Bernabe Cano, La Nucia’s mayor, who was accompanied in the send-off by Sports councillor Sergio Villalba.

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By Linda Hall

SEND OFF: Hans Schneegluth and Jaume Barrachina set off on the Silk Road.

From the outset the town hall has backed the Silk Road venture taking the name of La Nucia half-way across the world, Cano said. Jaume Barrachina (62) and Hans Schneegluth (56) expect to be on the road for the next two months.

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lows the same Silk Road that unites Asia and Europe and was taken by merchant caravans 2,000 years ago. This time they go through Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Iran, Turkey, Greece, Italy and back to Spain.

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The first part of the journey follows the northern route to China. The bikers cross France, Italy, Switzerland, Austria, the Czech Republic, Poland, Ukraine and Kazakhstan.

The return trip in September along the southern route fol-

Make A Smile is determined to impact positively on society. Their strong relationships with charities like Emaus, Fundacion Relleu and Grant A Wish provide examples

of the benefits of communities working together to improve the lives of underprivileged and vulnerable adults and children.

The charity helps sponsor a farm in Relleu where eggs and vegetables are

grown for the children who also get to visit and become gardeners in their own right.

Euro Weekly News has supported the charity for a long time. To find information or offer help visit their Facebook page.

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Bous al carrer boy injured BOUS al carrer bullrunning events at the Benimarco festivities shared

by Benissa and Teulada started off with a nasty fright last week which saw a young local boy undergo emergency surgery.

The first calf due to run, from the Els Coves ranch in Pedreguer, made the crowd panic when it managed to push aside a fence and escape its pen.

The worst fright was for an 11-

year-old local boy who had climbed the steps of the lorry beside the pen and found himself directly in the animal’s path. He stumbled and fell, banging his head hard, and the calf grazed his ankle with its horns but

Snip kitties for their own good

By Linda Hall ALFAZ DEL PI has more than 500 cats living in 43 colonies in and around the town.

Having arrived at this figure and keen to prevent a feline population explosion, the town hall will introduce a Trap, Neuter and Release (TNR) programme that was approved during the last council meeting.

This comes under a new by-law regulating pet-ownership and animal protection and the changes in local regulations will go on public display for the next month. Assuming that there are no objections, the by-law will automatically come into effect.

The town hall will

then compile a database of the town’s controlled colonies with details of the number of cats and authorised feeding points.

“This is our way of helping cats and at the same time pre-

venting an ever-growing population of abandoned animals and strays,” explained town hall spokesman Toni Such.

The scheme will be carried out by volunteers, local vets and animal protection charities. Trapping and neutering the cats before returning them to their home ground is an ethical and considerate alternative for controlling cat colonies, Such added.

“This method has the animals’ welfare at heart. It looks after their wellbeing, health and diet but at the same time prevents over-population.”

SUPPORTING STRAYS: Alfaz has their welfare at heart.

luckily decided freedom was more interesting and trotted off.

The boy, who was conscious but terrified, was taken to Denia hospital and initially diagnosed with head trauma and a superficial ankle

wound, however overnight he developed a blood clot which led to his urgent transfer to Valencia’s La Fe hospital for urgent surgery and was later admitted to intensive care under observation.

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It’s going to be a long wait for the next train

By Linda Hall IT’S possible to buy a Calpe to Denia rail ticket but impossible to get there by train.

This 30-kilometre section of the Line 9 trenet between Benidorm and Denia has closed without warning for two years. When regional president Ximo Puig recently inaugurated the AlteaCalpe section of the Line 9 trenet which closed for seven months for modernisation, he emphasised his commitment to Line 9 and a Calpe-Denia €44 million overhaul.

Shortly afterwards the Generalitat and rail operator Ferrocarrils de la Generalitat Valenciana (FGV) announced the shock closure.

Angel Garcia de la Bandera, FGV’s managing director maintained that the decision stemmed from the “demands and high standards of the Valencian government and FGV.”

LA PEDRERA HALT: Will have no train for two years.

The sleepers are made of wood, the points are old, the signalling systems outdated and all need modernising, De la Bandera said.

Critics maintain that it would be safer

to say that the Generalitat either cannot or does not want to spend €44 million on replacing them.

Passengers have already given the two-year stopgap solution the thumbs

down. The winding rail route with its viaducts and tunnels is more direct than the N-332 main road and there have been complaints that the buses are habitually between 15 and 20 minutes late.

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Shock for swimmers TWO people were fined in Javea for ignoring the red flag and swimming off the Arenal beach.

It was the first time that this has happened although the town’s Citizens’ Co-existence and Safety by-laws list it as a fineable offence.

The local Red Cross explained that the yellow flag advising swimmers to take care was flying all day.

By the evening conditions had worsened with heavy waves and strong currents and the red flag that brings a blanket ban on swimming was hoisted.

Most paid no attention and remained in the sea until the Local Police fined two people €750 each for ignoring the lifeguards’ instructions.

They were charged with deliberately putting their own lives at risk as well as those of the people who would have to rescue them if they found themselves in difficulties.

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Fire risk must continue to be fought

By Linda Hall FIRES broke out on the same morning in the Marina Alta towns of Adsubia and Ondara.

They were extinguished within an hour although a fire fighting helicopter and Air Tractor planes were needed in Adsubia.

Additionally, a wildfire broke out in the Sierra Bernia in the early afternoon of Tuesday (August 2).

Fortunately fire crews were quick to action and by 3pm had reportedly managed to get the blaze under control. Euro Weekly News sources witnessed two helicopters and a skyplane descending on the scene

DISASTER STRIKES: A burning cigarette end can burn hectares.

shortly after the fire broke out, where they promptly dumped generous quantities of water onto the fire, providing a hefty dose of relief for the many residents who live in the nearby homes and urbanisations.

Fire is a constant presence each summer in Spain and the danger is multiplied in Alicante Province which is enduring its third year of drought.

Fortunately the area of woodland and scrub lost to fire this year is 75 per cent below the 2006 average and inside the Valencian Community, Alicante Province has come off better than the provinces of Valencia and Castellon. Just 10 hectares of Alicante land have been devastated by

fire so far this year, compared with 3,906 hectares in Valencia province and 1,400 in Castellon.

More than half of Valencian Community fires are started deliberately for reasons best known to the arsonists themselves. Others are the result of negligence and the usual summer ban on burning leaves agricultural or garden waste within 300 metres of wooded areas is in force until the autumn. The veto also applies to barbecues and fireworks.

The regional authorities will be reminding the public throughout the summer that a smouldering cigaretteend can start a fire that rips though hectares of scrub or woodland and can reach inhabited areas.

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BULL-RUNNING during Benitachell’s fiestas prevented the duty chemist from opening.

The local pharmacist closed for more than 40 minutes during the early evening and again later that same night as the bulls raced by.

He and an assistant remained inside, he said, but it worried him that during these intervals between up to 60,000 people in Benitachell and

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Teulada-Moraria - which his pharmacy was also covering – could not access medication during an emergency.

Benitachell’s mayor explained that it would have been better to change the duty chemist roster, but added that if someone had urgently needed a prescription filled, a Local Police officer could have arranged this.

STOCKHOLM VISIT: Promoting Benidorm Pride 2016.

Very proud to be promoting ‘Pride’

By Linda Hall BENIDORM’S Tourist Foundation, Visit Benidorm, travelled recently to Stockholm, along with Turespaña and the Valencian Tourism Agency.

They were there for the Stockholm Pride 2016 LGBT festival, which has been celebrated in the Swedish capital since 1998 and draws thousands of visitors from all over the world.

Visit Benidorm and Benidorm Pride had their own stand in the Visit Spain section located in a privileged position at Stockholm’s Pride Park which was full of people with non-stop concerts and music.

Visit Benidorm had two objectives in attending the festival, the foundation explained, the first of which was to promote Benidorm Pride, one of the resort’s most important LGBT assets.

But the local tourist organisation was also keen to demonstrate to Sweden’s gay community that Benidorm can offer year-round advantages including its LGBT accommodation, beaches, food, sports and leisure opportunities.

Visit Benidorm also organised an Instagram competition with a first prize of a stay at a gay-friendly hotel in the town for next November’s Pink Weekend.

British mum deserts twins for night out A BRITISH woman was arrested in Benidorm for leaving her twin sons, aged nine, alone while she was out drinking.

The three had been together in the town’s socalled English Zone and the 40-year-old woman gave the boys money to get something to eat at around 8pm. When they returned she had disappeared so they decided to split up to look for her.

At 10pm one of the children was spotted wandering alone in the street by a couple who took him along to the National Police.

Police searched the area unsuccessfully for the other twin but eventually found him three hours

later, lying in the doorway of the La Cala de Finestrat apartment block where they were staying. He had walked several kilometres, police sources said afterwards, and crossed Benidorm late at night to get there.

The woman was found sleeping peacefully next morning in the family’s rented apartment. At this point she admitted to police she realised the boys had gone but didn’t report they were missing as “they know perfectly well how to get home.”

The twins are now in a young people’s centre “to ensure they are safe” police said, and will remain there while the courts resolve their situation.

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SANCTUARY SITE: Earlier excavations at Malladeta.

Crowd-funding reveals the past

By Linda Hall RESTORING a sanctuary dedicated to the mother-goddess Tanit in Villajoyosa should be finished by the end of this year.

October will see the last campaign there which is now being prepared by Vilamuseu officials.

The project is financed thanks to crowd-funding but ironically the €3,421.91 raised was not intended for the Fourth Century BC sanctuary.

Archaeologist Antonio Selless’ original target was another of La Vila’s treasures, the Tellerola site on land near the Torres beach. He and other experts are pretty sure that remains there belong to a Phoenician or Iberian lookout tower but the owner of one of the two plots of land due for excavation withdrew permission at the last moment.

Selles then decided to use the funding for the Malladeta site where this last dig will be

led by Vilamuseu archaeologist Diego Ruiz assisted by Miguel Signes and himself. They believe this will satisfy their curiosity as to the exact size of the sanctuary which was later taken over by the Romans.

Officials from Villajoyosa’s Heritage department have now held meetings with their counterparts from the regional government, putting across their hopes of promoting Malladeta for its archaeological value as well as a tourist attraction.

Good use for ill-gotten gains CASH confiscated in anti-drugs operations will be used to finance rehabilitation programmes for addicts.

After an agreement between the region’s Health department and the national government’s delegation to the Valencian Community the Consell will use €340,000 for rehabilitation centres in Valencia, Alicante and Castellon

and a mobile unit for assisting addicts. A further €73,000 will fund information campaigns warning of the dangers of substance abuse.

Programmes benefiting are part of the National Action Plan on Drugs promoting preventative measures e.g. social-healthcare, limiting damage from addiction and informative courses for the general public, families and schools.

Council bust-up over bus THE revamped C2 bus route in Campello has been a success but is now under threat.

Formerly running only twice a day the buses now operate hourly and passengers have increased 400 per cent thanks to a new route connecting urbanisations with the local health centre and Campello’s Tram station.

The town council’s request for a €300,000 credit allocation, 75 per cent of which was destined for the line, was rejected at the last plenary meeting.

An unlikely alliance of the Partido Popular, Ciudadanos and Esquerra Unida voted against the proposal. Esquerra spokeswoman Raquel Perez explained afterwards that her party would have voted in favour had the credit request not included provision for the local fiestas.

“It’s uncertain whether the service can last until the end of the year,” warned Mayor Benjamin Soler. “I didn’t hear any convincing arguments for voting against the proposal. The

three opposition parties merely want to defeat all town hall proposals.”

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IBERDROLA checked 5,300 km of its power lines in Alicante Province during the first six months of the year.

The company inspected 970 km of overhead power lines and 920 km of underground cables.

A further 670 km was checked with thermography which uses infrared cameras to detect in-

Terra Natura.

Performance of power checks stallations with abnormally high temperatures.

Insulators, conductors, and pylons were inspected and damage caused by lightning, fallen trees and construction close to power lines.

Trees were also cut back below 107 km of power lines and the clearings maintained to reduce fire risk, Iberdrola said.

POKEMON GO: It’s all in the game.

Get ready, get set and Pokemon Go!

By Linda Hall FOUR HUNDRED people met in Terra Natura for a Pokemon Go session for players, their families and nonplaying fans.

It was a meeting place – and a safe one with no absorbed teenagers standing in the middle of busy roads – for the game that currently obsesses young and old alike.

At 11.30am the famous American YouTuber ‘iRafer,’ together with another expert, Ximo Ruiz, offered advice and shared tricks on a giant screen, giving tips on reaching the dif-

ferent levels of the game Throughout the day the incense bait that attracts the augmented reality game’s soughtafter creatures or Pokemon was laid throughout the park.

Equally important there were charger stations so that no-one ran the risk of running out of battery.

Participants were able to spend the day with other players in the park which has had an official pokestop in the Pangea zone ever since the game arrived in Spain. This is where it is possible to collect items that include eggs and poke balls that enable players

to capture more Pokemon.

There is also a gym located in the Asia zone where players competed on reaching Level 5 and joined one of the yellow, red or blue teams.

A gymkhana was held at midday and again in the afternoon for users who wanted to take part without using a mobile phone. There were quizzes, ability tests and target practice.

Participants received a trainer ’s card that was stamped after each test, entitling them to a certificate that verified them as Terra Natura Pokemon Go handlers.

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Finally waking up to drivers’ needs

By Eleanor Hawkins FREE public parking has for many years been one of Denia’s main problems, however this is gradually being dealt with as the council has realised it cannot continue to ignore the situation.

Over the last few weeks an additional 400 free spaces have been prepared, near the schools on Avenida del Mont-

go and on grounds where the second health centre was planned on Avenida de Miguel Hernandez.

This, the council has reported, brings the total number of free parking places available for public use in town to more than 2,000 and work is underway at the Miguel Hernandez car park to increase this by a further 100.

The council is aware that if

it plans to pedestrianise Calle del Marques de Campo and renovate Plaza de Valgamdeu and Calle del Pare Pere it has no choice but to create space elsewhere.

To this end, explained Deputy Mayor Rafa Carrio, the council is considering negotiating free or reduced price parking for the public with the owners of La Via car park.

Justice for kittens MORE than 100 people gathered in front of the restaurant in Alicante port where a man threw corrosive liquid on a litter of kittens.

As reported in the Euro Weekly News last week, the kittens, aged between four and six weeks old, were rescued by an animal group and taken to a veterinary clinic in the

city. One died as a result of its injuries.

Animal rights groups and protesters gathered in the port denouncing the attacks and lighting candles. Some held banners calling for ‘justice for kittens.’

One man has now been arrested in relation to the attacks.

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BOUNTIFUL BANK: The Amadorio dam in better times.

By Linda Hall THE Marina Baja is accustomed to drought and inured to depressing statistics which are quoted with monotonous regularity.

With practically no rain since the beginning of the year it is hardly surprising 2016 is turning out to be one of the driest years since 1950. Possibly even more of a recordbreaker but 1950 is when the Marina Baja Water Consortium began to keep records.

The Marina Baja is experiencing a worst-

case drought scenario, specialists admitted during the consortium’s last general meeting and said it is in what the Confederacion Hidrografica del Jucar (CHJ) water board describe as a “situation of emergency.”

Despite the grave situation, the domestic water supply and water for crop irrigation is guaranteed until the end of 2016, the Consortium officials stressed.

Average rainfall in a normal year is usually between 550 and 600 litres per square metre, so far this year has not even reached

100 litres and after three consecutive years of drought, deposits of subterranean water can’t be replenished by rainfall.

Paradoxically, both the Guadalest and Amadorio reservoirs contain more water than in August 2015 and respectively hold 2.08 and 1.63 cubic hectometres of water, an increase of almost 1.4 million.

Meanwhile, a five hectometre water transfer is currently arriving in the Amadorio dam from the Taibilla reservoir and from the Muchamiel desalination plant.

Home birth goes wrong A WOMAN in Lliria (Valencia) gave birth to a stillborn child during a home confinement.

The woman was in the last stages of pregnancy and contacted the two midwives who had been engaged to deliver the baby when labour began. They arrived immediately but owing to complications they found the baby was no longer alive and a forceps delivery was necessary.

The woman’s family alerted

the Emergency services although sources said afterwards that the mother refused medical assistance when offered.

As the child was born dead, the Guardia Civil had to go to the house to make out the report as required by Spanish law.

A Lliria judge and a forensic expert also went to the woman’s home where the two midwives and the woman confirmed what had happened.

The parents, aged 39 and 40, had decided on a home birth and the baby was not premature. An autopsy will be carried out to determine the causes of death, the authorities revealed.

Home births are gaining in popularity in Spain and are allowed so long as there are no known complications and the mother lives near enough to a hospital to receive emergency treatment if needed.

Neighbouring port poaches Alicante’s passengers AROUND 17,000 passengers and 4,700 cars have made the yearly Operacion Paso del Estrecho sea crossing since June 15.

The ye a rly e xodus of Nor t h Af r i can workers in Europe returning to Morocco or Algieria for their summer holidays continues until mid-September.

The Alicante port has revealed that this year the figures are 20 per cent down on 2015 and this is because there is an additional ferry now operating from the Valen-

cia port.

There has also been a 6 per cent reduction in those returning to their jobs, with 4,867 passengers and 1,075 cars making the reverse journey.

Alicante is just one of the seven Spanish ports that operates ferry links to North Africa and it carries out Operacion Paso del Est r echo t oget her wi t h Al geci r as, Almeria, Malaga, Motril, Melilla and Ceuta.

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Global recognition THE famous Benidorm skyline has once again wooed a global company. Swedish firm H & M has launched its new global campaign for H & M Sport, with the Olympic Games in Rio in mind.

Photo sessions took place over two days in March, using a team of 45 people led by specialist fashion photographer Julia Noni.

The ‘For Every Victory’ campaign uses a number of famous sporting personalities

case,’ make sure you pop in next time you’re in the Indoor Market. You’ll find them on aisle three.

Just a few months ago Coca-Cola also took advantage of the location for its ‘Feel the Taste’ campaign.

Past inspires the present A PHOTOGRAPH of Benidorm, taken before the boom of the 1960s by local photographer Francisco Perez Bayona, has been used to inspire a mural by urban artist Antonio de Felipe.

The photograph will be familiar to many, as it is displayed in the entrance to Benidorm’s Museu Boca del Calvari.The mural, which was created using spray paint and permanent markers, will be on display until September 25 at the museum as part of the urban artist’s work in an exhibition entitled ‘The Best of the Beast.’

Crooner delights fans POPULAR singer and television presenter Bertin Osborne performed at the auditorium Aiguera Park in Benidorm last week in front of more than 2,000 people.

He covered songs from greats such as Frank Sinatra and Harry Connick Jr, with songs like ‘You got used to me,’ ‘Moon River’ and ‘New York, New York’ in Castilian and English.

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Flooding to be tackled THE council is set to address the issue of flooding in Benidorm on Avenida del Doctor Orts Llorca, between Calle Gerona and Avenida del Mediterraneo.

The work will alleviate flooding that historically occurs in the area whenever it rains heavily. It is expected to cost €748,000 and will be financed entirely by the Alicante Provincial Council.

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It could be you THE winning National Lottery ticket, drawn on July 21, was sold in la Avenida de la Armada Espanola, Benidorm.

Ticket number 02349 is worth €300,000.

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BENIDORM Council, together with Hidraqua, has had to bring into operation its back-up system to deal with an increase in waste water in the town.

Built several years ago, the pumps are designed for such situations, as well as to ensure there are no problems during general maintenance and emergency repairs.

The increase is in line with an increase in the consumption of drinking water, and is therefore attributed to an increase in the number of people in the town.

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Water park secures exclusive certificate

AQUA NATURA: Director Alberto Gaforio (centre), SiSSWA officials and park staff.

BENIDORM’S Aqua Natura secured European recognition for the safety and quality of the water park’s installations.

Part of Terra Natura, the park received accreditation after a comprehensive inspection by the SiSSWA GmbH certifications body, making Aqua Natu-

ra the first water park in Spain to receive this endorsement.

Helmut Stander and Alfonso Ribarroca, respective heads of SiSSWA in Germany and Spain, presented the certificate to Terra Natura’s director, Alberto Gaforio.

Safety, quality and well-be-

ing of visitors was the main objective of the process.

Technical staff from the certification agency inspected all aspects of the 40,000 m2 water park and its 1,500 metres of slides and toboggans including work procedures and risk assessments.

New use for old building ALICANTE Provincial Council is to give half the funds for rehabilitating Muchamiel’s disused municipal abattoir.

The town hall will provide the remainder of the €350,000 needed to restore the 1925 building, confirmed Urban Development Councillor Jose Antonio Bermejo.

Administrative formalities were responsible for the two-year delay since approving the project, Bermejo said.

The building will be converted for cultural activities while adjoining land will be used for parking, a children’s playground and a multipurpose football, basketball and handball pitch.

Work should begin in early 2016.

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Campaign for an Independent Britain

By John Smith FORMED in 1969 in order to oppose Britain’s membership of what is now the European Union, the Campaign for an Independent Britain, continued to fight against what they considered to be the evil of continued encroachment on the rights of self-determination of the United Kingdom and was involved in the recent referendum campaign encouraging voters to indicate their wish to leave.

Operations Manager John Petley told Euro Weekly News in an exclusive interview “We were thrilled by the vote to leave but the importance should be focused on how we go about leaving. Prospects are good, but let’s hope the politicians get the exit strategy planned and correct.”

They fully understand that many expatriates are worried about the future and whilst there is no guarantee

of what will actually happen, their informative website which contains articles from many respected authors, www.campaignforanindepen dentbritain.org.uk goes some way in trying to explain how a staged exit could make life much easier and understandable for those possibly most affected by the result.

According to Mr Petley, a staged exit would be the most sensible approach, with the first move, to leave the European Union but rejoin the European Free Trade Association (EFTA), which includes Norway, Switzerland, Iceland and Liechtenstein who all enjoy high standards of living and also have an economic arrangement with the EU. One of the biggest worries that elderly expats in particular have concerns free health care and one piece of good news is that although there are no changes to health benefits at the moment, those who rely

on their EHIC cards to obtain treatment in Spain should expect this to continue in the event that Britain joins EFTA. Currently those from the European Economic Area which takes in EFTA and Switzerland are entitled to use EU health facilities and it is highly unlikely that this would change if Britain takes the first step to leave the EU and join EFTA. This and a great deal of other useful information is available on the Campaign’s website and now that the decision has been made to leave, the organisation sees itself as a medium for the dissemination of informed opinion and publication of news as it occurs, especially as Mr Petley says that they expect that it could take up to 10 years to actually complete all of the exit negotiations.

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The price is right for bus station BENIDORM’S bus station is officially worth €35.5 million.

A confirmed assessment was necessary before the contract to run the bus station could be put out to tender once more. The contract with the present concessionary Enrique Ortiz was terminated by the Supreme Court in 2012.

The Alicante businessman who built the bus station complex, which includes a hotel, was entitled to manage the installation but exceeded the developed area’s authorised volume.

If no bids are received to manage the bus station, the concession will revert to him although he would receive nothing in compensation.

WEDDING BELLS: But the bride wasn’t invited.

Just a marriage of convenience

By Linda Hall THE regional government’s Health department is investigating a wedding that never happened in Onil.

The local health centre allegedly cited a fictitious marriage to cover staff shortages and the Generalitat’s Health chief Carmen Monton has now ordered the Alcoy Health Authority clarify “all the circumstances.”

The saga begins with a “once upon a time” situation as originally Onil had two ad-

ministrative assistants. The regional government withdrew funding for one and the other was transferred to the archive at Alcoy Hospital.

At that point the Onil health centre had no administrative assistant and the Alcoy Health Authority’s Finance department could not provide a replacement. This triggered the fictitious marriage, according to the CSI-F civil servants’ union. The Finance department applied for temporary cover during the 15 days’ leave to which

brides are entitled, claiming on behalf of the transferred worker, the union maintained.

When the 15 days were up, unaware that she was supposed to have got married in the meantime, the archive worker was ordered to return to Onil.

The inexplicable manoeuvring corroborated the “disorder that reigns in the Health department, the CSI-F complained, while calling for “objective and transparent” criteria in all contractual procedures.

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Awaiting approval

By Linda Hall THIRTEEN years behind schedule, Oliva Town Hall has approved the Aigua Blanca IV partial development plan.

The first steps were taken in 2001 but although construction began in November 2006, work was halted in late 2007.

Incredibly, the project lacks all-important Plan Parcial approval which should have been

obtained in 2003. Without it, the project has no legal cover for procedures like reparcelling land and installing infrastructure but this latest blunder was just one more in a succession of errors and oversights surrounding Aigua Blanca.

The town hall has been working towards approving the infrastructure stage and after having put the work up for tender had hoped to start in Octo-

ber or November. Now the need to rectify the Plan Parcial slip up means another hold up for Aigua Blanca IV. Meanwhile, town hall employees have worked round the clock to put together the Plan in record time so that this can be displayed to the public. If all goes according to schedule, the Plan Parcial will be approved in October and work should begin as soon as possible afterwards.

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Genocide and gypsy vote ALICANTE CITY officially recognised and condemned the Armenian Genocide that occurred between 1915 and 1923.

The PSOE, Guanyar, Compromis and Ciudadanos approved the motion condemning the systematic extermination of 1.5 million Armenians inside their home-

OLIVA TOWN HALL: Hopes work will begin later this year.

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land (now part of Turkey) by the Ottoman Empire.

The Partido Popular abstained but voted in favour of another motion denouncing the mass imprisonment of 12,000 Spanish gypsies for 16 years during the reign of Fernando VI (1713-1759).

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Suspension cable snaps

By Linda Hall THE Fernando Reig suspension bridge in Alcoy had to be closed to traffic and pedestrians after one of its cables broke.

Workmen on the bridge heard a loud noise as its deck and cables “moved strangely,” they said.

The bridge was immediately closed and vehicles diverted, announced the head of the city’s Public Safety department. This caused initial traffic chaos but as the day wore on traffic was almost back to normal.

“The workmen said it felt like a small earthquake but we don’t know how it happened. We think some kind of decompensation or imbalance must have occurred,” Llopis said.

Having closed the road, city hall then contacted the national government’s Ministry of Public Works, which

FERNANDO REIG BRIDGE: An Alcoy landmark. is responsible for the bridge.

Civil engineers from Madrid and Alicante will now study its superstructure to decide when it can reopen, Llopis

revealed.

The Fernando Reig bridge over the River Barxell is situated at the city’s exit to the Alicante-bound section of the

N-340 main road and bears a heavy volume of traffic each day. It took two years to build and was officially inaugurated in April 1987.

Below average VALENCIAN Community employees earned an average pre-tax salary of €20,000 a year in 2015.

This was minimally higher (0.6 per cent) than the average wage in 2014 but lagged behind the Spanish average of a 1.1 per cent rise to €22,850 and near the bottom of the list but slightly ahead of Castilla-La Mancha (€19,943), Galicia (€19,795), Canary Islands (€19,324) and Extremadura (€18,781).

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Award request for two police heroes TWO Local Police officer s i n La Cal a de Beni dor m r escued a four-year-old who becam e ent angl ed i n a clothesline after falling from the fourth floor.

The alarm was raised by the apartment buildi ng’s por t er when he saw the boy 15 metres above t he gr ound, trapped in the cords of a wall-mounted laundry rack. Two members of the Local Police were only metres away when they received the call and reached the scene immediately.

When t hey ar r i ved t hey f ound t hat r esi dent s had pi l ed bl anket s, m at t r esses and airbeds on the ground in case the child fell.

The off i cer s, who wer e soon j oi ned by

two more, broke down the door of an unoccupied apartment so that t hey coul d r each t he boy via the window.

They had t o act quickly, witnesses said afterwards, as the child did not respond to calls t o st ay st i l l but t hey were able to pull him to safety.

Firemen arrived but wer e not needed, and although SAMU ambul ance m edi cs had t o cal m bot h t he pani cstricken child and his distraught mother, neither needed hospital attention.

The Police and Firemen’s Union (SPPLB) have put in a request to nominate the four policemen involved in the r escue f or t he Pol i ce Cross of Merit.

No tiger mosquitoes WHATEVER might be happening elsewhere on the Costa Blanca, there are fewer tiger mosquitoes in Alfaz this summer.

The Health Department has so far received no notification of patients affected by bites from this mosquito that originates in south-east Asia.

The prevention and control programme that was launched last May should be thanked for

this, said Dolores Albero, the Alfaz councillor who heads the Health department.

Drones were used for the first time this year to locate concentrations and breeding of the mosquitoes that would otherwise go undetected, Albero said. “We can’t drop our guard,” she added. “We must all work together and be ready to act on any reports that we receive.”

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Buoy company in contract disgrace

By Eleanor Hawkins THE company which had the contract to put buoys and markers into place off the beaches of Denia will have

to compensate the council for taking longer than it should have done.

Local beaches councillor Oscar Mengual reported at the July plenary meeting that

Green fingered work experience FIVE people who have been learning about park and garden maintenance as part of a training course run by Creama Marina Alta workshop in collaboration with Teulada Council have been getting in some work practice and helping municipal staff out at the same time.

Nieves Rodriguez, head of the Public Works and Development and Employment departments, explained that the five trainees helped weed paths and tracks, looked after palm trees, applied weed killers and pesticides, watered, pruned, painted and planted plants and trees.

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SUMMER SERVICE: Sees levels of unemployment decline.

a disciplinary procedure had been opened against the company for its failure to meet the terms of the contract and said it will not be extended for another year.

Service crimes TWO people have been arrested for robberies and violence on the AP-7.

A third person who was also arrested was released as the police operation remains open in the province.

The group of thieves targeted the service areas of the AP-7 motorway, focusing on stealing from inside vehicles taking handbags, wallets, phones and laptops. They worked quickly and quietly as motorists stopped for a break.

The thieves are Romanian citizens and they have appeared in the Court of Alicante. They are also accused of carrying out their crimes as far afield as the service stations of Murcia, Malaga and Granada.

Summer jobs boost ALICANTE leads the decline in unemployment in the region, with 3,524 fewer unemployed at the end of July.

The figure is the largest decline in the Valencian Community, which saw an overall fall of 7,545 people unemployed.

With more people finding

work over summer in the tourism sector, Alicante unemployment level is now 165,657 and Social Security now has a total of 615,113 contributors.

More than 80 per cent of those gained employment in the services area, but improvements were noted in industry

and agriculture. There was also an increase in the number of people seeking their first job.

Construction saw the only negative level with an increase of 99 people unemployed.

Across Spain unemployment has fallen to its lowest level since the summer of 2010.

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Police crash injures young footballer

By Eleanor Hawkins A 19-YEAR-OLD who plays with a local football team was knocked off his motorbike in Tavernes de la Valldigna on Thursday night (July 28) by a Guardia Civil patrol car on its

way to an emergency.

The crash happened just after 10pm at the Calle Vergeret crossroads when the patrol car jumped a red light and was unable to avoid hitting the motorbike, whose driver had failed to notice the flashing lights.

Although the motorbike went flying and its driver had to be taken to hospital for treatment, doctors reported that he was recovering and could have suffered far worse injuries.

The police officers were also bruised by their car’s airbags.

Local wine excellence Spitting encouraged acknowledged THE excellence of a local product, Bahia de Denia wine, has been acknowledged by 55 international judges who have awarded it with the gold medal at the Muscats du Monde competition in France.

The prestigious competition analyses more than 230 wines from 20 different countries, which compete each year to be named as one of the best in the world.

This year, judges chose Bahia de Denia 2015, made with Alexandria muscatel grapes grown exclusively in the Marina Alta, for its delicate, aromatic, fresh and balanced properties, which they decided were unbeatable.

Jose Juan Reus, president of the Cooperativa Virgen Pobre at Bodegas Xalo, expressed his pride at the news and stated that the award was proof of a job well done.

AS a novel way of raising funds for the Moors and Christians festival in October, Calpe’s Capitania Cristiana association held an olive stone spitting competition on Friday (July 29).

Participants were encouraged to forget their manners and spit their pips as far as they could, even doing a run-up to the ‘spit-line’ if they thought that would help.

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British pensioner forgets puppy in car

By Linda Hall A DACHSHUND puppy was rescued after being left inside a car.

Police in Hondon de Los Frailes had to break a car window to rescue the puppy after neighbours had listened with anxiety as it whimpered inside the locked car with tightlyclosed windows as temperatures rose to 30 degrees centigrade in the street outside.

Neighbours told an off-duty National Police officer they had been looking for the car owner for half-an-hour. Seeing that the dog lying under the back seat was barely moving and barely had the strength to bark, the offduty officer called the Local Police who sent along an officer who broke the window with a hammer.

Both were cut as they removed the puppy who was hardly breathing when they

took it from the car. The neighbours brought a damp towel to wrap it in and water to drink. It was at this point that the owner, a British woman, aged 75, returned.

Mortified and distressed according to witnesses, she explained that she had gone to the bank and had taken longer than she expected and had forgotten about the puppy. She now faces a fine and possible follow-up for abandoning an animal.

Thanks for waiting DRUG-SMUGGLERS caught landing seven tons of hashish in Campello in 1999 will spend only nine months behind bars.

For pleading guilty, and owing to the 17year delay in hearing their case, the five accused received minimum sentences, the Alicante High Court announced.

The Guardia Civil, acting on a tip-off, lay in

wait on the night of December 19, 1999. At 8.30pm they saw a light appear in the window of a Coveta Fuma villa and a Zodiac boat appear 200 metres offshore.

This sequence continued throughout the night until the Guardia Civil intervened, impounding seven tons of hashish worth almost â‚Ź10.5 million.

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Passengers stranded at airport

By Gemma Elvins-Quinn TAXI drivers from Elche abandoned the airport for an hour, leaving passengers stranded, after a dispute with the Local Police.

Lack of support GANDIA’S tourism-related businesses are feeling unfairly blamed for public problems and have sent a letter of complaint to the local council.

Asemhtsa, the La Safor tourism business association, presented a written complaint at the town hall, association president Jose Manuel Navarro confirmed, expressing its dismay at the lack of support it is receiving from the authorities.

“The sun and beach are our only allies,” the letter begins before explaining the majority of bars and businesses in the area are not to blame for noise or vandalism as some, including local politicians, have hinted.

While the council has stated it is attempting to find a harmonious balance between people’s right to enjoy themselves and their right to rest and to ensure laws are respected, Partido Popular political group has spoken out in support of the businesses and launched a social media campaign.

Diners at Gandia restaurants are invited to take a photo and upload it on social media with the hashtag #GandiaUnLugarDondeSeComeBien (Gandia a place where you can eat well) to support the sector.

Meanwhile the authorities congratulated themselves on this summer’s security operations, with Security councillor Angels Perez and Local Police chief Marc Cuesta reporting that 1,133 people were arrested or cautioned for offences relating to noise, drinking on the street or possession of drugs.

It resulted in reinforcements being called in with other taxi drivers from Alicante brought in to serve Alicante-Elche airport on a busy day for flights.

Elche drivers decided to

interrupt their work, neglecting the flood of customers seeking their services in full summer season following an incident with the police.

During inspections, one of the licensed taxi drivers was

sanctioned by officers for using his mobile phone while driving. However, other colleagues said the police had fined the worker for misuse of the tariffs that operate at the airport and so

decided on a sit in, in protest. By mid-afternoon, everything had returned to normal.

The tariff system, which was installed at the departures point with drivers hav-

ing to get a ticket to go through barriers and pay if they stay too long, has continually caused confusion at the airport, with taxi drivers themselves denouncing it for lacking specific regulations.

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Buying back land JAVEA Council has put in a formal offer to buy a 985m2 plot of land by La Granadella beach, where the former Guardia Civil barracks were located, from the government.

The land, for sale at an asking price of €13,804, would cost another €21,700 to prepare for the use the council has in mind for it, that of a public parking area for users of the increasingly popular beach where finding somewhere to park is becoming a major difficulty.

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Safe hearts on the beach

By Eleanor Hawkins JAVEA beaches are now heart friendly as the local branch of the Red Cross, which provides lifeguard services in the town, have had semi-automatic defibrillators installed at the lifeguard posts on La Grava, Benissero, El Arenal, La Barraca and La Granadella.

The importance of this equipment, which very few Spanish beaches currently have installed, became apparent back in 2014 when one in an ambulance on La Granadella beach was used to successfully revive a man who had been pulled from the sea in cardiac arrest, and the Red Cross had been considering supplying them at all its posts in town ever since and decided to do so this year upon renewal of their contract to provide services on the beaches.

During a visit to the life-

CRUCIAL EQUIPMENT: The defibrillator improves the vital Red Cross service. guard post on La Grava beach, local mayor and Tourism councillor Jose Chulvi thanked and congratulated the Red Cross for constantly striving for improvement and its professional approach to the service, which is already proving vital

this summer. The lifeguards are assisted in their work by the Local Police force, the mayor explained, which has a boat and a jetski to monitor the waters.

“This is what makes our beaches some of the best where safety and quality as-

sistance are concerned,” Chulvi said.

During his visit the mayor was also shown Javea Red Cross’s new ambulance, the fourth in the local fleet and fully fitted with the latest in equipment, by branch head Jose Luis Domenech.

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Beast show JAVEA’S Soler Blasco museum will host Els Nostres Veins Submarins, Contemporary Beasts of the Mediterranean, an exhibition by marine biology students at Bioblau on from August 5 to September 11.

Business aid BENISSA Council has announced Go2Work, a new co-working project to help local entrepreneurs get going for six months with help from EOI Industrial Organisation School and Alicante Provincial Council.

Save water BENITACHELL Council is to help residents save water and the planet by giving out free flow reducers. To get one of these gadgets, go to the Tourist Office with a water bill in your name.

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More light shines on local history display the results of his efforts.

Lluria’s wife Saurina d’Entença followed in his footsteps, leading the house of Lluria from 1305 to 1325, when experts agree that the most important parts of construction of Pobla d’Ifac were completed.

By Eleanor Hawkins EVEN after 11 excavations, Calpe’s Pobla d’Ifac continues to reveal surprising historical finds.

The latest treasure dug up consists of five medieval coins from the 13th century, from the times of the reign of Jaume II which shine more light on the origins of this site on the Penyal hillside. In fact, it was this monarch, king of Aragon and Valencia and count of Barcelona fro m 1 2 9 1 u n til th e ye a r of his death, 1327, who gave the order for the Pobla to be built by the Lluria family.

H is to ria n s h ad a lre a dy know n how the seeds of Pobla d’Ifac were sown, however this find helps prove they were right and that there really was financial and social activity in the enclave.

Roger of Lluria, who had already been an admiral of the crown of Aragon under Jaume II’s predecessor Pedro III, was master of a lot of ground in Alicante which had made him one of the main local lords following the Christian conquest. It was him that started everything off and these newly discovered coins help

13th century coins are the lastest treasure to be dug up

NEVERENDING FINDS: Pobla d’Ifac continues to reveal details of its past life.

Yet the enclave, unlike others of those difficult times, was shortlived. Another later king, Pedro IV, fortified its walls in an attempt to defend the village from Moorish attacks but in 1359 his battles against Pedro I of Castille (quite logically known as the War of the Two Pedros) resulted in destruction of the Pobla.

I t s i nhabi t ant s f l ed uphi l l t o a farmstead with views of the coastline, which gradually grew and provi ded a base f or a f ut ur e t own which would rule over the area. The name of this farmstead? Calpe, of course.

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Shop shut A CONTROVERSIAL supermarket in Moraira built on land when construction was not permitted following council approval in 2009, will have to close its doors for good following a High Court rejection of the owners’ appeal.

Fighting for expat rights in Europe

By John Smith

A CRASH between a van and a car on the A-31 near Monforte del Cid led to long queues and slow moving traffic towards Elda, worsened by the volume of cars heading for holiday destinations.

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Long delays

Pool death A 38-YEAR-OLD woman was found unconscious at the bottom of the pool in a Novelda gym. The Guardia Civil await the autopsy but initial investigations suggest she fainted and drowned while swimming.

Harry Shindler MBE

WHILST the UK is still a member of the European Union and no-one knows what the future holds when and if the divorce occurs, a number of expatriates have formed various groups in order to try to not only influence governments in the UK and Europe but to disseminate information as it becomes available.

The latest new support group has been formed for expats worried for their future in the EU post Brexit. ‘Expat Citizen Rights in EU’ or ‘ECREU,’ aims to persuade MPs in London and Brussels to state the expat case in negotiations following the EU Referendum. Concerned UK citizens living in EU countries are encouraged to join the group so their views can be put to the negotiators.

The group was set up in France by UK expats, retired marketing and media man Dave Spokes, Roger Boaden who earned an MBE during his working life at the top level of UK Government, long time expat campaigner Brian Cave all resident in France and Harry Shindler MBE, the 95year-old veteran campaigner who lives in Italy and was one of the instigators of the legal demand that all overseas expats should have been able to vote in the referendum.

Membership is free, join at www.ecreu.com.

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No more water woes WATER should not be a problem in Gata following various agreements and announcements from the local council this week.

Mayor Magda Mengual has reported that Alicante Provincial Council has agreed to pay for the area to be connected to the Pedreguer irrigation system, thus guaranteeing farmers will have water next year.

Meanwhile the council also reported that for the time being to meet summer demand water will continue to be bought from Amjasa water company, however an agreement has been reached to connect the mains water network to the Pozo de Gata Residencial well, which has been proved to be of sufficient capacity and quality.

Although this means there should be plenty of water, the council has urged locals and visitors to make responsible use of the vital liquid.

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SEA RESCUE: Maritime Rescue recovered 23 immigrants on board two boats.

By Gemma Elvins-Quinn TEN immigrants aboard a small boat have been rescued around nine miles from the island of Tabarca, Alicante.

The joint operation by the Guardia Civil and Maritime Rescue also found a second boat 11 miles off the coast with 13 men on board and they are seeking a third vessel they believe is headed

for the Alicante or Murcia coastline.

According to the Guardia Civil, all those on board the first vessel were of Algerian nationality and included four children. Those on board reported the existence of the second boat, leading to the belief there is a third boat, with around 30 people on board.

Those on board the first two boats were taken to the port of Alicante.

Teenager injured ONE of Denia’s black spots where traffic safety is concerned was the site of another accident on Saturday morning (July 30) which saw a 16-year-old girl taken to hospital.

The teenager, on a motorbike, was hit by a car at

the crossroads between Avenida Joan Fuster and Calle Diana shortly after 8.30am and was rushed to Denia hospital by SAMU paramedics as the Local Police attempted to organise traffic flow round the site of the crash.

Although trains no longer run in the area, removing the dangers of a level crossing by the crossroads, there are frequent traffic accidents there and the council has reported it is studying ways to improve safety in the area.

Food for thought MERCADONA supermarket has been supplying the San Gabriel neighbourhood with daily food packages to help people in need. Food items, including meat, fish and vegetables, have been taken to the soup kitchen in the neighbourhood which provides meals for those without resources.

“Since the collaboration began, the quality of the menus has greatly improved,” said president

of the neighbourhood association, Antonio Moya.

Mercadona have collaborated with the soup kitchen to serve between 70-100 daily. A spokesperson said: “Mercadona has donated products withdrawn from sale but in perfect condition for consumption on the day,” adding it has supplied more than 42,000 kilos of food and it is their social commitment to support local groups.

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Oh come on, Pokemon THE best thing about Pokemon Go is that players must explore the real world to play it. The worst thing about Pokemon Go is that players must explore the real world to play it.

Indeed, while reports suggesting that the global frenzy encourages previously inactive adolescents to leave the comfort of their bedrooms and mingle with the remainder of the population, it is becoming increasingly clear that in reality the hunt for virtual creatures further reduces the already dwindling amount of time we spend engaging with the outside world.

But it’s not just meaningful interaction that’s in danger; while the game’s loading screen counsels players to ‘be alert at all times’ and ‘stay aware of your surroundings,’ it doesn’t look like many are taking the advice to heart.

Players race across town and city streets at all hours of the day and night, guided into sometimes dangerous, or even criminal, situations by the addictive app, and a Spanish law firm has now warned that certain misdemeanours associated with the craze could result in a prison sentence.

Breaking into a private property, park or other public space, or stalking Pikachu

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By Matt Ford

GOTTA CATCH ‘EM ALL: Pokemon Go, you may have heard of it. while driving are just some of the offences that could be punishable by up to five years behind bars, with the latter offence described as a manifest disregard for the lives of others,’ while your licence could also be rescinded if caught in the act.

In addition, injuries sustained by bumping into benches, lamp posts, or other

street fixtures cannot be claimed for if they occur as a result of ‘negligence by the player,’ and the National Police agree, having launched a social media campaign that includes tips for safe Pokemon-ing, as the inherent dangers of ambling along with your face glued to your mobile become increasingly evident.

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Alleged mayor briber faces jail THE Public Prosecutor has requested a twoyear jail sentence and 15 month, €12 per day fine for the owner of a petrol station in PobleNou de Benitachell who allegedly tried to bribe the local mayor.

Mayor Josep Femenia reported to the Guardia Civil that the accused had sought him out and

approached him whilst he was in a bar. He then tried to offer him €50,000 to speed up a process through which the council was to compensate the businessman with €150,000 for the partial demolition of his petrol station.

The trial will be held before a jury at an Alicante Provincial Court.

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Wrong turn A DRIVER who the Local Police reported was drunk and trying to chase another vehicle ended up in the gardens of a block of apartments on Gandia seafront early on Monday (August 1).

Fund request JAVEA Council has asked Alicante Provincial Council for €312,030 to help cover the cost of work to widen and reinforce the bridge over Rio Gorgos on Avenida Mediterraneo.

Films galore FOUR HUNDRED short films have been presented for inclusion in the fifth Riurau Film Festival of Javea and Jesus Pobre. Between now and September 2, when the event begins, judges have the tough job of choosing 14 finalists.

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Yet another reason to visit

By Eleanor Hawkins THE old fishermen’s paths of the cliffs of Marina Alta are once again becoming popular thanks to coasteering, a sport newly introduced to the area by an active leisure company in Javea.

The practice is not new to the world as it became popular in Pembrokeshire, Wales, in the 90s and has been on offer in the Balearic Islands for some years, however, it is a new form of tourism for the Costa Blanca which offers those looking for something more exciting to do than sunbathe all day a unique insight into the area’s environment.

Combining caving, climbing, hiking, diving and swimming, coasteering is rather

COASTEERING: A sport newly introduced into the area. like a rollercoaster ride but without the wagons.

Guides are not only fully

trained in sports activities and lifesaving but are also environmental educators and biol-

ogists, and are proud to be part of the project.

“Not only do we raise

awareness of the environment, we also teach people about the area’s history, explaining about the paths which were used by ‘pesqueres’ (fishermen) to work and feed their families and the reasons behind the names of different landmarks,” said guide Raul Ibañez.

Although some of the routes are tough, there are some which are suitable for families and nobody is left unaffected.

“Lots of people come back from a four-hour route saying they’ll be back because they want more,” Ibañez proudly admitted.

This new form of tourism is raising expectations in the area, which looks forward to attracting even more visitors.

Tanker lorry burns and causes two kilometre tailbacks TWO kilometre tailbacks were registered on the AP7 motorway near Oliva on Thursday (July 28) when a tanker lorry carrying 33,000 litres of diesel

was involved in a crash and caught fire.

The Valencia provincial fire brigade was kept busy all morning putting out the fire at the site of the crash

in the Alicante bound lane, the brigade and the traffic authority later reported, and although there were tailbacks luckily nobody was injured.

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Kept busy LOCAL and visiting children were kept occupied and their brains working on Saturday (July 30) with a jigsaw puzzle day on Benitachell’s Calle La Paz as part of festivities in honour of Saint Mary Magdalene.

All talk OLIVA Mayor David Gonzalez has been holding meetings with the heads of the Housing and Industry and Energy departments to try and find solutions to the electrical supply problems in the area.

Night walks BENITACHELL’S sports department is holding guided moonlit walks on Tuesdays and Thursdays.

They are suitable for all ages and start at 10pm from the town hall.

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Writing to royalty FOR the second year in a row people who attend Garrucha’s municipal day centre for the elderly have sent a letter to Queen Letizia, who charmed them last summer by replying to their first letter in record time.

The group began preparing their letter at the beginning of the year after one of the elderly members suggested they repeat their missive, centre director Elisabet Campos explained, and this year decided to include a photo so Her Majesty could put faces to the names.

By Eleanor Hawkins A SUSPICIOUS spherical object fished out of the sea just off Les Albaranes beach in Denia last week by two off-duty National Police officers turned out not to be a bomb at all, but a cannon ball believed to date back to the 18th century.

The officers found the round, rusty treasure on the sea bed about 50 metres out to sea on Wednesday July 27 and thinking it was probably some sort of explosive artifact from the Spanish Civil War fished it out of the water and called in TEDAX explosive teams to deal with it.

However after studying the suspicious object, experts agreed it was actually a cannon ball, probably from one of the eight armed ships which are known to have sunk off the coasts of Denia in the period between the Succession War (1707) and the War of Independence (1812).

Municipal archaeologist Josep Antoni Gisbert said that it is vital that finds of this type are reported to the Valencian Underwater Archaeology department but left where they are spotted and complained that the area is losing many of its historical treasures as removing them

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HIDDEN SECRETS: Denia’s coast hides many underwater treasures. and blowing them up is often seen as the easiest solution rather than the last resort it really should be.

Denia’s coasts are in fact so rich in history and heritage that Asuncion Fer-

nandez, the director of the aforementioned department, and archaeologist Carles Monfort are due to give a talk, The Armed Sea, as part of next month’s Denia At War conference cycle.

A TWENTY-SEVEN-YEAROLD woman had to be immobilised and collected in a boat by lifeguards after a nasty fall from an inflatable platform off La Granva beach in Javea on Thursday (July 28).

The woman, who is believed to have broken her leg, was taken to Javea port where an ambulance was waiting to take her to Denia hospital for treatment.

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Happy to help with housing

By Eleanor Hawkins THE municipal housing service has been revamped and will from now on be providing a better, more personal service to people in Javea, the council has announced.

Social Services councillor Pepa Gisbert spoke of the new service model last week and introduced Eva Pastor and Paula Ivars, who will be working from an office at the Social Centre on Calle Rafael Echague to inform and assist anyone who requires help.

The ladies will be providing information on the requirements for housing grants, explaining the rules for renovating old buildings and acting as intermediaries between owners in difficulty and banks and mortgage providers or between owners and tenants, all free of charge.

Gisbert explained that 438 people have been helped

HOUSING SERVICE: Ready and waiting to provide free information and support. with housing matters so far this year and also urged owners of empty properties to

put them up for rent with the municipal housing service.

The department guarantees

owners will be paid and monitors tenants to ensure there are no problems and

can also mediate if problems do occur, the councillor promised.

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Gastro-bar approved THE old Sanidad building in Alicante port is set to become a gourmet gastro-bar.

The board of the Port of Alicante agreed to award the management of the property, opposite the Club de Regatas, to Plusmarino SL, a shoe company from Elche.

There will be no shoe store as originally intended, however, it has not been ruled out that there could be exhibitors showcases but no shoe sales. It will primarily be a hospitality and catering business with a concession period of 20 years renewable for five more at €40,000 per year.

The plans were approved by all councillors in the town hall except for one who had called on the building to be turned in to a museum.

Successful joint venture results in more sales MERCALICANTE, the joint venture of the wholesale market of fruits and vegetables be-

tween Mercasa and the city of Alicante, ended the first half of this year with a trading volume

of products that exceeds 28.4 million kilos.

The marketing of these products has generated more than €32.2 million from January to June 2016, according to Mercalicante, an increase in the wholesale fruit and vegetable market sales volume in kilos of 7.38 per cent over the same period last year.

In total, they sold 18,347,231 kilos of fruit; 8,359,296 kilos of vegetables and 1,730,606 kilos of potatoes.

March was the busiest month with greater economic movement, generating €6.04 million, followed by June with €6 million.

The stone fruit season is over but recorded positive figures according to Mercalicante.

Apricots sold most with 283,752 kilos, followed by peaches with 251,634 kilos. In total they have sold 931,105 kilos of stone fruits between January and June.

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Council concerns over train project

By Eleanor Hawkins TAVERNES DE LA VALLDIGNA Council presented five concerns regarding the Coastal Train Informative Study as it considers the area will be negatively affected by the plan proposed by the Ministry of Public Works and Development.

Although the council agrees the Valencia-Ali-

cante line is needed, it is worried about level crossings, flooding and its wells being affected.

One solution proposed is footbridges over the lines and the station adapted to ensure pedestrians stay safe. The council also asks for the new line to be built further west to avoid wells and the future beach development being damaged and for measures to be taken to avoid possible flooding.

Caught in the act TWO women aged 24 and 41 have been arrested at a shop in Gandia suspected of shoplifting.

The National Police reported t h a t t h e wo me n had a t t e m p t e d t o ste a l â‚Ź468 worth of clothes by removing alarm tags and hiding them under their dresses. A patrol was sent out when a security guard from the shop reported that h e h a d c a u g h t th e

two women but they were trying to escape.

A lth o u g h th e y h ad handed some items over to the guard, when officers arrived they found more clothes and a gadget used to remove alarms in the two suspects’ possession.

Both women have previous police records and have been placed at the disposal of a court.

Runner dies A MAN from Majadahonda die d of a he a rt a tta c k in Javea last week while out running in the Portitxol area.

The 57-year-old, a regular runner, was seen collapsing by a driver who called 112 Eme rge nc y Se rvic e s , but SAMU paramedics could do nothing to save his life.

The Loc a l Polic e a nd G ua rdia C ivil took s ome hours to ide ntify the de ceased as he was carrying no documentation.

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Learning the ropes SIX youngsters have started work experience at businesses in Huercal-Overa this week under a council scheme to help them gain experience and later find work.

Local mayor Domingo Fernandez signed the agreements which will allow the youths to put what they have studied into practice and start learning the ropes with three month contracts which will involve five hours work per day in exchange for €300 per month, 80 per cent of which is paid by the council.

The scheme aims to help reduce the number of young unemployed adults in the town, the mayor explained, and has so far proved quite successful with 50 per cent of those taking part later finding permanent jobs.

“Thanks to the businesses which have joined the scheme youngsters get the chance to obtain important experience in the workplace which will later help them find jobs,” Fernandez said.

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Gone fishin’ JAVEA Local Police carrying out marine surveillance caught two French men fishing illegally at Cap de Sant Antoni marine reserve during a daily patrols. The men were arrested and their gear and catch confiscated.

Transport grants UNIVERSITY students from PobleNou de Benitachell can now present applications for transport grants up to €120 at the town hall on Calle Mayor from Mondays to Fridays between 9am and 2pm.

Sandy balls CHECK MATE: The special 20th edition birthday event.

By Eleanor Hawkins JAVEA’S Living Chess drama representation is considered an event of national tourist interest.

It recently celebrated its 20th birthda y w ith a s pe c ia l e dition a t the weekend which more than 200 people took part in.

G roups of c hildre n, the living

chess pieces, combine chess movements with the script of a story on a giant chess board, which due to the size of this year’s event was set up at the municipal sports centre.

JAVEA’S Playa del Arenal will be hosting a beach tennis tournament from today (August 4) until Sunday 7.

Matches start this afternoon and the finals will be at 6pm and 7pm on Sunday.

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Failed birth SWEDEN: A baby died in hospital after six failed attempts at a natural birth before an emergency caesarean section. The mother, who was having her fourth child, said she repeatedly said she needed a caesarean following complications.

Bed bugs SWEDEN: The number of bedbugs in Swedish hotels has doubled in recent years, according to figures from a pest control firm. Bedbugs are parasites that feed on blood, particularly human blood and thrive in bedding.

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Penny pinching A 65-YEAR-OLD from East Sussex has been named the UK’s thriftiest great-grandmother after revealing how to make dinner from scratch for just 47 pence on her blog thriftylesley.com.

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ber 19 and the Radford family from Lancashire has said they won’t rule out another one to make it an even 20.

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THE body of a 32-year-old British financier was found six days after he was pushed off a boat by a friend in a ‘prank gone wrong’ while on a stag do in Lisbon, Portugal.

A COURT battle is under way in London to try and bring back a Welsh girl who is alleged to have been kept prisoner by her father in Saudi Arabia for four years. She was born in Swansea but taken to Saudia Arabia when she was 16.

CHEAP DINNER: A greatgrandmother shows how to make a meal for just 47p.

19 and growing THE UK’s biggest family has celebrated the arrival of baby num-

SWEDEN: Ahead of the popular crayfish season, thieves have stolen crayfish from a lake in southern Sweden. Around 180 unauthorised crayfish cages were found containing around 10 crayfish.

DENMARK: A 21-year-old man was killed in a traffic accident with police believing the man may have had the accident whilst hunting for Pokemon.

They found the Pokemon Go app still running on his mobile phone.

SPEAKING for the first time after a Syrian refugee blew himself up, Chancellor Angela Merkel reaffirmed her commitment to helping refugees saying “we’ll manage it.”

Attack plans A 15-YEAR-OLD was arrested in Baden-Wurttemberg on suspicion of planning to carry out an attack on his school.

The teenager had been in contact with the youngster who shot nine people then himself in Munich the previous week.

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UNIVERSITY students have created the ‘Bloon,’ a plastic bubble on top of a converted telephone box in between two houses. They say it could be an answer to the overcrowding in student halls.

NORWAY: Reports suggest that, despite tourism in other cities across Europe being affected by a string of attacks, the tourist industry in Oslo appears to be heading for another record year.

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NORWAY: A man crashed into a herd of reindeer in Stokkedalen. A total of 19 reindeer were killed or had to be put down following the accident.

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A SUITCASE was blown up near a migrant centre on the outskirts of Nuremberg.

Bavarian police confirmed the detonation but said no one had been injured.

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Smelly fight ON THE GO: Driver was playing the game while driving a bus.

Pokemon has gone pe ople wi l l be t r ansf er r ed f r om te mporar y cent r es t o per m anent ones while their cases are being assessed.

A BUS driver has been sacked for playing Pokemon Go behind the wheel. Passengers on the service between Leiden and Alphen aan den Rijn, filmed the driver playing the game whilst behind the wheel.

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AN MP wants the residency period to qualify for a Dutch passport to d o u b le fro m fiv e to 10 ye a rs .

Some 25,000 people applied for

THE refugee settlement agency is closing 15 emergency locations because of a falling number of new arrivals of asylum seekers. More

ROTTERDAM’S summer carnival is the 100th tradition to be included on the Dutch cultural herita ge list not ed f or i t s ‘ cul t ur al identity and social cohesion.’ It first began in 1984.

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POLICE were called to deal with an incident on a Berlin train when a fight occurred over a pair of smelly feet when a man decided to take his shoes and socks off and put them on the seat next to a fellow passenger who complained of the smell.

Beach value GERMANY has the best value beaches in Europe according to the Beach Price Index compiled by online travel agency Travelbird which ranked the world’s most popular beaches from least to most expensive. Timmendorfer Strand in Schleswig-Holstein, was named best value.

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MOUNT ELBRUS: Has two summits which are both dormant volcanoes.

Climber dies A CLIMBER from St Petersburg has died while attempting to scale Mount Elbrus, the tallest mountain in Europe. The 45-year-old had reached 5,350 metres before falling seriously unwell. Part of the Caucasus, Elbrus is near the Georgian border and has two summits which are both dormant volcanoes.

Subliminal soundbites SWEDISH authorities have accused Russia of initiating a campaign of psychological warfare by infiltrating media outlets, web articles, Twitter and other opinion shaping frontiers and promoting a subtle pro-Russian narrative. The Swedish Security Police say the plot is designed to impact political decision-making by sowing social tension and division.

Surprise surprise EVERY month polls are conducted to discover the approval rating of Russia’s political class and shockingly president Putin has come out on top again, with 82 per cent declaring themselves happy with his work. How willingly people would criticise the authoritarian leader to someone who has their address is a different story.

RIVER FIND: Army managed to recover the tank.

Tank is living history ARMY officers managed to pull the world’s only surviving and preserved T-34-76 tank from the Don River near Voronezh south of Moscow. It is thought that the tank sank into the ice during a retreat from the Nazis in 1942. T-34 models made a huge contribution to the war effort.

Punished planet CONSTRUCTION of a huge pipeline spearheaded by Gazprom and the Chinese government through the Altai mountains is being vehemently opposed by the World Wildlife Fund who are lobbying for a change in the route.

The Golden Mountains of Altai in southern Siberia are home to a dwindling number of endangered species.

Cheeky chappies HACKERS based i n Russia and possibly allied to the Kremlin have been bl am ed f or a scandal ous

leak of emails from Democratic Party chiefs in the US that appeared to show the par t y conspi r i ng t o el ect Hillary Clinton as its nominee. Donal d Tr um p has called on Russia to release even more emails.

Party poopers THE Russian political and media class is in uproar over the banning of athletes suspected of doping from the Olympics, with Putin declaring that rejected candidates would have their very own Games in Moscow and be entitled to the same prize money and benefits, and that victory without Russian participation is meaningless.

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By John Smith IN a report released by the National Statistics Institute (INE) on July 28, it announced unemployment in Spain continued to fall in the second quarter of 2016 and had now dropped to 20 per cent of the population, the lowest figure since the fourth quarter of 2009.

The current unemployment figure of 4.57 million should see further falls during the third quarter as more people

is the number of people who found new employment in Spain during the second quarter of 2016.

EU COMMISSION: Valdis Dombrovskis and Pierre Moscovici.

No fine for Spain THE EU executive has backed down on its pledge to sanction Iberian duo Spain and Portugal for failing to meet deficit targets, with commissioner, Pierre Moscovici, citing current anti-EU sentiments sweeping the continent as the main reason for the about face.

“Sanctions, even symbolic ones, would not have been understood by the public,” he said. “It’s not the best approach at a time when doubts are widespread in Europe.”

The landmark move has

are employed on temporary contracts to cope with the continuing influx of tourists who have deserted previously popular spots such as Turkey.

Whilst good news for the economy as a whole, the percentage of youth unemployment continues to be horrific with over 60 per cent of those under 20 and 43 per cent in the age range of 20 to 24 unemployed. In light of the fact Catalonia is once again banging the In-

We are operating in a challenging geopolitical environment, with repeated disruption in some of our key source and destination markets.” Peter Fankhauser CEO of Thomas Cook on drop in forecast profits.

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thus been vetoed once more, with Moscovici twittering about “new fiscal paths” for the debt-ridden nations, which both posted budgets exceeding the current EU limit of 3 per cent of GDP for a few years.

“Spain and Portugal have come a long way having experienced severe economic and financial crises and have restored financial stability thanks to major fiscal adjustment.” said EU Commission Vice-President, Valdis Dombrovskis.

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Interest rates AS speculation continues to surround the Bank of England and the possibility it may decide to cut the base interest rate, the US Federal Reserve has decided it will not increase rates for the time being although it is widely anticipated there will be an increase, if not in September then before the end of the year.

Whilst certain parts of the British economy would benefit from a rate cut, the Bank of England has to be careful that if it takes such a decision and the Fed pushes its rate up, both shares and sterling could be quite adversely affected.

Barcelona millionaires A RECENT piece of research by consultancy company WealthIn sight has produced a list of the cities in Europe with the highest percentage of millionaires per head of population and Barcelona is the only place in Spain which enters the top 20 with just 0.6 per cent of the population having a worth of $1 million (€900,000) or more.

British fall short with wages THE results of a report published by the Trades Union Council (TUC) in the UK which is based on figures prepared by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) suggests that wages in real terms in the UK have dropped by 10 per cent or more which is a worse situation than

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any member of the EU except Greece.

Whilst much is made of a decrease in unemployment figures, the TUC suggests that this is because wages are so depressed especially when compared to European partners who have seen an average increase of 6.7 per cent overall and in the case of Poland a stunning 23 per cent.

dependence drum, it is interesting to note that since the beginning of 2016, the number of unemployed in Catalonia fell by 65,608 and this June represents the biggest percentage decline for that month in the last 20 years.

Catalonia leads unemployment decline in Spain and this shows despite fears concerning the future, employers are comfortable with continuing to create new employment opportunities.

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Hinkley Point DESPITE earlier reports that the French company EDF was thinking of pulling out of the production of the Hinkley Point power station it is now believed that the board will meet shortly in order to confirm its intention to continue with the £18 billion (€21.5 billion project).

Once this is approved and funds are in place, work can then commence on the construction which is likely to involve the employment of 2,500 construction workers.

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NET VOL 479.06 93.42 1,841.10 508.15 1,450.70 247.74 306.74 553.71 1,909.46 172.77 1,547.77 17,583.16 1,204.63 123.44 2,412.42 6,419.60 583.73 1,454.76 4,402.15 75.21 293.76 381.45 72.09 2,572.51 32.18 735.62 192.11 49.19 1,072.45 844.33 301.34 696.60 402.97 265.53 784.00 1,945.81 9,582.67 961.51 94.46 68.93 7,385.97 296.40 307.87 139.42 4,369.28 186.10 529.86 3,407.59 83.54 1,153.65

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Brexit aftermath and moving forward Ask the expert Peter Loveday Contact me at euroweekly@currenciesdirect.com

IT was a tough start to July for Sterling in the aftermath of the UK’s decision to leave the EU, as the pound slumped to a 31-year low on the dollar and a two-and-a-half year low on the euro.

The pound was put further under pressure in the early part of July when former Prime Minister David Cameron resigned from his post.

As a result, uncertainty was rife in the markets as investors were hesitant to put their faith in the pound and instead headed for safe haven currencies such as the Yen and USD. It is predicted that the uncertainty surrounding the pound will continue in the short to medium term as all eyes sear on the Bank of England and what their intentions will be moving forward post Brexit.

Furthermore, the Bank of England decided to keep interest rates on hold in their meeting in July, citing the initial impact that the Brexit had on the UK economy was currently too severe. By doing so the pound rallied in the second week of July as the decision was coincided with the UK’s

TOUGH TIMES: For Sterling with the uncertainty set to continue. new Prime Minister Theresa May being unveiled with the pound gaining 2-3 per cent on all of its major counterparts. The pound thrived in the days following May’s appointment as the new PM stated that despite having differing views regarding the Brexit, Britain would thrive in the long-term, without the EU.

If Theresa May’s remarks are a sign of what is to come then the general public would assume we can expect a UK healthy economy moving forward. Investors however are not so optimistic in the short-term, as the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee could potentially implement a programme of Quantitative Easing at

their next meeting in August.

As they left interest rates on hold this month, they may be forced to give further stimulus in order to boost the economy in the long-term. Initially, however, the pound would be expected to weaken, especially on the euro as the Bank of England would essentially be printing more money highlighting the weakness of the economy.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has recently insisted that the UK’s negotiations to leave the EU will not commence until the new Prime Minister has triggered Article 50. It would appear Theresa May will seek to trigger the official deal in 2017, giving her party and the UK time to properly manoeuvre themselves out of the EU, as it will take approximately two years to be released from EU regulations. Angela Merkel did suggest that the bond between the UK and the European Union will still be as strong as ever after the Brexit, showing commitment to keep in partnership moving forward.

Moving forward, the EU and UK could move interest rates in the coming months, which will again trigger a volatile period, plus with the US political race starting to heat up, certain global volatility is expected in the long build up to Christmas.

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New investment in British industry

By John Smith DESPITE, or possibly because of the referendum result, GlaxoSmithKline, the sixth largest pharmaceutical company in the world does not intend to move new business outside of the UK but will invest a further £275 million (€325 million) in expanding its UK manufacturing base as it still believes that Britain is a good country to trade in.

When announcing this decision, CEO Sir Andrew Witty said that a combination of a skilled workforce and an attractive tax regime meant that Britain was still a good base for the company even after Brexit and he was a well-publicised Remainer.

By increasing production, most of which will be for export, the company expects not only to increase its turnover but to be able to afford to increase staffing levels and it is proud of the fact that with this latest proposed spend, it will have invested £1 billion (€1.2

GSK’s recognition of our skilled workforce, world leading scientific capabilities and competitive tax environment is further proof that there really is no place better in Europe to grow a business.”

billion) in expansion within the UK in just the last six years.

Rather than create new factories, the money will be used to expa nd e x i st i ng si t es i n Count y The Rt Hon Durham, Hertfordshire and ScotGreg Clark la nd w h er e i t al r eady em pl oys MP 6,000 people in direct manufacturing.

This news, following the news that the British econom y has expanded dur i ng Photo Credit No 10 flickr the last six months, was

welcomed by all, including the government and Greg Clark, the Business and Energy Secretary, commented that “An investment of this scale is a clear vote of confidence in Britain and underlines our position as a global business leader.

“GSK’s recognition of our skilled workforce, world leading scientific capabilities and competitive tax environment is further proof that there really is no place better in Europe to grow a business.”

Whilst the recent growth in the economy has brought a smile to the faces of many politicians, it should be noted that May and June did see a slow-down in growth and the figures following the referendum result are still to be compiled and wi l l be i ndi cat i ve of how British and Foreign business has really reacted.

I t coul d be a ver y t ough f ew months for the economy or hopefully, the markets will find some other event or country to panic over and the British economy will carry on regardless.

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IRISH CUSTOMERS: More than 250,000 need to consider taking out a new policy.

By John Smith THE decision by the Gibraltar Financial Services Commission a week ago to direct Enterprise Insurance Company to cease writing new business after the company admitted to being insolvent has now led to the directors agreeing with the Supreme Court for the company to be placed into liquidation and a provisional liquidator has been appointed.

The insurer, being unable to obtain additional funds from shareholders is said to have had more than 250,000 customers, with 14,000 motor policies sold in Ireland and many indemnity policies sold to solicitors and other legal firms around the world.

The appointment of a provisional liquidator has been made in an effort to speed up investigations as to whether any funds would be available in order to satisfy claims and shareholders but whilst authorities suggest that all policies remain in force, there is currently no guarantee

The co-ordination of national protection schemes for policyholders remains unsatisfactory.” that any claims will be settled.

Indeed the Central Bank of Ireland in a public announcement encouraged motorists who have insured through Enterprise to consider taking out new policies to ensure that they are covered in the event of an accident and they are advised to contact their brokers regardless.

According to the governor of the Irish Central Bank Philip Lane, Europe needs to be more co-ordinated with regard to protection schemes for insurance companies and their customers in the event of a firm failing.

“The coordination of national protection schemes for policyholders remains unsatisfactory,” he said. “Should an insurance firm fail, citizens are

covered in full, in part or not at all, depending on where they are.”

This inconsistency is because under EU ‘passporting’ rules, insurers are allowed to be regulated in one country but sell insurance in another so that under this system, when an insurer fails, the cost of paying claims sometimes falls on the country where the insurance was sold rather than the country in which the insurer is domiciled.

This is not the first time that an insurance company of this type has failed, the most recent occurrence being when Malta based insurer Setanta Insurance failed and eventually, the bulk of the costs had to be met from Irish and other local protection schemes.

As the liquidator starts investigating Enterprise, so more information about assets and liabilities should emerge although it is not unusual for professional costs to take up a great deal of any assets left in any company in similar distress.

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Innocent until proven guilty so stop the witch hunting LEAPY LEE SAYS IT

OTHERS THINK IT DELIGHTED to see my old ‘Tremeloes’ mates ‘Chip’ Hawkes and Rick Wakefield found not guilty of assaulting a 15-yearold girl almost 50 years ago.

Not guilty is of course a far more exonerating verdict than ‘insufficient evidence to prosecute,’ the decision handed down by authorities in the recent Cliff Richard allegations. Sorry to once again get the backs up of loyal Cliff admirers, but there is still the Elm Tree guest house affair, whic h se e m s t o h a v e c o n v en ien tly dropped out of sight over the past year or so.

My main gripe in these so called historic ‘witch hunts’ is not that I’m against them being pursued; it’s the publication of

names before any charges have been proven, or indeed even made against possible suspects. I certainly do not think that crimes of this abhorrent nature should be s h elv ed s imply be c a u s e c ons ide ra ble time has elapsed since the alleged assaults occurred.

The Elm Tree allegations involved a large number of personalities and people in high office and I for one would still like to see any guilty parties receive their just desserts.

I sincerely hope the police continue their enquiries into this affair and not back o ff s im ply be c a us e they’ve had their fingers burnt in a few

CLIFF RICHARD: Intends to sue police.

unproven cases. I was also surprised at the paltry sum Cliff Richard announced he was intending to sue the police for.

A million pounds to this man is not too much above pocket money. I would have thought the figure sought by an innocent party in his position would be in the 10’s of millions. In my opinion suing for a million pounds is actually extremely clever.

To not sue at all would undoubtedly be suspicious. To sue for 10’s of millions would invoke strong reaction from the police, who would then be under considerable pressure to fight the case.

Who knows where a high profile investigation of that nature would lead? A million pounds is just right. Look out for a very low key, out of court settlement and a donat i on of t he m i l l i on pounds t o a favourite charity.

Keep the faith.

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Police probe possible links with Madeleine 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

SHORTLY after Madeleine McCann’s disappearance in 2007, the late broadcaster/MP Sir Clement Freud, recently unmasked as a paedophile, befriended her parents at his nearby villa in Praia da Luz, Portugal.

With the focus on the referendum and its aftermath (PM Theresa May possibly favouring a Brexit-lite fudge?), you’d be forgiven for missing some recent news. Namely, that police from Operation Grange, the ongoing Metropolitan Police investigation into Madeleine’s disappearance, are reportedly assessing whether this new information is relevant to their five-year, £12 million inquiry.

Freud, who was “great friends” with Rolf Harris and worked with Cyril Smith, was accused of child sex abuse after victims contacted ITV’s Exposure documentary team, who also broke the story of Jimmy Savile’s paedophilia four years ago. Freud allegedly spent

MISSING LINK: Another probe may be launched at the expense of taxpayers. years abusing one girl he raised as a daughter, and violently raped another who, now 64, said she “wouldn’t be surprised” if he was linked to the case.

So, another probe launched by the

police just in time for another trip to sunny Portugal at taxpayers’ expense maybe? The Met really needs to stop wasting valuable manpower and scarce resources. Freud was apparently in the

UK the night Madeleine disappeared and never questioned by police.

As for Kate McCann – a “Marmitefigure” like Cliff Richard - hasn’t she suffered enough? Nobody accuses Mrs

Bulger of not looking after James when he was abducted or any other parent whose child has been kidnapped: Ben Needham, April Jones, etc.

No Way Back, the latest in my psychological crime thriller series featuring journalist Alice Myers (as you know, all profits to Cudeca cancer charity), has a character based on a Kate McCann-like figure. A woman who can’t rest until she discovers the fate of her own daughter who went missing 26 years earlier. A woman so obsessed with closure and peace of mind in her unending search for the truth she’d maybe contemplate blackmail, even murder.

Whatever the outcome, Kate McCann surely needs closure, peace of mind, too, just like the character in my thriller. Whether she finds it only time will tell.

Nora Johnson’s thrillers ‘No Way Back,’ ‘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 Costa del Sol Cudeca cancer charity.

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Look on the bright side Cassandra Nash A weekly look - and not entirely impartial reaction to the Spanish political scene

AT the time of writing, no-one knows who will represent Spain at the Rio Olympics.

No member of the royal family has been designated and acting president Mariano Rajoy is staying put. This is not pique because the Games should, in all fairness, have gone to Spain, but fallout from the political parties’ inability to get their act together and form a government.

Who in their right mind would want to go to Rio right now? The Zika virus, a self-proclaimed Islamist terrorist threat and the everpresent threat of violence are hardly inviting.

Sighs of relief all round at possessing castiron reasons for not going.

Get on with it THE Spanish complained in the past that

Reverse turn HAD Cataluña been allowed a referendum a couple of years ago the ‘remain’ vote would have obtained a narrow victory.

No longer, the latest opinion poll showed that the balance has tipped in favour of independence. If Prohibition turned America into a nation of drinkers in the early 20th century, vetoing a Catalan referendum is creating a nation of separatists.

“all politicians are the same” and they haven’t changed their minds in the present.

They are running out of patience as they are forced to endure dickering and bickering between people who are paid to represent them but can’t manage to form a government.

The argument heard from intransigent MP’s – usually socialist – that they have a responsibility to their voters won’t wash.

Few voters care a jot about party politics: they just want a government, any government, and they want it now.

Pots and kettles SPA IN mus t ma ke a nother €10 billion in cuts, Brussels says, but heaven knows what part of the welfare state will be slashed to provide them.

Acting president Mariano Rajoy c a mpa igne d tw ic e on t he strength of returning the economy to the straight and narrow while running up a huge debit balance.

Four years on he and his ministers continue to bleat about the situa tion the y inhe rite d from the socialists but studiously ignore the situation they ha ve c re a te d themselves.

ACTING PRESIDENT: Mariano Rajoy.

A relentless fighter in the face of adversity Sally Trotman www.sallytrotman.com Sally Trotman is a qualified Counsellor who works with Astrology, Numerology and the Tarot. Each month she will deliver the forecast as an intuitive tool to aid increased self awareness.

SUN in Leo: Until August 22 the sun is ruled by the sign of Leo. This courageous sign is helping you to believe more in yourself.

The lion is a powerful pack animal, proud and regal. This beautiful creature reminds you of your own beauty. This is not to be mistaken for ego, but an increased awareness of your own divinity. The lion is a relentless fighter in the face of adversity. The presence of this animal reminds you of your own ‘wild’ side.

Observe your emotions this month, especially when feeling angry or fearful. What situations evoke these strong emotions and how can you begin to tame them?

When the sun moves into the sign of Virgo later in the month, you may feel more reflective. This is a good time to take stock on a practical level, declutter and get your financial affairs in order. Virgo favours routine, so begin a daily discipline such as Meditation, Yoga or some other form of exercise to help you develop a calmer mind and healthier body.

Numerology: Listen to your intincts The number seven: The number seven is the seeker, the thinker, the searcher of Truth.

Take nothing at face value this month and look deeper to understand the underlying hidden truths. The seven indicates that perhaps nothing is exactly as it seems and that reality is often hidden behind the illusions of own our thinking and perception.

This month try to look at your life from a different perspective. Just a small change in how you view a certain situation can cause a big shift. Have faith in your own intuition

and take time to connect to your inner world through meditation and any other practice which enables you to develop a calmer mind-set.

Trust your inner vision to guide you to exactly where you need to be.

The Tarot: Acknowledge your successes!

The Chariot: This major arcana picture card depicts a king standing triumphant in his chariot. Remember your own successes this month. You have come a long way and achieved much so give yourself some praise for all your accomplishments! Then consider what you else you would like to achieve by the end of the year.

Now, at the half way point of 2016, recognise your victories so far this year and create a plan for the second half of the year. Think big, let go of small thoughts about yourself and see yourself succeeding in whatever venture you choose!

As the month draws to a close we enter

the sun sign of Leo, the proud leader. Take pride in all that you do and know that if you can dream it you can do it, so go for it!

Sally Trotman offers personalised Astrology, Numerology and Tarot Readings via Skype, telephone and email. If you would like to find out more about how to make the most of the next six months please visit her website to find out how a reading can help you www.sallytrotman.com. Please send her an email at sally.trotman@btinternet.com to make a booking.

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9:30pm Olympics 2016 11:00pm BBC News 11:30pm Regional News 11:40pm Weather 11:45pm Olympics 2016 1:00am Olympics 2016 5:00am Weather for the Week Ahead 5:05am BBC News

7:15am Countryfile Summer Diaries 8:00am Garden Rescue 8:45am Neighbourhood Blues 9:15am £100k House Revisits 10:15am Olympics 2016 2:00pm Olympics 2016 2:45pm Red Rock 3:30pm The Edge 4:15pm Escape to the Country 5:00pm Great Antiques Map of Britain 5:30pm Flog It! 6:15pm Pointless 7:00pm Olympics 2016 8:00pm Eggheads 8:30pm University Challenge 9:00pm Olympics 2016 9:30pm Only Connect 10:00pm Brexit: The Battle for Britain 11:00pm Olympics Rio 2016.

11:45pm Newsnight 12:15am Weather 12:20am Robot Wars 1:20am The Super League Show

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Olympics 2016 Olympics 2016 Olympics 2016 Olympics 2016 Britain on Film In 1959, Britain’s biggest cinema company, the Rank Organisation, decided to replace its newsreels with a series of short, quirky, topical documentaries that examined all aspects of life in Britain.

3:30am Sounds of the Sixties Brian Matthew selects more classics and rarities from pop’s golden decade, including music by the Hollies, Nancy Sinatra and Petula Clark, plus a Jim Reeves track with lyrics inspired by the New Testament.

3:55am The Riviera: A History in Pictures 4:55am This is BBC Four

7:15am 3rd Rock from the Sun 8:05am Everybody Loves Raymond 9:00am Frasier 9:30am Frasier 10:05am The Big Bang Theory 10:30am The Big Bang Theory 10:55am The Simpsons 11:25am The Simpsons 12:00pm The Simpsons 12:30pm Come Dine with Me 1:00pm Channel 4 News Summary 1:05pm Come Dine with Me 1:35pm Come Dine with Me 3:10pm Fifteen to One 4:10pm Countdown 5:00pm Three in a Bed 6:00pm Couples Come Dine with Me 7:00pm The Simpsons 7:30pm Hollyoaks 8:00pm Channel 4 News 9:00pm Dispatches 9:30pm Superfoods: The Real Story 10:00pm Eden 11:00pm Naked Attraction 12:05am Tattoo Fixers on Holiday

7:00am Good Morning Britain 9:30am Lorraine 10:25am The Jeremy Kyle Show 11:30am This Morning 1:30pm Loose Women 2:30pm ITV Lunchtime News 3:00pm Judge Rinder 4:00pm Secret Dealers 5:00pm Tipping Point 6:00pm Cash Trapped 7:00pm Local News and Weather 7:30pm ITV Evening News 8:00pm Emmerdale 8:30pm Coronation Street 9:00pm Wild France with Ray Mears 9:30pm Coronation Street 10:00pm Brief Encounters 11:00pm ITV News 11:45pm Benidorm 12:45am Britain as Seen on ITV 1:10am Jackpot247 4:00am The Jeremy Kyle Show 4:55am Nightscreen

7:00am Planet’s Funniest Animals 7:20am Dinner Date 8:10am The Ellen DeGeneres Show 9:00am Emmerdale 9:30am Coronation Street 10:00am Coronation Street 10:30am Psych 11:20am Royal Pains 12:15pm Dinner Date 1:15pm Emmerdale 1:45pm Coronation Street 2:15pm Coronation Street 2:45pm The Ellen DeGeneres Show 3:35pm The Jeremy Kyle Show 4:40pm The Jeremy Kyle Show 5:45pm The Jeremy Kyle Show 6:50pm Take Me Out 8:00pm You’ve Been Framed!

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Heartbeat Where the Heart is The Royal Judge Judy Judge Judy Judge Judy Murder, She Wrote Love Your Garden Heartbeat The Royal Where the Heart is Doctor in the House Rising Damp George and Mildred Heartbeat Murder, She Wrote Rosemary and Thyme Charles: The Destiny of a Prince Without You Liverpool 1 Blue Murder Marchlands ITV3 Nightscreen Teleshopping Innovative, value-formoney products brought directly to you at home.

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Gunsmoke Minder Ironside Quincy M.E. The Chase Magnum, P.I. Gunsmoke Pawn Stars Pawn Stars Storage Wars Storage Wars The Sweeney Quincy M.E. Ironside Storage Wars Storage Wars Premiership Rugby 7’s Highlights River Monsters The Keeper FYI Daily The Keeper The Glimmer Man FYI Daily The Glimmer Man Premiership Rugby 7’s Highlights Motorsport UK Movies Now ITV4 Nightscreen

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The Wright Stuff Cowboy Builders 5 News Celebrity Big Brother Home and Away Neighbours NCIS Rosamunde Pilcher: Coming Home 5 News Neighbours Home and Away 5 News Aircrash: Collision in the Skies Police Interceptors Unleashed Celebrity Big Brother Mascara Boys: Sex Me Up Celebrity Big Brother’s Bit on the Side Can’t Pay? We’ll Take it Away!

Super Casino Person of Interest Witches: A Century of Murder

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Into the Storm Snakes on a Plane In the Line of Fire Ant-Man Crimson Tide Seventh Son The Day the Earth Stood Still 9:00pm Ant-Man 11:10pm Into the Storm 12:50am AVP: Alien vs.

Predator

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Bad News Bears Romancing the Stone The Jewel of the Nile Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion Nacho Libre This is Where I Leave You And So it Goes The Cable Guy Unfinished Business Bad Bromance Ali G Indahouse Kiss Kiss Bang Bang

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7:00am Football Gold 8:00am WWE Raw 9:00am Premier League 100 Club 9:30am The Premier League Years 11:30am Great Sporting Moments 11:45am Great Sporting Moments 12:00pm Goals on Sunday 1:30pm Football Gold 3:00pm The Premier League Years 5:00pm Premier League 100 Club 5:30pm Sporting Triumphs 6:30pm Football Gold 6:45pm Football Gold 7:00pm Soccer A.M. 8:30pm Live Elite League Speedway 10:30pm Spfl Rnd Up 2016/17 11:00pm More Than a Game 11:30pm Great Sporting Moments 11:45pm Great Sporting Moments 12:00am Premier League Legends 12:30am Super League Fulltime

Infini Finding Pixar The Perfect Guy The Good Dinosaur The Man From U.N.C.L.E. Hyena Road The Good Dinosaur The Man From U.N.C.L.E. An undercover CIA agent and his KGB counterpart team up to thwart a fascist Italian socialite.

The Perfect Guy A successful San Francisco lobbyist gets involved with a man who seems almost too good to be true.

Infini Bad Blood Narcopolis Hyena Road

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Cricket Classics Cricket Cricket Cricket’s Greatest Cricket’s Greatest Cricket’s Greatest Cricket’s Greatest Cricket Cricket Cricket’s Greatest Cricket’s Greatest Cricket Cricket Cricket’s Greatest Cricket’s Greatest Cricket Cricket Live T20 Blast Cricket Sporting Triumphs Cricket’s Greatest Cricket’s Greatest T20 Blast Cricket Sporting Triumphs Cricket’s Greatest Cricket’s Greatest Series profiling some of the greatest cricketers of all time.

OPINION & COMMENT

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Interesting airline awards YOUR recent (July 21) survey of the top 10 airlines was most interesting though the annual Skytrax list is often regarded as the most reliable as it is voted on by thousands of regular, frequent fliers.

Cathay Pacific (based in Hong Kong but essentially British) and Singapore airlines have long been the benchmark for all other airlines; the Middle East companies like your top two, Emirates and Qatar, have learnt most of their service skills and qualities from these and other east Asia airlines like EVA (Taiwan-where I was based for 20 years) and ANA. I was surprised Turkish airlines and Lufthansa appeared in your list, as European - as well as American (north and south) or African! - rarely feature among the best.

Peter Holmes

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Dear Leapy BEFORE moving back to the UK six years ago, my husband and myself lived in Costa Blanca North for 10 years. Every Friday we always read your column and we always agreed with everything you say. Why are so many people so blind? Keep up the good work.

Rita Akerman

Best wishes I REALLY enjoyed your insert (and Bettina’s) in the ‘Growing Old Disgracefully’ TV show which was just on our TV3 channel! Hope that you are keeping well. Read your ‘Euro Weekly News’ column when in Spain, and have never forgotten ‘Little Arrows’... when I could move the feet! Continued good health to you.

Maurice Foster (OAP)

Never give up I WOULD like to point out that out of 384 polling stations across Britain, 252 were won by Leave and constitutes an overwhelming vote and not ‘a narrow margin’ that Colin Granville stated in last week’s edition of the Sur. Furthermore we were battered by Cameron for about a year to Remain, which turned out to be a complete waste of our money, but a mere three month campaign by Leave wiped the floor with his pitiful whining on his

A SHORT list of financial and industrial FUBARs from the EU... Read it and weep!

Ford Transit moved to Turkey 2013 with EU grant. Jaguar Land Rover has recently agreed to build a new plant in Slovakia with EU grant, owned by Tata, the same company who has trashed our steel works and emptied the workers’ pension funds.

British Army’s new Ajax fighting vehicles to be built in Spain using Swedish steel at the request of the EU to support jobs in Spain with EU grant, rather than Wales.

Gillette gone to Eastern Europe with an EU grant. Texas Instruments Greenock gone to Germany with EU grant.

Boots sold to Italians Stefano Pessina who have based their HQ in Switzerland to avoid tax to the tune of £80 million a year, using an EU loan for the purchase.

bended knee to Angela Merkel.

Since the Leave vote won, the establishment controlled media, TV, radio and newspapers will continue to undermine our democratic vote for years to come, by the arrogant bullying of the British working class.

Will Remain ever give up? No I do not think so..

Brian Johnston, Benalmadena

Pure madness I HAVE never been so baffled in my life as I am by all of this Pokemon nonsense. It’s one thing for children to be doing it, but grown men and women, running around chasing after

UK airports are owned by a Spanish company. Scottish Power is owned by a Spanish company. Most London buses are run by Spanish and German companies.

The Hinkley Point C nuclear power station to be built

by French company EDF, using cheap Chinese steel that has catastrophically failed in other nuclear installations.

The Mini cars that Cameron stood in front of as an example of British engineering, are built by BMW mostly in Holland and Austria. His campaign bus was made in Germany even though we have Plaxton, Optare, Bluebird, Dennis etc, in the UK. Anyone who thinks the EU is good for British industry or any other business simply hasn’t paid attention to what has been systematically asset-stripped from the UK. William

invisible creatures like a bunch of eejits! What has this world come to? The thing that really gets me is that people are saying that it’s good because it gets children up off the sofa and running around and playing together.

Are you kidding me? Heads down, bumping into each other, getting hit by cars! That’s not what I call playing together! It’s pure madness! As far as I’m concerned these horrible little ‘Pokemon’ are the first sign of the apocalypse. Call me when it’s over.

Bertie

Thumbs up DEAR Leapy, I have just finished reading your column and yet again I

agree with all that you say. Europe or is it just the UK that is in a hell of a mess. I think it won’t be long before England is attacked, Sam Gilliland

Brexpats in Spain THANK you for a great article that really does explain our ethos very well.

I have to say I am feeling a little worn out after a hectic couple of weeks since this all started, but we are all delighted and overwhelmed by the response of everyone who has given their support.

Thanks to EWN, we really can go further and reach more people than we

ever thought possible.

Of course we will keep you informed of all developments.

Here’s to the future, and being prepared to meet it head on!

John

Dual citizenship I FIND it depressingly ironic that the elder generation voted for Brexit to ‘protect future generations’ and now their grandchildren appear to be flocking to obtain Irish, Spanish and German citizenship, while Scottish youngsters continue paving the way for independence.

The last time I remember it being ‘cool’ to be British, or there being some measure of pride outside the lunatic fringe, was way back in the swinging 60’s, a time I recall fondly.

Of course there was ‘cool Britannia’ in the 90’s with the likes of Tony Blair and Oasis spreading the brand, but we all know how that turned out!

Along the same lines, is there a country on earth whose flag is so contemptuously reviled by its own population?

Sadly I think most of the characteristics which endeared us to the world - an underdog spirit, comic genius, literature, music - simply hit a plateau about 30 years ago and it’s been a steady decline ever since.

Rick, Sotogrande

Cunning cats I HAVE immensely enjoyed recent letters from readers about how their cats react to classical music.

There’s a few felines slouching and prowling around my home and over time I’ve come to realise just how emotionally intelligent they truly are.

Sometimes I wonder whether it’s us who own the cats, or perhaps our feline friends are really the ones in charge!

Beth, Javea

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5:05am BBC News The latest national and international news stories, followed by Weather.

7:45am Homes Under the Hammer 8:45am The Housing Enforcers 9:15am Gift of Hearing 9:45am The Hairy Builder 10:15am Olympics 2016 2:45pm Red Rock 3:30pm The Edge 4:15pm Escape to the Country 5:00pm Great Antiques Map of Britain 5:30pm Flog It! 6:15pm Pointless 7:00pm Olympics 2016 8:00pm Eggheads 8:30pm Olympics 2016 9:00pm Inside the Factory: How Our Favourite Foods are Made 10:00pm An Hour to Save Your Life 11:00pm Olympics 2016 11:45pm Newsnight 12:15am Weather 12:20am Dragons’ Den 1:20am Celebrity MasterChef 2:50am The Somme 1916: From Both Sides of the Wire 3:50am This is BBC Two

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Olympics 2016 Olympics 2016 Olympics 2016 Olympics 2016 Britain on Film In 1959, Britain’s biggest cinema company, the Rank Organisation, decided to replace its newsreels with a series of short, quirky, topical documentaries that examined all aspects of life in Britain.

3:30am Sounds of the Sixties 4:00am Calculating Ada: The Countess of Computing 5:00am This is BBC Four BBC Four is the BBC channel for people who want more.

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More daily from 7.00pm.

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7:15am 3rd Rock from the Sun 8:05am Everybody Loves Raymond 9:00am Frasier 9:35am Frasier 10:05am The Big Bang Theory 10:35am The Big Bang Theory 11:00am The Simpsons 11:30am The Simpsons 12:00pm The Simpsons 12:30pm Come Dine with Me 1:00pm Channel 4 News Summary 1:05pm Come Dine with Me 1:35pm Come Dine with Me 2:05pm Come Dine with Me 2:35pm Come Dine with Me 3:10pm Fifteen to One 4:10pm Countdown 5:00pm Three in a Bed 6:00pm Couples Come Dine with Me 7:00pm The Simpsons 7:30pm Hollyoaks 8:00pm Channel 4 News 9:00pm Location, Location, Location 10:00pm The Job Interview 11:00pm First Dates 12:05am Ramsay’s Hotel Hell 1:00am Eden 2:00am KOTV Boxing Weekly

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The Wright Stuff Cowboy Builders 5 News Celebrity Big Brother Home and Away Neighbours NCIS Rosamunde Pilcher: Coming Home 5 News Neighbours Home and Away 5 News Conspiracy: The Nazi King The Dog Rescuers with Alan Davies Celebrity Big Brother Borderline Impractical Jokers Celebrity Big Brother’s Bit on the Side Celebrity Big Brother Super Casino Feeling lucky? Get the authentic, heartthumping casino experience every night.

Person of Interest Witches: A Century of Murder

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7:00am Good Morning Britain 9:30am Lorraine 10:25am The Jeremy Kyle Show 11:30am This Morning 1:30pm Loose Women 2:30pm ITV Lunchtime News 3:00pm Judge Rinder 4:00pm Secret Dealers 5:00pm Tipping Point 6:00pm Cash Trapped 7:00pm Local News and Weather 7:30pm ITV Evening News 8:00pm Emmerdale 9:00pm Endeavour 11:00pm ITV News 11:40pm UEFA Super Cup 2011 12:40am Murder, She Wrote Drama series about a sleuthing writer who solves murder mysteries.

1:40am Jackpot247 Join the presenters live and play roulette on your telly.

4:00am Loose Women 4:50am Nightscreen

7:00am Planet’s Funniest Animals 7:20am Dinner Date 8:10am The Ellen DeGeneres Show 9:00am Emmerdale 9:30am Coronation Street 10:00am Coronation Street 10:30am Psych 11:20am Royal Pains 12:15pm Dinner Date 1:15pm Emmerdale 1:45pm Coronation Street 2:15pm Coronation Street 2:45pm The Ellen DeGeneres Show 3:35pm The Jeremy Kyle Show 4:40pm The Jeremy Kyle Show 5:45pm The Jeremy Kyle Show 6:50pm Take Me Out 8:00pm You’ve Been Framed!

8:30pm You’ve Been Framed!

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Doctor in the House Heartbeat Where the Heart is The Royal Judge Judy Judge Judy Judge Judy Murder, She Wrote Love Your Garden Heartbeat The Royal Where the Heart is Doctor in the House Rising Damp George and Mildred Heartbeat Murder, She Wrote Drama series about a sleuthing writer who solves murder mysteries.

Our Queen at 90 Documentary following the Queen and members of the Royal Family over the past year.

Without You Wire in the Blood Inspector Morse ITV3 Nightscreen Text-based information service.

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Magnum, P.I. Gunsmoke The Sweeney Ironside Quincy M.E. Magnum, P.I. Gunsmoke The Chase Storage Wars Storage Wars The Sweeney Quincy M.E. Ironside Storage Wars Storage Wars Pawn Stars Pawn Stars Mr. Bean Mr. Bean Benidorm Mars Attacks!

FYI Daily Mars Attacks!

6 Bullets FYI Daily 6 Bullets Tommy Cooper ITV4 Nightscreen Text-based information service.

4:00am Teleshopping

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Collateral Damage The Goonies Jaws 3 Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation Godzilla American Sniper Collateral Damage Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation The Fast and the Furious

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7:20pm 9:00pm 7:30am The Top Ten Show 2016 7:45am Tenacious D in the Pick of Destiny 9:30am Rushmore 11:10am Valentine’s Day 1:20pm Get Smart 3:15pm Trainwreck 5:25pm Big Daddy 7:05pm Click 9:00pm Trainwreck 11:10pm Ghostbusters 1:00am Gremlins 2:50am Gremlins 2: The New Batch 4:45am Lake Placid

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Narcopolis Bad Blood Sixteen The Good Dinosaur Hyena Road The Man From U.N.C.L.E. The Perfect Guy A successful San Francisco lobbyist gets involved with a man who seems almost too good to be true.

The Good Dinosaur The Man From U.N.C.L.E. An undercover CIA agent and his KGB counterpart team up to thwart a fascist Italian socialite.

Sixteen A former child soldier brought to London by an aid worker is forced to confront his violent past.

The Perfect Guy Infini Narcopolis

7:00am 8:00am 9:00am 10:00am 10:30am 11:00am 2:45pm 3:00pm 4:00pm 5:00pm 5:30pm 6:00pm 6:30pm 7:00pm 7:30pm 8:00pm 11:45pm 12:00am 12:30am 1:00am

Football Gold Football Gold Football Gold Football Gold WWE SmackDown!

Spfl Rnd Up 2016/17 The Premier League Years Great Sporting Moments Great Sporting Moments Premier League Legends Spfl Rnd Up 2016/17 Elite League Speedway The Premier League Years Elite League Speedway MLS Goals Round Up SPFL Round-Up Football Gold Football Gold Gillette Soccer Special More Than a Game Great Sporting Moments Great Sporting Moments Football Gold

Cricket Classics Cricket Cricket Cricket’s Greatest Cricket’s Greatest T20 Blast Cricket Sporting Triumphs Cricket Cricket Cricket’s Greatest Cricket’s Greatest Cricket’s Greatest Cricket’s Greatest Cricket’s Greatest Cricket’s Greatest Live T20 Blast Cricket Sporting Triumphs Cricket’s Greatest Cricket Specials T20 Blast Cricket The second quarterfinal in the NatWest T20 Blast.

4:45am Sporting Triumphs A look back at some of sport’s greatest triumphs.

5:00am Cricket’s Greatest Series profiling some of the greatest cricketers of all time.

5:30am Cricket Specials

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11:30pm Regional News 11:40pm Weather 11:45pm Olympics 2016 1:00am Olympics 2016 5:00am Weather for the Week Ahead 5:05am BBC News The latest national and international news stories, followed by Weather.

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7:30am Enemy of the State 9:45am Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon 11:50am Fantastic Four 1:40pm Black Sea 3:35pm Babylon A.D. 5:10pm Dante’s Peak 7:00pm Run All Night 9:00pm Fantastic Four 11:00pm 2 Fast 2 Furious 1:05am Vendetta 3:05am Rush Hour 2

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9:00pm 8:10am Revenge for Jolly!

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The Man From U.N.C.L.E. An undercover CIA agent and his KGB counterpart team up to thwart a fascist Italian socialite.

Northwest Sixteen A former child soldier brought to London by an aid worker is forced to confront his violent past.

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Word Ladder

HOLY HOLE SOLE SORE SIRE FIRE

VIRGO (August 24 - September 23) This is a great week for parties and socialising. Libra is shining on you and the light is shooting right through your love life.

Other relationships benefit, too, and it is a good time to ask favours. When it comes to showing your affections, avoid being super-cool.

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Fri Sat Sun -

Saturday July 30

Saturday July 30

14

26

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8

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18

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51

57

20

28

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BONUS BALL

BONUS BALL

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MAX 30C, MIN 21C

LUCKY STARS

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Fri Sat Sun -

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Mon - 31 19 Cl Tues - 31 19 Cl Wed - 31 19 Cl

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SUNNY MAX 33C, MIN 23C

MAX MIN

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Mon - 29 22 Cl Tues - 29 22 S Wed - 29 23 Cl

30 22 Cl 28 21 S 30 22 S

SUNNY MAX 37C, MIN 22C

TODAY:

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36 21 Cl 32 19 S 32 19 S

Mon - 33 19 S Tues - 33 19 C Wed - 34 20 S

CANCER (June 22 - July 23) Steaming ahead this week, it will surprise you just how much you get done. A relationship that seemed to be going nowhere perks up and the chance to show just how versatile you are in that direction sees you shine.

Generally, your confidence is good so don’t be surprised if someone starts singing your praises.

Cl Clear,

F Fog,

Sh Showers,

Sn Snow,

C Cloudy, Th Thunder

How many English words of four letters or more can you make from the nine letters in our Nonagram puzzle? Each letter may be used only once (unless the letter appears twice).

Each word MUST CONTAIN THE CENTRE LETTER (in this case D) and there must be AT LEAST ONE NINE LETTER WORD. Plurals, vulgarities or proper nouns are not allowed.

Nonagram

TARGET: • Average: 10 • Good: 13 • Very good: 19 • Excellent: 25

LAST WEEK’S SOLUTION Ceil, clef, eely, feel, felt, file, flee, flit, leer, left, lice, life, life, lift, lire, lite, lyre, reel, rely, riel, rile, tile, cleft, creel, elect, elite, filer, filet, fitly, fleer, fleet, flier, flirt, flyer, leery, lefty, lifer, liter, litre, lyric, relic, relit, rifle, telic, tiler, celery, eerily, filter, fleecy, flirty, freely, leftie, lifter, relict, relief, tercel, trifle, erectly, fertile, reflect, reticle, tierce, celerity, fiercely, ELECTRIFY

Sudoku

Fill the grid so that every row, every column and every 3X3 box contains the digits 1-9.

There’s no maths involved. You solve the puzzle with reasoning and logic.

26 50

LUCKY STARS

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Mon - 29 20 Cl Tues - 29 20 S Wed - 29 20 Cl

26 20 Sh 27 20 C 28 20 Sh

SUNNY

TODAY:

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GEMINI (May 22 - June 21) A pet love is given a helping hand from someone close. You may have criticised this person in the past but now they are showing you their best side. To keep this going, be sure to show your appreciation.

ARIES (March 21 - April 20) Finances may be the last thing on your mind at the moment but deal with matters now and get them out of the way. There are other

21 40

Mon - 29 21 S Tues - 30 21 Cl Wed - 31 22 S

Mallorca

SUNNY

S Sun,

TAURUS (April 21 - May 21) Please, please be organised. Not to be so would mean problems on the financial side for months to come.

Money is good and this, combined with a romantic interest, means that you will be sorely tempted to overspend. When it comes to giving of yourself, emotionally, remember that you will only receive back what you are willing to give.

PISCES (February 20 - March 20) Being firmly in control this week shows results. Although you prefer to accommodate others, this is not the time. Once you have realised how much easier your life is when you put your foot down, there will be no looking back.

Friday July 29

1

MAX MIN

37 23 S 29 21 S 29 21 S

directions that your thoughts are taking.

AQUARIUS (January 21 - February 19) Changes are to be made as soon as possible. There are people in your life who give you nothing but trouble. Being kind to them seems to do no good at all. Why not be kind to yourself for a change?

Arrange not to be available to them all the time and they will soon find some other outlet.

EURO MILLIONS Tuesday July 26

Mon - 36 20 Cl Tues - 36 20 Cl Wed - 36 20 S

SUNNY MAX 34C, MIN 25C

TODAY:

Mon - 32 22 S Tues - 32 23 S Wed - 33 24 S

33 24 S 31 22 S 32 22 S

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Benidorm TODAY:

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SUNNY

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Fri Sat Sun -

Barcelona TODAY:

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CAPRICORN (December 22 - January 20) Joint efforts and team projects go hand in hand this week. Your social life will improve dramatically if you make a special effort at the weekend.

Realising and then admitting that you need others is the start of real progress.

UK NATIONAL LOTTERY

MAX MIN

32 23 Cl 29 21 S 30 22 S

CLEAR

TODAY:

Almeria TODAY:

SAGITTARIUS (November 23 - December 21) Why has that special plan not been started? Could it be that you are waiting until next year? Best strike while the iron is hot and not delay a moment longer. While others are having a good time this week, you can steal a lead.

SCORPIO (October 24 - November 22) Some disruptions from Jupiter’s influence mean that this is not

MAX 33C, MIN 24C

MAX MIN

likely to be a smooth week.

However, there are some niggling drawbacks that you do not even notice until they are already past.

That is no bad thing because time often solves these matters. Be aware that someone is waiting for a decision on the romantic front.

LIBRA (September 24 - October 23) Making changes in your surroundings takes priority this week.

You want to be ready for a busy party time ahead and that means making a special effort.

You do so love making your friends comfortable and giving them pleasure. As money is not likely to be so tight at the moment you have the chance.

Madrid

SUNNY

4

LA PRIMITIVA

EL GORDO DE LA PRIMITIVA

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Sunday July 31

11

24

28

30

32

34

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25

5

6

10 20

13 46

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LAST WEEK’S SOLUTION

HOLY HOLE MOLE MILE FILE FIRE or

YOUR STARS

for next 7 days

Alicante

That niggling disagreement that you had with someone should not be allowed to take up your time any longer. Be sure to take the bull by the horns and get it sorted out. It may not be possible to use your charm in this situation but, if you look and sound determined enough, the message will get across.

LEO

Weather TODAY:

Solution HOLY HOLD FOLD FORD FORE FIRE or

FIRE BACK

MADDOCKS’ VIEW ON LIFE

Move from the start word (HOLY) to the end word (FIRE) in the same number of steps as there are rungs on the Word Ladder.

You must only change one letter at a time.

HOLY

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Answers 1. AER LINGUS, 2. SEVEN (1970, 1980, 1987, 1992, 1993, 1994 and 1996), 3. The highest PEAKS/MOUNTAINS in Ireland, 4. HIBERNIA, 5. GIVE IRELAND BACK TO THE IRISH, 6. PÁDRAIG HARRINGTON, 7. SHERGAR, 8. CORK, 9. MARY ROBINSON, 10. BALLET/DANCE

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Enjoy filling in the following puzzles and check the answers in next week’s edition

Code Breaker

Quick Across 1 Contracts (7) 5 Pieces of information (5) 8 Damp (5) 9 Informed or conscious (5) 10 Triumph (7) 11/19 Chinese martial art and system of callisthenics (3,3) 12 Dance craze from 1960s (5) 14 Raw, unprepared (5) 19 See 11 20 Expert (7) 22 Precise (5) 23 From that time (5) 24 Jobs (5) 25 Advanced in years (7) Down 1 Try out (6) 2 Wrecks (5) 3 Observes (7) 4 Divided up (6) 5 Dreads (5) 6 Made (7)

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Each number in the Code Breaker grid represents a different letter of the alphabet. In this week’s puzzle, 3 represents Q and 22 represents T, so fill in Q every time the figure 3 appears and T every time the figure 22 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: 7 Arable, 8 Ravers, 10 Cottage, 11 Probe, 12 Ogre, 13 Item, 17 Saga, 18 Mane, 22 Needs, 23 Spaniel, 24 Cheers, 25 Yokels.

Down: 1 Raccoon, 2 Factory, 3 Bleak, 4 Samples, 5 Devon, 6 Ashen, 9 Demitasse, 14 Maestro, 15 Cabinet, 16 Legless, 19 Snack, 20 Repel, 21 Bacon.

QUICK Across: 7 Motionless (6) 13 Novelists (7) 15 Turned down (7) 16 Consider or hold as true (6) 17 Small (6)

English - Spanish

Down:

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

Across 1 Cacahuete (6) 4 Huevos (4) 8 Pulgar (5) 9 Fewer (5) 10 Escenario (teatro) (5) 11 Rocas (5) 14 Weak (5) 16 Dejar (5) 17 Cat (domestic) (4) 18 Bolsillo (6) Down 1 Ducks (birds) (5) 2 Needle (5) 3 Paraguas (8) 5/14 Perro de caza (3,3) 6 Southern (side, part) (3) 7 Yellow (8) 12 Tiza (para escribir, de billar) (5) 13 Aguanieve (5) 14 See 5 15 Pero (uso adversativo) (3)

Hexagram

1 Wages, 4 Singers, 8 Partner, 9 Utter, 10 Spare, 11 Arrange, 12 Sleepy, 14 Closes, 17 Restore, 19 Shaft, 21 Nurse, 22 Portion, 23 Slender, 24 Bends.

18 Place where bread and cakes are made or sold (6) 20 Closes securely (5) 21 Of the moon (5)

1 Wipes, 2 Garbage, 3 Since, 4 Streak, 5 Neutral, 6 Eaten, 7 Streets, 12 Shrinks, 13 Proceed, 15 Station, 16 Helper, 18 Serve, 19 Scrub, 20 Tends.

ENGLISH-SPANISH Across: 1 Barber, 3 Apio, 7 End, 9 Charlar, 10 Painter, 13 Lorries, 15 Tren, 16 Badger.

LAST WEEK’S SOLUTION

Down: 1/14 Beer mat, 2 Escribir, 4 Pilgrim, 5 Otro, 6 Fantasma, 8 Deporte, 11 Flat, 12 Star.

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

ABRADE ALKALI BLEACH CANCEL COCKLE DETOUR GAGGLE(10) GLACIS LOUNGE MIGNON

RHOMBI ROTATE SEAMEN STINGY SUBTLY SYSTEM URGENT VOLLEY YEASTY

LAST WEEK’S SOLUTION 1 Quarry 2 Harden 3 Advise 4 Pander 5 Reload 6 Elicit 7 Deacon 8 Scrawl 9 Venous 10 Cowman 11 Stride 12 Maroon 13 Inmate 14 Curlew 15 Layman 16 Honest 17 Parlay 18 Ruling 19 Pauper

Across 1 Hard case played a parlour game (8) 5 Russian ruler seen in artist’s area (4) 9 Mountain range in the Australian Desert (5) 10 Casual shoes for layabouts (7) 11 Strange knick-knacks containing uranium (7) 12 Incinerates Scottish streams (5) 13 Proceeded confidently and sorted out (6) 15 Wears away or redoes differently (6) 19 Get rid of the waterway (5) 21 What’s left of arranged rise is now unpaid (7) 23 Army unit rebuilt a bridge (7) 24 Extreme part of a devout era (5) 25 Duck into stealth bomber (4) 26 My encore involved a tradition (8) Down 1 Probabilities of Chinese detective with first class evening suit (7) 2 Summer snake (5) 3 Bad cons break out and flee (7) 4 Recruit from a dozen listeners (6) 6 Cut off an ear in the outhouse (7)

19 Introduction of Fairtrade butter extract 7 Nozzles for the flowers (5) 8 Save Britain? It’s an insult (4) (5) 14 Greek wine turns up in a canister (7) 20 Father came back after him for Mass 16 Bring back others' mineral (7) (4) 17 Rely upon an orderly Serb way (5,2) 22 Some of what you said it to me is the same (5) 18 A waft from soft cheeses, they say (6)

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Brexpats in Spain hold their first public meeting BREXPAT INFLUX: Some of those who attended.

MAYOR MALDONADO: Addressing Brexpats in Spain.

By John Smith BORN out of a Facebook page ‘Brexpats in Mijas,’ a group of five like-minded expats were worried and confused about their future once Britain leaves the European Union and the response online was so enormous that they decided to expand the group and rename it ‘Brexpats in Spain’ so that all British expats could have a forum to discuss their worries and to obtain advice.

They had their first public event at the Hotel Tamisa Golf on the evening of July 27 where far more people than anticipated arrived in order to learn what they could about the group and its advisors. The staff of the hotel was hard pushed to provide enough chairs and the room soon became crowded with many standing to hear a variety of speakers.

It was stressed by original founders Anne Hernández and Christine Rowlands that this is a non-political not-for-profit organisation which is not run by experts but by expats who live in Spain. They are dedi-

cated to obtaining advice from various specialists to help with questions although at this stage, little can be said for certain.

One thing is sure however and that is this group has only been in existence for three weeks, and they already have more than 1,400 members.

Interest is so encouraging that they are appealing for people across the nation to join with them and possibly set up satellite branches as whatever affects expats in Mijas will affect expats everywhere and the group is more than happy to disseminate the information to all. Indeed they plan to hold a more formal meeting in La Cala de Mijas in the future with specialist representatives ready to advise on specific matters that worry the British community.

The mayor of Mijas Juan Carlos Maldonado is totally behind this venture and in a speech to those present he made it clear that the expat community is very important to the well-being of Mijas which has 11,000 British residents and he is dedicated to not only supporting their rights but to assist in bringing them further into Spanish society by making sure that they are fully

One thing is sure, this group has only been in existence for three weeks and they already have more than 1,400 members. registered in Spain to protect their best interests.

The mayor was accompanied by the local foreign residents representative and also attending was Dominic Jackson, representing the British Consulate who understandably explained that nothing was set in stone but the British government had indicated that it would keep in mind the needs and wishes of expats during the forthcoming Brexit negotiations and finished by saying for the time being “keep calm and carry on.”

Also present were legal advisors as well as a representative of a medical team, so that all of those involved will do all they

can to help with making sure that all members are kept well aware of developments.

It was initially expected that members of the ‘team’ would circulate amongst attendees to discuss individual matters but due to the fact that the room was absolutely packed, questions were invited from the floor which wasn’t ideal as people started to chat amongst themselves if they couldn’t hear the question.

All in all however this was a highly encouraging first presentation from a band of volunteers who want to ensure that the best interests of the British community in Spain are promoted and they intend to let others know what is happening in the coming months and years.

Their slogan is best described as ‘Fighting for Expat Rights’ and as there is more power in numbers, we at Euro Weekly News stand 100 per cent behind this initiative and would encourage readers from all of our areas to visit their sites www.brex pats.es and Facebook Brexpats in Spain.

If you have any specific questions or would like to offer assistance then e-mail info@brexpats.es.

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Safe eggs for anyone THE Food Standards Agency (FSA) could amend its advice to pregnant women on the consumption of eggs. It comes after a report from the Advisory Committee on the Microbiological Safety of Food concluded there was a ‘very low’ risk of salmonella from UK eggs, especially those produced under the Lion Code quality assurance scheme.

The low risk means eggs can now be served lightly-cooked to all groups in society, when previously pregnant women and those vulnerable to infection were advised against eating raw and runny eggs. The FSA has now launched a consultation on the matter and will review whether it will change its advice.

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Natural oils

By Simon Russell THERE are a range of natural oils that might be worth trying if you are looking to avoid chemical products.

• Marula comes from the tree of the same name and is said to be good for dry skin as it is high in fatty acids.

• Tea Tree is better known and many find it helps with soothing skin inflammations such as acne.

• Chamomile oil when used on skin can cut down on redness and irritation and is even said to reduce chances of infections.

• Coconut is good for conditions like eczema which are characterised by rough skin.

• Rosehip oil is high in vitamin A. This retinoid product is said to help replace old skin cells and reduce the effects of scarring and stretch marks.

• Rosemary oil is supposed to thicken your hair as is castor oil.

• Most larders have olive oil which is supposed to harden brittle nails. Apply last thing at night to allow them to soak.

• Another oil in many kitchens is sesame seed which many say is good for teeth and gums - just slosh round like a mouthwash.

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AS sleepless nights seem to be a common problem at the moment, mainly due to the heat, we decided to ask the doctor a few questions about insomnia: • What causes insomnia apart from the typical summer ‘too hot to sleep’ problems?

Insomnia is the impossibility of getting to or staying asleep at night, which is what our vital cycles require: sleep at night and activity during the day.

There are many causes of insomnia which can include psychiatric problems such as depression or anxiety amongst others, stress (caused by work or personal problems) or physical problems ranging from infections of many types to other illnesses, especially those of an endocrinologic type which can affect normal circadian rhythms.

• Can it be a sign of a health problem which hasn’t been diagnosed yet?

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• Can it have negative effects on our health if it lasts a long time?

Insomnia can affect patients’ ability to lead a normal life and personal relationships and can also worsen existing conditions and cause flare ups of others if it continues over a long period of time.

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Dispelling some summertime myths

FLUID FABLE: Too much water can actually be harmful for older people.

FACT or myth? You hear myths about health every summer, but what is fact and what is fiction?

Here are some myths about health in summer: Older people need to drink more fluids To avoid heatstroke, experts always recommend drinking more fluids a day. However, in the case of older people it is something we must take special care of, as they have less ability to sweat and excess fluid can cause kidney problems.

It is not necessary to use sunglasses if it is cloudy Although it may not be sunny, solar radiation is always present. In the days when there are h i g h clouds, ultraviolet radiation is

weakened only slightly, so you have to protect your eyes.

Urine relieves jellyfish stings Many Spanish beaches in summer warn about unwanted visitors: jellyfish. A widespread belief is that reducing their sting can be done by urine, but it has been shown that this serves no purpose.

Instead, it is recommended to wash the sting with vinegar and then fresh water.

Heat stroke only happens in the sun Heat stroke can reach anywhere with high temperatures, whether in direct sunlight or not. High temperatures can cause dehydration, dizziness and even suffocation.

Energy drinks are the best to recover from exercise Consumption in excess of this type of drink can cause heart palpitations, as it is a stimulant it can lead the heart to unusual activity and rhythm.

In summer you need less sleep Some people feel that in summer they need less sleep, although that’s not entirely true. Exercise, diet or stress of the holidays are

factors that influence sleep.

If you have moles do not sit in the sun The risks of skin cancer has helped establish this belief. Although the incidence of melanoma has increased and doctors have expanded the recommendations and precautions to take to avoid this type of cancer, the fact is that people who have moles do not have to shy away from the sun as long as proper sun care protection is taken.

Athlete’s foot affects athletes or people with poor hygiene In summer, visits to pools increases and with them the possibility of developing fungi. This happens if you do not use flip flops around the pool, especially at the edges of the water, where puddles are a breeding ground for micro-organisms so it is not due to poor hygiene.

Sun improves psoriasis Although it is true that the sea water can help eliminate and ease psoriasis in sufferers, too much sun can be harmful to the skin of people suffering from this disease because it promotes skin ageing.

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CHRISTMAS MARKET: Is on the move this year.

New venue for Xmas Fair

By Keith Baker YOU may not want to think about Christmas just yet, but nearer the time you’ll be glad you put this event in your diary.

The ‘ Hu n d r e d St a l l Ch ris tmas Fair,’ which is in aid of the Children of Emaus, is moving from La Sella M arrio t , De n i a , t o th e C en tro Ecuestre Oliva Nova. It takes place on November 26 and 27.

The new location features a 400m2 room a n d c o v e r e d t e rra c e s w ith amazing views, and is surrounded by more than 30,000m2 of land. There

are more than 250 parking spaces, and refreshments will be available throughout this two-day event. Santa Claus will be there every day too!

It is located just five minutes from the AP7 Exit 62 (at The Marina Centre just north of Pedraguer). Head north on N332 to marker KM209 and you are there. It is perfect for the local people of Oliva Nova and Gandia but also easy for Javia and Denia residents and, because of its proximity to the motorway, for new visitors from further afield.

Santa is also going to be at the Early Bird Christmas Gift Fair which

takes place October 30 at Salones Carrasco.

He will return to the same venue on November 20 where again there will be plenty of stalls to help you with your Christmas gift choices.

The Carrasco events are almost sold out to stall holders but there is still a small number of spaces available at the Centro Ecuestre.

If you would like to have a stall selling gifts you have made, or any product of interest to Christmas buyers, please email the event organiser: lesleyclarkjavea@gmail.com

ALTEA’S councillor for Culture, Diego Zaragoza, has announced the details of the ‘Boqueta Music Nights’ that take place throughout August.

Swing, jazz and folk music will feature in the four performances to be held each Thursday, starting tonight (August 4). They will be held at la Placa de l’Aigua d’Altea at 9pm.

Tonight’s concert features the Domisol Sisters Swing Group. The Valencian group is comprised of four female voices, piano, bass, drums and horn, and will play a selection of music from the 30’s, 40’s and 50’s.

On August 11 the perfor-

mance will be by the Xaluq group, who transform traditional Mediterranean songs to suit more modern languages.

The renowned Valencian singer Paul Alabajos will be on stage on August 18, where he will present his latest work, and on August 25 the closing concert will feature a big band comprised of musicians from the current Valencian jazz scene.

The ticket price is €5 per concert, and a subscription costs €12. Tickets and subscriptions can be purchased at the Casa de Cultura, or at the venue box office from one hour before each performance.

Fantastic festivities THE Parcent Fiestas promise a packed agenda, with plenty to see and do for the whole family. They run from August 7 to 17.

The festivities include all you would expect, plus a whole lot more. For details (in English) visit http://en.valldepop.es/ ver/2764/Programa-de-fiestas-de-Parcent.html You are also invited to visit the Restaurant Victoria Station in Parcent. Call 966 405 398 or email davidreely@hotmail.com.

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FOOD SUPPLIES: CHUMS shopping for local charity.

The CHUMS who befriend charities CHUMS (Friends of Charity) club donated €250 in staple food supplies to Alfaz’s needy.

These will be distributed amongst local families by the Voluntariado Social Association.

CHUMS was founded in September 2015 and its 40

Orchestra debut THE Universal Symphony Orchestra debuts in Benidorm on August 12 with its new show ‘Live on Tour,’ when 60 musicians will play popular film themes as images of the films are projected in the auditorium Julio Iglesias del Parque de l’Aiguera.

The two-hour show, which starts at 10pm, is promoted as being ‘Music for all ages.’

The head of communications of the event, Carlos D Chardi, stated that it is a “very familiar” show in which themes will be heard from the likes of Skyfall, Superman, Rocky, Gone with the Wind, Jurassic Park, Pirates of the Caribbean and Game of Thrones.

Tickets are available at the kiosk in la Plaza Triangular and via www.entradasuniver sal.com. General admission is priced at €15.

After the Benidorm performance, ‘Live on Tour’ will visit Zaragoza, Mallorca and southern Spain.

members organise events to raise funds for local charities.

Alfaz’s Voluntariado Social Association has worked in conjunction with the town hall since 2013 to help the elderly, the infirm and those at risk from social exclusion.

Its 30 members use their

spare time to collect, classify and distribute food and clothes to those in need.

“We are so grateful for the efforts of the different charities and the donations that we receive from them each year. These are vital for maintaining the Food Bank,” Carmen Soto declared.

Museum translates THE Soler Blasco Museu m in J av ea h a s b e e n working hard to translate information into French for its visitors.

Tourists find these translations useful in understanding the rich history of Javea.

Thanks to the efforts of s ev era l memb ers of A M U X (th e F rie n d s of J av ea M u s e u m), the g ro u n d flo o r a n d firs t floor of the museum now h a v e in fo rma tio n a bout displays in French, as well as in Valencian, Castilian and English.

J u d g in g b y th e com-

ments in the guestbook, tourists and foreign reside nts a like find the s e translations very useful in helping them understand the rich historical legacy of Javea.

The translation project is carried out by members of AMUX and other volunte e rs . The y a re now working on English versions of information panels on traditional architecture.

In addition to translating the texts of the permanent exhibition, the team has helped translate brochures for the tourism department. They have also produced texts of two large travelling exhibitions in English: Art i Mort Montgo (Art and Death in the Montgo) and Els Castells Andalusins en la Marina Alta (The Islamic Castles of Marina Alta).

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Summer evening success

By Keith Baker THE Senior citizen centre La Casilla (The Box) in La Nucia hosted its Outdoor Summer Evening event recently in which more than 150 people participated. It included various activities such as live music and dancing, as well as awards for different contests including the Petanque Tournament, which took place on the slopes of the Font de la Favara during July.

This was the second time the event has been staged.

LIVE MUSIC: Gets people to their feet.

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V I S I T O U R W E B S I T E W W W . E U R O W E E K LY N E W S . C O M

Mortgage marvels RESIDENTIAL property in Spain is seeing a tremendous recovery and nowhere is that more evident than in the sheer volume of new mortgages registered in May. A fantastic 26,579 mortgages were registered throughout the month, representing a spectacular 34.1 per cent increase on the same period last year.

Even more incredibly there have now been 24 consecutive year-on-year increases and the yearly volume from May 2015 to May 2016 stands at a terrific 265,000.

The excellent news suggests that the Spanish property market is finally consolidating what has been an astonishing, phoenix-like revival, and looks set to grow ever stronger in the future.

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British tenants under siege

By Matthew Elliott ALTHOUGH the vast majority of young British workers forced to pay absurd proportions of their dwindling pay packets in rent likely voted to remain in the EU, the looming prospect of a Brexit has provided a small consolation in the prospect of lower charges from anxious landlords.

A report from the Association of Residential Letting Agents has suggested that 12 per cent of letting agents have seen rents fall in the weeks following the referendum, bucking a long-term trend of greedy increases, but the phenomenon is not likely to last.

The Association’s managing director has warned that, if uncertainty becomes the new norm, the rental market could face a turbulent period characterised by even higher rents as

Smart money INVESTMENTS in housing are b ec o min g mo re a nd more profitable in Spain according to a study from specialist property portal Idealis ta, w h ic h fo u n d a n av era g e re tu rn o f 6 . 1 pe r cent in 2016’s second quarter, up from 5.5 per cent at the same time last year.

Commercial premises offer a greater return on investments and in the residential sphere Lleida is the most profitable city, with 7.7 per cent returns on average.

Palma de Mallorca came s ec o n d a t 6 . 7 p e r ce nt, while Alicante offers a solid 6.4 per cent return.

LIMITED SUPPLY: And growing demand are leading to high rates for tenants. investors pull away from the market and thus reduce supply even further.

The basic rental dynamic across the UK, particularly in

the south-east, is of limited supply and growing demand, leading to astronomically high rates for tenants already struggling to pay the bills.

A recent OECD survey found that real wages for British workers i.e. those adjusted for inflation, have declined in the past 10 years by

roughly 10 per cent. Only the UK, Greece and Portugal have witnessed a real wage decline, a situation compounded by an unsustainable rental situation.

Spain cracks world’s real estate top 10

By Matthew Elliott A ROSY outlook for Spanish property was provided by global accountancy giant Ernst & Young which found Spain to be the ninth most attractive country in the world for investors in real estate and construction.

The firm’s latest report ‘Real Estate, Hospitality & Construction Capital Confidence Barometer’ placed Spain in good company

alongside the likes of the US, China, Germany, Sweden and India in the world’s top 10.

The report is based on polling analysis of wealthy investors, whether companies or individuals, who are looking to acquire real estate or construction assets in the coming months.

However, the number of investors looking to do so has declined slightly over the past year due to economic uncertainty on a global scale, but Spain’s dramatic rise up the ranking is nonetheless a great indication of where the country is headed, and highlights an increasingly impressive domestic recovery.

ON THE UP: Spain is an attractive country for investors.

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The most asked question!

What’s my home worth?

John Graham The property expert “WHAT is my home worth?” is the first question I am always asked by the owner when I am carrying out a ‘Valuation’ or a ‘Home Condition Report.’

I could simply say to the owner that the property is worth what a buyer is willing to pay for it and leave it at that but there’s a lot more to it than that.

This week I explain to EWN readers some of the tangibles and intangibles that go into answering that question.

The stock market is referred to as trading in either ‘bear’ or ‘bull’ market conditions, and the property market is similar;

FOR SALE: There are a lot of factors that determine what your home is worth. we refer to the property market condition as either a buyer’s market or a seller’s market.

Market conditions affect home prices, so if you are sell-

ing your home when the property market conditions are a sellers market in your area, you would expect a higher asking price for your home. If it’s a buyers market then you

would expect a lower asking price.

Selling your home is a very emotional experience and you will need the best professional advice from experts to arrive

at what your home is worth.

My check list is a list of important factors that go into finding out what your home is worth.

• Buyer’s or Seller’s Market • Location of your home • Condition of your home • Age of your home • Size of your home’s interior living space m 2 and balcony/ terrace space m2 • Size of your land m2 • Number of bedrooms • Number of bathrooms • Size of kitchen • Lounge dining room and other rooms, size and layout • Design and style of your home • Age and condition of all appliances • Views from your home • Orientation of your home e.g. south facing, etc.

• Are your planning and le-

38-year-old women rule the property market A RECENT study carried out by online real estate portal Fotocasa has indicated that the average homebuyer in Spain is 38 years old and in 51 per cent of cases has a permanent contract in the private sector.

Overall, more women than men are purchasing homes: in 53 per cent of transactions the buyer was female, whereas 47 per cent were male. In regards to

salary about 25 per cent of home-buyers earn between €20,000 and €30,000 whereas a slightly smaller number (24 per cent) earn between €10,000 and €20,000, and around 21 per cent earn between €30,000 and €50,000.

The study indicated, however, that four out of 10 buyers receive some kind of economic support from

International sales are on the increase A REPORT by the Council of Property Registrars confirms that international investors are snapping up more Spanish property than ever, with almost 48,000 sold to foreign buyers in the last financial year.

This represents an increase of 13 per cent over the preceding 12 months, with Brits still the top buyers, comprising 21 per cent of the market.

French, German and Swedish buyers are next, each contributing between 6 and 7 per cent of foreign property sales, with around 4 per cent of sales attributed to the Chinese.

A rise in prices is analogous with escalating demand, especially in areas where international residents are concentrated, with an increase of 6.9 per cent over the first quarter of 2016.

A total of 100,000 property sales were made between January and March, the highest number within the last 12 quarters, although the number of transactions involving new-builds hit an all-time low, as the majority of investors plump for resale houses.

families or friends.

When it comes to property cost, in about 38 per cent of cases, the dwelling was snapped up for a figure between €100,000 and €200,00 with 28 per cent of roperties between €200,000 and €300,000.

It also revealed seven out of 10 buyers haggled over price before throwing down their hard-earned cash.

gal documents in order?

• Garden and pool condition • Garage or Parking facilities Last but not least, let me give you a proven and tested a professional insiders tip. You have a much better chance of selling if you provide the buyer with a Surveyor ’s Home Condition Report. It gives the buyer peace of mind and puts you in a stronger position to sell, compared to other similar priced properties on sale without a Home Condition Report.

Next week I will be giving some top buyer’s tips for EWN readers who are looking to buy a dream home in Spain.

John Graham is a Fellow of The Architecture & Surveying Institute. For advice or information on the Home Condition Report, contact John by email. gk.ipad@me.com.

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Little sparrows (sorry Leapy!)

There was no malice intended, it was simply an avian warning of impending doom, I should have listened.”

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.

IT seems to me that the humble sparrow has always been present at key moments in my life.

It came home to me many years ago.

Having just arrived in Bermuda and taken a phone call at the airport that my new boss, who was coming to collect me, had been delayed, I perched myself on a wall outside the terminal building to take in the breathtaking view.

Almost immediately a gang of sparrows gathered around, presumably in the hope that there might be a snack in the offing.

It was hard for me to believe; there I was in that sub tropical idyll, but instead of birds of paradise or cockatiels whizzing round my head, there to greet me was a small herd of spadgers

SPARROW STALK: Greetings from paradise island Bermuda. looking as if they had just stepped, or rather flown, out of an English garden.

Unaccountably though, it somehow made me feel welcome and quite at home.

Five years previously, on my first wedding day - a

day that shall live in infamy, to quote a certain American President - a cheeky little sparrow had defaecated on the shoulder of my 30 guinea suit as I was entering the church.

I believe now that there

was no malice intended, but that it was simply an avian warning of impending doom.

I should have listened.

Now this morning as we enjoyed coffee at our regular stopover after a lengthy

pre-breakfast walk, here they all were right on cue.

We are well known to this Los Dolses chapter of house sparrows, who await our arrival with baited beaks in the sure knowledge that the Princess will feed them with small chunks of her complimentary biscuit.

I have to be honest and admit that I too, find these little blokes charming and thoroughly engaging. There were some very cute infant birds present, and as I watched an attentive little mum feeding crumbs to one of her demanding offspring, I had this thought: Without the politics, hatred, Brexit and indeed, humankind itself, this would surely be paradise Earth.

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Good and evil live side by side John Smith Random thoughts...

ON the day that Pope Francis, during his visit to Poland, asked the world to be more compassionate especially to migrants and refugees, a shopkeeper in India beheaded a man and hacked his wife to death over a row concerning a debt of just 15 rupees (€0.19) apparently because the couple were ‘untouchables’ and he was of a higher caste.

The Pope had already spoken out

There’s still a large percentage of people who take no notice of acceptable moral norms.” against the evil that is Daesh and the fact that there is a full blown war, not between religions but effectively the forces of stability against the forces of chaos.

On the following day, Francis be-

CHILLING SIGN. At the entrance to Auschwitz. came the third Pope in recent years to visit Auschwitz, the scene of the brutal murder of more than one million people, mainly but not exclusively of the Jewish faith, passing through the main gate with its chilling sign ‘Arbeit Macht Frei’ the German phrase meaning ‘Work

makes you free.’

Visibly moved, the elderly pontiff looking sad and a little frail in his white robes walked through the camp, stopping to pray silently and clearly affected by the ghosts who must haunt this dreadful place.

Unlike previous papal visitors, he

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Brexpat vision THE word Brexit seems to send shivers down the spines of so many British expatriates here in Spain where they have made their lives and in too many cases, they didn’t even have a chance to cast their vote in the referendum that could change their lives.

Quite often, people don’t mind change, but what they do mind is not knowing what the future holds and this is where we see a great deal of discomfort and worry in letters and emails we receive from readers.

Currently, it’s impossible to give any accurate information about what’s going to happen as far as pensions, health service, residency and other matters of high importance to the expat community although it’s been heartening to see the positive and supportive attitude of local councils generally.

On our website and in the newspapers we have covered activities of a new group ‘Brexpats in Spain,’ a voluntary group set up to give expats a voice and also to help spread information as it becomes official rather than rumour.

Although initially a Facebook group in Mijas, the organisers found that there was a desperate need for a central point of advice and news and they have therefore expanded their brief to try to keep all expats involved and informed.

The internet is a great vehicle for disseminating information as are newspapers such as Euro Weekly News but not everyone uses a computer and there are often questions that need to be asked. For that reason, we are more than happy to promote Brexpats in Spain and encourage our readers to get in touch with them and maybe offer to set up satellite groups around the regions.

decided not to make any formal statement about the visit, letting his own sorrow and pain for those who had died speak for him. He did however meet with some of the now elderly survivors of the death camp, kissing them on each cheek and speaking to them softly.

The stoic dignity with which Pope Francis contemplated this ‘temple’ to man’s inhumanity will hopefully resonate throughout the world, but the juxtaposition of these two stories just reinforces the fact that whilst the majority of individuals around the world lead blameless lives, there are still a frighteningly large percentage who take no notice of acceptable moral norms and believe that they have the right to do as they wish no matter how it harms others.

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Gardening Corner

By Spain’s best known expatriate gardening author living in Spain for 25 years.

KEEP ING pl a nt s a liv e consists of four things: a. Ke e p r o o t s o f p lan ts constantly damp. Whether watering with a drip irrigation system, hose or watering can this can be difficult to judg e u n l e ss y o u d ig a hole to check what layers are dry and the level the soil is still moist. The latter is time consuming, difficult in closely p l a n t e d b e d s a n d based o n p e r so n a l j u d g ement.

The so l u t i o n i s t o p u rchase a soil moisture meter.

Typically they have a probe to push into the earth in a garden bed or the compost in a po t d o wn t o 1 5 c en timetres of depth and do not need a battery to operate. b. Placing tender plants easily shrivelled in full sun or by blazing hot winds in semi, dappled or full shade and watering twice a day if necessary, including. This includes annual herbs such as parsley or basil. c. Keeping roots cool by shading with slabs of rock or compost mulches or bark. d. E n su r i n g y o u p lan t your garden with plants nat-

urally resistant to drought an d ca p ab le o f s lo w i ng down growth and moisture req u ire me n ts d u rin g t he hottest weeks.

Ke e p in g th e g a r de n colourful: S timu latin g p la n ts to flo w er c o n tin u o u s ly or again requires dead heading as soon as flowers have finished to prevent seeds forming, watering as above and min imis in g u s e o f fee ds h ig h in n itro g e n . Mos t plants will grow and flower well without regular feeding but if necessary use a feed high in potash rather than nitrogen. Regular feeding with the latter may result in excessive greenery at the expense of flowers.

F r u it tree s a ls o n e e d care: It’s essential fruit trees are watered thoroughly so deepest roots are kept constantly damp so fruit develops continuously. Intermittent watering can result in splitting fruit, major fruit falls or insect and fungal attacks.

A productive vegetable plot: P ro v id ed th e y ’re fre quently watered fruit and v e g eta b les s u ch as to m a toes, peppers, squash and melons swell and ripen well in sunny weather. Root veg-

etables such as peanuts, carrots and beetroot will grow and keep well if soil’s kept da mp but quic k grow ing radishes will go to seed if not harvested when young.

A s the s umme r w a rms up flowering artichokes will stop producing and August is a good time to sow seeds to produce broccoli plants for planting out in the autumn. (c) Dick Handscombe www.gardenspain.com August 2016

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PLAN PLANTING: Ensuring that what you plant is naturally drought resistant.

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HOMES & GARDENS

Practical and unusual saving ideas for the ho

By Simon Russell WE are all surrounded by stuff these days it seems and there are a range of products addressing this very 21st century problem. Also many of us are living in smaller spaces than ever.

Here are some of the more unconventional ones that are all on the market: • Chairs that fit into shelves.

Special shelving units with folding chairs incorporated that can be taken out when needed.

• Stair drawers are where the bottom few stairs pull out to double up as drawers.

• Sofa bunk beds: we’re all familiar with sofa beds but ones that convert into bunk beds are now on the market.

Aimed at people with insufficient floor space for a double

SPACE SAVING: Sofa bunk beds are popular with children.

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space Cacti are cool ome sofa bed and they’re popular with children of course.

• Window blinds that fold out to make a table or clothes drying rack.

• Hollow chairs, armchairs with storage under the seat.

• For the garden, how about a wall barbecue? Comes out from the wall then folds back flush into the wall when not in use.

• Sofa tables: sofas that convert into a table for four, complete with cushions and chairs.

• Dining table that opens up as a pool table. Okay, pool tables would be a luxury if you’re pushed for space, this is one for the bachelors.

• An ironing board with a mirror underneath the board itself that can be unfolded to give a full length mirror.

These are all items currently on the market though your local furniture shop probably won’t stock too many of them. Nonetheless, some of them may give you a few ideas.

OFTEN when we think of flower gardens, we envisage beautiful blooming fields of violets and lavender. But many parts of southern Spain are known for their drier, more arid climates, meaning that a cactus can be the perfect companion.

Cacti come in a variety of shapes and sizes. Some small enough to fit into the palm of your hand, whereas others can be taller than a house! There are more than 1,500 species of cacti in the world.

Cacti generally need lots of sun. Cold, wet conditions often cause them to rot.

Putting a cactus in a raised bed or on a slope can help prevent them becoming inundated with rainwater.

House cacti are a popular choice because they are hardy and easy to nurture.

Hardy and easy to nurture.

Their spiny appearances also make them aesthetically pleasing adding an exotic touch to any room. Some versions have flowers and some do not, meaning you can choose a cactus that is perfectly suited to your disposition.

Just be careful if you’re a sleepwalker or you could end up with more than you bargained for if you have too many cacti scattered around the house!

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‘COPROPHAGIA,’ to give the proper name is a natural form of behaviour which most dogs learn from puppy-

hood when their mother will clean up after them.

It happens more in puppies which come from rescue kennels and pet shops. It can also be started by poor house-training where owners do not clean up after the pup. Boredom is another cause. Dogs that spend long periods alone in the garden or in kennels can develop this habit. In kennels, dogs will copy other dogs doing it.

Don’t rub a dog’s nose in its excrement. This only teaches dogs to eat the evi-

dence to avoid punishment.

Don’t shout or chase the dog away. It will only learn to eat faster. Do remove the faeces, especially if you live in a warm climate, for they encourage mosquitoes.

You can also treat faeces with tabasco or peppers. The dog will not find that taste very rewarding. It could be the dog is just hungry. Split the daily food ration into several portions and feed the dog three or four times a day with a higher fibre content.

Alternatively, the dog could have a health problem.

There is a condition called Exocrine Pancreatic Insufficiency, where a lack of enzymes in the pancreas will result in dogs being ravenously hungry. Dogs suffering from this will eat anything.

Although the eating of faeces is absolutely repellent to humans, the smell and texture is attractive to dogs.

Dogs have a different palate to our own.

If all else fails, only allow the dog off lead with a muzzle.

Taste is not such an important sense to dogs, despite claims to the contrary made by the manufacturers of pet foods. Dogs have around only 3,000 taste buds compared to the 10,000 of a human so their taste factor is much lower than ours.

Smell is far more important to dogs, which is why the manufacturers of dog food make sure their products smell good to a dog.

OPINION & COMMENT

LEGALLY SPEAKING Driving under influence AS part of the series, we answer some common driving questions and keep you updated on the latest driving and road news 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.

DRINK DRIVING: A factor in many road deaths.

THE latest statistics unveiled by the National Spanish Institute of Toxicology and Forensic Sciences (INTCF) reveals that 43 per cent of drivers killed in road traffic incidents last year tested positive for the presence of alcohol or drugs: 4 per cent more than the previous year.

The report includes the results of toxicology tests of 900 deaths (638 drivers, 179 pedestrians and 83 passengers) in road traffic collisions. The DGT reported there were 1,126 deaths from traffic accidents but the INTCF figures are lower as some autonomous communities carry out their own toxicology tests).

Of these tested by the INTCF, 275 drivers (65 per cent) tested positive for alcohol and more than 30 per cent tested positive for some kind of drug.

The report indicates that the data reflects an increased consumption of alcohol and psychoactive drugs (those which change brain function and alter perception) among those killed, whilst the level of other forms of drug use had been similar to the previous year.

In 2014, 26 per cent tested positive for alcohol, 10.74 per cent for psychoactive drugs and 13.35 per cent for other drugs. In the case of pedestrians killed, more than 46 per cent of the 179 cases analysed were positive with 57 per cent having consumed alcohol.

In those who tested positive for drugs, the most popular substance detected among drivers was cocaine (49 per cent positive) followed by cannabis (44 per cent).

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Can he fight insurance company?

I WAS involved in a traffic accident that was not my fault. I had insurance through a broker. My broker, however, failed to pass on full information to the insurance company. The insurance company wrote off my car and because the brokers failed to pass on the relevant information, I will receive nothing for my car. I am on a disability pension and cannot afford to lose my car.

R.W. (Costa Blanca) FIGHTING the insurance company is never easy but it sounds as if you have a case.

The first step is to discuss the problem with your broker. If you find him reluctant to help, you can contact the ‘Atención al Cliente’ or ‘Defensor del

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Asegurado’ department of the insurance company.

There is a telephone number on your policy. You will need to put your case

in writing. Every company has such an office.

If all else fails, you complain to the DGS, the ‘Direccion General de Seguros,’ at Paseo de la Castellana, 44, Madrid 28046, in writing. You can also call them on the telephone at 902 191 111.

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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Be a good sport Mike Senker

In my opinion Views of a Grumpy Old Man I LIKE sport and I enjoy watching it. Football, snooker, tennis, boxing, F1... I like all sorts but I don’t like the Olympics.

I should qualify that by explaining I don’t like what the Olympics have become. This week the Russians have had some of their teams slung out for taking drugs that enhance skills, all approved by their Government.

The whole lot should be banned, end of because it’s cheating, simple as that. I remember years ago looking at an East German female shot-putter and wishing my beard was as thick as hers. Then there was the bloke who took four Viagra tablets and ran the 200 metres, he tripped over and won the pole vault!!

Then we have events like race walking, how stupid is that? It’s like having a ‘who can whisper the loudest’ competition. Equestrian, what nonsense! Look how clever my horse is. I’d rather watch a good dog act like Ashleigh and Pudsey (they won Britain’s Got Talent ) and get more dog acts from around the world (I bet a few of you are nodding).

The 100 metres is brilliant though. I love

watching Usain Bolt who ran it in 9.58 seconds. I can’t do anything in 9.58 seconds. It took me 15 seconds to type that sentence.

Then there’s the time difference, often having to watch stuff in the middle of the night because the event you want to watch is on after the 10 you don’t!

Of course there are people who love the Olympics but not me. Plus now, with the PC brigade in the UK we don’t have anyone losing in school sports days. I have news for that lot, WRONG! The kid that came first won and all the rest lost. The one who came second wasn’t ‘first runner up,’ you came second son, sorry try harder next time and you might win, now jog on and practise harder.

Then there’s cricket. Who invented a sport you can play for five days and finish up with a draw? What’s the point? If it’s competitive surely there’s a winner and a loser?

Of course, there’s massive corruption in football. FIFA has to be the most crooked bunch ever and the bare faced audacity of Sepp Blatter is incredible. They’ve been nicked by the FBI and he still says, ‘I don’t know what they’re talking about.’ Get rid of them all. On the bright side, 50 years ago last Saturday West Ham won the World Cup...well, England did but as a Hammers fan that’s how I remember it. They think it’s all over – it is now!

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DB9 era comes to an end

By Matthew Elliott ASTON MARTIN has announced that it has built the very last run of DB9 sports cars, posting photos of the final nine awaiting inspection on its Twitter feed and heralding the end of an era. The news brings to an end 13 years of continuous production of the coupe and Volante convertible and a design which defined the Aston Martin brand for the best part of a decade.

Debuting in 2003 the DB9 helped the British firm stamp some authority on the modern motoring era and was well received by experts and enthusiasts alike. The final nine models will hit the road with a powerful 402kw aspirated 5.9 litre V12 engine that can charge to 100km/h in just 4.5 seconds and reach a top speed of 295km/h.

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DB11 due in dealerships early next year, which will be more powerful, faster, sleeker, lighter and far more expensive at more than €300,000.

LAST RUN: The final nine await inspection.

Power rankings A NEW study from JD Power looks at the gratification and satisfaction experienced by an owner when they speed away from the dealership in their brand spanking new car.

Known as the Automotive Performance, Execution and Layout (APEAL) study, it is based on the experiences, thoughts and opinions of more than 80,000 drivers questioned after 90 days spent spinning their new wheels.

Particular brands are awarded a score out of a maximum 1,000 points based on such criteria as smoothness, visibility, fuel economy, navigation, infotainment and power.

Top of the ranking was Porsche which scored a solid 877 points, beating out the industry average of 801. Bottom of the pile was Smart, whose energy efficient city zippers scored just 745.

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The Bullet is back SNAZZY SPEEDSTER: Has no roof.

BRISTOL CARS are on the verge of releasing their first new model in more than a decade, with a V8-engined roadster aptly dubbed the ‘Bristol Bullet’ being produced to mark the classic firm’s 70th anniversary in 2017.

There will be 70 Bristol Bullets produced, with each costing ‘less than €300,000’ and all being designed in Britain, incorporating some classic Bristol design features alongside a cultivated modern spin.

Powered by a 375hp 4.8 litre BMW

V8 and weighing just 1,250 kg, the Bullet will be able to hit 100kmph in just 3.8 seconds and hit a top speed of 250kph. It will incorporate Bristol’s trademark tailfins, speedster-style humps, and be constructed from carbon fibre composite, rather than traditional aluminium used by the firm.

Leather trimmed seats and finetuned suspension make for a comfortable rather than track-screeching journey bolstered by an eight-inch touch-screen and smart-

phone connectivity.

One key feature, or rather non-feature, to note is that there is no roof whatsoever, making it fairly susceptible to the relentless British rain, but those who can afford the hefty price tag are buying history, not an umbrella.

Prototype images are available on the Bristol Cars website but the finished article isn’t quite ready yet, although a camouflaged version was spotted at the Goodwood Festival of Speed earlier this summer.

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Good, bad and the ugly THE weird and wonderful world of meriting threw up a few wild ideas this week, as well as a few stinkers.

In Norway engineers have floated the idea of floating underwater tunnels that will connect the archipelago’s multitude of islands. The unique geography of the Scandinavian country’s many fjords means that underwater tunnels along the surface of the sea and bridged overland are difficult and unsustainable.

So the new idea is that a pair of tunnels will float alongside one another roughly 100 feet below the surface, moving and swaying with tidal energy but feeling normal to the crustacean drivers within.

Meanwhile in Scotland a far more boring scheme is underway in the capital Edinburgh which will see around 80 per cent of city roads governed by a 20mph speed limit from August. Meant as a safety measure, critics argue sometimes it’s safer going above 20 and that it’s a cheap blanket solution that is less effectual than speed bumps.

Finally Ford have conducted a wide European survey on young driver safety with the utterly unsurprising findings that young men are three times as likely to be distracted by attractive pedestrians than their female counterparts, and 60 per cent more likely to drive safer with their parents in tow.

A nostalgic journey down memory lane

A POTATO farmer from Cambridgeshire scooped top prize with his pristine 1980 Morris Marina pickup at the brilliant Festival of the Unexceptional held at Whittlebury Park in Northants on July 23.

Jonathan Papworth still drives his immaculate pickup and was one of hundreds of proud drivers showing off their kaleidoscopic variety of cars from the classic bygone years of 1968 to 1986.

More than 400 hatchbacks, estates, campervans, and saloons from the period were on display and judged by a highly experienced panel to the cheers of hundreds more spectators.

As you can guess from the name the Festival of the Unexceptional is a different breed of car show, aimed at enthusiasts more awestruck and intrigued by the cars they saw on their streets and driveways, rather than the supercars and un-

obtainable beasts plastered across magazines and bedroom walls. It’s one of the few remaining authentic car experiences you can come across.

Only in its third year, the only touch of opulence at the debut 2014 festival was that the much admired Mini Metro happened to be Princess Diana’s first car, driven as a 19-year-old and sold in 1981.

This year attracted brilliant specimens like an Austin Paralanian campervan, Talbot Samba cabriolet, a Talbot Avenger, and a 1988 Austin Metro Vanden Plas. Second place was won by a 1979 Volkswagen Golf Mk1, and a 1968 Hillman Minx estate won the People’s Choice.

Sometimes, rather than flash, bling, and luxury, all you need is classic motors, brilliant food, a spot of humour and sunshine.

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Orba Warblers at La Galiana LAST week 16 Warblers travelled to La Galiana for a Texas Scramble, finding the course in superb condition as usual. Well done to the green staff especially after the fire that threatened the course. It was a hot sunny day making the golf difficult.

Four teams played and, with only 0.2 difference in handicaps, everyone was in with a chance.

First with a fine gross score of 69 and net 61 was the team of Steve Smith, Barbara Pollitt, John Daniels and Sylvia Mortensen.

Second with a good 70 gross and net 62 was the team of Dave Knight, Steve Head, Jorgen Mortensen and Derek Gray.

The two nearest the pin winners were Steve Smith on hole 5 and Sylvia Mortensen on hole 14.

The football card was Hamilton won by Dave Knight with shouts of “oh no not him again.”

WARBLER WINNERS: After a hot day of difficult golf.

A big thanks today to Robin Wheatley who sorted out a broken wind shield with the staff at La Galiana from our big hitting Steve “I never hit it over there” Smith.

To book please contact David at dr.knight1207@googlemail.com or phone 634 307 407. Guests are welcome subject to a current handicap certificate.

Winner Ros scores a great 40 points

FRENCH FINEST: Winners with their French wine prizes.

ON a very hot and sultry Friday July 29, Montgo Golf Society played a stableford competition at Oliva Nova.

People must be getting fed up of reading how good Oliva Nova is, however the condition of the course was quite remarkable given the lack of rainfall and extremely high temperatures. The downside is the amount of water they need to use to maintain these lush conditions, resulting in very soft fairways and a distinct lack of run on the ball especially around the fringes of the greens.

Their sponsor of the day Robin Thatcher is a regular visitor to France and treated them to a wonderful array of French wines as prizes rather than the usual Spanish offerings.

In first place with a wonderful 40 points off 9 was Ros Fletcher, resulting in a new handicap of 8.2. In second place, also with a handicap cutting round of 37 points off 15.2

was John Feek, pushing Alan Webster into third place with 36 points off 17.2. Fourth place went to Leslie Pritchard with 35 points of 27.7, pushing the unfortunate Denise Cooper and Ed Wallace out of the prizes on countback.

Two nearest the pins were on offer, with Sally Cottrell taking the 3rd and Colin Foster the 16th. Two 2’s were scored by Nigel Siddall and John Feek. Finally they had one singles matchplay decided, resulting in George Braddick beating Mick Farmer 4 and 3.

Their next event is on Friday August 12, when they will be playing a medal competition at Oliva Nova sponsored by Neil and Glenys Cuming. Guests are welcome, subject to availability and a current handicap certificate, and should register by visiting the website at www.montgogolfsociety.net and completing an online booking form.

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More than 10,500 athletes set to compete in Rio Olympics From Back Page

My world stars to watch in Rio: * Ashton Eaton: The reigning Olympic decathlon champion is rated the world’s best over 10 events. * Simone Biles: The Texan (18) is the reigning world all-around gymnastic champion, unbeaten since 2014 and going for five medals. * Claressa Shields: In 2012, aged 17, she won gold at the first Olympics for women boxers and has not lost since. * David Boudia: Star of the American diving team that collected four medals in London, he’s aiming to become the first US diver since Greg Louganis to win back-to-back golds. * Jordan Burroughs: Winner of the 74kg freestyle wrestling gold in 2012, he could become the third American to seal successive Olympic titles. * Allyson Felix: The American

won sprinting gold in London and will make history if she wins the 200m, 400m and both relays in Rio. * Justin Gatlin: Could deny Usain Bolt the triple triple (three 100m, 200m and 4x100m gold medals). The American has been the world’s best sprinter for two years. * Gwen Jorgensen: She’s won 12 straight triathlons, a record by a man or woman. * Katie Ledecky: The greatest female freestyle swimmer of all time from 400m to 1500m, there’s talk of her taking on Michael Phelps in an exhibition race. * Kerri Walsh Jennings: Chasing a fourth Olympic gold medal, she’s one of the greatestever players in beach volleyball. * Federica Pellegrini: Italy’s first female swimming gold medallist, this is her fourth Olympics. * Tiago Camilo: Brazil’s world

sailor has already won five Olympic medals (two gold) and is confident of adding a sixth. * Tamika Catchings: USA basketball star has won three Olympic golds already with a fourth on the way! * Lin Dan: China’s badminton champion is going for a third successive Olympic gold.

judo champion is confident of winning on home soil. * Lauren Jackson: Aussie basketball player who has five medals to her name already.

* Serena Williams: Winner of 22 Grand Slam tennis titles and four Olympic gold medals, she can add another in Rio. * Robert Scheidt: The Brazilian

These can make Britain ‘Great’ in Rio! • Swimmers James Guy and Adam Peaty.

• Cyclists Bradley Wiggins, Chris Froome, Mark Cavendish, Ed Clancy, Lizzie Armitstead, Laura Trott and Becky James.

• Gymnasts Claudia Fragapane, Louis Smith and Max Whitlock.

• 100m sprinters Adam Gemili and Dina Asher-Smith.

• High jumpers Isobel Pooley and Robbie Grabarz.

• Long jumpers Shara Proctor and Greg Rutherford.

• 5,000m & 10,000m champion Mo Farah.

• Showjumper Ben Maher.

• Eventer William Fox-Pitt.

• Equestrian rider Charlotte Dujardin.

• Finn class sailor Giles Scott.

• Female boxers Nicola Adams and Lisa Whiteside.

• Triathletes Alistair and Jonathan Brownlee.

• Heptathletes Katerina Johnson-Thompson and Jessica Ennis-Hill.

• Diver Jack Laugher.

• Golfers Danny Willett and Charley Hull.

• Rowers Kath Grainger and Katherine Copeland.

• Tennis stars Andy Murray and Kyle Edmund.

• Runner Jo Pavey (42, in her fifth Olympics).

GB/Northern Ireland’s aim is to eclipse the 65 medal-haul they gained at London 2012.

And with a little bit of luck, they can achieve their goal... watch and enjoy the action.

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Lewis Hamilton wins comfortably in Germany 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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ROUND-UP: • Lewis Hamilton comfortably won last week’s F1 German Grand Prix to go 19 points clear of Nico Rosberg in the driver’s championship.

• American Jimmy Walker claimed the US PGA golf title ahead of Jason Day and Thailand’s Ariya Jutanugarn won

the women’s Open.

• England and Pakistan stand 1-1 in the Test series; the third game is underway at Edgbaston. And the T20 quarter-finals are Glamorgan-Yorks, GloucesterDurham, Northants-Middlesex and Notts-Sussex.

• Irish jockey ‘JT’ McNamara who rode over 600 winners, has died, aged 41.

• Italian Walter Venga is Wolves’ new manager.

• Manchester United are set to sign ex-player Paul Pogba from Juventus for £100m.

• Football friendlies/ICL results: Liverpool 2 AC Milan 0; Manchester City beat Borussia Dortmund 6-5 on penalties; Manchester Utd 5 Galatasaray 2; PSG 4 Leicester 0; Real Madrid 3 Chelsea 2 (before 105,000 fans in Michigan) and Spurs 0 Atlético Madrid 1.

• Aberdeen (1-1 v Maribor) and West Ham (1-2 v NK Domzale) are in Europa League 2nd leg action tonight

(August 4) and Leicester play Manchester United on Sunday (August 7) in the FA Charity Shield.

• A 200-1 shot at Wolverhampton last week was only the fourth such priced winner in horse-racing history.

• Hull will play Warrington in RL’s Challenge Cup final.

• Carl Frampton is now a two-division featherweight champion of the world after beating Leo Santa Cruz.

Tony’s Olympic Games Preview: The summer Olympics start on Saturday August 6 in Rio de Janiero, Brazil.

More than 10,500 competitors, including 555 Americans and 366 Brits, representing 205 nations will enter 306 events, covering 28 sports at 10 venues; 136 medals will be awarded to women, 161 to men with nine ‘mixed’ medals.

LEADING LEWIS: Goes 19 points clear in the driver’s championship.

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